US10925200B2
A component mounting system starts mounting processing in a state in which a portion of the initial set target feeders of the multiple feeders required for mounting processing are set in supply area of component mounter, and in which remaining feeders are not set in supply area of component mounter. Mounting processing is performed while switching feeders that have finished supplying components with remaining feeders using exchange robot during mounting processing of a single board. By this, because it is possible to perform mounting processing while exchanging required feeders within the range of the upper limit loading quantity of component mounter, it is possible to improve the efficiency of mounting processing.
US10925195B2
Disclosed herein is an outdoor display apparatus having a heat-radiating structure. The outdoor display apparatus includes a housing; a display module disposed inside the housing, and including a display panel on which an image is displayed; a heat-exchange module disposed on a rear surface of the display module, and configured to concentrate heat inside the housing on a rear surface of the display panel and discharge heat out of the housing; a protective glass disposed to correspond to a display area of the display panel, and configured to transmit infrared light; and a flow path formed inside the housing such that air flowing along the flow path transfers heat from the display panel to the heat-exchange module.
US10925191B2
A disclosed example includes: a temperature predictor to determine a combined ambient air temperature of a data center during a future duration based on 1) a first ambient air temperature corresponding to heat generated by hardware resources in physical server racks when executing workloads and 2) a second ambient air temperature corresponding to a building structure of the data center; a power utilization analyzer to determine a predicted total data center power utilization for the future duration based on a computing power utilization and a climate control power utilization, the climate control power utilization based on a power utilization corresponding to adjusting the combined ambient air temperature to satisfy an ambient air temperature threshold; and a power manager to configure a power supply station to deliver an amount of electrical power during the future duration to satisfy the predicted total data center power utilization.
US10925189B2
Embodiments herein relate generally to a system to efficiently remove heat generated by equipment/server racks of data center, wherein a chamber is provided to contain, channel, and diffuse the heat or heated air to a heat removal cabinet, thereby a cooling can take place, furthermore the amount of cooling is configurable by altering angle of diffusion.
US10925178B2
An example of a mounting rail system for a console of an aircraft includes a mounting rail with a track that includes two bevelled faces, a pyramidal nut configured to fit within the track, and a mounting bracket configured to be secured to the mounting rail via a fastener that attaches to the pyramidal nut. The pyramidal nut includes two bevelled faces that align with the two bevelled faces of the track.
US10925159B2
A circuit device includes a circuit board having several contacts disposed on a first face of the circuit board and a connector disposed on a second face of the circuit board. The circuit board includes a hollow part, and the hollow part is defined through the circuit board from the first face of the circuit board to the second face of the circuit board. The circuit device includes several cables. One of two ends of each cable is on the first face of the circuit board and is connected to the corresponding contact, and the other end of each cable passes through the hollow part of the circuit board to the second face of the circuit board and extends outwardly.
US10925153B2
A printed circuit board includes first and second signal pads, and first, second, and third ground pads. The first and second signal pads and the first and second ground pads are arranged in a line with the first and second signal pads between the first and second ground pads. The third ground pad is arranged between the first and second signal pads but is not in line with the first and second signal pads.
US10925150B2
A printed circuit board includes a substrate having a plurality of stacked circuit board layers. The substrate has a top surface and a bottom surface. The printed circuit board includes a signal contact on the substrate. The signal contact has a signal via and a signal trace extending from the signal via. The signal via extends between the top surface and the bottom surface along a via axis. The printed circuit board includes an anti-pad around the signal via extending through the substrate along the via axis. The anti-pad extends between the top surface and the bottom surface. The anti-pad has a first width at the top surface and the lower anti-pad has a second width at the bottom surface different than the first width.
US10925149B2
A first board includes a first ground plane, a first ground land, a first transmission line, and a first signal land connected to the first transmission line, wherein the first ground land and the first signal land are formed on the same surface. A second board includes a second ground plane, a second ground land, a second transmission line, and a second signal land connected to the second transmission line, wherein the second ground land and the second signal land are formed on a surface opposing the first board. The second ground land and the second signal land oppose the first ground land and the first signal land, respectively. A conduction member connects the first ground land and the second ground land. The first signal land and the second signal land are connected by capacitance coupling without using any conductor.
US10925143B2
A laser apparatus includes an optical element disposed on a laser beam axis, an actuator configured to displace the optical element to displace the laser beam axis, a driving amount monitor configured to monitor a driving amount of the actuator, an optical axis monitor disposed along the laser beam axis and configured to monitor the laser beam axis, and a control unit configured to control the actuator based on a monitoring result of the optical axis monitor and determine abnormality of the optical element based on a monitoring result of the driving amount monitor.
US10925141B2
A lighting device control system includes plural lighting assemblies having RF modules. When the RF module of one of the lighting assemblies is switched on to send an activation signal, the RF module of an other lighting assembly received the activation signal is switched on in order to control plural lighting assemblies the same time.
US10925134B2
A lighting device producing white light having a target color correlated temperature (CCT) value includes an LED array having one or more red LEDs, one or more warm white LEDs, and one or more cool white LED; one or more photo-luminescent materials for shifting the CCT value of the light emitted from the cool white LED toward a green CCT value and/or the CCT value of the light emitted from the warm white LED toward a yellow CCT value; and a waveguide material having a mixing region for mixing the shifted and unshifted light so as to generate white light having the target CCT value and an output region for outputting the white light.
US10925131B2
An electronic device is described. The electronic device includes current measuring circuitry configured to measure load current to produce a load current measurement. The electronic device also includes a processor coupled to the current measuring circuitry. The processor is configured to calculate an estimated load current slope based on the load current measurement and to determine a predicted zero-cross point based on the estimated load current slope to minimize damaging voltage spike creation.
US10925128B2
Safety improvements to Light Emitting Diodes (LED) are discussed herein. As the LEDs that are part of a luminaire heat up and cool down, the current supplied will be tuned to improve the safety of the luminaire to manage the levels of light and heat produced. At least one thermally active electrical component is incorporated into the LED load of the luminaire, which is communicated to an LED current control to signal when to adjust current levels providing by a driving circuit. Current is reduced when the temperature of the LED load exceeds a threshold, and or returned to an optimal current when the temperature no longer exceeds the threshold.
