US10912238B2
A display apparatus comprises a display panel; a heat sink plate coupled to a bottom surface of the display panel and having a coupling member that extends in a semicircular shape at one end and protrudes in a direction toward the bottom surface of the display panel; and a guide panel having a connection member at one end that is coupled to the coupling member in a rotation or sliding manner and connected to a bottom surface a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the display panel, wherein the printed circuit board is detachably coupled to a bottom surface of the heat sink plate.
US10912234B2
An industrial automation controller includes a housing with a forced convection chamber. First and second fans are releasably connected to the housing and are adapted to induce airflow through the forced convection chamber. The first and second fans are each connected to the housing by respective first and second latch systems that each include a primary latch and a secondary latch. The secondary latch imposes a time delay during removal and replacement of a fan to facilitate hot swapping of the fan with a replacement fan. A make-last/break-first contact system is provided for each fan such that the fan is shutdown in a controlled manner prior to removal of the fan from the housing. The controller monitors internal temperature and fan speed. The controller initiates, logs, and reports fault conditions based upon the monitored temperature and/or fan speed. The controller is shut down if the monitored temperature exceeds a select temperature level.
US10912215B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a second driving circuit that applies a gate signal to the plurality of pixels, and a first connecting member connected to the display panel on a first edge of the display panel. The first connecting member includes a control signal wiring connected to the second driving circuit. The display device further includes a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) connected to the display panel on a second edge of the display panel. The second edge faces the first edge, and the FPCB includes a first driving circuit that applies a data voltage to the plurality of pixels.
US10912197B2
A display device includes a display panel, a connection film connected to one side of the display panel, a circuit board connected to the connection film, and a coupling portion coupling the connection film and the circuit board, located at an area where the connection film and the circuit board overlap each other, and including a conductive first coupling portion for coupling the connection film and the circuit board, and an insulative second coupling portion for coupling the connection film and the circuit board.
US10912195B2
A multi-embedded radio frequency board includes a plurality of printed circuit boards stacked one on the others, at least one of the printed circuit boards of the plurality of printed circuit boards being configured so as to have a different processing function than another processing function of another printed circuit board of the plurality of printed circuit boards, and an interconnection join layer disposed between adjacent printed circuit boards of the plurality of printed circuit boards so as to physically and electrically couple the adjacent printed circuit boards to each other so as to form an integrated printed circuit board module having a predetermined radio frequency communication characteristic.
US10912191B2
The electronic card with printed circuit comprises at least one diffraction structure (DS) having a cavity (15) and a diffraction plate (17). In accordance with the invention, the diffraction structure is incorporated in the thickness of the electronic card with printed circuit, the cavity being formed, by removal of material, in the thickness of the electronic card with printed circuit and the diffraction plate being formed in a plate which is arranged on the electronic card with printed circuit and closes the cavity.
US10912187B2
A printed board including an external interface, a frame ground trace electrically connected to the external interface, a circuit member spaced from the frame ground trace, and a resonance trace disposed between the frame ground trace and the circuit member with a gap present between the resonance trace and the frame ground trace. The resonance trace is connected to the circuit member at at least two positions. The resonance trace and the circuit member together form a loop member configured in the form of a closed circuit of the resonance trace and the circuit member.
US10912184B2
A wafer-based charged particle accelerator includes a charged particle source and at least one RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly and a power supply coupled to the at least one RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly. The wafer-based charged particle accelerator may further include a beam current-sensor. The wafer-based charged particle accelerator may further include at least a second RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assembly and at least one ESQ charged particle focusing wafer. Fabrication methods are disclosed for RF charged particle accelerator wafer sub-assemblies, ESQ charged particle focusing wafers, and the wafer-based charged particle accelerator.
US10912183B2
A consumable cartridge for a plasma arc torch includes a cartridge frame having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first and second ends defining a longitudinal axis, the second end including a plurality of discrete retaining features. The consumable cartridge includes an electrically conductive contact element secured to the cartridge frame by the plurality of discrete retaining features and translatable up to a predetermined distance within the cartridge frame along the longitudinal axis at the second end, the contact element having a core, a proximal surface, and a distal surface. The proximal surface is shaped to contact a torch plunger of the plasma arc torch upon installation into the plasma arc torch and the distal surface is shaped to contact an electrode of the plasma arc torch during an operation of the plasma arc torch.
US10912181B2
A method is for detecting high-voltage flashovers in X-ray equipment including an X-ray emitter and a high-voltage supply. The X-ray emitter has an X-ray tube, surrounded by an insulating medium; and the high-voltage supply has a high-voltage generator and a cable. The cable is at least part of a connecting passage between the high-voltage generator and the X-ray tube. During normal operation of the X-ray equipment, an interference pulse, which occurs due to the high-voltage flashover in the connecting passage, is detected and evaluated with the aid of a measuring device, including a measuring element. As such, an assessment of the condition of the X-ray emitter and of other high voltage-carrying components, and measures that follow, are made using the evaluated interference pulse.
US10912171B1
Various embodiments include apparatuses and methods control apparatus to color tune a light-emitting diode (LED) array. In one specific example, a control apparatus to color tune a light-emitting diode (LED) array for perceptually uniform color-tuning is disclosed. The apparatus includes a correlated color temperature (CCT)-control device that is adjustable by an end-user to a desired color temperature of the LED array and producing an output signal corresponding to the desired color temperature. A storage device is electrically coupled to the CCT-control device to correlate a mechanical movement range of the CCT-control device to provide substantially uniform increases in perceptual CCT values from the LED array based on a set of N predetermined values. Other apparatuses and methods are described.
US10912160B2
A cooking appliance includes a bottom plate and a turntable. The bottom plate defines an aperture that receives the turntable such that the turntable is flush-mounted with the bottom plate to provide a floor of a cooking cavity as substantially continuous. A rotary hub engages with an underside of the turntable to transmit rotational motion to the turntable from a motor. The turntable includes a first material and the bottom plate includes a second material.
US10912158B2
The present invention relates to an induction cooking hob (10), in particular for a domestic appliance, comprising an optically transparent panel (12) for supporting cooking utensils, at least one illumination panel (14) arranged beneath the optically transparent panel (12), and at least one circuit board (18) arranged beneath the illumination panel (14), wherein said circuit board (18) includes a plurality of induction coils (16).
US10912144B2
A method to speed up uplink data access during a radio resource control (RRC) reconfiguration procedure is proposed. UE first sends an RRC request, and in response receives an RRC reconfiguration message from BS. UE then decodes the RRC reconfiguration message and performs reconfiguration. UE also waits for UL grant for transmitting RRC reconfiguration complete with UL data if available. In one embodiment, BS provides the UL grant in a common search space while UE is performing the reconfiguration, and UE does not need to wait the UL grant until after the reconfiguration is done. In other words, the reconfiguration and the UL grant occurs in parallel, which reduces access delay for UL data. In an alternative embodiment, BS provides UL grant in RRC reconfiguration message, so that UE does not have to receive UL grant while performing the reconfiguration.
US10912128B2
A base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The BS comprises a processor configured to determine frequency units within a frequency range for a bandwidth of an operating carrier, wherein a listen-before-talk (LBT) operation is performed over each of the frequency units; and determine, for each of the frequency units, a set of intended spatial transmit (TX) parameters and a set of spatial receiver (RX) parameters of the LBT operation; and determine a subset of the frequency units for a downlink transmission based on the LBT operation performed over each of the frequency units; and a transceiver operably connected to processor, which is configured to transmit, to a user equipment (UE), downlink channels using the bandwidth corresponding to the determined subset of the frequency units.
US10912125B2
A mobile station is disclosed including a processor that, in Carrier Aggregation using component carriers that are under the control of a master radio base station and a secondary radio base station, when a plurality of random access procedures are started, and when simultaneous transmission of random access preambles occurs in the plurality of random access procedures, performs a ramping control on a transmission power of a random access preamble in a random access procedure that is assigned priority and does not perform the ramping control on a transmission power of a random access preamble in the random access procedure other than the random access procedure that is assigned priority, a receiver that receives signals from the master radio base station and the secondary radio base station, and a transmitter that transmits signals to the master radio base station and the secondary radio base station.
US10912120B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data channel sending method. In the method, a base station starts a clear channel assessment (CCA) on a data channel for a to-be-sent data channel. If the CCA on the data channel succeeds, the base station sends the data channel in a first subframe within a time window, where the data channel performs rate matching based on a reference signal (RS). The RS includes a first RS or a second RS. The first RS occupies continuous OFDM symbols in a subframe, and the second RS occupies discontinuous OFDM symbols in a subframe. The time window is a preset time window used to send the first RS, and the first RS is used by a user equipment (UE) to perform cell identification and/or a radio resource management (RRM) measurement on a cell served by the base station.
US10912110B2
A 5G new radio (NR) Base Station (gNB) is described. The gNB includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to send a radio resource control (RRC) message to a user equipment (UE). The RRC message(s) includes different physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) configuration options and/or SR-configurations, comprising one or more of the following information elements (IE), i.e., Bandwidth, Numerology, BWP, Logical Channel (LCH), priority, LCG, Service, etc., for the UE to use in transmitting one or more scheduling requests (SR).
US10912109B2
Method, terminal device and network device for determining a waveform used in an uplink transmission
The application discloses a communication method, a terminal device and a network device, which are suitable for determining a waveform to be used in an uplink transmission of the terminal device in various scenarios. The method includes that: a terminal device transmits first indication information to a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a location area in which the terminal device is currently located; the terminal device receives second indication information transmitted by the network device, where the second indication information is used to indicate a first target waveform, the first target waveform being determined by the network device from at least two optional uplink waveforms according to the location area in which the terminal device is currently located; and the terminal device performs an uplink transmission using the first target waveform.
US10912106B2
An apparatus for use in a radio aggregation unit (RAU) of a cloud radio access network (Cloud-RAN or C-RAN), the cloud-RAN including a radio cloud center (RCC) and a plurality of radio remote systems (RRS) coupled to the RCC, wherein each RRS comprises an RAU coupled to a plurality of Remote Radio Units (RRUs) is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an input circuit configured to receive a first scheduling result from the RCC and a scheduling circuit configured to generate a second scheduling result for scheduling the one or more UEs in the coverage area of the RAU. Further, the apparatus comprises a processing circuit configured to selectively schedule a select UE from one or more UEs in the coverage area of the RAU, based on the first scheduling result from the RCC or the second scheduling result or an integration of the first scheduling result and the second scheduling result, based on a predetermined threshold associated with a receipt time of the first scheduling result from the RCC at the RAU.
US10912095B2
A user equipment performs communication using beamforming with another user equipment, the user equipment including a control unit configured to configure, in at least one beam among a plurality of beams, information indicating positions of all of resources in a radio frame, the plurality of beams being transmitted via corresponding resources; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the plurality of beams using all of the resources, by applying beam switching or beam repetition, wherein the positions of all of the resources in the radio frame correspond to a position of a resource to be decoded and a position to be used for excluding a transmission resource candidate.
US10912088B2
Method, systems, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. More particularly, a wireless station may connect to a wireless network using a first radio frequency (RF) band and detect a signal strength of the first RF band is greater than a roaming threshold. The wireless station may perform a plurality of scans for support by the wireless network of a second RF band in response to the detected signal strength. Each scan may occur when the signal strength of the first RF band is greater than the roaming threshold. The wireless station may selectively connect to the wireless network using the second RF band based at least in part on the scanning and a throughput supported by the wireless network over the second RF band. The first RF band may be a 2.4 GHz band and the second RF band may be a 5 GHz band.
US10912085B2
A method for performing beamformed backhaul communications includes determining first formats of subframes supporting access communications between the first TRP and user equipments (UEs) served by the first TRP, determining a subset of the subframes supporting access communications, the subset of the subframes supports backhaul communications between the first TRP and a second TRP, and communicating with a UE over an access link in accordance with the subset of subframes.
US10912083B2
Techniques are disclosed for a wireless router or residential gateway to distinguish power-sensitive wireless sensors and provide separate treatments thereto for low power consumption connections. In some embodiments, a network device includes a wireless network circuit, and control circuitry coupled to the network circuit and configured to, upon receipt of a request of connection from a client, identify whether the client is power-sensitive. The network device can further cause, if the client is identified as power-sensitive, the power-sensitive client to connect using a low-power connection while maintaining a regular connection to other regular clients. The low-power connection can be operated on a first channel different from but in a same frequency band as a second channel on which the regular connection is operated.
US10912076B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a physical downlink control channel transmission method and apparatus. The transmission method includes: obtaining, by UE, a parameter set for transmitting a first physical downlink control channel, where the first physical downlink control channel is used for sending same downlink control information DCI in at least R subframes; determining, by the UE according to the parameter set, N candidate locations for transmitting the first physical downlink control channel by a base station, where the candidate location includes the R subframes; monitoring, by the UE at the N candidate locations, whether the base station sends the first physical downlink control channel; and receiving, by the UE at a first candidate location, the first physical downlink control channel sent by the base station, where the N candidate locations include the first candidate location.
US10912072B2
The invention relates to a base station, including a first and a second communication service, in a wireless communication network on the basis of a plurality of communication resources, the base station comprising: a processor configured to allocate a first physical downlink control channel associated with the first communication service to a first service-specific control region of the plurality of communication resources and a second physical downlink control channel associated with the second communication service to a second service-specific control region of the plurality of communication resources, wherein the first service-specific control region is associated with a first service-specific user data region of the plurality of communication resources and the second service-specific control region is associated with a second service-specific user data region; and a communication interface configured to transmit to a user equipment a radio frame comprising plurality of communication resources.
US10912066B2
A method for managing Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback transmission by a Dual Sim Dual Standby (DSDS) User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network, is provided. The method includes determining, by the DSDS UE, whether a first parameter associated with a primary packet data is identical to a second parameter associated with a secondary packet data. Each of the first parameter and the second parameter comprises a reordering timer value, a New Data Indicator (NDI), a HARQ process number, and a DSDS Radio Frequency (RF) gap duration. The method further includes, in response to the first parameter associated with the primary packet data being determined to be identical to the second parameter associated with the secondary packet data and the primary packet data being successfully decoded at the DSDS UE, performing, by the DSDS UE, the HARQ feedback transmission with the wireless communication network.
US10912062B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and to a wireless device for enabling device-to-device communication. In particular the present disclosure relates to a method, performed in a radio node, of assigning resources for direct control signalling. The method comprises receiving from at least one further radio node sets of resources for direct control signalling in a respective cell or cluster. The method further comprises assigning resources for direct control signalling transmission within an area controlled by the radio node based at least on the received sets of resources, and transmitting to wireless devices controlled by the radio node, a message indicating resources assigned for direct control signalling. The disclosure also relates to the corresponding method in a wireless device and to a radio and to a wireless device implementing the methods, as well as to corresponding computer programs.
US10912059B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and base station are disclosed that communicate within a first cell via schedule requests to set up transmission of up-link data. The UAV additionally communicates up-link data via a grant-free underlay broadcast channel to one or more neighboring base stations of the terrestrial cellular network. Transmitters, receivers, related methods are also disclosed for modulation and demodulation of the transmission packets.
US10912053B2
A method includes receiving, via a core network in accordance with a regional data routing plan, an affiliation request from a data source device based on a first level regional affiliation of the data source device and a first computing entity. The method further includes determining whether a second level regional affiliation is substantially equal to the first level regional affiliation. When the second level regional affiliation is not substantially equal to the first level regional affiliation, the method further includes identifying a second computing entity based on the second level regional affiliation and sending a notification message to the second computing entity regarding the data source device being affiliated with the second computing entity. The method further includes broadcasting a gateway message to the core network to change the regional data routing plan such that data from the data source device is routed to the second computing entity.
US10912052B2
A method for transmitting a synchronization sequence, and a method and a device for synchronization detection are provided, the method for transmitting the synchronization sequence including: setting a target synchronization sequence with good autocorrelation characteristic, where at least one segment of sequence truncated in a time domain or a frequency domain of the target synchronization sequence is a sub-synchronization sequence, and the sub-synchronization sequence has good autocorrelation characteristic and the sub-synchronization sequences have good cross-correlation between each other; and transmitting the target synchronization sequence to a user equipment.
US10912045B2
A method for acquiring and reporting synchronization information of the at least one neighboring cell, a base station, a user equipment and a medium are provided, wherein the method for acquiring synchronization information of at least one neighboring cell: transmitting an RRC signaling to a UE to request the UE to report the synchronization information of the at least one neighboring cell, wherein the RRC signaling indicates what synchronization information of the at least one neighboring cell needs to be reported by the UE; and receiving the synchronization information of the at least one neighboring cell from the UE by an RRC signaling. The base station may acquire the synchronization information of the at least one neighboring cell, and the synchronization information is used in a subsequent measurement configuration process of other UEs, which reduces the measurement overhead.
US10912042B2
A method for adjusting power of a terminal includes monitoring, by the terminal, usage of an uplink carrier, where the carrier usage includes at least one of a quantity of carriers, duration of continuous use of one or more carriers, and a temperature of the terminal. The method further includes adding, by the terminal, a power back-off value during calculation of power headroom when the terminal detects that the carrier usage satisfies a preset condition, to reduce a value of power headroom of the one or more carriers. The method further includes reporting, by the terminal, the value of the power headroom to a network device.
US10912037B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for uplink signal power control in a dynamic Time Division Duplexing (TDD) cell. According to the method, after accessing a dynamic TDD cell, a User Equipment (UE) receives from an evolved NodeB (eNB) an uplink power control parameter which has been adjusted for a conflict uplink sub-frame.
US10912033B2
A recording device captures information and stores the information in a data store as a data record. The recording device includes a low-power wireless interface and a high-power wireless interface. A network device includes a low-power wireless interface and a high-power wireless interface. An activation device transmits a data notification and a network notification. Upon receiving the data notification, the network device activates its high-power wireless interface. Upon receiving the network notification, the recording device activates its high-power wireless interface. The recording device transmits the data record to the network device via its high-power wireless interface.
US10912032B2
A method for connecting to a Registered Public Land Mobile Network (RPLMN) after receiving an accept message with limited service from a user selected CSG cell, which is associated to a different PLMN than the RPLMN during manual CSG selection mode is disclosed. The method includes connecting to the RPLMN based on the availability of the user selected CSG cell in UTRAN. If the user selected CSG cell is not available in UTRAN, then the method includes connecting to the RPLMN by the UE using the stored duplicate value of the RPLMN. If the user selected CSG cell is available in UTRAN, then the method includes sending an ATTACH request to the user selected CSG cell without disabling the EUTRA capabilities. If the ATTACH request is failed, then the method includes connecting to the RPLMN using the stored duplicate value of the RPLMN.
US10912031B2
A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure relates to schemes for improving an operation of a terminal in an RRC inactive mode.
US10912023B2
According to certain embodiments, a method for activating and deactivating multiple secondary cells (150A-B) includes receiving a first message requesting activation or deactivation of a first secondary cell (first SCell) (150A) for a first carrier. In response to the first message, a first procedure is initiated to activate or deactivate the first SCell (150A). The wireless device (110A) may have a first delay period (Tactivate_basic) within which to complete the first procedure. While performing the first procedure to activate or deactivate the first SCell (150A), a second message to activate, deactivate, configure or deconfigure a second SCell (150B) for a second carrier is received. In response to receiving the second message to activate, deactivate, configure, or deconfigure the second SCell (150B), the first procedure may be modified by replacing the first delay period with a second delay period (Tactivate_total) within which to complete the first procedure to activate or deactivate the first SCell (150A). The second delay period (Tactivate_total) may be greater than the first delay period (Tactivate basic).
US10912019B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing audio routing and roaming functionality for a wireless intercom system including a plurality of wireless access points. A first wireless access point is configured to receive a communication from a first wireless intercom device and identify a home access point for the first wireless intercom device. The first wireless access point transmits audio data from the first wireless intercom device directly to the intercom system in response to a determination that the first wireless access point is the home access point for the first wireless device. The audio data from the first wireless intercom device is transmitted to the intercom system through a second wireless access point in response to a determination that the second wireless access point is the home access point for the first wireless intercom device.
US10912008B2
A method for attaching a first radio base station (RBS) to a core network via a radio access network (RAN), wherein a forwarding of data within the RAN is being controlled by a Software Defined Network, SDN, Controller, the RAN comprising a plurality of further RBSs being capable of providing radio connection to a plurality of UEs, and being under the control of the SDN Controller. At least one UE from the plurality of UEs is selected, wherein the selected at least one UE is located within an overlapping radio connectivity area of the first RBS and one of the further RBSs, denoted as a second RBS. The SDN Controller activates control onto the at least one selected UE. The SDN Controller connects the first RBS to the second RBS via the radio connections of the at least one selected UE. The SDN Controller enables the forwarding of data between the first RBS and the core network via the second RBS.
US10911999B2
A user terminal, a base station, and method include a user terminal performing D2D communication under management of a base station, the D2D communication indicating direct device to device communication including transmitting data to one or more D2D communication destinations in the D2D communication and transmitting a D2D buffer status report to the base station. The user terminal transmits to the base station a D2D buffer status report indicating an amount of non-transmitted data in the D2D communication and a plurality of identifiers corresponding to the one or more D2D communication destinations. The plurality of identifiers corresponding to the one or more D2D communication destinations does not include the identifier of the base station to which the D2D buffer status report is transmitted.
US10911995B2
A mobile communication device including a first RF device, a second RF device, and a controller is provided. The first and second RF devices perform wireless transmission and reception utilizing a first RAT and a second RAT, respectively. The controller detects, during a communication with a first cell using a first subscriber identity, an incoming event for making a voice call or conducting a data session using a second subscriber identity via the second RF device, and switches the communication associated with the first subscriber identity to a second cell which utilizes the first RAT in a frequency band on which dual connectivity over the first and second RATs is supported, or enables the voice call associated with the second subscriber identity to be made via the first RF device when the communication associated with the first subscriber identity is performed via the second RF device.
US10911993B2
A wireless device configured to acquire network support information associated with a neighbor cell, wherein the network support information indicates that the neighbor cell supports a Stand-Alone (SA) mode of operation and/or a Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) mode of operation; and transmit to a serving network node a report comprising identification information associated with the neighbour cell and the network support information indicating that the neighbor cell supports a SA mode of operation and/or a NSA mode of operation. A serving network node configured to receive a report transmitted by a wireless device, wherein the report comprises identification information associated with the neighbor cell and network support information indicating that the neighbor cell supports a Stand-Alone (SA) mode of operation and/or a Non-Stand-Alone (NSA) mode of operation; and determine, based on the report, a type of interface to establish between the serving network node and the neighbor network node.
US10911992B2
A device implementing the subject technology may include at least one processor configured to receive a plurality of buffer reports from a plurality of other devices, each of the plurality of buffer reports indicating a current target buffer level for a respective one of the plurality of other devices. The at least one processor may be further configured to determine a group target buffer level based at least in part on the current target buffer levels of the plurality of other devices and a current target buffer level of the at least one buffer. The at least one processor may be further configured to transmit the group target buffer level to the plurality of other devices. The at least one processor may be further configured to manage an occupancy of the at least one buffer based at least in part on the group target buffer level.
US10911990B2
A network handover method and a related device, where the method includes: when receiving a user terminal handover request that is sent by a source radio access network node and that carries a target base station identifier, determining, by a source mobility management function entity based on the target base station identifier, to trigger an inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) network handover; sending a first message to a source session management function entity; receiving a second message sent by the source session management function entity, where the second message includes a session management context; and sending a relocation request to a target mobility management function entity, where the relocation request is used to instruct the target mobility management function entity to perform inter-RAT network handover on the user terminal.
US10911981B2
A vehicle includes a telematics control unit and a processor that may receive a wake-up message, via the telematics control unit, from a service delivery network (SDN), requesting a response from the vehicle. The vehicle may determine, based on a rejected data call attempted as the response, that a current network cell is congested. The vehicle may additionally notify the SDN of the congestion, via a predetermined communication format indicated as being available when a cell is congested. Also, the vehicle may use the predetermined communication format for communication with the SDN until the current network cell congestion is relieved or that the vehicle has traveled out of range of the current network cell.
US10911980B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for triggering a sidelink buffer status reporting in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: configuring a first ProSe destination including at least one first UE and a second ProSe destination including at least one second UE; receiving a first sidelink data for a first sidelink logical channel from an upper layer; receiving a second sidelink data for a second sidelink logical channel from the upper layer while the UE has the first sidelink data for the first logical channel, wherein the second logical channel has a higher priority than a priority of the first sidelink logical channel; and triggering a buffer status reporting the if the first sidelink logical channel and the second sidelink logical channel belong to a same ProSe destination.
US10911978B2
A data transmission method, a device, and a communications system are described. The method includes generating, by a terminal device, first indication information. The first indication information is used to indicate logical channel groups having to-be-sent data and amount of to-be-sent data on part of the logical channel groups having to-be-sent data. The method includes sending, by the terminal device, the first indication information. According to the data transmission method, the device, and the communications system provided in the described embodiments, when a current quantity idle bits in a MAC PDU is insufficient, the terminal device may indicate, to a network device by using the first indication information, the LCGs having to-be-sent data on the terminal device. In this way, uplink transmission resource allocation improved efficiency.
US10911973B2
An information notification device which transfers to a communication device a packet transmitted by a terminal to a relay device. The information notification device is provided with: a communication condition providing unit which provides the packet transmitted by the terminal with communication condition information concerning a communication condition between the terminal and the relay device; a data transmission unit which transmits the packet provided with the communication condition information to the communication device; and a supplementation unit which, in the absence of arrival of the packet from the terminal, implements a notification supplementation process for notifying the communication device of the communication condition information.
US10911968B2
A method for wireless communication includes that: a terminal reports at a first protocol layer a first event to a second protocol layer; the first event indicates that quality of a signal in a first signal set is bad enough to satisfy a first condition; determines at the second protocol layer occurrence of a second event when a number of times that the first event has successively occurred exceeds a threshold; and sends a first message to a network device, the first message indicates a signal in the second signal set, of which signal quality is good enough to satisfy a third condition; occurrence of the first event includes occurrence of beam failure instance, the occurrence of the second event includes occurrence of beam failure, and the second event indicates that link quality corresponding to the signal in the first signal set is bad enough to satisfy a second condition.
US10911962B2
Communication techniques are disclosed. An example apparatus configured for communication comprises a wireless communication system and an antenna array coupled to the wireless communication system. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to nm a communication application, wherein the communication application is configured to determine an area of interest. The apparatus also includes a pattern controller to adjust a radiation pattern of the antenna array to direct wireless energy toward the area of interest.
US10911961B2
A method of wireless communication includes identifying one or more coexistence issues corresponding to a utilized set of communication resources of a User Equipment (UE). The method also includes communicating an indication of the coexistence issue(s) to a serving base station.
US10911959B2
A control apparatus and method for a wireless communication system supporting cognitive radio. The control apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a management unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information about at least one factor capable of affecting performance of transferring an access request for a frequency spectrum resource by a communication apparatus, the access request being used for making a request to a device which controls the frequency spectrum allocation for allocating a frequency spectrum to the communication apparatus. The management unit is configured to receive the access request sent by the communication apparatus, and optimize a route for the access request of the communication apparatus according to the acquired factor in the case that the access request contains information indicating that the communication apparatus is a slave apparatus of another communication apparatus.
US10911953B2
An in-vehicle authentication device may perform wireless communication with a portable device in a vicinity of a vehicle. The in-vehicle authentication device may transmit a call signal that requests a reply of a response signal to the portable device. The in-vehicle authentication device may transmit an authentication request signal that requests a reply of an authentication signal to the portable device when the in-vehicle authentication device determines that the portable device exists in the vicinity of the vehicle by receiving the response signal. The in-vehicle authentication device may authenticate the portable device that transmits the authentication signal based on the authentication signal when the authentication signal is received.
US10911952B1
An automated assistant system and method provide proactive and anticipatory services for the user of the system including providing customized as well as autonomous services using a mobile access device or operating on and through a network.
US10911949B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for authentication of a first wireless device by a vehicle. The method may include generating a wireless message that comprises an identifier of the vehicle, wherein the wireless message is encrypted with an encryption key of the vehicle. The method may also include receiving a wireless message response that comprise the identifier of the vehicle and an identifier of the first wireless device, wherein the wireless message response from to the first wireless device is encrypted with the encryption key of the vehicle. Furthermore, the method may include decrypting the wireless message response from the first wireless device and performing an authentication process to authenticate the first wireless device to the vehicle when the identifier of the first wireless device in the wireless message response matches an identifier of a wireless device enrolled with the vehicle.
US10911944B2
Methods and apparatus for activating a purchased or previously deployed device by a subscriber. In one embodiment, activation includes authenticating the device to a service provider or carrier, and providing the device with data necessary for enabling the service to the device. In one variant, a user device is activated at a retail store, with the assistance of a carrier representative. In another variant, user equipment is activated via a communications network without the assistance of a representative. In yet another variant, the user equipment is activated via the Internet without the assistance of a representative. The provision of access data includes pre-assigning eSIM from a population of unassigned eSIMs to certain devices for various carrier networks. Alternatively, the eSIM may be assigned on an as-needed basis. Unassigned and/or unused eSIMs can be released (or sold back to the vendor) and/or reused. Solutions for eSIM backup and restoration are also described.
US10911942B2
The provided is a method and apparatus for adding a WLAN carrier to an E-UTRAN carrier at a radio access network (RAN) level to transmit and receive data. The method may include: receiving, from a base station, additional configuration indication information for additionally configuring a WLAN carrier; additionally configuring the WLAN carrier on the basis of the additional configuration indicating information; and attempting WLAN associating through the WLAN carrier using UE identification information, wherein a WLAN end transmits confirmation information for the WLAN association of the UE to the base station.
US10911938B2
A first electronic device may enable generation, updating, and/or storage of user configuration information. The user configuration information may comprise information pertaining to device configuration and/or operational preferences specific to the device user and/or various use settings, connectivity, and/or use of available resources. The generation, updating, and/or storage of the user configuration information may be performed manually and/or automatically, and may be performed directly within the first electronic device and/or via networked devices, which may communicatively coupled to the first electronic device. A second electronic device may be enabled to be communicatively coupled to the first electronic device and/or the networked devices. The second electronic device may then be enabled to download existing user configuration information from the first electronic device and/or the networked device, and the downloaded user configuration may be utilized to configure the second electronic device.
US10911929B2
A wireless network includes a plurality of nodes configured to implement an improved discovery process to efficiently and reliably pair with one another with low power consumption. A given node divides time into slots and then performs discovery operations during designated discovery windows. The discovery windows occur periodically but at different times of day. During a given discovery window, nodes attempt discovery using a reduced set of channels that varies from one window to the next, thereby increasing the likelihood that nodes operate on the same channel. Nodes also implement a pairing protocol to coordinate pairing, potentially avoiding situations where all nodes attempt to pair simultaneously. The discovery process may be completed expeditiously, thereby conserving power and extending the operational lifetime of nodes which rely on battery power.
US10911923B1
A method of implementing unified mode Bluetooth advertisements according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a mobile device, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisement data from an access control device, wherein the BLE advertisement data includes (i) a BLE advertisement that is compliant with a HomeKit Accessory Protocol and (ii) a BLE scan response initiated by a scan request to the BLE advertisement, the BLE scan response including data to pair the mobile device with the access control device using another security protocol different from the HomeKit Accessory Protocol, pairing the mobile device with the access control device via the HomeKit Accessory Protocol and the another security protocol using the BLE advertisement data.
US10911920B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display device to output a user interface, a memory, a communication interface to support a first wireless communication scheme and a second wireless communication scheme, and a processor electrically connected with the display device, the memory, and the communication interface. The processor outputs a user interface for performing a pairing with the external device, by using at least one of a history of a pairing with the external device, whether the second wireless communication scheme is activated, or user account information.
