US10531583B2
A light-emitting device can be folded in such a manner that a flexible light-emitting panel is supported by a plurality of housings which are provided spaced from each other and the light-emitting panel is bent so that surfaces of adjacent housings are in contact with each other. Furthermore, in the light-emitting device, in which part or the whole of the housings have magnetism, the two adjacent housings can be fixed to each other by a magnetic force when the light-emitting device is used in a folded state.
US10531581B2
Disclosed is a structure for finely adjusting the distance between image output portions constituted by a plurality of panels or modules of a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display panel including a first panel module and a second panel module arranged in a vertical plane for outputting images forward, a support frame disposed at the rear of the display panel for supporting the display panel, and a control unit disposed at the rear of the display panel for controlling the outputting the images from the display panel. The display apparatus further includes a connection unit, a receiving unit, and an adjustment unit for finely adjusting the distance between the display modules. In addition, the display apparatus further includes a recess part and a protrusion part, which are movably coupled to each other for circuit connection, in order to enable fine adjustment of the distance between the display panel modules of the display panel.
US10531578B2
A method for manufacturing a flexible circuit board with resistor which is buried in the board includes steps of providing a composite board, the composite board comprising a substrate, and a physical development core layer formed on the substrate. A silver halide emulsion layer is formed on the physical development core layer and the silver halide emulsion layer is exposed. A developing solution is applied to the halide emulsion layer and washed to form a silver layer on the substrate. A conductive layer is formed on the silver layer and the conductive layer is etched, forming at least one opening. Such opening exposes a portion of the silver layer which contains a buried resistor. Different processes and materials applied in the above procedure serve to increase or decrease the resistance of the resistor as desired.
US10531574B2
A contact pad includes a solder-wettable porous network (310) which wicks the molten solder (130) and thus restricts the lateral spread of the solder, thus preventing solder bridging between adjacent contact pads.
US10531565B2
A multilayer capacitor built-in substrate includes a core substrate, a multilayer capacitor mounted on one principal surface of the core substrate, and a burying layer provided on the one principal surface of the core substrate to bury the multilayer capacitor. The multilayer capacitor includes a laminated body in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are laminated, and first and second external electrodes. The laminated body includes an effective region in which internal electrode layers respectively connected to the first external electrode and the second external electrode are laminated with a dielectric layer located therebetween, and a non-effective region surrounding the effective region. The core substrate includes, on the one principal surface, a first land electrode electrically connected to the first external electrode and a second land electrode electrically connected to the second external electrode.
US10531556B1
A method of assembling a component to a printed circuit board that includes a thermal layer and a circuit layer separated by a dielectric layer. The circuit layer includes circuit pads that correspond to terminal surfaces on the component. The dielectric layer includes an aperture that exposes a portion of the thermal layer that correspond to a thermal pad on the component. Solder paste is applied to the circuit pads and the exposed thermal layer. Lower surfaces of the solder paste are in contact with the circuit pads and the thermal layer and upper surfaces of the solder paste are substantially coplanar. The component is placed on the solder paste. The printed circuit board and the component are heated to create solder joints between the terminal surfaces on the component and the circuit pads and between the thermal pad on the component and the thermal layer.
US10531553B2
Systems and methods are described herein for generating surface-wave plasmas capable of simultaneously achieving high density with low temperature and planar scalability. A key feature of the invention is reduced damage to objects in contact with the plasma due to the lack of an RF bias; allowing for damage free processing. The preferred embodiment is an all-in-one processing reactor suitable for photovoltaic cell manufacturing, performing saw-damage removal, oxide stripping, deposition, doping and formation of hetero structures. The invention is scalable for atomic-layer deposition, etching, and other surface interaction processes.
US10531552B2
A device for generating an atmospheric-pressure plasma is disclosed. In an embodiment the device includes a piezoelectric transformer comprising an input region and an output region, wherein the input region is designed to convert an applied alternating voltage into a mechanical oscillation, wherein the output region is designed to convert a mechanical oscillation into a voltage, and wherein the output region adjoins the input region in a longitudinal direction, a contact element fastened to the piezoelectric transformer, the contact element being designed to apply the alternating voltage to the input region and a holder, wherein the contact element is connected to the holder by a form-fit connection, in such a manner that a movement of the piezoelectric transformer in the longitudinal direction, relative to the holder, is prevented.
US10531548B2
A method is provided for controlling one or more lighting devices to generate a dynamic light effect based on an image. A first area in the image is selected based on first selection criteria (e.g. object recognition). Within this first area, a sequence of sub-areas (260, 262, 264) are selected based on second selection criteria (e.g. zooming in to a recognized object). Color values are extracted from each sub-area and the one or more lighting devices are controlled based on the extracted color values.
US10531540B2
An intelligent lamp holder includes a microprocessor, a memory controlled by the microprocessor, an acoustic reception and transmission element, a sound recognition module, a light modulation module controlled by the microprocessor, a sensing module controlled by the microprocessor, an internet of things transmission protocol module controlled by the microprocessor, a wireless communication module connected with the internet of things transmission protocol module and the microprocessor, and an instruction match and situation application module for comparing operation instructions recognized by the internet of things transmission protocol module with a plurality of preset instructions. The acoustic reception and transmission element is connected with an external ultrasonic device for receiving ultrasonic signals, and converts the ultrasonic signals into digital signals. The sound recognition module is controlled by the microprocessor, and connected with the acoustic reception and transmission element. The digital signals are transmitted to the sound recognition module.
US10531524B2
A microwave oven includes a cooking cavity having an opening, a source of microwave radiation that transmits microwaves into the cooking cavity, a door positioned adjacent the opening and movable between an open position where the cooking cavity can be accessed through the opening and a closed position where the cooking cavity is inaccessible through the opening. The door further includes a transparent glass panel where the cooking cavity is viewable through the door when the door is in the closed position. A conductive metal transparent coating on at least one surface of the transparent glass panel attenuates microwave transmission from the cooking cavity through the door. The conductive metal transparent coating has a sheet resistance and is electrically grounded. A circuit is connected to the transparent coating that measures the sheet resistance of the transparent coating.
US10531520B2
A molding apparatus capable of improving the quality of a molded article is provided. A control section controls a blowing mechanism to expand and mold a metal pipe material by supplying gas into the metal pipe material held between an upper mold and a lower mold by a pipe holding mechanism. The control section controls a driving section to mold a flange portion by crushing a second molded portion of the expanded metal pipe material in a sub-cavity portion between the upper mold and the lower mold. In a molding apparatus, the control section changes movement speed of a slide during the molding of the flange portion by controlling a servomotor. Accordingly, it becomes possible to control an operation of pressing at an appropriate movement speed according to the shape or the like of the flange portion. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the quality of a molded article.
US10531518B2
Systems and methods for improving wireless access point communications are provided. Some embodiments contemplate filtering operations such that two or more radios can be used in the 5 GHz or 2.4 GHz band without interfering with each other. Some embodiments employ discrete Low Noise Amplifiers (LNA) and Power Amplifiers (PA) as well as frontend modules. In some examples, filtering may be primarily used on the receiving side to filter out other signals in 5 GHz before they are amplified by an external LNA or LNAs, e.g., as integrated in a WLAN chipset. Filtering may also be performed on the transmit side in some embodiments.
US10531514B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may be used wireless network communication devices to support devices operating with extended discontinuous reception (eDRX). An exemplary method, performed by a BS, generally includes determining at least one paging hyper-frame for paging a user equipment (UE) based on an identification (ID) of the UE, the paging hyper-frame determined from a set of periodically occurring hyper-frames that each span a number of radio frames, receiving a request to page the UE, and transmitting a paging signal to the UE in at least one subframe within a radio frame of the paging hyper-frame. Another exemplary method, performed by a UE, generally includes determining at least one paging hyper-frame for monitoring for a paging signal from a base station (BS) based on an identification (ID) of the UE, the paging hyper-frame determined from a set of periodically occurring hyper-frames that each span a number of radio frames, and monitoring for the paging signal in at least one subframe within a radio frame of the paging hyper-frame.
US10531508B2
A network comprising a first base station (BS) and a second BS is configured to execute instructions of the first BS connecting to a communication device via a first cell of the first BS with a signaling radio bearer (SRB); the second BS as a secondary node (SN) connecting to the communication device via a second cell while the first BS as a master node (MN) connecting to the communication device; the first BS transmitting a SN Modification Request message to a second BS to add or modify a configuration of the SN for the communication device in dual connectivity (DC); and the second BS transmitting a SN Modification Request Acknowledge message comprising to the first BS in response to the SN Modification Request message, wherein the SN Modification Request Acknowledge message comprises a new or modified configuration and a random access (RA) channel (RACH) configuration.
US10531504B2
A base station (2) is configured to schedule radio resources to device-to-device (D2D) transmissions (101A, 101B and 101C) performed by D2D communication pairs (3A, 3B and 3C) in accordance with an allocation rule that permits two D2D communication pairs (3A and 3C) that are not in proximity to each other to share an identical radio resource but prohibits two D2D communication pairs (3A and 3B) in proximity to each other from sharing an identical radio resource. Each D2D transmission (101) includes wirelessly transmitting from one radio terminal (1) directly to the other radio terminal (1) in each D2D communication pair (3) without passing through the base station (2). It is, thus, possible to enable efficient spatial reuse of radio resources in D2D transmissions performed by D2D communication pairs.
US10531501B2
First identification information is a detach type for requesting disconnection from a system optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). A procedure includes a step of transmitting a detach request message that includes at least the first identification information to a core network, and a step of receiving a detach accept message from the core network as a response to the detach request message. Thus, a communication procedure such as an attach procedure suitable for a CIoT terminal is provided.
US10531485B2
A method for being allocated a discovery resource by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system supporting a device to device (D2D) scheme is provided. The method includes determining whether a discovery resource request message may be transmitted to a network entity; transmitting the discovery resource request message to the network entity based on the determining result; and receiving a discovery resource response message as a response message to the discovery resource request message from the network entity.
US10531480B2
The present disclosure discloses a scheduling method and device. AUE receives a first signaling firstly and transmits a wireless signal on a target time frequency resource. The first signaling indicates a first time frequency resource, and the first time frequency resource includes a second time frequency resource. The target time frequency resource includes a time frequency resource of the first time frequency resource except the second time frequency resource. The target and the second time frequency resources are orthogonal. The first time frequency resource includes T1 sub frames in a time domain, and includes P1 sub carriers in a frequency domain. The second time frequency resource includes T2 sub frames of T1 sub frames and P1 sub carriers in a time domain. T1 and P1 are a positive integer, T2 is smaller than T1. A position of the second time frequency resource in the first time frequency resource is fixed.
US10531468B2
A channel management method and device for a wireless local area network (WLAN) in rail transport, where the method includes instructing, by the controller, a to-be-changed trackside access point (AP) to change an operating channel from an operating channel of a first vehicle-mounted AP on a first vehicle to an operating channel of a second vehicle-mounted AP on a second vehicle, where the to-be-changed trackside AP for the first vehicle is behind the first vehicle, and a distance of the to-be-changed trackside AP to the first vehicle exceeds a preset threshold. Because operating channels of two vehicle-mounted APs are different, interference between vehicle-mounted APs on one vehicle and a next vehicle is low. Moreover, a trackside AP behind a previous vehicle is instructed to change a channel such that a vehicle-mounted AP does not need to change a channel. Therefore, a handover time is short.
US10531467B2
Techniques for gaining initial access of a cell by a mobile device by using multiple numerologies associated with the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are disclosed. The multiple numerologies are selected from numerologies that are both offered by the cell and which can be processed by the mobile device that is trying to gain the initial access. For example, one numerology can be used for the synchronization portion of the initial access and a different numerology can be use for the system information gathering and random access portions of the initial access. Also, upon gaining the initial access, the mobile device can be configured to use more numerologies for data communication, either simultaneously or one numerology at a time.
US10531466B2
A communication apparatus that communicates with another communication apparatus detects a signal from the other communication apparatus, specifies an amount of a resource used to communicate a predetermined amount of data from the other communication apparatus to the communication apparatus, and transmits, to the other communication apparatus, one predetermined signal corresponding to the specified amount of the resource from a plurality of predetermined signals that are known in the communication apparatus and the other communication apparatus and respectively correspond to different amounts of a resource including at least one of a frequency and time used to communicate the predetermined amount of data.
US10531458B2
A user terminal according to a first aspect is used in a mobile communication system which supports a D2D proximity service for enabling direct device-to-device communication. The user terminal comprises a controller configured to obtain mapping information indicating a correspondence relationship between a D2D application and a frequency to be used for the D2D application, the D2D application being an application of the D2D proximity service. The controller determines the frequency to be used for the D2D application based on the mapping information.
US10531450B2
According to one embodiment, a communication processing device mounted in a wireless communication device which uses a first channel and a second channel, includes controlling circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control to transmit, through the first channel, a first announcement signal including channel information of the second channel and control to transmit, through the second channel, a second announcement signal when slot allocation of a target communication device in the second channel is determined to be changed, the second announcement signal including a notification of the change in the slot allocation of the target communication device.
US10531432B2
An embodiment method of resource allocation for sparse code multiple access (SCMA) transmissions includes partitioning a resource block into a plurality of resource regions. The method also includes assigning the plurality of resource regions to respective device groups. The resource region assignments are then signaled to devices of the respective device groups. The method also includes receiving SCMA signals from the devices of the respective device groups. The SCMA signals from one group of the respective device groups are asynchronous with respect to the SCMA signals from another group of the respective device groups.
US10531430B2
A user equipment (UE) provides service continuity when the UE is about to move out of coverage of a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS). The UE: receives MBMS data via an MBMS bearer; detects that the UE is suffering from a bad MBMS bearer condition; informs a server of the bad MBMS conditions to initiate switching to unicast; wherein, if there is downlink data to deliver during switching, the UE begins to receive the downlink data via unicast and to continues to receive downlink data via the MBMS bearer until the switching to the unicast bearer is complete. The UE is configured to determine a quality of the MBMS bearer relative to a threshold, which is dependent on service type, for indicating that the MBMS bearer quality is not acceptable. When the threshold is reached, the UE sends a message to the server.
US10531426B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method for detecting motion. At a first wireless communication device capable of wirelessly communicating with a second wireless communication device, channel state information (CSI) for the wireless channel between the first and second wireless communication devices is received. A nulling matrix is calculated based on the received CSI. The calculated nulling matrix is applied to a plurality of short packets scheduled to be periodically transmitted from the first wireless communication device to the second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device receives, from the second wireless communication device, received signal strength information (RSSI) determined for each of the transmitted plurality of short packets. The method further includes detecting motion based on detecting a change in the RSSI received from the second wireless communication device.
US10531414B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-fifth generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond fourth generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE).A synchronization signal transmission/reception method for use in a device-to-device (D2D) communication system is provided. A method of transmitting a synchronization signal for D2D communication in an asynchronous network, in which a first terminal located in a first cell controls synchronization with a second terminal located outside of the first cell, includes transmitting, at the first cell, a system information block (SIB) including resource allocation information of the first cell and at least one neighboring cell, determining whether the first terminal is in a first mode and whether the first terminal is scheduled to perform one of a D2D communication and a D2D discovery; determining, when the first terminal is in the first mode, whether the first terminal is required to transmit a D2D synchronization signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, when the first terminal is required to transmit the D2DSS, scheduling information including a transmission time point and transmission reference timing information to the first terminal.
US10531394B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a touch sensitivity of a display unit can be improved. The present invention includes a display unit, a touch sensor configured to detect a touch input applied to the display unit by periodically waking up while the display unit is turned off, and a controller, if a preset user input is received, controlling a wakeup period of the touch sensor distributed in at least one partial region of the display unit to be decreased.
US10531391B2
A device and method for power saving between a scheduling request and a grant. A user equipment (UE) establishes a connection to a network, the UE and the network may be configured with a Connected Discontinuous Reception (C-DRX) functionality, the C-DRX functionality including a cycle with at least one onDuration. The UE transmits, during a first subframe a scheduling request (SR) to the network, the SR corresponds to data that is to be transmitted by the UE. The UE determines a second subframe for the UE to enter an active mode of processing for a reception of a grant, the second subframe is subsequent to the first subframe and prior to a next onDuration. The UE initiates an active mode of processing for the reception of the grant during the second subframe.
US10531382B2
A wireless device having processor circuitry; and a hardware circuit configured to implement, during an active steady-state of a Medium Access Control/Link Layer (MAC/LL) with scheduled channel access, a MAC/LL function without processor circuitry intervention, wherein the steady-state is a state that is control packet transmission free for managed connections in connection oriented communications or a continuous broadcast or scan operation in connectionless communications.
US10531379B2
Embodiments of systems and techniques are described for determining inter-radio access technology (inter-RAT) coverage for energy saving management (ESM). In some embodiments, a network management (NM) apparatus may determine that a source cell of a network of a first RAT is triggered to activate an energy saving state and that the source cell is partially overlapped by each of a plurality of cells of one or more networks of one or more RATs different from the first RAT. The NM apparatus may instruct the source cell to activate the energy saving state when a combination of the plurality of cells provides coverage of the source cell. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10531365B2
In one aspect, a method of cell processing is disclosed, which includes disposing a plurality of cells on a substrate across which a plurality of projections are distributed and an electrically conductive layer at least partially coating said projections, exposing the cells to a cargo to be internalized by the cells, irradiating the substrate surface (and in particular the projections) with one or more laser pulses having a pulse width in a range of about 1 ns to about 1000 ns so as to facilitate uptake of the cargo by at least a portion of the cells (e.g., the cells positioned in the vicinity of the projections (e.g., within hundreds of nanometer (such as less than 100 nm) of the projections)). In some embodiments, the laser pulses have a pulse width in a range of about 10 ns to about 500 ns, e.g., in a range of about 5 ns to about 50 ns.
US10531360B1
Method and apparatus for connection pooling and distribution with quality-of-service across networks
Client devices may access internet service from a number of different sources such as mobile broadband networks, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, etc. Client devices generally connect to only one of the available internet services at a time. Client devices may not always be fully accessing the available internet service. A client device may benefit by using the internet service that is available to but not used by other client devices. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable client devices to coordinate with other client devices and coordinate with the internet service providing entities to pool the internet service from multiple internet service sources through some client devices and distribute to other client devices.
US10531359B2
A first communication device for handling a PDCP operation comprises at least one storage device for storing instructions and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the at least one storage device. The instructions comprise receiving a first plurality of PDCP Data PDUs associated to a radio bearer (RB), from a second communication device; processing the first plurality of PDCP Data PDUs according to a RX_NEXT, a RX_DELIV and a RX_REORD; updating the RX_NEXT, the RX_DELIV and the RX_REORD; performing a PDCP reestablishment; setting the RX_NEXT, the RX_DELIV and the RX_REORD to a plurality of initial values; receiving a second PDCP Data PDU associated to the RB, from the second communication device; and processing the second PDCP Data PDU according to the RX_NEXT, the RX_DELIV and the RX_REORD.
US10531354B2
Methods and corresponding apparatuses for LTE's WLAN mobility set prioritization are discussed. The method includes detecting an integrated WLAN and a legacy WLAN, measuring the connection quality of the integrated WLAN and/or the connection quality of the legacy WLAN, and determining whether to select the legacy WLAN over the integrated WLAN based on the measurement results. The method further includes detecting a WWAN using both licensed and unlicensed spectrum, and refraining from connecting to the legacy WLAN in response to the detecting.
US10531350B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining connection configuration between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (ENB) and performing handover in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity. The method of setting a connection configuration for a UE in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity may include: detecting occurrence of a handover event; selecting a macro ENB with the highest signal strength among neighboring macro ENBs and a small ENB with the highest signal strength among neighboring small ENBs; checking whether dynamic association is allowed in dual connectivity; and determining the connection configuration for the UE on the basis of the selected ENBs and checking result.
US10531338B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining, by a first device, that a second device is within range for direct communications and that the second device is capable of performing transpositional modulation (TM) communications. Determining to use transpositional modulation to send data to the second device. Sending the data to the second device using a TM signal.
US10531331B2
The present invention discloses an overload control method, a gateway device, a mobility management entity, and a PGW. The method includes: determining, by a gateway device, first overload indication information, where the first overload indication information is used to indicate an overload control policy; and sending, by the gateway device, the first overload indication information to a mobility management entity, so that the mobility management entity executes the overload control policy according to the first overload indication information. According to the overload control method, the gateway device, the mobility management entity, and the PGW in embodiments of the present invention, adverse impact brought by device overload can be avoided; therefore, the device overload can be effectively controlled.
US10531329B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for controlling relay traffic by a base station in a wireless communication system supporting device to device (D2D) communication according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises checking whether received traffic is relay traffic; if the received traffic is the relay traffic, identifying a port number in each cluster of the relay traffic; determining the priority of the relay traffic according to the port number; and transmitting, to a relay terminal, a packet based on the determined priority.
US10531327B2
[Object] To make it possible to perform measurement reporting suitable for an environment in which the on/off state of a cell is switched.[Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating that a serving cell is scheduled to be in an off state; and a control unit configured to perform measurement reporting before the serving cell is in the off state.
US10531314B2
The disclosure provides an example of a system including a radio frequency (RF) nodal network and a gateway coupled to the RF nodal network. The gateway is configured to transmit control packets the control packets having an initial parameter setting for each node in the RF nodal network. The selected nodes among the network of nodes are configured to transmit a number of test packets for each of a plurality of tests is greater than throughput saturation of the RF nodal network. The system includes a server coupled to the gateway and is configured to perform network performance analysis based on the test packets for each of the plurality of tests received by the gateway. The server updates parameter settings to optimize performance of the nodes of the RF nodal network to attain the target network performance metric based on a result of the network performance analysis.
US10531307B2
A wireless communication device may conduct first wireless communications over a first frequency band according to a first radio access technology (RAT), and may detect second wireless communications conducted over the first frequency band according to a second RAT while the wireless communication device is conducting the first wireless communications. The wireless communication device may then adjust characteristics and/or parameters associated with the first wireless communications based on the detected second wireless communications. In a specific example, a wireless communication device conducting Wi-Fi communications in the 5 GHz band may detect cellular communications (e.g. LAA/LTE-U communications) also conducted in the 5 GHz band while the wireless communication device is conducting the Wi Fi communications. The wireless communication device may then adjust characteristics and/or parameters associated with its Wi-Fi communications based on the detected signals/frequencies of the cellular (LAA/LTE-U) communications.
US10531294B2
A system for reducing traffic accidents caused by distraction from a mobile telecom device. The system detects when the device is near a driver's seat of a moving vehicle. While the system is carrying a voice call between a remote voice device and the mobile device, the system modifies voice signal transmission between the devices by periodically playing a beep or other signal to remind the parties that one of them is driving and suspends voice signal transmission from the remote device to the mobile device when the system detects that circumstances affecting level of attention required for driving merit the driver paying greater attention.
US10531292B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for flexible, security context management during AMF changes. One aspect of the disclosure is a mechanism for achieving backward security during AMF changes in idle mode. Instead of passing the current NAS key to the target AMF, the source AMF derives a new NAS key, provides the new NAS key to the target AMF, along with a key change indication indicating that the NAS key has changed. The target AMF sends the key change indication to the user equipment.
US10531291B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTD. A method of a terminal connected to another base station (BS) for a second communication system in a wireless environment, the method comprising receiving, via the another BS from a BS for the first communication system, a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message comprising information regarding a first key, generating a secure key for a security of the first communication system based on the first key, an identifier (ID) for indicating an algorithm for applying to the first key, a distinguisher for indicating a function of the algorithm indicated by the ID, and transmitting, to the BS, a signal based on the generated secure key.
US10531290B2
An MIC verification method in D2D communications and a D2D communications system include: a monitoring UE receives a discovery announcement message from an announcing UE, in which the discovery announcement message carries a 32-bit MIC, and the MIC is a signature value obtained when the announcing UE conducts, by using a private key, a digital signature on a current time and a time window in the discovery announcement message; and the monitoring UE verifies the correctness of the MIC by using a public key of the announcing UE to determine whether the discovery process is successful.
US10531288B2
Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, and machine readable mediums which provide for a data management microservice which registers and manages data across multiple microservices to reduce data fragmentation and to ensure correct disposal of this data upon request. In some examples, the data management microservice may include an erasure service which ensures that all data corresponding to a data characteristic is deleted.
US10531284B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for confirming identity of a user equipment (UE) registered in both a wireless local area network (WLAN) and WWAN. A method is provided for wireless communications by a base station (BS). The method generally includes establishing communications with a first UE, wherein the UE is identified by a first set of one or more identifiers in a wide area wireless network (WWAN) and by a second set of one or more identifiers in a wide local area network (WLAN), and determining, based on the first and second set of identifiers, a UE connected to the WWAN and WLAN is the first UE.
US10531281B2
An apparatus and method in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes circuitry configured to: generate configuration information about a user equipment including retransmission time related information and used for performing device-to-device communication, wherein the re-transmission time related information represents information related to retransmission times of signal transmission with a user equipment performing device-to-device communication; and to transmit the generated configuration information to the user equipment performing device-to-device communication. A signal in device-to-device communication can be ensured to be accurately and completely transmitted between various communication devices participating in the communication, and thus the transmission performance of information is improved.
US10531271B2
A method for at least one of device to device proximity detection and device to device communication between a first user equipment and a second user equipment includes transmitting, by a base station entity as part of first control data, a first discovery resource configuration information and a second discovery resource configuration information. The first discovery resource configuration information indicates first air interface resources usable for discovery purposes involving the first user equipment. The second discovery resource configuration information indicates second air interface resources usable for discovery purposes involving the second user equipment. The method further includes subsequently performing, by the first user equipment using the second discovery resource configuration information, a discovery procedure towards the second user equipment by using the second air interface resources.
US10531261B2
An airtime card and associated methods of using the airtime card for the sale and/or authorization of wireless services is disclosed. The methods and airtime card include the use of an airtime card with a near field communication tag with a unique identifier code used to improve a user's experience and ease of authorization/provisioning of services for the wireless device. In some aspects, the unique identifier may be protected by a security code programmed at the point-of-sale of the airtime card. The services to be purchased and authorized may include at least one of the following: out of the box activation, device upgrades, device reactivations, wireless number changes, wireless number porting, and the addition or purchasing of services including airtime, data, and/or SMS enrollments or data content.
US10531254B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for establishing millimeter wave vehicle-to-vehicle communications for data sharing. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving, at an ego vehicle, a first beacon from a first vehicle, wherein the first beacon includes first scheduling information and first localization information and the first beacon is broadcast as a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. The method includes determining a schedule based on the first scheduling information. The method includes broadcasting a second beacon based on the schedule. The method includes establishing a current link between the ego vehicle and the first vehicle. The method includes transmitting data to the first vehicle using the current link based on the schedule.
US10531252B2
The present invention is directed toward networks and more particularly to a method and system for providing information related to context-oriented billing in such networks. In one more embodiments, a computer implemented method provides for billing invoices in response to one or more of a customer's network elements which have been correlated with detailed network data, classified into one or more billing event categories, and rated in accordance with a predetermined hierarchy.
US10531247B2
A miniaturized multiprotocol audio/voice internet-of-things device (MAVID) initiates a wireless call in response to a command received from a first user. The MAVID carries out the wireless call between the first user and a second user. The wireless call utilizes wireless protocols such as WiFi, Bluetooth, third generation mobile technology (3G), fourth generation mobile technology (4G), and Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT). The MAVID performs an in-call interaction, such as connecting to and utilizing an internet-based application or controlling a consumer electronic device, in response to a voice command from either the first user or the second user, while carrying out the wireless call.
US10531241B2
A network computer system can detect a triggering event, and in response to the detection of the triggering event, obtain a set of service parameters relating to a service session of a service provider. Additionally, the network computer system can obtain one or more content items from a plurality of network information services, based on the set of service parameters. In some examples, each of the one or more content items can include a set of feature data. In such examples, the network computer system can provide the set of feature data of each of the one or more content items to a computing device of the service provider. Additionally, the network computer system can utilize a set of prioritization rules to determine a prioritization between each of the one or more content items. Based on the prioritization and the feature data of each of the one or more content items, the network computer system can cause an application running on the computing device of the service provider to generate each of the one or more content items.
US10531221B1
An electronic device that performs automatic room filling is described. Based at least in part on information about an environment, which may include a second electronic device, the electronic device may determine a number of individuals in the environment. Then, based at least in part on the determined number of individuals, the electronic device may calculate an acoustic radiation pattern. For example, a width of a beam in the acoustic radiation pattern may be narrower when there is one individual in the environment, and the width of the beam may be wider when there is more than one individual in the environment. Next, the electronic device may provide audio content and second information specifying the acoustic radiation pattern for the second electronic device.
US10531214B2
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method for controlling the same, where the electronic device that includes an earphone connector including first and second contacts associated with a sound output through an audio plug, a third contact connected to a ground terminal, and a fourth contact associated with a sound input, and a microphone. The method includes applying a bias voltage to the fourth contact, measuring a voltage between the third and fourth contacts, measuring an impedance between at least one of the first or second contact and the third contact, activating the microphone when the measured voltage is greater than or equal to a first threshold value and the measured impedance is less than or equal to a second threshold value, and deactivating the microphone when the measured voltage is greater than or equal to the first threshold value and the measured impedance exceeds the second threshold value.
US10531213B2
The present disclosure relates to a system comprising: a MEMS capacitive transducer comprising a first electrode and a second electrode; integrator circuitry; and test circuitry. The MEMS capacitive transducer forms part of a negative feedback path of the integrator circuitry, and the test circuitry is operable to selectively apply one or more current sources to an input of the integrator circuitry based on a signal at an output of the integrator so as to generate a periodic signal at the output of the integrator circuitry. A frequency of the periodic signal is at least partially dependent upon a capacitance of the MEMS capacitive transducer. The system is further operative to determine a parameter indicative of the frequency of the periodic signal and to estimate the capacitance of the MEMS capacitive transducer based on the parameter indicative of the frequency of the periodic signal.
US10531200B2
In at least one embodiment, a dual asymmetric compression driver is provided. The dual asymmetric compression driver includes a first driver assembly and a second driver assembly. The first driver assembly is positioned about a central axis and includes a first annular diaphragm having a first planar section extending at a first clamping distance. The second driver assembly is positioned about the central axis and includes a second annular diaphragm having a second planar section extending at a second clamping distance. The first clamping distance is different from the second clamping distance causing the first asymmetric driver to provide a first audio output in a first frequency range and the second driver assembly to provide a second audio output in a second frequency range.
