US10440869B2
A component mounting head for mounting a component includes a head main body; a nozzle holding tool held on the head main body capable of lifting and lowering; a suction nozzle fitted into a lower end portion of the nozzle holding tool and movable in an up-down direction, and picks up and holds the component on the lower end portion of the suction nozzle, a first lifting and lowering device lifting and lowering the nozzle holding tool, a second lifting and lowering device lifting and lowering the suction nozzle, an acting force detector detecting an acting force acting on the suction nozzle in the up-down direction, and a control device controlling the second lifting and lowering device based on the acting force detected by the acting force detector, when the component is mounted, in which a bearing is interposed between the suction nozzle and the nozzle holding tool.
US10440859B1
A volume control device suitable for an uninterruptible power system comprising a fan is provided. The volume control device comprises a user interface and a control circuit. The control circuit is electrically coupled to the fan and the user interface, and is used to receive a maximum operation volume setting value through the user interface. When the control circuit is ready to increase the rotation speed of the fan, it further determines whether the corresponding volume of the current rotation speed of the fan is less than the maximum operation volume setting value, and accordingly determines whether to adjust the rotation speed of the fan.
US10440853B2
A vehicle display system presents a display device in a motor vehicle provided with multiple seating positions and an interior headliner. The vehicle display system comprises a display device, a display device mounting bracket attached to the display device, the mounting bracket having a pair of pivots, each of the pivots being orthogonal to the other, and a plurality of mounting positions provided on the motor vehicle interior headliner. The display device is viewable by any one or any combination of a rearward facing second seating row occupant, a forward facing second seating row occupant, and a forward facing third seating row occupant.
US10440849B2
Examples herein disclose an apparatus. The apparatus includes a first socket nested in a second socket. The first socket includes a cavity, disposed in the first socket, to accept a chipset. The first socket includes an electrical contact, disposed in the cavity, to couple the chipset to a board. The chipset detects when a modular infrastructure is coupled to the second socket.
US10440848B2
This disclosure relates to conformable displays, including macro-fiber composite (MFC) actuators. The MFC actuators are configured to displace the conformable displays in a linear direction. The conformable displays can be thin, flexible and deformable.
US10440846B2
A bracket for attaching an electronic control unit to a panel member is provided with: a plate-shaped insertion portion to be inserted into a gap between an outer peripheral side surface of a case of an electronic control unit and an elastic pressing portion which protrudes from the outer peripheral side surface and bends and extends in an outer circumferential direction of the case; a detachment preventing latch portion to be latched with the elastic pressing portion of the case, thereby retaining the case in a detachment prevented state, when the insertion portion is inserted to a predetermined assembled position in the gap; and abutting wall portions which extend from the side surface opposed portion on both outer sides in the outer circumferential direction of the insertion portion, to come into contact with the outer peripheral side surface, in the detachment prevented state.
US10440844B2
A circuit board assembly for a control unit of a motor vehicle has a multi-layer circuit board and a plug connector with a housing faceplate. The circuit board, which includes conductor paths for conducting signals, has a first section, a second section, and a flexible third section with a lower stiffness between the first and second sections. The first section encloses an angle φ with the second section. The plug connector has a multiplicity of connection elements, each with an attachment part and a contact pin. The housing faceplate has first and second side panels each enclosing an angle β with the first panel central plane and an angle γ with the second panel central plane. A first detent element prevents a change in the angle φ in a first direction of rotation. A second detent element prevents a change in the angle φ in a second direction of rotation.
US10440842B2
A flexible electronic device includes a flexible shaft including a first side and a second side not parallel to each other, and a flexible screen coupled to the first side. The first side deforms with a rotation of the flexible shaft and the second side does not deform with the rotation of the flexible shaft. The flexible screen deforms in synchronism with a deformation of the first side.
US10440831B2
A conductive pattern formation method includes: a step of patterning a base member with an ink in which conductive particulates are distributed to form a pattern; a step of making a conductive developer act on the pattern; and a pressurization step of pressurizing the pattern.
US10440829B2
A heating circuit assembly and method of manufacture includes an electrically conductive heating element having a pattern. An electrically non-conductive substrate is additive manufactured and secured to the element for structural support. The substrate has a topology that generally aligns with the pattern of the element thereby reducing the assembly weight and minimizing substrate material waste.
US10440821B2
Provided is a touch panel. The touch panel includes a substrate and an electrode member disposed on the substrate. The electrode member includes a base material for electrode having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a first electrode disposed on the first surface, and a second electrode disposed on the second surface.
US10440820B2
Substrate assembly, display substrate motherboard, display substrate, and production method, display
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a substrate assembly, a display substrate motherboard, a display substrate, and a production method, and a display, and relate to the technical field of flexible display. The damage of the support substrate and the flexible base substrate upon separation may be avoided, and the bulging phenomenon of the connecting layer occurred at a high temperature may be prevented. This substrate assembly comprises a support substrate as well as a connecting layer and a flexible base substrate which are sequentially formed on the support substrate, wherein the material of the connecting layer comprises an organic layered material, and the molecule constituting the organic layered material comprises a hydrophilic group. The substrate assembly is used for producing a flexible display substrate.
US10440814B2
An impedance matching structure is disposed on a multilayer circuit board for matching an impedance of a transmission line for transmitting an electronic signal. At least one redundant conducting section is coupled to a conductive member of the transmission line between input and output terminals of the transmission line. The conductive member and the redundant conducting section are disposed in a corresponding plating hole. At least one grounding member disposed adjacent to but separated from either or both of the conductive member of the transmission line and the at least one redundant conducting section in a capacitor structure for impedance matching. The at least one grounding member includes a first grounding member penetrating through at least two layers of the multilayer circuit board.
US10440807B1
A demountable plasma torch assembly suitable for use in ICP spectrometry comprises a first tube having an inner diameter and a second tube disposed concentrically within the first tube, wherein the second tube has an outer diameter that is less than the inner diameter of the first tube. The first and second tubes are supported by a torch body. The torch body includes a first bore configured to receive an end of the first tube, a second bore configured to receive an end of the second tube, and a manifold disposed between the first bore and the second bore to receive a gas for injection between the first tube and the second tube. The manifold has an outer diameter at least substantially equal to the inner diameter of the first tube and an inner diameter at least substantially equal to the outer diameter of the second tube.
US10440805B2
The invention provides a radiation irradiation device that can appropriately manage the residual capacity of a battery without being influenced by the internal resistance of the battery. The radiation irradiation device includes a radiation generating part that generates radiation; a battery part that supplies electric power to the radiation generating part; and a residual capacity calculation part that calculates the residual capacity of the battery part. The residual capacity calculation part calculates the residual capacity of the battery part on the basis of a current flowing into the battery part, an internal resistance of the battery part, and a voltage of the battery part.
US10440804B2
Devices (10) comprise target detectors (11) for detecting presences of targets in first areas (1) and transmitters (12) for in response to detected presences transmitting multicast messages to controllers (20) and lamps (21-24) in wireless networked lighting systems. Such multicast messages increase reliabilities of the systems. The multicast messages switch on the lamps (21-24). Preferably, the multicast messages are only transmitted in case relatively small amounts of light are detected in second areas (2). In case relatively large amounts of light are detected in the second areas (2), unicast messages are in response to detected presences transmitted from the devices (10) to the controllers (20) that in response control the lamps (21-24) to be switched on. The first and second areas (1, 2) may be at least partly overlapping areas. The devices (10) may comprise internal light detectors (13) for detecting the amounts of light in the second areas (2) or receivers for receiving light detection information from external light detectors.
US10440802B1
A lighting control system and a method thereof are provided. The lighting control system includes a light board and a mainboard. The light board includes a light-emitting module, transmission interfaces and a lighting control module. The mainboard outputs interface testing signals to inquire which types of the transmission interfaces are supported by the light board. The transmission interfaces output interface message signals in response to the interface testing signal. When the mainboard determines that the light board supports one or more types of the transmission interfaces indicated by the interface testing signal, the mainboard selects one of the transmission interfaces and instructs the selected transmission interface to control the light-emitting module. When the mainboard determines that the light board does not support any type of the transmission interfaces indicated by the interface testing signal, the mainboard instructs the lighting control module to control the light-emitting module.
US10440800B2
A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range and supports reproduction of video having the first luminance dynamic range, and includes: generating a video signal to be included in the video data using a second OETF; storing, into VUI in the video data, first transfer function information for identifying a first OETF to be referred to by the first device when the first device decodes the video data; and storing, into SEI in the video data, second transfer function information for identifying a second OETF to be referred to by a second device supporting reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range when the second device decodes the video data.
US10440789B2
An event based integrated driver system for an end-use power based application is disclosed. The driver system includes an analog module for operating analog input and analog output, a digital module for operating digital input and digital output, a software module for operating software input and software output, an event based module to receive the analog output, digital output or software output, and configured to generate one or more events corresponding to the analog output, digital output and software output respectively, a firmware module configured to generate a response for the one or more events and transmit the response via the event based module to operate at least one of the analog module, digital module, or software module, where the firmware module comprises instructions for operating the analog module, the digital module and the software module based on the end-use power based application.
US10440778B2
A burner element for a cooktop includes a heat source for providing heat to a cooking zone positioned above the heat source and an automatic thermostat switch in communication with the cooking zone and the heat source. The automatic thermostat switch senses an actual temperature of the cooking zone, and when the actual temperature reaches a predetermined maximum temperature the automatic thermostat switch moves to an open position defined by the automatic thermostat switch at least partially impeding the heat source. The open position of the automatic thermostat switch is further defined by a decrease in the actual temperature of the cooking zone from approximately the predetermined maximum temperature to a control temperature. When the actual temperature of the cooking zone reaches the control temperature the automatic thermostat switch defines a closed position, wherein the automatic thermostat switch is substantially free of impeding the heat source.
US10440764B2
A communication method, user terminal, processor, and base station for direct communication including a user terminal transmitting to a base station, buffer status information indicating amounts of data to be transmitted in direct communication, where each amount of data is for each of logical channel groups for the direct communication and for each communication partner of the direct communication, assigning, by the base station to the user terminal, a radio network temporary identifier for the direct communication, determining, by the base station, a radio resource to be used for the user terminal to perform the direct communication, transmitting, from the base station to the user terminal, resource information indicating the determined radio resource, by use of the radio network temporary identifier assigned to the user terminal, and receiving, by the user terminal, the resource information on a basis of the radio network temporary identifier assigned to the user terminal.
US10440760B2
A method and apparatus for session management in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, a user endpoint (UE) device, sends a request for a session internet protocol (IP) address assignment using an interface IP address, configures the UE device with the session IP address, provides to a controller an association of the interface and session IP addresses, and receives packets addressed to the session IP address via an access network entity associated with the interface IP address. In one example, a controller receives an association of an interface IP address with a session IP address from an attached UE device, provides to a network node an update on a route to reach the session IP address through the interface IP address, identifies an active interface IP address to receive packets, and configures an open flow switch or router for routing the packets towards the active interface IP address.
US10440756B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for techniques for downlink (DL) scheduling and uplink (UL) scheduling in a shared radio frequency (RF)spectrum band. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive an UL data transmission grant associated with a channel of shared RF spectrum band. The wireless communication device may perform a channel readiness procedure associated with the channel. The wireless communication device may also transmit channel readiness information based at least in part on the channel readiness procedure to a base station. The channel readiness information may be transmitted via an uplink channel of a licensed RF spectrum band different from the shared RF band. In other aspects, a base station may schedule a data transmission on one or more channels of a shared RF spectrum band. The base station may transmit a data transmission grant for the scheduled data transmission to a wireless communication device.
US10440751B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of receiving, by a station that operates in a wireless LAN system, a signal in a wireless communication system. In this case, it is possible to include the steps of receiving a PPDU that includes an MAC frame, decoding the MAC frame, and checking information in the MAC frame based on the MAC header of the MAC frame that includes a first address field and a second address field. In this case, when the PPDU includes the identification information (ID) of a station, the MAC header may include only one of any of the first address field and the second address field.
US10440746B2
The method includes receiving, at a user equipment, a request-to-send (RTS) signal from a base station in an unlicensed channel, the RTS signal including individual IDs or group IDs of multiple user equipments, the multiple user equipments including the user equipment; and identifying whether the RTS signal includes an individual ID or group ID of the user equipment, wherein the identifying includes sending a clear-to-send (CTS) signal to the base station in a licensed channel or the unlicensed channel to allow the base station to perform data transmission to the user equipment in response to the RTS signal including the individual ID or group ID of the user equipment; and ignoring the RTS signal in response to the RTS signal not including the individual ID or group ID of the user equipment.
US10440743B2
A method includes: determining, by an AP from all STAs associated with the AP, a concurrent STA joining a concurrent group, and generating concurrent group information of the concurrent group; and sending the concurrent group information to another AP in a system other than the AP, so that a BSS to which the another AP belongs determines, according to the concurrent group information, to join the concurrent group, to eventually form the concurrent group. All concurrent STAs that are associated with the AP and that join the concurrent group perform channel contention within a concurrent time by using an increased target CCA threshold, to increase a possibility that the concurrent STAs send data, so that a system throughput is improved.
US10440741B2
A method that carries out uplink multiple access while reducing complexity in processing accompanying exchange of control information. A terminal device that performs uplink multiple access communication includes a reception unit that receives a frame including first uplink multiple access information, and a transmission unit that transmits a frame including second uplink multiple access information based on the frame including the first uplink multiple access information, and further, after standby of a predetermined period, initiates the uplink multiple access communication. The reception unit determines whether or not there has been reception of a frame including the second uplink multiple access information that another terminal device has transmitted during the predetermined period, and the transmission unit decides whether or not to initiate the uplink multiple access communication, based on whether or not there has been reception of a frame including the second uplink multiple access information that another terminal device has transmitted during the predetermined period.
US10440734B2
The present disclosure discloses a scheduling configuration method, which includes that: a centralized control unit configures coordination parameters of different nodes, and distributed scheduling units in each node schedule user resources of the local nodes. The present disclosure also discloses a scheduling configuration device, which includes: a configuration unit and scheduling units, wherein the configuration unit is arranged in a centralized control unit and configured to configure coordination parameters of different nodes; and the scheduling units are arranged in each node and configured to schedule user resources of the local nodes. By the technical solutions of the present disclosure, the problem of time delay, caused by backhaul, of a non-coordination user in a centralized scheduling manner is solved; and coordination configuration is performed on parameters which are relatively semi-static or change more slowly to eliminate influence on user scheduling flexibility under the condition of implementing system transmission.
US10440729B2
Techniques for transmission of Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) data over Time Division Duplex (TDD) using a URLLC configuration for a TDD subframe are disclosed. The techniques include determining that data scheduled for transmission using a TDD band over a TDD subframe includes Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) data, and in response, utilizing a URLLC subframe configuration for the TDD subframe. The URLLC subframe configuration includes downlink intervals and uplink intervals.
US10440725B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting data in an unlicensed band. The device determines a downlink reception end time and an uplink transmission start time at which the uplink transmission starts in the unlicensed band. If the interval between the downlink reception end time and the uplink transmission start time is equal to or less than a threshold value, the device abandons the uplink transmission.
US10440722B2
A base station receives measurement information from infrastructure units, and this measurement information in order to create a look-up table. Based on analysis of the measurement information, an indication of connections between a relay node and communications terminals in the network is transmitted, and communications resources are assigned to each of the infrastructure units in the network. The relay node in the network transmits channel sounding signals to be measured by other infrastructure units, in their assigned communications resource, and with a specified transmission power. The infrastructure units which detect the channel sounding signals can then use them to measure and estimate a state of the channel and determine which frequency resources to use when scheduling transmissions.
US10440721B2
Mechanisms for determining a cluster set of mobile devices are disclosed. A controller node identifies a primary mobile device that has a scheduled transmission for the controller node at a first time. The controller node identifies, from a plurality of mobile devices, a set of eligible assistant (EA) mobile devices. Each EA mobile device in the set is directed to determine a corresponding mobile device-to-mobile device (MD-MD) channel indicator that identifies a quality of a channel between the each EA mobile device and the primary mobile device. The controller node receives from at least one EA mobile device in the set the corresponding MD-MD channel indicator. The controller node then determines a cluster set that includes the primary mobile device and the at least one EA mobile device.
US10440709B1
Systems, methods, and software for managing radio resources for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. A geographic area is segmented into zones with a subset of the transmission slots allocated to each of the zones. The subset of the transmission slots allocated to each zone is partitioned into periodic transmission slots assignable to individual vehicles for periodic transmissions and special transmission slots reserved for special transmissions according to a contention-based protocol. A resource manager stores a mapping of transmission slots for each of the zones. When a vehicle enters one of the zones, the resource manager performs a slot assignment for the vehicle from the periodic transmission slots allocated to the zone, and transmits a notification to the vehicle indicating the slot assignment.
US10440707B2
A network managing apparatus and a transmission method thereof are provided. The transmission method includes: broadcasting a plurality of packets using a plurality of shared timeslots shared by a plurality of network nodes for downlink communication and a base channel; determining one or more missed packets that are not received by the plurality of network nodes among the plurality of packets; determining a distributor that is to transmit the one or more missed packets and a distribution timeslot and a distribution channel for transmission of the one or more missed packets; and broadcasting transmission schedule information including information on the distributor and information on the distribution timeslot and the distribution channel using the base channel.
US10440706B2
A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The UE receives a configuration message of processing time reduction from an evolved node B (eNB). The UE also receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) downlink control information (DCI) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) with reduced processing time in subframe n−k, where k is smaller than 4. The UE further determines a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) reporting. The UE additionally determines HARQ-ACK bits to be reported in subframe n. The UE also transmits the HARQ-ACK in subframe n on the determined PUCCH resource.
US10440704B2
A method and a device for allocating resource units in a wireless LAN are disclosed. The method for allocating resource units in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: generating, by an AP, a PPDU to be transmitted to a plurality of STAs; and transmitting, by the AP, the PPDU to the plurality of STAs on the whole frequency band, wherein the PPDU includes resource allocation information, the resource allocation information includes first resource unit allocation information for allocating first resource units and second resource unit allocation information for allocating second resource units, the first resource unit allocation information is information relating to the allocation of the first resource units for at least one first STA, among the plurality of STAs, which is to receive the PPDU through the first resource units on the whole frequency band, the second resource unit allocation information is information relating to the allocation of the second resource units for at least one second STA, among the plurality of STAs, which is to receive the PPDU through the second resource units on the whole frequency band, and the number of tones allocated to the first resource units can be larger than the number of tones allocated to the second resource units.
US10440703B2
A method to improve the design of new radio physical downlink control channel (NR-PDCCH) transmission and to reduce the false alarm rate of NR-PDCCH blind decoding is proposed. The downlink control information (DCI) bits are carried by NR-PDCCH to be transmitted to UEs after CRC attachment, channel encoding, interleaving, and modulation. The proposed NR-PDCCH design is separated into two parts. In a first part, a UE-ID or RNTI is used to derive a CRC mask or a scrambling sequence for CRC attachment of the DCI bits. In a second part, a UE-specific ID is used to derive an interleaver before or after channel encoding of the DCI bits. If the interleaver is placed before channel encoding, it takes the form of a bit interleaver. If the interleaver is placed after channel encoding, it takes the form of a bit interleaver or a channel interleaver.
US10440702B2
Communication control method and device are provided. The method includes: determining M parts of resources for transmitting a control area in N parts of resources, wherein the N parts of resources are acquired by dividing, in a frequency domain, frequency resources of symbols for transmitting the control area in a s-TTI, M and N are integers, 1≤M≤N; and transmitting a PDCCH to a terminal through the control area. The method and device may realize communication control of the network to the terminal more flexibly and with less average resource overhead in the s-TTI technology.
US10440700B2
A method for transmitting control information by a base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes determining a precoder to be applied to a resource and a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) port, the resource being used to transmit the control information, and the DMRS port corresponding to the resource and being used to transmit a DMRS, precoding the resource and the DMRS port by using the determined precoder, and transmitting the control information and the DMRS to a user equipment.
US10440699B2
A User Equipment (UE) configured for multi-group communications is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE detects a plurality of cells. The UE also determines to use multiple groups of one or more cells. The UE further determines a primary secondary cell (PSCell) for a non-primary cell (non-PCell) group based on UE-specific radio resource control (RRC) signaling. The UE additionally receives information using the multiple groups.
US10440698B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided that may be configured to receive a downlink control message, to determine a beta offset value for transmitting UCI based at least in part on the downlink control message, and to transmit the UCI on an uplink shared channel interleaved with data based on the determined beta offset value. The apparatus may identify the beta offset from a set of values based on the downlink control message. An apparatus may identify resources allocated for PUSCH and may map UCI to the identified resources for PUSCH in a frequency interleaved manner over a bandwidth of the identified resources. The apparatus may map data to the identified resources in a time-first or frequency-first manner, and may transmit a signal comprising UCI and data on the identified resources of the PUSCH in accordance with the mapping.
US10440691B2
Provided as a method and an apparatus for controlling a connection status of a UE. The method includes receiving specific RRC status instruction information for a UE from a mobility management entity (MME) and determining a RRC status for the UE based on the specific RRC status instruction information when the RRC status for the UE is changed, in which the specific RRC status is different from a RRC connection status and a RRC idle status.
US10440690B2
A terminal, includes a buffer status report table; at least another table for extended buffer status report; a receiver looks for an indication in a signaling received from a base station wherein the indication corresponds to a type of buffer status report table and selects a table from among the buffer status report table and the at least another table for extended buffer status report based on the indication corresponding to the type of buffer status report table, wherein the indication corresponding to the type of buffer status report table can be determined according to a type of the terminal; and an index sender sends the index to a base station an index obtained from the selected table according to an amount of data in a buffer of the terminal.
US10440680B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling an MBMS service provided at a specific location in an LTE system. In an MBMS service system of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently control and manage a valid MBMS service only at a specific location. For example, it is possible to more efficiently manage the effective MBMS content only in the specific cell or the specific cluster (set of the specific cells).
US10440679B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a passenger load prediction system including: a component configured to detect a wireless device carried by a passenger on a train or a train station platform, the train including a plurality of train cars; a passenger to train car mapper configured to determine a location of the passenger, based on a location of the wireless device; a destination predictor configured to predict a destination of the passenger, based at least in part on an identifier code of the wireless device; and a train car load level estimator configured to predict a respective passenger load of each train car of the plurality of train cars, based on the predicted destination and further based on the determined location of the passenger.
US10440674B2
A device may receive a message en route to a recipient device. The device may provide the message to a first interworking function device associated with the recipient device. The device may determine that the first interworking function device is unavailable to route the message to the recipient device. The device may identify a second interworking function device that is capable of routing the message to the recipient device based on determining that the first interworking function device is unavailable to route the message to the recipient device. The first interworking function device and the second interworking function device may act as gateways between a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network. The device may provide the message to the second interworking function device for routing to the recipient device.
US10440668B1
A platoon server is in communication with a plurality of vehicles. The platoon server is programmed to receive a platoon request from a platoon candidate vehicle, the request including platoon data indicative of size, transmit power, and location of the candidate vehicle, admit the candidate vehicle to be a member vehicle of the platoon, and update which member vehicle of the platoon is platoon beacon based upon platoon data of each member vehicle of the platoon.
US10440667B2
Disclosed embodiments include an access terminal including a controller, an interface and a power manager. The interface can be connected to an external adapter and/or an external mobile power supply. The power manager can be connected to the interface and the controller, and can be configured to manage power supplied to the access terminal. The controller can be configured to, when confirming that the interface is not connected to the external adapter and is connected to the external mobile power supply, control the external mobile power supply to power the access terminal through the power manager.
US10440665B1
When a UE is going to engage concurrently in a first transmission on a first channel and a second transmission on a second channel, the UE will apply a level of power-backoff for the first transmission, with the level of power-backoff being dynamically established (i) based on a prediction of what PSD-limited frequency in the nearest IM3 product will have the highest PSD and (ii) based on a mapping between that predicted worst-case frequency to an associated power-backoff value. For instance, considering the IM3 product nearest in frequency to the first transmission, a determination could be made as to what portion of the IM3 product is subject to a PSD limit. And a prediction could be made as to what frequency within that frequency range will have the highest PSD. That predicted worst-case frequency could then be mapped to an associated power-backoff value, and the UE could be configured accordingly.
US10440656B2
The present disclosure provides a method (100) in a terminal device for adapting transmission power among two or more physical uplink channels. The method (100) comprises: identifying (S110) at least one physical uplink channel carrying Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) related data, from the two or more physical uplink channels; prioritizing (S120) the at least one physical uplink channel over at least one physical uplink channel not carrying URLLC related data of the two or more physical uplink channels; and adapting (S130) transmission power of the two or more physical uplink channels based on the prioritizing, such that the total transmission power of the two or more physical uplink channels does not exceed the maximum transmission power at the terminal device.
US10440652B2
A user interface for power management of a mobile communications device is described. In an implementation, power consumption used in performance of a plurality of tasks is monitored by a mobile communications device. A determination is made as to an amount of power that remains in a battery of the mobile communications device. A user interface is displayed on a display device of the mobile communications device that describes an amount of time each of the plurality of tasks may be performed based on the determined amount of power that remains in the battery.
US10440648B2
Sleeping and wake-up methods and apparatuses of a master-slave network, and a power saving system of a master-slave network, are provided. The method includes: obtaining, from a link management list, running statuses of slave devices on links; determining a target device, where the target device is a slave device whose running status is idle; if running statuses of the target slave device to an end slave device on a link on which the target slave device is located are all idle, determining that a sublink from the target slave device to the end slave device on the link on which the target slave device is located is a target sublink; and sending a power saving message to at least one slave device on the target sublink, so that the slave device enters a sleep and listen state when receiving the power saving message.
US10440640B2
Monitoring client traffic at frequencies suitable to infer playback information of applications executing at the client device is described herein. By way of example, network traffic transmitted to a client application can be analyzed to determine an amount of traffic consumed by the client. Based on the amount of traffic and optionally network conditions observed by the client, a suitable resource level can be determined for conveying the traffic to the client. Adjustments to allocated resources can be made, where requested, to improve consumption rates of allocated resources. The resource level can be determined at a frequency suitable to identify changes in playback state of the client application, to provide changes in allocated resource that closely respond to changes in traffic demand.
US10440639B1
A method and system for proactively managing a base station neighbor list. A base station or other network node tracks changes to the base station's neighbor list and identifies a recurring pattern of changes, in correspondence with a particular time of day for instance. The base station or other node then proactively changes the base station's neighbor list in anticipation of a recurrence of the identified pattern, such as in anticipation of recurrence of the time of day for instance. Advantageously, this method can help to reduce the extent to which the base station engages in an automatic neighbor relation process, and thus reduce the extent of signaling and other issues associated with engaging in that process.
US10440638B2
Related are a method, an apparatus, user equipment and a base station for sending and receiving SI. The method of receiving SI comprises: in response to receiving first-class SI broadcast by a base station, determining a requesting window, a receiving window and a pilot code of to-be-requested SI, where the requesting window includes P number of time domain sending opportunities for sending a request carrying the pilot code; monitoring a first Q number of time domain sending opportunities within the requesting window to determine whether a request carrying the pilot code is sent from UE to the base station; when no UE sends the request carrying the pilot code, sending the request carrying the pilot code in the (Q+1)-th time domain sending opportunity; and monitoring the receiving window of the to-be-requested SI for the to-be-requested SI sent by the base station.
US10440635B2
The present disclosure relates to a user device and a network node. The user device comprises a transceiver configured to broadcast an access signal SA when not being connected to any radio communication networks, receive an access response signal SR in response to broadcasting the access signal SA, communicate with at least one network node of the radio communication network. The network node comprises a transceiver and a processor; wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a broadcasted access signal SA, wherein the broadcasted access signal SA comprises identity information of the user device; wherein the processor is configured to assign at least one frequency spectrum segment for communication for the user device; and wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit an access response signal SR to the user device.
US10440632B2
A circuit includes a controller to determine whether to prohibit entry of an end unit to a base station in a wireless communication network, the controller configured to process a media access control (MAC) management message that includes a timer value, the timer value designating a time period during which entry is prohibited.
US10440622B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for offloading traffic from a first network to a second network using offload preference indication (OPI) information. The OPI information can be sent to a mobile communication device using the Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) framework or Radio Access Network (RAN) rules. Systems and methods are disclosed for offloading traffic for users in user groups using a variety of techniques, including randomization techniques, assigned offload class techniques, and bitmap allocation techniques.
US10440613B2
A method of an electronic communication device is disclosed. The electronic communication device is arranged to operate in a radio communication system, wherein the radio communication system has capability of performing link adaptation by adapting one or more parameters of communication in view of a quality of a radio link between a network node of the radio communication system and the electronic communication device. The method comprises determining a link adaptation status for the electronic communication device, and transmitting information related to the determined link adaptation status to one or more network nodes of the radio communication system. A method of a network node, an electronic communication device, a network node, and computer programs are also disclosed.
US10440609B2
For each target cell determined by a handover decision process, a first message is transmitted from a source base station (20S) to a target base station (20T) servicing that target cell. The first message includes an identifier of a wireless device (10) having a communication link with the source base station and information for obtaining authentication data for this wireless device. The authentication data depends on a secret key available to the wireless device and the source base station and on an identity of the target cell. Upon failure of the communication link, a cell is selected at the wireless device, which transmits to that cell a reestablishment request message including its identifier and authentication data depending on the secret key and on an identity of the selected cell. If the selected cell is a target cell serviced by a target base station that received a first message, conformity of the authentication data included in the reestablishment request message with the authentication data obtained from this first message is verified to authorize transfer of the communication link to the selected cell.
US10440607B2
A base station according to one embodiment provides multicast service by SC-PTM transmission. The base station includes a controller configured to perform processing of transmitting SC-PTM configuration information related to a configuration of the SC-PTM transmission via a GCCH (SC-PTM control channel) which is a logical channel different from a MCCH. The GCCH is mapped on the DL-SCH.