US10925121B1
The handheld, self contained, air cooled induction heater which engages an A.C. power source, a rectifier to convert A.C. to D.C., an inverter which converts the D.C. to A.C. operating at substantially higher frequency than the A.C. power line frequency, a high frequency step-down transformer having magnetic cores, wherein at least a primary winding is split into two parts which are each wound around one of two suitable structures such as legs of the transformer magnetic core, and a secondary winding being connected to heat dissipating terminals functionally engaged to a work coil. The transformer for the induction heater has a primary and secondary wound around two suitable structures such as both legs of a magnetic core to reduce leakage inductance and increase power output compared to the primary and secondary windings of the same number of turns all wound on one leg of the magnetic core.
US10925111B2
A communication device employs a contactless secure communication interface to transmit and receive data with a computing device using close proximity extremely high frequency (EHF) communication. The communication device and the computing device periodically initiate a discovery operation mode, whereby the devices periodically transmit identifying information about the respective devices and listen for identifying information from the other device. Upon completion of the discovery mode operation, the devices enter a link-training operation mode and exchange capability information about the respective devices. During transport mode operation the communication device employs methods to manage access to data stored on the communication device by encrypting the data using one or a combination of training information or capability information as a basis for generating an encryption key.
US10925109B2
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a first subscriber identity module (SIM); a second SIM; a dual SIM resource controller (DSRC) connected to the first SIM and the second SIM; and a radio frequency (RF) communication entity connected to the DSRC, wherein the DSRC is configured to attempt an RF request for the RF communication entity of the first SIM after a paging period of the second SIM is completed.
US10925086B2
The disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology. The disclosure is applicable to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety-related services) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a technology about system information request-related operations of a terminal and a base station.
US10925085B2
Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting, by a terminal, a sounding reference signal (SRS). The terminal receives a grant for uplink multiple subframes from a base station. The terminal determines a first subframe for an SRS transmission of the terminal among the uplink multiple subframes on the basis of SRS transmission position information received from the base station. Further, the terminal transmits the SRS in the first subframe.
US10925083B2
Disclosed are a method of transmitting and receiving a downlink between a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, when the UE recognizes that plural transmission configuration indication (TCI) states related to one reference signal set are allocated to the UE through received downlink control information (DCI), the UE may receive/acquire a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the DCI with high reliability.
US10925080B2
The application provides a methods and devices for information transmission. The method includes that: a terminal device receives control signaling transmitted by a network device at a first time position; and the terminal device transmits a Scheduling Request (SR) and/or feedback information related to the control signaling to the network device according to the first time position, a second time position for transmitting the SR being at least partially overlapped with a third time position for transmitting the feedback information. The terminal device determines how to effectively transmit the information related to the control signaling and other information on the basis of time when the downlink control signaling is received, so that different information may still be effectively transmitted under the situation that Physical Uplink Control Channels (PUCCHs) of two different lengths exist.
US10925078B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe configuration and use of sub-physical resource block allocation for physical uplink shared channel and demodulation reference signals. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10925075B2
An access point device and method for: generating and transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a plurality of resource units on a bandwidth, where the plurality of resource units includes a first tone unit and a second tone unit. The first tone unit includes a total of 26 tones, where 2 pilot tones for the first tone unit are included in the total of 26 tones. The second tone unit includes a plurality of tones being greater than the total of 26 tones. The 4 pilot tones for the second tone unit are included in the plurality of tones. The locations of a plurality of pilot tones for the plurality of resource units are fixed when two first tone units are included in the plurality of resource units in place of the second tone unit.
US10925066B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable for quasi-co-location (QCL) is disclosed. The UE can demodulate a synchronization signal (SS) block transmitted by a gNB from a first antenna port, wherein one or more of a Doppler shift, a Doppler spread, an average delay, a delay spread, and spatial receiving parameters are derived from the SS block. The UE can decode a QCL indication that provides an assumption of QCL between a first reference signal of the first antenna port and a second reference signal of a second antenna port. The UE can demodulate the physical channel or the reference signal transmitted by the gNB from the second antenna port, using one or more of the Doppler shift, the Doppler spread, the average delay, the delay spread, and the spatial receiving parameters based on the assumption of QCL.
US10925064B2
The present disclosure introduces methods and apparatus for configuring or preconfiguring random access procedures when there are multiple configurable numerologies for one carrier. In some embodiments, the random access numerology of the wireless device is configured using the system information block. In other embodiments, the random access numerology used by the wireless device is determined implicitly based on the detection of one or more synchronization signals.
US10925046B2
A New Radio (NR) control signal that indicates one or more Long Term Evolution (LTE) network parameters may be transmitted to NR UEs to enable the NR UEs to identify which resources carry LTE signal(s). The NR UEs may then receive one or more NR downlink signals over remaining resources in a set of resources without processing those resources that carry LTE signal(s). The NR downlink signals may have a zero power level, or otherwise be blanked, over resources that carry the LTE signal(s).
US10925028B2
A device for monitoring an identification and positioning system may comprise a transceiver and a controller operatively coupled to a memory. The controller may be configured to receive a status signal from the transceiver indicative of an inspection of a component, obtain an identity of the component, a location of the component, and a signal strength of a signal produced by the component, access a record from the memory, determine whether the record includes an identity of the component or a location of the component that matches the obtained identity or location of the component, observe a difference in the obtained signal strength and a signal strength from the record, and send a notification of an issue concerning the component when the difference is outside a range.
US10925025B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-fifth generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond fourth generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A synchronization signal transmission/reception method for use in a device-to-device (D2D) communication system is provided. A method of transmitting a synchronization signal for D2D communication in an asynchronous network, in which a first terminal located in a first cell controls synchronization with a second terminal located outside of the first cell, includes transmitting, at the first cell, a system information block (SIB) including resource allocation information of the first cell and at least one neighboring cell, determining whether the first terminal is in a first mode and whether the first terminal is scheduled to perform one of a D2D communication and a D2D discovery; determining, when the first terminal is in the first mode, whether the first terminal is required to transmit a D2D synchronization signal (D2DSS); and transmitting, when the first terminal is required to transmit the D2DSS, scheduling information including a transmission time point and transmission reference timing information to the first terminal.
US10925016B2
An apparatus and a method for time synchronization are provided. The method may include estimating a sampling time offset caused by a sampling frequency of an input signal received through a wireless channel; estimating a channel time offset caused by the wireless channel; and compensating a time offset in a time offset compensation unit for time synchronization with a transmitter of an input signal based on a sampling time offset and a channel time offset.
US10925014B2
The present disclosure provides method and apparatus for causing synchronization of at least one connected device by a source device, where the apparatus is adapted to perform the method comprising: receiving, by a receiver, delay information corresponding to at least one device which is connected to the source device and configured to process at least one type of data; calculating, by a processor, at least one delay value of the at least one device based on the delay information; and synchronizing the at least one device with the source device based on the at least one calculated delay value.