US10531164B1
The present disclosure describes specific technical approaches to implementing an arrangement in which two or more individual stories share a common feature or “knot” so as to combine to form a larger overall story, and where the individual stories are presented in different orders to different audiences, with the order of presentation affecting the audience perception of the larger overall story.
US10531158B2
A method of multi-source video navigation, comprising: receiving an image sequence, each image of said sequence comprising a plurality of image parts, the image parts of said plurality comprising image data arising from synchronized images of respective video streams, each video stream arising from a corresponding source, receiving a selection parameter value arising from a user interface, said value corresponding to one at least of said video streams, and instructing the displaying of the at least one image part, from among the image parts of this plurality, corresponding to the value of the selection parameter received.
US10531148B2
Example methods and apparatus to detect audio engineering problems using identification of isolated watermarks are disclosed herein. Disclosed example methods include identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, isolated watermarks in a first set of detected watermarks obtained from first media monitored at a first site. Disclosed example methods further include determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, a problem has been detected with the first media associated with the first set of detected watermarks in response to a first number of isolated watermarks identified in the first set of detected watermarks satisfying a first threshold.
US10531142B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for an application that tracks the progress of presentation of network content. The application facilitates storing, in a memory accessible to at least one computing device, at least one universal resource locator for facilitating access to multimedia network content. The application also stores, in the memory, a time marker associated with a progress of a presentation of the multimedia network content. Furthermore, the application links, in the at least one computing device, the time marker to at least one universal resource locator for resuming the presentation of the multimedia network content at a last point of progress.
US10531116B2
A device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data and a video decoder comprising one or more processors configured to adaptively select motion vector precision for motion vectors used to encode blocks of video data.
US10531113B2
A motion vector encoding apparatus includes: a predictor configured to obtain motion vector predictor candidates of a plurality of predetermined motion vector resolutions by using a spatial candidate block and a temporal candidate block of a current block, and to determine motion vector predictor of the current block, a motion vector of the current block, and a motion vector resolution of the current block by using the motion vector predictor candidates; and an encoder configured to encode information representing the motion vector predictor of the current block, a residual motion vector between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block, and information representing the motion vector resolution of the current block, wherein the plurality of predetermined motion vector resolutions include a resolution of a pixel unit that is greater than a resolution of one-pel unit.
US10531111B2
Innovations in flexible reference picture management are described. For example, a video encoder and video decoder use a global reference picture set (“GRPS”) of reference pictures that remain in memory, and hence are available for use in video encoding/decoding, longer than conventional reference pictures. In particular, reference pictures of the GRPS remain available across random access boundaries. Or, as another example, a video encoder and video decoder clip a reference picture so that useful regions of the reference picture are retained in memory, while unhelpful or redundant regions of the reference picture are discarded. Reference picture clipping can reduce the amount of memory needed to store reference pictures or improve the utilization of available memory by providing better options for motion compensation. Or, as still another example, a video encoder and video decoder filter a reference picture to remove random noise (e.g., capture noise due to camera imperfections during capture).
US10531108B2
A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions of the video sequence being encoded in the second layer encoder are predicted using reference portions of the video sequence encoded in the first layer encoder, combining the first sub-bitstream and the second sub-bitstream to generate the scalable bitstream, and signaling in the scalable bitstream an indication of a maximum decoded picture buffer (DPB) size needed for decoding the second sub-bitstream and the first sub-bitstream when the second sub-bitstream is a target sub-bitstream for decoding.
US10531106B2
An electronic device for encoding a picture is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that are in electronic communication with the processor. The instructions are executable to encode a step-wise temporal sub-layer access (STSA) sample grouping. The instructions are further executable to send and/or store the STSA sample grouping.
US10531103B2
A video coder includes a processing resource and a non-transitory storage device containing instructions executable by the processing resource to compute a weighted Δ frame based on a saliency map and a Δ frame. The saliency map is to indicate the relative importance of each pixel in a current frame based on its perceptual significance. The Δ frame is to include differences between corresponding pixels in a current frame and a motion predicted frame.
US10531097B2
There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal.
US10531096B2
Decoder, system and method for decoding multimedia data at the level of a terminal by managing the energy available for decoding comprising a decoder of the multimedia data, characterized in that said decoder comprises at least one low-consumption decoding chain comprising an activation module suitable for activating a first low-consumption decoding chain or loop filter and a low-consumption interpolation chain as a function of at least one parameter representative of constraints of user energy and/or of the mobile terminal and of one or more metadata Md associated with a decoding complexity and/or with a decoding energy.
US10531095B2
Systems and methods for optimal variable bit rate packing are disclosed. Some embodiments include encoding media at a plurality of bit rates to generate a corresponding plurality of encodings, where each of the plurality of encodings include a plurality of framesets, generating advance encoding data for each of the plurality of encodings, where each advance encoding data includes information related to a data size of the plurality of framesets of the corresponding encoding, transmitting the generated advance encoding data to a client, receiving a request from the client including a request for one or more framesets of a first encoding, and transmitting the requested one or more framesets of the first encoding to the client.
US10531093B2
A method and system for video frame interpolation based on an optical flow method is disclosed. The process includes calculating bidirectional motion vectors between two adjacent frames in a frame sequence of input video by using the optical flow method, judging reliabilities of the bidirectional motion vectors between the two adjacent frames, and processing a jagged problem and a noise problem in the optical flow method; marking “shielding” and “exposure” regions in the two adjacent frames, and updating an unreliable motion vector; with regard to the two adjacent frames, according to marking information about the “shielding” and “exposure” regions and the bidirectional motion vector field, mapping front and back frames to an interpolated frame to obtain a forward interpolated frame and a backward interpolated frame; synthesizing the forward interpolated frame and the backward interpolated frame into the interpolated frame; repairing a hole point in the interpolated frame to obtain a final interpolated frame. Since the optical flow method is based on pixels, disclosed method and system are more accurate and do not have blocking effect and other problems.
US10531079B2
A display system includes a monitor device and a calibration device. The monitor device is used for generating an optical signal and receiving an optical characteristic signal. The calibration device is coupled to the monitor device. The calibration device includes a sensor for sensing the optical signal and generating the optical characteristic signal accordingly. The monitor device calibrates an image displayed on the monitor device by using a color calibration signal according to the optical characteristic signal.
US10531066B2
Provided is a device including a camera configured to capture an image of eyes of a user who is watching three-dimensional (3D) video; and a processor configured to obtain an eye feature of the user from the captured image of the eyes of the user, determine a degree of eyestrain degree of the user based on the obtained eye feature, and adjust a parallax of the 3D video according to the degree of eyestrain of the user.
US10531051B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system and a method of accessing a system. An embodiment is a system including an imaging system including a controller and a first camera, the controller having a communication connection configured to transmit or receive content or control signals, and a mobile device including a second camera, the mobile device having a communication interface configured to transmit or receive content or control signals with the controller, the controller being configured to compare images from the first and second cameras to allow access to the controller from the mobile device.
US10531048B2
A process for identifying a person, object, or entity (POE) of interest outside of a moving vehicle includes first receiving, from a camera coupled to the vehicle, a video stream having a field-of-view (FOV) of an area surrounding the vehicle. A first trigger is detected associated with a vehicle occupant's indicated desire to capture a portion of the video stream. A selected FOV sub-portion of the video stream less than then an entire captured FOV of the video stream is identified as a function of the trigger or a separate electronic sensor input. A second trigger is detected indicative of the vehicle occupant's indicated desire to stop capturing the portion of the video stream. The video stream is then sub-selected in time and FOV as a function of the foregoing to create a second modified video stream and provided to a target device for display.
US10531047B2
A device implementing a system for multiway audio-video conferencing includes a processor configured to receive, from a first device, indication of a first channel and a second channel for communicating content for an audio-video conference session. The first channel and the second channel correspond to different types of communication interfaces. The processor is further configured to receive, from the first device, a first request to subscribe to a first content stream for the audio-video conference session via the first channel, and to subscribe to a second content stream for the audio-video conference session via the second channel, and in response to receiving the first request, forward, to the first device, the first content stream via the first channel.
US10531045B2
A recording medium on which a user assistance program is recorded which makes a computer perform: based on image information obtained by photographing a plurality of users who use a given service, calculating state quantities of the plurality of respective users corresponding to the image information; counting, for each time period, a number of users whose amounts of change in the calculated respective state quantities are equal to or more than a given threshold value among the plurality of users; and detecting a time period in which the counted number of users satisfies a given condition.
US10531039B1
A method and system is provided for dynamically switching between at least two cameras in communication with a master device during a conference, where the at least two cameras are static and are associated with a device operable by a user. First and second video input is received from a first and a second camera and is then analyzed to identify first and second directional parameters of a face of the user. An algorithm is executed on the first and the second directional parameters to identify a first and a second coverage percentage of the face of the user. In response to comparing the first and the second coverage percentage, if the first coverage percentage is greater than the second coverage percentage, the second video input is disabled and the first video input is used to capture the face of the user.
US10531033B2
Provided is an imaging device including a pixel array including pixels; a readout circuit that reads out signals from the pixels; a temperature sensor that outputs a signal in accordance with a temperature; and a current control circuit that controls a current supplied to the temperature sensor. The current control circuit performs control in a first period such that a predetermined current is supplied to the temperature sensor, and performs control in a second period such that a current supplied to the temperature sensor becomes smaller than the predetermined current or stops. The first period is set in a first blanking period between a process in which the first readout circuit reads out one frame of signals output from the pixels and a process in which the first readout circuit reads out next one frame of signals output from the pixels.
US10531016B2
An on-vehicle display control device includes a rear video data acquiring unit configured to acquire first video data from a rear camera on a rear part of a vehicle to image a rear view; a rear side video data acquiring unit configured to acquire second video data from rear side cameras on right and left parts of the vehicle to image rear side views, a clipping unit configured to clip a first area that is a part of the first video data and second areas located on right and left sides of the first area, and a display controller configured to display video data clipped as the first area on a rearview monitor to display rear video, display the second video data on side monitors to display rear side video, and display video data clipped as the second area on the side monitors under a predetermined condition.
US10531011B2
Dynamic range enhancement methods and systems for display for use welding applications are disclosed. An example display system in a dynamic range enhancement system includes: a first filter disposed in a first path; a second filter disposed in a second path, wherein the second filter has a lower density than the first filter, at least one of the first filter or the second filter configured to provide variable lens shading; a first image sensor disposed in the first path and configured to receive filtered electromagnetic waves from the first filter; a second image sensor disposed in the second path and configured to receive filtered electromagnetic waves from the second filter; and a graphical circuit configured to combine signals from the first image sensor and the second image sensor.
US10531010B2
An information communication method obtains information from a subject using a terminal device that includes an image sensor. The method includes setting an exposure time of the image sensor having a plurality of exposure lines so that a bright line corresponding to each of the plurality of exposure lines included in the image sensor appears according to a change in luminance of the subject. The method also includes obtaining a bright line image including a plurality of bright lines, and obtaining identification information of the subject. In the obtaining of the bright line image, an exposure time of each of the plurality of exposure lines partially overlaps with an exposure time of an adjacent one of the plurality of exposure lines. During asynchronous communication, a minimum width of the stripe pattern corresponds to at least two bright lines in the obtained bright line image.
US10531002B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and an image processing method capable of generating a high-quality composite image. Exposure time and exposure timing of a basic imaging unit which images a basic image and a plurality of auxiliary imaging units which may image under an imaging condition independent from that of the basic imaging unit are controlled according to a motion amount. The present disclosure is applicable to an image processing device.
US10531001B2
A method for controlling a video camera which is configured to capture and process image frames prior to encoding. The method comprises determining whether the video camera is going to encode an image frame as an intra-frame or an inter-frame. If the image frame is going to be encoded as an inter-frame, the video camera is controlled to capture and process the image frame using first settings prior to encoding. If the image frame is going to be encoded as an intra-frame, the video camera is controlled to capture and process the image frame using second settings prior to encoding, wherein the second settings are modified in relation to the first settings to further reduce a level of noise in the image frame.
US10531000B2
An image pickup device includes a camera, a display, and a touch panel detects a user operation including a flick operation in first and second directions. The image pickup device has first, second and third imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the camera. After determining that the user operation is the flick operation, switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first flick operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second flick operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. Switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third flick operation in the second direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a fourth flick operation in the first direction in the third imaging mode.
US10530998B2
The plurality of captured images are stored as original linages in the image storage unit. A display region to be displayed in an enlarging manner in the panoramic images is set. It is determined whether or not the display region is in an imaging range of the original image. In a case where NO is determined, the display region is trimmed from the panoramic image and displayed on the display unit in an enlarging manner, and in a case where it is determined that the display region is in an imaging range of the original image, a corresponding region corresponding to the display region is trimmed from the original image and displayed on the display unit.
US10530992B2
The present invention provides a detection method, a detection system, and a detection device for flexible substrate; and the detection method comprises: obtaining the light intensity distribution by parallel light with the same intensity transmitted through the flexible substrate; finding a difference point of light intensity from the light intensity distribution; obtaining a position of the difference point of light intensity corresponding to the flexible substrate, and the position is treated as an abnormal position in the flexible substrate. Wherein the difference point of light intensity is a point where the light intensity is different from the light intensity of the surrounding area. The abnormal positions can be obtained by the detection method of the present invention.
US10530991B2
An “Exposure Controller” provides various techniques for training and applying a deep convolution network to provide real-time automated camera exposure control, as a real-time function of scene semantic context, in a way that improves image quality for a wide range of image subject types in a wide range of real-world lighting conditions. The deep learning approach applied by the Exposure Controller to implement this functionality first uses supervised learning to achieve a good anchor point that mimics integral exposure control for a particular camera model or type, followed by refinement through reinforcement learning. The end-to-end system (e.g., exposure control and image capture) provided by the Exposure Controller provides real-time performance for predicting and setting camera exposure values to improve overall visual quality of the resulting image over a wide range of image capture scenarios (e.g., back-lit scenes, front lighting, rapid changes to lighting conditions, etc.).
US10530989B2
An electronic apparatus determines that only a first touch operation moved by a predetermined movement amount in a predetermined time period is a valid operation, and determines that another touch operation is an invalid operation, when a user captures an image while looking into a finder. Then, even when a movement amount by which the touch determined to be the valid operation once is moved in the predetermined time period falls below the predetermined movement amount, the electronic apparatus continuously determines that this touch is the valid operation. Even when a Touch-Up is performed regarding the touch determined to be the valid operation, the electronic apparatus continuously determines that the touch determined to be the invalid operation is the invalid operation.
US10530987B2
A control apparatus (105) includes a normalizer (400, 401) that performs normalization processing on a first signal and a second signal by using normalization coefficients related to the first signal and the second signal, respectively, a correlation calculator (402) that performs correlation calculation with respect to the normalized first and second signals, and a corrector (403, 800, 801) that corrects correlation data to cancel the normalization processing, and the correlation data is based on an output signal from the correlation calculator.
US10530986B2
There is provided an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing unit acquires a signal in a first acquisition mode or a second acquisition mode for each pixel of an image sensor. In the first acquisition mode, an image signal obtained by adding focus detection signals of a plurality of photoelectric conversion units of the pixel is acquired. In the second acquisition mode, the focus detection signals are acquired in addition to the image signal. The image capturing alternately captures a recording image and a focus detection image having a smaller number of pixels than the recording image, applies all pixels to the first acquisition mode when capturing the recording image, and applies at least a part of the pixels to the second acquisition mode when capturing the focus detection image.
US10530975B2
There is disclosed a novel system and method for multiview, multispectral, polarimetric, light-field, and high dynamic range imaging in a concurrent manner specifically capturing information at different spectral bands and light polarizations simultaneously. The present system and method is capable of (1) concurrent imaging of multiple spectral bands (including spectral bands beyond the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum), proportional or greater than the number of filters used in the device, (2) concurrent imaging of multiple light polarizations (Stokes vectors), (3) acquiring images at different point-of-view of the same scene and/or object that allow for topographical reconstruction, (4) concurrent imaging of the multiple depth of fields that allow for light-field imaging, and (5) concurrent imaging of multiple simulated exposures of the detector that allow for high dynamic range imaging, all at the same time using a single sensor in the same imaging system enclosure.
US10530965B2
An image forming apparatus including applications and system side software for providing system side services to the applications is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: an authentication module for displaying an authentication screen on an operation panel of the image forming apparatus, wherein the authentication module allows the image forming apparatus to display a screen for using the image forming apparatus instead of the authentication screen if authentication data input from the authentication screen satisfies an authentication condition, and wherein the authentication module is provided in the image forming apparatus separately from the system side software.
US10530957B2
An image filing method including following steps is provided. At least one sheet is searched form from a plurality of scan image data by an office machine or a computer connected to the scanner. the plurality of scan image data is divided into M groups, and the at least one sheet form is set up in a first image data of each of M groups when there are M sheet forms searched from the plurality of scan image data, wherein M is an integral larger than 1. A keyword string is searched in each of the M sheet forms and an encoded string arranged after the keyword string is identified. M files corresponding to the M groups are created and named according to the encoded strings in each of the M sheet forms.
US10530955B2
A light sensing apparatus includes a sheet passage, a first sensing assembly and a first background sheet. The sheet passage has a scan window. The first sensing assembly disposed on a first side of the scan window outputs first scan light to the scan window. The first background sheet disposed on a second side of the scan window has a first reflective surface reflecting the first scan light, passing through the scan window, back to the first sensing assembly through the scan window. The first reflective surface of the first background sheet and the scan window are disposed in a non-parallel manner. Therefore, a light sensing method is also provided to achieve the effects of brightness calibration and boundary detection of the first sensing assembly.
US10530953B2
A copy method used in a copy system or a copy apparatus connected to a cloud server includes steps of: scanning a document to obtain old image data containing an old information block; generating new image data containing a new information block according to the old image data; printing the new image data on a medium; and comparing different generations of original image data, one of which is contained in the old image data, in the cloud server to judge whether improper modifications are present on the original image data or not, and notifying an information office to perform an inspection when the improper modifications are present.
US10530950B2
A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus and a post processing device, includes a position corrector and either one of a rolling body and a contact resistance reducer. The position corrector is configured to convey a sheet and correct a position of the sheet. The rolling body is disposed at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of a sheet conveyance passage from the position corrector in a sheet conveying direction and is configured to roll in at least a direction intersecting the sheet conveying direction. The contact resistance reducer is configured to reduce contact resistance generated due to contact of the sheet to a neighboring part when the position of the sheet is corrected by the position corrector.
US10530943B2
An information processing system includes: a memory to store, for each one of a plurality of applications for providing a specific application, flow information defining a series of processes to be executed on electronic data to provide the specific service of the application; and application state information indicating whether the application is available; and circuitry to: in response to a request from the electronic device, control a display of the electronic device to display a screen for allowing selection of one or more of the plurality of applications whose application state information indicates that the application is available, and in response to reception of a selection of one of the one or more applications that are selectable, control the electronic device to execute the series of processes on the electronic data according to the flow information of the selected application.
US10530935B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual servers, including at least one Voice-over-IP (VoIP) server. A processing circuit is communicatively coupled to the computing servers and is configured to, for each account, provide support services specified in the settings file for the account.
US10530934B1
A Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) server is configured to provide VoIP services to a plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. At the VoIP server, a telephone call is received that involves a particular endpoint device of the plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. A determination is made regarding the presence of a selectable routing option that is based upon a geographic location of the particular endpoint device. Geographic location information of the particular endpoint device is retrieved from a database. A confidence level for the geographic location information of the particular endpoint device is determined to be above a threshold level. A route for the telephone call is selected and used to complete the telephone call.
US10530932B2
Various embodiments relate to a portable user device including: a wireless transceiver; wherein the portable user device is configured to send a request, via the wireless transceiver, to replace a first user communication device in a communication session between the first user communication device and a second user communication device in response to receiving an indication of the communication session; and via the wireless transceiver, establishing a communication connection with the second user communication device in response to receiving, via the wireless transceiver, an agreement to the request.
US10530927B2
An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at a device, a primary speaker is providing audio input; detecting, at the device, a voice data link providing audio of the primary speaker to another speaker is muted; and providing a notification to the primary speaker that the voice data link is muted. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10530924B1
A method for computer control of online social interactions based on conversation processing. A portion of a conversation with a given user is recorded, stored in memory, and processed so as to influence subsequent interactions. These may include audio or other contextualized annunciations of subsequent telephone calls. Other modes addressing conversational processing for social purposes can result in interwoven conversation guided among threads of interest, advertising and incented participation of conversational content and placement. The invention is capable of implementation in telecommunications systems such as cellular, local exchange, and VOIP, and in combination with other forms of internet-based telecommunication, including smart phones and adaptive forums chat rooms.
US10530915B2
Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
US10530912B2
A portable electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a transparent front glass cover including a planar portion that forms a front surface of the electronic device, a planar rear glass cover that forms a rear surface of the electronic device, a metal bezel that surrounds a space formed by the front glass cover and the rear glass cover, and a flexible display device that is embedded in the space and exposed through the front glass cover. The front cover includes a left bent portion and a right bent portion on the left and right of the planar portion at the center of the front cover.
US10530909B2
A housing assembly includes: a support including a peripheral side wall and a lug, the peripheral side wall defining a first accommodating space configured to accommodate a dual-camera assembly, and the lug being connected to an outer peripheral side of the peripheral side wall away from the first accommodating space; and a middle frame having a second accommodating space and a groove in communication with the second accommodating space, the support being accommodated in the second accommodating space, and the lug being fitted with the groove. The present disclosure further provides a dual-camera module and a mobile terminal.
US10530908B2
The disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, includes a display screen, a border and a rear housing, the display screen and the rear housing being respectively disposed on two sides of the border, a mounting member being disposed between the display screen and the rear housing. The mobile terminal also includes a camera device connected to the mounting member, and the camera device includes a camera unit and a bracket. The bracket includes a frame body and a fixing portion connected to the frame body, the frame body defines a receiving space, and the camera unit is partially accommodated in the receiving space. The fixing portion is provided with a joint portion, and the joint portion is configured to connect the mounting member by hot melting. The fixing portion is set on a side of the frame body facing away from the receiving space, and the camera device is connected to the mounting member by the fixing portion. The disclosure also relates to the camera device and bracket of the above mobile terminal.
US10530905B1
A frame delimiter detection system and method includes a phase differentiator and buffering module, a phase-to-I/Q reformatting module, a dot product module, an I/Q-to-polar reformatting module, a dot product comparison module, and a frame delimiter detection module. The method may include receiving in-phase and quadrature-phase (I/Q) formatted frequency domain input samples configured as a frame delimiter in a communication packet. An I/Q formatted dot product may be generated from the I/Q formatted frequency domain input samples and a reference pattern indicative of an expected frame delimiter. Further, a frame delimiter detection signal may be generated based on a magnitude of the I/Q formatted dot product.
US10530901B1
A health information exchange responds to providers' health document requests by directly accessing sources of those documents, thereby providing the requesters with more up-to-date health documents than may be available from a conventional health information exchange. The health information exchange of the invention is particularly advantageous in, although not limited to, the exchange of health documents in the behavioral-health or other medical fields where chronic conditions are treated and where patient information is frequently changed and/or augmented.
US10530880B2
Scalable multi-tenant networking can preserve segregation of traffic of different tenants across multiple VLANs over a cluster of nodes. A single process is bound to a wildcard address and a port to listen for traffic across the VLANs and the cluster of nodes. The process detects receipt of a request at one of the multiple addresses assigned to the multiple VLANs and resolves the address to a name of a corresponding one of the VLANs. This is then used to determine an address of a node that is part of the VLAN and that hosts a volume identified in the received request. The requesting client is then redirected to the node that is part of the VLAN and that hosts the identified volume.
US10530877B2
A method and system for measuring and analyzing in vehicle media consumption and user interaction with a vehicle through an in vehicle entertainment system located in the vehicle. The in vehicle entertainment system receives media content. The method and system monitors both the media content and user interaction with the vehicle with content and interaction measurement software stored in the storage of the head unit of the vehicle as a module on the in vehicle entertainment system. The content measurement software directly records data relative to the media content being played or user interaction, in real time, as a data set and transmits the data set relative to the media content being played and user interaction to at least one immutable distributed ledger. The data set includes at least the local time of the start of the media content or the user interaction and is hashed.
US10530869B2
A network device for performing bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) includes a processor that receives packets from a peer; a session state machine that manages a session with the peer; a receive module that determines whether the packet indicates no change to the session; and a transmit module. The transmit module transmits BFD packets at an interval determined by the session state machine and transmits a session change packet in response to a configuration update by the session state machine.
US10530864B2
Systems and methods for load balancing Internet-of-Things (IoT) gateways. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive metadata including attributes of IoT devices communicatively coupled to the IHS, wherein the attributes are collected by the IoT devices at least in part during a time interval leading up to the IHS entering an undesired state; perform feature extraction upon the metadata; identify correlations between extracted features and the undesired state; and perform load balancing based upon the correlations.
US10530858B1
A computer system comprises a memory to store instructions and a processor to: generate a list comprising a first entry including an identifier of a first mesh device and a number of neighboring devices that are reachable by the first mesh device over a single-hop path, and a second entry including an identifier of a second mesh device and a number of neighboring devices that are reachable by the second mesh device over a single-hop path; order the initial list in a descending order of the numbers of neighboring devices; determine a replication factor for the digital content item; identify a subset of entries of the ordered list, wherein a number of entries comprised by the subset is equal to the replication factor; and cause a first copy of the digital content item to be stored on the mesh device referenced by the first entry.
US10530850B2
A request to establish a voice communications session between a user of a telephonic device and an interactive voice response (IVR) system of a call handling system is received by a dynamic call control engine. A resource requirement for the voice communications session is determined. Resource usage data for multiple call handling systems is accessed by the dynamic call control engine. A particular call handling system from among the multiple call handling systems is selected based on the resource usage data and the resource requirement. A connection to be set up between the telephonic device and the particular call handling system to allow the user of the telephonic device to participate in the voice communications session with an IVR system of the particular call handling system is enabled.
US10530849B2
Techniques facilitating compliance aware service registry and load balancing are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an extraction component that removes a service from a load balancer ring based on a first determination by a verification component that a compliance state of the service is a non-compliant state. Further, the computer executable components can comprise an insertion component that adds the service to the load balancer ring based on a second determination by the verification component that, after a defined amount of time, the compliance state of the service is a compliant state.
US10530834B2
Technologies related to resending hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests are disclosed. One or more operations performed on a first web page is monitored. One or more HTTP requests that include the monitored one or more operations are sent to a server. Information associated with the one or more HTTP requests are recorded. Upon determining that an HTTP request of the one or more HTTP requests has failed to be sent, the HTTP request is recorded to a list of HTTP requests that failed to be sent. The HTTP request recorded to the list is deleted after receiving a normal response message from the server, and whether the list of HTTP requests that failed to be sent is empty is determined when redirecting from the first web page to a second web page.
US10530833B2
A system and technique for identity service management in a computing environment having a plurality of managed endpoints includes a mediator located remote from an identity management service provider and configured to interface with the plurality of managed endpoints to enable management thereof by the identity management service provider. The mediator includes a web services client configured to package and upload data from at least one of the managed endpoints to the identity management service provider via a web services protocol. The mediator also includes a plurality of providers each configured to identify a particular type of adapter of the mediator for communicating with a respective managed endpoint.
US10530831B2
A system performs threat protection for real-time communications (“RTC”). The system receives, by a signaling engine of a gateway, a request of a client according to a protocol, where the request has successfully traversed one or more security devices between the client and the gateway. The system determines, by a protocol handler corresponding to the protocol, whether the request includes a threat. When the request includes the threat, the system indicates the threat to the one or more security devices, and when the request does not include the threat, the system sends the request to an application server at the gateway.
US10530830B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for accessing the web in a network system in which pre-fetching of web pages is supported. To that end, when DNS processing is requested, a user terminal provides URL information to which a connection is anticipated to a proxy server via a DNS server. The proxy server can, via the DNS server and by means of the URL information received from the user terminal, pre-fetch information about a web page to which a connection is anticipated via a user terminal. That is, the proxy server configures a TCP session with a web server before a TCP session configuration request is received from the user terminal. Furthermore, by acquiring and storing necessary web page information before an HTTP request from the user terminal is received, the proxy server can immediately provide the web page information which has been in storage in response to an HTTP request from the user terminal.
US10530823B2
A method, computer-readable medium, and device for processing a stream of records with a guarantee that each record is accounted for exactly once are disclosed. A method may receive, via a first operator, a data stream having a plurality of records, the plurality of records provided by a plurality of first data sources; allocate the data stream to a plurality of shards of the first operator; process the plurality of records by each shard of the plurality of shards to generate a first output stream, where each shard being implemented with at least two replicas; and output the first output stream to a third operator or a subscriber.
US10530819B2
Techniques for sharing and accessing VM screen via social media are described. In one example embodiment, a first user is allowed to log into the social media application via a browser in a client device at a first location. The first user is then allowed to select a feed type to share the VM screen in the client device at the first location. VM screen share information is then received from the first user via the client device at the first location. The VM screen is then shared upon receiving the VM screen share information from the first user via the client device at the first location.
US10530816B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure monitor certificates or other credentials loaded to various components and systems of a vehicle. A set of information identifying credentials that are expected to be present and/or in use can be saved. Periodically, on request, or upon the occurrence of an event or condition, checks can be performed on the credentials individually or in the aggregate using the saved information to determine whether the certificates present and/or in use are those expected or if a change has occurred. If a change is detected, i.e., a difference between the current set of certificates and the saved set of information, the network security system can take some action. The action, depending on the nature of the change detected, can vary from recording and/or reporting the condition up to and including isolating or even disabling a particular component or system on which the changed certificate is used.
US10530814B2
Certain embodiments provide means for managing automated access to computers, e.g., using SSH user keys and other kinds of trust relationships. Certain embodiments also provide for managing certificates, Kerberos credentials, and cryptographic keys. Certain embodiments provide for remediating legacy SSH key problems and for automating configuration of SSH keys, as well as for continuous monitoring.
