US10470343B2
This power conversion device for a railway vehicle includes a first radiation fin radiating heat from a semiconductor device and a second radiation fin arranged at a prescribed interval from the first radiation fin in a traveling direction for radiating heat from the semiconductor device. At least either one of the first and second radiation fins includes an air duct formed by partially not providing a plurality of fin portions.
US10470335B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a frame comprising a top wall, a bottom wall, and sides defining an opening for receiving a plurality of removable electronic modules, a guide slidably insertable into the frame to partition an upper or lower portion of the opening when inserted into the frame, wherein the guide comprises a first edge for slidable engagement with the top wall or the bottom wall, and a lead screw extending from an opening in the guide spaced from a front end of the guide, to a back end of the guide for connecting the guide to the frame.
US10470334B1
An electronic device includes a casing and a tray. The casing includes an engaging portion. The tray is disposed in the casing. The tray includes a tray body, a handle, a sliding member, an elastic member and a lock member. The handle includes a first driving portion. The sliding member includes a first driving groove and a second driving groove. The lock member includes a second driving portion, a through hole and an engaging recess. The engaging portion engages with the engaging recess. When the handle moves along a first direction, the first driving portion presses the first driving groove, such that the sliding member moves along a second direction. When the sliding member moves along the second direction, the second driving groove presses the second driving portion, such that the lock member moves along a third direction and then the engaging portion disengages from the engaging recess.
US10470330B1
A server structure includes a tray, a carrier and a releasing knob. The tray has an internal bottom surface, and a latch and a stopping arm are arranged thereon. The latch protrudes in the tray and parallel with the internal bottom surface. The stopping arm extends along the internal bottom surface and a stopping portion is defined thereon. The stopping portion protrudes from the internal bottom surface. The carrier for accommodating a hard disk drive is accommodated in the tray. A positioning pin for latching the hard disk drive protrudes in the carrier, a fixing hole is defined on the carrier, the latch is inserted in and latches the fixing hole, and the carrier is pressed by the stopping portion. The releasing knob is pivotally connected with the carrier and pressing the stopping arm and pivoting to press the stopping arm, and the stopping portion is thereby retracted.
US10470325B2
The disclosure relates to a control device in a motor vehicle. The control device includes a housing cover with a peripheral edge region, and a planar, electrical connecting apparatus with integrated conductor tracks. The housing cover, in the edge region, is cohesively connected at least to the connecting apparatus and forms a cavity with the connecting apparatus. The control device also includes at least one electronic component within the cavity. The connecting apparatus electrically connects the at least one electronic component to electronic components outside the cavity. The peripheral edge region is encapsulated by injection molding in a media-tight manner by a polymer at least in the region of the connecting seam between the housing cover and the connecting apparatus.
US10470311B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) may include a plurality of horizontally disposed signal layers. The PCB may include a first vertically disposed differential via electrically connected to a first horizontally disposed signal layer, of the plurality of horizontally disposed signal layers, and a second horizontally disposed signal layer of the plurality of horizontally disposed signal layers. The PCB may include a second vertically disposed differential via electrically connected to the first signal horizontally disposed layer and the second horizontally disposed signal layer. The PCB may include a first set of clearances encompassing the first vertically disposed differential via and the second vertically disposed differential via, a second set of clearances encompassing the first vertically disposed stub, and a third set of clearances encompassing the second vertically disposed stub.
US10470310B2
An electronic component includes a first functional element including a pair of first connecting electrode portions formed on a first mounting surface, a pair of pillar electrodes connected to the corresponding first connecting electrode portions, a second functional element that includes a pair of second connecting electrode portions formed on a second mounting surface and that is arranged in a space defined by the first mounting surface of the first functional element and the pair of pillar electrodes, a pair of pad electrodes connected to the corresponding second connecting electrode portions, and a sealing resin that seals the pair of pillar electrodes, the pair of pad electrodes and the second functional element so as to expose the first lower surfaces of the pair of pillar electrodes and the second lower surfaces of the pair of pad electrodes.
US10470307B2
An apparatus includes a main substrate, a device, and a heat spreader. The main substrate is configured for mounting the device in a mounting location thereon and having a cavity located below the mounting location. The device is mounted in the mounting location, and the heat spreader is fitted into the cavity and coupled to the device and to a heat sink. The heat spreader is configured to conduct heat from the device to the heat sink and to provide electrical insulation between the device and the heat sink.
US10470303B2
A multilayer rigid-flex circuit board is provided. The multilayer rigid-flex circuit board includes at least one rigid circuit section, at least one flex circuit section disposed to face the rigid circuit section, and circuit layers disposed to be extended and formed in equal layers within the rigid circuit section and the flex circuit section. The flex circuit section may include a coverlay disposed to face a dielectric layer of the rigid circuit section and formed above or below the circuit layer disposed within the flex circuit section. The coverlay may include a coverlay film, and a first cover resin layer and a second cover resin layer respectively laminated on opposite surfaces of the coverlay films. Since high-speed wiring and interlayer separation, which may occur in a multilayer structure, are eliminated, it is possible to reduce noise and to achieve signal integrity and stabilization of radio frequency interference (RFI).
US10470302B2
A printed circuit board may include an aluminum nitride (AIN) substrate that includes an AIN thin film and a layer of high-frequency polymer as a carrier substrate of the AIN thin film. The AIN substrate forms a first layer of the printed circuit board. The AIN substrate comprises a heat spreader that laterally spreads out heat from a heat sink on the printed circuit board to form a thermal dissipation path parallel with a signal path on the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board may include a main substrate aligned to and bonded with the AIN substrate. The main substrate may include one or more additional layers of the printed circuit board.
US10470299B2
A power signal transmission structure and a design method are provided. The power supply signal transmission structure is adapted for a circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the power signal transmission structure includes a first power electrode, a second power electrode, and a plurality of vias. The first power electrode is disposed on the first surface and has a plurality of power pad regions for receiving a power signal. The second power electrode is disposed on the second surface. The vias penetrate the circuit board to electrically connect the first power electrode and the second power electrode. The vias are arranged in accordance with the current direction of the power signal to balance the current received by the vias.
US10470298B2
A circuit board to be mounted on a casing of a cartridge includes an insulating substrate, an integrated circuit mounted on the substrate, terminals and a dummy electrode. The terminals are electrically connected to the integrated circuit, while the dummy electrode is electrically disconnected from the integrated circuit. The terminals and dummy electrode are formed on the substrate to satisfy an inequity of L1+L2
US10470289B2
Provided are a long-lived target for a neutron-generating device and a method for manufacturing the target therefore. The target is for a neutron-generating device and includes: a metal substrate retaining a target material; and a metal thin film for sealing that holds the target material at a retention surface X side. The retention surface X side of the metal substrate includes: a frame portion; and an embossed structure including: a plurality of island portions that are surrounded by the frame portion; and the rest recessed portion that is created by decreasing a thickness of a region other than the frame portion and the island portions by a thickness of the target material. The metal thin film and surfaces of the frame portion and the island portions are subjected to hot isostearic pressing (HIP) bonding to seal the target material onto the recessed portion by using the metal thin film.
US10470283B2
This document discusses, among other things, a discharge circuit for a USB connector configured to discharge a voltage of a pin (e.g., a VBUS pin) of the USB connector. The discharge circuit can include a discharge load to discharge the voltage of the pin; a first control circuit to adjust the magnitude of the discharge load during discharging, such that power consumption generated by the discharge load meets a first preset condition and a discharge time is within a first preset range, the first preset condition indicating that the generated power consumption does not trigger Over Temperature Protection (OTP); and a second control circuit to detect whether the voltage of the pin is changed based on a reference voltage during discharging and adjust the magnitude of the discharge load in response to the change, such that a slew rate of the voltage of the first pin is within a second preset range.
US10470281B2
Eight Applications Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for use in stand-alone end products and other devices requiring a 24 hour memory. They have a real-time clock as well as memory that stores On and Off Switch closures with the ability to repeat them. They also have power management to allow them to operate by receiving their power through the load they are switching. They also have LED drivers to indicate the function being performed. They can store a resolution of two minute or one minute intervals of On and Off Switch closures per 24 hour period depending upon the amount memory integrated into the ASIC. Only a few external components are required to create end products and/or utilize these ASICs in another product.
US10470274B2
A vehicle lamp includes a plurality of types of light output units having different illumination functions, a light emission drive unit configured to cause the plurality of types of light output units to output lights, and a monitoring sensor. The vehicle lamp is arranged at an upper part of a vehicle.
US10470272B1
Circuitry 31 for a solid-state lighting arrangement 20 designed for as a replacement for a gas discharge lamp used in a lighting fixture having a ballast. The circuitry 31 unsafe flow of current through the solid-state lighting arrangement 20, under non-operational conditions and during installation of the lighting arrangement, so as to provide compatibility with safety standards for use with discharge lamps.
US10470269B2
Systems and methods for generating tunable white light include a plurality of Light Emitting Diode (LED) strings that generate light having color points falling within red, blue, and green color ranges. The systems and methods further utilize recipient luminophoric mediums to alter light provided by LEDs. Each LED can be driven with a separately controllable current in order to tune the generated light output.
US10470266B1
An LED dimming load sudden change suppression circuit is applied to an LED dimming circuit. The LED dimming load sudden change suppression circuit includes a MOS transistor Q1, a sampling resistor R1, an error amplifier U1, and a DC-DC module U2, which can ensure that the total current of the LED dimming circuit is constant and avoid damage to LEDs.
US10470265B1
A PWM control circuit for a driving chip and an LED driving chip for an automotive reading lamp are compatible to existing car interior lighting solutions, that is, PWM signals output by MCUs are used to turn on and off LEDs. Also provided is a PWM signal automatically generated within a driving chip and used to control the lighting status of an LED. By using PWM signals generated internally in chips to control LEDs, MCUs can be unburdened from complicated operation, and thereby can operate with improved efficiency.
US10470264B1
A smart communication interface for a LED driving system driving a LED matrix having a plurality of LEDs. The smart communication interface may have a data write transaction structure in write mode. The data write transaction structure includes an address code for identifying a corresponding one LED among the plurality of LEDs; an R/W indicating code for indicating whether the smart communication interface is in write mode; and a grayscale command code for indicating a programmed grayscale command value for the corresponding one LED identified by the address code. The smart communication interface may include a data read transaction structure in read mode. The data read transaction structure includes the address code, the R/W indicating code and a grayscale read-back code for indicating a grayscale command value for the corresponding one LED identified by the address code.
US10470263B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light source, a power input coupled to the light source, and a dimming control module coupled to the power input and the light source. The dimming control module is configured to change a brightness level of the light source in response to toggling of a power signal supplied at the power input. Related methods of operating a lighting apparatus are also disclosed.
US10470252B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacture of a product or in completion of a product. A flexible mat (20) is manufactured from an incompletely cured thermo-setting plastic, wherein the mat comprises an article (10) of electrically conductive material. The incompletely cured mat (20) including the article (10) is then formed as a function of a forming tool or to lie against or for contact with a product, whereafter final curing of the mat (20) is executed by supplying electric power to the article (10) or by external heat application or ultraviolet light. The invention also relates to an arrangement and uses.
US10470247B2
A susceptor for use in a heated fluid flow system is provided. In one form, a susceptor is arranged within a conduit and adapted to absorb radiant energy from at least one heating element and inhibit the radiant energy from being absorbed by the at least one wall of the conduit and/or other components. In another form, the susceptor absorbs and inhibits the radiant energy from being absorbed by the outer wall of the conduit.
US10470241B2
Communication between drones of multiple drone meshes is disclosed. Attributes of drones can be cataloged by a network device. A portion of the drone attribute catalog can be received by a drone belonging to a drone mesh. The drone can determine, based on the portion of the drone attribute catalog, an adaptation to the drone mesh in response to a change in a status of a drone of the drone mesh. The adaptation of the drone mesh can comprise adding a drone to the drone mesh, removing drone from the drone mesh, merging the drone mesh with another drone mesh, splitting the drone mesh into a plurality of drone meshes, forming a submesh of the drone mesh, etc. Receiving the portion of the drone attribute catalog can facilitate self-organization and/or self-optimization of a drone mesh by drones comprising the drone mesh. A drone can concurrently be a member of one or more drone meshes as a result of the adaptation of the drone mesh.
US10470240B2
A method of transmitting a broadcast signal, the method includes generating, by a broadcast transmitter, service data of a service and service signaling information for acquiring the service and components of the service; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, signaling data for rapid service scan, the signaling data including: a first service identifier identifying the service, and protection information indicating whether a component of the service is protected; generating, by the broadcast transmitter, physical layer pipes (PLPs) carrying the service data and the service signaling information, the generated PLPs carrying the signaling data; and transmitting, by the broadcast transmitter, a broadcast signal carrying a signal frame carrying the generated PLPs, wherein the signaling data further includes information for identifying where the service signaling information is transmitted.
US10470239B2
A device and method in a wireless communication system. The device includes: a cell configuration unit configured to control periodic discontinuous transmission mode of cells according to a load condition of the cells and/or interference condition between the cells, and configure parameters of the periodic discontinuous transmission mode including periods; and a user equipment configuration unit configured to configure parameters of periodic discontinuous reception mode of a user equipment including periods according to the parameters of the periodic discontinuous transmission mode, so that the periods of the periodic discontinuous reception mode of the user equipment are compatible with the periods of the periodic discontinuous transmission mode, wherein each period of the periodic discontinuous transmission mode includes an activation time period and a dormancy time period, and a cell provides a service for the user equipment during the activation time period.
US10470233B2
A method in a first node of a telecommunications network, in which a Radio Link Control (RLC) controller detects a failure to transmit a first RLC data Protocol Data Unit (PDU) containing all or part of a Service Data Unit (SDU) towards a second node of the telecommunications network, and notifies a Radio Access Control (RAC) controller of the failure. The RAC controller, in response to receiving a dedicated control channel (DCCH) message from the second node subsequent to the notification, instructs the RLC controller to retransmit the SDU. In response to the instruction, the RLC controller transmits a second RLC data PDU containing the SDU or a part of the SDU towards the second node. The RLC controller, in further response to the instruction, transmits a receipt of delivery to the RAC controller when reception of all parts of the SDU has been positively acknowledged by the second node.
US10470227B2
Disclosed herein are a connection control method for a vehicle control program of a vehicle and a head unit system configured for conveniently using the vehicle control program and Bluetooth communications without again performing Bluetooth pairing when a user performs starting off and then starting on during the use of the vehicle control program.
US10470225B2
The disclosure is related to searching for a second device to provide a service that a first device is attempting to establish. The first device sends a search profile and a capabilities profile to the second device using near field communication (NFC), the search profile including criteria describing the service the first device is attempting to establish, the capabilities profile including connection capabilities of the first device, receives a score from the second device, the score indicating a closeness of a match between the search profile and the capabilities profile and one or more services and capabilities of the second device, and determines whether to connect with the second device to establish the service based on the received score.
US10470223B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method and a communications device. The communications device includes: a transceiver, configured to send a transmission frame to a second communications device, so that the second communications device acquires data information in the transmission frame, where the transmission frame includes a first part and a second part, the transceiver sends the first part of the transmission frame by using a first quantity of subcarriers, the transceiver sends the second part of the transmission frame by using a second quantity of subcarriers, and the first quantity is not equal to the second quantity; and the transceiver, further configured to perform a next time of information transmission with the second communications device. A throughput can be effectively increased.
US10470222B2
A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a service network. The controller initiates a random access procedure with the service network by controlling the wireless transceiver to perform wireless transmission using at least one of: a random access preamble configured for System Information (SI) request, and a corresponding Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) time-frequency resource allocated for the random access preamble. Also, the controller receives a random access response, which includes a Random Access Preamble Identifier (RAPID) only and does not include a Timing Advance (TA) command, an uplink grant, and a temporary Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI), from the service network via the wireless transceiver.
US10470212B2
The present invention relates to a method, an apparatus and a system for adjusting a contention window size for performing channel access. In particular, the present invention provides a method comprising: receiving a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) responses for downlink transmission(s) in a reference subframe of the specific cell; setting a contention window size for a transmission in the specific cell; selecting a random number N within the contention window size; and performing, when a channel of the specific cell is idle for at least N slot periods, a downlink transmission on the channel, wherein the setting a contention window size comprises: increasing the contention window size to a next higher allowed value and maintaining the increased value when a ratio of negative acknowledgement (NACK) among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is equal to or more than a reference value, and setting the contention window size to a minimum value when the ratio of the NACK among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is less than the reference value, and an apparatus and a system therefor.
US10470209B2
Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for adjusting a contention window size for performing channel access. In detail, the method includes: receiving a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) responses for downlink channel(s) of the specific cell; generating a random number N (N≥0) in a contention window size; and performing the downlink transmission in the specific cell after standing by for N slots while the specific cell is idle, wherein when a ratio of negative acknowledgement (NACK) among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is equal to or more than a reference value, the contention window size becomes larger than a previous value, and when the ratio of the NACK among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is less than the reference value, the contention window size is reset to a minimum value.
US10470202B2
Techniques for improving data rates at mobile terminals that are subject to periodic channel interruptions in a beyond-line-of-sight communication system are disclosed, including improved encoding and decoding systems that identify blockages and modify receiver operation during blockages to reduce data errors. In certain embodiments, encoding, symbol mapping, interleaving, and use of unique periodic identifiers function to enable a series of packets that may be received in a blockage impaired channel with reduced errors.
US10470198B2
Methods and apparatus may perform dual-band or multi-band mesh operations. A dual-band mesh station (MSTA) capable of operating in an O-band and a D-band may seek to join a mesh network, and may receive O-band beacons from at least one MSTA in the mesh network, where the O-band beacons may include D-band mesh information. The joining MSTA may transmit D-band beacons in a time-period specified by the O-band beacon, and on a condition that a beacon response message is received, may further transmit D-band association information via O-band management frames to join mesh network on the D-band. The joining MSTA may perform contention-free scheduled access in the D-band while sharing D-band transmission information in the O-band to enable concurrent communication in the D-band by neighboring multi-band MSTAs.
US10470189B2
A more efficient over-the-air software push can be facilitated by leveraging a smart scheduling system for vehicles. The smart scheduling system can use location and network capacity data to prioritize over-the-air software pushes for vehicles. For instance, a vehicle, which is only operational during off-peak wireless network hours can receive a software push during the off-peak times because wireless network capacity is not an issue. However, vehicles, which are used primarily during heavy peak wireless network times can receive software in a prioritized manner based on location data, frequency of use, network capacity, etc.
US10470185B2
A first communication device generates respective media access control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) that include respective data for a respective second communication devices, and determines respective resource units (RUs) via which at least some of the second communication devices are to transmit as part of an uplink (UL) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) physical layer (PHY) transmission to respectively acknowledge receipt of the respective MPDUs. The first communication device generates respective control frames that are configured to prompt the at least some of the second communication devices to transmit the UL OFDMA PHY transmission, and that include indicators of the RUs via which the at least some of the second communication devices are to transmit as part of the UL OFDMA PHY transmission. The first communication device generates and transmits a single multi user (MU) PHY data unit that includes i) the MPDUs, and ii) the control frames.
US10470178B2
A data communication method of a hub device for a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving guaranteed time slot (GTS) allocation requests including size information of data from a plurality of devices in operable communication with the hub device, determining a superframe order (SO) regarding the plurality of devices based on the size information of the data received therefrom, and allocating a GTS corresponding to the determined SO as a GTS of the plurality of devices.
US10470176B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various mechanisms for protection of MU transmissions, such as UL MU MIMO and UL OFDMA. The mechanisms may allow for various NAV setting options for UL MU MIMO or UL OFDMA. Aspects of the present invention relate to a processing system configured to generate a first frame configured to trigger multiple transmissions from multiple devices, wherein the first frame has a duration field set to a value corresponding to a duration that covers at least the multiple transmissions, and an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.
US10470174B2
The present disclosure provides various aspects related to techniques for generating trigger frames, at an access point (AP), that reduce the overhead associated with triggering an uplink transmission from the wireless station (STA). Features of the present disclosure achieve this by, for example, utilizing a single per-user information field of the trigger to signal a plurality of random access resource units that may be allocated to the one or more STAs in the network. Such a technique is an improvement over the conventional system that require each random access resource unit to be signaled separately in a separate per-user information field (thus increasing the overhead). Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure allow the AP to effectively signal to the STA whether the one or more resources allocated to the at least one STA are a single user resource unit allocation or a multi-user resource unit allocation.
US10470156B2
Systems and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, an asynchronous system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. The system also includes a second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The one or more processing units of the first wireless node are configured to execute instructions to determine a coarse time of flight estimate of the first and second packets and a fine time estimate of the time of flight using channel information of the first and second wireless nodes.
US10470154B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for validating subscriber location information are disclosed. One method occurs at a network node. The method includes receiving a message containing location information associated with a subscriber. The method also includes determining whether the location information is valid based on a location validation algorithm, wherein the location validation algorithm uses prior location information associated with the subscriber in determining with the location information is valid. The method further includes performing at least one action based on the determining.
US10470148B2
The invention provides systems and methods for managing mobile devices of supported by different platforms. In some embodiments, the invention provides this management capability by utilizing one or more agents or modules native to the platforms themselves to provide interaction with individual mobile. In some embodiments, the invention provides an abstraction layer by which management tasks or other functions relating to mobile devices of different types may be generally defined and translated for application to mobile devices supported by different platforms. In some embodiments, the invention utilizes existing organizational structure of an enterprise or organization to define management permission for mobile device administrators and end users as well as to define policy configuration schemes for mobile devices. In some embodiments, the invention tracks the lifecycle of mobile devices within an enterprise or organization as assets within the organization.
US10470146B2
A method for synchronising a first gateway of a LoRa network, intended to enable the first gateway to function according to the class B communication mode of the LoRaWAN protocol. The method relies on at least one reception of a synchronisation frame by the first gateway, each synchronisation frame having been transmitted by a second class B gateway in the LoRa network, equipped with synchronisation means and designated by a server. The first gateway uses an instant of reception of each synchronisation frame that it receives in order to synchronise beacon transmissions used in the implementation of the class B communication mode with beacon transmissions made by other class B gateways in the LoRa network.
US10470145B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may help a base station provide high-speed data communication under a protocol such as LTE or WiMAX, even when a GPS signal is not available to the base station.
US10470131B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a communication circuit, including a reception circuit and a transmission circuit, and a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive at least one piece of identification information corresponding to at least one external electronic device for providing a traffic-related signal to at least one vehicle outside the electronic device, via the reception circuit, identify the position of the electronic device, based at least on the at least one piece of identification information, and activate the transmission circuit to transmit movement-related information of the electronic device to the at least one vehicle or the at least one external electronic device, based at least on the position.
US10470115B2
Provided are a communication control method in which selection by a communication terminal of an access network is controlled using a policy for selecting an access network that is transmitted by a server of a home operator and a policy for selecting the access network, which is transmitted by a base station apparatus, and the like. By notifying the communication terminal of a policy for selection of the access network by a server and a policy for selection of the access network by the base station apparatus, a home operator can control selection of the access network by the communication terminal.
US10470108B2
A signal transmission and reception method by a remote user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining a relay discovery; transmitting a first tracking area update (TAU) request, which comprises relay-related information, to a mobility management entity (MME); and, as a response to the first TAU request, receiving a TAU acceptance and performing non-access-stratum (NAS) deactivation.
US10470104B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to method of operating television white space (TVWS) geo-location database (GLDB). The method comprises: embedding a plurality of data signals in a plurality of radio frequency (RF) broadcast signals of at least one existing television or radio channel, wherein the data signals comprise at least one of TVWS GLDB data, time reference data and broadcast transmitter data which comprises at least one of transmitter location data and transmitter identification; and transmitting, over a RF network which is other than an internet protocol (IP) network, the RF broadcast signals together with the embedded data signals to a plurality of white space devices.
US10470101B2
A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device supporting a first wireless connection or a second wireless connection, and a second wireless communication device operating as an access point identified by network identification information including first identification information for use in the first wireless connection and second identification information for use in the second wireless connection, and the first wireless communication device is wirelessly connected to the second wireless communication device on the basis of the first identification information or the second identification information, both of which are included in the network identification information.
US10470090B2
A user equipment (UE) and source base station may use data compression techniques for data packets sent between them. During a handover, the source base station may provide data compression context to a target base station, thus enabling the target base station to continue the data compression following the handover without having to reestablish the data compression context. The source base station may determine data compression capabilities of the UE or the target base station, or both, and may communicate the determined data compression capabilities to the UE or target base station. The source base station may identify at least one gap in a sequence of packets received from the UE, and communicate the existence of the gap to the target base station, which may request retransmission of packets associated with the gap.
US10470086B2
Stateful roaming techniques are provided for use in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes: obtaining flow information descriptive of one or more traffic flows associated with a wireless client device that is associated to a current access point in a wireless network; storing state data representing the flow information for flows associated with the wireless client device together with a traffic descriptor for each flow; determining that the wireless client device is seeking to roam from the current access point to a new access point; and sending the state data for the wireless client device to the new access point to enable the new access point to apply a policy based on the state data before the wireless client device completes its roam to the new access point.
US10470081B2
The art relates to a communication method and device for a wireless communication network and a wireless communication network. In the communication method, to one cell cluster in at least one cell cluster included in the wireless communication network, an Uplink-downlink ratio configuration scheme of the cell cluster during the next ratio configuration adjusting period is determined based on un-allocatable prediction amount for un-allocatable services of each cell in the cell cluster, and allocatable prediction amount for the services, which can be allocated to other cell(s), of each cell in the cell cluster, thus utilization efficiency of communication resource is optimized, and the cells in the cell cluster have the same communication frequency and Uplink-downlink ratio configuration scheme. According to the embodiments of the invention, the utilization efficiency of communication resource can be improved.
US10470077B1
Dynamic retry techniques can be leverage by messaging centers to adapt their profiles for a variety of mobile devices including internet-of-things (IoT) devices. The network can utilize a look up table that has real time updated mapping of possible retry profiles against device categories, their groupings, priorities, and/or service level agreements with external IoT providers. For example, a messaging retry algorithm can adjust its upper bounds based on communication received from peer networking functions during the initial registration with the network or as part of the updates due to ongoing IoT device activity.
US10470076B2
A wireless device 108 and a method for mapping data packets to radio bearers in a wireless communication network 100. A Radio Network Node (RNN) 110 and the wireless device are operating in the wireless communications network. The wireless devices evaluates whether or not a data packet matches a packet filter in a first group of packet filters and/or a packet filter in a second group of packet filters. When the data packet does neither match a packet filter in the first group of packet filters nor a packet filter in the second group of packet filters, the wireless device maps the data packet to a default radio bearer.
US10470074B2
Various additional and alternative aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a wireless device. The wireless device includes a first radio configured to communicate with a first data network. The wireless device includes a second radio configured to communicate with a second data network. The wireless device includes a thermal sensor array configured to measure a set of one or more thermal parameters associated with the wireless device. The wireless device includes a controller configured to allocate communication of data traffic between the first radio and the second radio based on the set of one or more thermal parameters.
US10470071B2
In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
US10470062B1
A battery operated portable communication device provides converged functionality while avoiding resets to the device. Composite logic circuitry formed of at least one comparator and a logic interface controls current limiting to a primary load formed of high power land mobile radio (LMR) devices and programming to secondary loads formed of non-LMR peripherals. At least one current limit control signal is used to control current to the primary load under high current mode operations. Another control signal provides an interruption alert to a slave processor for controlled programming of the secondary loads during the high current operations of the primary load. Current to the primary load is restored while the secondary load is interrupted. Operation of secondary load processes is resumed when the primary load ceases high power operation.
US10470041B2
A control device includes a control unit configured to transmit a login screen including an input section for an answer to a questionnaire to a mobile terminal that is not permitted to access a wireless access network, when a connection request is received from the mobile terminal, receive login information and an answer to the questionnaire input in the login screen, and issue an access permission to the mobile terminal for communication through the wireless access network when reception of the answer to the questionnaire and authentication of the mobile terminal based on the login information are complete.
US10470038B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium for providing telecommunications carrier configuration at activation of a mobile device. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a request for activation of a mobile device, and during activation of the mobile device, determining for the mobile device a telecommunications carrier from a number of telecommunications carriers, and identifying information associated with the determined telecommunications carrier for configuring the mobile device.
US10470034B2
A method of configuring a mobile transceiver, a system, and a mobile transceiver are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising: assigning a device profile to the mobile transceiver, wherein the device profile defines restrictions on alarms configurable for the mobile transceiver; assigning an alarm profile to the mobile transceiver in accordance with the restrictions of the device profile, wherein the alarm profile defines a plurality of alarms, each alarm including a trigger condition and one or more actions; receiving a message from the mobile transceiver; and sending the assigned alarm profile to the mobile transceiver in response to receiving the message from the mobile transceiver.
US10470030B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that manages utilization of mobile subscriber identity information including enabling reuse of such information by a different communication device and/or re-authorizing use by a communication device that previously was authorized to utilize the information by way of detecting registration error messages. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10470027B2
A communication apparatus includes one or more computers that cause the communication apparatus to: accept a first instruction at the communication apparatus from a user, perform, in response to accepting the first instruction, a first search process for searching, over a plurality of channels, a first other communication apparatus by a first method complying with a communication standard other than a Wi-Fi Alliance Neighbor Awareness Networking standard, and a second search process, which is performed after the first search process, for searching a wireless network and a second other communication apparatus which is in the wireless network, by a second method. Each of the wireless network, the second other communication apparatus, and the second method is compliant with the Wi-Fi Alliance Neighbor Awareness Networking standard, and performs, after performing the second search process, the first search process without further accepting an instruction from the user.
US10470022B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first communication information for connecting with an apparatus via a first network and second communication information for connecting with the apparatus via a second network, a determination unit that determines whether communication between an information processing apparatus and the apparatus via the first network based on the first communication information is possible, a connection unit that connects the information processing apparatus with the apparatus via the second network based on the second communication information when the communication via the first network is impossible, and a request unit that transmits a processing request to the apparatus via the first network when the communication via the first network is possible, and transmits the processing request to the apparatus via the second network when the information processing apparatus is connected with the apparatus via the second network.
US10470021B2
The disclosed tools use a plurality of substantially low powered data signal transmitters and receiving tools, such as beacons to provide a location and contextually aware system. Specifically, the disclosed technology can greatly enhance personalization of information or advertising that is delivered to a user via analyzing the proximity data that is transmitted by a beacon.