US10911917B2
A content delivery method and a content update method for a vehicle network associated with an Internet of Vehicles are disclosed. The content delivery method for an Internet of Vehicles includes dividing the plurality of onboard units into clusters based on interest content information of the plurality of onboard units. Each of the clusters includes at least one cluster-head onboard unit. The method includes receiving, by the cluster-head onboard unit, an interest content access request of an requestor onboard unit in the cluster, searching for the interest content corresponding to the interest content access request in the Internet of Vehicles and sending the searched interest content to the requestor onboard unit.
US10911910B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device and a method of executing a function of the electronic device comprise at least one communication circuit, a speaker, a microphone, at least one processor operatively connected with the communication circuit, the speaker, and the microphone, and a memory operatively connected with the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor cause the electronic device to: perform a call with a first external electronic device through the communication circuit, activate a voice-based intelligent service while the call is performed, identify a voice input through the microphone while the call is performed, and transmit data associated with the voice input to an external server through the communication circuit at least in part for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and/or natural language understanding (NLU).
US10911903B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for multi-point destination arrival time analysis. In one aspect, the system may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to. The processor performs operations including receiving a request for an order, receiving an acceptance of an order associated with the first external system, determining, upon receiving the acceptance, a first arrival estimate, determining, upon assigning a delivery worker to fulfill the order, a second arrival estimate, and determining, upon receiving confirmation that the delivery worker has retrieved the order from the merchant, a third arrival estimate. Additionally, the operations may include and forwarding, upon their determination, the first, second, and third arrival estimates to the customer.
US10911901B2
Disclosed is a communication system for positioning of a terminal device. The communication system includes at least three leaky coaxial cables, a server device for determining a position of a terminal device in response to a receipt of data from the terminal device through at least two coaxial cables. The server device is arranged to determine an indicator value representing the at least two coaxial cables through which the data from the terminal device is received and to compare the indicator value to change patterns stored in data storage accessible to the server device, and in response to a match in a comparison to generate data representing the position of the terminal device. Also disclosed is a method for positioning the terminal device.
US10911898B2
One or more patterns associated with a mobile device are determined. The one or more patterns are determined at least in part by identifying within a set of time information and location information associated with the mobile device a subset comprising successive locations and times associated with a temporary pattern, converting the temporary pattern to be a pattern of the one or more patterns, adding the pattern to a list of detected patterns, generating a reduced set of time information and location information at least in part by removing from the set of time information and location information the subset comprising the successive locations and times, analyzing the reduced set of time information and location information to determine one or more additional patterns. The mobile device can be configured to exhibit a mobile device behavior associated with the determined one or more patterns.
US10911895B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a map generation system and method. By scanning or processing an article in an article shelf, the technical solution of an embodiment of the present application may take as a position of the article a position of a handheld terminal at the time of the scanning or the processing, or take as the position of the article a position of a wireless apparatus corresponding to the scanned or processed article, to generate a navigation map according to the position of each article. The embodiment of the present application realizes the automatic generation of the map and improves the accuracy of drawing the map.
US10911894B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, receiving an indicator input, dynamically creating a content based at least in part on an association of the navigation request and the indicator input, and presenting the dynamically created content to the mobile communication facility.
US10911893B1
Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for contact tracing including receiving a first beacon identifier associated with a first person and a second beacon identifier associated with a second person over a time period from a plurality of readers. A location of the first person and the second person is determined. Health data associated with the first person is received. The first person is determined to be sick and a sick period of time is determined. Two or more people, including the second person, are determined to have been within a proximity of the first person during the sick period of time. A list of the two or more people is generated.
US10911892B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the relative positions to each other of at least two mobile terminal devices, such as mobile phones, tablet computers, PDAs, notebooks, subnotebooks, or similar mobile terminal devices, wherein a position query of one mobile terminal device is transmitted to the other mobile terminal device, the relative positions to each other of the two mobile terminal devices are determined on the basis of the current geographic positions of the two mobile terminal devices after the queried mobile terminal device confirms the position query, and a relative distance and a geographic direction to the queried mobile terminal device are displayed at least at the querying mobile terminal device as a position indicator.
US10911890B2
In one embodiment, POI information is received from a first mobile communication device (MCD) of a group of communication devices respectively associated with group members. The POI information includes an identified location to establish a geofence to track activities of the group members at a POI. The geofence surrounding the POI is established based on the POI information. Whether there are changes to the activities of the group of communication devices are determined, where the changes to the activities include a geofence crossing by a group member. A notification is sent to each of the group of communication devices in response to determining that the geofence crossing by the group member has occurred. The geofence crossing indicates an arrival or departure of the group member at the POI. The geofence is resized based on the changes to the activities.
US10911886B2
A sound generating object for worn by a user, includes: a first accelerometer; and a second accelerometer; wherein when the sound generating object is at an operative position, a line extending through the first and second accelerometers intersects an axis at right angle, the axis extending in an up-and-down direction, the first and second accelerometers being spaced by a known distance; wherein the first accelerometer is configured to determine a first acceleration component having a first value, and the second accelerometer is configured to determine a second acceleration component having a second value; and wherein the sound generating object is configured to determine a distance between ears of the user based on the first value of the first acceleration component determined by the first accelerometer, the second value of the second acceleration component determined by the second accelerometer, and the known distance between the first accelerometer and the second accelerometer.
US10911881B1
A system configured to detect a tap event on a surface of a device only using microphone audio data. For example, instead of using a physical sensor to detect the tap event, the device may detect a tap event in proximity to a microphone based on a power level difference between two or more microphones. When a power ratio exceeds a threshold, the device may detect a tap event and perform an action. For example, the device may output an alarm and use a detected tap event as an input to delay or end the alarm. In some examples, the device may detect a tap event using a plurality of microphones. Additionally or alternatively, the device may distinguish between multiple tap events based on a location of the tap event, enabling the device to perform two separate actions depending on the location.
US10911879B2
Apparatus and methods for converting one type of speech processor unit into another type of speech processor unit.
US10911877B2
Disclosed is a hearing device and method of operating a hearing device in a binaural hearing system, the method comprising: receiving distal data from a distal hearing device; receiving an audio signal and converting the audio signal to a first microphone input signal and a second microphone input signal; and determining a beamforming scheme based on the distal data, the first microphone input signal, and the second microphone input signal, wherein determining the beamforming scheme comprises obtaining a zero-direction index, and wherein the beamforming scheme is based on the zero-direction index; and applying the beamforming scheme in a beamforming module of the hearing device.
US10911876B2
The present invention relates to a bone conduction speaker and its compound vibration device. The compound vibration device comprises a vibration conductive plate and a vibration board, the vibration conductive plate is set to be the first torus, where at least two first rods inside it converge to its center; the vibration board is set as the second torus, where at least two second rods inside it converge to its center. The vibration conductive plate is fixed with the vibration board; the first torus is fixed on a magnetic system, and the second torus comprises a fixed voice coil, which is driven by the magnetic system. The bone conduction speaker in the present invention and its compound vibration device adopt the fixed vibration conductive plate and vibration board, making the technique simpler with a lower cost; because the two adjustable parts in the compound vibration device can adjust both low frequency and high frequency area, the frequency response obtained is flatter and the sound is broader.
US10911869B2
Methods and systems for generating a speaker feed for driving a sealed speaker, including: generating feedback indicative of excursion of the speaker; in response to the feedback, equalizing an input signal to generate the speaker feed, such that the speaker feed is equalized for driving the speaker with: a desired frequency response above the speaker's resonance frequency; and an at least substantially flat frequency response in a variable sub-resonance equalization band without exceeding the speaker's excursion limit, where the sub-resonance equalization band extends from the resonance frequency down to a variable cutoff frequency, and the cutoff frequency is determined in response to the feedback. The speaker feed is generated in a feedback-controlled filter configured to boost the input signal at frequencies in the sub-resonance equalization band, the boost having a sloping frequency-amplitude response whose slope is set to overcome or cancel the speaker's natural falloff in the speaker's spring-loaded region.
US10911855B2
An acoustic transformer for use in a headphone to enhance an auditory experience of a listener, includes a disc or plate with acoustic apertures or aperture regions that is located in front of an acoustic driver in an ear cup of the headphone. In an example configuration, one side or area of the acoustic transformer includes multiple, smaller apertures and an opposite side or area of the acoustic transformer includes a lesser number of larger apertures, or a single larger aperture. When the headphone is over the listener's ear the acoustic transformer is juxtaposed between the acoustic driver and the listener, and in an example configuration the smaller apertures are located toward the front of the listener's ear, and the larger aperture is located toward the back of the listener's ear.
US10911848B2
A slim sound component with a sealing member is provided. The sound component includes: a sound component housing including: a first plate facing toward a first direction; a second plate facing toward a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a third plate facing toward a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; a sound generator disposed in the sound component housing to generate a sound in the first direction; a protection member mounted to be exposed through the first plate in the first direction to protect the sound generator; and a sealing member disposed between the sound component housing and the protection member, and the protection member and the sealing member are integrally formed with each other.
US10911840B2
Embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for identifying consumption intent of a user in multimedia of an electronic device. A method disclosed herein includes generating contextual data elements for content of the multimedia, wherein the contextual data elements include direct and implied information of the multimedia that enable a user to match and validate intent of consuming the content of the multimedia. The contextual data elements include a text summary, a visual summary, keywords and/or keyphrases, paragraphs, chapters, index tables, questions, analytics, emotions and insights for the content of the multimedia. Further, the method includes displaying the contextual data elements to the user. The user uses the contextual data elements to navigate within the multimedia/across multiple multimedia.
US10911839B2
Implementations generally relate to providing smart tags. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at a server, a video stream from a video camera. The method further includes receiving, at the server, a plurality of tags from a plurality of client devices, where each tag of the plurality of tags tags a portion of the video stream. The method further includes tagging the video stream based on the plurality of tags. The method further includes grouping the plurality of tags into a plurality of tag groups, where each tag group includes one or more tags received from a particular client device.
US10911830B2
Systems and methods for incorporating social content items into a produced video are provided. The system presents a producer interface to a user that allows the user to query for social content items. The user may then select and arrange social content items in an on-air queue. In an on-air mode, the system generates a broadcast-ready on-air format of the social content items and provides a video stream including the broadcast-ready social content items in the on-air queue to a video production system. The broadcast-ready social content items are incorporated into a produced video by the video production system. The user may navigate through the social content items in the on-air queue while on camera as part of the produced video.
US10911829B2
Techniques are disclosed for vehicle video recommendation via affect. A first media presentation is played to a vehicle occupant. The playing is accomplished using a video client. Cognitive state data for the vehicle occupant is captured, where the cognitive state data includes video facial data from the vehicle occupant during the first media presentation playing. The first media presentation is ranked, on an analysis server, relative to another media presentation based on the cognitive state data which was captured for the vehicle occupant. The ranking is determined for the vehicle occupant. The cognitive state data which was captured for the vehicle occupant is correlated, on the analysis server, to cognitive state data collected from other people who experienced the first media presentation. One or more further media presentation selections are recommended to the vehicle occupant, based on the ranking and the correlating.
US10911801B1
An event capture and notification system (ECN), and applications thereof. In an embodiment, the ECN permits communication between customer premises equipment (CPE) and a server (such as a back-end server) of a service provider. The real-time ECN system includes a method for communicating real-time notifications between a CPE device and a server. The ECN system may include methods and components to communicate captured events through a communication channel by which client device events may be transmitted in real time to a server, and vice versa. The ECN system may include a full-duplex communication channel for communicating events. By the ECN system, communication between a CPE device and a server may be realized efficiently and timely.
US10911790B2
A method and an apparatus for pushing a live broadcast video are provided. The method includes obtaining plural live broadcast videos related to a live broadcast theme, the live broadcast videos including live broadcast videos enabled after a participation entrance of the live broadcast theme is triggered. Tags of the plurality of live broadcast videos are obtained. The tags correspond to video display locations on a live broadcast theme page of the live broadcast theme in a one-to-one correspondence. The tags are added to the live broadcast videos. A live broadcast video to which the tags have been added is selected as a target live broadcast video. The selected target live broadcast video is pushed to the live broadcast theme page in real-time, the target live broadcast video being played at a corresponding display location on the live broadcast theme page.
US10911788B2
A video image decoding method for parsing split mode information of a coding tree node in a bitstream, obtaining a split mode of the coding tree node from a candidate split mode set of the coding tree node based on the split mode information, parsing the bitstream to obtain coding information of the coding tree node, and reconstructing a pixel value of the coding tree node based on the split mode information and the coding information of the coding tree node.
US10911782B2
There is disclosed a method, an apparatus, a server, a client and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer program stored therein for multi view video coding and decoding. View random access (VRA) pictures or access units are coded into a multiview bitstream. VRA pictures enable starting the decoding of a subset of the views present in the bitstream. The views selected to be accessible in VRA pictures are alternated in successive VRA pictures so that all views are gradually reconstructed when two or more VRA pictures have been decoded.
US10911775B1
A computer-implemented method, comprising extracting each frame of a video sequence, estimating current poses of a subject within each frame and determining joint locations for a joint associated with the subject within each frame, computing optical flows between each pair of consecutive video frames, extracting motion features from each video frame of the video sequence based on the optical flows, encoding state information based on the current poses and the motion features, determining a current action label for each motion feature in the state information for a first frame; predicting future action labels for each motion feature in a second frame subsequent to the first frame, based on the current pose, action label and state information, predicting future poses for each motion feature in the second frame based on the current poses and the state information; and refining the current action label, the future action labels, and the future poses.
US10911766B2
Processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a block from a coded video bitstream. The block is a non-square block and the prediction information of the block is indicative of a wide angle intra prediction mode in a specific number of wide angle intra prediction modes with angles that are outside a range of directional modes from a bottom-left diagonal mode to a top-right diagonal mode for a square block. The wide angle intra prediction modes are in a first set of intra prediction modes associated with the block. The directional modes are in a second set of intra prediction modes associated with the square block. The specific number of the wide angle intra prediction modes is a function of an aspect ratio of the block. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the block according to the wide angle intra prediction mode.
US10911755B2
An autonomous land vehicle in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a land vehicle conveyance system, at least two telecommunication devices, an imaging device configured to capture image data of a surrounding environment, a video encoder configured to encode the image data, one or more processors, and at least one memory storing instructions. The telecommunication devices can perform wireless communication independently of each other and can simultaneously perform wireless communication. The instructions, when executed by the processor(s), cause the vehicle to travel using the conveyance system, determine a communication capability of the telecommunication devices while the conveyance system performs travel, determine a compression rate for the video encoder based on the communication capability, encode the image data using the video encoder based on the compression rate to generate encoded data, and communicate the encoded data using at least one telecommunication device based on the communication capability.
US10911751B2
According to an aspect of the disclosure, processing circuitry decodes a constrain flag from a coded video bitstream. The constrain flag is indicative of an exclusion of decoder-side motion vector derivation (DMVD) for reference sample reconstruction. Further, the processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block from the coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an intra prediction mode. Then, the processing circuitry determines, in a same picture as the current block, reference samples for a sample in the current block based on the intra prediction mode and based on the exclusion of the DMVD, and reconstructs the sample of the current block according to the reference samples.
US10911748B1
A display calibration system may include a first electronic device that includes an ambient light sensor and a display to be calibrated in a second electronic device. The first electronic device may generate test patterns to be displayed on the display. The ambient light sensor may receive light emitted from the display based on the test patterns to generate display color space data. The first electronic device may generate calibration data for the display based on the display color space data and a target reference color space. The second electronic device may store the calibration data and use the calibration data to generate more accurate images. Because the first electronic device may include other functionalities other display calibration, specialized display calibration equipment may be omitted. Additionally, a third electronic device that acts as an intermediary between the first and second electronic devices.
US10911744B1
A portable CAVE automatic virtual environment system. The system uses a light weight collapsible frame with an overhead beam that is raised and lowered via a lockable hinge on each of the vertical supports. Ultra-short throw projectors are attached to the overhead beam at its lowest position and are raised to their functional position where they are automatically configured to aim at one of the included screens. The projectors display imagery on the screens that form a space around the user. The system auto-calibrates to align the projected imagery to the screens to form a seamless display across all screens. The invention significantly decreases the time and labor to set up and calibrate a CAVE system and collapses into folded parts for easy transport and storage.
US10911740B2
Systems and methods for mitigating or preventing eye damage from structured light IR/NIR projector systems. When a SL projector with a multi-light-source array that projects a SL pattern onto an object, a first camera images the light pattern projected on the object and optionally provides camera frames viewed by a user. A multi-light-source array controller is configurable to control separately an on or off status and/or an intensity of each light source in the multi-light-source array, and an algorithm is operative to detect in the first camera frames SL pattern elements projected onto the object, to detect the eyes of the user, to compare a position of each projected SL pattern element with a position of the detected eyes, and to send commands to the multi-light-source array controller to turn off or reduce the intensity of array light sources that are projected or likely to be projected onto the user's eyes.
US10911738B2
A compound-eye imaging device is a compound-eye imaging device having a plurality of facet optical systems, an imaging element, and a signal processing unit. The plurality of facet optical systems of the compound-eye imaging device are disposed to face a subject in a two dimensional shape. Also, the imaging element of the compound-eye imaging device includes, in units of facets, a plurality of pixels which receive light concentrated by facet optical systems and generate image signals. Also, the signal processing unit of the compound-eye imaging device generates an image corresponding to the subject based on image signals generated by the imaging element of the compound-eye imaging device.
US10911732B2
An estimated camera pose may be determined for each of a plurality of single plane images of a designated three-dimensional scene. The sampling density of the single plane images may be below the Nyquist rate. However, the sampling density of the single plane images may be sufficiently high such that the single plane images is sufficiently high such that they may be promoted to multiplane images and used to generate novel viewpoints in a light field reconstruction framework. Scene depth information identifying for each of a respective plurality of pixels in the single plane image a respective depth value may be determined for each single plane image. A respective multiplane image including a respective plurality of depth planes may be determined for each single plane image. Each of the depth planes may include a respective plurality of pixels from the respective single plane image.
US10911728B2
A control device configured to communicate with a first projector which projects a first image in a first projection area, and a second projector which projects a second image in a second projection area having a first overlap area overlapping the first projection area to make the first projector and the second projector perform an edge blending process includes a reception section for receiving input of designation information including a direction in which an overlap width, a generation section for generating first overlap information including information representing first side in the first overlap area and information representing the overlap width of the first overlap area, and second overlap information including information representing second side in the first overlap area and the information, and a transmission section for transmitting the first overlap information to the first projector, and the second overlap information to the second projector.
US10911724B2
A security device is disclosed herein, comprised of a body having a first end connectable into a standard light socket or plug, and a second end having a rotatable/extendable mount with a camera mounted thereon. The body may also include a controller, a wireless communication module, lights, one or more optional sensors (such as a motion sensor, ambient light sensor, etc.), a back-up battery, a 2-way speaker, and/or a microphone.
US10911720B2
The present invention relates to a system and method of acquisition, registration and multimedia management. The multimedia system of the present invention comprises a data acquisition module (A), like multimedia glasses, for multimedia data acquisition, a computerized module (B), comprising a data processing unit for controlling the functions, recording, storing, managing and/or sharing, transmitting and/or streaming multimedia data acquired multimedia data, and at least one connection module (C) to connect the multimedia data acquisition module to the computerized module. Optionally, the system may further comprise a multimedia data processing module (D) and an additional connection module (C) to connect to a computerized module (B) and/or to peripheral devices (P). In a further aspect of the present invention, it is described a multimedia data processing module (D), comprising a unit for data processing, storing, recording, processing, editing and management of multimedia, as well as a multimedia data library (ML). The present invention lays in the area of multimedia devices and is useful to be applied in areas where there is a need to record activities of manual detailing, in a professional or recreational scope.
US10911713B2
A video displaying method. The method includes applying a first frequency modulation in time domain on an original video thereby obtaining a first modulated video; applying a second frequency modulation in spatial domain on the first modulated video thereby obtaining a second modulated video including a first invisible-light image; and displaying the second modulating video with a corresponding frame rate. A time-domain frequency of the first invisible-light image is in a first range unrecognizable by a naked eye and recognizable by a video recorder. A spatial-domain frequency of the first invisible-light image is in a second range unrecognizable by the naked eye and recognizable by a video recorder.
US10911712B2
The present invention generally relates to an attachment for a firearm that communicates with remote device or person such as emergency services. One embodiment of the present invention is selectively interconnected to a picatinny rail, weaver rail, or other mounting means, and the embodiment includes a button that allows a user to initiate communication with emergency services without removing his or her hands from the firearm.
US10911692B2
An information processing apparatus is provided to facilitate a user's understanding of which area of an image has a higher degree of change when image processing is performed on the image. The information processing apparatus displays, on a display device, information indicating a relationship in magnitude between a first amount of change by the image processing in a first area included in a predetermined image and a second amount of change by the image processing in a second area included in the predetermined image.
US10911688B2
A control apparatus includes a processor configured to function as an angle control unit configured to control a tilt angle formed by a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of an imaging optical system and an imaging plane of an image sensor, and an aperture control unit configured to control a F-number based on the tilt angle and an output signal of a vibration detection unit configured to detect a vibration.
US10911687B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to electronic devices and methods for controlling the display of images each obtained by a respective one of cameras. To that end, an electronic device comprises a first camera having a first view angle, a second camera having a second view angle smaller than the first view angle, a display, and a processor configured to obtain a first image corresponding to an external object using the first camera and a second image corresponding to the external object using the second camera, control the display to display the first image, in response to a request to adjust a magnification of the displayed first image, when the magnification meets a designated first condition, control the display to display a first synthesized image obtained by synthesizing at least a portion of the first image with the second image resized to correspond to at least the portion of the first image, and when the magnification meets a designated second condition, control the display to display a second synthesized image obtained by synthesizing at least a portion of the second image with at least the portion of the first image. Other certain embodiments are also possible.
US10911684B2
An image processing apparatus generates a second image having a second dynamic range which is narrower than a first dynamic range by processing a first image having the first dynamic range, generates an image that includes a distribution image for indicating luminance distribution of the first image and a scale image for indicating a predetermined luminance level in the second dynamic range, and controls a display unit to display the image.
US10911678B2
A gimbal sleeve for connecting to a camera gimbal may float between a floor surface and a ceiling surface of an aerial vehicle chassis such that the gimbal sleeve has freedom of motion in yaw, pitch, and roll directions relative to the vehicle chassis. The gimbal sleeve may comprise a pair of connection points to the lower dampers on a floor surface of the vehicle chassis. The gimbal sleeve may furthermore comprise a ball joint coupled to a back surface of the vehicle chassis. The connection points include spring forces that enable the gimbal sleeve to return to an equilibrium position in response to external vibrations and reduce the magnitude of vibrations transferred from the aerial vehicle to the gimbal and camera systems.
US10911671B2
In one example, a plurality of image frames captured by a digital camera unit is received. It is determined that a condition is met that requires a switch between image capture states. In response, automatic adjustment of at least one image capture parameter without user input is enabled or disabled.
US10911662B2
A portable communication device is provided that is configured to obtain a first image corresponding to an object external to the portable communication device based at least in part on a first focus and a first exposure. The first image, a first graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to the first focus, and a second GUI are displayed corresponding to the first exposure. The second GUI is moved according to a drag input detected via the touchscreen. The moving includes displaying the second GUI in a moved position. Based at least in part on the drag input, the displayed first image is replaced with a second image using a second exposure determined with respect to the moved position.
US10911658B2
A method for generating direction information of an omnidirectional image and a device for performing the method. The method for generating direction information of an omnidirectional image can include the steps of: a direction information processing device receiving direction information of an omnidirectional image; and the direction information processing device setting a direction indicator with respect to the omnidirectional image on the basis of the direction information, wherein the direction indicator can indicate at least one direction on a playback screen of the omnidirectional image.
US10911655B2
One embodiment of a camera module may comprise: a lens barrel provided with at least one lens; a holder to which the lens barrel is coupled; a printed circuit board coupled on the bottom of the holder to face the lens; an adhering portion coupling the holder and the printed circuit board; an opening portion opening a portion of a first space formed through the coupling of the printed circuit board and the holder; and a housing coupled with the holder, wherein a second space separated from the first space may be formed through the coupling of the holder and the housing, and the opening portion may communicate the first space with the second space.
US10911638B2
A supporting program is executable by a controller of an information processing apparatus and corresponds to a printer connected to the information processing apparatus. The supporting program causes the information processing apparatus to perform processing intermediate image data in accordance with a print parameter received in a print parameter editing process, displaying an image indicated by the processed inter mediate image data on a print preview screen. The information processing apparatus does not restrict printing when print continuation is instructed, while restricting the printing when re-edit or print cancel is instructed.
US10911637B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at a user's site, and a faxing system that may be deployed remotely from the user's site. The fax connector can be accessed at the user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at the user's site communicates with the remotely deployed faxing system to send, receive, obtain status on, or perform other functions associated with, faxing.
US10911633B2
A printing apparatus capable of adding number information differing from copy set to copy set, to a printing target image includes a judging unit configured to judge whether to add user information indicating a current user to a printing target image, and a determination unit configured to determine a position to which the number information is to be added, based on a result of the judgment performed by the judging unit.
US10911631B2
An apparatus detects movement of a target object, estimates a control quantity for first feedback control for the target object at a first period based on a detection signal, estimates a first state quantity of the target object and a second state quantity obtained by time differentiation of the first state quantity for second feedback control for the target object at a second period, shorter than the first period, based on the detection signal, generates a first operation quantity for the first feedback control based on the control quantity, generates a second operation quantity for the second feedback control based on the first and second state quantities, determines a sign of the second operation quantity from a relationship between the first and second state quantities, and generates an operation quantity on the target object from the first and second operation quantities.
US10911630B2
An image reading apparatus includes a discharging unit that discharges an original document read by a reading unit to a stacker, in which a controller of the image reading apparatus discharges a first original document at a first transporting speed caused when the original document specified from an original document length measured by the measuring unit is the first original document and discharges a second original document at a second transporting speed slower than the first transporting speed caused when the original document is the second original document longer than the first original document.
US10911628B2
In a client machine that collects first data that is operation information of an apparatus and second data related to a use situation of a plurality of pieces of hardware including a processor, a memory, and a storage, control is performed so that, in a case where the client machine is in a power-saving state at a timing when data that is collected in the apparatus is transmitted to an external system, recovery from the power-saving state is performed and transmission of the first data is not restricted, and transmission of the second data is restricted, and in a case where the client machine is not in the power-saving state at the timing, the transmission of the first data and the transmission of the second data are not restricted.
US10911623B1
A system and method of managing assets for customizing user interfaces of multifunction peripherals includes an asset management system that includes a memory for storing assets such as background images, logos, taglines, applications, and configuration templates. An associated processor determines the permission level of the user or administrator and provides access to assets based on the permission level of the respective user or administrator. The permission level of the user or administrator is based on the associated level within the tiered permission topology of asset management system. Users can use assets of administrators and other users to generate customized user interfaces for multifunction peripherals using assets of anyone in a child, peer, or parent relationship, but are restricted from performing administrative operations, such as editing and deleting of assets, on assets of other users and administrators. Administrators are restricted from performing administrative operations on assets of higher tiers.
US10911618B2
An image processing device includes a displayer; and a hardware processor that obtains voice recognition data that is a voice recognition result related to a voice vocalized in a state in which at least one operation screen is displayed in the displayer, determines a search target character string on the basis of the voice recognition data, executes search processing of searching for one voice operation command that agrees with the search target character string among a plurality of voice operation commands including a voice operation command group related to a first screen related to the image processing device, and a voice operation command group related to a second screen displayed according to user's operation for the first screen, and executes processing corresponding to the one voice operation command that has been searched for by the hardware processor.
US10911611B2
An image forming apparatus transmits a fax document using a cloud server which stores fax communication history information with respect to fax numbers. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming job performer to perform a fax function, a communicator to communicate with the cloud server, and a controller to request the cloud server for fax transmission setting information corresponding to a fax number of another image forming apparatus, receive a request result from the cloud server in response to the request, and transmit a fax document to the another image forming apparatus by applying, to the image forming job performer, a fax transmission setting based on the received request result.
US10911607B2
A diagnostic apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires sound information, a second acquiring unit that acquires operation information indicating a component in operation among a plurality of components of an analysis target apparatus, and a display unit that, when the acquired sound information is reproduced, displays operating states of the plurality of components at the time point when the reproduced sound is acquired, using the operation information.
US10911604B2
A system and method in various embodiments implements a virtual spectrum band stacking technique facilitating spectrum sharing by converting and combining spectrum bands consisting of several different RF channels, common air interfaces, and radio channel protocols in the radio frequency channel domain to form IP Virtual Radio Channels (IP-VRCs) in the packet data domain. This virtual spectrum stacking technique combines the transmissions of contiguous and non-contiguous RF channels with differing physical layers into IP-VRCs. This technique enables simultaneous parallel high-speed wireless transmission; virtual radio channel hopping for enhanced security; and customized security schemes for different IP-VRC Groups. The deployment of the combination of IP-VRC Groups; Universal “Small Cell” Base Stations; and Universal Wireless End-Point Devices allows the aggregation of all available spectrum bands for use within a building environment. Some benefits of this deployment include expansion of spectrum utilization, service quality, security, applications and transmission throughput for wireless end-point devices.
US10911591B2
Disclosed are methods, systems and paradigms for opt-in compliance with regulations. A region in physical space is defined. A condition for the region is defined, the condition being a capability of a communicator such as video recording, still image recording, audio recording, audio output, text messaging, audio communication, or remote connection. The presence and location of a communicator with the capability is detected in the region, and a message is sent to the communicator with a request for a response accepting or rejecting remote deactivation of the capability of the communicator. If an acceptance response is received, the communicator capability is deactivated. If an acceptance response is not received, a notification is generated that includes the lack of acceptance response and the location of the communicator.
US10911589B2
A vehicle control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a command switching process according to the prediction node. In a transition prediction process, a node of the data for prediction corresponding to a current node of a vehicle is set to a start point node based on data for prediction, and at least one of candidate nodes is set to a prediction node specifying a future state of the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a command generation process of generating a command for controlling the devices in the vehicle based on a correspondence relationship according to an input operation performed to the input device.
US10911587B1
A universal grip band assembly for a mobile communication device is provided to prevent the user of the mobile communication device from dropping the mobile communication device. The assembly includes a backing plate which is adhesively secured to the back side of the mobile communication device. A flexible and rectangular-shaped band is selectively removably secured to the backing plate which enables the user to insert his or her fingers between the flexible band and the backing plate to securely grip the mobile communication device. The flexible band may be disconnected from the backing plate so that the band may be replaced upon being worn out or may be replaced with different bands having different colors.
US10911584B2
A mobile phone case with interchangeable, removable and attachable modular make-up and cosmetics. Various embodiments of interchangeable accessory attachments include cosmetic make up compartment, cosmetics, make-up, blush, foundation, primer, lip coloring, lip gloss, lip stick, mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, lotion, skin conditioner, acne medication, tools for application, tools for removal, brush, swab, make-up pencil, make-up pen, highlighting instrument, glitter, ink, implement, pad, wipe, and/or any other make-up related accessory.
US10911581B2
A packet parsing method includes a source device receives a first ciphertext from a control device, where the first ciphertext is used to verify reliability of a packet from a parsing device, and the parsing device is a trusted device selected on a path between the source device and a destination device. The source device obtains a second packet including the first ciphertext according to the first ciphertext and a first packet, and sends the second packet to the destination device. The parsing device obtains, according to the second packet and a device identifier of the parsing device, a third packet including verification information and the first ciphertext. The destination device receives the third packet from the parsing device, and verify reliability of the third packet using the verification information and the first ciphertext included in the third packet.