US10925012B2
Embodiments include methods of operating a user equipment (UE) in a serving cell provided by a base station in a cellular communications network. These embodiments include establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the base station, such that the UE is operating in an RRC Connected state according to a first value of a parameter (e.g., a time alignment timer value) affecting the UE's uplink synchronization with the serving cell. These embodiments also include initiating a reconfiguration of the RRC connection towards the base station and, in response to initiating the reconfiguration, receiving from the base station a second value of the parameter affecting the UE's uplink synchronization with the serving cell. These embodiments also include operating in an RRC Connected state according to the second value of the parameter. Other embodiments include UEs configured to perform operations corresponding to these methods.
US10925006B2
Included is an uplink power control unit configured not to apply a first correction value obtained from a TPC command included in a first DCI format to transmit power for a PUSCH and applies a second correction value obtained from a TPC command included in a second DCI format to transmit power for an sPUSCH, in a case that a subframe m is later than a subframe n, that a subframe m+B for transmitting the sPUSCH is earlier than a subframe n+A for transmitting the PUSCH, and that a transmission subframe for the PUSCH and a transmission subframe for the sPUSCH belong to an identical uplink power control subframe set in a first serving cell.
US10925002B2
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device including a transceiver; and a controller configured to control the transceiver to exchange data with the wireless telecommunications network using one of a first communications service and a second communications service, the first communications service being associated with a first quality of service for exchanging data and the second communications service being associated with a second quality of service for exchanging data. The controller is configured to control the transceiver to establish one of a first set of radio connection states with the wireless telecommunications network and one of a second set of radio connection states with the wireless telecommunications network, and control the transceiver to establish the radio connection state of the first communications service independently of the radio connection state of the second communications service.
US10924986B2
The disclosure provides a method for a wireless device to connect to an access point. The wireless device stores a list of access points that the wireless device previously connected to and an indicator indicating if power save mode is supported or not. The method comprises upon determination that there is at least one access point that supports power save mode in the list of access points, transmitting a message including a SSID to change the at least one access point from power save mode into a normal mode and connecting to an access point in the at least one access point.
US10924974B2
Coordinated P-GW change for SIPTO may be provided. A WTRU may send and/or receive one or more flows via a first PDN connection and via a first P-GW. The WTRU may send an indication to the network that at least one flow of the first PDN connection is available for SIPTO. The indication may include one or more SIPTO preferences. The WTRU may receive a message from a MME. The message may trigger establishment of a second PDN connection via a second P-GW. The WTRU may move, while maintaining the first PDN connection, the at least one flow from the first PDN connection to the second PDN connection. The WTRU may deactivate the first PDN connection when the one or more flows have been moved to the second PDN connection and/or when no information has been received via the first PDN connection after a predetermined duration.
US10924967B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method of setting a handover parameter includes receiving, from a serving evolved NodeB (eNB), cell type information indicating eNB types of the serving eNB and eNBs adjacent to the serving eNB, and mobility information of the UE, detecting types of the serving eNB and a target eNB based on the cell type information, and setting a Time-To-Trigger (TTT) applied, the mobility information of the UE, and a received signal strength for the serving eNB.
US10924961B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method for supporting, by a serving base station, cancellation of interference signals from signals received at a target terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of: receiving scheduling information of at least one neighboring base station from the at least one neighboring base station; configuring a set of auxiliary information for canceling the interference signals of a target terminal on the basis of the scheduling information of the at least one neighboring base station; and transmitting the set of auxiliary information for canceling the interference signals of the target terminal to the target terminal, wherein the auxiliary information comprises at least one of demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) related information and cell-specific reference signal (CRS) related information in association with interference signals from respective neighboring base stations.
US10924960B2
An exemplary system according to the present disclosure comprises at least one mobility networking module implemented in at least one lower tier radiolet. The mobility network module performs one or more traffic data plane functions. The exemplary system further comprises at least one mobility application module implemented in at least one upper tier radiolet. The mobility application module performs one or more application data plane functions. The exemplary system further comprises at least one mobility cloud module implemented in the at least one lower tier radiolet and the at least one upper tier radiolet. The mobility cloud module performs computing execution functions of a cloud session.
US10924959B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive from a base station a measurement configuration signal comprising a measurement resource configuration associated with a cross-link interference signal strength measurement. The UE may perform the cross-link interference signal strength measurement for one or more UEs associated with one or more intra-frequency neighboring cells according to the measurement resource configuration, wherein the cross-link interference signal strength measurement is performed during an intra-frequency measurement gap. The UE may transmit a report of the cross-link interference signal strength measurement to the base station.
US10924957B2
A wireless device, a network node and a respective method performed thereby for performing measurements for fast setup are provided. The method performed by the wireless device comprises receiving, during a RACH procedure, a “message 4” (Msg 4), which Msg 4 may be a contention resolution, the Msg 4 comprising a trigger for performing a fast measurement. The method also comprises performing a fast measurement on one or more carrier(s) that the wireless device receives. The method may further comprise sending a measurement report to the network node which sent the Msg 4 to the wireless device.
US10924951B2
These teachings present a new minimization of drive test MDT mode which is valid when the user equipment UE is in an idle state and in a connected state and across the state transitions. The extended logged MDT configuration according to this mode may be configured for the UE by the network, or autonomously by the UE itself. In some embodiments it is associated with the UE reporting its preference for power optimized configuration indication. Some embodiments have a minimum threshold to assure any MDT report from this mode has a sufficient volume of data or sufficient number of data points logged, and so is well suited for smart phones with always-on applications. The parameters such as logging periodicity can differ between the idle and connected state even for a given extended logged MDT configuration.
US10924935B2
A method and a device for determining multi-user transmission mode are provided. The method includes: grouping terminals based on channel spatial characteristics of the terminals; allocating data transmission modes to the terminals, where data transmission of the terminals in different groups is performed on an identical scheduling time-frequency resource and in a Multi-User Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) mode, and data transmission of the terminals in an identical group is performed on the scheduling time-frequency resource and in a non-orthogonal multiple access mode.
US10924930B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for attaching a remote unit to a mobile core network via a non-3GPP access network. One apparatus includes a processor that initiates a first authentication procedure with a remote unit over the access network and sends an attach request to the core network on behalf of the remote unit. The processor receives an attachment authentication request from the core network and transforms the attachment authentication request into authentication request of the first authentication procedure. The processor further uses an authentication response of the first authentication procedure to complete attachment to the core network. In certain embodiments, the apparatus also includes first and second network interfaces that communicate with the remote unit over the access network and with the core network, respectively.