US10470020B2
In one aspect, a system for receiving communications while a user operates a motor vehicle is provided. The system may include (1) a BLUETOOTH interface configured to establish a connection to a BLUETOOTH device associated with the motor vehicle, (2) a wireless communication interface configured to receive a wireless communication from a remote device, and (3) a processor coupled to the wireless communication interface and the BLUETOOTH interface, and configured to: (a) determine the user is operating the motor vehicle based upon the connection to the BLUETOOTH device, and (b) suppress a notification of the user of receipt of the wireless communication while the user is operating the motor vehicle.
US10470018B2
Data received from multiple devices (e.g., machine-to-machine devices, machine type communication devices, and so on) is aggregated and delivered to another device (e.g., a base station). In this way, the data is efficiently transmitted to the other device, for example, in scenarios where the devices that source the data have limited transmission capabilities.
US10470017B2
Embodiments of this application provide an identity information processing method, a database control system, a service capability exposure function, and a home subscriber server, so as to dynamically establish a correspondence between external identity information and intra-network identity information, thereby simplifying an operation process of establishing the correspondence. In this way, the correspondence between the external identity information and the intra-network identity information is dynamically established, so as to reduce correspondence establishment complexity.
US10470016B2
Some embodiments relate to methods for provisioning a secondary wireless device with an eSIM for wireless communication and activating multi-SIM functionality between the secondary wireless device and a primary wireless device having a subscribed SIM. The primary wireless device may act as a proxy in obtaining the eSIM for the secondary wireless device. The primary wireless device may then provide, to the cellular network, identifiers of the SIMs of the primary and secondary wireless devices. The primary wireless device may then request initiation of multi-SIM functionality for the two SIMs, and receive an indication that the multi-SIM functionality has been initiated. As an example, the multi-SIM functionality may be implemented by mapping the SIM of the primary wireless device and the SIM of the secondary wireless device (e.g., the provisioned eSIM) to the same Mobile Directory Number (MDN).
US10470013B1
A method and system to automatically change an operation of a vehicle, wherein the change is based upon obtained information associated with a road sign. The system provides accurate information associated with road signs, identified as way points, in real time to a user's navigation system, to a user's cellular telephone and/or to a vehicle computer. The waypoint and associated information would be obtained according to a location of the respective receiving device. The information can be presented on a display of the user's cellular telephone, the GPS navigation system, any other Bluetooth-enabled device, etc. The system can interface with an existing GPS navigation system, a vehicle computer, etc. The process can be adapted to parking, navigation, roadway assistance, emergency conditions, mass transits, and the like.
US10470012B1
A portable wireless communications adapter includes a wireless antenna and wireless access point electronics configured to communicated wirelessly with a portable electronic device. The portable wireless communications adapter further includes a wireless receiver, a wireless transmitter, and a location sensing module. The wireless receiver is configured to receive Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication (WAIC) communications over a WAIC frequency range between 4.2 gigahertz (GHz) and 4.4 GHz. The wireless transmitter is configured to send WAIC communications over the WAIC frequency range. The location sensing module is configured to determine a location of the portable wireless communications adapter relative to an interior of an aircraft based on WAIC communications received at the wireless receiver, and selectively enable and disable the wireless transmitter based on the determined location.
US10470006B2
The methods and systems of the present disclosure can configure, by a microprocessor, a message from a sending user to a recipient device; set, by the microprocessor, a reduced alert for the message, where the reduced alert is set by the sending user; and send the message to the recipient device, wherein the recipient device provides the reduced alert upon receipt of the message.
US10469992B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining semantic location information. In particular, one or more computing devices can receive, from an application program executing on at least one of the one or more computing devices, an application programming interface (API) call requesting semantic information about a location of at least one of the one or more computing devices. Responsive to receiving the API call, the one or more computing devices can determine semantic information for the location and can return the semantic information for the location to the application program via the API. The semantic information for the location can comprise data semantically identifying the location and indicating whether a user associated with the one or more computing devices is stationary at the location or in transit from the location.
US10469991B2
The principles described herein provide methods and systems for locating a tracking device. In particular, one disclosed method includes associating a user with a tracking device, receiving an indication that the tracking device is lost, setting a flag indicating that the tracking device is lost, receiving a location within a proximity of the tracking device from one of a plurality of mobile devices associated with a community of users, and providing the location to the user.
US10469990B2
A tracking system can provide intervention notifications to a user to notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or is in a predicted state. The tracking system may notify the user that a tracking device is potentially lost or in a predicted state based on a number of factors, including: a proximity of a tracking device to other tracking devices or a user's mobile device, a movement of a tracking device to more than a threshold distance away from a mobile device or other tracking devices, a location of a tracking device relative to a geographic location or to geographic boundaries, a usage or movement behavior of the tracking device, a usage or movement behavior of a user or owner of a tracking device, information received from an external source, or information received from sensors within the tracking device or a user's mobile.
US10469981B1
A method of generating imputed location fixes of a mobile communication device. The method comprises accessing event data created by a mobile communication device that comprises a time stamp, determining a plurality of location fixes of the mobile communication device, analyzing the location fixes to determine a plurality of location clusters associated with the mobile communication device, determining a location centroid of each location cluster, analyzing the location centroids and the time stamps of the event data, determining a travel route of the mobile communication device based on the analysis of location centroids and time stamps of event data, and determining a plurality of imputed location fixes of the mobile communication device at positions along the travel route of the mobile communication device, where the imputed location fixes comprise an imputed location and an imputed time stamp.
US10469976B2
A wearable electronic device includes a microphone array, stereo speakers and a control circuit. The microphone array is configured for sensing an environmental sound. The control circuit is coupled to the microphone array and the speaker. The control circuit is operable to calculate a distance and a directional angle from a source of the environmental sound to the wearable electronic device according to the environmental sound sensed by the microphone array, to generate an effect sound corresponding to the environmental sound, to process the effect sound for simulating the effect sound to be originated from a virtual location with the distance and the directional angle relative to the wearable electronic device, and to broadcast the processed effect sound through the pair of speakers.
US10469962B2
A binaural hearing system (“system”) enhances and/or preserves interaural level differences between first and second signals. The system includes first and second audio detectors associated with first and second ears of a user, respectively. The audio detectors detect an audio signal presented to the user and generate the first and second signals to represent the audio signal as detected at the first and second ears, respectively. The system also includes a first sound processor that receives the first signal from the first audio detector and the second signal from a second sound processor via a communication link with the second sound processor. The first sound processor generates a directional signal representative of a spatial filtering of the audio signal detected at the first ear according to an end-fire directional polar pattern and presents an output signal representative of the directional signal to the user at the first ear.
US10469959B2
A method of operating a hearing aid system (100, 200, 400, 500) having an adaptive filter (103, 213, 404, 503). The invention also provides a hearing aid system (100, 200, 400, 500) adapted for carrying out such a method and a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions, which when executed carries out the method.
US10469957B2
A capacitive transducer includes a substrate having an opening in a surface thereof, a back plate facing the opening in the substrate, a vibration electrode film facing the back plate across a space, the vibration electrode film being displaceable to have a displacement converted into a change in capacitance between the vibration electrode film and the back plate, an airflow channel defined by a gap between a protrusion integral with the back plate and a part of the vibration electrode film, the airflow channel being configured to increase an area of air flow when the vibration electrode film deforms under pressure to move relative to the protrusion integral with the back plate and relieve the pressure applied to the vibration electrode film to serve as a pressure relief channel, and an extension formed at a periphery of a hole in the vibration electrode film defining the pressure relief channel.
US10469956B2
A MEMS transducer package comprising a substrate; a filter circuit for filtering RF signals, the filter circuit comprising a resistor and a capacitor; and an IPD chip; wherein at least a portion of the filter circuit is provided within the IPD chip.
US10469947B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to cause AN audio source to be modified in a manner consistent with the corresponding video images once the user and/or a display upon which the images are rendered has been tilted. In regards to a method, an initial virtual position of an audio source is determined. The method also includes determining a tilt angle that defines an angle that an apparatus embodying a display for rendering images has been tilted relative to a reference orientation of the apparatus with respect to a user of the apparatus. The method may also include modifying a virtual position of an audio source based upon the tilt angle and an initial virtual position of the audio source. The method may also include causing the audio source to be rendered in accordance with the virtual position as modified.
US10469944B2
An apparatus comprising: an input configured to receive at least three microphone audio signals, the at least three microphone audio signals comprising at least two near microphone audio signals generated by at least two near microphones located near to an desired audio source and at least one farmic audio signal generated by a farmic located further from the desired audio source; a first interference canceller module configured to generate a first processed audio signal based on a first selection from the near microphone audio signals; at least one further interference canceller module configured to generate at least one further processed audio signal based on at least one further selection from the at least three microphone audio signals; a comparator configured to determine from the first processed audio signal and the at least one further processed audio signal the audio signal with greater noise suppression.
US10469941B2
An acoustic transducer can have an acoustic diaphragm defining a barometric vent configured to equalize a barometric pressure-gradient across the acoustic diaphragm. Such a barometric vent can be formed by an aperture through the acoustic diaphragm. A gas-permeable vent membrane can be coupled with the acoustic diaphragm and extend across the aperture. The vent membrane can inhibit movement of liquid across the vent membrane. An acoustic-transducer module can include a chassis a chassis configured to mount the acoustic-transducer module to another module, and a suspension system can movably couple the acoustic diaphragm with the chassis. Such an acoustic-transducer module can sealably couple with a housing of a water-resistant electronic device to inhibit a flow of liquid into the housing while providing a water-resistant barometric vent to the housing, as well as an acoustic diaphragm having a sufficient size to meet or exceed selected acoustic-performance targets.
US10469940B2
A portable electronic device including an enclosure having an enclosure wall that forms an interior chamber. A speaker module is positioned within the interior chamber and includes a speaker and a module wall forming a back volume chamber of the speaker. The back volume chamber includes an acoustic vent port formed through the module wall to acoustically couple the back volume chamber to the interior chamber. The device further including an electromechanical valve for regulating the acoustic coupling of the back volume chamber to the interior chamber. The electromechanical valve is operable to transition between an open configuration in which the acoustic vent port is open to the interior chamber and a closed configuration in which the acoustic vent port is closed off from the interior chamber.
US10469938B2
A diaphragm ported tweeter includes a ring structure having an upper portion and a lower portion, and a dome-shaped diaphragm having a periphery secured to the upper portion of the ring structure and a concentrically positioned aperture at an apex of the dome-shaped diaphragm. The diaphragm ported tweeter also includes an acoustic duct having an open first end coupled to the aperture and a second open end extending away from the aperture. The diaphragm ported tweeter is configured as a Helmholtz resonator to increase an output level over a range of frequencies.
US10469937B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provides a volume adjustment method, a storage medium and a mobile terminal. In the method, physical exercise information of a user is acquired. It is determined whether a mobile terminal meets a preset volume adjustment condition according to the physical exercise information. When the mobile terminal meets the preset volume adjustment condition, a volume adjustment level corresponding to the physical exercise information is determined. A volume of the mobile terminal is adjusted according to the volume adjustment level.
US10469934B2
Apparatus comprises adapter and speaker system. Adapter is configured to plug into port of personal digital audio player. Speaker system is in communication with adapter, and comprises multiple acoustic transducers, programmable processor circuit, and wireless communication circuit. In first operational mode, processor circuit receives, via adapter, and processes digital audio content from personal digital audio player into which adapter is plugged, and the multiple acoustic transducers output the received audio content from the personal digital audio player. In second operational mode, wireless communication circuit receives digital audio content from a remote digital audio source over a wireless network, processor circuit processes the digital audio content received from remote digital audio source, and the multiple acoustic transducers output the audio content received from the remote digital audio source.
US10469928B2
A display apparatus including a display panel configured to display an image is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a supporting member on a rear surface of the display panel. The supporting member includes a groove. The display apparatus also includes a sound generator between the display panel and the supporting member, and configured to provide a vibration. The display apparatus further includes a vibration transfer member between the display panel and the sound generator, and configured to transfer the vibration of the sound generator to the display panel to generate sound.
US10469926B2
A portable speaker system for an electric string instrument such as a guitar. The portable speaker system has a housing including an audio jack for receiving a raw audio signal from a guitar, an amplifier, a speaker, and a power supply. The portable speaker system attaches to the guitar by a button connector which releasably attaches to a strap button of the guitar, and a stabilizer for inhibiting rotation of the portable speaker system when attached to the guitar. The portable speaker system portably generates output sound from the raw audio signal. The portable speaker system can couple with a portable computing device, which can process the raw audio signal and provide a supplementary audio signal, from which the portable speaker system can portably generate output sound.
US10469918B1
Techniques are described for providing functionality to allow a viewer of a television show to watch a “previously on” segment of an episode of the television show and be able to watch the scenes from prior episodes referenced in the “previously on” segment.
US10469905B2
According to one implementation, a content classification system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a video asset classification software code. The hardware processor executes the video asset classification software code to receive video clips depicting video assets and each including images and annotation metadata, and to preliminarily classify the images with one or more of the video assets to produce image clusters. The hardware processor further executes the video asset classification software code to identify key features data corresponding respectively to each image cluster, to segregate the image clusters into image super-clusters based on the key feature data, and to uniquely identify each of at least some of the image super-clusters with one of the video assets.
US10469903B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to correct misattributions of media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining first demographic-based impressions via a beacon transmitted in response to access to content by a first set of panelists, obtaining, from a database proprietor, second demographic-based impressions of the content on a second set of persons, forming a pseudo-inverse matrix determined based in part on the first impressions, and having a truncated value and a damped value to form third demographic-based impressions of the content on the second set of persons based on the second impressions, and computing at least partially corrected demographic-based impressions values by multiplying a vector of database proprietor impression data by the pseudo-inverse matrix.
US10469895B2
A mobile audio distribution (MAD) system/method providing for synchronized audio distribution to modular audio modules (MAMs) is disclosed. The system/method utilizes a central audio synchronization module (ASM) that loads audio files onto audio playback recorders (APRs) such that the audio playback emitted from each APR is synchronized in time. These APRs are individually positioned within and electrically connected to a MAM that is positioned in a spatially diverse manner in a desired field of audio distribution. Each MAM is configured to be adaptable to removable physical fixation to a vertical standard such as a tripod, pole, tree, etc. Each MAM is configured with a speaker, amplifier, battery pack, APR, optional radio frequency receiver (RFR) in order to disseminate synchronized audio from the APR via the speaker. Each MAM may be removably interlocked with other MAMs via the use of one or more hermaphroditic plate connectors (HPC).
US10469893B2
An integrated cast and sling system capable of intermediating seamless multimedia data and playback transfers across multiple display devices is disclosed. The integrated cast and sling system contains a cast-sling box (CSB) connected to a conventional cable or satellite set-top box and a plurality of multimedia signal sources. In one instance, the CSB operates as an intermediary and specialized set-top box that provides seamless interoperability of multimedia cast or sling commands and related multimedia data and playback transfers between a gesture-based multimedia casting and slinging command device (e.g. a smart phone, a tablet computer, or another device with gesture command capabilities) and a targeted device (e.g. a television, a computer display, or an electronic device with a display unit). The CSB also provides intelligent transcoding or conversion of a sling or cast command from the gesture-based multimedia casting and slinging command device to ensure protocol compatibility with the targeted device.
US10469889B2
Provided are an information distribution device, system, program, and method that can increase the effectiveness of advertisements. The information distribution device selects advertisements to distribute based on viewer attributes collected while distributing content to a display unit.
US10469888B2
The various embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and devices for capturing broadcast streams, analyzing the broadcast streams to obtain information about the media content transmitted in the broadcast streams, obtaining additional information about the media content if available, and assigning a unique event identifier specific to the instance of broadcast of the broadcast stream and/or media segment transmitted in the broadcast stream. In other embodiments, the unique event identifier is broadcasted to broadcast receiving devices. With the unique event identifier, broadcast receiving devices can access the obtained information associated with the media content.
US10469870B2
Provided is a method for decoding a video signal. Such a method may include constructing a palette map for a current block encoded in a plate mode, the palette map comprises at least one palette entry and a map index that for identifying the palette entry, deriving a palette index according to a predetermined scan order of the current block on a sample-by-sample basis, and reconstructing each sample of the current block by using a palette entry having a map index of the same value as the derived palette index from the palette map.
US10469863B2
Innovations in the area of prediction of block vector (“BV”) values improve encoding or decoding of blocks using intra block copy (“BC”) prediction. For example, some of the innovations relate to use of a default BV predictor with a non-zero value. Other innovations relate to use of a selected one of multiple BV predictor candidates for a current block. Still other innovations relate to use of a skip mode in which a current intra-BC-predicted block uses a predicted BV value.
US10469857B2
In a method for transmitting video for a display panel between a transmitter in electronic communication with a receiver over a wireless communication channel, the method includes: receiving, by a transmitter, a data signal from a data source; receiving, by the transmitter, a return signal from a receiver; encoding, by the transmitter based on the return signal, the data signal utilizing a plurality of encoder blocks to generate a layered encoded data stream, wherein a first encoder block encodes the data signal and each subsequent encoder block encodes a difference between an input of a preceding encoder block and an output of a quantizer of a preceding encoder block; and transmitting, by the transmitter, the layered encoded data stream to the receiver for decoding and display on the display panel.
US10469856B2
An apparatus for transmitting 3DTV broadcasting encodes a base video using scalable video coding (SVC) or scalable high efficiency video coding (SHVC) scheme to generate a base layer stream and an enhancement layer stream of the base video, encodes each of an additional video and video enhancement information data for enhancing video quality of the additional video, transmits the base layer stream and the enhancement layer stream of the base video through a base layer channel and an enhancement layer channel, respectively, and transmits the encoded additional video and the encoded video enhancement information data through the base layer channel or the enhancement layer channel.
US10469853B2
Provided is a video decoding apparatus including an encoding information obtainer configured to obtain, from a bitstream, reference layer size information, reference layer offset information, current layer size information, and current layer offset information, a scale ratio determiner configured to determine a scale ratio indicating a difference between a size of a reference area and a size of an expanded reference area, according to the size of the reference area which is determined from the reference layer size information and the reference layer offset information and the size of the expanded reference area which is determined from the current layer size information and the current layer offset information, and an up-sampling unit configured to determine the expanded reference area by up-sampling the reference area according to the reference layer offset information, the current layer offset information, and the scale ratio.
US10469851B2
A method, apparatus, system and computer-implemented non-transitory memory may encode h.264/AVC compliant video with region of interest compression, wherein a hybrid region of interest of each frame may include both an enlarged luminance region of interest of each frame and in addition thereto an excess portion of an enlarged chrominance region of interest of each frame, in excess of the enlarged luminance region of interest of each frame.
US10469849B2
A method for processing image and video data, comprising providing high dynamic range image data (HDR) and a corresponding low dynamic range image data (LDR). The LDR image is encoded in a legacy code stream, while a residual code stream is generated and encoded containing data necessary for the reconstruction of the HDR image in a decoding phase. To generate the residual code stream, LDR image data are processed so as to obtain a processed LDR* image, then a component data of the HDR image and a corresponding component of the processed LDR* image are selected and residual data of the selected component data are calculated by dividing the component of the processed LDR* image data by the component of the HDR image data. The residual data of the selected component are scaled into the range of values comprised between 0 and 1 and are then encoded in a residual code stream. A decoding method is also disclosed which allows reconstruction of an HDR image from a legacy code stream and a residual data code stream.
US10469848B2
A method and apparatus for palette prediction and sharing according to the present invention are disclosed. A method incorporating an embodiment of the present invention determines one or more palette sharing flags for the current block. A set of current palettes corresponding to the set of color components is generated according to the palette sharing flags. If a first palette sharing flag is asserted, one or more current palettes indicated by the first palette sharing flag are copied entirely from one or more reference palettes of a set of reference palettes. If the first palette sharing flag is not asserted, one or more current palettes indicated by the first palette sharing flag are derived from a bitstream associated with the video data. Encoding or decoding is then applied to the current block according to the set of current palettes.
US10469846B2
Ultrasound image data on a handheld imaging probe can be compressed on the handheld imaging probe prior to transmission from the probe in order to decrease the amount of data transmitted from the probe. The compressed data may comprise compressed pixels to maintain spatial image resolution. The compression circuitry may comprise an amount of memory related to a dynamic range of the compressed data that is independent of the dynamic range of the input data, which can decrease memory, power consumption, and latencies. The compression circuitry can be configured to pipeline data such as image data in accordance with clock cycles, such that throughput of outputting data words is increased.
US10469827B2
There is an image processing device to obtain more accurate depth information, based on a pattern-irradiated infrared image and a pattern-irradiation-free infrared image. The image processing device includes a pattern irradiation unit that irradiates an infrared pattern onto a surface of a target object; and an infrared image capturing unit that captures an infrared image. The pattern irradiation unit performs irradiation at a predetermined timing corresponding to an infrared image capturing unit's image capturing timing. The infrared image capturing unit obtains a pattern-projected infrared image in which the pattern irradiated by the pattern irradiation unit is projected on the target object, and a pattern-free infrared image in which the pattern is not projected on the target object.
US10469822B2
Techniques described herein provide methods and systems for scalable distribution of computer vision workloads. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at each of a first node and a second node of a distributed system of nodes, two images. The first image comprises a first set of pixels and the second image comprising a second set of pixels. The method further comprises shifting, at the first node, each pixel of the first set of pixels of the first image in a uniform direction by a first number of pixels to form a first shifted image and shifting, at the second node, each pixel of the first set of pixels of the first image in the uniform direction by a second number of pixels to form a second shifted image. The second number of pixels is different from the first number of pixels. The method further comprises overlaying each of the first shifted image and the second shifted image with the second image, such that each pixel of the first shifted image and second shifted image has a corresponding pixel in the second image. The method further comprises creating, at the first node, a first disparity map that indicates, for each pixel of the first shifted image, a level of similarity between the pixel of the first shifted image and the corresponding pixel in the second image and creating, at the second node, a second disparity map that indicates, for each pixel of the second shifted image, a level of similarity between the pixel of the second shifted image and the corresponding pixel in the second image.
US10469816B2
A projection system, a display system and monitoring methods thereof are provided. The projection system includes at least one projection device, at least one sensing device and a remote device. The at least one projection device is coupled to the at least one sensing device. The at least one sensing device senses a plurality of environmental parameters and a plurality of device output values on the at least one projection device. The remote device receives the environmental parameters and the device output values to execute state analysis for the at least one projection device, so as to generate at least one analysis result. The remote device further generates a command signal according to the at least one analysis result, and transmits the command signal to the at least one projection device. The at least one projection device executes a self-protection procedure according to the command signal.
US10469809B2
A light source module includes a light source having an optical axis, a fan for providing a cooling airflow and a deflector disposed between the light source and the fan and directing a flowing direction of the cooling airflow. The deflector includes a first air duct connected between a first side of the light source and an air outlet of the fan, a second air duct connected between a second side of the light source and the air outlet of the fan, and a first airflow control assembly controlling the first air duct in a communicating state or a non-communicating state and having a first control shaft and a first airflow passing portion rotating about the first control shaft. The first control shaft is inclined to the optical axis so that a first angle is formed therebetween. The first angle is between 0 and 90 degrees.
US10469802B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for detecting disturbances in a media stream from a participant on a communication. In a particular embodiment, a method provides identifying disturbance criteria defining a plurality of audible disturbances, a plurality of visual disturbances, and a plurality of communication disturbances. The method further provides identifying one or more audible disturbances from an audio component of the media stream based on predefined disturbance criteria and identifying one or more visual disturbances from a video component of the media stream based on the disturbance criteria. Additionally, the method provides correlating the audible disturbances with the visual disturbances to determine one or more combined disturbances for the participant based on the disturbance criteria, wherein each of the combined disturbances comprises at least one of the audible disturbances and at least one of the visual disturbances.
US10469796B2
An information processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit, a display, and a controller. The image capturing unit is configured to capture images of a real space. The display is configured to display the images. If an image of a specific portion of a target an operation of which is to be described is included in the images captured by the image capturing unit, the controller generate operation description images by adding an image for instructing the operation to the captured images and controls the display to sequentially display the generated operation description images. When generating the operation description images, the controller stores a part of the generated operation description images. If the specific portion cannot be detected from the images captured by the image capturing unit before description on the operation of the specific portion is completed, the controller displays the stored operation description images on the display.
US10469793B2
Provided is an image processing device for sorting frames included in one moving image into different channels, the frames included in the moving image being a mixture of frames belonging to the different channels. The image processing device includes an automatic sorting unit. The automatic sorting unit calculates a similarity degree of the plurality of frames included in the moving image by performing image processing on the frames, and sorts the plurality of frames into the plurality of channels based on the similarity degree.
US10469783B2
To transfer all charges retained in a charge retention region. The photoelectric converter generates a charge corresponding to the exposure amount during a predetermined exposure period. The generated-charge retention portion and the output charge retention portion retain the charge. The generated-charge transfer portion transfers the charge from the photoelectric converter to the generated-charge retention portion to perform the generated-charge transfer after the elapse of the exposure period. The retained-charge transfer portion transfers the charge retained in the generated-charge retention portion to the output charge retention portion to perform the retained-charge transfer. The generated-charge retention gate portion applies a control voltage that is a voltage for controlling potential of the generated-charge retention portion to the generated-charge retention portion during a period of the generated-charge transfer and the retained-charge transfer, applies a bias voltage that is a voltage having a polarity different from the control voltage to the generated-charge retention portion during a period different from the period of the generated-charge transfer and the retained-charge transfer, and applies the bias voltage to the generated-charge retention portion after applying an approximately intermediate voltage between the control voltage and the bias voltage to the generated-charge retention portion at the end of the period of the retained-charge transfer.
US10469782B2
A time delay and integration charge coupled device includes an array of pixels and a clock generator. The array of pixels is distributed in a scan direction and a line direction perpendicular to the scan direction in which at least some of the pixels of the array include three or more gates aligned in the scan direction. The clock generator provides clocking signals to transfer charge along the scan direction between two or more pixel groups including two or more pixels adjacent in the scan direction. The clocking signals include phase signals to transfer the charge to an adjacent pixel group along the scan direction at a rate corresponding to the velocity of the target by driving the gates of the two or more pixel groups and generating a common potential well per pixel group for containing charge generated in response to incident illumination.
US10469780B2
Imaging devices and electronic apparatuses incorporating imaging devices are provided. An imaging device as disclosed can include a first pixel (2PA, 2PB) and a second pixel (2X). The first and second pixels each have a first electrode (51A, 51B, 51C), a portion of a photoelectric conversion film (81), and a portion of a second electrode (82), where the photoelectric conversion film is between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode (51A, 51B) of the first pixel has a first area, while the first electrode (51C) of the second pixel has a second area that is smaller than the first area. The first pixel can include a light shielding film (52A, 52B). Alternatively or in addition, the first pixel can be divided into first and second portions.
US10469775B2
Image sensors may include image sensor pixels that support high dynamic range (HDR) global shutter function. An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode that is coupled to multiple storage gate nodes via respective charge transfer gates. Each of the multiple storage gate nodes may be configured to store charge corresponding to different exposure periods. The storage gate nodes may be coupled in parallel or in series with the photodiode. Charge from the different exposure times can then be merged to produce a high dynamic range image signal.
US10469772B2
A hyperspectral imaging systems includes an imaging sensor, a multispectral filter, and an actuator. The actuator moves the multispectral filter with respect to the imaging sensor to capture a scene with full spectral data. The spectral data of the scene can be stored in a hyperspectral data cube, which can be compressed, processed, stored, and/or sent to a remote location. Each acquired image includes a spatial map of the scene which facilitates pointing, focusing, and data analysis. The spectral measurement parameters can be configured dynamically in order to optimize performance such as spectral resolution, storage capacity, and transmission bandwidth. The system achieves high spectral and spatial resolution, is simple, compact, and lightweight, thereby providing an efficient hyperspectral imaging system.
US10469767B2
An information processing apparatus that acquires first image data captured by a first image capturing unit; acquires second image data captured by a second image capturing unit; controls a display to operate in a first mode in which the first and second images are simultaneously displayed; controls the display to operate in a second mode in which a relationship of the second image with the first image is indicated; and selects between the first and second modes based on a predetermined condition.
US10469765B2
There is a demand for increasing the dynamic range of an imaging unit. Provided is an imaging unit comprising a pixel section that outputs a pixel signal corresponding to a reset potential after a reset and a signal potential after charge accumulation; an amplifying section that amplifies the pixel signal with a first amplification ratio or a second amplification ratio that is different from the first amplification ratio; and a control section that causes the amplifying section to amplify the pixel signal corresponding to a change from the reset potential to the signal potential with the first amplification ratio, and then causes the amplifying section to amplify the pixel signal corresponding to a change from the signal potential to the reset potential with the second amplification ratio.
US10469763B2
A visual privacy system unilaterally blocks rolling shutter cameras by providing a periodically interrupted ambient light source imposing bright and dark bands on the image yet at a frequency imperceptible to human observers in the environment. Communication of the modulation pattern to authorized cameras allows unaffected imaging in these regions by authorized individuals. The system also contemplates operation in a barcoding mode with a light modulation providing embedded barcodes that can be extracted from images taken in the region to indicate that the images were improperly acquired and to block the images in certain applications.
US10469761B2
An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section that outputs first captured-image data obtained by capturing an image at a relatively low ISO speed, and second captured-image data obtained by capturing an image at an ISO speed higher than the ISO speed for the first captured-image data; a color analysis circuit that analyzes a display color included in a display image of the first captured-image data; a color correction instructing circuit that gives an instruction to correct a display color of the second captured-image data according to a result of the analysis; and an image generation circuit that corrects the display color of the second captured-image data so as to generate an image to be displayed.
US10469751B2
An omnidirectional camera is disclosed that records spherical video associated with a particular focal direction while in motion. The omnidirectional camera may implement one or more sensors and location-determining components to facilitate the recorded spherical video being subsequently correlated to an orientation and location of the omnidirectional camera during recording in a time-wise fashion to provide several enhancements during playback. These enhancements include reorienting the spherical video to a new focal direction. Data derived from the one or more sensors and location-determining components may be further utilized to overlay graphical objects onto the spherical video during playback to provide additional feedback.