US10440600B2
A network node in a cellular communications network sends a timing measurement command to a terminal device in the cellular communications network. The terminal device receives the timing measurement command from the network; determines whether to select at least one cell of the network; and reports timing information for any selected cell to the network.
US10440598B2
A first communication device generates a range measurement packet (or a packet that includes a probe response frame, a TIM frame, etc.) associated with a range measurement signal exchange session between the first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device records a time value of a first timer corresponding to a time of transmission of the packet, and includes timing information corresponding to the recorded time value in the packet. The first communication device transmits the packet to the second communication device. The timing information in the packet is useable by a third communication device to adjust time values corresponding to a second timer, which the third communication device includes.
US10440590B2
Disclosed are system and method for managing self-organizing wireless networks by a cloud server. In an aspect, the cloud server is configured to collect from a plurality of radio nodes of the wireless networks statistical and predictive information about accessibility and performance of said nodes; collect from a plurality of mobile devices connected to the wireless networks at least statistical and predictive information about performance, location, mobility and services of said devices; analyze the collected information to assess the performance, loading and distribution of network resource among the radio nodes; determine, based on the analysis, optimization guidelines for performance, loading and distribution of network resources among the radio nodes; and send the optimization guidelines to the radio nodes in order to optimize performance, loading and distribution of network resources at the radio nodes and to make resource optimization decisions specific to the individual mobile devices.
US10440586B2
[Object] To make it possible to prevent a load from being concentrated on a specific node when a frequency band is shared between the cellular system employing the HetNet and other systems.[Solution] Provided is an apparatus, including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire band-related information that is related to a frequency band available to a macro cell base station of a cellular system among shared bands shared between the cellular system and another system and is provided from a controller for a plurality of macro cell base stations of the cellular system; and a control unit configured to decide a frequency band available to a small cell base station corresponding to the macro cell base station among the frequency bands available to the macro cell base station.
US10440585B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a method and an apparatus for antenna management. The method comprises that resource use status data are collected from managed access networks, access networks which participate antenna scheduling are selected from the managed access networks according to the resource use status data to compose an antenna scheduling set, wherein access networks using same spectrum resources are composed in the same antenna scheduling set; radio links of each access network in the antenna scheduling set are divided into one or more radio link clusters; radio resources are allocated to every radio link cluster in the antenna scheduling set in order that mutual interferences among all the radio link clusters in said antenna scheduling set are within a preset range; and radio resource allocation results are sent to the access network that the radio link clusters belong to. The said method and apparatus enable as many access networks as possible to work at the same time within an interference allowed range using the same spectrum resource, increasing spectrum multiplex opportunity and realizing high resource use rate.
US10440578B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to access account information and transmit instructions to make a payment based at least in part on the account information.
US10440568B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method in a wireless device (101) for enabling trusted communication between a wireless device entity (101a) and a second network node (105) via a first network node (103). The wireless device (101) and the first network node (103) are adapted to communicate using a secure communication channel. The wireless device (101) transmits a message to the first network node (103) using the secure communication channel. The message comprises information indicating that the wireless device entity (101a) is comprised in a trusted zone of the wireless device (101). The trusted zone is at least partly trusted by the first network node (103).
US10440557B2
An electronic device includes a housing, a display including a touch screen exposed through a part of the housing, a communication circuit supporting cellular communication, a secure element storing a plurality of profiles including a first profile associated with a first cellular network and a second profile associated with a second cellular network, at least one processor electrically connected to the display, the communication circuit, and the secure element, and a memory electrically connected or coupled to the processor.
US10440555B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for mobility management among multiple network slices. One apparatus includes a processor that receives a mobility management request from the mobile unit and forwards the mobility management request to the secondary network slice. Here, the mobile unit is simultaneously served by the primary network slice and a secondary network slice of the mobile communication network. The apparatus sends a single mobility management response to the mobile unit, wherein the single mobility management response includes a first response from the primary network slice and a second response from the secondary network slice. In various embodiments, the apparatus may include a network interface for communicating over a mobile communication network.
US10440553B2
Some embodiments include a wireless sensor network including a plurality of sensor nodes each comprising: a signal receiver configured to receive intermediate information from at least one of one or more neighboring nodes of the plurality of sensor nodes, one or more processors configured to receive the intermediate information and update the intermediate information based on a soft-max approximation function, and a transmitter configured to send the intermediate information, as updated, to at least one of the one or more neighboring nodes of the plurality of sensor nodes. For each sensor node of the plurality of sensor nodes: the sensor node can store local location coordinates for the sensor node, and the sensor node can be devoid of receiving location coordinates for any other of the plurality of sensor nodes. The plurality of sensor nodes can be configured to communicate in a distributed manner for a first plurality of iterations until a final iteration of the first plurality of iterations when a predetermined stopping condition is satisfied. The plurality of sensor nodes can be further configured to generate an estimated center of the wireless sensor network based on the intermediate information updated in the final iteration of the first plurality of iterations. The wireless sensor network can be devoid of a fusion center. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10440552B2
According to the teachings herein, a wireless device that is a candidate for operating in the cooperative positioning advantageously activates that mode in response to detecting a warning situation. In some embodiments, the detection and/or activation operations are autonomously undertaken by the wireless device. In other embodiments, the wireless communication network provides warning situation detection and/or control of the cooperative positioning mode. More generally, the wireless communication network maintains a database identifying those wireless devices within a given service area that are cooperative positioning mode candidates—e.g., the devices having D2D communication capability and operational configurations that allow such operation. By the network providing such information in advance of a warning situation, the candidate devices have the information needed to efficiently discover or otherwise identify other such candidates.
US10440549B2
There is provided a method and device for provisioning emergency number information on a user equipment. When a dialed number matches an emergency number from the provisioned emergency number information, the user equipment selects either the circuit switched domain or the packet switched domain and executes a call setup procedure for that domain.
US10440546B2
A system for facilitating communications in a mesh network is provided. One or more devices of the mesh network may participate as routing nodes to provide range extension for any other devices in the mesh network that would otherwise be out of range from one another. In one or more implementations, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) may be used as the physical transport of the mesh network.
US10440544B2
Various embodiments concern motion sensor modules able to monitor movement. A motion sensor module can be detachably connected to an electronic device to which the motion sensor module transfers motion data. In some embodiments, the motion sensor module is connected to an electronic device associated with an individual. In other embodiments, the motion sensor module is embedded within an article of clothing worn by the individual (e.g., a shirt, swimsuit, or shoe). The motion sensor module includes at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) that generates motion data indicative of the motion of the motion sensor module as a whole.
US10440542B2
A battery system includes a battery, a monitoring circuit, a wireless communication device and a remote wireless communication unit, and a deployable drone parachute. The monitoring circuit includes a processing unit and non-volatile memory that stores a unique identification of the battery. The wireless communication device is disposed on the battery and is in data communication with sensor circuits. The wireless communication device transmits real time operational parameter data sensed by the sensor circuits. The remote wireless communication unit is in wireless data communication with the wireless communication device and receives the operational parameter data therefrom.
US10440540B2
Devices associated with a lighting application can utilize multiple communication technologies for communicating with multiple devices that have different power consumption constraints and different transmission ranges. Communications and signaling can be managed to extend battery life. A battery-powered occupancy sensor can communicate occupancy information via a radio. The radio can be placed in sleep mode to preserve battery life. A communication node in the application can support intra-network and inter-network communications, for example with remote devices and systems.
US10440533B2
Localization systems and methods for transmitting timestampable localization signals from anchors according to one or more transmission schedules. The transmission schedules may be generated and updated to achieve desired positioning performance. For example, one or more anchors may transmit localization signals at a different rate than other anchors, the anchor transmission order can be changed, and the signals can partially overlap. In addition, different transmission parameters may be used to transmit two localization signals at the same time without interference. A self-localizing apparatus is able to receive the localization signals and determine its position. The self-localizing apparatus may have a configurable receiver that can select to receive one of multiple available localization signals. The self-localizing apparatuses may have a pair of receivers able to receive two localization signals at the same time. A bridge anchor may be provided to enable a self-localizing apparatus to seamlessly transition between two localization systems.
US10440521B2
A node forms a connection-less mesh network with one or more other nodes. The node controls to generate an identifier that identifies the node; to update the identifier and a data payload; to periodically wirelessly broadcast, at a predetermined frequency, broadcast-information that comprises the generated identifier and the updated data payload; and to periodically receive, at a predetermined frequency, other-broadcast-information which is the broadcast-information respectively broadcast from each of the one or more other nodes. The one or more processors performs the update of the identifier and the data payload in accordance with the other-broadcast-information from the other nodes.
US10440520B2
A user equipment (UE) comprises processor circuitry, sensing circuitry, and transmitting circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to acquire broadcast signaling from a base station, the broadcast signaling including a threshold value list. The sensing circuitry is configured to measure a reception power and to compare the measured reception power with a threshold. The transmitting circuitry is configured to transmit a sidelink transmission if a resource is available according to resource sensing. The threshold is obtained from the threshold value list in dependence upon at least a priority of the sidelink transmission.
US10440515B2
Systems and techniques to determine an approximate location for a mobile device using historic location information. In an aspect, a SUPL Location Platform (SLP), which is a location server in SUPL, may receive data from SUPL Enabled Terminal (SET). The data may include the Multiple Location IDs Parameter. The real time Location ID Parameter may not have a current status. The SLP may determine an approximate position for the SET based on the Multiple Location IDs Parameter data received from the SET. The SLP may then send the approximate position to the SET or a SUPL Agent, or may use the approximate position information in another way.
US10440513B2
An inventory tracking system includes a plurality of emitters that each emit a wireless signal and are placed at known locations relative to a plurality of storage areas in a warehouse, including a first storage area for storage of a specified item. The system further includes a mobile device that travels with a material handler. The mobile device: receives a first wireless signal from a first emitter that is one of the plurality of emitters; calculates a first distance between the material handler and the first emitter based on the first wireless signal; determines that the material handler is located at a stocking location for the first storage area based on the first distance and the known location of the first emitter; and sends a notification indicating that the material handler is at the stocking location for the first storage area.
US10440509B1
Systems and methods for managing and facilitating geofencing features associated with electronic devices are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an entity may own or manage a set of retail stores. A server associated with the entity may receive an estimated location of an electronic device, and may determine that the estimated location is in proximity to one of the set of retail stores. The server may further calculate a geofencing boundary for the retail store based on certain location-based data, and may determine whether the estimated location of the electronic device is within the geofencing boundary. The server may additionally facilitate certain geofencing features based on the determination.
US10440507B2
A computer-implemented method and system for tracking a vehicle's course using geolocation data is provided. The method comprises obtaining a set of predetermined GPS locations representing a closed course; tracking movements of a user using a GPS controller; authenticating the movements of the user against the set of predetermined GPS locations while the client terminal is within a predetermined distance of at least one of the set of predetermined GPS locations; and presenting consolidated timing information about the user's movements along the set of predetermined GPS locations. The system comprises a central processing server in communication with a computer network and configured to obtain information from a central database; and one or more client terminals in communication with the central processing server via the computer network, and configured to provide a graphical user interface for user interaction with the central processing server.
US10440503B2
Machine-learning based geolocation techniques may be used to provide the geolocations of user devices and determine the locations of hotspot areas. A coarse geolocation of a user device may be determined based on the wireless communication network usage information of the user device. Device data that includes the coarse geolocation of the use device may be inputted into a trained geolocation model of a machine learning algorithm. A refined geolocation of the user device that is more accurate than the coarse geolocation of the user device may be determined by using the machine learning algorithm to process the device data via the trained geolocation model. The refined geolocation of the user device may be further stored in a data store.
US10440501B2
A wireless device includes a user interface that generates a pairing signal in response to an indication from a user to pair the wireless device to at least one remote device and generates a first location request signal in response to a second indication from a user to locate the at least one remote device. A short-range wireless transceiver communicates RF signals to pair the wireless device to the at least one remote device and that transmits a first RF paging signal to the at least one remote device in response to the location request signal.
US10440500B2
A method for operating a device includes selecting a set of access nodes in accordance with a first estimated position of a user equipment (UE), sending, to the set of access nodes, a first message to activate positioning signal transmission, sending, to the UE, a request for position measurement information, and receiving, from the UE, the position measurement information.
US10440495B2
A method for improved virtual localization of sound comprises making a sound at an origin point, recording the sound with two or more recording devices at, two or more different distances from the origin point, generate a head-related transfer function (HRTF) for each of signals received from the two or more recording devices at the two or more different distances from the origin point, convolving a waveform with a localized HRTF generated using at least one of the HRTFs, and drive a speaker with the convolved waveform.
US10440494B2
A method for generating an individual-specific head-related transfer function from a database containing 3D or 2D ear data and corresponding head-related transfer functions, the method comprises the steps of: performing a statistical analysis of the 3D or 2D ear space of the database; performing a statistical analysis of the head-related-transfer-function space of the data base; performing an analysis of the relationships between the statistical parameters of the statistical analysis of the 3D or 2D ear space and the statistical parameters of the head-related-transfer-function space; and determining, from the relationship analysis and the statistical analysis of the 3D or 2D ear space, a function for calculating a head-related transfer function from data representative of at least one ear.
US10440486B2
Methods and systems are described for transferring programming information to a hearing instrument. Such programming information may include hearing loss compensation parameters and/or other information pertaining to device operation. In one embodiment, each of a pair of hearing instruments prescribed and configured for a particular hearing loss contains the necessary information for operation on either the left or right ear. The data from one hearing instrument may then be transferred to the other hearing instrument by means of wireless communication. In other embodiments, programming information is transferred wirelessly by an external device connected to a database.
US10440479B2
An electroacoustic device and a mobile terminal are provided. The electroacoustic device may include a box defining an opening; an electroacoustic component including a frame, a vibrating membrane and a driving assembly, whet the frame is installed inside the box, the vibrating membrane is assembled on the thine and covers the opening, the frame and the vibrating membrane define a chamber, the driving assembly is configured to drive the vibrating membrane to vibrate, and the frame defines a leaking channel, and partition nets set inside the box, wherein a space between the electroacoustic component and the box is divided into cavities by the partition nets, at least one cavity is filled with sound absorption material, and the cavities are communicated with the chamber through the leaking channel.
US10440471B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and devices which in some embodiments may be used to detect noise produced by a vehicle and identify the vehicle that is the source of the noise.
US10440469B2
A microphone module comprises a housing, an audio bus, and a first plurality of microphones in communication with the audio bus. The microphone module further comprises a module processor in communication with the first plurality of microphones and the audio bus. The module processor is configured to detect the presence of an array processor in communication with the audio bus, detect the presence of a second microphone module in communication with the audio bus, and configure the audio bus to pass audio signals from both the first plurality of microphones and the second microphone module to the array processor.
US10440467B1
A method for controlling a vehicle relates to a voice masking technology for allowing only a specific passenger among passengers in the vehicle to listen to a voice communication signal such as a dial tone, and the technology inhibits the remaining passengers other than the specific passenger from listening to the voice communication signal. The vehicle includes a voice signal receiver to receive a voice signal, a speaker provided in the vehicle to output the voice signal, and a controller to perform frequency conversion of the received voice signal. In particular, the controller generates a masking sound for inhibiting transmission of information contained in the voice signal on the basis of a frequency band of the converted voice signal, and generates a control signal in a manner that the generated masking sound is output to a predetermined region of an indoor space of the vehicle.
US10440465B2
A surface mounted loudspeaker design is provided that mitigates the interference between direct low frequency (LF) energy and reflected LF energy by breaking the LF energy from an LF driver into multiple paths using one or more of waveguides, driver load plates, and enclosure ports to diffuse the reflected energy and minimize frequency response errors. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provides a loudspeaker have multiple acoustic exits strategically designed and located to generate, for example, three major wave front arrivals—2 source and 1 reflection—at target angles with favorable lag times, mitigating the cancellation notching and frequency errors that occur in conventional loudspeaker designs.
US10440461B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for an earpiece that includes an audio subsystem and a longitudinal housing that is bendable between a substantially straight shape and a substantially curved shape. The longitudinal housing may contain the audio subsystem and include a flexible material. Additionally, a speaker may be coupled to the audio subsystem and positioned at an end of the longitudinal housing. In one example, the earpiece also includes a controller coupled to the flexible material, wherein the controller generates one or more control signals that cause the flexible material to automatically complete a bend of the longitudinal housing to the substantially curved shape.
US10440458B2
An ear tip made partially of a secondary insert, clamp, sleeve band or other memory retaining elastic material that, when integrated with a biocompatible, soft, highly elastic and vibration and sound damping material provides improved containment and isolation of sound pressure within a sound transmission path and provides the necessary retention for this type of acoustically superior material to be retained properly on a sound generating assembly.
US10440456B2
Disclosed is an artificial intelligence hub including: a main body having a speaker for outputting sound; a communication module for wirelessly communicating with a surround ding device; a base provided below the main body to support the main body; a cover coupled to a top of the main body, the cover having an upper surface for displaying a screen based on information exchanged via the communication module; and a grille having a vertically elongated cylindrical shape and provided with a plurality of through-holes therein, the main body being provided within the grille, the grille being coupled at an upper end thereof to the cover housing and coupled at a lower end thereof to the base.
US10440445B2
A method of providing advertising services through broadcasts and an electronic device adapted to the method are provided. The electronic device includes: a communication unit for receiving viewing information from at least one client and advertising schedule information from at least one broadcast server; a controller for analyzing the effectiveness of advertising that can be expected when particular advertisement content is broadcast, based on the viewing information and the advertising schedule information, and determining a broadcasting time or a broadcast server that broadcasts the particular advertisement content, according to the analysis result; and a storage unit for storing the viewing information, the advertisement schedule information, or information about at least one advertisement content item.
US10440442B2
A transmission method includes generating one or more frames for content transfer using IP (Internet Protocol) packets, and transmitting the one or more generated frames by broadcast. Each of the one or more frames contains a plurality of second transfer units, each of the plurality of second transfer units contains one or more first transfer units, and each of the one or more first transfer units contains at least one of the IP packets. An object IP packet of the IP packets which is stored in a first transfer unit positioned at a head in the one or more frames contains reference clock information that indicates time for reproduction of the content in data structure different from data structure of an MMT (MPEG Media Transport) packet, and header compression processing on the object IP packet is omitted.
US10440438B2
Systems and methods control presentation of audio-only content that is broadcast to a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives media content that is currently received in a channel of a broadcasted media content stream; determines whether the currently received channel is a type of channel that provides audio/visual content or a type of channel that provides audio-only content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio/visual content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio/visual content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio-only content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio-only content, wherein the at least one audio/visual content control function is different from the at least one audio-only content control function.
US10440435B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for performing searches while users are viewing video content. An explicit request from a user to initiate a search relative to video content is detected. An item in the video content is identified. The search is executed in a database to obtain information regarding the item. The information is presented to the user.
US10440426B2
According to an aspect, an apparatus may include a media streaming device including electronic circuitry configured to receive media content wirelessly from a media content source, and an output cord segment having a first end portion fixedly coupled to a housing of the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a receiving device, where the electronic circuitry is further configured to transmit the received media content through the output cord segment to the receiving device. The apparatus may include a power cord segment having a first end portion configured to be coupled to the media streaming device, and a second end portion configured to be coupled to a power source.
US10440419B2
Various client devices include displays and one or more image capture devices configured to capture video data. Different users of an online system are associated with client devices that exchange information captured by their respective image capture devices. When exchanging information, presentation of content to users associated with different client device may be initially synchronized across the client devices. To synchronize content presentation, a client device initiating presentation of the content transmits a request identifying the content and an initial time to other client devices. The initial time is greater than than a maximum return time or latency in a network coupling the client devices and the online system from a time when the request is transmitted. A client device determined to be out of synchronization with one or more other client devices receives a command to modify a rate at which the content is presented to reestablish synchronization.
US10440418B2
A display apparatus is used in an entertainment facility, and worn by a user to display a video, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information in the entertainment facility, and a display unit that displays different videos whenever the user passes through a predetermined region included in the entertainment facility.
US10440417B2
A system and method may be provided that allows users to store, retrieve, and manipulate on-demand media content and data stored on a remote server network in an on-demand media delivery system. More particularly, the system may allow a user to access his or her on-demand media account from user equipment in different locations as long as the current user equipment can communicate with a remote server that stores user-specific information. The system upon user selection may freeze the delivery of on-demand media at a particular point and allow the user to resume the media at a later time from some other network location in system. Users may upload personal images or files to an on-demand delivery server for later retrieval and display. Users may be permitted to assign access rights to the uploaded files.
US10440415B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus which comprises a receiver which receives primary image content; a communicator which communicates with at least one supply source which supplies related image content of the primary image content; a signal processor which processes and outputs the primary image content; and a controller which controls the communicator to request the supply source to supply the related image content, and controls the signal processor to process and play the related image content supplied from the supply source in response to the request if a user selects a key to play the related image content of the primary image content while the primary image content received by the receiver is processed by the signal processor.
US10440414B1
Methods of delivering episodic content according to time zone specific schedules are disclosed. Video content is scheduled and delivered via complex interactions between clients and servers, where a service host can be used to coordinate delivery of content from a content host. It is contemplated that, in the event video content is unavailable at a scheduled time, an error message can be delivered to a client while a prompt to rectify the error condition can be delivered to a channel manager via the service host.
US10440412B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods enabling the send or “push” side of a cable transmission to dynamically obtain additional and/or temporary capacity. Bits and/or bandwidth of transmitted content is restricted by the service provider allowing gaps in the capacity to be filled with value-added content such as advertising, additional supplemental data feeds, or other media content.
US10440401B2
A processor for video coding receives a full-frame rate (FFR) HDR video signal and a corresponding FFR SDR video signal. An encoder generates a scalable bitstream that allows decoders to generate half-frame-rate (HFR) SDR, FFR SDR, HFR HDR, or FFR HDR signals. Given odd and even frames of the input FFR SDR signal, the scalable bitstream combines a base layer of coded even SDR frames with an enhancement layer of coded packed frames, where each packed frame includes a downscaled odd SDR frame, a downscaled even HDR residual frame, and a downscaled odd HDR residual frame. In an alternative implementation, the scalable bitstream combines four signals layers: a base layer of even SDR frames, an enhancement layer of odd SDR frames, a base layer of even HDR residual frames and an enhancement layer of odd HDR residual frames. Corresponding decoder architectures are also presented.
US10440395B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for adaptively reducing blocking artifacts in block-coded video are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes processing logic at least capable of deblock filtering at least a portion of a line of video data based, at least in part, on edge information and texture information to generate at least a portion of a line of deblocked video data, and an image data output device responsive to the processing logic.
US10440387B2
Various embodiments for coding a current block included in a picture are provided. One or more candidates of a first type are added to a candidate list, with each of the candidates of the first type being derived from a first motion vector of a first block that is adjacent to the current block. One or more candidates of a second type are added to the candidate list until a total number of candidates of the first and second types reaches a fixed number, with each of the candidates of the second type being derived from a second motion vector of a second block that is different from each first block. Only the candidates of the first type are added to the candidate list before the candidates of the second type are added to the candidate list.
US10440385B2
A proposed intermediate way of handling the renderable portion of the first view results in more efficient coding. Instead of omitting the coding of the renderable portion completely, even more efficient coding of multi-view signals entails merely suppressing the coding of the residual signal within the renderable portion, whereas the prediction parameter coding still takes place from the non-renderable portion of the multi-view signal across the renderable portion so that prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be exploited for predicting parameters for the non-renderable portion. The additional coding rate for transmitting the prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be kept low as this merely aims at forming a continuation of the parameter history across the renderable portion to serve as a basis for prediction parameters of other portions of the multi-view signal. Expressed differently, the prediction parameters for the renderable portion need not perfectly predict the texture within the renderable portion of the first view to keep the residual signal within the renderable portion low.
US10440383B2
In image predictive encoding according to an embodiment, one or more motion information sets are derived from plural pieces of motion information stored in a computer readable storage medium. Each of the one or more information sets includes two pieces of motion information between which any one of constituent elements differ in value. A predicted signal of a target region in a picture is generated by motion compensation, using two pieces of motion information in a motion information set selected from the one or more motion information sets. The two pieces of motion information in the selected motion information set are stored in the computer readable storage medium, and are used for generation of a predicted signal of another region.
US10440382B2
A moving picture coding apparatus includes a co-located block information determination unit which determines which one of a forward reference block and a backward reference block will be a co-located block and further determines whether only the unidirectional motion vector of the motion vectors of the co-located block is to be stored in a colPic memory; a temporal motion vector predictor calculation unit which derives a candidate motion vector predictor in temporal motion vector predictor mode using the colPic information stored in the colPic memory; and an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using a candidate motion vector predictor having least error from the motion vector derived by motion estimation among candidate motion vector predictors.
US10440381B2
According to the present invention, an inter-prediction method includes: receiving mode information on the inter-prediction of a current block; decoding the received mode information; and performing inter-prediction using the decoded mode information. According to the present invention, image compression efficiency may be improved.
US10440379B2
Techniques for high dynamic range image processing are presented. Base layer data, first checksum parameter, and residual ratio data for a high dynamic range (HDR) image are each received. A second checksum parameter is computed for the base layer data based upon the first SOF after the last APP11 marker segment and includes all following bytes up to and including the EOI marker. The first and second checksum parameters are compared to determine if base layer has been altered.
US10440375B2
Methods of adaptive transform type based on transform unit (TU) size for enhancement layer (EL) coding and multiple motion candidates for EL coding based on corresponding base layer (BL) video data are provided. One method selects a transform type from multiple allowable transform types based on the TU size and applies the selected transform type to the transform units of the inter-layer prediction processed data. Another method derives multiple motion candidates for the EL video data coded in Merge mode or Inter mode based on motion information associated with the corresponding BL video data.
US10440368B2
The invention relates to methods for hiding values of a hierarchically layered coding unit in other values comprised by the coding unit is provided (encoding methods). Furthermore, the invention also relates to methods for reconstructing hidden data from an encoded coding unit (decoding method). The invention is also related to the implementation of these encoding and/or decoding methods in an apparatus and on a (non-transitory) computer readable medium. According to the invention, data are hidden in values of different layers of a hierarchically structured coding unit.
US10440367B1
The disclosed technology relates to adaptively encoding a video stream based on viewer engagement, content schedule and/or content characteristics. A system routes a video stream from a signal extractor to a first virtual encoder. The first virtual encoder is instantiated on a cloud platform and provides a first video output at a first bitrate. A second virtual encoder is instantiated on the cloud platform in response to a change in viewer count. The system routes the video stream from the signal extractor to the second virtual encoder. The second virtual encoder provides a second video output at a second bitrate. The second bitrate is different from the first bitrate.
US10440360B2
A video processing system includes a video processing unit (VPU) and one or more display processing units, all having access to external memory. Video data representing frames to be displayed is generated. The VPU generates pixel data representing the frames and stores it in memory. The display processing units then read the pixel data to display the frames. The VPU is configured to generate and store in memory pixel data representing reference frames for the sequence of video frames at the full resolution of the reference frame and also at at least one lower resolution to the full resolution.
US10440350B2
Constructing a user's face model using particle filters is disclosed, including: using a first particle filter to generate a new plurality of sets of extrinsic camera information particles corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of images based at least in part on a selected face model particle; selecting a subset of the new plurality of sets of extrinsic camera information particles corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of images; and using a second particle filter to generate a new plurality of face model particles corresponding to the plurality of images based at least in part on the selected subset of the new plurality of sets of extrinsic camera information particles.
US10440348B2
Embodiments are directed to an optical privatizing device (100), system and methods of use. The device includes a removable frame (101) removably attachable to a sensor housing (1A). A device includes a blurring lens (130) coupled to the removable frame (101) and configured to optically modify light passing to a depth sensor wherein the optical modified light has a privatizing blur level to neutralize a profile of an object sensed by the depth sensor within a working volume of the depth sensor to an unidentifiable state while maintaining a depth parameter sensed by the depth sensor.
US10440341B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods related to an image processor formed in an array of memory cells are described. An image processor as described herein is configured to reduce complexity and power consumption and/or increase data access bandwidth by performing image processing in the array of memory cells relative to image processing by a host processor external to the memory array. For instance, one apparatus described herein includes sensor circuitry configured to provide an input vector, as a plurality of bits that corresponds to a plurality of color components for an image pixel, and an image processor formed in an array of memory cells. The image processor is coupled to the sensor circuitry to receive the plurality of bits of the input vector. The image processor is configured to perform a color correction operation in the array by performing matrix multiplication on the input vector and a parameter matrix to determine an output vector that is color corrected.
US10440337B2
A projection apparatus, comprises a projection unit configured to project an image onto a screen including a target image, a switching unit configured to switch to one of a first image for indicating a position deviation between a projection area in which the projection unit projects an image and the target image, and a second image for increasing contrast of the target image, and a control unit configured to control the projection unit so as to project an image in the projection area based on an image to which the switching unit has switched, wherein the first image is an image that has a predetermined relationship with colors of the target image.
US10440335B2
An optical device is provided including a light-imaging component configured to focus light fed to the light-imaging component in at least one focusing spot, wherein the light fed includes at least one predefinable wavelength; and a conversion apparatus including at least one phosphor which is designed to convert light having the at least one predefinable wavelength into conversion light, wherein the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least one phosphor is arranged in the focusing spot of the light-imaging component. The light-imaging component is configured to generate at least two focusing spots, and the conversion apparatus is arranged in such a way that the at least two focusing spots are positioned on the at least one phosphor.
US10440333B2
An audio/video (A/V) recording and communication doorbell comprises a camera, a front button, and a motion sensor. The camera and the motion sensor are configured to work in tandem to detect motion in a field of view of the A/V recording and communication doorbell, such that a first one of the camera and the motion sensor detects motion and the other one of the camera and the motion sensor independently verifies the motion detection before an alert is sent to a user's client device. In this manner, user alerts from false alarm motion detections are reduced.
US10440332B2
Camera head apparatus, systems, and methods for providing wide angle/panoramic images and/or video of the interior of pipes or other cavities using multiple imaging and illumination modules are disclosed.