US10530813B2
Disclosed are various approaches for generating a device posture token corresponding to a client device. The device posture token can be used by a verification computing device to determine whether the client device complies with the security policies of a particular facility.
US10530808B2
Electronic screen shots protect against cyber attacks. When any webpage is received, a screen shot of the webpage may be generated. Should the webpage be from an untrusted source, the screen shot protects downstream resources and clients from potential malware contained within the webpage.
US10530792B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for performing a frequency domain analysis of activity data for a computer system. One computer-implemented method receiving time domain activity data for a computer system, wherein the time domain activity data comprise activity records associated with the computer system in a time domain; computing, by a hardware processor, frequency domain activity data based on the time domain activity data; and displaying the frequency domain activity data.
US10530785B1
A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for message delivery security validation are provided. At least one authentication setting from an end user is received at a data collection system. A validation key is generated based on the at least one authentication setting. A message and the validation key are sent to a device of a recipient. The device of the recipient are automatically authenticated using the validation key. The message is delivered to the device of the recipient upon authentication.
US10530783B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for targeted messaging, workflow management, and digital rights management for geofeeds, including content that is related to geographically definable locations and aggregated from a plurality of social media or other content providers. The system may facilitate targeted messaging to users who create content. The targeted messaging may be based on the content (or location related to the content) such as a request for additional information or a promotional message. The system may generate workflows that allow management of the content with respect to operational processes of an entity that wishes to use the content and facilitates the management of usage rights related to the content as well as payments related to such usage rights. For example, the system may store whether content requires permission to use the content and/or whether such permission was obtained and facilitates payment.
US10530767B2
A method and a user device (110) for authentication of the user device (110) as well as a method and an authenticator device (120) for authentication of the user device (110) are disclosed. The user device (110) generates (A030) a one-time password. The user device (110) sends (A040), to an authenticator device (120), the one-time password as an acoustic signal, wherein the acoustic signal comprises a frequency within an ultrasound range or an infrasound range. The authenticator device (120) receives (A050), from the user device (110), the one-time password. The authenticator device (120) validates (A060) the one-time password.
US10530764B2
A network access control (NAC) device detects a connection of an endpoint device at a network switch coupled to a network and restricts access of the endpoint device to prevent the endpoint device from accessing resources of the network. The NAC device establishes a connection with the endpoint device, validates a client certificate corresponding to the endpoint device to authenticate the endpoint device as a corporate device and grants the endpoint device access to the resources of the network.
US10530761B2
A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g., de-authorize the third-party), thus providing increased security to the user's account.
US10530760B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to relationship-based authorization. In general, data characterizing a request for authorization to a computer-based resource is received, and the authorization may be provided based on one or more relationships of a requesting principal. A determination may be made as to whether a requesting principal is authorized, which may include determining whether the requesting user has a relationship with a principal that has management rights of the computer-based resource and determining whether the relationship allows for an access, such as a use of the computer-based resource, if the requesting principal has a relationship with the other principal. If there is no such relationship, a determination may be made as to whether an organization of the requesting principal has a relationship with the other principal that allows for the access.
US10530756B1
An eUICC is configured with one or more master delete keys each allowing an associated level of profile-deletion access for deleting one or more profiles from the eUICC, and the eUICC is configured to control profile-deletion access in accordance with the one or more delete keys. For instance, one delete key could allow deletion of any or all profiles on the eUICC including any operational profiles (e.g., MNO profiles) and any non-operational profiles. Whereas, another delete key could allow deletion of any or all operational profiles but not any non-operational profiles. Further, a blockchain protocol could be used to securely convey such a delete key from one party to another, helping to establish chain of custody of the delete key.
US10530754B2
A registry is utilized to identify personally identifiable information (PII) that has been breached. The registry is a distributed database shared by multiple organizations to track which PII has been breached in other organizations. A first service provider initially receives PII and corresponding signed descriptor from a user. The PII is used to verify an identity of the user and the signed descriptor describes the type of PII that is received. The first service provider queries the registry to determine if the signed descriptor of the user has been written to the registry by a second service provider, indicating that it has been breached at a service provided by the second service provider. If the first service provider uses the breached PII, the breached PII is invalidated by the first service provider.
US10530750B2
The technology disclosed herein enables the enforcement of firewall policies based on high level identification strings. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a first reply from a first identification system directed to a requestor system. In response to determining that the first identification system comprises an identification system trusted by the firewall, the method provides inspecting at least one packet included in the first reply to identify a first network address therein associated with a first high level identification string. The method further provides updating a data structure comprising allowed network addresses with the first network address and, after updating the data structure with the first network address, allowing at least one packet from the requestor system directed to a first destination at the first network address to traverse the firewall system based on the data structure.
US10530742B2
Techniques for connecting computer system entities to remote computer system resources are described herein. A computer system entity that requests access to a remote computer system resource has that request fulfilled by a managed directory service which receives the request and connects the computer system entity to the remote computer system resource. While connected, the managed directory service receives commands to perform operations on the remote computer system resource and, if the computer system entity is authorized to perform the operations on the remote computer system resource, the managed directory service performs the operation on the remote computer system resource.
US10530739B2
A user equipment (UE) configured to receive a resource over a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) includes a processor and a transceiver. The processor is configured to determine whether a uniform resource identifier (URI) is an MBMS URI. The transceiver is configured to transmit a domain name server (DNS) query to a DNS based on the MBMS URI and receive at least one resource record from the DNS. The processor is further configured to determine at least one of a unicast location or a multicast location based on the at least one resource record received from the DNS.
US10530735B2
A network device may receive a request seeking a location identifier for an endpoint identifier from a first router. The network device may determine that the endpoint identifier belongs to a dynamic endpoint identifier range associated with a plurality of routers. The request may be forwarded to the plurality of routers to discover a host having the endpoint identifier and a notification may be received from one of the plurality of routers reporting discovery of the host having the endpoint identifier. The network device may send an identifier of the one of the plurality of routers which reports discovery of the host to the first router as the location identifier for the endpoint identifier.
US10530730B2
A computer system for facilitating communications between users is configured for: (A) receiving, from a first user, one or more user watch area attributes; (B) using the one or more user watch area attributes to define a watch area; (C) receiving, from a second user, a message associated with a geographical location; (D) determining whether the geographical location is located within the user watch area; (E) at least partially in response to determining that the geographical location is located within the user watch area, subscribing the first user to a thread of messages that includes the message; and (F) dynamically adjusting a shape of the user watch area based, at least in part, on a factor selected from a group consisting of: (1) a number of message postings within the user watch area; and (2) a population density of an area that is within the user watch area.
US10530726B2
Disclosed are various examples for communicating notifications for received email messages. A monitoring service monitors inboxes to which clients are subscribed. When a message arrives in a subscribed inbox, the monitoring service sends a notification to a notification brokering service. The notification brokering service then forwards the notification to the appropriate notification service for communication to a subscribed client.
US10530722B2
A method for forwarding a message in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by an M2M device, and comprises the steps of: receiving a request message; checking whether the M2M device is a recipient of the request message, using a particular parameter included in the request message; when the M2M device is not a recipient of the request message, checking whether only one registrant M2M device exists other than the M2M device which has received the request message within one hop of the M2M device, wherein the registrant M2M device is in an M2M device in which one or more other M2M devices can be registered; and when the only one registrant M2M device is present within the one hop, forwarding the request message to the only one registrant M2M device, wherein the particular parameter may be a “to” parameter.
US10530719B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a communication system, a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory that is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations. The computing device processes a message that is provided from a sender and is intended for a recipient associated with another computing device in accordance with topic, emotive content, and/or social content to generate a classification model for the message that includes classification parameter value(s). When appropriate to perform message transformation, the computing device selects a tonal transformation based on the classification parameter value(s) and processes the message in accordance with the tonal transformation to generate a normalized message. The computing device processing circuitry then forwards the normalized message to another computing device to be consumed by the recipient associated with the other computing device.
US10530700B2
A method for data communication from a first node to a second node over a data channel coupling the first node and the second node includes receiving data messages at the second node, the messages belonging to a set of data messages transmitted in a sequential order from the first node, sending feedback messages from the second node to the first node, the feedback messages characterizing a delivery status of the set of data messages at the second node, including maintaining a set of one or more timers according to occurrences of a number of delivery order events, the maintaining including modifying a status of one or more timers of the set of timers based on occurrences of the number of delivery order events, and deferring sending of said feedback messages until expiry of one or more of the set of one or more timers.
US10530699B2
The present disclosure provides processing method including: receiving, by a forwarding plane device, an operation request of a service flow processing policy from a first control domain, the operation request of the service flow processing policy includes a service flow identifier corresponding to a to-be-processed policy; obtaining an identifier of the first control domain according to the operation request of the service flow processing policy; determining whether to allow the first control domain to operate the to-be-processed policy; and if the forwarding plane device determines to allow the first control domain to operate the to-be-processed policy, operating the to-be-processed policy according to the operation request of the service flow processing policy.
US10530696B2
Systems and methods for generating filtering rules are provided. One computer implemented method includes receiving a command to modify existing network traffic rules. The method further includes performing a quality calculation for the existing network traffic rules, the quality calculation being a function of a number of distinct flows permitted by a particular rule, wherein (i) if the command to the network is to increase the number of rules, then identifying a rule of the existing network traffic rules with a highest quality calculation, splitting the rule into sub-rules and adding a new rule, and (ii) if the command to the network is to decrease the number of rules, then identifying the existing network traffic rules with quality rule calculations near a predetermined value, adding new rules, and merging the new rules to the identified rules with quality rule calculations near the predetermined value.
US10530692B2
Described herein are various embodiments of a network element to process routing entries in a forwarding information base (FIB) for hosts that are directly attached to a multi-layer network element to encode address resolution protocol (ARP) data into forwarding equivalence class (FEC) entries for the directly attached hosts. One embodiment provides for a network element comprising a control plane including a forwarding agent and a data plane coupled to the control plane. The data plane can include a forwarding engine to forward a unit of network data from an ingress interface to an egress interface. The forwarding agent can be configured to program the forwarding engine with a forwarding information base having data-link layer forwarding data encoded into a network-layer forwarding entry.
US10530686B2
The invention concerns a method for routing a packet in a packet switching network in disconnected routing mode, implemented by a router, comprising the following steps: —receiving (E1) the packet; —reading (E2) a field, called the longevity field of the packet, intended to be decremented when traversing a router; —decrementing (E5) the value of the longevity field using a step of a predefined value, called the decrementation step; —deciding (E6) on the routing of the packet on the basis of the value of the decremented longevity field, the packet being destroyed (E7) when said value is less than or equal to zero; the method further comprising, prior to the step of decrementing, the following steps: —obtaining (E3) at least one item of information from a group of items of information comprising an item of information relative to routing conditions of the packet and an item of information relative to parameters of the packet; —determining (E4) the value of the decrementation step on the basis of at least the obtained information.
US10530685B2
The disclosure relates to technology distributing messages in a low power and lossy network (LLNs). A downstream message including one or more name prefixes hosted at a source node is forwarded along a nodal route of a routing topology. An upstream message is received from one or more nodes along one or more nodal routes in the routing topology based on a routing entry towards a parent node as learned from the downstream message, and an interest message, including one or more of a request for content or rank, is received from the one or more nodes along the one or more nodal routes having an optimal path, the optimal path determined by routing entries stored in the one or more nodes.
US10530682B2
A system for providing differentiated services to traffic flows of a content distribution network is disclosed. In particular, the system may include determining if a first portion of an internet protocol address associated with a traffic flow includes an identifier for a node in the content distribution network by comparing the identifier to a set of prefixes for the content distribution network. Additionally, the system may include determining if a second portion of the internet protocol address matches a unique host address specified by the content distribution network for a customer of the content distribution network. If a rule for providing a differentiated service exists for the customer, the first portion is in the set of prefixes, and the second portion matches the unique host address specified for the customer, the system may provide the differentiated service for the traffic flow.
US10530678B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a packet analyzer to determine that a first virtualized server is preparing to migrate to a second virtualized server based on a data packet, a packet flow path generator to identify a set of network switches between the first virtualized server and the second virtualized server when the first virtualized server is in a different rackmount server than the second virtualized server, and a policy adjustor to adjust a policy of one or more network switches in the set to prioritize a packet flow corresponding to the migration.
US10530677B2
A network element employing multiple namespaces in performing IP packet routing. The network element maintaining two or more namespaces. A first namespace corresponds to an in-band network domain and a second namespace corresponds to an out-of-band network domain. The network element performing IP packet routing over the in-band network domain and the out-of-band network domain using said two or more namespaces. Embodiments allow operators to more easily implement separate routing tables for “in-band” and “out-of-band” communication. Having separate routing tables for in-band and out-of-band communication prevents malicious CPEs and hacked CMs from directly communicating to servers on the out-of-band network, thereby increasing security for CMTS operators.
US10530674B2
A collaboration system for information sharing in an enterprise is disclosed. The collaboration system includes a monitoring module configured to monitor a communication for one or more parameters. The collaboration system further includes an information management module configured to select one or more data items from one or more databases based on the one or more parameters, wherein each of the data items includes an associated score. The collaboration system further includes a ranking module configured to score the one or more selected data items. The collaboration system further includes a database management module configured to update the one or more databases with the score of the one or more selected data items.
US10530668B2
A resource orchestration entity and a method for enabling end-to-end service reliability and availability with service flow differential deployment of a network service (NS) with one or more service flows in an NS chain comprising one or more network function nodes coupled via a plurality of intermediate networking nodes. The resource orchestration entity is arranged to obtain an information element of service availability level in at least one descriptor for defining the service availability level requirements of the service flow from an NS management entity, and provide the information element of service availability level together with an identification reference of the service flow to a resource management entity for assigning resources comprising network function nodes and their inter-connections in virtual network laying on the network hardware comprising networking nodes when instantiating the NS comprising service flows in the NS chain.
US10530667B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for fault diagnostics and recovery of network service chains. The method includes discovering, by a processor, a network graph representative of components of the network service chains. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, intersecting ones of the components of the network service chains in the network graph. The method also includes repairing, by the processor, one or more of the components of at least one of the network service chains based on a component repair sequence that maintains service continuity of the network service chains and that is determined based on a commonality.
US10530666B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for dynamically managing performance indicators for an enterprise to address goals for facility operations management. The method comprises integrating operations data associated with an enterprise, deriving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), thresholds and metrics, determining factors affecting performance of the KPIs and factors affecting performance of the thresholds, normalizing the factors affecting the performance of the KPIs based on a comparability matrix, assessing performance of KPIs based on the one or more thresholds, the comparability matrix and associated patterns of the normalized data to derive KPI performance insights, fine-tuning the KPIs and enhancing the system, along with the one or more KPIs and the interactive visualization based on one or more patterns of usage of the interactive visualization and the fine-tuning, thereby dynamically managing performance indicators for an enterprise to address the goals of facility operations management.
US10530663B2
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.
US10530661B2
A system may include a processor, an input, and memory comprising a graph database and executable instructions. The executable instructions may cause the processor to effectuate operations. The operations may include receiving, via the input, a query comprising pathway variables. The operations may also include determining an anchor set based on at least one of the pathway variables and identifying an evaluation order based on the anchor set. The operations may also include translating the pathway variables into a pathway algebraic expression based on the evaluation order. The operations may include executing the pathway algebraic expression on the graph database to return a pathway set.
US10530658B2
An information handling system (IHS) includes controller that performs a method of automating acquisition of link local Internet Protocol (IP) network address of servers. Controller acts as Group manager server (GMS) that maintains an inventory of a respective link local Internet Protocol (IP) network address and public key of each server that is addressable over a local area network (LAN). GMS receives an IP network address and credentials associated with a management console that are used to obtain a public key from the management console. GMS transmits to the management console a GMS IP network address and public key associated with the GMS. GMS encrypts the inventory with the public key of the management console to generate an encrypted inventory. GMS transmits the IP network address and the public key of the management console to each server. GMS forwards the encrypted inventory to the management console to enable secure communication.
US10530657B2
Techniques are described for providing virtual networking functionality for managed computer networks. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify one or more virtual local area networks (“VLANs”) for a managed computer network being provided for the user, such as with each VLAN including multiple computing nodes of the managed computer network. Networking functionality corresponding to the specified VLAN(s) may then be provided in various manners, such as if the managed computer network itself is a distinct virtual computer network overlaid on one or more other computer networks, and communications between computing nodes of the managed virtual computer network are handled in accordance with the specified VLAN(s) of the managed virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by networking devices of the managed virtual computer network if they were physically present and configured to support the specified VLAN(s).
US10530652B2
An approach for outage avoidance. The approach receives a scheduled task, wherein the scheduled task is completed at a scheduled time by a device. The approach receives an outage time of a service disruption, wherein the service disruption occurs at the outage time. The approach determines whether the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task, based on the outage time and the scheduled time. Responsive to a determination that the service disruption conflicts with the scheduled task, the approach modifies the scheduled task to be completed at a modified time, wherein the outage time does not conflict with the modified time.
US10530646B1
An information wallet system includes an information wallet account associated with a user of the system, and a server having a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to receive user information from a user computing device, wherein the user information is related to a user of the information wallet account, determine, based on the user information, one or more user settings preferences related to a second computing device, receive an information request, wherein the information request includes a request to send the one or more user settings preferences to the second computing device, and to send the one or more user settings preferences to the second computing device, wherein the one or more user settings preferences are useable by the second computing device to adjust one or more settings of the second computing device.
US10530644B2
A method for establishing a communication connection between a first network entity and a second network entity via at least two different network flows includes: transmitting a first request, by the first network entity, directed to the second network entity via a first network flow; transmitting at least one second request, by the first network entity, directed to the second network entity via at least one second network flow, wherein the at least one second request is transmitted by the first network entity before the first network entity receives a reply to the first request from the second network entity; and establishing the communication connection between the first network entity and the second network entity based on at least one of the first request or the at least one second request.
US10530641B2
Systems and methods for allowing continuous network traffic processing by an SDN appliance despite a lost or disrupted connection with an SDN controller are provided. According to one embodiment, a software-defined networking (SDN) appliance receives one or more policies/flows from an SDN controller. The policies/flows are locally stored by the SDN appliance within the SDN appliance. Responsive to receipt of a packet to be processed by the SDN appliance, the SDN appliance queries the SDN controller for an appropriate policy or flow for the packet. When a response to the query is not received from the SDN controller within a predefined or configurable timeout period, the SDN appliance processes the packet based on the locally stored one or more policies/flows.
US10530636B2
At least some embodiments of invention provide a method, device and system for link management in a Virtual Machine (VM) environment. The method includes: a heartbeat handshake link is established with a VM. After the heartbeat handshake link is successfully established, Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) state information of a Physical Function (PF) of a plurality of a Network Interface Cards (NICs) is acquired. The LACP state information is sent to the VM through the heartbeat handshake link.
US10530634B1
A method for providing two-channel-based high-availability in a cluster of nodes is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises: initiating, by a local control plane executing on a first node, a first state for an underlay control channel and a second state for a management control channel; detecting a bidirectional forwarding detection (“BFD”) control packet from a second node; determining whether the BFD control packet has been received from the underlay control channel; in response to determining that the BFD control packet was received from the underlay control channel: parsing the BFD control packet to extract a first diagnostic code; updating the first state with the first diagnostic code; determining whether both the first state and the second state indicate that the second node is unreachable; in response to determining that the second node is unreachable, initiating a switchover of services configured on the second node.
US10530623B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for generating and communicating reference signals. Certain aspects provide a method for communicating reference signals. The method includes selecting a demodulation reference sequence (DMRS) of a plurality of DMRSs for transmission in a synchronization signal block (SSB) based on a half-frame in which the SSB is transmitted. The method further includes transmitting the selected DMRS in the SSB.
US10530620B2
A broadcast signal receiver is disclosed. A broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a synchronization & demodulation module performing signal detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal; a frame parsing & deinterleaving module performing parsing and deinterleaving of a signal frame of the broadcast signal; a demapping & decoding module performing conversion of data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into the bit domain and FEC decoding of the converted PLP data; and an output processing module outputting a data stream by receiving the at least one PLP data.
US10530619B2
An integrated receiver supports adaptive receive equalization. An incoming bit stream is sampled using edge and data clock signals derived from a reference clock signal. A phase detector determines whether the edge and data clock signals are in phase with the incoming data, while some clock recovery circuitry adjusts the edge and data clock signals as required to match their phases to the incoming data. The receiver employs the edge and data samples used to recover the edge and data clock signals to note the locations of zero crossings for one or more selected data patterns. The pattern or patterns may be selected from among those apt to produce the greatest timing error. Equalization settings may then be adjusted to align the zero crossings of the selected data patterns with the recovered edge clock signal.
US10530617B2
A memory interface may include a transmitter that generates multi-level signals. The transmitter may employ channel equalization to improve the quality and robustness of the multi-level signals. The channel equalization may be controlled independently from the drive strength of the multi-level signals. For example, a first control signal may control the de-emphasis or pre-emphasis applied to a multi-level signal and a second control signal may control the drive strength of the multi-level signal. The first control signal may control a channel equalization driver circuit and the second control signal may control a driver circuit.
US10530612B2
A subscriber station for a bus system and a method for reducing line-related emissions in a bus system are provided. The subscriber station includes an edge controller for symmetrizing switching edges in the bus system. The edge controller includes an element for generating a setpoint voltage characteristic on a bus in the bus system and a current mirror for transmitting the generated setpoint voltage characteristic to the bus.
US10530609B2
Provided are a wireless communication apparatus and a channel estimation methods of the wireless communication apparatus. The channel estimation methods includes receiving a first sub-frame and a second sub-frame, the first sub-frame including a plurality of first reference signals pre-coded based on a first pre-coding matrix and the second sub-frame including a plurality of second reference signals pre-coded based on a second pre-coding matrix; determining whether the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix are the same, based on a channel variation in the time domain; and performing, in response to determining that the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix are the same, channel estimation with respect to a resource element included in the second sub-frame based on at least of the plurality of first reference signals and at least one of the plurality of second reference signals.
US10530607B2
A method and system for multi-bridge LAN aggregation is disclosed. The method includes aggregating a plurality of LANs coupling a host to a first and a second intermediate network device. The system includes an intermediate network device. The intermediate network device includes a multi-bridge engine. The multi-bridge engine includes a tunnel engine coupled to a bridge interconnect port and a first physical port.
US10530597B1
A system for controlling a plurality of power switches configured to apply power to devices is described. The system comprises a central controller adapted to implement a plurality of wireless communication protocols; a first device adapted to communicate with the central controller using a first wireless communication protocol of the plurality of wireless communication protocols; and a second device adapted to communicate with the central controller using a second wireless communication protocol of the plurality of wireless communication protocols.
US10530595B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines whether the UE is located within a sub-region of an MBSFN area based on one or more parameters. The UE receives based on the determination a service over broadcast in the sub-region of the MBSFN area or over unicast outside the sub-region. In an aspect, the MBSFN area may be smaller than a unicast area. In an aspect, adaptive retransmission with a group NACK approach may be used to improve an SNR and reliability.
US10530588B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first stage of physically unclonable function (PUF) circuits to receive an n-bit challenge, wherein the first stage of PUF circuits comprise a subset of ‘n’ PUF cells each of which is to generate an output bit; and a first stage of cipher blocks to receive the output bits from the subset of ‘n’ PUF cells, wherein the first stage of cipher blocks is to generate a plurality of bits.
US10530585B2
Described herein is a method and system for digital signing by utilizing Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) with a group generator of an elliptic-curve group of order q, and an elliptic curve point Q. The method may be configured to receive a digital message and associated with a request from a third-party in order to sign the digital message. The system designed to sign such messages may comprise two parties denoted P1 and P2 configured to conduct a multiparty signing procedure by utilizing ECDSA. The digital signing procedure may follow preliminary steps configured to set the system with the necessary conditions for the multiparty signing procedure. Such preliminary steps may set the parties P1, and P2, in accordance with the configuration defined herein.
US10530582B2
A method and a device for information system access authentication are disclosed. The method includes: performing anonymous authentication to a random verification code generated according to a login request for accessing an information system of a client, and authenticating acquired user name and password information when the anonymous authentication is successful. The device includes an verification code authentication module and a user name and password authentication module connected to the verification code authentication module, wherein the verification code authentication module is configured to perform anonymous authentication to a random verification code generated according to a login request for accessing an information system of client; and the user name and password authentication module is configured to authenticate acquired user name and password information when the anonymous authentication is successful. The present disclosure uses a two-stage and two-factor authentication method such that the security of the login information is improved without increasing the complexity of the user's login.
US10530575B2
Methods and systems are provided for supporting efficient and secure “Machine-to-Machine” (M2M) communications using a module, a server, and an application. A module can communicate with the server by accessing the Internet, and the module can include a sensor and/or an actuator. The module, server, and application can utilize public key infrastructure (PKI) such as public keys and private keys. The module can internally derive pairs of private/public keys using cryptographic algorithms and a first set of parameters. A server can authenticate the submission of derived public keys and an associated module identity. The server can use a first server private key and a second set of parameters to (i) send module data to the application and (ii) receive module instructions from the application. The server can use a second server private key and the first set of parameters to communicate with the module.
US10530571B2
A secure communication apparatus may include a security module for generating an encrypted bitstream by encrypting at least a portion of data forming a bitstream and inserting at least a portion of key information used in the encryption into the bitstream and for decrypting encrypted data by acquiring at least a portion of key information for the decryption from a received encrypted bitstream, and a communication module for transmitting and receiving the encrypted bitstream.
US10530563B2
In an embodiment, a clock synchronizing circuit includes: a phase comparator including a first circuit having a first input configured to receive a data signal; and a second circuit. The first circuit is configured to detect edges of the data signal. The second circuit includes a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal with adjustable frequency, where the phase comparator is configured to compare, after detecting an edge of the data signal, an edge of the data signal with an edge of the clock signal, and where the second circuit is configured to modify a frequency of the clock signal as a function of an output signal of the phase comparator.
US10530562B2
A method for correlating first and second local time counts in first and second integrated circuits is provided. The first and second integrated circuits communicate via a communication network. A separate time control signal path is also provided between the integrated circuits. The method comprises determining a signal propagation latency associated with propagation of a latency determining signal between the integrated circuits on the time control signal path, and correlating the first and second local time counts in dependence on the signal propagation latency and a time correlating signal transmitted on the time control signal path.
US10530548B2
A transmit-receive-point (TRP) may send a beam management configuration message to a user equipment (UE) that includes downlink beam management configuration parameters to use for an ensuing beam management procedure between the TRP and the UE. The beam management configuration message may specify various parameters associated with TRP/UE beams that are to be evaluated during the beam management procedure, directional transmission/reception capabilities of the TRP (e.g., how many transmit-beams and/or receive-beams the TRP is capable of using for simultaneous direction reception/transmission, etc.), spreading sequence parameters (e.g., which spreading sequence, or spreading sequence group, is to be used during the beam management procedure), and/or beam management protocol information.
US10530545B2
A user equipment receives, from the base station apparatus, bit information. The bit information indicates first information indicating one or more antenna ports and second information indicating a number of layers for downlink data symbols.
US10530536B2
The disclosure is related to an RF signal processing apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor and a buffer memory circuit. The apparatus includes a host interface for connecting with a host and an RF circuit for transmitting and receiving RF signals. The processor processes the RF signals to or from the RF circuit. The processor converts the received RF signals into data, or converts the data into the RF signals to be transmitted. The buffer memory circuit has a controller and two buffer memories. This memory architecture allows a system to assign a task to a first buffer memory and another task to a second buffer memory without restricting that the conventional buffer memory is limited to doing one task at a time. This memory architecture can solve inefficiency problems due to insufficient data transmission since the conventional buffer memory cannot be filled within a limited time period.
US10530533B2
A method is described for sending of Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) information, and a data receiving end. The method includes: a data receiving end sends HARQ information determined through detection results for received transport blocks to a data sending end according to the number of scheduling resources and the feedback number of expected maximum feedback Acknowledgements (ACK). The number of bits of HARQ is determined by the number of scheduling resources and the feedback number, and HARQ information is determined according to the detection results for the received transport blocks, and feedback is conducted on the determined number of bits of the HARQ.
US10530529B2
The disclosure relates to a processing module of a receiver device and associated method and apparatus. The method comprises receiving a signal comprising one or more frames, each frame comprising a synchronization-symbol-portion, a security-sequence-portion, and a data-payload-portion; and processing the signal to perform carrier recovery, and excluding at least part of the security-sequence-portions of the one or more frames from the carrier recovery process.
US10530520B2
A bandwidth allocation and monitoring method may divide available bandwidth on a shared communication medium into a plurality of discrete tones that can be individually allocated to modems on an as-needed basis. The effective modulation rate that a particular modem can use for each discrete tone can be monitored over time using a schedule of pilot tones transmitted from the modems on different tones at different times. The schedule may define representative pilot tones, in which case effective modulation rates for neighboring tones may be inferred from a determined effective modulation rate of a pilot tone.
US10530515B2
A node in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system is provided, which includes: a colorless optical transmitter, a first arrayed waveguide grating, a first waveband filter configured to divide an input optical signal into M sub-signals of different wavebands and output to a first optical switch, and a first optical coupler/a first optical combiner. A transmit end of the colorless optical transmitter is coupled to an input end of the first waveband filter via the first arrayed waveguide grating. The first optical switch is configured to connect an output end of the first waveband filter to an input end of the first optical coupler/the first optical combiner according to a control signal. An output end of the first optical coupler/the first optical combiner is coupled to an optical transmission path.
US10530513B2
The present invention provides an asynchronous data multiplexing method and device. The method includes the following steps: acquiring status flag, serial number, and data information of each branch data; performing asynchronous data buffering processing on the data information of each branch data according to preset channel transmission bit-serial number to obtain buffered data of each branch; then determining each branch data according to the status flag, if the status flag is valid identification information, a flag bit corresponding to a frame header is set according to the valid identification information, and the buffered data of the current branch data is added to a corresponding position of the data part by bit; and if the status flag is invalid identification information, the flag bit corresponding to the frame header is kept unchanged.