US10469739B2
Consumption information associated with a user consuming a first video segment may be obtained. The consumption information may define user engagement during a video segment and/or user response to the video segment. Consumption information associated with the user consuming a second video segment may be obtained. A first set of capture settings associated with capture of the first video segment may be obtained. A second set of capture settings associated with capture of the second video segment may be obtained. The preferences for the capture settings of the image capturing device may be determined based upon the first and second set of capture settings. Instructions may be transmitted to the image capturing device. The instructions may include the determined preferences for the capture settings and may be configured to cause the image capturing device to adjust the capture settings to the determined preferences.
US10469738B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of capturing an image using the same. The mobile terminal controls a camera conveniently and efficiently to capture an image and performs focusing in various manners to capture an image. Accordingly, a user can obtain a desired image easily and conveniently.
US10469737B2
A display control device includes a display controller executing display control to display, on a display screen of a display device displaying an image, a whole of a display target image that is to be displayed and that has an aspect ratio differing from an aspect ratio of the display screen, and to display a partial enlarged image, which is obtained by enlarging a partial image corresponding to a part of the display target image and which has a smaller size than the display screen, at a displayed position of the partial image in superimposed relation to the display target image.
US10469736B2
A control method for controlling an electronic apparatus includes controlling an image sensor to output a merged image and a color block image of a same scene; defining a first predetermined region using the merged image based on a user input; converting the color block image into a first imitating image and converting the merged image into a restored image, wherein a second predetermined region in the color block image is converted using a first interpolating method, and the second predetermined region corresponds to the first predetermined region, and wherein a third predetermined region in the merged image is converted using a second interpolating method, and the third predetermined region corresponds to a first region outside the first predetermined region; obtaining a second imitating image by synthesizing the first imitating image and the restored image. An electronic apparatus is also provided.
US10469731B2
Provided are an image sensor and an imaging device including the same. The image sensor is configured to generate illuminance data by receiving a light signal including image information of an object and ambient light information and includes a sensing module including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, configured to sense the light signal irradiated to the pixel array and to generate pixel data corresponding to the sensed light signal, and an illuminance data generator configured to generate illuminance data corresponding to ambient light based on the pixel data, wherein the illuminance data generator is configured to generate the illuminance data based on pixel data when the light signal is not focused on the pixel array.
US10469726B1
A reversing display system with wireless switching multi-view images and a method thereof are disclosed. A remote controller is used to select an image area of a reversing image. A reversing display camera receives image area information and a partial enlargement instruction from the remote controller through a wireless receiver connected to the remote controller, enlarges the selected image area according to the partial enlargement instruction to produce a partial enlarged image, and transmits the partial enlarged image to an onboard display device for display. The system and method allow manipulation of reversing images through remote controller and can provide partial enlarged images to be displayed by the onboard display device.
US10469723B2
In implementations of photography lighting control, a camera device includes a camera to capture an image of a subject in an environment. The camera device implements an image exposure module that can determine ambient lighting conditions of the environment, and discover fixed light sources that are usable to illuminate the subject for image capture in the environment. The image exposure module can determine optimal lighting for the image capture of the subject in the environment, as well as control one or more of the fixed light sources used to adjust the ambient lighting conditions of the environment for the optimal lighting and the image capture of the subject. The image exposure module can then initiate use of the controlled fixed light sources to capture the image of the subject.
US10469719B2
An imaging unit has an imaging device that has an imaging lens; a case that encloses an imaging device and that has an imaging portion for passing light that is to be incident into an imaging lens; and an extending portion that extends from the opening portion in the imaging direction of the imaging device. The extending portion has an extending surface that is provided with a scattering portion for scattering light through structural units. Each structural unit has a surface structure for reflecting, in at least two mutually differing directions that are inclined in relation to a first vertical plane, light that is inclined in the imaging direction relative to an axis that is perpendicular to the extending surface, and that is parallel to a first vertical plane that is perpendicular to the extending surface and that includes the optical axis of the imaging lens.
US10469718B2
A camera module comprises an image sensor and a lens module disposed on the image sensor. The lens module comprises a top glass structure at top of the lens module. The top glass structure includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, and a baffle disposed immediately between the first and the second glass substrates. The top glass structure is an outermost layer of the camera module. The lens module also comprises a bottom glass substrate at bottom of the lens module. The bottom glass substrate is disposed on the image sensor.
US10469710B2
An image processing apparatus has a determination unit that determines a print operation to be performed and a generation unit that generates quantized data for printing a dot by comparing a threshold value and the multi-valued data. In a case of performing a first print operation, dot arrangement of the multiple types of inks printed on the print medium by the print unit on a basis of pieces of quantized data generated by the generation unit is higher in exclusiveness and dispersibility between or among dots of the multiple types of inks and lower in an overlap rate between or among the dots of the multiple types of inks than dot arrangement of the multiple types of inks printed on the print medium by the print unit on a basis of the pieces of quantized data generated by the generation unit in the case of performing the second print operation.
US10469707B2
A scanner includes a marked reference plate in which a mark is made on a reference plate, and a non-volatile memory that stores reference data, which is a result of the reference plate disposed facing an image reading sensor being read by the image reading sensor, in which read data is acquired a result of the marked reference plate being read by the image reading sensor, and shading data is calculated by comparing the read data and the reference data.
US10469701B2
An image processing method is provided for acquiring additional information from image information obtained by shooting a printed product on which the additional information is multiplexed by at least one of a plurality of different multiplexing methods, the method comprising: attempting decoding of the additional information from the image information by a plurality of different decoding methods corresponding to the plurality of different multiplexing methods; and outputting, by a unit, the additional information successfully decoded.
US10469699B2
A system for remote mark printing on a security document comprising an interface adapted to receive, from field equipment and via a network, request information relating to a mark to be printed on a security document; a mark generation module adapted to generate data defining a mark to be printed on the security document; a remote printer control module adapted to control printing equipment remote from the system to print the mark on the security document.
US10469697B2
Provided is a reading module including a light source, an optical system, and a sensor. The optical system images reflected light of light emitted from the light source to the document, as image light. The sensor converts the imaged image light into an electric signal. The optical system includes a mirror array in which a plurality of reflection mirrors are connected, and a plurality of aperture stops. Neighboring reflection mirrors reflect light at different angles viewed from the main scanning direction.
US10469693B2
An optical PH includes: a plurality of current-driven light emitting elements that are arranged in a line-shaped region; a controller that outputs a control voltage instructing an amount of a drive current to be supplied to each of the light emitting elements; and a plurality of drivers that correspond one-to-one with the light emitting elements, and each supply the drive current to a corresponding one of the light emitting elements, wherein the drivers each operate as one of: a high-voltage referring driver that supplies the drive current according to a voltage difference between the control voltage and a reference voltage higher than the control voltage; and a low-voltage referring driver that supplies the drive current according to a voltage difference between the control voltage and a reference voltage lower than the control voltage.
US10469689B2
A reading control apparatus is directed to improving convenience for a user when a reading device is caused to read a display surface of a terminal apparatus having the function of changing the size of an image to be displayed on a display device, and includes a reading unit configured to cause the reading device to read, as a reading target, the display surface, which is a surface including the display device of the terminal apparatus operating in either of a first state where an image in a first size is displayed on the display device, and a second state where the image in a second size smaller than the first size is displayed on the display device, thereby acquiring image data, and a notification unit configured to, in a case where the terminal apparatus placed on a document platen is not in the first state, execute a notification process.
US10469683B2
A panel apparatus includes: a body having an interior space open to an outside of the panel apparatus via an opening; one of a protrusion and a recess in the interior space; an input panel having a first surface, a second surface behind the first surface, and an input part provided in the first surface; a support part provided in the body to support the input panel such that the input panel pivots relative to the body; an arm protruding from the second surface and configured to guide the input panel such that the input panel pivots relative to the body by being inserted into the interior space through the opening; and the other of the protrusion and the recess which is provided in a part of the arm inserted into the interior space. Pivoting of the input panel is regulated by engagement of the protrusion and the recess.
US10469680B2
A processor of an information processing apparatus receives a first setting for a first setting item among a plurality of setting items for an image processing function of an image processing apparatus via an each-time setting window. The processor receives a second setting for the second setting item via a detailed setting window. The processor transmits a first execution command of the image processing function to the image processing device in a case where the display instruction is received. The first execution command is based on the first setting and the second setting. The processor transmits a second execution command of the image processing function to the image processing device in a case where the display instruction is not received via the operation interface. The second execution command is based on the first setting and the default setting for the second setting item.
US10469677B2
An image forming apparatus comprises an image reading portion, and an operation unit having at least a touch panel display is provided in a front side of the image reading portion. A housing of the image reading portion has a housing projection portion that is projected frontward as compared with a front surface of a document pressing cover, and a power key that is a hardware key is provided on an upper surface of the housing projection portion in a back side as compared with the touch panel display and within a range of a breadth of the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the power key from being operated carelessly, and it becomes easy to recognize a position of the power key.
US10469662B2
An automated system of an enterprise is disclosed for managing a communication session with a customer of the enterprise. The automated system includes a monitoring module configured to monitor one or more attributes associated with the communication session. The automated system further includes an analysis module configured to determine a plurality of resources required for managing the communication session based on the attributes. The automated system further includes a management module configured to manage allocation of the resources for the communication session, wherein the allocation is refined during the communication session based on the attributes.
US10469650B1
A system for providing targeted customer assistance to a wireless communication service subscriber comprising a mobile communication device comprising a processor; a display, a non-transitory memory, a radio transceiver, and a self-service client application. The client application comprises trigger signatures and phone numbers related to categories of customer service. The client application initiates a self-service session generates a key associated with the service subscriber, locates a log using the key, records current self-service event information, analyzes the self-service event information, wherein analyzing comprises at least determining a category of customer service of the event information. In response to the event information matching at least one trigger signature, selects a phone number associated with the category of customer service, presents the phone number via an embedded API, and calls a group associated with the category by invoking an embedded API of a dialer, wherein the log is transmitted to the group.
US10469648B2
This document presents a system and method for defining and controlling lights, audio systems, and any other home automation device by connection with an exterior network access port. The exterior network access is accomplished by pairing all network capable devices with a known intermediate network maintained by a master control unit. After association with the known intermediate network, the exterior network SSID and passkey are provided to the master control unit and then transmitted to each network capable device. The network capable devices connect to the exterior network by replacing the intermediate SSID and passkey information with the exterior network information.
US10469645B2
A method of generating a communication group is provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of communication items generated based on a communication between a user and each of communication groups including at least one member, selecting at least a first communication item and a second communication item from the plurality of communication items based on a first user selection, selecting at least one group mode from a plurality of group modes based on a second user selection, and generating a third communication group based on the group mode, a first communication group corresponding to the first communication item, and a second communication group corresponding to the second communication item.
US10469642B2
A middle frame for a mobile phone, includes a middle plate, and an edge of the middle plate forms a latching portion. A boarder frame defining a latching groove on a side thereof facing the middle plate, and the latching portion is riveted in the latching groove. The middle plate and the border frame form a first seam and a second seam on a junction portion and the middle plate and the border frame are provided with a first mounting groove and a second mounting groove. The first seam is located in the first mounting groove, the second seam is located in the second mounting groove. First and second sealing elements, and the first sealing element is filled in the first mounting groove, and the second sealing element is filled in the second mounting groove.
US10469627B2
A data processing method comprises, using a media server during a first media session between a client device and the media server, determining a stable bitrate value for use as a rate of transmitting multimedia data from the client device to the media server; storing, in a database, the stable bitrate value for the client device in association with an identifier; receiving, from the client device, a request to establish a second media session; determining the identifier within the request; in response to the request, based on the identifier in the request, searching the database for the stable bitrate value that is associated with the identifier; in response to locating the stable bitrate value in the database, sending the stable bitrate value to the client device for use in estimating a bitrate for transmitting multimedia from the client device to the media server in the second media session; establishing, by the media server, the second media session, wherein the media server initially receives multimedia data from the client device at the stable bitrate.
US10469622B2
Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for initiating proximity actions upon the activation of a proximity connection. A proximity service receives an indication from a proximity provider that a proximity connection is established, and then determines a joint proximity context of the proximity connection. The proximity service then initiates a proximity action to facilitate a proximity function indicated by the joint proximity context. Joint proximity contexts include indications that an application has queued content to be shared with a proximity device, that an application has registered to publish messages on a namespace, that an application has subscribed to messages on a namespace, that an application has registered to find a peer application on a proximity device to enable multi-user collaboration, and that a device seeks to pair with another device.
US10469620B2
A new version of a software is broken down into successive blocks in order to be transferred block by block in two phases by a concentrator device: a first phase during which said concentrator device performs (S308) the transfer according to a sequencing independent of whether or not each block has been correctly received, and a second phase during which the concentrator device performs (S310) the transfer of each block that has not been correctly received. The new version of the software is thus transferred to electricity meters via a communication network. Each electricity meter stores in non-volatile memory a context including an indication of each block of the new version of the software that has not been correctly received and, when the transfer of the new version of the software to at least one electricity meter is interrupted, the subsequent resumption of the transfer of the new version of the software to said electricity meter or meters takes place according to the second phase by means of their respective contexts.
US10469599B2
Automatic or autonomous setup of an application program (e.g., App01.exe) is disclosed. App01.exe is programmed or configured to be installed and run on a portable computing device for communicating with another computer program resident on an appliance over a close-range wireless communication. In some embodiments, upon discovery of the appliance on the close-range wireless communication, the portable computing device autonomously downloads App01.exe from the appliance over the close-range wireless communication. In some embodiments, the portable computing device performs the autonomous download of App01.exe only when App01.exe is not installed on the portable computing device. In some embodiments, the portable computing device autonomously downloads App01.exe over the Internet from a remote server computer that is accessible by the portable computing device with reference to the uniform resource identifier (URI) of the server computer that is provided by the appliance.
US10469579B2
Methods and systems are provided for processing data generated in a vehicle group. One example embodiment comprises selectively off-boarding a data set generated at a first vehicle in the vehicle group for storage purposes, the first data set off-boarded to one or more of a second vehicle in the vehicle group and a remote storage device.
US10469572B2
The present invention relates to a system for automating processes, and in particular to a system for optimizing the distribution of work items among available processing resources within such a system. The system includes an active queue controller, executed on an application server that manages the creation and deletion of virtual machines on available resources while querying a data store for work items and instructions for executing that automated processes.
US10469567B2
A method includes receiving, at a model and optimization framework, a request, rendered in a first format, for a service to be implemented on a subset of a software-defined network. The request includes at least one constraint affecting implementation of the service. The method includes producing an optimized solution, rendered in a second format, for implementing the service based on the at least one constraint. The method includes translating the optimized solution to the first format and providing instructions for a cloud manager to implement the service consistent with the translated optimized solution.
US10469564B2
Techniques are provided for providing computing resources from a pool a plurality of networked computing systems to a consumer. The method includes determining that the consumer's resource usage exceeds a predetermined threshold. After a predetermined period of time, and upon determining that the consumer's resource usage continues to exceed the predetermined threshold, the method identifies one or more computing systems from the pool having capacity to host at least part of the amount of excess resource usage. The method further includes allocating resources on one or more computing systems selected from the identified computing systems to satisfy the amount of excess resource usage, and transferring at least the amount of excess resource usage to the selected one or more computing systems.
US10469560B1
Methods and systems for reducing web page load time are provided. A method for reducing web page load time may include determining subresources of a requested web page. The method may also include requesting the plurality of subresources in a packet. This may be a single request packet for all of the subresources of a web page. Another method for reducing web page load time may include determining subresources to be returned from a request packet. The method may also include generating and returning the subresources in response to the request packet. A system for reducing web page load time may include a subresource determiner and a subresource requester. Another system for reducing web page load time may include a subresource request determiner, a subresource generator and a subresource returner.
US10469559B2
A request to establish an encrypted media stream is received, by an edge server, for a Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) communication session between a first browser, and a second browser or gateway. The edge server is a boundary device between a first network and a second network. The edge server retrieves a tenant identifier for the encrypted media stream. The tenant identifier can identify a specific company or enterprise. In response to receiving the tenant identifier for the encrypted media stream for the WebRTC communication session, a list of one or more Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters associated with the tenant is retrieved. For example, the list of QoS parameters may be based on a Service Level Agreement (SLA). The edge server dynamically sends a message to configure the second network to support the list of one or more QoS parameters associated with the tenant.
US10469558B2
In one embodiment, a server administrator 122 for a website server 120 may inspect an initial website request to determine if a dormant website 128 is to be brought out of dormant website storage 126. A request queue 308 may hold an initial website request for a website in an inspection stage 430 at a website server 120. A configuration manager 312 may determine a website presentation state for the website. The configuration manager 312 may pass the initial website request to the website when the website is available.
US10469549B2
A device and server for participating in a network for sharing media consumption activity is disclosed. For example, the device receives information identifying a media item as a result of playing the media item on a second user device associated with a friend of the plurality of friends and the friend of a plurality of friends. The device presents information identifying the media item selected for play on the second user device and the friend associated with the second user device and identifying a plurality of other media items and a subset of the plurality of friends. The device obtains a selection of a second media item for play, the second media item, and initiates play of the media item. The device provides, as a result of playing the second media item, information identifying the second media item and the user for sharing with the plurality of friends of the user.
US10469515B2
Apparatus and methods described herein relate to a global workspace management compute device that can generate a workspace hierarchy tree representing a hierarchy of a set of workspaces in a network. A local workspace management compute device operatively coupled to the global workspace management compute device can, when operative, calculate workspace cyber-threat data for a local workspace in the set of workspaces based on data from a global workspace, and can provide the calculated workspace cyber-threat data to a local workspace interface so that the local workspace interface displays a representation of the set of workspaces in the network. After receiving modifications of portions of the local workspace cyber-threat data, the local workspace management compute device can define a child node of the local workspace based on the modifications. The local workspace interface can modify the representation of the set of workspaces in the network based on the child node.
US10469514B2
Collaborative and adaptive threat intelligence. Data collected on a first customer network is received. One or more local models are trained with at least the received data, where the one or more local models are related to security. An amount of data to transmit to a centralized controller is determined based at least on a result of the training one or more local models and the determined amount of data is transmitted to the centralized controller. Result data is received from the centralized controller that is a result of one or more global models trained on the centralized controller using data collected on multiple customer networks including the first customer network. The one or more local models are adjusted using the received result data and the one or more adjusted local models are trained.
US10469512B1
According to one embodiment, a computerized method comprises operations of receiving incoming content propagating over a network and determining software profile information of an operating environment targeted for the incoming content. Responsive to determining that the system supports a first software profile that corresponds to the software profile information and a first virtual machine instance operating with the first software profile is currently running, a second virtual machine instance operating with the first software profile is instantiated for conducting a malware analysis on the incoming content. The second virtual machine instance is provided access to resources allocated for use by the first virtual machine instance.
US10469508B2
A security platform employs a variety techniques and mechanisms to detect security related anomalies and threats in a computer network environment. The security platform is “big data” driven and employs machine learning to perform security analytics. The security platform performs user/entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) to detect the security related anomalies and threats, regardless of whether such anomalies/threats were previously known. The security platform can include both real-time and batch paths/modes for detecting anomalies and threats. By visually presenting analytical results scored with risk ratings and supporting evidence, the security platform enables network security administrators to respond to a detected anomaly or threat, and to take action promptly.
US10469507B2
A malicious encrypted traffic detector connected to a computer network, the detector comprising: a Shannon entropy estimator; an entropy comparator; a store storing a reference measure of Shannon entropy of a portion of network traffic of a malicious encrypted network connection, wherein the estimator is adapted to estimate a measure of entropy for a corresponding portion of network traffic communicated over the computer network, and the entropy comparator is adapted to compare the estimated measure of entropy with the reference measure so as to determine if malicious encrypted network traffic is communicated over the network connection.
US10469506B2
A method for managing wireless device communications including establishing active, persistent, and repetitive communications with a wireless device operating in a coverage area of a local wireless network established as an overlay to a part of a macro wireless network by placing a call to the wireless device, completing a call connection to the wireless device, sending a message to the wireless device, receiving and processing a response to the message from the wireless device, and persistently repeating a call process of the placing a call, completing a connection, sending a response, and receiving and processing the response.
US10469495B2
Methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices, and in particular, methods and apparatuses for authentication and/or provisioning of wireless network devices that are communicating with and may be monitored and/or controlled by a remote (e.g., cloud) server.
US10469494B2
A home network system using a Z-Wave network includes a wired/wireless Z-Wave bridge having a Z-Wave communication unit to which a plurality of home automation devices are accessed through the Z-Wave network and an Ethernet communication unit which is accessed to a main server through the Internet, and a main server providing an application for a remote control of the home automation device, and performing MAC authentication to allow access to the wired/wireless Z-Wave bridge upon request by the portable terminal, in which the MAC authenticated portable terminal of the wired/wireless Z-Wave bridge is accessed to the home automation devices to perform remote control.
US10469493B2
A mobile device, an authentication device and authentication methods thereof are provided. The mobile device displays a QR code on its display panel, and continuously transmits a wireless signal carrying a hardware serial number of the mobile device. The QR code stores service data including an identification code assigned to the mobile device and the hardware serial number of the mobile device. The authentication device captures the QR code from the mobile device and determines whether there is a received wireless signal carrying the hardware serial number of the mobile device. If there is a received wireless signal carrying the hardware serial number of the mobile device, the authentication device determines that the QR code passes authentication.
US10469488B2
A security verification method, apparatus, and system relate to the field of computer security technologies, and are used to improve reliability of the verification code technology. In the method, an image capture request carrying an image capture parameter is sent to a server end; a live view picture returned by the server end is received, where the live view picture is obtained by performing live view image capture according to the image capture parameter and prestored street view tile information; and a security verification operation is performed according to the live view picture.
US10469486B2
Methods and apparatuses for authenticating communication devices and securely transmitting and/or receiving encrypted voice and data information. A biometric scanner, for example a fingerprint scanner, is utilized for authenticating the communication device and for generating the encryption key. The fingerprint scanner can be an area or swipe type of scanner is registered to a particular user and has unique intrinsic characteristics (the scanner pattern) that are permanent over time and can identify the scanner even among scanners of the same manufacturer and model. The unique scanner pattern of the scanner generates a unique encryption key that cannot be reproduced using another fingerprint scanner.
US10469485B2
A multi-functional identification recognition system includes a server storing a database, the database containing a plurality of user identities. For each user identity, the database stores a corresponding plurality of identification fields for uniquely identifying a user corresponding to the user identity. The multi-functional identification recognition system also includes a multi-functional identification reader being in communication with the server through an internet connection and having a plurality of identity recognizing devices. When the user registers with the server or verifies identification data already stored in the server, a plurality of identity recognizing devices read the user's identification data and send the identification data to the server through the internet connection, and each type of identification data is stored in or checked against one of the identification fields corresponding to the user.
US10469470B2
Device to device (D2D) communication can be performed with packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) based encapsulation without internet protocol (IP) addressing. The non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can further include two forms of secure data transfer. A first non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can be a negotiated non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication. A second non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can be a non-negotiated non-IP D2D communication. The non-negotiated non-IP D2D PDCP-encapsulated communication can include a common key management server (KMS) version and a distributed KMS version. The encapsulated communication can be used with various protocols, including a PC5 protocol (such as the PC5 Signaling Protocol) and wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) protocols.
US10469463B2
A semi-complete secure data container is associated with a unique identifier by a requesting entity but is void of data. The data container, and a request to add data to the container, are combined into a message that is sent to a client. Upon receipt of the request, the client need not do anything to create a secure environment by which to protect the data. The secure environment, or data container, is already created and is merely awaiting data; data supplied by the client. Once the client places the requested data into the data container, the container closes and encrypts the data. The container, now closed and containing encrypted data, returns to the original requesting entity which solely possesses the key to decrypt the contents.
US10469462B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor that is configured to execute a first application in an REE, to execute a second application in a TEE, and to execute an agent that performs data transmission between the first application and the second application, a communication circuit configured to communicate with a server, and a secure memory area that is accessible by the TEE. The at least one processor is configured to obtain a random value from the server, to transmit a response message including the random value to the server through the communication circuit, to receive encrypted SIM data from the server, to obtain a SIM profile from the encrypted SIM data using a private key corresponding to the public key, and to store the obtained SIM profile in the secure memory area.
US10469444B2
The invention presented herein is a system and method for automatically discovering communication capabilities for direct communication between endpoints across one or more unknown networks, the system comprising: a plurality of network-enabled endpoints configured with a module in wireless communication with a management database, the module configured to establish a communication path for direct communication between the network-enabled endpoints, independent of a NAT router. Also disclosed is a system and method for indirect connectionless bi-directional messaging over an unknown network infrastructure for communicating a message communication between a querying device and a database, wherein communication is enabled without the requirement for direct access to the database for either obtaining or placing information; and where the message communication comprises an unlimited amount of discreet and selectable information elements; and without requiring or issuing a direct acknowledgement of a receipt from the database of the communication message received.
US10469441B1
The embodiments describe an apparatus for accessing a remote object. The apparatus includes a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit a Domain Name Service request of the remote object to a Domain Name Service server and receive a Domain Name Service response comprising an Internet Protocol of the remote object. The transceiver is further configured to connect to the Internet Protocol of the remote object based on the Domain Name Service response.
US10469437B2
In one embodiment, a method includes sending notifications to one or more users of a social-networking system. Information may be received regarding actions taken by the users of the social-networking system. The information may include parameters associated with each of the actions taken by the users. The method further includes determining correlations between the parameters and the users, and sending notifications to the users of the social-networking system based on the determined correlations.
US10469434B2
Protecting personal information by generating entity-specific aliases for use in communication with third parties is disclosed.
US10469427B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for sharing live video while maintaining an asynchronous copy of the video. According to some embodiments, a user begins to record video and shares the video with selected other users. If one of the other users opts to join the original user, the shared video upgrades to a live video conversation. If no one (or only some participants) joins the original user, the recorded video becomes an asynchronous artifact in the users' messaging history. In some embodiments, the live video may be recorded and shared in response to a first user initiating a video call with at least a second user, but receiving no answer. The first user begins to share a live video (which may become an asynchronous artifact). If the second user joins the call while the video is being recorded, the conversation may upgraded to a video conversation.
US10469426B2
A group feed is displayed for a selected group by a private social network service. The group feed displays only threads with unviewed content along with a user actuatable display element that allows the user to switch to a feed that displays all content for the group.
US10469418B2
An automated contact center agent mobile device client infrastructure testing system comprising a mobile device command repository is disclosed. The system also has a mobile device control module that retrieves mobile device commands from the repository, receives instructions, data, and parameters for contact center device testing, runs predesignated contact center device test suites on at least one mobile device, receives contact center device test suite result data from mobile devices, and forwards the contact center device test suite result data received from mobile devices to a contact center device test manager system.
US10469416B2
An information processing device including a receiving unit that receives predetermined information from a first information terminal possessed by a first user and a second information terminal possessed by a second user, an action recognition unit that recognizes an action of the first user on the basis of the predetermined information received from the first information terminal, and an information transmitting unit that transmits, on the basis of the recognized action of the first user, information for determining whether or not the second information terminal possessed by the second user is to acquire the predetermined information.
US10469412B2
Provided are a device for transmitting an answer message including a display configured to display information, a communicator configured to receive a question message from another device, a processor configured to control the display to display graphics representing a plurality of pieces of recommendation information which are includable in an answer message for the received question message and relations between the plurality of pieces of recommendation information, and a user input unit configured to receive a user input that selects at least one of the plurality of pieces of recommendation information, wherein the communicator is further configured to transmit an answer message including the selected recommendation information to the another device according to the user input.
US10469411B1
Techniques for performing application scaling may include: receiving a plurality of observed queue depth values for a queue, wherein the queue includes data packets to be processed by a first set of one or more applications of a first application type; determining, in accordance with the observed queue depth values and scaling configuration parameters for the first application type, whether to modify the number of applications currently in the first set, wherein the scaling configuration parameters includes a scaling threshold; and responsive to determining to modify the number of application currently in the first set, performing first processing that modifies the number of applications currently in the first set. Modifying the number of applications in the first set may include scaling up or scaling down the number of instances in the first set.
US10469398B2
A method, system, and computer program product for selecting forecasting model complexity using eigenvalues are provided in the illustrative embodiments A process is represented in a model. The model comprises a mathematical representation of the process in a certain degree. A first portion of historical data generated by the process during a first period is selected and includes an actual value of an outcome of the process and a value of a feature influencing the process during the first period. A prediction is made of a predicted value of the outcome. A difference between the prediction and the actual value of the outcome is determined. The difference is represented as a change in a distribution of eigenvalues. According to the change, a second model is to represent the process. The second model comprises a second mathematical representation of the process in a different degree.
US10469395B2
Example implementations relate to packet transmission credit allocation. In some examples, a system may include a processing resource and a memory resource storing instructions executable by the processing resource to allocate a first amount of packet transmission credits from a destination node to a source node; determine a modification to the first amount of packet transmission credits allocated from the destination node to the source node based on a comparison of a quantity of redeemed packet transmission credits by the source node to a packet transmission credit threshold of the source node; adjust the modification based on a condition at a buffer associated with the destination node; and apply the adjusted modification to the first amount of packet transmission credits to produce a second amount of packet transmission credits to allocate from the destination node to the source node.
US10469394B1
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and device that assist with configuring adaptive rate limit based on server health and statistics includes obtaining server health data and a current response transmission rate associated with one of the plurality of servers. An adaptive rate limit is determined based on the obtained server health data and the current response transmission rate. An actual rate and the determined adaptive rate limit is compared to determine when the actual rate of transmission is greater than the determined adaptive rate limit. A plurality of network data packets is transmitted at the determined adaptive rate limit when the actual rate of transmission is determined to be greater than the determined adaptive rate limit.
US10469383B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for storing data in association with a key within a hash table and for retrieving the data from the hash table using the key. The hash table comprises a plurality of storage tables. Each of the storage tables is associated with a respective primary hashing function for determining which of a plurality of buckets of the storage table should be used for storing data associated with a particular key. Each of the buckets is configured to store a limited number of elements. Each element comprises respective stored data and a representation of the respective key associated with the stored data. Each of the storage tables is further associated with a respective secondary hashing function with which the representations of the keys of the elements of that storage table are generated. The secondary hashing function for each of the storage tables is the primary hashing function for at least one of the other storage tables.
