US10856458B2
A first conveyor belt and second conveyor belt are disposed on guide rail which is disposed so as to extend in a circuit substrate conveyance direction. Then, the circuit substrate supported by both the conveyor belts of the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt is held by substrate holding device, and work is performed on the held circuit substrate. In the transfer device having such a structure, for example, when the circuit substrate on which an operation has been completed is conveyed out by the second conveyor belt, a new circuit substrate is conveyed into the transfer device by the first conveyor belt. In this way, it is possible to perform printing work on a new circuit substrate at an early stage and shorten a cycle time.
US10856453B2
An electric power substation includes a circuit breaker that receives electrical power from a power plant, and a control house communicably coupled to the circuit breaker via a primary communication line, wherein one or more primary relay panels are housed within the control house. An electromagnetic pulse mitigation module is communicably coupled to the circuit breaker via a fiber optic line and comprises a continuous conductive enclosure that is impervious to radiated and coupled electromagnetic energy. One or more backup relay panels are housed within the electromagnetic pulse mitigation module and capable of assuming operation of the one or more primary relay panels.
US10856441B1
An information handling system includes a first device including a first heat generating region, a second device including a second heat generating region, and a cooling device. The cooling device has a first hot surface on a first side of the cooling device, a first cold surface on a second side of the cooling device, a second hot surface on the second side of the cooling device, and a second cold surface on the first side of the cooling device. The first heat generating region is thermally attached to the first hot surface. First heat from the first heat generating region is transmitted to the first cold surface. The second heat generating region is thermally attached to the second hot surface. Second heat from the second heat generating region is transmitted to the second cold surface.
US10856423B2
Provided are a prepreg including two or more fiber substrate layers and one or more resin composition layers, in which at least one of the one or more resin composition layers has a fiber substrate layer on each of both surfaces thereof, a printed circuit board using the prepreg and a method of producing the printed circuit board, and a semiconductor package.
US10856414B2
A printed circuit board includes a circuit trace and a connector pad. The connector pad provides electrical and mechanical mounting of a connector lead of a surface mount device and provides a circuit path between the surface mount device and the circuit trace. The connector pad includes 1) a connector pad base electrically coupled to the circuit trace, and 2) a first connector pad island electrically isolated from the connector pad base. The connector pad base has a length that is substantially equal to a length of a contact portion of the connector lead.
US10856411B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a plurality of layers and electronic components connected to its top surface. The PCB also includes a plurality of trace layers, each located at a respective depth within the layers of the PCB. A plurality of vias provide signal pathways for the trace layer. Upon their manufacture, the vias include a stub portion not necessary for the signal pathways and causing degradation of the integrity of these signal pathways. Embodiments mill the bottom of the PCB to form a variable-depth cavity. The different milling depths of the variable-depth cavity are selected to remove the stub portions of the plurality of vias and the dielectric material between the stubs. By configuring the PCB power planes as the topmost trace layers, decoupling capacitors may be located at the greatest depth of the variable-depth cavity, thus reducing the loop inductance in the power circuit of the PCB.
US10856410B2
A stretchable structure comprises or is configured to receive a conductive path and an interface region. The interface region comprises a peripheral line comprising at least one inwardly curved portion, such as an “inverted teardrop” or a fjord like recess pointing essentially towards the center area of the interface region. The interface region is arranged to receive said stretchable conductive path via said inwardly curved portion of said peripheral line of said interface region. In this way the interface region minimizes strains or other twisting or stretching forces directed to the conductor entering into the opening of the inwardly curved portion of the interface region.
US10856398B2
Disclosed is a high-voltage generator for an x-ray apparatus. The generator comprises a voltage multiplier having a high-voltage output terminal and first and second alternating-current input terminals, an output transformer coil (12) having first and second output terminals respectively electrically connected to the first and second input terminals of the voltage multiplier, and an input transformer coil (11) having first and second input terminals and being arranged coaxially with and inductively coupled to the output transformer coil. The input and output transformer coils are relatively axially movable. Disclosed is also an x-ray apparatus using the high-voltage generator, a method of configuring a high-voltage generator and a method of configuring a high-voltage apparatus.
US10856396B2
Provided herein are examples of a remote control device that provides a retrofit solution for an existing switched control system. The remote control device may comprise a control circuit, a rotatable portion, a magnetic ring coupled to the rotatable portion, and first and second Hall-effect sensor circuits configured to generate respective first and second sensor control signals in response to magnetic fields generated by the magnetic elements. The control circuit may operate in a normal mode when the rotatable portion is being rotated, and in a reduced-power mode when the rotatable portion is not being rotated. The control circuit may disable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in the reduced-power mode. The control circuit may detect movement of the rotatable portion in response to the first sensor control signal in the reduced-power mode and enable the second Hall-effect sensor circuit in response to detecting movement of the rotatable portion.
US10856393B2
A smart light switch includes a housing, a light actuator located within the housing, and a processor and memory. The processor and memory are operably connected and located within the housing. The processor is adapted to selectively turn an electrical load on and off in accordance with a program schedule stored in memory. The smart light switch further includes a data communications module operable to provide data communication across a wireless network to a remote device. The program schedule includes time periods and a set of light activation rules for each time period. The smart light switch is operable to receive the time periods from a remote device having a different set of rules than the set of light activation rules for the smart light switch.
US10856392B2
The present disclosure discloses a light source driving device, and the light source driving device comprises a sensing unit and a processing unit, wherein the sensing unit at least comprises a microwave sensing module; the sensing unit is at least used for sensing whether any human activity exists within the action range based on microwave sensing according to a certain microwave sensing cycle, and periodically outputting a sensing signal to the processing unit; and the processing unit is used for processing the sensing signal, so that the driving device can adaptively control the turn-on and turn-off of the light source and the brightness change of the light source. Based on this, a dynamic intelligent light source driving device without a user's turn-on and turn-off action and based on environmental state sensing is realized.
US10856388B2
The present invention is directed to a lighting control system with a motion sensor unit that electrically couples to a load circuit through a latching relay or load controller for turning on and off lights. The motion sensor unit is configured to power down to draw zero power after a time delay, when motion is longer detected within the work space by the motion sensor unit. The lighting control system further includes a control circuit that reinitiates or turns the motion sensor back on through a switch device.
US10856378B2
An intelligent power supply includes: constant current/constant voltage module; dimming control module which is located at a rear end of the constant current/constant voltage module and is electrically connected thereto; switching circuit for electrically connecting the constant current/constant voltage module and load, which is controlled by the dimming control module; the intelligent power supply further including voltage sampling module disposed between the constant current/constant voltage module and the dimming control module; and the power supply voltage of the voltage sampling module is provided by the constant current/constant voltage module, and the dimming control module detects the voltage signal of the sampling resistance of the voltage sampling module in real time; the operating power of the dimming control module is provided by the power supply voltage of the voltage sampling module.
US10856373B2
This invention concerns power supplies suitable for electric arc gas heaters such a plasma torches. It more particularly relates to the dimensioning of the inductor in the switched-mode DC to DC converter used for feeding the torch. The invention concerns in particular a DC power supply for driving a non-transferred electric arc gas heater, comprising: an AC to DC rectifier providing a potential U0; a DC to DC switching converter having a switching frequency fS; a current control loop having a latency Formula (I); and, a ballast inductor having an inductance L; characterized in that inductance L is such that Formula (II) and Formula (III). Such a design ensures the stability of the current control loop, while also ensuring a sufficient amount of current ripple to spread out the erosion zone on the electrodes of the torch. τ ; ( I ) L > ( U 0 1500 ) τ , ( II ) L < 1 f s ( U 0 200 ) . ( III )
US10856372B2
The present invention relates to a medical preparation container which includes a microwave power sensor assembly. The microwave powered sensor assembly includes a sensor configured to measure a physical property or chemical property of a medical preparation during its heating in a microwave oven. The microwave powered sensor assembly is configured for harvesting energy from a microwave radiation emitted by the microwave oven and energize the sensor by the harvested microwave energy.
US10856367B2
An electrical connector for a glazing including a first connector foot and a second connector foot for soldering to the glazing, and a bridge portion comprising sheet metal having a thickness in a specified range linking the first connector foot and second connector foot. The first connector foot and the second connector foot each are shaped so that most of the perimeter of each foot is curved, the first connector foot and the second connector foot are connected to the bridge portion by a first neck portion and a second neck portion respectively, and the first neck portion and the second neck portion each have a narrower width than a width of the bridge portion.
US10856363B2
A terminal performs: in response to receipt of first identifying information, from a first function-executing device via a first wireless connection established between the terminal and the first function-executing device, receiving, when the computer program is launched by an OS program of the terminal, at least the first device-identifying information from the OS program; establishing a second wireless connection between the terminal and the first function-executing device, using the first device-identifying information received from the OS program without requiring user input of an operation for selecting a connection-target function-executing device from at least one function-executing device; receiving first function information that indicates at least one function executable by the first function-executing device; and displaying, a first function screen for enabling a user to select a function required of the first function-executing device to execute, from the at least one function executable by the first function-executing device.
US10856356B2
A network for handling a secondary node (SN) configuration comprises a first base station (BS) communicating with a communication device according to a master node (MN) configuration, and a second BS communicating with the communication device according to a first SN configuration; the first BS transmitting a SN Addition Request message comprising the first SN configuration to a central unit (CU); the CU transmitting a UE Context Setup Request message comprising the first SN configuration to a first distributed unit (DU); the CU receiving a UE Context Setup Response message comprising a first full configuration indicator and a second SN configuration; the CU transmitting a SN Addition Request Acknowledge message comprising the second SN configuration and a second full configuration indicator to the first BS; and the first BS transmitting a RRC message comprising the second SN configuration and a third full configuration indicator to the communication device.
US10856344B2
A method for setting-up a tunnel connection for transporting data packets over a high latency network connection in a communication network comprises the step of, at a module or node configured on a tunnel connection initiator side of the high latency network connection, using a non-TCP connection to encapsulate a set-up connection message for sending to a module or node configured on a core network (CN) side of the backhaul network to offset-up a data packet transport tunnel connection between the initiator side of the high latency network connection and core network (CN) side of the high latency network connection.
US10856340B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to enhanced cell selection mechanisms in mobile communications are described. A user equipment (UE) performs a cell selection or reselection procedure to select a cell of a wireless network and establishes a wireless connection with the selected cell. In performing the cell selection or reselection procedure, the UE determines a frequency band and a subcarrier spacing (SCS) configuration by checking a profile, and the UE performs the cell selection or reselection procedure in the frequency band based on the SCS configuration.
US10856324B2
This application relates to a scheduling method and a device. In the scheduling method, a base station sends, at a first moment, uplink grant (UL GRANT) information to a terminal that is to perform uplink data transmission; the base station sends, at a second moment, downlink data to a terminal that is determined by the base station and that is to perform downlink data transmission, where the second moment is a moment at which the terminal that is to perform uplink data transmission sends uplink data after receiving the uplink grant information at the first moment.
US10856322B2
A terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system which transmits a master information block and a first and a second system information block the first and second system information block comprising first and second scheduling information relating to the timing of at least one additional block of system information. The terminal device configured to receive the master information block of system information that comprises a marker instructing the terminal device to ignore the first scheduling information and process only the second scheduling information.
US10856316B2
The UE receives configuration of a first serving cell and a second serving cell from a network. The UE receives and/or monitors a first PDCCH transmitted on a scheduling CORESET of the second serving cell, wherein the first PDCCH schedules a first PDSCH transmitted on the first serving cell. The UE receives and/or monitors a second PDCCH transmitted on a scheduling CORESET of the second serving cell, wherein the second PDCCH schedules a second PDSCH transmitted on the second serving cell. The UE receives and/or buffers the second PDSCH via a TCI state used for PDCCH quasi co-location indication of the CORESET with the lowest CORESET-ID in the latest slot in which one or more CORESETs are configured for the UE, before the UE decodes successfully the second PDCCH. The UE does not receive and/or buffer the first PDSCH before the UE decodes successfully the first PDCCH.
US10856307B2
Provided is a method for transmitting and receiving downlink pre-emption indication information using a bitmap in a next-generation/5G radio access network. The method may include: receiving monitoring configuration information for downlink pre-emption indication information from a base station; monitoring downlink pre-emption indication information based on the monitoring configuration information; and receiving the downlink pre-emption indication information from the base station, wherein the downlink pre-emption indication information includes a bitmap indicating information on at least one of time-section resources and frequency-section resources in which pre-emption has occurred, among reference downlink resources.
US10856305B2
A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
US10856300B2
A per-transmit time interval (TTI) rank control within a transmission opportunity (TxOP) is described for downlink coordinated multiple point (CoMP) operations. In operation, a base station may determine rank and data rate for communication during a transmission opportunity (TxOP) at the beginning of the TxOP. Each TxOP may include a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs). For each TTI of the TxOP, the base station computes one or more channel quality indicator (CQI) back-offs using one or more outer loop adaptation processes per TTI, and updates rank and the data rate using the CQI back-offs. Once updated, the base station transmits the downlink data during each TTI according to the updated rank and the data rate.
US10856296B2
Some techniques described herein assist a user equipment with acquiring and/or reacquiring, from a base station, a dynamic list of channels to be used for frequency hopping when communicating over an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band, thereby increasing communication reliability and promoting coexistence in the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. Some techniques described herein also assist the user equipment in obtaining the list of channels with low latency (e.g., shortly after the list has changed) and with low power consumption. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10856294B2
A device-to-device data transmission method includes: performing signal detection on a first resource subset of a resource set used for data transmission, where a resource on which the signal detection is performed is less than the resource set; determining an available resource in the resource set based on a signal detection result; and transmitting to-be-transmitted data by selecting a resource from the available resource.
US10856289B2
In an uplink information sending method, a terminal device receives scheduling information sent by an access network device in a first time unit. The terminal device determines a second time unit and a first time offset. The second time unit is after the first time unit, and the second time unit carries downlink information sent by the access network device. The terminal device further determines a third time unit. The third time unit is a time unit that is offset from the second time unit by the first time offset. Further, the terminal device sends first uplink information scheduled by using the scheduling information in the third time unit. In this way, information transmission flexibility and reliability can be improved.
US10856287B2
The application relates to a frame structure for network communication, in particular for device-to-device (D2D) network communication, comprising a control channel, wherein the control channel comprises a first control channel portion associated with a network-assisted communication mode and a second control channel portion associated with an ad-hoc communication mode, and a data channel, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a first communication resource, the first communication resource being associated with the first control channel portion, wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate control data within the control channel over a second communication resource, the second communication resource being associated with the second control channel portion, and wherein the frame structure is configured to communicate payload data within the data channel over a further communication resource.
US10856282B2
An apparatus for use in an eNB, the apparatus includes circuitry to generate an assignment of one or more interlaces to a UE within a cell managed by the eNB, where the one or more interlaces are selected from a total number of interlaces, and an interlace of the total number of interlaces may include multiple resource blocks spanning within a system bandwidth. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to encode the assignment by a bit string including one or more bits, which may be a bitmap or an encoding bit string. The circuitry included in the apparatus is further to transmit the bit string to the UE. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US10856278B2
A method at a first wireless network element, the method receiving, from a second wireless network element, a plurality of packet data units (PDUs) for a user equipment; transmitting the PDUs to the user equipment (UE); compiling a PDU delivery status report in response to the transmitting of the PDUs; and sending the compiled PDU delivery status report to the second wireless network element.
US10856273B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for measuring and reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, a method for reporting CSI by a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises: a step of receiving CSI reporting setting information related to CSI reporting; a step of receiving one or more CSI-reference signals (CSI-RSs); and performing the CSI reporting by using a measurement value estimated by at least one specific CSI-RS among the one or more CSI-RSs, wherein the CSI reporting setting information includes gap information for setting a measurement gap for estimating the measurement value, and the at least one specific CSI-RS can be determined on the basis of the gap information and the time point of performing the CSI reporting.
US10856265B2
In one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for configuring, by a network node, a resource of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system including receiving resource preference information of the UE; configuring a resource for the UE based on the resource preference information; and transmitting, to the UE, a result of configuring the resource for the UE, wherein the configuring of the resource for the UE based on the resource preference information includes, when a plurality of resource operation units in which an entire available resource range is divided into a predetermined number is configured for the UE, selecting a specific resource operation unit among the plurality of resource operation units according to the resource preference information of the UE.
US10856259B2
A first base station receives an uplink signal from a wireless device. The first base station receives a packet for the wireless device: after a duration from receiving the uplink signal; and when the wireless device is in a radio resource control inactive state. A determination is made that the duration is larger than a value. Based on the determining, the first base station sends a radio access network (RAN) paging to a second base station of a RAN notification area of the wireless device. The first base station sends the packet.
US10856254B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and to a system for the scheme. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for instance, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, heath care, digital education, retail business, security- and safety-related service and so forth) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention provides a device and method for supporting paging signal processing using multi-connection in a wireless communication system.
US10856251B2
A user sends a location request to a user of a group that requests the user's current location. For example, one family member may send a location request to another family member that is part of their family group for their current location. The user receiving the request may accept the location request or reject the location request. When the location request is reject, the requesting user is not provided with the current location information of the user. When the location request is accepted, the requesting user is provided with the current location information of the user. In addition to providing the location information to the requesting user, the location may also be shared with other members of the group. For example, a message may be sent to each of the family members that are part of the group that informs them that a member has updated their location.
US10856249B2
The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure.
US10856248B2
A method for selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a public land mobile network (PLMN) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes attempting a registration on a PLMN selected by a user in a manual network selection mode, if the registration on the PLMN selected by the user cannot be achieved, finding one or more PLMNs offering access to restricted local operator service (RLOS), selecting a specific PLMN of the found one or more PLMNs among PLMNs contained in a RLOS PLMN list configured to a universal subscriber identity module (USIM) of the UE, and initiating a registration for an access to RLOS on the specific PLMN, thereby using RLOS with high quality and high security.
US10856245B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting a D2D signal. The method for transmitting a D2D signal according to the present application comprises the step of transmitting a D2D signal in accordance with the D2D resource configuration, wherein a transmission of a different D2D signal may not occur in a subframe for transmitting a synchronization signal.
US10856237B2
A wireless device receives one or more messages comprising configuration parameters. The configuration parameters indicate pathloss reference signals (RSs) for PUSCH pathloss estimation for transmissions via first and second panels. A medium access control control element (MAC CE) is received. The MAC CE indicates first pathloss RSs of the plurality of pathloss RSs for the first panel. The MAC CE indicates second pathloss RSs of the plurality of pathloss RSs for the second panel. A downlink control information (DCI) is received. The DCI indicates a first pathloss RS. The DCI indicates a second pathloss RS. The wireless device transmits, via the first panel, a first uplink transport block with a first uplink transmission power determined based on the first pathloss RS. The wireless device transmits, via the second panel, a second uplink transport block with a second uplink transmission power determined based on the second pathloss RS.
US10856233B2
A method and network entity for extending communication coverage in a network between a network entity and a wireless device. The method includes determining that the wireless device qualifies for coverage extension, the determining including that deriving appropriate transmission parameters for the wireless devices results in one of a lowest possible or most robust modulation and coding scheme (MCS), and determining achievable transmission performance parameters for the wireless device. If the determined achievable transmission performance parameters do not meet a set of pre-established transmission criteria, the downlink transmission power to the wireless device is increased.
US10856220B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations, wherein the second signal processing circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first signal processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more storage elements configured to store context information for the second signal processing circuitry and the one or more storage elements are accessible to the first signal processing circuitry. The apparatus may be configured to select one of the first and second signal processing circuitry based on the complexity of input problems, the amount of transmission resources assigned to the apparatus, etc. In some embodiments, intermediate results of from the second signal processing circuitry are used as inputs to an operation performed by the first signal processing circuitry.
US10856213B2
The disclosure includes a method in a cellular communications network, and a User Equipment, basestation and network management entity for implementing the method, the method comprising: a first basestation transmitting a first message including a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) identifier; determining, for a User Equipment (UE) whether the CSG identifier is present on a first allowed CSG list; determining the allowed service level for the UE, the allowed service level indicating one of at least a first and second allowed service level; and connecting the UE to the first basestation if the CSG identifier is present on the first allowed CSG list, wherein the Quality of Service (QoS) for the UE is dependent on the allowed service level.
US10856211B2
Provided are a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a terminal using the method. The method comprises: determining whether the terminal is located within network coverage; and transmitting information notifying a result of the determination to another terminal. Using this information, said another terminal can know whether the terminal is located within the network coverage and perform the D2D operation on the basis thereof.
US10856205B2
A method includes identifying multiple communication paths extending from a source device and for each path, determining a data rate, a power level used to communicate over at least a portion of the path and a power per data rate value by dividing the power level by the data rate. One of the multiple communication paths is selected such that the selected communication path has the lowest power per data rate value given quality of service requirements of an application. The power per data rate can be optimized from the device perspective as well as an overall network perspective. A message is then sent over the selected communication path.
US10856198B2
A mobility management entity (MME) receives a first message for a wireless device supporting a first number of bearers. In response to receiving the first message, the MME selects a network gateway from a plurality of network gateways, based on a second number of bearers supported by the network gateway. The MME sends, to the network gateway, a create session request message for creating an internet protocol-connectivity access network (IP-CAN) session for the wireless device supporting the first number of bearers. The create session request message comprises an address of the network gateway. The MME receives, from the network gateway, a create session response message confirming creation of the IP-CAN session.
US10856196B2
A method performed by a source master node (MN) in an inter-MN handover procedure is discussed. The method includes transmitting a handover request message to a target MN, wherein the handover request message includes an identifier (ID) of a secondary node (SN), receiving a handover request acknowledge message from the target MN in a response to the handover request message, wherein the handover request acknowledge message includes first information indicating that the SN is kept in the inter-MN handover procedure, and transmitting a SN release request message to the SN, wherein the SN release request message includes second information indicating that the SN is kept in the inter-MN handover procedure.
US10856192B2
A terminal apparatus 1 and a base station apparatus 3 efficiently continue to communicate with each other. The terminal apparatus 1 is a terminal apparatus to be handed over from a source cell to a target cell, and the terminal apparatus is handed over from the source cell to the target cell, and includes a receiver 13 configured to receive a higher layer information mobilityControlInfo including a first uplink grant and a subframe allocation information and a transmitter 13 configured to perform a transmission based on the first uplink grant in one of a plurality of subframes indicated by the subframe allocation information, wherein the subframe allocation information indicates at least one of the plurality of subframes associated with a set having the same number across radio frames.
US10856191B1
A network apparatus may include a memory and processing circuitry configured to receive first connection metrics of a connection with a user equipment that is using a first configuration during a first connected state; receive second connection metrics of the connection with the user equipment during a transition to a second connected state; choose a selected configuration as (i) the first configuration or (ii) a second configuration for the second connection state based on the first connection metrics and the second connection metrics; and send the selected configuration to the user equipment.
US10856182B1
Given first and second base stations that have at least partially geographically-overlapping coverage on at least partially frequency-overlapping carriers, a determination could be made that the first base station supports voice-interworking service in which served UEs could separately receive voice-over-circuit service but that the second base station does not support voice-interworking service. And in response to at least that determination, the second base station could be given priority over the first base station for providing voice-over-packet service.
US10856177B2
A receiver performing a half cyclic prefix (CP) shift on received subframes is disclosed, comprising: an analog to digital conversion (ADC) module; a cyclic prefix (CP) removal module coupled to the ADC module configured to retain a portion of cyclic prefix samples; a fast Fourier transform (FFT) module configured to receive samples from the cyclic prefix removal module, and to perform a FFT procedure on the received samples using a FFT window, the FFT window being shifted ahead based on the retained portion of cyclic prefix samples, to output an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol; and a rotation compensation module coupled to the FFT module, the rotation compensation module configured to perform phase de-rotation of the OFDM symbol.
US10856173B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a session management function (SMF) supports quality of service (QoS). The method can comprise the steps of: determining, on the basis of a QoS flow not being a guaranteed bit rate (GBR) QoS flow in a multi-access (MA) protocol data unit (PDU) session, that a QoS profile is transmitted to both a third generation partnership project (3GPP) access and a non-3GPP access; determining, on the basis of the QoS flow being the GBR QoS flow in the MA PDU session, that the QoS profile is transmitted to only one of the 3GPP access and the non-3GPP access; and transmitting the QoS profile on the basis of the determinations.
US10856169B2
New radio (NR), also known as fifth generation (5G) radio or fifth generation long term evolution (5G LTE)) uses a measurement gap that allows for measurement on different beams, multiple frame structure and inter-radio access technology measurement. For example, in measurement on the different beams, the UE (114) and eNB (304) beam sweep (i.e., change analog beam transmitter). The UE (114) can measure different beams from a fifth generation node B (gNB) and/or other RAN nodes. The measurement gap can be used for intrafrequency/interfrequency measurement when beam specific reference signals (BRSs) are not transmitted in the same subframe. A multiple frame structure can use the specific measurement configuration to utilize the beam resources efficiently. LTE and NR and other interRAT measurement can also use the measurement gap.
US10856164B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for scheduling resources in an unlicensed frequency band, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: receiving a data transmission request from a mobile communication network device; and when a transmission indicated by the data transmission request is a transmission that needs to be responded to, scheduling time-frequency resources for the mobile communication network device in accordance with a predetermined resource scheduling manner, so as to improve a transmission success rate at a specified resource location in the time-frequency resources. According to the present disclosure, the existing technical problem of lowering the channel access priority of the entire cell due to part of terminals which are affected by significant interference can be solved.
US10856161B2
A measuring node, a controlling node and methods for controlling and/or using lean carrier operation with configurable control channel monitoring are disclosed. The method includes determining a presence of at least one user equipment operating based on a configurable control channel monitoring, and controlling a bandwidth based on the determining the presence of at least one user equipment operating based on a configurable control channel monitoring.
US10856152B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.
US10856140B2
A battery-less active and passive hybrid device for secure wireless payment comprising a secure element adapted for storing at least one secure applet and at least one data segment for secure contactless data transaction and operatively connected with an active operation unit and a passive operation unit; and preferably the active operation unit is adapted to be connected removably with the secure element; and wherein the hybrid device is configured to be switchable between an active state in which the active operation unit is activated on demand to enable the hybrid device to function as an active device and adapted for provisioning a personalization information and/or a token of the device to the secure element; and a passive state in which the active operation unit is deactivated and the passive operation unit is activated to enable the hybrid device to function as a passive device and adapted for conducting data verification and/or contactless data transaction operation via the secure element.
US10856138B2
A method of configuring a mobile transceiver, a system, and a mobile transceiver are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method comprising: assigning a device profile to the mobile transceiver, wherein the device profile defines restrictions on alarms configurable for the mobile transceiver; assigning an alarm profile to the mobile transceiver in accordance with the restrictions of the device profile, wherein the alarm profile defines a plurality of alarms, each alarm including a trigger condition and one or more actions; receiving a message from the mobile transceiver; and sending the assigned alarm profile to the mobile transceiver in response to receiving the message from the mobile transceiver.
US10856137B2
There is provided mechanisms for transfer of a network subscription profile from a first subscriber device to a second subscriber device. The method is performed by the first subscriber device. The method comprises establishing a secure binding with the second subscriber device. The method comprises 5 obtaining a request for transfer of the network subscription profile. The method comprises obtaining end-user confirmation of the transfer of the network subscription profile to the second subscriber device. The method comprises deleting the network subscription profile from itself upon transfer of the network subscription profile to the second subscriber device.
US10856127B2
An emergency location information service (E-LIS) for water-based network devices. The E-LIS includes a server application and server network devices that accepts emergency messages from water-based network devices. The water based network devices comprise one or more sensors or one or more actuators, a wireless connection interface including a wireless low power wide-area ultra-narrowband network interface and a wireless low earth orbit satellite network connection interface and is an automated network device capable of sensing is own environment and automatically sending out the one or more emergency messages or one or more emergency text messages without operator input to an E-LIS server network device when an emergency event occurs on a body of water. The E-LIS server network device provides a current physical geographic location for such water-based network devices and/or users of the water-based network devices in an emergency situation on the body of water such as a river, lake, sea, ocean, etc.
US10856124B2
In at least some embodiments, a communication device includes a transceiver with a physical (PHY) layer. The PHY layer is configured for body area network (BAN) operations in a limited multipath environment based on a constant symbol rate for BAN packet transmissions and based on M-ary PSK, differential M-ary PSK or rotated differential M-ary PSK modulation. The PHY layer is configured to transmit and receive data in a frequency band selected from the group consisting of: 402-405 MHz, 420-450 MHz, 863-870 MHz, 902-928 MHz, 950-956 MHz, 2360-2400 MHz, and 2400-2483.5 MHz.
US10856122B2
In one embodiment, a domain controller includes: a quarantine logic to quarantine unknown devices from unrestricted network access, the quarantine logic comprising a first quarantine point at a first layer of a multi-layer communication model; a first logic to communicate with a domain name system (DNS) service to self-allocate and register a domain name with the DNS service, the domain name associated with a domain to be managed by the domain controller; a second logic to manage a group of devices of the domain; and a third logic to receive a provisioning request for a first device via an access point, wherein the access point comprises a second quarantine point at a second layer of the multi-level communication model. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10856117B2
A method and system includes a first radio establishing a group of radios that has a first plurality of radios and the first radio and a second radio not within the group. The first radio generates a first communication signal. The first communication signal includes a first radio identifier and first position data. The first radio receives the first communication signal, determines second position data of the first radio and compares the first position data and the second position data to obtain a distance. The first radio or the second radio broadcasts the first radio identifier and the first position data to the group when the distance is within a predetermined distance in response to comparing.
US10856115B2
A system for aggregating media is provided which includes a server equipped with a processor and memory and having an event database associated with it which contains a plurality of events, wherein each of the plurality of events has a temporal window and geofence associated with it; and a plurality of users, each having associated therewith a mobile technology platform equipped with a display and a memory which communicates with the server. The memory of each mobile technology platform has an instance of a software application is installed which monitors the current location of the user, prompts the user to check into events present in the event database when the user enters a geofence associated with an event within the temporal window associated with the event, associates, with one of the plurality of events, media which was captured by the user while the user was checked into the one of the plurality of events and within the temporal window and geofence associated with the one of the plurality of events, and uploads the captured media to the server.