US10911577B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for generating a protocol data unit (PDU) packet. The method includes: acquiring a service data unit (SDU) packet, processing the SDU packet according to a size of a preset data packet, and generating a packet header and a data section of a PDU packet according to the processing result, the packet header and the data section constituting the PDU packet. The packet header omits a framing indication (FI) field and a resegmentation flag (RF) field and includes a preset field, and the preset field includes other fields than the FI field and the RF field that are redefined in a common packet header, or a target field that is newly added, a field length of the target field that is newly added being smaller than a total length of the FI field and the RF field.
US10911576B2
A communication terminal for Internet telephony is provided that handles and control communication of data in accordance with a standardized network protocol and exchanges data with a connecting unit connected to the Internet where the resulting data exchanged between the terminal and a connecting unit consist of packets in a standardized protocol data packet format embedded in a wireless format. This provides a communications terminal which uses a network or the Internet for the transfer of digitized speech, etc., thereby achieving great economic savings. Also, the flexibility is increased with respect to wireless communication with the network or the Internet without any need for specialized equipment and functionality.
US10911575B1
Systems and methods for generating and managing stories and sub-stories presented to a user's client device are described. In one example embodiment, a server system communicates a portion of a first story to a first client device based on a first client device association with a user segment assigned to the first story. The server system receives a first selection communication associated with a first piece of content of the first story, accesses a second story based on the selection, and communicates a portion of the second story to the first client device.
US10911573B2
Techniques for web-based collaborative inking sessions via a computer network are described in this document. In one embodiment, a first computer can serialize detected pointer input at a first computer into data representing one or more ink objects individually representing an image or animation corresponding to the detected pointer input. The first computer can then transmit the data representing the serialized ink objects to the second computer via the computer network. Upon receiving the transmitted data, the second computer can de-serialize the received serialized ink objects, reconstruct the image or animation corresponding to the detected pointer input at the first computer, and surface, to a second user, the image or animation of the detected pointer input on a second web browser surfacing the same webpage on the second computer, thereby enabling a web-based collaboration session between the first and second users.
US10911572B2
A system and method for dynamically managing application loads on a vehicle includes: receiving a plurality of distinct application requests; for each one application request, identifying expected computing resource expenditure data based on one or more attributes of each one application request; and identifying current state data for each of a plurality of computing resources of the vehicle based on an expected utilization of each of the plurality of computing resources for fulfilling each one application request; dynamically generating an execution schedule for executing a subset of or each of the plurality of distinct application requests based on (1) the expected computing resource expenditure data for each one application request and (2) the current state data for each of the plurality of computing resources of the vehicle; and executing the subset of or each of the plurality of distinct application requests based on the execution schedule.
US10911569B1
A system for communicating and managing messaging between a source system and a destination system including a publisher module, a topic module that receives the message from the publisher module and including one or more subscription modules, a queue module that receives the message from the topic module, a success queue module, an error queue module, and a subscriber module that receives the message from the queue module, then decompresses, decrypts, calculates the check sum, then prepares the message for transmission to the destination system and transmits the message to the destination system.
US10911568B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for limiting load on host servers that implement a social messaging platform. An example user device sends, to a platform comprising a plurality of host servers, a first request. The request is directed to a first endpoint. The user device receives, in response to the first request, a first error that indicates that the first request was not processed. The user device determines a back off time and places subsequent requests to the platform that are initiated before the back off time elapses and that are directed to the first endpoint in a back off queue in an order in which the subsequent requests are initiated. The user device sends, to the platform, the requests in the back off queue after the back off time has elapsed, until the back off queue is empty.
US10911565B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, device, and system for associating a service account. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, event data in connection with execution of an application on a terminal, wherein the event data corresponds to one or more trigger types, determining, by one or more processors, whether the event data corresponds to a predefined trigger data, and in response to determining that the event data corresponds to the predefined trigger data, providing, by one or more processors, service account-association information corresponding to the predefined trigger data.
US10911564B1
A cloud service account management method identifies unauthorized or unmanaged accounts making administration console access or API access at a cloud computing service and triggers a work flow to place the accounts under management. In one embodiment, the user device is directed to a registration portal to provide access credentials of the unauthorized account. The loud service account management method uses the access credentials to retrieve a list of account users associated with the account. Once the accounts are made managed, the cloud service account management method can monitor the activities of the account, including all of the account users, and can apply compliance or security policies to the managed accounts.
US10911538B2
Authentication information at a first portion of encrypted data may be identified. A cryptographic key may be derived based on a combination of an identification of the first portion of the received encrypted data and a master key. Additional authentication information may be generated based on a combination of the derived cryptographic key and another portion of the received encrypted data. The encrypted data may be verified by comparing the authentication information at the first portion of the received encrypted data with the generated additional authentication information. In response to verifying the received encrypted data, a second cryptographic key may be derived based on a combination of an identification of the another portion of the encrypted data and the master key. The other portion of the received encrypted data may be decrypted by using the second cryptographic key.
US10911530B2
A content delivery method and system, where the content delivery method includes receiving, by a first virtual server, a first request message from a content requester, where the first request message carries a first uniform resource locator (URL) of user-requested content, determining, by the first virtual server according to a cache list maintained by the first virtual server, that one of one or more storage servers managed by the first virtual server has cached the content corresponding to the first URL, and redirecting the first request message to a first storage server that is recorded in the cache list and that has cached the content corresponding to the first URL. A computation capability and a storage capability of a server cluster are separated, and content input/output (I/O) throughput performance is effectively improved.
US10911529B2
A method includes executing a Virtual Network Function (VNF) that includes a plurality of VNF components supported by a plurality of virtual machines, the virtual machines supported by a set of physical machines, the plurality of VNF components comprising a first group of VNF components and a second group of VNF components that is different than the first group, both the first group and the second group being independently scalable. The method further includes scaling the first group of VNF components in response to a change in demand for services associated with the first group.
US10911528B2
Techniques are described for providing managed computer networks, such as for managed virtual computer networks overlaid on one or more other underlying computer networks. In some situations, the techniques include facilitating replication of a primary computing node that is actively participating in a managed computer network, such as by maintaining one or more other computing nodes in the managed computer network as replicas, and using such replica computing nodes in various manners. For example, a particular managed virtual computer network may span multiple broadcast domains of an underlying computer network, and a particular primary computing node and a corresponding remote replica computing node of the managed virtual computer network may be implemented in distinct broadcast domains of the underlying computer network, with the replica computing node being used to transparently replace the primary computing node in the virtual computer network if the primary computing node becomes unavailable.
US10911521B2
Techniques for monitoring web application performance are provided. A request for a web application is received at an application server. A response pipeline at the application server generates client application code corresponding to the requested web application. The client application code is intercepted in the response pipeline. Instrumentation code is inserted into the intercepted client application code to generate an instrumented client application code. The instrumentation code is configured to be executed when the instrumented client application code is rendered at the client to capture performance information at the client, and is configured to transmit the captured performance information from the client.
US10911500B1
Systems and methods for dynamically controlling network registrations are disclosed. The method includes replacing a stringent error message with a lenient cause message in responding to a registration request from a user equipment.
US10911498B2
As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. The user input data transmitted by the wireless sink device can be input data obtained at a third party device and forwarded to the wireless source device.
US10911484B2
A method of providing at least one communications service provider a connection to an Internet Protocol, IP, server in a perimeter network, the IP server providing a service over a public IP network, the method comprising the steps of detecting, in the perimeter network, an irregularity in IP traffic arriving at the perimeter network over the public IP network, disregarding, in the perimeter network, IP traffic arriving at the perimeter network over the public IP network, and enabling, in the perimeter network, a connection between the IP server and the at least one communications service provider for the service provided by the IP server over at least one private IP network.
US10911482B2
A method of detecting cyber attacks on a cyber physical system is disclosed, and the system includes at least one computing device coupled to at least one sensor and/or actuator for controlling a physical process. The method comprises: deriving at least one invariant for the computing device, based on a system design of the system or computer code configured to control the system in relation to the physical process or data collected from the system during testing or operation of the system, the invariant defining a set of conditions that enable determination from the sensor and/or actuator regarding process anomalies of the physical process being controlled; configuring the invariant as corresponding computer code; and executing the invariant as the computer code on the computing device to monitor the physical process via the sensor and/or actuator and detect the process anomalies for detecting the cyber attacks.
US10911481B2
In some examples, for a device that transmitted domain names, a system determines a dissimilarity between the domain names, compares a value derived from the determined dissimilarity to a threshold, and identifies the device as malware infected in response to the comparing.
US10911476B2
Methods and systems for penetration testing of a networked system by a penetration testing system. In some embodiments, both active and passive validation methods are used during a single penetration testing campaign in a single networked system. In other embodiments, a first penetration testing campaign uses only active validation and a second penetration campaign uses only passive validation, where both campaigns are performed by a single penetration testing system in a single networked system. Node-by-node determination of whether to use active or passive validation can be based on expected extent and/or likelihood of damage from actually compromising a network node using active validation.
US10911468B2
A security platform employs a variety techniques and mechanisms to detect security related anomalies and threats in a computer network environment. The security platform is “big data” driven and employs machine learning to perform security analytics. The security platform performs user/entity behavioral analytics (UEBA) to detect the security related anomalies and threats, regardless of whether such anomalies/threats were previously known. The security platform can include both real-time and batch paths/modes for detecting anomalies and threats. By visually presenting analytical results scored with risk ratings and supporting evidence, the security platform enables network security administrators to respond to a detected anomaly or threat, and to take action promptly.
US10911458B2
Exemplified system and method optimizes dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) operation across a network infrastructure to alleviate time constraints when applying dynamic QoS policy on newly initiated traffic flow, particularly for various data streams. Initially, and by default, the exemplified system and method temporarily applies a high QoS policy to a newly initiated traffic flow and then verifies the QoS legitimacy of the flow to which the high QoS policy for the newly initiated traffic flow is maintained or is reduced to a lower-priority QoS policy. This trust-but-verify QoS operation allows new traffic, e.g., with voice and video components, to receive a high QoS PHB treatment as transmission of the traffic is initiated without having a nominal delay at the beginning of the call before QoS is applied while allowing the QoS legitimacy to be validated and maintained.
US10911455B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for utilizing the history of previous authentications and authorizations related to third party computers, as factors in determining whether a current request for accessing a resource should be authorized. A processor server computer, in determining whether to authorize access to the resource, may generate and send a query message to one or more of the third party computers to obtain authorization activity that the third party computers may have regarding a user and/or a device associated with the request. The processor server computer may use the authorization activity from the third party computers in determining whether the request is an authentic request and that the request should be authorized.
US10911453B2
Various implementations disclosed herein enable controlling access to networks. In various implementations, a method of controlling access to a network is performed by a computing device including one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. In various implementations, the method includes obtaining an indication that a mobile device having access to a first network utilizing a first radio access technology (RAT) has requested access to a second network utilizing a second RAT. In some implementations, the method includes determining whether the access to the first network satisfies an authentication criterion associated with the second network. In some implementations, the method includes granting the mobile device access to the second network in response to determining that the access to the first network satisfies the authentication criterion associated with the second network. In some implementations, accessing the second network via the authentication criterion satisfies an operating threshold associated with the mobile device.
US10911452B2
Systems, methods, and media for determining access privileges are provided. More particularly, in some embodiments, systems for determining access privileges of a user to access a secure node are provided, the systems comprising: a memory; and a hardware processor configured to: receive a username of the user, a secure node identifier of the secure node, a secure node key of the secure node, and a biometric signature sample of the user; validate the secure node identifier and the secure node key; validate the biometric signature sample; and cause the user to gain access to the secure node in response validating the secure node identifier and secure node key and validating the biometric signature sample.
US10911450B2
An augmented reality device engages in a mutual exchange of negotiated services with another device with a signal determined to have exhibited an area transition effect. The augmented reality device identifies, from a plurality of signals in the ambient environment, a subset of signals that have exhibited the area transition effect. From among the subset, the device identifies a signal that is indicative of support for the negotiation protocol. The negotiation is conducted with a second device associated with the corresponding signal.
US10911449B2
Systems and methods for extending and re-using an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) to extend the trust relationship from a closed group of customers of wireless service providers to users of other ecosystems (e.g., GMAIL, FACEBOOK, or YAHOO!) for IMS services are disclosed. Some embodiments include receiving a request from an initiating device to establish a service connection between the initiating device and an endpoint through an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) session. The request may include third-party domain credentials (e.g., maintained by a third-party domain) associated with an end-user. The third-party domain credentials can be extracted from the request. Communications with the third-party domain can be used to verify the third-party domain credentials. The IMS session can be established between the initiating device and the endpoint upon verification of the third-party domain credentials.
US10911448B2
An apparatus and a method for registering a device in a cloud server are provided. The apparatus includes detecting the device by using short-range communication, requesting an authentication code used for registering the device in the cloud server from an account server in response to the device being detected, receiving the authentication code from the account server, and transmitting the received authentication code and connection address information of the cloud server to the device.
US10911441B2
A method for verifying identities of parties to a transaction includes receiving a login attempt from a mobile communication device, the login attempt including a security credential. The method determines that the security credential of the login attempt from the mobile communication device is authentic. The method communicates a one-time access code to the mobile communication device. The method receives a one-time entry code and mobile communication device information from the mobile communication device. The method determines that the one-time entry code and the mobile communication device information from the mobile communication device satisfies the communicated one-time access code and predetermined user mobile communication device information. The method provides by the mobile communication device access to a secure transaction environment.
US10911438B2
Techniques are provided for secure detection and management of compromised credentials. A first candidate credential is received, comprising a first username and a first password, wherein the first candidate credential was sent in a first request from a first client computer to log in to a first server computer. A first salt associated with the first username in a salt database is obtained. A first hashed credential is generated based on the first password and the first salt. The first hashed credential is transmitted to a set model server computer, wherein the set model server computer is configured to maintain a set model that represents a set of spilled credentials, determine whether the first hashed credential is represented in the set model, and in response to determining that the first hashed credential is represented in the set model, performing additional processing on the first hashed credential.
US10911434B2
This disclosure provides a method and system for protecting phone numbers from being exposed to third parties. The method comprises receiving a request, from a caller smart phone, for establishing telephone communication with a callee smart phone, wherein the request contains a code to designate the smart phone of the callee. The method further comprises checking whether the code is formally provided to the callee. The method further comprises: in response to determining that the code is formally provided to the caller, retrieving the phone number of the caller and the phone number of the callee based on the request and establishing a phone call connection via a cellular network with the phone number of the caller and the phone number of the callee.
US10911430B2
An account login method and apparatus and a storage medium are provided. The method includes receiving, from a first terminal, a login request including an identifier of a target network to which the first terminal is connected. One or more instant messaging accounts logged into by using the target network are obtained, and a target instant messaging account is selected from the one or more instant messaging accounts. A login authorization request is pushed to a second terminal on the target network, the second terminal corresponding to the target instant messaging account that is selected. In response to receiving a login authorization instruction from the second terminal, login information including the target instant messaging account is transmitted to the first terminal.
US10911429B2
A method for utilizing a registration authority to facilitate a certificate signing request is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a registration authority computer may receive a certificate signing request associated with a token requestor. The registration authority may authenticate the identity of the token requestor and forward the certificate signing request to a certificate authority computer. A token requestor ID and a signed certificate may be provided by the certificate authority computer and forwarded to the token requestor. The token requestor ID may be utilized by the token requestor to generate digital signatures for subsequent token-based transactions.
US10911428B1
Systems and methods for controlling access to one or more computing resources relate to generating session credentials that can be used to access the one or more computing resources. Access to the computing resources may be governed by a set of policies and requests for access made using the session credentials may be fulfilled depending on whether they are allowed by the set of policies. The session credentials themselves may include metadata that may be used in determining whether to fulfill requests to access the one or more computing resources. The metadata may include permissions for a user of the session credential, claims related to one or more users, and other information.
US10911419B2
An apparatus and method for encrypting messages from a first node splits the message into a plurality of message units, each of which is encrypted. The encrypted message units are split into path units, each of which is directed to a different route path to a destination node. At the destination node, the path units are received and reassembled into encrypted message units, which are decrypted into message fragments and concatenated to form a message corresponding to the original one sent.
US10911415B1
A method, system, and computer program product for providing protected remote access from a remote access client to a remote access server over a computer network through a plurality of inspections. A remote access configuration file is created for the remote access client. A digital hash of the configuration file is then generated. The digital hash is compared with a configuration file stored at a predefined web location. If the comparison results in a match between the digital hash and the stored configuration file, a digital hash comparison is performed between an encrypted remote access configuration file and an encrypted configuration file stored at the predefined web location. If the plurality of inspections are passed, the remote access client is released from a quarantine state and a virtual private network (VPN) connection to the remote access server is established.
US10911413B2
A system that traverses Web Real-Time Communication (“WebRTC”) data over a tunnel establishes the tunnel between a tunneling client of a user equipment (“UE”) and a tunneling server. The system receives the WebRTC data and encapsulates the WebRTC data into frames. The system detects that one or more of the frames includes media. The system then transmits the frames over the tunnel while, for the frames detected as media, applying enhancement features to the transmitting of the media frames.
US10911412B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for reserving an infrastructure resource on an infrastructure device. In some embodiments, a method includes monitoring an execution status of a reservation result on the infrastructure device. The reservation result describes a reservation of the infrastructure resource on the infrastructure device for providing a V2I service. The method includes receiving feedback data describing the execution status of the reservation result from the infrastructure device. The method includes modifying one or more reservation criteria based on the feedback data. The one or more reservation criteria are used to create the reservation result. The method includes modifying the reservation result based on the one or more reservation criteria so that a shortage or an excess of the infrastructure resource for execution of the V2I service is avoided. The avoidance of the shortage or the excess improves over time as more feedback data is received.
US10911408B2
A portal application can receive a listing of available applications in response to a request sent to a management server. The listing can include a plurality of attributes for each available application, such as the requirements for using the features of each application or a dependency upon another application. Based on the plurality of attributes received, the portal application can determine that a first application requires installation of a second application in order for the first application to provide additional functionality. The portal application can display icons corresponding to the available applications and display one or more UI elements, indicating that the first application requires installation of the second application. The portal application can also push the second application to the device and assist in installing and initializing the second application on the device.
US10911402B2
A storage system in one embodiment comprises at least one storage array comprising a plurality of storage devices. The storage array is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of host devices. The storage array is further configured to receive one or more commands from a given one of the host devices directing that a particular user-defined name be assigned to a particular one of the storage devices, and responsive to receipt of the one or more commands, to determine if any other user-defined name is already assigned to the particular storage device, and if there is no other user-defined name already assigned to the particular storage device, to assign the particular user-defined name to the particular storage device and to store information characterizing the assignment of the particular user-defined name to the particular storage device in persistent memory of the storage array.
US10911397B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for providing an agent for implementing layer 2 (L2) communication on a layer 3 (L3) underlay network. In one embodiment, an agent in virtualization software determines a newly available network address of a VM, configures a network interface of the L3 network to be associated with the network address such that network traffic for the network address is directed to the network interface, adds a route to a virtual router in the virtualization software indicating the VM is local, and adds a router to an address resolution table to associate the network address with a MAC address. This permits a packet sent from one VM to another VM to be processed by the virtual router based on routes therein and forwarded to the other VM either internally or using the L3 underlay network.
US10911387B1
A message reminder system, to perform operations that include: causing display of a presentation of a message addressed to a user, at a first position among a message feed of the user at a client device; receiving a request to open the message from the user of the client device, the request including a timestamp; detecting a trigger event based on at least the timestamp of the request to open the message, the trigger event comprising event attributes; generating a notification to be applied to the presentation of the message, the notification based on at least the event attributes of the trigger event; moving the presentation of the message from the first position among the message feed to a second position among the message feed; and applying the notification to the presentation of the message.
US10911378B2
An electronic device may be configured to receive a message for a second external electronic device, from a first external electronic device through a first network associated with the first external electronic device among a plurality of rich communication suite (RCS) networks using a communication circuit, to determine whether to transmit the message based on a profile of the second external electronic device including at least one throttling metric for the first network among the plurality of RCS networks stored in a memory and a network state of the first network, and to convert the message based on a protocol of a second network and to transmit the converted message to the second external electronic device through the second network based on determining to transmit the message.
US10911375B2
An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of processors and a plurality of links provided between the processors in a plurality of axis directions. Each of the processors includes a processor circuit, a memory, a memory controller, and an interconnect coupled to the processor circuit. The interconnect includes: a network switch configured to perform switching between the first links and a second link to its own processor; link counters provided to input links and output links of the first links and the second link respectively, the link counters being configured to count at least the number of packets passing through the input links and the output links; and a recorder configured to store count values of the link counters in the memory via the memory controller without a control by the processor circuit.
US10911365B2
Apparatus and methods remove a voltage offset from an electrical signal, specifically a biomedical signal. A signal is received at a first operational amplifier and is amplified by a gain. An amplitude of the signal is monitored, by a first pair of diode stages coupled to an output of the first operational amplifier, for the voltage offset. The amplitude of the signal is then attenuated by the first pair of diode stages and a plurality of timing banks. The attenuating includes limiting charging, by the first pair of diode stages, of the plurality of timing banks and setting a time constant based on the charging. The attenuating removes the voltage offset persisting at a threshold for a duration of at least the time constant. Saturation of the signal is limited to a saturation recovery time while the saturated signal is gradually pulled into monitoring range over the saturation recovery time.
US10911360B2
Some embodiments provide a method for managing traffic in a virtualized environment. The method, in some embodiments, configures multiple edge service gateways (ESGs) executing on multiple host machines (e.g., on a hypervisor) to use a same anycast inner internet protocol (IP) address and a same anycast inner media access control (MAC) address. In some embodiments, ESGs of a logical network facilitate communication between machines connected to the logical network and machines on external networks. In some embodiments, the method configures a set of virtual extensible local area network tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) connected to an ESG to use a same anycast VTEP IP address. The method, in some embodiments, configures a distributed logical router (DLR or DR) to send data packets with destinations outside the logical network from sources belonging to the logical network to the anycast VTEP IP address.
US10911358B1
A data or packet processing device such as a network interface controller may include cache control logic that is configured to obtain a set of memory descriptors associated with a queue from the memory. The set of descriptors can be stored in the cache. When a request for processing a data packet associated with the queue is received, the cache control logic can determine that the cache is storing memory descriptors for processing the data packet, and provide the memory descriptors used for processing the packet.
US10911353B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a suitable architecture for a router controller which configures forwarding rules in a packet router of a network visibility system. In an embodiment, the router controller contains multiple controller blocks, with each controller block to examine a corresponding set of packets and to generate a respective set of forwarding rules for configuring the packet router. The router controller may also contain a switch to receive multiple packets and to forward to each controller block the corresponding set of packets. Each controller block may forward the respective set of forwarding rules to the switch, with the switch in turn configuring the packet router with the respective set of forwarding rules.
US10911351B2
The techniques describe a network device comprising one or more processors configured to: receive configuration data configuring a plurality of virtual network nodes, wherein the configuration data configures a virtual client node including a corresponding line card having a port connected to a first customer network device, and configures a virtual core node including a corresponding line card having a port connected to a core network; provision a layer-2 (L2) circuit that includes, as an access interface, an interface logically connecting the virtual client node and virtual core node, wherein the L2 circuit provides connectivity between the virtual client node and a remote virtual client node; and forward, via the L2 circuit, packets between the virtual client node and the remote virtual client node to realize a logical network between the first customer network device and a second customer network device connected to the remote virtual PE node.
US10911348B2
A node classifies data packets into different classes and replicates the data packets according to a number of redundant links configured for transmission of the data packets to obtain, for each of the redundant links, a redundant version of the data packets. For a first one of the classes, the node marks all redundant versions of the data packets with a first indication that the data packet is a guaranteed data packet. For a second one of the classes, the node marks at least one of the redundant versions of the data packets with a second indication that the data packet is a guaranteed data packet and marks at least one other of the redundant versions of the data packets with a third indication that the data packet is a non-guaranteed data packet.
US10911344B1
Controlling dynamic reporting of content distribution performance information from a client is disclosed. The content distribution performance information associated with the delivery of content is generated. The content distribution performance information is reported to a content distribution monitor at a first reporting level. In response to a triggering event, the first reporting level is changed to a second reporting level. Additional content distribution performance information is reported according to the second reporting level.
US10911343B2
Disclosed are techniques for determining a beam-specific timing advance for Round-Trip Time (RTT) estimation. In an aspect, a first node receives a plurality of beams transmitted by a second node on a wireless channel, selects a first beam from the plurality of beams for transmitting a timing response, determines a timing statistic, a timing difference, and a timing advance for the first beam, wherein the timing difference comprises a difference between the timing statistic and an earliest time of arrival of the plurality of beams, and wherein the timing advance comprises a multiple of the timing difference, and transmits the timing response for the first beam to the second node on the wireless channel, wherein the first node transmits the timing response after a time delay from the timing statistic of the first beam, wherein the time delay comprises a difference between a predetermined time delay and the timing advance.
US10911339B2
Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that improves quality of service while streaming code-agnostic content by optimizing buffering based on bit rate.
US10911336B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include presenting a visual information that conveys information about health data associated with a large number of network devices or a large number of attributes of one or more network devices. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes collecting performance indicator data and determining a plurality of health status values based on a health status rule; grouping the health status values, based on how many health status values are in the plurality of health status values, into a plurality of health status groups, wherein each of the health status groups includes a subset of the health status values, and wherein each of the health status values within each subset are related to each of the other health status values in the subset; and determining, for each of the health status groups, a group health status value.
US10911328B2
A storage system monitors system performance metrics and client performance metrics related to input/output (I/O) operations. The storage system, generates a performance adjustment value for each client using a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller to match the corresponding respective target performance value within a time period based on feedback of the respective monitored client performance metric and the system performance metric. The storage system, throttles I/O operations for each client during the time period such that the respective client performance moves toward the corresponding respective target performance value.
US10911317B2
Embodiments of the present invention can use a protocol-independent, vendor-independent, efficient and scalable abstraction model for representing the forwarding functionality of networks. Such a model can be used for systematic analysis and verification of networks. Packet header values may be represented as groups of one or more wildcarded bit strings, where unspecified header values are assumed to be fully wildcarded. This representation can describe many combinations of packets in a space-efficient way, enables more efficient tracing and transformation operations, and can even represent traffic from large internet routing tables efficiently. As a result of the scalability benefits of this more effective way to store and operate on packet collections, network modeling can scale to some of the largest, most complicated networks—those where the benefits are the greatest.
US10911313B2
Methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting capacity allocation; e.g., to a group of services in a multimedia distribution network. In one embodiment, bandwidth allocation is adjusted by predicting bandwidth utilization of the group of services based on historical bandwidth utilization information. Behavioral templates and statistical models may also be employed for the predictions. The invention provides more efficient use of available bandwidth compared to conventional bandwidth allocation schemes where the overall bandwidth for a group of services is set to a constant value that is not changed frequently. The present invention further provides a bandwidth allocation method in a switched distribution network. The bandwidth allocation method allocates bandwidth such that the bandwidth required by the number of services does not exceed the allocation, i.e., the total usage falls within the allocation.
US10911310B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for steering network traffic using dynamically generated configuration scripts. A first device may generate a configuration script for an application on the client for connecting with a server. The configuration script may specify the application to establish a direct connection or an indirect connection with the server. The first device may provide the configuration script to be invoked by the application to identify a first address to access the server based on a determination to establish the direct connection or the indirect connection. The first device may receive, from the client, an initiation request to connect with the server including the first address. The first device may determine second address by applying a routing policy to the first address. The first device may establish one of the direct connection or the indirect connection using the second address.
US10911306B2
A communication system includes a server that stores setting information notified from a communication apparatus. The communication apparatus is operable in a first mode and a second mode and includes a reception device to receive an instruction, and a controller to, in accordance with a changing instruction regarding a predetermined function received via the reception device when the first mode is set, notify the server of setting information based on the changing instruction and, in accordance with the changing instruction when the second mode is set, not notify the server of the setting information based on the changing instruction. When a switching instruction for switching from the first mode to the second mode is received, the communication apparatus notifies the server of the setting information which corresponds to the changing instruction received before the switching instruction was received and which has not been notified to the server.
US10911304B1
This disclosure describes techniques for verifying compatibility of NOS image versions during startup of one or more hardware modules of a distributed router system. A client-server transaction protocol is executed between a communication server and a communication client configured according to the protocol to run on hardware modules of a distributed router system. A communication client discovers a communication server through a handshake transaction and sends a software image signature of an NOS image version. The communication server forwards the software image signature to an NOS verification server to determine whether the software image signature is compatible. Further, the communication server instructs the communication client to cause the hardware module hosting the communication client to boot either from a network interface or from local storage, at least in part on the determination of compatibility by the verification server, reducing numbers of reboots and increasing uptime and throughput of the system.
US10911299B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for staging client devices that allow for multiple user access. A computing device retrieves a current version of the list of user profiles associated with the client device. The computing device determines that the current list of user profiles differs from a previous version of the list of user profiles associated with the client device. The computing device identifies a list of policies to be sent to a management component executing on the client device based at least in part on a determination that the current list of user profiles differs from the previous version, wherein the list of policies comprises at least one policy that is associated with at least one user profile included in the current list of user profiles that is absent from the previous version of the list of user profiles. The computing device then sends the list of policies to the management component executing on the client device.
US10911298B2
A communication network, communication installation within an aircraft and aircraft including such a communication installation are disclosed. In one aspect, the network is adapted for interconnecting pieces of electronic equipment and includes a set of at least three network switches, each being connected to all of the other network switches of the set. Each network switch includes several communication ports. The network further includes a plurality of datalinks, each being configured to connect one network switch bidirectionally to another network switch of the set, via the corresponding communication ports. At least two separate network switches are configured to be connected directly to a same piece of electronic equipment.
US10911291B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for receiving a downlink signal by a UE in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcasting channel (PBCH), and obtaining an indicator indicating a subcarrier spacing for the downlink channel from the PBCH, and receiving the downlink signal on the basis of the subcarrier spacing. The indicator may indicate a different subcarrier spacing according to a frequency band in which the UE operates.
US10911289B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes first and second tuners to receive and process a radio frequency (RF) signal and output a first and second plurality of frequency domain sub-carriers. The apparatus may further include a combiner circuit to combine a first plurality of demodulated frequency domain sub-carriers and a second plurality of demodulated frequency domain sub-carriers into a plurality of combined frequency domain sub-carriers, and an output circuit coupled to the combiner circuit. In a first mode, the output circuit is to embed a format indicator with each of the plurality of combined frequency domain sub-carriers to indicate a frequency domain format, and to output the plurality of combined frequency domain sub-carriers with the embedded format indicator to a downstream processing circuit for channel decoding.
US10911279B2
A method includes obtaining configuration parameters of wireless client devices served by an access point in a wireless local area network basic service set; calculating a conservativeness scaling factor for a first wireless client device in the basic service set based on the configuration parameters; determining a new guard interval of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed symbol for the first wireless client device based on the conservativeness scaling factor; and replacing an old guard interval for the first wireless client device with the new guard interval.