US10440325B1
A video conferencing system includes a processing device and a memory device and is configured to manage a video conference to manage a video conference feed to a plurality of participant devices. The system includes an interface control module that receives a plurality of video feeds and audio feeds associated with participants to the video conference, and generates a video conference feed including a video conference interface for being displayed to the plurality of participants. The system also includes a context analysis module that analyzes the audio feeds to identify contextual information associated with the conversation. The system further includes a participant modeling module that calculates a topic relevance score for each of the plurality of participants based on the contextual information. During a video conference, the interface control module emphasizes a video feed of a participant associated with a topic relevance score greater than a threshold.
US10440314B2
A video signal conversion device is realized in which even in a case where an HDR video signal following a first video format is converted into a HDR video signal following a second video format, supplementary information related to the HDR video signal following the original first video format is not lost. The video signal conversion device (1 or 40) includes: a conversion unit (5) that converts the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format into the high dynamic range video signal following the second video format; and an output unit (12) that outputs the supplementary information which is related to the high dynamic range video signal following the first video format.
US10440298B2
An extended range Compatible Metal Oxide Semiconductor Image Sensor and method for operating it is provided, the sensor comprising: a first conversion node; a first switch connected to said first conversion node; a second switch disposed in series with said first switch; and a capacitive element disposed between said first and said second switches.
US10440292B2
The invention enables image processing of visible light and near-infrared light using an imaging device. An acquisition unit (110) acquires an image signal representing an image including near-infrared light that has an intensity according to a pattern having a prescribed geometric shape. A signal processing unit (120) uses pattern information which defines the pattern to output, a color signal representing visible light components corresponding to the image signal and a near-infrared signal representing near-infrared light components corresponding to the image signal.
US10440287B2
In a method of obtaining a wide dynamic range (WDR) image, a first subframe image having pixel data obtained with a first exposure time is generated by performing a first readout operation of a plurality of pixels of an image sensor. A second subframe image having pixel data obtained with a second exposure time and a third exposure time is generated by performing a second readout operation of the plurality of pixels. The first exposure time, the second exposure time and the third exposure time are different from one another. A current frame image having pixel data obtained from pixel exposures with the first exposure time, the second exposure time and the third exposure time is generated by combining the first subframe image with the second subframe image.
US10440284B2
An apparatus for adjusting an exposure time for an image frame is presented. The apparatus comprises at least one processing unit and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the apparatus to process at least one image frame, select at least one region of interest from the at least one image frame, process at least two consecutive image frames to determine a motion field, segment the motion field into at least one motion cluster, select based on the at least one region of interest and the at least one motion cluster, the most relevant motion cluster, and adjust the exposure time based on motion information of the selected most relevant motion cluster.
US10440279B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving image data of an image capturing a scene, receiving data describing one or more entities determined from the scene, the one or more entities being determined from the scene, determining one or more actions based on the one or more entities, each action being provided at least partly based on search results from searching the one or more entities, and providing instructions to display an action interface comprising one or more action elements, each action element being to induce execution of a respective action, the action interface being displayed in a viewfinder.
US10440267B2
Digital logic circuitry includes a plurality of logic blocks and memories that execute a method to stitch images. The method includes capturing the images with a plurality of pixel sensors, providing blocks of intensity values captured by the pixel sensors to input/output (I/O) pins of the digital logic circuitry, processing the intensity values with the digital logic circuitry, and stitching the processed images into a stitched image.
US10440266B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display configured to display an image corresponding to a currently displayed viewpoint of a plurality of viewpoints in a panoramic image, a processor configured to generate a capture image having a plurality of capture image viewpoints corresponding to a current display frame of the panoramic image in response to receiving a capture command, and a storage configured to store the capture image.
US10440264B2
An image processing system can specify storage locations of necessary functions even when a user-set process flow has been updated. The image processing system includes a setting device and an image processing device. The image processing device includes a storage device and a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The setting device includes a generation part that generates storage location information defining a storage location in the storage part for each of image processing programs to be selected, which have been selected from a library, and a transmission part that transmits the image processing programs to be selected, a process flow defining an execution order of the image processing programs, and the storage location information to the image processing device. The image processing device includes a rewriting part that writes a received image processing program to a storage location of the storage device defined in the storage location information.
US10440260B2
There is provided a display control apparatus including: a display control unit configured to cause a display apparatus to display a live preview image generated based on image data obtained through an image sensor, and one or more processed images generated using respective image processing conditions based on one of the image data which has been obtained at some time point; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a predetermined user operation has been recognized. If it is determined that the predetermined user operation has been recognized, the display control unit updates the one or more processed images to be displayed.
US10440246B2
A system comprising a network of computers programmed to receive and process visual data transmitted from an endoscopic instrument, display the processed visual data as a live stream and as a set of discrete media objects to be annotated by users of multiple computers accessing the media objects remotely. The endoscopic instrument may feature several buttons arranged for capturing, freezing, and annotating the live stream. The media objects, annotations, and metadata associating the users with the annotations will be embedded by the system into a report using image and text matching algorithms, the report exportably stored and accessed in a patient-physician schedule and database environment.
US10440238B2
A method for synchronizing haptic effects with at least one media component in a media transport stream includes identifying a series of video frames containing imaging information and/or a series of audio frames containing sound information in the media transport stream; identifying a series of haptic frames containing force feedback information in the media transport stream; and synchronizing the force feedback information in response to the imaging information and/or sound information.
US10440237B2
A display device is provided. A data line includes a main line section, a first line section and a second line section spaced apart from one another. The first and second line sections respectively cross over a first scan line set to form first and second crossing regions. The main line section crosses over a second scan line set to form third crossing regions. The first line section is electrically connected to the main line section and one scan line of a third scan line set via a first switch element. The second line section is electrically connected to the main line section and another scan line of the third scan line set via a second switch element. First pixel units, second pixel units and third pixel units correspond respectively to the first crossing regions, the second crossing regions and the third crossing regions.
US10440231B2
A system includes a memory to store at least one Halftone Area Neugebauer Separation (HANS) look-up table (LUT) that represents a predetermined drop weight for N colorant channels of a printer. The HANS LUT provides a given Neugebauer Primary area coverage in response to a device color input value. Measurement data stored in the memory represents measured drop weight values for the N colorant channels of the printer. A processor executes instructions stored in the memory. The instructions are to compute a calibration element for the HANS LUT that describes a drop-weight deviation with respect to the HANS LUT based on the measured drop weight values. The instructions are to apply the calibration element to at least a portion of the HANS LUT to generate a calibrated LUT.
US10440229B2
A camera-based security system protects an asset by detecting an aerial surveillor and consequently storing notifications into a video archive, alerting to an operator console, and actuating privation apparatus. One or more cameras provides video streams to a processor which derives object motion. Attributes of object motion trigger notification to record and alert on conditions associated with an aerial surveillor. Tracking of pixels, pixel blocks, and motion vectors enable rules based determination of an airborne surveillance vehicle according to characteristic hovering or lingering by masking LSB of accumulated positive and negative movements. Actuators cause privation enhancement apparatus to obfuscate the protected asset (structure, area, or volume) or to interpose between the protected asset and the surveillor. The method traces a travel path of an object; and determines a ray from a private property to a surveillor drone.
US10440227B2
An image processing device includes: a first matching circuit to determine whether an image matrix of image data of a first resolution matches a first pattern, and output a first determination result; a first converting circuit to, if the image matrix matches the first pattern, replace a target pixel of the image matrix with a first pixel pattern of a second resolution, and output first image data of the second resolution; a second converting circuit to convert the image data of the first resolution into image data of the second resolution, and output second image data of the second resolution; a detecting circuit to detect whether the target pixel is included in a fine line structure, and output a detection result; and a selecting circuit to output one of the first image data and the second image data based on the first determination result and the detection result.
US10440226B2
A favorable image for which an attribute of each object being taken into consideration is obtained without the need to specify in detail various kinds of image processing to be applied to image data. An image processing apparatus including: an image processing unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on image data; a user interface for a user to set contents of the image processing; and a setting management unit configured to limit a portion of the image data to which the set contents of the image processing are applied in accordance with the contents set via the user interface.
US10440224B2
In a case where values received indicate a first color scale representing first number of colors and indicate the specific image process, a processor of an information processing apparatus receives first scan data in the first color scale from the scanner, and performs a specific image process on the first scan data. In a case where the values indicate a second color scale representing second number of colors and does not indicate the specific image process, the processor receives and outputs the second scan data. In a case where the values indicate the second color scale and the specific image process, the processor receives third scan data in the third color scale representing third number of colors larger than the second number. The processor performs the specific image process on the third scan data, and converts the processed third scan data to forth scan data in the second color scale.
US10440217B2
The present disclosure relates to a three dimensional (3D) scanning apparatus. The 3D scanning apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor has a first sensing area and a second sensing area. The first sensing area is configured to capture a first set of images of an object. The second sensing area is configured to capture a second set of images of the object. The processor is configured to establish a first model based on the first set of images and to establish a second model based on the second set of images. The processor is further configured to compare a correspondence between the first model and the second model.
US10440215B2
An image reading apparatus, having a housing, a feed tray, and a reader sensor, is provided. The housing includes a reversing guide, a discharge tray, and an opening. The reversing guide is configured to reverse a first face and a second face of a sheet and guide the sheet from a first position toward a second position in a direction from a rear side toward a front side at the first position and in a direction from the front side toward, the rear side at the second position. The discharge tray is arranged at a position lower than the reversing guide and is configured to support the sheet discharged from the conveyer path. The opening is formed between the reversing guide and the discharge tray and is configured to expose the sheet supported by the discharge tray so that the sheet is removed through the front side of the housing.
US10440212B2
A reading module has a light source, an optical system imaging, as image light, reflected light of light radiated from the light source to a document, a sensor where a plurality of imaging regions for converting the image light imaged by the optical system into an electrical signal are arranged next to each other in the main scanning direction, and a housing the light source, the optical system, and the sensor. The optical system has a mirror array where a plurality of reflection mirrors whose reflection surfaces are aspherical concave surfaces are coupled together in an array in the main scanning direction, and an aperture stop portion adjusting the amount of the image light reflected from the reflection mirror. The amount of the image light striking the reflection mirror is increasingly small from opposite end parts of the reflection mirror toward its central part in the main scanning direction.
US10440210B2
A communication apparatus for performing automatic reception processing of a calling signal received on a telephone line, by power supplied from a first power supply, includes an image processing unit, a detection unit, a counting unit, and a power supply control unit. The image processing unit performs image processing on image data received over the telephone line, by power supplied from a second power supply. The detection unit detects a calling signal received on the telephone line, by power supplied from the first power supply, while power supplied from the second power supply is stopped. The counting unit counts the number of calling signals detected by the detection unit. The power supply control unit starts supply of power from the second power supply on the basis that the number of detected calling signals counted by the counting unit reaches a predetermined number.
US10440207B2
On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.
US10440206B2
A fax function diagnosis method and an apparatus for performing the method are provided. The fax function diagnosis method includes receiving a diagnosis request to diagnose a fax function of an image forming apparatus, diagnosing the fax function of the image forming apparatus by transmitting or receiving a test page, and performing an operation based on a result of the diagnosing.
US10440205B1
An image forming apparatus includes a paper reading section, a similarity judgment section, and a control section. Between a downstream side in a paper conveyance direction of the paper feed section and a position where image formation is performed, the paper reading section reads an existing image already formed on a surface opposite to a formation surface of a new image newly formed on paper by an image formation section. Based on image data of the new image and image data of the existing image obtained by the image formation section, the similarity judgment section judges similarity between the both images. The control section, upon judging that the similarity is high, causes a pattern image to be formed on a surface of the paper where the existing image is formed, and upon judging that the similarity is not high, does not cause the pattern image to be formed.
US10440203B2
A display includes a display unit, an image sensor that takes an image of a predetermined area and outputs the taken image, and a hardware processor that detects the marker in the taken image, generates differential color information between color data of the marker in the taken image and color data of the marker in the print image data, displays a virtual object which reproduces the print image data in the display unit, sets an object adjustment value for adjusting a color tone of the virtual object displayed on the display unit based on the differential color information, and calculates a print adjustment value for adjusting a color tone reproduced by the image forming apparatus based on the object adjustment value.
US10440200B1
Provided is an image forming apparatus that reflects drawing, which is performed in a terminal for remote maintenance, on a self-apparatus at time of remote maintenance connection. A connecting part connects with the terminal in a session of a specific protocol. An operation acquiring part acquires operational information corresponding to operation of the terminal connected by the connecting part. A drawing mode switching part switches to the drawing mode that performs drawing on a display of an operation panel part by the operational information acquired by the operation acquiring part. A drawing part acquires drawing data drawn in the terminal and draw to the operation panel part when being switched to the drawing mode by the drawing mode switching part.
US10440197B2
A computer-implemented method for processing images of a document is disclosed. The method includes: capturing an image of at least part of a document by a camera of an electronic device, the document having one or more data fields; determining, by the electronic device, one or more data entry items from analyzing the one or more data fields in the image; and displaying, on a display of the electronic device, aim a preview of the document including annotation overlays on the preview, each annotation overlay containing a respective one of the one or more data entry items and being displayed in association with its respective data field in the preview.
US10440190B2
A system, smart device and method for apportioning costs of smart device operations between purposes. Operation information concerning operations performed by the smart device is recorded. The operations are apportioned between purposes based on categorization information and the operation information. The cost of the apportioned operations performed by the device is determined for the purposes based on the operation information and tariff information.
US10440185B2
A system includes a contact center to provide an interaction between a consumer and an agent workstation of the contact center, where the consumer conducts a transaction with a provider through a third party marketplace. A database stores information about a relationship between the consumer, the provider and the marketplace. The contact center to routes the consumer to the agent workstation based on the relationship.
US10440180B1
Techniques are described for generating metric(s) that predict survey score(s) for a service session. Model(s) may be trained, through supervised or unsupervised machine learning, using training data from previous service sessions between service representative(s) and individual(s). Training data may include, for previous service session(s), a session record (e.g., audio record) of the session and a set of survey scores provided by the serviced individual to rate the session on one or more criteria (e.g., survey questions). The model(s) may be trained to output, based on an input session record, metric(s) that each correspond to a survey score that would have been provided by the individual had they completed the survey. The model may be a concatenated model that is a combination of a language model output from a language classifier recurrent neural network, and an acoustic model output from an acoustic feature layer convolutional neural network.
US10440171B2
Portable communication terminal apparatus includes a function of performing communication for a call. Also, communication terminal apparatus includes a proximity sensor for detecting that an object (head of a user) exists in proximity to the communication terminal apparatus, and an acceleration sensor for measuring a motion state of the communication terminal apparatus. Communication terminal apparatus performs call ending processing for ending a call if, during the call, a transition is made from a state in which the presence of the object is detected by the proximity sensor to a state in which the presence of the object is not detected, and thereafter the motion state detected by the acceleration sensor satisfies a predetermined condition. The condition of the motion state is determined, for example, based on an operation consciously performed by the user, such as an operation of shaking communication terminal apparatus.
US10440168B2
A communication device transmits a plurality of types of data to an external device, and the communication device includes: a wireless communication unit 15 configured to communicate with the external device; a near field communication unit 16 configured to communicate with the external device and consuming less power; and a CPU 11 configured to set priority to a plurality of types of data and let the near field communication unit 16 with reduced power consumption transmit the data having predetermined priority to the external device.
US10440159B2
Handling supplementary services offered in association with Internet Protocol multimedia services based on particular policies is described. In an example, server(s) can receive, from a first user device, a policy associated with handling one or more communications directed to a particular identifier. The server(s) can subsequently receive a communication from a second user device, the communication being associated with a header identifying the particular identifier as the intended recipient of the communication. The server(s) can determine whether the policy is to be applied to the communication and, based at least partly on determining that the policy is to be applied to the communication, the server(s) can update the header based at least in part on the policy. The server(s) can transmit the communication based at least in part on the header, thereby transmitting the communication pursuant to the policy.
US10440158B2
The disclosure relates to a data processing device, comprising: a processing element configured to process a plurality of data packets according to a communication protocol to provide a plurality of processed data packets each comprising a first part and a second part; and an interface configured to offload the second parts of the plurality of processed data packets to a remote data processing device and configured to notify the remote processing device of the offload of the second parts of the plurality of processed data packets.
US10440153B1
One or more computers receive a request from a user to change a configuration of a computing environment provided by one or more servers. In response to receiving the request and before performing the requested change in the configuration of the environment, the computers determine an estimated measure of performance that represents a level of performance of the computing environment if changed according to the request and provide data indicating performance measures indicating the estimated measure of performance for the environment corresponding to the change in the configuration of the environment. After providing the data indicating the estimated performance measures, the computers receive data indicating user input confirming the request to change the configuration of the environment, and perform the requested change in the configuration of the computing environment.
US10440152B2
Systems and methods of initiating virtual machine configuration on a subordinate node from a privileged node. An exemplary embodiment can provide a host channel adapter (HCA) including a control circuit with a processor and a memory, and a physical port operative to connect the HCA to a network fabric. Additionally, the HCA can include a subnet management agent (SMA) that executes on the HCA. The SMA can forward a request to register a virtual HCA to a subnet manager. The subnet manager can read an exposed attribute of the HCA, where the exposed attribute specifies the physical port as a privileged node, and where the value of the exposed attribute equals an assigned globally unique identifier (GUID) of the physical port. Upon receiving the request, the subnet manger can evaluate the GUID of the sending port to determine that the GUID and the value of the exposed attribute are equal.
US10440148B1
Techniques are described for balancing traffic among content delivery networks (CDNs). A CDN balancer can analyze CDN performance data and determine CDN balancing ratios used to distribute traffic among the CDNs.
US10440147B2
Quality-of-service management for Domain Name Service comprising identifying top-talking recursive resolvers of Domain Name Service packets, determining a baseline volume of Internet traffic, extrapolating future projected normal traffic volume, and allocating electronic communication network resources proportionally in accordance with the projected volume. Top-talking recursive resolvers not using a desired protocol can be induced to use that protocol, and a persistent session can be established with the top-talking recursive resolvers, such as by use of a TC flag set. The stateful nature of a TCP conversation allows rate-limiting and traffic volume management. A source IP address can be identified as apparently comprising a forged source IP address based on whether the desired transmission protocol is employed, and packets with the forged source IP address can be discarded.
US10440145B1
A software development kit (SDK) is disclosed that can reduce unnecessarily polling of a network service. The SDK is modified to cache response objects received from a network service that describe the state of a computing resource. Polling requests received for the state of the computing resource are satisfied from the cache when possible, thereby avoiding the polling of the network service. Entries in the cache can be invalidated based upon events generated by the network service that indicate that the state of the computing resource has changed.
US10440141B2
Large scale high performance file proxy caching sites may be configured to coalesce many client write operations into one very large assemblage of modified file data. At some point the caching site will flush all modified file data downstream towards the origin file server. In some instances the amount of modified data being flushed may be more than can be transferred in a single network request. When multiple network requests are required, the consistency guarantee provided by many filesystems requires that the file either be updated with the data contained in all of the network requests or not be modified at all. In addition, once the first flush request is processed no other file read or write requests can be serviced until the last flush request has been processed. This document discloses methods for performing atomic multi-request flush operations within a large geographically distributed filesystem environment.
US10440139B2
A method for implementing an on-premises process broker. The method may include receiving parameter data from a system of engagement, whereby the parameter data includes a query goal. The method may include storing the parameter data in a cache. The method may include preparing a REST call using programming logic based on the parameter data. The method may include transmitting the prepared REST call to a system of record. The method may further include receiving response data from the system of record based on the transmitted REST call. The method may also include updating the parameter data in the cache based on the response data. The method may include determining whether the query goal is satisfied. The method may also include transmitting the parameter data to the system of engagement based on determining the query goal is satisfied.
US10440135B2
An engine, system and method for a domain social network that interconnects Internet users with at least domains owned by or of interest to those Internet users, and that may obtain and/or forward obtained dynamic data regarding those domains automatically, such as by web service or email service. The dynamic data may be used to filter and protect content and data of the respective domains, to protect users by identifying low quality web pages or malicious software or pages, to isolate or improve search results regarding the domain, and/or to improve Internet-based transaction flow, such as the creation of advertising.
US10440132B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for reporting as well as tracking usage and/or installation of an application in a machine instance in a computing environment. A machine instance can execute an application and can be associated with a storage volume on which the application is installed. The application, or an installer utility associated with the application, can report installation and/or usage of the application to an application usage service.
US10440115B2
A method includes generating, by a computing device, a write intent message regarding a data object that is to be written into storage units as sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes initiating, by the computing device, a write operation for storing the sets of encoded data slices. Prior to the write operation being completed, the method further includes updating, by the computing device, the write intent message to indicate progression of the write operation. The method further includes analyzing, by a second computing device, the write intent message to determine whether the write operation has stalled. When the write operation has stalled, the method further includes identifying, by the second computing device, sets of encoded data slices that have been successfully stored. The method further includes implementing, by the second computing device, a clean-up process for the stored sets of encoded data slices.
US10440106B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method to synchronize files from a hosted file system where the client endpoint devices have direct access to the files stored on a hosted file store. When the client desires to synchronize with the files stored on the hosted file store the process identifies a sync role that can process the request. The particular sync role does not need to maintain state with the client device or the file store. The state necessary for the processing of the synchronization process is maintained separate from the sync role such that any sync role in the system can pick up the requests and process the requests. Once the role has been selected the synchronization process proceeds as normal. As state is not maintained by the sync role multiple roles can process the request or two roles can handle different portions of the process.
US10440091B2
Provided is a communication method of an electronic device, including executing a web browser, requesting registration in an IP multimedia core network subsystem (IMS) using a first client associated with the web browser, and displaying, in a part of the web browser using the first client, information associated with a network to which the electronic device is connected.
US10440090B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processing unit that performs a process, a controller that performs a control operation to cause the processing unit to perform the process requested by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a display apparatus that displays process results of the process, and a notification unit that notifies the display apparatus of the process results through communication different from an HTTP response responsive to the HTTP request having requested the process to be performed.
US10440085B2
An online system more efficiently streams multimedia content over the Internet for play back on client devices with varying computing power and network bandwidths by generating enhanced manifest files that more efficiently identify suitable media representations of the multimedia content. Each media representation has multiple media segments according to predefined byte ranges and a manifest file, which identifies location of the media file, bitrates, resolution, byte range, total duration, and other metadata. The online system customizes a manifest file for a user based on various factors including device capacity, network connectivity type and geolocation of the user. The online system also generates manifest fetch commands, which more efficiently fetch media segments for streaming. In response to changes of streaming server and media file (e.g., increased popularity), the online system dynamically updates corresponding manifest files.
US10440081B2
Disclosed is a content delivery system of networked computer systems, the content delivery system for effecting transmission of media assets to a user device having an output interface available to a user, the media asset being transmitted as a media stream for outputting to the user while the media stream is still being received at the user device. The content delivery system comprises a first computer system operated by a first operator and a second computer system operated by a second operator. Each of the first and second computer systems is configured to execute a respective instance of contract software for effecting the transmission of the media asset to the user device as the media stream. The contract software embodies a contract between the first operator and the second operator defining permitted interactions of their computer systems.
US10440075B2
A method of remotely controlling an electronic device is disclosed. In some implementations, the method is performed on a server system. The server system receives, from a first electronic device, a first media control request, wherein the first electronic device provides a single user interface that allows a user to both select media content for presentation by the first electronic device and to generate media control requests for transmission to the server system; and the first electronic device also sends a second media control request to a second electronic device over a local area network to which both the first electronic device and the second electronic device are connected. The server system then sends the received first media control request to the second electronic device, distinct from the first electronic device, wherein the server system and the second electronic device are not on the same local area network.
US10440072B2
An organizer uses software to define a conference or meeting to take place at a physical meeting location, and to include a list of attendees. The attendees can receive the meeting information, including the location and attendee list, via client-side software on the wireless telephone. Also via their wireless telephones, the attendees can link to and display pages associated with other attendees, send and receive messages to and from one another, arrange further on-site or offsite meetings, and share various types of personal and business information.
US10440070B2
A method of a terminal for providing a video service in a communication system is provided. The method includes requesting a server to transmit first video data in a maximum available bandwidth, receiving, from the server, the first video data in the maximum available bandwidth, determining a first bandwidth for the first video data and a second bandwidth for second video data within the maximum available bandwidth so that the first video data and the second video data have differential image qualities when an event of requesting the second video data is detected, requesting the server to transmit the first video data in the first bandwidth and to transmit the second video data in the second bandwidth, and receiving the first video data in the first bandwidth and receiving the second video data in the second bandwidth from the server.
US10440068B2
Methods and systems for pairing a device to an account managed by a remote service include connecting to a commissioning device. The commissioning device is a device that manages pairing of devices to a remote service. Pairing the device to the fabric in a remote service also includes receiving service configuration details from the commissioning device. The commissioning device has previously retrieved the service configuration details that contain details configured to enable the joining device to connect to the remote service. Using the service configuration details, a device connects to the remote service using the received service configuration details.
US10440062B2
A consent receipt management system may, for example, be configured to track data on behalf of an entity that collects and/or processes persona data related to: (1) who consented to the processing or collection of personal data; (2) when the consent was given (e.g., a date and time); (3) what information was provided to the consenter at the time of consent (e.g., a privacy policy, what personal data would be collected following the provision of the consent, for what purpose that personal data would be collected, etc.); (4) how consent was received (e.g., one or more copies of a data capture form, webform, etc. via which consent was provided by the consenter); (5) when consent was withdrawn (e.g., a date and time of consent withdrawal if the consenter withdraws consent); and/or (6) any other suitable data related to receipt or withdrawal of consent.
US10440055B2
An example apparatus configured to perform network deception may include processing circuitry configured to generate virtual instances of decoy resources residing within a defined host network for presentation to cyber attackers, control at least one software defined network switch to monitor network traffic directed to real and decoy resources of the defined host network, and route network traffic based on detected interactions with the decoy resources. The decoy resources may have differing levels of decoy fidelity, where decoy fidelity indicates a difficulty for a cyber attacker to determine that the resource is a decoy. Additionally, generating the virtual instances of decoy resources may be performed without modification to real assets or real services residing in the defined host network. Furthermore, decoy services may be made to appear on real network assets using software defined networking without modification to the real assets or real services residing in the defined host network.
US10440054B2
A method, computer program product, and system for generating a unique (deceptive) view of a network, the method includes a processor generating, for a host on a computing network, a virtual network topology view, where the virtual network topology view of the network host differs from a physical network topology of the computing network, wherein the network node perceives the computing network as comprising a network topology of the virtual network topology view. The generating includes: the processor modifying naming and addressing services of network components communicatively coupled to the network host and transforming network flows between the network resources viewable by the network host in the virtual network topology view, to be consistent with the virtual network topology view.
US10440048B1
A method comprising: S1. dividing attack and defense processes associated with a computer network system into first one or more single-node attacks and second one or more link attacks based on attack granularity; S2. determining one or more single-node attack parameters associated with the computer network system based on configuration of the computer network system; S3. calculating (1) success probability and (2) time length of a single node attack by applying GSPN theory to mathematically analyze the determined one or more single-node attack parameters; S4. based on the success probability of the attacking single node as a parameter, using the Markov chain and the Martingale theory to calculate an average number of steps required for a successful link attack; and S5. calculating a total theoretical average attack time based on the average number of steps required for a successful link attack and the time length of a single node attack.
US10440041B2
In some embodiments, a resource security system may determine an access request outcome (e.g., accept, reject, or review) for an access request based on access rules. The resource security system may generate and select the access rules to be used for using stability information. For instance, the resource security system may select a training set from the received access requests, e.g., including recently received access requests, and generate a plurality of potential access rules based on the training set. The resource security system may determine and compare the detection performance and the stability performance of the potential access rules. The resource security system may select the best performing potential access rules to be used in operation for determining the outcome of access requests.
US10440040B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for performing a frequency domain analysis of activity data for a computer system. One computer-implemented method receiving time domain activity data for a computer system, wherein the time domain activity data comprise activity records associated with the computer system in a time domain; computing, by a hardware processor, frequency domain activity data based on the time domain activity data; and displaying the frequency domain activity data.
US10440038B2
Network activity detectors, such as firewalls, communicate with one another to form a Unified Threat Management System. A first network activity detector sends a request for configuration settings to a second network activity detector. The second network activity detector sends a set of configuration settings in response to the request. The configuration settings include information for detecting digital security threats and/or for responding to detected digital security threats. In this way, configuration settings are propagated from one network activity detector to another so that network activity detectors within a UTMS system are configured consistently, e.g., have up-to-date information for detecting and/or responding to digital security threats.
US10440036B2
Computerized methods and systems determine an entry point or source of an attack on an endpoint, such as a machine, e.g., a computer, node of a network, system or the like. These computerized methods and systems utilize an attack execution/attack or start root, to build an attack tree, which shows the attack on the end point and the damage caused by the attack, as it propagates through the machine, network, system, or the like.
US10440032B2
A method of a second terminal for sharing a use authority of a service allowed by a first user of a first terminal is provided. The method includes requesting an authorization server for authentication information of the service, wherein the authorization server stores identification information of a second user with whom the use authority is sharable and a validity period during which the use authority is shared with the second user, when a user of the second terminal corresponds to the second user, receiving the authentication information from the authorization server, and, receiving the use authority of the service during the validity period.
US10440031B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for steering authorized wireless clients to preferred or restricted wireless networks. In some examples, an access point associated with a preferred wireless network and a non-preferred wireless network can receive one or more probe requests from a wireless client. The access point can withhold a response to the one or more probe requests from the wireless client until a probe response triggering event is detected. In response to detecting the probe response triggering event, the access point can steer the wireless client towards the wireless network by sending, to the wireless client, a first probe response associated with the preferred wireless network and withholding a second probe response associated with the non-preferred wireless network.