US10856114B2
A method and system are described for servicing a second line service (“SLS”) based communication request originating from a subscriber's telecommunications device (“TD”) even if the call signal does not include sufficient information to identify the phone number from which the subscriber initiated the call. The method involves associating the SLS phone number of the subscriber, the primary number of the subscriber and the primary number of a third party via a special relationship number.
US10856104B2
An information providing system includes an onboard device and a server configured to transmit and receive information to and from the onboard device. The onboard device includes: one or more first processors configured to acquire a current position and an output mode and to transmit the acquired current position and the acquired output mode to the server; and an output interface configured to output power source station recommendation information received. The server includes: one or more memories configured to store power source station information including position information of a power source station and a power source price detected from a captured image of the power source station; and one or more second processors configured to prioritize power source stations located within a predetermined range from the current position based on the output mode and to provide power source station information of the prioritized power source stations to the onboard device.
US10856097B2
Generating personalized end user head-related transfer function (HRTV) using panoramic images of ear
Left and right ear HRTF coefficients are determined for an end user, one each for each of a plurality of head orientations, and provided to the end user on a portable recording medium, or via the Internet, etc. The user can then implement the files on audio played on the user's headphones, with the file corresponding to the user's head orientation being selected as the user moves his head to ensure the sound as perceived by the user remains emanating from a fixed external location. The user's personal HRTF may be generated using panoramic images of the ears, such as multiple 2D images or 3D imaging.
US10856094B2
A method and an apparatus for locating a sound source are provided. The method includes: obtaining M channels of audio signals of a preset format by microphone arrays located in different planes (S100); preprocessing the M channels of audio signals of the preset format, and projecting them onto the same plane, so as to obtain N channels of audio signals, where M≥N (S200); performing a time-frequency transformation on each of the N channels of audio signals, so as to obtain frequency domain signals of the N channels of audio signals (S300); further calculating a covariance matrix of the frequency domain signals and performing a smoothing process (S400); performing an eigenvalue decomposition of the smoothed covariance matrix (S500); estimating the sound source direction according to an eigenvector corresponding to the maximum eigenvalue, so as to obtain a sound source orientation parameter (S600).
US10856085B2
A microphone and its manufacturing method, relating to semiconductor techniques. The microphone comprises a substrate with a back through-hole going through the substrate; a first electrode layer on the substrate covering the back through-hole; a back plate on the substrate, wherein the back plate and the first electrode layer form a cavity, and the first electrode layer comprises a gap connecting the back through-hole and the cavity; and a second electrode layer in the cavity and on a bottom surface of the back plate. In this inventive concept, the gap in the first electrode layer increases the sensitivity of the first electrode layer and thus improves the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR).
US10856081B2
A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10856080B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for reducing echo in an audio signal. One representative embodiment involves obtaining an input signal, an estimate of a system-characterizing function, and a reference signal, each at a corresponding sample rate and each divided into a plurality of sub-bands; separately processing such sub-bands, where for a given sub-band the estimate of the system-characterizing function and the reference signal are processed to generate an echo-estimation signal and then the echo-estimation signal is subtracted from the input signal to provide an echo-corrected signal for such given sub-band; and combining the echo-corrected signal from each of different ones of the plurality of the sub-bands to provide a final output signal, with the echo-estimation signal generated using a processing sample rate that is lower than the sample rate for the input signal.
US10856079B2
A system and method for processing and enhancing utility of a sound mask noise signal, including generating, by a signal processor, the sound mask noise signal by modulating a noise signal with embedded additional information, outputting, by a plurality of audio speakers, sound signals comprising the sound mask noise signal with the embedded additional information; and receiving, by one or more microphones, the outputted sound signals comprising the sound mask noise signal, wherein an impulse response between each audio speaker and each microphone is measured in real time based on the embedded additional information.
US10856075B2
An apparatus including at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code configured to: when the apparatus is in a voice phone call mode of sound capture, output a signal from a first microphone as a primary speech signal, and select one or more second microphones to output a noise reduction signal, where the apparatus comprises at least two of the second microphones, and where selection of the one or more second microphones is based at least partially upon a determined use of the apparatus being either a handportable or an integrated handsfree use; and/or when the apparatus is in a multi-media mode of sound capture select one or more of the microphones to output audio signals based upon both a determined type of sound capture feature being used by the apparatus and based upon a determined orientation of the apparatus.
US10856066B2
The invention discloses an earphone device comprising a first case, a first speaker unit, a first recording unit, and a second recording unit. The first speaker unit, disposed inside the first case, emits a first testing sound signal according to a test command. The first recording unit, disposed inside the first case, records a first environment sound signal according to a record command or a noise cancelling command. The second recording unit, disposed inside the first case, records a first feedback sound signal, related to the first testing sound signal, according to the test command.
US10856058B2
A method for switching data signals transmitted over a transport network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of input data signals of a first signal type wherein the plurality of data signals of the first signal type comprises data signals exchanged between a Radio Equipment and a Radio Equipment Controller and aggregating the plurality of input data signals into an aggregated first data signal. The method also comprises receiving a second data signal of a second signal type different to the first signal type, and multiplexing the first data signal with the second data signal to form a combined data signal. The method further comprises forwarding the combined data signal to the transport network. Multiplexing the first data signal with the second data signal comprises, for a frame of the combined data signal, allocating the first data signal to a portion of the frame reserved for the first data signal, and allocating the second data signal to a remaining portion of the frame.
US10856054B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for secure and efficient data transmission across local area networks
In some embodiments, a method includes establishing a connection between a digital content control device that is part of a first LAN and an RCM server. A first authentication code is transmitted from the digital content control device to the RCM server via the network connection such that the RCM server: a) validates the first authentication code, and b) transmits a second authentication code to the digital content control device via the network connection. Using the first authentication code and the second authentication code, a secure two-way communication channel is established between the digital content control device and the RCM server. A set of auxiliary content is received at the digital content control device and from a content provider of a second LAN via the RCM server to be presented with the available programming content on the at least one media device.
US10856053B1
A computer-implemented method for optimizing the placement of previously selected breaks in a media item is provided herein. Embodiments of the method include steps of identifying a break in a media item, the break being associated with a first break point at a first time during playback of the media item. The method may also include steps of dynamically adjusting the placement of the breaks within the media item based on the performance of the media item.
US10856047B2
A system and method for providing awareness in a hospitality environment are presented. In one embodiment, a vertical and horizontal array of set-top boxes is provided and each set-top box includes an identification corresponding to the room in which the set-top box is placed. Each set-top box includes an infrared receiver that receives an infrared signal from a proximate wireless-enabled programmable device and responsive thereto, transmits a data packet including set-top box identification and a proximate wireless-enabled programmable device identification. A server determines the location of the proximate wireless-enabled programmable device based on the data packet.
US10856045B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for handling exceptions reported by media device meters. An example apparatus includes a static display detector to determine whether current measurements for a media presentation device at a time corresponding to an exception reported by a media device meter indicate the media presentation device was in a static display state at the time corresponding to the exception. The example apparatus includes a muted viewing detector to determine whether the media presentation device was in a muted viewing state at the time of the exception based on an audio level associated with the media presentation device, and an exception modifier to determine whether to modify the exception based on whether the media presentation device was in the static display state and whether the media presentation device was in a muted viewing state at the time of the exception.
US10856039B2
Disclosed is method of transmitting wireless variable AV according to channel environment, the AV format, code rate, and modulation index based on the lookup table according to the data rate. The modulation index, AV format, code rate, and output level may be adjusted step by step based on an SNR and/or a BER to provide a high quality image according to a channel environment.
US10856027B2
Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach for different unions based on marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes an association controller to generate a tree association corresponding to a union of a first and second margin of time; and one or more commercial solvers to perform parallel computations on a processor to determine first multipliers corresponding to a total number of panelists exposed to media at the first margin, the second margin, and the union by solving first equations corresponding to the tree association; discard a first multiplier and a second multiplier of the first multipliers corresponding to the first margin and the second margin; perform parallel computation on the processor to determine second multipliers corresponding to a total audience exposed to the media at the first margin and the second margin by solving second equations corresponding to the tree association, the second system of equations including a subset of the first multipliers; and determine an estimate for a population reach of the union based on the second multipliers.
US10856020B2
Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming using alternative streams of protected content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a processor, and memory containing a client application. In addition, the client application configures the processor to: request a top level index file identifying a plurality of alternative streams of protected content, where each of the alternative streams of protected content are encrypted using common cryptographic information; obtain the common cryptographic information; request portions of content from at least the plurality of alternative streams of protected content; access the protected content using the common cryptographic information; and playback the content.
US10856001B2
A polygon unit-based image processing method, and a device for the same are disclosed. Specifically, a method for decoding an image on the basis of a polygon unit can comprise the steps of: deriving a motion vector predictor for a polygon apex forming the polygon unit; deriving a motion vector for the polygon apex on the basis of a motion vector difference for the polygon apex and the motion vector predictor; and deriving a prediction sample for the polygon unit from a division unit, which is specified by the motion vector, in a reference picture.
US10855988B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for providing improved video or image encoding, including adaptive prediction structures for encoding video frames. In some examples, systems, methods, and computer-readable media can include obtaining a sequence of frames; determining, based on frame statistics associated with a first frame in the sequence of frames, a prediction structure for encoding the sequence of frames, the prediction structure defining an order in which frames in the sequence of frames are encoded and a prediction distance representing a maximum distance permitted between referencing frames and reference frames in the sequence of frames, and the frame statistics indicating an amount of motion in the first frame. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media can also include encoding one or more of the sequence of frames based on the prediction structure.
US10855987B2
A system and method of processing video data: produce, on the basis of the video data, descriptive data regarding a variation in a characteristic luminance of the video data, wherein the characteristic luminance summarizes the set of luminances of pixels in an image of the video data, wherein the descriptive data identifies the at least one change time instant, wherein the change time instant indicates a time at which a change of the characteristic luminance occurs; and encode and output the descriptive data.
US10855984B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus which includes a setting unit assigning a control block, which is a control unit of a filter process that is locally performed with respect to an image, to an initial position of the image determined based on a predetermined reference point; a movement unit moving the control block, which has been assigned to the initial position of the image by the setting unit, up to a position in which the result of the filter process is improved; and a filter processing unit performing the filter process for the respective control blocks which has been moved by the movement unit.
US10855982B2
The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method intended to be capable of suppressing deterioration in image quality. [Solution] A predicated image is generated using inter-prediction and constrained intra-prediction, the inter-prediction using as a reference image an image of a past frame processed before a current frame, the constrained intra-prediction using no neighboring pixels subjected to inter-prediction, the image of the past frame being encoded, stored in a frame memory, read from the frame memory, and then decoded. The present disclosure is applicable to, in one example, an image processing apparatus, an image coding apparatus, or the like.
US10855980B2
[Problem] Both the synchronization between multiple devices for the timing in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image forming a medical image are displayed and the suppression of the delay in presenting an image to a predetermined viewer are enabled.[Solution] A medical-image display control device includes: a display controller that controls a medical image so as to be displayed on a slave-side display unit; and an acquiring unit that acquires, from another device including a master-side display unit different from the slave-side display unit, a synchronization signal that corresponds to timing in which the other device displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image on the master-side display unit, and the display controller controls a left-eye image and a right-eye image so as to be displayed on the slave-side display unit in a time-division manner in accordance with the acquired synchronization signal.
US10855976B2
Provided is a glass-free stereoscopic image display device herein. The glass-free stereoscopic image display device may include: a display module that displays a stereoscopic image through a cover including a lenticular lens including multiple convex lenses; and a processor that controls the display module, wherein the processor provides a stereoscopic image by controlling a left-eye image pixel and a right-eye image pixel of the display module on the basis of a lens pitch indicating a distance between the multiple convex lenses, and the cover is provided on a front surface of the user device to be combined with the user device.
US10855973B1
A depth camera assembly (DCA) determines distances between the DCA and objects in a local area within a field of view of the DCA. The DCA projects a series of sinusoidal patterns into the local area DCA and captures images of the sinusoidal patterns via a sensor. The DCA determines a distance between the DCA and locations in the local area based on a phase shift each of the sinusoidal patterns captured by each pixel of the sensor. Initially, a calibration offset is determined for each pixel of the sensor by emitting the sinusoidal patterns onto a target at a predetermined distance from the DCA and using phase shifts for a pixel and the predetermined distance to determine the pixel's calibration offset.
US10855971B2
Embodiments of the present invention create a three-dimensional virtual model by a user identifying a three-dimensional object, capturing a plurality of two-dimensional images of said object in succession, said plurality of images being captured from different orientations, recording said plurality of images on a storage medium, determining the relative change in position of said plurality of images by comparing two subsequent images, wherein the relative change is determined by a difference in color intensity values between the pixels of one image and another image, generating a plurality of arrays from the difference determined and generating a computer image from said plurality of arrays, wherein said computer image represents said three-dimensional object.
US10855965B1
A segmented 3D multi-view image generator generates fewer multi-view view images for partitions having less salient features. Saliency values are calculated based on a depth map and image processing of the input image. The saliency values are compared to thresholds to map pixel locations to first, second, and third partitions. First, second, and third segmented images are created from the input image using a partition map. A multi-view generator uses the depth map and viewer eye locations to generates 28 view images from the first segmented image, 14 unique view images from the second segmented image that are replicated to 28 view images, and 7 unique view images from the third segmented image that are replicated to 28 view images. The view images for each segment are interlaced to generated interlaced segmented images that are then integrated together into a single 3D image that drives a 28-view autostereoscopic display.
US10855961B2
A projection device includes: a plate shaped member that is thermally conductive; a light emitting element that is disposed upon the plate shaped member and emits light; a bending member that bends light from the light emitting element into an orientation parallel to the plate shaped member; a modulation element that modulates light bent by the bending member; and a polarized light separation element that bends light modulated by the modulation element into an orientation going away from the plate shaped member.
US10855959B2
An image sensing device includes a pixel array of a 4×4 pixel unit including first to fourth sub-pixel arrays of 2×2 pixels. The first and second sub-pixel arrays are arranged in a first diagonal direction, and the third and fourth sub-pixel arrays are arranged in a second diagonal direction intersecting the first diagonal direction. The first and second sub-pixel arrays have a first color pattern, and the third and fourth sub-pixel arrays have second and third color patterns, respectively, and each of the first to third color patterns includes two or more colors.
US10855956B2
A system and a method are provided that prevent a wrong panel of a structure such as an aircraft from being opened for inspection of an interior of the structure. A system includes a computer, a portable terminal and a camera configured to capture an image of a structure with panels attached to generate a first image and capture another image of the structure with a predetermined panel among the panels removed to generate a second image and configured to send the first image and the second image to the computer. The computer combines the first image and the second image to generate a third image and sends the third image to the portable terminal. The portable terminal displays the third image. In the third image, the predetermined panel is translucently shown with at least one component at an interior of the predetermined panel being seen through.
US10855954B2
A periphery monitoring device according to an embodiment includes storage that stores therein image data generated by an imager mounted on a vehicle; a switching controller that switches between a first display mode in which current image data currently generated by the imager is displayed and a second display mode in which past image data previously generated by the imager is displayed, for display of the image data stored in the storage; and an output that outputs information to a display device at the time of switching between the first display mode for displaying the current image data being currently generated by the imager and the second display mode for displaying the past image data previously generated by the imager. The information represents a transition of the image data between when the past image data is generated and when the current image data is generated.
US10855950B1
High bandwidth push-cables for high speed image or video data transmission between a camera head and a cable reel or camera control unit (CCU) are disclosed.
US10855947B2
An audio-video control system comprises a first audio sensor, a controller, an audio player, a first motion sensor and a processor. The first audio sensor receives a first audio signal in a first area when the first audio sensor is enabled. The controller determines whether the first audio sensor receives the first audio signal. The first motion sensor detects a motion of a first object in the first area to generate a first motion detecting signal. The controller enables the first audio sensor according to the first motion detecting signal. The processor controls the first and second devices via a local area network, controls the audio player to play an audio notifying signal according to the first motion detecting signal, and processes the first audio signal to obtain a control signal to selectively control the first device or the second device when the source of the first audio signal corresponds to the first account.
US10855944B2
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a light receiving element, a reading gate, a former-stage storage unit, a latter-stage storage unit, a floating diffusion, an amplification transistor, a reset transistor, and an address transistor. The former-stage storage unit stores a signal charge read from the light receiving element. The latter-stage storage unit stores the signal charge transported from the former-stage storage unit. The floating diffusion converts the signal charge transferred from the latter-stage storage unit into a signal voltage.
US10855932B2
An example holographic video recording system comprises: a first group of cameras positioned at a first position, a second group of cameras positioned at a second position, and a third group of camera including a third infrared camera. The first group of cameras includes a first infrared camera and a first color camera; the second group of cameras includes a second infrared camera and a second color camera; and the third group of camera includes a third infrared camera spatially positioned between the first and second infrared cameras. A depth map may be calculated using the first infrared camera and the second infrared camera in accordance with determining that an object is beyond a predefined distance from the holographic video recording system; or the first infrared camera and the third infrared camera in accordance with determining that the object is within the predefined distance from the holographic video recording system.
US10855924B2
Electronic device, control method thereof, and storage medium for setting exposure control parameter
There is provided an electronic device. A setting unit is able to set a setting value for at least one exposure control parameter among aperture, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity in 1/n-stop increments (where n is an integer greater than or equal to 8). A display control unit carries out control so that the setting value for the exposure control parameter set in 1/n-stop increments is displayed as a numerical value in one-stop increments and a fraction serving as a stop expression indicative of a stop that is less than one stop.
US10855909B2
A method for obtaining a binocular panoramic image is performed at an electronic apparatus. The method includes: obtaining first and second panoramic images acquired by two panoramic cameras; obtaining at least one group of a first pixel located in the first panoramic image and a second pixel located in the second panoramic image; calculating a distance between the first pixel and the second pixel in each group, and obtaining depth information corresponding to the two panoramic image according to the distance between the first pixel and the second pixel; obtaining a second monocular panoramic image through mapping by using one of the two panoramic images as a first monocular panoramic image, in combination with the corresponding depth information and a preset pupil distance between a first eye and a second eye; and displaying the first monocular panoramic image and the second monocular panoramic image in corresponding display regions.
US10855898B2
A lens apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a movable member holding at least one of lenses and configured to move in a direction including a component perpendicular to an optical axis of the imaging optical system, a fixed member whose movement in the direction is restricted, a coil provided at one of the movable member and the fixed member, a magnet provided at the other of the movable member and the fixed member, and a first shield member configured to cover at least a part of the coil as viewed in a direction parallel to the optical axis and as viewed in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis. At least a part of the first shield member being arranged closer to an image plane than the coil, and a predetermined conditional expression is satisfied.
US10855896B1
A camera assembly for determining depth information for a local area includes a light source assembly, a camera assembly, and a controller. The light source assembly projects pulses of light into the local area. The camera assembly images a portion of the local area illuminated with the pulses. The camera assembly includes augmented pixels, each augmented pixel having a plurality of gates and at least some of the gates have a respective local storage location. An exposure interval of each augmented pixel is divided into intervals associated with the gates, and each local storage location stores image data during a respective interval. The controller reads out, after the exposure interval of each augmented pixel, the image data stored in the respective local storage locations of each augmented pixel to generate image data frames. The controller determines depth information for the local area based in part on the image data frames.
US10855894B2
Described herein are embodiments of a mobile device case that allows a mobile device camera to view and/or capture images from multiple fields of view. The case may allow the mobile device camera to simultaneously capture image information from multiple different directions relative to the camera or mobile device. The fields of view may not be contiguous fields of view, such that there is a gap or other discontinuity between the fields of view. One field of view may be a field visible from or facing a surface of the mobile device on which the camera is disposed (e.g., the back of the mobile device) and another field of view may be one visible from or facing a different surface of the mobile device. Also described are embodiments of techniques for configuring a mobile device to capture and/or process images from multiple fields of view.
US10855888B2
A computer system for providing on-demand sign-language translation services receives a first audio recording of ambient noise. The computer system then accesses a database of audio fingerprints. Using the audio fingerprints, the computer system identifies within the first audio recording a particular audio fingerprint from the database of audio fingerprints. The computer system then identifies within the particular audio fingerprint a particular timestamp associated with the first audio recording. The computer system accesses a database of translated audio. The computer system accesses a portion of the translated audio that corresponds with the particular time stamp. The computer system then displays on a user interface the portion of the translated audio.
US10855885B2
An image processing apparatus includes a skin area detection unit configured to detect a skin area of an object person, a difference area detection unit configured to detect a difference area between the visible light image and the infrared light image, a correction target area detection unit configured to detect a correction target area of the object person based on the skin area detected by the skin area detection unit and the difference area detected by the difference area detection unit, and a correction unit configured to correct the correction target area in the visible light image.
US10855882B2
An image processing apparatus processes input image data and generates output image data. The image processing apparatus includes a feature-value calculating unit, an output-gradation-number setting unit, and an image processor. The feature-value calculating unit calculates a feature value from the input image data. The output-gradation-number setting unit sets, as the number of output gradations, any one gradation number of candidates for the number of output gradations based on the feature value calculated by the feature-value calculating unit. The image processor processes the input image data and generates the output image data having the number of output gradations which is set by the output-gradation-number setting unit.
US10855880B2
This image forming apparatus determines, in accordance with state information indicating the state of the image forming apparatus, whether or not a timing for executing an authentication process of a removable cartridge has arrived. Furthermore, if the timing for executing a cartridge authentication process has arrived, this image forming apparatus obtains authentication information regarding authentication from the cartridge, and determines, from the authentication information, whether or not an authentication process is required to be executed. When an authentication process has been executed, an authentication result is written in a storage area of the cartridge.
US10855875B2
An apparatus including a control device, a first processing device, a second processing device, and one or more memories, wherein the first processing device issues a signal based on the first processing device having processed a predetermined amount of data in received image data so that an engine controller starts to obtain image data from the one or more memories, wherein the control device provides dummy data to the first processing device so that the first processing device processes the dummy data and issues the signal, wherein the control device provides to the one or more memories, not via the first or second processing device, image data to be printed, wherein the second processing device discards the dummy data processed by the first processing device, and wherein the engine controller obtains the image data to be printed from the one or more memories.
US10855861B2
One example includes a device that is comprised of a cover housing, a reflective sheet, a coupler, and a fastener. The reflective sheet may hold media against a planar transparent scanning area of the device. The coupler may removably attach the reflective sheet to the cover housing, the coupler having a resilient member to exert an axial restoring force between the reflective sheet and the cover housing. The fastener may fix the coupler to the reflective sheet.
US10855860B2
An image forming apparatus includes a touchpanel, and a controller that pops up a screen, on the touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, information that identifies a job ready for execution and a button that is adapted to stop the execution of the job.
US10855859B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a transmission unit that transmits an object to a particular external device connected to the apparatus; and a guidance output unit that predicts a setting item that should be changed in a case where the object is not transmitted to the particular external device, and that outputs guidance information that suggests changing the setting item.
US10855855B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image reading unit and a controller. The image reading unit reads an image on a document to create image data. The controller executes a character conversion process on the image data created by the image reading unit to extract information on a character string included in the image and creates first document data corresponding to the extracted character string based on the extracted information on the character string. When the character string successively includes a first character string and at least one second character string identical to the first character string, the controller creates second document data where document data corresponding to the second character string has been deleted from the first document data using the first document data.
US10855853B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acceptance unit configured to accept an input of user information, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an e-mail address of a user identified based on the user information accepted by the acceptance unit, a first setting unit configured to set a destination of a first e-mail transmitted with an attachment of image data, a second setting unit configured to set a destination of a second e-mail for making notification of completion of transmission of the first e-mail, and a control unit configured to perform control such that a destination of the first e-mail is restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit, but a destination of the second e-mail is not restricted to the e-mail address acquired by the acquisition unit.
US10855841B1
A first communication device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive, during a first call with a second communication device, an indication of a second call from a third communication device. The processor is further configured to monitor the first call, in response to the indication of the second call, for a pause in speech of at least a threshold duration. The processor is further configured to initiate, in response to detecting the pause in speech of at least the threshold duration, an audio message indicating call information associated with the second call.
US10855835B1
A computing system predicts a need of a customer based at least in part on a location of the customer, recommend a physical location to the customer based on the predicted need using location-based costs of living, and recommending offers to merchants based on historical activities of a plurality of customers.
US10855833B2
A data processing system that, in one embodiment, uses smart reminders to allow a user to decline an incoming phone or messaging call and to cause the system to set a smart reminder about the call. In one embodiment, the system can use the system's current state or context (e.g. the system is in a car or is playing a movie) to determine the type of reminder options to present to the user and to determine when to trigger the reminder based on the reminder option that is selected by the user.
US10855814B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station and wireless device may communicate capability information associated with a wireless device. The capability information may include information indicating support for an Ethernet type packet data unit session or header parameter compression. An Ethernet type packet data unit session may be instantiated based on the capability information.
US10855811B2
For information processing, a network device includes a first communication component that is connected with a server via a first type of access network, and performs an information interaction with the server. The network device further includes a second communication component that is connected to the first communication component. The second communication component connects with at least one terminal device and performs an information interaction with the at least one terminal device by sending information based on an information interaction with the server.
US10855806B2
A proxy, such as a proxy server or proxy server application executed on a user device may inject code into web content for execution by a web browser. The injected code may perform functions such as tracking and reporting interaction with the web content and browser-level filtering of the web content. The web browser may execute the injected code to track and report user interaction with the web content and to filter web content delivered to the web browser.
US10855803B2
Techniques for evaluating performance of reviewing events in a network community are described herein. The disclosed techniques include authorizing a first user account to review the events in the network community for a first valid period; monitoring information associated with the first user account reviewing the events in the network community; generating data indicative of review behaviors associated with the first user account during at least a part of the first valid period based at least in part on the information and predetermined parameters of evaluating performance; determining values of a plurality of evaluation coefficients based on the generated data and predetermined rules; and determining a performance evaluation result for the first user account based on the generated data and the values of the plurality of evaluation coefficients.
US10855802B2
Computing systems and processes of creating provisional account profiles of users are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a computing system is configured to detect at least one ingoing or outgoing communication to or from a first globally unique identifier of a first user that has not already linked to an account of said service. In response to said detection, the computing system is configured to create a provisional user profile for the first user linked to the first globally unique identifier and gather public information associated with the first user from one or more third-party sources outside said service. When the first user joins said service, the computing system can be configured to allocate the provisional user profile to an account belonging to the first user linked to the first globally unique identifier.
US10855799B2
Systems and methods for managing network connections and priorities based on device profiles are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive instrumentation data from a plurality of devices coupled to the IHS via a network; receive observation data from the plurality of devices; correlate the observation data with the instrumentation data; and configure communications between the IHS and one or more the plurality of devices based, at least in part, upon the correlation.
US10855791B2
A request that indicates a component that can be quiesced is received at a first node. It is determined that quiescence of the component might impact an endpoint. A request for identification of at least one path between a second node and the endpoint is sent to the second node. It is determined, based on a response received from the second node, whether the endpoint will be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced. In response to a determination that the endpoint will be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced, a positive analysis outcome is indicated. In response to a determination that the endpoint will not be accessible to the second node if the component is quiesced, a negative analysis outcome is indicated.
US10855783B2
In some embodiments, a real-time and interactive preview of alerts is provided in a user interface. A computer system parses a set of rules that specifies an alert definition. Each rule identifies a set of observations and an alert trigger criterion based on user input in the user interface. For a rule, the computer system accesses historical data corresponding to the set of observations identified by the rule and determines, based on an analysis of the historical data, time points that trigger alerts over a time period according to the rule. The analysis is based on the alert trigger criterion identified by the rule. The computer system aggregates, based on the alert definition, the time points determined for the rule with time points determined for another rule from the set of rules. Further, the computer system generates an alert preview over the time period for presentation at the user interface.
US10855779B2
There is provided an information processing system in which, when a service server receives a request for invalidating a cloud user authority to use a first function, the cloud user authority to use the first function is invalidated, and a local user authority is invalidated.
US10855777B2
Systems and methods for a client-server system including a client and a runtime server to provide extended management services utilizing declarative service management plugins. The client may transmit client service data associated with a set of extension declarations of a service plugin package using a client service plugin. The runtime server may add the set of extension declarations to the first set of the management services. The runtime server may receive the client service data from the client. The runtime server may provide a management service of a set of management services for the client that may be based on the client service data and a subset of the set of extension declarations corresponding to the first management service. The first subset of the set of extension declarations may specify how the first management service is provided to the client.
US10855775B2
According to at least one aspect, a system configured to execute a software robot such that interactive actions may be performed by the software robot without interruption is provided. The system comprises at least one hardware processor configured to execute an operating system. The system further comprises at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions configured to execute in a service session in the operating system that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, causes the at least one hardware processor to: start a first remote desktop session in the operating system, establish a loopback remote desktop connection between the first remote desktop session and the service session, and start a software robot computer program in the first remote desktop session.
US10855772B2
A communication system comprises: a hub apparatus configured to communicate with at least one external device; a terminal configured to establish a connection with the hub apparatus to control the at least one external device; and a vehicle configured to establish a connection with the hub apparatus to control the at least one external device, determine whether there is an overlapped control target with a control target of the terminal among the at least one external device, and when it is determined that there is the overlapped control target, take priority to control the overlapped control target.
US10855765B2
Organizing and publishing content in a content management system wherein content, including text, images and video, is received and segmented into content atoms. One or more tags are associated with the content atoms to allow device specific presentation of the content atoms.
US10855756B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering both PMP communications, for example standard cellular communications via a base station, and also delivering P2P communications, for example, communications between two mobile stations, using the same spectral resources for both types of communication.