US10911276B2
A transmitter transmits payload data using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, the transmitter comprising frame builder circuitry configured to receive the payload data to be transmitted and to receive signalling information for use in detecting and recovering the payload data at a receiver, and to form the payload data into frames with the signalling information as a preamble to each of the frames for transmission. Modulator circuitry is configured to modulate one or more first OFDM symbols with the signalling information to form the preamble of each frame and to modulate one or more second OFDM symbols with the payload data to form post preamble waveform of each frame. Transmission circuitry is configured to transmit the one or more first OFDM symbols as a preamble and the second OFDM symbols as the post preamble waveform. The transmitter includes signature sequence circuitry configured to provide a transmitter identifier signature sequence, the transmitter identifier signature sequence being one of a set of signature sequences to represent one of a predetermined set of identifiers which identify the transmitter to a receiver, and a combiner configured to combine the transmitter identifier signature sequence with one or more of the first OFDM symbols of the preamble or one or more additional OFDM symbols of the preamble dedicated to carry the transmitter identifier. A receiver can therefore be configured to identify the one or more of the first OFDM symbols of the preamble or one or more additional OFDM symbols of the preamble dedicated to carry the transmitter identifier, and to identify the transmitter of the received signal from the transmitter identifier sequence.
US10911267B1
An apparatus includes an encoding circuit, and a communication bus having conductive traces configured to transfer a data payload, including a control signal and up to a maximum number of data words. The encoding circuit is configured to receive an uncompressed data payload and a mask value, and to create, using the mask value, the control signal, the control signal indicative of whether the uncompressed data payload includes one or more non-enabled data words. In response to a determination that the control signal indicates that the uncompressed data payload includes one or more non-enabled data words, the encoding circuit is configured to create a compressed data payload from the uncompressed data payload, and to send, to a decoding circuit, the compressed data payload and the control signal via the plurality of conductive traces of the communication bus. The compressed data payload includes the mask value.
US10911263B2
A request to obtain network health information pertaining to a client account of a provider network is received via a programmatic interface. Respective sets of network metrics are obtained from several data sources of the provider network, and a respective network health state descriptor is generated for one or more resource sets associated with the client account. A response to the request is prepared using the network health state descriptor and transmitted.
US10911262B2
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a first tunnel router may receive a reservation request to establish a deterministic path between a first node and a second node. The first tunnel router may determine, based on the reservation request, a destination address of the second node. The first tunnel router may identify, based on the destination address of the second node, a second tunnel router associated with the second node. The first tunnel router may encapsulate a deterministic packet sent by the first towards the second node into a tunnel packet, wherein a multicast address in a header of the tunnel packet is set to the destination address of the second node. The first tunnel router can forward the tunnel packet along the deterministic path. The multicast address in the header of the tunnel packet causes nodes to send the tunnel packet according to the deterministic path.
US10911256B2
Methods and systems for providing consumer directed energy management are described. Consumer defined triggers provide consumers and utilities with the ability to control residential energy usage, by managing manage multiple residential load control elements. A user interface is provided separately from the load control elements to allow the consumer to define his or her schedule and preferences for the purposes of controlling the multiple load control elements. In addition, settings on load control elements can be automatically adjusted based on information about consumer schedules and preferences obtained from other sources. In some embodiments, a utility interface allows utilities to implement improved energy load control. When a utility expects to implement a load control event, the utility can monitor consumer schedules and/or preferences, in order to achieve the desired energy reduction while reducing the impact on participating consumers' comfort.
US10911254B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handshake procedures for Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) communication in connection with various DSL (Direct Subscriber Line) technologies. Various embodiments can employ different methods of separation of signaling to arrange P2MP handshake procedures based on existing Point-to-Point (P2P) handshake procedures. Example embodiments can employ one of separation in frequency, separation in time, or separation in transmission power level.
US10911245B2
There is disclosed a method of establishing trust between an agent device and a verification apparatus, the method comprising: obtaining, at the agent device, a trust credential, wherein the trust credential relates to an aspect of the agent device and comprises authentication information for identifying at least one party trusted by the verification apparatus and/or device data relating to the agent device; transmitting, from the agent device to the verification apparatus, the trust credential; obtaining, at the verification apparatus, the trust credential; analysing, at the verification apparatus, the trust credential; determining, at the verification apparatus, whether the agent device is trusted based on the analysis; and responsive to determining the agent device is trusted, establishing trust between the agent device and the verification apparatus.
US10911238B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to the offline protection of secrets. A secret may be encrypted using a public key provided by the client. The client may have obtained the public key from a cryptographic hardware device, wherein the private key of the cryptographic key pair may be bound to the cryptographic hardware device. The encrypted secret may be transmitted by a service to the client using a secured or an unsecured transmission method. In some examples, the service may transmit a subsequent encrypted secret, which may invalidate a previously encrypted secret. In order to authenticate with the service, the client may select an encrypted secret for decryption. The client may access the private key stored by the cryptographic device and decrypt the encrypted secret with the private key. The client may then use the decrypted secret to authenticate with the service.
US10911228B2
A one-dimensional modulation continuous-variable quantum key distribution method is provided. The method includes transmitting, at a transmit end, a signal light field that passes through a first amplitude modulator and a first signal adjustment apparatus, and a reference light field, to an optical fiber combiner, and to a receive end through a quantum transmission channel. The method also includes separating, at the receive end, a quantum signal after the quantum signal passes through a second signal adjustment apparatus and an optical fiber splitter; and transmitting a separated reference light field and a separated signal light field to a measurement apparatus after the separated reference light field passes through a third signal adjustment apparatus and a phase modulator. Signal amplitude modulation and phase locking can be implemented by an amplitude modulator and a phase modulator, thereby simplifying the structure of the apparatus and reducing production costs.
US10911226B2
Application specific certificate deployment may be provided. An application may generate a security certificate comprising a public key and a first private key. The public key may be stored in a shared segment of a memory store, from where it may be retrieved and signed. The signed public key may be re-deployed and/or used to transmit securely encrypted resources.
US10911222B2
A method of an aspect includes receiving an instruction. The instruction indicates a first source of a first packed data including state data elements ai, bi, ei, and fi for a current round (i) of a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA2) hash algorithm. The instruction indicates a second source of a second packed data. The first packed data has a width in bits that is less than a combined width in bits of eight state data elements ai, bi, ci, di, ei, fi, gi, hi of the SHA2 hash algorithm. The method also includes storing a result in a destination indicated by the instruction in response to the instruction. The result includes updated state data elements ai+, bi+, ei+, and fi+ that have been updated from the corresponding state data elements ai, bi, ei, and fi by at least one round of the SHA2 hash algorithm.
US10911221B2
A first hash value is calculated by using a first input value that is stored in a first set of registers. The first hash value is then stored in a second set of registers. A second input value is stored in the first set of registers after calculating the first hash value. The second hash value is calculated based on the first hash value and the second input value. During the calculating of the second hash value, the first hash value is shifted from the second set of registers to a portion of the first set of registers when the calculating of the second hash value has reached a state where the portion of the first set of registers is no longer used to store the second input value.
US10911212B2
Methods and systems are described for receiving a plurality of signals corresponding to symbols of a codeword on a plurality of wires of a multi-wire bus, and responsively generating a plurality of sub-channel outputs using a plurality of multi-input comparators (MICs) connected to the plurality of wires of the multi-wire bus, generating a plurality of wire-specific skew control signals, each wire-specific skew control signal of the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals generated by combining (i) one or more sub-channel specific skew measurement signals associated with corresponding sub-channel outputs undergoing a transition and (ii) a corresponding wire-specific transition delta, and providing the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals to respective wire-skew control elements to adjust wire-specific skew.
US10911211B1
A method includes, at a first node: transmitting a first calibration signal at a first time-of-departure measured by the first node; and transmitting a second calibration signal at a second time-of-departure measured by the first node. The method also includes, at a second node: receiving the first calibration signal at a first time-of-arrival measured by the second node; and receiving the second calibration signal at a second time-of-arrival measured by the second node. The method further includes: defining a first calibration point and a second calibration point in a set of calibration points, each calibration point comprising a time-of-departure and a time-of-arrival of each calibration signal; calculating a regression on the set of calibration points; and calculating a frequency offset between the first node and the second node based on the first regression.
US10911207B1
This disclosure describes techniques for employing a reusable acknowledgment in communications among network devices. The techniques include generating a reusable negative acknowledgment (NACK) in response to a request for data that are unavailable. The reusable NACK may be sent as a response for at least some additional requests for unavailable data, rather than generating a new NACK for each request. As such, the reusable NACK may help decrease the computational load for a network device. In some cases, the use of a reusable NACK may help lessen the impacts of denial-of-service type attacks across a network.
US10911197B2
A method, network node and wireless device in a wireless communication system for one of transmitting and receiving a phase-tracking reference signal, PT-RS. The method includes obtaining information about a position in a time domain of a scheduled first demodulation reference signal, DM-RS, in a slot, and one of transmitting and receiving the PT-RS within the slot, the position of the PT-RS depending on the position in the time domain of the scheduled first DM-RS.
US10911183B2
System and method embodiments are provided to support network communications with groups of UEs. The embodiments include a two-level group-based hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) mechanism and acknowledgement (ACK)/negative ACK (NACK) feedback. An embodiment method includes receiving, at a UE within a virtual multi-point (ViMP) comprising UEs, a data packet for a target UE (TUE) that is broadcasted from a base station (BS) to the ViMP node, decode the data packet, and upon successfully decoding the data packet, broadcasting the data packet to the UEs within the ViMP node until a timer pre-established by the BS expires or an ACK message is received from the TUE or the ViMP node. In an embodiment, broadcasted data received in the ViMP node is re-broadcasted upon receiving a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message from the TUE, a beacon UE, or any of the UEs within the ViMP node.
US10911180B2
A method for data integrity check in a network device of a computer network. The network device includes a communication module and a monitoring module. The monitoring module receives (a) the same data being received by a communication module from an input port of the network device, and (b) the same data the communication module transmits towards output port/s of the network device. The monitoring module (i) derives, after receiving the same R-data as the communication module, a sub-tuple of the R-data, a “R-data sub-tuple”, wherein the R-data sub-tuple includes m of the n data elements of the n-tuple of R-data, wherein m>0 and m
US10911178B2
Systems and methods for blind detection of a numerology of a received signal are described. In one aspect, a method is provided for a user equipment (UE) to blindly detect the numerology of a received signal. The method includes correlating cyclic prefix (CP) signals in the received signal in the time domain based on a plurality of hypotheses of subcarrier spacing (SCS) and determining a numerology of the received signal for a corresponding hypothesis of SCS of the plurality of hypotheses based on the correlated CP signals.
US10911172B2
A user apparatus, in a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations, including a reception unit configured to receive, from a connecting base station, control information to be used for reducing an interference signal sent from an interference base station for the user apparatus; and an interference reducing unit configured to reduce the interference signal by using the control information to obtain a desired signal sent from the connecting base station.
US10911166B2
This disclosure relates to a communication technique that fuses a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than 4G systems, with IoT technology, and a system therefor. This disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services or the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A method for a terminal according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving setting information for a reference signal; confirming whether beam switching is possible in a resource area to which the reference signal is to be transmitted; and measuring the reference signal based on the confirmation result.
US10911165B1
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by an adjustable frequency doubling circuit, a first clock signal having a first clock frequency; using the adjustable frequency doubling circuit, generating a second clock signal having a second clock frequency that is twice the first clock frequency; measuring a duty cycle parameter of the second clock signal, where the duty cycle parameter is dependent on a duty cycle of the first clock signal or a duty cycle of the second clock signal; and using the adjustable frequency doubling circuit, adjusting the duty cycle of the first clock signal or the second clock signal based on the measuring.
US10911164B2
The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for the calibration of analog circuitry on an integrated circuit. One embodiment relates to a method of calibrating analog circuitry within an integrated circuit. A microcontroller that is embedded in the integrated circuit is booted up. A reset control signal is sent to reset an analog circuit in the integrated circuit, and a response signal for the analog circuit is monitored by the microcontroller. Based on the response signal, a calibration parameter for the analog circuit is determined, and the analog circuit is 10 configured using the calibration parameter. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US10911158B2
A method and system of high speed radio frequency communication between an outside of a metallic pipeline or vessel and an interior volume contained by the metallic pipeline or vessel includes passing a high speed radio frequency signal through a communication portal having a high speed radio frequency permittive material exposed to the interior volume of the metallic pipeline and to the outside. The high speed radio frequency signal may be transmitted from the interior volume to the outside or from the outside to the interior volume. The communication portal may be a cylindrical- or planar-shaped body connected to the metallic pipeline. A tool located within the interior volume may transmit, receive, or transmit and receive the high speed radio frequency signal. The high speed radio frequency signal may be configured according to a 2.45 GHz standard protocol.
US10911148B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes first and second optical waveguides to transmit light of multiple wavelengths; optical couplers on the waveguides, to couple the lights transmitted through the waveguides, so as to output the coupled light to the waveguides; phase shifters provided at preceding stages of part of the optical couplers, to change a phase shift amount of the light transmitted through the first and/or second optical waveguides, wherein the number of optical couplers in the part is greater than or equal to the number of the types of wavelengths; a monitor to monitor the intensity of the light output to the second optical waveguide via the optical coupler at the last stage; and a controller to control the phase shifters by changing the phase shift amount for each of the phase shifters in a direction in which the output of the monitor decreases.
US10911147B2
A system for data transmission has a transmitter and a receiver connected by an optical channel. The transmitter has a transmitter laser and a transmitter-side electroabsorption modulator with an optical output. An electrical data input of the transmitter is connected to an electrical modulation terminal of the transmitter-side electroabsorption modulator. The receiver has a receiver laser and a receiver-side electroabsorption modulator with an optical output forming the input of the receiver. An electrical data output of the receiver is connected to the electrical modulation terminal of the receiver-side electroabsorption modulator. The transmitter and receiver lasers are detunable by specification of a physical variable, each provided by a respective control unit. The control units are synchronized and they specify the same signal at their outputs for establishing the physical variable for establishing the laser frequency.
US10911145B2
In an aspect, an apparatus for distribution of frequency reference to a receiving end over a transmission medium comprises a first mixer adapted to mix a frequency reference signal having a reference frequency with a local oscillator signal having a local oscillator frequency to provide a forward frequency reference signal, a communication section adapted to transmit the forward frequency reference signal and receive a first backward frequency reference signal, a second mixer adapted to mix the first backward frequency reference signal with the local oscillator signal to provide a second backward frequency reference signal and a phase comparator and control circuit adapted to adjust the local oscillator frequency based on a phase shift of the second backward frequency reference signal so as to compensate for a phase shift of the forward frequency reference signal.
US10911141B1
A system for transmitting data over an optical communication path is configured to receive data to be encoded in a bitstream for transmission using an optical communication path and encodes the received data to obtain a bitstream. The system is further configured to determine that the bitstream includes a sequence of consecutive bits, and obtain a power level at which to transmit a portion of the bitstream based on a count of the consecutive bits in the sequence. The system may be configured to selectively activate a light source at a power level according to a modulation scheme to optically transmit the portion of the bitstream at the power level.
US10911138B2
The invention relaxes to a replacement scheduling method and system for ultra-low loss optical fibers in a backbone network, which are designed to improve spectrum, utilization efficiency. The method includes: S1: calculating a gam respectively after each optical fiber link is replaced, that is, calculating a product of multiplying a quantity of frequency slots (FSs) reduced after each optical fiber link is replaced by a remaining time for finishing replacing all the remaining optical fiber links; S2: selecting an optical fiber link having the highest gain after the optical fiber link is replaced to perform replacement; and repeating S1 and S2 until all the optical fiber links that need to be replaced have been replaced. In the present invention, a replacement order of optical fibers is arranged most appropriately, so as to save as many as spectrum resources for operators for use by additional services. (FIG. 2)
US10911135B2
A computer system is provided that includes devices configured to acquire input data. The system further includes a remote node (RN) configured to receive a first packet from a control node (CN). The first packet includes a packet header including a master timestamp, first control data and a CRC. The RN is also configured to verify integrity of the first control data based on the received CRC, generate and transmit to the CN a second packet. The second packet includes a packet header which includes a remote timestamp. The system also includes a CN connected with the RN via high-speed serial interfaces. The CN is configured to receive the second packet, determine status of the first packet based on the control data included in the second packet and configured to retransmit the first packet or generate and transmit a third packet based on the determined status of the first packet.
US10911132B2
The present invention relates to low earth orbit satellites for air traffic control. One or more LEO satellites serves as a link between a control tower and an aircraft. The one or more LEO satellites are adapted for a) receiving an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, ADS-B, signal from an aircraft; b) receiving and/or transmitting a signal from/to a control tower; and c) receiving and/or transmitting a VHF signal from/to an aircraft.
US10911131B1
A hybrid relay for high density venues may be provided. First, a user density value at an Access Point (AP) disposed above a ground level may be determined. Then a user density value at an AP-relay disposed at the ground level may be determined. Next, it may be determined that a difference between the user density value at the AP and the user density value at the AP-relay is greater than a predetermined threshold. The AP-relay may then be switched from a sensor mode to an AP-relay mode in response to determining that the difference between the user density value at the AP and the user density value at the AP-relay is greater than the predetermined threshold.
US10911125B2
One example method includes receiving, by a terminal, indication information sent by a base station, where the indication information indicates a precoding matrix in a first precoding matrix set and a transmission rank corresponding to the precoding matrix, and the precoding matrix is used to precode transmit data streams at r transmission layers to obtain signals to be sent on N transmission ports of the terminal; and when r>1, a nonscalar part of a precoding matrix whose transmission rank is r in the first precoding matrix set is obtained by combining columns in nonscalar parts of r precoding matrices, and the r precoding matrices are precoding matrices selected from all precoding matrices whose transmission ranks are 1; and determining, by the terminal based on the indication information, the precoding matrix for precoding the transmit data streams.
US10911122B2
This application provides a reference signal sending method, a reference signal receiving method, a network device, and a terminal device, to perform CSI (Channel State Information) measurement by using more precoding vectors (or precoding matrices), to measure more equivalent channels, thereby improving flexibility and a spatial degree of freedom of network device scheduling. The method includes: performing, by the network device, precoder cycling on a first reference signal by using at least two precoding vectors, to obtain a precoded first reference signal, where the precoded first reference signal is borne in a plurality of physical resource groups, and signals borne in any two adjacent physical resource groups correspond to different precoding vectors; and sending, by the network device, the precoded first reference signal to the terminal device by using the plurality of physical resource groups, where the first reference signal is used by the terminal device to perform CSI measurement.
US10911120B2
Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a first interface configured to output one first frame for transmission to solicit CSI feedback from each of one or more first wireless nodes associated with a first BSS and from each of one or more second wireless nodes associated with a second BSS, a second interface configured to obtain the CSI feedback solicited from the first and second wireless nodes, and a processing system configured to generate data frames for the first wireless nodes based on the CSI feedback solicited from the first wireless nodes, and one or more nulling frames based on the CSI feedback solicited from the second wireless nodes. The first interface is configured to simultaneously output the data frames for beamformed transmission to the first wireless nodes, and the nulling frames for beamformed transmission to the second wireless nodes.
US10911113B2
A communication system and a codec method based on deep learning and known channel state information (CSI) are provided. The communication system includes: a first electronic apparatus including a known first link CSI and a CSI encoder having a deep learning function; and a second electronic apparatus including a known second link CSI and a CSI decoder having a deep learning function. The first and second link CSIs have a correlation or a similarity. The CSI encoder of the first electronic apparatus encodes or compresses the first link CSI into the first codeword, and feeds the first codeword back to the second electronic apparatus via a feedback link. The CSI decoder of the second electronic apparatus encodes or compresses the second link CSI into a second codeword, and decodes or restores the first link CSI of the first electronic apparatus based on the first codeword and the second codeword.
US10911110B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information in a multi-antenna wireless communication system are disclosed. Specifically, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI), by a User Equipment (UE), in a multi-antenna wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from a base station, configuration information for single CSI reporting in which a non-precoded CSI-RS based CSI reporting and a beamformed CSI-RS based CSI reporting are combined, reporting a first Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) and/or a first Rank Indicator (RI) derived based on a non-precoded CSI-RS to the base station, and reporting a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), a second PMI, and a second RI based on a beamformed CSI-RS to the base station, wherein a value of the first RI is determined as only a value belonging to a previously determined set.
US10911103B2
Disclosed herein is a portable electronic device for facilitating a proximity based interaction with a short range communication enabled object. Further, the portable electronic device may include a transceiver configured for transmitting a transmitted short range communication signal and receiving a received short range communication signal. Further, the portable electronic device may include a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver, configured for detecting a proximity based event based on receiving the received short range communication signal from the short range communication enabled object, analyzing the received short range communication signal based on the detecting of the proximity based event, determining a second object identifier associated with the short range communication enabled object based on the analyzing, and performing a predetermined action based on the second object identifier. Further, the portable electronic device may include a memory device configured for storing a first digital asset and a first object identifier associated with the first digital asset.
US10911100B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first sensor configured to obtain an electromagnetic (EM) signal from an external device, a first communication module configured to provide a magnetic stripe transmission (MST) signal, a processor, and a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to store instructions which, upon execution, instruct the processor to control the first communication module to transmit, to the external device, the MST signal which is predetermined corresponding to the external device based on the obtained EM signal.
US10911069B2
Disclosed herein are memory devices, systems, and methods of content-aware decoding of encoded data. In one aspect, an encoded data chunk is received and one or more characteristics, such as source statistics, are determined. A similar data chunk (that may, e.g., contain data of a similar type) with comparable statistics may be sought. The similar data chunk may, for example, have source statistics that are positively correlated to the source statistics of the encoded data chunk to be decoded. Decoder parameters for the encoded data may be set to correspond with decoder parameters suited to the similar data chunk. The encoded data chunk is decoded using the new decoder parameters. Decoding encoded data based on content can enhance performance, reducing decoding latency and/or power consumption.
US10911064B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for compressing data for storage or transmission. Input data is compressed in a first stage utilizing a first compression algorithm and the frequencies of occurrence of symbols and symbol pairs in the output from the first stage is calculated. The output from the first stage is then encoded to a final compressed bit string in a second stage utilizing a second compression algorithm based on the calculated frequencies of occurrence of the symbols and the symbol pairs.
US10911063B2
Examples herein relate to decoding tokens using speculative decoding operations to decode tokens at an offset from a token decoded by a sequential decoding operation. At a checkpoint, a determination is made as to whether tokens to be decoded by the sequential and speculative decoding operations align. If there is alignment, the speculatively decoded tokens after a discard window are committed and made available for access. If there is not alignment, the speculatively decoded tokens are discarded. A miss in alignment and a fullness level of a buffer that stores speculatively decoded tokens are assessed to determine a next offset level for a start of speculative decoding. A size of a discard window can be set using a relationship based on the offset level to improve buffer utilization and to attempt to improve changes of alignments.
US10911056B2
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of software based phase locked loop (PLL). The software based PLL incorporates a reconfigurable calculation unit (RCU) that is optimized and programmed to sequentially perform all the atomic operations of a PLL or any other desired task in a time sharing manner. An application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) incorporating the RCU includes an instruction set whose instructions are optimized to perform the atomic operations of a PLL. The RCU is clocked at a fast enough processor clock rate to insure that all PLL atomic operations are performed within a single PLL reference clock cycle.
US10911055B1
An oscillator assembly includes a scribe seal, an oscillator circuit, and a calibration circuit. The oscillator circuit includes an output. The calibration circuit is coupled to the oscillator circuit. The calibration circuit includes a reference frequency terminal, a conductor coupled to the reference frequency terminal, and an oscillator input terminal. The conductor extends to an edge of the oscillator circuit assembly and penetrates the scribe seal. The oscillator input terminal is coupled to the output of the oscillator circuit.
US10911052B2
A system for retiming a multi-level signal that forms an eye diagram when plotted, such as a PAM4 signal that includes an equalizer configured to create an equalized signal and a first amplifier configured to amplify the equalized signal, responsive to a first amplifier control signal, to create a first amplified signal, and a second amplifier configured to amplify the equalized signal, responsive to a second amplifier control signal, to create a second amplified signal. An eye monitor processes the equalized signal, the first amplified signal, and the second amplified signal to create a first retiming clock phase signal and a second retiming clock phase signal, which control sampling times for flip-flops. One or more delays and one or more emphasis modules are configured to delay and introduce emphasis into an output from the flip-flops, the resulting signals are combined in a summing junction to create the retimed signal.
US10911049B2
Methods, systems, and devices for shifting voltage levels of electrical signals and more specifically for boosted high-speed level shifting are described. A boosted level shifter may include a driver circuit that generates a drive signal having a greater voltage swing than an input signal, and the drive signal may drive the gate of a pull-up transistor within the boosted level shifter. The lower bound of the drive signal may in some cases be a negative voltage. Driving the pull-up transistor with a drive signal having a greater voltage swing than the input signal may improve the operational speed and current-sourcing capability of the pull-up transistor, which may provide speed and efficiency benefits.
US10911045B1
A segmented direct gate drive circuit of a depletion mode GaN power device, a gate voltage of the GaN power device is charged from a negative voltage turn-off level to a threshold voltage of the GaN power device; when the gate voltage of the GaN power device is charged to the threshold voltage of the GaN power device, a current mirror charging module first turns on less than N of charging current mirror modules to charge the gate voltage of the GaN power device from the threshold voltage of the GaN power device to a Miller platform voltage of the GaN power device, and turns on N charging current mirror modules to charge the gate voltage of the GaN power device from the Miller platform voltage of the GaN power device to a zero level.
US10911044B1
An output circuit receives a data signal biased within a first voltage range associated with a first power supply voltage and generates an output signal on an output node biased within a second voltage range in response to the data signal, the second voltage range is associated with a second power supply voltage greater than the first power supply voltage. The output circuit generates pull-up and pull-down signals that are within the first voltage range in response to the data signal. The output circuit includes an output driver circuit including a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit. The pull-up circuit, when activated, generates the output signal indicative of the second power supply voltage in response to a modified pull-up signal being the pull-up signal level-shifted to a third voltage range. The pull-down circuit, when activated, generates the output signal being the ground potential in response to the pull-down signal.
US10911043B2
A device and a method for switching over a semiconductor switch with a switching signal acting on a control connection of the semiconductor switch, the switching signal being switched over as a response to registering a switchover of an activation signal; a down time being ascertained between the start of the switchover of the switching signal and the switchover of the semiconductor switch; the switchover of the semiconductor switch being delayed by a waiting period, for example by delaying the output of the switching signal and/or changing the signal level, so that an actual switching time, corresponding to a setpoint switching time, between the registration of the switchover of the activation signal and the switchover of the semiconductor switch is obtained.
US10911041B2
An electronic circuit module is provided. The electronic circuit module prevents damage by efficiently detecting an overcurrent in the electronic circuit module using an SiC MOSFET. The electronic circuit module includes an input unit that is configured to input a reference voltage and a switching unit that is configured to output a first voltage based on a current flow. A converter is configured to output a second voltage based on the first voltage and the reference voltage. An output unit is configured to compare a magnitude of the reference voltage with a magnitude of the second voltage to output a feedback signal when the second voltage is greater than the reference voltage.
US10911040B2
High power radio frequency (RF) switches with low leakage current and low insertion loss are provided. In one embodiment, an RF switch includes a plurality of transistors and is configured to selectively connect one of a transmit path or a receive path to an antenna. All of the transistors are configured to be in an on state when the RF switch operates in a high power mode and all of the transistors are configured to be in an off state when the RF switch operates in a low power mode.
US10911038B1
A network flow processor integrated circuit includes a plurality of processors, a plurality of multi-threaded transactional memories (MTMs), and a configurable mesh posted transaction data bus. The configurable mesh posted transaction data bus includes a configurable command mesh and a configurable data mesh. Each of these configurable meshes includes crossbar switches and interconnecting links. A command bus transaction value issued by a processor can pass across the command mesh to an MTM. The command bus transaction bus value includes a reference value. The MTM uses the reference value to pull data across the configurable data mesh into the MTM. The MTM then uses the data to carry out the commanded transactional memory operation. Multiple such commands can pass across the posted transaction bus across different parts of the integrated circuit at the same time, and a single MTM can be carrying out multiple such operations at the same time.
US10911035B1
A fixed-width pulse generator includes a metastability detector circuit, a delay signal generator, and a combinational logic circuit. The metastability detector circuit is configured to receive a trigger signal and generate state detection signals. The delay signal generator is configured to receive the state detection signals and the trigger signal, and delay the trigger signal by two different delay values to generate two different delayed signals. One of the delay values is based on the state detection signals. The combinational logic circuit is configured to receive the two delayed signals and an error signal, and generate a fixed-width pulse that remains constant over process, voltage, and temperature variations.
US10911028B1
A device for phase adjustment preset for an N-path filter comprising a logic block; a ring divider array creating a local oscillator drive for a mixer; the ring divider array comprising: a plurality of registers, each comprising: inputs S, R, D, and clock, and output Q; the plurality of registers comprising at least: a first register; a second register; and an Nth register; a preset control word; wherein the preset control word is applied to the logic block, the logic block providing input to each of the S and the R inputs of each the register; whereby a desired starting phase of the divider is controlled. A method includes defining a desired starting conditions; determining a control word from desired starting conditions; applying control word to logic block; applying a reset signal to logic block; and outputting values for each of S and R to each register.
US10911015B2
Systems, devices, and methods for tunable filters that are configured to support multiple frequency bands, such as within the field of cellular radio communication, can include a first resonator and a second resonator configured to block signals within one or more frequency ranges, and one or more coupling element connected to both the first resonator and the second resonator. The one or more coupling element can be configured to provide low insertion loss within a pass band.
US10911011B2
A coherent optical modem includes one or more inputs; one or more amplifier circuits, each coupled to a respective input of the one or more inputs; and one or more receiver circuits each including an analog-to-digital converter, each coupled to a respective amplifier circuit of the one or more amplifier circuits; wherein the one or more amplifier circuits are configured to implement an automatic gain control loop to provide a constant signal amplitude at an input of the analog-to-digital converter of a respective receiver circuit.
US10910993B2
The invention relates to circuit arrangements for reducing potential-induced degradation in photovoltaic modules of a photovoltaic generator, said circuit arrangements comprising an insulation monitoring device for a temporally continuous insulation monitoring of the photovoltaic generator. Furthermore, the invention relates to a photovoltaic system comprising a circuit arrangement for reducing potential-induced degradation in photovoltaic modules, said photovoltaic system comprising a photovoltaic generator and an insulation monitoring device for a temporally continuous insulation monitoring of the photovoltaic generator. Different solutions are proposed which enable reducing potential-induced degradation while simultaneously continuously monitoring insulations. The circuit arrangements according to the invention rest upon an insulation monitoring device interacting with measures based circuit technology for influencing potentials in a photovoltaic module.
US10910991B2
A solar window system for a building includes multiple heat generation encasements each including thermoelectric sheets, where the thermoelectric sheets are positioned inside a housing having an interior metal layer. Air inside each heat generation encasement is heated by solar energy. Inside each heat generation encasement, there are pipes filled with Phase-Change Material (PCM) materials that help provide heating to the building. The solar window system further includes a storage tank on top of the system filled with PCM materials for storing heat from the heated air, the storage tank being connected to the pipes of each heat generation encasement. The solar window system includes a set of connection pipes, wherein the set of connection pipes draw cold air from an indoor space inside the building into the plurality of heat generation encasements, connect each of the heat generation encasements to at least two other heat generation encasements, and transfer the heated air from the set of heat generation encasements to the storage tank. The solar window system also includes circular movable rings that can be open and closed as needed. These rings are located around each heat generation encasement and have two movable flexible solar panels capable of generating electricity.
US10910990B2
The present invention relates to a solar cell module, includes a plurality of solar cells, a concentration unit having a flat surface to which solar light is incident, arranged at a position spaced apart from the solar cells, and configured to concentrate the incident solar light for output, and a reflection unit configured to reflect light between the solar cells, wherein the concentration unit is provided with a reflective region such that solar light concentrated by the concentration unit and output from is trapped between the concentration unit and the reflection unit, and an air gap is formed between the concentration unit and the reflection unit.