US10440023B2
Users of a content management system (CMS) collaboratively work together to create, review, and edit the content items in the shared folder. The CMS provides a messaging service that allows the users to exchange messages and automatically recommends chat groups to users based on their shared folders and a level of collaboration determined for each content item in a shared folder. To determine collaboration, the CMS obtains user interactions performed by the users on content items in the shared folder and determines a collaboration value for the shared folder based on a function of weight frequencies of user interactions for each content item. If the collaboration value is greater than a threshold collaboration value, the CMS recommends that the user create a chat group with the users of the shared folder.
US10440014B1
Examining virtualized credentials of a holder includes verifying authenticity of a device of a relying party using a verifying device secret that is provided in a portable secure access module device that is separate from and communicates with the relying party device, authorizing a subset of credential data to be sent to the relying party device in response to the device of the relying party being authentic, where the subset of credential data depends on at least one of: a role of the relying party, selection by the holder, and contextual data of the relying party, and communicating with the device of the relying party to display at least some of the subset of credential data on a screen of the device of the relying party. The contextual data may be a privacy level setting, distance between the relying party and the holder, or geolocation of the relying party.
US10440007B1
User input into a user interface is symbolically represented to increase security. User input received into a user interface and a mapping is applied to the user input. A result of the mapping is provided. The user interface may be updated to include the result of the mapping and/or may be provided to another device, such as over a short range communication channel. A person who views or otherwise has access to the user interface does not obtain the user input, but the result of the mapping indicates whether the user input was provided correctly.
US10440002B2
The present invention relates to a communication system and method, an information processing terminal and method, and an information processing device and method which enable simple and secure restricted access. When a PDA 11 is brought close, a reader 2 of a personal computer 1 reads a device ID form an IC tag 12. The personal computer 1 registers device IDs on a connection permission list, and permits only devices registered on the list to connect. When being instructed to perform accessing, the PDA 11 controls a communication unit to access the personal computer 1 and to transmits its device ID. The personal computer 1 determines whether or not the transmitted ID is registered on the connection permission list, and permits the connection when determining that the ID is registered. The present invention can be applied to various information processing devices such as a personal computer and a PDA.
US10439995B2
A system and method for providing secure private electronic communications. An exemplary method includes encrypting a hidden message using an encryption scheme; encoding the encrypted hidden message in a source message; providing the source message having the encoded hidden message by a first electronic device; and transmitting a decryption key to a second electronic device. Moreover, the second electronic device can capture the encoded hidden message provided by the first electronic device, decode the hidden message, and extract the hidden message using the decryption key so that the hidden message can be rendered by the second electronic device.
US10439992B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer system for inserting multiple data items in a relation, the relation being stored on a server computer of the computer system, the relation comprising data items, wherein the data items are encrypted with a first encryption method in the relation, wherein the data items form a partially ordered set in the relation, the partial order being formed with respect to the data items in non-encrypted form. The computer system further comprises a client system, wherein for inserting multiple encrypted data items in the partially ordered set: the client system is configured for determining that the multiple data items have a same insert position in the partially ordered set; sorting the multiple encrypted data items in accordance with a linear order corresponding to the order in which the encrypted data items are stored in the relation with respect to the partial ordered set, wherein depending on the insert position the sorting is performed in ascending or descending order; encrypting the multiple data items using the first encryption method; and the server system is configured for inserting the encrypted data items in the partially ordered set consecutively in their sorted order.
US10439983B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products involve identifying a first IP block having a first set of IP addresses and a second IP block having a second set of IP addresses, the first set of IP addresses different from the second set of IP addresses. A first expected number of IP reassignments for the first IP block can be determined. A first number of IP reassignments between the first IP block and the second IP block can be identified. The first number of IP reassignments can be compared against the first expected number of IP reassignments. The first IP block and the second IP block can be merged into an IP allocation pool based, at least in part, on the comparison.
US10439976B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for providing a short message metadata generation tool which performs a short message metadata generation operation which automatically generates metadata for new and/or updated products as well as augmenting short message content. The short message metadata generation operation provides users with customized metadata for various products and/or lines of business and guide official company identifiers with reliable data that can be promoted among customers with ease.
US10439973B2
A system operating on a computing device can determine a set of location data points of the computing device during progress of a transport service, and can transmit the set of location data points to a network service. The system can transmit, to the network service, a message indicating that the transport service has been completed. The system determines whether a predetermined duration of time has elapsed since transmitting the message indicating that the transport service has been completed, during which a predefined message has not been received by the application from the network service. The predefined message is associated with a confirmation that the transport service has been processed by the network service. If the predetermined duration of time has elapsed during which the predefined message has not been received, the system displays first content as opposed to second content on the computing device.
US10439969B2
A system and method for filtering email annotations is disclosed. An email may be parsed for actionable items and email text associated with those items may be annotated. A server-side filter may be applied to the actionable items to remove annotations that have a low-probability for user action. The email and its associated annotations are then stored on the server. An email client may retrieve the email and its associated annotations from the server and perform render-time filtering. This render-time filtering applies real-time checking for annotations which have a low-probability for user action. The email and its associated annotations are then displayed via a user interface.
US10439965B1
Various embodiments disclose an in-message application facilitating the use of third-party application programming interfaces (APIs). In particular, these in-message applications (referred to as “cards”) may be designed by a developer to access third-party API functionality. A user may then create a message referencing, e.g., a web address associated with the developer's card. The system may receive the user's message and recognize the reference. The system may then distribute an instantiation of the card to various recipients, the instantiation including elements generated using, or providing the user access to, the third party functionality.
US10439959B2
A method of provisioning a service in a communication network is described, in which the service comprises at least one virtual network function and at least one virtual network path, which at least one virtual network function and at least one virtual network path are to be implemented in the communication network. The method including obtaining affinity constraints and/or anti-affinity constraints relating to mapping the at least one virtual network path onto the communication network, optionally obtaining affinity constraints and/or anti-affinity constraints relating to mapping the at least one virtual network function onto the communication network, and mapping the at least one virtual network function and at least one virtual network path onto the communication network subject to said constraints.
US10439953B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for partition migration in a multitenant application server environment. Each resource group, or partition which includes that resource group, can be associated with a virtual target (e.g., virtual host) information that defines a target to which that resource group or partition should be targeted and deployed. A web tier component (e.g., Oracle Traffic Director) includes a routing information, which maps the virtual target for a partition to a corresponding target such as a server or cluster, so that requests for that partition are directed to the appropriate target, for example as part of one or more sessions. When a partition is migrated, session information is replicated between an original target and a new target, and the web tier component provided with a revised routing information, so that subsequent requests for that partition are directed to the new target.
US10439950B2
A computer-implemented method for facilitating communications between two peer nodes in a network. The method comprises (a) configuring a first of the peer nodes to transmit a Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) request to a second of the peer nodes; wherein the PMTU request comprises a PMTU test value; (b) configuring the second peer node to transmit a PMTU reply responsive to receiving the PMTU request; said PMTU reply comprising a PMTU value set to match the PMTU test value in PMTU request; and (c) configuring the first peer node to determine a PMTU for the network based on determinations of fragmentation in connection with the PMTU reply.
US10439938B2
A system and method for providing a user of communications services with free market based pricing may include providing for communications over one of multiple network paths serviced by multiple respective communications service providers via at least one communications network. One of the network paths over which to communicate based on current pricing from the multiple communications service providers may be selected and communications may be performed over the selected network path.
US10439931B2
The present disclosure discloses a data packet processing method, a service node, and a delivery node, to improve the data packet processing efficiency. A second service node receives a first uplink data packet sent by a first service node. The second service node performs service processing on the first uplink data packet to obtain a second uplink data packet. When the second service node determines, according to service node information, that the second service node is the last service node in an uplink direction of a service chain, the second service node deletes the service node information from the second uplink data packet, to obtain a third uplink data packet, and sends the third uplink data packet to a second delivery node, where the second delivery node is an uplink egress delivery node of the service chain.
US10439924B2
A single measurement agent installed at an aggregation point in a network is cycled through multiple network segments (or service groups) using a switching device. Detailed broadband measurement tests are performed on each network segment.
US10439919B2
A system (1) has propensity models (4), and a controller (5) for automatically supplying key event data for user interactions with a network. The key event data is distributed asynchronously around a network to the model systems (4). The model systems (4) use the key event data and user data from subscriber systems to generate subscriber analysis outputs such as propensity to take one of a set of pre-configured actions. The probed data includes usage, charging, and purchase history data. The models are weighted sub-models, in which weights are based on user segment.
US10439909B2
In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring traffic at a network device at a receiving network site to determine if a performance threshold is violated, transmitting an alert to a sending network site if the performance threshold is violated at a path at the network device, and transmitting traffic information for the path from the network device to the sending network site. The receiving network site comprises a plurality of paths for receiving traffic from the sending network site and traffic information is transmitted to the sending network site for each of the paths if the performance threshold is violated. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US10439907B2
A system and method that includes executing communication processes in an application platform, which comprises on behalf of outside entities, negotiating communications between a set of internal resources and at least one external resource using at least a first communication protocol and a second protocol; capturing internal log information during execution of the application platform; receiving a request to access log information by an outside entity; synthesizing the internal log information of the first protocol and at least a second protocol into a unified communication report; and transmitting the unified communication report.
US10439906B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of configuring a resource for network traffic analysis. An agent executed by a computing device receives an indication to record a browsing session. The agent records network activity data of the browsing session. The agent generates a data file with the recording. The agent transmits the data file and a request to generate a report to an analytics server. The analytics server receives the request and extracts the network activity data from the data file. The analytics server applies an event processing protocol to the network activity data. The analytics server generates a report and transmits the report to the client device for display.
US10439904B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing compromised sensors in multi-tiered virtualized environments. A method includes determining a lineage for a process within the network and then evaluating, through knowledge of the lineage, the source of the command that initiated the process. The method includes capturing data from a plurality of capture agents at different layers of a network, each capture agent of the plurality of capture agents configured to observe network activity at a particular location in the network, developing, based on the data, a lineage for a process associated with the network activity and, based on the lineage, identifying an anomaly within the network.
US10439902B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing quality in a mobile communication system and, more particularly, to a method and apparatus for managing user quality of experience (QoE) between various wired and wireless networks. A method for managing user quality of experience by means of an apparatus for managing user quality of experience in a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: setting a quality measurement request message by using a quality measurement condition received from a user; transmitting the quality measurement request message to a quality measurement device; and receiving information on the quality which is measured by using the quality measurement condition, wherein the quality measurement request message and the information on the quality are transmitted while being included in an OpenFlow message.
US10439894B2
Disclosed herein is a communication apparatus, display apparatus and method of controlling the same. A communication apparatus includes a communication unit including a plurality of communication modules, each communication module comprising communication circuitry, the communication unit supporting different wireless communication methods; and a communication controller configured to sequentially activate each of the plurality of communication modules in a predetermined order.
US10439889B2
Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for emulating a network are disclosed. A network topology and an indication of devices to emulate are received. A safe static boundary within the network that comprises each device in the indication of devices to emulate is determined. The safe static boundary is based upon the network topology. For each device to emulate, a unified container and a device container are instantiated. An emulated device is based on the unified container and the device container. Data links between the emulated devices are created based upon the network topology. An emulated network is created using the emulated devices.
US10439888B2
In some examples, a method includes identifying, by an interconnect engine executing at a computing device, based at least in part on querying telemetry data that indicates interconnections established between interconnection facility customers within a plurality of interconnection facilities by an interconnection facility provider, a set of existing interconnections between a particular interconnection facility customer and at least one target interconnection facility customer within the plurality of interconnection facilities; generating, by the interconnect engine and based at least on part on the set of existing interconnections, a set of prospective interconnections between the particular interconnection facility customer and the target interconnection facility customers for at least one interconnection facility of the plurality of interconnection facilities, wherein the set of prospective interconnections are not included in the telemetry data; and outputting, by the interconnect engine and for display to the particular interconnection facility customer, data indicating the prospective interconnections.
US10439878B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device includes a set of input-output queues and a multi-path input-output driver configured to select input-output operations from the set of input-output queues for delivery to the storage system. The multi-path input-output driver is further configured to detect at least first and second input-output operations from respective ones of at least first and second different processes executing on the host device, to assign a first policy identifier to the first input-output operation from the first process, and to assign a second policy identifier different than the first policy identifier to the second input-output operation from the second process. The input-output operations are queued in different ones of the queues of the set of input-output queues based at least in part on their respective assigned policy identifiers.
US10439874B2
In one embodiment, a supervisory device in a network identifies a workaround for a symptom exhibited by a particular device in the network by traversing a path in a symptom-problem graph. The path in the graph includes a symptom vertex that represents the symptom, a problem vertex that shares an edge with the symptom vertex and represents a problem that causes the symptom, and a workaround vertex that shares an edge with the problem vertex and represents the workaround for the symptom. The supervisory device causes the identified workaround to be applied to the particular device and updates the path in the graph to replace the workaround vertex with a fix vertex that represents a fix for the problem that causes the symptom exhibited by the particular device. The supervisory device causes the fix to be applied to the particular device based on the updated path in the graph.
US10439872B2
One or more management systems coordinate wavelength configuration patterns of a plurality of multi-wavelength optical transport nodes in an optical network for a first transport period. The one or more management systems determine data traffic demand changes in the optical network; and coordinate wavelength configuration patterns of the plurality of multi-wavelength optical transport nodes in the optical network for a second transport period, that is subsequent to the first transport period, based on the determined data traffic demand changes.
US10439868B2
An electronic device for transmitting configuration information and an operation method thereof are provided. In various embodiments, an electronic device may receive a signal including information related to a media device, from the media device. The electronic device may identify configuration information usable for setting a configuration of the media device, in response to the signal. A level (such a security level or a priority level) of the configuration information may be identified. It may then be determined whether it is permissible for the configuration information to be transmitted to the media device, based on the identified level of the configuration information. If so, the configuration information may be transmitted to the media device.
US10439867B2
In one example, a method and apparatus for optimizing a software defined network configuration are disclosed. In one example, the method determines a first network relative performance parameter for a current configuration of a network, based on respective weighting profiles associated with services for which the network carries data. The method then determines a second network relative performance parameter for a proposed configuration of the network, based on the respective weighting profiles associated with the services for which the network carries data. The proposed configuration is implemented in the network when the second network relative performance parameter is greater than the first network relative performance parameter.
US10439858B2
An apparatus includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) multiplexer configured to receive a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals at a plurality of input terminals and to combine the plurality of RF signals into a combined RF signal that is output at an output terminal. The LNA multiplexer includes a plurality of input signal paths, and each input signal path is coupleable to a respective input terminal of the plurality of input terminals and is configured to receive a respective RF signal of the plurality of RF signals. The apparatus further includes an LNA demultiplexer configured to receive the combined RF signal at an input port coupled to the output terminal and to distribute the combined RF signal to a plurality of output ports, each output port of the plurality of output ports configured to output the combined RF signal to a respective downconverter of a plurality of downconverters.
US10439851B2
Example systems and methods described herein relate to radio communication architectures and techniques for beamforming and down-conversion without a priori knowledge of the source location or frequency. An example radio receiver includes a plurality of antenna elements that include a first element, a second element, and a third element. The radio receiver also includes a plurality of mixers coupled to the plurality of antenna elements and a combiner coupled to the plurality of antenna elements. A signal incident on the first element is mixed with itself via a first mixer of the plurality of mixers. An output of the first mixer is mixed with a signal incident on the second element via a second mixer of the plurality of mixers, and an output of the second mixer is combined via the combiner with a signal incident on the third element.
US10439849B2
A method and apparatus for equalization in a communication system. The method includes receiving an input of a block of symbols, filtering the input in the frequency domain, calculating an error factor in the time domain based on the filtered input, updating tap weights of the equalizer in the frequency domain using circular correlation based on the error factor and the conjugate of the input in the frequency domain, and outputting the filtered input.
US10439847B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefore. Specifically, a method for uplink transmission by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may include: receiving, from a base station, Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information includes a parameter set for power control of SRS for each SRS resource set and the SRS resource set includes one or more SRS resources; determining a transmission power of the SRS, based on the parameter set for power control of the SRS; and transmitting the SRS to the base station.
US10439846B2
A method by which a terminal estimates a channel in a wireless access system can comprises the steps of: receiving mapping information on a port and a layer of a data demodulation reference signal (DMRS); receiving change information on whether the port of the DMRS has been changed; and determining a change in port information on the basis of an indicator and estimating a channel of the DMRS.
US10439843B2
The disclosure herein describes a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) gateway. During operation, the VXLAN gateway receives, from a physical host, an Ethernet packet destined for a virtual machine residing in a remote layer-2 network broadcast domain that is different from a local layer-2 network broadcast domain where the physical host resides. The VXLAN gateway then determines a VXLAN identifier for the received Ethernet packet. The VXLAN gateway further encapsulates the Ethernet packet with the virtual extensible local area network identifier and an Internet Protocol (IP) header, and forwards the encapsulated packet to an IP network, thereby allowing the packet to be transported to the virtual machine via the IP network and allowing the remote layer-2 network broadcast domain and the local layer-2 network broadcast domain to be part of a common layer-2 broadcast domain.
US10439841B2
A network interface of a network user having at least one physical interface for connecting the network interface to a network interface of a different network user, at least one data selector, which is connected to the physical interface and which is suitable for receiving data from the physical interface and sending data to the physical interface, and at least one data switch, which is connected to the data selector and which is suitable for receiving data from the data selector and sending data to the data selector.
US10439822B2
Apparatus, methods and systems to secure remotely accessible applications using authentication devices are disclosed. More in particular apparatus, methods and systems are disclosed for thwarting overlay attacks against authentication applications for displaying transaction data and for generating signatures over these transaction data.
US10439817B1
An authentication system, device and method that include ephemeral biometrics at login authentication is disclosed. The system, device and method may continue to authenticate the user while accessed to a user system. The system, device and method may also include position/location reporting of the device.
US10439816B2
A method is provided for generating a public/private key pair on an IC and to provision an IoT device having the IC. In the method, a first entity manufacturers an integrated circuit (IC) for use in a device. The IC, or chip, has a root secret embedded therein. A public key is generated on the IC using a unique identifier (ID) and the root secret. The IC is provided to a second entity for manufacturing the device using the IC. A reference IC is provided to a third entity. The reference IC has the same embedded root secret as the IC. The reference IC is configured to use the unique ID of the IC and the embedded root secret to generate a derived public key. The third entity is enabled to verify that the public key of the IC is associated with the unique ID by using the derived public key of the reference IC. The method allows the IoT device to be provisioned without using a public key infrastructure.
US10439815B1
In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that may include validating user data pages extracted from a digital identification in circumstances where a user device that includes the digital identification is either unavailable or presently lacks network connectivity. For instance, an authorized device may be used to extract user data pages from the digital identification by either exchanging communications with the user device using a proximity-based data exchange protocol, or by using a physical identification card to identify the digital identification on a user record. The user data pages may then be validated by comparing checksums associated with user data pages against the checksums within the user record, and decrypting the user data pages using a decryption key that is variably designated by a security status assigned to the digital identification.
US10439814B1
A resource generates and provides discovery configuration information to a network appliance. The network appliance validates the discovery configuration information, such as by validating a token within the discovery configuration information, then is configured using at least the discovery configuration information and passes at least a portion of the discovery configuration information to a network disjoint from that which connects the resource and the network appliance. This portion of discovery configuration information may include service advertisement information, routing information for traversing the network topology, and in some embodiments, the validation token.
US10439808B2
A method of communicating a classical message M between a first party A and a second distant party B over a public channel F, comprises the steps of sharing a key between the parties, the shared key K comprising a short-term-secure key KS and/or a long-term-secure key KL; at A, encoding M as a quantum codeword, A using K to encode M into a first encrypted codeword belonging to a publicly known quantum code; communicating the first encrypted codeword from A to B over F whose output is a second codeword; unitarily transforming the second codeword into a third codeword by using a N-mode interferometer controlled by B, placed at the output of F and keyed by K; determining an estimate of M, at B, by performing a measurement on the third codeword and by processing the measurement using K.
US10439798B2
A method of executing a program operating on data encrypted by a homomorphic encryption. Execution of a program instruction includes the homomorphic evaluation of an associated function in the ciphertext space, homomorphic masking of the result of the evaluation with a previously encrypted random sequence, decryption of the evaluation result thus masked followed by a new encryption and then homomorphic unmasking in the ciphertext space. The result of execution of the instruction does not appear in plain text at any time during execution of the instruction.
US10439791B2
In a time division duplex (TDD) communication system, an unconnected base station that is not directly connected to a core network transmits uplink backhaul signals to a connected base station when the unconnected base station is transmitting downlink signals to one or more user equipment (UE) devices and receives downlink backhaul signals from the connected base station when receiving uplink signals from one or more UE devices. After determining the transmission schedule of the connected base station, the unconnected base station selects a transmission schedule that is orthogonal to the connected base station transmission schedule. Depending on the particular implementation, the unconnected base station may be a repeater base station, a relay base station, or a self-backhauled base station.
US10439778B2
Provided is a radio communication device which can separate propagation paths of antenna ports and improve a channel estimation accuracy even when using virtual antennas. The device includes: a mapping unit which maps a data signal after modulation to a virtual antenna and a virtual antenna; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S0 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit between the odd-number slot and the even-number slot; the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R0 transmitted from the antenna port; a phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of S1 transmitted from an antenna port in synchronization with a phase inversion unit; and the phase inversion unit which inverts the phase of R1 transmitted from an antenna port.
US10439774B2
A system, a method, and a computer program product for processing data using defined data definitions in communications systems. A communication link is established between a first device and a second device. At least one or more data packets are exchanged between the first device and the second device. The first device uses at least one first data definition to extract data from one or more payloads of the one or more data packets when the data packets are received from the second device. The second device uses at least one second data definition to extract data from one or more payloads of the one or more data packets when the data packets are received from the first device.
US10439765B2
A BA frame transmission method comprises: receiving, by a receiving device, at least one PPDU sent by at least one transmitting device, where the PPDU includes at least one MPDU; and generating a BA frame according to a receiving status of the at least one MPDU in the at least one PPDU sent by each of the at least one transmitting device, and sending the BA frame to the at least one transmitting device, where the BA frame includes BA information corresponding to each of the at least one transmitting device, the BA information includes a block acknowledgement bitmap field and a bitmap length indicator, the bitmap length indicator is used to indicate a length of the block acknowledgement bitmap field, and the bitmap length indicator is carried in a block acknowledgement starting sequence control field included in the BA information corresponding to the transmitting device in the BA frame.
US10439762B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a transmission status determining method, where the method includes: receiving, by a receive end device in a first time period, a first symbol sequence sent by a transmit end device; determining a first modulation parameter set according to the first symbol sequence; and determining, according to preset first mapping relationship information, a first transmission status corresponding to the first modulation parameter set as a transmission status of the transmit end device in a second time period, where the first mapping relationship information is used to indicate a one-to-one mapping relationship between N transmission statuses and N modulation parameter sets, the first modulation parameter set belongs to the N modulation parameter sets, and the second time period is later than the first time period.
US10439759B2
Embodiments of this application provides a communication method in a wireless communication network. A communication device obtains an information bit sequence and obtain a first sequence, wherein the first sequence comprises sequence numbers of N channels ordered in ascending order of channel reliability, wherein N is 1024 and wherein a channel whose sequence number is 0, a channel whose sequence number is 1, and a channel whose sequence number is 2 are ordered in ascending order of channel reliability; then polar encode the information bits based on the first sequence to obtain an encoded bit sequence and output the encoded bit sequence.
US10439752B2
Optical switch control circuit for optical network protection. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a latching optical switch that routes signals in an optical network. The apparatus also includes a switch control circuit coupled to the latching optical switch. The switch control circuit controls the latching optical switch to selectively operate in a latching mode or in a non-latching mode based on a received command and a network power state. A method is disclosed that includes receiving a command that indicates how optical signals are to be routed by a latching optical switch, and determining a resulting routing state based on a current routing state, the command, and a power state. The method also includes controlling the latching optical switch to operates in the resulting routing state such that the latching optical switch selectively operates in a latching mode or in a non-latching mode.
US10439749B2
According to an embodiment, a wireless communication device performs time-division communication and includes a storage and one or more processors. The storage is configured to store transmission data to be sent in a first period of time. The one or more processors are configured to perform a transmission process of sending the transmission data in a first frame at start of a plurality of frames included in the first period of time, or perform a transmission process of sending a pieces of divided the transmission data in a plurality of successive frames beginning from the first frame and included in the first period of time. After the transmission process, the wireless communication device switches to sleep mode in one or more frames of the first period of time.
US10439742B2
The present invention relates to not only a 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE), but also a 5th-generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system which is provided to support a higher data rate. The present invention provides a method for performing a channel decoding operation by a reception device in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: generating at least two resource elements (REs) into at least two RE groups; and generating a soft decision decoding metric for a signal received through each of the at least two RE groups.
US10439740B2
A method for calibrating a communication channel coupling first and second components includes transmitting a data signal from the first component to the second component on the communication channel, and sensing a characteristic, such as phase, of the data signal on the second component. Information about the sensed characteristic is fed back to the first component using an auxiliary channel. An adjustable parameter, such as phase, for the transmitter is adjusted on the first component in response to the information. Also, a characteristic of a data signal received from the transmitter on the second component is sensed and used to adjust an adjustable parameter for the receiver on the first component.
US10439736B2
An optical switch control method and an apparatus are disclosed, to reduce impact on access performance by time overheads of optical link switching. The method includes: receiving an optical link establishment request sent by a computation node; determining whether the first optical link that needs to be established conflicts with the existing optical link; and if the first optical link that needs to be established conflicts with the existing optical link, determining whether to allow establishment of the first optical link, and establishing the first optical link if the establishment of the first optical link is allowed; or establishing the first optical link if the first optical link that needs to be established does not conflict with the existing optical link.
US10439735B2
A technique relates to communication of a quantum state. Polarization hardware is configured to receive a polarization encoded qubit and split the polarization encoded qubit into two qubits. A converter is coupled to the polarization hardware, and the converter is configured to convert the two qubits into a form suitable for a CNOT gate. The CNOT gate is configured to receive the two qubits such that a measurement result of a CNOT operation of the CNOT gate determines success of the communication of the quantum state.
US10439730B2
A method and device is provided for reducing optical transmission impairments, particularly nonlinear effects, of at least one link Said method comprising the following steps: extracting a phase information (Δθ) from an optical signal (120) received via that at least one link, determining a nonlinear coefficient (γ), associated with the at least one link, based on the phase information (Δθ), applying a control mechanism (202) using the nonlinear coefficient (γ). Furthermore, a communication system is suggested comprising said device.
US10439722B2
A carrier office includes an optical line terminal, a first transmit-erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), and a second transmit-EDFA. The OLT is configured to transmit first and second optical signals. The first transmit-EDFA is optically coupled to the OLT and a first feeder fiber, and the first feeder fiber is optically coupled to a first remote node (RN). The first transmit-EDFA is operable between a respective enabled state and a respective disabled state. The second transmit-EDFA is optically coupled to the OLT and a second feeder fiber, and the second feeder fiber is optically coupled to a second RN. The second transmit-EDFA is operable between a respective enabled state and a respective disabled state.
US10439718B2
Remote controllers, positioning systems, and methods configured for the efficient assignment of addresses in a coded lighting positioning system are proposed. Particularly, a proposed remote controller comprises a receiver for receiving coded light from a light source in a coded lighting positioning system, where the coded light comprises an initial light source identifier of the light source. The remote controller also comprises a processing unit for assigning a modified light source identifier to the light source based on the received coded light, and a transmitter for transmitting the modified light source identifier to the light source. The modified light source identifier is a locally unique identifier used to provide positional information.
US10439717B2
Disclosed are a visible light communication system and a method for controlling transmission in the same.In the system, a transmission control server receives video data and encodes the received video data into a layer signal of a scalable video coding (SVC) bitstream and controls a signal for each layer to be allocated and transmitted to a plurality of illuminations of a channel corresponding to a priority for each channel decided according to a channel state depending on an interference amount fed back from a reception apparatus according to an importance of the signal for each layer of the SVC bitstream. A reception apparatus receives video signals of SVC bitstreams transmitted from the plurality of illuminations and SVC-decoding the received video signals to generate video data and calculates the interference amount for each channel based on reception power measured for each channel of the received video signal and feeds back the calculated interference amount to the transmission control server. Herein, the reception apparatus determines that a channel having a relatively large interference amount is better in a channel state and feeds back the determination to the transmission control server, the transmission control server allocates a layer signal having a high importance to an illumination of a channel having a high priority, the reception apparatus sets a channel in which the interference amount is less than a predetermined threshold value as a channel in which transmission is impossible and feeds back the channel to the transmission control server, and the transmission control server excludes a corresponding channel at the time of deciding the priority so as not to allocate the layer signal to the illumination corresponding to the channel in which the transmission is impossible.
US10439715B2
Disclosed are antenna systems, wireless antenna controllers, and related methods. An antenna system includes a configured to receive an electromagnetic (EM) signal and propagate the EM signal as an EM reference wave. The antenna system also includes a tunable EM scattering elements, and a wireless controller. A wireless antenna controller includes an EM emitter configured to emit EM radiation to EM filters. The EM filters are configured to pass different sub-ranges of a frequency range of the EM radiation to the tunable EM scattering elements. A method includes wirelessly controlling the tunable EM scattering elements to deliver a different information streams to different far-end locations. A method includes controlling the EM emitter to modulate frequency content of the EM radiation to cause the tunable EM scattering elements to operate collectively according to different modulation patterns.
US10439713B1
A system for optical detection may include a focal plane array. The system may further include one or more lenses configured to focus a collimated light beam received at the one or more lenses onto the focal plane array, where a position of the collimated light beam on the focal plane array is based on an incident angle of propagation of the collimated light beam at the one or more lenses. The system may also include a micro-channel plate collimator positioned within an optical path of the collimated light beam. The system may include a processor configured to determine the incident angle of propagation of the collimated light beam and to retrieve data encoded within the collimated light beam.