US10855752B2
A method uses web servers to promulgate information from one server to another, instead of promulgating the information by the user to each server individually. A first server receives a first request for promulgating web-information from a user, locally promulgates the web-information, and sends a second request to at least one second website server to instruct the second website server to locally promulgate the web-information. The selection of the second server is done according to a preset configuration file which includes a relationship mapping between the first website server and the second website server. The relationship mapping may provide the user information related to the second website server based on the user information related to the first website server. The present disclosure further discloses a communication apparatus and a communication system.
US10855750B2
A single centralized metadata repository for an entire enterprise can maintain the metadata pertaining to various different web service applications on application servers of heterogeneous types within the enterprise. The metadata items stored in the centralized repository all can be stored in a same canonical format that can be expected and understood by all metadata accessors. The metadata maintained within the central repository can be given a life span that is linked with the life span of the web service application to which that metadata pertains. When a web service application is deployed on an application server, metadata pertaining to that webservice can be pushed automatically to the central repository for storage. When such a web service application is undeployed from an application server, the metadata pertaining to that webservice can be removed automatically from the central repository so as not to waste storage space.
US10855740B1
Computer-aided identification of a potential problem node in a network. As part of data collection, a computing system gathers telemetric and trace route data for communications that occur within a network. Upon detecting that a performance problem has occurred within the network, multiple communications that occurred around the time of the performance problem are identified. Then, the trace route data for these multiple communications are aggregated. The aggregated data may then be used to identify a potential problem network node within the network. The identity of the potential problem network node (and potentially observed telemetry for that network node) may then be communicated to an entity that is affected by the performance problem. This may allow the entity to understand which network node is causing the problem and thus take appropriate remedial measures.
US10855737B2
There is provided mechanisms for controlling media transcoding of a media session between at least two media transceiver devices. The method is performed by a network node. The method comprises obtaining, from at least one of the media transceiver devices, an indication of current allocation of energy for performing playback of the media session in the at least one of the media transceiver devices. The method comprises controlling transcoding of the media session according to the current allocation of energy of the at least one media transceiver device. The transcoding comprises either conversion from a first media format to a second media format of same media type, or conversion from a first media type to a second media type.
US10855734B2
The invention relates to the field of remote management of devices, and devices for implementing the method. In particular the invention relates to a lifeline connection for remote manageable devices, which lifeline connection can be used to re-establish a communication that has been lost between a remote configuration management server and a remote manageable device.
US10855730B2
A system and method for using both video and periodically refreshed images in a video surveillance system is described herein the method comprising receiving a first request from a first device at a first camera for a first video stream generated by the first camera to be transmitted using a first communication path; beginning the process of establishing the first communications path from the first camera to the first device; establishing second communications path from the first camera to the first device while the first communications path is being established, wherein the second communications path can be used to transmit a plurality of periodically refreshed images while the first communications path is being established; transmitting the plurality of periodically refreshed images from the first camera to the first device using the second communications path while the first communications path is being established; and transmitting the first video stream from the first camera to the first device using the first communications path once it has been established, and then shutting down the transmission of the plurality of periodically refreshed images using the second communications path.
US10855729B2
A system for data communications comprising a handset having a processor, a wireless communications device, a speaker and a microphone and one or more software applications operating on the processor that are configured to interface with a voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) service. A wireless access point coupled to the handset through a local wireless communications media and the wireless communications device, the wireless access point further coupled to a long range wireless communications media and configured to interface with a server that provides VoLTE calling functionality.
US10855727B2
A video call mediating method includes: connecting, by a first terminal and a second terminal, to a video call platform; extracting a first identifier (ID) of a user of the first terminal and a second ID of a user of the second terminal, that is not displayed on the first terminal and the second terminal, during a video call; creating a first identification code for the first terminal and a second identification code of the second terminal from the first ID and the second ID, respectively; establishing a first video call session between the first terminal and the second terminal; creating a first image and a second image corresponding to the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, with reference to the first identification code and the second identification code, respectively; and displaying the first image and the second image on a display of the first terminal and on a display of the second terminal, respectively.
US10855724B2
Virtual machines are launched in a public cloud software marketplace by a user purchasing a software product. The virtual machines are automatically provisioned and configured upon launching. One virtual machine generates a public/private key pair, and key-based SSH communications is securely established between the virtual machines without the necessity of insecurely transferring the private key over an insecure public communications channel.
US10855720B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein provide a method and an apparatus for managing a non-integrity protected message. The method includes receiving a reject cause message from a first public land mobile network (PLMN) in response to a transmission of a registration request message to the first PLMN, re-attempting the transmission of the registration request message to one of the first PLMN and a second PLMN, receiving registration accept message from one of the first PLMN and the second PLMN in response to the re-attempting, and resetting a counter maintained for the first PLMN by the UE.
US10855717B1
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer readable mediums for intelligent and directed dynamic application security testing. The systems, methods and computer-readable mediums can be configured to receive an attack location and an attack type for a web-application, transmit the attack location and attack type to a ID-DAST platform, receive from the ID-DAST platform a payload, attack the web-application using the payload, and receive results of the attack.
US10855713B2
Implementations described herein disclose a system for providing personalized threat protection for users of computer applications. An implementation of a method disclosed herein includes analyzing usage pattern of an application by a client to determine various application functionalities used by the client, identifying security threats related to the various application functionalities used by the client, and changing the configuration settings of the application for the client based on the plurality of security threats.
US10855702B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system is provided that may be utilized in a threat mitigation system. The method may include displaying initial security-relevant information that includes analytical information. The method may also include allowing a third-party to manipulate the initial security-relevant information with automation information. The method may further include generating revised security-relevant information that includes the automation information.
US10855698B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains simulation environment data regarding traffic generated within a simulation environment in which malware is executed. The device trains a malware detector using the simulation environment data. The device obtains deployment environment characteristics of a network to which the malware detector is to be deployed. The device configures the malware detector to ignore data in the simulation environment data that is associated with one or more environment characteristics that are not present in the deployment environment characteristics.
US10855692B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity, the monitoring comprising monitoring at least one of the plurality of electronically-observable actions via a protected endpoint; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating an adaptive trust profile based upon the action of the entity.
US10855678B2
Temporary biometric templates for maintaining a user authenticated state are described herein. In some implementation, an electronic device receives an input to unlock using a first secure authentication technique to initiate a current unlock session. A temporary biometric template of a biometric feature of a user unlocking the electronic device is created effective to initiate a user authenticated state. The biometric feature of the user associated with the temporary biometric template is tracked during the current unlock session. The user authenticated state is maintained based on a comparison of the tracked biometric feature of the user with the biometric feature of the temporary biometric template. When the biometric feature of the user can no longer be tracked, the user authenticated state is terminated and the temporary biometric template is invalidated.
US10855672B2
A first login request for the first service is received at a first server that provides a first service and from a terminal. Device identifier information of the terminal is generated by a hardware processor at the first server. The device identifier information of the terminal is associated, by the hardware processor at the first server, with first login state information. The first login state information indicates that the terminal has logged into the first server. The device identifier information and the first login state information are transmitted to a second server. The second server provides a second service that has a trusted login relationship with the first service.
US10855669B2
Disclosed are various approaches for relaying and caching authentication credentials. A single sign-on (SSO) token is received, the SSO token representing a user account authenticated with an identity manager. An authentication request is then sent to a service that is federated with the identity manager in response to receipt of the SSO token, the authentication request including the SSO token. An access token is received in response to the authentication request, the access token providing access to the service for the user account authenticated with the identity manager for a predefined period of time. The access token and a link between the access token and the SSO token are then cached.
US10855665B2
The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that effectuate a simple protocol for tangible security on mobile devices. The system can include devices that generate sets of keys and associated secret identifiers, employs the one or more keys to encrypt a secret and utilizes the identifiers and encryptions of the secret to populate a table associated with a security token device that is used in conjunction with a mobile device to release sensitive information persisted on the mobile device for user selected purposes.
US10855664B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for proximity-based logical access. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, by a mobile electronic device, a request from a server system to approve a session for a logical resource accessed by a second electronic device. In response to receiving the request, the mobile electronic device, initiates communication over a wireless communication link using a radio of the mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device receives data from the second electronic device over the wireless communication link, the received data from the second electronic device indicating a session identifier. After receiving the data from the second electronic device, the mobile electronic device provides a response to the server system that indicates approval of the session and indicates the session identifier.
US10855663B2
A method for encrypting data when a device is offline is disclosed. In the method, a determination is made as to whether a successful connection with a remote server computer can or cannot be made. If a connection cannot be made, then data can be encrypted with an ephemeral public key. Later, then a connection is available, the encrypted data can be transmitted to the remote server computer for processing.
US10855657B2
Various embodiments relate generally to computer science, data science, application architecture, and computer data security. More specifically, techniques for credential and authentication management in scalable data networks is described, including, but not limited to, multiplexed data exchanges in a scalable data network. For example, a method may include receiving a subset of requests to access a data network. The requests each may originate from an associated computing device having a source identifier. The method also may include data to cause modification of data representing presentation of a hosted page via the data network, monitoring data traffic from the data network and managing actions initiated via a request based on the data traffic. Optionally, data traffic received via an aggregation port may be filtered to origination of a request associated with a source identifier.
US10855654B2
Techniques for a session identifier for a communication session are described. According to various implementations, a session identifier that is usable for initiating a communication session is allocated prior to the communication session being initiated. The session identifier can then be activated to enable the session identifier to be used for routing data packets of a communication session.
US10855653B2
A method of maintaining transport address associations in a transport address translation entity connected in series between a first device and a second device is disclosed. The first device can use a first transport protocol to send a first message to cause the transport address translation entity to make a first association of a first public address with a first private address. On receiving a response to the first message from the second device, the first device can use a second transport protocol to send a second message to cause the transport address translation entity to make a second association of a second private address with a second public address and with the second transport protocol. The second message can contain correspondence information that is also contained in the first message and/or in the response to the first message.
US10855652B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a packet from a client, the packet having header information including a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address, a destination port, a source IP address, and a source port, and wherein the source IP address and source port are associated with the client; selecting a destination virtual machine based on the destination port; modifying the packet by replacing the destination IP address in the header information with an IP address of the selected destination virtual machine; and sending the modified packet to the destination virtual machine.
US10855651B2
A method and device for efficiently using IPv4 public addresses applied to a core translator deployed between an IPv4 Internet and an IPv6 network, which maps an IPv4 public address into a first-type IPv6 address having a first-type prefix according to a transport layer protocol port range used by an IPv6 server in the IPv6 network, so that the IPv6 server uses the first-type IPv6 address to communicate with a client in the IPv4 Internet; and maps the IPv4 public address into a second-type IPv6 address having a second-type prefix according to a transport layer protocol port range used by an client in the IPv6 network, so that the client in the IPv6 network uses the second-type IPv6 address to communicate with a IPv4 server in the IPv4 Internet. The IPv6 server and the client in the IPv6 network can use the same IPv4 public address to provide different services.
US10855649B2
Control component and method for registering device names assigned to industrial automation devices or communication devices in a name service system, wherein in order to register device names assigned to industrial automation devices or communication devices in a name service system, at least selected automation or communication devices each comprise a name service component where the selected automation or communication devices control transmission of a registration request containing an assignment between their respectively assigned device name and at least one respectively configured communication network address to a name service server via their name service component, and where a control component is respectively assigned to the name service components and enables or blocks transmission of a registration request.
US10855648B2
A method for operating a constrained device within a network is disclosed. The constrained device is configured with a plurality of data objects and a mapping between at least one of the data objects and a multicast address. The method includes detecting that the constrained device should send a notification 104 and determining a topic to which the notification relates. The method further includes, if the topic corresponds to a data object, retrieving the data object to which the topic corresponds, retrieving a mapped multicast address corresponding to the data object, and posting the notification to the retrieved multicast address.
US10855643B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and arrangements in a private address resolving node of a personal area network deploying Bluetooth low energy, BLE and in particular to methods and arrangements for proactively resolving periodically updated private addresses. When performed in a private address resolving node of a personal area network deploying Bluetooth low energy, BLE, a method comprises resolving a periodically updated private address of a private address generating node connected to the private address resolving node. The private address is used in addressing messages from the private address resolving node to the private address generating nodes. The method comprises receiving (S41), from a private address generating node in the personal area network, an Identity Resolving Key, IRK, the IRK being received over an encrypted link established between the private address resolving node and the private address generating node and receiving (S43), from the private address generating node, private address update information defining when and how to update the private address of the private address generating node. Based on the received IRK and the received private address update information, an updated private address to be used when addressing a next message to the private address generating node is determined (S45).
US10855642B2
The present disclosure is for systems and methods for asynchronous communication within a social networking system. Specifically, the present invention is for receiving capsuled data that is directed to a recipient. The capsuled data may be partially viewable by a recipient within the social networking system, but may not become fully viewable until a trigger condition is met. The systems and methods disclosed herein enable a determination of whether a trigger condition is met, and, if it is met, the capsuled data may be fully viewable by a recipient.
US10855641B1
Implementations generally relate to updating events in a social network system. In some implementations a method includes generating one or more event objects having an event information section associated with a first user. The method also includes sending a post from the first user to one or more target users in a social network system, updating the one or more event objects based on the event information section, and causing the one or more updated event objects to be displayed along with the post to the one or more target users in the social network system.
US10855636B2
A system and method displays lists of users or messages in segments, with some segments showing messages or users believed to be more relevant to the user than others on the list.
US10855629B2
Implementations disclose a notification delivery mechanism for present viewing users. A method includes identifying a notification to be sent to a user having a plurality of user devices; selecting a first user device of the plurality of user devices based on a playback state of the first user device; and upon selecting the first user device, transmitting the notification to the first user device without transmitting the notification to other user devices of the plurality of user devices.
US10855628B2
An information processing apparatus configured to receive message information from a terminal device, and transmit responding message information to the terminal device based on setting information in which query information and answer information are associated with each other, switch a state between a first state and a second state, the first state being a state in which the message information is to be received from the terminal device and a change of the setting information is to be received, the second state being a state in which the message information is not to be received and a change of the setting information is to be received, and when switching from the second state to the first state is performed, transmit the responding message information based on the setting information for which the change has been received in the second state before the switching is performed.
US10855624B2
It is provided a method for providing a communication backup link, wherein a user device has a first connection to a gateway and a second connection to Internet, and the gateway has a connection to Internet, wherein at gateway comprising detecting disruption of the connection to Internet (301); and establishing a tunnel between the gateway and the user device as the communication backup link to Internet (306).
US10855620B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment.
US10855618B2
The present invention discloses a bandwidth adjustment method and a related device, so as to flexibly adjust a bandwidth. A controller obtains behavior characteristic statistics sent by an end cloud node device, and obtains bandwidth resources remaining on a system. The behavior characteristic statistics are a statistical result indicating behavior characteristics of occupying network bandwidth resources by a user when accessing the end cloud node device. The controller determines a bandwidth adjustment amount of the end cloud node device according to the behavior characteristic statistics and bandwidth remaining on the system. The controller sends a bandwidth adjustment instruction to a first network device. The bandwidth adjustment instruction is used to instruct the first network device to adjust, according to the bandwidth adjustment amount, a bandwidth allocated to the end cloud node device by a network device on a transmission link.
US10855614B2
Commitments against various resources can be dynamically adjusted for customers in a shared-resource environment. A customer can provision a data volume with a committed rate of Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and pay only for that commitment (plus any overage), for example, as well as the amount of storage requested. The customer can subsequently adjust the committed rate of IOPS by submitting an appropriate request, or the rate can be adjusted automatically based on any of a number of criteria. Data volumes for the customer can be migrated, split, or combined in order to provide the adjusted rate. The interaction of the customer with the data volume does not need to change, independent of adjustments in rate or changes in the data volume, other than the rate at which requests are processed.
US10855608B1
A reconnect restriction evaluator is described. After detecting that a certain number of the reconnect requests submitted by a member of an on-line social network have failed, the reconnect restriction evaluator performs additional evaluation of the history of reconnect requests stored as associated with a profile of the member and determines whether the high count of failed requests recorded against the member are offset by one or more offsetting factors. Based on the result of the additional evaluation, the reconnect restriction evaluator generates an exemption indicator and stores it as associated with the profile of the member.
US10855604B2
Systems and methods of classifying data flows being communicated on a network by one or more network elements. One method includes creating a table including information of packet timestamps and pre-defined packet header fields, grouping packets into data flows based on information in the table, assigning flow identifiers to each data flow, determining a plurality of feature/characteristic sets having one or more features and/or one or more characteristics of the data flows, determining one or more classifiers to predict flow labels using the plurality of feature/characteristic sets, and generating a classification policy that includes the one or more classifiers to classify data flows on the network. The method can also include storing the classification policy in at least one non-transitory computer medium that is accessible by a network element that is classifying data flows on the network, and using the classification policy to classify data flows.
US10855601B2
The present invention provides a method of providing QoS models for a communications network in which: data is obtained data describing a plurality of QoS models, with each QoS model containing at least one QoS component specifying a characteristic of network traffic to be provided by the QoS model; monitoring network traffic to obtain a plurality of indicators, each indicating a characteristic of the network traffic associated with one of the QoS models; selecting, based on the indicators, a subset of the plurality of QoS models; and providing data identifying the subset of QoS models to a client device to enable the client device to send data over the network according to a selected one of the subset of QoS models.
US10855597B2
Techniques and devices for channel coding real time wireless traffic are described herein. The techniques include initiating communication in an opportunistic network, receiving network performance metrics indicating a Quality of Service or a Quality of Experience, determining a channel coding based on the network performance metrics, and transmitting channel coded data. Network performance metrics may include indications of packet loss, packet delay, or packet delay jitter. Channel coding algorithms may include turbo encoding, Chase combining, or transmission time interval (TTI) bundling. Using channel coding may allow the recovery of lost or delayed data packets in an opportunistic environment where real time transmission cannot be scheduled or cannot be guaranteed.
US10855596B2
A method for load balancing among multiple endpoint computing systems of a domain includes receiving a request to access the domain; identifying a target endpoint from the multiple endpoint computing systems based on routing logic for the domain; obtaining a load metric for the target endpoint; determining whether the load metric for the target endpoint satisfies an overload condition; and redirecting a fractional portion of traffic of the domain away from the target endpoint and to an alternate endpoint of the multiple endpoint computing systems in response to determining that the load metric for the target endpoint satisfies the overload condition.
US10855587B2
The embodiments disclosed herein select and assign a floating IP address (FIP) to an application based on characteristics of the application. Floating IP addresses are assigned a classification, and one or more network adapters are mapped to a FIP according to the FIPs assigned classification. The endpoint of a connection for an application initiating a network connection with a target application may be assigned a floating IP address according to attributes of the application being consistent with the classification of a FIP. Applications may be grouped according to their respective classification, and the group of applications may share a corresponding FIP. FIPs may be dynamically configured for an application with mapped network adapters selected based on the attributes of the application. An application's characteristics may change during executions, and the network adapters mapped to the FIP assigned to the application's connection may be reassigned.
US10855573B2
A multicast rule is represented in a hierarchical linked list with N tiers. Each tier or level in the hierarchical linked list corresponds to a network layer of a network stack that requires replication. Redundant groups in each tier are eliminated such that the groups in each tier are stored exactly once in a replication table. A multicast replication engine traverses the hierarchical linked list and replicates a packet according to each node in the hierarchical linked list.
US10855568B2
An automated security survey generator for provisioning services in a cloud environment. Services, including infrastructure services, provided by the cloud are provisioned from blueprints. A survey is attached to each of the blueprints. When a service is provisioned, the attached survey is executed such that questions are presented to a requestor. Responses to the questions and actions are evaluated and actions associated with the responses are performed. The survey can prevent the service from being provisioned.
US10855558B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for testing and characterization of computing systems implemented in vehicles. A testing system causes packet injectors in a vehicle networking system to execute a testing mode in which the packet injectors transmit synchronized sequences of data packets within the vehicle networking system. The testing system gathers, from logging mechanisms located within the vehicle networking system, diagnostic data describing data packet transmissions in the vehicle computer network during the testing mode. The diagnostic data includes data identifying data packets detected by the logging mechanisms and timestamps indicating times at which the data packets were detected by the logging mechanisms. The testing system generates, based on the diagnostic data and an expected diagnostic data, a testing report describing performance of the vehicle networking system during the testing mode.
US10855553B2
Visualization of a topology of a network is provided. An aspect includes receiving, via a user interface, user-inputted device information for a first device. The first device has a first device type. An aspect also includes populating a map view window of a user interface screen with a graphical representation of the first device, and receiving, via the user interface, connector information for a user-inputted connector that connects the first device with a graphical representation of a second device in the map view window. The second device has a second device type that is different than the first device type. Upon receiving the connector information, an aspect further includes searching a database for device information for the second device, and validating, from the user-inputted device information of the first device and the device information of the second device, compatibility of the first device and the second device.
US10855550B2
A server uses an LSTM neural network to predict a bandwidth value for a computer network element using past traffic data. The server receives a time series of bandwidth utilization of the computer network element. The time series includes bandwidth values associated with a respective time values. The LSTM neural network is trained with a training set selected from at least a portion of the time series. The server generates a predicted bandwidth value associated with a future time value based on the LSTM neural network. The provisioned bandwidth for the computer network element is adjusted based on the predicted bandwidth value.
US10855536B1
A method, enterprise information handling system (IHS), and a computer-readable storage medium provide for mitigating a noncompliant configuration of an IHS. A determination is made whether a triggering event has occurred that has a potential for degrading compliance of the enterprise IHS. In response to determining that the triggering event has occurred, a controller performs a configuration scan of the hardware and software of the enterprise IHS to obtain current configuration information. The controller determines changes in the current configuration information based on a comparison of the current configuration information with baseline configuration information that was obtained in response to a previous triggering event. A determination is made whether any changes determined in the current configuration information are non-compliant based on a comparison to compliance status information. The controller enables the enterprise IHS to perform a compliance remediation operation in response to determining that at least one change is non-compliant.
US10855532B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may receive a selection that indicates a server component of a list of server components associated with records associated with a first relation and associated with server components; may determine, based at least on the selection that indicates the server component, a list of capabilities associated with the server component from records associated with a second relation and associated with capabilities of server components; may receive a selection of at least one capability from the list of capabilities; may determine if one or more records, associated with a fourth relation and associated with one or more servers, are associated with the at least one capability and the server component; and if so, may provide a list of one or more server identifications, associated with the one or more records, that indicate the one or more servers.
US10855528B2
Example implementations includes a systems and methods for viral discovery and installation for distributed networks. A master node in a first subnet of a network broadcasts an auto-discovery request and receives information identifying a first node in the first subnet. The master node initializes a first proxy data router configured to forward the auto-discovery request to a second subnet of the network. The master node receives information identifying a second node in the second subnet and may issue commands for execution on the second node, such as further proxy data router initialization or configuration updates for installation on the second subnet.
US10855525B2
Apparatus and methods relating to persistent network resource and virtual area associations for realtime collaboration include managing and displaying an object associated with a virtual area that supports establishment of respective presences of communicants operating respective client network nodes. Examples of the object include an object that has one or more user-modifiable property fields and an object that is associated with screen sharing functionality of the client network node.
US10855523B2
A component tracking system includes a plurality of devices that each include a device component monitoring subsystem that monitors for and records the addition and/or removal of device components to/from that device. A device component manager system that is coupled to each of the plurality of devices identifies, via a recording by a first device monitoring subsystem in a first device included in the plurality of devices, the removal of a first device component from the first device. The device component manager system then determines, via a recording by a second device component monitoring subsystem in a second device included in the plurality of devices, that the first device component has been added to the second device within a time period and, in response, the device component manager device prevents a removed first device component alarm.
US10855518B2
A computer includes a central processing unit, a management processor, a first network adapter, a second network adapter, and an embedded switch. The embedded switch includes a port coupled to the central processing unit, a port coupled to the management processor, a port coupled to the first network adapter, and a port coupled to the second network adapter. Furthermore, the embedded switch provides both the central processing unit and the management processor with access to an external network using a selected one of the first and second network adapters. Optionally, the computer may include additional network adapters.
US10855517B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed. A first user plane entity may be associated with a user plane group comprising a plurality of user plane entities. The first user plane entity may be associated with a second user plane entity. A failure of the second user plane entity may be detected. In response to detecting the failure of the second user plane entity, the first user plane entity may be activated.
US10855512B2
A method and apparatus for dynamically updating settings of an electronic mail client of a client device is disclosed. In one embodiment, as the client device moves to different network environments, the settings of the electronic mail client are automatically updated to account for each network's characteristics and operational requirements. In another embodiment, the settings of the electronic mail client are automatically updated to account for changes (e.g., upgrades) at a particular server. The settings can be updated based on network information or server information from received from another device.
US10855509B2
A data transceiving method includes: receiving a first reference signal transmitted on a subcarrier in a target physical resource block, and performing, according to a first mapping rule, corresponding processing on the first reference signal received from the subcarrier in the target physical resource block, where the first mapping rule defines at least mapping of the first reference signal to 10 specified subcarriers in a physical resource block, none of the 10 specified subcarriers are in a DC subcarrier candidate set, and the first reference signal includes a PCRS. In the embodiments of this application, only the 10 specified subcarriers in the physical resource block that are not used as DC subcarriers are selected to transmit the first reference signal, and no additional DC subcarrier is set. In this way, a quantity of downlink subcarriers in a system does not change dynamically.
US10855508B2
A resource configuration method and an apparatus are provided. The resource configuration method includes: receiving, by user equipment, configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information is used to indicate at least one time interval and at least one time-frequency resource unit within the time interval, and the time-frequency resource unit includes a first time-frequency resource subunit and/or a second time-frequency resource subunit; and reconfiguring, by the user equipment, a resource mapping manner and/or a rate matching manner based on the configuration information, so that no downlink receiving or uplink sending is performed by the user equipment on the first time-frequency resource subunit, and adjusting a timing offset of the second time-frequency resource subunit to perform downlink receiving or uplink sending on the second time-frequency resource subunit obtained by adjusting the timing offset. Resource utilization can be improved while ensuring that the user equipment correctly receives data.
US10855502B2
Methods, devices, and computer program products for improving training field design in packets with increased symbol durations are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of transmitting a packet on a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a preamble of the packet over one or more space-time-streams, the preamble including one or more training fields configured to be used for channel estimation, the one or more training fields each comprising one or more symbols of a first symbol duration. The method further includes transmitting a payload of the packet over the one or more space-time-streams, the payload comprising one or more symbols of a second symbol duration, the second symbol duration greater than the first symbol duration.
US10855500B2
A method for enabling a PUCCH with a TTI equal to or less than 1 ms. A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink signal on a PUCCH corresponding to a single SC-FDMA symbol, and a controller configured to determine transmit power for transmission on the PUCCH, wherein the uplink signal is generated based on a first sequence and a second sequence, the first sequence is given by applying a first cyclic shift to a third sequence, the second sequence is given by applying a second cyclic shift to the third sequence, and transmit power for transmission on the PUCCH is given based on a value of the first cyclic shift and a value of the second cyclic shift.
US10855498B1
A packaged semiconductor device includes a substrate and first, second, and third integrated circuit (IC) chips. The first integrated circuit (IC) chip is mounted on the substrate to receive first data and includes a first transfer interface to transmit the first data via first conductors formed in the substrate. The second IC chip mounts on the substrate and has a second transfer interface to receive the first data. The second IC includes on-chip conductors to route the first data on-chip to an output interface. The output interface transmits the first data via second conductors formed on the substrate. A third IC chip mounts on the substrate and has a third transfer interface to receive the first data via the second conductors.
US10855494B2
A transmitter is configured to transmit signals each having a pilot sequence including a plurality of pilot sequence symbols, wherein the transmitter includes a signal generator, wherein the signal generator is configured to provide the pilot sequence starting from a base sequence which includes a plurality of base sequence symbols, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence symbols starting from the base sequence symbol successively repeated R−1 times, and wherein R is a natural number greater than or equal to two, wherein the base sequence is configured such that a correlation of the pilot sequence with a transmission signal formed from the pilot sequence has a main maximum which is as narrow as possible and/or secondary maximums which are as small as possible.
US10855491B2
A method for implementing a GRE tunnel, an access point (AP), and a gateway (GW). The method includes: the AP receives a first packet, where the first packet carries an address of the GW; configures a GRE tunnel to the GW, where a source destination of the GRE tunnel is an address of the AP, and a destination address of the GRE tunnel is the address of the GW; the AP receives a second packet sent by user equipment; performs GRE tunnel encapsulation for the second packet to form a third packet; and the AP sends the third packet to the GW by using the GRE tunnel, where the third packet carries the address of the AP. The embodiments of the present application enable efficient establishment of the GRE tunnel between the AP and the GW if there are a large quantity of APs.
US10855490B2
A CAN network synchronization method identifies a sync master node from a plurality of nodes, and designates each of the remaining nodes as a sync slave node. The method further designates a message from the sync master node as a sync message, and assigns a lowest number to the message ID of the sync message. The method further assigns a unique node ID to each sync slave node, and assigns a unique message ID to a transmission duration report message from a sync slave node. The method further assigns a unique message ID to a transmission target time allocation message from the sync master node. The method also performs a handshake operation between the sync slave nodes and the sync master node to exchange message burst transmission durations (Tsst), transmission target times (TTXtarget), and a common time reference point, and conducts time adjustment on each sync slave node.
US10855486B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for dynamically controlling an appliance based on information received from a wearable device, to regulate the user's health. A wearable device is identified and configured to monitor at least one physiological aspect of the user. A controllable appliance with at least one sensor and at least one controllable setting is also identified. Health information of the user is received and utilized in generating, a user profile which comprises parameters related to the health of the user. Data from the wearable device and date from the controllable appliance is analyzed and it is determined whether the data matches the parameters related to the health of the user. If the data does not match the parameters related to the health of the user, then at least one controllable setting of the at least one controllable appliance is adjusted.