US10530509B2
A real time messaging platform identifies an audio snippet of a time-based media (TBM) event. The messaging platform maintains a real time repository of concurrently broadcasting TBM events as well as a historical repository of previously broadcast TBM events. These repositories contain acoustic fingerprints of their respective TBM events. The messaging platform matches an acoustic fingerprint of the audio snippet with one of the stored acoustic fingerprints to identify the TBM event in the recorded snippet. To identify the TBM event, the messaging platform matches multiple overlapping reference audio segments of the reference audio stream with multiple test audio segments of the audio snippet. This allows the platform to account for time delays between the test and reference audio segments that would otherwise hinder the matching process.
US10530508B2
A method for scanning a frequency band for producing a service plan. The method parallelises the scanning by dividing the analysis into two steps: an exploration step for the purpose of detecting channels or frequencies carrying services; and an analysis step for extracting detected channels from program information in order to supply a service plan. Each of the steps is performed by multiple task instances. These tasks share the band to be explored and synchronise, for one same step, via semaphores and, for an inter-step communication, according to a producer/consumer principle.
US10530506B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses may use an unmanned vehicle to communicate an alert, such as an emergency alert, to a region, such as one affected by a natural disaster. A method may include receiving a message, which may comprise an alert and information associated with a region, from an alert originator. The message may then be transmitted, via a communication access device, to an unmanned vehicle. After receiving the message, the unmanned vehicle may travel to the region. Upon reaching the region, the unmanned vehicle may communicate the alert, whereby individuals' reception devices within the region may receive the alert.
US10530500B2
The present invention relates to a modular and flexible measurement of radio-frequency signals. For this purpose, the measurement system is separated into a connection device performing digital operations and a radio-frequency signals comprising analogue circuits. The connection device and the radio-frequency device are coupled with each other by appropriate interfaces for exchanging signals, in particular digital signals between the communication device and the radio-frequency device.
US10530487B2
A distributed traveling-wave Mach-Zehnder modulator driver having a plurality of modulation stages that operate cooperatively (in-phase) to provide a signal suitable for use in a 100 Gb/s optical fiber transmitter at power levels that are compatible with conventional semiconductor devices and conventional semiconductor processing is described.
US10530485B2
A high data rate, high sensitivity, low power optical link using low-bandwidth components and low-bandwidth E/O drivers and receivers and method of building same. The method is based on the idea of making the optical part of the link look like a bandwidth limited lossy electrical channel, so that the powerful equalization methods used in the wireline electrical links can be applied to recover the transmitted data in a situation with low bandwidth and/or high loss and strong inter-symbol interference. Linear and non-linear optical channel components, E/O drivers and receivers can benefit from the apparatus and the methods of the invention.
US10530482B2
An optical transceiver includes electrical inputs that each correspond to a selected port of a number of network ports and a selected network lane of the selected port. The optical transceiver includes optical transmitters organized in groups to optically transmit data received at the inputs over a plurality of optical transmission fibers to which the groups correspond. The optical transceiver includes multiplexers corresponding to the transmission fibers. Each multiplexer is to wave-division multiplex the data transmitted by the transmitters within the group corresponding to the transmission fiber to which the multiplexer corresponds. The optical transceiver includes hardware logic to differently map the inputs to the transmitters according to a selected mode of a number of switchable modes corresponding to different data transmission bandwidths.
US10530481B1
The present disclosure provides an effective solution to employ hyperscale photonics connectivity using existing server connections. The solution described in the present disclosure eliminates top-of-rack switches and facilitates a manner for servers to connect directly to middle-of-row switches. An apparatus consistent with the present disclosure includes a primary transceiver device. The primary server-end transceiver device comprising a photonics transceiver and a first electrical transmitter. The apparatus further includes a first secondary server-end transceiver device, the first secondary server-end transceiver device comprising a second electrical transmitter. In addition, a first electrical cable electrically couples the primary server-end transceiver to the first secondary server-end transceiver device. The present disclosure enables the use of an input fiber connection and a photonics transceiver to effect two sets of electrical connections on different servers.
US10530477B2
A visible light communication apparatus includes: an on/off switch connected in series to a load circuit including a light emitting diode; an impedance circuit connected in series to the on/off switch; a feedback circuit that feeds back an error between a voltage drop across the impedance circuit and a reference voltage potential to a voltage source as a feedback signal; a drive circuit that turns on and off the on/off switch in accordance with a communication signal which is a binary signal; an isolation circuit that transmits power while being electrically isolated; and an auxiliary power supply circuit that is connected between two output terminals of the voltage source, generates an auxiliary supply voltage, and supplies power based on the auxiliary supply voltage generated to the on/off switch and the drive circuit via the isolation circuit.
US10530471B2
A system for mapping a multilayer network having a server layer and a client layer is provided. The system includes a framework configured for comparing information obtained from a first traffic counter of a client port to information obtained from a second traffic counter of a server port to thereby determine if the client port and the server port are linked.
US10530469B2
A method for communicating with a network by a terminal in a wireless communication system, wherein the terminal receives, from the network, signaling information representing a transmission period and a time offset for uplink transmission of a feedback information, and determines a time to transmit the feedback information based on the transmission period and the time offset. The terminal transmits the feedback information to the network based on the determined time.
US10530461B2
A user equipment (UE) may be outside of the coverage area of a base station or other access point, which may impede access by the UE of a core network, server, or the like. Therefore, a UE may establish a relay connection to access resources when the UE is outside of a coverage area provided by a base station or access point. In aspects, an apparatus may be configured to transmit, to a set of relay UEs, a first message associated with establishment of a relay connection. The apparatus may be further configured to receive a set of messages from the set of relay UEs. The apparatus may be further configured to establish the relay connection with a first relay UE of the set of relay UEs based on a message of the set of messages from the first relay UE.
US10530452B2
This disclosure describes the generation and implementation of Golay sequences and Golay Sequence Sets (GSSs) for channel estimation in wireless networks. In one embodiment, this disclosure describes an extension of the Golay sequences Ga and Gb defined in various legacy standards to GSSs. In various embodiments, the disclosed GSSs can include a number of Golay complementary pairs (e.g., Ga and Gb). In one embodiment, the disclosed Golay complementary pairs can meet various predetermined design rules and can be used to define enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) short training field (STF) and/or channel estimation field (CEF) fields for multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) transmission.
US10530450B2
A multi-antenna channel measurement method is provided, where: a base station sends a first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) and a second CSI-RS to the terminal, and the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS are separately sent by using antenna elements in orthogonal dimensions; the base station receives a first CSI measurement result for the first CSI-RS and the second CSI-RS and that is fed back by the terminal; and the base station sends a third CSI-RS to the terminal according to the first CSI measurement result, and the third CSI-RS has been precoded according to the first CSI measurement result; and the base station receives a third CSI measurement result that is for the third CSI-RS and that is fed back by the terminal. Therefore, reducing calculation complexity on a terminal side of channel measurement and reducing a resource occupied for channel measurement and feedback in a multi-antenna port.
US10530447B2
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for directional communication are generally described herein. The eNB may transmit, signal and an uplink scheduling block to a first UE according to a downlink transmission direction from the eNB to the first UE. The eNB 104 may further transmit, during the downlink sub-frame, a second beam refinement training signal and a downlink scheduling block to a second UE according to a downlink transmission direction from the eNB to the second UE. The uplink scheduling block may indicate scheduled uplink resources for a scheduled uplink transmission by the first UE and the downlink scheduling block may indicate scheduled downlink resources for a scheduled downlink transmission to the second UE.
US10530444B2
Uplink data is transmitted efficiently. Provided is a terminal apparatus including a receiver configured to receive a first UL grant, a second UL grant and a random access response grant, and a transmitter configured to perform transmission on a PUSCH. In a case that the transmission on the PUSCH corresponds to the second UL grant to which a CRC parity bit scrambled by a C-RNTI is attached, first transmission is performed on the PUSCH at a transmission time interval of a length indicated using the second UL grant. In a case that the transmission on the PUSCH corresponds to a random access response grant, second transmission on the PUSCH is performed at a transmission time interval of a length of 1 ms.
US10530438B2
A wireless device may support a plurality of channel state information (CSI) processes. The wireless device may send an indication of a number of supported CSI processes to a first base station. The first base station may send an indication of a number of CSI processes supported by the wireless to a second base station. This information may be used during handover of the wireless device.
US10530430B2
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes at least one processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. The wireless communication device is configured to generate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) packet that includes a preamble followed by data symbol(s) followed by a midamble followed by other data symbol(s). The wireless communication device is also configured to transmit the OFDM packet to another wireless communication device to be processed by the other wireless communication device to perform channel estimation of a wireless communication channel using at least one of the preamble or the midamble.
US10530424B2
The invention relates to an antenna device (10) for short-range applications, e.g., RFID, comprising: a bipolar coaxial conductor structure (12) with an internal conductor (14) and an external conductor (16); an antenna signal terminal (22, 24) at a first end of the coaxial conductor structure (12) which is formed by a terminal contact (22) on the internal conductor (14) and a terminal contact (24) on the external conductor (16) to feed in an antenna transmitted signal and feed out an antenna received signal; a terminating impedance (Zterm) at a second end of the coaxial conductor structure (12), which is formed by a dipole (Z) connected to the internal conductor (14) at a terminal contact (28) and to the external conductor (16) at a terminal contact (30), wherein the dipole (Z) comprises at least one capacitor (C) and/or at least one inductance (L), such that when transmitting, a HF alternating current propagating through the internal conductor (14) and reaching the second end of the coaxial conductor structure (12) is coupled with the outside of the external conductor (16) at the second end of the coaxial conductor structure (12). The device (10) according to the invention advantageously has a relatively simple construction, with which a relatively wideband electomagnetic transmission (transmitting and/or receiving) of energy and/or information can be carried out advantageously.
US10530422B2
A method of analyzing a transient response of an electronic circuit includes receiving at a jitter modulator circuit first and second input signals, modulating the second input signal on the first input signal in the jitter modulator circuit and outputting a modulated signal based on the first and second input signals. The jitter modulator circuit includes models of N parallel connected transmission lines and modulating includes providing the first input signal, at each of a series of times t, to the N transmission line models and selecting an output of two of the N transmission line models based on the second input. The modulated signal is formed based on the selected outputs of the two N transmission lines models.
US10530421B2
Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for an ultra-wide-band (UWB) transmitter tag capable of operating in different power mode depending on voltage level and/or host interruption signal. The transmitter tag comprises a power management circuit, a one-time-programmable memory (OTP), a read/write memory, a state machine for controlling/monitoring the operation of the tag. The tag goes into the high power mode when the power supply ramps up to a preset voltage level. During the high power mode, the tag consumes the higher level of electrical current as indicated by the battery current signal. Upon completion of high power consumption activity, such as OTP memory download, the tag exits the high power mode and enters the low power mode. The power supply current goes to the low level to minimize the power consumption by the tag.
US10530417B2
In a transmit method, a set of data eigenvectors that are based on a Prometheus Orthonormal Set (PONS) code construction and orthogonal to each other are stored, wherein the data eigenvectors are mapped to unique multi-bit words. A pilot sequence representing a pilot eigenvector that is based on the PONS code construction and orthogonal to each of the data eigenvectors is generated. Input data are grouped into multi-bit words and data eigenvectors among the data eigenvectors are selected based on the multi-bit words. A spread data sequence including the selected data eigenvectors and that is synchronized to the pilot sequence is generated. An acoustic signal including the synchronized pilot sequence and the spread data sequence is generated. The acoustic signal is transmitted.
US10530407B2
The present invention relates to an adaptive filtering method for an amplitude-modulated radio signal (AM), the radio signal having a bandwidth, the method comprising: ⋅ transforming the radio signal into baseband, ⋅ measuring the level of noise and/or detecting the presence of an adjacent radio signal (A), of a first side of the bandwidth, ⋅ selecting or not selecting a first filter (F) numbered X, from among N first filters capable of cutting the amplitude-modulated radio signal of the first side of the bandwidth, ⋅ if a first filter numbered X is selected and applied to the amplitude-modulated radio signal transformed into baseband, the automatic selection of a second filter (F′) numbered Y, Y being greater than or equal to X, from among N second filters, capable of cutting the amplitude-modulated radio signal from the opposite side to the first side of the bandwidth.
US10530406B2
Methods and systems for interference management are described. Methods and systems can be used for minimizing interference among communication and/or electronic devices. Interference data can be gathered/received from interference sources such as weather and natural patterns, various electronic devices, and one or more network protocols. The interference data can be used to generate interference patterns of each interference source in an interference map. The interference map can be used to determine how a particular interference pattern can affect a system. The interference map can also be used to evaluate a new source of interference (e.g., cordless phones, weather conditions) to determine how a system can be affected. The interference data can also be associated with an interference signature (e.g., an interference pattern, a fingerprint) for an interference source in a database. The database can be used based on the interference signature to identify known and/or unknown interference sources.
US10530404B2
A signal processing method, a signal filtering apparatus, and a signal processing apparatus are provided. An input signal may be input into a filter having a passband, a superfluous signal of the passband may be output from the filter, and a target signal may be obtained by subtracting the superfluous signal from the input signal.
US10530392B2
This invention presents a method and apparatus for vertical layered finite alphabet iterative decoding of low-density parity-check codes (LDPC) which operate on parity check matrices that consist of blocks of sub-matrices. The iterative decoding involves passing messages between variable nodes and check nodes of the Tanner graph that associated with one or more sub-matrices constitute decoding blocks, and the messages belong to a finite alphabet. Various embodiments for the method and apparatus of the invention are presented that can achieve very high throughputs with low hardware resource usage and power.
US10530385B2
A Sigma-Delta (ΣΔ) modulator for converting an analog input signal having a frequency bandwidth around a variable center frequency f0 to a digital output signal at a sampling frequency fs. The ΣΔ modulator comprises a quantizer (420) for generating the digital output signal and a loop filter for shaping the quantization noise. The loop filter comprises at least one subfilter (430, 410) centered around a frequency f0 and constant noise shaping coefficients (451, 452, 453). The ΣΔ modulator further comprises a tunable delay element (455), a frequency adjuster (480) for adjusting the sampling frequency fs such that the normalized center frequency f0/fs is constant, and a delay adjuster (490) for adjusting the loop delay td implemented by the quantizer and the tunable delay element (455), such that the normalized loop delay td/Ts falls in a predetermined range [tmin, tmax], where Ts=1/fs.
US10530382B2
An SAR ADC and a conversion method, which include an SAR control logic circuit configured to control A/D conversion by: 1) sampling analog input signal for first time; 2) subjecting the sampled signal to conversions; 3) sampling analog input signal for another time; 4) subjecting the sampled signal in step 3) to conversion including: i) determining whether the lowest M bits of previous N-bit digital output signal are 1's or 0's, if so, looping back to step 2), otherwise, proceeding to step ii); ii) performing conversions on lowest M bits of new N-bit digital output signal, directly taking N-th to (M+1)-th bits of previous N-bit digital output signal as N-th to (M+1)-th bits of new N-bit digital output signal, and repeating steps 3) and 4) until the analog input signal is fully sampled and converted. Required cycles can be reduced resulting in higher conversion rate and lower power consumption.
US10530361B2
The present invention relates to an electrical circuit arrangement with an active discharge circuit including at least one electrical switching element, by means of which the circuit arrangement can be discharged in controlled manner. The circuit arrangement includes a RC snubber element with capacitor and resistor for damping voltage or current peaks in the circuit arrangement, wherein the electrical switching element is integrated in the RC snubber element and connected in parallel to the capacitor of the RC snubber. This enables the discharge circuit to be designed in a manner that is economical in terms of space and cost. The discharge circuit uses the heat sink for the RC snubber element and therefore does not need any additional heat dissipation systems.
US10530353B2
A gate-drive controller for a power semiconductor device includes a master control unit (MCU) and one or more comparators that compare the output signal of the power semiconductor device to a reference value generated by the MCU. The MCU, in response to a turn-off trigger signal, generates a first intermediate drive signal for the power semiconductor device and generates a second intermediate drive signal, different from the first drive signal, when a DSAT signal indicates that the power semiconductor device is experiencing de-saturation. The MCU generates a final drive signal for the power semiconductor when the output signal of the one or more comparators indicates that the output signal of the power semiconductor device has changed relative to the reference value. The controller may also include a timer that causes the drive signals to change in predetermined intervals when the one or more comparators do not indicate a change.
US10530342B2
Clock distribution circuitry configured for duty cycle control, the circuitry comprising: a plurality of buffers connected in series along a clock path, each of the buffers having an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal being connected to the clock path via a corresponding AC coupling capacitor, and the clock, path configured to receive an input clock signal at its input node and output an output clock signal at its output node, the output clock signal having an output duty cycle; and control circuitry connected to apply a DC bias signal to the input terminal of each of the plurality of buffers, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: obtain a measurement signal indicative of the output duty cycle; and control the DC bias signals, based on a difference between the measurement signal and a reference signal, so as to control the output duty cycle.
US10530336B2
A transmission filter includes five series resonators that include functional electrodes provided on a piezoelectric substrate, and connected in series with each other between a transmission input terminal and an antenna terminal, and parallel resonators. Frequency differences between the anti-resonant frequencies and the resonant frequencies of the series resonators other than the series resonator connected so as to be closest to the transmission input terminal and the series resonator connected so as to be closest to the antenna terminal are smaller than frequency differences of the series resonators, and anti-resonant frequencies of the series resonators are lower than the anti-resonant frequencies of the series resonators.
US10530329B2
A micro-electrical-mechanical system (MEMS) guided wave device includes a plurality of electrodes arranged below a piezoelectric layer (e.g., either embedded in a slow wave propagation layer or supported by a suspended portion of the piezoelectric layer) and configured for transduction of a lateral acoustic wave in the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer permits one or more additions or modifications to be made thereto, such as trimming (thinning) of selective areas, addition of loading materials, sandwiching of piezoelectric layer regions between electrodes to yield capacitive elements or non-linear elastic convolvers, addition of sensing materials, and addition of functional layers providing mixed domain signal processing utility.
US10530327B2
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator device is disclosed. The SAW resonator has a piezoelectric layer disposed over a semiconductor substrate. The piezoelectric layer has a first surface and a second surface. The polarization axis (C-axis) of the piezoelectric layer is oriented at an angle relative to the second surface of the piezoelectric layer in a range of approximately 0° to approximately 45°. A layer is disposed between the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and the second surface of the piezoelectric layer.
US10530325B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient data transfer in a computing system are disclosed. A computing system includes multiple transmitters sending singled-ended data signals to multiple receivers. A receiver includes multiple series inductors moved from a signal path to sampling circuitry to a termination path used for impedance matching. The removed direct current (DC) resistances of the inductors in the signal path reduces signal attenuation. The termination path has alternating current (AC) reactances of the inductors, which provide a frequency-dependent termination impedance. This termination impedance provides a positive reflection coefficient for high operating frequencies, which boosts the input signal being received by the sampling circuitry.
US10530323B2
In some examples, a delay apparatus includes a controllable delay line comprising a plurality of delay elements selectively connected in a signal path to vary a delay of a signal passing through the delay line, and a controllable phase shifter comprising reflective loads adjustable to vary a phase shift applied to the signal.
US10530322B2
A resonant circuit includes a first inductor and a first capacitor which define a first series circuit and a second inductor connected in parallel to the first series circuit. The first inductor and the second inductor are coupled via a magnetic field in a direction in which magnetic fluxes passing through the inductor and the second inductor strengthen each other to effectively increase steepness in a transient band.
US10530320B2
The de-Qing loss and phase imbalance caused by the inherent capacitance of a switched resistance, such as a MOSFET with a resistor, can be reduced by using a shunting switch across the resistor that is in series with the resistor's switch. The shunting switch shorts across the resistor when the resistor's switch is open and in reference mode, thereby significantly reducing the resistance in series with the inherent capacitance of the open resistor's switch.
US10530319B2
A method in a computing device configured to perform volume-levelling processing on input audio data by at least applying one or more filters to the input audio data, the computing device being configured to obtain an estimated difference between a target output loudness level and a loudness level associated with the input audio data, and to adapt the filter coefficients of the one or more filters based on the estimated difference. The method involves starting, or stopping, the volume-levelling processing. The method comprises gradually increasing, or decreasing, a weighting applied to the estimated difference, in response to obtaining an indication to start, or stop, the volume-levelling processing.
US10530316B2
A power amplifier includes a two-dimensional matrix of N×M active cells formed by stacking main terminals of multiple active cells in series. The stacks are coupled in parallel to form the two-dimensional matrix. The power amplifier includes a driver structure to coordinate the driving of the active cells so that the effective output power of the two-dimensional matrix is approximately N×M the output power of each of the active cells.
US10530300B2
The invention relates to a method for the frequency error correction of an oscillator of a sensor node in a sensor network, comprising the following steps: receiving a transmission signal of a transmitter, the signal being modulated by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); determining the frequency deviation of the oscillator using the received transmission signal; determining a correction signal for correcting the frequency deviation of the oscillator and correcting the frequency of the oscillator by means of the correction signal.
US10530288B2
A motor drive apparatus which drives a motor includes inverter modules equal in number to phases of the motor. Each of the inverter modules includes a plurality of switching element pairs. Each of the switching element pairs is defined by two switching elements connected in series. In each of the inverter modules, the plurality of switching element pairs are connected in parallel, and each of resistance values of gate resistors connected to the switching elements is set for the corresponding switching element connected thereto.
US10530268B2
A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load includes a thyristor, a gate coupling circuit for conducting a gate current through a gate of the thyristor, and a control circuit for controlling the gate coupling circuit to conduct the gate current through a first current path to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half cycle. The gate coupling circuit is able to conduct the gate current through the first current path again after the firing time, but the gate current is not able to be conducted through the gate from a transition time before the end of the half-cycle until approximately the end of the half-cycle. The load current is able to be conducted through a second current path to the electrical load after the transition time until approximately the end of the half-cycle.
US10530267B1
A power converter includes an AC power input line, an AC power output line, a neutral line, a first capacitor connected to the AC power input line and the neutral line, a first inductor connected to the AC power input line, a first bus, a second bus, a second capacitor connected to the first bus and the second bus, a first half-bridge circuit connected to the first bus, the second bus and the first inductor, a second half-bridge circuit connected in series with the first half-bridge circuit and connected to the AC power output line, a third half-bridge circuit connected in series with the first half-bridge circuit, a second inductor connected to the third half-bridge circuit and the neutral line, and a controller.
US10530261B2
In the present invention, a high-voltage DC/DC converter suitable for powering x-ray tubes and the like provides control of a voltage applied to a resonant circuit at least in part according to a timing of a monitored voltage on the resonator thereby compensating for variations in the parameter stability of the resonant circuit, nonlinearity in the resonant gain curve and frequency dependencies.
US10530259B2
An LED driving device includes an LED string including at least first and second LED elements connected in series, first and second channels coupled to output nodes of the first and second LED elements, respectively, first and second regulators to regulate a current flowing through the first and second channels in response to first and second control voltages, respectively, and a control voltage generating circuit to generate the first and second control voltages based on a difference between a reference voltage and a comparative voltage, the comparative voltage being generated based on a sensing voltage, the sensing voltage corresponding to an LED current flowing through the LED string. The control voltage generating circuit includes a reference voltage generator to generate the reference voltage based on an input voltage and the dimming signal, the input voltage being supplied to the LED string, the dimming signal controlling dimming of the LED string.
US10530258B1
A predictive dead time generating circuit includes a dead time detecting module configured to detect a dead time between the switching off of the upper power transistor and the switching on of the lower power transistor, and a dead time between the switching off of the lower power transistor and the switching on of the upper power transistor, and to generate a first detecting signal and a second detecting signal according to the condition of whether the detected dead time reaches an optimal value. The logic control module changes the output of the delay module according to the judgment result of the dead time detecting module, so as to change the dead time between the driving signal of the upper power transistor and the driving signal of the lower power transistor.
US10530256B1
Power converters and method with reverse charge capability are presented. A power converter operates either in a buck mode for transferring electrical power from a first terminal of the power converter to a second terminal of the power converter, or in a boost mode for transferring electrical power from the second terminal of the power converter to the first terminal of the power converter. The power converter has several switching elements, a flying capacitor, an inductor, and a control unit. The switching elements couple the first terminal of the power converter and the flying capacitor, couple the first terminal of the flying capacitor and a first terminal of the inductor, couple the first terminal of the inductor and a second terminal of the flying capacitor and couple the second terminal of the flying capacitor and a reference potential. The control unit controls the switching elements.
US10530255B2
Control circuitry for controlling the duty cycle of a magnetizing switch of a power converter containing a demagnetizing switch is described. The magnetizing switch and the demagnetizing switch are switched on within a sequence of commutation cycles in a mutually exclusive manner. The control circuitry is configured, within a commutation cycle from the sequence of commutation cycles, to determine a sensed current signal indicative of a current through the magnetizing switch. The control circuitry determines a ramp signal by adding a slope compensation signal to the sensed current signal. The control circuitry determines a threshold signal and determines a duty cycle for the magnetizing switch for the commutation cycle by comparing the ramp signal with the threshold signal. The threshold signal and/or the slope compensation signal depend on the duty cycle for the magnetizing switch of a preceding commutation cycle from the sequence of commutation cycles.
US10530252B2
A pulse-frequency control circuit includes: a selection circuit that receives, and selects from among, a plurality of reference clocks whose phases differ from one another and which have a same reference period; a setting register that stores information for identifying a setting period that is in increments of a first duration shorter than the reference period; and a control circuit that causes, based on the information stored in the setting register, the selection circuit to sequentially and repeatedly select, as a determined rising edge, a rising edge occurring at intervals of the setting period from among rising edges of the plurality of reference clocks, in which the selection circuit sequentially and repeatedly generates an output pulse whose rising edge coincides with the determined rising edge selected, to provide an output pulse sequence of the output pulses.
US10530248B2
The present disclosure relates to a head-wearable hearing device comprising a multiple-output switched capacitor DC-DC converter. Said multiple-output switched capacitor DC-DC converter comprises a switch matrix comprising a plurality of individually controllable semiconductor switches and a plurality of flying capacitors connected between respective sets of circuit nodes of the switch matrix. A controller is connected to respective control terminals of the plurality of individually controllable semiconductor switches of the switch matrix to configure first and second converter sections to form first and second converter topologies, respectively.
US10530245B2
[Problem]An object of the present invention is to provide an electric power steering apparatus of a vector control system that compensates a dead time of an inverter, a motor back-EMF and an interference voltage due to a mutual inductance between motor windings, improves a distortion of a current waveform and a responsibility of a current control, and suppresses a noise, vibration and a ripple.[Means for Solving the Problem]The present invention is the electric power steering apparatus that driving-controls a 3-phase brushless motor which applies an assist torque to a steering mechanism of a vehicle by using a current command value calculated based on at least a steering torque, and vector-controls the 3-phase brushless motor, via an inverter, by converting dq-axes command values converted from the current command value into 3-phase values, comprising a dq-axes disturbance observer to compensate respective axes disturbance voltages, which include a dead time of the inverter, for the dq-axes command values, or comprising: a dq-axes disturbance observer to compensate respective axes disturbance voltages, which include a dead time of the inverter, for the dq-axes command values and a spatial vector modulating section.
US10530243B2
Each DC/DC converter includes a transformer, first and second switching circuits each formed of a plurality of legs having a plurality of semiconductor switching elements, and capacitors. When detecting a malfunction in semiconductor switching elements, a control circuit halts a normal operation mode and controls the first switching circuit by a protection mode for turning OFF all the semiconductor switching elements, and controls the second switching circuit by a bypass mode for bypassing the capacitor by turning ON the semiconductor switching elements in a discharge leg and causing a short circuit between the secondary side terminals, after controlling the second switching circuit by a discharge mode for discharging the capacitor by turning ON the semiconductor switching element in a discharge leg.
US10530224B2
A motor includes: a stator; a rotor axially aligned with the stator; a circuit board; and a heat dissipating plate. The stator includes: an iron core including teeth; an insulator covering one end surface, in the axial direction, of the iron core; and a coil wound around the teeth. The insulator includes an electrically insulating material having a lower rate of heat transfer than a material included in the iron core. The heat dissipating plate is attached to the insulator in a state in which the heat dissipating plate is in contact with the insulator without being in contact with the iron core, and the circuit board is attached to the heat dissipating plate in a state in which the circuit board is in contact with the heat dissipating plate without being in contact with the iron core.
US10530211B2
An insulator of a coil winding component constituting part of a rotary electric machine is resin molded integrally with a divided iron core. A first accommodating groove in which a coil terminal wire can be arranged is formed on an outer end surface of a wiring member of the insulator. A plurality of recesses are formed in a circumferential direction of a stator core on a groove bottom surface of the first accommodating groove. Further, a rib, which supports the coil terminal wire that is arranged in the first accommodating groove, is disposed between the mutually adjacent recesses.
US10530210B2
To ensure ready assembly of a stator and reliably reduce the shaft voltage in an axial air gap rotating electric machine, an axial air gap rotating electric machine has a circular ring-shaped stator formed by a plurality of stator cores arranged about a rotational axis direction in a ring shape. Each stator core comprises a tubular bobbin and a coil, with the tubular bobbin having an iron core inserted into a bobbin inner tubular portion substantially matching the peripheral shape of the iron core. The axial air gap rotating electric machine has a first conductive member having a horizontal portion and a vertical portion contacting the end surface of the bobbin opening portion. The horizontal portion contacts parts of the iron core outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the bobbin inner tubular portion, and the vertical portion is conductively connected to the inner circumferential housing surface.
US10530209B2
One example device includes a rotor platform that rotates about an axis of rotation. The device also includes a ring magnet mounted to the rotor platform to provide a rotor-platform magnetic field. The device also includes a stator platform that includes a planar mounting surface. The device also includes a plurality of conductive structures disposed along the planar mounting surface. The conductive structures remain within a predetermined distance to the ring magnet in response to rotation of the rotor platform about the axis of rotation. The conductive structures are electrically coupled to define an electrically conductive path that at least partially overlaps the ring magnet. The device also includes circuitry that causes an electrical current to flow through the conductive path. The electrical current generates a stator-platform magnetic field that interacts with the rotor-platform magnetic field such that the rotor platform rotates about the axis of rotation.