US10439712B2
One aspect of the disclosure is directed to a system and method for determining the propagation delay for a signal to traverse an optical fiber between two transceivers. The method is performed by the first transceiver and includes transmitting a message to the second transceiver over a first optical fiber. The method further includes receiving on the first optical fiber a reply message from the second transceiver including an indication of the internal time for the second transceiver to transmit the reply message. The method further includes determining the time interval from the time the message was transmitted to the time the first transceiver received the reply message. The method further includes calculating the propagation delay from the time interval and the internal time. The method further includes configuring the first transceiver to receive data traffic from the second transceiver on a second optical fiber. Another aspect is directed to a system and method for using the determined propagation delay to synchronize the two transceivers.
US10439710B2
A passive wavelength division mobile fronthaul network system includes a central office end, a remote end, a trunk optical fiber; a first transport unit, configured to transport, on one end of the trunk optical fiber, detection light to the trunk optical fiber; a second transport unit, configured to transport, on the other end of the trunk optical fiber, the detection light from the trunk optical fiber to each branch of the remote end; and a reflector, deployed on an end of each branch of the remote end for reflecting the detection light. The first transport unit combines the detection light to the trunk optical fiber, the second transport unit transmits, on the remote end, the detection light from the trunk optical fiber to each branch of the remote end, and finally, the reflector returns the detection light along the original path.
US10439708B2
According to one embodiment, a communication repeater system includes a master station device and radio frequency units. The radio frequency unite each convert a signal from each of base station system into an optical digital signal for transmission to the master station device. The base station systems establish communication by time division duplex scheme. The communication repeater system repeats communication between a mobile communication terminal device and each base station system via a corresponding one of slave station devices, and includes a detector that detects each of transmission/reception switching timings between the master station device and each of the radio frequency units, a setter that sets, as reference transmission/reception switching timing, a latest one of the transmission/reception switching timings of the radio frequency unit as candidates of reference transmission/reception switching timing, and a corrector that corrects variation in the transmission/reception switching timings according to the reference transmission/reception switching timing.
US10439705B2
Drone-based wireless communications systems are provided, as are methods carried-out by such wireless communications systems. In one embodiment, the wireless communications system includes a Satellite Signal Transformation (SST) unit and a plurality of aerial network drones, which can be deployed over a designated geographical area to form a multi-drone network thereover. During operation, the SST unit transmits a network source signal, which contains content extracted from a satellite signal. The multi-drone network receives the network source signal, disseminates drone relay signals containing the content through the multi-drone network, and broadcastings user device signals containing the content over the designated geographical area. In embodiments, the multi-drone network may broadcast multiple different types of user device signals for reception by various different types of user devices located within the designated geographical area, such as an arear containing communication infrastructure disabled by a natural disaster, a hostile attack, or other catastrophic event.
US10439701B2
A first communication device receives a plurality of training signals from a second communication device via a communication channel. The first communication device determines, based on the plurality of training signals, a channel matrix corresponding to the communication channel, and determines, based the channel matrix and without decomposing a steering matrix, compressed feedback to be provided to the second communication device. The first communication device transmits the compressed feedback to the second communication device to enable the second communication device to steer at least one subsequent transmission to the first communication device.
US10439697B2
A mobile station is configured to perform radio communication using spatial multiplexing with a base station. The mobile station includes a selecting unit and a transmitting unit. The selecting unit selects a data unit with highest channel quality from a plurality of data units and selects a spatial layer with highest reception quality from spatial layers belonging to the data unit. The transmitting unit transmits identification information of the spatial layer selected by the selecting unit to the base station as control information.
US10439695B1
Embodiments described herein provide a method for performing beamforming in a multiple-user-multiple-input-multiple-output (MUMIMO) system. At a MUMIMO access point, MUMIMO data may be received from a station of a plurality of stations. Uplink channel state information may be obtained, from the MUMIMO data, representing an uplink channel between the station and the MUMIMO access point. The uplink channel includes signals transmitted from the station using the second number of antennas. Downlink channel state information may be computed, based on the uplink channel state information, representing a downlink channel between the MUMIMO access point and the station.
US10439684B2
An apparatus comprising a first dipole antenna, a beamforming antenna array (BFAA), a first switch coupled to the dipole antenna, a second switch coupled to the BFAA, and a processor coupled to the first switch and the second switch, wherein the processor is configured to select between a multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) antenna configuration and a beamforming configuration by setting the states of the first switch and the second switch.
US10439679B2
A system of wearable or personal area devices includes a first earpiece and a second ear piece each of the first ear piece and the second ear piece comprising an ear piece housing, an induction circuit disposed within the ear piece housing for short range communications, and a radio transceiver disposed within the ear piece housing for radio communications. The induction circuit of the first ear piece and the induction circuit of the second ear piece are adapted for communication there between using high bandwidth audio.
US10439675B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a guided wave repeater system operable to receive via a guided wave transceiver a first plurality of electromagnetic waves that includes a first communication signal. A second plurality of electromagnetic waves that includes a second communication signal is transmitted via the guided wave transceiver. The first plurality of electromagnetic waves and the second plurality of electromagnetic waves are guided by a power line of a utility pole. A third communication signal is received from a smart grid device. A fourth communication signal is transmitted to the smart grid device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10439674B2
A network node includes a pushbutton to provide a button-press event and a pairer to receive the button-press event while not being in a secure domain. In response to the button-press, the pairer alternates between acting as an endpoint node and acting as a temporary domain master, until pairing is completed. In an alternative embodiment, the node includes a multi-pairer to receive the button press event and, in response, to open a pairing window, to become a domain master of a secure network and to join more than one other network node receiving a button press event to the secure network until the pairing window closes.
US10439673B2
A cloud based echo canceller is set forth for recreating an estimate of a lost packet or data at a server without requiring redundant data over the network or freezing operation of the echo canceller. In an exemplary embodiment, the echo cancelling function is not located in a single device, but is shared between the end-point and a cloud service, where the function of the end-point is to provide a time synchronized copy of the signal from the end-point loudspeaker and the signal received by the end-point microphone. Consequently, the high CPU intensive operations can be offloaded to a server such as a cloud server. In addition, several users can share the echo canceller, thereby reducing the cost of the overall function. According to an additional aspect, a further synchronization block is provided, in the form of a packet estimator, to compensate for packet or data loss in the send direction.
US10439668B2
A protective case assembly for a handheld device includes a casing body and a frame. The handheld device has a device front surface, a device back surface opposite to the device front surface, and a device peripheral surface connected between the device front surface and the device back surface. The casing body is configured to surround the device peripheral surface. The frame is detachably connected to the casing body and has a frame inner peripheral surface defining a central hollow portion for exposure of the device back surface.
US10439666B2
An electronic apparatus includes a mounting plate, a panel mounted to the mounting plate, a through-hole that penetrates the mounting plate in a direction of thickness of the mounting plate, and a bonding member that is buried in the through-hole and fixes the panel to the mounting plate, wherein an opening of the through-hole gradually grows large in the direction of the thickness of the mounting plate from a side where the panel is mounted.
US10439664B2
Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include provision of interfering signal characteristics information to a user equipment to facilitate suppression of an interfering signal present in a downlink signal being received at the user equipment.
US10439662B2
A mobile radio compensator (1) comprises an adjustable signal-level amplification means (12a, 12b) and a central detection means (13) in order to detect the signal level of the transmission signals. An adjustment and/or control means (14) can adjust a signal amplification, produced by the signal-level amplification means (12a, 12b), of the transmission signals on the basis of the signal level detected by the detection means (13). A decoupling means (15) comprising at least two decoupling signal paths (15a, 15b, 15c) is provided, wherein the decoupling signal paths (15a, 15b, 15c) are connected to a power adding means (19) of which the output (20) is in turn connected to the detection means (13). The decoupling means (15) comprises a filter means (25, 25a, 25b, 25c) which is arranged on or in the at least two decoupling signal paths (15a, 15b, 15c), wherein the passbands (Δf1, Δf2, Δf3) for each of the at least two decoupling signal paths (15a, 15b, 15c) differ. The decoupling signal paths (15a, 15b, 15c) comprise an adjustable amplification means (30a, 30b, 30c), which are alternately switched on and off by the adjustment and/or control means (14).
US10439658B2
An apparatus for amplifying an input signal is provided. The apparatus includes an output stage to generate an output signal. The apparatus further includes a compensation signal generator configured to generate a compensation signal based on at least one of a voltage value of the input signal or a voltage value of the output signal. The apparatus further includes a combiner configured to generate a control signal for the output stage based on a target signal, the compensation signal and a signal related to a current value of the output stage. The target signal corresponds to a desired output signal. The output stage is configured to generate the output signal using the control signal.
US10439654B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of generating H output data from W data input streams produced from input data. Moreover, the method may include generating the H discrete output data components via application of the W data inputs to one or more transforming components or processes having specified mathematic operations and/or a generator matrix functionality, wherein the W data inputs are recoverable via a recovery process capable of reproducing the W data inputs from a subset (any W members) of the H output data streams.
US10439645B2
A circuit performs a turbo detection process recovering data symbols from a received signal effected, during transmission, by a Markov process with effect that the data symbols are dependent on preceding data symbols represented as a trellis having a plurality of trellis stages. The circuit comprises processing elements, associated with trellis stages representing these dependencies and each configured to receive soft decision values corresponding to associated data symbols Each processing element configured, in one clock cycle to receive data representing a priori forward and backward state metrics, and a priori soft decision values for data symbols detected for the trellis stage. For each clock cycle of the turbo detection process, the circuit processes, for processing elements representing the trellis stages, the a priori information for associated data symbols detected for the trellis stage, and to provide extrinsic soft decision values corresponding to data symbols for a next clock cycle.
US10439631B1
A digital-to-analog converter system has digital-to-analog converters, a common output, and a digital controller for transmitting first codes to one of the converters at a radio-frequency digital rate, and for transmitting second codes to another one of the converters at the same rate. The digital controller includes a timing system for operating each converter at the digital rate in a return-to-zero configuration, such that a signal from the first converter is transmitted to the common output while the second converter is reset, and vice versa. The digital-to-analog converter system can generate a radio-frequency analog signal having signals in first and second Nyquist zones simultaneously.
US10439622B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a transmission device including a digital PLL and a power amplifier. The power amplifier is connected to the digital PLL. The digital PLL includes a digital oscillator and a controller. The controller operates the digital oscillator with a first loop bandwidth in a first period corresponding to startup of the power amplifier, operates the digital oscillator with a second loop bandwidth narrower than the first loop bandwidth in a second period being after the first period, and operates the digital oscillator with a third loop bandwidth narrower than the second loop bandwidth in a third period being after the second period.
US10439620B2
A dual-PFD circuit with delay feedback generated by a dual-modulus prescaler based on mode control from a feedback delay generation circuit. The PFD circuit can be used with a PLL feedback divider to divide a VCO clock signal VCO_clk and generate FB and FB_DLY signals. The PLL feedback divider includes a dual modulus prescaler to selectively divide the VCO_clk by either M or M+1 (such as 4/5) based on a divide mode control input to generate a prescaled divide signal, and a programmed counter/divider (N counter/1/N divider) to selectively divide the prescaled divide signal to generate the FB signal, and a delay generation circuit to selectively delay the FB signal by a pre-defined delay to generate the FB_DLY signal. The prescaler is responsive to the pre-defined delay from the delay generation circuit to change divide modes. The dual PFD circuit response to the FB and FB_DLY signals in relation to a reference signal to generate a phase comparison signal. the dual-PFD circuit can be used with a charge-pump coupled to the dual PFD circuit, and responsive the phase comparison signal to generate a frequency tuning voltage, for input to a VCO for generating the VCO clock signal. The dual PFD circuit, charge pump and VCO can be used in a PLL frequency synthesizer.
US10439617B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with bidirectional Gray code counter design are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a bidirectional Gray code counter may include a sequential logic element to store a Gray code value and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry may be to determine, based on a bidirectional indicator signal, whether to increment or decrement the Gray code value update, through performance of an increment or a decrement of the Gray code value based on the determination of whether to increment or decrement the Gray code value, the Gray code value to be a sequential Gray code value and replace the Gray code value stored in the sequential logic element with the updated Gray code value. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10439615B2
The present embodiments relate to clock-data phase alignment circuitry in source-synchronous interface circuits. Source-synchronous interface standards require the transmission and reception of a clock signal that is transmitted separately from the data signal. On the receiver side, the clock signal must be phase shifted relative to the data signal to enable the capture of the data. Clock-data phase alignment circuitry is presented that may receive a differential clock with complementary clock signals CLK_P and CLK_N. An adjustable delay circuit and clock distribution network may delay clock signal CLK_P and provide the delayed clock signal to a storage circuit that may store the data signal. A replica clock distribution network and a replica adjustable delay circuit may form a feedback path and provide the delayed first clock signal back to clock phase adjustment circuitry which may control the adjustment of the adjustable delay circuit and the replica adjustable delay circuit.
US10439606B2
A semiconductor module includes a high-side switching device and a low-side switching device that respectively form an upper arm and a lower arm, freewheeling diodes that are respectively connected to the switching devices in anti-parallel, and a high-side driver circuit and a low-side driver circuit that respectively switch the high-side switching device and the low-side switching device ON and OFF. In the upper arm, an anode electrode of the freewheeling diode and a reference voltage electrode of the high-side driver circuit are directly connected via a first wiring, and the anode electrode of the freewheeling diode is connected to a reference voltage electrode of the high-side switching device via a second wiring having an inductance.
US10439602B2
In accordance with aspects of the present invention, a power control circuit includes a MAIN window comparator circuit providing a MAIN signal; an AUX window comparator circuit providing an AUX signal; a state machine receiving the MAIN signal and the AUX signal; a MAIN slew circuit coupled to drive a MAIN switch, the MAIN switch coupled between MAIN and an output; an AUX slew circuit coupled to drive an AUX switch, the AUX switch coupled between AUX and the output; wherein the state machine operates to continuously activate either the MAIN switch or the AUX switch according to the MAIN signal and the AUX signal such that the output is continuously coupled to either a MAIN input or an AUX input with minimum disruption to output voltage, input and output capacitance inrush currents or reverse conduction. What really makes the circuit unique is it is combined with an adjustable forward biased rectification circuit for each channel of MAIN and AUX.
US10439601B2
Apparatuses are provided for a quadra-phase clock signal generator. An example apparatus includes a first delay circuit configured to receive a first input clock signal generating a first delayed clock signal. A first phase mixer is provided communicatively coupled to the first delay circuit and configured to receive the first delayed clock signal at a first input and a second input clock signal at a second input. The first phase mixer may then generate a first output clock signal at a first output node responsive, at least in part, to mixing of the first delayed clock signal and the second input clock signal.
US10439597B1
The present disclosure provides a duty locked loop circuit that includes a switch network including a first electronic switch device controlled by a first control signal that is based on a first input signal and a second electronic switch device controlled by a second control signal that is based on a second input signal. The duty locked loop circuit includes an integrator circuit electrically connected to the switch network. The integrator circuit is configured to generate an output voltage proportional to an integral of a difference between a first duty cycle of the first input signal and a second duty cycle of the second input signal. The duty locked loop circuit includes an output circuit configured to generate an output signal having an output duty cycle that is based on the output voltage.
US10439589B2
A bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. Either one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode include a molybdenum-tungsten alloy having a weight ratio of molybdenum to tungsten in a range of 3:1 to 1:3.
US10439585B2
An acoustic wave device comprises an IDT electrode disposed above an upper surface of a piezoelectric substrate and includes a plurality of electrode fingers configured to excite a main acoustic wave. A first dielectric film made of an oxide is disposed above the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and covers the plurality of electrode fingers. A second dielectric film made of non-oxide is disposed between the first dielectric film and each of the plurality of electrode fingers. A third dielectric film is disposed between the piezoelectric substrate and the plurality of electrode fingers. A speed of a transverse wave propagating through the third dielectric film is greater than a speed of the main acoustic wave propagating through the piezoelectric substrate. The third dielectric film contacts the first dielectric film between adjacent electrode fingers of the plurality of electrode fingers.
US10439579B2
A continuous or distributed resonator geometry is defined such that the fabrication process used to form a spring mechanism also forms an effective mass of the resonator structure. Proportional design of the spring mechanism and/or mass element geometries in relation to the fabrication process allows for compensation of process-tolerance-induced fabrication variances. As a result, a resonator having increased frequency accuracy is achieved.
US10439574B2
A down-conversion mixer includes a trans conductance circuit and a mixing circuit. The transconductance circuit includes: first and second transconductance units cooperatively converting a differential input voltage signal pair into a differential input current signal pair; and an inductor coupled between the first and second transconductance units. The mixing circuit is coupled to a common node of the first trans conductance unit and the inductor and to a common node of the second transconductance unit and the inductor for receiving the differential input current signal pair therefrom, and mixes the differential input current signal pair with a differential oscillatory voltage signal pair to generate a differential mixed voltage signal pair.
US10439571B1
A circuit includes a first common mode amplifier including a first input, a second input, and a first output. The first common mode amplifier comprises a first plurality of self-based differential amplifiers. The circuit also includes a second common mode amplifier including a third input, a fourth input, and a second output, The third input is connected to the second input and the fourth input is connected to the first input. The second common amplifier comprises a second plurality of self-based differential amplifiers. The circuit further includes a first gain amplifier including a fifth input and a sixth input and a second gain amplifier including a seventh input and an eighth input. The first output is connected to the fifth and eight inputs and the second output is connected to the sixth and seventh inputs.
US10439568B2
A transmission amplifier is provided for amplifying the signal in a wire-free transmission system. The transmission amplifier includes a pre-amplifier stage and an amplifier output stage that is coupled to the pre-amplifier stage. The amplifier output stage is configured with gate components and is configured to provide a signal fed in as an amplified output signal on the output side.
US10439566B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a differential to single-ended converter, a gain stage circuit, a driver stage circuit, and an output stage circuit connected in series, and a bias circuit connected to a bias voltage port of the gain stage circuit for adjusting a bias voltage of the gain stage circuit. The bias voltage is adjustable to ensure low power consumption, improve the efficiency of the power amplifier circuit and prevent process, voltage and temperatures from affecting the performance of the power amplifier circuit.
US10439560B2
Provided is a power amplification module that includes: a first power amplifier that amplifies a first signal and outputs a second signal; and a first noise removing circuit that is inputted with a first voltage supplied from a DC-DC converter, removes noise from the first voltage in order to generate a second voltage, and outputs the second voltage as a power supply voltage of the first power amplifier.
US10439556B2
An oscillator includes a tunable oscillator, a phase detector circuit communicatively coupled with an output of the tunable oscillator and an input to the oscillator, and an oscillator controller circuit configured to adjust frequency of the tunable oscillator based upon phase detection between output of the tunable oscillator and output of an external resonant element received at the input to the oscillator.
US10439555B2
A chirp-generator comprising a phase-detector for providing a phase-difference-signal representative of a phase difference between a clock-input-signal and a feedback-signal. A VCO-circuit is configured to provide a chirp-generator-output-signal based on the phase-difference-signal. The VCO-circuit comprises a switched-varactor-bank, which includes a plurality of varactors, and a varactor-switch associated with each of the plurality of varactors. The varactor-switch is configured to selectively control whether or not the associated varactor contributes to the capacitance of the VCO-circuit, based on the state of a varactor-control-signal. The chirp-generator also includes a feedback-component configured to: receive the chirp-generator-output-signal; and apply a variable-multiplication-factor to the chirp-generator-output-signal in order to provide the feedback signal for the phase-detector. A controller provides a sequence of different variable-multiplication-factors to the feedback-component; and provides varactor-control-signals to the plurality of varactors such that the varactors are sequentially controlled such that they contribute to the capacitance of the VCO-circuit.
US10439550B1
Using a programmable aerial drone assembly configured to actuate a gearbox that repositions one or more solar panels, automated drones may be deployed to adjust the position of the solar panels throughout the day according to a programmable schedule. In exemplary embodiments, a plurality of docking stations may be deployed throughout a solar farm, such that one or more solar panels are mechanically coupled to the docking station, wherein the docking station includes a landing platform and a gearbox mechanically configured to adjust the position of the solar panels. One or more gearbox arms protrude from the top of the docking station landing platform, and corresponding arms on the aerial drone assembly engage the gearbox arms to actuate the gearbox. The aerial drone assembly also includes landing posts that register with the docking station.
US10439543B2
A permanent magnet speed governor having a fixed magnetic gap. The permanent magnet speed governor includes an outer magnetic rotor and an inner magnetic rotor, at least two outer permanent magnets being evenly distributed along the circumferential direction of the inner circumferential surface of the outer magnetic rotor, the magnetic poles of the outer permanent magnets being arranged along the radial direction, the magnetisms of exposed magnetic pole surfaces of two adjacent outer permanent magnets being different. At least one rotatable permanent magnet is distributed along the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface of the inner magnetic rotor, the rotatable permanent magnet being cylindrical and the N pole and the S pole being along the diametrical direction, one end of the rotatable permanent magnet being provided with a magnetic circuit regulator. It increases the engagement area of the speed governor.
US10439533B2
Power converters for use in wind turbine systems are included. For instance, a wind turbine system can include a wind driven doubly fed induction generator having a stator and a rotor. The stator is configured to provide a medium voltage alternating current power on a stator bus of the wind turbine system. The wind turbine system includes a power converter configured to convert a low voltage alternating current power provided by the rotor to a medium voltage multiphase alternating current output power suitable for provision to an electrical grid. The power converter includes a plurality conversion modules. Each conversion module includes a plurality of bridge circuits. Each bridge circuit includes a plurality of silicon carbide switching devices coupled in series. Each conversion module is configured to provide a single phase of the medium voltage multiphase alternating current output power on a line bus of the wind turbine system.
US10439531B2
A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet includes a conveyance roller, a motor, a phase determiner, and a controller. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase of the motor that drives the conveyance roller to convey the sheet. The controller controls so that a value of a rotor torque current component becomes a target value of the torque current component and controls so that an excitation current component value becomes a target value of the excitation current component, and controls to reduce a deviation between a command phase and the determined rotation phase. The controller controls so that a magnetic flux penetrating through a winding is weaker than a magnetic flux of the rotor, and so that a magnetic flux penetrating through the winding in a second period is stronger than the magnetic flux penetrating through the winding in the first period.
US10439526B2
A field oriented control (FOC) system and method provides smooth field-oriented startup for three-phase sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) despite the absence of load information. The system uses the rotor flux projection on the d- or q-axis to determine whether the stator flux current reference being applied during reference startup phase is sufficient to spin the PMSM, thereby providing smooth operation during the reference startup phase and saving energy relative to applying rated current. The system also determines a suitable initial value for the stator torque current reference to use at the start of closed-loop sensorless FOC control mode based on an angle difference between the reference and estimated angles. Since this angle difference is reflective of the load on the PMSM, the selected initial value allows the system to achieve a smooth transition from reference startup mode to closed-loop sensorless FOC control mode.
US10439525B2
A motor drive device includes a detecting unit that detects a rotational position of a rotor, a drive waveform generating circuit that generates a drive waveform, a control unit that synchronizes a phase of the rotational position of the rotor and a phase of the drive waveform, and a phase difference setting unit that sets a phase difference between the rotational position and the drive waveform during synchronization. An Apos generating unit calculates and outputs a position count proportional to a rotation amount of the rotor. A Bpos generating unit acquires the position count from the Apos generating unit and converts the count into a count value with the upper limit value as the maximum value. A Cpos generating unit multiplies the count value acquired from the Bpos generating unit by the conversion ratio, and calculates a count value with a predetermined upper limit value as the maximum value.
US10439523B2
In a method for controlling an operation of an electric motor, electric voltages applied to electric phases of the electric motor are generated and output in a modulation in a controlled manner dependent on a rotor position of the electric motor and a target/actual comparison of at least one first variable which characterizes a load on the electric motor or an actual rotational speed of the electric motor. A rotor position angle, which characterizes the rotor position, is complemented with a specified preliminary control angle and another regulated preliminary control angle component upon reaching a field weakening range of the electric motor so as to form a sum angle. The sum angle is used to characterize the rotor position in the modulation upon reaching the field weakening range. The disclosure also relates to a device for controlling an operation of an electric motor.
US10439522B2
An identification method is an identification method for use in an identification apparatus that identifies types of brushless DC motors each including a circuit board on which a terminal for tachometer is mounted. The duty ratios of pulses outputted from the terminals for tachometer vary among multiple types of brushless DC motors. The identification method includes: supplying a power supply voltage from the identification apparatus to a brushless DC motor; inputting pulses outputted from the terminal for tachometer of the circuit board to the identification apparatus; obtaining the duty ratio of the pulses as a unique information piece of the brushless DC motor; and identifying the type of the brushless DC motor based on the unique information piece of the brushless DC motor.
US10439520B2
According to an aspect of the invention, a motor stop control method of a motor stop control apparatus which includes an arithmetic control unit and a detection unit. The arithmetic control unit has a stop start position at which a stop control is started from a position which is a predetermined angle before a target position at which a motor stops. The arithmetic control unit calculates a rotational speed of the motor at the stop start position on the basis of a detection value of the detection unit, and a stop time at which the rotational speed of the motor reaches zero from the stop start position on the basis of a deceleration line indicating a change in the rotational speed of the motor, the rotational speed of the motor, and the predetermined angle.
US10439508B2
A control device controls a switching converter having an input alternating supply voltage and a regulated direct voltage at the output terminal. The converter comprises a switch and the control device is adapted to control the on time period and the off time period of said switch for each cycle. The control device has a first input signal representative of the current flowing through at least one element of the converter and comprises a zero crossing detector adapted to detect at least one pair of first and second zero crossings of said first signal for each switching cycle, said second zero crossing immediately following the first zero crossing and occurring in opposite direction with respect to the first zero crossing. The control device comprises a synchronizer adapted to synchronize the start of the on period with each second zero crossing of said first signal.
US10439501B2
A resonant power converter and a frequency tracking method for a resonant power converter are disclosed to determine a resonant status of the resonant power converter by sampling a secondary current, thereby controlling frequency of a drive signal. Therefore, the frequency of the drive signal tracks resonant frequency of the resonant power converter. The resonant power converter includes an inverter branch, which connected to the inverter branch, a transformer connected to the resonant branch, and a rectification and filtering branch connected to the transformer. A primary side of the transformer is connected to the resonant branch, and a secondary side of the transformer is connected to the rectification and filtering branch. A detection branch is connected to both the secondary side of the transformer and the rectification and filtering branch.
US10439498B2
A boost converter disclosed herein may include boost circuits including: a diode including a cathode connected to a high-potential output wiring; a switching element including a terminal connected to an anode of the diode and a terminal connected to a low-potential wiring; and a reactor connected between the high-potential input wiring and the anode. A control circuit may energize, in a first operation, a first boost circuit when charge current is in a first range, and energize the first and a second boost circuits when the charge current is in a second range larger than the first range. The control circuit may energize, in a second operation, a third boost circuit when the charge current is in the first range, and energize the third and a fourth boost circuits when the charge current is in the second range. The first boost circuit is other than the third boost circuit.
US10439496B2
A control system for a DC-DC voltage converter includes a microcontroller having first and second applications. The first application commands the microcontroller to generate a first signal that is received at a first pin on a high side integrated circuit to transition a first plurality of FET switches to an open operational state, and that is received at a first pin on the low side integrated circuit to transition a second plurality of FET switches to the open operational state. The second application commands the microcontroller to generate a second signal that is received at a second pin on the high side integrated circuit to transition the first plurality of FET switches to the open operational state, and that is received at a second pin on the low side integrated circuit to transition the second plurality of FET switches to the open operational state.
US10439489B1
A hybrid-mode boost power factor corrector includes an inductor, a switch unit, a diode unit, a current-detecting unit, and a control unit. The inductor is coupled to a DC input power source. The switch unit is coupled to the inductor and a ground. The diode unit is coupled to the inductor and the switch unit. The current-detecting unit receives an inductor current flowing through the inductor and provides a current detection signal corresponding to the inductor current. The control unit is coupled to the current-detecting unit to receive the current detection signal. When the hybrid-mode boost power factor corrector is operated in a light-load condition, the control unit samples a peak value of the current detection signal; when the hybrid-mode boost power factor corrector is operated in a heavy-load condition, the control unit samples an average value of the current detection signal.
US10439487B2
Converter devices and methods are disclosed. A supply voltage (Vcc), for example to supply a control circuit (11) controlling a switch (Q1), is generated using an additional current path (16) and a snubber circuit (12).
US10439483B2
In a switching converter having an inductive load, a current may flow through the body diode of a transistor even though the gate of the transistor is being controlled to keep the transistor off. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is turned on, a reverse recovery current flows in the reverse direction through the body diode. To reduce switching losses associated with such current flows, a gate driver integrated circuit detects when current flow through the body diode rises above a threshold current. The gate driver integrated circuit then controls the transistor to turn on. Then when the other transistor of the switch leg is made to turn on, the gate driver first turns the transistor off. When the gate-to-source voltage of the turning off transistor drops below a threshold voltage, then the gate driver integrated circuit allows and controls the other transistor to turn on.
US10439478B2
A rotor includes a rotor core and a rotor shaft. The rotor shaft includes an insertion portion, an external thread portion, a key groove and a nut. The insertion portion is inserted into a cylindrical hole of the rotor core. The external thread portion extends from the insertion portion to an outer side in an axial direction of the rotor shaft. The external thread portion has a plurality of thread ridges formed on an outer peripheral surface. The key groove is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft so as to extend in the axial direction from the external thread portion through the insertion portion. The nut is screwed onto the external thread portion, and has a crimped portion formed so as to enter the key groove.
US10439466B2
A fixture for fixing, to a motor case, a holding jig configured to hold a plurality of power lines connected to respective stator coils so as to restrict a relative movement between the plurality of power lines includes: a fastening hole through which a bolt for fastening the fixture to a motor case is inserted; and a mounting portion on which the holding jig holding the power lines is mountable. The mounting portion includes: an accommodation space in which to accommodate the holding jig; and holding pawls for sandwiching the holding jig.