US10855484B2
The present invention discloses a smart microprocessor and sensor based controller system that enables selective management of energy supply into a household of electrical appliances through individually switching on or off of individual load lines in a domestic household based on external information fed in from external sensors regarding the household's demand, time data and/or tariff data, wherein, based on the information received, the controller system manages the supply of energy to the household such that peak load of an electrical grid is reduced by selectively supplying electrical energy to high household loads, such as swimming pools, at low electrical grid demand time. The controller system includes smart switching devices, microprocessor logic, software algorithms, and timing devices used to control the switching processes.
US10855479B2
The invention relates to a power providing system (1) comprising a power providing device (2) like a PSE and an electrical device (4) like a PD. In a classification mode in a first phase the power providing device provides one or several voltage pulses and the electrical device draws one or several classification current pulses for indicating the class of the electrical device, wherein in a second phase the power providing device provides one or several voltage pulses for indicating the class of the power providing device. Thus, the indication of the classes of the electrical device and of the power providing device is decoupled in two different phases, which can lead to an improved mutual classification procedure.
US10855474B2
A method of authorizing an operation on a remote device with a cryptographic signature verification component, the remote device being operable in a communications network having human-readable messages with message signatures, comprising receiving at an arbitrator an authorization request to perform an operation requiring authorization on the remote device; retrieving from the request an operation identifier and plaintext data; sending a human-readable request with the identifier and the plaintext data to an authorizer; receiving a reply from an authorizer, the reply message comprising at least the plaintext data and a verifiable cryptographic signature identifying the authorizer derived from the request; and on receiving the reply, sending a request to perform the operation to the remote device with an authorization derived from at least the cryptographic signature, the cryptographic signature being suitable for verification by the cryptographic signature verification component on the remote device.
US10855465B2
Methods and apparati for auditing uses of cryptographic keys. In a method embodiment of the present invention, a set of audited uses for a cryptographic key is defined; the key is generated inside a protected execution environment of a digital computer; all software and firmware that is usable in the execution environment to access the key is demonstrated to an auditor; and, for each audited use of the key, a non-tamperable audit record describing said use is released.
US10855461B2
The present invention provides a security key change method and a user equipment (UE). The method performed by the UE includes: receiving a key change command message from a master eNodeB (MeNB), wherein the key change command message comprises an indication that a change of a security key between the UE and a secondary eNodeB (SeNB), and the UE is configured with a dual connectivity between the MeNB and the SeNB; updating a security key between the UE and the SeNB; performing random access to the SeNB; and sending a key change complete message to the MeNB.
US10855458B2
Disclosed is a random binary sequence-based sequence encryption method accompanied with random reconfiguration of a key. The method is mainly characterized in that (1) an existing random sequence is used to dynamically configure a seed random sequence at the beginning of each encryption operation, (2) the seed random sequence is used to pseudo-randomly configure a random key with a fixed-length or variable-length bit field, (3) the pseudo-random configuration of the random key accompanies an encryption process, (4) a transitive property of an exclusive-or operation is used to realize a variable-frequency nonlinear exclusive-or operation on a plaintext using the key, (5) adjustment of key configuration is realized by adjusting a characteristic vector, other operation vectors and a pseudo-random configuration function, such that adjustment of an encryption density can be realized without increasing time complexity, and (6) the characteristic vector are unable to be reversely inducted in polynomial time complexity.
US10855456B2
A quantum cryptography apparatus and system includes a photon emitter, a photon receiver, a first photodetector, a second photodetector, a first polarization optic, and a second polarization optic. The photon emitter is configured to emit a photon at a wavelength. The photon receiver is coupled to the photon emitter by at least one quantum channel. The photon receiver includes the first polarization optic configured to output the emitted photon in a polarization state. The first photodetector is configured to detect the emitted photon from the output of the first polarization optic. The second photodetector is configured to detect a backflash from the first photodetector. The second polarization optic is between the first photodetector and the second photodetector. The second photodetector and the second polarization optic are configured to internally calibrate the photon receiver.
US10855453B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for session authentication. An example method includes determining, by decoding circuitry, a set of optical path lengths to use for measurement. The example method further includes receiving, by the decoding circuitry, a set of time-bin qubits. The example method further includes measuring, by the decoding circuitry and based on the determined set of optical path lengths, the set of time-bin qubits to generate a measured set of time-bin qubits. The example method further includes generating, by session authentication circuitry, a session key based on the measured set of time-bin qubits.
US10855452B2
One embodiment described herein provides a system and method for ensuring data and computation security. During operation, a server receives a key-negotiation request from a client and authenticates the client. In response to the client authenticating the server, the server negotiates, via a quantum-key-distribution process, a secret key shared between the client and the server; and stores the secret key in a trusted-computing module.
US10855435B2
There are provided a communication apparatus, a generated data size controlling method, and a program for bringing a time required for a round-trip half-duplex communication close to a predetermined target time. A video data transmission section transmits data generated by a video data generation section to an HMD. A sensing data reception section receives data transmitted from the HMD. A required time identification section identifies the time required for the round-trip half-duplex communication between a repeating apparatus and the HMD. A generation control section controls a size of the data generated per unit time by the video data generation section on a basis of the identified time, the size of the data exchanged with the HMD in a round-trip communication, and a predetermined target time for the round-trip communication.
US10855434B2
For a base station or a User Equipment (UE) in communication with each other, the UE is configured by the base station for operation with an adapted Time Division Duplex (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration. The base station configures a UE with resources for obtaining channel and interference measurements in two sets of Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) and the UE obtains a Channel State Information (CSI) from the channel and interference measurements in the two sets of TTIs.
US10855427B2
Provided are method and device for transmitting/receiving a downlink signal. A user equipment-specific reference signal (UE-RS) can be transmitted to a user equipment. A downlink control channel and a downlink data channel for the user equipment can share the UE-RS. Antenna port information about a transmission antenna port of the downlink control channel and/or a transmission antenna port of the downlink data channel is provided to the user equipment. The user equipment receives UE-RS(s) corresponding to the antenna port information and thus receives the downlink control channel and the downlink data channel.
US10855421B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A method may include receiving control signaling indicating a location for a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource in a transmission time interval (TTI), and transmitting an SRS in the indicated location in the TTI based on the received control signaling. Another method may include transmitting control signaling indicating a location for a SRS resource in a TTI, and receiving an SRS at the indicated location in the TTI based on the transmitted control signaling.
US10855420B2
A base station distributed unit may receive packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packets of a radio bearer. The base station distributed unit may transmit, to a wireless device, the PDCP packets via the radio bearer. The base station distributed unit may initiate a bearer release procedure comprising transmitting, to a base station central unit, a first message comprising a first data radio bearer identifier of the radio bearer to be released. The base station distributed unit may receive, from the base station central unit, a second message confirming release of the radio bearer by the base station central unit. The base station distributed unit may receive, from the base station central unit, a radio resource control message for the wireless device. The radio resource control message may comprise the first data radio bearer identifier. The base station distributed unit may transmit, to the wireless device, the radio resource control message.
US10855415B2
A transmission device includes: an acquiring unit acquires LTF parameters, and acquires a start position I of allocated subcarriers, where the LTF parameters include a frequency domain transform parameter and a time domain transform parameter that are required for generating an LTF sequence; a frequency domain transform unit performs, according to the frequency domain transform parameter and the start position I, a frequency domain transform on an LTF basic sequence to obtain an LTF symbol; a time domain transform unit performs, according to the time domain transform parameter, a time domain transform on the LTF symbol to obtain the LTF sequence; and a sending unit adds the LTF sequence to a first data frame, and sends the first data frame to a second device, so that the second device determines the LTF basic sequence according to the LTF sequence and performs channel estimation according to the LTF basic sequence.
US10855411B2
A source device connected to a sink device over a first wireless connection. The source device identifies a frame for retransmitting a voice packet associated with a real time application from the source device to the sink device, determines that a precedent operation is scheduled for the frame, delays the precedent operation to a subsequent frame, following the retransmitting of the voice packet and scheduling a retransmission operation for retransmitting the voice packet during the frame.
US10855410B2
A machine-implemented method for controlling retry of unicast data packet transmission from a transmitter node to a receiver node comprises selecting a receiver node from a set of receiver nodes having different processing delays; transmitting a first unicast data packet to the receiver node; establishing a delay, at the transmitter node, for an expected acknowledgement wait duration; receiving, at the transmitter node, an acknowledgement packet from the receiver node; responsive to an actual acknowledgement wait duration being less than the expected duration, setting the expected duration to a new expected duration comprising at least the actual wait duration; transmitting a second unicast data packet to the receiver node; establishing a delay, at the transmitter node, for the new expected duration; and responsive to expiry of the new expected duration without receipt of an acknowledgement packet from the receiver node, retrying transmitting the second unicast data packet.
US10855409B2
Various aspects described herein relate to encoding or decoding a media access control (MAC) layer transport block having an enhanced MAC header format, a split and partial MAC header, and a MAC transport block design. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) or New Radio (NR), wireless communications technology.
US10855402B2
A method for a terminal receiving an ACK/NACK signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprise the steps of: transmitting an uplink signal including a terminal identifier of the terminal through one of a plurality of resources belonging to a first resource pool, according to a contention-based multiple access scheme; and attempting detection of an ACK signal and/or a NACK signal relating to the uplink signal from a second resource pool linked to the first resource pool, wherein when the terminal attempts detection of the ACK signal or the NACK signal, the ACK signal is assumed to be terminal-specifically signaled based on the terminal identifier, and the NACK signal is assumed to be broadcasted through a bitmap specific to the first resource pool.
US10855393B2
A transmitting device, includes inputting a multiplex light multiplexed a first wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream in a first wavelength band and a second wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream in a second wavelength band; inputting a multiplex light multiplexed a third wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream in a first wavelength band and a fourth wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream in a second wavelength band; converting the first wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream to the second wavelength band; converting the third wavelength-multiplexed signal light stream to the second wavelength band; generating a first output signal light multiplexed by signal light in a first wavelength band among the multi-wavelength light so that wavelengths do not overlap; generating a second output signal light multiplexed by signal light in a second wavelength band among the multi-wavelength light so that wavelengths do not overlap; converting the first output signal light to the first wavelength band; and outputting the multiplexed light.
US10855389B1
A system and a method. The system may include a node of a network of nodes, wherein the network is configured as a modified time division multiple access (TDMA) network. The node may include a processor and a transceiver communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor may be configured to: collect data received from each other node of the network during a data collection phase of a given modified TDMA cycle, the collected data including information of connectivity between pairs of nodes of the network; and output the collected data for transmission to each other node of the network during a data distribution phase of the given modified TDMA cycle.
US10855388B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In an example ingress point of a wireless communication network, a method includes receiving a first ethernet frame comprising a precision time protocol (PTP) message at a first node and determining an ingress time for the PTP message, generating a packet data unit (PDU) for transmission to a second node of the wireless communication network based at least in part on the first ethernet frame by overwriting a field in the PTP message with a value corresponding to the ingress time, and sending the PDU to the second node. An egress point method may include receiving a PDU comprising a PTP message, determining an ingress time from a field in the PTP message overwritten with a value corresponding to the ingress time, and determining an adjustment for a timing parameter based at least in part on the ingress time.
US10855378B2
Methods and systems for a silicon-based optical phase modulator with high modal overlap may include, in an optical modulator having a rib waveguide in which a cross-shaped depletion region separates four alternately doped sections: receiving an optical signal at one end of the optical modulator, modulating the received optical signal by applying a modulating voltage, and communicating a modulated optical signal out of an opposite end of the modulator. The modulator may be in a silicon photonically-enabled integrated circuit which may be in a complementary-metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) die. An optical mode may be centered on the cross-shaped depletion region. The four alternately doped sections may include: a shallow depth p-region, a shallow depth n-region, a deep p-region, and a deep n-region. The shallow depth p-region may be electrically coupled to the deep p-region periodically along the length of the modulator.
US10855372B1
Coupled resonators having two resonances are described. A first resonance occurs at the frequency of a pump signal. A second resonance occurs at the frequency of a first Stokes signal. The stop band of the coupled resonators suppresses the second Stokes signal and thus all other higher order Stokes signals. The coupled resonators can be used to more efficiently generate a first Stokes signal having a narrow line width signal.
US10855371B2
A visible light communication device is a visible light communication device capable of communicating with an other communication device, and includes an image acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a first image signal including an R component, a G component, and a B component, the first image signal being output based on a communication signal of a visible light communication. The image processing unit outputs a second image signal in which an influence of the R component of the first image signal is reduced during the visible light communication with the other communication device.
US10855361B2
An electronic device is provided and includes a housing, an antenna module, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores a number of measurements and a threshold. The number of measurements is defined for measuring, by using a directional beam, a strength of a plurality of beams having different directions and generated by at least one external electronic device. The threshold is defined for changing a beam pair link for communication with the external electronic device. The memory stores instructions that cause, when executed, the processor to measure, based on the number of measurements, a strength of a first beam generated by a first external electronic device by using a first directional beam formed in a first direction through the antenna module, to measure, based on the number of measurements, a strength of a second beam generated by at least one of the first external electronic device or a second external electronic device by using a second directional beam formed in a second direction different from the first direction through the antenna module, and to adjust at least one of the stored number of measurements or the stored threshold based on at least the measured strengths of the first and second beams.
US10855357B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method, a base station, and a terminal device. The method includes: transmitting, by a base station, signals to a terminal device by using n port groups, where each of the n port groups includes at least two ports; and receiving, by the base station, s first linear combination coefficient groups transmitted by the terminal device, where each first linear combination coefficient group includes first linear combination coefficients of one of s port groups, at least one first linear combination coefficient group includes at least two non-zero coefficients, the s first linear combination coefficient groups are used to determine a first precoding matrix, the s port groups are included in the n port groups. This can improve channel feedback precision of the terminal device, and further help improve performance of transmission between the base station and the terminal device.
US10855345B2
Various aspects of the technology described herein are directed towards a generalized beam management framework in which beam management takes into account interference to steer a beam. Aspects comprise configuring a report request comprising a resource setting with channel state information-reference signal resource data and an associated report setting with parameter data corresponding to the one or more channel state information-reference signal resources. The report request is configured to instruct a user equipment device to include interference information when performing user equipment device beam management and reporting. Upon receiving the report request, the user equipment performs a beam measurement operation that includes interference information when generating the beam management report sent to the network device.
US10855341B2
The present invention discloses a method of transmitting signal by a terminal. The method comprises determining a direction of at least one antenna based on power loss tolerance of the signal and angle tolerance of the at least one antenna; and transmitting the signal based on the direction of the at least one antenna, wherein the power loss tolerance of the signal is determined at maximum of 2 dB.
US10855340B2
Embodiments are provided for uplink measurement based mechanism and control using user equipment (UE) centric sounding signals. The mechanism provides an alternative to DL-measurement dominated system control. Based on UL-measurements at TPs, the network obtains knowledge of users' channel and timing information, traffic, and interference, and is thus able to perform better control, including TP and UE clustering and optimization, and power control and link adaptation. In an embodiment method, a TP receives one-to-one mapping information indicating a plurality of UE IDs and a plurality of sounding channels assigned to the corresponding UE IDs. When the TP detects a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a UE, the TP is able to identify the UE using the detected SRS and the one-to-one mapping information. The TP then obtains measurement information for the identified UE, enabling better control and communications for uplink and downlink transmissions between multiple TPs and the UE.
US10855335B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for ring-shaped devices with combined Bluetooth and NFC antenna assemblies. In one embodiment, an example device may include an inner shell, an outer shell coupled to the inner shell, where the outer shell and inner shell together form a first side portion, a second side portion, and a lower portion of the ring-shaped device, a battery, and an antenna assembly that forms an upper portion of the ring-shaped device. The antenna assembly may include a metal substrate, a ferrite layer disposed on the metal substrate, and a metallic loop structure disposed on the ferrite layer.
US10855332B2
The transmission unit includes a digital signal source and a pulse generation circuit. The digital signal source generates a rectangular wave signal. The pulse generation circuit includes a short stub and an open stub, and generates a pulse signal corresponding to the rectangular wave signal. The receiving unit receives the pulse signal from the transmission unit via a lossy transmission path. A comparison circuit having a hysteresis function converts the received pulse signal into a rectangular wave signal.
US10855326B1
A sub-sampling system that is part of a modulator in a transmitter employing a chaos based architecture and including a symbol mapper and a chaos generator. The system includes M-number of channels each receiving a sequence of chaos samples from the generator and a delay device in all of the channels except one that delay the chaos samples at different delay times. The system also includes a sub-sampler in all of the channels that receive the delayed samples, where each sub-sampler outputs every predetermined one of the chaos samples and a register in each channel each storing a predetermined number of the sub-sampled chaos samples. A selection switch responsive to the stored sub-sampled chaos samples from the registers, where the selection switch is responsive to a selection signal from the symbol mapper that selects one of the registers to output the sequences of stored sub-sampled chaos samples from the system.
US10855323B2
This disclosure relates generally to embodiments disclosing a case designed to contain both a smartphone and a medical device, such as an epinephrine auto-injector. The case contains allows both the smartphone and the medical device to remain within the case while the case is being transported. The case may also include a release mechanism for releasing the medical device from the case.
US10855319B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to methods of detecting power associated with an individual carrier of a carrier aggregated signal. According to an embodiment, a method can include detecting an indication of power of a first carrier of an aggregated carrier. The method can also include, separately from detecting power of the first carrier, detecting an indication of power of a second carrier of the aggregated carrier. A power associated with a radio frequency source, such as a power amplifier, can be adjusted based on the indication of power of the first carrier.
US10855318B2
A transmission unit includes: a power amplification module that amplifies the power of an input signal and outputs an amplified signal; and a power supply module that supplies a power supply voltage to the power amplification module on the basis of a first control signal corresponding to the band width of the input signal. On the basis of the first control signal, the power supply module varies the power supply voltage in accordance with the amplitude level of the input signal in the case where the band width of the input signal is a first band width and varies the power supply voltage in accordance with the average output power of the power amplification module in the case where the band width of the input signal is a second band width that is larger than the first band width.
US10855316B2
Apparatuses and methods for performing an error correction code (ECC) operation are provided. One example method can include generating a codeword based on a number of low density parity check (LDPC) codewords failing a LDPC decoding operation and performing a BCH decoding operation on the codeword.
US10855309B2
Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n−1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
US10855307B2
A battery-operated device comprises: a first battery cell having a voltage; a second battery cell having a voltage; a first anti-aliasing filter operable to be coupled to the first battery cell; a second anti-aliasing filter operable to be coupled to the second battery cell; an analog-to-digital converter operable to be coupled to the first anti-aliasing filter during a first period of time or the second anti-aliasing filter during a second period of time different than the first period of time; and wherein the second anti-aliasing filter is charged during the first period of time and the first anti-aliasing filter is charged during the second period of time.
US10855275B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a multi-level turn-off circuit. An example power delivery circuit includes a two-level turn-off circuit to be coupled to a first switch to reduce a first gate voltage of the first switch from a first voltage to a second voltage when a current flowing through the first switch is greater than an over-current threshold, the two-level turn-off circuit including a second switch, a voltage-current-voltage buffer to reduce a second gate voltage of the second switch from a third voltage to a fourth voltage, and a comparator circuit to turn off the second switch when the second gate voltage is the fourth voltage, and a driver to be coupled to the first switch to turn off the first switch when the second gate voltage is the fourth voltage.
US10855269B2
In a drive circuit, one of an upper-arm switch and a lower-arm switch being in an on state by a main driver is referred to as a target arm switch. The other of the upper-arm switch and the lower-arm switch being in an off state by the main driver is referred to as an opposite arm switch. An intrinsic diode connected in antiparallel to the opposite arm switch is referred to as an opposite arm diode. The drive circuit includes a protective driver configured to determine whether a failure has occurred in the target arm switch. The protective driver is configured to change the target arm switch from the on state to the off state, and the opposite arm switch from the off state to the on state upon determining that a failure has occurred in the target arm switch.
US10855268B2
A driver circuit works to drive a first switch and a second switch connected in parallel to each other. The driver circuit includes first and second charge switches and first and second diodes to turn on only one(s) of the first and second switches selected as an on-target(s). The driver circuit includes first and second individual discharging paths connected to gates of the first and second switches, first and second discharge resistors, a shared discharge path, and a shared discharge resistor. This structure is capable of reducing a switching loss.
US10855265B2
A comparison circuit includes a preliminary amplification circuit that amplifies a voltage difference between a first input voltage and a second input voltage and a latch circuit that compares magnitudes of the first input voltage and the second input voltage according to the amplified voltage difference and latch a comparison result. The preliminary amplification circuit converts the first input voltage and the second input voltage input with the falling edge timing of a clock signal into a first control signal and a second control signal, respectively that return from the reversal state at respective speeds corresponding to the first input voltage and the second input voltage. The latch circuit compares the first input voltage and the second input voltage according to the first control signal and the second control signal.
US10855262B2
A parallel Marx generator topology capable of producing high power, high current output pulses is provided. The parallel Marx generator topology can include a plurality of Marx generators that operate in parallel to one another to jointly generate an output pulse. The topology can further include a pulse transformer configured to step up the voltage of the pulse created by the plurality of generators and also ensure that each Marx generator of the plurality of Marx generators is outputting substantially the same amount of current. The system can include a common interface that allows for fault detection and control of all the Marx generators using one common control panel. The parallel Marx generator topology can allow for a high voltage, high current pulse to be generated using import/export compliant switches.
US10855255B2
The present invention addresses the problem of increasing the likelihood of making it possible to reduce the consumption of power necessary for filter processing and the amount of heat generated during filter processing. In order to overcome this problem, a second complex signal and a third complex signal are generated from a first complex signal in a frequency domain, the third complex signal being a complex conjugate of the second complex signal. Signal selection is performed from the plurality of types of complex signals having different amounts of change in signal amplitude. Processing is performed on the complex signal selected as the signal using a first filter coefficient and a second filter coefficient. The complex signals after filter processing are synthesized to generate a complex signal, which is then outputted.
US10855245B2
A switch component includes a common terminal, at least two selection terminals, a switching circuit that selectively connects the common terminal to each of the at least two selection terminals, and an inductor. One end of the inductor is connected to one of the at least two selection terminals. The switching circuit is integrated with the inductor.
US10855241B2
Implementations generally relate to automated equalizer adjustments based on audio characteristics. In some implementations, a method includes detecting music that is being currently played on an audio device. The method further includes adjusting one or more equalizer settings of an equalizer device based at least in part on a music genre associated with the music. The method further includes outputting the music based at least in part on the adjusting of the one or more equalizer settings of the equalizer device.
US10855237B1
Method for changing audio limiter settings under low alternating-current (AC) line voltage condition
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to circuitry and techniques for adjusting an audio signal to avoid undesirable system behavior under low alternating-current (AC) line voltage and high volume conditions. For example, certain aspects provide an apparatus for audio amplification. The apparatus generally includes an amplifier, a supply voltage generation circuit having an input coupled to an input voltage node of the apparatus and an output coupled to a supply voltage terminal of the amplifier, the supply voltage generation circuit having a transformer, a primary winding of the transformer being coupled to the input voltage node, a peak voltage detector circuit configured to detect a peak voltage at a secondary winding of the transformer, and a controller circuit configured to adjust an input audio signal of the amplifier based on the detected peak voltage.
US10855233B2
Components of a power amplifier controller may support lower voltages than the power amplifier itself. As a result, a surge protection circuit that prevents a power amplifier from being damaged due to a power surge may not effectively protect the power amplifier controller. Embodiments disclosed herein present an overvoltage protection circuit that prevents a charge-pump from providing a voltage to a power amplifier controller during a detected surge event. By separately detecting and preventing a voltage from being provided to the power amplifier controller during a surge event, the power amplifier controller can be protected regardless of whether the surge event results in a voltage that may damage the power amplifier. Further, embodiments of the overvoltage protection circuit can prevent a surge voltage from being provided to a power amplifier operating in 2G mode.
US10855229B2
Methods and systems for process and temperature compensation in a transimpedance amplifier using a dual replica and configurable impedances is disclosed and may include a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) circuit comprising a first TIA, a second TIA, a third TIA, and a control loop. The first TIA comprises a fixed feedback resistance and the second and third TIAs each comprise a configurable feedback impedance. The system may comprise a gain stage with inputs coupled to outputs of the first and second TIAs and with an output coupled to the configurable feedback impedance of the second and third TIAs. The circuit may be operable to configure a gain level of the first TIA based on the fixed feedback resistance and a reference current applied at an input to the first TIA, and configure a gain level of the second and third TIAs based on a control voltage generated by the gain stage.
US10855228B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for generating supply voltages for a power amplifier in a digital envelope tracking system. In one example, a voltage generation circuitry converts a source voltage into a supply voltage based on a target voltage. The voltage regulation circuitry includes an adjustable boost circuitry that multiplies the source voltage to generate an input voltage having a voltage equal to or greater than the source voltage and a step-down regulator circuitry that regulates the input voltage to generate a regulated output voltage having a voltage that is less than or equal to the input voltage. A voltage splitter circuitry is coupled to the regulated output voltage and is configured to generate at least one derived output voltage from the regulated output voltage. A supply modulator provides a selected one of the at least one derived output voltage to a power amplifier.
US10855226B1
Proposed is related to a quadrature passive mixer and a frequency down-converter for enhancing an input referred second-order intercept point (IIP2). More particularly, proposed is related to a quadrature passive mixer and a frequency down-converter for enhancing the IIP2 capable of improving the IIP2 by reducing a mismatch component of a mixer block used for frequency downconversion of a wireless communication system. Here, the frequency down-converter for improving the IIP2 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an RF quadrature signal generator, an LO IQ signal generator, a 25% LO signal generator, an LO buffer, an I-quadrature mixer, and a Q-quadrature mixer. In addition, the I-quadrature mixer and the Q-quadrature mixer receive RF quadrature signals from the RF quadrature signal generator and selectively downconvert and output the RF quadrature signals according to the 25% duty-cycle LO signals applied from the LO buffer.
US10855225B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a low power differential frequency multiplier. An example frequency multiplier circuit generally includes a first set of transistors, a second set of transistors, and a resonant circuit. The first set of transistors comprises a first transistor and a second transistor, wherein each of the transistors in the first set is a first type of transistor. The second set of transistors comprises a third transistor and a fourth transistor, wherein each of the transistors in the second set is a second type of transistor. The resonant circuit has a first terminal coupled to the first set of transistors and a second terminal coupled to the second set of transistors, wherein the resonant circuit comprises an inductive element and a capacitive element coupled in parallel with the inductive element.
US10855224B2
A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit is disclosed. The VCO circuit comprises a VCO tuning circuit comprising a primary inductive coil. In some embodiments, the VCO tuning circuit is configured to generate a VCO output signal at a first resonance frequency. The VCO circuit further comprises a filter circuit comprising a secondary inductive coil. In some embodiments, the filter circuit is configured to resonate at a second, different, resonance frequency, in order to filter a noise associated with the VCO tuning circuit. In some embodiments, the primary inductive coil associated with the VCO tuning circuit and the secondary inductive coil associated with the filter circuit are concentrically arranged with respect to one another. Further, in some embodiments, the primary inductive coil associated with the VCO tuning circuit and the secondary inductive coil associated with the filter circuit are magnetically decoupled with respect to one another.
US10855223B2
A current control device for a differential circuit is provided. The current control device includes a differential circuit that generates differential signals comprising a positive signal and a negative signal in opposite phases, an amplitude detection circuit detecting an amplitude of the differential signal and outputting first and second detection voltages, an error amplification circuit controlling the differential circuit on the basis of an error voltage between the first and second detection voltages, and a current control circuit controlling the amplitude detection circuit on the basis of any one of the first and second detection voltages.
US10855213B2
A motor driver device includes: a detector that detects a polarity inversion timing of a current flowing through a coil of a predetermined phase of a motor; a drive control signal generator that generates a pulse-width-modulated or pulse-density-modulated drive control signal for each phase based on the detection result; and a drive voltage supply that supplies a drive voltage corresponding to the drive control signal to a corresponding coil, wherein the drive control signal generator includes a prediction processor configured to set a detection prediction interval based on two or more previously detected polarity inversion timings, and executes a frequency variable control to set a variable target frequency to be higher in the detection prediction interval than outside the detection prediction interval, the variable target frequency being a frequency of the pulse-width-modulated drive control signal or a reciprocal of a minimum pulse width of the pulse-density-modulated drive control signal.
US10855196B2
A semiconductor device including a main board; a first board provided on the main board; first and second semiconductor elements provided on the first board; a first positive terminal provided on the first board; a first negative terminal provided on the first board; a first output terminal provided on the first board; a second board provided on the main board; third and fourth semiconductor elements provided on the second board; a second positive terminal provided on the second board; a second negative terminal provided on the second board; a second output terminal provided on the second board; a first terminal plate connecting the first positive terminal and the second positive terminal, a second terminal plate connecting the first negative terminal and the second negative terminal, and a third terminal plate connecting the first output terminal and the second output terminal.
US10855184B2
A switch-mode power supply includes a DC-DC converter and metering circuitry that is coupled to the DC-DC converter. The metering circuitry includes scaling circuitry, a current source, a capacitor, switching circuitry, and a comparator. The scaling circuitry is configured to generate a reference current scaled to be a predetermined fraction of a peak current flowing in an inductor of the DC-DC converter. The current source is configured to output a first current that is one-half of the reference current. The capacitor is coupled to the current source. The switching circuitry is configured to switchably connect the current source to the capacitor. The comparator is coupled to the capacitor. The comparator is configured to generate a signal indicating that a voltage across the capacitor exceeds a threshold voltage.
US10855181B2
A variable efficiency and response buck converter is achieved. The device includes a multi-phase switch, the coupled coils, the filter capacitor, and the load. The multi-phase switch includes the phase control inputs, the circuit common reference, at least two pairs of complementary switches with each switch containing one upper switch and one lower switch, at least two phase control outputs from the complementary switches. The coupled inductive coils are coupled to the phase control outputs to enable weak couplings and strong couplings. Based on the working mode, equivalently the coupled coils can provide strong mutual inductances and weak mutual inductances. The filter capacitors connected to the output of the coupled coils provide high efficiency output to the load.