US10530208B2
The invention describes an electrical machine comprising a stator and a rotor which is separated from the stator by an air gap and has a plurality of shell-like magnet segments which are fastened to a magnetic return path element. In this case, the magnet segments are arranged opposite one another in pairs in each case and each have a plurality of magnetically differently polarized sections in the circumferential direction, said sections each forming a magnetic pole of the rotor. In this case, recesses which each serve as outer detached pole portions are provided on that side which faces the stator in the edge zones of the magnet segments which are arranged in the circumferential direction. Furthermore, further recesses are provided on that side which faces the stator in the transition zones between the magnetically differently polarized sections of the magnet segments, said recesses serving as inner detached pole portions.
US10530205B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The permanent magnets are disposed to be divided into two layers, the two layers being a layer on the outer peripheral side and a layer on the inner peripheral side of the rotor core, and the permanent magnets are disposed line-symmetrically with respect to a magnetic pole center of the rotor core and in a V-shape or a U-shape in each of the two layers. An angle that each of the permanent magnets disposed on the outer peripheral side makes with the magnetic pole center of the V-shape or the U-shape is larger than an angle that each of the permanent magnets disposed on the inner peripheral side makes with the magnetic pole center of the V-shape or the U-shape.
US10530196B2
In an example, an integrated circuit includes a communication and control unit. The communication and control unit controls an inverter that applies an alternating current output signal to a transmission coil for reception by a receiver. The communication and control unit causes the inverter to provide a first and second transmit powers to the transmission coil, and the communication unit receives a first and second power received signals from the receiver in response to the first and second transmit powers. The communication and control unit determines a first gain and offset using the first transmit power, the first power. When a third transmit power greater than the second transmit power is transmitted by the transmission coil, the communication and control unit determines a second gain and a second offset using the first transmit power, the first power received signal, the third transmit power and a third power received signal.
US10530195B2
A non-contact power receiving device includes a power receiving device, a shielding member, supports, a housing, and fastening elements. The power receiving device is mounted on a vehicle body and configured to receive wirelessly transmitted electric power. The shielding member is provided between the vehicle body and the power receiving device. The supports are provided so as to project from the vehicle body. The housing is provided between the supports and in which the power receiving device is disposed. The fastening elements are respectively mounted on the supports so as to be disposed on the opposite side of the housing and that respectively fasten the shielding member to the supports.
US10530187B2
Disclosed is a non-contact power supply system wherein power is transmitted by means of a magnetic field resonance method from a power transmission device, which includes a power transmission-side resonant circuit, to a power reception device, which includes a power reception-side resonant circuit. The power transmission device detects, at the time of transmitting the power, a load in the power transmission, and stops the power transmission in the cases where a detection result deviates from a specified normal range. In the power reception device, a power stabilization circuit (270) that maintains output power of the power reception circuit constant is provided between a load circuit (280) and a power reception circuit (230) that outputs, toward the load circuit, power on the basis of power received by the power reception-side resonant circuit.
US10530186B2
Systems and methods for wireless power transfer with fractional timing resolution are described. In some embodiments, an electrical power transmitter may include a transistor and a rising edge control circuit configured to control a gate of the transistor to produce a rising edge of a pulse at a time selected with a resolution greater than a full-clock period.
US10530179B2
An integrated external controller/charger system for an implantable medical device is disclosed comprising an external controller/charger device with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and first battery, and an external charging coil assembly coupleable to the external controller/charger device and including or associated with a second battery. The second battery is used to energize a charging coil in the external charging coil assembly, while the first battery is used to power other aspects of the system (data telemetry circuitry, control circuitry, the GUI, etc.). Because the second battery powers the relatively high-power charging function, the first battery in the external controller/charger device can be made smaller. Additionally, the second battery enables a suitable external controller device (e.g. a mobile device such as a cell phone) to provide charging functionality even if its first battery is otherwise inadequate.
US10530173B2
A charging device includes a first auxiliary bridge arm and a second auxiliary bridge arm. The first auxiliary bridge arm is connected between a first port and a second module. The second auxiliary bridge arm is connected between the first port and a third module. If the AC charging power is three-phase, the first module converts a first phase of the AC charging power, and the first auxiliary bridge arm and the second auxiliary bridge arm are disabled. Consequently, the second module converts a second phase of the AC charging power, and the third module converts a third phase of the AC charging power. If the AC charging power is single-phase, at least a first module is used to convert the AC charging power.
US10530172B2
A power line interface is electrically connectable to a direct-current power system including a power line. A bidirectional DC-DC converter is electrically connected to the power line interface and a battery. A controller receives a first current value measured by a first current sensor and a current command value and performs constant current control processing that controls the bidirectional DC-DC converter so that the first current value equals the current command value. The controller receives a first voltage value measured by a voltage sensor and a voltage command value and performs constant voltage control processing that controls the bidirectional DC-DC converter so that the first voltage value equals the voltage command value. The controller switches operation from the constant current control processing to the constant voltage control processing.
US10530170B2
An adaptive charging system comprises at least one solar panel and a voltage regulator. The solar panel comprises a protective layer, a first EVA layer, a plurality of solar cells, a plurality of connectors, a second EVA layer and a first supporting layer. The plurality of solar cells are interconnected by the connectors, forming a main body layer. The protective layer, the first EVA layer, the main body layer, the second EVA layer and the first supporting layer are bonded together from top to bottom. The voltage regulator comprises a sampling logic power supply circuit, a microcontroller (MCU) logic circuit, a DC-DC charging circuit, a sampling current conditioning circuit, and a charging matching circuit. When the charging system charges Apple® devices, an automatic reset control logic can be implemented. The system detects the amount of light is changing based on the sampled voltage and the analog voltage signal, and monitors the detection for an additional duration of time. The voltage regulator is reset when the altered amount of the light is stable.
US10530169B2
GaN-based half bridge power conversion circuits employ control, support and logic functions that are monolithically integrated on the same devices as the power transistors. In some embodiments a low side GaN device communicates through one or more level shift circuits with a high side GaN device. Various embodiments of level shift circuits and their inventive aspects are disclosed.
US10530165B2
Disclosed is a battery management method and corresponding apparatus to manage a battery including determining state information of a target battery, among batteries, based on quantity data of the target battery. The method and apparatus also includes determining state information of a battery, different from the target battery, among the batteries, based on the state information of the target battery and difference information between electrical quantity data of the different battery and the electrical quantity data of the target battery.
US10530160B2
A power transmission network, for interconnecting a variable power source and a AC electrical network including: a DC transmission link for power transmission between a network side converter and a source side converter; a AC transmission link for power transmission from the respective variable power source to a source side converter; a source side converter including: a DC connecting point operably connected to the respective transmission link; and an AC connecting point operably connected to the respective transmission link; a network side converter including: an AC connecting point for connection to the respective electrical network; and a DC connecting point operably connected to the respective transmission link; and a control system, where a network side converter is designated as a first converter, and the control system is configured to operate each first converter as a DC slack bus to vary a DC voltage at its DC connecting point.
US10530153B2
A method and apparatus for operating a power architecture for an aircraft, includes a primary variable frequency generator system having a first power output, a secondary variable frequency generator system having a second power output, a power distribution node, an essential power bus selectively connected with a set of essential aircraft electrical loads, and a controller module.
US10530145B2
In a method and a corresponding device for detecting phase failures in a converter, current regulators of a positive phase sequence system and current regulators of a negative phase sequence system are provided for the current control of the converter, wherein the current regulators of the positive phase sequence system and the current regulators of the negative phase sequence system each have an integrator, resulting, in the case of a network fault, in coupling of the integrators. At least one measured or calculated value is checked by a monitoring unit for a course that is typical of the coupling of the integrators, wherein the monitoring unit generates a fault signal if such a typical course is detected.
US10530143B2
A stress cone for reducing electrical stresses is disclosed for use on terminated ends of tubing encapsulated power cable used in surface applications in a subsurface well power system employing electric submersible pumps (ESPs). The stress cone comprises an annular section about a longitudinal axis for receiving a terminated end of the TEPC in its first end and for abutting the terminated metal TEPC end against a metal shoulder at its second end therein, and an insulation chamber axially aligned with and connected to the annular section. The chamber comprises a metal interior surface symmetrical about the axis. The insulated TEPC core (without outer metal sheath) passes through the insulation chamber along the axis and then exits. The ID of the TEPC metal sheath and the inside metal surface of the chamber form a smooth ground plane transition surface. Insulation material surrounds the TEPC insulation layer within the insulation chamber.
US10530140B2
A poke-through device for installation in a hole in a floor structure, the floor structure defining a floor in a first working environment and a ceiling in a second working environment, the hole communicating between the first and second working environments, the poke through device. The poke-through device includes a body defining an interior and having an upper end and a lower end. A mounting frame is adapted to secure an electrical device within the body. A first intumescent member is disposed at the body upper end, and an electrical box is secured to the body lower end. A fire resistant gasket is disposed between the electrical box and the body lower end. The gasket includes openings therein to permit passage of wiring between the electrical box and the body.
US10530136B2
A cable cover of this invention is used for guiding the orientation of a cable that extends out from a connector. This cable cover includes a pair of divided bodies, a cable passage, and a supporting portion. The pair of divided bodies have a pair of joining faces that are to be joined to each other. The cable passage includes a bent passage portion for housing a bent portion of the cable. The supporting portion extends as a curved surface along the forward direction of the cable in the bent passage portion, and is configured to be able to support an inward portion of the bend in the bent portion.
US10530132B2
A spark plug includes: a cylindrical mounting bracket attachable to an internal combustion engine; a center electrode that is held by the mounting bracket in an insulated manner and has a first end portion exposed and extended from a first end portion of the mounting bracket; a ground electrode that has a first end side joined to the first end portion of the mounting bracket and has a surface of the second end side extended to be opposed to the first end portion of the center electrode; a convex portion that protrudes from a base material of the ground electrode on the surface of the ground electrode toward the center electrode, has a surface protruded outward, and has surfaces without corners; and a precious metal layer formed on the surface of the convex portion.
US10530130B2
A laser diode includes a semiconductor structure of a lower Bragg reflector layer, an active region, and an upper Bragg reflector layer. The upper Bragg reflector layer includes a lasing aperture having an optical axis oriented perpendicular to a surface of the active region. The active region includes a first material, and the lower Bragg reflector layer includes a second material, where respective lattice structures of the first and second materials are independent of one another. Related laser arrays and methods of fabrication are also discussed.
US10530122B2
In order to provide a circuit arrangement and a method for controlling and measuring a current in at least one charge element, in particular in at least one laser diode, which can be used at a low operating voltage with laser current control and/or at a low drop in voltage, also for so-called “low power” applications, it is proposed to couple three MOSFETs in a split manner for a charge path and for two measurement paths and to maintain the three MOSFETs by means of an auxiliary controller at the same working point such that they deliver the modulation current and comparison currents fixed with respect to the modulation current. The comparison currents are used to determine the average modulation current and feed a control device which delivers these currents—and thus also the average modulation current—to a desired value in which an operational or control voltage is varied on a circuit block by the control device. The circuit block delivers output signals depending on the operational or control voltage in the amplitude, said output signals controlling two or more circuit elements in the charge path and the measurement paths.
US10530115B2
An apparatus for emitting pulsed electromagnetic laser radiation includes a laser gain element; an optical arrangement defining a laser resonator and arranged to re-direct radiation emitted by the gain element along a beam path back onto the gain element, the optical arrangement comprising an output coupler configured to couple a portion of the radiation in the laser resonator out of the laser resonator; and, a pump arrangement configured to pump the laser gain element. The optical arrangement includes a mode locker placed in the laser resonator in the beam path, and a birefringent element placed in the laser resonator in the beam path.
US10530112B2
Provided is a solid-state laser device in which a linear resonator including an output mirror and a rear mirror, a laser rod, and optical members are provided on a common base and are contained in a housing having the base as a portion. A holding part is provided to hold an excitation light source that extends parallel to the laser rod on a side of the laser rod opposite to the base. The optical members including a Q-switch are disposed between the laser rod and the rear mirror. An upper end position of the output mirror is at a position lower than a lower end position of the excitation light source held by the holding part, with the base as a reference. The holding part holds the excitation light source so as to be capable of being inserted and extracted with respect to the output mirror side in a longitudinal direction of the excitation light source.
US10530096B1
An electrical connector assembly for an automotive subassembly having an enclosure is described. The electrical connector assembly includes a female electrical connector mounted to the enclosure and having a tight space between a wall of the female electrical connector and an adjacent inside surface of the enclosure. A male electrical connector has a spring-action lock that locks the male electrical connector by way of a single locking tab that pops out to project through a slot in the wall of the female electrical connector when the male electrical connector is fully inserted into the female electrical connector. A color of the wall of the female electrical connector is a dark color and a color of the locking tab is a bright color such that a secure connection between the male electrical connector and the female electrical connector is indicated by appearance of the projected locking tab within the tight space.
US10530080B2
An electronic device includes a ground element, a conductive assembly, a circuit board, an insulating element and a conductive element. The conductive assembly includes a base and a screw element. The base is disposed at the ground element and contacts the ground element. The screw element has a fixing portion and a clamping portion connected to the fixing portion. The outer diameter of the clamping portion is larger than the outer diameter of the fixing portion, and the fixing portion is fixed to the base. The circuit board is disposed between the base and the clamping portion of the screw element. The insulating element is disposed between part of the clamping portion and the circuit board. The conductive element is disposed at the circuit board and contacts the conductive assembly. The circuit board is electrically connected to the ground element through the conductive element and the conductive assembly.
US10530078B1
An electronic signal processing device includes a printed circuit board, a signal processing chip, a plurality of conductive lines, a plurality of copper pads, and a fixing device. The signal processing chip is mounted on the printed circuit board, and a plurality of conductive lines are formed on the printed circuit board and connected to the signal processing chip. The copper pads are respectively formed at the ends of the conductive lines. The fixing device is fixed on the printed circuit board and exposes the copper pads to connect to a cable assembly so as to improve signal integrity.
US10530077B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a connector for a memory device in a computing system. In one embodiment, the connector includes a housing having a cavity to receive a mating end of a printed circuit board (PCB). The cavity includes first groups of first contacts arranged along an inside wall of the cavity, to engage with respective second groups of second contacts arranged around the mating end of the PCB. The cavity further includes a bar disposed inside the cavity to bridge the cavity, to receive a notch formed on the mating end of the PCB. A depth of the notch defines a number of the first groups of first contacts to be engaged with a respective number of the second groups of second contacts on the mating end of the PCB.
US10530075B2
An electrical terminal configured to mate with the cover of an electrical receptacle and the screw which secures the cover to the receptacle in order to ground installed satellite television systems to a properly grounded receptacle.
US10530067B2
An antenna element includes an antenna board, a radiation conductor including radiation portions including a top surface portion and being divided at positions corresponding to frequency bands and provided with respect to a first feeding point in plan view of the antenna board, through-conductors penetrating the antenna board at respective positions of end portions of the top surface portion in a thickness direction, and bottom surface electrodes provided on a bottom surface of the antenna board opposite the end portions of the top surface portion, and connected to the top surface portion via the through-conductors.
US10530066B2
An electronic device may include a circuit board, radiators disposed on the circuit board, and provided with a first feeding signal to transmit or receive a wireless signal in a first frequency band; and a ground disposed on the circuit board to provide a reference potential for the radiators. The radiators and a whole or a portion of the ground may be provided with an additional feeding signal to transmit or receive a wireless signal in various frequency bands that are lower than the first frequency band.
US10530058B2
A wireless device according to one aspect of the present invention includes an antenna, a focuser, and an absorber. The focuser includes a first and a second region. One of the regions transmits radio waves, and the other blocks them or changes their phase. In a plan view from the antenna, the shape of the first region is a circle and the shape of the second region is an annular ring with an inner diameter equal to the diameter of the first region. The antenna is on the center axis of the circle. A part of the absorber is present between a first plane where the antenna is present and a second plane on which the second region is present. The absorber is present at a position away from the antenna by the outer circumference of the annular ring or longer in a direction perpendicular to the axis.
US10530056B2
An antenna structure includes a first feeding source, a second feeding source, and a ring-shaped frame. The ring-shaped frame defines a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. A current signal flows from the first feeding source to the first radiating portion, the first radiating portion activates a first resonance mode and a second resonance mode simultaneously to generate radiation signals in a first frequency band and a second frequency band. A current signal flows from the second feeding source to the second radiating portion, the second radiating portion activates a third resonance mode and a fourth resonance mode simultaneously to generate radiation signals in a third frequency band and a fourth frequency band. A wireless communication device is also provided.
US10530053B2
An embodiment method for signal path measurement includes providing a first signal at a common node coupled to a plurality of signal paths that each include a respective phase rotation circuit. The method also includes providing a second signal, over a first test path, to a first node coupled to a first signal path of the plurality of signal paths, providing the second signal, over a second test path, to a second node coupled to a second signal path of the plurality of signal paths, selecting a signal path from the plurality of signal paths, transmitting, over the selected signal path, one of the first signal and the second signal, and mixing the first signal with the second signal to obtain a measurement signal of the selected signal path. A difference in phase delay between the second test path and the first test path includes a first known phase delay.
US10530052B2
A multi-antenna module includes, on or in the dielectric substrate, a first radiation element, a second radiation element that operates at a frequency band lower than that of the first radiation element, and a ground plane. A first feed line and a second feed line are provided on or in the dielectric substrate. A first switch element switches between a first state in which a signal is supplied to the second radiation element and a second state including at least one of a state in which the second radiation element is connected to the ground plane with terminal impedance interposed therebetween, a state in which the second radiation element is in a floating state with respect to the second feed line and the ground plane, and a state in which the second radiation element is short-circuited to the ground plane.
US10530049B2
The present disclosure provides a cable structure, a power cord structure and an electrical device. The cable structure includes: a power cord, a shell arranged on the power cord, and an antenna arranged in the shell. Because the antenna is arranged in the shell and does not need to be exposed to the outside, it works in a good environment and can be protected from being damaged easily and, thereby guaranteeing the working reliability and stability of the antenna. Because the shell is arranged on the power cord, the electrical device does not need to be provided with additional antenna devices, thereby improving the overall appearance, convenience for carrying and the user experience. The shell is arranged on the power cord, the position of the shell can be at the middle, the front or different positions depending on requirements of the power cord, therefore satisfying different user needs.
US10530045B2
A radio wave transmissive cover includes a cover body having a transparent first cover layer, a colored second cover layer, and a base material layer. The second cover layer is formed on the back surface of the first cover layer. The base material layer is formed on the back surface of the second cover layer. An opening is provided between the outer circumference and the center of the cover body. The opening extends through at least the base material layer and the second cover layer in the thickness direction, and the opening is open on the back surface of the base material layer. The base material layer and the second cover layer are joined together through a recess-protrusion relationship, thereby forming a sealing portion around the opening. The sealing portion seals the gap between the base material layer and the second cover layer.
US10530044B2
A mobile device and antenna structure thereof are provided. An antenna structure is placed next to a pivot structure of the mobile device and a parasitic element is placed next to a high-frequency radiation element extending from a feeding element, so as to resonate with the high-frequency radiation element to generate a resonant mode for compensating the lack of a high-frequency bandwidth.
US10530042B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. The antennas may include antenna structures at opposing first and second ends of the electronic device. The antenna structures at a given end of the device may include antenna structures that are shared between multiple antennas. The electronic device may include a first antenna with an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A return path may bridge the gap. The electronic device may also include a second antenna that includes the antenna ground and an additional antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element of the second antenna may be parasitically coupled to the return path of the inverted-F antenna at given frequencies.
US10530040B2
The present application discloses a sensing screen, a control circuit and control method thereof, and a sensing screen apparatus. The sensing screen includes a display screen, a first transparent medium layer, a transparent connection layer, and an antenna layer. The antenna layer includes multiple antenna units, and the antenna units include at least one first antenna unit and multiple second antenna units. The first antenna unit is configured to transmit a sensing signal, the second antenna units are configured to receive reflected signals of the sensing signal, and the reflected signals are generated by a touch object by reflecting the sensing signal. According to the present application, the antenna layer is arranged right above the display screen, so that a touch area of the sensing screen is fully utilized while screen display is not affected, so as to substantially increase an antenna size and increase an antenna gain.
US10530038B2
A semiconductor package device includes a substrate, an antenna and a conductor. The substrate has an upper surface. The antenna is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The conductor is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate and surrounds the antenna. The conductor has a first surface facing toward the antenna and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface of the conductor is spaced apart from the upper surface of the substrate.
US10530037B2
An antenna device capable of suppressing influence on an antenna performance even if an electronic device is provided in its vicinity is provided. An antenna device 1 is equipped with a top element 30 and a coil 40. A casing 51 of a camera 50 is disposed at such a position as not to be right under the top element 30. The coil 40 is disposed close to the casing 51 in a front-rear direction. A distance between the casing 51 and the coil 40 in the front-rear direction is longer than or equal to 0.00075 times a shortest wavelength of a reception target signal. A maximum antenna efficiency of the antenna device 1 in a predetermined frequency band is higher than or equal to 85% of a maximum antenna efficiency in a case where the camera 50 is not provided.
US10530035B2
An antenna comprising a reflector (20) connected to a motor drive (30), a primary radiator (30) for transceiving a radio beam at an operating frequency impinged on the reflector (20) is disclosed. A coarse alignment system comprising a motor drive is connected to the reflector (20) for driving at least one of the rotation and the tilting of the reflector. The coarse alignment system (70; 270; 370; 470) comprising an auxiliary antenna (50) connected to the control device (60) for communicating with a further auxiliary antenna (10b), at a second frequency different from the operating frequency. A fine alignment system is also present for electronic adjustment of the radio beam. A control device controls the coarse alignment system and the fine alignment system.
US10530034B2
In an example embodiment, an azimuth combiner comprises: a septum layer comprising a plurality of septum dividers; first and second housing layers attached to first and second sides of the septum layer; a linear array of ports on a first end of the combiner; wherein the first and second housing layers each comprise waveguide H-plane T-junctions; wherein the waveguide T-junctions can be configured to perform power dividing/combining; and wherein the septum layer evenly bisects each port of the linear array of ports. A stack of such azimuth combiners can form a two dimensional planar array of ports to which can be added a horn aperture layer, and a grid layer, to form a dual-polarized, dual-BFN, dual-band antenna array.
US10530026B2
A filter of the present invention creates a cavity filter that can be embedded within the inner layers of a printed circuit board. The embodiment can provide for a tunable microwave filter with lower loss, lower manufacturing cost and higher production yields. In addition, the tunable microwave includes a temperature compensation means to accommodate an electrical characteristic of filter with regard to the temperature variation. Such temperature compensation embodiment can be embedded into the upper layer communicably associated with the processor. For performing intelligent temperature compensation, the processor can include a look-up table of tuning values for controlling can store a set of temperature offset value that can modify the tuning table.
US10530024B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling the temperature of an electrical energy store on the motor vehicle side, comprising at least one temperature control system having at least one pettier element, which can be thermally coupled, or is thermally coupled, with the electrical energy store on the motor vehicle side, or to an electrical energy store on the motor vehicle side to be temperature-controlled, wherein in addition, the at least one temperature control system is thermally coupled with at least one temperature-control fluid reservoir containing at least one temperature-control fluid.
US10530020B2
Provided is a cartridge suitable for sensing a voltage of a battery cell through a center region and an edge, wherein two battery cells are provided in an upper portion and a lower portion so as to increase energy density, and a battery module including the cartridge. The cartridge includes: a mount frame including a pair of through windows provided sequentially in a length direction, and a lower sliding board, a lead mounting board, and an upper sliding board sequentially provided in a width direction between the pair of through windows; and cooling fins respectively covering the pair of through windows, wherein the lower sliding board and the upper sliding board are respectively provided on left and right of the lead mounting board to diagonally face each other.
US10530012B2
The double-sided tape for fixing an electrode constituent body is used in an electrochemical device that houses in a pouch-type outer casing an electrode constituent body wherein a positive electrode member, a separator member and a negative electrode member are layered or wound. The double-sided tape comprises a surface having a pressure-sensitive adhesive for adhering to the electrode constituent body, and a surface having a heat-sensitive adhesive for adhering to the pouch-type outer casing.
US10530011B1
Ion transport in electrochemical cells or energy storage devices may take place in metal salt-based electrolytes. The metal salt-based electrolytes may comprise high doping metal salt formulations. Electrochemical cells or energy storage devices comprising metal salt-based electrolytes may be used as single-use or rechargeable power sources.
US10530010B2
A fluoride shuttle secondary battery includes a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer is located between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. At least one layer selected from the group consisting of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the electrolyte layer includes lanthanum fluoride and strontium fluoride.
US10530008B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium fluorosulfonate which comprises reacting a lithium salt and fluorosulfonic acid in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the lithium salt is a lithium salt not generating water through the reaction step.
US10530000B2
An exhaust assembly for a fuel cell system, comprising a plenum having an inlet configured to receive a gas flow from the fuel cell system and an outlet configured to vent said gas flow to atmosphere, the plenum including a louvre assembly for controlling the flow through the plenum between the inlet and outlet, wherein the plenum includes a purge gas inlet downstream of the louvre assembly configured to introduce a purge gas of the fuel cell system into the gas flow for dilution thereof, the louvre assembly configured to induce, in use, a lower pressure region proximal the purge gas inlet relative to a region distal the purge gas inlet within the plenum.
US10529996B2
A plate includes a working face and a header portion. The working face defines a plurality of reactant channels thereon. The header portion is disposed in a peripheral area of the plate and includes a plurality of flanges and a plurality of beads. The flanges are disposed on the header portion and define a plurality of apertures through the plate. Each flange defines a respective one of the apertures. At least one of the apertures is fluidly connected to the reactant channels. The plurality of beads is disposed on the working face. Each bead is disposed about a respective one of the apertures and thereby defines a respective one of the flanges. Each bead defines a shape consisting of bead-corners and bead-sides. Each bead has a sealing surface thereon. The sealing surface is configured to deflect when exposed to a contact pressure to thereby provide a substantially fluid-tight seal.
US10529989B2
Provided is a binder composition for a secondary battery electrode that has excellent binding capacity and can cause a secondary battery to display excellent rate characteristics and cycle characteristics. The binder composition for a secondary battery electrode contains: a first particulate polymer having a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of at least 400 mass % and no greater than 900 mass % and a glass transition temperature of at least −60° C. and no higher than −15° C.; a second particulate polymer having a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of greater than 100 mass % and no greater than 200 mass % and a glass transition temperature of at least −10° C. and no higher than 30° C.; and water.
US10529984B2
The present invention is a negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including negative electrode active material particles containing a silicon compound expressed by SiOx where 0.5≤x≤1.6, the silicon compound being coated with a carbon coating layer composed of a carbon component, wherein the negative electrode active material particles contain a SiO2 component having a tridymite structure and exhibit a diffraction peak around 21.825° with a half width (2θ) of 0.15° or less in X-ray diffraction. This negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery can increase the battery capacity and improve the cycle performance and the initial charge and discharge performance.
US10529975B2
One embodiment includes forming surface-modifying phases on a surface of a functional electrode via atomic layer deposition and controlling the chemistry of constituent phases, the crystalline nature of the constituent phases and the thickness of the surface-modifying phase via the atomic layer deposition such that the thickness is between about 2 nm to about 200 nm. The surface-modifying phases enhances the performance of electrocatalytic activity of the functional electrode and the device.
US10529973B2
Applications for use with a rechargeable power unit. In one embodiment, the rechargeable power unit is configured to be releasably connected to one or more interchangeable attachments having an electric functionality. In one embodiment, an electric device is configured having a compartment and connection portion configured to receive and use the rechargeable power unit as a power source. In some embodiments, the rechargeable power unit can be obtained or exchanged at a battery exchange machine.
US10529966B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells each of which includes two electrodes and which are arranged such that two electrode groups formed of the electrodes arranged in a row are formed and are electrically connected in series or in parallel by physically and electrically connecting an electrical connection member to each of the two adjacent electrodes in the electrode group; a separator disposed at least between the adjacent battery cells to achieve insulation of the battery cells; and a restraint band holding a state in which the battery cell and the separator are alternately stacked. The separator includes a lid covering the electrical connection member connected to the electrode and the electrode as a connection target of the electrical connection member from a side opposite to the battery cell.
US10529957B2
A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode display includes: forming a hole injection layer on a substrate formed with a pixel circuit; forming a first assistance layer and a second assistance layer on the hole injection layer, the first assistance layer and the second assistance layer being disposed on different positions of the hole injection layer; forming a first organic emission layer on the first assistance layer; and forming a first hole transporting layer on the second assistance layer.
US10529939B2
An organic light-emitting device is configured such that, in a plurality of stacks in which the optical distance is adjusted using the thickness of an emission layer, the structure of the emission layer is changed to reduce the drive voltage and increase the lifespan thereof, and an organic light-emitting display device using the same.
US10529935B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)(L2) Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, M, L1, and L2 are the same as described in the specification.
US10529934B2
Provided is a metal complex which is excellent in quantum yield and full width at half maximum of a light emission spectrum. The metal complex is represented by the following formula (1): wherein M represents an iridium atom or the like, n1 represents 1 to 3, n2 represents 0 to 2, X1 to X8 represent a carbon atom or the like, R1 to R8 represent a hydrogen atom or the like, one of Xa and Xb is a single bond, and the other is a group represented by —CR11R12—CR13R14—, R11 to R14 represent an alkyl group or the like, ring A represents a heteroaromatic ring, and A1-G1-A2 represents an anionic bidentate ligand.
US10529933B2
The present disclosure relates to organic electroluminescent compounds, and a host material, an electron buffer material, an electron transport material and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By using the organic electroluminescent compounds of the present disclosure, the organic electroluminescent device secures fast electron current properties by intermolecular stacking and interaction, and thus, it is possible to provide the organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage and/or excellent luminous efficiency and/or efficient lifespan properties.
US10529926B2
To provide a highly flexible display device excellent in mass-productivity. A display device includes a flexible substrate, an adhesive layer over the substrate, a resin layer over the adhesive layer, an inorganic insulating layer over the resin layer, a transistor over the inorganic insulating layer, and a display element electrically connected to the transistor. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region. The resin layer includes sulfur.
US10529923B2
The invention relates to a method for absorbing permeates from a sheet material I, as used, for example, in organic electronic structures, this method being easy to carry out. Such a method includes, according to the invention, directly or indirectly bringing sheet material I into planar contact with a sheet material II, which contains at least one getter material and is capable of absorbing at least one permeate from sheet material I, there being no adhesive connection between sheet material I and sheet material II.