US10439458B2
The present invention comprises a permanent magnet (13) that is disposed around a rotor shaft (11), a retaining ring (14) that is press-fitted around the outside of the permanent magnet (13) from one end of the rotor shaft (11) so as to retain the permanent magnet (13) against the rotor shaft (11), and an end plate (12) that is provided adjacent to the permanent magnet (13) in the axial direction of the rotor shaft (11) and guides the press-fitted retaining ring (14), maintaining planar contact with the inner circumferential surface thereof, toward the permanent magnet (13) while causing the retaining ring (14) to expand as the retaining ring (14) progresses from one end of the rotor shaft (11) to the other end of the rotor shaft (11). Concentration of stress on the retaining ring (14) during press-fitting can thus be minimized.
US10439448B2
A method includes, at a transmitter, performing a test of communications with a receiver, the test comprising: (i) sending, by a communications component of the transmitter, a first message to the receiver, (ii) receiving, by the communications component, a second message from the receiver in response to the first message, and (iii) comparing operational metric(s) associated with the first and second messages with respective expected values for each of the operational metric(s) to determine an outcome for the test. The method further includes sending a report to a remote server that includes the determined outcome for the test, and after sending the report, stopping performance of the test and starting normal operation of the transmitter in which the transmitter transmits, by at least some of the transmitter's antennas, power waves to a location of the receiver. The receiver uses energy from the power waves to charge/power an electronic device.
US10439447B2
Embodiments provide a magnetic shield for wireless power chargers and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes forming flake powder having flake-type particles, forming an oxide film by performing oxygen heat treatment on the surface of the flake powder, performing insulation treatment on the surface of the flake powder provided with the oxide film formed thereon, and producing a sendust block by mixing and melting the insulation-treated flake powder and insulative resin powder. Therefore, a magnetic shield having high insulation characteristics and magnetic permeability may be provided.
US10439445B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method for detecting foreign objects in a wireless power transmission system. This specification provides a wireless power reception apparatus for detecting foreign objects, including a power measurement unit for generating required power information indicative of required power for the wireless power reception apparatus, sending the required power information to a wireless power transmission apparatus, and measuring power induced from the wireless power transmission apparatus and a secondary coil for receiving the power induced from the wireless power transmission apparatus. In accordance with the present invention, foreign objects intervened between the wireless power transmission apparatus and the wireless power reception apparatus are recognized, and a user removes the foreign objects. Accordingly, damage to a device attributable to foreign objects can be prevented.
US10439440B2
The present disclosure introduces a charger for inductively charging a mobile device inside a motor vehicle. The charger includes a power source configured to supply electrical energy in the form of DC voltage, a transmitter coil for inductively transferring power to the mobile device, a signal generator configured to generate a sinusoidal signal, and an output stage that is coupled to the power source, the transmitter coil and the signal generator. The output stage is configured to receive the sinusoidal signal as a control signal and to supply to the transmitter coil a current flow, corresponding to the control signal, of the energy provided by the power source.
US10439430B2
The present disclosure relates to a distributed battery management system. The system includes a master module and at least one slave module. Each slave module manages a corresponding of battery pack connected in series in a power circuit. The master module and each slave module are respectively connected in the power circuit, and the master module can communicate with the slave module through the power circuit with two opposite directions.
US10439425B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a wireless power receiver configured to receive a wireless power signal from a power transmitting unit. A wireless radio unit is configured to communicate with the power transmitting unit. A controllable rectifier circuit is configured to rectify the wireless power signal. The controllable rectifier circuit can include a rectifier configured to generate a rectified voltage from the wireless power signal, based on switch control signals. A rectifier control circuit is configured to generate the switch control signals and to generate first control data that indicates a first rectifier duty cycle of the switch control signals. The wireless radio unit sends the first control data to the power transmitting unit. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10439421B2
A linear charger circuit and method for providing an output current at an output node is presented. The circuit contains a pass device connected between an input node and the output node, first and second replica devices connected in parallel to the pass device, with their control terminals coupled to a control terminal of the pass device. The first replica device is coupled to a first circuit path for determining whether current output by the linear charger circuit shall be terminated. The second replica device is coupled to a second circuit path for providing feedback for controlling the pass device, a control circuit coupled to the second circuit path for controlling the pass device based on a quantity indicative of a current flowing through the second circuit path, and a switching circuit coupled to the second circuit path.
US10439416B2
A method for outputting a charging current is provided. When a power amplifier is connected to a device, the power amplifier acquires recognition information from the device. The power amplifier determines the type of the device according to the foregoing recognition information, and selects, according to the type of the device, a current to output. The power amplifier outputs the selected current to the device, in which the current is used to charge the device.
US10439412B2
Provided is a method for eliminating the interference of a charger to a touch screen and a mobile terminal. The method can include the follows. A charging mode is determined. The charging mode includes a normal charging mode and a quick charging mode, and the quick charging mode has a charging current that is higher than the charging current of the normal charging mode. An interference frequency is determined according to the charging mode. A working frequency of the touch screen is determined according to the interference frequency.
US10439405B2
A power storage apparatus includes a first storage module, a second storage module, a charge-discharge circuit, and circuitry. The first storage module includes a first detector to detect first current input to and output from the first capacitor. The second storage module includes a second detector to detect second current input to and output from the second capacitor. The charge-discharge circuit is connected to the first capacitor and the second capacitor to charge and discharge the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The circuitry is configured to control the charge-discharge circuit to control charging and discharging between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The circuitry is configured to determine whether or not at least one of the first detector and the second detector is to be corrected based on the first current and the second current during charging and discharging between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US10439404B2
A system for a rechargeable battery pack includes one or more lower voltage cells connectable to a charging circuit via a lower voltage terminal and one or more higher voltage cells electrically coupled in series to the one or more lower voltage cells via a bi-directional charge regulator. A higher voltage terminal is electrically coupled to the one or more higher voltage cells, and a common ground terminal is coupled to the one or more lower voltage cells and to the one or more higher voltage cells.
US10439402B2
An adaptive power system for powering a dynamically changing load may include an energy storage device, a bi-directional current source, and compensation circuitry. The bi-directional current source may be electrically connected between the energy storage device and a power distribution bus of a power distribution system. Further, the bi-directional current source is configured to receive a compensation value and, based on the compensation value, maintain a constant power level on the power distribution bus by delivering current to the power distribution bus from the energy storage device or absorbing current from the power distribution bus for storage in the energy storage device. The compensation circuitry may be configured to generate the compensation value. An expected average current value for the dynamically changing load and a power distribution bus current value may be used to generate the compensation value for maintaining the constant power level on the power distribution bus.
US10439389B2
An aspect of the disclosure relates to a semiconductor device including a semiconductor element, a connection terminal configured to output a signal based on an output of the semiconductor element, a protection circuit connected to the connection terminal, and a voltage limiting element connected to the connection terminal, wherein the protection circuit is connected to a first power supply line having a first potential and a second power supply line having a second potential lower than the first potential, and wherein a potential supplied to the voltage limiting element is higher than the second potential and lower than the first potential.
US10439382B2
Novel tools and techniques for underground cable installation are provided. A system includes a compressor and a boring attachment. The boring attachment may be operatively coupled to the compressor and further coupled to an outer sheath of a buried cable. The boring attachment may be configured to be actuated by the compressor. In response to being actuated by the compressor, the boring attachment may be configured to displace at least some ground material, in contact with the buried cable, in which the buried cable is buried, and advance in at least one direction along a longitudinal axis of the buried cable.
US10439381B1
Disclosed herein is a clamp system for affixing at least one wire bundle, having any one of various sizes, to a rail elongated in a lateral direction. The clamp system comprises a first clamping component comprising a first concave engagement surface and configured for fixed attachment to the rail. The clamp system also comprises a second clamping component comprising a second concave engagement surface and configured for slidable attachment to the rail. When the first clamping component and the second clamping component are attached to the rail, the first concave engagement surface and the second concave engagement surface oppose and face each other to enable capture of the wire bundle therebetween and a distance between the first concave engagement surface and the second concave engagement surface is adjustable.
US10439369B1
A method for producing an electrode device for a spark plug, with the following steps: preparation of an electrode body composed of a first material, the electrode body having a first joining surface; preparation of a precious metal part, which has a second joining surface; placement of the joining surfaces against each other and production of a relative movement between the joining surfaces during which the joining surfaces are pressed against each other with a first force (F1) that is less than a force threshold (FS); termination of the relative movement and pressing of the joining surfaces against each other for a pressing period (TA) with a second force (F2) that is greater than the force threshold (FS) in such a way that a diffusion from the first and/or second material beyond the joining surfaces takes place; and termination of the pressing together, wherein the relative movement is a linear movement and/or an orbital movement.
US10439364B2
A method for manufacturing a laser diode device includes providing a substrate having a surface region and forming epitaxial material overlying the surface region, the epitaxial material comprising an n-type cladding region, an active region comprising at least one active layer overlying the n-type cladding region, and a p-type cladding region overlying the active layer region. The epitaxial material is patterned to form a plurality of dice, each of the dice corresponding to at least one laser device, characterized by a first pitch between a pair of dice, the first pitch being less than a design width. Each of the plurality of dice are transferred to a carrier wafer such that each pair of dice is configured with a second pitch between each pair of dice, the second pitch being larger than the first pitch.
US10439363B2
A method of manufacturing a quantum cascade laser beam source (1) includes: preparing a semiconductor stacked body (20); forming a pair of first excavated portions (41 and 42) and a ridge portion which is interposed between the pair of first excavated portions (41 and 42); forming channel structures (51 and 52) and circumferential edge portions (61 and 62) which are formed to interpose the channel structures (51 and 52) between the ridge portion (30) and the circumferential edge portion; forming an electrode pattern (81) in contact with a first area (29a) and forming an electrode pattern (82) in contact with a second area (22a); fixing a crystal growth surface side to a support substrate (91); removing an Fe-doped (semi-insulating) InP single-crystal substrate (21); fixing a Si substrate (93); and peeling the support substrate (91).
US10439359B2
A light source device includes: a base member; a semiconductor laser mounted on an upper surface of the base member; a lateral wall portion having: a lower surface facing the upper surface of the base member and being a non-reflecting surface, and a reflecting surface that reflects light emitted from the semiconductor laser, is connected to the lower surface of the lateral wall portion at a lower end portion of the reflecting surface, and is inclined with respect to the upper surface of the base member; a first bonding film that is a metal film disposed in a region on the upper surface of the base member facing the lower surface of the lateral wall portion; a second bonding film that is a metal film disposed on the lower surface of the lateral wall portion; and a metal bonding member fuse-bonded to the first bonding film and the second bonding film to each other. An end portion of the first bonding film at a reflecting-surface side and an end portion of the second bonding film at the reflecting-surface side are located separately from the lower end portion of the reflecting surface. A distance between the end portion of the first bonding film at the reflecting-surface side and the lower end portion of the reflecting surface is different from a distance between the end portion of the second bonding film at the reflecting-surface side and the lower end portion of the reflecting surface.
US10439353B2
A laser apparatus according to the present invention may comprise: a plurality of reflection mirrors which form a resonance path so as for light to be amplified by an induced emission; a medium having a first surface which forms a vertical surface with respect to the resonance path, and a second interface which does not form a vertical surface with respect to the resonance path, and absorbs energy from a light source and amplifies and emits the light; and a saturable absorber having a second surface which forms a vertical surface with respect to the resonance path, and a second interface which does not form a vertical surface with respect to the resonance path, and generates ultrashort pulses. The laser apparatus according to the present invention has the effects of cutting a saturable absorber having a specific crystallographic axis to thereby make polarization capacity in one direction advantageous and minimize propagation loss. In addition, the laser apparatus according to the present invention has the effect of maximizing transmittivity maintenance capacity of polarization orientation in one direction by arranging a medium and a saturable medium so as to have a specific inclined plane.
US10439347B2
A rectangular rolled copper foil includes copper or a copper alloy having a 0.2% yield strength of greater than or equal to 250 MPa. In a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction, an area ratio of crystal grains oriented at a deviation angle of less than or equal to 12.5° from a Cube orientation is greater than or equal to 8%.
US10439345B2
An interface device for connecting a portable electronic device to a vehicle includes a holding module for receiving a portable electronic device with a display, and an adaptor module for connecting the portable electronic device to a vehicle. The holding module has a slot into which the portable electronic device is inserted and a front opening exposing the display of the portable electronic device, and an edge portion of the display is covered by a front part of the holding module.
US10439343B2
An appliance and a power cord assembly for providing electrical power to the appliance are provided. A plug receptacle is positioned on the appliance cabinet which includes two hot prongs, a neutral prong, and a ground prong. A power cord extends between an appliance plug and a wall plug, the wall plug being coupled to either a three prong or four prong outlet. The appliance plug includes four terminals complementary to the plug receptacle, with the neutral terminal and the ground terminal being electrically coupled within the appliance plug if the power cord has three wires.
US10439342B2
A bridge joint assembly for use with a busway system includes a plurality of insulator assemblies, a bolt holding the insulator assemblies in a stack, a housing enclosing the insulator assemblies, a seal surrounding the bolt, and a bolt access system extending from a wall of the housing to the seal. The bolt includes a bolt head protruding from the stack. The bolt access system defines a bolt access passageway that provides access to the bolt head from outside the housing.
US10439341B2
A neutral bus bar 150 is provided for an electrical distribution apparatus, such as an electrical panel 100. The neutral bus bar includes an elongated body 152 that includes a plurality of wire connectors 154 and plug-on neutral landing sections 156 distributed along a length of the body. Each wire connector includes a side hole 172 and a top landing hole 184 on the body. The top landing hole can receive a hold down screw 176 to secure an electrical wire received in the side hole 172 from a wire-type circuit breaker. Each plug-on neutral landing section is able to receive a plug-on neutral clip from a plug-on neutral type circuit breaker. Adjacent plug-on neutral landing sections have at least one wire connector arranged therebetween on the body. The plug-on neutral landing sections are also distributed with a pitch spacing that corresponds to a pole spacing of circuit breakers connectable on the electrical distribution apparatus.
US10439336B2
A plug connector part for connection to a mating plug connector part includes: at least one electrical contact element for carrying an electrical current and establishing electrical contact with at least one other contact element of a mating plug connector part; and a temperature sensor device for recording an increase in temperature of the plug connector part, the temperature sensor device including at least one sensor element, which is designed to detect infrared radiation emitted by the at least one electrical contact element.
US10439335B2
A multi-pole electric plug connector including a metallic housing. To ensure protective grounding of the housing, a bracket-shaped electrically conducting connector, which is resilient in the axial direction and laterally extends around a contact holder in the housing, and which is axially elastically pushed down by the housing so that contact is made with the housing, and through which a grounding contact extends so as to connect the housing to the grounding contact in an electrically conducting manner.
US10439333B2
An electrical connector which includes a housing having a first side wall, a second side wall and end walls. A mating connector receiving cavity is provided between the first side wall and the second side wall. Terminals are positioned in the mating connector receiving cavity. A shield receiving area is provided on the first side wall and has shield receiving slots which extend through the first side and open into the mating connector receiving cavity. An outer shield member is positioned in the shield receiving area. The outer shield has end sections which extend essentially perpendicular to a planar section. The end sections extend into the mating connector receiving cavity through the shield receiving slots. Inner shield members are positioned in the mating connector receiving cavity. The inner shield members extend between the terminals to facilitate signal integrity.
US10439324B2
A lever-type connector (1) includes a housing (10) and a lever (40) rotatably mounted on the housing (10) and includes two arm plates (41) coupled by an operating portion (42). The connector (1) is connectable to a mating connector by rotating the lever (40). Two support shafts (21) project from outer side surfaces (12) of the housing (10). The arm plates (41) include shaft holes (43) and start opening deformation while riding on the support shafts (21). The arm plates (41) return when the support shafts (21) fit into the shaft holes (43). Each arm plate (41) includes an inclined receiving surface (45) inclined toward the operating portion (42). An inclined surface (21A) is provided on a projecting end of the support shaft (21) and is configured to come into surface contact with the inclined receiving surface (45) at a ride initial position of the arm plates (41).
US10439311B2
A receptacle connector includes a housing having a mating end for mating with a plug connector and a mounting end for mounting to a circuit board. The housing has side walls and end walls with contacts in contacts arrays along both side walls. The contacts have mating ends and terminating ends. The housing has a card slot open at the mating end for receiving plug connector defined by interior surfaces of the side walls. The mating ends of the contacts are exposed in the card slot for mating electrical connection with the plug connector. The housing has alignment tabs extending inward into the card slot from the interior surface for aligning the plug connector within the card slot.
US10439308B2
An electrical connector configured for insertion with a mating connector, including an insulating body that has a base and a tongue extending forward from the base. The tongue has a middle portion and a mating portion. The middle portion is connected to the mating portion and the base, and the middle portion having a thickness greater than that of the mating portion. Multiple terminals are provided, and each terminal has a connection portion. The connection portions are divided into an upper row and a lower row and fixed to the middle portion. A middle shielding sheet is insert molded into the tongue and located between the connection portions in the upper low and the lower row. The middle shielding sheet has at least one first protruding portion that extends out a side edge of the middle portion.
US10439302B2
A connecting device configured to be installed on a first coaxial cable connector to facilitate connection of the first connector to a second connector and to maintain ground continuity across the connectors. In some embodiments, the connecting device includes a grounding element disposed in a gripping member, the grounding element including one or more projections configured to extend beyond an end of the gripping member to conductively engage an outer surface of the second connector.
US10439300B1
Disclosed is a connection element, which includes a contact element and an actuating element and serves for mechanically and electrically contacting a conductor. The contact element has at least one contact arm, which is designed for spring-loaded clamping of a conductor on a contact surface. The connection element can be transferred into different open or closed states by a driver on the contact arm and by a guide contour in the actuating element.
US10439299B2
Antenna systems and related methods are disclosed. An antenna system includes an antenna controller configured to operably couple to control inputs of an antenna including an array of electromagnetic (EM) scattering elements. A method includes controlling an array of EM scattering elements to operate according to holographic modulation patterns, and modulating at least one effective EM property of the antenna over space, time, or a combination thereof to, in the average and/or the aggregate, cause side lobes of an antenna gain of the antenna to be reduced.
US10439292B2
Electromagnetic shielding systems, apparatuses, and method are provided. One apparatus is an example free-space absorber metamaterial that includes a first array of patches disposed at a first plane, a conductive backplane disposed at a structural surface plane, and a first dielectric spacer disposed between the first array of patches and the conductive backplane. A first bandwidth of absorption for the free-space absorber metamaterial may be based on the area of a patch in the first array of patches, the first electrical resistance of a patch in the first array of patches, and the first gap distance taken between the first array of patches and the conductive backplane.
US10439291B2
A radio frequency surface wave attenuator structure is provided. The structure may be configured to be operably coupled with a plurality of other radio frequency surface wave attenuator structures to form a metamaterial. The radio frequency surface wave attenuator structure may include a patch disposed in a first plane and defining a patch area and a backplane disposed in a second plane and extending along the second plane to be shared with the other surface wave attenuator structures. The structure may further include a via spring having a number of turns and being comprised of a conductive material. The via spring may electrically couple the patch to the backplane. The structure may further include a dielectric disposed between the patch and the backplane.
US10439290B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a communication device having a dielectric antenna, a radio housing, a hollow waveguide and an antenna stabilizer. The radio housing can enclose a transmitter that generates electromagnetic waves. The hollow waveguide can have a cavity therethrough to facilitate transmission of the electromagnetic waves to a feed point of the dielectric antenna for guidance of the electromagnetic waves without requiring an electrical return path, where the electromagnetic waves generate near-field wireless signals. The antenna stabilizer can facilitate coupling the hollow waveguide to the feed point of the dielectric antenna. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10439287B2
A system for providing full-duplex communications includes a first transceiver for transmitting first signals having a first orthogonal function of a plurality of orthogonal functions applied thereto on a first channel and receiving second signals having a second orthogonal function of the plurality of orthogonal functions on a second channel at a same time. A second transceiver transmits the second signals having the second orthogonal function of the plurality of orthogonal functions on the second channel and receives the first signals having the first orthogonal function of the plurality of orthogonal functions on the first channel at the same time. The first channel having the first orthogonal function applied thereto and the second channel having the second orthogonal function applied thereto do not interfere with each other enabling full duplex transmissions between the first transceiver and the second transceiver.
US10439285B2
A multiband antenna, having a reflector, and a first array of first radiating elements having a first operational frequency band, the first radiating elements being a plurality of dipole arms, each dipole arm including a plurality of conductive segments coupled in series by a plurality of inductive elements; and a second array of second radiating elements having a second operational frequency band, wherein the plurality of conductive segments each have a length less than one-half wavelength at the second operational frequency band.
US10439283B2
An embodiment antenna having first dimension and second planar arrays. The first array has a first element spacing in an x- and a y-dimension and is operable in a first frequency band. The second array has a second element spacing in the x-dimension and the y-dimension, and is operable in a second frequency band. The second planar array is displaced from the first planar array in a z-dimension for co-aperture operation of the arrays, and is disposed parallel to and in a near-field of the first planar array. Elements of the second planar array are disposed and steerable, in a u-v plane for interleaving a first plurality of grating lobes generated by the first planar array with a second plurality of grating lobes generated by the second planar array.
US10439279B2
A self-aiming directional Wi-Fi antenna system includes a directional antenna that is motorized. A motion controller operates the motors to move the antenna position to sources of Wi-Fi radio frequency (RF) transmissions, determines an SSID for each source that satisfies a selection criterion and stores a position data corresponding to each SSID. The directional Wi-Fi antenna is moved to a final position corresponding to the antenna position data for one of the SSIDs stored in memory.
US10439266B2
Disclosed is a wideband patch antenna module where two feeding points are formed on a lower patch at a preset angle therebetween, whereby ultra-wideband characteristics receiving both a GPS signal and a GLONASS signal may be realized, and antenna size and manufacturing costs may be minimized. The wideband patch antenna module includes a base layer; a radiation patch provided on a top surface of the base layer; a lower patch provided at a bottom surface of the base layer; a first feeding point provided at a bottom surface of the lower patch; and a second feeding point provided at the bottom surface of the lower patch, wherein an imaginary line connecting the first feeding point and a center point of the lower patch intersects with an imaginary line connecting the second feeding point and the center point of the lower patch.
US10439262B2
There are provided: a first capacitor connected between first and second input/output terminals; a second capacitor connected between the first input/output terminal and a third input/output terminal; a first inductor having one end connected to the first input/output terminal; a second inductor having one end connected to the second input/output terminal and another end connected to another end of the first inductor; a third inductor having one end connected to the first input/output terminal; a fourth inductor having one end connected to the third input/output terminal and another end connected to another end of the third inductor; a first transistor having a drain terminal connected to said another ends of the first and second inductors and a source terminal that is grounded; and a second transistor having a drain terminal connected to said another ends of the third and fourth inductors and a source terminal that is grounded.
US10439257B2
An energy storage device for generating an n-phase supply voltage includes a plurality of energy supply branches that are connected in parallel, each of which is connected to an output connector of the energy storage device. Each of the energy supply branches includes a plurality of energy storage modules that are connected in series, each having at least one energy storage cell, and having a plurality of coupling modules connected to one of the plurality of energy storage modules, respectively, each configured to couple, or to bridge, the connected energy storage module with the energy supply branch. The energy storage device further includes a control system.
US10439256B2
A reference structure and a separator assembly is provided. The separator assembly provides a base layer, a first contact, an optional second contact and a reference component which may be implemented in various applications. The base layer includes a first side and a second side. The first contact is affixed on the first side of the base layer between the base layer and an anode. The second contact is affixed on the second side of the base layer. A reference component is affixed to the second side of the base layer and the optional second contact, if implemented. The reference structure includes a semi-permeable reference component affixed or coupled to a base element.
US10439251B2
Disclosed herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also disclosed herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also disclosed herein are methods for preparing dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also disclosed herein are sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US10439247B2
A fuel cell stack comprises a stacked body, an end plate and a case configured such that the stacked body is placed therein. The end plate is arranged to cover an end face of the stacked body in a stacking direction and an end face of the case in the stacking direction and is fastened to the end face of the case. A placement groove is formed in at least one surface out of two surfaces of the end plate and the case opposed to each other, such that a seal member is placed in the placement groove. The end plate includes a resin layer formed to continuously cover an inner circumferential wall surface of the fluid flow path hole, a surface of the end plate opposed to the stacked body, and an outer circumferential side end of the placement groove.
US10439246B2
This invention relates to an electrode structure including a porous electrode that simultaneously performs the functions both of a bipolar plate and of a felt electrode and has a pattern layer or a mesh layer serving as a flow path on the surface thereof, a method of manufacturing the same, and a redox flow battery stack configuration for decreasing shunt current.
US10439235B2
A method for joining incompatible materials is provided that includes the steps of welding a first component formed of a thermoplastic material and a second component of a porous material to one another to form a subassembly and optionally molding a third component around the subassembly. The method enables the incompatible first component and the third component to be joined to one another, such as to form an electrolyte battery flow frame around an ion exchange material and/or microporous separator material in order to form a separator for an electrolyte flow battery.
US10439232B2
A method of manufacturing a porous structure for a fuel cell is disclosed. The method includes providing the porous structure, and processing the porous structure to selectively produce a non-porous region on the porous structure. In one example, the non-porous region is provided at the perimeter of the porous structure, an edge of an internal manifold and/or a surface or recess that supports a seal or gasket. The non-porous region has a porosity that is less than the porosity of the porous structure. The non-porous region prevents undesired leakage of fluid from the porous structure and prevents migration of adhesive associated with the seals.
US10439231B2
A metal separator for a fuel cell is disposed on each side of a membrane electrode assembly. The metal separator includes a base material containing Fe as a primary component and 10 mass % or more of Cr. The base material further contains at least any one of 0.1 to 15 mass % of Ta, 0.1 to 15 mass % of V, and 4 to 10 mass % of Sn.
US10439223B1
Compositions for use in an anode of a secondary battery, anodes, and lithium ion batteries are provided which include embedded silicon carbide nanofibers. Methods of production and use are further described.
US10439214B2
To provide excellent lithium-nickel composite oxide particles which have high environmental stability and are thus capable of suppressing generation of impurities due to absorption of moisture and a carbon dioxide gas, while being prevented from easy separation of a coating film because of high adhesion thereof and having lithium ion conductivity. Coated lithium-nickel composite oxide particles, which are obtained by coating the surfaces of lithium-nickel composite oxide particles with a predetermined coating material, have electrical conductivity and ion conductivity and are capable of suppressing permeation of moisture and a carbon dioxide gas. Consequently, the present invention is able to provide coated lithium-nickel composite oxide particles for positive electrode active materials of lithium ion batteries, which is excellent for use in lithium ion batteries.
US10439207B2
A battery electrode composition is provided comprising core-shell composites. Each of the composites may comprise a core and a multi-functional shell.
US10439202B2
A method is provided for producing a homogenous particulate material composition, including at least one particulate material M, at least one additive Z, and at least one binding agent B, the method including providing at least one particulate material M, at least one additive Z, and at least one binding agent B; producing a homogenous mixture G1 from the at least one particulate material M and the at least one additive Z in a gravity mixer; producing a mixture G2 from the mixture G1 and the at least one binding agent B, with the introduction of shear forces; and removing dispersed gases from the mixture G2.
US10439196B2
An electrical breaker responsive to a fault condition is disclosed. A thermally-activated switch can be disposed between a first terminal and second and third terminals of the breaker. The switch can have a normal operating condition in which the first terminal is electrically connected to the second terminal. The switch can have a fault condition in which the first terminal is electrically connected to both the second terminal and the third terminal, causing a majority of the current to flow between the first terminal and the third terminal and a minority of the current to flow between the first terminal and the second terminal. The breaker can include a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) resistor between the first terminal and one of the second and third terminals. The thermally-activated switch can be integrated into a variety of structures, for example, a battery pack which can house one or more cells.
US10439173B2
A multilayer dielectric and sealing film is disclosed. The multi-layer dielectric sealing film comprises a layer of dielectric material and at least one layer of sealing material. The multilayer film may be positioned between the current collector tabs and the packaging material of a thin film battery to prevent shorting between the tabs and the edge of a metal foil layer in the packaging material. The multi-layer film also provides additional sealant which can flow around and seal around the terminals. By combining the sealing material and the dielectric material into one multi-layer assembly, manufacturing steps can be eliminated.
US10439158B2
A light-emitting element includes a stack of a first light-emitting layer emitting fluorescent light and a second light-emitting layer emitting phosphorescent light between a pair of electrodes. The second light-emitting layer includes a first layer in which an exciplex is formed, a second layer in which an exciplex is formed, and a third layer in which an exciplex is formed. The second layer is located over the first layer, and the third layer is located over the second layer. An emission peak wavelength of the second layer is longer than an emission peak wavelength of the first layer and an emission peak wavelength of the third layer.
US10439156B2
Provided is a light-emitting element which has an anode, a light-emitting layer over the anode, an electron-transport layer over and in contact with the light-emitting layer, an electron-injection layer over and in contact with the electron-transport layer, and a cathode over and in contact with the electron-injection layer. The light-emitting layer has an electron-transport property, and the electron-transport layer includes an anthracene derivative. The light-emitting layer further includes a phosphorescent substance. This device structure allows the formation of a highly efficient blue-emissive light-emitting element even though the phosphorescent substance has higher triplet energy than the anthracene derivative which directly contacts with the light-emitting layer.
US10439155B2
The present disclosure is directed to quantum dots comprising a core-shell structure and a novel arrangement of ligands thereon. Light emitting diodes including the quantum dots, light emitting devices including the same as well as methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds and devices are also provided.
US10439150B2
A light-emitting element emitting phosphorescence and having high emission efficiency, in which a property of injecting holes to a light-emitting layer is increased, is provided. The light-emitting layer of the light-emitting element includes a first organic compound represented by the following general formula (G1) and a second organic compound which is a phosphorescent compound. The difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is lower than or equal to 0.3 eV.