US10855179B2
A power converter may be adapted to provide an output voltage from one of two input voltages. The power converter may include two or more buck converters that share a plurality of power converter components and each converts an individual input voltage to the output voltage. The power converter may include any of a variety of charge equalizing components that may be coupled between input terminals and optional input capacitors, which are coupled between the input terminals and ground. The charge equalizing component(s) provide(s) a fast conduction path for the equalization of input voltages and charge/voltage of the optional input capacitors. The charge equalizing component(s) can mitigate large currents created by differential voltages between the input terminals, which currents would otherwise flow through and potentially damage or destroy the power converter's switching devices.
US10855177B2
A method of converting a positive voltage to a negative voltage includes applying an input signal having intermittent high- (e.g., positive-) and low (e.g., zero or ground) levels to a capacitor network having two or more capacitors; configuring the network into a serial configuration, in which the capacitors are connected to each other in series; charging the capacitors connected in series with the input signal during a pre-charge period, during which the input signal level is high; subsequently, during a pump period, during which the input signal level is low, configuring the network into a parallel configuration, in which the capacitors are connected to each other in parallel; and discharging the capacitors connected in parallel to an output. A negative charge pump includes a network of two or more capacitors, and switches and adapted to switch the capacitor network between a serial configuration, in which the capacitors are connected to each other in series, and a parallel configuration, in which the capacitors are connected to each other in parallel. The negative charge pump has an input adapted to receive an input signal having intermittent high- and low levels, and an output. The switches are adapted to switch the capacitor network into the serial configuration when the input signal is high and switch the switch the capacitor network into the parallel configuration when the input signal is low (e.g., zero or ground level).
US10855152B2
A method of manufacturing a compressed coil and a system for holding a wire during the manufacture of a compressed coil are disclosed. The method includes providing a wire including a first lead section, a central section and a second lead section. The central section of the wire is wound around a bobbin to form a coil. A punch top is located over an end of the bobbin such that the end of the bobbin is located at least partially within a through-hole of the punch top. A second lead section of the wire is located within a groove in an outer surface of the punch top or bobbin and pressure is applied to the bobbin and/or punch top to compress the coil.
US10855145B2
An electric machine with a rotor (4) rotatably disposed within a stator (1) with a stator winding (3) has a plurality of permanent magnets (8) received therein. A casing (17) encloses the stator and the rotor, and an impeller (13) with blades is fixed to an axle (7) of the rotor so as to generate a flow of air through the casing for cooling end-turns (25) of the stator winding by drawing air through an inlet opening (18) at one end of the casing and blowing it out of the casing through an outlet opening (19) at the other end of the casing. At least one shutter is arranged to close the outlet opening (19) when the temperature of the cooling air through the outlet opening reaches a predetermined level well above a maximum level of the temperature possible to be reached under normal operation of the electric machine so as to close the outlet opening upon occurrence of arcing in the end-turns. A temperature dependent member is arranged in the air flow through the outlet opening to obtain such closing.
US10855130B2
The present embodiment relates to a terminal assembly comprising: a power supply terminal module, which comprises a power supply terminal and a support part, the power supply terminal including a body part and an insertion part bent and extended from an end of the body part and the support part being coupled to the power supply terminal so as for the body part to penetrate therethrough; and a bus bar terminal module, which comprises a bus bar guide groove, in which the insertion part is inserted, and a bus bar terminal, which is placed in the bus bar guide groove and is in contact with the insertion part.
US10855128B2
Described is a method for producing a stator, in particular for electric motors. In a first step, a plurality of flexible electrical conductors are combined to form a conductor bundle. In a second step, two end regions of the conductor bundle are pressed in such a way that a central region of the conductor bundle formed between the two end regions remains flexible. Also described is a corresponding stator.
US10855120B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a frame, and a stator core fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the frame and including a plurality of split cores disposed in a peripheral direction. Each of the plurality of split cores includes a groove disposed along an axial direction on a central position in the peripheral direction on an outer peripheral surface of the split core, and a first protrusion disposed on a bottom of the groove and protruding outward in a radial direction.
US10855117B2
Systems and methods are described for extended foreign object detection (FOD) signal processing. In aspects, an oscillator reset is implemented in a FOD system to mitigate the effects of intermodulation products. In addition, dynamic frequency allocation is implemented to avoid high noise desensitizing the FOD system. Also, a slow sampling mode is implemented to increase a tolerance to transient foreign objects. Reference tracking and auto-recovery is implemented to bridge power outages. Additionally, the FOD system is configured to support position finding for determining an alignment between the vehicle pad and the base pad using a passive beacon transponder circuit and to perform beacon response cancellation as needed in concurrent FOD operation.
US10855112B2
In a system for wirelessly transferring power from a primary side across an airgap to a secondary side, the secondary side includes two parallel resonating circuits (27) each including two parallel resonating paths with a series connection of a resonating inductor (28), and a resonating capacitor 29. A rectifier (21) is connected to the output of each resonating path for converting the AC output (12′) of the resonating paths to a DC output (13′). The outputs of the rectifiers (21) are connected in parallel to provide the AC output power (13) to a load such as a battery or the like. Each resonating path further includes a symmetry inductance connected in series to improve current sharing among the resonating paths and to reduce the higher harmonic portion in the resonating paths. For balancing the flux each resonating circuit 27 includes in a preferred embodiment of the invention a symmetry winding (30) wound on the same core as the resonating inductor 28 of that resonating path where all symmetry windings (3) are connected in parallel to ensure optimal flux sharing.
US10855110B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe a wireless power receiving system for an electronic device includes: a first inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a first frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a first direction; and a second inductor coil configured to receive power primarily at a second frequency and from magnetic fields propagating in a second direction, wherein the first frequency is different than the second frequency.
US10855109B2
An inductive power transfer system is arranged to transfer power from a power transmitter to a power receiver via a wireless power signal. The system supports communication from the power transmitter to the power receiver based on load modulation of the power signal. The power receiver transmitting a first message to the power transmitter which comprises a standby power signal requirement for the power signal during a standby phase. The power transmitter receives the message, and when the system enters the standby phase, the power transmitter provides the power signal in accordance with the standby power signal requirement during. A power receiver configurable standby phase is provided which may for example allow devices to maintain battery charge or to provide fast initialization of the power transfer phase.
US10855099B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises a battery, a wireless interface including a coil and configured to wirelessly transmit electric power from the battery via the coil, and at least one processor configured to: perform a wireless charging function of wirelessly transmitting electric power to an external device via the wireless interface, while neither the electronic device nor the external device is being supplied with electric power from an external power source via a wire, and based on identifying that the external device starts being supplied with electric power from an external power source via a wire while performing the wireless charging function, stop performing the wireless charging function of wirelessly transmitting electric power to the external device.
US10855081B2
An electrical energy storage system includes a battery configured to store and discharge electric power to an energy grid, a power inverter configured to use battery power setpoints to control an amount of the electric power stored or discharged from the battery, the battery power setpoints comprising at least one of frequency regulation power setpoints and ramp rate control power setpoints, and a controller. The controller is configured to use a battery life model to generate the battery power setpoints for the power inverter. The battery life model includes one or more variables that depend on the battery power setpoints.
US10855076B2
A method for operating a domestic energy generation installation comprises ascertaining or prespecifying at least one expectation time period, ascertaining an expected load profile of an electrical consumer, ascertaining an expected yield profile of the regenerative energy source in the expectation time period, ascertaining or prespecifying a minimum consumption power which should be available for withdrawal from the storage battery unit, ascertaining an energy balance over one expectation time period from the expected yield profile and the expected load profile, ascertaining a time range of the storage battery unit from the expected load profile, the expected yield profile and the minimum consumption power, which should not be undershot at any time, and from a currently ascertained state of charge of the storage battery unit, operating the fuel cell unit depending on the ascertained time range and operating the electrolysis unit depending on the ascertained energy balance.
US10855072B2
Disclosed are an intelligent safety relay and a circuit applied thereby. The intelligent safety relay includes: a first processing chip MCU A, a second processing chip MCU B, first and second input driving circuits, first to third input sampling circuits, first and second diagnostic signal generation circuits, first and second logic circuits, a diagnostic signal detection circuit, first and second relay driving circuits, and first and second relay circuits. The first processing chip MCU A and the second processing chip MCU B can automatically control, based on samples of the input driving circuits taken by the input sampling circuits, connection or disconnection of contacts in the first and second relay circuits so as to switch on or off an output.
US10855070B2
A vehicle includes a generator, an outlet, and a controller. The generator is electrically connected to the outlet. The controller is programmed to, responsive to outlet temperature being less than a threshold, deliver an electric current from the generator to an external device that is connected to the outlet. The controller is further programmed to, responsive to the outlet temperature exceeding the threshold, inhibit delivering the current from the electric machine to the external device.
US10855061B2
The present disclosure relates to a withdrawable base module for a switch. The withdrawable base module comprises a base coupled to a busbar for electrically connected to the switch; a conversion assembly coupled to the base and comprising a drive mechanism, a first female contact and a carrying mechanism adapted to carry the switch; and an auxiliary assembly being slidable relative to the conversion assembly and comprising a first male contact electrically connected to the switch; wherein the drive mechanism is operable to drive the auxiliary assembly to cause the first male contact to move towards and contact the first female contact. The withdrawable base module according to embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a test circuit for the switch, and can achieve the rocking-in or rocking-out of the switch without additional human intervention after completion of the test.
US10855054B2
A semiconductor laser device includes a semiconductor substrate, a resonator unit formed on the semiconductor substrate and having an active layer, a diffraction grating formed on or underneath the active layer, a front facet of an inverted mesa slope, and a rear facet, an anti-reflection coating film formed on the front facet, a reflective film formed on the rear facet, an upper electrode formed on the resonator unit, and a lower electrode formed underneath the semiconductor substrate, wherein a length in a resonator direction of the resonator unit is shorter than a length in the resonator direction of the semiconductor substrate, and a laser beam is emitted from the front facet.
US10855053B2
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) in which the MEMS mirror is bonded to the active region. This allows for a separate electrostatic cavity that is outside the laser's optical resonant cavity. Moreover, the use of this cavity configuration allows the MEMS mirror to be tuned by pulling the mirror away from the active region. This reduces the risk of snap down. Moreover, since the MEMS mirror is now bonded to the active region, much wider latitude is available in the technologies that are used to fabricate the MEMS mirror. This is preferably deployed as a swept source in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system.
US10855050B1
Described herein are methods for developing and maintaining pulses that are produced from compact resonant cavities using one or more Q-switches and maintaining the output parameters of these pulses created during repetitive pulsed operation. The deterministic control of the evolution of a Q-switched laser pulse is complicated due to dynamic laser cavity feedback effects and unpredictable environmental inputs. Laser pulse shape control in a compact laser cavity (e.g., length/speed of light<˜1 ns) is especially difficult because closed loop control becomes impossible due to causality. Because various issues cause laser output of these compact resonator cavities to drift over time, described herein are further methods for automatically maintaining those output parameters.
US10855046B2
Phase modulated Optical Parametric Amplification Imaging (p-OPA), can be used to determine the magnitude and the sign of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility of a material, and its spatial variation.
US10855043B2
A system includes: a heat sink module with a plurality of first through-holes linking its top and bottom surfaces and a plurality of grooves on the bottom surface, wherein each groove passes through a respective sequence of the first through-holes; and a driving circuit module with a plurality of conductive connectors and electrical driving surfaces that are disposed substantially perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces of the heat sink module, wherein each conductive connector lies partially within a respective groove in the bottom surface of the heat sink module, the conductive connectors include internal connectors that each links at least two of the first through-holes in a respective sequence of first through-holes, and external connectors that each links at least one of the first through-holes in a respective sequence of first through-holes to an electrical driving surfaces of the driving circuit module.
US10855041B2
The present invention provides an optical to electrical converter, which comprises an optical transmission unit, an electrical transmission unit and a rotating mechanism. The optical transmission unit is connected to the electrical transmission unit via the rotating unit, and the optical transmission unit and the electrical transmission unit can be rotated relative to each other by the rotating mechanism. Further, the electrical transmission unit is able to connect to a system end, such as a computer, and perform electrical signal transmission with the system end (computer), thereby enabling the system end (computer) having an optical transmission function via the optical to electrical converter.
US10855040B2
A flexible electrical connector assembly is adapted to connect a bus bar of an electrolytic cell to a collector bar of the electrolytic cell. The assembly includes an electrical connector including a plurality of conductive metal sheets, the electrical connector having a collector bar end and a bus bar end. The electrical connector may be adapted for being joined, at the collector bar end, to the collector bar and, at the bus bar end, to the bus bar. The electrical connector may be adapted to implement a change in direction, at a bend along a current-carrying path between the bus bar end and the collector bar end, the bend assisting to define the change in direction as greater than 90 degrees.
US10855032B1
An electrical connector includes first and second bodies, an electrical terminal, a shuttle, and a scannable code. The first body includes a wall and a bridge. The wall has an outward surface facing radially outward with respect to a mating axis, and an opposite inward surface defining a blind opening. The bridge extends lengthwise between opposite end portions each attached to the outward surface. The bridge and the outward surface define a through opening opened axially, and spaced radially outward from, the blind opening. The electrical terminal projects axially, is attached to the first body, and is revealed through the blind opening. The second body is axially received in the blind opening and mates with the first body. The shuttle is adapted to axially slide through the opening. The scannable code is secured to the shuttle, faces radially outward, and is concealed by the bridge when the connector is unmated.
US10855029B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulating body; multiple terminals respectively accommodated in the insulating body; a cover covering the insulating body in a front-rear sliding manner and having a hollow portion to accommodate a mating plug including a substrate and multiple conducting portions; and a driving member. Each terminal has a contact portion. The hollow portion has a virtual center line extending in a left-right direction. The cover ihas a pulling portion located in front of the virtual center line to abut the substrate forward. The driving member has a driving portion located in front of the hollow portion. After the substrate is mounted downward into the hollow portion, the driving portion drives the cover to move horizontally forward relative to the insulating body, and the pulling portion pulls the substrate forward, such that the conducting portions move forward to be in contact with the contact portions of the terminals.
US10855008B2
A power interface may include a housing, a connection body, and a second stopping plate. A first stopping plate may be arranged in the housing. The connection body may be arranged in the housing. An engaging flange may be arranged on the connection body. A second stopping plate may be attached on an inner face of the housing along a circumference direction of the housing. The second stopping plate may be spaced apart from the first stopping plate. The engaging flange may be sandwiched between the first stopping plate and the second stopping plate. A mobile terminal and a method for manufacturing a power interface are also provided.
US10855002B2
A problem addressed by embodiments of the invention disclosed herein consists in devising a connection device in which field terminations can be released also in the installed state, i.e., the electrical conductors can be manually disconnected using a simple tool even if the insulating body is already installed in an attachment housing. To this end, an actuator is proposed which has an inclined engagement portion with an adjoining engagement edge and engagement step by which the actuator can be lifted out of the insulating body, also from the cable connection side, with a slotted screwdriver in a single lifting movement.
US10855001B2
Disclosed is a busbar tapping clamp (10) comprising a clamping member (16) that can be attached to a busbar (12) like a G-clamp, and sprung means (34) for bringing a conductor (32), which extends to the busbar tapping clamp (10), into electroconductive contact with the clamping member (16).
US10854999B1
Angled electrical header connectors comprise a housing with a first electrical terminal port and a second electrical terminal port oriented apart from one another. A first electrical terminal is disposed within the first electrical terminal port, and a first electrical insulator is interposed between the first electrical terminal port and the first electrical terminal. A second electrical terminal is disposed within the second electrical terminal port, and a second electrical insulator is interposed between the second electrical terminal port and the second electrical terminal. A passage exists between the first electrical terminal port and the second electrical terminal port, and one of the first electrical terminal or the second electrical terminal extends into the electrical terminal port of the other of the first electrical terminal or the second electrical terminal to make an electrical-mechanical connection therebetween in situ within the housing.
US10854995B2
A wireless communications system includes a first transceiver with a first phased array antenna panel having horizontal-polarization receive antennas and vertical-polarization transmit antennas, where the horizontal-polarization receive antennas form a first receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a first master chip, the vertical-polarization transmit antennas form a first transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the first master chip. The wireless communications system may include a second transceiver having vertical-polarization receive antennas and horizontal-polarization transmit antennas in a second phased array antenna panel, where the vertical-polarization receive antennas form a second receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a second master chip, the horizontal-polarization transmit antennas form a second transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the second master chip.
US10854994B2
A broadband phased array antenna system is set forth comprising a support member; an antenna array mounted to the support member, the antenna array having a plurality of uniformly excited hybrid radiating elements arranged in a symmetric array on a substrate; a baseband controller mounted to the support member; a radio controller mounted to the support member for modulating and demodulating signals between the baseband controller and antenna array; and a communications interface for removably connecting and disconnecting the antenna system. In one aspect, the antenna array comprises a substrate; a plurality of uniformly excited hybrid radiating elements arranged in a symmetric array on the substrate; a hybrid feeding network for transmitting RF-signals to the hybrid radiating elements; and artificial materials surrounding opposite sides of the symmetric array for suppressing edge scattered fields and increasing gain of the antenna system.
US10854987B2
Aspect of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatus producing enhanced radiation characteristics, e.g., wideband behavior, in or for antennas and related components by providing concentric sleeves, with air or dielectric material as a spacer, where the sleeves include one or more conductive layers, at least a portion of which includes fractal resonators closely spaced, in terms of wavelength. A further aspect of the present disclosure is directed to surfaces that include dual-use or multiple-use apertures. Such aperture engine surfaces can include a first layer of antenna arrays, a second layer including a metal-fractal backplane player, and a third layer including solar cells for solar cell or solar oriented power collection. Fractal metamaterial ribbons with multiple closely-packed fractal resonators are also disclosed.
US10854974B2
An antenna system, in one example implementation, can include antenna portions including a first portion of the antenna to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal. The antenna can include a second portion capacitively coupled to the first portion, wherein the capacitive coupling of the second portion to the first portion increases the high-band resonances. The antenna can include a third portion of the antenna connected to a connector. The third portion can be capacitively coupled to the first portion to excite wide low-band resonances and high-band resonances. The connector can be a ground for the third portion.
US10854970B2
A phased array antenna includes several antenna elements and a signal feed entry from or to which a signal is transmitted to or from the antenna elements. A phase shifting device modifies a phase difference of the signal that is transmitted from the signal feed network to the respective antenna element or that is transmitted from the respective antenna element to the signal feed network to adjust the preferred direction of radiation of the phased array antenna. A bias voltage is applied to each phase shifting device via two bias voltage electrode lines that are connected to a bias voltage driver. The bias voltage driver has several output channel terminal pairs with two output channel terminals to apply a tunable output channel voltage difference to each terminal pair. The two bias voltage electrode lines of each phase shifting device are connected to a respective terminal pair.
US10854969B2
Disclosed herein are methods, circuits, devices, assemblies and systems for facilitating wireless communication, both satellite and terrestrial. According to embodiments, there may be provided a integrated bidirectional phased array including multiple antenna element clusters, wherein each antenna cluster may be comprised of a set of antenna elements disposed in proximity to one another and connected to one another through an intra-cluster signal distribution line. Antenna element clusters may be connected to one another and to a main signal line through a network of inter-cluster signal distribution lines as least some of which may include electrically controllable signal phase shifters. A first set of antenna element clusters may be connected to a transmission signal (TX) line, thereby forming a TX antenna. A second set of antenna element clusters may be connected to a receive signal (RX) line, thereby forming a second RX antenna. Antenna elements of RX and TX antenna element clusters may disposed on a common surface, or parallel surfaces, in an interlaced manner.
US10854968B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A split return path may bridge the gap. The split return path may be coupled between a first point on the inverted-F antenna resonating element arm and second and third points on the antenna ground. The split return path may include a first inductor coupled between the first and second points and a second inductor coupled between the first and third points. The first and second inductors may be adjustable.
US10854967B2
Methods of operating a base station antennas involve receiving a first control signal at the base station antenna, activating a first actuator to move a first mechanical linkage in response to the first control signal and activating a second actuator to move a second mechanical linkage in response to the first control signal. Pursuant to these methods, base station antenna can be configured for both independent or common control of the first and second actuators.
US10854961B2
An implantable electronic medical device has a device body and a header placed thereon, and includes a telemetry assembly for signal transmission to and/or from outside the body of a patient when the device is implanted, in particular for the wireless bidirectional communication. A transmit/receive antenna, which is physically formed of an elongated conductor and arranged in the region of the header and which is configured so as to have a form fit with the outer contour of at least a portion of the header, and is fixed thereby in the header, is at least largely assigned to the telemetry assembly. A first section of the conductor has a spring elastic design and forms a bracket or clamp. The bracket embraces a connector in the header. There is also described a transmit/receive antenna of a telemetry assembly of an implantable electronic medical device.
US10854953B2
An electronic device may include a peripheral conductive housing sidewall with an integral ledge extending towards the device interior. A display cover layer may be supported by the integral ledge. A slot antenna may be formed from a slot in the integral ledge. The integral ledge may be mounted to a surface of a substrate and coupled to a conductive rear housing wall by a conductive layer extending over an additional surface of the substrate. The sidewall may include a vertical portion extending from the ledge to the rear wall. The slot antenna may be fed via near-field coupling using a conductive patch that is located within the slot at the surface of the substrate. The conductive layer, rear housing wall, and vertical portion may form a cavity for the slot antenna. The conductive layer may isolate the slot from interference with a battery, display circuitry, or other components.
US10854949B2
An information handling system includes a triangular chassis and a plurality of antennas that provide optimized coverage in all directions around the triangular chassis. An antenna may be operated from each vertex of the triangular shaped base chassis. Alternatively, an antenna may be operated from each of three main side surfaces of the triangular shaped base chassis. One or more of the antennas can be selected for communication based on the ability to communicate with external network components. Disclosed systems provide omnidirectional coverage around the triangular chassis while minimizing the effects of shadowing caused by abase chassis.
US10854943B2
Systems and methods for efficient coupling to low-loss eigenmodes of a spherical waveguide bounded by the Earth's surface and its ionosphere from multiple locations within the waveguide are disclosed. One or more eigenmodes of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide may be computed based on a mathematical model incorporating electrical properties of the terrestrial surface and plasma physics of the ionospheric layer. Multiple wave guide couplers, each including an array of electrically-connected waveguide-coupling elements, may be configured at different geographic locations for coupling to the one or more eigenmodes. By adjusting relative phases and/or amplitudes of the waveguide couplers, as well as frequencies, power may be coupled into standing waves of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide. The adjustments may also account or compensate for diurnal variations of ionosphere by steering power nodes and nulls of the standing waves away from regions of potential ohmic losses.
US10854936B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells stacked on one another, a cell housing configured to accommodate the plurality of battery cells, a top plate configured to cover an entire upper side of the cell housing and electrically connected to any one of positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the plurality of battery cells, and a bottom plate disposed to face the top plate and configured to cover an entire lower side of the cell housing and electrically connected to the other of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes of the plurality of battery cells.
US10854928B2
A battery comprises a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte. The cathode comprises a cathode active material which is capable of reversibly intercalating and deintercalating a plurality of first metal ions; and a conductive agent, wherein the particle size of the conductive agent graphite is less than 50 μm and the crystallinity of the conductive agent graphite is no less than 90%.
US10854925B2
A method of manufacturing a wound electrode body by holding a first separator sheet between a pair of electrode sheets formed of a negative sheet and a positive sheet, laminating a second separator sheet in an outside of the pair of electrode sheets, and winding the pair of electrode sheets and the first and second separator sheets onto an outer circumferential surface of a winding core is provided. Before at least one electrode sheet of the pair of electrode sheets is attached to the winding core, a first fold line extended in a longitudinal direction of the one electrode sheet is formed in a leading part of the one electrode sheet.
US10854923B2
Low flammability and nonflammable localized superconcentrated electrolytes (LSEs) for stable operation of lithium and sodium ion batteries are disclosed. Electrochemical devices including the low flammability and nonflammable LSEs are also disclosed. The low flammability and nonflammable LSEs include an active salt, a solvent comprising a flame retardant compound, wherein the active salt is soluble in the solvent, and a diluent in which the active salt is insoluble or poorly soluble. The LSE may further include a cosolvent, such as a carbonate, a sulfone, a sulfite, a sulfate, a carboxylate, an ether, a nitrogen-containing solvent, or any combination thereof. In certain embodiments, such as when the solvent and diluent are immiscible, the LSE further includes a bridge solvent.
US10854914B2
Provided are a solid electrolyte composition comprising: a specific inorganic solid electrolyte and a binder, in which a polymer constituting the binder includes a macromonomer component having a mass-average molecular weight of 1,000 or more and less than 1,000,000 and includes a ring structure of two or more rings, a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and an all-solid state secondary battery for which the solid electrolyte is used, and methods for manufacturing a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and an all-solid state secondary battery.
US10854913B2
Provided is a solid electrolyte including electrolyte particles, wherein each of the electrolyte particles includes at least one of an O—S—O structure and an O—S—OH structure.
US10854912B2
The present invention relates to a solid electrolyte comprising a sulfide-based compound and an all-solid-state battery applied therewith and, more particularly, to a solid electrolyte comprising a sulfide-based compound that is free of phosphorus (P) element but exhibits high ionic conductivity, and an all-solid-state battery applied therewith. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte and the all-solid-state battery applied therewith according to the present invention exhibit improved reactivity to moisture to prevent the generation of toxic gas, resulting in an improvement in safety and stability and do not reduce in ion conductivity even after being left in air, and the solid electrolyte is easy to handle and store thanks to the improved shelf stability thereof.
US10854911B2
Compounds for use in a rechargeable battery are provided, including a compound according to the formula: wherein R1 and R9 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, alkyl, aryl, perfluoroaryl, perfluoroalkyl, alkylaryl, alkoxyaryl, alkylcarboxyl, aryl carbonyl, haloalkyl, perfluoroalkyl, glycols, haloaryl, a negative electrolyte, and a polymer, so long as when R1 is H, R9 is not H; and R10 is selected from the group consisting of methyl, alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, alkoxyaryl, alkylcarboxyl, aryl carbonyl, haloalkyl, perfluoroalkyl, perfluoroaryl, glycols, haloaryl, an oligomer, and a polymer.
US10854902B2
Systems and methods for acquisition, parameterization, and validation of fuel cell polarization data
Methods, systems, and techniques are provided for acquiring fuel cell polarization data, obtaining fuel cell polarization parameters from the fuel cell polarization data, and validating the reliability of the obtained data and parameters. In some aspects methods for acquiring and parameterizing proton exchange membrane fuel cell polarization data include measuring at least one current-voltage point for an operating fuel cell, and determining at least one polarization parameter of the fuel cell by evaluating a closed form solution using the at least one current-voltage point.
US10854900B2
A fuel cell system is configured to generate power by supplying anode gas and cathode gas to a fuel cell. The fuel cell system includes a load connected to the fuel cell and an IV estimation unit configured to change an output current of the fuel cell with a predetermined width by adjusting power supplied to the load during the warm-up of the fuel cell. The fuel cell system is configured to estimate an IV characteristic of the fuel cell on the basis of at least two sets of an output current value and an output voltage value detected while the output current is changed. The fuel cell system includes an IV estimation stop unit configured to stop the execution of the IV estimation on the basis of an output of the fuel cell during the execution of the IV estimation.
US10854889B2
A film structure for a battery for providing on a round body includes a carrier film, having a first section and a second section following the first section and a third section following the second section. The film structure has a first layer sequence of several layers, having a first electrode layer for forming an anode or a cathode, and a second layer sequence of several layers, having a second electrode layer for forming an anode or cathode different from the first electrode layer. The first and the second layer sequences are arranged on different sections of the carrier film in such a way that the first and the second layer sequences come in contact with each other and the film battery is thereby activated only once a body is labeled.
US10854886B2
A method for preparing a carbon-supported, platinum-cobalt alloy, nanoparticle catalyst includes mixing a solution containing, in combination, a platinum precursor, a transition metal precursor consisting of a transition metal that is cobalt, carbon, a stabilizer that is oleyl amine, and a reducing agent that is sodium borohydride to provide carbon-supported, platinum-cobalt alloy nanoparticles, and washing the carbon-supported, platinum-cobalt alloy, nanoparticles using ethanol and distilled water individually or in combination followed by drying at room temperature to obtain dried carbon-supported, platinum-cobalt alloy, nanoparticles; treating the dried carbon-supported, platinum-cobalt alloy, nanoparticles with an acetic acid solution having a concentration ranging from 1-16M to provide acetic acid-treated nanoparticles, and washing the acetic acid-treated nanoparticles using distilled water followed by drying at room temperature to obtain dried acetic acid-treated nanoparticles; and heat treating the dried acetic acid-treated nanoparticles at a temperature ranging from 600 to 1000° C. under a hydrogen-containing atmosphere.
US10854885B2
A simplified and efficient method for preparing non-noble metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) based on nitrogen containing metal organic framework (MOF) is provided. The method includes formation of a first MOF product through a mechano-chemical reaction between a first transition metal compound and a first organic ligand in the presence of a catalyst. It further includes formation of a second MOF product incorporating a second transition metal and a second organic ligand into the first-MOF product. The second MOF product is converted into an electrocatalyst via pyrolysis, and optionally post-treatment. The electrocatalysts are applicable in various electrochemical systems, including oxygen depolarized cathodes (ODC) for chlorine evolution.
US10854864B2
Provided are a separator for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The separator for a lithium secondary battery includes: a porous substrate; and a coating layer disposed on one side or both sides of the porous substrate and including a first inorganic particle and a second inorganic particle having different lengths of a major axis, and a binder, wherein a moisture content is less than 800 ppm after being left for 12 hours at a temperature of 40° C. and relative humidity of 90%.
US10854858B2
A case for a rechargeable battery and a rechargeable battery including the case, the case including a sequentially deposited first resin layer and second resin layer, wherein the second resin layer includes a butyl-based resin.