US10529922B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an integrated passive device (IPD), and a phase-change material (PCM) radio frequency (RF) switch. The PCM RF switch includes a heating element, a PCM situated over the heating element, and PCM contacts situated over passive segments of the PCM. The heating element extends transverse to the PCM, with a heater line underlying an active segment of the PCM. The PCM RF switch is situated over a heat spreader that is situated over the substrate. The heat spreader and/or the substrate dissipate heat generated by the heating element and reduce RF noise coupling between the PCM RF switch and the IPD. An electrically insulating layer can be situated between the heat spreader and the substrate. In another approach, the PCM RF switch is situated over an RF isolation region that allows the substrate to dissipate heat and that reduces RF noise coupling.
US10529914B2
Provided is a magnetic memory including: a first bit line, a second bit line, and a third bit line; a word line; a first magnetoresistance effect element; a first transistor; a second magnetoresistance effect element; and a second transistor, wherein free layers of the first and second magnetoresistance effect elements and the second bit line are connected, a fixed layer of the first magnetoresistance effect element and a source terminal of the first transistor are connected, a drain terminal of the first transistor and the first bit line are connected, a fixed layer of the second magnetoresistance effect element and a drain terminal of the second transistor are connected, a source terminal of the second transistor and the third bit line are connected, and the word line is connected to each of a gate terminal of the first transistor and a gate terminal of the second transistor.
US10529912B2
A monitoring system using agents to dynamically collect state information at controllable intensity levels from components of systems. The system receives state information collected by an agent at a particular intensity level, and processes the state information to determine an updated intensity level for collecting state information by the agent, or by some other agent. The state information may include data indicating the performance of one or more components, such as process response times or other metrics. The intensity level for collecting further state information can be increased when, among other things, previously collected state information indicates more detailed monitoring for the component is appropriate. The intensity level for collecting further state information can be decreased when, among other things, previously collected state information indicates continued expected behavior.
US10529910B2
A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece, an excitation electrode, an extraction electrode, a container, a pad, a conductive member, and a heat conductive metal film. The excitation electrode is disposed on a front surface and a back surface of the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The extraction electrode is extracted from the excitation electrode. The container houses the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The pad is disposed in the container, and the pad is connected to the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The conductive member connects the pad to the extraction electrode. The heat conductive metal film is disposed at least on a surface of a pad side of the piezoelectric vibrating piece, the heat conductive metal film is extracted from the extraction electrode without contacting the excitation electrode.
US10529909B2
A technique relates a superconducting microwave cavity. An array of posts has different heights in the cavity, and the array supports a localized microwave mode. The array of posts includes lower resonant frequency posts and higher resonant frequency posts. The higher resonant frequency posts are arranged around the lower resonant frequency posts. A first plate is opposite a second plate in the cavity. One end of the lower resonant frequency posts is positioned on the second plate so as to be electrically connected to the second plate. Another end of the lower resonant frequency posts in the array is open so as not to form an electrical connection to the first plate. Qubits are connected to the lower resonant frequency posts in the array of posts, such that each of the qubits is physically connected to one or two of the lower resonant frequency posts in the array of posts.
US10529907B2
A technique relates to a superconducting chip. Resonant units have resonant frequencies, and the resonant units are configured as superconducting resonators. Josephson junctions are in the resonant units, and one or more of the Josephson junctions have a shorted tunnel barrier.
US10529902B2
Small LED sources with high brightness and high efficiency apparatus including the small LED sources and methods of using the small LED sources are disclosed.
US10529896B2
The present disclosure provides a light-emitting device, comprising: a light-emitting stack; a first semiconductor layer on the light-emitting stack; a first electrode formed on the first semiconductor layer and comprising an inner segment, an outer segment, and a plurality of extending segments electrically connecting the inner segment with the outer segment.
US10529889B2
A device emitting mid-infrared light that comprises a semiconductor substrate of GaSb or closely related material. The device can also comprise epitaxial heterostructures of InAs, GaAs, AlSb, and related alloys forming light emitting structures cascaded by tunnel junctions. Further, the device can comprise light emission from the front, epitaxial side of the substrate.
US10529880B2
A solar panel factory system and process for manufacturing a frame-less epoxy-resin encapsulated solar power panel by encapsulating solar cell modules on a phenolic resin sheet beneath a polycarbonate panel using an optically-transparent epoxy-resin material. During solar panel manufacture, an optically transparent epoxy-resin coating is applied over an array of photo-voltaic (PV) solar cell modules mounted on the sheet of phenolic resin, and supported in a layer of adhesive coating is applied as a liquid with a viscosity and a thickness such that the thickness of the layer of adhesive coating is substantially equal to the thickness of the PV solar cell modules, and cured to a sufficient hardness. The epoxy-resin coating applied over the array of PV solar cell modules, and the cured layer of adhesive coating, reinforce the strength of the sheet of phenolic resin, particularly around the perimeter of the frame-less epoxy-resin encapsulated solar power panel.
US10529873B2
The invention discloses an aging resistant backside silver paste used for the crystalline silicon solar cells and a preparation method thereof. The paste comprises 40-50 parts by weight of silver powder, 1-10 parts by weight of nanosized copper powder, 2-10 parts by weight of lead-free glass powder, 35-55 parts by weight of organic binder, 1-5 parts by weight of other additives. The preparation method comprises the following steps: preparation of an organic binder; preparation of lead-free glass powder and preparation of an aging resistant backside silver paste. Application of the aging resistant backside silver paste used for crystalline silicon solar cells prepared in the invention may results in a dense electrode conductive layer, excellent welding properties and a distinct advantage in aging resistance.
US10529871B2
A system is provided that integrates an autonomous energy harvesting capacity in vehicles in an aesthetically neutral manner. A unique set of structural features combine to implement a hidden energy harvesting system on a surface of the vehicle to provide electrical power to the vehicle, and/or to electrically-powered devices in the vehicle. Color-matched, image-matched and/or texture-matched optical layers are formed over energy harvesting components, including photovoltaic energy collecting components. Optical layers are tuned to scatter selectable wavelengths of electromagnetic energy back in an incident direction while allowing remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic energy to pass through the layers to the energy collecting components below. The layers uniquely implement optical light scattering techniques to make the layers appear opaque when observed from a light incident side, while allowing at least 50%, and as much as 80+%, of the energy impinging on the energy or incident side to pass through the layer.
US10529870B1
A photonic infrared detector having at least one metal layer having a broad-band IR absorption and the detector is configured to enable light to make a plurality of passes within a c-Si substrate.
US10529868B2
A solar cell array comprises a plurality of cells, adjacent cells connected by a metal wire. At least one metal wire extends reciprocally between a surface of a first cell and a surface of a second cell adjacent to the first cell to form a plurality of conductive wires. The number of the conductive wires is n, y−y×20%≤n≤y+y×20%, in which n is an integer and y=4.0533X−1.28/1562*A*B, in which X is a diameter value of the metal wire with mm as a unit, 0.1≤X≤0.5, A and B representing length and width of the cell with mm as the unit. The cells comprise secondary grid lines disposed on front surfaces thereof. The conductive wires are welded with the secondary grid lines by a welding layer.
US10529865B2
A vertical memory device may include a conductive pattern structure, a pad structure, a plurality of channel structures, a plurality of first dummy structures and a plurality of second dummy structures. The conductive pattern structure may be in a first region of a substrate, and may extend in a first direction. The pad structure may be in a second region of the substrate adjacent to each of opposite sides of the first region of the substrate, and may contact a side of the conductive pattern structure. The channel structures may extend through the conductive pattern structure, and may be regularly arranged on the substrate. The first dummy structures may extend through the conductive pattern structure, and may be disposed in a portion of the first region of the substrate adjacent to the second region thereof. The second dummy structures may extend through the pad structure on the substrate. Each of the channel structures may have a first width in the first direction, and each of the first dummy structures may have a second width in the first direction greater than the first width.
US10529863B2
Operations in fabricating a Fin FET include providing a substrate having a fin structure, where an upper portion of the fin structure has a first fin surface profile. An isolation region is formed on the substrate and in contact with the fin structure. A portion of the isolation region is recessed by an etch process to form a recessed portion and to expose the upper portion of the fin structure, where the recessed portion has a first isolation surface profile. A thermal hydrogen treatment is applied to the fin structure and the recessed portion. A gate dielectric layer is formed with a substantially uniform thickness over the fin structure, where the recessed portion is adjusted from the first isolation surface profile to a second isolation surface profile and the fin structure is adjusted from the first fin surface profile to a second fin surface profile, by the thermal hydrogen treatment.
US10529855B2
A semiconductor structure and formation thereof. The semiconductor structure has a first semiconductor layer with a first lattice structure and a second epitaxial semiconductor layer that is lattice-matched with the first semiconductor layer. At least two source/drain regions, which have a second lattice structure, penetrate the second semiconductor layer and contact the first semiconductor layer. A portion of the second semiconductor layer is between the source/drain regions and has a degree of uniaxial strain that is based, at least in part, on a difference between the first lattice structure and the second lattice structure.
US10529852B2
A ferroelectric memory device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a ferroelectric material layer disposed on the substrate, a gate electrode layer disposed on the ferroelectric material layer, and a polarization switching seed layer disposed between the ferroelectric material layer and the gate electrode layer.
US10529839B2
When formed to have a lattice pattern, trenches are deeper at the portions thereof corresponding to the vertices of the lattice pattern than at the portions thereof corresponding to the sides. Such variations in the depths of trenches may disadvantageously result in variations in the gate threshold voltages (Vth). A semiconductor device includes two first trenches extending in a first direction with a predetermined region being sandwiched therebetween, where the predetermined region is provided in a semiconductor substrate on a front surface side thereof, and a second trench provided in the predetermined region, the second trench being spatially spaced away from the first trenches and being shorter than any of the first trenches. Here, the first and second trenches each include a trench insulating film, and a trench electrode in contact with the trench insulating film.
US10529818B1
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a source region and a drain region arranged in a semiconductor substrate, where the source region is laterally separated from the drain region. A gate stack is arranged over the semiconductor substrate and between the source region and the drain region. A cap layer is arranged over the gate stack, where a bottom surface of the cap layer contacts a top surface of the gate stack. Sidewall spacers are arranged along sides of the gate stack and the cap layer. A resist protective oxide (RPO) layer is disposed over the cap layer, where the RPO layer extends along sides of the sidewalls spacers to the semiconductor substrate. A contact etch stop layer is arranged over the RPO layer, the source region, and the drain region.
US10529814B2
Machining accuracy of an IGBT region is worsened due to a height difference caused by polysilicon. Therefore, there is a problem that characteristic variation of the IGBT increases. Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate; a gate wiring layer provided on a front surface side of the semiconductor substrate; and a gate structure that includes a gate electrode and is provided on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate. The gate wiring layer includes an outer periphery portion that is a metal wiring layer and is provided along an outer periphery of the semiconductor substrate; and an extending portion that is a metal wiring layer, is provided extending from the outer periphery portion toward a central portion of the semiconductor substrate, and is electrically connected to the gate electrode.
US10529805B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, first and second electrodes, second and third insulating units, and gate electrodes provided in the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region via a first insulating unit and extending in a first direction. The first electrode is provided on and electrically connected to the third semiconductor region. The second insulating unit is spaced apart from the gate electrodes in the first semiconductor region and extends in a second direction. The third insulating unit includes an insulating portion extending in the first direction and positioned between the gate electrodes and the second insulating unit in the second direction. The second electrode is electrically connected to the gate electrodes and provided on the second and third insulating units.
US10529800B2
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate having an active area and an edge termination region; an upper electrode; an insulating film provided between the semiconductor substrate and the upper electrode and having a contact hole; a first conductivity-type drift region; a second conductivity-type base region; a second conductivity-type well region; and a second conductivity-type extension region formed extending in a direction toward the well region from the base region and separated from the upper electrode by the insulating film, wherein a sum of a first distance from an end portion of the contact hole closer to the well region to an end portion of the extension region closer to the well region and a second distance from the end portion of the extension region closer to the well region to the well region is smaller than a thickness of the semiconductor substrate in the active area.
US10529793B2
A display panel includes a substrate that comprises a bending zone and a non-bending zone. The substrate is disposed with first signal lines. The first signal lines are arranged in a first direction and extend in a second direction. The first direction intersects with the second direction. The first signal lines extend at least from the non-bending zone to the bending zone. A thickness of a portion of the first signal lines located in the bending zone is larger than a thickness of a portion of the first signal lines located in the non-bending zone; or the display panel further includes at least one auxiliary conductive portion located in the bending zone, wherein the orthographic projection of the auxiliary conductive portion on the substrate overlaps with the orthographic projection of the first signal line on the substrate.
US10529777B2
A switch device according to an embodiment of the technology includes a first electrode, a second electrode that faces the first electrode, and a switch layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The switch layer includes a chalcogen element. The switch device further includes a diffusion suppressing layer that is in contact with at least a portion of a surface of the switch layer, and suppresses diffusion of oxygen into the switch layer.
US10529776B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods, such as a memory stack having a continuous cell pillar. In various embodiments, the apparatus includes a source material, a buffer material, a select gate drain (SGD), and a memory stack arranged between the source material and the SGD. The memory stack comprises alternating levels of conductor materials and dielectric materials. A continuous channel-fill material forms a cell pillar that is continuous from the source material to at least a level corresponding to the SGD.
US10529772B2
A semiconductor photodetector includes a semiconductor substrate including a silicon substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a second main surface as a light incident surface and a first main surface opposing the second main surface. In the semiconductor substrate, carriers are generated in response to incident light. A plurality of protrusions is formed on the second main surface. The protrusion includes a slope inclined with respect to a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate. At the protrusion, a (111) surface of the semiconductor substrate is exposed as the slope. The height of the protrusion is equal to or more than 200 nm.
US10529771B2
A method of fabrication of an array of optoelectronic structures includes first providing a crystalline substrate having cells corresponding to individual optoelectronic structures to be obtained. Each of the cells includes an opening to the substrate. Then, several first layer portions of a first compound semiconductor material are grown in each the opening to at least partly fill a respective one of the cells and form an essentially planar film portion therein. Next, several second layer portions of a second compound semiconductor material are grown over the first layer portions that coalesce to form a coalescent film extending over the first layer portions. Finally, excess portions of materials are removed, to obtain the array of optoelectronic structures. Each optoelectronic structure comprises a stack protruding from the substrate of: a residual portion of one of the second layer portions; and a residual portion of one of the first layer portions.
US10529770B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: an X-ray absorption layer; a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact on opposing surfaces of the X-ray absorption layer; wherein the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact respectively comprise structures extending into the X-ray absorption layer.
US10529767B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid state image sensor, a fabrication method, and an electronic apparatus, which enable to efficiently provide trench structures, which surrounds respective pixel sections of the solid state image sensor, and through-electrodes side by side. A solid state image sensor according to a first aspect of the present disclosure includes photoelectric conversion sections formed in respective pixel sections of a semiconductor substrate, trench structures defined by walls of insulating films formed in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the respective pixel sections, and through-electrodes formed through the semiconductor substrate at positions overlapping the respective trench structures. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to back-side illumination CMOS image sensors.
US10529763B2
An image sensor may include an array of pixels. Each pixel may have one or more photosensitive areas. Incident light may pass through a microlens and a color filter element to reach the one or more photosensitive areas. In some pixels, the microlens may be shifted relative to the photosensitive area to account for the chief ray angle of the incident light. In some cases, the microlenses may be toroidal microlenses with openings. The openings may be shifted relative to the center of the microlens based on the wavelength of light transmitted by the color filter element for the pixel. The greater the wavelength of light transmitted by the color filter element for a given pixel, the more the opening of the microlens may be shifted towards the center of the array of pixels.
US10529762B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes an imaging section and a substrate. The imaging section has a light-receiving portion for receiving light from an object to image the object and the imaging section is disposed on the substrate. A member is provided on the substrate in the neighborhood of the light receiving portion and the member is partially or entirely coated in black.
US10529748B2
There is provided a peeling method capable of preventing a damage to a layer to be peeled. Thus, not only a layer to be peeled having a small area but also a layer to be peeled having a large area can be peeled over the entire surface at a high yield. Processing for partially reducing contact property between a first material layer (11) and a second material layer (12) (laser light irradiation, pressure application, or the like) is performed before peeling, and then peeling is conducted by physical means. Therefore, sufficient separation can be easily conducted in an inner portion of the second material layer (12) or an interface thereof.
US10529746B2
A display apparatus includes a first base substrate defining: an outer edge thereof at which a side surface is exposed, and an upper surface thereof connected to the outer edge; first and second guiding dams on the upper surface and extending from an inside of the first base substrate to the outer edge; a first signal line on the upper surface and extending between the first and second guiding dams from the inside of the first base substrate to the outer edge thereof; and a first side pad connected to the first signal line. The first side pad includes a first horizontal portion on the upper surface and extending between the first and second guiding dams, in a top plan view, and the first horizontal portion extending to define a first vertical portion which is disposed on the side surface.
US10529745B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display device also includes a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface and a second conductive layer disposed on the second surface. The display device further includes a printed circuit board assembly disposed on the second surface and electrically connected to the second conductive layer, a processing unit disposed on and electrically connected to the printed circuit board assembly and a first connective portion at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrating from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the first connective portion.
US10529741B2
A lightweight flexible light-emitting device which is able to possess a curved display portion and display a full color image with high resolution and the manufacturing process thereof are disclosed. The light-emitting device comprises: a plastic substrate; an insulating layer with an adhesive interposed therebetween; a thin film transistor over the insulating layer; a protective insulating film over the thin film transistor; a color filter over the protective insulating film; an interlayer insulating film over the color filter; and a white-emissive light-emitting element formed over the interlayer insulating film and being electrically connected to the thin film transistor.
US10529735B2
A memory device includes first electrode layers stacked in a first direction, a first semiconductor layer piercing the first electrode layers in a first direction, a first insulating film surrounding the first semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor base connected to the first semiconductor layer. The first insulating film includes a first film, a second film, and a third film provided in order in a second direction from the first semiconductor layer toward one of first electrode layers. Spacing in the first direction between the second film and the semiconductor base is wider than a film thickness of the third film in the second direction. A minimum width of an outer perimeter of the first semiconductor layer is substantially the same as a width of an outer perimeter at a portion of the first semiconductor layer piercing the most proximal first electrode layer.
US10529734B2
A semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate having a memory cell region and a pad region that is adjacent to the memory cell region, the pad region can include a first pad region, a second pad region between the memory cell region and the first pad region, and a buffer region that is between the first and second pad regions. A separation source structure can include a first portion and a second portion that are parallel to each other in a plan view of the semiconductor device. A first source structure and a second source structure can be disposed between the first and second portions of the separation source structure, where the first and second source structures can have end portions that oppose each other, the first source structure being disposed in the first pad region, and the second source structure being disposed in the second pad region. A gate group can be disposed in the memory cell region and the pad region between the first and second portions of the separation source structure, where each of the end portions of the first and second source structures has a planar shape, and a width of each end portion increases and then decreases as each of the end portions extends toward the other.
US10529727B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction and stacked in a second direction to form a memory block, where the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction, an address decoder disposed at a first side of the plurality of gate lines to drive the plurality of gate lines, a voltage compensation line extending in the first direction substantially in parallel with the plurality of gate lines, and overlapping with a target gate line among the plurality of gate lines in the second direction, a rising vertical contact extending in the second direction to connect the address decoder and a first portion of the voltage compensation line, and conduction paths connecting in the second direction the first and second portions of the voltage compensation line with near and far end portions of the target gate line.
US10529726B2
A manufacturing method of a memory structure including the following steps is provided. A memory cell structure is formed on a substrate. The memory cell structure has a first side and a second side opposite to each other. A protective layer structure covering the memory cell structure is formed. The material of the protective layer structure is nitride. The protective layer structure is a continuous structure. The height of the protective layer structure adjacent to the second side of the memory cell structure is greater than the height of the protective layer structure adjacent to the first side of the memory cell structure.
US10529724B2
A vertical SRAM cell includes a first (1st) inverter having a 1st common gate structure operatively connecting channels of a 1st pull-up (PU) and a 1st pull-down (PD) transistor. A 1st metal contact electrically connects bottom source/drain (S/D) regions of the 1st PU and 1st PD transistors. A second (2nd) inverter has a 2nd common gate structure operatively connecting channels of a 2nd PU and a 2nd PD transistor. A 2nd metal contact electrically connects bottom S/D regions of the 2nd PU and 2nd PD transistors. A 1st cross-coupled contact electrically connects the 2nd common gate structure to the 1st metal contact. The 2nd common gate structure entirely surrounds a perimeter of the 1st cross-coupled contact. A 2nd cross-coupled contact electrically connects the 1st common gate structure to the 2nd metal contact. The 1st common gate structure entirely surrounds a perimeter of the 2nd cross-coupled contact.
US10529722B2
Disclosed herein are methods and related apparatus for formation of multi-component tungsten-containing films including multi-component tungsten-containing films diffusion barriers. According to various embodiments, the methods involve deposition of multi-component tungsten-containing films using tungsten chloride (WClx) precursors and boron (B)-containing, silicon (Si)-containing or germanium (Ge)-containing reducing agents.
US10529720B2
A method of forming an array of capacitors and access transistors there-above comprises forming access transistor trenches partially into insulative material. The trenches individually comprise longitudinally-spaced masked portions and longitudinally-spaced openings in the trenches longitudinally between the masked portions. The trench openings have walls therein extending longitudinally in and along the individual trench openings against laterally-opposing sides of the trenches. At least some of the insulative material that is under the trench openings is removed through bases of the trench openings between the walls and the masked portions to form individual capacitor openings in the insulative material that is lower than the walls. Individual capacitors are formed in the individual capacitor openings. A line of access transistors is formed in the individual trenches. The line of access transistors electrically couples to the individual capacitors that are along that line. Other aspects, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US10529716B1
A method is presented for triggering asymmetric threshold voltage along a channel of a vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET). The method includes constructing a first set fins from a first material, constructing a second set of fins from a second material, forming a source region between the first set of fins, and forming a drain region between the second set of fins, the source region composed of a different material than the drain region. The method further includes depositing a first high-k metal gate over the first set of fins and depositing a second high-k metal gate over the second set of fins, the second high-k metal gate being different than the first high-k metal gate such that the asymmetric threshold voltage is present along the channel of the VTFET in a region defined at the bottom of the first and second set of fins.
US10529705B2
Disclosed examples provide integrated circuits including a source down transistor with a gate, a body region, an n-type source region, an n-type drain region, a p-type body contact region below the n-type source region which extends to a first depth, along with a protection diode which includes an n-type cathode region, and a p-type anode region below the n-type cathode region, where the breakdown voltage of the protection diode is defined by adjusting the relative doping concentrations and/or the vertical locations of the p-type anode region with respect to the n-type cathode region.
US10529697B2
An embodiment is a structure including a first package including a first die, and a molding compound at least laterally encapsulating the first die, a second package bonded to the first package with a first set of conductive connectors, the second package comprising a second die, and an underfill between the first package and the second package and surrounding the first set of conductive connectors, the underfill having a first portion extending up along a sidewall of the second package, the first portion having a first sidewall, the first sidewall having a curved portion and a planar portion.
US10529694B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for wafer bonding alignment compensation are disclosed. The method comprises bonding a first pair of wafers including multiple bonding alignment mark pairs on the first pair of wafers; first analyzing a translational misalignment and a rotational misalignment between the first pair of wafers based on a measurement of at least two bonding alignment mark pairs; controlling a wafer position adjustment module to compensate for the translational misalignment and the rotational misalignment during bonding of a second pair of wafers based on the first analysis; second analyzing a mean run-out misalignment between the first pair of wafers based on a measurement of the multiple bonding alignment mark pairs; and controlling a wafer deformation adjustment module to compensate for the run-out misalignment during bonding of a third pair of wafers based on the second analysis.
US10529690B2
An embodiment is a method including bonding a first die to a first side of an interposer using first electrical connectors, bonding a second die to first side of the interposer using second electrical connectors, attaching a first dummy die to the first side of the interposer adjacent the second die, encapsulating the first die, the second die, and the first dummy die with an encapsulant, and singulating the interposer and the first dummy die to form a package structure.
US10529681B2
A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on the first electrode and a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, arranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member, and curing the first composite and the second composite.
US10529677B2
Various chip stack power delivery circuits are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a stack of semiconductor chips that has an uppermost semiconductor chip and a lowermost semiconductor chip. A heat spreader is positioned on the uppermost semiconductor chip. A power transfer circuit is configured to transfer electric power from the heat spreader to the uppermost semiconductor chip.
US10529674B2
Systems and methods provide a device for characterizing a thin film, including a conducting or insulating substrate, an active layer on the conducting or insulating substrate to be characterized, and a plurality of stripline electrodes on the active layer. The plurality of stripline electrodes include a pitch width of a same order as the thickness of the active layer and strip width smaller than the thickness of the active layer.
US10529664B2
An electronic device includes a first substrate, a first conductor, a first insulation layer, a second substrate, a second conductor, a second insulation layer. The first substrate has a first surface. The first conductor is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate. The first insulation layer is on the first conductor. The second substrate has a second surface facing toward the first surface of the first substrate. The second conductor is disposed on the second surface of the second substrate. The second insulation layer is on the second conductor. The first insulation layer is in contact with a sidewall of the second conductor. The second insulation layer is in contact with a sidewall of the first conductor. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the first insulation layer is greater than a CTE of the first conductor.
US10529663B1
Voids within metal deposited on interconnect structures are filled with cobalt or a cobalt compound to enhance electromigration performance. A reflow process to enlarge interconnect metal grain size is performed prior to filling the voids. An interconnect metal microstructure beneath the filled voids includes grain boundaries extending to the bottom portions of the voids. A coating of manganese atoms provides resistance to electromigration. Copper interconnects having fine dimensions and improved reliability are obtained.
US10529662B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of trenches in a dielectric layer, wherein the plurality of trenches each comprise a rounded surface, depositing a liner layer on the rounded surface of each of plurality of trenches, and depositing a conductive layer on the liner layer in each of the plurality of trenches, wherein the conductive layer and the liner layer form a plurality of interconnects, and each of the plurality of interconnects has a cylindrical shape.
US10529660B2
Pore-filled dielectric materials for semiconductor structure fabrication, and methods of fabricating pore-filled dielectric materials for semiconductor structure fabrication, are described. In an example, a method of fabricating a pore-filled dielectric material for semiconductor structure fabrication includes forming a trench in a material layer. The method also includes filling the trench with a porous dielectric material using a spin-on deposition process. The method also includes filling pores of the porous dielectric material with a metal-containing material using an atomic layer deposition (ALD) process.
US10529653B2
An electronic component includes one or more circuits having electrical connections coupled therewith. The electrical connections include a lead frame as well as electrical wires coupling the circuit or circuits to respective portions of the lead frame. The electrical wires may be formed as one piece with the respective portion of the lead frame without joints therebetween, e.g., by 3D printing.
US10529647B2
The disclosure provides a retainer which is configured to be mounted on and fix heat dissipation module onto chip platform. The retainer includes pressing portion, first and second latching portions. The first latching portion includes flat portion and flexible curved portion, the flexible curved portion is connected between the pressing portion and the flat portion, long side of the flat portion is substantially perpendicular to a long side of the pressing portion. The second latching portion is connected to the pressing portion. A long side of the second latching portion is substantially perpendicular to the long side of the pressing portion. The first portion and the second latching portion are configured to be detachably engaged at two opposite sides of the chip platform so as to deform the flexible curved portion and utilize the flexible curved portion to enhance a pressing force applied to the heat dissipation module.
US10529636B2
A method for simultaneously making a plurality of microelectronic packages by forming an electrically conductive redistribution structure along with a plurality of microelectronic element attachment regions on a carrier. The attachment regions being spaced apart from one another and overlying the carrier. The method also including the formation of conductive connector elements between adjacent attachment regions. Each connector element having the first or second end adjacent the carrier and the remaining end at a height of the microelectronic element. The method also includes forming an encapsulation over portions of the connector elements and subsequently singulating the assembly. into microelectronic units, each including a microelectronic element. The surface of the microelectronic unit, opposite the redistribution structure, having both the active face of the microelectronic element and the free ends of the connector elements so that both are available for connection with a component external to the microelectronic unit.
US10529633B2
A method of forming integrated circuit (IC) chips. After masking a layer of a material to be etched, the layer is subjected to an atomic layer etch (ALE). During the ALE, etch effluent is measured with a calorimetric probe. The calorimetric probe results reflect a species of particles resulting from etching the material. The measured etch results are checked until the results indicate the particle content is below a threshold value. When the content is below the threshold ALE is complete and IC chip fabrication continues normally.
US10529627B2
Vertical field effect transistors (FETs) with minimum pitch and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The structure includes at least one vertical fin structure and gate material contacting with the at least one vertical fin structure. The structure further includes metal material in electrical contact with the ends of the at least one vertical fin.
US10529621B2
Tooling apparatus and methods are provided to fabricate semiconductor devices in which controlled thermal annealing techniques are utilized to modulate microstructures of metallic interconnect structures. For example, an apparatus includes a single platform semiconductor processing chamber having first and second sub-chambers. The first sub-chamber is configured to receive a semiconductor substrate comprising a metallization layer formed on a dielectric layer, wherein a portion of the metallization layer is disposed within an opening etched in the dielectric layer, and to form a stress control layer on the metallization layer. The second sub-chamber comprises a programmable hot plate which is configured to perform a thermal anneal process to modulate a microstructure of the metallization layer while the stress control layer is disposed on the metallization layer, and without an air break between the process modules of forming the stress control layer and performing the thermal anneal process.
US10529618B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first insulting layer on a substrate, forming a first conductor pattern in the first insulating layer, forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer, and forming a second wiring pattern and a contact via in the second insulating layer, wherein a top surface of the first insulating layer is higher than a top surface of the first conductor pattern.
US10529603B2
A high-pressure processing system for processing a substrate includes a first chamber, a pedestal positioned within the first chamber to support the substrate, a second chamber adjacent the first chamber, a vacuum processing system configured to lower a pressure within the second chamber to near vacuum, a valve assembly between the first chamber and the second chamber to isolate the pressure within the first chamber from the pressure within the second chamber, and a gas delivery system configured to introduce a processing gas into the first chamber and to increase the pressure within the first chamber to at least 10 atmospheres while the processing gas is in the first chamber and while the first chamber is isolated from the second chamber.