US10910988B2
A method to make an ultra-stable structural laminate of a cementitious material with a nano-molecular veneer and a foam component catalytically reacted into an expanded closed cell foam having a thickness from ⅛th inch to 8 inches, a density from 1.5 pounds/cubic foot to 3 pounds/cubic foot that inter-engages the cementitious material forming a matrix creating the ultra-stable structural laminate with fire resistance; a lateral nail pull strength from 44 pounds to 300 pounds of force; an insulation R value from 1 to 40; a resistance to seismic impact for earthquakes over 3.1 on the Richter Scale; a break point from 7 lbs/inch to 100 lbs/inch; and a resistance to wind shear equivalent to a 15 mph downburst.
US10910981B2
An electric power conversion system includes: an inverter; a voltage converter including a high-voltage end connected to a direct-current power source and a low-voltage end connected to the inverter; and a controller. The controller is configured to control switching elements such that a voltage of the low-voltage end becomes lower than a voltage of the high-voltage end in a first state. The controller is configured to control the switching elements such that the voltage of the low-voltage end becomes equal to the voltage of the high-voltage end in a second state.
US10910978B2
A low cost and efficient method and apparatus for calibrating high performance internal permanent magnet motors that involves starting from an initial estimation of the rotor position and improving the estimation incrementally by successively commanding various current vectors and making adjustments to the estimated initial position according to the rotor's physical reaction to such current vectors.
US10910977B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining a state of a bearing of a three phase electric machine, the electric machine having a rotor, which is supported by the bearing, the electric machine being connected to a three phase inverter for supplying the electric machine with electric power, the three phase inverter being controlled to apply a pulse width modulation with a predefined scheme to create three phase currents, the method comprises: —determining a first phase current provided to the electric machine; —determining a second phase current provided to the electric machine, the second phase current being different to the first phase current; —determining the power spectral density of the park's vector based on the first phase current and the second phase current; —determining an amplitude of the power at a predefined frequency of the power spectral density, wherein the predefined frequency depends on the rotational speed of the rotor and the scheme of the pulse width modulation; —comparing the amplitude of the power at the predefined frequency with a predefined power value; and—determining, based on the comparison, whether a failure of the bearing has occurred or the bearing is degraded.
US10910974B2
A feedback control switching unit of an inverter control unit selects, based on a magnitude relationship between a predetermined switching determination amount and at least one switching threshold, at least one of feedback control units to thereby execute switching among feedback control modes, such as a current feedback control mode and a torque feedback control mode, of the respective feedback control units for driving of the AC motor. A switching command generating unit generates a switching command for an inverter based on a manipulated variable calculated by the selected feedback control unit. When a torque response request determining unit determines that a required torque responsiveness is high, the feedback control switching unit reduces the number of executions of switching among the feedback control modes.
US10910963B2
A power stealing system having an electrical load, a capacitive element having an input connected to the electrical load. Some power from the electrical load may go through the capacitive element to an input of a rectifier. A voltage regulator may have an input connected to an output of the rectifier to set and control a voltage level of the electrical power from the rectifier, and provide an output of power stolen from the electrical load. An amount of power flowing through the capacitive element may be less than one percent of power flowing through the electrical load.
US10910962B2
A power generation system includes a plurality of energy conversion devices for generating a plurality of power signals based on one or more sensed environmental conditions. The system further includes a plurality of power conditioning circuits each coupled to one or more of the energy conversion devices for receiving the power signals and storing energy in an energy storage system. The system also includes a selection circuit coupled to at least one of the power conditioning circuits and receiving a first input power signal from one of the power conditioning circuits and a second input power signal. The selection circuit is configured to deliver an output power signal representing a selection from between the first and second input power signals based on a relative voltage level of the first and second input power signals. A method of power generation, and associated power module, are also disclosed.
US10910952B1
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a control apparatus and method for a current resonance circuit and a current resonance power supply. The control method includes: performing integration on a resonance current of the current resonance circuit or a switching current of one or more switching elements to generate an integration signal; generating a feedback signal of the current resonance circuit; comparing the integration signal with the feedback signal, and generating a measurement signal according to a comparison result; performing digital filtering on the measurement signal; and according to the measurement signal after filtering, generating a pulse width modulation signal controlling the switching elements.
US10910948B2
A controller for a switched mode power supply (SMPS) including a reference voltage signal generator to generate a variable reference voltage signal for regulating an output voltage of the SMPS, and a voltage droop control signal generator to receive a current indicator signal indicative of an output current of the SMPS, and generate an output voltage droop control signal in response to a first function and a second function of the current indicator signal. The first function is employed when the reference voltage signal generator ramps the variable reference voltage signal, and the second function is employed thereafter. The controller includes a switching control signal generator to receive a voltage indicator signal, and to generate a control signal to regulate the output voltage of the SMPS based on the voltage indicator signal, the variable reference voltage signal, and the output voltage droop control signal.
US10910940B2
An apparatus includes a voltage regulator including a high-side field-effect transistor, a low-side field-effect transistor, an inductor, and a conductive net connecting the high-side field-effect transistor, the low-side field-effect transistor and the inductor. The apparatus further includes an attenuation circuit coupled to the conductive net, wherein the attenuation circuit includes an electronic switch that enables and disables an amount of attenuation provided by the attenuation circuit. Examples of the attenuation circuit include a snubber circuit and a boost resistor circuit.
US10910939B2
An inverter device according to an embodiment includes a plurality of switching elements and processing circuitry. The switching elements are connected to each other in parallel, and each of them includes a transistor and a free wheeling diode connected to the transistor in antiparallel. The processing circuitry is configured to monitor a current flowing through the free wheeling diode included in each switching element or a temperature of the free wheeling diode and to control, in accordance with the current or the temperature, a load on each free wheeling diode to prevent unbalance of loads between free wheeling diodes in the switching elements.
US10910935B2
A linear actuator comprising a first fixed portion comprising a linear array of stator teeth, each surrounded by one or more turns of electrical wire, a controller which generates a set of currents that are applied to phase windings of the first fixed portion to generate a pattern of magnetic poles along the array of stator teeth, a spacing between the magnetic poles being larger than a spacing between adjacent stator teeth of the first fixed portion, a second fixed portion that comprises an alternating set of magnet poles, a spacing between adjacent poles being smaller than the spacing of the magnetic poles of the first fixed portion created by the controller, and a movable output portion that comprises a linear array of pole pieces that extend along a length of the moveable output portion that is greater than a stroke length of the actuator and longer than a length of the fixed portion, whereby in use a length of the movable output portion is at all times located between the first and second fixed portions, in which the pole pieces that are located between the first and second fixed portions shape a magnetic flux acting between the magnetic poles of the first fixed portion and the magnet poles of the second fixed portion, and whereby in use the controller is arranged to cause linear movement of the moveable output portion by moving the magnetic poles of the first fixed portion along the first array.
US10910923B2
The present invention provides a rotating electric machine and a method of detecting electric discharge (a defect detection method for a rotating electric machine), which are able to early detect vibration sparking between a stator winding and a stator core. A rotating electric machine of the present invention comprises a cylindrical stator including a stator core and a stator winding, a rotor disposed inside the stator, at least one key bar disposed on an outer periphery of the stator core and extended in an axial direction of the stator, and at least one current detector disposed on the key bar and configured to measure a current flowing in the key bar.
US10910914B2
An electric power tool includes a driving unit generating a driving force by electricity and various components functioning by electricity, a circuit board on which a control unit configured to control the driving unit and the various components is mounted, a plurality of connectors connecting a plurality of wirings, which extend from the driving unit and the various components, with a plurality of wirings, which extend from the circuit board, a body portion installed therein with the driving unit, the various components, the circuit board and the plurality of connectors, and a receiving portion which receives the plurality of connectors therein and which is fixed to the body portion.
US10910913B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for disengaging a hub from an output shaft of a motor, which is convenient to propel the scooter/wheelchair manually. For this purpose, the present invention employs the following technical solution. The present invention discloses a mechanism for disengaging a hub from an output shaft of a motor; an output end of the output shaft is extended out of the motor; a coupling is fixedly sheathed on the output end of the output shaft; a hub, a movable sleeve and a compression spring are sheathed on the coupling; a stopper is fixed at an end of the output end of the output shaft; the compression spring is limited between the stopper and the movable sleeve; the hub has a central hub hole by which the hub is sheathed on the coupling; a plurality of first positioning grooves, which are arranged circularly and uniformly spaced apart from each other, are formed on an inner edge of the hub; a coupling bulge is provided in the circumference of the coupling, and a plurality of second positioning grooves, which are arranged circularly and uniformly spaced apart from each other, are formed on the coupling bulge; a plurality of first positioning bulges, which are arranged circularly and uniformly spaced apart from each other, are provided on the movable sleeve.
US10910910B2
A drive motor for a laundry appliance includes a stator having a plurality of windings that extend around teeth of the stator. A rotor is in electromagnetic communication with the stator. The rotor is coupled to a drive shaft that extends through the stator. When the winding of the stator is electrically energized, the rotor rotates relative to the stator at a predetermined range of rotational frequencies that includes a baseline natural frequency of the rotor. A harmonic-modulating member is attached to the rotor that modulates the baseline natural frequency of the rotor to be a modulated natural frequency. The predetermined range of rotational frequencies is free of the modulated natural frequency of the rotor.
US10910908B2
A motor includes a base, a stator, a dynamic pressure bearing unit and a rotor. The base includes a shaft tube. The shaft tube includes a closed end and an open end. The stator is mounted around the shaft tube. The dynamic pressure bearing unit includes a bearing, a dynamic pressure assembly and a thrust plate. The bearing is received in the shaft tube. The dynamic pressure assembly and the thrust plate are disposed in a position relatively adjacent to the open end of the shaft tube and relatively distant from the closed end of the shaft tube. The dynamic pressure assembly is located between the bearing and the thrust plate. A lubricating fluid layer is disposed between the dynamic pressure assembly and the thrust plate. The rotor is connected to the thrust plate and is rotatably coupled with the bearing.
US10910907B2
A motor includes a shaft, a bearing that rotatably supports the shaft, and a hub fixed to the shaft. The shaft includes a first shaft portion extending in an axial direction, a second shaft portion projecting axially upward from an axially upper end surface of the first shaft portion and including a diameter smaller than that of the first shaft portion, and a screw hole recessed axially downward from the axially upper end surface. The hub includes a shaft fixing hole into and in which the second shaft portion is inserted and fixed. An outer surface of the second shaft portion includes a first region, and a second region axially above the first region, and including surface roughness smaller than that of the first region.
US10910903B2
A coreless electromagnetic machine includes a dual rotor and a stator. The dual rotor is adapted to rotate about an axis, and includes inner and outer rotor segments. The outer rotor segment is spaced radially outward from, and axially aligned to, the inner rotor segment. The inner and outer rotor segments radially define an annular chamber. The stator is disposed, at least in-part, in the annular chamber.
US10910900B2
A coil (3) for a rotary electric machine (3) is constituted by eight layers, and includes an inner coil member (10B) constituting one layer, three layers, five layers, and seven layers, and an outer coil member (10A) constituting two layers, four layers, six layers, and eight layers. An outer upper right arm bending part (31), an outer upper left arm bending part (32), an outer lower right arm bending part (33), and an outer lower left arm bending part (34) of the outer coil member (10A) are formed, at a position where some portions are not overlaid on each other, when six inner coil members (10B) constituting seven layers are arranged to be overlaid on six outer coil members (10A) constituting eight layers.
US10910898B2
A rotating electric machine having a fraction slot configuration in which the number of slots per pole per phase is not an integer includes: a stator that includes a stator core provided with a plurality of slots, and a stator winding having a plurality of coil sides accommodated in the plurality of slots and a plurality of coil ends connecting the same side end parts of the plurality of coil sides to each other; and a movable element that is supported to be movable with respect to the stator, and includes a movable element core, and a plurality of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element core. The stator winding includes a plurality of basic coils in which the magnitude of magnetomotive force generated by the plurality of coil sides forming the one-phase band is uniform in each of the plurality of movable element magnetic poles.
US10910893B2
A rotor for a synchronous reluctance machine having an even number 2 p of poles circumferentially spaced at an angle α, with α=2 π/2 p, the rotor comprising a substantially cylindrical laminate stack having a plurality of magnetically conductive laminations. One or more of the magnetically conductive laminations includes non-magnetic flux barriers which are spaced from each other in the radial direction, one or more of the non-magnetic flux barriers having a first and second bridge transversally positioned in correspondence of their lateral ends and defining a first and a second air-gap with the outer rim of the magnetically conductive lamination, and further including a third and a fourth bridge transversally positioned and respectively defining together with the first and second bridge a first and a second internal space which are filled with an electrically conductive and non-magnetically conductive material.
US10910886B2
A heating system with wireless communication function includes a wireless information transmitting device, a wireless charging transmitting device and a wireless receiving heating device. The wireless information transmitting device includes an external shell, an information transmitting end coil and an information transmitting end magnetic shield. The wireless receiving heating device is disposed on a top surface of the wireless charging transmitting device. The wireless charging transmitting device includes a shell, a transmitting end coil and a transmitting end magnetic shield. The wireless charging transmitting device transmits energy to the wireless receiving heating device by near field induction and the object within the accommodating part of the wireless receiving heating device can be heated. The wireless receiving heating device notifies the wireless charge heating device to increase or decrease energy transmission in a digital communication manner.
US10910885B2
There are included: a switching parameter detecting unit (21) that detects a switching voltage of a switching element (Q1); and an abnormality detecting unit (a first comparing unit (264a) and an abnormality determining unit (265)) that detects an abnormality caused by foreign matter, on the basis of a result of the detection by the switching parameter detecting unit (21).
US10910883B2
In one embodiment, a method includes wirelessly coupling a transmitter to a wireless device; determining a first power transfer value of a signal transmitted from the transmitter to the wireless device with a first transmit impedance; determining a second power transfer value of the signal transmitted from the transmitter to the wireless device with a second transmit impedance; and selecting the first transmit impedance based on received power-level information indicating that the first power transfer value is greater than the second power transfer value.
US10910882B2
Disclosed herein is a receiver device for facilitating wireless energy reception. Accordingly, the receiver device may include a receiver transceiver. Further, the receiver transceiver may be configured for receiving energy wirelessly from at least one transmitter device. Further, the receiver transceiver may be configured for transmitting a registration request to the at least one transmitter device. Further, the registration request may include a unique receiver device identifier. Further, the at least one transmitter device may be configured for analyzing the registration request. Further, the at least one transmitter device may be configured for accessing a distributed block-chain associated with wireless energy transfer based on analyzing. Further, the at least one transmitter device may be configured for authenticating the receiver device based on the accessing. Further, the at least one transmitter device may be configured for transmitting the energy wirelessly to the receiver transceiver based on the authenticating.
US10910875B2
In a backup device, a determination unit determines a first target voltage value of a second power supply unit when a starter switch for starting a vehicle is in an OFF state, so as to be lower than a second target voltage value of the second power supply unit when the starter switch is in an ON state, based on the second target voltage value, a value indicating the charging capability of the charging circuit, and a predetermined time limit. A control unit causes the charging circuit to perform the charging operation upon the starter switch being switched to an ON state, such that the charged voltage of the second power supply unit reaches the second target voltage value, and causes the discharging circuit to perform the discharging operation upon the starter switch being switched to an OFF state, such that the charged voltage reaches the first target voltage value.
US10910860B2
A method, an apparatus and a system for controlling charging of a battery module are provided in the present disclosure. The method for controlling charging of the battery module may include: acquiring an internal pressure value of the battery module; determining a target pressure threshold range to which the acquired internal pressure value of the battery module belongs, based on a plurality of predefined pressure threshold ranges; obtaining a target charge cutoff voltage corresponding to the target pressure threshold range, based on a correspondence relationship between a plurality of predefined charge cutoff voltage and the plurality of predefined pressure threshold ranges; and controlling the battery module to be charged based on the obtained target charge cutoff voltage.
US10910854B2
A tablet computer includes a housing, a display, a processing system, a camera system comprising a camera sensor, and a battery system, the battery system positioned within the housing. The battery system is configured to charge an external device. A charging cable retainer is configured to retain one or more cables against or within the housing. One or more integral cables are provide. The one or more integral cables include a cable comprising a first end fixedly coupled to the battery system, a first connector of a first type configured to mate with a first type of external device connector, a second connector of a second type configured to mate with a second type of external device connector, and a lens configured to form images on the camera sensor. The charging cable retainer includes a cable channel or magnet.
US10910849B2
A charging method includes the following operations: charging an auxiliary power source and at least one charging power source simultaneously, in which a power demand of the auxiliary power source is a first consideration, and a power demand of the at least one charging power source is a second consideration; detecting an auxiliary current value of the auxiliary power source and a total charging current value of the at least one charging power source; and stopping charging the auxiliary power source when a sum of the auxiliary current value and the total charging current value is greater than a current threshold value.
US10910846B2
Systems and methods provide intelligent battery charging and balancing. Energy deficits can be forecasted based on historical data and forecasted energy generation. The deficits can be used to determine charging currents over a period of time, and battery cassettes can be charged according to the charging currents to compensate for the forecasted energy deficit. The states of charge of the battery cassettes can be periodically rebalanced. The battery cassettes can be coupled in series and charged and balanced while providing output to a load.
US10910838B1
An energy management device comprises a first supply/demand information acquisition unit, a second supply/demand information acquisition unit, and a supply/demand management unit configured to determine, based on the first supply/demand information and the second supply/demand information, at least one of (i) an upper limit value of a power amount that the hydrogen generation system can receive from a power grid during a certain period, (ii) a target value of an amount of hydrogen that the hydrogen generation system generates during the certain period, (iii) an upper limit value of a power amount that each of the one or plurality of tri-generation systems can transmit to the power grid during the certain period, and (iv) a target value of a power amount that each of the one or plurality of tri-generation systems generates during the certain period.
US10910835B1
Adaptive protection methods and systems for protecting agains) extreme fault currents in a power system are provided. Communication capabilities and protocols defined in IEC 61850 can be used to provide smart cascading switching actions for removing the fault from the power system. A supervisory protection algorithm can be used, and the protection can be activated if the fault current is higher than a breaking capacity of the circuit breakers of the power system.
US10910827B2
A solid state power controller, SSPC, having an input to receive supply current and an output for providing output current to a load in response to connection to the power supply, the solid state power controller further comprising at least one solid state switch and a controller to limit the power dissipated in the solid state power switch based on a measured voltage across the solid state switch and a predetermined power dissipation threshold for the SSPC to adjust the output current or voltage control signal of the solid state switch such that the actual power dissipation of the SSPC does not exceed the threshold.
US10910825B2
A system for an electrical power distribution network includes an electrical apparatus configured to monitor or control one or more aspects of the electrical power distribution network, the electrical apparatus including a contact switch configured to open and close. The system also includes an input apparatus. The input apparatus includes an impedance module; and an input interface electrically connected to the impedance module and to the contact switch of the electrical apparatus. The input interface is configured to have one of a plurality of input impedances, the plurality of input impedances include at least a first input impedance and a second input impedance that is lower than the first input impedance, and the input interface has the second input impedance when the contact switch of the electrical apparatus is open. The input apparatus may include a plurality of leakage current detection modules.
US10910822B2
A system includes a first transistor having a first control input and first and second current terminals. The first current terminal couples to an input voltage node. A second transistor has a second control input and third and fourth current terminals. The third current terminal couples to the second current terminal at a first node. The fourth current terminal couples to an output voltage node. A drive circuit is configured to charge a capacitor maintain the first transistor in an off state responsive to a negative voltage on the input voltage node, and, responsive to a negative voltage on the input voltage node, to cause the charge from the capacitor to be used to turn off the first transistor. The system provides a voltage to a load coupled to the output voltage node.
US10910814B2
A receptacle including an electronic processor configured to receive information from an external load and determine, from the information, an operation profile of the external load. The electronic processor analyzes a present operation of the external load and discontinues power to the external load when a present operation of the external load differs from the operational profile.
US10910810B2
A gel sealing device includes a gel sealing block (5) which provides a sealing section (22) through which the elongate parts (13, 14) extend. The gel sealing block (5) includes an upper flange (11) and a lower flange (12) with a support section (11a, 12a, 12b) disposed therebetween. The upper and lower flanges (11, 12) sandwiches, in direction of extension of the elongate parts (13, 14), a gel inner ring (7) supported by said support section (2) and a gel outer ring (6, 10a) covering the gel inner ring (7) in a radial direction extending transverse to said extension direction. The gel inner ring (7) and the gel outer ring (6, 10a) are made of a gel sealing material.
US10910804B2
A cable management device includes a first cable management arm, a second cable management arm and an auxiliary member. The second cable management arm is movable relative to the first cable management arm. The auxiliary member is extendable and retractable relative to one of the first cable management arm and the second cable management arm. When the auxiliary member is moved relative to the one of the first cable management arm and the second cable management arm, a length direction of the auxiliary member is parallel to a length direction of the one of the first cable management arm and the second cable management arm, and the auxiliary member is movable along the length direction of the one of the first cable management arm and the second cable management arm.
US10910793B2
A laser or light emitter for operation at a cryogenic temperature includes a single quantum well layer, an n-type barrier layer directly on a first surface of the single quantum well layer, and a p-type barrier layer directly on a second surface of the single quantum well layer opposite the first surface of the single quantum well layer. The single quantum well layer is between the p-type barrier layer and the n-type barrier layer and the compositions of the n-type barrier layer and the p-type barrier layer are graded.
US10910792B2
Hybrid silicon lasers are provided including a bulk silicon substrate, a localized insulating layer that extends on at least a portion of the bulk silicon substrate, an optical waveguide structure on an upper surface of the localized insulating layer. The optical waveguide structure includes an optical waveguide including a silicon layer. A lasing structure is provided on the optical waveguide structure.
US10910790B2
Embodiments pertain to a semiconductor device package, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device package, and an autofocusing apparatus including the semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package according to an embodiment may include: a package body; a diffusion unit; and a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) semiconductor device disposed on a support and under the diffusion unit. According to the embodiment, the package body may include the support, a first sidewall protruding to a first thickness from an edge region of an upper surface of the support and having a first upper surface of a first width, and a second sidewall protruding to a second thickness from the first upper surface of the first side wall and having a second upper surface of a second width, wherein the support, the first sidewall, and the second sidewall may be integrally formed with the same material. The diffusion unit may be disposed on the first upper surface of the first sidewall and may be disposed to be surrounded by the second sidewall.
US10910786B2
The disclosure describes aspects of laser cavity optical alignment, and more particularly, in situ alignment of optical devices in an optical system for replacement or upgrade. In one aspect, a method for optical alignment in an optical system is described that includes providing, via a positioning system, an optical beam to measure surface features and position of a first device under test (DUT), removing the first DUT from the optical system, placing a second DUT in the optical system at substantially the same position from which the first DUT was removed, providing, via the positioning system, an optical beam to measure surface features and position of the second DUT, aligning the second DUT based on the measurements made of the first DUT and the second DUT, and verifying operation of the second DUT in the optical system. The DUT can be an optical device such as an output optical coupler.
US10910779B2
A connector including a first connector and a second connector configured to face each to fit together. The first connector includes a first internal terminal including terminals along a longitudinal direction, a first insulating member supporting the first internal terminal, and first external terminals at two ends of the first internal terminal in the longitudinal direction. The second connector includes a second internal terminal including terminals along a longitudinal direction and that engages with the first internal terminal, a second insulating member supporting the second internal terminal, and second external terminals at two ends of the second internal terminal in the longitudinal direction. The first connector includes projecting portions that project further toward the second connector than the first internal terminal does in a fitting direction. The second connector includes recesses that accommodate the projecting portions and guiding portions, each being in a vicinity of one of the recesses.
US10910775B2
A drive element for an electrical connector comprises a gear wheel and an overload coupler. The overload coupler is between the gear wheel and a hub.
US10910765B2
A lever-type connector has a lever that rotates about a shaft on a first housing between a retracted position and a connection start position. The first housing and a second housing are connected by rotation of the lever from the connection start position. A detector is movable between a standby position and a detection position with respect to the lever. The lever includes a lock on an end separated from the shaft. The second housing includes a full locking portion to engage the lock when the housings are connected. The detector locks the lock at the standby position and becomes movable to the detection position when the full locking portion engages the lock. The first housing includes a housing-side lock, and the lever includes a lever-side lock that locks the housing-side lock at the retracted position. The lever-side lock is at a position different from the lock of the lever.
US10910763B2
A cable-connector assembly includes: a cable including signal-carrying members, the signal-carrying members being circumferentially surrounded by a conduit; a connector configured to mate with a mating connector, the signal carrying members being connected with ports on the connector; and a generally cylindrical housing that circumferentially surrounds the signal-carrying members, the housing including a narrow neck that fits within an end of the conduit and a wide main portion that engages the connector.
US10910759B2
A connector includes a plurality of contacts, a holding member and a shell. The holding member has a main portion and a tongue portion. The main portion includes three or more positioned portions. The shell is formed with a hole and three or more positioning protrusions. The hole has a closed periphery on a surface of the shell. The hole pierces the shell in a first direction perpendicular to a mating direction. The positioning protrusions occupy zones, respectively, in the mating direction. The zones overlap with each other in the mating direction. The positioning protrusions include a first positioning protrusion and two second positioning protrusions. The first positioning protrusion forms a part of the closed periphery of the hole. The first positioning protrusion faces the hole. When the shell is viewed alone, at least one of the second positioning protrusions is visible through the hole.
US10910753B2
It is aimed to realize miniaturization. A connector includes a terminal unit (50) having a terminal holding member (51) and configured to be displaced between a partial locking position and a full locking position integrally with a retainer (30), a terminal fitting (58) mounted in the terminal holding member (51) such that a draw-out direction of a wire (61) is a direction intersecting a displacing direction of the retainer (30), a stopper (25) formed in the housing (10) and facing in a direction opposite to the draw-out direction of the wire (61), and a butting portion (54) formed on the terminal holding member (51), the butting portion being not locked to the stopper (25) with the retainer (30) held at the partial locking position and being lockable to the stopper (25) by a displacement of the retainer (30) to the full locking position.
US10910744B2
A vehicular camera includes a front housing portion that accommodates a lens and an imager, a circuit board disposed at the front housing portion, a rear housing portion and a coaxial connecting element at the rear housing portion. The coaxial connecting element includes a first coaxial connector portion and a second coaxial connector portion. The first coaxial connector portion extends outward from the rear housing portion and the second coaxial connector portion extends inward from the rear housing portion. The circuit board has a coaxial connector established thereat. When the rear housing portion is mated with the front housing portion, the second coaxial connector portion electrically connects to the coaxial connector to electrically connect the coaxial connecting element with circuitry at the circuit board. The first coaxial connector portion is configured to connect to a coaxial cable of a vehicle when the vehicular camera is disposed at the vehicle.
US10910731B2
A flat panel antenna is provided. The flat panel antenna may include a plurality of flat panel arrays (FPAs) that are arranged adjacent one another. Ones of the plurality of FPAs are configured to radiate in a plurality of different respective frequency bands and/or at different respective polarizations. The flat panel antenna includes an enclosure that defines an internal cavity that includes the plurality of FPAs.
US10910724B2
Disclosed are multi-band trace antennas and circuit boards including a multi-band trace antenna for the transmission and/or reception of information in a wireless communication system. The circuit board is configurable to include a multi-band trace antenna. Additionally, the circuit board can comprise a feed point adjacent an edge of the circuit board, the feed point being connected to a pair of closely coupled traces of unequal length, a first of the traces extending away from the feed point along the edge of the circuit board, and a second of the traces extending away from the feed point inboard of the first antenna trace, the circuit board comprises a ground plane coplanar with the traces, an edge of the ground plane extending alongside and closely coupled with the second of the traces to cause an area of the ground place adjacent the edge to radiate at a selected lower operational frequency of the antenna, wherein an edge of a longer of the pair of closely coupled traces is indented to vary a width of the trace at a plurality of points along its length and to increase radiation of the shorter of the pair of closely coupled traces at a selected higher operational frequency of the antenna.
US10910720B2
An antenna includes a dielectric, first to fourth antenna electrodes, and at least one probe electrode. The dielectric has first to fifth planes stacked parallel to each other in a stacking direction. The first to the fourth antenna electrodes each have an annular shape. The first antenna electrode is disposed on the first plane. The second antenna electrode is different in size from the first antenna electrode and disposed on the second plane. The third antenna electrode is disposed on the third plane. The fourth antenna electrode is different in size from the third antenna electrode and disposed on the fourth plane. The probe electrode is disposed on the fifth plane and overlaps one or both of the first and third antenna electrodes and one or both of the second and fourth antenna electrodes when seen in plan view along the stacking direction.
US10910717B2
An antenna device including a first rod-shaped core having a flange portion and a second rod-shaped core having a flange portion, which are arranged in series and including a first coil and a second coil, wherein the end surface of the first rod-shaped core and the end surface of the second rod-shaped core are spaced.
US10910714B2
A signal processing circuit reduces die size and power consumption for each antenna element. The signal processing circuit includes a first set of ports, a third port, a first path, a second path and a first transistor. The first path is between a first port of the first set of ports and the third port. The second path is between a second port of the first set of ports and the third port. The first transistor is coupled between the first path and the second path. The first transistor is configured to receive a control signal to control the first transistor to adjust an impedance between the first path and the second path.
US10910710B2
Systems and methods are provided for distortion redirection in phased arrays. In an electronic device configured for transmission and reception of signals and having a two-dimensional phased array, effects of distortion, corresponding to at least one processing function applied during communication of signals, on the communication of signals may be assessed, and based on the effects of distortion, one or more adjustments for mitigating the effects of distortion may be configured and applied during processing of signals. Assessing the effects of distortion may include determining one or more characteristics associated with the communication of the signals, where the one or more characteristics relate and/or are subject to the effects of the distortion, and assessing the effects of distortion based on the one or more characteristics.
US10910704B2
A system for manufacturing an antenna includes a first stamping station, a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) alignment station, a bonding station, a second stamping station, and a ferrite shield station. The first stamping station receives a sheet of metallic material and stamps the sheet to form an antenna including traces, contacts, a carrier connected to the traces, and a tie-bar connected between the traces. The PSA alignment station receives the stamped antenna and aligns a PSA area of a pad with the traces, the PSA area being substantially the same shape as the traces. The bonding station bonds the PSA area to the traces after it has been aligned with the traces. The second stamping station performs a second stamping of the antenna and the PSA area to remove the carrier and the tie-bar. The ferrite shield station bonds a ferrite shield to the antenna stamped for a second time.
US10910699B2
A triple-band antenna array for cellular base stations operates at a first frequency band and at a second frequency band within a first frequency range, and also at a third frequency band within a second frequency range. The triple-band antenna array comprises a first set of radiating elements operating at the first frequency band, a second set of radiating elements operating at the second frequency band, a third set of radiating elements operating at both the third and the first frequency bands, and a fourth set of radiating elements operating at both the third and the second frequency bands. The radiating elements are arranged such that at least some of the radiating elements of the first and third sets are interlaced, and at least some of the radiating elements of the second and fourth sets are interlaced.