US10924926B1
Techniques for using sending communication data using a first communication system and a second communication system are described. When a request is received to send communication data, it is determined that sending the communication data includes the second communication system. A request for updated identification information, such as a security token, is therefore sent to the second communication system prior to, for example, determining further account information related to the initiator of the communication and/or an identity of a recipient of the communication. While the request is pending, additional requests for the identification information are delayed. When the new identification information is received, the communication data is sent.
US10924922B2
A user authentication system that analyzes call forwarding information obtained from telecommunication networks, such as through the use of Signaling System No. 7 (“SS7”) protocols, to detect the possibility of fraud. In response to a request to access a network-accessible service, the system performs an initial authentication of provided user account credentials. The system then obtains a telecommunication subscriber identifier that is associated with the user account. Prior to performing additional device-based user authentication, the system obtains call forwarding information for the user. The obtained call forwarding information is then evaluated for potentially fraudulent call forwarding configurations. For example, call forwarding to certain call forwarding numbers, or the use of different call forwarding types, may be indicative of fraud intended to undermine further user authentication.
US10924909B2
Disclosed is a mobile edge computing system that provides localized emergency responses and warning exclusively to UEs within a venue or area, and provides location-specific warning within the venue or area. The system includes a component that aggregates the S1-mme interface between the MME and a plurality of baseband units and provides read and write access to the S1-mme interface. The disclosed mobile edge computing system can issue cell-specific public warning system (PWS) messages that are customized for and transmitted exclusively to each individual cell within the venue.
US10924908B2
A method and system for retransmitting an emergency message including receiving, at a communication device, the emergency message including a first identifier indicative of a communication type and a second identifier indicative of a type of emergency. An electronic processor of the communication device selects, for distribution of the emergency message, a plurality of communication channels and at least one communication type based on the second identifier. The electronic processor prioritizes the plurality of communication channels and the at least one communication type according to a transmission priority having a higher priority associated with at least one of the group consisting of the first identifier and the second identifier. Then, the electronic processor controls transmission of the emergency message according to the transmission priority over the plurality of communication channels and the at least one communication type.
US10924896B2
A method may comprise receiving, from a first handset via the Internet, a subscription message for subscribing the first handset to a service for receiving packet-switched messages other than SMS messages, EMS messages and MMS messages. The method may further comprise storing information indicating that a first mobile phone number of the first handset corresponds to a subscriber of the service, in a subscriber data store. A first request may be received, from a second handset, the first request including at least information corresponding to the first mobile phone number of the first handset. The first mobile phone number of the first handset may be determined to correspond to a subscriber of the service. A first response may be transmitted to the second handset.
US10924894B2
An automated non-visual user message is sent to a first communication endpoint during an audio communication session. The audio communication session is between a first user of the first communication endpoint and a second user of a second communication endpoint. For example, the automated non-visual message may be made using an audible whisper mode or using a vibrator. A response to the automated non-visual user message is received. The response to the automated non-visual user message is based on at least one of: an accelerometer event in the first communication device and a spoken word or phrase that is said by the first user of the first communication endpoint during the audio communication session with a second user of the second communication endpoint.
US10924890B2
Example implementations relate to device policy enforcement. In some examples, a computing device may comprise a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to determine when a location of a mobile device is within a geofence using global positioning system (GPS) coordinates received from the mobile device defining a location of the mobile device, determine when a distance of the computing device from the mobile device is within a threshold distance of the mobile device using proximity data received via a network relationship, and enforce a policy definition included in a computing device policy definition received from an external computing device based on the location of the mobile device and the distance of the computing device from the mobile device.
US10924887B2
Devices, systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for data communication to and from a vehicle. A device is provided that includes memory storing processor-executable instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the memory that executes the stored instructions to: receive, from at least one user on the vehicle, at least one request for data communication; identify a plurality of communication links available at a current location of the moving vehicle; form an adaptive bonded communication link using the plurality of communication links to aggregate throughput across the plurality of communication links for the requested data communication, wherein the adaptive bonded communication link is configured to adapt to data communication requirements for the requested data communication and to data communication characteristics of the plurality of communication links as the vehicle moves. Corresponding methods, computer system products, uses, and computer-readable media are also provided.
US10924882B2
According to certain embodiments, a method by a radio node operating as a location server is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first wireless device, user input identifying a marked location and associating the marked location with a Cellular-Ubiety Identifier (ID). Measurement information is obtained for the first wireless device. The measurement information is stored in a database with the Cellular-Ubiety ID.
US10924877B2
An audio signal processing method, includes: acquiring 5.1-channel audio signals; acquiring head related transfer function (HRTF) data corresponding to each virtual speaker box in 5.1-channel virtual speaker boxes based on coordinates of the 5.1-channel virtual speaker boxes in a virtual environment; obtaining processed 5.1-channel audio signals by processing corresponding channel audio signals in the 5.1-channel audio signals based on the HRTF data corresponding to each virtual speaker box; and synthesizing the processed 5.1-channel audio signals into a stereo audio signal.
US10924872B2
Described herein are audio capture systems and methods. One embodiment provides an audio capture system (1) including: microphones (9-11) positioned to capture respective audio signals from different directions or locations within an audio environment; a mixing module (7) configured to mix the audio signals in accordance with a mixing control signal to produce an output audio mix, wherein, upon the detection of vibration activity, the mixing control signal controls the mixing module (7) to selectively temporarily modify one or more of the audio signals to reduce the presence of noise associated with vibration activity in the output audio mix.
US10924864B2
The present disclosure discloses a speaker assembly including a frame with an accommodation space, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system accommodated in the frame. The vibration system includes a first vibration system and a second vibration system which are arranged with an interval. The first vibration system includes a first diaphragm and a first voice coil driving the first diaphragm, the second vibration system includes a second diaphragm and a second voice coil driving the second diaphragm to vibrate. The first diaphragm and the second diaphragm have the same vibration direction. The present disclosure has two vibration systems which break through the restriction of the height of the voice coils in the traditional structure and therefore further improve the product performance.
US10924861B2
A speaker is provided, including a holder, a diaphragm fixed to the holder, and a voice coil located under the diaphragm and configured to drive the diaphragm to vibrate to sound. The diaphragm includes a diaphragm body, a protruding portion extending from the diaphragm body while being bent towards the voice coil, and a dome fitted to the protruding portion. The protruding portion includes a first wall and a second wall connected to the first wall and parallel to the diaphragm body. The diaphragm body is provided with a suspension disposed around the dome. The speaker of the present disclosure has the diaphragm of an improved structure, which greatly increases the adhesion between the dome and the diaphragm, effectively improves the reliability of the product, reduces the total harmonic distortion, and improves the acoustic performance of the product.