US10469377B2
Systems and methods associated with service insertion forwarding are disclosed. One example method includes building a service insertion address table. The service insertion address table may associate service insertion tunnels with device addresses based on payload source addresses retrieved from packets received via the service insertion tunnels. The method also includes forwarding a packet received from a source device to a destination device. The packet may be received from the source device via a source service insertion tunnel. The packet may be forwarded to the destination device via a destination service insertion tunnel. The destination service insertion tunnel may be associated with the destination device in the service insertion address table.
US10469368B2
Generally, this disclosure provides systems, methods and computer readable media for switching systems employing distributed routing tables to provide improved support for multiple network topologies, configurations and routing modes. A routing system of a switch, for routing a packet from an input port of a switch to an output port, may include memory modules to store routing tables configured to store entries, each entry configured to store output port identifiers. The routing system may also include a table address generation module configured to select an entry from the routing tables based in part on a first subset of a Destination Location ID (DLID) associated with the packet. The table address generation module may further be configured to select one or more output ports from the selected entries, the selected output ports based in part on a second subset of the DLID.
US10469365B2
In one example, techniques of this disclosure may enable a point of local repair (PLR) network device to signal availability of link protection or node protection to a merge point (MP) network device and enable a network device to actively determine whether or not it is a merge point router. Based on whether or not the network device determines it is a MP, the network device may selectively clean up LSP states when there is an upstream link or node failure. The RSVP-TE protocol may be extended to enable a network device to send a tear down message to a downstream router, which may enable the downstream router to conditionally delete locale LSP state information. In some instances, a PLR network device may directly send a tear down message to a MP network device even though the PLR network device may not have a working bypass LSP.
US10469364B2
Internet protocol packets are statelessly identified as associated with a particular session-instance by identifying a key, or session-instance identifier, within the data (or payload) portion of a user plane packet. This identifier is specific to the session-instance and remains constant throughout the session-instance. Using this stateless identification, transmitted user plane packets are automatically routed at the transmission speed of the transmission link using a method that automatically balances the analysis processing load between network probes. The load is balanced by routing the user plane packet to a network probe that is either already analyzing the session-instance or by routing the user plane packet to a system that has processing capacity to analyze a new session-instance. The network probe then analyzes the user plane packet and the session-instance to measure the quality of the user experience of the session-instance and performance of the network.
US10469354B2
This disclosure provides a system, method, and machine-readable memory for determining various pre-sharing insights and post-sharing insights. The system is configured to receive a request to share content with a first plurality of users represented as nodes in a graph associated with a first user. The system is also configured to determine a second plurality of users selected from the first plurality of users by traversing one or more nodes of the graph. The system further classifies the content to determine a plurality of topics for the content. The system then determines a third plurality of users selected from the second plurality of users by comparing the plurality of topics with user profile attribute values associated with each user of the second plurality of users. The system then communicates a notification to the first user that includes an identification of the third plurality of users.
US10469344B2
A system that displays performance data for a computing environment. During operation, the system determines performance states for a plurality of entities that comprise the computing environment based on values of a performance metric for the entities. Next, the system displays the computing environment as a tree comprising nodes representing the plurality of entities and edges representing parent-child relationships between the plurality of entities. Then, for each parent node in the tree, the system determines counts of one or more performance states for descendants of the parent node in the tree. Finally, the system displays a graphical representation of the determined counts while displaying the parent node. In some embodiments, displaying the graphical representation of the determined counts includes displaying a circular ring comprising visually distinct sections associated with different performance states, wherein the visually distinct sections are sized proportionately with the determined counts for the associated performance states.
US10469336B2
Command performance may be monitored. In a monitoring transaction, a product may be selected from a plurality of products in one group of a plurality of groups of products. Execution performance of a command by the selected product may be monitored. The monitored execution performance may be provided for determining compliance with a service level agreement for the product based on the monitored executed performance.
US10469333B2
A network analyzer system includes a network analyzer having at least two ports, a first operational device connected a first port of the at least two ports of the network analyzer and configured to perform a first task with the network analyzer, and a second operational device connected a second port of the at least two ports of the network analyzer and configured to perform a second task with the network analyzer. The second task is performed at least partially concurrently with the first task.
US10469329B1
A technology is described for managing computing capacity within a computing service environment. An example method may include determining a state of a computing service environment having a group of physical hosts that execute computing instances and determining a predicted demand for computing instance launches on the group of physical hosts. A co-location of the computing instance launches on the group of physical hosts may then be determined by applying the predicted demand for computing instance launches to the state of the computing service environment. A predicted launch time for the computing instance launches may then be determined using the co-location of the computing instance launches as an input feature. An additional physical host may then be added to the group of physical hosts to decrease the predicted launch time.
US10469328B2
Provided is an opportunistic forwarding method and apparatus for a content-based information centric network in a delay tolerant network environment. The opportunistic forwarding method for a content-based information centric network in a delay tolerant network environment having a processor and a memory includes when a first node contacts a second node, updating a first delivery predictability and a second delivery predictability of the first node based on contact record information between the first node and the second node and data that the second node has, updating a first message of the first node by comparing the first message including first interest information and first data that the first node has with a second message including second interest information and second data that the second node has, and delivering the first message of the first node to the second node based on the first and second delivery predictabilities of the first node.
US10469325B2
An apparatus and method for path creation element driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path. In one embodiment of the method, a node receives an instruction to create a tunnel between the node and another node. The node creates or initiates the creation of the tunnel in response to receiving the instruction, wherein the tunnel comprises a plurality of nodes in data communication between the node and the other node. The node maps a first identifier (ID) to information relating to the tunnel. The node advertises the first ID to other nodes in a network of nodes.
US10469322B2
A response rate limiting device is provided that may reduce the volume of network traffic generated as a result of an amplification attack. The rate liming device receives a packet and determines identification information corresponding to the packet. The rate limiting device receives a second packet bound for a network destination. Based at least in part on the size of the first packet and the size of the second packet, the rate limiting device determines a transmission rate for the second packet. The second packet is transmitted to the network destination in accordance with the determined transfer rate.
US10469311B2
A method for providing services by a pair of servers to clients through one or more relay agents. The pair includes a second server configured to respond to discovery messages, and a first server configured to be unresponsive to the discovery messages. The method includes: at the first server, receiving a first discovery message from a first relay agent at a first time; and configuring the first server to become responsive to the first discovery message when a number of discovery messages from the first relay agent is equal to or greater than a predetermined number threshold and when a time lapse between the first time and a second time is equal to or greater than a predetermined time threshold. The count and time period are reset if the second server is determined to be responsive to discovery messages by monitoring the client request messages.
US10469305B2
Systems and methods are included for detecting driving based on user-specific models for driving detection, and restricting access to an application of the user device while a user is driving. A management agent installed on the user device can collect data from sensors in a user device and provide the data to a management server, which can build a user-specific model for driving detection for that user. The management agent can then use that user-specific model for detecting when the user is driving. When the agent determines that the user is driving, it can enforce a driving policy that limits access to applications and delay or modify notifications generated by applications.
US10469301B2
A system for peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR) reduction of a frequency shifted plurality of digital broadcast signals taking into account the combined signal peaks in order to transmit the signals more efficiently in a single broadcast transmission system. The PAPR algorithm takes into account a rotating constellation phase offset for the shifted signals corresponding to the amount of applied frequency shift. In the case of a dual sideband In-Band-On-Channel (IBOC) signal typically used in conjunction with an FM carrier in the center, the sidebands can be interleaved to create a new IBOC signal definition and take the place of the FM carrier for an all-digital transmission that is backward compatible with IBOC receivers allowing for a gradual migration to all digital broadcasting.
US10469292B1
A test generator that determines an amplification level of an amplifier within a DFE and a method for determining the amplification level are disclosed. The test generator includes a signal generator that generates a test pattern signal characterized by a repeating digital test pattern and an offset voltage and an input signal port adapted to receive a digital DFE output signal from the DFE, the digital DFE output signal depending on the amplification level. The test generator includes an output control port that communicates a digital command word specifying a gain to be used by the amplifier in the DFE and a threshold for determining if a signal in the DFE is a logical one or logical zero. A controller determines the amplification level by measuring a BER between the test pattern and the digital DFE output signal as a function of the threshold and the offset voltage.
US10469289B2
A mobile base station and a cellular mobile base station network which provides integrated infrastructure facilities in the vicinity of each cellular base station. The Cellular Base Station comprises a cellular base transceiver station (Node-B) and an integrated infrastructure facility device operatively coupled to said cellular base transceiver (Node-B) for utilizing the cellular network to communicate with the remote monitoring stations for each of the infrastructure facilities provided by said device.
US10469288B2
Embodiments for network management in a Software-defined Storage (SDS) environment. Remote mirroring connectivity and data transfer is optimized in the SDS environment by establishing each of a plurality of nodes in a local storage array and a remote storage array as a gateway node. Data residing on a local gateway node is transferred directly to a remote gateway node owning the data, thereby avoiding interconnect data hops and improving datacenter network utilization.
US10469272B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and computing devices that facilitate secure cloud compute environments are disclosed. A secure application package (SAP) is encrypted with an SAP encryption key. The encrypted SAP is stored on cloud storage. A profiling bitstream is sent to a cloud provider. The profiling bitstream is configured to, when implemented by the HLD, generate and return a profile response, including a bitstream encryption key, which is encrypted with a public key. The profile response is decrypted using a private key and the bitstream encryption key is extracted. An application bitstream is sent to the cloud provider. The application bitstream is encrypted with the bitstream encryption key, includes the SAP encryption key, and is configured to, when implemented by the HLD, obtain the SAP from the cloud storage, decrypt the SAP using the SAP encryption key, and execute an application in a softcore included in the application bitstream.
US10469265B2
Technologies for secure inter-enclave communication include a computing device having a processor with secure enclave support. The computing device establishes a first secure enclave and a second secure enclave with the secure enclave support of the processor. The first secure enclave invokes a report instruction to cause the processor to generate a report targeted to the second secure enclave. The report includes a report body and a message authentication code generated using a report key associated with the second secure enclave. The second secure enclave invokes a get key instruction to cause the processor to generate the report key associated with the second secure enclave and generates the message authentication code over the report body using the report key. The first secure enclave and second secure enclave each perform a cryptographic operation on a message using the message authentication code as a cryptographic key. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10469260B2
The embodiments provide a cryptography key for two communicating devices that is based on information known only to the devices. Each of the communicating devices determines the information without communicating key information related to the encryption key with the other. Each device receives a setup signal sent by the other device. Each device samples the received signal, generates sampling results, creates a plurality of keys based on the sampling results, selects a key of the plurality of keys based on criteria, and utilizes the selected key. The sets of plurality of keys may be created by creating each of the keys based on a different power threshold applied to the sampling results. The sets of plurality of keys may also be created by inputting the sampling results into each of a plurality of decoders to generate a key at each decoder that comprises a key of the plurality of keys.
US10469257B2
A vector generation unit generates a vector xn so that xn[i]≠xn[j] if kn[i]=kn[j] at i≠j. A set generation unit generates a set Bn,j so that individual elements correspond to combinations of the N−1 pieces of elements, which are individually selected from sets M0, . . . , MN−1 other than a set Mn, and xn[j] and the elements for all of the combinations are included. A matrix generation unit generates a matrix Tn′ so that the matrix Tn′ includes rows identical to Tn[j] in the number equal to the number of elements of the set Bn,j. A key generation unit generates a vector kn′ so that elements of the matrix Tn′ which correspond to a row identical to Tn[j] correspond to combinations of kn[j] and elements of the set Bn,j and further, the elements of the set Bn,j are different from each other when there are a plurality of rows identical to Tn[j].
US10469252B2
Technologies for efficiently managing the allocation of memory in a shared memory pool include a memory sled. The memory sled includes a memory pool of byte-addressable memory devices. The memory sled also includes a memory pool controller coupled to the memory pool. The memory pool controller receives a request to provision memory to a compute sled. Further, the memory pool controller maps, in response to the request, each of the memory devices of the memory pool to the compute sled. The memory pool controller additionally assigns access rights to the compute sled as a function of one or more memory characteristics of the compute sled. The memory characteristics are indicative of an amount of memory in the memory pool to be used by the compute sled and the access rights are indicative of access permissions to one or more memory address ranges associated with the one or more memory devices.
US10469250B2
There is provided a framework to record to a blockchain unique identification (signatures) of physical items which have unique, random properties. Physical items are analysed using spectral imaging to determine the unique identifications. Hardware is shown to perform the analysis and various nodes of a peer-to-peer network are shown and described, which nodes may be configured to provide proof of location, privacy, trust and authentication. The solution can work even if the item is modified in some way if a subset of the unique properties remain.
US10469247B2
A technique for generating a keystream (128) for ciphering or deciphering a data stream (122) is provided. As to a method aspect of the technique, a nonlinear feedback shift register, NLFSR (112), including n register stages implemented in a Galois configuration is operated. At least one register stage of the implemented n register stages is representable by at least one register stage of a linear feedback shift register, LFSR. A first subset of the implemented n register stages is representable by a second subset of a second NLFSR. A number of register stages receiving a nonlinear feedback in the second NLFSR is greater than one and less than a number of register stages receiving a nonlinear feedback in the implemented NLFSR. The keystream (128) is outputted from a nonlinear output function (118). An input of the nonlinear output function (118) is coupled to at least two of the implemented n register stages of the NLFSR (112).
US10469244B2
An electronic device is provided including a processor, a communications interface coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a module saved in the memory. The module configures the processor to receive a first communications packet from a remote device via the communications interface including information useful for estimating a clock offset of the remote device, and determine an upper bound of the clock offset of the remote device with respect to the electronic device based on the information.
US10469242B2
A reset sub-circuit can sample the reset signal based on a low-speed clock reference signal to generate a series of sampled reset signals. A phase relation between a first selected one of the series of sampled reset signals and the high-speed clock signal at the clock input of each sampler can be measured to generate reset trigger signals corresponding to each of a plurality of samplers. A second selected one of the series of sampled reset signals can be sampled based on the high-speed clock signal to generate a positive sampled reset signal and a negative sampled reset signal. The reset sub-circuit can select between the positive sampled reset signal and the negative sampled reset signal based on the reset trigger signals corresponding to each sampler to generate the synchronous reset signal.
US10469226B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a detailed method and device for setting a transmission pattern for the PRS. Provided in one embodiment is a method by which a terminal receives the PRS, and a terminal device, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring the PRS in one PRS monitoring section; receiving the PRS in one or more consecutive subframes included in the one PRS monitoring section; and transmitting, to a base station, information for a position measurement by using reception time information of the PRS, wherein a resource element allocation pattern of the PRS is determined by a random number.
US10469224B2
Both precoded sounding reference signals (SRS) and unprecoded SRS are transmitted from a UE to an eNB. The UE may transmit both in the same subframe using either TDM or FDM. Or the UE may transmit each in different subframes from each other. The eNB uses some combination of the precoded SRS and the unprecoded SRS in scheduling resources for the UE. The eNB may also provide instruction to the UE for PUSCH precoding for data transmission. The eNB may signal the UE to use the same precoding as for the precoded SRS. The eNB may instead signal the UE to use different precoding by including the precoding information or delta information between the precoding used for the precoded SRS and the selected precoding for the PUSCH data.
US10469208B2
Methods and apparatus utilize hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions and retransmissions that are usable on multiple carriers, i.e. joint HARQ processes. For example, a downlink (DL) shared channel transmission of a joint HARQ process is received on one of the carriers. A first part of an identity of the joint HARQ process is determined by using HARQ process identity data received on a shared control channel. A second part of the joint HARQ process identity is determined using additional information. The joint HARQ process identity is then determined by combining the first part and the second part. A WTRU is provided that is configured to receive the DL shared channel and to make the aforementioned determinations. A variety of other methods and apparatus configurations are disclosed for utilizing joint HARQ processes, in particular in the context of DC-HSDPA.
US10469203B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device are described. A second wireless device may determine that a channel condition satisfies at least one channel condition threshold. The second wireless device may identify, based on the determination, a time-interleaved transmission scheme for block(s) of encoded information. The second wireless device may transmit the block(s) of encoded information to a first wireless device in accordance with at least the time-interleaved transmission scheme. In some instances, the first wireless device may determine that the channel condition satisfies the at least one channel condition threshold and send a message to the second wireless device in order to trigger the use of the time-interleaved transmission scheme.
US10469201B2
The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for coding a channel in a communication system is provided. The method includes coding information to be transmitted with an outer code, generating an input sequence by allocating outer coded symbols sequentially from a sub-channel having a large capacity based on a polar code sequence, the input sequence having a value of 2n and n being a preset value, coding the input sequence with the polar code, interleaving the polar coded symbols of the polar coded input sequence according to a predetermined scheme in consideration of a modulation symbol, and modulating the interleaved polar coded symbols.
US10469198B2
A method is proposed for adjusting transmission properties associated with data transfer in time slots of predetermined length, the method comprises transmitting a first transport block S101 using a set of transport transmission properties to a receiving node. A probing block S102 is transmitted to the receiving node using a set of probing transmission properties comprising a reduced robustness in relation to the set of transport transmission properties. The set of transport transmission properties is reconfigured for further transport blocks based on information communicated by the receiving node indicative of success of decoding of the probing block by the receiving node.
US10469197B2
A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications system includes: a transceiver operable to perform wireless communication with one or more other terminal devices according to the wireless communications system and to receive speed information from the one or more other terminal devices indicative of a physical speed of the one or more other terminal devices; and a controller configured to select a transmission format, for use in wireless communication by the transceiver, in dependence upon the speed information received from the one or more other terminal devices.
US10469188B2
A computer-implemented method executed on a processor for employing an epoch-based approach to estimating interference in an unlicensed spectrum is presented. The method includes enabling communication between a long-term evolution (LTE) evolved node B (eNodeB) and a plurality of clients, detecting and measuring the interference in all existing non-overlapping channels, via the LTE eNodeB, caused by one or more hidden clients of the plurality of clients, collecting interference statistics from all of the plurality of clients across all different channels, and leveraging interference-awareness resulting in channel access performance improvement at a macro-time scale and a micro-time scale.
US10469186B2
A network node in a distributed network employs a surface immunoglobulin program to monitor other nodes in the distributed network and generate an alert upon detecting a suspicious activity; and pushes a free-antibody program to a requesting node petitioning to access the distributed network. The free-antibody program can include a software agent that monitors the requesting node. The free-antibody program reports detected malware and/or suspicious activity to the surface immunoglobulin program, which can enact countermeasures against the requesting node. The network node's role is based on a hierarchy of trustworthiness levels, wherein it performs at least one of monitoring other nodes, sending alerts when anomalous behavior is detected, transmitting the free-antibody software program to the requesting node, updating defensive programs, participating in consensus-based threat analysis with other nodes, identifying threats, tagging suspicious nodes, and performing countermeasures against identified threats.
US10469178B2
A method including determining if there is in device co-existence interference during operation of the device; and causing information about in device co-existence interference and information about measurements performed by the device to be transmitted to a base station.
US10469176B2
The present invention is directed to communication systems and methods. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides an optical receiver that receives a data stream from an optical transmitter. The optical receiver determines a histogram contour parameter using the data stream and inserts the histogram contour parameter into a back-channel data segment, which is then transmitted to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter changes its data transmission setting based on the histogram contour parameter. There are other embodiments as well.
US10469169B2
The systems, apparatuses and methods of the present invention set forth improvements to the problems of the current pairing or duplex paradigm, resulting in a dramatic increase in fiber transmission efficiency, accomplished explicitly by restructuring presently-aligned C-B and wavelengths into innovative DWDM transmit and receive formats, and through implementing photonic-wave changes, which directs Ethernet data flow onto new path adaptations. These improvements could reduce line haul expenses significantly, believed to reach a projected 50% less requirement/deployment of fiber strands. This saving would offer owner-operators substantial fiber strand cost reductions, affecting transportation rates of high-bandwidth digital payloads traversing over DWDM networks, and lower usage rates of cross-connections amid multiple equipment inter-exchanging throughout large data centers.
US10469151B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method for receiving a downlink signal by a terminal from a base station in a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention is characterized by comprising the steps of: receiving a beam scanning subframe, configured of a plurality of preambles for scanning transmission means at first intervals, from the base station; selecting a preferred transmission beam corresponding to one preamble from among the plurality of preambles, and a preferred reception beam corresponding to the preferred transmission beam reporting information on the preferred transmission beam to the base station; and receiving the one preamble and a certain subframe configured of a downlink physical channel beam formed by the preferred transmission beam at second intervals within the first interval.
US10469134B2
A feedback method and apparatus are provided for Cooperative Multi-Point (CoMP) communication in a communication system. The method includes checking a number of feedback allocations configured by Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling, determining a number of bits of an aperiodic feedback indicator based on the checked number of feedback allocations, receiving Downlink Control Information (DCI) including the aperiodic feedback indicator, interpreting the aperiodic feedback indicator, based on the determined number of bits of the aperiodic feedback indicator, and performing aperiodic feedback of at least one feedback allocation, based on the aperiodic feedback indicator.
US10469133B2
An antenna device includes a first wiring may include a spiral shape forming an empty region therein, and a second wiring disposed inside or outside of the first wiring. The second wiring is disposed to be spaced apart from the first wiring, and includes a first ring-shaped wiring and a second ring-shaped wiring, which are concentric to each other.
US10469131B2
A power supply apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to wirelessly supply power to an electronic apparatus, a communication unit configured to communicate with the electronic apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control whether to supply power to the electronic apparatus according to whether the electronic apparatus is capable of updating information about the electronic apparatus.
US10469128B1
Analog echo cancellation with Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) noise suppression may be provided. First, a test signal may be sent through an echo cancellation pathway during a downstream silence period and an upstream silence period. The echo cancellation pathway may comprise an electronic element. Next, a loopback response signal may be received in response to sending the test signal through the echo cancellation pathway. Then a channel response model may be created that characterizes a channel response of the loopback response signal and a non-linear model may be created that characterizes a non-linearity of the electronic element. Next, for a downstream signal, a non-linear component may be generated based on the created non-linear model. The generated non-linear component may be convolved with the created channel response model. The convolved non-linear component may then be subtracted from an upstream signal.
US10469125B2
A method of transmitting a message using a slow hopping anti-jam waveform, includes generating a sequence with a cryptographic hash function; transmitting, for a predetermined dwell time, a first portion of the message on a first channel having a first baseline frequency; choosing a second channel having a second baseline frequency based on the generated sequence, the second baseline frequency being offset from the first baseline frequency; and transmitting, for the predetermined dwell time, a second portion of the message on the second channel having the second baseline frequency; wherein the two transmitting steps occur sequentially.
US10469124B2
A communications device includes a transmission chain coupled to an antenna a receiver chain coupled to the antenna. The receiver chain includes an amplifier device having an input coupled to the antenna. A controlled switching circuit is included in the amplifier device and is operable to selectively disconnect conduction terminals of an amplifying transistor from power supply terminals when the transmission chain is operating to pass a transmit signal to the antenna.
US10469119B2
A case for an electronic device wherein the electronic device has a receiver coil for wireless charging and the receiver coil is formed in between an inner circle and an outer circle, includes: a hard protective frame constructed to receive the electronic device therein wherein the hard protective frame has a recess which faces the electronic device; and a metal plate constructed to be received in the recess. The metal plate is constructed to enable magnetic retention or attachment of the case to a support having a magnet. The metal plate has a rounded concave edge, and the metal plate does not overlap with the inner circle. Preferably, the rounded concave edge, the inner circle, and the outer circle are substantially symmetrical with respect to a same line.
US10469118B2
A mobile device accessory assembly having a plurality of mobile device accessories. The assembly has a body member having a durable shell member having a shape to accommodate a mobile device, a recess for receiving a metal piece, a circular central accessory opening with a lip around a portion of the circumference of the central accessory opening, a lower accessory opening, and a hinge structure at an edge of the lower accessory opening and a metal piece secured in the recess in the durable shell. A holding accessory is rotatably secured in the circular central accessory opening in the durable shell. A hanging accessory is secured by a magnet to the metal piece in the recess in the durable shell. A standing accessory having a hinge member secured to the hinge member in the lower accessory opening in the durable shell.
US10469113B2
Systems and methods are disclosed which provide wireless communication systems implementing subsystems adapted for flexible deployment configurations and to resist the introduction of interference. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication system configuration in which an ODU subsystem is coupled to an IDU subsystem using a fiber optic link. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an ODU subsystem is adapted to provide conversion between digital and analog to thereby facilitate the use of a digital link between the ODU subsystem and a corresponding IDU subsystem. Embodiments of the present invention utilize a plurality of ODU subsystems configured according to the present invention to provide wireless communication coverage of a service area, such as to provide a wireless application termination system (WATS) hub for use in providing wireless communication links with respect to a plurality of subscriber units.
US10469107B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an antenna structure having a feed point for coupling to a dielectric core of a cable that propagates electromagnetic waves without an electrical return path, and a dielectric antenna, substantially or entirely devoid of conductive external surfaces, coupled to the feed point, the dielectric antenna facilitating receipt, at the feed point, the electromagnetic waves for propagating the electromagnetic waves to an aperture of the dielectric antenna for radiating a wireless signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10469102B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an electronic device may comprise a memory and a processor configured to produce compressed data by compressing data including a first block and a second block stored in the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to include a first replacement data table corresponding to first sub-data in the compressed data, the first sub-data included in the first block, and the first replacement data table produced based on, at least, rankings of first frequencies for the first sub-data, and include information for reference to the first replacement data table, corresponding to the second block, when second sub-data included in the second block and rankings of second frequencies for the second sub-data meet a designated condition with respect to the first sub-data included in the first block and the rankings of the first frequencies. Other embodiments are also possible.
US10469095B2
Successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter, electronic device and method therefor
A successive approximation register, SAR, analog-to-digital converter, ADC, (400) is described. The SAR ADC (400) includes: an analog input signal (410); an ADC core (414) configured to receive the analog input signal (410) and comprising: a digital to analog converter, DAC (430) located in a feedback path; and a SAR controller (418) configured to control an operation of the DAC (430), wherein the DAC (430) comprises a number of DAC cells, arranged to convert a digital code from the SAR controller (418) to an analog form; a digital signal reconstruction circuit (450) configured to convert the digital codes from the SAR controller (418) to a binary form; and an output coupled to the digital signal reconstruction circuit (450) and configured to provide a digital data output (460). The DAC (430) is configurable to support at least two mapping modes, including a small signal mapping mode of operation; and the SAR controller (418) is configured to identify when the received analog signal is a small signal level, and in response thereto re-configure the DAC (430) and the digital signal reconstruction circuit (450) to implement a small signal mapping mode of operation.
US10469094B2
A method of measuring signal change including performing at least one calculation or iteration step based on one or more chaos non-linear dynamical functions on first and second input signals, or sample of signals, to produce iteration values. Performing at least a second iteration step by repeating the at least one calculation or iteration step based on one or more non-linear dynamical functions on the first iteration values to produce a second iteration values and subtracting one set of iteration values generated from either the first or second input signal from the corresponding iteration values generated from the other input signal.
US10469084B2
A level shifter comprises a first control switch (207) for connecting an output terminal to a first supply voltage (VDDH) to set an output signal to be high, and a second control switch (208) for connecting the output terminal to a signal ground (GND) to set the output signal to be low. The level shifter comprises a pre-charging switch (210) for connecting the output terminal to the first supply voltage, and an input gate circuit (211) for controlling an ability of an input signal to control the second control switch. The level shifter comprises a keeper circuit (212) for controlling the first control switch based on the output signal. The first control switch is controlled with the first supply voltage when the output signal is low, and with a second supply voltage that is between the first supply voltage and the signal ground when the output signal is high.
US10469082B2
An encapsulated magnet position switch includes a non-magnetic tubular body including a first end wall closing a first end of the tubular body and an oppositely positioned second end wall closing a second end of the tubular body. Multiple equally angularly spaced non-magnetic guide rails are connected to an inner wall of the tubular body between the first end wall and the second end wall. A spherical shaped magnetic ball is positioned within the tubular body and is retained between the first end wall and the second end wall. The magnetic ball is longitudinally guided by the multiple guide rails coaxial to a longitudinal axis of the tubular body. Multiple sensors are positioned along the tubular body and are connected to a Hall effect switch, the sensors sensing and signaling a longitudinal position of the magnetic ball within the tubular body.
US10469081B2
The invention discloses a split type dual optical path key switch and a mechanical keyboard. The key switch comprises a key switch body, an LED emitter and a light receiver disposed on the PCB, wherein the key switch body comprises a housing and a handle disposed on the housing. The LED emitter and the light receiver are separated by a first light blocking component; a first light guiding body is disposed above the LED emitter, and a second light guiding body is disposed above the light receiver. The first guiding body is provided with a light transmitting portion and a first light reflecting portion, the second light guiding body is provided with a second light reflecting portion, and the handle is provided with a second light blocking component. The key switch can not only realize the function of backlight through the LED emitter, but also connect the switch with the help of the light receiver, so that the entire housing can reserve a sufficient space. In addition, transmitting light through the two light guiding bodies improves the stability of transmission, reduces the cost and process requirements of the key switch, and greatly improves the precision and service life of the mechanical keyboard.
US10469080B2
An operation unit comprises a touch panel display, a home key and a power saving key. The power saving key includes an indication portion, and a first indication portion out of the indication portion has light permeability, and a color of its surface is a dark color, and a second indication portion has no light permeability or has it hardly, which is constituted by a double-layered print. In a surface side of this second indication portion, a figure indicative of a power saving key is printed in silver ink, and in a rear side thereof, a figure indicative of the power saving key is printed in black ink. In a normal state, when a backlight is lit, a surface of the first indication portion is bright, and a surface of the second indication portion is darker than the surface of the first indication portion. On the other hand, in a power saving mode, when a light guide plate does not emit light, the surface of the first indication portion is dark, and the surface of the second indication portion is brighter than the surface of the first indication portion. Therefore, presence and location of the power saving key can be notified in a visible manner.
US10469076B2
Combining the functionality of sleep transistors with logic devices in power-gating circuits by utilizing fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) transistors. In an embodiment, a back gate of a FDSOI transistor controls the threshold voltage to eliminate the need for standalone sleep transistors.
US10469073B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a circuit, comprising a first node configured to couple to a first current source and a second current source. The circuit also comprises a first filter configured to couple between a voltage supply and the first node, the first filter being a first dynamically controllable current filter. The circuit further comprises a current mirror coupled between the first node and a second node configured to couple to a third current source and a fourth current source. The circuit additionally comprises a second filter configured to couple between the second node and a ground node, the second filter being a second dynamically controllable current filter.