US10910695B2
An on-chip antenna includes an integrated circuit chip, a reflective conductor, at least one first coupler, at least one patch antenna element, a connection, and at least one second coupler. The integrated circuit chip includes a semiconductor, has an active surface and a back surface opposed to each other, and has a semiconductor circuit. The reflective conductor is disposed above the back surface. The at least one first coupler is disposed between the back surface and the reflective conductor. The at least one patch antenna element is disposed above the reflective conductor. The connection couples the at least one patch antenna element and the at least one first coupler. The at least one second coupler is provided on the active surface to be electrically conductive to the semiconductor circuit, and is opposed to the at least one first coupler and in non-contact with the at least one first coupler.
US10910686B2
An electrochemical cell includes a permeable fuel electrode configured to support a metal fuel thereon, and an oxidant reduction electrode spaced from the fuel electrode. An ionically conductive medium is provided for conducting ions between the fuel and oxidant reduction electrodes, to support electrochemical reactions at the fuel and oxidant reduction electrodes. A charging electrode is also included, selected from the group consisting of (a) the oxidant reduction electrode, (b) a separate charging electrode spaced from the fuel and oxidant reduction electrodes, and (c) a portion of the permeable fuel electrode. The charging electrode is configured to evolve gaseous oxygen bubbles that generate a flow of the ionically conductive medium. One or more flow diverters are also provided in the electrochemical cell, and configured to direct the flow of the ionically conductive medium at least partially through the permeable fuel electrode.
US10910685B2
Vehicle having a high-voltage battery which has a housing, wherein the housing has a housing floor which is essentially parallel to an underlying surface on which the vehicle is standing or travelling, a housing cover which is arranged spaced apart from the housing floor, housing walls via which the housing floor is connected to the housing cover. The housing has at least one housing structure plate which has a plane of maximum size which is perpendicular with respect to the housing floor and with respect to the housing cover, and an underside which faces the housing floor or is connected thereto, and an upper side which faces the housing cover or is connected thereto. In an interior space of the housing structure plate at least two parallel cooling ducts are provided, through which coolant or a cooling agent flows, and on a first side and a second side, lying opposite the first side, of the housing structure plate at least one electrical storage cell is respectively arranged, in particular a multiplicity of electrical storage cells are respectively arranged, wherein the storage cells each have a positive and a negative connecting pole. At least one connecting pole or both connecting poles of the storage cells is/are connected to the first and/or second side of the housing structure plate in a thermally conductive and electrically insulated fashion.
US10910680B2
A battery thermal management system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery pack, a coolant subsystem configured to cool the battery pack, and a thermoelectric device disposed within the coolant subsystem and selectively activated to augment cooling of the battery pack.
US10910668B2
A battery system 5 is provided with an all-solid-state battery 10, a voltage detection device that detects voltage of the all-solid-state battery, a current detection device 66 that detects current flowing from the all-solid-state battery, and a control device 50 that controls the all-solid-state battery. A negative electrode active material layer is composed of lithium metal. The control device calculates the amount of change in charging rate as a first estimated value, based on an integrated value obtained by integrating detected current over a prescribed calculation period, calculates the amount of change in charging rate as a second estimated value, based on voltage detected during the calculation period as a second estimated value, and judges that an abnormality has occurred in the all-solid-state battery when the difference between the first estimated value and the second estimated value is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value.
US10910665B2
Disclosed herein are provided a lithium secondary battery capable of improving an output characteristic, a life characteristic, and stability of electrode adhesion by using a binder containing dopamine-polymerized heparin in a anode containing silicon. In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a lithium secondary battery includes: an cathode; a anode; a separation film disposed between the cathode and the anode; and an electrolyte, wherein the anode comprises an electrode active material comprising a silicon-based material and graphite, a binder and a conductive material, and the binder comprises any one of heparin and lithium polyacrylate (LiPAA).
US10910644B2
A nickel-hydrogen battery includes a plurality of electrodes each including a current collector made of a metal, and disposed in a manner stacked in a first direction; a separator disposed between adjacent electrodes of the plurality of electrodes; a plurality of resin members disposed on peripheral portions of the plurality of electrodes to ensure a clearance between the adjacent electrodes; and a surface treatment layer covering one surface of the current collector at least in the peripheral portion of the plurality of electrode. The surface treatment layer includes a plurality of protrusions from the one surface. Widest parts of the protrusions are located above base ends thereof, and parts of the resin members are interposed between adjacent protrusions, across a range from tip ends to the base ends thereof.
US10910637B2
Provided are a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery which have high energy capacity and include a nickel-containing positive electrode active material, and an additive including metal particles and lithium oxide.
US10910627B2
The disclosure is related to a battery formation system and probe supporting structure thereof. The battery formation system includes a base, a holder, a probe supporting structure and at least one probe. The base is adaptive to bear at least one battery, and the holder is located on one side of the base. The probe supporting structure is disposed on the holder. The probe supporting structure has an air flow passage and at least one air discharge channel connected to each other, and an extension direction of the air flow passage intersects an extension direction of the at least one air discharge channel. The at least one probe is disposed on the probe supporting structure, and a probing end of the at least one probe and an air outlet of the at least one air discharge channel are located at a same side of the probe supporting structure.
US10910625B2
Battery parts having retaining and sealing features and associated assemblies and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a battery part includes a base portion that is configured to be embedded in battery container material of a corresponding battery container. The battery part and base portion include several torque resisting features and gripping features that resist torsional or twist loads that are applied to the battery part after it has been joined to the battery container. For example, the base portion can include several internal and external torque resisting features and gripping features that are configured to resist twisting or loosening of the battery part with reference to the battery container material, as well as prevent or inhibit fluid leakage from the battery container.
US10910622B2
A connection member and a rechargeable battery are provided. The connection member includes a guide plate, two first connection plates and a second connection plate; the two first connection plates are respectively connected to two sides of the guide plate in a width direction and are arranged bendably with respect to the guide plate; the second connection plate is connected to an upper end of the guide plate in a height direction Z, and the top ends of the two first connection plates are at different heights. In some examples, overcurrent capability of the connection member and rapid charging capability and safety performance of the rechargeable battery can be improved.
US10910614B2
This disclosure details electrified vehicles that are equipped with secondary battery packs for increasing the electric range of the vehicles. An exemplary electrified vehicle includes a cargo space, such as a truck bed, and a secondary battery pack positioned within the cargo space. The secondary battery pack is adapted to selectively supply power for propelling one or more vehicle drive wheels. In some embodiments, the secondary battery pack is shaped like, and therefore disguised as, a toolbox.
US10910598B2
A lighting apparatus using an organic light emitting diode that has a first area and a second area, the lighting apparatus comprises a substrate; a barrier layer disposed on the substrate; an auxiliary line disposed in the first area on the substrate; a first electrode disposed on an entire surface of the substrate; an organic layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer, wherein the barrier layer includes a first inorganic barrier layer, an organic barrier pattern disposed in the second area, and a second inorganic barrier layer.
US10910597B2
An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a more convenient highly reliable light-emitting device which can be used for a variety of applications. Another object of one embodiment of the present invention is to manufacture, without complicating the process, a highly reliable light-emitting device having a shape suitable for its intended purpose. In a manufacturing process of a light-emitting device, a light-emitting panel is manufactured which is at least partly curved by processing the shape to be molded after the manufacture of an electrode layer and/or an element layer, and a protective film covering a surface of the light-emitting panel which is at least partly curved is formed, so that a light-emitting device using the light-emitting panel has a more useful function and higher reliability.
US10910588B2
A display device includes a substrate including an upper surface, a lower surface, and side surfaces; a display element layer on the upper surface overlapping the display area; an encapsulation layer on the upper surface, the encapsulation layer including a main part that overlaps the display element layer and a protruding part that protrudes along a first direction from the main part and overlaps the bezel area; an input sensor on the main part; a first circuit board facing the main part, overlapping the bezel area, and on the upper surface; and a second circuit board on the protruding part, wherein each of the first circuit board and the second circuit board is adjacent to a first side surface among the side surfaces, and in the first direction, the protruding part is more adjacent to the first side surface than the main part.
US10910586B2
A lighting apparatus including organic light-emitting diodes comprises an anode disposed in an emission area of a substrate; first and second pad electrodes disposed on an outer side of the emission area of the substrate; a short-circuit reduction pattern surrounding an emission zone of each of pixels and formed by removing a part of the anode; a passivation layer comprising the short-circuit reduction pattern and disposed on the anode; an organic layer and a cathode disposed on the passivation layer in the emission area of the substrate; and a metal film disposed in the emission area of the substrate, wherein the short-circuit reduction pattern has a gradually-reducing resistance with an increased distance between the pixels and the first and second pad electrodes.
US10910574B2
A display panel, terminal, and method are provided for display control in the technical field of display. The display panel may include: an image display panel; an optical sensor array in the image display panel. The optical sensor array may include a plurality of optical sensors arranged in an array. The display further includes a grating panel disposed above the optical sensor array. The grating panel includes an optical shading area that is not overlapped with an optical sensing area of the optical sensors.
US10910572B2
A flexible display device including: a display substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a plurality of pixels formed in the display area; a passivation layer covering the pixels from the top to protect the pixels; a polarization film layer provided at the top of the passivation layer and of which an edge is extended outside an edge of the passivation layer; and a film wiring made of a flexible material of which one end is connected to the peripheral area.
US10910561B1
Providing for two-terminal memory that mitigates diffusion of external material therein is described herein. In some embodiments, a two-terminal memory cell can comprise an electrode layer. The electrode layer can be at least in part permeable to ionically or chemically reactive material, such as oxygen or the like. The two-terminal memory can further comprise a diffusion mitigation material disposed between the electrode layer and external material. This diffusion mitigation material can be selected to mitigate or prevent diffusion of the undesired element(s) or compound(s), to mitigate or avoid exposure of such element(s) or compound(s) to the electrode layer. Accordingly, degradation of the two-terminal memory as a result of contact with the undesired element(s) or compound(s) can be mitigated by various disclosed embodiments.
US10910554B2
A spin-current magnetization rotational element includes a spin orbit torque wiring extending in a first direction and a first ferromagnetic layer disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction of the spin orbit torque wiring, the spin orbit torque wiring having a first surface positioned on the side where the first ferromagnetic layer is disposed, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the spin orbit torque wiring has a second region on the first surface outside a first region in which the first ferromagnetic layer is disposed, the second region being recessed from the first region to the second surface side.
US10910542B2
A laminated thermoelectric conversion element is a laminated thermoelectric conversion element that has: a first end surface and a second end surface opposed to each other; a heat absorption surface; and a heat release surface, where p-type thermoelectric conversion material layers and n-type thermoelectric conversion material layers are electrically connected and at the same time, laminated alternately in a meander form with insulating layers partially interposed there between, in an intermediate part, the p-type thermoelectric conversion material layers are laminated which have a p-type basic thickness, whereas the n-type thermoelectric conversion material layers are laminated which have an n-type basic thickness, and the thickness of the p-type thermoelectric conversion material layer or n-type thermoelectric conversion material layer outside the insulating layer located closest to any of the first end surface and second end surface is larger as compared with the basic thickness of the thermoelectric conversion material layer with the same type of conductivity.
US10910541B2
A thermoelectric element according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first substrate; a plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and a plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs that are alternately arranged on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed on the plurality of P- and N-type thermoelectric legs; and a plurality of electrodes that connect the plurality of P- and N-type thermoelectric legs in series, wherein the plurality of electrodes include a plurality of first electrodes disposed between the first substrate and the plurality of P- and N-type thermoelectric legs, and a plurality of second electrodes disposed between the second substrate and the plurality of P- and N-type thermoelectric legs, and grains constituting at least one of the plurality of first and second electrodes grow in the direction from the first substrate to the second substrate.
US10910538B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a plurality of active regions configured to emit electromagnetic radiation, wherein the active regions are arranged spaced apart from each other, wherein the active regions have a main extension direction, wherein each active region has a core region, an active layer covering the core region at least in directions transverse to the main extension direction, wherein each active region has a cover layer covering the active layer at least in directions transverse to the main extension direction, wherein each active region has a current spreading layer at least partly covering sidewalls of each respective active region, and wherein a metal layer directly adjoins parts of the active regions and parts of the current spreading layers.
US10910536B2
The light emitting element includes: first and second light emitting cells each including an n-side semiconductor layer, an active layer and a p-side semiconductor layer; a first insulating film covering the first and second light emitting cells, and provided with first p-side and first n-side openings; a wiring electrode connected to the first light emitting cell at the first n-side opening, and connected to the second light emitting cell at the first p-side opening; a first electrode connected to the first light emitting cell; a second electrode connected to the second light emitting cell; a second insulating film provided with a second p-side opening formed above the first electrode, a second n-side opening formed above the second electrode, and a third opening formed above the wiring electrode; a first external connection portion connected to the first electrode; and a second external connection portion connected to the second electrode.
US10910535B2
A method for making light emitting device LED arrays includes the steps of providing a plurality of LEDs having a desired configuration (e.g., VLED, FCLED, PLED); attaching the LEDs to a carrier substrate and to a temporary substrate; forming one or more metal layers and one or more insulator layers configured to electrically connect the LEDs to form a desired circuitry; and separating the LEDs along with the layered metal layers and insulator layers that form the desired circuitry from the carrier substrate and the temporary substrate.
US10910534B2
According to one embodiment, the light guide plate has a first major surface, a second major surface, a side surface, and a recess. The recess is provided in the second major surface. The fluorescent layer is provided in the recess. The light-emitting element is bonded to the fluorescent layer and includes an electrode on a surface of the light-emitting element on a side opposite to a surface of the light-emitting element bonded to the fluorescent layer. The module side surface includes at least a portion of the side surface of the light guide plate. The first interconnect is provided along the second major surface and connected to the electrode of the light-emitting element. The second interconnect is provided on the module side surface and connected to the first interconnect.
US10910532B2
A semiconductor device package is provided, which includes a carrier, an emitter and a first transparent encapsulant. The carrier has a first surface. The emitter is disposed on the first surface. The first transparent encapsulant encapsulates the emitter. The first transparent encapsulant includes a body and a lens portion. The body has a first planar surface. The lens portion is disposed on the body and has a first planar surface. The first planar surface of the lens portion is substantially coplanar with the first planar surface of the body.
US10910531B2
An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes an optical element including silicone as a polymer material, the silicone having repeating units of cyclic siloxane and of linear siloxane which are arranged in alternation, wherein the optoelectronic component is configured to emit radiation.
US10910529B2
In a method according to embodiments of the invention, for a predetermined amount of light produced by a light emitting diode and converted by a phosphor layer comprising a host material and a dopant, and for a predetermined maximum reduction in efficiency of the phosphor at increasing excitation density, a maximum dopant concentration of the phosphor layer is selected.
US10910528B2
This disclosure discloses an LED assembly. The LED assembly includes a transparent mount with a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, an LED chip arranged on the top surface, an electrode plate, a first phosphor layer having a first phosphor, and a second phosphor layer having a second phosphor, wherein the transparent mount and the electrode plate substantially have a same width. The electrode plate is arranged on an edge of the top surface and electrically connected to the LED chip.
US10910527B2
An optoelectronic component is disclosed. In an embodiment, an optoelectronic component includes a semiconductor chip configured to emit primary radiation having a peak wavelength between 420 nm inclusive and 480 nm inclusive and a conversion element including a first converter material configured to partially convert the primary radiation into secondary radiation in a green range of the electromagnetic spectrum and a second converter material configured to partially convert the primary radiation into a secondary radiation in a red region of the electromagnetic spectrum, wherein the second converter material including a first red phosphor of the formula (K,Na)2(Si,Ti)F6:Mn4+ and a second red phosphor of the formula(M′)2-x′Eux′Si2Al2N6 where M′=Sr, Ca, Ba, and/or Mg and 0.001≤x′≤0.2, and wherein the optoelectronic device is configured to emit white total radiation.
US10910519B2
An embodiment discloses a semiconductor device including a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode electrically connected with the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second electrode electrically connected with the second conductive semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor device package including the same. The second conductive semiconductor layer includes a first surface on which the second electrode is disposed. The second conductive semiconductor layer has a ratio of a second shortest distance W2, which is a distance from the first surface to a second point, to a first shortest distance W1, which is a distance from the first surface to a first point, (W2:W1) ranging from 1:1.25 to 1:100. The first point is a point at which the second conductive semiconductor layer has the same aluminum composition as a well layer of the active layer closest to the second conductive semiconductor layer. The second point is a point at which the second conductive semiconductor layer has the same dopant composition as the aluminum composition.
US10910512B2
The present invention relates to a nano-scale light-emitting diode (LED) element for a horizontal array assembly, a manufacturing method thereof, and a horizontal array assembly including the same, and more particularly, to a nano-scale LED element for a horizontal array assembly that can significantly increase the number of nano-scale LED elements connected to an electrode line, facilitate an arrangement of the elements, and implement a horizontal array assembly having a very good electric connection between an electrode and an element and a significant high quantity of light when a horizontal array assembly having the nano-scale LED elements laid in a length direction thereof and connected to the electrode line is manufactured, a manufacturing method thereof, and a horizontal array assembly including the same.
US10910508B1
A method is provided for fabricating a backside-illuminated photodetector in which a device wafer is joined to a readout wafer in an IC hybridization step. Before the IC hybridization step, the device layer is defined in the device wafer, and an LPCVD layer is formed over the device layer. The LPCVD layer may be a passivation layer, an antireflection coating, or both. The side of the device wafer having the LPCVD layer is bonded to a handle wafer, the IC is hybridized by mating the device wafer to the readout wafer, and the handle wafer is then removed, exposing the LPCVD layer. Because the LPCVD layer is formed before the active devices are fabricated, it can be made by high-temperature techniques for deposition and processing. Accordingly, a layer of high quality can be fabricated without any hazard to the active devices.
US10910504B2
[Object] To propose a solid-state imaging element, an imaging device, and a method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging element that are capable of providing a pixel with polarization sensitivity while suppressing the reduction in sensitivity to non-polarized incident light. [Solution] A solid-state imaging element according to the present disclosure includes: a light receiving element included in a plurality of pixels; and a groove section provided on surfaces of at least some of the pixels in the light receiving element and extended along a prescribed direction. Two or more directions including at least mutually orthogonal two directions exist as a direction in which the groove section is extended.
US10910496B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-like structure extending along a first axis; a first source/drain feature disposed at a first end portion of the fin-like structure; and a constraint layer disposed at a first side of the first end portion of the fin-like structure, wherein the first source/drain feature comprises a first portion, disposed at the first side, the first portion comprising a shorter extended width along a second axis, and a second portion, disposed at a second side that is opposite to the first side, the second portion comprising a longer extended width along the second axis.
US10910489B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer that is provided above the substrate, has a first lattice period in a first direction parallel to a substrate plane, and includes nitrogen and aluminum; a second nitride semiconductor layer that is provided between the substrate and the first nitride semiconductor layer and includes nitrogen and aluminum and of which at least a portion has a second lattice period that is three times the first lattice period in the first direction parallel to the substrate plane; a third nitride semiconductor layer provided above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a fourth nitride semiconductor layer that is provided on the third nitride semiconductor layer and has a larger bandgap than the third nitride semiconductor layer; at least one main electrode provided on the fourth nitride semiconductor layer; and a control electrode provided above the third nitride semiconductor layer, the control electrode being configured to control a current of the semiconductor device.
US10910485B2
In a surface layer of a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate, an n+-type cathode region and a p-type cathode region are each selectively provided. The n+-type cathode region and the p-type cathode region constitute a cathode layer and are adjacent to each other along a direction parallel to the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate. The n+-type cathode region and the p-type cathode region are in contact with a cathode electrode. In an n−-type drift layer, plural n-type FS layers are provided at differing depths deeper from the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate than is the cathode layer. With such configuration, in a diode, a tradeoff relationship of forward voltage reduction and reverse recovery loss reduction may be improved and soft recovery may be realized.
US10910484B2
On a single-crystal semiconductor substrate with an upper surface including a first direction in which an inverted mesa step extends and a second direction in which a forward mesa step extends in response to anisotropic etching in which an etching rate depends on crystal plane orientation, a bipolar transistor including a collector layer, a base layer, and an emitter layer that are epitaxially grown, and a base wire connected to the base layer are arranged. A step is provided at an edge of the base layer, and the base wire is extended from inside to outside of the base layer in a direction intersecting the first direction in a plan view. An intersection of the edge of the base layer and the base wire has a disconnection prevention structure that makes it difficult for step-caused disconnection of the base wire to occur.
US10910483B2
A method and structure for forming a fin bottom diode includes providing a substrate having a plurality of fins extending therefrom. Each of the plurality of fins includes a substrate portion and an epitaxial layer portion over the substrate portion. A first dopant layer is formed on sidewalls of a first region of the substrate portion of each of the plurality of fins. After forming the first dopant layer, a first annealing process is performed to form a first diode region within the first region of the substrate portion. A second dopant layer is formed on sidewalls of a second region of the substrate portion of each of the plurality of fins. After forming the second dopant layer, a second annealing process is performed to form a second diode region within the second region of the substrate portion of each of the plurality of fins.
US10910479B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a fin structure formed on a substrate; and a gate feature formed over the fin structure, the gate feature comprising a gate dielectric layer, wherein the gate dielectric layer traverses the fin structure to overlay a central portion of the fin structure and opposite side portions of the fin structure that are located in respective undercuts formed in respective portions of a dielectric layer located adjacent to opposite sidewalls of the gate feature, wherein the undercuts extend beyond respective sidewalls of the gate feature and away from the central portion of the fin structure.
US10910475B2
A method of manufacturing a silicon wafer includes extracting an n-type silicon ingot over an extraction time period from a silicon melt comprising n-type dopants, adding p-type dopants to the silicon melt over at least part of the extraction time period, so as to compensate an n-type doping in the n-type silicon ingot by 20% to 80%, and slicing the silicon ingot.
US10910474B2
A method for manufacturing a group III nitride semiconductor substrate includes a preparation step S10 for preparing a group III nitride semiconductor substrate having a sapphire substrate having a semipolar plane as a main surface, and a group III nitride semiconductor layer positioned over the main surface, in which a <0002> direction of the sapphire substrate and a <10-10> direction of the group III nitride semiconductor layer do not intersect at right angles in a plan view in a direction perpendicular to the main surface, and a growth step S20 for epitaxially growing a group III nitride semiconductor over the group III nitride semiconductor layer.
US10910469B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a conducting structure. The substrate has a first conductivity type and includes a first isolation region, a first implant region, and a second implant region. The first isolation region is disposed along the circumference of the substrate. The first implant region has the first conductivity type, and the second implant region has a second conductivity type that is the opposite of the first conductivity type. The conducting structure is disposed on the substrate, and at least a portion of the conducting structure is located on the first isolation region.
US10910466B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit structure includes forming a first magnetic layer, forming a first conductive line over the first magnetic layer, and coating a photo-sensitive coating on the first magnetic layer. The photo-sensitive coating includes a first portion directly over the first conductive line, and a second portion offset from the first conductive line. The first portion is joined to the second portion. The method further includes performing a first light-exposure on the first portion of the photo-sensitive coating, performing a second light-exposure on both the first portion and the second portion of the photo-sensitive coating, developing the photo-sensitive coating, and forming a second magnetic layer over the photo-sensitive coating.
US10910462B2
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, first electrodes above the base substrate, and a light emitting layer disposed at a side of the first electrodes distal from the base substrate, the display substrate further includes signal lines extending in a first direction and fuse wires extending in a second direction, each fuse wire has a fusing point higher than that of the light emitting layer, the fuse wires are located at a side of the light emitting layer proximal to the base substrate and in contact with the light emitting layer, each fuse wire is electrically coupled to at least two signal lines, and an orthographic projection of at least one first electrode on the base substrate is located between orthographic projections of the at least two signal lines on the base substrate.
US10910461B2
A display panel includes a substrate having a first area and a second area, a non-display area surrounding the first area and the second area, and a display area surrounding the non-display area, a plurality of display elements arranged in the display area, and a plurality of signal lines electrically connected to the plurality of display elements, wherein the plurality of signal lines includes a first signal line and a second signal line neighboring each other and extending in a first direction, wherein the first signal line bypasses in the non-display area along a first side of the first area, and the second signal line bypasses in the non-display area along a second side of the first area, and wherein the first and second signal lines are asymmetrical with respect to a virtual central line through a center of the first area in the first direction.
US10910455B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a substrate, a first wiring part on the substrate, a first insulation layer on the first wiring part, a microchip on the first insulation layer, a second wiring part on the microchip, and an organic light emitting device on the second wiring part. The microchip includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, a first pad part on the first surface, and a second pad part on the second surface. The first pad part is connected to the first wiring part, and the second pad part is connected to the second wiring part.
US10910454B2
A display device includes a substrate, regions on the substrate each including a transparent first and a second regions, one or more light-emitting elements disposed in the second region, and a circular polarizing pattern disposed in front of the pixel regions. Each of the one or more light-emitting elements includes a reflective electrode and a transparent electrode layered one above the other, and a light-emitting film provided between the transparent electrode and the reflective electrode. The light-emitting film is configured to emit light in response to electric current supplied between the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode. The circular polarizing pattern covers the entire reflective electrode when seen from the front of the display device. At least a part of the first region is located within a gap in the circular polarizing pattern when seen from the front of the display device.
US10910450B2
A chip on film package structure including a flexible film and a chip is provided. The flexible film includes a main body and a first wing body. The main body includes a main bonding portion configured to be bonded to a first substrate. The first wing body includes a first extending part and a first bent part. The first extending part is extended from a side of the main body. The first bent part is configured to be bent to a second substrate and having a first wing bonding portion. The first wing bonding portion is configured to be bonded to the second substrate. The first substrate and the second substrate are stacked on top of each other. The chip mounted on and electrically connected to the main body. A display device is also provided.
US10910445B2
A disclosed display device includes first electrodes, a second electrode, an organic layer arranged between the first electrodes and the second electrode, and an insulating film configured to cover at least a side face of each of the first electrodes. The insulating film includes a first insulating layer configured to cover at least a part of the side face of each of the first electrodes, and a second insulating layer configured to cover the side face. The first insulating layer is arranged between the side face and the second insulating layer, and includes a first part and a second part whose density is lower than a density of the first part.
US10910443B2
An organic electroluminescence display device includes a first electrode, a first light emitter on the first electrode, the first light emitter including a first light emitting layer, a first charge generation layer disposed on the first light emitter, a second light emitter on the first charge generation layer, the second light emitter including a second light emitting layer, and a second electrode on the second light emitter. The first light emitter includes a first electron injection enhancing layer on the first light emitting layer. The second light emitter includes an electron injection suppressing layer on the second light emitting layer, the electron injection suppressing layer having electron mobility less than that of the first electron injection enhancing layer.
US10910439B1
A tandem solar cell comprises a back subcell; a front subcell; and an interconnecting layer of Cr/MoO3 between the back subcell and the front subcell and connecting the two subcells in series. The front subcell may comprise a carbazole-thienyl-benzothiadiazole based polymer and the back subcell may comprise an isoindigo-based polymer. A method for making a tandem solar cell comprises a) providing a substrate layer; b) applying a layer of PCDTBT:PC71BM to the substrate layer; c) applying a bilayer of chromium and MoO3 to the PCDTBT:PC71BM layer; d) applying a layer of P(T3-iI)-2:PC71BM on the bilayer of chromium and MoO3; and e) applying a Ca and Al electrode layer on the top.
US10910435B2
A method of forming an electrical device that includes forming an amorphous semiconductor material on a metal surface of a memory device, in which the memory device is vertically stacked atop a first transistor. The amorphous semiconductor material is annealed with a laser anneal having a nanosecond duration to convert the amorphous semiconductor material into a crystalline semiconductor material. A second transistor is formed from the semiconductor material. The second transistor vertically stacked on the memory device.
US10910434B2
A magnetoresistive stack/structure and method of manufacturing same comprising wherein the stack/structure includes a seed region, a fixed magnetic region disposed on and in contact with the seed region, a dielectric layer(s) disposed on the fixed magnetic region and a free magnetic region disposed on the dielectric layer(s). In one embodiment, the seed region comprises an alloy including nickel and chromium having (i) a thickness greater than or equal to 40 Angstroms (+/−10%) and less than or equal to 60 Angstroms (+/−10%), and (ii) a material composition or content of chromium within a range of 25-60 atomic percent (+/−10%) or 30-50 atomic percent (+/−10%).
US10910425B2
A solid-state image sensor including a semiconductor layer having a light incident side, a support substrate positioned on an opposite side of the light incident side of the semiconductor layer, photoelectric conversion elements formed two-dimensionally in the semiconductor layer, light reflection structures formed on a surface of the support substrate which faces toward the semiconductor layer, and positioned such that the light reflection structures face the photoelectric conversion elements, respectively, and an interlayer insulating layer formed between adjacent ones of the light reflection structures. The light reflection structures include a light transmission layer and a reflective metal that covers a surface of the light transmission layer opposite to a surface facing the semiconductor layer, and the reflective metal has a concave curved surface facing the photoelectric conversion elements.
US10910422B2
An image sensor package includes a substrate, an image sensor chip disposed on the substrate, and an external force absorbing layer disposed between the substrate and the image sensor chip and having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The image sensor package further includes an adhesive layer configured to bond the second surface of the external force absorbing layer to the substrate. The adhesive layer has a first modulus, and the external force absorbing layer has a second modulus different from the first modulus.
US10910419B2
An image sensor is provided and includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a photoelectric conversion region in the semiconductor substrate and having a second conductivity type, an oxide semiconductor pattern adjacent to a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a transfer gate on the first surface and adjacent to the photoelectric conversion region and the oxide semiconductor pattern.
US10910414B1
An integrated ultraviolet (UV) detector includes a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate, supporting metal oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs), and PN Junction photodiodes. The MOSFET includes a first drain/source implant in the SiC substrate and a second drain/source implant in the SiC substrate. The P-N junction photodiodes include a blanket oxide over the silicon carbide substrate and the gate, an implant extending into the silicon carbide substrate, and an opening extending through the blanket oxide layer down to the silicon carbide substrate on one side of the gate of the P-N junction photodiode.
US10910407B2
A high-performance semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor, an insulating film over the transistor, an electrode, and a metal oxide over the insulating film. The transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first gate insulating film over the first gate electrode, an oxide over the first gate insulating film, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the oxide, a second gate insulating film over the oxide, and a second gate electrode over the second gate insulating film. The electrode includes a region in contact with the insulating film. The first gate insulating film is in contact with the insulating film. The thicknesses of the insulating film over the second gate electrode, the insulating film over the source electrode, and the insulating film over the drain electrode are substantially the same, and the insulating film includes excess oxygen.
US10910402B1
A three-dimensional AND type flash memory and a manufacturing method thereof includes steps below is provided. A stack structure includes a first insulating layer and a first sacrificial layer is formed. A first pillar structure through the stack structure includes a second insulating layer and a second sacrificial layer surrounded by thereof is formed. A second pillar structure through the stack structure includes a channel layer and an insulating pillar surrounded by thereof is formed. The second sacrificial layer is located on both sides of the channel layer. The first sacrificial layer is removed. A lateral opening exposing a portion of the second insulating layer and the channel layer is formed. A gate insulating layer surrounding the exposed second insulating layer and channel layer is formed in the lateral opening. A gate layer is filled in the lateral opening. A conductive layer is used to replace the second sacrificial layer.
US10910392B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes two semiconductor pillars, a connection member connected between the two semiconductor pillars, and a contact connected to the connection member. There is not a conductive member disposed between the two semiconductor pillars.
US10910391B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a substrate, first semiconductor films extending in a first direction crossing a surface of the substrate and arranged in a second direction and in a third direction, a conductive layer which covers peripheral faces of the first semiconductor films on a cross-section crossing the first direction, and a contact which extends in the first direction. Here, when straight lines disposed at equal intervals in the second direction on the cross-section and perpendicular to the second direction are defined as first to third straight lines, a first number of the first semiconductor films are provided on the first straight line, a second number less than the first number of the first semiconductor films are provided on the second straight line, a third number less than the second number of the first semiconductor films are provided on the third straight line.