US10924854B2
A three-piece extensible movable soundbox includes: a host portion; a first soundbox portion, wherein the host portion is extensibly connected to the first soundbox portion by a first connection line device; and a second soundbox portion, wherein the host portion is extensibly connected to the second soundbox portion by a second connection line device.
US10924850B2
An apparatus configured to: determine a viewing angle associated with at least one apparatus camera; determine from at least two audio signals at least one audio source orientation relative to an apparatus; and generate at least one spatial filter including at least a first orientation range associated with the viewing angle and a second orientation range relative to the apparatus.
US10924847B2
Embodiments relate to a microphone that functions as either a digital wireless microphone or a wired passive microphone. The microphone may comprise: a microphone transducer; an analog to digital converter (ADC) coupled to the microphone transducer to convert an analog audio signal from the microphone transducer to a digital audio signal; an antenna coupled to the ADC; and an analog connector coupled to the microphone transducer. In a wireless mode, the antenna transmits the digital audio signal to a digital receiver. Alternatively, in a wired mode, a cable that is coupled to the analog connector transmits the analog audio signal without requiring any power.
US10924844B1
A far-field, marine sound system including a coaxial speaker horn composed of a pair of horn bodies, each having an opening, a mouth and a sound pathway extending between the opening and the mouth. The pair of horns bodies include a first horn body contained within a second horn body, the horn bodies having aligned longitudinal axes. A first speaker is coupled to the first horn body and arranged to project sound into the first horn through the mouth, through the sound pathway and out of the first horn body through the opening, and a second speaker coupled to the second horn body and arranged to project sound into the second horn body through the mouth, through the sound pathway and out of the second horn body through the opening. The speaker horn bodies and speakers are contained with an aerodynamically-contoured housing.
US10924837B2
A acoustic device includes a pinna replica, wherein an inner surface of the pinna replica faces the exterior so that exterior sounds are received by the pinna replica and a microphone unit for collecting said exterior sounds, said microphone unit being configured to emit a first electric signal comprising information on the collected exterior sounds.
US10924836B1
An earpiece includes a glass earcup having an outer exposed surface, an inner surface, and an edge extending around the perimeter of the glass earcup. The earpiece further includes an upper enclosure to which the glass earcup is laminated, and a protective coating lining the edge of the glass earcup.
US10924834B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for display devices with transverse planar microphone arrays. In one embodiment, an example device may include a frame that forms a rear portion of the device, a display assembly coupled to the frame, where the display assembly forms a front portion of the device, and a first microphone hole extending through a front face of the display assembly. The device may include a second microphone hole extending through the front face of the display assembly, a speaker coupled to the frame, a power adapter receptacle coupled to the frame, and a fabric cover disposed over the frame, the fabric cover comprising an aperture aligned with the power adapter receptacle. Sound output from the speaker may be directed towards the rear portion of the device.
US10924827B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal, including: a housing including an upper cover, a lower cover covering the upper cover to form an accommodating space, and a sound channel penetrating through the upper cover; and a speaker unit accommodated in the accommodating space of the housing; the speaker unit dividing the accommodating space into a front sound cavity and a rear cavity; the sound channel communicating the front sound cavity with an outside; and where in, the speaker unit is fixed on the upper cover and enclosed together with the upper cover to from the front sound cavity; the sound channel is filled with a sound absorbing material.
US10924826B2
A mobile audio transportation (MAT) system/method allowing transportation of mobile audio modules (MAMs) is disclosed. The system/method incorporates a perforated acoustic tube (PAT) in the MAM allowing speaker energy to be efficiently emitted from the mobile speaker enclosure (MSE). The PAT is configured with an enclosure alignment pathway (EAP) within the MAM allowing a stack alignment rod (SAR) to penetrate through the PAT/EAP thus capturing and securing the MAM in an aligned MAM stack (AMS). Alignment and insertion of the SAR with a stack index rod (SIR) affixed to a mobile hand truck (MHT) allows the AMS to be coupled with the MHT for transportation of the AMS. The MHT incorporates a hand truck frame (HTF), hand truck wheels (HTW), hand truck platform (HTP) and SIR, hand truck handle (HTH), charger power strip (CPS), battery charger array (BCA), and optional hand truck coupler (HTC) to facilitate AMS transportation.
US10924822B2
An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.
US10924815B2
A method for generating and updating video news edition. The method includes generating a basic news edition by organizing news items according to a customizable priority and creating a priority queue, wherein for each news item dynamic news objects are defined, receiving a user request for an updated news video edition for a schedule (specific date and time), receiving news objects related to the requested news edition based on user profile data and real-time news updates, integrating the new objects into the last updated news edition provided by a t news provider, and updating objects such as images, audio tracks, text parts and/or video elements in the news edition based on the latest new information available and start streaming the updated news edition video to the user.
US10924813B2
Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus for receiving transmitted AV (Audio/Video) content, including: an extractor configured to extract trigger information associated with control of an application program to be executed in conjugation with the AV content; and a controller configured, in response to a command indicated by the extracted trigger information, to control execution of the application program and, if a video of the AV content is switched, execute any one of continuation and termination of the application program that is active.
US10924801B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a device for playing a media file while switching resolution in a webpage and a storage medium, the method includes: receiving a resolution switching event when the player embedded in the webpage plays the original resolution media file; requesting media data in the target resolution media file to be switched to in response to the resolution switching event; wherein the original resolution media file and the target resolution media file adopt a non-streaming media packaging format; constructing a fragmented media file for independent decoding on the basis of the requested media data; sending the fragmented media file to a media element of the webpage through a media source expansion interface of the webpage. The fragmented media file is used for playing the media element in succession with the playing point where the resolution switching event occurs.
US10924797B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system that generates an avatar having a first behavior determined by a user profile of a user. An avatar profile is received from a content source for modifying the avatar according to a second behavior. The avatar is modified to generate an adaptive avatar based on the avatar profile. The adaptive avatar has, at least in part, the second behavior determined by the avatar profile, while retaining, at least in part, the first behavior determined by the user profile of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10924780B2
A server controlling a live distribution content that is distributed to a spectator terminal for a cruise service allowing a spectator to cruise around a plurality of live distribution contents is provided. The server includes a selection unit and a determination unit. The selection unit selects a plurality of candidates with respect to each selection opportunity for the spectator to select the live distribution content to be distributed to the spectator terminal. The determination unit determines the live distribution content to be distributed to the spectator terminal on the basis of information indicating an option that is selected by the spectator from a plurality of options. At least one of the plurality of candidates selected in at least one selection opportunity includes a common live distribution content regardless of the live distribution content that is viewed by the spectator at the time of selecting the plurality of candidates.