US10469064B2
A signal converter circuit includes a frequency detection circuit configured to determine whether an external control signal is a PWM signal. A PWM frequency converter circuit is configured to detect, when a PWM signal is input, a duty cycle of the PWM signal and to generate a first digital signal. An AD converter is configured to generate a second digital signal based on an input DC voltage or a voltage attributable to a variable resistor to digital data using a maximum AD convertible input voltage as a duty cycle of 100%. An output signal generation circuit is configured to generate, based on the first or second digital signals output from the PWM frequency converter circuit or the AD converter, a PWM signal with a duty cycle based on that first or second digital signals.
US10469062B2
Circuits and a corresponding method are used to eliminate or greatly reduce SET induced glitch propagation in a radiation hardened integrated circuit. A clock distribution circuit and an integrated circuit portioning can be radiation hardened using one or two latch circuits interspersed through the integrated circuit, each having two or four latch stages.
US10469057B1
A gate driver integrated circuit (IC) and a method of operating the same is provided. The gate driver IC is configured to drive a transistor between switching states in a power circuit, and includes a memory configured to store at least one measurement window parameter that defines a measurement interval; measurement circuitry configured to measure, over the measurement interval, a value corresponding to an operation of the power circuit, the measured value being proportional to an input capacitance of the transistor; processing circuitry configured to determine a correction factor based on the measured value, the correction factor being proportional to the input capacitance of the transistor; and a gate controller configured to control a gate current of the transistor based on the switching states and the correction factor.
US10469041B2
A method of forming a CMOS device and a GaN PA structure on a 100 Si substrate having a surface orientated in 111 direction and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a device with a protective layer over a portion of a Si substrate; forming a V-shaped groove in the Si substrate; forming a buffer layer, a GaN layer, an AlGaN layer and a passivation layer sequentially over the Si substrate; forming trenches through the passivation and the AlGaN layers; forming second trenches through the passivation layer; forming electrode structures over portions of the passivation layer and filling the first and second trenches; removing portions of the passivation layer, the AlGaN layer and the GaN layer outside of the V-shaped groove down to the buffer layer; forming a dielectric layer over the Si substrate; and forming vias through the dielectric layer down to electrode structures and the device.
US10469038B2
The invention describes a broadband matching network for coupling to an output of an amplifying device for amplifiers with a nominal operating frequency between 1 MHz and 100 MHz. The broadband matching network comprises a planar transformer with a primary winding arranged on a primary side of the broadband matching network and a secondary winding arranged on a secondary side of the broadband matching network. The primary winding is arranged to be electrically connected to the output of the amplifying device. The broadband matching network is characterized by a center frequency and a bandwidth with a frequency range of at least +/−3%. A first parallel resonance frequency and a second parallel resonance frequency of the broadband matching circuit are arranged around the series resonance frequency such that a frequency dependence of a load impedance provided by the broadband matching network for the amplifying device is reduced.
US10469030B2
Systems and methods for synchronous demodulation using passive sampled analog filtering are disclosed. A system for synchronous demodulation includes an input channel for accepting an input signal, a first passive sampled analog filter for filtering the input signal, a mixer for mixing the filtered input signal and outputting a mixed signal, a second passive sampled analog filter for filtering the mixed signal, and an output channel for outputting the filtered mixed signal.
US10469029B2
An LC tank circuit, such as an LC tank circuit of a step-tuned voltage controlled oscillator, includes an inductor and one or more capacitors. The inductor can be dog-bone shaped with a body, an extension and a chamfered joint to improve current distribution. The body and the extension can extend along different directions. The body can be narrower than the extension, and the extension can be sufficiently wide to interface with a plurality of switched capacitor circuits coupled to different parts of the extension.
US10469025B2
A solar-tracking photovoltaic (PV) system having a motor drive vertically below a PV module, is described. In an example, the motor drive rotates a torque tube holding the PV module. The motor drive may include a gearbox having a worm drive, and a gearmotor having an offset gear. The offset gear may be coupled to a planetary gear train along an axis of a worm of the worm drive, and the offset gear may be coupled to a motor along a shaft axis offset vertically below the worm axis. Accordingly, the motor may be offset vertically below the worm drive, i.e., farther from the PV laminate than the worm drive, and a rotational clearance for the PV laminate may be increased.
US10469023B2
In various embodiments, the mounting systems described herein may be configured to mount a solar panel array to a flat concrete roof like those found throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America. Other systems described herein may be configured to facilitate mounting structures on standing seam metals roofs. Still other systems described herein may be configured to facilitate mounting structures on composite shingle, slate, or tile roofs. The mounting systems described herein may be configured as rail-less or rails free roof mounting systems.
US10469014B2
Provided is a control device for a permanent magnet-type rotating electrical machine (100), which includes a current coordinate transformation unit (109) configured to output a d-axis current and a q-axis current by coordinate transformation of three-phase AC currents respectively detected by current detection units (111, 112, 113), a current correction direction calculation unit (108) configured to calculate a current correction direction through use of the d-axis current and the q-axis current, and a current correction amount addition unit (102) configured to correct a d-axis current command and a q-axis current command based on the current correction direction. In this manner, an induced voltage is converged to lie within a maximum voltage circle in accordance with a power supply voltage.
US10469001B1
In a DC brushless ceiling fan speed control device and method, the control device includes a switch module having a switch body, a power supply connected to a side of the switch body, and first, second, and third wire connecting members connected to the other side of the switch body. The second and third wire connecting members have a forward diode and a reverse diode respectively, and the switch body is provided for controlling the input of a power supply to directly and electrically supply power to the first wire connecting member, or supply power to the second and third wire connecting members through the forward and reverse diodes. When current is inputted, the waveform signal will be different, and this phenomenon is used for controlling the rotating speed of a ceiling fan to achieve the effects of good safety and convenience.
US10468992B2
An auxiliary power supply device includes: a resonance-type inverter circuit to convert DC power input from a DC power supply to AC power, a primary coil for input of AC power from the inverter circuit, a transformer for output of AC power from a secondary coil insulated from the primary coil, a converter circuit for conversion of AC power from the transformer to DC power, a filter condenser for smoothing of DC voltage from the converter circuit, and an inverter controller for output of a gate signal for causing operation of switching elements of the inverter circuit. The inverter controller, in a charging mode for charging the filter condenser, makes pulse width of the gate signal smaller than when in a running mode for running of electric rolling stock, and gradually increases the pulse width in accordance with an elapsed time under control in the charging mode.
US10468990B2
A controller circuit for an AC-DC converter includes a first controller circuit block configured to drive one or more switches at the primary side of a transformer in the AC-DC converter. A second controller circuit block is configured to sense, at a secondary side of the transformer in said AC-DC converter, a secondary side signal indicative of the output signal from said AC-DC converter. The second controller circuit block generates switching control signals for the first controller circuit block as a function of the secondary side signal. An isolator circuit block between the first controller circuit block and the second controller circuit block includes an isolated transmission channel of the switching control signals from the second controller circuit block to the first controller circuit block.
US10468979B2
An electronic device includes: a clock booster including a doubler capacitor, the clock booster configured to precharge the doubler capacitor to store a boosted intermediate voltage greater than an input voltage; a secondary booster including a booster capacitor, the secondary booster configured to use charges stored on the doubler capacitor to generate a stage output greater than the boosted intermediate voltage; and a connecting switch connected to the clock booster and the secondary booster, the connecting switch configured to electrically connect the doubler capacitor and the booster capacitor during a recycling duration for discharging a recycled charge from the booster capacitor to the doubler capacitor through the connecting switch, wherein the recycling duration is after generating the stage output.
US10468978B2
Methods and systems of pre-balancing a switched capacitor converter are provided. A first comparator includes a positive input configured to receive a voltage across an output capacitor and a negative input configured to receive a first hysteresis voltage. A second comparator includes a positive input configured to receive a voltage across an input capacitor of the switched capacitor converter and a negative input configured to receive a second hysteresis voltage. A first current source is coupled between the output capacitor and GND and is configured to discharge the output capacitor upon determining that the voltage across the output capacitor is above a tolerance provided by the first hysteresis voltage. A second current source is coupled between the input capacitor and GND and is configured to discharge the input capacitor upon determining that the voltage across the input capacitor is above a tolerance provided by the second hysteresis voltage.
US10468973B2
An over current protecting circuit, used with a switching converter having a switch, having: a current limiting circuit, configured to receive a limit indicating signal and to provide an on time signal to control an on time period of the switch based on the limit indicating signal, wherein if the limit indicating signal indicates a current flowing through the switch of the switching converter is larger than a limiting threshold, the on time period of a next switching cycle of the switch is subtracted with a first period, otherwise, the on time period of the switch of the next switching cycle is added with a second period; wherein a maximum on time period of the switch is fixed to be an on time reference.
US10468964B1
Systems and methods are provided for detecting and compensating for loss of a phase of a three-phase power source, elements of the system including: a sensing unit, which measures current and voltage levels of each phase of the three-phase power source; a switching unit having three primary relays and three backup relays; and a microcontroller, configured to receive measurements from the sensing unit, to determine from the measurements a lost phase and a less-loaded phase of the two remaining phases, and responsively to activate the switching unit to disconnect the lost phase and to connect the less loaded phase to provide backup power in place of the lost phase.
US10468962B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The present disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars, connected cars, health care, digital education, retails, and security and safety-related services) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology. An operation method of a power supply is provided. The operation method includes calculating an inter-phase current deviation by averaging current deviations between a first phase current and a second phase current, comparing the inter-phase current deviation with a first threshold value, adjusting a pulse width modulation (PWM) duty value of at least one of a first phase and a second phase according to a result of the comparing, and compensating for inter-phase current deviation according to the adjusted PWM duty value.
US10468957B2
A linear vibration motor, comprising a housing, a stator, a vibrator, and an elastic support member (1). The vibrator comprises a mass block (2) and magnets (3). The stator comprises coils and circuit boards. The coils comprise a first coil (4) and a second coil (5). The circuit boards comprise a first coil fixing board (6) and a second coil fixing board (7). The first coil and the second coil are respectively located on two opposite sides of the mass block. The first coil is connected with the first coil fixing board. The second coil is connected with the second coil fixing board. The first coil fixing board is fixed on a first washer board (8). The second coil fixing board is fixed on a second washer board (9). The first washer board and the second washer board are respectively fixed on the motor housing. The vibration motor can reduce the loss of magnetic field and improve the utilization rate of magnetic field while implementing vibration feedback on a touch operation of a user.
US10468953B2
A stator of an electric motor (40) has windings (44) and a stator core (43) in which eighteen teeth (71), around which the windings (44) are wound, are formed circumferentially. A rotor of the electric motor (40) has magnets (72) and a rotor core (46) in which six insertion holes (73), into which the magnets (72) are inserted, are formed circumferentially. The magnets (72) are rare-earth magnets of a grain boundary diffusion type having a residual magnetic flux density Br of from 1.36 to 1.42 T. The total area of magnet-parallel cross-sections (84) of the teeth (71) is from 0.56 times to 0.93 times the total area of tooth-facing surfaces (83) of the magnets (72).
US10468951B2
A stator heating apparatus that includes a support that supports a stator in which a stator coil is mounted to a stator core and that is driven by a rotary to rotate the stator; a first heater that includes an induction coil inserted into a cavity portion provided at an axial center of the stator core of the stator supported by the support to be disposed to heat the stator through induction heating, the first heater heating the stator from a radially inner side of the stator; and a second heater that includes a hot-air outlet port that blows hot air toward an outer surface of a coil end portion of the stator supported by the support to heat the stator using the hot air, the second heater heating the stator from a side of the outer surface of the coil end portion, wherein the stator is heated by the first heater and the second heater.
US10468942B2
A bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring arranged to face each other with a rolling element interposed therebetween, and a housing including a housing inner supported by the inner ring and a rotor flange supported by the outer ring. The rotor flange includes a flange portion extending toward one end surface side in an axial direction of the outer ring, and a C-type retaining ring arranged at the other end surface side in the axial direction of the outer ring. A push ring formed of a resin material is provided in a gap between the flange portion and the one end surface in the axial direction.
US10468940B2
A motor includes a stator core, a winding bracket mounted around the stator core, a winding wound around the winding bracket, and a rotor cooperating with stator core. The winding bracket comprises a first bracket and a second bracket arranged in parallel with each other. The motor further includes a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal for supplying power to the winding from an external power source, and the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal are both mounted on the second bracket.
US10468937B2
An electric motor includes: a housing having a first rotor bearing and a stator support surface; a cantilever stator that includes a lamination stack, a first side of the lamination stack abutting the stator support surface and a second side of the lamination stack abutting a stator endbell that has a second rotor bearing, wherein the cantilever stator is held by way of tie rods attaching the stator endbell to the housing; and a rotor in the cantilever stator, the rotor held by the first and second rotor bearings.
US10468932B2
An electric motor has a switching unit with a number of contact wires and an annular frame part. The contact wires are arranged to form an interconnect ring for the coil ends of a stator winding and the ends of the wires being connected by insulation displacement contacts. Each of the contacts have two insulation displacement limbs for connecting at least two of the wire ends, the limbs being spaced apart, thus forming an insulation displacement slot therebetween. The frame part of the switching unit has a number of plug-in pockets for receiving the insulation displacement contacts, the number corresponding to the number of insulation displacement contacts.
US10468930B2
A stator of an electric motor is provided. The stator includes a plurality of segments, each of the segments including a tooth having a magnetically-permeable material, an electric coil surrounding the tooth, and at least one insulator. The stator also includes a plurality of connectors, each connector including first and second terminals, the first terminal adapted to be inserted into the at least one insulator and to couple to the electric coil of each of the plurality of segments and a circuit board coupled to input power lines and including apertures adapted to receive the second terminals of the plurality of connectors. The circuit board is coupled to the electric coils of each of the plurality of segments via when the second terminals are received in the apertures.
US10468928B2
A magnetic balance structure includes a counter weight, a positioning element, a first positioning magnet, a shell and a shaft. The positioning element is set on the counter weight or the shell and the positioning element is set with the first positioning magnet face-to-face. The shaft is set on the shell. The interaction of the positioning element with the first positioning magnet causes the counter weight to do reciprocating motion along the shaft. Furthermore, A magnetic balance linear vibration motor includes a shell internally provided with a stator, a rotor and a shaft. The stator includes a drive coil driving the rotor cutting its magnetic lines of force, generate driving force, and driving the rotor to do reciprocating linear motion along the shaft. The positioning element and the first positioning magnet are respectively set on the rotor or the shell.
US10468927B2
The external rotor for an electric machine includes a cylindrically shaped receptacle having a peripheral wall and a magnet-receiving assembly including segments assembled to the inner surface of the peripheral wall so as to define a cylindrically shaped stack. The segments are shaped so as to yield magnet-receiving portions in the ring-shaped stack, and permanent magnets are secured to the magnet-receiving portion of the magnet receiving assembly.
US10468922B2
An electric motor includes: a rotor that has a rotation axis; and a stator that includes an annular yoke portion having the rotation axis as a center, and a plurality of teeth portions which protrude in a radial direction from the yoke portion, in which the stator is configured with split stators including a plurality of split yoke portions which are split in a circumferential direction, and each of the split stators includes an abutting portion on which the adjacent split yoke portions abut each other, on a side close to the rotor, and a welding portion on which the adjacent split yoke portions are welded in a state of being separated from each other, on a side further distant from the rotor than the abutting portion.
US10468917B2
A battery charger for charging a battery is disclosed. In one embodiment, the battery charger comprises an input for receiving a first voltage and for coupling to a positive terminal of the battery; a first transistor having a first gate, a first drain and a first source, wherein the first gate is for coupling to a charging signal for the battery and the first drain is coupled to the battery negative terminal and, the first transistor to cause energy to be transferred from the input into the battery when turned on; and a group of transistors coupled to the first transistor and the input to control when the first transistor is turned on, wherein the group of transistors comprises a second transistor having a second gate coupled to the input and coupled to a third transistor to turn off the third transistor after a delay occurs after the voltage on the input reaches a predetermined level, and further herein the third transistor causes the first transistor to turn on when the third transistor is turned off.
US10468911B2
The invention concerns a switching system (6) for activating and deactivating of an electrical appliance (100) comprising a remote switch control device (9) that comprises a first terminal (90) electrically connected to a first power line (8), a second terminal (91) electrically connected to a second power line (7), and a third terminal (92) connectable to an electrical 5 terminal of the electrical appliance. The remote switch control device (9) is configured to modify the electrical connection between the first and the third terminal (90, 92) in response to a detection of an attenuation of an electrical parameter between the first and second terminals (90,91) caused by a electromechanical switch (1) configured to be manually actionable by 10 a user. The invention further concerns the remote switch control device (9) and a method for installing a switching system using the remote switch control device (9) and the electromechanical switch.
US10468910B2
In various embodiments, an apparatus for driving a load is disclosed. In one example, the apparatus comprises an input configured to, in a first state, receive an input signal, an output configured to, in the first state, provide a first output signal to a series arrangement of the load and a source, wherein the first output signal is configured to feed the load and to charge the source with input power provided via the input signal, and a converter configured to, in a second state different from the first state, convert a source signal from the source into a second output signal destined for the load, wherein the second output signal is configured to feed the load with source power provided by the source.
US10468907B2
There is provided a power supply device for a work unit that supplies power to multiple work units constituting a work device as power supply targets, the device including: a first power supply line through which power supply is stopped when an emergency stop condition is satisfied and a second power supply line through which power supply is not stopped even when the emergency stop condition is satisfied, in which the first power supply line and the second power supply line can be used individually according to a difference in a safety structure of each work unit. According to this, when the emergency stop condition is satisfied, it is possible to reduce the restoration time required when the emergency stop is eliminated while guaranteeing the safety of the entire work device configured by the multiple work units.
US10468901B2
An apparatus and a method for wirelessly charging are disclosed. An accessory device is detachably mounted on an electronic device. The accessory device includes a housing including a first face configured to oppose a face of the electronic device when the housing is mounted on the electronic device, a second face opposite to the first face, and a third face extending in a first direction from the first face so as to enclose at least a portion of a side face. The accessory device further includes a battery and at least one conductive pattern electrically connected to the battery. The accessory device can transmit power to the electronic device in a wireless manner and/or receive power from an external device in a wireless manner. Areas of the first face and the third face of the housing of the accessory device are formed of a non-conductive material.
US10468900B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that manages use of a battery corresponding to a high-voltage lithium-polymer battery in a portable electronic device. During operation, the system monitors a cycle number of the battery during use of the battery with the portable electronic device, wherein the cycle number corresponds to a number of charge-discharge cycles of the battery. If the cycle number exceeds one or more cycle number thresholds, the system modifies a charging technique for the battery to manage swelling in the battery and use of the battery with the portable electronic device.
US10468884B2
A device controls a load flow in an alternating-voltage network. The device is distinguished by a module series circuit of two-pole switching modules that can be inserted in series into a phase line of the alternating-voltage network. Each switching module has an energy store and controllable power semiconductors that can be switched on an off and each switching module can be controlled in such a way that a switching-module voltage can be produced at the poles thereof, which switching-module voltage corresponds to a positive or negative energy-store voltage or a voltage having the value of zero. A control apparatus for controlling the switching modules is provided, which control apparatus is configured to control the switching modules in such a way that a periodic longitudinal voltage can be produced at the module series circuit. A method for controlling a load flow in an alternating-voltage network is performed by the device.
US10468881B2
An electrical power system connectable to a power grid includes a plurality of electrical power subsystems, each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems including a power converter electrically coupled to a generator having a generator rotor and a generator stator. The electrical power system further includes an intermediate power path extending from each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems for providing power from each of the plurality of electrical power subsystems to the power grid. The electrical power system further includes a zig-zag transformer electrically coupling each of the plurality of intermediate power paths to the power grid, the zig-zag transformer including a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings, each of the plurality of secondary windings connected to one of the plurality of intermediate power paths, and wherein at least one of the plurality of secondary windings is a zig-zag winding.
US10468874B2
The present invention refers to a combined device for electrical protection against transient overvoltages and monitoring of an electrical installation, of those used in installations with alternating single-phase or multi-phase current, or direct current, of those formed by cartridges plugged in to a fixed base or formed by a monoblock, both types of devices comprising one or more components for overvoltage protection in each plug-in cartridge or in the monoblock, characterised in that it comprises monitoring means configured so that they continuously measure and process one or several parameters related to the state of the electrical installation and the protective device itself, and connected to said monitoring means a series of indication means configured to indicate one or a combination of output parameters are comprised.
US10468873B2
A current-breaking device for high-voltage direct current includes a main conduction-line and a secondary conduction-line connected in parallel between its terminals. The main conduction-line comprises a first controlled-switch and a circuit connected in series. The circuit comprises a first current-limiter and a first capacitor connected in parallel. The secondary conduction-line comprises a second controlled-switch. These conduction lines cooperate to form an oscillating circuit that oscillates with an amplitude that is at least equal to limiting current passing through the current limiter.
US10468871B2
A modular distribution block for a high-current power system includes a ground module and one or more phase modules. The ground module includes a grounding clamp configured to electrically and mechanically connect to a DIN rail and to retain the distribution block in place with respect to the DIN rail. The phase module(s) include: a conductive splice block that connects a line current from a power supply to a powered device; and, a first surge protective device (SPD) terminal and a second SPD terminal configured to together receive and electrically connect to an SPD module, such connection forming a surge protection circuit within the distribution block, the first SPD terminal electrically connecting to the bus terminal and the second SPD terminal electrically connecting, to the splice block. A rigid bus bar electrically connects the ground module to the phase module(s).
US10468869B2
An analog transmit/receive switch and voltage detection circuit that do not require depletion mode devices are provided. The switch may be configured to operate in a receive mode and a protection mode. The voltage detection circuit may be coupled to the switch and may be configured to measure a potential difference between two terminals of the switch. The switch and the voltage detection circuit may not include any depletion mode devices.
US10468862B2
An exterior structure for a wire harness is provided with a pipe that has an electric wire insertion space that allows an electric wire to be inserted through the inside of the pipe. The pipe includes a diameter reduction portion that is defined by an inward deformation of the pipe in a diameter direction that narrows the electric wire insertion space. In the diameter reduction portion, the clearance between (i) the electric wire that is inserted through the electric wire insertion space of the pipe and (ii) the inner circumferential surface of the pipe can be reduced or eliminated, which suppresses rattling of the electric wire.
US10468861B2
Provided is a distribution panel. The distribution panel includes a main busbar compartment in which a main busbar is provided and which is provided as an independent space and an arc duct provided at a rear side of the main busbar compartment to discharge an arc generated in the main busbar compartment. The main busbar compartment includes a communication hole defied in one surface of the main busbar to allow the main busbar compartment to communicate with the arc duct and a relief device rotatably provided on one side of the communication hole to open or close the communication hole. The relief device is bendable in multi stages. Thus, the arc may be effectively discharged while reducing a size of the distribution panel.
US10468858B2
Described is a supply circuit for a corona ignition device, with an input for connection to a direct voltage source, a first converter, a second converter, and an output for connecting a load. The two converters each generate an output voltage, which is provided on its secondary side and exceeds the input voltage. The two converters each contain a transformer that galvanically separates the primary side of the converter from its secondary side. At least one transistor switch is arranged between the input and primary side of the two converters for pulse width-modulation of the input voltage. The primary side of the second converter is connected in parallel with the primary side of the first converter, the secondary side of the second converter is connected in series with the secondary side of the first converter, the secondary sides of the two converters are each bridged in this series connection by at least one diode, so that an output voltage can be provided at the output of the supply circuit even given a failure of one of the two converters.
US10468857B1
A spark plug includes a housing, a center electrode, and a ground electrode assembly. The center electrode is disposed within the housing. The ground electrode assembly cooperates with the center electrode to generate a spark. The ground electrode assembly further includes an arm, a ground electrode, and a ground electrode pad. The arm is fixed to the housing. The ground electrode is disposed opposite the center electrode. The ground electrode pad is disposed on an inner surface of the ground electrode. The ground electrode pad is a precious metal coating on the surface of the inner surface.
US10468851B1
A tunable laser that includes an array of parallel optical amplifiers is described. The laser may also include an intracavity N×M coupler that couples power between a cavity mirror and the array of parallel optical amplifiers. Phase adjusters in optical paths between the N×M coupler and the optical amplifiers can be used to adjust an amount of power output from M−1 ports of the N×M coupler. A tunable wavelength filter is incorporated in the laser cavity to select a lasing wavelength.
US10468849B1
In various example embodiments, hybrid waveguide devices are disclosed based on a silicon nitride waveguide conformally coated with a tellurium oxide layer. A tellurium oxide layer is deposited over a silicon nitride waveguide such that the tellurium oxide layer forms a conformal layer that inherits the underlying shape of the silicon nitride waveguide, thereby forming a conformal raised region above the silicon nitride waveguide, while also forming planar regions that extend laterally from the silicon nitride waveguide. The present example hybrid waveguide structures enable the formation of a guided single mode that extends from the raised region of the tellurium oxide layer that resides above the silicon nitride waveguide into the silicon nitride waveguide, and the dimensions of the structure may be selected such that a majority of the optical mode is confined within the tellurium oxide layer, at least over a portion of the infrared region.
US10468848B2
An electrical connector includes a pair of terminal modules sandwiching a metallic shielding plate via an insert-molding process and sandwiched between a pair of metallic shells to be commonly enclosed within an insulative front/inner housing via a first stage over-molding process and an insulative rear/outer housing via a second stage over-molding process. The rear housing forms a base from which the mating tongue of the front housing forwardly extends. A plurality of first positioning holes extend through the shielding plate, the pair of insulators, the pair of metallic shells. A plurality of second positioning holes extend through the front housing and the rear housing. The first positioning holes are filled with either glue or material of the rear housing, depending upon positional relation with the corresponding second positioning holes.
US10468829B2
A ground shield includes a plurality of contact members configured to contact the ground contacts of a column of contacts of an electrical connector, so as to electrically common the grounds to each other.
US10468824B2
A connector structure includes an insulating main body, a shielding plate, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a protecting component and a housing. The insulating main body includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending out of the base portion, and the tongue portion includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and two lateral surfaces disposed between the first surface and the second surface. The shielding plate is disposed inside the tongue portion and between the first surface and the second surface. The first terminals are disposed on the first surface. The second terminals are disposed on the second surface. The protecting component is disposed on the two lateral surfaces of the tongue portion. The housing surrounds the tongue portion to define a docking space, and an opening is formed on a side of the docking space.
US10468822B2
Methods and systems for providing crosstalk compensation in a jack are disclosed. According to one method, the crosstalk compensation is adapted to compensate for undesired crosstalk generated at a capacitive coupling located at a plug inserted within the jack. The method includes positioning a first capacitive coupling a first time delay away from the capacitive coupling of the plug, the first capacitive coupling having a greater magnitude and an opposite polarity as compared to the capacitive coupling of the plug. The method also includes positioning a second capacitive coupling at a second time delay from the first capacitive coupling, the second time delay corresponding to an average time delay that optimizes near end crosstalk. The second capacitive coupling has generally the same overall magnitude but an opposite polarity as compared to the first capacitive coupling, and includes two capacitive elements spaced at different time delays from the first capacitive coupling.
US10468816B2
There is disclosed a connector waterproof housing comprising a frame formed in a cylindrical shape having a lateral wall, an open top and an open bottom; a first waterproof portion formed in an inner rime of the lateral wall by a double-injection molding method; and a second waterproof portion formed in an outer rim of the lateral wall or one side of the frame in an ring shape so that the connector waterproof housing may solve the problem of the deteriorated waterproof reliability or the error which is caused by the pushed or rolled waterproof structure when connected with the case.
US10468812B1
The present invention relates to a waterproof ring used for contacting an abutting surface. The waterproof ring comprises a ring body and a flared ring piece. The flared ring piece extends from an interior side to an exterior side of the ring body. The abutting surface presses against the flared ring piece such that the flared ring piece is deformed in an everted manner and molded to fit the abutting surface.
US10468799B2
An electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. The housing forms a mating surface for mating with an electronic part, and a supporting/mounting surface on which an FPC is seated. The contact includes a contacting section exposed upon the mating surface, a soldering section extending through the FPC, and a connecting section between the contacting section and the soldering section. A metallic shell is attached upon the housing, facing the FPC direction in the vertical direction to restrict movement of the FPC in a vertical direction. The contacts may be bent after assembly to expose the soldering sections at the mounting face.
US10468794B2
One example of a system includes a system board including first contacts and second contacts and a cage attached to the system board. The cage includes a first side over the first contacts and a second side over the second contacts. A first lever is coupled to the first side of the cage and pivotable with respect to the cage. A second lever is coupled to the second side of the cage and pivotable with respect to the cage. A removable transceiver module includes third contacts. The transceiver module is installable in at least one of the first side and the second side of the cage using at least one of the first lever and the second lever.
US10468790B2
A coaxial plug connector, comprising at least one electrically conductive inner conductor, an electrically conductive outer conductor spaced apart from the at least one inner conductor and disposed around the at least one inner conductor, at least one sleeve, which is made of an insulating plastic, wherein the inner conductor is disposed on an inside circumferential surface of the sleeve, wherein the outer conductor is disposed on an outside circumferential surface of the sleeve, wherein the coaxial plug connector is single-piece and sleeve-like.
US10468785B1
A crimp sleeve assembly includes a body made from titanium and has a first open end and a second closed end. The crimp sleeve crimps a Nitinol wire and a PTFE coated stainless steel wire. An axial end stop sleeve assembly has a sleeve crimped by an axial die assembly which forms a tip of the sleeve into a closed end bullet and/or tapered nose wherein the sleeve is crimped onto an end of a wire rope such that the wire rope does not protrude from the closed end bullet and/or tapered nose and wherein the axial die assembly minimizes flash during crimping.
US10468776B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods relating to medical devices that utilize dynamically tunable antennas comprising a plurality of sub-wavelength antenna elements. In various embodiments, impedance elements associated with the sub-wavelength antenna elements are dynamically tuned to control radiation patterns of a tunable antenna, such as a metamaterial surface antenna technology (MSA-T) antenna. The radiation patterns produced by the tunable antenna are used, for example, for sending a control signal to an implanted medical device, directly controlling the movement of a medical device, causing a medical device to perform a specific function, powering a medical device, and/or otherwise interacting a medical device. In some embodiments, the implanted medical device may also include an antenna, such as an MSA-T antenna, for receiving and/or sending beam-formed electromagnetic radiation.