US10910386B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate; removing part of the semiconductor layer and part of the substrate to form a trench; forming a liner in the trench; removing part of the liner to form a spacer adjacent to two sides of the trench; and forming a bit line structure in the trench.
US10910385B2
A vertical tunneling FET (TFET) provides low-power, high-speed switching performance for transistors having critical dimensions below 7 nm. The vertical TFET uses a gate-all-around (GAA) device architecture having a cylindrical structure that extends above the surface of a doped well formed in a silicon substrate. The cylindrical structure includes a lower drain region, a channel, and an upper source region, which are grown epitaxially from the doped well. The channel is made of intrinsic silicon, while the source and drain regions are doped in-situ. An annular gate surrounds the channel, capacitively controlling current flow through the channel from all sides. The source is electrically accessible via a front side contact, while the drain is accessed via a backside contact that provides low contact resistance and also serves as a heat sink. Reliability of vertical TFET integrated circuits is enhanced by coupling the vertical TFETs to electrostatic discharge (ESD) diodes.
US10910377B2
Laterally-diffused-metal-oxide-silicon (LDMOS) devices, integrated circuits including LDMOS devices, and methods for fabricating the same are provided. An exemplary LDMOS device includes a substrate having a surface, a gate structure overlying the surface and a channel region in the substrate below the gate structure, and a drain region in the substrate. The LDMOS device further includes a surface insulator region disposed between the gate structure and the drain region at the surface of the substrate and a dielectric block different from the surface insulator region and located over the surface insulator region. Also, the LDMOS device includes a field effect structure. The field effect structure includes a field plate disposed over and distanced from the surface of the substrate. The field effect structure also includes a conductive structure coupled to the field plate and extending from the field plate toward the dielectric block.
US10910370B2
Integrated circuit devices and methods of forming the same are provided. Integrated circuit devices may include a channel region protruding from a substrate in a vertical direction, a first source/drain region, and a second source/drain region. The first source/drain region may vertically overlap the channel region. The first and second source/drain regions may contact a first portion and a second portion of the channel region, respectively, and a third portion of the channel region between the first and second portions may include a first channel region extending longitudinally in a first horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the vertical direction and a second channel region extending longitudinally in a second horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the vertical direction and traverses the first horizontal direction. The integrated circuit devices may also include a gate structure on opposing vertical sides of the channel region.
US10910368B1
A circuit structure including a first gate structure, a first multi-connected channel layer and a second transistor is provided. The first gate structure has a first extension direction, and the first gate structure has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The first gate structure is fully surrounded by the first multi-connected channel layer, and a plane direction of the multi-connected channel layer is perpendicular to the first extension direction. The first gate structure and the first multi-connected channel layer form a first transistor. The second transistor is disposed in the first multi-connected channel layer. A second gate structure or a channel of the second transistor is electrical connected to the first multi-connected channel layer.
US10910366B2
A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit (3D SIC) for implementing an artificial neural network (ANN) having a memory die having an array of memory partitions. Each partition of the array of memory partitions is configured to store parameters of a set of neurons. The 3D SIC also has a processing logic die having an array of processing logic partitions. Each partition of the array of processing logic partitions is configured to: receive input data, and process the input data according to the set of neurons to generate output data.
US10910359B2
A transistor includes a first insulator over a substrate; a first oxide thereover; a second oxide in contact with at least part of the top surface of the first oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor each in contact with at least part of the top surface of the second oxide; a third oxide that is over the first conductor and the second conductor and is in contact with at least part of the top surface of the second oxide; a second insulator thereover; a third conductor which is over the second insulator and at least part of which overlaps with a region between the first conductor and the second conductor; and a third insulator which is over the third conductor and at least part of which is in contact with the top surface of the first insulator. The thickness of a region of the first insulator that is in contact with the third insulator is less than the thickness of a region of the first insulator that is in contact with the first oxide.
US10910351B2
An optoelectronic component includes a carrier including a mounting face, wherein at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip configured to emit electromagnetic radiation is arranged above the mounting face, a molding material is arranged above the mounting face, the optoelectronic semiconductor chips are embedded into the molding material, a cavity is formed in the molding material, the cavity is empty, radiation emission faces of the optoelectronic semiconductor chips are not covered by the molding material, the cavity is accessible through an opening in the molding material, and an opening face of the opening is smaller than a sum of all radiation emission faces of the optoelectronic semiconductor chips.
US10910345B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a first die, a second die, a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, a first interconnect structure, and a second interconnect structure. The second die is stacked on the first die, the first redistribution layer is disposed between a first substrate of the first die and a second ILD layer of the second die, and the second redistribution layer is disposed on a second substrate of the second die. The first interconnect structure connects the first redistribution layer to one of first metal lines of the first die, and the second interconnect structure connects the second redistribution layer to one of the second metal lines in the second ILD layer.
US10910342B2
An example embodiment may include a method for placing on a carrier substrate a semiconductor device. The method may include providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a rectangular shaped assist chip, which may include at least one semiconductor device surrounded by a metal-free border. The method may also include dicing the semiconductor substrate to singulate the rectangular shaped assist chip. The method may further include providing a carrier substrate having adhesive thereon. The method may additionally include transferring to and placing on the carrier substrate the rectangular shaped assist chip, thereby contacting the adhesive with the rectangular shaped assist chip at least at a location of the semiconductor device. The method may finally include singulating the semiconductor device, while remaining attached to the carrier substrate by the adhesive, by removing a part of rectangular shaped assist chip other than the semiconductor device.
US10910341B1
First and second contacts are formed on first and second wafers from disparate first and second conductive materials, at least one of which is subject to surface oxidation when exposed to air. A layer of oxide-inhibiting material is disposed over a bonding surface of the first contact and the first and second wafers are positioned relative to one another such that a bonding surface of the second contact is in physical contact with the layer of oxide-inhibiting material. Thereafter, the first and second contacts and the layer of oxide-inhibiting material are heated to a temperature that renders the first and second contacts and the layer of oxide-inhibiting material to liquid phases such that at least the first and second contacts alloy into a eutectic bond.
US10910335B2
A light-emitting module includes a common carrier; a plurality of semiconductor devices formed on the common carrier, and each of the plurality of semiconductor devices including three semiconductor dies; a carrier including a connecting surface; a third bonding pad and a fourth bonding pad formed on the connecting surface; and a connecting layer. One of the three semiconductor dies includes a stacking structure; a first bonding pad; and a second bonding pad with a shortest distance less than 150 microns between the first bonding pad. The connecting layer includes a first conductive part including a first conductive material having a first shape; and a blocking part covering the first conductive part and including a second conductive material having a second shape with a diameter in a cross-sectional view. The first shape has a height greater than the diameter.
US10910328B2
Provided is a silicon wafer manufacturing method capable of reducing the warpage of the wafer occurring during a device process and allowing the subsequent processes, which have been suffered from problems due to severe warping of the wafer, to be carried out without problems and its manufacturing method. A silicon wafer manufacturing method according to the present invention is provided with calculating a target thickness of the silicon wafer required for ensuring a warpage reduction amount of a silicon wafer warped during a device process from a relationship between an amount of warpage of a silicon wafer and a thickness thereof occurring due to application of the same film stress to a plurality of silicon wafers having mutually different thicknesses; and processing a silicon single crystal ingot to thereby manufacture silicon wafers having the target thickness.
US10910323B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package including a bottom package having a substrate, a radio-frequency (RF) die and a system-on-a-chip (SoC) die arranged on the substrate in a side-by-side manner, a molding compound covering the RF die and the SoC die, and an interposer over the molding compound. Connection elements and a column of signal interference shielding elements are disposed on the substrate. The connection elements surround the SoC die. The column of signal interference shielding elements is interposed between the RF die and the SoC die. A top package is mounted on the interposer.
US10910319B2
A back alignment mark on a surface of a semiconductor substrate is detected and a resist mask patterned into a circuit pattern corresponding to a surface element structure is formed on a back of the semiconductor substrate. Detection of the back alignment mark is performed by using a detector opposing the back of the semiconductor substrate and measuring contrast based on the intensity of reflected infrared light irradiated from the back of the semiconductor substrate. The back alignment mark is configured by a step formed by the surface of the semiconductor substrate and bottoms of trenches formed from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A polysilicon film is embedded in the trenches. The back alignment mark has, for example, a cross-shaped planar layout in which three or more trenches are disposed in a direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10910307B2
Back end of line metallization structures and processes of fabricating the metallization structures generally include one or more metal filled via structures within a dielectric layer of an interconnect level, wherein at least one of the metal filled via structures includes a bulk metal and a metal alloy overlaying the bulk metal, wherein the bulk metal and metal alloy filled via is coupled to an active circuit.
US10910305B2
Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device that includes a substrate having transistor layers and interconnect layers including conductive layers to form connections to transistor layers. A capacitive bump is disposed on the interconnect layers. The capacitive bump includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second electrode. In another example, an inductive bump is disposed on the interconnect layers. The inductive bump includes a conductor and a magnetic layer that surrounds the conductor.
US10910298B2
An electronic package includes a substrate having a plurality of lands embedded within an insulating layer. Conductive patterns are disposed on at least a portion of a respective land top surface. An electronic device is electrically connected to the conductive patterns, wherein the land bottom surfaces are exposed to the outside. In another embodiment, the top land surfaces and the top surface of the insulating layer are substantially co-planar and the conductive patterns further overlap portions of the top surface of the insulating layer. In one embodiment, a package body encapsulates the top surface of the insulating material and the electronic device, wherein the land bottom surfaces are exposed to the outside of the package body.
US10910287B2
A semiconductor package having a die with a sidewall protected by molding compound, and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The package includes a die with a first surface opposite a second surface and sidewalls extending between the first and second surfaces. A redistribution layer is formed on the first surface of each die. An area of the first surface of the die is greater than an area of the redistribution layer, such that a portion of the first surface of the die is exposed. When molding compound is formed over the die and the redistribution layer to form a semiconductor package, the molding compound is on the first surface of the die between an outer edge of the redistribution layer and an outer edge of the first surface. The molding compound is also on the sidewalls of the die, which provides protection against chipping or cracking during transport.
US10910279B2
A variable resistance memory device includes a memory unit including a first electrode, a variable resistance pattern and a second electrode sequentially stacked on a substrate, a first selection structure on the memory unit, a third electrode structure on the first selection structure, and an anti-fuse including a fourth electrode, a second selection structure and a fifth electrode structure sequentially stacked. The fourth electrode directly contacts the second selection structure, and a bottom of the fourth electrode is lower than a bottom of the second electrode.
US10910270B2
A manufacturing and packaging method for a semiconductor die is provided. The method prepares a wafer which has a seal-ring region, forms a first interlayer insulating film on the wafer, forms a metal wiring in the first interlayer insulating film, forms a second interlayer insulating film on the first interlayer insulating film, forms metal pads on the second interlayer insulating film, forms a passivation layer on the metal pads, removes a portion of the passivation layer in a region adjacent to the seal-ring region to expose the second interlayer insulating film, etches a portion of the second interlayer insulating film, forms a bump on the metal pads, removes the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film in the region adjacent to the seal-ring region by a laser grooving process, and dices the wafer into a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die.
US10910269B2
A wafer processing method includes a polyester sheet providing step of positioning a wafer in an inside opening of a ring frame and providing a polyester sheet on a back side of the wafer and on a back side of the ring frame, a uniting step of heating the polyester sheet as applying a pressure to the polyester sheet to thereby unite the wafer and the ring frame through the polyester sheet by thermocompression bonding, a dividing step of cutting the wafer by using a cutting apparatus to thereby divide the wafer into individual device chips, and a pickup step of heating the polyester sheet, pushing up each device chip through the polyester sheet, and then picking up each device chip from the polyester sheet.
US10910266B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a via including a first conductive material on an inner wall of a trench on a substrate. The method further includes forming a first insulating interlayer on the substrate. The first insulating interlayer covers the via and partially fills the trench, and the first insulating interlayer has a non-flat upper surface. The method further includes forming a polishing stop layer on the first insulating interlayer, forming a second insulating interlayer on the polishing stop layer, in which the second insulating interlayer fills a remaining portion of the trench, planarizing the second insulating interlayer until the polishing stop layer is exposed, and etching the polishing stop layer and the first and second insulating interlayers using a dry etching process until remaining portions of the polishing stop layer except for a portion of the polishing stop layer in the trench are removed.
US10910262B2
A method of selectively depositing a capping layer structure on a semiconductor device structure is disclosure. The method may include; providing a partially fabricated semiconductor device structure comprising a surface including a metallic interconnect material, a metallic barrier material, and a dielectric material. The method may also include; selectively depositing a first metallic capping layer over the metallic barrier material and over the metallic interconnect material relative to the dielectric material; and selectively depositing a second metallic capping layer over the first metallic capping layer relative to the dielectric material. Semiconductor device structures including a capping layer structure are also disclosed.
US10910257B2
A high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle structure for use in the manufacture of SOI structure is provided. The handle structure comprises an intermediate semiconductor layer between the handle substrate and the buried oxide layer. The intermediate semiconductor layer comprises a polycrystalline, amorphous, nanocrystalline, or monocrystalline structure and comprises a material selected from the group consisting of Si1-xGex, Si1-xCx, Si1-x-yGexSny, Si1-x-y-zGexSnyCz, Ge1-xSnx, group IIIA-nitrides, semiconductor oxides, and any combination thereof.
US10910250B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for mechanically separating layers, in particular in a double layer transfer process. The present disclosure relates more in particular to a method for mechanically separating layers, comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor compound comprising a layer of a handle substrate and an active layer with a front main side and a back main side opposite the front main side, wherein the layer of the handle substrate is attached to the front main side of the active layer, then providing a layer of a carrier substrate onto the back main side of the active layer, and then initiating mechanical separation of the layer of the handle substrate, wherein the layer of the handle substrate and the layer of the carrier substrate are provided with a substantially symmetrical mechanical structure.
US10910247B2
A substrate container including a casing, a rack, a casing holder, a casing lifting mechanism, a lid, and a lid holder. When holding of substrates with the rack shifts to holding of the substrates with the casing holder and the lid holder, the casing lifting mechanism moves the casing holder upward, whereby the casing holder moves the substrates upward. When the holding of the substrates with the casing holder and the lid holder shifts to the holding of the substrates with the rack, the casing lifting mechanism moves the casing holder downward, whereby the casing holder moves the substrates downward.
US10910243B2
A thermal management system comprising a fluid channel with a plurality of parallel first flow paths extending along a first level in a first thermal mass and a plurality of parallel second flow paths extending along a second level in a second thermal mass are described. Methods for controlling the temperature of a substrate or heater surface and fluid manifolds are also described.
US10910240B2
A first transfer robot carries a substrate into and out of a container. A second transfer robot receives and delivers the substrate from and to the first transfer robot, and carries the substrate into and out of a first processing portion through a first exit/entrance port. A third transfer robot receives and delivers the substrate from and to the second transfer robot, carries the substrate into and out of a second processing portion through a second exit/entrance port, and carries the substrate into and out of a third processing portion through a third exit/entrance port.
US10910231B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first etching pattern structure and a second etching pattern structure on a substrate. The first cell etching pattern structure has a top surface at a level that is different from that of a top surface of the second etching pattern structure. The method further includes forming a first spacer layer on the first etching pattern structure and the second etching pattern structure. The first spacer layer covers top and lateral surfaces of the first etching pattern structure and top and lateral surfaces of the second etching pattern structure. The method further includes performing a first etching process on the first spacer layer to form a first spacer and a second spacer. The first spacer layer is fully exposed during the first etching process of the first spacer layer.
US10910230B2
Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
US10910229B2
A method capable of increasing a degree of freedom of process conditions that can be set in a plasma treatment while limiting deterioration in the electrical characteristics of a silicon or metal oxide film exposed to plasma, in performing the plasma treatment on a substrate. The method includes: processing a substrate on which a silicon or metal oxide film is formed, with plasma obtained by plasmarizing a process gas composed of a halogen compound; and subsequently, heating the substrate at a temperature of 450 degrees C. or higher in an inert gas atmosphere or a vacuum atmosphere in a state where the metal oxide film exposed to the plasma is exposed. Thus, deterioration in the characteristics of the oxide film caused by the plasma treatment are restored.
US10910228B2
Surface treatment processes for treating a workpiece with organic radicals are provided. In one example implementation, a method for processing a workpiece having a semiconductor material and a carbon containing layer (e.g., photoresist) can include a surface treatment process on the workpiece. The surface treatment process can include generating one or more species in a first chamber (e.g., a plasma chamber). The surface treatment process can include mixing one or more hydrocarbon radicals with the species to create a mixture. The surface treatment process can include exposing the carbon containing layer to the mixture in a second chamber (e.g., a processing chamber).
US10910223B2
A method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a first trench and a second trench. A remaining portion of the semiconductor substrate is left between the first trench and the second trench as a semiconductor region. A doped dielectric layer is formed on sidewalls of the semiconductor region and over a top surface of the semiconductor region. The doped dielectric layer includes a dopant. The first trench and the second trench are filled with a dielectric material. An anneal is then performed, and a p-type dopant or an n-type dopant in the doped dielectric layer is diffused into the semiconductor region to form a diffused semiconductor region.
US10910218B2
A SiC substrate (1) has an off angle θ°. A SiC epitaxial layer (2) having a film thickness of Tm μm is provided on the SiC substrate (1). Triangular defects (3) are formed on a surface of the SiC epitaxial layer (2). A density of triangular defects (3) having a length of Tm/Tan θ×0.9 or more in a substrate off direction is denoted by A. A density of triangular (3) defects having a length smaller than Tm/Tan θ×0.9 in the substrate off direction is denoted by B. B/A≤0.5 is satisfied.
US10910214B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate that includes a surface exposing a first film containing silicon, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen and having an oxygen atom concentration higher than a silicon atom concentration, which is higher than a carbon atom concentration, which is equal to or higher than a nitrogen atom concentration; and changing a composition of a surface of the first film so that the nitrogen atom concentration becomes higher than the carbon atom concentration on the surface of the first film, by supplying a plasma-excited nitrogen-containing gas to the surface of the first film.
US10910210B2
The present invention has as its object the provision of an ultraviolet sterilizer that can reduce ultraviolet light in a wavelength region of 230 to 300 nm, which is harmful to the human body, and can output effective light in a wavelength region of 200 to 230 nm with high emission intensity. The ultraviolet sterilizer of the present invention is an ultraviolet sterilizer comprising: an ultraviolet light source; a lamp storage chamber for storing the ultraviolet light source; and a light guiding part for guiding light from the ultraviolet light source, in which a band pass filter for reducing ultraviolet light in a wavelength region harmful to a human body is provided at least one of a position between the light guiding part and the lamp storage chamber and a position of a light outputting leading end of the light guiding part, and an inner surface of the light guiding part is formed from an ultraviolet absorbing member that absorbs the ultraviolet light in the wavelength region harmful to the human body.
US10910208B2
Systems and approaches for semiconductor metrology and surface analysis using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) are disclosed. In an example, a secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) system includes a sample stage. A primary ion beam is directed to the sample stage. An extraction lens is directed at the sample stage. The extraction lens is configured to provide a low extraction field for secondary ions emitted from a sample on the sample stage. A magnetic sector spectrograph is coupled to the extraction lens along an optical path of the SIMS system. The magnetic sector spectrograph includes an electrostatic analyzer (ESA) coupled to a magnetic sector analyzer (MSA).
US10910193B2
An electron detector assembly configured for detecting electrons emitted from a sample irradiated by an electron beam, including a scintillator configured with a scintillator layer formed with a scintillating surface. The scintillator layer emits light signals corresponding to impingement of electrons upon the scintillating surface. A light guide plate is coupled to the scintillator layer and includes a peripheral surface. One or more silicon photomultiplier devices are positioned upon the peripheral surface, wherein one or more silicon photomultiplier devices are arranged perpendicularly or obliquely relative to the scintillating surface. The silicon photomultiplier device is configured to yield an electrical signal from an electron impinging upon the scintillator surface.
US10910173B2
A button restoring mechanism of an electronic device includes a housing, an adjustment button mounted on the housing, a bracket, and an elastic member. One side of the adjustment button protrudes within the housing. The bracket latches with the adjustment button. One end of the elastic member is fixed to one side of the bracket, and a second end of the elastic member abuts against a second side of the bracket. An elastic force of the elastic member drives the second side of the bracket to abut against a switch button within the housing.
US10910171B2
A switch device includes a substrate having at least one fixed contact and an inflow/outflow section provided with at least one through-hole, and a rubber contact to cover the substrate. The rubber contact includes at least one moving section disposed facing the respective at least one fixed contact, the moving section elastically deforming such that moving contacts corresponding to the respective fixed contacts are capable of contacting/separating, an in/out section disposed facing the inflow/outflow section and configured to form a space with the inflow/outflow section, a flow path section configured to form a flow path to connect the in/out section and the at least one moving section, and at least one chamber section having a space larger than a space occupying along representative length of the flow path section on a portion of the flow path section, and having strength such that a shape of the space is maintained.
US10910168B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a substrate, a protruding pattern, a first conductive pattern, an insulating layer, and a second conductive pattern. The protruding pattern is disposed on the substrate. The first conductive pattern is disposed on the substrate and covers the protruding pattern. The insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive pattern. The insulating layer includes an opening overlapping at least a portion of the protruding pattern. The second conductive pattern is disposed on the insulating layer. The second conductive pattern is connected to the first conductive pattern through the opening.
US10910165B2
A process for forming high surface area graphene structures includes: depositing at least one metal on a surface of silicon carbide; heating the at least one metal and the silicon carbide to cause at least one of the metals to react with a portion of the silicon carbide to form silicide regions extending into an unreacted portion of the silicon carbide and graphene disposed between the silicide regions and the unreacted portion of the silicon carbide; and removing the silicide regions to provide a silicon carbide structure having a highly irregular surface and a surface layer of graphene.
US10910164B2
The present invention relates to a biaxially stretched polypropylene film for capacitor. The biaxially stretched polypropylene film for capacitor of the present invention can suppress an increase in tan δ and a decrease in the electrostatic capacitance even when the capacitor is used at a high voltage and an elevated temperature for a long duration.
US10910161B2
A capacitor component includes a humidity resistant layer formed on a portion of the external surface of a body on which an external electrode is not formed, and further includes a humidity resistant layer disposed inside the external electrode, to improve humidity resistance reliability. The capacitor component includes an opening portion formed by removing a portion of the humidity resistant layer disposed inside the external electrode to improve electrical connection.
US10910157B2
An electronic component includes a multilayer capacitor, including a capacitor body, and a pair of external electrodes disposed on both ends of the capacitor body, respectively, and an interposer, including an interposer body, and a pair of external terminals disposed on both ends of the interposer body, respectively. The external terminals include bonding portions, mounting portions, and connection portions disposed to connect the bonding portions and the mounting portions to each other. Adhesives are provided between the external electrodes and the bonding portion. A height at which the adhesives fall along the connection portions of the external terminals is defined as t and a height of the interposer is defined as T, t/T satisfies 0.04≤t/T≤0.80.
US10910151B2
The present invention relates to a device for the contact-free inductive transfer of electrical energy from a first, preferably stationary system of a shifting device into a second system of the shifting device, which can be moved relative to the first system, comprising a magnetic circuit of a primary core, which is assigned to the first system and onto which a primary coil is wound, and a secondary core, which is assigned to the second system and onto which a secondary coil is wound. The secondary core is arranged so as to be capable of being shifted relative to the primary core along a shifting path, which preferably runs parallel to a shifting path of the shifting device. The primary core extends at least along the entire length of the shifting path. According to the invention, provision is made for the primary core to comprise at least one primary core gap, which is embodied along the entire longitudinal extension of the primary core. The invention further relates to a shifting device, in particular a linear shifting device, comprising such an energy transfer device as well as to a method for operating such a device.
US10910150B2
A reconfigurable coupled inductor is disclosed. In one embodiment, the reconfigurable coupled inductor comprises metal rings and switches coupled to the metal rings to control at least one inductor property (e.g., coupling coefficient) based on a closed (e.g., on) or open state (e.g., off) of each switch.
US10910146B2
A three-phase reactor includes an outer peripheral iron core for surrounding the outer periphery of the three-phase reactor, and at least three iron core coils, which are in contact with or coupled to the inner surface of the outer peripheral iron core. The at least three iron core coils includes iron cores and coils wound around the iron cores. Gaps, which can be magnetically coupled, are each formed between two adjacent ones of the iron cores. The three-phase reactor further includes a vibration suppressing structure part disposed in the vicinity of the gaps so as to reduce vibrations occurring at the gaps.
US10910142B1
A switching power converter includes a first and second switching device, an air core coupled inductor, and a controller. The air core coupled inductor includes a first winding electrically coupled to the first switching device and a second winding electrically coupled to the second switching device. The first and second windings are magnetically coupled. The controller is operable to cause the first and second switching devices to repeatedly switch between their conductive and non-conductive states at a frequency of at least 100 kilohertz to cause current through the first and second windings to repeatedly cycle, thereby providing power to an output port. The switching power converter may have a topology including, but not limited to, a buck converter topology, a boost converter topology, and a buck-boost converter topology.
US10910139B1
A common mode choke assembly includes a main core, a shunt core, and first and second two-piece bobbins. The main core has a generally rectangular main core body, and first and second core riser portions. The first and second core riser portions are connected to opposite ends of the main core body. The first core riser portion includes a first riser notch and the second core riser portion includes a second riser notch aligned with the first riser notch. The shunt core spans between and is positioned within the first and second riser notches. The first and second two-piece bobbins are positioned on opposite sides of the main core body adjacent to the first and second core riser portions. Each two-piece bobbin includes at least first and second end flanges, a passageway, and a mating surface. The assembly further includes a mounting header for receiving the main and shunt core.
US10910137B2
An electromagnetic positioning system (1), including a valve train adjustment system for combustion engines, including a bistable electromagnetic positioning device (2) having a positioning element (3) for interacting with a positioning partner, the positioning element being adjustable between a retracted position (E) and an extended position (A) along an axis of adjustment (A) and having permanent magnet means (5) at least in sections.
US10910132B2
The present invention is a superconducting wire including: a wire formed of a superconducting material; and a superconducting stabilization material disposed in contact with the wire, in which the superconducting stabilization material is formed of a copper material which contains: one or more types of additive elements selected from Ca, Sr, Ba, and rare earth elements in a total of 3 ppm by mass to 400 ppm by mass; a balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, and in which a total concentration of the inevitable impurities excluding O, H, C, N, and S which are gas components is 5 ppm by mass to 100 ppm by mass.
US10910127B2
In a method of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of a polycrystalline diamond film in a CVD reactor, a gas mixture of gaseous hydrogen and a gaseous hydrocarbon is introduced into the CVD reactor. A plasma formed from the gas mixture is maintained above a surface of a conductive substrate disposed in the CVD reactor and causes a polycrystalline diamond film to grow on the surface of the conductive substrate. A temperature T at the center of the polycrystalline diamond film is controlled during growth of the polycrystalline diamond film. The CVD grown polycrystalline diamond film includes diamond crystallites that can have a percentage of orientation along a [110] diamond lattice direction≥70% of the total number of diamond crystallites forming the polycrystalline diamond film.
US10910123B2
Methods for isolating Pb and/or Pb isotopes from various sources are provided. Compositions comprising Pb and/or Pb isotopes free of certain amounts of various contaminants are also provided.
US10910118B2
An electrical penetration assembly for a nuclear reactor vessel, mountable in an aperture of a nuclear reactor vessel, includes a penetration body including first and second ends to be positioned, respectively, inside and outside the vessel; a sealed electrical connector providing a first seal for the electrical penetration assembly, the sealed connector insulating the penetration body at the first end; a feed-through carrier flange having a plurality of unitary electrical feed-throughs, each unitary feed-through allowing a single electrical conductor to pass therethrough, thereby ensuring continuity of the electrical connections, each unitary feed-through being individually insulated by an individual insulator providing a second seal, the unitary feed-throughs insulating the penetration body at the second end; and an anti-ejection device formed by the engagement between a narrowed portion provided at each unitary feed-through and a shoulder that is larger than the narrowed portion and provided on each of the electrical conductors.
US10910109B2
A computing system can execute a correlation model for a library of health assertions to configure a correlation value for each health assertion. The correlation value comprises a correlation between knowledge associated with the health assertion and known health outcomes of individuals in a control group who have also provided responses to the health assertions. The computing system provides a health trivia session for users and based at least in part on the performance of the user, generates a mortality outcome profile that is used to classify the user in an underwriting class.
US10910103B2
Embodiments described herein provide various examples of a surgical procedure analysis system for extracting an actual procedure duration that involves actual surgical tool-tissue interactions from a total procedure duration of a surgical procedure. In one aspect, the process for generating the haptic feedback signal includes the steps of: obtaining the total procedure duration of the surgical procedure; receiving a set of operating room (OR) data from a set of OR data sources collected during the surgical procedure; analyzing the set of OR data to detect a set of non-surgical events during the surgical procedure that do not involve surgical tool-tissue interactions; extracting a set of durations corresponding to the set of events; and determining the actual procedure duration by subtracting the combined set of durations corresponding to the set of events from the total procedure duration.
US10910096B1
A computing system for displaying patient data in augmented reality (AR) is disclosed herein. An AR computing device worn by a healthcare worker captures an image indicative of a patient by way of a camera comprised by the AR computing device. The AR computing device transmits the image to an electronic health records application (EHR) executing on a server computing device. The EHR retrieves patient data for the patient responsive to identifying the patient based upon the image. Responsive to receiving the patient data from the EHR, the AR computing device presents the patient data on an AR display comprised by the AR computing device. The patient data is overlaid on the AR display with a view of surroundings of the healthcare worker as perceived by the healthcare worker through the AR display.
US10910090B2
A medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process includes receiving first pieces of terminal identification information and a request for updating second pieces of terminal identification information included in management targets to the first pieces of terminal identification information, comparing the second pieces of terminal identification information with the first pieces of terminal identification information, transmitting information including at least one of a first number of terminals to be excluded from the management targets by executing a update regarding the request, a second number of terminals to be added to the management targets by executing the update, and a third number of terminals that are included in the management targets before and after executing the update, and when receiving an instruction to execute the update regarding the request, updating the second pieces of terminal identification information to the first pieces of terminal identification information.
US10910073B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory configured to execute one of a plurality of read operations, including a first read operation and a second read operation, and a memory controller configured to issue a read command to the nonvolatile memory to cause the nonvolatile memory to execute one of the plurality of read operations. The memory controller is configured to receive a read request, estimate a reliability level of a result of a read operation to be executed by the nonvolatile memory to read data from a physical address specified in the read request, select one of the first and second read operations to be executed first in a read sequence corresponding to the read request by the nonvolatile memory based on the estimated reliability level, and instruct the nonvolatile memory to execute the selected read operation.
US10910063B2
A memory device having an improved threshold voltage distribution includes: a memory block including a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to perform an erase operation on the memory block; and control logic configured to: control the peripheral circuit to suspend the erase operation in response to a suspend command received from an external source, determine an erase state of the plurality of memory cells by using a plurality of erase state verify voltages in response to a resume command received subsequently to the suspend command, and determine a level of an erase voltage to be applied to the memory block and an erase voltage applying time for which the erase voltage is to be applied based on the determination result.
US10910061B2
Numerous embodiments of programming systems and methods for use with a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array in an artificial neural network are disclosed. Selected cells thereby can be programmed with extreme precision to hold one of N different values.