US10529599B2
In a substrate processing apparatus of the present disclosure, a bearing member includes a decaying mechanism provided with a connecting shaft inserted therein and configured to decay radicals or ions; a first member configured to cover the decaying mechanism; and a second member disposed at the connecting shaft and provided with the connecting shaft inserted therein while being in contact with a sealing member. Further, an end of the first member and an end of the second member are connected to be engaged with each other, an invasion path is formed to allow the radicals to invade from the connected portion of the end of the first member and the end of the second member, and the invasion path is formed to be folded back in an extending direction of the connecting shaft. The sealing member is made of a material having a tensile strength larger than 12.1 MPa.
US10529593B2
A semiconductor package manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes a high-power device die, a redistribution structure, a heat dissipation module and a molding compound. The high-power device die has a front side and a back side opposite to the front side. The redistribution structure is disposed at the front side. The heat dissipation module is in direct contact with the back side. The molding compound is disposed between the redistribution structure and the heat dissipation module, and surrounding the high-power device die. The molding compound has a body portion and an extended portion. An interface between the body portion and the heat dissipation module is substantially parallel to the back side of the high-power device die. A thickness of the extended portion is greater than a thickness of the body portion.
US10529586B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor device is provided in the present disclosure. The method includes forming a first pattern layer on a first area of a substrate, forming a spin on layer on the first pattern layer and the substrate, forming an etch stop layer on the spin on layer, and forming a first mask layer on the etch stop layer.
US10529581B2
Methods for isotropic etching at least a portion of a silicon-containing layer on a sidewall of high-aspect-ratio (HAR) apertures formed on a substrate in a reaction chamber are disclosed. The HAR aperture formed by plasma etching a stack of alternating layers of a first silicon-containing layer and a second silicon-containing layer, the second silicon-containing layer is different from the first silicon-containing layer. The method comprising the steps of: a) introducing a fluorine containing etching gas selected from the group consisting of nitrosyl fluoride (FNO), trifluoroamine oxide (F3NO), nitryl fluoride (FNO2) and combinations thereof into the reaction chamber; and b) removing at least a portion of the second silicon-containing layers by selectively etching the second silicon-containing layers versus the first silicon-containing layers with the fluorine containing etching gas to produce recesses between the first silicon-containing layers on the sidewall of the HAR aperture. Alternatively, the disclosed etching processes are cyclic etching processes.
US10529579B2
Disclosed herein is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device that includes forming first and second layers over an underlying martial such that the first layer is between the underlying material and the second layer, forming a third layer over the second layer, forming first and second core portions apart from each other over the third layer, forming a gap portion between the first and the second core portions; and removing the second and the third layers by using the first and the second core portions and the gap portion as a mask to expose a part of the first layer.
US10529576B2
Implementations of a method of forming a semiconductor package may include forming electrical contacts on a first side of a wafer, applying a photoresist layer to the first side of the wafer, patterning the photoresist layer, and etching notches into the first side of the wafer using the photoresist layer. The method may include applying a first mold compound into the notches and over the first side of the wafer, grinding a second side of the wafer opposite the first side of the wafer to the notches formed in the first side of the wafer, applying one of a second mold compound and a laminate resin to a second side of the wafer, and singulating the wafer into semiconductor packages. Six sides of a die included in each semiconductor package may be covered by one of the first mold compound, the second mold compound, and the laminate resin.
US10529552B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, an underlying structure is formed. A surface grafting layer is formed on the underlying structure. A photo resist layer is formed on the surface grafting layer. The surface grafting layer includes a coating material including a backbone polymer, a surface grafting unit coupled to the backbone polymer and an adhesion unit coupled to the backbone polymer.
US10529551B2
An RF fluorescent lamp, comprising a bulbous vitreous portion of the RF fluorescent lamp comprising a vitreous envelope filled with a working gas mixture, a power coupler to induce an alternating electric field within the vitreous envelope, an electronic ballast, and a mercury amalgam accommodating structure mounted within the lamp envelope and adapted to absorb power from the electric field to rapidly heat and vaporize an amalgam of mercury to rapidly illuminate the lamp envelope during a turn-on phase of the RF fluorescent lamp, wherein the structure is comprised of a substrate material coated with a mixture of indium and gold.
US10529550B1
A multipole assembly configured to be disposed in a mass spectrometer includes a plurality of elongate electrodes arranged about an axis extending along a longitudinal trajectory of the plurality of elongate electrodes and configured to confine ions radially about the axis, and a piezoelectric actuator configured to adjust a position of a first electrode included in the plurality of elongate electrodes.
US10529549B2
The existence ratio of optical isomers (D-form, L-form) is easily measured.Counterclockwise or clockwise circularly polarized light is applied from a light application unit 6 to ions which are derived from a target compound and are drifting in a drift region 3. The ions absorb light, and a collision cross-section of the ions thus changes, whereby the mobility also changes. Each of the D-form and the L-form has a light absorption rate which is different between counterclockwise circularly polarized light and clockwise circularly polarized light. Therefore, each light absorption rate is examined in advance, and an existence ratio of the D-form and the L-form is calculated, based on the two intensity ratios each of which is the ratio of a peak of the ions having absorbed no light and a peak of the ions having absorbed light, which peaks appear on a drift time spectrum, and based on the light absorption rates of the D-form and the L-form.
US10529546B2
A method of extracting and accelerating ions is provided. The method includes providing a ion source. The ion source includes a chamber. The ion source further includes a first hollow cathode having a first hollow cathode cavity and a first plasma exit orifice and a second hollow cathode having a second hollow cathode cavity and a second plasma exit orifice, the first and second hollow cathodes being disposed adjacently in the chamber. The ion source further includes a first ion accelerator between and in communication with the first plasma exit orifice and the chamber. The first ion accelerator forms a first ion acceleration cavity. The ion source further includes a second ion accelerator between and in communication with the second plasma orifice and the chamber. The second ion accelerator forms a second ion acceleration cavity. The method further includes generating a plasma using the first hollow cathode and the second hollow cathode. The first hollow cathode and the second hollow cathode are configured to alternatively function as electrode and counter-electrode. The method further includes extracting and accelerating ions. Each of the first ion acceleration cavity and the second ion acceleration cavity are sufficient to enable the extraction and acceleration of ions.
US10529540B2
Methods and systems for treating a substrate are described. In an embodiment, a method may include receiving a microelectronic substrate in a plasma processing chamber. A method may also include receiving process gas in the plasma processing chamber. Additionally, a method may include applying energy to the process gas with a first energy source and applying energy to the process gas with a second energy source. The method may further include selectively adjusting at least one of the first energy source and the second energy source between a first state and a second state.
US10529532B2
An ion source having an ion generation container configured to generate ions by reacting ionized gas introduced into the container via a tubular gas introduction pipe with an ion source material emitted in the container. The gas introduction pipe is configured to introduce the ionized gas into an inner space of the gas introduction pipe via a gas supply pipe. In the inner space of the gas introduction pipe, a detachable cooling trap member is disposed and includes a cooling trap portion configured to cool and trap a byproduct produced in the ion generation container. The cooling trap portion is disposed near a supply-side leading end of the gas supply pipe in the inner space of the gas introduction pipe and is not contact with an interior wall face of the gas introduction pipe.
US10529529B2
Electron beam spot characteristics can be tuned in each x-ray tube by moving a focusing-ring along a longitudinal-axis of the x-ray tube. The focusing-ring can then be immovably fastened to the x-ray tube.An x-ray source can include an x-ray tube and a focusing-ring. The focusing-ring can at least partially encircle an electron-emitter, a cathode, an evacuated-enclosure, or combinations thereof. The focusing-ring can be located outside of a vacuum of the evacuated enclosure. The focusing-ring can adjust an electron-beam spot on a target material of the x-ray tube when moved along a longitudinal-axis extending linearly from the electron-emitter to the target material.
US10529521B2
The invention relates to a protective device (2) for an electrical circuit (1), including a first fuse (8), a pyroelectric switch (12) connected in parallel with the first fuse and comprising a control area (16), capable of receiving a trigger signal (S), and a power area (18) for the passage of the electric current. The device also comprises a control circuit configured to produce and transmit the trigger signal to the control area. The device includes a second fuse connected in series between a first input conductor (4) and the first fuse and capable of supplying a power supply voltage (V) to the control circuit, which is connected between the second fuse and the control area.
US10529513B1
An overheating destructive switch, which comprises: a base, a first conductive member, a second conductive member, a movable conductive member, an overheating destructive member, an operating component, and a second elastic member. The movable conductive member connects the first conductive member and the second conductive member, and the operating component comprises an operating member and a first elastic member. The first elastic member is compressed and confined between a contact member and the overheating destructive member, and is provided with a first elastic force. A second elastic force of the second elastic member acts on the operating member. The overheating destructive member is destructed under a fail temperature condition, resulting in lessening or loss of the first elastic force, whereupon the second elastic force forces the operating member to displace, which causes the movable conductive member to separate from the second conductive member to form a power-off state.
US10529506B2
An electronic circuit providing a linear keypad and an apparatus comprising such electronic circuit are provided. Methods for detecting that a button of a linear keypad is being pressed and for determining which button is being pressed are also provided. A method for calibrating an apparatus comprising a linear keypad to enable the subsequent determination by the apparatus of which button of the linear keypad is being pressed is also provided.
US10529505B2
A push switch 1 includes a movable contact member 20 with a bulging portion 20a. The push switch 1 has a fixed contact member 10 with a first fixed contact portion 10a and a second fixed contact portion 10b. The push switch 1 includes an electrically conductive vibration damping member 25 elastically deformable by an operating force lower than load for inversion operation of the bulging portion 20a. When the movable contact member 20 is operated from the initial state, the vibration damping member 25 is deflected due to elastic deformation while the operating force during the elastic deformation of the vibration damping member 25 increases monotonically. When the movable contact member 20 returns from the bulging portion 20a being in an inverted state to the initial state, the vibration damping member 25 absorbs the vibrations from the movable contact member 20.
US10529497B2
A stereostructure includes a core portion, and a porous portion located around the core portion. The porous portion located inside a position which is inside from an outer edge of the porous portion by 3/20 of a diameter of the stereostructure in an arbitrary cross section of the stereostructure has a void ratio per unit area of less than or equal to 80%.
US10529495B2
A thin-film capacitor includes a capacitor section in which electrode layers and dielectric layers are alternately stacked and which includes a hole portion that extends to the electrode layer. In a cross-section which is perpendicular to a stacking surface of the capacitor section and which passes through the hole portion, a side surface of the hole portion extends along a reference line extending in a direction intersecting the stacking surface, the dielectric layer extends up to the reference line toward the hole portion, and a gap is formed between the side surface of the pair electrode layer and the reference line.
US10529491B1
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having at least one rounded corner, and including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes laminated with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween, and first and second external electrodes, electrically connected to corresponding internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second external electrodes include first and second base electrode layers, each having at least a portion in contact with first and second external surfaces of the ceramic body, first and second conductive resin layers disposed to cover the first and second base electrode layers, respectively, and first and second plating layers disposed to cover the first and second conductive resin layers, respectively.
US10529486B2
A conductive paste for an external electrode that includes a conductive metal powder; a glass frit having an average particle diameter D50 of not more than 0.8 μm and having a flat shape with an average flatness of 1.5 to 5.5; and a binder resin. A method of manufacturing an electronic component includes preparing an electronic component element; applying the conductive paste for an external electrode onto an outer surface of the electronic component element; and baking the applied conductive paste to form an external electrode.
US10529482B2
A wire harness includes electric wires, and an electromagnetic wave suppression member provided at a periphery of the electric wires. The electromagnetic wave suppression member includes a restriction member and an annular magnetic core. The restriction member is provided so as to cover an outer periphery of the electric wires and includes an inner wall section that is harder than the electric wires. The magnetic core includes a nanocrystalline soft magnetic material and is provided at a periphery of the inner wall section.
US10529474B2
To provide a permanent magnet which uses Ce of an abundant resource and has a great magnetic anisotropy in rare earth permanent magnets. To obtain a permanent magnet having a high magnetic anisotropy due to the trivalent Ce state by setting the abundance ratio C3/(C3+C4) in the main phase grains to be 0.1≤C3/(C3+C4)≤0.5 where C3 denotes the number of trivalent Ce atoms and C4 denotes the number of tetravalent Ce atoms.
US10529473B2
An R-T-B based permanent magnet includes R-T-B based compounds as main-phase crystal grains. R is a rare earth element. T is iron group element(s) essentially including Fe or Fe and Co. B is boron. A two-grain boundary is contained between the two adjacent main-phase crystal grains. An average grain size of the main-phase crystal grains is 0.9 μm or more and 2.8 μm or less. A thickness of the two-grain boundary is 5 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
US10529452B2
Computer memory employs single-bit logic in order to improve performance through minimizing storage size for generating user interface prompts. The user interface prompts may be used to guide clinical or other decision queries using a dynamic decision tree such that multiple decision trees are followed in sequence and jumps occur between decision trees based on previously received query responses and the system's determination of what useful data has not been gathered. Throughout the process, the computer memory performs using highly efficient single-bit data storage and retrieval. For example, rather than storing data concerning all possible paths between various decision trees, a system using the computer memory may determine at the time of use that a jump should occur from one decision tree to another decision tree despite the system not being pre-populated with data representative of a relationship between the source and destination of the jump. Such jumps may be achieved without the use of complex data structures at the memory level, minimizing space usage and maximizing memory performance.
US10529450B2
Techniques are described for real-time phase detection. For the phase detection, a signal is correlated with a frequency component of a frequency band whose phase is being detected, and the correlation includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the signals.
US10529449B2
Systems and methods described herein can provide clinicians with a dental office management service that can programmatically provide treatment recommendations and streamline the patient record building process. These systems and methods can enable clinicians to select from a short list of recommended treatments based on the existing condition and pathology of a tooth, for example, as the dentist is giving instructions and treatment recommendations. A list of recommended treatments for a patient may be automatically compiled based on the treatment recommendations selected by the clinician as the dentist was examining the patient's teeth one by one. Further, systems and methods described herein can enable clinicians to take notes and thereby build a patient record efficiently using one or more completed treatment templates.
US10529447B2
In a method, a personal dose report image is received via a first interface. The personal dose report image includes personal data and dose data of an imaging by way of ionizing radiation. The personal data and the dose data are contained as rasterized text in the personal dose report image and the personal data or the dose data includes a first signal word. A first position of the first signal word in the personal dose report image is determined through optical character recognition. An image area in the personal dose report image is determined based on the first position, the image area including at least a part of the personal data. An anonymized dose report image based on the personal dose report image is determined, at least the image area of the anonymized dose report image corresponding to the image area of the personal dose report image being anonymized.
US10529446B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a personalized health care management system. The mechanisms receive a personalized health care plan for a patient having at least one health goal of the patient, and dynamic patient monitoring data from one or more patient monitoring devices associated with the patient. The mechanisms analyze the dynamic patient monitoring data to determine at least one first communication to output to the patient containing content eliciting conformance of the patient with the personalized health care plan to achieve the at least one health goal. The mechanisms send, to a patient care manager computing device of a patient care manager associated with the patient, a second communication based on results of analyzing the dynamic patient monitoring data. The second communication initiates a new communication session, or continues an existing communication session, between the patient care manager computing device and a patient communication device associated with the patient.
US10529435B2
A bad block of memory cells is quickly detected and removed from further programming during concurrent multi-block program operations, to minimize a threshold voltage upshift in a good block. A difference in program speeds between the blocks can be quickly detected by detecting when the memory cells in each block pass a verify test, such as a verify test of a lowest programmed data state. If a first block passes the verify test at a reference program loop, a determination is made as to whether a second block passes the verify test within a specified number of additional program loops. If the second block meets this criterion, the program operation can continue for both blocks. However, if the second block does not meet this criterion, the program operation is terminated for the second block by isolating it from subsequent program and verify signals.
US10529434B2
Devices and techniques for detecting power loss in NAND memory devices are disclosed herein. A memory controller may calibrate a first read level for a first physical page of a number of physical pages from an initial first read level position to a calibrated first read level position. The first read level may be between a first threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a first logical state of the at least four logical states and a second threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a second logical state of the at least four logical states. Also, the first threshold voltage distribution may be a highest threshold voltage distribution for the first physical page. The memory controller may calibrate a second read level for the first physical page that is lower than the first read level from an initial second read level position to a calibrated first read level position. The memory controller may determine to refresh at least one logical page stored at the first physical page based at least in part on a first read level difference between the initial first read level and the calibrated first read level and a second read level difference between the initial second read level and the calibrated second read level.
US10529428B2
The disclosed technology relates to a memory device configured to perform multiple access operations in response to a single command received through a memory controller and a method of performing the multiple access operations. In one aspect, the memory device includes a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to receive a single command which specifies a plurality of memory access operations to be performed on the memory array. The memory controller is further configured to cause the specified plurality of memory access operations to be performed on the memory array.
US10529426B2
A data writing method, a valid data identifying method and a memory storage apparatus using the same are provided. The method includes receiving first data; using a first programming mode to write first sub-data of the first data into a first physical programmed unit of at least a first memory sub-module of a plurality of memory sub-modules, wherein a size of each of the first sub-data is the same as a preset size; and using a second programming mode to write remaining sub-data of the first data into a second physical programmed unit of a second memory sub-module of the plurality of memory submodules, wherein the size of the remaining sub-data is less than the preset size, and the second memory sub-module is different from a third memory sub-module of the first memory submodules which is a last memory sub-module for writing the first sub-data.
US10529422B2
Methods for reading and programming one or more resistive change elements within a 1-R resistive change element array are disclosed. These methods include using measurement and storage elements to measure the electrical response of one or more selected cells within an array and then comparing that stored electrical response to the electrical response of a reference element within the array to determine the resistive state of the one or more selected cells. These methods also include programming methods wherein selectable current limiting elements are used to permit or inhibit programming currents from flowing through selected and unselected cells, respectively. These methods further include programing methods that use specific biasing of array lines to provide sufficient programing currents through only selected cells.
US10529418B2
Examples herein relate to linear transformation accelerators. An example linear transformation accelerator may include a crossbar array programmed to calculate a linear transformation. The crossbar array has a plurality of words lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a memory cell coupled between each unique combination of one word line and one bit line, where the memory cells are programmed according to a linear transformation matrix. The plurality of word lines are to receive an input vector, and the plurality of bit lines are to output an output vector representing a linear transformation of the input vector.
US10529406B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cell rows, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the memory cell array and generates internal temperature data, a first register that stores external temperature data received from outside of the memory device, and a refresh control unit that determines a skip ratio of refresh commands received at a refresh frequency that corresponds to the external temperature data by comparing the internal temperature data and the external temperature data and performing a refresh operation for the plurality of memory cell rows in response to refresh commands skipped and transmitted based on the skip ratio.
US10529405B2
A refresh control device, and a memory device may be provided. The latch controller may include a first oscillator configured to generate a first oscillation signal, and a second oscillator configured to generate a second oscillation signal. The latch controller may be configured to receive a precharge signal and prevent the second oscillation signal from being synchronized with the precharge signal.
US10529387B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry can include a sense amplifier coupled to a pair of complementary sense lines and a compute component coupled to the sense amplifier via pass gates coupled to logical operation selection logic. The logical operation selection logic can be configured to control pass gates based on a selected logical operation.
US10529383B2
A software architecture and framework based on plug-in software modules supports flexible handling of synchronous data streams by media production and editing applications. Plug-ins called by the applications convert data from synchronous data streams into a form that enables a user of such an application to view and edit time-synchronous data contained within such data streams. The synchronous data is displayed in a temporally aligned manner in a synchronous data track within a timeline display of the application user interface. In one example, closed caption data extracted from the ancillary portion of a video signal is displayed as text on a data track temporally synchronized with the source video track. Other plug-ins analyze media tracks to generate time-synchronous data which may also be displayed in a temporally aligned manner within a synchronous data track in a timeline.
US10529381B2
A method, system and computer program product for interactively identifying same individuals or objects present in video recordings is disclosed. When a thumbnail in a set of thumbnails is selected, new information is obtained. The new information may be that an individual or object is present in the portion of the video recording associated with the thumbnail. A search can be carried out for the individual or object based on the new information. The search generates new match likelihoods for each of displayed thumbnails within a user interface page. The displayed thumbnails are re-ordered based on the new match likelihoods.
US10529379B2
Various aspects of a system and a method for processing of a video content based on emotional state detection of one or more users are disclosed herein. The system includes a video-processing device, which detects a change in an emotional state of a first user viewing a first video content on the video-processing device. One or more groups of image frames of the first video content, viewed during the detected change in the emotional state of the first user at one or more time instances, are associated with the changed emotional state. A second video content is generated by use of the associated one or more groups of image frames of the first video content, based on the detected change in the emotional state of the first user.
US10529378B2
An information storage device, comprises an information input device for acquiring voice data and/or image data, a falsification prevention circuit that subjects the voice data and/or image data to falsification prevention processing, operation members for carrying out editing operations on the voice data and/or image data, and a controller for creating an editing evidence file that gives a history of editing operations on the voice data and/or image data, based on editing operations using the operation members.
US10529376B1
In a two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) system, a first finite impulse response (FIR) filter processes data read from a track of a magnetic medium by a first head using first filter tap values determined a priori independently of a second head. A second FIR filter processes data read from a track by the second head using second filter tap values determined a priori independently of the first head. An off-track detector detects whether one or more of the first and second heads is off of the tracks being read. A gain controller controls gains for the first and second FIR filters based on whether one or more of the first and second heads is off of the tracks being read.
US10529375B2
A wear mitigation system can be implemented in a data storage device. A data storage medium may be separated from a transducing head by an air bearing. A controller connected to the data storage medium and transducing head can be configured to reassign a physical address of the data storage medium from an unusable condition to a usable condition as a result of a self-healing of the data storage medium predicted by the controller.
US10529374B2
A shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard disk drive (HDD) receives a read command for data associated with a range of logical block addresses (LBAs). In situations where a first portion of valid data associated with the range of LBAs is stored in an SMR region of the HDD and a second portion of valid data associated with the range of LBAs is stored in a non-SMR region of the HDD, the first portion is read from the SMR region in a single disk access and copied to a first buffer of the HDD, and the second portion is read from the non-SMR region in one or more disk accesses and copied to a second buffer of the HDD. The valid data associated with the range of LBAs stored in the second buffer are copied to the first buffer to be combined with valid data associated with the range of LBAs stored in the first buffer, and the combined valid data is then transferred to the host to complete execution of the read command.
US10529373B2
A computer program product, according to one embodiment, includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method that includes reading data from a magnetic data storage medium. The processing circuit uses a tracking threshold module to detect and track positive peak amplitudes and negative peak amplitudes of a readback waveform during the data reading. Asymmetry compensation is performed on the data based on input from the tracking threshold module. The asymmetry compensation does not rely on an input except from the tracking threshold module in order to perform the asymmetry compensation.
US10529362B2
A magnet structure for a magnetic data storage medium erasing apparatus includes a first half comprising a first plurality of magnets arranged symmetrically, having polarization direction of adjacent magnets in quadrature and at an oblique angle with respect to a plane of symmetry. A second half comprises a second plurality of magnets arranged symmetrically, having polarization direction of adjacent magnets in quadrature and at an oblique angle with respect to the plane of symmetry. The second half is arranged symmetrically with respect to the first half, wherein the first half and the second half are separated by an air gap disposed about the plane of symmetry.
US10529361B2
An audio signal classification method and apparatus includes determining, according to voice activity of a current audio frame, whether to obtain a frequency spectrum fluctuation of the current audio frame and store the frequency spectrum fluctuation in a frequency spectrum fluctuation memory, updating, according to whether the audio frame is percussive music or activity of a historical audio frame, the frequency spectrum fluctuations stored in the frequency spectrum fluctuation memory, and classifying the current audio frame as a speech frame or a music frame according to statistics of a part or all of effective data of the frequency spectrum fluctuations that is stored in the frequency spectrum fluctuation memory.
US10529358B2
A method for reducing noise to a user to enable a conversation-of-interest to be heard, the noise originating from a noise source, the method comprising the steps of: operating at least one first device located at a first distance from the noise source, the user having noise-cancellation earphones connected to a second mobile device, the second mobile device located at a second distance from the noise source, the first distance less than the second distance; prehearing noise from the noise source using the at least one first device; analyzing the preheard noise to yield a respective analyzed noise signal; and processing the respective analyzed noise signal to effect noise cancellation for the noise-cancellation earphones.
US10529350B2
A technology of accurately coding and decoding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients even for a frame in which the spectrum variation is great while suppressing an increase in the code amount as a whole is provided. A coding device includes: a first coding unit that obtains a first code by coding coefficients which are convertible into linear prediction coefficients of more than one order; and a second coding unit that obtains a second code by coding at least quantization errors of the first coding unit if (A-1) an index Q commensurate with how high the peak-to-valley height of a spectral envelope is, the spectral envelope corresponding to the coefficients which are convertible into the linear prediction coefficients of more than one order, is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1 and/or (B-1) an index Q′ commensurate with how short the peak-to-valley height of the spectral envelope is, is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold value Th1′.
US10529349B2
Systems and methods for an audio signal processing system for transforming an input audio signal. A processor implements steps of a module by inputting an input audio signal into a spectrogram estimator to extract an audio feature sequence, and process the audio feature sequence to output a set of estimated spectrograms. Processing the set of estimated spectrograms and the audio feature sequence using a spectrogram refinement module, to output a set of refined spectrograms. Wherein the processing of the spectrogram refinement module is based on an iterative reconstruction algorithm. Processing the set of refined spectrograms for the one or more target audio signals using a signal refinement module, to obtain the target audio signal estimates. An output interface to output the optimized target audio signal estimates. Wherein the module is optimized by minimizing an error using an optimizer stored in the memory.
US10529347B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for reconstructing an audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a decoded baseband audio signal by decoding an encoded audio signal and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal. The method further includes generating a noise component based on a noise parameter. Finally, the method includes adjusting a phase of the high-frequency reconstructed signal and obtaining a time-domain reconstructed audio signal by combining the decoded baseband audio signal and the combined high-frequency signal to obtain a time-domain reconstructed audio signal.
US10529346B2
A calculator for determining phase correction data for an audio signal includes a variation determiner for determining a variation of a phase of the audio signal in a first and a second variation mode, a variation comparator for comparing a first variation determined using the first variation mode and a second variation determined using the second variation mode, and a correction data calculator for calculating the phase correction data in accordance with the first variation mode or the second variation mode based on a result of the comparing.
US10529345B2
A method for processing audio data includes obtaining a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposing the current noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal; and encoding and transmitting the noise low-band signal by using a first discontinuous transmission mechanism, and encoding and transmitting the noise high-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. According to the present disclosure, different processing manners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal, calculation loads and encoded bits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bits that are saved may help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality.
US10529338B2
Embodiments of the present invention perform speaker identification and verification by first prompting a user to speak a phrase that includes a common phrase component and a personal identifier. Then, the embodiments decompose the spoken phrase to locate the personal identifier. Finally, the embodiments identify and verify the user based on the results of the decomposing.
US10529331B2
An example apparatus for suppression of key phrase detection includes an audio receiver to receive generated audio from a loopback endpoint and captured audio from a microphone. The apparatus includes a self-trigger detector to detect a key phrase in the generated audio. The apparatus also includes a detection suppressor to suppress detection of the detected key phrase in the captured audio at a second key detector for a predetermined time in response to detecting the key phrase in the generated audio.
US10529330B2
The present invention relates to a speech recognition apparatus and system for recognizing speech and converting the speech into text, and displaying an input state thereof in real-time for correction. In the speech recognition apparatus, speech input from a speech input unit is converted into text in units of words to display the converted text in real time on a first display window, and words displayed on the first display window are combined to generate a sentence such that the generated sentence is displayed on a second display window in real time. Therefore, a process through which what kind of sentence is formed by a combination of what kind of words may be intuitively confirmed so that text generated through speech recognition may be easily corrected.
US10529324B1
One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, voice data; obtaining, using a processor, geographic location data; identifying, based on the geographic location data, a language model; and generating, using the language model, a textual representation of the voice data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10529323B2
The present disclosure relates to a semantic processing method of robots, including: receiving, by a semantic processing platform, a voice request from a robot, performing a sematic analysis on the voice request to obtain a current sematic intention, determining whether a response matching the current semantic intention is stored in a database, obtaining the response from the database if determining that the response is stored in the database, obtaining the response by accessing a third-party application corresponding to the current semantic intention if determining that the response is not stored in the database, and transmitting the response to the robot to guide the robot to perform a corresponding action. The present disclosure further provides a semantic processing device.
US10529316B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the method includes receiving a voice input from a user device; generating a recognition output; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the recognition output; receiving a user input of one or more letters replacing the user selected one or more terms; determining suggested correction candidates based in part on the user input and the voice input; and providing one or more suggested correction candidates to the user device as suggested corrected recognition outputs.
US10529313B2
Trigger devices, systems, and methods for sensing a strike on a vibratory membrane. A trigger device includes an optical sensor positioned a distance from the vibratory membrane and a processing device. The optical sensor includes an emitter that emits modulated light towards the vibratory membrane and a receiver that receives the modulated light that has reflected off the vibratory membrane and generates an electrical signal corresponding to the received modulated light. The electrical signal includes a peak corresponding to a detected strike on the vibratory membrane. The processing device isolates the peak from the electrical signal and generates one or more of a signal and data corresponding to the electrical signal.
US10529311B2
A keyboard apparatus includes a frame including a first contacting portion, a second contacting portion, and a first rib, a first member having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side and being attached to the frame, and a plurality of keys being attached to the frame, the first contacting portion being in contact with the first member from the first side, the second contacting portion being in contact with the first member from the second side, the first rib having longitudinal shape in a first direction, and the first contacting portion in the first direction with respect to the first rib.
US10529307B1
A multi-purpose drum that can be assembled into a floor-tom, a bass drum, or a gong bass drum through different mating parts according to the performance requirements. This multi-purpose drum is lightweight, easy to carry, and quick to assemble.