US10468772B2
A polymorphic antenna, including a metallic template configurable in at least first and second possible different three-dimensional shapes, the antenna, when configured in the at least first and second different three-dimensional shapes, having a common antenna feed point, a common balun coupled to the common antenna feed point; and a common dipole coupled to the common antenna feed point and to the common balun. The antenna operates in a common frequency band when configured in either of the at least first and second different three-dimensional shapes when fed via the common antenna feed point.
US10468764B2
An antenna system and a method for manufacturing same. The antenna system includes a substrate having a first outer side on which a first antenna structure is mounted; a radome spaced apart from the substrate on the first outer side of the substrate; a carrier device situated between the substrate and the radome which includes an insulating material; and at least one second antenna structure mounted on the carrier device which is spaced apart from the substrate and the radome.
US10468759B2
A telecommunications antenna system for use with an aircraft is described that includes an aperture that is mounted at an angle relative to the horizon plane that does not change during system operation. Additional angle of elevation for adjustment of azimuth is provided by electronic means, such as a Rotman lens, while rotation within the horizon plane is provided by a rotating mechanism. Also disclosed is a radome for use with such an antenna system, which is provided dimensioned to accommodate the at a large value of the mounting angle and which can be trimmed to accommodate the system at smaller values of the mounting angle in order to minimize the impact on aircraft aerodynamics.
US10468756B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of the device. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds and multiple adjustable components that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. Control circuitry may control the adjustable components and selectively activate one of the first and second feeds at a given time to place the antenna in first, second, or third operating modes. The control circuitry may determine which operating mode to use based on information indicative of the operating environment of the device. By switching between the operating modes, the control circuitry may shift current hot spots across the length of the resonating element arm to ensure satisfactory performance of the antenna in a variety of operating conditions.
US10468755B2
A data communications system is disclosed for a vehicle having an exterior surface and an interior space, the data communications system including a support frame positionable within the interior space of the vehicle. A case is movable between an open and a closed position and includes a mounting system, the case mountable to the exterior surface of the vehicle via the mounting system. The system includes a power supply and a router device communicated with the power supply, one or more of the power supply and the router device mounted to the support frame. An antenna array is mounted within the case, the antenna array communicated with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas.
US10468754B2
The present technology relates to a multiband antenna for wireless mobile communication devices such as cellular telephones. The antenna may include a bifurcated ring structure along one, two, three or all four edges of the device. The ring structure may include bifurcated metal conductors, or bars, extending along the length of the one or more edges.
US10468751B2
A multi-feed antenna assembly including a ground element lying in a plane, a first antenna element coupled to the ground element and having a projection on the plane, a first feed for feeding the first antenna element, a second antenna element coupled to the ground element and having a projection on the plane, the projection of the second antenna element being at least partially encompassed by the projection of the first antenna element and a second feed for feeding the second antenna element.
US10468743B2
A mast mountable antenna that is rugged, weather-tolerant, and unaffected by the antenna's mounting structure, while maintaining an electrical path for lightning surge currents. The mast mountable antenna generally includes a radiating conductor section, an impedance transformer section, a low inductance feed point, a mounting mast section, a mast isolating stub section, and an integral coaxial feed line.
US10468730B2
Various embodiments may be generally directed to techniques for using an observed battery stress history to manage operation of a computing system component in a high power performance mode when powered by a battery. Various embodiments include techniques for tracking stresses to a battery. Various embodiments include techniques for comparing the battery stress history to a degradation baseline for the battery. Various embodiments include techniques for developing a degradation baseline for a battery including, for example, a degradation baseline based on expected stress to a battery and/or a degradation baseline based on a battery reliability model. Various embodiments include techniques for determining a battery stress surplus or deficit. Various embodiments include techniques for managing operation of a performance enhancing mode or high power performance mode of a computing system component based on the determined battery stress surplus or deficit.
US10468727B2
Methods of making anode active materials include milling graphite particles with carbohydrate particles to yield graphite-carbohydrate particles, milling the particles with anode material and carbonizing to form composite anode material particles. The anode active materials thus producted are provided with an at least partially porous carbon-graphite coating with both electronic and ionic conductivity.
US10468720B2
An object is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte and a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery which have excellent discharge load characteristics and are excellent in high-temperature storability, cycle characteristics, high capacity, continuous-charge characteristics, storability, gas evolution inhibition during continuous charge, high-current-density charge/discharge characteristics, discharge load characteristics, etc. The object has been accomplished with a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises: a monofluorophosphate and/or a difluorophosphate; and further a compound having a specific chemical structure or specific properties.
US10468717B2
An electrolyte includes a first electrolyte, in which an element constituting a crystalline lithium composite metal oxide represented by the following compositional formula (1) is substituted with a first metal element having a crystal radius of 78 pm or more, and an amorphous second electrolyte, which contains Li and a second metal element contained in the first electrolyte other than Li. (Li7−3x+yGax)(La3−yCay)Zr2O12 (1) (In the formula (1), x and y satisfy the following formulae: 0.1≤x≤0.6 and 0.0
US10468714B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode mixture layer, formed thereon, containing a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer, formed thereon, containing a negative electrode active material; a separator: a nonaqueous electrolyte; an outer can; and a sealing body. The positive electrode and negative electrode plates are wound with the separator there between. The positive electrode active material contains a lithium-nickel composite oxide containing cobalt and aluminum as constituent elements. The negative electrode active material contains graphite and a silicon material. The negative electrode plate includes negative electrode current collector-exposed portions, located at both ends thereof in a longitudinal direction, not covered by the negative electrode mixture layer. The negative electrode current collector-exposed portions are each connected to a negative electrode tab.
US10468708B2
An end plate of a fuel cell stack includes a metal plate body and a resin cover. The plate body includes a main portion, through holes extending through the main portion, and a flange portion including a fastening surface fastened to a flange of a case. The main portion includes a peripheral surface including a peripheral recess and an inner end surface that projects toward the inner side from the fastening surface. The cover includes an inner portion, a peripheral portion that covers the peripheral surface of the main portion, and an opposing portion that covers an inner end surface of the flange portion and opposes the flange of the case. The peripheral portion includes a peripheral projection that fills the peripheral recess and restricts contraction of the peripheral portion toward the inner side.
US10468705B2
A fuel cell case that is configured to place a fuel cell therein, the fuel cell case includes: a first member including a bottom surface of the fuel cell case; and a second member fixed to an outer circumferential portion of the first member using a fastener, wherein a gasket seals between the first member and the second member, and the first member includes a rib, wherein the rib is positioned on an inner circumferential side of a portion where the first member comes into contact, with the gasket and is protruded upward from a surface where the first member comes into contact with the gasket.
US10468692B2
A technique of reducing the possibility that the thickness of an adhesive layer in a seal member becomes non-uniform is provided. There is provided a fuel cell comprising a membrane electrode gas diffusion layer assembly; a seal member; and a first separator and a second separator arranged to place the diffusion layer assembly and the seal member therebetween. The seal member includes a first adhesive layer facing the first separator, a second adhesive layer facing the second separator, and a core layer that is placed between, and is harder than, the first and second adhesive layers. Each of the first and second separators includes an opposed surface that faces the corresponding adhesive layer and a convex protruded from the opposed surface in a direction toward the seal member. A circumference of the convex in the opposed surface adheres to the corresponding facing adhesive layer.
US10468687B2
A method for improving freezing resistance of a membrane electrode assembly is provided. In particular, the method improves freezing resistance of a membrane electrode assembly including conducting drying and heat treatment under certain conditions to produce an electrode that reduces formation of macro-cracks and micro-cracks in the electrode. Accordingly, water does not permeate the electrode excessively and the electrode does not break even when frozen.
US10468679B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including a spinel type lithium titanate. The nonaqueous electrolyte has an ion conductivity of not less than 7 mS/cm and not more than 10 mS/cm at 25° C. A capacity ratio p/n is within a range of not less than 1.4 and not more than 1.8. A thickness ratio Tp/Tn is within a range of not less than 1.05 and less than 1.3. A ratio Pp/Pn is within a range of not less than 0.55 and less than 0.8.
US10468676B2
A positive electrode-active material is provided for use in a positive electrode for a sodium secondary cell and a sodium secondary cell. Also provided is a positive electrode for a sodium secondary cell and a sodium secondary cell having a high energy density. The positive electrode-active material for a sodium secondary cell includes a composite metal oxide, which has an α-NaFeO2 type crystal structure and is denoted by Formula (1) described below: Naa(FewNixMny-zTiz)O2 (1), wherein a is greater than or equal to 0.6 and less than or equal to 1.0, w is greater than 0 and less than 0.5, x is greater than 0 and less than 0.5, y is greater than 0.03 and less than or equal to 0.5, z is greater than or equal to 0.03 and less than 0.5, and w+x+y=1.0, and y>z.
US10468673B2
Provided are a positive active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the positive active material, and a lithium ion secondary battery including the positive active material, the positive active material including a lithium-containing compound represented by the formula of Li2−xM′O3−y (wherein M′ is at least one element selected from Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, Ga, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, and F; 0≤x≤1; and 0≤y≤3) on a surface or inside of a lithium metal oxide represented by the formula of Li1−xNiyM1−yO2−z (wherein M is at least one element selected from Co and Mn; 0≤x≤0.05; 0.6≤y≤1; and 0≤z≤0.05).
US10468672B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery using a positive electrode active material which operates at a charging voltage in a region exceeding 4.3 V, and a novel positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which can further enhance the output characteristics. Proposed is a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery including positive electrode active material particles obtained by equipping the entire surface or a part of the surface of lithium manganese-containing composite oxide particles (also referred to as the “core particles”) operating at a charging voltage in a region exceeding 4.3 V in a metal Li reference potential with a layer A containing at least Ti, Al, Zr, or two or more kinds of these, and C.
US10468665B2
A permeable composite material for making an electrode for an electrochemical cell, the composite material comprising: a support defining pores; and alkali metal deposited on the support within a plurality of said pores. An electrode comprising the composite material is also described, as are methods of making the material and cells and assemblies comprising the electrode.
US10468657B2
An electrical storage device includes a polar plate and a collector plate. The polar plate includes a mixture layer and a collector. The collector includes an exposed portion. The exposed portion is exposed from the mixture layer in one end of the polar plate in a width direction. The collector plate includes a facing portion, a projection portion, and a corner portion. The facing portion is opposed to a tip end surface of the exposed portion. The projection portion extends from the facing portion so as to project toward the exposed portion relative to the facing portion. The corner portion is placed in a boundary between the facing portion and the projection portion. The collector plate is welded to the exposed portion in at least part of the corner portion.
US10468651B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has improved battery cycle durability and suppresses internal short-circuits.The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a power generating element having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator including a resin film having a three-layer structure, a ratio of a rated capacity to a pore volume of a positive electrode active material layer being 2.08 Ah/cc or more, a ratio of a battery area to a rated capacity being 7 cm2/Ah or more, and a rated capacity being 50 Ah or more, in which a value R represented by Formula 1 is 62 to 110: R = Tortuosity factor × Thickness [ µm ] Porosity ( Formula 1 ) provided that, the average pore diameter is 0.10 to 0.18 μm, the porosity is 0.43 to 0.65, the air permeability is 140 to 305 sec/100 ml, and the thickness is 11 to 25 μm.
US10468648B2
A battery pack for an electric power tool is adapted for attachment in a removable manner to a tool body of the electric power tool. The battery pack includes an outer shell and a rechargeable battery unit accommodated in the outer shell. The rechargeable battery unit includes at least one rechargeable battery cell, a battery case that is sealed accommodating the at least one rechargeable battery cell, and a relief valve arranged on the battery case. The relief valve is configured to open when the at least one rechargeable battery cell generates gas and builds up pressure in the battery case to a predetermined value or greater.
US10468645B2
A battery assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a tray, a battery pack received within the tray, a cover positioned over the battery pack and a mounting assembly connected to the tray and including at least one bushing configured to establish an interface with a vehicle component.
US10468641B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.
US10468639B2
A lithium battery packaging material is provided with a laminate formed by sequentially laminating an adhesive layer, an aluminum foil layer provided with a corrosion prevention treatment layer on at least one surface thereof, an adhesive resin layer and a sealant layer on one surface of a substrate layer. The adhesive resin layer contains an adhesive resin composition, and a polypropylene or propylene-α-olefin copolymer having an atactic structure.
US10468628B2
An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a display unit located on the substrate and including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a thin film encapsulation layer sealing the display unit. The display also includes a voltage line formed in the non-display area and surrounding the display area, a metal layer formed of the same material as the voltage line, and a dam surrounding the display area and contacting the voltage line. The voltage line includes a first voltage line disposed in one side of the display area. The first voltage line includes a pair of first end portions and a pair of first connectors respectively connected to the pair of first end portions and extending away from the display area. The metal layer is disposed between the pair of first connectors. The dam contacts the metal layer.
US10468625B2
A novel light-emitting device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. A method for manufacturing a novel light-emitting device that is highly convenient or reliable is also provided. Further, a novel light-emitting device, a method for manufacturing a novel light-emitting device, or a novel device is provided. The present inventor has conceived the structure in which a first insulating film and a light-emitting element are provided between a first support having certain isotropy and a second support.
US10468620B2
A plurality of lighting apparatuses according to the present disclosure may be formed on a film having flexibility, and then cut to complete each unit lighting apparatus, and an lighting apparatus formed on the film may be provided with an aging pad to apply an aging voltage to the organic light emitting layer through the aging pad so as to age the lighting apparatus during the process of forming the lighting apparatus, and when the film formed with the lighting apparatus is cut and divided into individual lighting apparatuses, the aging pad may be removed and cut, and only a pad line for electrically connecting the aging pad to the first electrode and the second electrode may remain in the lighting apparatus.
US10468603B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode having a low driving voltage and long lifespan and more particularly, to an organic light-emitting diode, comprising a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a light-emitting layer interposed therebetween, wherein the light-emitting layer contains at least one of the amine compounds represented by the following Chemical Formula A or Chemical Formula B, plus the compound represented by Chemical Formula D. The structures of Chemical Formulas A, B, and D are the same as in the specification.
US10468601B2
The present invention relates to a charge transporting semi-conducting material. The charge transporting semi-conducting material may include optionally at least one electrical dopant, and a branched or cross-linked charge transporting polymer that includes 1,2,3-triazole cross-linking units of at least one of the general formulae Ia and/or Ib herein. The charge transporting polymer can include ethylene building units substituted with at least one pending side group including a conjugated system of delocalized electrons. Also provided herein are processes for obtaining the charge transporting semi-conducting material.
US10468592B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure are for systems and methods for fabrication of a magnetic tunnel junction stack. This fabrication can occur via methods including one or more of (1) heating the substrate after the deposition of a buffer layer on the substrate, prior to deposition of a seed layer; (2) cooling the substrate after the deposition of a second pinning layer, before deposition of a structure blocking layer; (3) heating the substrate during the deposition of a tunnel barrier layer and then cooling it after the deposition of the tunnel barrier layer is complete; (4) heating the substrate after the deposition of a magnetic storage layer on the tunnel barrier layer; and (5) cooling the substrate after the deposition of the magnetic storage layer before a first interlayer of the capping layer is deposited.
US10468589B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, and the tunnel barrier layer has a spinel structure in which cations are disordered, and contains a divalent cation of a non-magnetic element, a trivalent cation of a non-magnetic element, oxygen, and one of nitrogen and fluorine.
US10468572B2
A thermoelectric element unit is provided. The thermoelectric element unit includes a plurality of thermoelectric elements and a plurality of electrodes embedded in each of the thermoelectric elements by a predetermined number. Additionally, at least one of the plurality of electrodes includes a terminal part that protrudes to an exterior of the thermoelectric element having the at least one electrode embedded among the thermoelectric elements.
US10468562B2
Wavelength converters, including polarization-enhanced carrier capture converters, for solid state lighting devices, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A solid state radiative semiconductor structure in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a first region having a first value of a material characteristic and being positioned to receive radiation at a first wavelength. The structure can further include a second region positioned adjacent to the first region to emit radiation at a second wavelength different than the first wavelength. The second region has a second value of the material characteristic that is different than the first value, with the first and second values of the characteristic forming a potential gradient to drive electrons, holes, or both electrons and holes in the radiative structure from the first region to the second region. In a further particular embodiment, the material characteristic includes material polarization.
US10468558B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor light emitting device and a method for manufacturing the same, in which the semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting chip having a semiconductor light emitting part for generating light by electron-hole recombination, and at least one electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor light emitting part; a wall placed on a lateral side of the semiconductor light emitting part, with the wall having an elevated upper end caused by surface tension effects; and an encapsulant arranged in a bowl that is defined by the upper end of the wall and the semiconductor light emitting part, with the encapsulant for transmitting therethrough a light from the semiconductor light emitting part.
US10468556B2
Provided are a light emitting element and a light emitting device with improved light emission intensity distribution. A light emitting element includes a light-transmissive substrate, an n-type semiconductor layer, a first p-type semiconductor layer, a first p-side electrode, a first n-side electrode, a second p-type semiconductor layer, a second p-side electrode, and a second n-side electrode. A light emitting device includes the light emitting element, and an external connection electrode provided at the light emitting element on a side opposite to the light-transmissive substrate. The external connection electrode includes an n-side external connection electrode connected to the first n-side electrode and the second n-side electrode, a first p-side external connection electrode connected to the first p-side electrode, and a second p-side external connection electrode connected to the second p-side electrode.
US10468553B1
A semiconductor comprising at least one contact, formed on an interface with the semiconductor, the contact comprising at least a layer of a first metal, the first metal being of sufficient amount to impart a first property in the layer; and a second metal diffused in the layer, the second metal having a concentration in the layer sufficiently low such that the second metal does not diminish significantly the first property of the layer, the concentration being sufficiently high such that the second metal imparts significantly a second property in the layer.
US10468552B2
Disclosed herein are light emitting diodes (LEDs) having a high efficiency. A light emitting diode including an active light emitting layer within a semiconductor layer is provided. The semiconductor layer has a mesa shape. The light emitting diode also includes a substrate having a first surface on which the semiconductor layer is positioned and an outcoupling surface opposite to the first surface. Light generated by the active light emitting layer is incident on the outcoupling surface and propagates toward an optical element downstream of the outcoupling surface. The light emitting diode also includes a first anti-reflection coating adjacent to the outcoupling surface; an index-matched material between the outcoupling surface and the optical element, wherein an index of refraction of the index-matched material is greater than or equal to an index of refraction of the optical element; and/or secondary optics adjacent to the outcoupling surface.
US10468549B2
A nitrogen-containing semiconductor device including a first type doped semiconductor layer, a multiple quantum well layer and a second type doped semiconductor layer is provided. The multiple quantum well layer includes barrier layers and well layers, and the well layers and the barrier layers are arranged alternately. The multiple quantum well layer is located between the first type doped semiconductor layer and the second type doped semiconductor layer, and one of the well layers of the multiple quantum well layer is connected to the second type doped semiconductor layer.
US10468547B2
Disclosed are a silicon wafer having a complex structure, a method of fabricating the same, and a solar cell using the same, wherein the silicon wafer is configured such that an oriented silicon wafer has a pyramid pattern formed through wet etching and additionally has nanowires formed in the direction in which silicon crystals are oriented on the pyramid pattern, and is further doped with POCl3.
US10468530B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a gate structure, a gate spacer and a source/drain structure. The gate structure is positioned over a fin structure. The gate spacer is positioned over the fin structure and on a sidewall surface of the gate structure. The source/drain structure is positioned in the fin structure and adjacent to the gate spacer. The source/drain structure includes a first source/drain epitaxial layer and a second source/drain epitaxial layer. The first source/drain epitaxial layer is in contact with the fin structure. The first source/drain epitaxial layer is connected to a portion of the second source/drain epitaxial layer below a top surface of the fin structure. The lattice constant of the first source/drain epitaxial layer is different from the lattice constant of the second source/drain epitaxial layer.
US10468520B2
A switching element may include a semiconductor substrate, a trench, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. A drift region may be in contact with the gate insulating film below the body region. A bottom region may be in contact with the gate insulating film at a bottom surface of the trench. A connection region may be in contact with the gate insulating film at a side surface of the trench and connect the body region and the bottom region. The side surface of the trench may include a first side surface and a second side surface positioned below the first side surface. An inclination angle of the second side surface may be larger than an inclination angle of the first side surface. An interface between the body region and the drift region may be in contact with the gate insulating film at the first side surface.
US10468519B2
A structure of a trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor includes an N-current spread layer (N-CSL) disposed on the N-drift region a split gate structure formed in the gate trench and covered by the insulating layer; and a semiconductor protection layer disposed below the bottom of the trench and adjacent to the N-drift region, wherein the insulating layer is disposed above the semiconductor protection layer to protect the insulating layer from being broken through by an electric field when the structure turns off a bias; wherein the gate is separated from the split gate by the insulating layer to form a predetermined gap; and a depth position of a bottom of the trench gate is deeper than an interface between the P-well and the N-current spread layer.
US10468506B2
The on-state characteristics of a transistor are improved and thus, a semiconductor device capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device showing stable electric characteristics is made. The semiconductor device includes a transistor including a first oxide layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer; a second oxide layer over the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer over the second oxide layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer. An end portion of the second oxide layer and an end portion of the gate insulating layer overlap with the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer.
US10468499B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer including a main IGBT cell and a sense IGBT cell connected in parallel to each other, a first resistance portion having a first resistance value formed using a gate wiring portion of the sense IGBT cell and a second resistance portion having a second resistance value higher than the first resistance value, a gate wiring electrically connected through mutually different channels to the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion, a first diode provided between the gate wiring and the first resistance portion, a second diode provided between the gate wiring and the second resistance portion in a manner oriented reversely to the first diode, an emitter electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, electrically connected to an emitter of the main IGBT cell, and a sense emitter electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, electrically connected to an emitter of the sense IGBT cell.
US10468491B1
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for forming contacts includes forming an oxide layer over and along a first liner layer. A first spacer layer is formed along the first liner layer opposing the oxide layer. A work function metal layer is formed along the first spacer layer opposing the first liner layer. A gate is formed on and along the work function metal opposing the first spacer. A second spacer layer is formed on the oxide layer. Portions of the oxide layer, the first liner layer, the first spacer, the work function metal layer and the second spacer layer are removed which forms a recess between the gate and the first spacer layer. A second liner layer is deposited in the recess. A low-resistance metal is deposited in the removed portions to form the first contact.
US10468485B2
A metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor structure is provided herein having one or more horizontal and/or one or more vertical MOS transistor structures formed around trench and liner isolation regions. The trench region serves as a gate electrode, while the liner is formed around the sidewalls of trench region and serves as a gate dielectric of a parasitic MOS within the transistor structure. The MOS transistor structure includes various doped regions formed around one or more portions of the trench and liner regions. The doped regions can have one or more different doping types such that in response to a voltage applied to the trench region, a channel region is formed in at least one of the doped regions and provides a current path within the MOS transistor between different doped regions.
US10468484B2
A modified bipolar transistor is provided which can provide improved gain, Early voltage, breakdown voltage and linearity over a finite range of collector voltages. It is known that the gain of a transistor can change with collector voltage. This document teaches a way of reducing this variation by providing structures for the depletion regions with the device to preferentially deplete with. As a result the transistor's response can be made more linear.
US10468479B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body, which includes transistor cells and a drift zone between a drain layer and the transistor cells. The drift zone includes a compensation structure. Above a depletion voltage a first output charge gradient obtained by increasing a drain-to-source voltage from the depletion voltage to a maximum drain-to-source voltage deviates by less than 5% from a second output charge gradient obtained by decreasing the drain-to-source voltage from the maximum drain-to-source voltage to the depletion voltage. At the depletion voltage the first output charge gradient exhibits a maximum curvature.
US10468473B2
Carbon allotropes, a thin-film transistor array substrate comprising the same, and a display device comprising the same are disclosed. The thin-film transistor array substrate comprising a substrate, a gate electrode on the substrate, a gate insulating film on the gate electrode, an active layer positioned on the gate insulating film and comprising a semiconductor material and a plurality of carbon allotropes, and a source electrode and a drain electrode that make contact with the active layer.
US10468472B2
In a micro-device integration process, a donor substrate is provided on which to conduct the initial manufacturing and pixelation steps to define the micro devices, including functional, e.g. light emitting layers, sandwiched between top and bottom conductive layers. The micro-devices are then transferred to a system substrate for finalizing and electronic control integration. The transfer may be facilitated by various means, including providing a continuous light emitting functional layer, breakable anchors on the donor substrates, temporary intermediate substrates enabling a thermal transfer technique, or temporary intermediate substrates with a breakable substrate bonding layer.
US10468470B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display module and a method of forming the OLED display module are proposed. The OLED display module includes an OLED display screen comprising a display signal input terminal and a driver chip. The driver chip is fixed on a back of the OLED display screen and includes a driving signal output terminal. A signal output by the driving signal output terminal is led out from two or more terminals of the driver chip and finally input to the display signal input terminal. The risk of the OLED display module is effectively reduced while the yield rate is improved.
US10468450B2
This disclosure is directed at a photoconductive element for a digital X-ray imaging system which consists of a detector element comprising at least one semiconducting layer for absorbing photons, a first electrode coupled to a surface of said semiconducting layer, a second electrode coupled to a surface of said semiconducting layer, wherein said first electrode and said second electrode are separated horizontally, and at least one of said electrodes is electrically isolated from said semiconducting layer by an insulating layer; a readout circuit element coupled to said detector element; and a dielectric layer between said detector element and said readout circuit element.
US10468449B2
Disclosed is an image sensor, which includes a first PD isolation region for determining first to fourth PD regions, an FD isolation region formed between the first to fourth PD regions, and a floating diffusion formed in the FD isolation region. Horizontal distances from a perimeter of the floating diffusion to interfaces between the FD isolation region and the first to fourth PD regions are equal to each other.
US10468447B2
A 2D hologram system with a matrix addressing scheme is provided. The system may include a 2D array of sub-wavelength hologram elements integrated with a refractive index tunable core material on a wafer substrate. The system may also include a matrix addressing scheme coupled to the 2D array of sub-wavelength hologram elements and configured to independently control each of the sub-wavelength hologram elements by applying a voltage.
US10468437B2
A photodiode includes an absorption layer. A cap layer is disposed on a surface of the absorption layer. A pixel diffusion area within the cap layer extends beyond the surface of the absorption layer and into the absorption layer to receive a charge generated from photons therefrom. A mesa trench is defined through the cap layer surrounding the pixel diffusion area, wherein the mesa trench defines a floor at the surface of the absorption layer and opposed sidewalls extending away from the surface of the absorption layer. An implant is aligned with the mesa trench and extends from the floor of the mesa trench through the absorption layer surrounding a portion of the absorption layer proximate the pixel diffusion area.
US10468423B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses, and methods of forming and operating the apparatuses. Some of the apparatuses include a pillar including a length, a memory cell string and control lines located along a first segment of the pillar, and select lines located along a second segment of the pillar. The control lines include at least a first control line and a second control line. The first control line is adjacent the second control line. The first control line is separated from the second control line by a first distance in a direction of the length of the pillar. The select lines include at least a first select line and a second select line. The first select line is separated from the second select line by a second distance in the direction of the length of the pillar. The second distance is less than the first distance.
US10468422B2
A semiconductor device may include a source layer, a stack structure, a channel layer, a slit, and a source pick-up line. The source layer may include at least one groove in an upper surface thereof. The stack structure may be formed over the source layer. The channel layer may pass through the stack structure. The channel layer may be in contact with the source layer. The slit may pass through the stack structure. The slit may expose the groove of the source layer therethrough. The source pick-up line may be formed in the slit and the groove. The source pick-up line may be contacted with the source layer.
US10468420B2
A static random-access memory (SRAM) cell array forming method includes the following steps. A plurality of fin structures are formed on a substrate, wherein the fin structures include a plurality of active fins and a plurality of dummy fins, each PG (pass-gate) FinFET shares at least one of the active fins with a PD (pull-down) FinFET, and at least one dummy fin is disposed between the two active fins having two adjacent PU (pull-up) FinFETs thereover in a static random-access memory cell. At least a part of the dummy fins are removed. The present invention also provides a static random-access memory (SRAM) cell array formed by said method.
US10468418B2
An embodiment is an integrated circuit structure including a static random access memory (SRAM) cell having a first number of semiconductor fins, the SRAM cell having a first boundary and a second boundary parallel to each other, and a third boundary and a fourth boundary parallel to each other, the SRAM cell having a first cell height as measured from the third boundary to the fourth boundary, and a logic cell having the first number of semiconductor fins and the first cell height.
US10468417B2
A fabricating method of a stop layer includes providing a substrate. The substrate is divided into a memory region and a peripheral circuit region. Two conductive lines are disposed within the peripheral circuit region. Then, an atomic layer deposition is performed to form a silicon nitride layer to cover the conductive lines. Later, after forming the silicon nitride layer, a silicon carbon nitride layer is formed to cover the silicon nitride layer. The silicon carbon nitride layer serves as a stop layer.
US10468411B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active pattern thereon, a gate electrode intersecting the active pattern, and a spacer on a sidewall of the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a first metal pattern adjacent to the active pattern. The first metal pattern has a first portion parallel to the sidewall and a second portion parallel to the substrate. A top surface of the first portion has a descent in a direction from the spacer towards the second portion.
US10468410B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip has an isolation structure arranged within a substrate. The isolation structure has interior surfaces defining one or more divots recessed below an uppermost surface of the isolation structure and sidewalls defining an opening exposing the substrate. A source region is disposed within the opening. A drain region is also disposed within the opening and is separated from the source region by a channel region along a first direction. A gate structure extends over the channel region. The gate structure includes a first gate electrode region having a first composition of one or more materials and a second gate electrode region disposed over the one or more divots and having a second composition of one or more materials different than the first composition of one or more materials.
US10468402B1
A method for forming a trench diode for a power semiconductor device includes forming a first trench having a first opening and a second trench having a second opening in a substrate material, the second opening of the second trench being wider than the first opening of the first trench. An insulating layer is formed over surfaces of the first and second trenches. A first semiconductor material is provided within the first and second trenches, the first semiconductor material filling the first trench at least until the first opening is entirely plugged and partially filling the second trench so that a portion of the second opening remains open, the first semiconductor material having a first conductivity type. A second semiconductor material is provided within the second trench and over the first semiconductor material, the second semiconductor material having a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type.