US10924779B2
A method and apparatus for generating a broadcast video stream from a primary video component having a live feed from a source remote from the virtual media control system in at least near real time is disclosed. Live queueing events are inserted into the live video feed and automatically interpreted to insert secondary video components that become part of a broadcast video stream.
US10924778B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining an ad play list for an Over-The-Top video stream requested by an end user device based on a price and/or a category of a creative derived from auctions with multiple Supply-Side Platform servers. The ad play list can be determined for the ad pod according to business rules, which can include a yield policy based on increasing revenue for a publisher of the video stream, and/or which can include a competitive separation policy enforced based on the category for bid responses. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10924777B2
A system is provided for publishing a disparate per-client live media output stream based on dynamic insertion of targeted non-programming content and customized programming content. A first manifest request, including one or more parameters, is received from a first client device. Based on one or more parameters and associated indexed metadata, a first additional content that includes customized first programming content and targeted first non-programming content for first client device are determined. A first programming schedule is generated for first client device based on selected one or more live input streams and/or one or more pre-encoded media assets, indexed metadata, and first additional content. A first disparate live media output stream manifest for first client device is published based on insertion of selected one or more live input stream manifests and/or one or more pre-encoded media asset manifests, indexed metadata, and first additional content in accordance with first programming schedule.
US10924770B2
Networking methods and systems are provided for a transportation vehicle, e.g. an aircraft. One method includes registering with a switching device, multicast network addresses assigned to each of a plurality of regions of an aircraft, each region including a plurality of seat devices configured to store media files of a media library of an in-flight entertainment system, the media files assigned to one of a plurality of tiers. A range of the multicast network addresses are reserved for each tier and the multicast network addresses are distributed across different regions of the aircraft, based on where media files are intended to be stored. Based on registered multicast network addresses, the switching device selectively forwards specific media files associated with specific multicast network addresses for storage at one or more seat devices located within a region associated with the specific multicast network address.
US10924766B2
Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency, which is consistent with inter-frame dependencies between multiple frames of a video sequence, then outputs the syntax element. A corresponding real-time communication tool with a video decoder receives the syntax element that indicates the constraint on frame reordering latency, determines the constraint on frame reordering latency based on the syntax element, and uses the constraint on frame reordering latency to determine when a reconstructed frame is ready for output (in terms of output order).
US10924761B2
A technique for encoding a privacy masked image comprising a plurality of pixels into an encoded image frame of a video stream is disclosed, The technique includes receiving image data of the image, wherein the image data represents the pixel of the image, grouping the pixels of the image into encoding units, wherein each encoding unit comprises a plurality of neighboring pixels; receiving data defining a privacy mask masking part of the image in the interest of personal integrity, and graphical characteristics of the privacy mask including any one or a combination of constant coloring, smearing, and pixelization, identifying all encoding units having one or more pixels located within the privacy mask, extending the privacy mask to be aligned with the identified encoding units to form a redefined privacy mask covering the identified encoding units, generating a privacy masked image by applying the redefined privacy mask and the received graphical characteristics to the image, and encoding the privacy masked image into the encoded image frame of the video stream.
US10924752B2
The present invention relates to a method for predicting an inter-layer of an image having a plurality of layers including at least one temporal sub-layer. The method according to present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring information on a temporal sub-layer for inter-layer prediction; inducing a reference picture used for predicting an inter-layer of a current picture on the basis of the information on the temporal sub-layer; and predicting the inter-layer of the current picture on the basis of the reference picture.
US10924751B2
A method and apparatus for referencing a parameter set to permit decoding of a coded point cloud sequence includes parsing a parameter set associated with the coded point cloud sequence. A dependent parameter set is identified based on parsing the parameter set. It is identified whether the dependent parameter set is a patch-level parameter set. The patch-level parameter set is referenced based on identifying that the dependent parameter set is the patch-level parameter set to permit the decoding of the coded point cloud sequence. A frame-level parameter set is referenced based on identifying that the dependent parameter set is not the patch-level parameter set to permit the decoding of the coded point cloud sequence.
US10924748B2
Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.
US10924740B2
Innovations in control and use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) values that depend on luma QP values. More generally, the innovations relate to control and use of QP values for a secondary color component that depend on QP values for a primary color component. For example, during encoding, an encoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset. The encoder maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. A corresponding decoder receives at least part of a bitstream including encoded content. During decoding, the decoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset, then maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range.
US10924738B2
When encoding an array of data elements using an encoding process that generates an array of quantized frequency domain coefficients corresponding to an array of difference values between a source block of data elements of the array of data elements being encoded and a reference block of data elements, a bit count value for encoding an array of quantized frequency domain coefficients to be used to select whether to encode the source block in accordance with a particular set of encoding options is estimated by estimating a bit count value for encoding the locations of the non-zero quantized frequency domain coefficients in the array of quantized frequency domain coefficients based on the number of non-zero frequency domain coefficients in the array of quantized frequency domain coefficients.
US10924737B2
Encoding a digital image divided into a plurality of blocks of pixels processed in a defined order, including the following steps, implemented for a current block, with preset sizes: predicting values of the current block from at least one block previously processed; calculating a residual block by subtracting the predicted values from the original values of the current block; obtaining a residual block by applying a transform to pixels of the residual block, said transformed residual block comprising coefficients; encoding the transformed residual block; calculating at least one characteristic representative of at least one transformed residual coefficient of the current block; determining initial identification data representative of a sub-list of at least one transform associated with said at least one calculated characteristic; and verifying that the transform applied to the current block is part of the sub-list identified by the initial data.
US10924733B2
A method of decoding a bitstream by an electronic device is provided. A block unit is determined from an image frame according to the bitstream. A plurality of candidate modes included in a mode list are separated in a first mode group and a second mode group. The electronics device determines whether a specific one of the candidate modes in the first mode group is replaced by one of the candidate modes in the second mode group. When the specific candidate mode in the first mode group is replaced, a prediction mode is determined from the candidate modes in the second mode group. When the specific candidate mode in the first mode group remains unchanged, the specific candidate mode in the first mode group is determined as the prediction mode. Then, the block unit of the image frame is reconstructed based on the prediction mode.