US10529305B2
A key guard height adjuster for a brass instrument having a threaded rod configured to be received by a threaded bore of a key guard; a stem connecting the threaded rod to a key guard height adjuster head; and the adjuster head having a rounded top and a knurled edge. According to one approach, the adjuster head height can be in the range of about 4 mm to 10 mm. According to one approach, the adjuster head diameter is in the range of about 8 mm to 12 mm. According to one approach, the adjuster head is about 8 mm in width and about 6 mm in height.
US10529299B2
In a display device that is daisy-chained to a source device that outputs a video signal, and transmits an encryption key (KSV) used for encryption to source device, the display device includes storage to store the encryption key of an own display device (first device KSV), and the encryption keys (second device KSV, third device KSV) of all of downstream side display devices that are provided on a downstream side of the own display device among all of the other display devices that are daisy-chained, the encryption keys being transmitted to source device through its own display device when the display devices are daisy-chained to source device, and causes a display to form a split video image that is a part of a video image based on the number of splits of the video image corresponding to the video signal and the number of encryption keys stored.
US10529298B1
An electro-optical device includes a control circuit that controls the timing of output of a precharge voltage to a data line, and changes an elapsed time from start of transition of a voltage of a scanning signal G from a selection voltage to a non-selection voltage until an output of the precharge voltage to the data line according to a polarity of a data voltage, the voltage of the scanning signal for selecting one of multiple scanning lines, the selection voltage causing a pixel transistor to turn on, the non-selection voltage causing a pixel transistor to turn off.
US10529293B2
To reduce the area of a portion where a plurality of transistors are provided in a region around a display region and to reduce the area of the region around the display region, a display device includes a first transistor and a second transistor each as a transistor, and the transistor includes a connection wiring that electrically connects a semiconductor film and a source-drain electrode to each other via an opening portion provided in an insulating film. The first transistor and the second transistor are adjacent to each other, and there is a clearance between an end portion, on the side of the second transistor, of the connection wiring in the first transistor and an end portion, on the side of the second transistor, of the opening portion in the first transistor.
US10529289B2
An electroluminescent display is disclosed. Each of subpixels included in the electroluminescent display includes a first driver including a first driving element for driving a light emitting element during a first period, and a second driver including a second driving element for driving the light emitting element during a second period. The light emitting element includes an anode connected to the first and second drivers and a cathode supplied with a low potential power voltage. During the first period, a high potential power voltage higher than the low potential power voltage is supplied to the second driving element, and the low potential power voltage is supplied to the first driving element. During the second period, the high potential power voltage is supplied to the first driving element, and the low potential power voltage is supplied to the second driving element.
US10529285B2
An electronic device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a number of pixels, each of which includes a driving thin-film-transistor (TFT) and a light-emitting diode. Compensation circuitry external to the display panel applies offset data to pixel data for each pixel of the plurality of pixels before the pixel data is provided to the plurality of pixels.
US10529283B2
A pixel includes a plurality of transistors, a storage capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode. A first transistor controls the amount of current from a first driving power source to the organic light emitting diode based on a data voltage. A second transistor is connected to a data line and is turned on based on a scan signal. A third transistor coupled to the first transistor and is turned on based on the scan signal. A first stabilizing transistor is coupled to the third transistor or between the first and third transistors and is turned off when the third transistor is turned off.
US10529281B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel compensation circuit and display device. The circuit includes: first to fifth switching elements, a storage capacitor, and a driving element. Each of the first to fifth switching elements and the driving element has a control terminal, a first terminal and a second terminal. The storage capacitor has first and second terminals. The control terminals of the first and second switching elements are coupled to an output terminal for outputting an n-th gate driving signal, the control terminals of the third and fourth switching elements are coupled to an output terminal for outputting an enabling signal, the control terminal of the fifth switching element is coupled to an output terminal for outputting an (n−1)-th gate driving signal, the control terminal of the driving element is coupled to the second node, and the storage capacitor is coupled between the first and second nodes.
US10529280B2
Any one of a write scanning line, a power source supply line, and a video signal line is structured as a subsidiary wiring disposed in the same layer as that having a lower electrode disposed therein. The subsidiary wiring is used in the power source supply line through which a power source drive pulse to be pulse-driven is transmitted, or other wirings (such as the write scanning line and the video signal line).
US10529279B1
An active matrix organic LED display having a matrix of multiple light emitting pixels and electronic drive circuitry for selectively addressing the pixels, each pixel containing an organic LED. The electronic drive circuitry includes row scan electrodes and column data electrodes that interconnect the matrix of pixels. The circuitry also includes a MEMS switching device and a memory capacitor for each pixel, the MEMS switching device connecting the memory capacitor to a column data electrode during addressing of a pixel and connecting the memory capacitor to the organic LED of each pixel during light emission.
US10529276B2
A display device may include (1) a display panel with at least one pixel element and (2) a display driver configured to (a) transition the pixel element to a first state, (b) illuminate, after the pixel element transitions to the first state, the pixel element for a first period of illumination, (c) refrain, after the first period of illumination, from illuminating the pixel element for a period of no illumination, (d) illuminate, while the pixel element is still in the first state and after the period of no illumination, the pixel element for a second period of illumination to at least reduce perceived flickering of the display panel, and (e) transition, after the second period of illumination, the pixel element from the first state to a second state. Various other apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10529275B2
A method and a device for luminance adjustment, and a display device are provided. The luminance adjustment method includes: receiving an image data signal; and performing luminance adjustment on a dynamic image according to a target adjustment mode when a received image data signal belongs to the dynamic image, wherein the target adjustment mode is a luminance adjustment corresponding to a sum of luminance components in the image data signal among the plurality of adjustment modes; the plurality of adjustment modes includes a first mode, a second mode and a third mode, the range of luminance adjustment based on the second mode is between the one based on the first mode and the one based on the third mode. With the luminance adjustment method and device, the image flickering in displaying a dynamic image may be reduced.
US10529274B2
A display device includes a first substrate including a display region and a drive circuit arranged with a light emitting element having an organic layer including organic materials, a first metal oxide layer above a portion of the display region and a portion of the drive circuit, a first inorganic insulating layer above the display region and the drive circuit and having an opening exposing an upper surface of the first metal oxide layer, an organic insulating layer above the first metal oxide layer and the first inorganic insulating layer, a second metal oxide layer above the organic insulating layer in a region overlapping the first metal oxide layer, a second inorganic insulating layer above the display region and the drive circuit and having an opening exposing an upper surface of the second metal oxide layer, and a second substrate above the second inorganic insulating layer.
US10529273B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display area, and a peripheral area disposed in the vicinity of the display area; a scan driver including a plurality of stages integrated on the peripheral area; a plurality of gate lines connected to the plurality of stages, respectively; and a plurality of pixel rows in the display area and connected with the plurality of gate lines, respectively. The plurality of stages and the plurality of pixel rows are each arranged in a first direction in a line, the peripheral area includes a fan-out region between the plurality of stages and the plurality of pixel rows, and at least one of the plurality of gate lines in the fan-out region is inclined with respect to the first direction, and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10529268B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel array, a display device and a display method thereof. The pixel array includes first display blocks and second display blocks arranged in an array. The first display blocks and the second display blocks are arranged by turns in a first direction. Each display block includes a first subpixel, a second subpixel, a third subpixel, a fourth subpixel and a fifth subpixel arranged in two adjacent lines, the first subpixel, the second subpixel and the third subpixel are arranged in a line, and the fourth subpixel and the fifth subpixel are arranged in a line. A gap between any two adjacent subpixels in an ith line is aligned in an extension direction of the gap with a subpixel in an (i+1)th line.
US10529267B2
A method of displaying an image in a display device may include determining the degree of deterioration of pixels included in a display unit based on image data of a current frame image, determining a shift route of the current frame image so as to correspond to the determined degree of deterioration. The first image data is corrected to second image data so that the current frame image is shifted along the shift route.
US10529266B2
An electronic apparatus with a detection function includes a normal function circuit, a dummy function circuit and a processing module. The normal function circuit operates according to an operation signal. The dummy function circuit operates to generate a result signal according to a test signal and is a small size circuit of the normal function circuit. The test signal and operation signal are same function signals, and the test signal has an electrical characteristic larger than that of the operation signal. The processing module generates the operation signal and the test signal at the same time, accumulates an operation time of the dummy function circuit, and determines whether the dummy function circuit is faulty by detecting the result signal. When the dummy function circuit is faulty, the processing module calculates a remaining lifetime of the normal function circuit according to the test signal, the operation signal and the operation time.
US10529265B2
A display device includes a display panel, a scan driver that provides a scan signal to the display panel, a data driver that provides a data signal to the display panel, a driving controller that controls the scan driver and the data driver, a temperature sensor that senses local temperatures of local regions of the display panel using a temperature sensor and generates temperature sensing information, a current sensor that senses driving currents of the local regions and generates current sensing information, and a sensing controller that selects sensing target regions based on respective degradation degrees of the local regions, determines sensing priorities between the sensing target regions, and controls the sensing target regions to be sequentially sensed only during a sensing execution time according to the sensing priorities between the sensing target regions.
US10529260B2
According to the present specification there is provided a system for mounting a plurality of display units, which system comprises a display locating component that is substantially two-dimensional. The display locating component defines a surface having a profile, and the display locating component has a plurality of mounting positions each at a predetermined position on the display locating component, each mounting position configured to receive at least one of the display units. The system also comprises a plurality of adjustable mounts configured to: support the display locating component, and adjust the profile of the display locating component to within a given profile tolerance.
US10529258B1
The badge-holding device is a wallet for displaying a police, fire, or EMT badge. The badge display device comprises a badge retainer and channel for the pin of the badge on one side and a plurality of card pockets on the other side. The pockets may be used to store identification cards, credit cards, debit cards, and similar cards. A black band may be stretched across the front of the displayed badge and fastened in place when mourning band protocol is in effect. A clip on the pocket side of the badge-holding device allows the device to be worn on a belt or pocket or allows the device to act as a money clip. Loops located at the top of the device allow the device to be worn on a chain around the user's neck.
US10529252B2
In an embodiment, a resettable shield-activated injection training device is provided. The training device includes an outer housing comprising a proximal end and a distal end, an inner housing comprising a proximal end and a distal end, plunger retention protrusions near the proximal end, and an asymmetrical projection at the distal end. The training device may further include a safety shield slidable relative to the outer housing between an extended position and a retracted position, a plunger slidable relative to the outer housing, the plunger comprising one or more plunger rail portions, and a rotatable reset component having axial and radial movement, the reset component comprising a proximal end, a distal end, an outer circumference, and an inner circumference, a notched portion, a plunger rail interface, and an asymmetrical ramped portion in the inner circumference, and a safety shield locking tab near the proximal end of the reset component configured to interact with the safety shield to lock the safety shield in an extended position. The training device may further include a reset spring associated with the rotatable reset component, wherein an interaction between the asymmetrical projection and the asymmetrical ramped portion of the reset component causes rotational and axial movement of the reset component toward the proximal end of the outer housing, loads the reset spring, and releases the contact between the safety shield locking tab and the safety shield to unlock the safety shield and reset the device.
US10529248B2
A system and method for training an aircraft pilot employs a station that delivers training lessons in the form of output and also receives input data from the trainee. An apparatus comprising a computational system is capable of displaying content from different types of media, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and variations. A mixed reality environment interacts with a human being, simulating the response of real objects, and also provides necessary information to achieve Learning Objectives for a specific part of training. A register or record of the interactions is used for evaluation.
US10529247B1
A computerized tutoring system for teaching students how to construct proofs associated with computer science, logic, math, and other studies. The self tutoring system employs an interactive computer programmed with a proof problem and access to assumptions and assertions for a student to study. The student tries to solve the problem by interacting with the computer to choose and interconnect appropriate assumptions and assertions as required for the proof. The system provides immediate feedback for the student to correct mistakes and information on the student's learning progress. The level of tutoring may adjusted to suit the needs of the student. The tutoring system may include audio and visual effects to entertain the student during the tutoring process. One embodiment involves symbols to represent the assumptions and assertions, and the text of the assumptions and assertions may be toggled off to reduce distracting clutter on the computer display screen.
US10529246B2
A learning assistance apparatus 10 includes: a data acquisition unit 11 that acquires a problem and an answer corresponding thereto from a data structure that includes the problem and the answer as data; an operation reception unit 12 that receives a first operation of moving a display region in a first direction, a second operation of moving the display region in a second direction, and a third operation of moving the display region in a third direction; and a display control unit 13 that causes another problem to be displayed on a screen according to a movement when the first operation is received after the problem is displayed, causes the answer corresponding to the displayed problem to be displayed on the screen when the second operation is received after the problem is displayed, and causes another problem to be displayed on the screen when the third operation is received after the answer is displayed due to the second operation.
US10529244B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for generating a personalized tutoring stream in a modular learning system. Learning applications are stored in the modular learning system, each associated with at least one application service. The modular learning system receives a performance request specifying one or more learning applications. After determining an availability of application services associated with the one or more specified learning applications, the modular learning system adds the specified learning applications to a tutoring stream associated with the tutoring user.
US10529238B2
A blind spot detection system for a primary vehicle. The system includes rear primary vehicle sensors configured to be mounted at a rear of the primary vehicle to detect a secondary vehicle present in a blind spot of the primary vehicle. Side view mirror primary vehicle sensors are configured to be mounted to side view mirrors of the primary vehicle to detect a secondary vehicle present in the blind spot of the primary vehicle. A control module is configured to: detect a trailer connected to the primary vehicle; activate the rear primary vehicle sensors and not activate the side view mirror primary vehicle sensors when the trailer is not connected to the primary vehicle; and not activate the rear primary vehicle sensors and activate the side view mirror primary vehicle sensors when the trailer is connected to the primary vehicle.
US10529229B2
An exemplary vehicle system includes an illuminating vehicle assembly and a control system configured to communicate with a traffic control device and control the illuminating vehicle assembly to emit lighting effects that are synchronized with the traffic control device. An exemplary method for controlling the illuminating vehicle assembly includes receiving a wireless signal from a traffic control device, and controlling the illuminating vehicle assembly to produce a lighting effect that is synchronized with a corresponding lighting effect of the traffic control device.
US10529225B2
An electronic device and operating method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a communicator; a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: control the communicator to transmit, to an audio output device via one-way communication, connection information which is used for connection of two-way communication between the electronic device and the audio output device; control the communicator to receive, from the audio output device via the two-way communication, authentication information which is determined based on the connection information; control the communicator to transmit or receive a control signal to or from the audio output device, via the two-way communication, according to an authentication of the audio output device based on the received authentication information; and control the communicator to transmit an audio signal to the audio output device, via the one-way communication.
US10529218B2
One describes a system (1) for monitoring hand-cleaning practices in a hospital environment, the system (1) comprising a set of sensors (2, 3, 4, 5) configured as at least one from: at least one infrared sensor (2) establishing a heat detection zone (20), at least one from a contact sensor (3) and a movement sensor (4) associated to at least one article (10, 10′, 10″) of the hospital environment, at least one actuation sensor (5) of an aseptic substance dispenser (6), the set of sensors (2, 3, 4, 5) being configured to generate a plurality of cleaning signals (11, 11′), the cleaning signals (11, 11′) being associated to a hand-cleaning event, the system further comprising a wearable device (15) to be worn by a user of the system, the wearable device (15) being configured to generate a virtual environment (16) visible to the user, a plurality of indicators (26, 27, 28, 45) related to the cleaning signals (11, 11′) being displayed in the virtual environment (16).
US10529217B2
An electric bed includes: a bed body, a plurality of bed planks, a wake-up device, a clock and a main control box. The main control box is electrically connected to the wake-up device and the clock, and is applicable for storing a wake-up time. The electric bed further includes a monitoring module. The monitoring module includes a processing module and a sensor, wherein the sensor is electrically connected to the processing module, and is applicable for monitoring whether a user has left the bed; if the sensor monitors that the user has not left the bed, the processing module activates the wake-up device when the wake-up time on the clock is due according to the stored wake-up time; and if the sensor monitors that the user has left the bed, the processing module does not activate the wake-up device when the wake-up time on the clock is due.
US10529213B2
A method includes receiving a first signal indicating a first movement in first predefined zone at a first time. A first activation signal is communicated to cause a first light source in the first predefined zone to be activated and provide downward illumination in the first predefined zone. A second activation signal is communicated to cause a second light source that in a second predefined zone to be activated and provide downward illumination in the second predefined zone. Responsive to an absence of receiving a second signal indicating a second/return movement in the first predefined zone at or before a second time that is after the first time, an alarm signal is transmitted that is indicative of an occurrence of a potential non-normal event.
US10529199B2
A system includes a first sensor configured to identify information regarding an emergency condition associated with a structure and a second sensor configured to identify an occupancy pattern regarding the structure. The system also includes a processor operatively coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and a transceiver. The processor is configured to determine a severity of the emergency condition based at least in part on the information regarding the emergency condition and prioritize rescues within the structure based at least in part on the occupancy pattern. The system also includes the transceiver which is configured to transmit an identification of the emergency condition, a location of the structure, the occupancy pattern, the prioritization of rescues, and the severity of the emergency condition.
US10529197B2
A system is provided that controls an offline haptic conversion. The system receives an input from a source. The system further converts the input into haptic signals. The system further encodes the haptic signals. The system further stores the haptic signals within the source, where the haptic signals are combined with the input within the source. Alternately, rather than encoding the haptic signals and storing the haptic signals within the source, the system handles the haptic signals separately, independent of the source.
US10529192B2
A method and system for implementing a wagering event includes a player position wager; a single random playing card symbol to the player position; a single random playing card symbol to a dealer position; and in order, the player position then the dealer position; the player position then the dealer position receiving no additional random playing card symbols and determining a final random outcome value for the player position in the wagering outcome, receiving one or more additional random playing card symbols until a final random outcome value of less than or equal to 11 is achieved, or receiving one or more additional random playing card symbols until a final random outcome value of greater than 11 is achieved, ending the wagering event and comparing final outcome values at the player position and dealer position to determine a win or loss of the committed wager.
US10529190B1
Various implementations of a gaming system and method include collecting and storing different symbols in different corresponding symbol storage areas and determining an award based one of the different symbol storage areas that collected the most number of associated symbols.
US10529174B2
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gaming device and an electronic device interface. The gaming device includes a housing having an least one outer surface. The electronic device interface is removeably-secured to the at least one outer surface of the housing. The electronic device interface includes connection hardware directly connected to the external power source.
US10529165B2
This invention is an automatic lid dispenser that can include a hopper assembly for receiving and storing an inventory of lids; a dispensing assembly disposed adjacent to the hopper assembly for receiving lids from the hopper assembly; a plurality of pinions included in the dispensing assembly wherein the pinions include pinion threads spaced apart to contact a lid edge; a drive assembly included in the dispensing assembly having a drive motor cooperatively associated with the pinions to rotate the pinions to dispense a lid; and, a ramp disposed under the dispensing assembly for receiving the lid and redirecting the lid external the housing containing the dispensing assembly.
US10529164B2
A paper sheet handling apparatus includes a stacking unit which allows paper sheets transported by a transport unit to be stacked therein in alignment with faces of an adjacent pair of the paper sheets being in contact with each other. A recognition unit recognizes which of a face or back of each of the paper sheets transported faces up, and how each of the paper sheets is oriented. A controller classifies the paper sheets into a plurality of types different in thickness distribution based on the result of recognition, manages the number of paper sheets of each type stacked in the stacking unit, and makes a determination whether to permit the stacking of the paper sheets in the stacking unit based on the type of the paper sheets recognized by the recognition unit, and the number of paper sheets of each type that have been stacked in the stacking unit.
US10529150B2
Systems and methods for recording and communicating engine data are provided. One example aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a method for maintaining a wireless communication unit. The method includes transmitting, by one or more computing devices, an identification file to one or more second computing devices associated with a ground system. The method includes automatically retrieving, by the one or more computing devices, a loadable software aircraft part for data load from the one or more second computing devices associated with the ground system. The method includes performing, by the one or more computing devices, a data load using the loadable software aircraft part. The method includes determining, by the one or more computing devices, if the data load was successful. The method includes transmitting, by the one or more computing devices, the determination to the one or more computing devices associated with the ground system.
US10529148B2
A system and method for multi-signal fault analysis is described. The system receives user test request information from a first mobile device. The user test request information includes a request for fault analysis of a vehicle and a set of symptoms associated with a fault of a vehicle. The system identifies a test design information associated with the fault based on the user test request information. The test design information includes instructions for the first mobile device and a second mobile device. The test design information establishes conditions for performing a collection of a plurality of signal message information. The system communicates the test design information to the first mobile device.
US10529144B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for modifying a three-dimensional geocellular model. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a system that includes at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that when executed by the at least one processor performs operations that includes loading into memory a three-dimensional geocellular model that corresponds to a two-dimensional geological model. The operations include determining a portion of the three-dimensional geocellular model affected by a change to the two-dimensional geological model and performing a local update to the portion of the three-dimensional geocellular model affected by the change.
US10529143B2
Systems and methods for building a three-dimensional composite scene are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the systems and methods may include the use of a three-dimensional capture device that captures a plurality of three-dimensional images of an environment. Some embodiments may further include elements concerning aligning and/or mapping the captured images. Various embodiments may further include elements concerning reconstructing the environment from which the images were captured. The methods disclosed herein may be performed by a program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium when executed the program is executed a processor.
US10529138B2
A system for displaying virtual content to a user includes at least one light source to multiplex a plurality of light beams to display a respective plurality of light patterns associated with one or more frames of image data. The system also includes a plurality of waveguides to receive the plurality of light beams and to direct the plurality of light beams toward an exit pupil, wherein the plurality of waveguides are stacked along an optical axis of the user. The system further includes at least one optical element to modify a focus of a light beam of the plurality of light beams directed by the plurality of waveguides.
US10529137B1
Disclosed is a method including receiving visual input comprising a human within a scene, detecting a pose associated with the human using a trained machine learning model that detects human poses to yield a first output, estimating a shape (and optionally a motion) associated with the human using a trained machine learning model associated that detects shape (and optionally motion) to yield a second output, recognizing the scene associated with the visual input using a trained convolutional neural network which determines information about the human and other objects in the scene to yield a third output, and augmenting reality within the scene by leveraging one or more of the first output, the second output, and the third output to place 2D and/or 3D graphics in the scene.
US10529134B2
There is provided an information processing device including an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a real space from an image capture device, a setting unit that sets, in association with the real space, an augmented reality space that virtually augments the real space depicted in the captured image, and a control unit that determines a target position for an action executed within the augmented reality space, on a basis of a positional relationship between an object within the augmented reality space and an optical axis of the image capture device.
US10529130B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for reconstructing an Emission Computed Tomography (ECT) image based on locally adaptive gating. ECT projection data relating to a subject may be obtained. The ECT projection data may correspond to a plurality of voxels in a reconstructed image domain. The ECT projection data may be divided into a plurality of frames. A plurality of intermediate images may be reconstructed according to the plurality of frames. A plurality of motion amplitudes of the plurality of voxels may be obtained based on the plurality of intermediate images. A plurality of gate numbers may be determined for the plurality of voxels based on the plurality of motion amplitudes of the plurality of voxels. A plurality of ECT images may be reconstructed based on the ECT projection data and the plurality of gate numbers.
US10529128B1
A sensor apparatus may include an array of protruding members that each extend outward in a different radial direction from a central axis, each protruding member including a projector that projects structured light into a local environment, one or more cameras that capture reflections of the structured light from the local environment, and another camera that captures visible-spectrum light from the local environment. The sensor apparatus may also include one or more localization devices for determining a location of the sensor apparatus. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10529120B2
Graphics processing systems and methods provide soft shadowing effects into rendered images. This is achieved in a simple manner which can be implemented in real-time without incurring high processing costs so it is suitable for implementation in low-cost devices. Rays are cast from positions on visible surfaces corresponding to pixel positions towards the center of a light, and occlusions of the rays are determined. The results of these determinations are used to apply soft shadows to the rendered pixel values.
US10529113B1
A virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) head mounted display (HMD) includes various image capture devices that capture images of portions of the user's face. Through image analysis, points of each portion of the user's face are identified from the images and their movement is tracked. The identified points are mapped to a three dimensional model of a face. From the identified points, a blendshape vector is determined for each captured image, resulting in various vectors indicating the user's facial expressions. A direct expression model that directly maps images to blendshape coefficients for a set of facial expressions based on captured information from a set of users may augment the blendshape vector in various embodiments. From the blendshape vectors and transforms mapping the captured images to three dimensions, the three dimensional model of the face is altered to render the user's facial expressions.
US10529101B1
Techniques are described for presenting events detected by a monitoring system. A system receives a selection of a particular time period, identifies security events detected by a monitoring system during the selected time period, and classifies a subset of the identified security events as abnormal events. The system further generates a density of the identified security events over the selected time period, generates a density of the subset of the identified security events classified as abnormal events, and identifies monitoring system data associated with the selected time period. The system additionally generates a graphical representation of the density of the identified security events, the density of the subset of the identified security events classified as abnormal events, and the identified monitoring system data, and provides the graphical representation for display.
US10529097B2
In a method and apparatus for generating a three-dimensional multi-slice data set of a heart, a first image sequence with a number of two-dimensional images is acquired in a first slice of the heart during a duration of at least one heartbeat interval, and a second image sequence with a number of two-dimensional images is acquired in a second slice of the heart during the duration of a number of heartbeat intervals. The second image sequence is excised by selecting the two-dimensional images thereof that lie in a heartbeat interval closest to the duration of the heartbeat interval in the first slice. The three-dimensional multi-slice data set is generated by combining the first image sequence and the excised second image sequence.
US10529094B2
A method of controlling a lighting system comprising one or more luminaires for illuminating an environment. The method comprises: outputting a displayed image to a user on a screen of a user interface; allowing the user to select a region from amongst a plurality of regions in the displayed image each having a respective color; and controlling one or more of the luminaires of the lighting system to emit illumination rendering the color of the region selected by the user from the displayed image. The displayed image is determined based on the source image, the displayed image being a modification of the source image modified to account for an insusceptibility of one or more colors in the source image to be rendered through the illumination emitted by the lighting system.
US10529092B2
A method for reducing matching errors in disparity images by information in zoom images is revealed. Images with different local length captured by two zoom cameras are given. Perform image and zoom rectification of the images to get a new image center. Then cross checking is used to check whether the corresponding points of each pixel in the image are matched for marking the pixel as a reliable point or an unreliable point. Computation of stereo matching cost is carried out when a reliable point is marked. Otherwise stereo matching and zoom image matching are performed. The matching cost is aggregated by weighting so as to select the matching cost that mostly represents the similarity. Use WTA to get final matching results and disparities thereof for disparity selection. Lastly use a median filter to remove noise from the image for disparity refinement and get a final disparity image.
US10529090B2
A method for locating a printing substrate moving on a conveyor surface. The method includes i) providing the printing substrate moving on a conveyor surface at a selectable speed and in a feed direction, ii) providing an illumination means configured to emit a light beam incident on the conveyor surface according to a predetermined angle, iii) acquiring a predetermined plurality of lines of the substrate, as a function of a line frequency defined as a function of an acquisition rate, iv) generating a primary image as a function of the predetermined plurality of lines, v) detecting, from the primary image, points representative of the substrate, and vi) calculating location coordinates of the substrate relative to the first predefined reference as a function of the plurality of representative points.
US10529089B2
Systems and method are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving sensor data from a sensor of the vehicle; determining a three dimensional point cloud map segment from the sensor data; determining a vehicle pose associated with the three-dimensional point cloud map segment; determining a pose difference based on the vehicle pose, another vehicle pose, and a two-step process, wherein the two-step process includes computing a coarse-granularity pose difference, and computing a fine-granularity pose difference; aligning the three dimensional point cloud map segment with another three dimensional point cloud map segment associated with the other vehicle pose based on the pose difference; and controlling the vehicle based on the aligned three dimensional point cloud map segments.
US10529087B1
A depth mapping device comprises a plurality of imaging components arranged among one or more rings. A depth mapping device may be designed by identifying a plurality of configurations satisfying a set of input parameters that includes a number of imaging components, each configuration indicating a different arrangement of imaging components among one or more rings. Coverages for different configuration parameter sets for the configuration are analyzed to determine a configuration parameter set associated with the configuration having a highest coverage, where the coverage is indicative of an amount of a local area viewable by a depth mapping device using the configuration and associated configuration parameter set. A target configuration having a highest coverage is selected and used to generate a depth mapping device design to be manufactured.
US10529084B2
An image processing method includes: obtaining, a first image by a camera, and a first lens position by a position sensor at a first timestamp; obtaining, by an inertial measurement unit sensor, an IMU signal indicating a movement of the camera between the first timestamp and a second timestamp; obtaining, a second image by the camera, and a second lens position by the position sensor at the second timestamp; calculating, by a processing circuit, a relative geometry value of the first image and the second image according to the first lens position, the second lens position, and the IMU signal; and performing, by the processing circuit, a depth calculation to the first image and the second image based on the relative geometry value on the condition that the relative geometry value meets a geometry threshold.
US10529079B2
The present invention is to provide a method and system using compressed data directly for target tracking and target classification in videos. The present invention uses a video imager to generate compressive measurements, and a random subsampling operator to compress the video data. It uses a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) for target detection and manual location of the target and putting a bounding box around the targets in the first frame is not required. It further applies a saliency-based algorithm to re-center the captured target. This re-centering process can be repeated multiple times and each application of re-centering will improve over the previous one. A pixel completion algorithm is used to fill in the missing pixels for the captured target area. A Sparse Representation Classification (SRC) for target classification. Both the target templates in a dictionary and captured targets are transformed to the frequency domain using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).
US10529075B2
This disclosure relates generally to computer vision, and more particularly to method and system for tracking objects within a video. In one embodiment, a method for tracking objects within a video is disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more regions of interest (ROIs) corresponding to one or more objects in an initial frame of the video, extracting a set of scale and rotation invariant interest data points in each of the ROIs, clustering the set of scale and rotation invariant interest data points in a ROI into a set of clusters based on corresponding locations in the ROI, determining an optimal set of interest data points from each of the set of clusters based on corresponding feature response values and spread values, and initiating tracking of the optimal set of interest data points in subsequent frames of the video to track the one or more objects in the video.