US10468397B2
A matrix-addressed tile comprises a tile substrate having a two-dimensional array of pixels arranged in rows and columns defining a contiguous pixel area that includes all of the pixels. A one-dimensional array of column-data lines electrically connected to columns of pixels and a one-dimensional array of row-select lines connected to rows of pixels are disposed on the tile substrate at least partially in the pixel area. At least one column-data line contact pad electrically connected to each of the column-data lines and at least one row-select contact pad electrically connected to each of the row-select lines are disposed at least partially within the pixel area and between at least two pixels. A matrix-addressed tiled system includes two or more matrix-addressed tiles electrically connected through the column-data line contact pads and row-select line contact pads.
US10468383B2
A semiconductor device includes n semiconductor chips stacked via electrical contacting means in the silicon substrate thickness direction, n being an integer larger than 2, a side face of the stacked semiconductor device in the substrate thickness direction being covered by a non-conductive layer. The shape of the side face with respect to a plan view of the stacked semiconductor device may be one of curved, convex, concave or circular.
US10468377B2
A device package includes a die and a molding compound around the die. The molding compound has a non-planar surface recessed from a top surface of the die. The device package also includes an interconnect structure over the die. The interconnect structure includes a redistribution layer extending onto the molding compound and conformal to the non-planar surface of the molding compound. The device package further includes a first connector disposed over the die and bonded to the interconnect structure.
US10468368B2
Provided is a technique of improving joint strength between a joining layer and a resin. A power semiconductor device includes a wiring member, a semiconductor element, a joining layer joining the wiring member and the semiconductor element to each other, and a resin covering the wiring member, the semiconductor element, and the joining layer. The joining layer includes a first joining layer provided to be adjacent to the resin and having a void filled with the resin. A filler contained in the resin has a maximum width greater than a minimum diameter of the void in the first joining layer.
US10468365B2
In a method for manufacturing a radiation detector, counter pixel electrodes 33 are formed on a counter substrate 2 at positions facing a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on a signal reading substrate, and wall bump electrodes 34 are further formed on the counter pixel electrodes 33. In order to achieve the above, a resist R is applied, and the resist R is exposed to light to form openings O. When Au sputter deposition is performed on the openings O, only some of the Au is deposited on the bottom surface in the openings O as the counter pixel electrodes 33. The rest of the Au is not deposited on the bottom surface in the openings O, and the most of the remaining Au adheres to the inner walls of the openings O to form wall bump electrodes 34. The bump electrodes 34 are cylindrical, making it possible to reduce the pressure acting on the signal reading substrate by an extent corresponding to the decrease in the bonding area in comparison to conventional bump-shaped bump electrodes. The decrease in the bonding area also makes it possible to correspondingly improve the reproducibility of forming the diameter of the electrodes, and make reliable connection possible.
US10468359B2
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to electronic packages. In some implementations, a lidless electronic package includes a substrate having a surface and a die disposed on the surface of the substrate. The die has an outside perimeter, a bottom surface adjacent to the surface of the substrate, and a top surface. The electronic package includes a stiffener disposed on the surface of the substrate. The stiffener includes a first surface that is a first distance from the surface of the substrate and a second surface disposed between the die and the first surface. The first distance is greater than a distance between the surface of the substrate and the top surface of the die. The second surface is a second distance from the surface of the substrate that is less than the distance between the surface of the substrate and the top surface of the die.
US10468356B2
A system module package is disclosed. The system module package includes: a substrate; a first electrical component and a second electrical component disposed on a top surface of the substrate; and a plurality of bond wires disposed adjacent to at least a first side of the first electrical component and in between the first and second electrical components. The plurality of bond wires are configured to attenuate EMI of a frequency of interest traveling from the first electrical component toward the second electrical component, or from the second electrical component toward the first electrical component. Each of the plurality of bond wires has at least a first end that is mechanically coupled to the top surface of the substrate and has a highest point that is a height, H, from the top surface of the substrate. The plurality of bond wires is of substantially equal lengths measured from the top surface of the substrate to the highest points of the plurality of bond wires in a direction substantially normal to the top surface of the substrate.
US10468355B2
A method includes forming a metal post over a first dielectric layer, attaching a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, encapsulating a device die, the second dielectric layer, a shielding structure, and the metal post in an encapsulating material, planarizing the encapsulating material to reveal the device die, the shielding structure, and the metal post, and forming an antenna electrically coupling to the device die. The antenna has a portion vertically aligned to a portion of the device die.
US10468351B2
Examples generally provide a stacked silicon interconnect product and method of manufacture. The stacked silicon interconnect product includes a silicon substrate-less interposer comprising a plurality of metallization layers, wherein at least one metallization layer includes a plurality of metal segments separated by dielectric material. The stacked silicon interconnect product also includes a first die coupled to a first side of the silicon substrate-less interposer via a first plurality of microbumps. The stacked silicon interconnect product further includes a second die coupled to a second side of the silicon substrate-less interposer via a second plurality of microbumps, the second die communicatively coupled to the first die through a metallization layer of the plurality of metallization layers.
US10468350B2
A semiconductor memory device includes word lines extending in a first direction on a semiconductor substrate, bit line structures crossing over the word lines and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and contact pad structures between the word lines and between the bit line structures in plan view. A spacer structure extends between the bit line structures and the contact pad structures. The spacer structure includes a first air gap extending in the second direction along sidewalls of the bit line structures and a second air gap surrounding each of the contact pad structures and coupled to the first air gap.
US10468344B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor products includes: providing a semiconductor product lead frame including a semiconductor die mounting area and an array of electrically conductive leads, molding semiconductor product package molding material, e.g., laser direct structuring material, and forming on the package molding material molded onto the lead frame electrically-conductive lines extending between the semiconductor die mounting area and the array of electrically-conductive leads.
US10468298B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a decoupled via fill. Given a via trench, a first barrier layer is conformally deposited onto the bottom and sidewalls of the trench. A first metal fill is blanket deposited into the trench. The non-selective deposition is subsequently recessed so that only a portion of the trench is filled with the first metal. The previously deposited first barrier layer is removed along with the first metal, thereby re-exposing the upper sidewalls of the trench. A second barrier layer is conformally deposited onto the top of the first metal and the now re-exposed trench sidewalls. A second metal fill is blanket deposited into the remaining trench. Planarization and/or etching can be carried out as needed for subsequent processing. Thus, a methodology for filling high aspect ratio vias using a dual metal process is provided. Note, however, the first and second fill metals may be the same.
US10468296B2
A method of forming an electrical transmission structure that includes forming an opening through an interlevel dielectric layer to expose at least one electrically conductive feature and forming a shield layer on the opening. A gouge is formed in the electrically conductive feature through the opening using a subtractive method during which the shield layer protects the interlevel dielectric layer from being damaged by the subtractive method. A contact is formed within the opening in electrical communication with the at least one electrically conductive feature.
US10468292B2
A shutter disk suitable for shield a substrate support in a physical vapor deposition chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the shutter disk includes a disk-shaped body having an outer diameter disposed between a top surface and a bottom surface. The disk-shape body includes a double step connecting the bottom surface to the outer diameter.
US10468286B2
A method for bonding a product substrate to a carrier substrate via a connection layer, wherein a soluble layer is applied between the connection layer and the product substrate, and wherein a) the soluble layer is soluble due to an interaction with an electromagnetic radiation of a radiation source, and b) the connection layer and the carrier substrate are at least predominantly transparent to the electromagnetic radiation. A method for debonding a product substrate from a carrier substrate bonded to the product substrate via a connection layer, wherein a soluble layer is applied between the connection layer and the product substrate, and wherein a) the soluble layer is dissolved through an interaction with an electromagnetic radiation of a radiation source, and b) the connection layer and the carrier substrate are at least predominantly transparent to the electromagnetic radiation. A corresponding product-substrate-to-carrier-substrate bond is also disclosed.
US10468285B2
A wafer chuck assembly includes a puck, a shaft and a base. An insulating material defines a top surface of the puck, a heater element is embedded within the insulating material, and a conductive plate lies beneath the insulating material. The shaft includes a housing coupled with the plate, and electrical connectors for the heater elements and the electrodes. A conductive base housing couples with the shaft housing, and the connectors pass through a terminal block within the base housing. A method of plasma processing includes loading a workpiece onto a chuck having an insulating top surface, providing a DC voltage differential across two electrodes within the top surface, heating the chuck by passing current through heater elements, providing process gases in a chamber surrounding the chuck, and providing an RF voltage between a conductive plate beneath the chuck, and one or more walls of the chamber.
US10468275B2
A method includes holding a semiconductor substrate by a substrate holder of an electrochemical apparatus. The electrochemical apparatus includes a reaction cell and a counter electrode, and the semiconductor substrate has an exposed surface containing germanium, silicon, silicon germanium or any of III-V elements. The exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate is immersed in an electrolyte bath in the reaction cell. A portion of the semiconductor substrate is removed by supplying a first current to the counter electrode and a second current to the semiconductor substrate. The second current has a negative bias. The negative bias is smaller than 0V and equal to or larger than minus 5V.
US10468274B2
The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing chamber including an outer chamber configured to hold a processing liquid and an inner chamber capable of surrounding the substrate held by the substrate holder; a liquid delivery pipe having one end coupled to a bottom of the inner chamber and other end coupled to the outer chamber; a pump configured to suck the processing liquid from the inner chamber through the liquid delivery pipe and to deliver the processing liquid to the outer chamber through the liquid delivery pipe; and a guide cover having a through-hole in which the substrate holder can be inserted. The guide cover is located below an upper end of the outer chamber and above the inner chamber.
US10468271B2
A dry etching method, including: etching a silicon-containing thin film with a first gas by a first preset thickness; etching the silicon-containing thin film with a second gas by a second preset thickness, to remove etching residues generated after etching the silicon-containing thin film by the first preset thickness; after the etching residues are removed, etching the silicon-containing thin film with the first gas by a third preset thickness, which is less than the first preset thickness; wherein the first gas includes chlorine gas, and the second gas includes fluoride gas.
US10468270B2
A planarization process is performed to a wafer. In various embodiments, the planarization process may include a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. A byproduct generated by the planarization process is collected and analyzed. Based on the analysis, one or more process controls are performed for the planarization process. In some embodiments, the process controls include but are not limited to process endpoint detection or halting the planarization process based on detecting an error associated with the planarization process.
US10468268B2
There is provided an etching method for etching an object to be processed by using a substrate processing apparatus including a process chamber including a first electrode and a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode to receive the object to be processed thereon. The etching method includes a process of removing at least one of a first polymer and a second polymer by etching the object to be processed on which a pattern of the first polymer and the second polymer is formed by phase separation of a block copolymer containing the first polymer and the second polymer at a temperature lower than or equal to 10 degrees C. by using plasma of a process gas.
US10468266B2
A dry etching method includes performing at least two etching steps, and further includes injecting protective gas into an etch chamber for processing between any two successive etching steps, wherein the protective gas generates plasma to neutralize electrons accumulated on a side wall of an etching trench. According to the present disclosure, hydrogen plasma is added in an etching process to remove the electrons accumulated on the side wall of the etching trench so as to reduce the microetching effect in multiple etching. In this way, process stability and reliability of a display substrate are improved.
US10468265B1
A method for synchronous wet etching processing of differential microstructures, including the following steps: step a: performing photoetching on a processing surface of a workpiece to be processed to develop the workpiece; step b: affixing a mask to a surface opposite to the processing surface of the workpiece; step c: continuously cooling the mask; step d: placing the cooled mask and the workpiece in a wet etching device; and adding an etchant to the processing surface of the workpiece to start etching; step e: removing the mask and the workpiece from the wet etching device after the set etching time; separating the mask and the workpiece to obtain a workpiece with a etching structure. A temperature difference is formed between the pattern area to be processed and the retaining area.
US10468261B2
Methods for forming a metallic film on a substrate by cyclical deposition are provided. In some embodiments methods may include contacting the substrate with a first reactant comprising a non-halogen containing metal precursor comprising at least one of copper, nickel or cobalt and contacting the substrate with a second reactant comprising a hydrocarbon substituted hydrazine. In some embodiments related semiconductor device structures may include at least a portion of a metallic interconnect formed by cyclical deposition processes.
US10468257B2
Semiconductor device structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes forming a dummy gate structure over a substrate and forming a dielectric layer over the substrate around the dummy gate structure. The method for forming a semiconductor device structure further includes removing the dummy gate structure and removing a portion of the dielectric layer to form a funnel shaped trench. The method for forming a semiconductor device structure further includes forming a gate structure in a bottom portion of the funnel shaped trench and filling a hard mask material in a top portion of the funnel shaped trench to form a funnel shaped hard mask structure.
US10468256B2
A method of forming a material layer includes providing a substrate into a reaction chamber, providing a source material onto a substrate, the source material being a precursor of a metal or semimetal having a ligand, providing an ether-based modifier on the substrate, purging an inside of the reaction chamber, and reacting a reaction material with the source material to form the material layer.
US10468248B2
In various embodiments, a method is provided. The method may include forming a buried electrically charged region at a predefined position in a first layer in such a way that the buried electrically charged region generates an electric field having a lateral inhomogeneous field distribution above the first layer, and forming a second layer above the first layer using the field distribution in such a way that a structure of the second layer correlates with the position of the buried electrically charged region.
US10468245B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate including a first Group IV semiconductor having a recess therein, an active layer comprising a Group III-V semiconductor within the recess, and a buffer layer between the substrate and active layer and comprising a second Group IV semiconductor. The semiconductor device may further include an impurity and point defect blocking superlattice layer adjacent the buffer layer.
US10468236B2
A compact cylindrical vacuum chamber made from a dielectric ceramic or glass wrapped with a cylindrical electrode connected to an RF source make a hollow cathode RF plasma source. The dielectric cylinder is used as the vacuum container with the conductive electrode outside the vacuum region to excite plasma inside. A gas is supplied by a gas source at low flow on one end of the cylinder and after being excited exhausts into a connected vacuum chamber carrying excited metastables and radicals. RF power is applied to the electrode to excite the plasma via the hollow cathode effect. This remote RF plasma source can be used to create ions, electrons, excited metastables, and atomic radicals for use downstream depending on choices of gas, pressure, flow rates, RF power and frequency, and extraction electrodes.
US10468219B2
A circuit interrupter having a status indicator providing a current status of the circuit interrupter, the status indicator presenting one of: an On state, an Off state or a Fault state. The status indication is provided as a visual status and is color coded to one of the three circuit interrupter states. The circuit interrupter further including, in one configuration, a rocker actuator that rotates about an axis and the status indication mechanism is coupled to the rocker actuator.
US10468218B2
The present invention provides a relay with a shape memory alloy (SMA) wire driven mechanism. Conventional mechanical relays rely on electromagnetic principle to operate. Hence, magnetic fields of electromagnetic relays often interfere with magnetic fields of other electrical components, thus resulting in the components physically interfering with each other. The present invention utilizes the shape memory characteristics of a SMA wire to achieve the purpose of changing the operation of the relay. Specifically, when a SMA wire is heated, it restores to its original shape or original length. Comparing to conventional mechanical relays, the relay provided by the present invention does not magnetically interfere with other electrical components, and thus is able to function effectively. In addition, because the relay of the present invention does not require iron cores or coils, available space therein is increased and may be used to accommodate control circuits with various functions.
US10468217B2
At the time of contact between the contacts, the first movable contact comes into contact with the first fixed contact before contact between the second movable contact and the second fixed contact is made. The first movable contact is located on a leading end side of the contact piece with respect to the second movable contact. The first divided piece includes a body and a projection. The body extends in the lengthwise direction. The projection projects in the widthwise direction of the first divided piece from the body. The projection includes a contact portion pressed by the link member.
US10468216B2
A pyrotechnic circuit breaker, comprising a body, an igniter, a bus bar, and a piston which comprises a cutting edge and is movable along a normal direction to cut a portion of the bus bar, thereby separating the bus bar to break a circuit, wherein the cutting edge of the piston is stepped so that the portion of the bus bar is cut sequentially, in at least two successive cutting operations, characterized in that the bus bar comprises a breakable portion configured to be cut by the cutting edge of the piston, wherein said breakable portion comprises slots in order to divide the breakable portion into multiple sub-portions that are adapted to be cut sequentially by the stepped cutting edge of the piston.
US10468202B2
A conductive paper electrode includes a paper, a carbon powder layer, a graphite layer and a nanostructural layer. The carbon powder layer is positioned over the paper. The graphite layer is positioned over the carbon powder layer. The nanostructural layer is positioned over the graphite layer. An electrochemical capacitor includes two conductive paper electrodes and an electrolyte interposed therebetween.
US10468198B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of a layered body (1), at least comprising the process steps: I) provision of a photoactive layer comprising a material having a perovskite type crystal structure; II) superimposing the photoactive layer at least partially with a coating composition A) comprising an electrically conductive polymer a) and an organic solvent b); III) at least partial removal of the organic solvent b) from the coating composition A) superimposed in process step II), thereby obtaining an electrically conductive layer superimposed on the photoactive layer. The present invention also relates to a layered body obtainable by this process, to dispersions, to an electronic device, to a process for the preparation of a photovoltaic device and to the photovoltaic device that is obtainable by this process.
US10468193B2
A capacitor component includes a capacitor body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes alternately stacked; and a connection terminal coupled to the capacitor body and including a buffer member having insulating properties and at least one conductive fiber portion penetrating through the buffer member.
US10468192B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including an inner layer section extending from an inner electrode positioned closest to a first principal surface of the multilayer body to an inner electrode positioned closest to a second principal surface of the multilayer body, and first and second principal surface-side outer layer sections positioned outside the inner layer section on the sides closer to the first and second principal surfaces, respectively. Sn is dissolved in a solid state in Ni of only the inner electrodes contacting the first and second principal surface-side outer layer sections, and a Sn content is not less than about 0.1 mol and not more than about 8.5 mol where a total of Ni and Sn in each of the inner electrodes contacting the first and second principal surface-side outer layer sections is 100 mol.
US10468184B2
In a coil component 1 and a method for manufacturing the same, a winding part of a coil is grown by plating so as to extend between resin walls of a resin body provided before the coil is grown by plating. The resin wall is interposed between adjacent turns of the winding part of the coil during the plating growth, and therefore contact between adjacent turns of the winding part of the coil cannot occur.
US10468181B1
Electrical/magnetic components and methods of making such components are provided. One method includes providing a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) including conductive features arranged on conductive layers of the PCB to form one or more windings around one or more predetermined axes. The method further includes forming a hole in the PCB at each of the one or more predetermined axes to accommodate one or more core legs. For each hole, an inner edge of one of the windings overlaps an edge of the hole in a lateral direction after the hole is formed. The method further includes assembling a magnetically permeable core including the one or more core legs, each core leg extending into one of the holes at the one or more predetermined axes.
US10468178B2
A stationary induction apparatus includes a core, a winding wound around the core such that the core serves as a central axis, and an annular electrostatic shield disposed adjacent to at least one of ends of the winding in a direction along the central axis. The electrostatic shield includes a conductor and a second insulating coating that coats the conductor. The electrostatic shield has a potential lower than a highest potential in the winding.
US10468175B2
An annular core includes an upper core and a lower core. A coil is attached to the leg of the annular core in a way that the winding axis is aligned in the vertical direction. The surface of the upper core is covered by an upper cover formed of resin. The surface of the lower core is covered by the lower cover formed of resin. A casing formed of metal includes a bottom plate having an opening, and a side wall integrated with the bottom plate, and the lower core, the coil, and the upper core are housed in the casing. A part of the lower cover is exposed via the opening of the casing. A filler resin is filled in a gap between the circumference of the annular core and the coil, and the side wall of the casing or the lower cover.
US10468173B2
A support device of an active part of a current transformer includes a plurality of insulating support legs which are composed of an electrically insulating material and which are constructed to carry the active part and to be supported on a housing base of a housing of the current transformer. A longitudinal axis of each insulating support leg forms a non-zero support angle with the direction of gravitational force or the vertical. A current transformer including a housing, an active part disposed in the housing and the support device for supporting the active part, is also provided.
US10468163B1
Disclosures of the present invention mainly describe a copper film with buried film resistor. In the present invention, Ni, Cr, W, Ni-based compound, W-based compound, Ni-based alloy, or W-based alloy are adopted for the manufacture of a resistor layer, and a copper layer is processed to the copper film 1 with buried film resistor by being integrated with the resistor layer. Particularly, the resistor layer, formed on the copper layer through sputter-coating process, is able to show the lowest resistance less than or equal to 5 Ω/sq. Moreover, the use of sputter-coating technology is helpful in reduction of industrial waste water. In addition, at least one electronic circuit having at least one film resistor can be formed on a printed circuit board comprising the above-mentioned copper film by just needing to complete two times of photolithography processes on the printed circuit board.
US10468154B2
A conductor including multiple aluminum-based core wires, and an insulating resin covering directly covering the conductor such that the insulating resin covering is in contact with the aluminum-based core wires. The aluminum-based core wires includes one aluminum-based core wire containing not less than 99 mass % of aluminum in a center of the conductor and aluminum-based core wires positioned concentrically from the center of the conductor, and the conductor is constructed by concentrically twisting 19 or 37 of the aluminum-based core wires in a non-compressed state and at a same pitch such that a thickness deviation of the insulating resin covering is not less than 70%.
US10468152B2
An optically transparent and electrically conductive film composed of metal nanowires or carbon nanotubes combined with pristine graphene with a metal nanowire-to-graphene or carbon nanotube-to-graphene weight ratio from 1/99 to 99/1, wherein the pristine graphene is single-crystalline and contains no oxygen and no hydrogen, and the film exhibits an optical transparence no less than 80% and sheet resistance no higher than 300 ohm/square. This film can be used as a transparent conductive electrode in an electro-optic device, such as a photovoltaic or solar cell, light-emitting diode, photo-detector, touch screen, electro-wetting display, liquid crystal display, plasma display, LED display, a TV screen, a computer screen, or a mobile phone screen.
US10468151B2
Hybrid transparent conducting materials are disclosed with combine a polycrystalline film and conductive nanostructures, in which the polycrystalline film is “percolation doped” with the conductive nanostructures. The polycrystalline film preferably is a single atomic layer thickness of polycrystalline graphene, and conductive nanostructures preferably are silver nanowires.
US10468141B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for calculating genetic risk scores (GRS) representing the likelihood that an individual will develop a specific trait based on the ancestry of the individual. Also provided are methods and systems for providing a recommendation to the individual to modify a behavior related to a specific trait, based on the individual's GRS for that trait.
US10468134B2
Disclosed herein are a display apparatus which facilitates a simultaneous comparison of a plurality of images which respectively illustrate different features on one divided display screen such that the images are seamlessly displayed on the screen, and an image display method which is performable by using the apparatus. The display apparatus includes a memory configured to store a plurality of different types of images of an object, an input device configured to receive an input of a command relating to simultaneously displaying the different types of images, and a display device configured to display images. Upon receiving the command, the display device divides a screen upon which an image of the object is displayable into a first region within which a first image showing one portion of the object is displayed and a second region within which a second image showing the remaining portion of the object is displayed.
US10468133B2
Systems and methods include determining, by an appointment management system, a condition that an appointment to conduct an intraoral scan at an intraoral scanning site has been missed by a user, automatically generating a message to the user based on the condition that indicates that an at-home impression kit will be sent to the user, sending the automatically generated message to the user, sending the at-home impression kit to the user, receiving the at-home impression kit from the user, and producing, at a fabrication site, a plurality of aligners based on the received at-home impression kit where the plurality of aligners are specific to the user and are configured to reposition one or more teeth of the user in accordance with a treatment plan.
US10468129B2
A specialized apparatus for recording medical transactions designed to protect patient privacy when necessary to record private biometric individual data. The mechanisms and proprietary methods scramble the biometric data within the recording device, unrecoverable when leaving recording device with high assurance, yet an audit copy can forward to outside permanent storage and systems.
US10468125B1
Methods of accelerating the adoption of a medical treatment by health care providers are disclosed. The methods include providing to a health care provider a set of selectable criteria for determining whether a specific medical treatment is indicated for a particular patient, analyzing the criteria selected, and indicating to the health care provider whether the medical treatment is indicated. A specific method suitable for addressing Heart Failure-Sudden Cardiac Death (HF-SCD) prevention is provided.
US10468121B2
Long fragment read techniques can be used to identify deletions and resolve base calls by utilizing shared labels (e.g., shared aliquots) of a read with any reads corresponding to heterozygous loci (hets) of a haplotype. For example, the linking of a locus to a haplotype of multiple hets can increase the reads available at the locus for determining a base call for a particular haplotype. For a hemizygous deletion, a region can be linked to one or more hets, and the labels for a particular haplotype can be used to identify which reads in the region correspond to which haplotype. In this manner, since the reads for a particular haplotype can be identified, a hemizygous deletion can be determined. Further, a phasing rate of pulses can be used to identify large deletions. A deletion can be identified with the phasing rate is sufficiently low, and other criteria can be used.
US10468092B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cell rows; and a refresh address generator configured to store flags respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory cell rows, generate refresh row addresses respectively corresponding to the plurality of memory cell rows by performing a count operation, and according to the flags, change a refresh period of the plurality of memory cell rows.
US10468087B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for performing operations by a memory device in a self-refresh state. An example includes an array of memory cells and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells. The controller is configured to direct performance of compute operations on data stored in the array when the array is in a self-refresh state.
US10468085B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for redundancy in a memory array are described. A memory array may include some memory cells that are redundant to other memory cells of the array. Such redundant memory cells may be used if a another memory cell is discovered to be defective in some way; for example, after the array is fabricated and before deployment, defects in portions of the array that affect certain memory cells may be identified. Memory cells may be designated as redundant cells for numerous other memory cells of the array so that a total number of redundant cells in the array is relatively small fraction of the total number of cells of the array. A configuration of switching components may allow redundant cells to be operated in a manner that supports redundancy for numerous other cells and may limit or disturbances to neighboring cells when accessing redundancy cells.
US10468080B1
A memory device includes a first strobe delay circuit delaying a first data strobe signal to generate a delayed first data strobe signal, a first write leveling circuit sampling a first delay clock in synchronization with the delayed first data strobe signal, a second strobe delay circuit delaying a second data strobe signal to generate a delayed second data strobe signal, a replica second strobe delay circuit delaying the first data strobe signal by a delay value obtained by replicating the second strobe delay circuit to generate a replica delayed second data strobe signal; and a second write leveling circuit sampling a second delay clock in synchronization with the delayed second data strobe signal in a first I/O mode, and sampling the second delay clock in synchronization with the replica delayed second data strobe signal in a second I/O mode.
US10468076B1
An apparatus may include an address counter to provide first address information and second address information. The first address information may include a first number of bits and the second address information may include a second number of bits that is smaller than the first number of bits. The address counter may perform a first updating operation. The first updating operation being such that the first address information is updated from a first initial value to a first final value. The address counter may also perform a second updating operation, the second updating operation being such that the second address information is updated from a second initial value to a second final value. In addition, the address counter may also perform the second updating operation at least twice per the first updating operation being performed once.
US10468075B2
A memory macro includes: word lines; memory cells arranged in an array of columns and rows, the rows corresponding to the word lines; and switching circuits corresponding to the columns, each switching circuit being configured to selectively provide a first voltage value of a first voltage source or a different second voltage value of a second voltage source to corresponding voltage supply nodes of the columns; and wherein the word lines are configured to receive the second voltage value as a high logical value of the word lines; a selected one or more of the word lines is activated during a write operation, thereby defining an elapse of the write operation; and each switching circuit is further configured to selectively provide the corresponding first voltage value or the second voltage value substantially for an entirety of the write operation.
US10468074B2
A controller includes an input/output circuit and a reference voltage generating circuit. The input/output circuit includes a plurality of receiving circuits. Each receiving circuit receives and processes one data bit and generates an output bit accordingly. The reference voltage generating circuit is coupled to the input/output circuit and includes a plurality of circuit units for providing a plurality of reference voltages. One of the circuit units is coupled to one of the receiving circuits to provide a reference voltage to the corresponding receiving circuit and the receiving circuit processes the data bit according to the received reference voltage.
US10468060B1
An apparatus may comprise a circuit configured to receive first underlying data corresponding to a first signal and receive a second signal corresponding to second underlying data. The circuit may determine an interference component signal based on the first underlying data corresponding to the first signal and a first channel pulse response shape for the first signal, determine estimated decisions corresponding to the second signal based on the second signal, and determine an estimated signal based on the estimated decisions corresponding to the second signal and a second channel pulse response shape for the second signal. The circuit may then generate a remaining signal based on the estimated signal and the second signal, generate an error signal based on the interference component signal and the remaining signal, and adapt one or more parameters of the first channel pulse response shape based on the error signal.
US10468056B2
Described are probe assemblies that include multiple layers, including at least one layer of probe bodies; suspension assemblies and components thereof, e.g., head gimbal assemblies, that include a probe assembly as described; and methods of using the probe assemblies and suspension assemblies.
US10468055B1
A multi-sensor reader includes first and second read sensors. The first read sensor includes a first sensor stack including a sensing layer having a magnetization that changes according to an external magnetic field, and a first biasing component configured to magnetically bias the sensing layer of the first sensor stack in a first direction. The second read sensor includes a second sensor stack including a sensing layer having a magnetization that changes according to an external magnetic field, and a second biasing component configured to magnetically bias the sensing layer of the second sensor stack in a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction.
US10468039B2
Exemplary embodiments provide encoding and decoding methods, and associated encoders and decoders, for encoding and decoding of an audio scene which is represented by one or more audio signals. The encoder generates a bit stream which comprises downmix signals and side information which includes individual matrix elements of a reconstruction matrix which enables reconstruction of the one or more audio signals in the decoder.
US10468038B2
A method is described which decodes a downmix matrix for mapping a plurality of input channels of audio content to a plurality of output channels, the input and output channels being associated with respective speakers at predetermined positions relative to a listener position, wherein the downmix matrix is encoded by exploiting the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of input channels and the symmetry of speaker pairs of the plurality of output channels. Encoded information representing the encoded downmix matrix is received and decoded for obtaining the decoded downmix matrix.