US10924723B2
An imaging apparatus including an imaging lens, and an image sensor array of first and second image sensor units, wherein a single first image sensor unit includes a single first microlens and a plurality of image sensors, a single second image sensor unit includes a single second microlens and a single image sensor, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each first image sensor unit passes through the first microlens and forms an image on the image sensors constituting the first image sensor unit, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each second image sensor unit passes through the second microlens and forms an image on the image sensor constituting the second image sensor unit, an inter-unit light shielding layer is formed between the image sensor units, and a light shielding layer is not formed between the image sensor units constituting the first image sensor unit.
US10924718B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method capable of suppressing a reduction in the accuracy of corresponding point detection. A homography transformation is applied to a captured pattern image obtained as a result of an imaging unit capturing an image of a predetermined structured light pattern projected by a projection unit, and using the captured pattern image with the homography transformation applied to detect corresponding points between the projected image projected by the projection unit and the captured image captured by the imaging unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image projection device, a control device, an information processing device, a projection imaging system, an image processing method, a program, and the like.
US10924708B2
A telepresence device may relay video, audio, and/or measurement data to a user operating a control device. A user interface may permit the user to quickly view and/or understand temporally and/or spatially disparate information. The telepresence device may pre-gather looped video of spatially disparate areas in an environment. A temporal control mechanism may start video playback at a desired point in a current or historical video segment. Notations may be associated with time spans in a video and recalled by capturing an image similar to a frame in the time span of the video. An area of interest may be selected and video containing the area of interest may be automatically found. Situational data may be recorded and used to recall video segments of interest. The telepresence device may synchronize video playback and movement. A series of videos may be recorded at predetermined time intervals to capture visually trending information.
US10924700B2
A pixel of an imager device includes a photosensitive area configured to integrate a light signal. A first capacitive storage node is configured to receive a signal representative of the number of charges generated by the photosensitive area. A second capacitive storage node is configured to receive a reference signal. A first transfer transistor is coupled between the first capacitive storage node and the photosensitive area. A second transfer transistor is coupled between the second capacitive storage node and a terminal which supplied the reference signal. The first and second two transfer transistors have a common conduction electrode and a common substrate, wherein the common substrate is coupled to the first capacitive storage node.
US10924698B2
A solid-state imaging element including pixel signal read lines, and a pixel signal reading unit for reading pixel signals from a pixel unit via the pixel signal read line. The pixel unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each pixel including a photoelectric conversion element. In the pixel unit, a shared pixel in which an output node is shared among a plurality of pixels is formed, and a pixel signal of each pixel in the shared pixel is capable of being selectively output from the shared output node to a corresponding one of the pixel signal read lines. The pixel signal reading unit sets a bias voltage for a load element which is connected to the pixel signal read line and in which current dependent on a bias voltage flows in the load element, to a voltage causing a current value to be higher than current upon a reference bias voltage when there is no difference between added charge amounts, when addition of pixel signals of the respective pixels in the shared pixel is driven.
US10924697B2
An image sensor includes: a first imaging region that captures an image of light entering through an optical system under a first imaging condition and generates a detection signal to perform focus detection of the optical system; and a second imaging region that captures an image of the light entering through the optical system under a second imaging condition other than the first imaging condition and generates an image signal.
US10924693B2
An image sensor, comprises: a pixel area that includes first and second pixel groups each constituted by a plurality of pixels; first and second output channels that output image signals obtained from the first and second pixel groups, respectively; and a driver that performs drive according to a first drive method in which the first pixel group is alternately exposed in a medium exposure period and a short exposure period in a first cycle so that a first and second image signals are read out, and in which the second pixel group is exposed in a long exposure period in a second cycle longer than the first cycle so that a third image signal is read out. The reading out of the third image signal and reading out of the first or the second image signal are performed in parallel.
US10924689B1
Scopes such as medical imaging camera head devices and methods are provided using light captured by an endoscope system or other medical scope or borescope. At least one polarizing optical element manipulates the polarization properties of image light. The manipulated image light is focused on an image sensor including polarizers for each pixel. Multiple images are produced based sets of pixels having the same orientation of polarizer. The resulting images are combined with high dynamic range techniques.
US10924685B2
A night vision apparatus having a camera assembly with a camera housing that has a charge-coupled device image sensor, an infrared illuminator assembly, and a first base assembly. Further having a switch assembly and a display assembly. The camera housing has a top face, a bottom face, a front face, a lens, and an adaptor. The lens has a focal length of approximately 25 mm or 50 mm. The infrared illuminator assembly has a housing, an infrared illuminator lens, an infrared illuminator, and a supporting structure. The infrared illuminator is an approximately 2.5 watt illuminator that produces an approximately 10° main beam pattern. The infrared illuminator assembly is attached to the camera housing. The first base assembly has a suction cup secures the camera assembly onto a surface. The switch assembly is electrically connected to a battery assembly. The display receives and shows images captured by the camera assembly.
US10924683B2
An image processing method for processing a first image captured by a camera is provided, in which the first image is retrieved; and an output image is output to an image output circuit after the first image is modified to the output image, wherein a result value of each pixel of the output image is zero or a value generated by subtracting the threshold value from the brightness value of each pixel of the first image.
US10924675B2
In some embodiments, a camera actuator includes an actuator base, an autofocus voice coil motor, and an optical image stabilization voice coil motor. In some embodiments, the autofocus voice coil motor includes a lens carrier mounting attachment moveably mounted to the actuator base, a plurality of shared magnets mounted to the base, and an autofocus coil fixedly mounted to the lens carrier mounting attachment for producing forces for moving a lens carrier in a direction of an optical axis of one or more lenses of the lens carrier. In some embodiments, the optical image stabilization voice coil motor includes an image sensor carrier moveably mounted to the actuator base, and optical image stabilization coils moveably mounted to the image sensor carrier within the magnetic fields of the shared magnets, for producing forces for moving the image sensor carrier in a plurality of directions orthogonal to the optical axis.
US10924670B2
The present disclosure provides an image capturing device that captures images of a first sensor that includes a first imaging modality, a second sensor that includes a first imaging modality and a third sensor that includes a second imaging modality. A controller connected with the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor, wherein the controller registers an image captured by the first sensor or the second sensor to an image captured by the third sensor.
US10924668B2
An imaging system for obtaining images having enhanced features is described. The imaging system includes an optical system that receives and direct light from a field of view to two or more image planes. The image planes are optically coupled and configured to detect at least a portion of the received light and generate image data corresponding to the field of view. The system can include a processor that receives the image data generated by each plane and combines the data to form a combined image. The combined image can have a higher resolution than any image that can be obtained from the individual image sensors and the image plane may be curved to reduce the cost of optics. The processor can detect objects (e.g., moving objects) contained in images obtained from one image plane and configure the other image planes to obtain more detailed images of the detected objects.