US10910058B2
A memory array includes (a) multiple memory cells arranged into a plurality of bytes, (b) a separate word line connected to each byte, and (b) multiple shared source lines, each connected to at least two bytes, such that each byte in the array is addressable by a separate word line and by the shared source line. Due to this memory array architecture, a program operation on a first byte applies a shared source line voltage on a non-selected second byte (with an inhibit voltage applied to bit lines connected to the second byte), which creates a disturb condition that corresponds with a diagonal (or row) program disturb condition in a conventional memory array. The use of the shared source lines may reduce the required number of source line drivers, which reduces the overhead area of the memory array, and at same time, allow backward compatibility of traditional byte-alterable EEPROM.
US10910057B2
A memory array includes strings that are configured to store keywords and inverse keywords corresponding to keys according to content addressable memory (CAM) storages schemes. A read circuit performs a CAM read operation over a plurality of iterations to determine which of the keywords are matching keywords that match a target keyword. During the iterations, a read controller biases word lines according to a plurality of modified word line bias setting that are each modified from an initial word line bias setting corresponding to the target keyword. At the end of the CAM read operation, the read controller detects which of the keywords are matching keywords, even if the strings are storing the keywords or inverse keywords with up a certain number of bit errors.
US10910055B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device that can reduce the power consumption, including: a plurality of search memory cells arranged in a matrix; a plurality of match lines provided corresponding to each memory cell row to determine match/mismatch between data stored in the search memory cell and search data; a plurality of match line retention circuits provided corresponding to each of the match lines; a storage unit for storing information relating to the state of each of the match lines; and a selection circuit for selectively activating the match line retention circuits based on the information stored in the storage unit.
US10910049B2
A sub-word line circuit having a phase driver circuit to provide a first phase signal and a second phase signal. The sub-word line circuit includes a sub-word line driver circuit having a pull-up circuit configured to receive the first phase signal and a global word line signal. The pull-up circuit is further configured to drive a local word line to follow the global word line signal when the first phase signal is at a first value and isolate the local word line from the global word line signal when the first phase signal is at a second value. The sub-word line circuit also includes a processing device that sets the first phase signal to the first value prior to the global word line signal entering an active state and sets the first phase signal to the second value only after the global word line signal has entered a pre-charge state.
US10910047B2
A storage device includes a memory device configured to perform a read operation on a selected word line among a plurality of word lines, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device to: perform the read operation, perform a read retry operation on the selected word line, by changing a read voltage level, when the read operation fails, and perform an additional read retry operation on the selected word line, by changing the read voltage level and an application time of voltages related to the read operation, depending on whether the selected word line is a set word line, when the read retry operation fails.
US10910037B2
Apparatuses and methods for input receiver circuits and receiver masks for electronic memory are disclosed. Embodiments of the disclosure include memory receiver masks having shapes other than rectangular shapes. For example, a receiver mask according to some embodiments of the disclosure may have a hexagonal shape. Other shapes of receiver masks may also be included in other embodiments of the disclosure. Circuits, timing, and operating parameters for achieving non-rectangular and various shapes of receiver mask are described.
US10910028B2
A memory device includes a bank that includes first memory cells connected to a first column selection line and second memory cells connected to a second column selection line, a first column decoder that selects the first memory cells by transmitting a first column selection signal in a first direction through the first column selection line, and a second column decoder that selects the second memory cells by transmitting a second column selection signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction through the second column selection line. The first column decoder includes a first register that stores a first fail column address of the first memory cells, and a second register that stores a second fail column address of the second memory cells.
US10910023B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a sense amplifier configured to read and program data in memory cells, a first latch circuit to store read data or program data, a second latch circuit to store the first data transferred from the first latch circuit or the second data before the second data is transferred into the first latch circuit, an input/output circuit to output the first data stored in the second latch circuit and to transfer the second data received thereby to the second latch circuit, and a control circuit. Upon receiving a read command while the control circuit is performing a program operation on program data stored in second latch circuit, the control circuit interrupts the program operation to perform the read operation and resumes the program operation on the program data in response to a resume write command sequence that does not include the program data.
US10910012B1
According to one embodiment, a first decoding circuit calculates likelihood information by executing Viterbi decoding using a parameter for normalizing a branch metric on a signal sequence read from a magnetic disk. The second decoding circuit generates a first bit data sequence by iterative decoding using the likelihood information, and executes a check using a parity check matrix on the first bit data sequence. The control circuit causes the first decoding circuit and the second decoding circuit to repeatedly execute decoding, and updates the parameter in accordance with a check result obtained every time the decoding by the first decoding circuit and the second decoding circuit is executed. An acquisition circuit acquires numerical information corresponding to the number of bit errors included in the first bit data sequence obtained when the number of times of executions of the decoding is equal to a first value.
US10909996B2
An autocorrelation calculation unit 21 calculates an autocorrelation RO(i) from an input signal. A prediction coefficient calculation unit 23 performs linear prediction analysis by using a modified autocorrelation R′O(i) obtained by multiplying a coefficient wO(i) by the autocorrelation RO(i). It is assumed here, for each order i of some orders i at least, that the coefficient wO(i) corresponding to the order i is in a monotonically increasing relationship with an increase in a value that is negatively correlated with a fundamental frequency of the input signal of the current frame or a past frame.
US10909991B2
A computer-implemented method for verifying identity of a speaker is proposed. A low dimensional p-vector based on a speech of the speaker is extracted from the generated high dimensional speaker model and is then compared with the stored specific speaker's p-vector obtained previously during the enrollment process. The resulting biometric score is then used to determine whether to verify the speaker, or not.
US10909988B2
An electronic device includes a display, wherein the display is configured to present a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises a coordinate system. The coordinate system corresponds to physical coordinates. The display is configured to present a sector selection feature that allows selection of at least one sector of the coordinate system. The at least one sector corresponds to captured audio from multiple microphones. The sector selection may also include an audio signal indicator. The electronic device includes operation circuitry coupled to the display. The operation circuitry is configured to perform an audio operation on the captured audio corresponding to the audio signal indicator based on the sector selection.
US10909981B2
A method of controlling a device includes controlling a processor by a mobile terminal to acquire a voice instruction of a user, controlling an artificial intelligence (AI) module, in accordance with a mapping relationship collection which is between a preset voice command and an instruction code combination information, and an acquired voice instruction, to determine the instruction code combination information corresponding to the acquired voice instruction, where the acquired voice instruction has a plurality of instruction codes and transmission sequence of the instruction codes, and controlling the processor to transmit the instruction codes to a target device in accordance with the transmission sequence, where each of the instruction codes is used to instruct the target device to execute an operation corresponding to each of the instruction codes.
US10909978B2
Technologies for secure storage of utterances are disclosed. A computing device captures audio of a human making a verbal utterance. The utterance is provided to a speech-to-text (STT) service that translates the utterance to text. The STT service can also identify various speaker-specific attributes in the utterance. The text and attributes are provided to a text-to-speech (TTS) service that creates speech from the text and a subset of the attributes. The speech is stored in a data store that is less secure than that required for storing the original utterance. The original utterance can then be discarded. The STT service can also translate the speech generated by the TTS service to text. The text generated by the STT service from the speech and the text generated by the STT service from the original utterance are then compared. If the text does not match, the original utterance can be retained.
US10909966B2
An active noise reduction device includes a standard signal generator, adaptive filters, a control sound emitter, and an error signal detector. The standard signal generator generates a standard signal including harmonics of a fundamental frequency correlated with the control target sound. The adaptive filters each generates corresponding one of harmonic components of a control signal based on the standard signal. The adaptive filters each is for corresponding one of the harmonics. The control sound emitter emits a control sound based on the control signal. The error signal detector collects residual noise left over after interference between the control target sound and the control sound, and detects an error signal based on the residual noise. Each of the adaptive filters includes a step size determiner. The step size determiner sets the step size parameter based on a frequency variation in the corresponding one of the harmonic components of the standard signal.
US10909954B2
A carbon fiber sound board is disclosed with breaks in the fibers to improve the sound quality and timber of the carbon fiber instrument.
US10909948B2
A ubiquitous auto calibration device is provided, which includes microcontroller unit, flex bus, image receiver image processing module, and an image output unit. The microcontroller unit is provided for receiving the electronic signal and performing a self-adjusting process to the electronic signal. The flex bus is connected with the microcontroller unit, and is provided for transmitting the electronic signal to the image processing module after performing the self-adjusting process. The image receiver is provided for receiving the image signal from the image receiving interface. The image processing module is provided for performing an image calibration process to the image signal, so that the image signal can obey the color temperature standard, Gamma value, uniformity and color gamut standards when the panel outputs the image signal. The image output unit is connected with the panel and is provided for transmitting the electronic signal which is adjusted by the self-adjust process and the image signal which is adjusted by the image calibrating process, such that the panel can perform calibration process according to the electronic signal by the self-adjusting process and output the image signal processed by the image calibrating process.
US10909934B2
A display device includes first and second pixel areas spaced apart from each other so that corresponding scan lines are separate from each other, a first non-pixel area at a periphery of the first pixel area, a second non-pixel area at a periphery of the second pixel area and opposite to the first non-pixel area with at least one pixel area interposed therebetween, first scan lines in the first pixel area, second scan lines in the second pixel area, a first scan driver in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan lines, a second scan driver in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan lines, first wires in the first non-pixel area and connected to the first scan driver, second wires in the second non-pixel area and connected to the second scan driver; and connecting wires connecting the first wires and second wires.
US10909932B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image based on input image data; a gate driver configured to output a gate signal to the display panel; a data driver configured to output a data voltage to the display panel; and a power voltage generator configured to generate a power voltage and output the power voltage to cause an image to display on the display panel. The power voltage has a response speed that varies according to the input image data.
US10909926B2
A pixel circuit for an electronic display may include a memory to store a digital data signal indicative of a value within a data range. The pixel circuit may also include a light-emitting diode to emit light based at least in part on the digital data signal. The pixel circuit may also include an initialization transistor to initialize the pixel circuit before the light-emitting diode emits light and a driving transistor to activate based at least in part on the digital data signal.
US10909922B2
An electro-optical device includes one unit circuit provided corresponding to an intersection between one scanning line and one data line, another unit circuit provided corresponding to an intersection between the one scanning line and another data line or an intersection between another scanning line and the one data line or an intersection between another scanning line and another data line, and an electro-optical element configured to be driven by using the one unit circuit or the another unit circuit.
US10909910B2
A display apparatus and control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus including: a display configured to display an image; a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources configured to emit light to a screen of the display; an image processor configured to divide an input image into a plurality of blocks, identify target brightness for each block, and adjust a control value of each of the plurality of light sources based on priority of each of the plurality of light sources; and a driver configured to drive the plurality of light sources based on the control value. Thus, the duty for controlling the quality of light from the light source is identified considering the duty of the light source corresponding to an area of which previously identified priority is high, and thus dimming control is possible taking effects of light diffusion from adjacent neighboring light sources into account.
US10909902B2
Display systems with a single plate optical waveguide and independently adjustable micro display arrays and related methods are provided. A method includes coupling: a first light portion received from the first micro display array to a first input grating region of the optical waveguide, a second light portion received from the second micro display array to a second input grating region of the optical waveguide, and a third light portion received from the third micro display array to a third input grating region of the optical waveguide. The method further includes directing: a first diffracted portion of the first light portion to a first expansion grating, a second diffracted portion of the second light portion to a second expansion grating, and a third diffracted portion of the third light portion to a third expansion grating. The method further includes using a single output grating outputting combined light.
US10909901B2
A pixel arrangement includes a plurality of first groups of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction, each first group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels arranged alternately. A plurality of second groups of sub-pixels are arranged in the first direction, each second group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged. The first groups and the second groups are alternately arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first groups and the second groups are arranged to form a plurality of third groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction and a plurality of fourth groups of sub-pixels arranged in the second direction. The third groups and the fourth groups are alternately arranged in the first direction, each third group including first sub-pixels and third sub-pixels alternately arranged, each fourth group including third sub-pixels and second sub-pixels alternately arranged.
US10909898B2
An image display device includes an image data conversion unit that performs conversion processing of input image data and a display unit that displays a plurality of subframes, in one frame period. In the image data conversion unit, the conversion processing is performed in a manner that, for each pixel, a hue and a saturation of the input image data and a hue and a saturation of driving image data in an HSV color space are held to be respectively equal to each other, color components of the driving image data are set to have the same value when the saturation of the input image data is equal to the minimum saturation, and when the saturation of the input image data is equal to the maximum saturation, the color components of the input image data are multiplied by the same value, and then the input image data is compressed.
US10909895B2
The present invention provides a correction system (1) in which a control circuit (40) of a display panel (2) generates unevenness correction data to be used for correcting display unevenness. The correction system includes a signal source (11), an imaging device (12), and a control device (13). The signal source outputs a signal for displaying a prescribed reference image on the display panel. The imaging device captures the reference image displayed on the display panel on the basis of the signal from the signal source and generates a captured image. The control device generates unevenness correction data for the display panel on the basis of the captured image. The control device generates unevenness correction data (51, 52) having a plurality of mutually different formats (F1, F2) for the display panel (S15A, S15B), and records the same in a storage unit (21) of the display panel (S16).
US10909891B2
A signage system comprising a first panel and a second panel arranged in a substantially parallel configuration, wherein portions of the first panel and second panel are kept apart at a predetermined distance by a plurality of spacers, thereby providing a space between the first panel and second panel that can enhance the visibility of designs on the first panel and second panel.
US10909890B1
A display system includes a rectangular frame that is surrounded on four sides and is open on two opposed faces. Two banners are disposed to cover the two open faces to enclose a space within the frame. At least one light emitting device is connected to the frame and disposed within the space. The two banners are backlit by the at least one light emitting device when each is in its respective extended position.
US10909886B2
Disclosed is a starry sky reproducing sheet containing: N laminated light reducing sheets stuck together, each of which has homogeneous light reducing effects (where N is two or larger); the starry sky reproducing sheet containing, with M and L being two mutually different integers that are one or larger and N or smaller (M>L): L-layer transmission holes that are formed through L light reducing sheets stuck together, so that light beams pass therethrough; and M-layer transmission holes that are formed, through M light reducing sheets stuck together including the L light reducing sheets, at different positions from those of the L-layer transmission holes; wherein light beams incident on one face of the starry sky reproducing sheet pass through the L- and M-layer transmission holes while being attenuated at mutually different light reduction ratios to become L- and M-layer transmitted beams respectively which are visibly recognizable as transmitted-light stars having mutually different brightnesses.
US10909884B2
Disclosed is an electronically adjustable joint, and associated systems and methods. A joint position of a multiple-axis joint, e.g., a 3-axis joint, can be tracked, as the joint moves through two or more dimensions. In an illustrative embodiment, the joint can provide a mechanical equivalent of a physical joint, e.g., a shoulder, elbow, hip, or knee, which can accommodate motion in rotational angle and/or tilt angle. In some embodiments, the joint includes electronically adjustable friction. An illustrative application provide electronically adjustable joints for an aging simulation suit, wherein one or more joints can be controllably stiffened in selective ranges, such that a wearer of the suit can experience the effects of aging, arthritis and/or other ailments. In an illustrative embodiment, a sensor can use four discrete 2-axis magnetometers to calculate the position of the magnet on the arm of the joint, to continuously sense and track the angle of the joint. In some embodiments, the system includes a mechanism, e.g., a servo, which can controllably tighten a socket around a ball joint, wherein the system can controllably adjust friction on the joint.
US10909882B2
The present invention relates to a braille display and an electronic device including the same. The braille display according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a base configured to be provided as a perpendicularly polarized plate-shaped magnet and have through holes formed in a perpendicular direction according to a predetermined arrangement; pins configured to be respectively inserted in the through holes so that an upper end of each pin perpendicularly moves between a first position at which the pin protrudes from an upper surface of the base and a second position at which the pin is accommodated in one of the through holes, the pins expressing braille by means of a combination of individual pins located at the first position; and coils configured to be installed to be respectively wound around the pins and move the pins up and down by receiving current and interacting with the magnet.
US10909881B2
A system is provided including a styling tool configured to treat or shape a user's hair, and a client device configured to communicate with the styling tool and provide feedback to the user regarding a user's usage of the styling tool. The client device is configured to receive input information from the user regarding a desired result to be achieved using the styling tool, and to output guidance information on a method of using the styling tool to achieve the desired result.
US10909877B2
Provided is an information processing system that acquires normative behavior information serving as an interaction with a specific object by a user and an evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information, associates and registers the normative behavior information and the evaluation value in a behavior database, and performs control such that an evaluation value of specific behavior information acquired through the communication unit is calculated using the evaluation value corresponding to the normative behavior information in accordance with a comparison result of comparing the specific behavior information with normative behavior information corresponding to the specific behavior information registered in the behavior database, an emotion value of the user is calculated on the basis of the calculated evaluation value, and the calculated emotion value is transmitted to an information processing device corresponding to the user who is a provision source of the specific behavior information.
US10909876B2
Disclosed is a spray paint simulator and training aid including a mock paint sprayer, a trigger sensor of the mock paint sprayer, a head-mounted display unit, a motion tracking system for tracking a position and an orientation of the mock paint sprayer and the head-mounted display unit, a computer running software operable to display a virtual object and a virtual paint sprayer on the head-mounted display and, in response to an input from the trigger sensor, simulate the accumulation of paint on the virtual object, wherein the simulating the accumulation of paint includes generating a plurality of vectors extending between the virtual paint sprayer and the virtual object within a dispersion pattern.
US10909875B2
A method for determining an effect of a simulated obstacle on a main rotor induced velocity of a simulated rotorcraft in a simulation, comprising: receiving an aircraft airspeed of the simulated rotorcraft and a height above ground for the simulated rotorcraft; generating a line of sight vector having a source position located on the simulated rotorcraft, a direction and a given length; determining a distance between the simulated obstacle and the simulated rotorcraft using the line of sight vector, the distance being at most equal to the given length of the line of sight vector; determining an induced airflow velocity using the distance between the simulated obstacle and the simulated rotorcraft, the aircraft airspeed and the height above ground, the induced airflow velocity being caused by a downwash recirculation flow generated by the simulated obstacle; and outputting the induced airflow velocity.
US10909856B2
A method of selecting, by a terminal of a wireless communication system, a mode of communication to be used to exchange data with the base stations of the wireless communication system. The mode of communication being selected from among at least two different modes of communication associated with different respective geographical zones. The terminal receiving a surveillance message transmitted by an aircraft, the surveillance message includes information on the position of the aircraft. The terminal estimating the geographical zone in which the terminal is situated, as a function of the aircraft position information extracted from the received surveillance message. The mode communication is selected as a function of the estimated geographical zone of the terminal.
US10909847B1
Constructing a noise pollution map for an area includes a first subset of users performing initial noise recordings in the area using audio devices, using machine learning to provide classification of noises in the initial noise recordings, a second subset of users, larger than the first subset of users, capturing noise in the area using audio devices, creating summaries of noises using the classification to classify noises captured by the second subset of users, and aggregating the summaries to construct the noise pollution map of the area. The audio devices may include headsets, smart speakers, smart television sets, and/or computers. The summaries of noises may be created using software that is installed locally on devices of the second subset of users. The summaries may include source information, amplitude and frequency characteristics, duration, parameters of a corresponding one of the audio devices, user location, surroundings, and/or user movement information.
US10909842B2
An apparatus to generate a user-defined crosswalk comprises a processor to receive an input from a user to request a crosswalk across a roadway at a selected location and a memory coupled to the processor to store information regarding the crosswalk. The processor is to transmit the request to one or more vehicles using the roadway, and to receive a response indicating whether the crosswalk request is accepted such that the one or more vehicles are to stop to allow the user to cross the roadway using the crosswalk at the selected location in the event the crosswalk request is accepted.
US10909833B2
A method for geo-location services is described. In one embodiment, the method includes tracking incidents that occur within a predetermined geographic area in relation to a subscription service, upon receiving a request for a list of incidents in relation to the predetermined geographic area, generating a notification comprising the requested list of incidents, and sending the notification to one or more subscribers within the predetermined geographic area.
US10909832B2
Various arrangements are presented for monitoring a resident of a residence. A confidence assessment may be performed based on a plurality of smart home devices in the residence. The residence may be identified as eligible for monitoring of the resident based on the confidence assessment. A learning process may be performed to create an ordinary behavior model. Data that is received from the plurality of smart home devices may be monitored to identify data indicative of behavior considered unusual based on the ordinary behavior model.
US10909817B2
Multiple different game symbol weighting sets are defined for selection in a given play of a reel-type game. Each game symbol weighting set defines a probability of each reel strip in the reel-type game landing at each particular stop position for that reel strip. By providing multiple different game symbol weighting sets, certain game symbols such as special themed game symbols may be favored for one or more plays of the game to increase the chance of hitting winning symbol combinations using that game symbol.
US10909809B2
Various aspects described for implementing skill-based, wager-based gaming techniques via computer networks, including one or more casino gaming networks. The skill-based, wager-based game may include a non-wager based gaming portion and a wager-based gaming portion. One or more players are able to concurrently engage in continuous game play of the non-wager based gaming portion during execution of wager-based gaming events which are automatically triggered based on events which occur during play of the non-wager based gaming portion. Payouts for a given wager-based game event outcome may include both monetary payouts and non-monetary payouts.
US10909806B2
Systems and methods for operating an adapted skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. An adapted skill wagering game is provides a entertainment game and a gambling game. The entertainment game is provided by an entertainment system and is managed by a game world operating system. The gambling game is provided by a real credit operating system. The entertainment system also provides a game world interface that uses game world variable that describe a game state of the entertainment game to determine when a gambling event is triggered. In response to a determination that a gambling event being triggered, the game world interface of the entertainment system sends a trigger to the real credit operating system to perform a gambling event in the gambling game. The real credit operating system then performs the gambling event and resolves any wagers on the outcome of the gambling event.
US10909802B2
A gambling hybrid game with dynamic wager updating is disclosed. The gambling hybrid game includes an entertainment system engine that provides an entertainment game to a user, a real world engine that provides gambling games to one or more users, and a game world engine that monitors the entertainment game and provides gambling games when appropriate. The gambling hybrid game during the course of game play may dynamically update a wager amount to be placed on a gambling event in the gambling game.
US10909795B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: committing a transaction amount t of a transaction with a commitment scheme to obtain a transaction commitment value T, the commitment scheme comprising at least a transaction blinding factor r_t; encrypting a combination of the transaction blinding factor r_t and the transaction amount t with a public key PK_B of a recipient of the transaction; and transmitting the transaction commitment value T and the encrypted combination to a recipient node associated with the recipient for the recipient node to verify the transaction.
US10909789B2
A cam lock for cabinets, drawers, drug cabinets, credenzas, sliding doors, lockers, mail boxes and other door type applications is compact in size, fits an existing cam lock opening and provides electronic access via a keypad or other electronic access. Using batteries, such as AAA size batteries or smaller, the lock has electronics that release a lock turn knob or handle when the correct code is entered. Preferably a set of electronic contacts is included at an accessible position on the lock housing to allow both master access and power jumping with a common manager's implement, for situations of lost codes and/or battery failure. In a particular embodiment the lock is long, narrow and low in profile so as to fit on the margin of a steel or wood file cabinet, compatible with the cam lock opening already provided. The locks, NFC-enabled, can be used in securing delivery boxes to enable delivery access, when authorized.
US10909788B2
Cameras capture time-stamped images of predefined areas (zones) and assets (objects). Behaviors and actions of persons are tracked in the images with respect to the zones and the objects based on rules. Persons are identified when the behaviors or actions indicate that the persons are attempting to access a particular zone or a particular object. Multifactor authentication is performed on the persons based on the rules and access to the particular zone or the particular object is granted or denied. All access attempts along with the corresponding images associated with the access attempts are logged for auditing.
US10909777B2
An example method includes receiving, at a computing system, a first user input from a user interface during operation of a vehicle and responsive to receiving the first user input, determining a time of reception for the first user input. The method further includes receiving a first set of parameters from the vehicle that correspond to a first parameter identifier (PID). The method also includes determining a time of reception for each parameter, and based on the time of reception for the first user input and the time of reception for each parameter of the first set of parameters, determining a first temporal position for an indicator configured to represent the first user input on a graph of the parameters corresponding to the first PID. The method further includes displaying, on a display interface, the graph of the parameters corresponding to the first PID with the indicator in the first temporal position.
US10909776B2
The invention disclosed in this application is a device to individually test irrigation sprinkler heads. The invention is comprised of a cabinet with a water reservoir and submersible pump. The submersible pump is located in water reservoir in the bottom of the cabinet. The top section of the cabinet is equipped with doors with transparent panels to observe the sprinkler head as it is being tested.
US10909763B2
A user interface enables a user to calibrate the position of a three dimensional model with a real-world environment represented by that model. Using a device's sensor, the device's location and orientation is determined. A video image of the device's environment is displayed on the device's display. The device overlays a representation of an object from a virtual reality model on the video image. The position of the overlaid representation is determined based on the device's location and orientation. In response to user input, the device adjusts a position of the overlaid representation relative to the video image.
US10909762B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with digital content in a mixed reality environment. The technique involves: displaying digital content to the user in a mixed reality environment in one or more two-dimensional graphical pages, via a display device of a mixed reality device; receiving input information from one or more environment-sensing devices that capture movement of the user; and detecting, based on the input information, whether the user has performed a telltale gesture directed to a graphical page. Each such telltale gesture includes physical action(s) that a user might perform on a physical object, such as a physical piece of paper. If the gesture-detecting engine detects such a gesture, the technique updates the display device of the mixed reality device to show an appropriate outcome. The telltale gestures include a part-removing gesture, a moving gesture, and a page-flipping gesture, etc.
US10909760B2
An augmented reality system comprises one or more sensors configured for capturing a set of data indicative of an emotional state of a user of the augmented reality system, and a processor configured for discerning the emotional state of the user based at least in part on the captured set of data, and rendering the discerned emotional state on an avatar of the user. The avatar can be displayed as a virtual object when viewed through one or more augmented reality display systems.
US10909758B2
Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models with correlated three-dimensional and two dimensional imagery data are provided. In particular, imagery data can be captured in two dimensions and three dimensions. Imagery data can be transformed into models. Two-dimensional data and three-dimensional data can be correlated within models. Two-dimensional data can be selected for display within a three-dimensional model. Modifications can be made to the three-dimensional model and can be displayed within a three-dimensional model or within two-dimensional data. Models can transition between two dimensional imagery data and three dimensional imagery data.
US10909755B2
A method of scanning a 3D object includes: receiving a user's input to perform a scanning operation via a user interface, and in response using a light projector, projecting structured light onto the surface of a physical object about target positions on the surface of the physical object; and recording a sequence of first images of at least a portion of the surface of the physical object including a light scatter region illuminated by the structured light being projected about the target positions on the surface of the physical object using a camera. A trained image processing network configured during training to output data comprising a representation of positions being estimates of the target positions on the surface of the physical object in response to receiving one or more first images can be used.
US10909749B2
Techniques for generating an arbitrary perspective of a composite object are disclosed. In some embodiments, a specification of an orthographic view of a composite object comprises combined orthographic views of a plurality of objects, and an arbitrary perspective of the composite object is at least in part generated by populating the arbitrary perspective of the composite object with pixels harvested from existing images of the plurality of objects.
US10909748B2
A projection device viewpoint image of a three-dimensional projection target is acquired, a three-dimensional model corresponding to the projection target is prepared as projection contents, the three-dimensional model is converted into a two-dimensional image that coincides with the projection device viewpoint image, and the two-dimensional image that coincides with the projector viewpoint image is projected to the projection target.
US10909737B2
Applying an image effect within an image processing application. An image processing application receives a selection of an image effect to be applied to an image. The image includes image layers, each of which has a layer property and is created based on an application of a first effect. The application selects a template from a set of predefined templates. The selection is based on the image effect and the template. The template includes template layers. The application matches each of the image layers to a corresponding template layer having a template property corresponding to the layer property. The application determines from the matching that no conflicts exist between the image layers and the template. The application merges the image layers with the template layers and applies the image effect.
US10909734B2
A data visualization method and apparatus, where the method includes displaying a first density distribution diagram on a first map, where the first density distribution diagram represents density distribution, in a region, of source locations of flow events whose destinations are located in a target reference region, and displaying a second density distribution diagram on a second map, where the second density distribution diagram represents density distribution, in a region, of destinations of flow events whose source locations are located in the target reference region. Hence, bidirectional density distribution associated with each other using the target reference region are displayed on two maps in a linked manner, thereby implementing visualization of bidirectional density distribution data.
US10909725B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud.
US10909713B2
A location, dimension, and height of an object can be determined and measured using shadows. The object is located on a surface and an array of lights is mounted over the surface and shines on the object. The surface can be switchable between a translucent state and a transparent state. A colored shadow occurs based on the color of the light that shines on the object, where red, green, and blue are the typical colors used to provide shadows. A camera that is located below the surface captures an image of the shadows. The camera can be a color camera or a monochrome camera. The image is processed using thresholding to segment the different types of shadows that can occur. With the shadows, calculations can be made to determine the location, dimension, and height of the object.
US10909711B2
A method of determining a pose of an image capture device includes capturing an image using an image capture device. The method also includes generating a data structure corresponding to the captured image. The method further includes comparing the data structure with a plurality of known data structures to identify a most similar known data structure. Moreover, the method includes reading metadata corresponding to the most similar known data structure to determine a pose of the image capture device.
US10909709B2
A body measurement device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The body measurement device comprises a camera capturing a first image that includes an RGB image and a depth image; a display displaying a graphic image; and a controller estimating a user's pose based on the first image, controlling the camera to automatically capture a second image, which includes the user's body image in front of the camera, if the user's pose is a first pose, generating the user's body line image based on the captured second image, measuring the user's body size based on the generated body line image; and controlling the display to display the user's body size.
US10909704B2
There are several types of plenoptic devices and camera arrays available on the market, and all these light field acquisition devices have their proprietary file format. However, there is no standard supporting the acquisition and transmission of multi-dimensional information. It is interesting to obtain information related to a correspondence between pixels of a sensor of said optical acquisition system and an object space of said 10 optical acquisition system. Indeed, knowing which portion of the object space of an optical acquisition system a pixel belonging to the sensor of said optical acquisition system is sensing enables the improvement of signal processing operations. The notion of pixel beam, which represents a volume occupied by a set of rays of light in an object space of an optical system of a camera along with a compact format for storing such information is thus introduce.
US10909703B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing method, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. A method comprises: acquiring a wide-angle image and a non-wide-angle image acquired by a wide-angle acquisition apparatus and a non-wide-angle acquisition apparatus respectively, a view finding range of the wide-angle image including that of a non-wide-angle image; performing image matching between the wide-angle image and the non-wide-angle image to identify a first sub-image in the wide-angle image corresponding to the non-wide-angle image; cutting out edge images from the wide-angle image, which comprise at least a first edge sub-image and a second edge sub-image at two opposite sides of the first sub-image; stitching the edge images and the non-wide-angle image to obtain a stitched image, wherein the first edge sub-image and the second edge sub-image are stitched to corresponding sides of the non-wide-angle image, respectively; and outputting the stitched image for display.
US10909701B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, a data acquisition and image processing system and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for obtaining a super-resolved image of an object. The method comprises: obtaining a plurality of structured images of the object by structured light; determining, from the structured images, modulation information of each structured light that comprises spatial frequency, phase shift and modulation factor; initializing a sample image of the object according the structured images and initializing structured pattern of each structured light by the corresponding modulation information; and restoring the image with improved resolution by adjusting the sample image and the structured pattern iteratively.