US10468033B2
The lossless coding method includes selecting one of a first coding method and a second coding method, based on a range in which a quantization index of energy is represented, and coding the quantization index by using the selected coding method. The lossless decoding method includes determining a coding method of a differential quantization index of energy included in a bitstream and decoding the differential quantization index by using one of a first decoding method and a second decoding method based on a range in which a quantization index of energy is represented, in response to the determined coding method.
US10468024B2
A method includes: acquiring first voice information indicating a voice of a user input from a microphone; outputting, to a server via a network, first text string information generated from the first voice information, when the first text string information does not match any of pieces of text string information in the first database; acquiring, from the server, first semantic information and/or a control command corresponding to the first semantic information, when a second database includes a piece of text string information matched with the first text string information and the matched piece of text string information is associated with the first semantic information therein; instructing at least one device to execute an operation based on the first semantic information and/or the control command; and outputting, to a speaker, second voice information generated from second text string information, the second text string information being registered and associated with the first semantic information in the first database.
US10468023B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method of controlling the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a broadcasting signal; a display configured to display an image based on the received broadcasting signal; a sound receiver configured to receive a sound spoken by a user; a first sound recognizer configured to be supplied with power when the display apparatus is in a standby mode, and determine whether the received sound is a reserved word candidate having a high probability of corresponding to a reserved word; a second sound recognizer configured to be supplied with power when the received sound is determined as the reserved word candidate and to determine whether the received sound is the reserved word; and a controller configured to control the preset operation to be performed when the received sound is determined as the reserved word.
US10468022B2
A voice assistant (VA) can switch between a voice input mode, in which the VA produces audible responses to voice queries, and a gesture input mode that can be triggered by a predetermined gesture, in which the VA produces visual responses to gesture-based queries.
US10468020B2
An example apparatus provides an input signal based on sound waves received by one or more microphones. The input signal includes a voice command component and one or more interference components. The apparatus receives audio data over one or more computer networks and the audio data corresponds to the one or more interference components. The apparatus uses the audio data to remove a portion of the one or more interference components from the input signal to generate an output signal, and provides the output signal, as an estimate of the voice command component, for speech recognition.
US10468019B1
A method and system method for automatic speech recognition using selection of speech models based on input characteristics is disclosed herein. The method includes obtaining speech data from a speaker utilizing a microphone or an audio upload. The system and method select the best speech recognition model to automatically decode the input speech and continuously update models by updating/creating models in a database based on users speech abilities.
US10468013B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to generate voices for artificial speech are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a component storing an identifier, the identifier uniquely identifying the apparatus from a plurality of apparatus, an artificial speech generator to generate a first artificial speech signal representing text, the first artificial speech signal generated based on the identifier which is represented by frequency dependent bits by assigning specific bits to specific frequency bands, the first artificial speech signal audibly different from artificial speech signals generated by respective ones of the plurality of apparatus for the text, and an output device to output an audible signal representing the first artificial speech signal.
US10468011B2
Disclosed herein are a method and device for cloaking an acoustic wave. A method for cloaking an acoustic wave according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a target characteristic of a meta-material based on a correlation between an acoustic propagation mathematical model predetermined for the propagation of an acoustic wave and an electromagnetic wave mathematical model predetermined for an electromagnetic wave; arranging scattering media having a predetermined media density to have spatial periodicity so that the obtained target characteristic is achieved; and blocking a region including a target object from an acoustic wave by disposing the meta-material including the scattering media arranged to have spatial periodicity, to surround the region.
US10468010B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of flow guiding structures spatially aligned in a first row, each of the plurality of flow guiding structures comprising a fin-shape to funnel airflow at a trailing edge of each of the plurality of flow guiding structures. The apparatus also includes a plurality of flow separating structures spatially aligned in a second row interleaved between each of the plurality of flow guiding structures, each of the plurality of flow separating structures comprising a fin-shape configured to split airflow received from the plurality of flow guiding structures.
US10468005B2
A detection device including n number of sensors arrayed in a direction, in which n is an integer of 3 or more and from which (n−1) pairs of adjacent sensors are formed, and a processor which determines one specified position in the direction based on output values of the n number of sensors, in which the processor calculates (n−1) sets of difference values each of which is a difference between two output values corresponding to each of the (n−1) pairs of sensors, and determines the one specified position based on the (n−1) sets of difference values and correlation positions corresponding to the (n−1) sets of difference values and indicating positions correlated with array positions of each pair of sensors.
US10468003B2
An audio foot pedal having an activation arrangement comprising a control button and a stationary part, the control button being secured to the stationary part for relative movement along a travel range, the activation arrangement providing a control signal in response to movement of said control button, the audio foot pedal further comprising at least one signal processing arrangement arranged to execute at least two different functional modes, wherein at least one of said functional modes, in response to said control signal, variably controls a signal processing of audio signals communicated to said at least one signal processing arrangement thereby producing an audio output signal to an audio output, and wherein said control signal also controls switching between said at least two functional modes.
US10467997B2
A collapsible music apparatus comprising a plurality of interactive panels, wherein the interactive panels are formed using panel members and panel brackets. The collapsible music apparatus also includes one or more joiners placed between abutting interactive panels, wherein the joiners form joints between the abutting interactive panels. The apparatus also includes one or more music devices coupled to the panel members of the interactive panels; wherein the interactive panels are formed by connecting the panel members and the panel brackets. The apparatus also includes interactive panels that rotate and move freely with respect to one another at the joints between the abutting interactive panels; wherein the interactive panels are collapsed when the interactive panels are folded into each other at joints between the abutting interactive panels.
US10467996B2
There is provided a cymbal damping tool that is attached to a cymbal. The damping tool includes a cylindrical part, a membrane part configured to be a film shape or reticulated and having an inner edge connected to the cylindrical part and disposed on a lower surface side of the cymbal, a frame part that is connected to an outer edge of the membrane part, and a first sensor that is attached to an upper surface of the membrane part.
US10467993B2
Device for connecting the neck to the body of a stringed musical instrument and stringed musical instrument containing said deviceThe invention relates to a device for connecting the neck to the body of a stringed musical instrument of the type that comprises a first and second component, it being possible to connect the first component to the neck and said second component to the body of the stringed musical instrument, said first and second components being form-engaged to each other, the device comprising also means for adjusting the contact position of said first component to different angles relative to said second component and in that the device also comprises means for fixing the relative position of said first component to said second component.
US10467992B2
A display device is mounted on and/or inside the eye. The eye mounted display contains multiple sub-displays, each of which projects light to different retinal positions within a portion of the retina corresponding to the sub-display. The projected light propagates through the pupil but does not fill the entire pupil. In this way, multiple sub-displays can project their light onto the relevant portion of the retina. Moving from the pupil to the cornea, the projection of the pupil onto the cornea will be referred to as the corneal aperture. The projected light propagates through less than the full corneal aperture. The sub-displays use spatial multiplexing at the corneal surface. Various electronic devices interface to the eye mounted display.
US10467978B2
A display device includes: a timing controller which receives a data control signal from, or outputs the data control signal to, an external device through a wiring, and selectively outputs a power control signal, a display device data signal and a common voltage control signal to a first or second serial communication wiring based on a driving mode determined based on the data control signal; a memory unit which stores the display device data signal, receives the display device data signal from, or outputs the display device data signal to, the timing controller through the first serial communication wiring; and a power generator which receives or outputs the power control signal or the common voltage signal from or to the timing controller through the second serial communication wiring, and generates a voltage adjusted by the power control signal and a common voltage adjusted by the common voltage control signal.
US10467968B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first display panel displaying a first image; a second display panel displaying a second image; and an image processor generating first and second image data based on input video signal. The image processor includes a first differential filtering processor, a multiplier that multiplies a grayscale of the image data subjected to the differential filtering by the first differential filtering processor by a correction coefficient, and a first smoothing processor that performs smoothing processing on image data obtained by adding the image data multiplied by the correction coefficient and the image data based on the input video signal. The image processor generates the first image data based on the image data based on the input video signal and the image data subjected to the smoothing processing, and generates the second image data based on the image data subjected to the smoothing processing.
US10467967B2
A control circuit of a driving circuit of a backlight LED is provided. The driving circuit includes a DC/DC converter that supplies a driving current to the backlight LED. The control circuit includes a pulse signal generating circuit configured to switch between a quasi-resonant mode and a continuous current mode to generate a pulse signal based on a selected mode and a driver configured to drive the DC/DC converter based on the pulse signal.
US10467961B2
A display system in which the luminance of light-emitting elements in a light-emitting device is adjusted based on information on an environment. A sensor obtains information on an environment as an electrical signal. A CPU converts, based on comparison data set in advance, the information signal into a correction signal for correcting the luminance of EL elements. Upon receiving this correction signal, a voltage changer applies a predetermined corrected potential to the EL elements. Thus, this display system enables control of the luminance of the EL elements.
US10467956B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, an array substrate and a display device. The pixel driving circuit comprises a charge storage unit, for receiving a power supply voltage signal; a driving unit, for generating a driving current that drives the OLED to emit light; a reset unit, for writing a voltage of an initial voltage signal into a second terminal of the charge storage unit in a reset phase; a data write unit, for writing a voltage of a data voltage signal and the threshold voltage of the driving unit into the second terminal of the charge storage unit in a data write phase; and a light emitting control unit, for controlling the power supply voltage signal to be written into the driving unit so as to generate the driving signal in a light emitting phase.
US10467953B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel driving circuit and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the pixel driving circuit. The pixel driving circuit adopts a 6T2C (six transistors and two capacitors) structure to compensate a threshold voltage of the driving thin film transistor (TFT) in the pixel. As such, a current passing through the OLED may not be related to the threshold voltage of the driving TFT. So as to eliminate the improper image-displaying of the OLED display resulting from the drifting of the threshold voltage of the driving TFT.
US10467950B2
Disclosed are an I2C transmission circuit and a display device, whereby a technical problem of incorrect writing to an element other than a target element can be solved. The I2C transmission circuit includes a first selection circuit, a second selection circuit, and a selection signal line. An input end of the first selection circuit is connected to a serial clock line, and an input end of the second selection circuit is connected to a serial data line; and the selection signal line is connected to a control end of the first selection circuit and a control end of the second selection circuit.
US10467946B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a display area comprising a gate line and a data line, and a gate driver connected to a terminal of the gate line. The gate driver includes a plurality of stages that are integrated on a substrate, and each stage comprises an inverter unit, an output unit, and a Q node stabilization unit. The output unit includes a first transistor and a first capacitor, wherein the first transistor includes an input terminal for receiving a clock signal, a control terminal connected to a node Q, and an output terminal connected to a gate voltage output terminal to output a gate voltage. A Vgs voltage of a transistor in the Q node stabilization unit has a value of equal to or less than 0 V when the output unit outputs a gate-on voltage.
US10467941B2
A display device includes a display panel including gate lines, data lines, a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel, and a third color sub-pixel, wherein the first color sub-pixel, the second color sub-pixel, and the third color sub-pixel are defined by intersections between the data lines and gate lines; a data driver configured to apply a source signal to the data lines; and a transition control unit configured to control a sequential supplying of the source signal to the first color sub-pixel, the second color sub-pixel, and the third color sub-pixel during a kth horizontal period and a sequential supplying of the source signal to the third color sub-pixel, the first color sub-pixel, and the second color sub-pixel during a k+1th horizontal period.
US10467931B1
A graphic, includes a substrate and a printed pattern disposed over the substrate. The substrate is configured to attach to a mounting surface, and is transparent. The printed pattern exposes a nonprinted pattern. The printed pattern is a geometric projection of a graphic design on the mounting surface from a first viewpoint, and the nonprinted pattern is a geometric projection of a transparency design on the mounting surface from a second viewpoint.
US10467920B2
Generally, a computer implemented layered multimedia assessment system which provides one or more server computers that allow one or more client devices and one or more administrator devices access to an layered multimedia assessment application which provides an administrator user interface and client user interface which serially provide one or more assignment events each having a first step in which the client user interacts with the client user interface to perform an assessment of assignment content and performs an interactive examination and a second step in which the client user participates to evaluate the performance of other client users.
US10467919B2
Embodiments can provide dynamic assessment by an expert system software (ESS) module. The ESS module may determine a minimum set of diagnostic questions to identify a student's strengths and/or weaknesses for a given subject matter. Each diagnostic question may be a unique question variant generated from a dynamic question template. The ESS module may automatically and dynamically build a personal lesson plan that includes lessons on topics of the subject matter that the student has not mastered. The ESS module may dynamically modify the personal lesson plan to change a lesson and/or add lesson(s) considered by the ESS module as necessary for the student to master the subject matter. Given the ESS module's knowledge on various components of a question such as equation(s) used to produce a correct answer to the question, the ESS module may generate image(s), customized hint(s), customized explanation(s), and/or examine student solutions in step-by-step fashion.
US10467917B2
An interactive video system includes: a display arranged to display a video; a motion sensor and/or sound sensor integrated with the display a controller, responsive to detection of a signal from the motion sensor derived when the display is moved, to cause a change in the displayed video.
US10467915B2
A system includes a plurality of at least partially autonomous vehicles, a plurality of interconnected roadways having a plurality of track segments, and embarkation area, and a control system. The roadways preferably have at least partially separated lanes and the roadways are optionally grade separated. The embarkation area includes a plurality of embarkation slots where passengers can board the vehicles. The embarkation area is connected to at least one of the plurality of track segments, allowing the vehicles to travel to and from the embarkation area to the at least one of the plurality of track segments. The control system is configured to coordinate a continuous flow of the plurality of vehicles on the track segments. Groups of vehicles depart from the embarkation area to the at least one of the plurality of track segments in coordinated groups.
US10467914B2
Methods and systems for autonomous generation of shortest lateral paths for unmanned aerial systems are described. An example system includes memory storing code and at least one processor to execute the code to cause the at least one processor to access an initial scenario including a source point, a target point, and a no flight zone, determine a computation time for identifying a lateral path for an aircraft to traverse that avoids the no flight zone, determine whether the determined computation time satisfies a threshold of a reference computation time, change the first number of vertices to a second number of vertices when the reference computation time is not satisfied, determine a buffer area surrounding the no flight zone, construct a visibility graph including lateral paths, and identify one of the lateral paths as being shorter than others of the lateral paths.
US10467899B2
A system installed on a mobile phone for use in a vehicle that alerts the user when the vehicle is in proximity to emergency vehicles, trains, and fixed emergency locations.
US10467895B2
A device for operating a parking facility, including a database in which one or multiple vehicle property/properties is/are stored for different vehicle types, and a processor which is designed to ascertain a type of a vehicle based on the recorded image of the vehicle and to read the vehicle property/properties corresponding to the ascertained vehicle type out of the database, the processor being further designed to ascertain a parking position for the vehicle in the parking facility based on the one or multiple read-out vehicle property/properties. A method for operating a parking facility, a parking system for vehicles, and a computer program are also described.
US10467893B1
A traffic navigation system having a user device configured to be used by a pedestrian. The system has memory storing instructions that cause the user device to effectuate operations, the operations including registering the user device with an authentication system, processing traffic data in the proximity of the pedestrian, comparing the traffic data with a route to be followed by the pedestrian and based on the comparing step, (a) generating a sensory alert based on the warning message; (b) sending an alert message to a vehicle associated with the traffic data; and (c) sending a cycle signal to a traffic control system.
US10467891B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for enabling drone activity in a property monitored by a property monitoring system without triggering a false alarm. In one aspect, the method includes actions of obtaining a location of the drone, identifying a first sensor installed at the property that is within a predetermined distance of the drone, detecting first sensor data generated by the first sensor that is within a predetermined distance of the drone, wherein the first sensor data includes data that is indicative of an event, determining whether a second sensor that is mounted to the drone is generating second sensor data that corroborates the event indicated by the first sensor data, and disregarding, by the property monitoring system, the first sensor data in determining whether to trigger an alarm.
US10467883B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for monitoring movement in relation to locations about which data is available from one or more sources.
US10467881B2
A monitoring system includes a hydraulic accumulator including a piston movably disposed therein. At least one seal encompasses the piston. A first pressure sensor is configured to monitor pressure of a first fluid in a first chamber. A second pressure sensor is configured to monitor pressure of a second fluid in a second chamber. A first temperature sensor is disposed in the first chamber and configured to monitor the temperature of the first fluid. A second temperature sensor is disposed in the second chamber and configured to monitor the temperature of the second fluid. An electronic control unit is in communication with the sensors and programmed to in response to receiving pressure signals from the pressure sensors and temperature signals from the temperature sensors, determine a wear volume of the at least one seal; and compare the wear volume of the at least one seal to a predetermined threshold wear volume of the at least one seal to determine the remaining useful life of the hydraulic accumulator.
US10467869B2
An apparatus, such as a haptic-enabled device, and a method for providing boost protection logic are presented. The method comprises receiving, by a control circuit of the apparatus, a nonzero drive signal to be used by the haptic actuator to generate a haptic effect. The control circuit causes a first portion of the nonzero drive signal to be applied to the haptic actuator in a boost mode. The control circuit detects a boost duration exceeding a first defined time threshold, such as a boost timeout threshold, or detects an accumulated boost time exceeding the first defined time threshold. In response, the control circuit causes a second portion of the nonzero drive signal to be applied to the haptic actuator in an amplitude-limited mode.
US10467867B2
Technologies for conducting a sales transaction on a mobile point-of-sale computing device include displaying a branded background image associated with a business entity conducting the sales transaction on a display of the mobile point-of-sale computing device and displaying a point-of-sale user interface overlaid on the branded background image. The point-of-sale user interface includes several semi-transparent display windows. A portion of the branded background image is visible through each of the semi-transparent display windows. A portion of the branded background image covered by at least one of the semitransparent display windows is blurred to increase the visibility of information included in the blurred semitransparent display window. Technologies for updating inventory items using tag information are also disclosed. The tag information may include, for example, relational data tags that identified other inventory items related to the associated inventory item and/or description data tags that identify characteristics of the associated inventory item.
US10467863B2
Systems and methods for providing wagering games associated with Baccarat, including modified versions of Baccarat described herein, which are configured for receiving and determining the outcome of the wager for the associated game based on the satisfaction of at least one of the following: the banker hand score being four; the banker hand score being six and having three playing cards in the banker hand; and the banker hand score and player hand score both being six and both the player hand and banker hand having three playing cards; and the banker hand score being eight and both the banker hand and the player hand having three playing cards.
US10467862B2
A printed game card, sheet or ticket set can incorporate multiple individual tickets separated by perforation, scoring or folds, for example. In various embodiments, the game card or sheet is printed with at least one playable game on each individual ticket, wherein the games can be instant win games with game indicia and one or more layers of varnish or rubber-based material that is removable to reveal the indicia. Each ticket on the game card, sheet or ticket set can include individual validation and/or activation indicia. The indicia can be human-readable and/or computer readable. Further, the entire game card, sheet or ticket set can include game or sheet activation indicia, such that when the entire sheet is sold, the entirety of individual game tickets can be activated simultaneously. When the individual game ticket validation codes are read, embodiments of the present invention can operate to individually assess whether the ticket is a winner, as well as whether the ticket has previously been redeemed.
US10467860B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an apparatus, system, computer readable storage media, and/or method that involve or otherwise facilitate a card game or secondary card game played on a gaming device. The card game may be structured to use similar rules to a blackjack-styled card game. The card game may be played against an opponent, such as a computer, dealer, or another player. Alternatively, the card game may include the display of one or more cards and a process to determine if a total value of the cards meets a predefined criterion. A win against an opponent or satisfaction of the predefined criterion may progress the card game to another round of play. These rounds of play may continue until an opponent wins, or until the predefined criterion is not satisfied.
US10467856B2
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a refund calculator in an online game. The refund calculator may provide the ability to prioritize what users may receive items, troops, and/or any other in-game parameters. The refund calculator may provide the ability to determine how many items and/or troops the user may be refunded, the time frame in which the user receives the items, troops and/or other aspects of a refund.
US10467844B2
A vending machine with a transparent electronic display includes a pair of lighting strips for illuminating a storage compartment which holds retails goods. A door frame assembly covers the front of the storage compartment. A cover glass is placed in front of and spaced apart from the transparent electronic display. A series of brackets connect the cover glass and the transparent electronic display to a door frame assembly and cover the gap between the cover glass and the transparent electronic display, masking the region located beyond the brackets.
US10467840B2
A method for automated authentication of a security label comprises capturing a first image of the security label under a first lighting condition and capturing at least a second image of the security label under a second lighting condition. Further, the first image and the second image are verified to check whether the first image and the second image meet pre-defined expectation under the first lighting condition and the second lighting condition respectively. Authenticity of the security label is confirmed by the processor if the expectation is met.
US10467833B1
A system including a location tracking device, a security device, and a computer processor and memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the computer processor to perform the steps of obtaining a pre-determined service subscription record identifying a service provider carrying the location tracking device for performing a pre-determined service at a pre-determined location and at a pre-determined time, receiving an identifier transmitted by the location tracking device to detect an arrival of the location tracking device to the pre-determined location, obtaining, in response to detecting the arrival, a timestamp representing when the location tracking device arrives at the pre-determined location, generating, in response to detecting the arrival, a match by comparing the identifier and the timestamp to the pre-determined service subscription record, and deactivating, in response to generating the match and detecting the arrival, the security device to allow the service provider entering the pre-determined location.
US10467828B2
An electronic logging device dongle. In one example, dongle includes a housing and a circuit board located within the housing. The housing includes circuitry configured to perform at least part of a driver compliance determination and to wirelessly communicate with a portable device. The dongle also includes a connector electrically connected to the circuit board. The connector includes a plurality of pins, and is configured to be mated to a plurality of adaptors. Each of the plurality of adaptors is structured to mechanically map pins of a vehicle OBD port to the plurality of pins of the connector.
US10467823B2
Apparatuses and methods for transmitting and receiving data are disclosed, where an apparatus for transmitting data includes a calculator configured to calculate a difference value between a reference value and a measurement data of a battery, and a transmitter configured to transmit an initial value and the difference value.
US10467822B2
Embodiments involve reducing collision-based defects in motion-stylizations. For example, a device obtains facial landmark data from video data. The facial landmark data includes a first trajectory traveled by a first point tracking one or more facial features, and a second trajectory traveled by a second point tracking one or more facial features. The device applies a motion-stylization to the facial landmark data that causes a first change to one or more of the first trajectory and the second trajectory. The device also identifies a new collision between the first and second points that is introduced by the first change. The device applies a modified stylization to the facial landmark data that causes a second change to one or more of the first trajectory and the second trajectory. If the new collision is removed by the second change, the device outputs the facial landmark data with the modified stylization applied.
US10467807B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for facilitating editing of generative design geometry of physical structures, include a method including: receiving editable smooth surface(s), e.g., a T-Spline, constructed from a mesh obtained using a generative design process; instantiating a parametric feature recipe to connect the editable smooth surface(s) with input solid(s), wherein the parametric feature recipe includes an operation sequence that (i) converts the editable smooth surface(s) into boundary representation format and (ii) combines the boundary representation formatted smooth surface(s) with the input solid(s) to produce a watertight three dimensional model of an object; modifying the editable smooth surface(s) in response to input, while preventing disconnection of the editable smooth surface(s) from the input solid(s); updating a visualization thereof in a user interface; and performing the operation sequence of the parametric feature recipe to produce the watertight three dimensional model of the object.
US10467800B2
A scene reconstruction method, apparatus, terminal device, and storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first image set matching a to-be-reconstructed scene (11); extracting a characteristic region of an image in the first image set by using a characteristic extraction algorithm (12); performing recognition on the characteristic region to obtain a scene characteristic region in the image (13); and performing three-dimensional reconstruction on the to-be-reconstructed scene according to the scene characteristic region in the image, and rendering and generating the to-be-reconstructed scene (14). Some useless and unstable characteristic regions are filtered off, and the three-dimensional reconstruction on the to-be-reconstructed scene is performed only according to the scene characteristic region associated with the to-be-reconstructed scene, thereby improving the efficiency and accuracy of reconstruction.
US10467792B1
A technology is described for simulating communication expressions detected in speech data using virtual objects. An example method may include receiving speech data for a virtual object configured to simulate communication expressions provided by the speech data. The speech data may be analyzed for an indicator of a communication expression and communication mark data that includes an expression tag representing the communication expression may be generated. The speech data and the communication mark data may be transmitted to a simulation client to enable synchronization of an animated expression for the virtual object with the speech data using the expression tag in the communication mark data.
US10467791B2
The present disclosure relates to a motion edit method for editing the motion of an articulated object using a computing device with a touch screen, including a) when any one of a joint path and a body line of an articulated object is selected by a user, setting a position constraint of higher level joint according to the user's sketching input and joint hierarchy, and b) generating motion of the articulated object for which the constraint is set.
US10467789B2
An image processing device for a vehicle includes: an acquisition unit acquiring a captured image of a periphery of a vehicle, which is captured by an imaging unit provided in the vehicle; a bird's eye view image generating unit generating a bird's eye view image in which the captured image is projected to a 3D virtual projection plane provided at a side opposite to the vehicle with reference to a ground and separated from the ground with distance from the vehicle; a guide line generating unit generating a guide line indicating a predicted course of the vehicle; a conversion unit converting the guide line into a virtual guide line indicating the predicted course on the virtual projection plane; and a superimposing unit superimposing the virtual guide line on the bird's eye view image.
US10467788B2
Automatic frame selection and action shot generation techniques in a digital medium environment are described. A computing device identifies an object in a foreground of video data. A determination is then made by the computing device as to motion of the object exhibited between frames of the video data. A subset of frames is then selected by the computing device based on a determined motion of the identified object depicting an action sequence. An action shot is generated by the computing device by overlaying the identified objects in the selected frames on a background.
US10467785B2
There is provided an effect control device including an effect control unit that controls an effect added to a target image based on information regarding a direction of a sound.
US10467779B2
A computer-controlled system determines attributes of a frexel, which is an area of human skin, and applies a reflectance modifying agent (RMA) at the pixel level to automatically change the appearance of human features based on one or more digital images. The change may be based on a digital image of the same frexel, for as seen in a prior digital photograph captured previously by the computer-controlled system. The system scans the frexel and uses feature recognition software to compare the person's current features in the frexel with that person's features in the digital image. It then calculates enhancements to the make the current features appear more like the features in the digital image, and it applies the RMA to the frexel to accomplish the enhancements. Or the change may be based on a digital image of another person, through the application of RMAs.
US10467778B2
A start fill scheme in a first layer that is initially non-transparent is displayed on a display of a computing device. An end fill scheme in a different second layer that overlaps the first layer and is initially at least partially transparent is displayed on the display. A first transparency value of the first layer is gradually changed to a value corresponding to transparency. A second transparency of the second layer is gradually changed to a value corresponding to non-transparency. Both the first transparency value and the second transparency value are gradually changed during a particular time period. Gradually changing the first transparency value and the second transparency value includes changing the values by a plurality of increments over the particular time period.
US10467773B2
A print system and a method for detecting inline failure of a curing light source of a 3D object printer are disclosed. For example, the print system includes a plurality of printheads, a curing light source, an inline failure detection (IFD) system, a movable member to hold an object, a heat resistant member coupled to the movable member that holds a thermal paper for testing operation of the curing light source and a controller to control movement of the movable member to move the object past the array of printheads, to operate the plurality of printheads to eject the marking material onto the object as the object passes the two-dimensional array of printheads, to operate the curing light source to apply energy to the thermal paper and to cure the marking material, and to operate the IFD system to read the thermal paper to detect a failure of the curing light source.
US10467772B2
Automated system and method for determining positional order through photometric and geospatial data
A system and method for determining positional order of vehicles across a threshold plane within a dynamic environment is provided. The system can include moving vehicles (e.g., boats) each having a GPS receiver. A reference object (e.g., an anchored boat) can have an image capturing device and a primary GPS receiver, and can be subject to movement induced by the dynamic environment. A fixed object having a known position (e.g., a government buoy) relative to the reference object define a threshold plane, which is subject to movement based on movement of the reference object. Photometric data gathered by the image capturing device and geospatial data gathered from the GPS receivers, the primary GPS receiver, and the fixed object is analyzed by a processor to determine a positional order at which each vehicle crossed the movable threshold plane.
US10467770B2
A computer program causes a head-mounted display device including an camera and an image display section capable of being transparent at least against light from a scene to realize functions of: an image setting function of displaying, with the image display section, a marker image that is capable of being perceived to be at least partially aligned with a real marker; a detection function of detecting the real marker from an image captured with the camera; a parameter setting function of setting at least one parameter for allowing an AR object displayed with the display section to be perceived to correspond to an object in the scene; a determination function of determining whether a user's head is in a substantially static condition, and a collecting function of collecting, from the image or another image captured with the camera, calibration data that is to be used in the parameter setting function in response to an instruction, in the case where the user's head is determined to be in the substantially static condition by the determination function.
US10467767B2
Registration-based interpolation between images slices is provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of 2D images is read. Each of the plurality of 2D images represents a slice of a 3D volume. A plurality of annotations is read for a subset of the plurality of 2D images. The annotations comprise at least one anatomical label. 2D images lacking annotations are selected from the plurality of 2D images. The at least one anatomical label is propagated from the subset of the plurality of 2D images to the selected 2D images by deformable registration.
US10467765B2
A computer vision system is provided that includes an image generation device configured to generate consecutive two dimensional (2D) images of a scene, and a dense optical flow engine (DOFE) configured to determine a dense optical flow map for pairs of the consecutive 2D images, wherein, for a pair of consecutive 2D images, the DOFE is configured to perform a predictor based correspondence search for each paxel in a current image of the pair of consecutive 2D images, wherein, for an anchor pixel in each paxel, the predictor based correspondence search evaluates a plurality of predictors to select a best matching pixel in a reference image of the pair of consecutive 2D images, and determine optical flow vectors for each pixel in a paxel based on the best matching pixel selected for the anchor pixel of the paxel.
US10467756B2
There is provided a method of computing a camera pose of a digital image, comprising: computing query-regions of a digital image, each query-region maps to training image region(s) of training image(s) by a 2D translation and/or a 2D scaling, each training image associated with a reference camera pose, each query-region associated with a center point and a computed weighted mask that weights the query-region pixels according to computed correlations with the corresponding training image region, mapping cloud points corresponding to pixels of matched training image region(s) to corresponding images pixels of the matched query-regions according to a statistically significant correlation requirement between the center point of the query-region and the matched training image region, and according to the computed weight mask, and computing the camera pose according to an aggregation of the camera poses, and the mapped cloud points and corresponding image pixels of the matched query-regions.