US10854857B2
A secondary battery including an electrode assembly; a first case that includes an electrode assembly accommodating space; and a second case that coupled to the first case, the second case facing the first case and having a convex-concave pattern.
US10854855B2
A packaging material for batteries including a laminate in which at least a base material layer, a metal layer, and a sealant layer are laminated in order, the sum (A+B) of a value A of stress when 40% extended/stress when 10% extended in the direction MD and a value B of stress when 40% extended/stress when 10% extended in the direction TD of the laminate satisfying the relationship A+B≥2.50.
US10854852B2
The present invention provides an organic EL image display device including a light emitting element substrate, and a circularly polarizing plate, in which the light emitting element substrate includes a reflecting layer and an organic electroluminescent layer on the reflecting layer, the reflecting layer, the organic electroluminescent layer, and the circularly polarizing plate are arranged in this order, a polarization separation layer is provided between the organic electroluminescent layer and the circularly polarizing plate, the polarization separation layer includes a polarization separation region that reflects light of one polarization state in light emitted from the organic electroluminescent layer, and transmits light of another polarization state, and a visible light transmission region, the polarization separation region is formed of a layer formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and a positive C region-containing layer is provided between the organic electroluminescent layer and the circularly polarizing plate. The organic EL image display device according to the present invention has high brightness and little light leakage and blurring at the time of oblique observation.
US10854851B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display panel including a display area and a non-display area and a polarizing layer disposed on the display panel, and including a main portion for at least covering the display area and an extension for covering part of the non-display area. The polarizing layer includes a groove for extending along a border of the main portion and the extension.
US10854850B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate, an active element array, at least one OLED, a light absorption layer or an optical scattering layer, and an encapsulation plate. The active element array and the OLED are disposed over an upper surface of the substrate. The OLED includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer. The first electrode is disposed on a side adjacent to the active element array, and the second electrode is opposite to the first electrode. Both the first and second electrodes have a high transmittance and a low reflection in a wavelength range of visible light. The organic light-emitting layer is interposed between the first and second electrodes. The light absorption layer or optical scattering layer is disposed between the OLED and the substrate. The encapsulation plate is disposed over the second electrode.
US10854844B2
An organic light-emitting display device characterized by improved reliability is disclosed. The organic light-emitting display device is configured such that each of an organic encapsulation layer, which is disposed on a light-emitting element, and an upper inorganic encapsulation layer, which is disposed on the organic encapsulation layer, are divided into a plurality of parts. Even when cracks are formed in a subpixel due to an external impact or when external moisture or oxygen permeates into the subpixel, therefore, it is possible to prevent the cracks, the moisture, or the oxygen from diffusing to an adjacent subpixel, whereby the reliability and lifespan of the display device are improved.
US10854843B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed, in which arcing may be prevented from occurring. The display device comprises a first substrate including a display area on which pixels are arranged, and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a dam surrounding the display area, arranged on the non-display area; a pad electrode arranged outside the dam; and an encapsulation film covering the display area and including a first inorganic film and a second inorganic film arranged on the first inorganic film, wherein the second inorganic film is overlapped with the pad electrode.
US10854830B2
A display apparatus includes a display module configured to display an image, and defining a folding area that is in-foldable about an imaginary folding axis, and a plurality of non-folding areas adjacent respective sides of the folding area in a plane, a support member having a plate shape under the display module, an adhesive member between the display module and the support member, and at least one first non-adhesive member overlapping with the folding area and located between the adhesive member and the support member.
US10854829B2
A flexible display device includes: a substrate including a main area, a first edge area arranged in a first direction with respect to the main area and including a first data pad portion, and a second edge area arranged in a second direction, which intersects the first direction, with respect to the main area and including a second data pad portion; and a flexible film on which first and second signal pad portions connected to the first and second data pad portions, respectively, are arranged. The first edge area may be bent along a first bending line, which extends in the second direction, and the second edge area may be bent along a second bending line, which extends in the first direction.
US10854827B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)n1(L2)n2 Formula 1 wherein groups M, L1, L2, n1, and n2 are the same as they are defined in the specification.
US10854822B2
An organic EL device capable of driving at low voltage and having high emission efficiency and long lifetime and a material for organic EL devices which realize such an organic EL device are provided. The material for organic EL devices is a compound represented by formula (A1) or (B1): wherein R1 to R8, n1, m2, k3, k4, n5, m6, L0 to L2, and Ar are as defined in the description.
US10854812B2
Systems and methods of use and fabrication are described for a non-volatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) multi-terminal device including a first electrode, a second electrode, a metal oxide disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an at least first gate configured to apply a voltage bias to change a resistive state in the metal oxide.
US10854804B2
A light-emitting component includes a light-emitting chip and a housing including a plastic body and a reflector, the reflector includes an electrically conductive layer, the light-emitting chip includes a top side and an underside, the underside of the light-emitting chip is arranged on the plastic body, an electrical terminal on the top side of the light-emitting chip electrically conductively connects to the reflector by a bond wire, the underside of the light-emitting chip and the reflector are electrically insulated from one another, a conduction region is provided within the plastic body, thermal conductivity of the conduction region is greater than thermal conductivity of the plastic body, the conduction region adjoins the underside of the light-emitting chip, and the conduction region extends from the side of the plastic body facing the light-emitting chip as far as the side of the plastic body facing away from the light-emitting chip.
US10854803B2
A manufacturing method of a light emitting device package structure is provided. The method includes following operations: (i) providing a circuit redistribution structure; (ii) providing a first substrate; (iii) forming a circuit layer structure over the first substrate, wherein the circuit layer structure includes a first circuit layer; (iv) before or after operation (iii), placing a light emitting device between the first substrate and the circuit layer structure or over the circuit layer structure, wherein the light emitting device is electrically connected with the first circuit layer; and (v) placing the circuit redistribution structure over the light emitting device, wherein the circuit redistribution structure includes a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, and a chip, and the first redistribution layer includes a second circuit layer and a conductive contact that contacts the second circuit layer.
US10854792B2
A light-emitting device includes a wavelength conversion member including, in a dispersed manner, a first phosphor, a second phosphor, a third phosphor, a fourth phosphor, and a fifth phosphor, and a light emitter. The first phosphor has a peak in a wavelength region of 400 to 500 nm, the second phosphor in 450 to 550 nm, the third phosphor in 500 to 600 nm, the fourth phosphor in 600 to 700 nm, and a fifth phosphor in 680 to 800 nm. The light emitter emits light in an ultraviolet region of 380 to 430 nm. The light-emitting device has an emission spectrum in a region of 380 to 950 nm including peaks in regions of 380 to 430 nm, 430 to 480 nm, 480 to 550 nm, 550 to 650 nm, and 650 to 750 nm, and differences between relative light intensities at the peaks are less than 20%.
US10854787B2
A component having a boundary element is disclosed. In an embodiment a component comprises a semiconductor chip, a housing and a reflective layer, wherein the housing has a shaped body and a base body, the shaped body laterally enclosing the base body at least in places and being different from the reflective layer. In a plan view, the base body has a free area which is uncovered by the shaped body. The free area or a bottom surface of a cavity comprises a mounting surface for the semiconductor chip, wherein the semiconductor chip is arranged on the mounting surface. The bottom surface or the free area is partially covered by the reflective layer, wherein the mounting surface is enclosed at least in regions by a boundary element which adjoins the reflective layer and is configured to prevent the semiconductor chip from being covered by the reflective layer.
US10854786B2
A transparent light emitting device display comprising a transparent substrate; at least one light emitting device provided on the transparent substrate; and a first common electrode wiring unit, a second common electrode wiring unit, and a signal electrode wiring unit provided on the transparent substrate, in which the first common electrode wiring unit, the second common electrode wiring unit, and the signal electrode wiring unit comprise a metal mesh pattern.
US10854777B1
A method for manufacturing a display panel comprising light emitting device including micro LEDs includes providing multiple donor wafers having a surface region and forming an epitaxial material overlying the surface region. The epitaxial material includes an n-type region, an active region comprising at least one light emitting layer overlying the n-type region, and a p-type region overlying the active layer region. The multiple donor wafers are configured to emit different color emissions. The epitaxial material on the multiple donor wafers is patterned to form a plurality of dice, characterized by a first pitch between a pair of dice less than a design width. At least some of the dice are selectively transferred from the multiple donor wafers to a common carrier wafer such that the carrier wafer is configured with different color emitting LEDs. The different color LEDs could comprise red-green-blue LEDs to form a RGB display panel.
US10854771B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed that relate to coaxial photoconductive switch modules. The coaxial photoconductive switch may include an outer conductor, an inner conductor, and a photoconductive material positioned between the inner conductor and the outer conductor. The inner conductor, the outer conductor, and the photoconductive material have a predetermined height. A bias voltage may be applied between the inner conductor and the outer conductor. When light of a predetermined wavelength and a predetermined intensity is incident on the photoconductive material, the photoconductive material may break down allowing a current to flow through the photoconductive material between the inner conductor and the outer conductor.
US10854763B2
Monolithic multi-dimensional integrated circuits and memory architecture are provided. Exemplary integrated circuits comprise an electronic board having a first side and a second side, a multi-dimensional electronic package having multiple planes, and one or more semiconductor wafers mounted on the first side and the second side of the electronic board and on the multiple planes of the electronic package. Exemplary monolithic multi-dimensional memory architecture comprises one or more tiers, one or more monolithic inter-tier vias spanning the one or more tiers, at least one multiplexer disposed in one of the tiers, and control logic determining whether memory cells are active and which memory cells are active and controlling usage of the memory cells based on such determination. Each tier has a memory cell, and the inter-tier vias act as crossbars in multiple directions. The multiplexer is communicatively coupled to the memory cell in the respective tier. In exemplary embodiments, the one or more semiconductor wafers include one or more solar cells. The solar cells may comprise MEMS and/or on-chip solar cells.
US10854762B2
A semiconductor device includes an n-type drift layer formed on a semiconductor substrate having an off-angle, plurality of p-type pillar regions formed in the drift layer, and a surface electrode formed on the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions. A plurality of withstand voltage holding structures which are p-type semiconductor regions are formed in a surface layer of the drift layer including the plurality of p-type pillar regions to surround an active region. Each of the plurality of p-type pillar regions has a linear shape extending in a direction of the off-angle of the semiconductor substrate. Each of the plurality of withstand voltage holding structures has a frame-like shape including sides extending in parallel with the plurality of p-type pillar regions and sides perpendicular to the plurality of p-type pillar regions in a planar view.
US10854760B2
A stacked III-V semiconductor diode having an n− layer having a first surface, a second surface, a dopant concentration of 1012 N/cm3 to 1017 N/cm3 and a layer thickness of 50 μm to 1,000 μm, a p+ layer, which is integrally connected to the first surface and has a dopant concentration of 5·1018 N/cm3 to 5·1020 N/cm3, an n+ layer, which is integrally connected to the second surface and has a dopant concentration of at least 1019 N/cm3. The p+ layer, the n− layer and the n+ layer each having a monolithic design and each being made up of a GaAs compound. The dopant concentration of the n− layer having a first value on the first surface and a second value on the second surface, and the second value of the dopant concentration being greater than the first value at least by a factor between 1.5 and 2.5.
US10854759B2
A trenched MOS gate controlled rectifier has an asymmetric trench structure between the active area of active trenches and the termination area of termination trenches. The asymmetric trench structure has a gate electrode on one side of the trench to turn on and off the channel of the MOS structure effectively and a field plate structure on the other side with field dielectric sufficiently thick in order to sustain the high electric field during the reverse bias condition.
US10854756B2
An active matrix substrate includes a demultiplexer circuit which includes multiple TFTs. Each TFT includes a gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer that includes a source contact area, a drain contact area, and an area between a source and a drain that includes a channel region, a channel protection layer that covers only a portion of the area between the source and the drain, a source electrode that is brought into contact with the source contact area, and a drain electrode that is brought into contact with the drain contact area. At a cross-section in a channel length direction, of each TFT, an end portion facing toward the channel region, of one of the source and drain electrodes is brought into contact with the channel protection layer, and an end portion facing toward the channel region, of the other is positioned at a distance away from the channel protection layer.
US10854747B2
Some embodiments include device having a gate spaced from semiconductor channel material by a dielectric region, and having nitrogen-containing material directly against the semiconductor channel material and on an opposing side of the semiconductor channel material from the dielectric region. Some embodiments include a device having a gate spaced from semiconductor channel material by a dielectric region, and having nitrogen within at least some of the semiconductor channel material. Some embodiments include a NAND memory array which includes a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels. Channel material extends vertically along the stack. Charge-storage material is between the channel material and the wordline levels. Dielectric material is between the channel material and the charge-storage material. Nitrogen is within the channel material. Some embodiments include methods of forming NAND memory arrays.
US10854743B2
A VDMOS device and a manufacturing method therefor. The manufacturing method comprises: forming a groove in a semiconductor substrate, the groove comprising a first groove area, a second groove area, a third groove area, a fourth groove area and a fifth groove area; successively forming a first insulation layer, a first polycrystalline silicon layer and a second insulation layer on the semiconductor substrate; removing some of the second insulation layer until the first polycrystalline silicon layer is exposed; removing some of the first polycrystalline silicon layer, the remaining first polycrystalline silicon layer forming a first electrode; forming a third insulation layer on the semiconductor substrate, removing some of the third insulation layer, the second insulation layer and the first insulation layer, so that the top of the first polycrystalline silicon layer is higher than the top of the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer; and successively forming a gate oxide layer and a second polycrystalline silicon layer on the semiconductor substrate, and removing some of the second polycrystalline silicon layer, exposing the gate oxide layer located on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and the top of the second insulation layer, the remaining second polycrystalline silicon layer forming a second electrode.
US10854731B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first plurality of conductive interconnect lines in and spaced apart by a first ILD layer, wherein individual ones of the first plurality of conductive interconnect lines comprise a first conductive barrier material along sidewalls and a bottom of a first conductive fill material. A second plurality of conductive interconnect lines is in and spaced apart by a second ILD layer above the first ILD layer, wherein individual ones of the second plurality of conductive interconnect lines comprise a second conductive barrier material along sidewalls and a bottom of a second conductive fill material, wherein the second conductive fill material is different in composition from the first conductive fill material.
US10854717B2
A method for making a FINFET may include forming spaced apart source and drain regions in a semiconductor fin with a channel region extending therebetween. At least one of the source and drain regions may be divided into a lower region and an upper region by a dopant diffusion blocking superlattice, with the upper region having a same conductivity and higher dopant concentration than the lower region. The dopant diffusion blocking superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may further include forming a gate on the channel region.
US10854698B2
A display substrate includes a first conductive line extending along a first direction and a second conductive line partially overlapping the first conductive line with a first insulation layer in between. The second conductive line includes a first substantially linear portion and a second substantially linear portion extending along the first direction, and an angled portion disposed between the first substantially linear portion and the second substantially linear portion. At least one side surface of the angled portion extends along a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US10854696B2
The object is providing an organic light emitting display device achieving a narrow bezel. A display device 10 has a first substrate 11, a second substrate 12, a sealant 25 sealing between the substrates, a display unit 15 including pixel circuits, a driving circuit 20 including a transistor for driving the pixel circuits, a first wiring unit for supplying voltage to the transistor, and a second wiring unit connecting between the transistor and the first wiring unit. The driving circuit 20 is disposed outside the display unit 15, the first wiring unit is disposed between the display unit 15 and the driving circuit 20, the display unit 15 and the first wiring unit are disposed between the first substrate 12 and the second substrate 12, the melting point of a second metal constituting the second wiring unit is higher than that of a first metal constituting the first wiring unit.
US10854695B2
The present invention provides an OLED display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array. Each of the sub-pixels comprises a base substrate, a TFT layer, a flat layer, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, a light emitting layer, a transparent second electrode, and an encapsulation layer. A portion of at least one of the flat layer and the pixel defining layer is formed by a black shielding material. The OLED display panel can be prevented from reflecting ambient light without improving the light extraction efficiency, thereby improving the viewing experience of the OLED display panel by the arrangement of a portion of at least one of the flat layer and the pixel defining layer is formed by a black shielding material.
US10854693B2
An organic light emitting display device can include a substrate; a first electrode and an auxiliary electrode disposed on the substrate; a bank pattern disposed on a part of an upper surface of the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode, in which the bank pattern is divided into a first area and a second area disposed under the first area; a barrier rib disposed on a part of the upper surface of the auxiliary electrode, in which the barrier rib is divided into a third area having a reverse-tapered shape and a fourth area disposed under the third area and having a tapered shape; an organic emission layer disposed on the substrate; and a second electrode disposed on the organic emission layer.
US10854692B2
The present invention relates to a display device, and particularly, to a display device using a semiconductor light emitting device. The display device includes a substrate including an electrode, a plurality of light emitting devices assembled on the substrate, and a color conversion part stacked on the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices and converting a color. Specifically, the color conversion part includes: a porous layer, a wavelength conversion layer, and a reflective layer, wherein the wavelength conversion layer is disposed between the porous layer and the reflective layer, and the porous layer is formed of an electro-polishable porous terminal. A surface of the reflective layer includes a first region and a second region surrounded by the first region, the second region has roughness higher than that of the first region, and a plurality of first protrusions are disposed in the second region.
US10854690B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a sensor area, the sensor area including an auxiliary display area and a transmitting area, first display elements arranged over the display area, second display elements arranged over the auxiliary display area, transmitting units arranged in the transmitting area and configured to transmit at least a portion of light incident on the transmitting units, and an optical layer including a mesh pattern covering at least the second display elements.
US10854684B2
A pixel arrangement structure, including a plurality of repeating units, wherein each of the plurality of repeating units includes one first sub-pixel, one second sub-pixel, and two third sub-pixels; in each of the plurality of repeating units, the two third sub-pixels are arranged in one of a first direction and a second direction, and the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are arranged in the other one of the first direction and the second direction; the plurality of repeating units are arranged in the first direction to form a plurality of repeating unit groups, the plurality of repeating unit groups are arranged in the second direction; and the first direction and the second direction are different directions.
US10854672B2
A display device is capable of improving luminous efficiency and display quality and includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor on the substrate; a first electrode on the substrate and connected to the thin film transistor; a second electrode on the substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode; a plurality of light emitting elements between the first and second electrodes and electrically connected to each of the first and second electrodes; an insulating layer on the plurality of light emitting elements; and a reflective layer on the insulating layer. Each of the plurality of light emitting elements includes: a first semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer.
US10854655B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a light-receiving region and a light-shielding region, a device isolation pattern in the substrate of the light-receiving region to define active pixels, and a device isolation region in the substrate of the light-shielding region to define reference pixels. An isolation technique of the device isolation pattern is different from that of the device isolation region.
US10854650B2
A linear image sensor includes first and second sensor chips, first and second substrates, a common support substrate, a support portion, a dam portion, and a sealing portion. The first sensor chip is mounted to partially protrude on one end side of the first substrate. The second sensor chip is mounted to partially protrude on one end side of the second substrate. The first and second substrates are mounted on the common support substrate. The support portion is provided in a gap between the end faces of the first and second substrates. The dam portion is provided annularly to surround the sensor chips. The sealing portion seals the sensor chips, in a region surrounded by the dam portion.
US10854649B2
An image sensor may include unit pixel blocks with each having pixels for sensing incident light. Each unit pixel block may include a first sub pixel block including a first floating diffusion, a second sub pixel block including a second floating diffusion, and a common transistor block including a first drive transistor adjacent to the first floating diffusion and a second drive transistor adjacent to the second floating diffusion. The first and second floating diffusions may be electrically coupled in common to the first and second drive transistors.
US10854645B2
A method for fabricating a thin film transistor substrate includes forming a buffer layer including at least one film on a base substrate, planarizing a surface of the buffer layer, and forming a thin film transistor on the buffer layer.
US10854635B2
The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having active regions; field-effect devices disposed on the semiconductor substrate, the field-effect devices including gate stacks with elongated shape oriented in a first direction; a first metal layer disposed over the gate stacks, the first metal layer including first metal lines oriented in a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer, the second metal layer including second metal lines oriented in the first direction; and a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer, the third metal layer including third metal lines oriented in the second direction. The first, second, and third metal lines have a first thickness T1, a second thickness T2, and t a third thickness T3, respectively. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness and the third thickness.
US10854633B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises: a stacked body that includes a plurality of control gate electrodes stacked above a substrate; a memory columnar body that extends in a first direction above the substrate and configures a memory string along with the stacked body; and a source contact that extends in the first direction and is electrically connected to one end of the memory string. Moreover, this source contact is adjacent to the stacked body via a spacer insulating layer. Furthermore, a spacer protective layer including a nitride or a metal oxide is provided between these source contact and spacer insulating layer.
US10854632B2
A vertical memory device includes first, second and third impurity regions sequentially stacked in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, a gate electrode structure including gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the third impurity region, a channel extending through the gate electrode structure, the second and third impurity regions, and an upper portion of the first impurity region on the substrate in the first direction, and a charge storage structure covering a portion of an outer sidewall and a lower surface of the channel. The channel directly contacts a sidewall of the second impurity region.
US10854615B2
A semiconductor device includes a layer having a semiconductive material. The layer includes an outwardly-protruding fin structure. An isolation structure is disposed over the layer but not over the fin structure. A first spacer and a second spacer are each disposed over the isolation structure and on sidewalls of the fin structure. The first spacer is disposed on a first sidewall of the fin structure. The second spacer is disposed on a second sidewall of the fin structure opposite the first sidewall. The second spacer is substantially taller than the first spacer. An epi-layer is grown on the fin structure. The epi-layer protrudes laterally. A lateral protrusion of the epi-layer is asymmetrical with respect to the first side and the second side.
US10854613B2
A method for fabricating a buried word line (BWL) of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes the steps of: forming a first doped region in a substrate; removing part of the first doped region to form a trench in the substrate; forming a gate structure in the trench; and forming a barrier structure between the gate structure and the first doped region.
US10854609B2
Wells formed in a semiconductor device can be discharged faster in a transition from a stand-by state to an active state. The semiconductor device includes an n-type well applied, in an active state, with a power supply voltage and, in a stand-by state, with a voltage higher than the power supply voltage, a p-type well applied, in the active state, with a ground voltage and, in the stand-by state, with a voltage lower than the ground voltage, and a path which, in a transition from the stand-by state to the active state, electrically couples the n-type well and the p-type well.
US10854607B2
An impurity source film is formed along a portion of a non-planar semiconductor fin structure. The impurity source film may serve as source of an impurity that becomes electrically active subsequent to diffusing from the source film into the semiconductor fin. In one embodiment, an impurity source film is disposed adjacent to a sidewall surface of a portion of a sub-fin region disposed between an active region of the fin and the substrate and is more proximate to the substrate than to the active area.
US10854605B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes etching a substrate to form two first trenches separated by a fin; filling the two first trenches with an isolation layer; and depositing a dielectric layer over the fin and the isolation layer. The method further includes forming a second trench in the dielectric layer over a channel region of the semiconductor device, the second trench exposing the isolation layer. The method further includes etching the isolation layer through the second trench to expose an upper portion of the fin in the channel region of the semiconductor device, and forming a dummy gate in the second trench over the isolation layer and engaging the upper portion of the fin.
US10854604B1
Offsetting or modulating the location of a gate between two transistors may achieve a lower power circuit and a higher speed circuit depending on the new location of the gate. In one example, a gate between a PFET transistor and an NFET transistor may be offset towards the PFET transistor to achieve a higher speed circuit than a conventional circuit with the gate located equal distance between the transistors. In another example, a gate between a PFET transistor and an NFET transistor may be offset towards the NFET transistor to achieve a lower power circuit than a conventional circuit with the gate located equal distance between the transistors.
US10854602B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, at least one first isolation structure, at least one second isolation structure, a source structure, a drain structure and a plurality of semiconductor fins. The first isolation structure and the second isolation structure are located on the semiconductor substrate. The source structure is located on the semiconductor substrate and the first isolation structure, in which at least one first gap is located between the source structure and the first isolation structure. The drain structure is located on the semiconductor substrate and the second isolation structure, in which at least one second gap is located between the drain structure and the second isolation structure. The semiconductor fins protrude from the semiconductor substrate, in which the semiconductor fins are spaced apart from each other, and connect the source structure and the drain structure.
US10854599B2
A method includes forming a first gate, a second gate, a third gate, and a fourth gate over a substrate, in which a first distance between the first gate and the second gate is less than a second distance between the third gate and the fourth gate. A first spacer over a sidewall of the first gate, a second spacer over a sidewall of the second gate, a third spacer over a sidewall of the third gate, and a fourth spacer over a sidewall of the fourth gate are formed. A mask layer over the first and second spacers is formed, in which the third and fourth spacers are exposed from the mask layer. The exposed third and fourth spacers are trimmed.
US10854598B2
A semiconductor diode with integrated resistor has a semiconductor body with a front surface, a back surface and a diode structure with an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. A resistance layer arranged on the back surface of the semiconductor body provides the integrated resistor.
US10854596B2
An RF power limiter and ESD protection circuit has a set of two CMOS FETs each configured to perform a diode function with a defined forward voltage and arranged in an anti-parallel configuration and coupled between the input terminal and the ground terminal. When an RF signal is applied symmetrically to the input terminal and ground terminal it becomes symmetrically attenuated when the signal level exceeds the defined forward voltage of the diode configured CMOS FETs. In the ESD protection mode one of the CMOS FETs acts as a grounded gate NMOS transistor with SCR action to provide for mitigation of voltage and current over-stress of transistors utilized in RF transceiver circuits. Generally, the circuit architectures allow input power levels to be limited to an extent that reliable operation can be maintained.
US10854594B2
In one example, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first power supply having a first supply voltage, wherein the first power supply is connected to a first node. The ESD protection circuit also includes a second power supply having a second supply voltage, wherein the second power supply is connected to the first node. The ESD protection circuit also includes an inverter that receives an input voltage from the first node and produces an output voltage. An ESD discharge device receives the output voltage and provides a discharge path for the first power supply and the second power supply if the output voltage indicates occurrence of an ESD event affecting the first power supply or the second power supply.
US10854585B2
A semiconductor package includes a connection member having first and second surfaces opposing each other and including a redistribution layer, an integrated circuit chip disposed on the first surface of the connection member, and including a plurality of units, at least one capacitor on the first surface of the connection member and in proximity to the integrated circuit chip, and an encapsulant on the first surface of the connection member and encapsulating the integrated circuit chip and the at least one capacitor, wherein the plurality of units include core power units selected from the group consisting of a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, and an artificial intelligence unit, at least one of the core power units is disposed adjacent to one edge of the integrated circuit chip, and the at least one capacitor is disposed adjacent to the one edge of the integrated circuit chip.
US10854584B2
An LED wafer includes LED dies on an LED substrate. The LED wafer and a carrier wafer are joined. The LED wafer that is joined to the carrier wafer is shaped. Wavelength conversion material is applied to the LED wafer that is shaped. Singulation is performed to provide LED dies that are joined to a carrier die. The singulated devices may be mounted in an LED fixture to provide high light output per unit area.
US10854581B2
A die stack assembly includes first and second power semiconductor device dice. The first die has a P type peripheral edge separation structure that extends from the top planar semiconductor surface of the first die all the way to the bottom planar semiconductor surface of the die, and that is doped at least in part with aluminum. The backside of the first die is mounted to the backside of the second die. A metal feature that is not covered with passivation, and that can serve as a bonding pad, is disposed on part of the peripheral edge separation structure. A metal member (for example, a bond wire or metal clip) contacts the metal feature such that an electrical connection is established from the metal member, through the metal feature, through the peripheral edge separation structure of the first die, and to an electrode of the second die.
US10854567B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a semiconductor device and methods of forming a semiconductor device. An embodiment is a method of forming a semiconductor device, the method comprising forming a conductive pad in a first substrate, forming an interconnecting structure over the conductive pad and the first substrate, the interconnecting structure comprising a plurality of metal layers disposed in a plurality of dielectric layers, bonding a die to a first side of the interconnecting structure, and etching the first substrate from a second side of the interconnecting structure, the etching exposing a portion of the conductive pad.
US10854553B1
A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate having a patterned surface, the patterned surface including a first region and a second region, wherein a first line width in the first region is smaller than a second line width in the second region. The semiconductor package structure further includes a first die hybrid-bonded to the first region through conductive features adapted for the first line width, and a second die bonded to the second region through conductive features adapted for the second line width. The manufacturing operations of the semiconductor package structure are also disclosed.
US10854546B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of one embodiment of the present invention includes: forming an insulation layer to be processed over a substrate; forming a first sacrificial layer in a first area over the substrate, the first sacrificial layer being patterned to form in the first area a functioning wiring connected to an element; forming a second sacrificial layer in a second area over the substrate, the second sacrificial layer being patterned to form in the second area a dummy wiring; forming a third sacrificial layer at a side wall of the first sacrificial layer and forming a fourth sacrificial layer at a side wall of the second sacrificial layer, the third sacrificial layer and the fourth sacrificial layer being separated; forming a concavity by etching the insulation layer to be processed using the third sacrificial layer and the fourth sacrificial layer as a mask; and filling a conductive material in the concavity.
US10854532B1
Compressed air and lattice structure cooling is disclosed. In an embodiment, an assembly includes a heat conductive lattice structure with open-cell voids. The assembly also includes a port configured to provide compressed air that is directed toward the heat conductive lattice structure. The assembly also includes a base configured to be coupled to an electronic component and thermally coupled to the heat conductive lattice structure.
US10854531B2
A semiconductor packaging method, a semiconductor package and stacked semiconductor packages are provided. The method includes providing a carrier (10) having a plurality of semiconductor chip receiving areas (12) and attaching a plurality of first semiconductor chips (14) to the semiconductor chip receiving areas (12). The first semiconductor chips (14) are encapsulated with a first encapsulant (20) and a plurality of electrical connections (24) is formed to the first semiconductor chips (14). At least a portion of the carrier (10) is removed to provide a heat release area (38).