US10439149B2
A compound represented by Formula 1 is provided: wherein Formula 1 is the same as described in the detailed description of the present disclosure. The compound of Formula 1 may be included in a hole transport layer and/or an emission layer of an organic light-emitting device (OLED).
US10439137B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel print structure, a manufacturing method thereof, a display device, and an inkjet printing method. The pixel print structure comprises a substrate, a first side wall and a second side wall located on the substrate, and an intermediate portion located between the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein the first side wall and the intermediate portion define a first area, and the second side wall and the intermediate portion define a second area.
US10439135B2
A method includes providing a substrate having a conductive column, a dielectric layer over the conductive column, and a plurality of sacrificial blocks over the dielectric layer, the plurality of sacrificial blocks surrounding the conductive column from a top view; depositing a sacrificial layer covering the plurality of sacrificial blocks, the sacrificial layer having a dip directly above the conductive column; depositing a hard mask layer over the sacrificial layer; removing a portion of the hard mask layer from a bottom of the dip; etching the bottom of the dip using the hard mask layer as an etching mask, thereby exposing a top surface of the conductive column; and forming a conductive material inside the dip, the conductive material being in physical contact with the top surface of the conductive column.
US10439127B2
A bender bar transducer having stacked encapsulated actuators provides improved acoustic power over a wider frequency range, low applied voltage requirements and consistent part-to-part performance.
US10439125B2
There is provided methods of manufacturing a superconductor element and a method of manufacturing a phononic element. The method of manufacturing a superconductor element comprises the step of forming a periodic patterned structure in a material to alter an electronic structure in a primary layer (M) of the material to couple with the or each phonon of the primary layer (M) so as to induce superconductivity in the primary layer (M) or modify the superconductivity of the primary layer, and/or create or alter one or more phonons in a primary layer (M) of the material to couple with the electrons of the primary layer (M) so as to induce superconductivity in the primary layer (M) or modify the superconductivity of the primary layer. The method of manufacturing a phononic element comprises the steps of: providing one of a primary layer (M) and a secondary layer (M2) of a material on the other of the primary layer (M) and secondary layer (M2) of the material; and forming a periodic patterned structure in the secondary layer (M2) to create or alter one or more phonons in the primary layer (M).
US10439124B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a thermoelectric conversion module which is obtained by combining an insulating member, a heat dissipation member, or the like with a bellows-like thermoelectric conversion module and has good structural stability and handleability and good flexibility, a heat conductive laminate used for the thermoelectric conversion module, and methods of producing the same. The object is achieved by providing a thermoelectric conversion module including a module main body having a bellows-like support, thermoelectric conversion layers formed on the support and are separated from each other, connection electrodes which connect the thermoelectric conversion layers adjacent to each other; one or more bellows-like members provided such that concave and convex portions thereof are fitted to those of the module main body; and a flexible linear member which penetrates sloped surfaces of a bellows of the module main body and sloped surfaces of a bellows of one or more bellows-like members so as to be inserted through the module main body and the one or more bellows-like members.
US10439121B2
A thermoelectric power generation (TEG) unit configured to be integrated into the exhaust system of a vehicle includes a plurality of thermoelectric power generator modules, each comprising an electrically interconnected plurality of p-type and n-type thermoelectric material legs, each leg extending between a substrate on a hot side and a substrate on a cold side of the module, wherein the thermoelectric materials for the legs are half-Heusler compounds having a thermoelectric figure of merit (ZT) greater than 1.0.
US10439120B2
The present application discloses a thermoelectric material, which contains CsAg5Te3 crystal material. At 700K, the thermoelectric material has an optimum dimensionless figure-of-merit ZT as high as 1.6 and a high stability, and the thermoelectric material can be recycled. The present application also discloses a method for preparing the CsAg5Te3 crystal material. The CsAg5Te3 crystal material is one-step synthesized by a high-temperature solid-state method, using a raw material containing Cs, Ag and Te, so that the high-purity product is obtained while the synthesis time is greatly shortened.
US10439099B2
A method of fabricating an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting device includes receiving a UV transmissive substrate, forming a first UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride upon the UV transmissive substrate using a first deposition technique at a temperature less than about 800 degrees Celsius or greater than about 1200 degrees Celsius, forming a second UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride upon the first UV transmissive layer comprising aluminum nitride using a second deposition technique that is different from the first deposition technique, at a temperature within a range of about 800 degrees Celsius to about 1200 degrees Celsius, forming an n-type layer comprising aluminum gallium nitride layer upon the second UV transmissive layer, forming one or more quantum well structures comprising aluminum gallium nitride upon the n-type layer, and forming a p-type nitride layer upon the one or more quantum well structures.
US10439095B2
A semiconductor wafer forms on a mold containing a dopant. The dopant dopes a melt region adjacent the mold. There, dopant concentration is higher than in the melt bulk. A wafer starts solidifying. Dopant diffuses poorly in solid semiconductor. After a wafer starts solidifying, dopant cannot enter the melt. Afterwards, the concentration of dopant in the melt adjacent the wafer surface is less than what was present where the wafer began to form. New wafer regions grow from a melt region whose dopant concentration lessens over time. This establishes a dopant gradient in the wafer, with higher concentration adjacent the mold. The gradient can be tailored. A gradient gives rise to a field that can function as a drift or back surface field. Solar collectors can have open grid conductors and better optical reflectors on the back surface, made possible by the intrinsic back surface field.
US10439093B2
A photovoltaic photodetector includes a substrate, a graphene layer, and a dielectric layer positioned between the substrate and the graphene layer. One or more first antenna electrodes includes a first metal in direct contact with the graphene layer. One or more second antenna electrodes includes a second metal in direct contact with the graphene layer. The first and second metals have different work functions. A drain electrode is electrically coupled to the one or more first antenna electrodes, and a source electrode is electrically coupled to the one or more second antenna electrodes. The photovoltaic photodetector can be configured to be operable over a wavelength region of 2 μm to 24 μm and has a response time of 10 ns or less.
US10439077B2
The instant disclosure provides an optical component packaging structure which includes a far-infrared sensor chip, a first metal layer, a packaging housing and a covering member. The far-infrared sensor chip includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor stack structure. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface, a second surface which is opposite to the first surface, and a cavity. The semiconductor stack structure is disposed on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a part of the semiconductor stack structure is located above the cavity. The first metal layer is disposed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate, the packaging housing is used to encapsulate the far-infrared sensor chip and expose at least a part of the far-infrared sensor chip, and the covering member is disposed above the semiconductor stack structure.
US10439073B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device exhibiting stable electrical characteristics is provided. Further, a highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. Oxide semiconductor films are stacked so that the conduction band has a well-shaped structure. Specifically, a transistor having a multi-layer structure is manufactured in which a second oxide semiconductor film having a crystalline structure is stacked over a first oxide semiconductor film, and at least a third oxide semiconductor film is provided over the second oxide semiconductor film. When a buried channel is formed in the transistor, few oxygen vacancies are generated and the reliability of the transistor is improved.
US10439069B2
Two gate electrodes are provided on upper and lower sides of an oxide semiconductor active layer through respective insulating films. In addition, a first read-out electrode and a second read-out electrode are provided on right and left sides of the oxide semiconductor active layer. In the optical sensor element, in a case where a voltage is applied to each gate electrode, a potential difference occurs between the first read-out electrode and the second read-out electrode, and intensity of irradiation light is detected based on a current that flows between the read-out electrodes.
US10439057B2
A multi-gate high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) and its methods of formation are disclosed. The multi-gate HEMT includes a substrate and an adhesion layer on top of the substrate. A channel layer is disposed on top of the adhesion layer, and a first gate electrode is disposed on top of the channel layer. The first gate electrode has a first gate dielectric layer in between the first gate electrode and the channel layer. A second gate electrode is embedded within the substrate and beneath the channel layer. The second gate electrode has a second gate dielectric layer completely surrounding the second gate electrode. A pair of source and drain contacts are disposed on opposite sides of the first gate electrode.
US10439055B2
An IGBT having a barrier region is presented. A power unit cell of the IGBT has at least two trenches that may both extend into the barrier region. The barrier region may be p-doped and vertically confined, i.e., in and against the extension direction, by means of the drift region. The barrier region can be electrically floating.
US10439044B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer having a first concentration of germanium on a semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer having a second concentration of germanium on the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer having a third concentration of germanium on the second semiconductor layer. The method also includes patterning the first, second and third semiconductor layers into at least one fin, and reducing a width of the second semiconductor layer of the at least one fin. In the method, a bottom source/drain region is grown from the substrate adjacent a base portion of the at least one fin, a gate structure is formed on and around the second semiconductor layer, and a top source/drain region is grown from the third semiconductor layer.
US10439041B2
A replacement metal gate transistor structure and method with thin silicon nitride sidewalls and with little or no high-k dielectric on the vertical sidewalls of the replacement gate transistor trench.
US10439040B2
A process is disclosed of forming metal replacement gates for PMOS transistors with oxygen in the metal gates such that the PMOS gates have effective work functions above 4.85. Metal work function layers in the PMOS gates are oxidized at low temperature to increase their effective work functions to the desired PMOS range. Hydrogen may also be incorporated at an interface between the metal gates and underlying gate dielectrics. Materials for the metal work function layers and processes for the low temperature oxidation are disclosed.
US10439036B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to transistor devices such as metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor devices. In one aspect, a transistor device comprises a channel region in a substrate partially delimited by a source and a drain junction at a main surface of the substrate. A first dielectric layer stack is arranged on the channel region, such that an orthogonal projection of the first dielectric layer stack on the main surface defining a first area is between and does not overlap the junctions and. A second dielectric layer stack is formed laterally adjacent to and in contact with the first dielectric layer stack, such that an orthogonal projection of the second dielectric layer stack overlaps the junction and defines a second area. A metal gate layer is formed on the first and second dielectric layer stacks, where an orthogonal projection of the metal gate layer on the main surface overlaps the first area and the second area. The first dielectric layer stack has a larger capacitance than the second dielectric layer stack.
US10439030B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor in a semiconductor body having a first main surface. The transistor includes: a source contact electrically connected to a source region; a drain contact electrically connected to a drain region; a gate electrode at the channel region, the channel region and a drift zone disposed along a first direction between the source and drain regions, the first direction being parallel to the first main surface, the channel region patterned into a ridge by adjacent gate trenches formed in the first main surface, the adjacent gate trenches spaced apart in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a longitudinal axis of the ridge extending in the first direction and a longitudinal axis of the gate trenches extending in the first direction; and at least one of the source and drain contacts being adjacent to a second main surface opposite the first main surface.
US10439026B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to fin structures with single diffusion break facet improvement using an epitaxial insulator and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a plurality of fin structures; an insulator material filling a cut between adjacent fin structures of the plurality of fin structures; a metal material (e.g., rare earth oxide or SrTiO3) at least partially lining the cut; and an epitaxial source region or epitaxial drain region in at least one of the plurality of fin structures and adjacent to the metal material.
US10439022B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a work function layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a halogen source layer. The gate dielectric layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the halogen source layer.
US10439021B2
Devices and methods for forming a device are disclosed. A substrate is provided. The substrate has first and second major surfaces. A capacitor is disposed in the substrate. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulator separating the first and second electrodes. The second electrode encloses the first electrode and the insulator.
US10439014B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a panel having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix and each including a self-luminous element for emitting light, the panel including first to third conductive layers laminated in order on a supporting substrate, a first contact portion between the first and second conductive layers and a second contact portion between the second and third conductive layers being disposed at the same position in a planar direction.
US10439010B2
The purpose of the present invention is to form both LTPS TFT and semiconductor TFT in a same substrate. The feature of the display device to realize the above purpose is that: a display device having a display area containing a pixel comprising: the pixel includes a first TFT having an oxide semiconductor, a gate insulating film is formed on the oxide semiconductor, a first gate electrode is formed on the gate insulating film, a first source/drain electrode formed by a metal or an alloy contacts a source or a drain of the semiconductor the first gate electrode and the first source/drain electrode are formed by the same material.
US10439002B2
A connection unit is provided adjacently to the cell array unit and electrically connected to a peripheral circuit unit positioned downwardly of the cell array unit. The cell array unit has a configuration in which a variable resistance layer is provided at intersections of a plurality of word lines extending in a horizontal direction and a plurality of bit lines extending in a vertical direction. The connection unit includes a lower wiring line layer in which a base portion bundling a plurality of the word lines is formed, and a middle wiring line layer and upper wiring line layer formed upwardly thereof. The lower wiring line layer includes: a first penetrating electrode connecting the plurality of word lines and the peripheral circuit unit; and a second penetrating electrode connecting at least one of the middle wiring line layer and upper wiring line layer and the peripheral circuit unit.
US10438992B2
A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first contact electrode and a second contact electrode located on the light-emitting structure, and respectively making ohmic contact with the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; an insulation layer for covering a part of the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode so as to insulate the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode; a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad electrically connected to each of the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode; and a radiation pad formed on the insulation layer, and radiating heat generated from the light-emitting structure.
US10438985B2
A semiconductor device having a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof; a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together with the respective first and second wiring layer sides of the first and second semiconductor sections facing each other; a conductive material extending through the first semiconductor section to the second wiring layer of the second semiconductor section and by means of which the first and second wiring layers are in electrical communication; and an opening, other than the opening for the conductive material, which extends through the first semiconductor section to the second wiring layer.
US10438983B2
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device which includes a pixel section, a peripheral circuit section, a first isolation region formed with a STI structure on a semiconductor substrate in the peripheral circuit section, and a second isolation region formed with the STI structure on the semiconductor substrate in the pixel section. The portion of the second isolation region buried into the semiconductor substrate is shallower than the portion buried into the semiconductor substrate of the first isolation region, and the height of the upper face of the second isolation region is equal to that of the first isolation region. A method of producing the solid-state imaging device and an electronic device provided with the solid-state imaging devices are also disclosed.
US10438966B2
According to one embodiment, the silicon layer includes phosphorus. The buried layer is provided on the silicon layer. The stacked body is provided on the buried layer. The stacked body includes a plurality of electrode layers stacked with an insulator interposed. The semiconductor body extends in a stacking direction of the stacked body through the stacked body and through the buried layer, and includes a sidewall portion positioned at a side of the buried layer. The silicon film is provided between the buried layer and the sidewall portion of the semiconductor body. The silicon film includes silicon as a major component and further includes at least one of germanium or carbon.
US10438964B2
A strap level sacrificial layer and an alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers are formed over a substrate. An array of memory stack structures is formed through the alternating stack and the strap level sacrificial layer. Each memory film in the memory stack structures includes a metal oxide blocking dielectric. After formation of a source cavity by removal of the strap level sacrificial layer, an atomic layer etch process can be employed to remove portions of the metal oxide blocking dielectrics at the level of the source cavity. Outer sidewalls of semiconductor channels in the memory stack structures are exposed by additional etch processes, and a source strap layer is selectively deposited in the source cavity in contact with the semiconductor channel. If the spacer material layers are sacrificial material layers, all volumes of the sacrificial material layers can be replaced with the electrically conductive layers.
US10438960B2
Each memory cell is of the type with charge trapping in a dielectric interface and includes a state transistor selectable by a vertical selection transistor buried in a substrate and comprising a buried selection gate. The columns of memory cells include pairs of twin memory cells. The two selection transistors of a pair of twin memory cells have a common selection gate and the two state transistors of a pair of twin memory cells have a common control gate. The device also includes, for each pair of twin memory cells, a dielectric region situated between the control gate and the substrate and overlapping the common selection gate so as to form on either side of the selection gate the two charge-trapping dielectric interfaces respectively dedicated to the two twin memory cells.
US10438951B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof that may achieve low power consumption in a digital circuit and reduce influence of noise in an analog circuit. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor device includes a first source/drain forming step of forming a first source region and a first drain region by implanting impurities of a second conductivity type into a digital side second conductivity type impurity layer using a gate electrode and a sidewall as a mask and a second drain/source forming step of forming a second source region and a second drain region by implanting impurities of the second conductivity type into an analog side second conductivity type impurity layer using a gate electrode and a sidewall as a mask more shallowly than the impurities of the second conductivity type implanted in the first source/drain forming step.
US10438947B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention achieves improved avoidance of a parasitic operation in a circuit region while achieving miniaturization of the semiconductor device and a reduction in the amount of time for manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an IGBT disposed on a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate provided with a drift layer of a first conductivity type; a thyristor disposed on the first main surface of the semiconductor substrate; a circuit region; a hole-current retrieval region separating the IGBT and the circuit region in a plan view; and a diffusion layer of a second conductivity type, the diffusion layer being disposed on a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The IGBT has an effective area equal to or less than an effective area of the thyristor in a plan view.
US10438941B2
A semiconductor apparatus including a substrate, an electrostatic discharge protection device, a resistor device, and a first metal layer is provided. The substrate defines a pad area and includes a first area and a second area. The first area has a recess, the second area is disposed in the recess, and the pad area is partially overlapped with the first area and the second area. The electrostatic discharge protection device is disposed in the first area of the substrate. The resistor device is disposed in the second area of the substrate. The first metal layer is disposed above and electrically connected to the electrostatic discharge protection device and the resistor device.
US10438940B2
A device includes a transistor configured for depletion-mode operation, the transistor having a gate terminal and a drain terminal, and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit coupling the gate terminal and the drain terminal. The ESD protection circuit includes a discharge path circuit and a trigger circuit coupled to, and configured to control, the discharge path circuit. The discharge path circuit and the trigger circuit are disposed between the gate terminal and the drain terminal.
US10438939B2
Disclosed herein is a configuration for ensuring ESD protection capability for a core power supply of a semiconductor integrated circuit device, without causing an increase in the circuit area. A first pad row in a core region includes a first pad for core power supply. The first pad is connected to a core power supply interconnect, and supplied with a power supply potential or a ground potential. A second pad row provided outwardly from the first pad row includes a second pad for core power supply. The second pad is supplied with the same power supply or ground potential as the first pad for core power supply, and connected to an I/O cell for core power supply.
US10438928B2
Apparatuses and methods for semiconductor die heat dissipation are described. For example, an apparatus for semiconductor die heat dissipation may include a substrate and a heat spreader. The substrate may include a thermal interface layer disposed on a surface of the substrate, such as disposed between the substrate and the heat spreader. The heat spreader may include a plurality of substrate-facing protrusions in contact with the thermal interface layer, wherein the plurality of substrate-facing protrusions are disposed at least partially through the thermal interface layer.
US10438926B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor chip module and a semiconductor chip package is disclosed. One embodiment provides a first layer, a second layer, and a base layer. The first layer is disposed on the base layer, and the second layer is disposed on the first layer. A plurality of semiconductor chips is applied above the second layer, and the second layer with the applied semiconductor chips is separated from the first layer.
US10438924B2
A method for cohesively connecting a first component of a power semiconductor module to a second component of a power semiconductor module by sintering, the method comprising the steps of: applying a layer of unsintered sinter material to a predetermined bonding surface of the first component, arranging the second component on the surface layer of unsintered sinter material, attaching the second component to the first component by applying pressure and/or temperature on a locally delimited partial area within the predetermined bonding surface, processing the first and/or second component and/or other components of the power semiconductor module, and complete-area sintering of the sinter material.
US10438921B2
A method for direct bonding an electronic chip onto a substrate or another electronic chip, the method including: carrying out a hydrophilic treatment of a portion of, a surface of the electronic chip and of a portion of a surface of the substrate or of the other electronic chip; depositing an aqueous fluid on the portion of the surface of the substrate or of the second electronic chip; depositing the portion of the surface of the electronic chip on the aqueous fluid; drying the aqueous fluid until the portion of the surface of the electronic chip is rigidly connected to the portion of the surface of the substrate or of the other electronic chip: and during at least part of the drying of the aqueous fluid, emitting ultrasound into the aqueous fluid through the substrate or the other electronic chip.
US10438916B2
Techniques and mechanisms for provide interconnection with integrated circuitry. In an embodiment, a packaged device includes a substrate and one or more integrated circuit (IC) dies. A first conductive pad is formed at a first side of a first IC die, and a second conductive pad is formed at a second side of the substrate or another IC die. Wire bonding couples a wire between the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad, wherein a distal end of the wire is bonded, via a bump, to an adjoining one of the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad. A harness of the bump, which is less than a hardness of the wire, mitigates damage to the adjoining pad that might otherwise occur as a result of wire bonding stresses. In another embodiment, the wire includes copper (Cu) and the bump includes gold (Au) or silver (Ag).
US10438901B1
Some features pertain to a package that includes an enhanced electromagnetic shield. The package includes a substrate, an electronic component coupled to the substrate, and a mold partially surrounding the electronic component. The package further includes a first shield over the mold, and a second shield over the first shield. One of the first shield or the second shield is a high permeability shield and the remaining first or second shield is a high conductivity shield relative to the high permeability shield.
US10438896B2
Stitched die structures, and methods for interconnecting die are described. In an embodiment, a stitched die structure includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a first die first die area of a first die and a second die area of a second die separate from the first die area. A back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) build-up structure spans over the first die area and the second die area, and includes a first metallic seal directly over a first peripheral area of the first die area, a second metallic seal directly over a second peripheral area of the second die area, and a die-to-die routing extending through the first metallic seal and the second metallic seal to electrically connect the first die to the second die.
US10438894B1
A multi-chip semiconductor device with multi-level structure including a substrate with a top substrate surface, a cavity with a depth in the substrate, a first chip having a top first chip surface with a first chip height, optionally including a second chip having a top second chip surface with a second chip height, and a connecting passive chip bridging the first chip, the second chip and the substrate by solder bumps wherein the solder bumps enable the connecting passive chip to be level.
US10438886B2
A semiconductor device may include an insulating layer, a pad, a circuit, at least one first wiring, at least-one second wiring, at least one third wiring, and a pad contact. The pad may be disposed on the insulating layer. The circuit may be disposed in the insulating layer. The circuit may be positioned below the pad. The first wiring may be disposed between the pad and the circuit. The second wiring may be disposed between the pad and the first wiring. The third wiring may be disposed between the pad and the second wiring. The pad contact may be configured to directly connect the pad to the circuit.
US10438883B2
A wiring board includes an insulator layer having a top surface, and a plurality of pads arranged in a pad arrangement region on the top surface of the insulator layer. The pad arrangement region includes a first region in which a first plurality of pads among the plurality of pads are arranged at a first density, and a second region in which a second plurality of pads among the plurality of pads are arranged at a second density lower than the first density. At least one dummy pad is arranged juxtaposed to at least one of the second plurality of pads in the second region of the pad arrangement region.
US10438881B2
Embodiments provide a packaging arrangement that includes a high density interconnect bridge for interconnecting dies within the packaging arrangement. The packaging arrangement comprises one or more redistribution layers and an interconnect bridge embedded within the one or more redistribution layers. A first die is coupled to (i) a first portion of the one or more redistribution layers and (ii) a first portion of the interconnect bridge. A second die coupled to a (ii) a second portion of the one or more redistribution layers and (ii) a second portion of the interconnect bridge to electrically couple the first die and the second die via at least the first interconnect bridge.
US10438870B2
A semiconductor device packaging assembly includes a lead frame strip having a plurality of unit lead frames. Each of the unit lead frames includes a periphery structure connected to adjacent ones of the unit lead frames, a die paddle inside of the periphery structure, a plurality of leads extending between the periphery structure and the die paddle, and a molding compound channel in the periphery structure configured to guide liquefied molding material onto the periphery structure.
US10438866B2
A heat-insulating sheet includes a heat storage sheet, a first insulating sheet, and a thermally conductive sheet. The heat storage sheet contains a first resin and a plurality of microcapsules containing latent heat storage material and mixed in the form of aggregates with each other. The first insulating sheet has a first face bonded to the heat storage sheet and a second face opposite to the first face. The thermally conductive sheet is bonded to the second face of the first insulating sheet. The content of the microcapsules in the heat storage sheet is falls within a range from 40 wt % to 90 wt %, inclusive. The heat storage sheet includes a layer free from the microcapsules at a portion in contact with the first insulating sheet.
US10438862B2
A recess in a metal housing accommodating a high frequency package includes a first space and a second space and has a winners podium shape in cross-sectional view. A thermally conductive material is sandwiched between the metal housing having heat dissipating fins and the high frequency package.
US10438856B2
Methods and devices for enhancing mobility of charge carriers. An integrated circuit may include semiconductor devices of two types. The first type of device may include a metallic gate and a channel strained in a first manner. The second type of device may include a metallic gate and a channel strained in a second manner. The gates may include, collectively, three or fewer metallic materials. The gates may share a same metallic material. A method of forming the semiconductor devices on an integrated circuit may include depositing first and second metallic layers in first and second regions of the integrated circuit corresponding to the first and second gates, respectively.
US10438849B2
An integrated circuit is fabricated by chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition of a metal film to metal film.
US10438848B2
An Inorganic Lift-Off-Profile-Process (referred to herein as “ILOPP”) is described wherein a portion of a surface inorganic oxide is etched from a substrate oxide surface and under a photoresist edge that supports a sacrificial metal layer. This oxide etched profile under the sacrificial photoresist/metal edge improves Lift-Off of the sacrificial metal layer and delivers smoother, improved metal edge definition in addition to an improved planer surface (flatness) as compared to known LOP technologies.
US10438847B2
Provided herein are methods of forming conductive cobalt (Co) interconnects and Co features. The methods involve deposition of a thin manganese (Mn)-containing film on a dielectric followed by subsequent deposition of cobalt on the Mn-containing film. The Mn-containing film may be deposited on a silicon-containing dielectric, such as silicon dioxide, and annealed to form a manganese silicate.
US10438843B1
A structure of semiconductor device includes a substrate. A first dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate, wherein the first dielectric layer has an air trench. A plurality of trench metal layers is disposed in the first dielectric layer, wherein the air trench is between adjacent two of the trench metal layers and without contacting to the trench metal layers. A liner layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer to cover the trench metal layers and a profile of the air trench. An etching stop layer is disposed on the liner layer, wherein the etching stop layer seals the air trench to form an air gap between the adjacent two of the trench metal layers.
US10438836B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a fin-shaped semiconductor layer. After forming the fin-shaped semiconductor layer, a first insulating film is deposited around the fin-shaped semiconductor layer. The first insulating film is etched back to expose an upper portion of the fin-shaped semiconductor layer and a second resist is formed so as to be perpendicular to the fin-shaped semiconductor layer. The fin-shaped semiconductor layer is etched to form a pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, such that a portion where the fin-shaped semiconductor layer and the second resist intersect at right angles defines the pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.
US10438834B2
A pin control method includes: measuring respective height positions of a plurality of pins, which is vertically driven respectively by a plurality of driving units while supporting a substrate; selecting a reference pin, which serves as a reference for speed control, from the plurality of pins using the measured height positions of the plurality of pins; estimating, with respect to the selected reference pin, a reference height position, which is a height position after a predetermined time has passed since the height positions of the plurality of pins were measured; calculating an adjustment speed for making the height positions of the pins other than the reference pin match with the estimated reference height position; controlling the driving units, which drive the other pins, to adjust driving speeds of the other pins to the adjustment speed.
US10438828B2
Methods and apparatus to minimize electromagnetic interference between adjacent process chambers of a cluster tool are described. The start time of the subject recipe is controlled based on the electromagnetic process window of the subject process chamber, the electromagnetic window of the first adjacent process chamber and of an optional second adjacent process chamber. The start time of the subject process chamber is controlled to prevent temporal overlap of the electromagnetic window of the subject chamber with the electromagnetic window of an adjacent chamber.
US10438822B2
A method and a device for prefixing substrates, whereby at least one substrate surface of the substrates is amorphized in at least one surface area, characterized in that the substrates are aligned and then make contact and are prefixed on the amorphized surface areas.
US10438821B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a substrate holder, a rotating mechanism, a processing liquid discharge unit, and a gas discharge unit. The processing liquid discharge unit discharges a liquid flow of a processing liquid such that the liquid flow comes into contact with a landing position in a rotation path of a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the substrate being rotated. The gas discharge unit discharges a first gas flow of an inert gas from above toward a first position upstream from the landing position in a direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path, and discharges a second gas flow of the inert gas from above toward a second position upstream from the first position in the direction of rotation of the substrate in the rotation path. The kinetic energy of the second gas flow is lower than the kinetic energy of the first gas flow.
US10438817B2
A cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning chamber configured to clean a substrate; a transfer chamber positioned adjacent to the cleaning chamber and configured to transfer the substrate; a partition wall partitioning the cleaning chamber and the transfer chamber; a gutter fixed to the partition wall; and a discharge pipe connected to a bottom portion of the gutter. A first pass hole and a second pass hole positioned below the first pass hole are formed in the partition wall. The gutter is positioned between the first pass hole and the second pass hole, and extends from one side end to the other side end of the partition wall.
US10438815B2
In a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor, a change in electrical characteristics is inhibited and reliability is improved. The semiconductor device is manufactured by a method including first to fourth steps. The first step includes a step of forming an oxide semiconductor film, the second step includes a step of forming an oxide insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, the third step includes a step of forming a protective film over the oxide insulating film, and the fourth step includes a step of adding oxygen to the oxide insulating film through the protective film. In the first step, the oxide semiconductor film is formed under a condition in which an oxygen vacancy is formed. The oxygen from the oxide insulating film fills the oxygen vacancy after the fourth step.
US10438813B2
A semiconductor device comprising a substrate layer, an epitaxial layer, a dielectric layer, a first aluminum layer, a first titanium interlayer and a second aluminum layer. The first titanium interlayer is disposed between the first aluminum layer and the second aluminum layer. A process for fabricating a semiconductor device comprising the steps of: preparing a semiconductor wafer; depositing a first aluminum layer onto the semiconductor wafer; depositing a first titanium interlayer onto the first aluminum layer; depositing a second aluminum layer onto the first titanium interlayer; applying an etching process so that a plurality of trenches are formed so as to expose a plurality of top surfaces of a dielectric layer; and applying a singulation process so as to form a plurality of separated semiconductor devices.