US10854528B2
A semiconductor package including an organic interposer includes: first and second semiconductor chips each having active surfaces having connection pads disposed thereon; the organic interposer disposed on the active surfaces of the first and second semiconductor chips and including a wiring layer electrically connected to the connection pads; barrier layers disposed on side surfaces of the first and second semiconductor chips; and an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first and second semiconductor chips.
US10854527B2
A semiconductor device package includes a circuit layer, an electronic component, an electronic component, a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. The circuit layer has a first surface. The electronic component is disposed on the first surface of the circuit layer. The first passivation layer is disposed on the first surface of the circuit layer. The first passivation layer has a first surface facing away the circuit layer. The second passivation layer is disposed on the first surface of the first passivation layer. The second passivation layer has a second surface facing away the circuit layer. A uniformity of the first surface of the first passivation layer is greater than a uniformity of the second surface of the second passivation layer.
US10854518B2
A first gate structure, a second gate structure, and a third gate structure each extend in a first direction. A first gate via is disposed on the first gate structure. The first gate via has a first size. A second gate via is disposed on the second gate structure. The second gate via has a second size that is greater than the first size. A third gate via is disposed on the third gate structure. The third gate via has a third size that is less than the second size but greater than the first size. A first source contact is disposed adjacent to a first side of the first gate via. A first drain contact is disposed adjacent to a second side of the first gate via opposite the first side. A second drain contact is disposed adjacent to a first side of the third gate via.
US10854516B2
A method for processing a semiconductor substrate includes providing the semiconductor substrate having die formed as part of the semiconductor substrate and separated from each other by singulation lines. The semiconductor substrate has first and second opposing major surfaces and contacts disposed over the first major surface. A layer of material is disposed over the second major surface, and the singulation lines extend inward from the first major surface into the semiconductor substrate without extending through the layer of material so that the layer of material is under the singulation lines. The method includes separating the layer of material proximate to the singulation lines by exposing the layer of material to a reduced temperature below about minus 150 degrees Celsius. In some examples, a cryogenic fluid can be to provide the reduced temperature. The method provides a reliable and efficient way to bulk separate at least the layer of material.
US10854513B2
An alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers is formed over a semiconductor material layer. Memory stack structures are formed through the alternating stack. A backside trench is formed through the alternating stack. The sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers. An insulating spacer is formed on sidewalls of the backside trench. A first doped semiconductor material is deposited within the backside trench. Vertical cavities are formed by vertically recessing the first doped semiconductor material at discrete locations that are laterally spaced apart. A second doped semiconductor material is deposited in the vertical cavities. The second doped semiconductor material disrupts a laterally-extending cavity in the first doped semiconductor material, thereby providing a structurally reinforced network of the first and second doped semiconductor materials for a backside contact via structure that is formed in the backside trench.
US10854511B2
Methods for forming 3D-NAND devices comprising recessing a poly-Si layer to a depth below a spaced oxide layer. A liner is formed on the spaced oxide layer and not on the recessed poly-Si layer. A metal layer is deposited in the gaps on the liner to form wordlines.
US10854489B2
A tower lift includes a main frame extending in a vertical direction, a movable frame configured to be movable in the vertical direction along the main frame, a carriage module mounted to the movable frame, a pair of driving rails extending parallel with each other on the main frame and comprising a plurality of first permanent magnets and a plurality of second permanent magnets arranged in the vertical direction, respectively, a driving wheel disposed between the driving rails to be spaced apart from the driving rails and comprising a plurality of third permanent magnets arranged in a circumferential direction, and a driving unit for rotating the driving wheel.
US10854484B1
A system for managing liquid supply is provided. The system includes an air pressure adjustor, a first liquid container, a second liquid container, a first tube, a second tube, an inlet sensor, and an outlet sensor. The first liquid container includes a liquid. The second liquid container includes an inlet and an outlet. The first tube is configured to be connected between the first liquid container and the inlet. The second tube is configured to be connected between the outlet and the air pressure adjustor. The inlet sensor is disposed on the first tube and for detecting the liquid flowing into the inlet. The outlet sensor is disposed on the second tube and for detecting the liquid flowing out from the outlet.
US10854483B2
Apparatuses for annealing semiconductor substrates, such as a batch processing chamber, are provided herein. The batch processing chamber includes a chamber body enclosing an internal volume, a cassette moveably disposed within the internal volume and a plug coupled to a bottom wall of the cassette. The chamber body has a hole through a bottom wall of the chamber body and is interfaced with one or more heaters operable to maintain the chamber body at a temperature of greater than 290° C. The cassette is configured to be raised to load a plurality of substrates thereon and lowered to seal the internal volume. The plug is configured to move up and down within the internal volume. The plug includes a downward-facing seal configured to engage with a top surface of the bottom wall of the chamber body and close the hole through the bottom wall of the chamber body.
US10854480B2
A substrate is held and rotated by a spin chuck, and a coating liquid is discharged to the substrate. The coating liquid that is splashed outwardly from the substrate is received by an outer cup. A cleaning liquid that has been discharged from a cup cleaning nozzle is discharged to an inner peripheral surface of the outer cup through a first guide to clean the outer cup. Thus, the coating liquid, its solidified matter and the like adhering to the outer cup are dissolved and removed from the outer cup. Subsequently, a metal removal liquid that has been discharged from the cup cleaning nozzle is discharged to an inner peripheral surface of the outer cup through a second guide. Thus, a metallic component remaining on the outer cup is dissolved and removed from the outer cup.
US10854479B2
A substrate processing method is provided, which includes: an ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution spouting step of spouting an ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution containing ozone dissolved therein from a nozzle toward one major surface of a substrate held by a substrate holding unit; and a brush-cleaning step of cleaning the one major surface of the substrate by bringing a cleaning brush into abutment against the one major surface of the substrate, the brush-cleaning step being performed after the ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution spouting step or in parallel with the ozone-containing hydrofluoric acid solution spouting step.
US10854473B2
A polishing method capable of polishing a substrate, such as a wafer, with low running costs is disclosed. A polishing method includes: rotating a substrate while holding a back-side surface of the substrate with a vacuum suction stage; rotating a polishing head holding a plurality of polishing tools; and polishing a front-side surface of the substrate by pressing the plurality of polishing tools, which are rotating, against the front-side surface of the substrate. The front-side surface is a surface on which interconnect patterns are to be formed.
US10854467B2
A semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof are provided. The fabrication method include: providing a to-be-etched material layer; forming a plurality of discrete sacrificial layers on the to-be-etched material layer; forming first initial spacers on sidewalls of each sacrificial layer, where each first initial spacer includes a first bottom region and a first top region on the first bottom region; removing the sacrificial layers; removing the first bottom region of the first initial spacer to form a first spacer from the first top region; forming second spacers on sidewalls of each first spacer; removing the first spacer; and etching the to-be-etched material layer by using the second spacers as an etch mask.
US10854460B2
Processes are provided herein for deposition of organic films. Organic films can be deposited, including selective deposition on one surface of a substrate relative to a second surface of the substrate. For example, polymer films may be selectively deposited on a first metallic surface relative to a second dielectric surface. Selectivity, as measured by relative thicknesses on the different layers, of above about 50% or even about 90% is achieved. The selectively deposited organic film may be subjected to an etch process to render the process completely selective. Processes are also provided for particular organic film materials, independent of selectivity.
US10854449B2
A method of forming a silicon film in a recess formed in a target substrate includes: preparing a target substrate having a recess in which a plurality of different bases is exposed; forming an atomic layer seed on at least an inner surface of the recess by sequentially supplying a raw material gas adapted to the plurality of different bases and a reaction gas reacting with the raw material gas to the target substrate one or more times while heating the target substrate to a first temperature; and forming a silicon film on a surface of the atomic layer seed so as to fill the recess by supplying a first silicon raw material gas to the target substrate while heating the target substrate to a second temperature.
US10854427B2
Methods for RF pulse reflection reduction are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for processing a substrate in a plasma enhanced substrate processing system using multi-level pulsed RF power includes; receiving a process recipe for processing the substrate that includes a plurality of pulsed RF power waveforms from a plurality of RF generators, using the master RF generator to generate a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) signal having a base frequency and a first duty cycle, setting a multiplier for each RF generator, dividing the first duty cycle into a high level interval and a low level interval, determining a frequency command set for each RF generator and sending the frequency command set to each RF generator, wherein the frequency command set includes a frequency set point for each RF generator; and providing the plurality of pulsed RF power waveforms from the plurality of RF generators to a process chamber.
US10854412B2
A compact, high breaking capacity fuse that includes a top and bottom insulative layer and a single piece fusible element disposed between the top and bottom insulative layer. The top and bottom insulative layers include cavities that are aligned at assembly to form a chamber in which a fusible element portion of the single piece fusible element is disposed. The single piece fusible element additionally includes terminal portions that extend along outer surfaces of the top and bottom insulative layers.
US10854401B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide a display that includes a mask that includes a one or more exposed areas, a top electrode, one or more bottom electrodes, a dielectric between the top electrode and the one or more bottom electrodes, and an electrical connection to create a differential voltage between the top electrode and the one or more bottom electrodes.
US10854399B2
A switch case includes a first metal plate, a dome shape metal plate, and a second metal plate. The first metal plate includes a first ring in which a plurality of first recesses are arranged along the first ring shape, and a second ring in which a plurality of second recesses are arranged along the second ring shape. The second metal plate includes a third ring in which a plurality of third recesses are arranged along the third ring shape, and a fourth ring in which a plurality of fourth recesses are arranged along the fourth ring shape. A direction along a line passing through a center of the first ring and a center of the second ring is different from a direction along a line passing through a center of the third ring and a center of the fourth ring.
US10854398B2
An operating device includes: a lever rotatable about a rotating axis; a first torsion bar extending in a first direction along the rotating axis; a second torsion bar provided inside the first torsion bar, extending along the rotating axis, coupled to the first torsion bar at a portion located farther in the first direction than the lever, and extending from the portion of coupling with the first torsion bar toward a second direction opposite to the first direction beyond the lever; and a third torsion bar surrounding the second torsion bar, having a tubular shape, coupled to the second torsion bar at a portion located farther in the second direction than the lever, and extending from the portion of coupling with the second torsion bar in the first direction.
US10854393B2
Provided is an electrolytic capacitor having a cathode that exhibits a high capacity. The electrolytic capacitor includes: a cathode having a conductive substrate and a conductive polymer layer placed on a surface of the conductive substrate; an anode having a substrate composed of a valve metal and a dielectric layer composed of an oxide of the valve metal that is placed on the surface of the substrate and is so placed that the dielectric layer and the conductive polymer layer of the cathode face each other through a space; and an ion-conductive electrolyte filled in the space, in which the conductive polymer layer of the cathode that is in contact with the ion-conductive electrolyte expresses a redox capacity by applying a voltage between the anode and the cathode.
US10854389B2
An electronic component includes a capacitor array including a plurality of multilayer capacitors; and first and second metal frames disposed on a side surface and another side surface of the capacitor array and electrically connected to first and second external electrodes, respectively, wherein the first metal frame includes a first support portion; a first mounting portion; and a first connection portion, the second metal frame includes a second support portion; a second mounting portion; and a second connection portion, and lengths of the first and second mounting portions in the first direction are smaller than a length of the capacitor array in the first direction.
US10854388B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body, a sintered metal film, and a metal terminal. The ceramic body includes internal electrodes. The sintered metal film has a joint surface having a surface roughness Ra of 0.200 μm or less. The sintered metal film is connected to the internal electrodes and formed on a surface of the ceramic body. The metal terminal is jointed to the joint surface.
US10854384B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes alternately exposed to first and second outer surfaces with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second outer surfaces of the ceramic body so as to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first internal electrode has a plurality of first ends connected to the first external electrode and a first recessed region positioned between the plurality of first ends, the first recessed region at least partially filled with a dielectric material. The second internal electrode has a plurality of second ends connected to the second external electrode and a second recessed region positioned between the plurality of second ends, the second recessed region at least partially filled with the dielectric material.
US10854379B2
Provided is a wireless power transfer antenna core. In the wireless power transfer antenna core according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a conductive member configured to serve as an antenna for transmitting or receiving wireless power is wound multiple times along a longitudinal direction. The wireless power transfer antenna core is made of a magnetic body and comprises: a first portion having a first cross-sectional area; and a second portion extending with a predetermined length from an end of the first portion and second cross-sectional area that is relatively larger than the first cross-sectional area, wherein the conductive member is wound multiple times on the first portion.
US10854373B2
An inductor device includes a resin film, a first base conductor layer formed on one surface of the resin film and having a first pad, a second base conductor layer formed on the other surface of the resin film and having a second pad, a through-hole penetrating from the first pad to the second pad, a through conductor filled in the through-hole and provided to connect the first pad and the second pad each other, a first insulating layer formed on the one surface of the resin film and having an opening arranged on the first base conductor layer, and a first conductor part formed on the first base conductor layer in the opening of the first insulating layer. A first conductor pattern layer includes the first base conductor layer and the first conductor part. The first conductor pattern layer has a convex sectional shape.
US10854371B2
A coil element includes a core member, a plate portion connected to one end of the columnar portion, a coil conductor wire, and a terminal electrode. The core member has a flat-shaped connection end portion provided in each of both end portions of the coil portion. The plate portion has a principal surface, a first surface connected to the principal surface, and a second surface connected to the principal surface and the first surface. The terminal electrode has an electrode layer and a joint layer. The electrode layer is formed on either the first surface or the second surface of the plate portion. The joint layer includes a cavity portion locally provided between the connection end portion and the electrode layer and joins the connection end portion and the electrode layer to each other.
US10854366B2
A magnetic assembly structure has a main body and an inserting component. A first receiving slot of the main body receives a first magnetic component, and a second receiving slot of the main body penetrates a main body surface to form a main body opening on the main body surface. An engagement slot of the main body is disposed between the first receiving slot and the second receiving slot, communicated with the second receiving slot, and has a contacting surface being away from the main body surface with a distance. The receiving slot of the inserting component receives a second magnetic component. The inserting component is inserted into the second receiving slot via the main body opening, and the second magnetic component moves into the engagement slot. The magnetic assembly is assembled with a less force, has higher safety, and is hard to be disassembled without allowance or explanations.
US10854364B2
A coil component includes a magnetic portion that includes metal particles and a resin material, a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic portion and having a core portion, and outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil conductor. The magnetic portion includes a magnetic outer coating and a magnetic base having a protrusion portion. The coil conductor is disposed on the magnetic base such that the protrusion portion is located in the core portion. The magnetic outer coating is disposed so as to cover the coil conductor, and the bottom surface of the magnetic base includes a recessed portion in an area opposite to the protrusion portion.
US10854361B2
A thermistor element includes an element body made of ceramic and including first and second end surfaces opposite to each other and a peripheral surface located between the first end surface and the second end surface, first and second external electrodes respectively covering the first and second end surfaces and portion of the peripheral surface adjacent to the respective first and second end surfaces. The first and second external electrodes include electrode layers including an underlayer and a metal plating layer, the underlayer of the first external electrode includes, adjacent to or in a vicinity of the second external electrode, two second external electrode side corner portions that are thin and adjacent to each other, and the underlayer of the second external electrode includes, adjacent to or in a vicinity of the first external electrode, two first external electrode side corner portions that are thin and adjacent to each other.
US10854358B2
A wire harness manufacturing method includes manufacturing a standard-size electric wire in which a terminal-equipped electric wire which is connected to a terminal is manufactured in lot units for each type, clamping the terminal-equipped electric wire to a pair of electric wire clips, dispensing a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires respectively clamped by the electric wire clamps to electric wire holders, storing the plurality of the terminal-equipped electric wires temporarily in the electric wire holders, locking the both end portions of the terminal-equipped electric wire to an electric wire clip tool respectively and aggregating an electric wire group configuring a wire harness at the electric wire clip tool to form a harness set, and detaching the end portions of the terminal-equipped electric wire from the harness set and inserting the terminal connected and fixed into a terminal accommodating chamber of a connector housing.
US10854355B2
A stretchable conductor includes a substrate with a first major surface and an elongate wire, wherein the substrate is an elastomeric material, the elongate wire is on the first major surface of the substrate, the wire includes a first end and a second end, and further includes at least one arcuate region between the first end and the second end. At least one portion of the arcuate region of the wire in the region has a first surface area portion embedded in the surface of the substrate and a second surface area portion unembedded on the substrate and exposed in an amount sufficient to render at least an area of the substrate in the region electrically conductive. The unembedded second surface portion of the arcuate region may lie above or below a plane of the substrate. Additionally, different methods of preparing said stretchable conductor are disclosed. Composite articles including said stretchable conductor in durable electrical contact with a conductive fabric are also disclosed.
US10854334B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for facilitating clinical decision support and managing patient population health by health-related entities including caregivers, health care administrators, insurance providers, and patients. Embodiments of the invention provide decision support services including providing timely contextual patient information including condition risks, risk factors and relevant clinical information that are dynamically updatable; imputing missing patient information; dynamically generating assessments for obtaining additional patient information based on context; data-mining and information discovery services including discovering new knowledge; identifying or evaluating treatments or sequences of patient care actions and behaviors, and providing recommendations based on this; intelligent, adaptive decision support services including identifying critical junctures in patient care processes, such as points in time that warrant close attention by caregivers; near-real time querying across diverse health records data sources, which may use diverse clinical nomenclatures and ontologies; improved natural language processing services; and other decision support services.
US10854332B2
An apparatus for monitoring an obstetrics patient during labour is provided. The apparatus receives a contraction signal conveying information related to occurrences of uterine contractions over time and processes his signal to derive a sequence of rates of uterine contractions over time. The apparatus also implements a Graphical User Interface (GUI) presenting a tracing of at least part of the sequence of rates of uterine contractions over time along with a threshold rate of uterine contractions GUI is dynamically adapted over time based on the contraction signal received. The sequence of rates of uterine contractions derived over time is also processed to detect occurrences of anomalous contraction rates and to identify one or more portions of the tracing corresponding to sustained anomalous contraction rate segments during which anomalous contraction rates have persisted for time durations exceeding a pre-determined time duration. The GUI is configured to trigger an alarm event in response to identification of a specific sustained anomalous contraction rate segment.
US10854322B2
Infusion systems, infusion devices, and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary method of operating an infusion device capable of delivering fluid to a patient involves obtaining, by a control system associated with the infusion device, user input indicating an activity by the patient, obtaining historical data for the patient corresponding to the activity, determining a probable patient response corresponding to the activity based at least in part on the historical data for the patient, determining an adjustment for delivering the fluid by the infusion device based at least in part on the probable patient response, and operating the infusion device to deliver the fluid to the patient in accordance with the adjustment.
US10854317B2
A method to align a next generation sequencing read to a reference sequence includes: (a) receiving a sequencing read; (b) performing a first alignment of the sequencing read to a reference sequence so as to identify a target sequence within the reference sequence whereto the sequencing read maps; (c) selecting a first and a second anchor sequence; (d) attaching the first anchor sequence to the upstream region of the sequencing read and the second anchor sequence to the downstream region of the sequencing read so as to generate an extended sequencing read; (e) attaching the first anchor sequence to the upstream region of the target sequence and the second anchor sequence to the downstream region of the target sequence, so as to generate an extended target sequence; (f) performing a second alignment of the extended sequencing read to the extended target sequence, so that the second alignment is more correctly mapped to the target sequence than the first alignment; (g) identifying a position where one or more bases between the extended sequencing read and the extended target sequence are different based on the second alignment result; and (h) calling a variant based on the identification in step (g).
US10854311B1
A determination is made by a processing device included in a memory component that an operation to program data to a location in the memory component has failed, the data is programmed to a different location in the memory component by the processing device upon determining the operation has failed, and a notification that the data has been programmed to the different location in the memory component is provided by the processing device to a processing device operatively coupled to the memory component.
US10854310B2
Apparatuses and methods for an interface chip that interfaces with chips are described. An example apparatus includes: first terminals; circuit groups, each of the circuit groups including circuit blocks being configured to electrically couple to the first terminals; a control circuit that selects one of the circuit groups and electrically couple the first terminals to the circuit blocks of the one of the circuit groups; terminal groups, each of the terminal groups including second terminals, each of the terminal groups being provided correspondingly to each of the circuit groups, the second terminals of each of the terminal groups being smaller in number than the circuit blocks of a corresponding one of the circuit groups; and a remapping circuit that couples the second terminals of each of the terminal groups to selected ones of the circuit blocks of the corresponding one of the circuit groups.
US10854307B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to operating a memory cell as an anti-fuse, such as for use in phase change memory, for example.
US10854296B2
A semiconductor device includes strings each having a plurality of memory cells. The strings are coupled between a common source line and a bit line. A method of operating the semiconductor device includes applying a pre-program voltage to a selected word line coupled to a selected memory cell and to an unselected word line coupled to an unselected memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell among the plurality of memory cells. The method further includes applying a first program voltage to the selected word line.
US10854291B2
Briefly, embodiments of claimed subject matter relate to backup of parameters, such as binary logic values, stored in nonvolatile memory, such as one or more SRAM cells. Binary logic values from a SRAM cell, for example, may be stored utilizing resistance states of a magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) element. Parameters stored in one or more MRAM elements may be restored to SRAM memory cells following a backup.
US10854288B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes an access line control circuit. The access line control circuit applies a selected bias voltage to a selected access line coupled with a target memory cell and applies a first unselected bias voltage to an unselected access line adjacent to the selected access line. A second unselected bias voltage is applied to an unselected access line not adjacent to the selected access line.
US10854287B2
Methods and structures for accessing memory cells in parallel in a cross-point array include accessing in parallel a first memory cell disposed between a first selected column and a first selected row and a second memory cell disposed between a second selected column different from the first selected column and a second selected row different from the first selected row. Accessing in parallel includes simultaneously applying access biases between the first selected column and the first selected row and between the second selected column and the second selected row. The accessing in parallel is conducted while the cells are in a thresholded condition or while the cells are in a post-threshold recovery period.
US10854277B2
A sense amplifier includes a first sense amplification circuit electrically connected between a bit line, to which a multi-bit memory cell is also connected, and a complementary bit line. The first sense amplification circuit is configured to sense a least significant bit (LSB) of 2-bit data in the memory cell and latch the LSB in a first sensing bit line pair. A second sense amplification circuit is provided, which is configured to sense a most significant bit (MSB) of the 2-bit data and latch the MSB in a second sensing bit line pair. A switching circuit is provided, which is configured to selectively connect between bit lines of the first sensing bit line pair and bit lines of the second sensing bit line pair.
US10854267B2
Virtual ground sensing circuits, control circuit, electrical systems, computing devices, and related methods are disclosed. A control circuit includes a virtual ground sensing circuit configured to provide a virtual ground to a conductive line. The virtual ground sensing circuit is further configured to selectively operably couple the conductive line to a sense node of a sense circuit, wherein the sense node having a sense node capacitance less than a capacitance of the conductive line. Further, virtual ground sensing circuit is configured to compare a sense node voltage to a reference voltage.
US10854260B2
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for performing operations on memory devices. In one aspect, a memory device a magnetic memory component and a current selector component coupled to the magnetic memory component. The current selector component includes a first transistor having a first gate with a corresponding first threshold voltage. The first transistor comprises a charge storage layer configured to selectively store charge so as to adjust a current through the first transistor. The memory device further includes control circuitry configured to determine a bit error rate of the magnetic memory component and adjust a charge stored in the charge storage layer based on the determined bit error rate.
US10854258B2
Spin current magnetization rotational element, magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic memory
Provided is a spin current magnetization rotational element including: a first ferromagnetic metal layer for a magnetization direction to be changed; and a spin-orbit torque wiring. The spin-orbit torque wiring has a structure in which a spin conduction layer and an interfacial spin generation layer are alternately laminated in the first direction, the number of a plurality of the interfacial spin generation layers is two or greater, and in the spin-orbit torque wiring, one of the plurality of interfacial spin generation layers is closest to the first ferromagnetic metal layer.
US10854249B2
An apparatus is provided for mitigating uncertainties in process, voltage, random, and systematic variations between first and second dies. The first die comprises a clock compensator to adjust one or more signal characteristics of an input clock, and to provide first and second clocks; a data transmitter to sample data with a version of the first clock and to transmit the sampled data to a data receiver of the second die, wherein the data receiver is to receive the sampled data and generate a received data; and a clock transmitter to transmit the second clock to a clock receiver of the second die, wherein the clock receiver is to generate a third clock, wherein a phase of the third clock is adjusted to generate a fourth clock, wherein a delayed version of the fourth clock is received by a sampler coupled to the data receiver to sample the received data.
US10854247B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to selectively performing logical operations. An example apparatus comprises sensing circuitry including a sense amplifier and a compute component. A controller is coupled to sensing circuitry and is configured to cause storing of an indication of whether a logical operation is to be selectively performed between an operand stored in the sensing circuitry and an operand stored in the sense amplifier.
US10854246B1
A read path for a memory is provided that includes an integrated sense mixing and redundancy shift stage coupled between a sense amplifier and a data latch. The data latch is integrated with a level shifter.
US10854223B2
A device and to a method of producing a device, wherein the method includes, inter alia, providing a substrate and generating at least two mutually spaced-apart cavities within the substrate. In accordance with the invention, each cavity has a depth of at least 50 μm. The cavities are filled up with magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles enter into contact with one another at points of contact, and wherein cavities are formed between the points of contact. At least some of the magnetic particles are connected to one another at their points of contact, specifically by coating the magnetic particles, wherein the cavities are at least partly penetrated by the layer produced in the coating process, so that the connected magnetic particles form a magnetic porous structure.
US10854221B2
An audio device includes a base portion a power supply circuit arranged on the base portion and configured to output electric power; a rotation body rotatably supported by the base portion and configured to, upon rotation of the rotation body, move a playback point of a piece of music; an electric circuit arranged on the rotation body; and a non-contact power feeding mechanism configured to supply in a non-contact manner the electric power output by the power supply circuit to the electric circuit in which the non-contact power feeding mechanism is arranged on a path from the power supply circuit to the electric circuit.
US10854214B2
A device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to perform an active noise cancellation (ANC) operation on noisy input speech as captured by a first microphone, the noisy input speech as captured by a second microphone, or both, to suppress a noise level associated with the noisy input speech. The one or more processors are configured to match a second frequency spectrum of a second signal with a first frequency spectrum of a first signal. The first signal is representative of the noisy input speech as captured by the first microphone, and the second signal is representative of the noisy input speech as captured by the second microphone. The one or more processors are also configured to generate an output speech signal that is representative of input speech based on the second signal.
US10854208B2
An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving interface, a delay buffer and a sample processor for processing the selected audio signal samples to obtain reconstructed audio signal samples of the reconstructed audio signal. The sample selector is configured to select, if a current frame is received by the receiving interface and if the current frame being received by the receiving interface is not corrupted, the plurality of selected audio signal samples from the audio signal samples being stored in the delay buffer depending on a pitch lag information being included by the current frame.
US10854206B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system a user request from a first user, determining a necessity for resolving the first user to a known entity to execute one or more tasks associated with the user request based on privacy restrictions associated with the user request, determining a set of candidate entities for the first user based on one or more machine-learning models, each candidate entity being associated with a respective confidence score greater than a threshold score, sending instructions for prompting the first user to select a candidate entity from the set of candidate entities, resolving the first user to a selected candidate entity responsive to receiving a selection from the first user, and executing the one or more tasks associated with the user request based on a user profile associated with the selected candidate entity.
US10854202B2
Devices, systems and processes for a dynamic microphone system that enhances the passenger experience in autonomous vehicles are described. One example method for enhancing a passenger experiences includes generating, using an artificial intelligence algorithm, a plurality of filters based on a plurality of stored waveforms previously recorded by each of one or more passengers and a plurality of recordings of one or more noise sources, capturing voice commands from at least one of the one or more passengers inside the autonomous vehicle, generating voice commands with reduced distortion based on processing the voice commands using the plurality of filters, and instructing, based on the voice commands with reduced distortion, the autonomous vehicle to perform one or more actions.
US10854199B2
In one example of the disclosure, microphone data indicative of a user spoken phrase is captured utilizing a microphone. The microphone data is analyzed to detect a trigger phrase. A wakeup event is performed responsive to the detection of the trigger phrase. At least a portion of the microphone data is sent to the computing device for the computing device to send to a server system.
US10854192B1
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system detects an endpoint of an utterance based on a domain of the utterance. The ASR system processes a first portion of the utterance to determine the domain and then determines an endpoint of the remainder of the utterance depending on the domain.
US10854189B2
Techniques are provided for training a language recognition model. For example, a language recognition model may be maintained and associated with a reference language (e.g., English). The language recognition model may be configured to accept as input an utterance in the reference language and to identify a feature to be executed in response to receiving the utterance. New language data (e.g., other utterances) provided in a different language (e.g., German) may be obtained. This new language data may be translated to English and utilized to retrain the model to recognize reference language data as well as language data translated to the reference language. Subsequent utterances (e.g., English utterances, or German utterances translated to English) may be provided to the updated model and a feature may be identified. One or more instructions may be sent to a user device to execute a set of instructions associated with the feature.
US10854187B2
Audio (noise source) is output as a cancellation sound through a variable filter and a first filter, and transmitted to the second filter. A subtractor subtracts an output of a second filter from an output of a microphone, and an adaptive algorithm execution unit updates a transfer function of the variable filter so that the subtracted result becomes zero (0). A transfer function A for the first filter is a transfer function which can cancel noise at a position of a user's ear by setting, as the cancellation sound, a sound obtained by applying the transfer function A to audio at the time of learning, and a transfer function B for the second filter is a transfer function which can eliminate, for the cancellation sound, a difference between a sound obtained by applying the transfer function B to audio and the output of the microphone.
US10854186B1
A device-management system performs audio processing, such as acoustic echo cancellation or beamforming, in a computing-resource allocation corresponding to a functionally limited device. The device-management system may be a locally-connected network device that is in communication with one or more user devices; the device-management system may also or instead be a remote device that communicates with the user devices using the locally-connected network device. The device-management system may receive audio data from one or more microphones of one or more user devices. To perform acoustic echo cancellation, the device-management system may receive and process time data corresponding to a time of output of audio by the user device.
US10854182B1
A singing assisting system, a singing assisting method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions for executing the method are provided. When the performed singing track does not appear in an ought-to-be-performed period, a singing-continuing procedure is executed. When the performed singing track is off pitch, a pitch adjustment procedure is executed.
US10854178B2
The invention relates to a drum stick for a percussion instrument, and, more particularly to dual purpose drumstick percussion instrument.
US10854177B2
A noise maker stop assembly for use with a percussion foot pedal is described. The noise maker stop assembly typically comprises a noise maker attached to an extended elongated shaft, mounting brackets, and a bumper or tension strap for rapidly stopping the extended elongated shaft. Typically, the mounting brackets may be coupled to an existing standard percussion or similar foot pedal. The mounting brackets may also be configured so as to be coupled to a particular percussion foot pedal. A percussion foot pedal having an integrated noise maker stop assembly is also contemplated.
US10854170B2
An information handling system sends plural display image streams through a single display cable to a display for presentation as plural display images at plural partitions. A multi stream hub integrated in the display receives the display cable information and sends each display stream out a source channel of the multi stream hub to a receive channel of the display controller. The display controller blends the received display information to present display images at the display panel with the display images partitioned by receive channel.
US10854168B2
[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus which can make mutual communication smooth when a surgery is carried out while sharing an image between a plurality of users.[Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a processing unit configured to change a pointer attribute of a pointer displayed in accordance with a position designated by a user on a display region of a head mounted display, on the basis of a user attribute of the user who wears the head mounted display.
US10854162B2
The present application discloses a gamma voltage regulation circuit, and a display device. The circuit includes: a gamma voltage input port and a gamma voltage output port; a switching controlling circuit, configured to generate a first control signal or a second control signal according to a timing sequence control signal received; a gamma voltage output circuit, configured to switch on when receiving the first switching signal and to output a first gamma voltage input from the gamma voltage input port to the gamma voltage output port; a gamma voltage processing circuit, configured to convert the first gamma voltage input from the gamma voltage input port to a second gamma voltage when receiving the second control signal and then to output the second gamma voltage to the gamma voltage output port.
US10854151B2
In the image processing device, to display, by the panel self-refresh, a still image corresponding to the image data having undergone the image processing, the switch signal generating circuit generates the switch signal controlling switching of the image data selected by the first to fourth switch circuits such that the input image data is subjected to the image processing by the first image processing circuit, that the image data having undergone the image processing is written in the frame buffer through control by the panel self-refresh control circuit, and that the image data having undergone the image processing as read out from the frame buffer is output from the fourth switch circuit or the image data having undergone the image processing is output from the fourth switch circuit via the third switch circuit.
US10854137B2
A display including a display panel configured to include a plurality of active pixels and a plurality of dummy pixels, which are formed near the active pixels, a control driver configured to control a pixel driving circuit formed in each of the active pixels and a dummy driving circuit formed in each of the dummy pixels, wherein each of the pixel driving circuits of the active pixels includes a pixel driving transistor and each of the dummy driving circuits of the dummy pixels, which are formed at either end of the display panel in a first direction, is electrically connected at a first dummy node thereof and includes a dummy driving transistor and a first dummy capacitor, which connects a control terminal of the dummy driving transistor and the first dummy node.
US10854135B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and pixels at the display area, a power supply configured to supply a first power source voltage to the pixels through a first power line extending to the display area, and to supply a second power source voltage lower than the first power source voltage to the pixels through a second power line including first and second side power lines extending in first and second peripheral areas located at first and second sides of the display area of the display panel, a sensor configured to detect first and second detection values corresponding to currents of the first and second side power lines, and a controller configured to control an operation of the power supply, based on a difference between the first detection value and the second detection value.
US10854132B2
An electronic device includes a display panel that outputs content through a plurality of pixels, a display driver integrated circuit configured to transmit a driving signal for driving the display panel, and a processor configured to transmit image data and/or a control signal to the display driver integrated circuit. In the case where the display driver integrated circuit receives first image data transmitted together with a command of a first command group from the processor, the display driver integrated circuit is configured to store the first image data in a first memory area. In the case where the display driver integrated circuit receives second image data transmitted together with a command of a second command group from the processor, the display driver integrated circuit is configured to store the second image data in a second memory area different from the first memory area.
US10854131B2
A display device includes a signal receiver connecting with one among a plurality of source devices, and configured to receive a content signal from the connected source device. A display is configured to display an image based on a content signal received through the signal receiver. A processor is configured to acquire time information corresponding to a time from a point of connecting with the source device to a point of displaying an image when the source device is connected to the signal receiver, and to control the display to display a user interface (UI) to indicate a connected state based on the acquired time information.
US10854125B2
A driving method, suitable for a display panel. The display panel includes a first display area, a second display area, a first gate driving circuit and a second gate driving circuit. The second display area comprises an opening. The driving method includes outputting a first gate signal to several first gate lines located at the first display area by the first gate driving circuit; outputting the first gate signal to several second gate lines located at the first display area by the second gate driving circuit, wherein the first gate lines and the second gate lines are arranged in an interlaced manner; outputting the first gate signal and a second gate signal to several third gate lines located at the second display area in the interlaced manner by the first gate driving circuit and the second gate driving circuit.
US10854120B2
A children's product, such as a playard, can be adjustable from a collapsed configuration to an expanded or use configuration. Marketing displays may be beneficial for selling children's product. These marketing displays may be integrally formed or fixedly coupled to the children's product prior to shipment to the retailer to assist the retailer in marketing the product. The marketing display can be made from materials that resist wrinkling so that the marketing display can be collapsed and shipped with the children's product and then expanded and displayed at the retailer. By integrally forming or fixedly coupling the marketing display into the children's product, the display will not be lost, adding the display to the product will not be forgotten, and/or the display will be properly positioned when the product is adjusted to the expanded configuration.
US10854119B2
A display unit comprising one or more display panels (5a) and a peripheral frame (2) in which the one or more display panels are mounted and by which the one or more display panels are supported, wherein the peripheral frame comprises a plurality of straight extruded sections (3a-3d) and a plurality of corner sections (4a-4d) linking the straight extruded sections together to form the peripheral frame, each straight extruded section having a substantially solid body defining a substantially flat and inflexible inward facing surface, in which surface a plurality of transversely spaced extruded channels are formed running longitudinally in a length direction of the straight extruded section, each channel in profile having a narrow neck portion and a wider main portion below the neck portion, the display unit further comprising a plurality of channel engaging members each arranged to be slotted into any one of the extruded channels to permit each channel engaging members to be placed in any desired transversely spaced channel and to slide along that channel to a desired longitudinal position, to anchor a mounting for a component of the display unit again the substantially flat and inflexible inward facing surface at one or more transverse locations.
US10854101B1
A method for enhancing recall and retention of educational material includes sending a series of structured interactions that are derived from educational material to a learner in small, discrete chunks over a period of time. The interactions may be repetitive and may require learner input and interaction.
US10854097B2
An anti-collision device of an aircraft including a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors including at least two separate sensors, each sensor being configured to respectively deliver its own set of captured data as a function of the proximity of at least one obstruction, the anti-collision device including: at least one data homogenization module configured to transform at least one set of captured data in a corresponding set of unmarked data, each set of unmarked data respectively associated with at least one sensor being made up of a plurality of identical data types from one set of unmarked data to another, and a data processing module configured to generate, from said sets of unmarked data, at least one piece of information representative of the presence or absence of obstruction(s).
US10854092B1
A method and system for time-based viewing to coordinate airport collaborative decision making (A-CDM) events between a pilot and ground personnel on a cockpit display of an aircraft of generating a time scale with a list of A-CDM events of the aircraft during inbound, turnaround and outbound flight operations to an airport based sensor data contributed by aircraft systems and data of A-CDM event related to airport operations to generate a current time moving window in the time scale for identifying A-CDM events; generating a graphic user interface using the sensor data for positioning the current time moving window on the time scale; and collaboratively communicating with ground personnel decisions based on an aircraft state and a current A-CDM event identified by the positioning of the current time moving window in the time scale to expedite completion of a particular A-CDM event.
US10854089B2
A method for forming and coordinating a group of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles includes a potential platoon vehicle transmitting a coupling inquiry for coupling to a vehicle present in its surroundings to form or modify a vehicle group, establishing or ascertaining a platoon coordination vehicle, which checks whether a conflict exists, and, after the conflict has been resolved or in the absence of the conflict, forming or modifying the group of vehicles.
US10854077B2
A technique for managing parking of vehicles at a lower cost is disclosed. A parking management system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes: a storage unit that stores user information; a reading unit that reads identification information of a parking space from a code associated with the parking space, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, parking position information which includes the stored user information and the read identification information. The server device includes: a receiving unit that receives the parking position information from the terminal device; and an identifying unit that identifies a position where a vehicle is parked and a user of the parked vehicle, based on the received parking position information.
US10854074B2
A feature-rich, improved vehicle traffic signal control system that uses network technology is provided herein. For example, the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may include a control box and light heads that include processors. The control box in the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may include fewer components and/or fewer wires extending therefrom as compared to a typical control box. In particular, the control box in the improved vehicle traffic signal control system may not include relays, a conflict monitor, or other similar components. Rather, the improved control box may simply include a controller that is coupled to various light heads via Ethernet cables. The Ethernet cables can carry electrical power, thereby providing power to the light heads. The light head processors can use network technology to control light activation, to perform conflict monitoring, to receive data from various sensors to adjust traffic flow, etc.
US10854060B2
Floodlight controllers with wireless audio/video recording and communication features in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a floodlight controller for activating and deactivating a floodlight device may include a camera including an image sensor and having a field of view, a switch having an open condition and a closed condition, and a processor operatively connected to the camera and operatively connected to the switch, wherein the processor is configured to receive an input from the camera and produce an output to the switch to cause the switch to transition from the open condition to the closed condition.
US10854051B2
Systems and methods for generating a haptic output from an audio signal having a continuous stream of sampled digital audio data are provided. A haptic processing system receives the digital audio data, analyses the digital audio data for processing and extracts haptic signals for generating a haptic effect through an actuator. The method includes passing the digital audio signal on through dynamic processor(s), adjusting the dynamic range of the digital audio signal, extracting the signal envelope of the audio data, synthesising low-frequency signals from the extracted signal envelope, and enhancing the low-frequency content using a resonator. The haptic output is generated by mixing the digital audio signal with outputs from the different modules of the haptic processing system. An analytics module monitors, controls and adjusts the processing of the digital audio signal at the noise gate module, the compressor module and the envelope module to enhance the haptic output.
US10854040B1
A gaming system and method provide a game that can increase the quantity of a displayed predetermined symbol based on a suitable game event. In some implementations, the suitable game event can be a non-winning event associated with a displayed predetermined symbol. Increasing the quantity of a displayed predetermined symbol provides additional ways for a player to obtain winning symbol combinations and awards.
US10854026B2
Systems and methods for premise management comprising a reservation 5 management module having at least one server, the at least one server arranged in data communication with a user device to receive a request for reservation from the user device to access a premise for a specific duration; and a key generator arranged in data communication with the reservation management module; wherein upon receipt of the request for reservation, the key generator generates a secret key for 10 the user to access the premise for the specific duration, is disclosed. The system may be integrated with other modules including, but not limited to, a lock system and a presence detection system to provide a seamless service to a user.
US10854021B2
A fuel system controller obtains fuel burn data from an engine control module (ECM). The fuel system controller also obtains location data from a telematics control module, such as GPS location data identifying the location of a vehicle. The fuel system controller determines the vehicle's base location based on the location data, and determines how far the vehicle can travel based on the fuel burn data. The fuel system controller determines how many fueling stations are with a threshold distance of the determined distance to empty. The fuel system controller can use that data to identify which, and how many, fueling stations are within a threshold distance of the determined distance to empty. The fuel system controller can provide a fueling warning indication based on the number of fueling stations that are within the determined distance to empty.
US10854020B2
A transponder module of a system for measurement of a race time includes a time base in a microcontroller, which is activated upon receipt of a low-frequency electromagnetic field signal from a transmission antenna of a measuring system which is disposed at the level of a line of passage. The microcontroller, once woken up, is capable of measuring several successive intensities of the captured electromagnetic field in order to reconstruct a curve of the electromagnetic field and to determine a crossing time on the line of passage of the transponder module with the activated time base thereof in order to transmit, to a decoder unit of the measuring system, a signal of the result of the time of crossing determined by the microcontroller.
US10854015B2
Various techniques are described herein that provide for real-time quality control during manufacturing using augmented reality. In particular, in one embodiment, techniques herein project a three-dimensional (3D) virtual shape/model onto a work-in-progress part in the real-world in order to see defects in real-time, thus allowing for mid-manufacturing corrections. The embodiments herein generally consist of first calibrating a “virtual world” to the real world, then calibrating the physical product to the virtual world, and lastly projecting information onto the physical product, such as various design information and/or quality control information.
US10854014B2
An intelligent VR (IVR) system receives a VR content item and automatically augments the VR content item with additional or ancillary content. The intelligent VR system initially identifies within the VR content item, valid textual and non-textual objects that have ancillary content associated therewith. The IVR system provides hotspots that signify presence of the ancillary content for the valid objects during a display of the VR content item. The hotspots and the ancillary content are positioned for display corresponding to pixel blocks including the valid objects. The ancillary content is selected for the hotspots based on a spatial and temporal extent of display of the valid objects. The hotspots with respective ancillary content items and the VR content item are streamed to a head mounted display (HMD) for display to a viewer.
US10854012B1
Embodiments of systems and methods for concealing loss of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) data in edge cloud architectures are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving SLAM data usable to produce a first map of a physical space for a first HMD; in response to a portion of the SLAM data being lost or corrupt, retrieving a first landmark detected in previous SLAM data with a first confidence value; receiving, from a second IHS coupled to a second HMD, a second landmark usable to produce a second map for the second HMD, where the second landmark has a second confidence value; in response to the first and second landmarks overlapping, selecting one of the first or second landmark with greatest confidence value; and producing the first map using the selected landmark.
US10854011B2
One variation of a method includes: accessing a 2D color image recorded by a 2D color camera and a 3D point cloud recorded by a 3D depth sensor at approximately a first time, the 2D color camera and the 3D depth sensor defining intersecting fields of view and facing outwardly from an autonomous vehicle; detecting a cluster of points in the 3D point cloud representing a continuous surface approximating a plane; isolating a cluster of color pixels in the 2D color image depicting the continuous surface; projecting the cluster of color pixels onto the plane to define a set of synthetic 3D color points in the 3D point cloud, the cluster of points and the set of synthetic 3D color points representing the continuous surface; and rendering points in the 3D point cloud and the set of synthetic 3D color points on a display.
US10854003B2
Embodiments of the innovation relate to a mixed reality device having a mixed reality display and a controller disposed in electrical communication with the mixed reality display. The controller configured to receive topology data associated with a network and three-dimensional (3D) embedded network data associated with the network. The controller is configured to construct a hierarchical data structure from the topology data and the 3D embedded network data. The controller is also configured to display a level of the hierarchical data structure as a virtual object in a 3D space on the mixed reality display, the level of the hierarchical data structure identifying a subset of nodes and a subset of edges of the hierarchical data structure.
US10853991B1
An artificial reality system is described includes a hand-held controller tracking sub-system having two components, a Field-of-View (FOV) tracker and a non-FOV tracker that applies specialized motion models when one or more of controllers are not trackable within the field of view. In particular, under typical operating conditions, the FOV tracker receives state data for a Head Mounted Display (HMD) and controller state data (velocity, acceleration etc.) of a controller to compute estimated poses for the controller. If the controller is trackable (e.g., within the field of view and not occluded), then the pose as computed by the FOV tracker is used and the non-FOV tracker is bypassed. If the controller is not trackable within the field of view and the controller state data meets activation conditions for one or more corner tracking cases, then the non-FOV tracker applies one or more of specialized motion models to compute a controller pose for the controller.
US10853990B2
A method for processing a three-dimensional graphic object. The method comprises receiving a query point and an associated query region, the query point being positioned within a reference fragment of a texture image of the three-dimensional graphic object; determining reference points on a boundary of the reference fragment using the query region, the reference points associated with target points on a boundary of a target fragment of the texture image, the reference points and the query point forming a reference angle; and determining a portion of the target fragment covered by the query region using an anchor point located outside the target fragment. The anchor point is determined using the target points and the reference angle. Angles between the anchor point and the target points correspond to angles between the query and reference points. The three-dimensional graphic object is processed using the determined portion of the target fragment.
US10853985B2
Methods and systems for generating an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of an object are disclosed. The methods and systems obtain data describing the object, where the data includes information about a number of images of the object, as well as additional information about the object. The images are automatically obtained and rearranged into at least one sequence of images substantially evenly distributed around 360 degrees. It is determined whether to add hotspot(s) to image(s), and if hotspot(s) are to be added, the hotspot(s) are automatically added to the image(s). The ordered images of the sequence(s) are then merged into an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of the object.
US10853983B2
In implementations of suggestions to enrich digital artwork, a suggestion system identifies a first object in the digital artwork and suggests a second object for addition to the digital artwork based on the second object having a co-occurrence relationship with the first object. The co-occurrence relationship is based on the first object and the second object appearing together in an image of an image set. A user may select the second object to add to the artwork or the user may be inspired by the second object to enrich the digital artwork.
US10853979B2
An electronic device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise a display, memory, and at least one processor configured to be connected electrically to the display and the memory. The at least one processor may execute instructions stored in the memory to: display a first screen generated by a first application on the display, provide first attribute information of at least one object included in the first screen to a second application in response to a screen switching event for displaying a second screen generated by the second application, and generate, by the second application, the second screen including the at least one object based on the first attribute information.
US10853971B2
A method for determining an exposure, in particular an exposure time, for a recording in a method for determining the 3D coordinates of an object is provided, in which a pattern is projected onto the object and the light reflected by the object is recorded. To improve such a method, a recording of the object is produced with a predetermined exposure, in particular exposure time. A mask image of this recording is produced, in which mask image the regions of the object lying within the measurement volume are depicted. The exposure, in particular the exposure time, for the recording is determined depending on the predetermined exposure, in particular exposure time, depending on the mean greyscale value in the regions, lying within the measurement volume, of the recording with a predetermined exposure and depending on an ideal greyscale value.
US10853966B2
Provided are virtual space moving apparatus and method. A virtual space moving apparatus includes a 3D camera to capture real space; a display; and a processor to display a virtual space, implement a virtual object corresponding to an actual object in an actual space, and display virtual object at a specific position in virtual space, set a first detection area adjacent to an initial position of actual object and a second detection area spaced from initial position of actual object and surrounding first detection area, when actual object is moved by a first distance in first detection area outwards from initial position, move virtual object by first virtual movement distance, and when actual object is moved by first distance in second detection area outwards from a boundary between first detection area and second detection area, move virtual object by a second virtual movement distance greater than first virtual movement distance.
US10853960B2
Provided is a stereo matching method and apparatus. A stereo matching apparatus may generate a disparity map by transforming a disparity map of a previous frame based on determined motion information of a camera between the previous frame and the current frame, calculate a confidence for the generated disparity map, and adjust a disparity map corresponding to the current frame based on the confidence and the generated disparity map.
US10853958B2
Provided is a method of acquiring depth information of an object including acquiring first depth information of the object located at a first point in a common sensing region common to respective sensing regions of a plurality of sensors and first shape information of at least one view point, acquiring second shape information of the object at a second point when the object is located at the second point in a region excluding the common sensing region on the respective sensing regions of the plurality of sensors, and acquiring second depth information of the object at the second point based on a result of comparison between the first shape information of the at least one view point and the second shape information and the first depth information.
US10853957B2
A method for forming a subset having a number of member 3D contour images, the method executed at least in part on a computer, selects a first 3D contour image as a member image, obtains a candidate 3D contour image, computes an overlap between the candidate 3D contour image and the first 3D contour image, and adds the candidate 3D contour image to the subset according to the overlap computation.
US10853956B2
A device for medical imaging of coronary vessels includes a data extracting module configured to extract a first vessel map from computed tomography angiography data covering at least one reference cardiac phase and a set of second vessel maps from three-dimensional rotational angiography data covering at least one cardiac cycle. An interpolation module is configured to generate a series of warped versions of the first vessel map aligned with the set of second vessel maps, the series starting at the at least one reference cardiac phase. A merging module is configured to merge the series and the set of second vessel maps at the different phases in order to generate a final imaging map of the coronary vessels.
US10853952B2
An image processing apparatus, comprising a generation unit configured to generate a three-dimensional shape model of an object present in a field, based on a plurality of captured images obtained by a plurality of cameras that capture the field from different directions, a specification unit configured to specify a direction of the three-dimensional shape model generated by the generation unit, and a storage control unit configured to cause the direction of the three-dimensional shape model specified by the specification unit to be stored in a storage unit together with identification information of the object.
US10853947B2
A CPU 11 of a boundary line detection device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to function as an image acquisition component 112 that acquires images captured (inputted) via an image input device (a camera or the like), captured images received via a network, and so forth, and a boundary line detector 114 that detects a boundary line included in these captured images. The boundary line detector 114 is configured to specify, using a learned model 152, a plurality of estimated points estimated to be points on a boundary line included in a captured image and to detect the boundary line included in the captured image on the basis of at least the specified estimated points.
US10853940B2
A method and apparatus for manipulation of a respiratory model via adjustment of parameters associated with model images is described. A subset of the images that are used with the model that is associated with the position and motion of a targeted region of the patient to receive radiation treatment may be identified. The subset of images may be sorted. A graphical user interface (GUI) that identifies two or more of the images of the sorted subset may be provided. A selection associated with one of the images of the sorted subset may be received by the GUI. Furthermore, a new model to identify the targeted region based on the selection that is associated with one of the two or more images may be generated.
US10853938B2
A system for preparing and administering a prescribed fluidic pharmaceutical compound, such as a chemotherapy compound, includes a scale having a platen. The scale is in communication with a user display for displaying an output of the scale. An image capture device having a field of view for capturing at least one image of an object placed on the platen is provided in communication with the user display for displaying the captured image. The platen may include a visual identifier for identifying a portion of the field of view of the image capture device. The platen may also include a tackifier or absorbent material. The platen may be formed of a light-transmissible material.
US10853934B2
A method and a system for patch-based scene segmentation using neural networks are presented. In an embodiment, a method comprises: using one or more computing devices, receiving a digital image comprising test image; using the one or more computing devices, creating, based on the test image, a plurality of grid patches; using the one or more computing devices, receiving a plurality of classifiers that have been trained to identify one or more materials of a plurality of materials; using the one or more computing devices, for each patch of the plurality of grid patches, labelling each pixel of a patch with a label obtained by applying, to the patch, one or more classifiers from the plurality of classifiers; using the one or more computing devices, generating, based on labels assigned to pixels of the plurality of grid patches, a grid of labels for the test image.
US10853929B2
A method (200) for providing feedback regarding facial expressions in an original image is provided. The method (200) comprising the steps of receiving a 2-dimensional image of one or more users from an image capturing device (102), converting the 2-dimensional image to 3-dimensional image, identifying respective one or more faces of the one or more users from the 3-dimensional image, determining values of a set of plurality of parameters associated with a plurality of sections of each face of the one or more faces, comparing the determined values of the set of plurality of parameters with pre-determined optimum values of set of plurality of parameter pre-stored in a data repository (108) and providing feedback to the one or more users on the basis of the comparison. Further, a system (700) for providing feedback regarding facial expressions in an original image is provided.
US10853920B2
An image processing apparatus (100) includes a synthetic image acquirer (24) for acquiring a plurality of smoothed images different from each other, in which noise components have been smoothed on an image to be processed, and that is operable to perform weighted synthesis of the smoothed images based on pixel value differences between a pixel value of a pixel of the image to be processed and pixel values of pixels of the acquired smoothed images, in which a positive and a negative have been taken into consideration.
US10853917B2
An image authentication method is provided. An original image is divided into blocks. An interpolation algorithm is performed on each block so as to obtain a first image. Each pixel in the first image is mapped into an index based on a palette compression technique, so as to generate a second image. Each index is divided into multiple secret values, and a secret sharing algorithm is performed based on the secret values to obtain multiple partial shares. A transparent map is generated according to the partial shares, and a lossless image filed is generated by combining the original image with the transparent map.
US10853914B2
An exemplary image stitching recovery system detects a failed attempt by an image stitching system to generate a first panoramic image in a target location image set that includes a plurality of panoramic images each depicting a target location from a different respective locus point. The image stitching recovery system identifies a particular locus point at which a second panoramic image within the target location image set has been successfully generated, and identifies, based on a second set of control points that were used by the image stitching system to successfully generate the second panoramic image at the particular locus point, a first set of control points based upon which the first panoramic image is to be successfully generated. Subsequently, the image stitching recovery system directs the image stitching system to generate, based on the first set of control points, the first panoramic image in the target location image set.
US10853912B2
A method and an apparatus for a complete size adaptation of an object to be displayed are provided. The method includes obtaining elements and description information of the elements included in an object to be displayed, the description information of the elements including information of parent-child relationships among the elements and rules for adaptation into display areas of different sizes based on the parent-child relationships; determining sizes and positions of the elements that are included in the object to displayed and are adapted to a current display area based on the elements and the description information of the elements that are obtained and size information of the current display area; and displaying the elements included in the object to be displayed in the current display area using the sizes and the positions that are determined.
US10853907B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve task switching operations in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. As disclosed herein, the clock rate (and voltages) of a GPU's operating environment may be altered so that a low priority task may be rapidly run to a task switch boundary (or completion) so that a higher priority task may begin execution. In some embodiments, only the GPU's operating clock (and voltage) is increased during the task switch operation. In other embodiments, the clock rate (voltages) of supporting components may also be increased. For example, the operating clock for the GPU's supporting memory, memory controller or memory fabric may also be increased. Once the lower priority task has been swapped out, one or more of the clocks (and voltages) increased during the switch operation could be subsequently decreased, though not necessarily to their pre-switch rates.
US10853906B2
One embodiment provides an accelerator module comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies; a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled with the memory stack via one or more memory controllers, the GPU including a plurality of multiprocessors having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the multiprocessors to execute at least one single instruction. The at least one single instruction is to cause at least a portion of the GPU to perform a floating point operation on input having differing precisions. The floating point operation is a two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation.
US10853904B2
A processor employs a hierarchical register file for a graphics processing unit (GPU). A top level of the hierarchical register file is stored at a local memory of the GPU (e.g., a memory on the same integrated circuit die as the GPU). Lower levels of the hierarchical register file are stored at a different, larger memory, such as a remote memory located on a different die than the GPU. A register file control module monitors the status of in-flight wavefronts at the GPU, and in particular whether each in-flight wavefront is active, predicted to be become active, or inactive. The register file control module places execution data for active and predicted-active wavefronts in the top level of the hierarchical register file and places execution data for inactive wavefronts at lower levels of the hierarchical register file.
US10853903B1
The present disclosure relates to signal decoding and icon (e.g., a logo, shape, icon, etc.) detection. In some implementations, a first response is provided upon signal decoding but no icon detection within first captured image data, and a second response is provided upon signal decoding and icon detection within the first captured image data. Other aspects, combinations and implementations are described as well.
US10853902B2
An information system is provided that enables stakeholders to define a secure data object that sets permissions, rules, and rights for an asset. The secure data object may be communicated to entities, such as computer hosts or hardware agents, and the entities are enable to act within the permissions, rules, and rights to conduct transactions and gather information as agents of the stakeholders. The secure data object may be received into a hardware agent attached to an asset, and the agent may have sufficient permission to monitor environmental conditions, adjust pricing, consummate a transaction, or communicate a report.
US10853900B2
Data characterizing an individual is received. Thereafter, one or more variables are extracted from the data so that, using a predictive model populated with the extracted variables, a likelihood of the individual adhering to a treatment regimen can be determined. The predictive model is trained on historical treatment regimen adherence data empirically derived from a plurality of subjects. Subsequently, data characterizing the determined likelihood of adherence can be promoted. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10853899B2
In some embodiments, an interactive user interface is provided for an inventory yield management system having access to an inventory database and a class database. The system comprises at least one processor to implement a single interactive user interface comprising a first user interface element configured to present a first user interface view to receive a selection of data stored in the inventory database; a second user interface element configured to present a second user interface view to receive a selection of data for creating a configurable class pass for one or more classes stored in the class database; and a channel indicator for associating a configured class pass with a channel of classes.
US10853894B2
A method begins by a computing device allocating a plurality of tasks of an agricultural prescription for a farming geographic area to a fleet of farming equipment. While executing tasks of the plurality of tasks, the method continues with at least some of the fleet of farming equipment collecting task execution data. Based on the task execution data, the method continues with the computing device updating at least one of the agricultural prescription, the plurality of tasks, and the allocation of at least one task of the plurality of tasks.
US10853891B2
Electronic commerce over a publicly accessible computer network such as the Internet is facilitated and leveraged by a computer system that forms a community of computer user parties based on personal and business connections of the parties involved. Personal connections are created between users by invitation and mutual acceptance. Business connections are created between users when a transaction takes place between those users. Users search to perform any one or more of a variety of actions such as to purchase products, browse departments and categories for purchasing products, or explore the connections between the parties involved to find items to buy. Different groupings of the parties involved may be the users themselves and other buyers/sellers in the business network, the users themselves and their friends in the personal networks, or some combination of buyers/sellers and friends from each of the types of networks. A computer or server at a site in the network implements an architecture whereby various pages viewed by a user have links to enable them to find products.
US10853885B2
One embodiment includes a method for offering a protection policy for a mobile device, the method comprising the steps of providing an application, conducting a test of the mobile device, calculating the risk of protecting the mobile device, and offering an protection policy. The application is configured to operate on the mobile device and to test at least one function of the mobile device. The test is conducted by the application and verifies at least one function of the mobile device through the application. The risk of protecting the mobile device is based upon at least one result of the test. The protection policy for the mobile device is based upon the calculated risk, has a cost, and is offered for purchase to a user of the mobile device.