US10438810B2
Example embodiments relate to a method of forming a photoresist pattern and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the same. The method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a mask layer on a substrate, forming a photoresist pattern on the mask layer, the photoresist pattern having pattern portions at a first height and recess portions, applying a first liquid onto the photoresist pattern, filling the recess portions with a pattern filler at a second height, the pattern filler having an higher etch rate than the etch rate of the pattern portions to the same etchant, removing the first liquid, etching the pattern filler after removing the first liquid, etching the mask layer via the photoresist pattern to form a mask pattern, and etching the substrate via the mask pattern to form a fine pattern.
US10438801B2
A semiconductor memory device including a first semiconductor layer, first gate electrodes, a first gate insulating layer and a laminated film. The first semiconductor layer extends in a first direction intersecting a substrate. The first gate electrodes are arranged in the first direction and face the first semiconductor layer in a second direction intersecting the first direction. End portions of the first gate electrodes in the second direction have different positions from each other and form a stepped contact portion. The laminated film covers at least parts of upper surfaces and at least parts of side surfaces intersecting the second direction, of the first gate electrodes. The laminated film includes a first insulating layer, second semiconductor layers, a second gate insulating layer, and a second gate electrode. Positions in the first direction and positions in the second direction of the second semiconductor layers are different from each other.
US10438799B2
A method of fabricating semiconductor devices includes sequentially forming a gate layer and a mandrel layer on a substrate, forming a first photoresist on the mandrel layer, forming a mandrel pattern by at least partially removing the mandrel layer using the first photoresist as a mask, forming a spacer pattern that comprises a first mandrel spacer located on a side of a first mandrel included in the mandrel pattern and a second mandrel spacer located on the other side of the first mandrel, forming a sacrificial layer that covers the first and second mandrel spacers after removing the mandrel pattern, forming a second photoresist including a bridge pattern overlapping parts of the first and second mandrel spacers on the sacrificial layer; and forming a gate pattern by at least partially removing the gate layer using the first and second mandrel spacers and the second photoresist as a mask.
US10438793B2
There are provided a method for producing a semiconductor structure exhibiting excellent crystallinity by preventing the occurrence of a strain, and a method for producing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor structure production method includes a decomposition layer formation step, a bridging portion formation step, a decomposition step, and a semiconductor layer formation step. In the decomposition layer formation step, a plurality of threading dislocations are extended during growth of a decomposition layer. In the bridging portion formation step, the threading dislocations are exposed to the surface of the bridging portion. In the decomposition step, the threading dislocations exposed to the surface of the bridging portion are widened to thereby provide a plurality of through holes penetrating the bridging portion, and the decomposition layer exposed in the interior of the through holes is decomposed.
US10438790B2
A emitter is formed of a thin-film membrane disposed within a cavity so as to provide a output beam. The emitter may be configured to obtain broadband light. The emitter may enhance the emissivity of light over a broad spectral band.
US10438786B2
An attachment device for releasably attaching a fluid line to a fluid inlet or outlet is disclosed. The device comprises an attachment member for releasably engaging a fluid inlet or outlet, and an elastic member coupled to the attachment member. The attachment device is attachable to a fluid line such that the attachment member is moveable relative to the fluid line and such that movement of the attachment member relative to the fluid line causes elastic deformation of the elastic member.
US10438783B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising calculating an ion mobility value, collision cross section or interaction cross section of a plurality of different analyte ions under one or more different analytical conditions, and setting one or more operational parameters of a mass spectrometer in response to the calculated ion mobility values, collision cross sections or the calculated interaction cross sections so as to maximize or enhance a subsequent ion mobility separation of a plurality of different analyte ions.
US10438778B2
The present invention provides novel plasma sources useful in the thin film coating arts and methods of using the same. More specifically, the present invention provides novel linear and two dimensional plasma sources that produce linear and two dimensional plasmas, respectively, that are useful for plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The present invention also provides methods of making thin film coatings and methods of increasing the coating efficiencies of such methods.
US10438774B2
An etching method is provided for processing a substrate that includes a first region having an insulating film arranged on a silicon layer and a second region having the insulating film arranged on a metal layer. The etching method includes a first step of etching the insulating film into a predetermined pattern using a plasma generated from a first gas until the silicon layer and the metal layer are exposed, and a second step of further etching the silicon layer after the first step using a plasma generated from a second gas including a bromide-containing gas.
US10438768B2
An anode for an X-ray tube can include one or more of an yttrium-oxide derivative, titanium diboride, boron carbide, titanium suboxide, reaction-bonded silicon carbide, and reaction-bonded silicon nitride. Upon collision with an anode, the kinetic energy of an electron beam in an X-ray tube is converted to high-frequency electromagnetic waves, i.e., X-rays. An anode from one or more of the above materials and a gradient distribution of conductive metals can reduce costs and/or weight, extend the life of the anode or associated components (e.g., bearings) and simultaneously provide a higher heat storage capacity as compared to traditional molybdenum and tungsten anodes.
US10438748B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a capacitor body, first and second external electrodes, first and second land portions, and first and second insulating portions. The first and second external electrodes are disposed and spaced apart from each other on a mounting surface of the capacitor body. The first and second land portions include a conductive material and are disposed on the first and second external electrodes, respectively. The first and second insulating portions are disposed between the first and second land portions on the mounting surface of the capacitor body to be spaced apart from each other and each have one end connected to a respective one of the first and second land portions. A board having a multilayer electronic component includes a circuit board having first and second electrode pads disposed on one surface thereof, and the multilayer electronic component mounted thereon.
US10438736B2
A magnetic component and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The magnetic component includes a magnetic core, a first winding set and a second winding set. The magnetic core is made of a magnetic powder material and includes two connecting portions connected through three magnetic columns to form a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The first winding set and the second winding set are made by a flat conductive body, and spaced apart on the middle magnetic column at a distance. The first winding set includes two first conducting portions connected through a first horizontal portion. The second winding set includes two second conducting portions connected through a second horizontal portion. The first horizontal portion and the second horizontal portion are exposed to the first side, and the two first conducting portions and the two second conducting portions are extended to the second side.
US10438732B2
Transformers that provide impedance transformations within integrated circuits (ICs) are disclosed. Embodiments of the transformers may include a plurality of conductors connected in series within one another wherein the conductors are arranged to form transmission lines. A first port, a second port, and a third port are coupled to the conductors so that impedance transformations can be provided between the first port and the second port. Some embodiments of the transformers are arranged so that the third port can be used to apply a bias signal. The arrangement between the conductors and the ports allows the transformer to provide impedance transformations between the first port and the second port over a relatively wide passband at high frequency ranges and with relatively small insertion losses.
US10438729B2
Resistors and a method of manufacturing resistors are described herein. A resistor includes a resistive element and a plurality of upper heat dissipation elements. The plurality of heat dissipation elements are electrically insulated from one another via a dielectric material and thermally coupled to the resistive element via an adhesive material disposed between each of the plurality of heat dissipation elements and a surface of the resistive element. Electrode layers are provided on a bottom surface of the resistive element. Solderable layers form side surfaces of the resistor and assist in thermally coupling the heat dissipation elements, the resistor and the electrode layers.
US10438726B1
A cable may include a plurality of twisted pairs of individually insulated conductors, a separator positioned between the twisted pairs, and a jacket formed around the twisted pairs and the separator. The separator may include a longitudinally extending spine positioned between the plurality of twisted pairs, and a plurality of projections extending from the spine with each projection extending between a set of adjacent twisted pairs. Additionally, a plurality of longitudinally spaced radial ridges may be incorporated into the separator. Each ridge may extend from a surface of one of the plurality of projections towards one of the plurality of twisted pairs in order to provide increased separation distance.
US10438720B2
A connector for connecting cellular electrical elements is disclosed. The connector has a ribbon-shaped support element, a ribbon-shaped retaining element, and a contact element arranged between the support element and the retaining element.
US10438716B2
Provided is an insulation composition having a low dielectric constant and a cable including an insulation layer formed of the insulation composition. More particularly, the present invention relates to an insulation composition for reducing a space charge to increase superimposed impulse breakdown strength when impulse voltages overlap during application of a direct-current (DC) voltage, having a low dielectric constant, and improving impulse breakdown strength, and a cable including an insulation layer formed of the insulation composition.
US10438715B2
Example embodiments relate to a nanostructure including a conductive region and a nonconductive region, wherein the conductive region includes at least one first nanowire, and the nonconductive region includes at least one second nanowire that is at least partially sectioned, a method of preparing the nanostructure, and a panel unit including the nanostructure.
US10438709B2
An improved measurement apparatus employs a support that includes a housing and that further includes a follower that is movably situated on the support. The follower is biased in a direction generally away from the housing. The housing and follower are receivable between a spring/dimple pair, and a sensor detects the distance between the housing and the follower when interposed between the spring and dimple. An indicator apparatus employs the signal to output and indication that is representative of the amount of compressive loading that will be applied to a fuel rod by the spring/dimple pair, and the indication is based at least in part upon the distance between the portion of the housing that is engaged with the dimple and the portion of the follower that is engaged with the spring.
US10438706B2
A pressure-relief system for a containment of a nuclear plant has a pressure-relief line which is led through the containment and is closed by a shutoff device, and a wet scrubber being switched into the pressure-relief line lying outside the containment, for the pressure-relief gas flow developing in the pressure-relief operating mode with the shutoff device being open. An effective, reliable operation of the wet scrubber with a compact structural configuration is made possible. This is achieved by a reservoir, arranged in the containment or fluidically connected therewith such that an overpressure, as compared with the outer environment, present in the containment, is transferred to the reservoir, and a feeding line which is led from the reservoir to the wet scrubber and can be closed by a shutoff device, for feeding a liquid active as a scrubbing liquid from the reservoir to the wet scrubber.
US10438705B2
A molten salt reactor includes a nuclear reactor core for sustaining a nuclear fission reaction fueled by a molten fuel salt. A molten fuel salt control system removes a volume of the molten fuel salt from the nuclear reactor core to maintain a reactivity parameter within a range of nominal reactivity. The molten fuel salt control system includes a molten fuel salt exchange system that fluidically couples to the nuclear reactor core and exchanges a volume of the molten fuel salt with a volume of a feed material containing a mixture of a selected fertile material and a carrier salt. The molten fuel salt control system can include a volumetric displacement control system having one or more volumetric displacement bodies insertable into the nuclear reactor core. Each volumetric displacement body can remove a volume of molten fuel salt from the nuclear reactor core, such as via a spill-over system.
US10438699B2
A system and a method for determining an association of one or more biological features with a medical condition provides empirical results and simulations confirming that the involvement of both L1/2-regularized logistic regression and L2-regularized logistic regression in the regression model is highly competitive against usual approaches like Lasso, L1/2, SCAD-L2, and Elastic net in analyzing high dimensional and low sample sizes data.
US10438698B2
An improved basal insulin management system and an improved user interface for use therewith are provided. User interfaces are provided that dynamically display basal rate information and corresponding time segment information for a basal insulin program in a graphical format. The graphical presentation of the basal insulin program as it is being built by a user and the graphical presentation of a completed basal insulin program provides insulin management information to the user in a more intuitive and useful format. User interfaces further enable a user to make temporary adjustments to a predefined basal insulin program with the adjustments presented graphically to improve the user's understanding of the changes. As a result of being provided with the user interfaces described herein, users are less likely to make mistakes and are more likely to adjust basal rates more frequently, thereby contributing to better blood glucose control and improved health outcomes.
US10438696B2
A method of pairing a therapeutic product delivery device to a handset is described. The handset is restricted to controlling only delivery devices which it is paired with. The method comprises the steps of: at the delivery device, setting, in response to the delivery device being connected to a charging device, a pairing indicator indicating that the delivery device is available for pairing, and broadcasting the pairing indicator using a radio transceiver; at the handset, discovering the delivery device based on the broadcast pairing indicator; and pairing the discovered delivery device and the handset together. By limiting the handset to pairing with devices which are broadcasting a pairing indicator, and by limiting the setting and/or broadcast of the pairing indicator to when the delivery device is connected to a charging device, the risk of accidentally pairing the wrong delivery device (for example someone else's) to the handset is greatly reduced.
US10438692B2
Disclosed herein is a framework for facilitating privacy protection based on device presence. In accordance with one aspect, presence of a recording device is determined. A set of one or more privileges associated with the recording device may be retrieved. Based on the set of one or more privileges, the framework may control acquisition of personal health information (PHI) by the recording device, wherein the PHI is accessible via a PHI presentation device that is within a predetermined distance from the recording device.
US10438689B2
A method and apparatus for analyzing a response of a cellular entity to a component of interest are described. The cellular entity may be a cell or an organoid. The method includes processing a heterogeneous population of cellular entities that are combined with the component of interest. An entity flow containing the cellular entities is generated. A morphological image of a portion of the entity flow having a cellular entity is acquired and the cellular entity is identified as belonging to an entity class. The entity flow is provided to a mass spectrometer system that performs an analysis of the cellular entity. The mass spectrometer analysis of the cellular entity can be correlated with the identified entity class. Alternatively, portions of the entity flow are deposited as samples on a sample plate and the mass spectrometer analysis is performed offline, for example, using an ionization process with each sample.
US10438672B2
Memory devices including a controller configured to cause the memory device to apply a positive first voltage level to a first data line selectively connected to a first string of series-connected memory cells while applying a second voltage level, higher than the first voltage level, to a second data line selectively connected to a second string of series-connected memory cells; while applying the first voltage level to the first data line and applying the second voltage level to the second data line, applying a third voltage level to a particular access line coupled to a memory cell of a first string of series-connected memory cells selected for programming, wherein a differential between the third voltage level and the first voltage level is configured to increase a threshold voltage of the memory cell selected for programming, as well as other apparatus containing similar memory devices.
US10438665B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device is connected to one or more information processing devices. The memory device includes a shared memory and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to analyze an access to the shared memory by the one or more information processing devices and decide on an access method for accessing the shared memory by the one or more information processing devices. The memory controller is configured to give an instruction indicating the decided access method to the one or more information processing devices.
US10438663B2
A semiconductor device is provided that is capable of reducing the possibility of change in state of memory elements formed over a semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. The semiconductor device includes nonvolatile memory elements and a bias circuit. Each of the nonvolatile memory elements includes a drain region and a source region arranged so as to sandwich a semiconductor region where a channel is formed, a gate electrode, and a charge storage layer arranged between the gate electrode and the semiconductor region. The nonvolatile memory elements are arranged over the semiconductor substrate with the insulating layer interposed therebetween. When electrons are stored in the charge storage layer, the bias circuit reduces the potential difference between the gate electrode and at least one of the drain region and source region in order to decrease holes stored in the channel of a nonvolatile memory element.
US10438651B2
Devices and methods include receiving write command at a command interface of the semiconductor device to write data to memory. An external data strobe is received at a data strobe pin of the semiconductor device. The received external data strobe is divided into multiple phases using phase division circuitry to divide the data strobe into multiple phases to be used in writing the data to the memory.
US10438650B1
A memory device includes an internal storage unit configured to store mode data specifying an operating speed of the memory device; a control decoder coupled to the internal storage unit, the control decoder configured to generate a delay control signal based on the mode data; and an input buffer coupled to the control decoder, the input buffer configured to adjust a delay of an input signal based on the delay control signal.
US10438645B2
According to various embodiments, a memory cell may include: a field-effect transistor structure comprising a channel region and a gate structure disposed at the channel region, the gate structure comprising a gate electrode structure and a gate isolation structure disposed between the gate electrode structure and the channel region; and a memory structure comprising a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, and at least one remanent-polarizable layer disposed between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure; wherein the first electrode structure of the memory structure is electrically conductively connected to the gate electrode structure of the field-effect transistor structure.
US10438635B2
An apparatus includes data transmitter having first through N-th data drivers configured to provide first through N-th data signals, respectively, and a strobe driver configured to provide a strobe signal, and a data receiver having a strobe buffer configured to generate a control signal based on the strobe signal, and first through N-th sense amplifiers configured to sense N-bit data based on the control signal, a reference signal and the first through N-th data signals. The bus includes a strobe TSV configured to connect the strobe driver with the strobe buffer, and first through N-th data TSVs configured to connect the first through N-th data drivers with the first through N-th sense amplifiers, respectively. A reference signal supplier controls the reference signal such that a discharge speed of the reference signal is slower than a discharge speed of each of the first through N-th data signals during data transmission.
US10438615B2
A disk device includes a recording medium on which data is recorded, a decoding circuit configured to decode data read from the recording medium, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to cause first data associated with a target sector referenced in a read request to be read from a target track of the recording medium, second data associated with a non-target sector that is not referenced in the read request to be read from the recording medium after the first data is read from the recording medium, and decoding of the first data to be completed by the decoding circuit after the second data is read from the recording medium.
US10438610B2
A virtual assistant may communicate with a user in a natural language that simulates a human. The virtual assistant may be associated with a human-configured knowledge base that simulates human responses. In some instances, a parent response may be provided by the virtual assistant and, thereafter, a child response that is associated with the parent response may be provided.
US10438603B2
Provided are methods of decoding speech from the brain of a subject. The methods include detecting speech production signals from electrodes operably coupled to the speech motor cortex of a subject while the subject produces or imagines producing a speech sound. The methods further include deriving a speech production signal pattern from the detected speech production signals, and correlating the speech production signal pattern with a reference speech production signal pattern to decode speech from the brain of the subject. Speech communication systems and devices for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US10438594B2
A voice assistant system may be configured to receive a spoken introduction from a trusted user to introduce a new user and designate access privileges for the new user. The voice assistant system may process the speech using automated speech recognition and may parse the text to determine intent. The voice assistant system may also analyze the speech to determine a profile associated with the speaker that spoke the introduction. The voice assistant system may determine that the trusted user includes administrative privileges. The access privileges, when granted, may allow the new user to interact with the voice assistant system, such as to issue commands, extract information, play media, and/or perform other actions with the voice assistant system, which may be unavailable to people who are not introduced to the voice assistant system by a trusted user and/or do not have the access privileges associated with a user profile.
US10438588B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating simultaneous recognition and processing of multiple speeches from multiple users according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating a first microphone to detect a first speech from a first speaker, and a second microphone to detect a second speech from a second speaker. The method may further include facilitating a first beam-former to receive and process the first speech, and a second beam-former to receive and process the second speech, where the first and second speeches are at least received or processed simultaneously. The method may further include communicating a first output associated with the first speech and a second output associated with the second speech to the first speaker and the second speaker, respectively, using at least one of one or more speaker devices and one or more display devices.
US10438578B1
Disclosed herein is a lighting system including a luminaire having a lighting device and a sound reduction device. The lighting device includes an illumination output surface, which is at least partially reflective with respect to an audio wave from outside the luminaire. The lighting device also includes an illumination light source configured to generate illumination light for emission through the illumination output surface for illumination of an area. The sound reduction device includes a pick up microphone and an audio output source. The pick up microphone is configured to detect incoming audio waves in a vicinity of the luminaire. The lighting system further includes a circuitry including a sound reduction controller coupled to the pick up microphone and the audio output source of the sound reduction device. The sound reduction controller is configured to operate the audio output source to control sound at least in vicinity of the illuminated area associated with the incoming audio waves.
US10438565B2
Herein disclosed an image display including: row scan lines configured to supply a control signal; column signal lines configured to supply a video signal; and pixel circuits configured to be disposed at intersections between the scan lines and the signal lines, wherein each of the pixel circuits has at least a drive transistor, a sampling transistor connected to a gate of the drive transistor, a capacitive part connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, and a light-emitting element connected to the source of the drive transistor.
US10438562B2
A method, a system, and a terminal for adjusting screen brightness of the terminal includes the steps of obtaining a first screen display brightness value corresponding to ambient light brightness value, and obtaining illumination value of a camera and looking up a second screen display brightness value. When the second screen display brightness value is greater than the first screen display brightness value, the second screen display brightness value is set as the screen display brightness value. Namely, the display brightness is controlled by an Automatic Exposure Control (AEC) system, which increases displaying detail of image on the display.
US10438543B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes an image sensor configured to output an image signal when the image sensor is driven in a first mode and a second mode, and a display device configured to display an image on a display panel based on the image signal. The image sensor is configured to output an image signal every first exposure time when the image sensor is driven in the first mode, and to output an image signal every second exposure time when the image sensor is driven in the second mode. The display device is configured to display an image in accordance with progressive drive when the image sensor is driven in the first mode, and to display an image in accordance with interlace drive when the image sensor is driven in the second mode.
US10438532B2
An object is to provide a display device of an organic light emitting type suppressing luminance unevenness. The display device includes: a pixel including an organic light emitting element and a pixel circuit that controls a current supplied to the organic light emitting element; a first wiring 41 and a second wiring 42 supplying a first signal used for controlling the pixel circuit to the pixel circuit; and a third wiring 43 suppling a second signal used for controlling the pixel circuit to the pixel circuit. The first wiring 41 to the third wiring 43 are arranged inside an area in which the pixel circuit is arranged in a first direction, and the third wiring 43 is arranged between the first wiring 41 and the second wiring 42.
US10438521B2
A display wall system is provided that has a flexible frame member with inflatable members and a plurality of panel members that can be positioned within the flexible frame member to provide rigidity to the display wall system when the inflatable members are inflated.
US10438518B2
A label medium includes a label including: information-printable first and second indicator portions; first and second wrapping portions; a first through portion having at least a portion of a first hole or a first slit; and a second through portion having at least a portion of a second hole or a second slit. The first indicator portion, the first wrapping portion, and the first through portion are arranged in this order in a first direction. The second indicator portion, the second wrapping portion, and the second through portion are arranged in this order in one of the first direction or a second direction. The first indicator portion and the second indicator portion are at least connected to each other via a line. The first hole or the first slit and the second hole or the second slit are at least partly symmetric with respect to the imaginary line.
US10438514B2
An identification band includes a strip of material including a first elongated strip portion at one end thereof, a second elongated strip portion at an other end thereof, and a transponder supporting portion provided therebetween. A transponder is provided in the transponder supporting portion. The first elongated strip portion is sized and configured to be secured completely around an object to be identified via at least one fastener in the first elongated strip portion, thereby defining a first loop around the object. The second elongated strip portion is sized and configured to be secured via the at least one fastener in the second elongated strip portion. The first elongated strip portion, the transponder supporting portion, and the second elongated strip portion together define a second loop at least partly around the object. An air gap exists between the transponder supporting portion and an outer surface of the first loop.
US10438503B2
A simulated non-lethal weapon comprises a cartridge that is fitted with an acoustic triggering mechanism. By detecting, capturing, and processing the sound of an electrical arc, the cartridge can activate a laser emitter. The laser emitter triggers a simulated laser “bullet” light and the laser light can be used to provide feedback about the shot placement for the simulated firearm in a laser-based simulation and training environment. In this fashion, more effective and efficient training with simulated non-lethal weapons can be conducted.
US10438496B2
The present invention consists of a Multimedia Fall Prevention system serving the fall prevention needs of older adults. Every year approximately 1 in 3 older adults who are over 65 will fall according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first step in preventing falls is for each person to understand those elements of their personal characteristics that make them likely to fall. Next, they must be able to recognize situations that may cause them to fall. A system is disclosed that addresses each of these issues. The system is comprised of three separate components: a personal interview, one or more training sessions, and one or more evaluations.
US10438486B2
Embodiments provide techniques for autonomous vehicle fleet modeling and simulation, such as within a dynamic transportation matching system utilizing one or more vehicle types such as non-autonomous vehicles and autonomous vehicles. An autonomous fleet simulation model may be generated based on real-world parameters of an autonomous vehicle fleet, and the parameters may be modified in a simulation in order to determine optimized values that may be applied to the real-world autonomous vehicle fleet.
US10438482B2
Method and system for remotely detecting a vehicle positioned in at least one of several possible adjacent lanes, which lanes are arranged one after the other in a lateral direction, wherein reading antennas are arranged to read received electro-magnetic signals received from vehicles, at different lateral reading locations. The method involves measuring an electromagnetic signal received from the vehicle by several of said reading antennas; determining, for each of said several reading antennas, a respective received electromagnetic signal strength; determining, based upon knowledge about a respective relative geometric position and the said respective determined signal strength of each of the said several reading antennas, a geometric center of gravity for a first signal strength function, which is the received signal strength as a function of physical lateral position; and detecting the vehicle as present in a lane in which the said geometric center of gravity lies.
US10438480B2
A system for automatically linking a radio remote control to an industrial truck comprises at least three transmitting and receiving units disposed in a predetermined spatial arrangement relative to each other in the industrial truck. The at least three transmitting and receiving units are configured to transmit search signals and receive response signals. A radio remote control is configured to receive and process the search signals transmitted by the transmitting and receiving units and to transmit corresponding response signals. The system further comprises an evaluation unit that is configured to determine signal propagation times of the transmitted search signals and the received corresponding response signals and to determine a position of the radio remote control. A control unit configured to link the radio remote control with the industrial truck when the relative position of the radio remote control lies within a predetermined area.
US10438478B2
Systems and methods for intrusion detection using a standalone monitor communicating with a monitoring application on a user device. The monitor is generally a self-contained device that does not require third party monitoring services and communicates directly with the user device, or over a local network, such as a home network.
US10438477B1
A wearable proximity warning device called SIMS (Surrounding Intelligent Motion Sensor) is provided that uses a novel method of processing images from a high frame rate digital camera to detect human threats from behind and determine if there are any approaching threats by using novel pixel counting and threat detection analysis algorithms. The device is worn on the back of the body either by use of a belt clip or with chest straps. The user may use select from a variety of warning options from the device including audible warning tones, device vibration or smartphone SMS/MMS text messaging. Stored video is saved by the SIMS device and may be periodically uploaded to secure cloud storage. The device contains a rechargeable battery that may be recharged using a USB port.
US10438474B2
An apparatus for protecting an entrance to a protected area comprises a magnetic sensor to measure an ambient magnetic field or gradient within a first zone of sensitivity at a non-magnetic sensor means adapted to detect the presence of objects within a primary detection zone, a signal processing circuit arranged in communication with the magnetic sensor apparatus and nonmagnetic sensor apparatus, and a warning device operable by an output signal from the signal processing circuit, the warning device adapted to provide an alarm. The signal processing circuit identifies temporal variations due to the movement of a ferromagnetic object within the ambient magnetic field and correlates them with instances in which the non-magnetic sensor means detects the presence of an object in its detection zone, and causes the alarm to operate in the event that the correlation is indicative of the presence of a ferromagnetic object in the primary detection zone. It also determines the direction from which an object is approaching the using signals from the non-magnetic sensor means and modifies the operation of the warning device dependent on the direction.
US10438450B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods providing a live craps game and a plurality of electronic gaming machines that facilitate participation in the live craps game.
US10438444B2
A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. In one embodiment, the gaming system provides players with one or more enhanced wagering opportunities. One enhanced wagering opportunity enables a player to continue playing one or more primary games at the maximum wager even if the player's continued play causes the gaming device's credit meter to fall below zero credits. In one such embodiment, after playing one or more maximum wager games which cause the credit meter to drop below zero, the player's player tracking account is utilized to cover any amount of credits the gaming device's credit meter is below zero.
US10438437B1
Various embodiments are generally directed to copying data to a clipboard of a mobile device from a contactless card using NFC. A mobile device may issue a request to read data from the contactless card. The contactless card may generate encrypted data in response to the request. The mobile device may receive the encrypted data via NFC and transmit the encrypted data to a server for verification. The server may verify the encrypted data and transmit an indication of an account number for the contactless card to the mobile device. The mobile device may then copy the account number to a clipboard of the mobile device.
US10438433B2
A local electronic voting network configured as a daisy chain network is provided. Each network device may include a switch for routing and propagating voting network communications. A TCP/IP protocol over Ethernet based connections may be used. Voting devices may include a relay configured such that in case of power down of a voting device the relay shunts the communications down the network. Multiple input/output ports may be provided on network devices and a physical port blocker is provided to block unused ports. A network controller may include a display screen which utilizes a graphical user interface to display status information regarding individual ones of the voting devices that are coupled to the voting network.
US10438432B2
The invention relates to a method for transferring transport goods from a sender (13) to a recipient (19) by means of a delivery agent, wherein the sender (13) places the transport goods into a lockable transport container (11), wherein the transport container (11) is locked by means of an electronic lock and a first electronic signal or a first code, wherein the locked transport container (11) is delivered to the recipient (19) by the delivery agent, wherein the electronic lock is opened by means of a second electronic signal or a second code in order for the recipient to remove the transport goods, said method providing increased flexibility, improved utilization of means of transport, and increased security.; According to the invention the first electronic signal or the first code is transmitted, in particular from a control center (10), to the sender (13) and/or to the electronic lock or the control center (10) opens the electronic lock by remote access upon request of the sender (13), and the second electronic signal or the second code is transmitted, in particular from the control center (10), to the recipient (19) and/or to the electronic lock or the control center (10) opens the electronic lock by remote access upon request of the recipient (19).
US10438425B2
An access control reader device integrates a touch pad in proximity to a radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna. A touch pad circuit board includes the RF antenna having a physical aperture and the capacitive touch pad positioned at least partially within the physical aperture of the RF antenna. This configuration allows the RFID reader to detect RFID tags in proximity to the capacitive touch pad. In order to prevent interference, such as the formation of eddy currents, the sensors of the touch pad are in the form of interrupted loops.
US10438420B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for removing details from three dimensional (3D) objects, such as cavities and holes. Complexity reduction via cavity removal reduces storage, transfer, and rendering costs without adversely impacting quality and is implemented in an automated manner. In some examples, distance fields internal and external to the 3D object are removed in a layered manner, and new object surfaces are added wherever openings are narrower than the cavity's internal dimensions, to seal off the cavities. Holes and cavities, which are obscured in many viewing angles, are thus filled in (e.g., removed), thereby reducing the burden of storing and processing hidden interior surfaces. Various approaches, leveraging distance fields, may be combined for improved benefit.