US10924659B1
Portable electronic devices can be provided with stimulus features for the benefit of the subject to be captured in an image. Such stimulus features can attract the attention of the subject toward the camera when provided by components that are integrated with or coupled to the electronic device. The stimulus features can attract the attention and gaze of the subject prior to and during capture of the image. The stimulus features can also be provided to the subject as a reward during and after capture of the image. These features allow the user of the electronic device to focus on operation of the electronic device.
US10924634B2
In the case where both thickening processing and UCR processing are performed for an object, appropriate effects are obtained for both pieces of the processing. An image processing apparatus including an image processing unit configured to perform thickening processing for an object included in an input image and to perform saturation suppression processing for an edge portion of the object in the input image for which the thickening processing has been performed.
US10924627B2
Content management for virtual tours including exposing, within a virtual tour, a hotspot, the hotspot having an associated a hyperlink to a third-party content management provider and access code for accessing content from third-party content management provider; receiving an invocation of the hotspot; invoking the hyperlink associated with the hotspot; invoking the access code for accessing content from third-party content management provider; receiving, from the third-party content management provider, content; and displaying the received content within the virtual tour.
US10924605B2
Systems and methods for providing and facilitating multi-mode communication are disclosed. Users may initiate, receive and/or respond to messages and message notifications on a computing device using multi-mode interactions executed through either a device display or a wearable device such as a headset with enhanced functionality. Contextual prompts guide the user interaction with the computing device using on-board or remote voice recognition text-to-speech and speech-to-text processing and playback. Voice and text data are packaged and transmitted to the network.
US10924603B1
A phone has a touch screen display. The display shows an internet map. The map allows for a user to search for multiuser public devices, such as, elevators. The user finds the device, by viewing the device's location, and the phone's location on the map. For example, the phone searches for and finds devices, such as, smart toilets, which are shown on the map. The user touches one of the desired displayed toilets, to receive the toilet's control panel interface. The received control panel, is displayed on the phone. The user operates the toilet, by touch activating the toilet's control panel's commands. The phone, and toilet communicate over the internet wirelessly, or wirelessly. The user avoids bacteria, on the toilet's touch input buttons, by using the phone to operate the toilet. The user can find and operate, many different public multiuser devices.
US10924600B2
First and second images provide varying levels of information associated with a given GPS location, first, when the mobile device is within the first pre-determined radius, r1, of a given GPS location and outside the second pre-determined radius, r2, of the given GPS location, and while the mobile device is in a screen locked state and, second, when the mobile device is within the first pre-determined radius, r1, of a given GPS location and inside the second pre-determined radius, r2, of the given GPS location.
US10924599B1
A system and method for making a call to a service provider on behalf of a user is disclosed. The system and method include using an intelligent voice assistant to call the service provider and having the intelligent voice assistant navigate an interactive voice response system to reach a representative. The system and method also include using the intelligent voice assistant to reconnect a user with a representative after an interrupted call.
US10924596B2
A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
US10924593B2
A method includes a first computing entity editing an entry in a first copy of a common responsibility list of a proprietary network, where the entry includes information regarding the first computing entity's service responsibility for a first user computing device. The method further includes the first computing entity sending at least the edited entry to other computing entities. The method further includes the first computing entity receiving at least a second edited entry from a second computing entity. The method further includes the first computing entity updating the first copy of the common responsibility list with the at least the second edited entry.
US10924582B2
A method for processing a transport command at a local content controller to control the playback of shared content in synchrony with other, remote content controllers commences by first determining whether a received transport command originated from the local content controller or from at least one remote content controller. In the event of a locally originated transport command, the local content controller will prioritize the locally originated transport command with recently received transport commands. Thereafter, the local controller will transmit the locally originated transport command to at least one remote content controller for execution thereby if the locally originated transport command has priority. In the event of a remotely originated transport command, the local controller will prioritize the remotely originated transport command with recently received transport commands and then execute the prioritized transport commands in accordance with the latency between content controllers.
US10924579B2
Systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for mapping requests for content received at a CDN to multiple mid-tier content servers. In an example, a method involves utilizing one or more hashing algorithms to map a URL associated with the mid-tier devices to one or more hostnames that may be utilized by the CDN to route requests for content to a particular mid-tier device when an edge device cannot service the request. In this manner, one content device of a particular metro receives requests for particular content and serves that content. By limiting the requests for particular content to a particular mid-tier device, storage may be more efficiently allocated across the mid-tier devices and content not replicated at multiple mid-tier devices.
US10924573B2
A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes, at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the client is directed to a second server, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server serves the resource to the client. The second server may be in a second tier of servers or it may be an origin server.
US10924569B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for enhancing users' overall experiences with physical items by supplementing their physical experiences with digital experiences. According to an embodiment, a user uses an electronic device to scan a smart tag associated with an item to obtain an item identifier of the item. The electronic device sends the item identifier to a server, which selects digital content related to the item and sends the selected digital content to the user's electronic device for display.
US10924552B2
A distributed system includes a plurality of storage systems and a network connecting the storage systems. Each storage system includes a host having a processor and a memory, and a storage device having a controller and a nonvolatile memory. When a first storage system receives, a second storage system, a write command, write data, and size information of the write data, the controller in the first storage system determines an address of the nonvolatile memory of the first storage system in which the write data are to be written, based on the write command and the size information, writes the write data in the nonvolatile memory associated with the address, and transmits the address to the second storage system, and the processor of the second storage system stores management data indicating correspondence between identification information of the write data and the address in the memory of the second storage system.
US10924546B2
A mobile computing device may comprise at least one memory that comprises mobile application instructions and a state container. The mobile application instructions may cause a processing device of the mobile computing device to perform operations of: creating, while in an offline mode such that the mobile device is disconnected from a remote application server, a local update packet corresponding to the state container; establishing, via a wireless network, a network connection with the remote application server, thereby causing the mobile computing device to enter an online mode; synchronizing the memory of the mobile computing device with the remote application server, the synchronizing comprising comparing a first timestamp associated with the local update packet with a second timestamp associated with the remote update packet; and initiating display of a graphical user interface representation of the second modified contents of the state container to a user of the user device.
US10924544B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for calendar control. One apparatus includes a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect a triggering calendar entry of multiple calendar entries in a first digital calendar corresponding to a user. The triggering calendar entry occupies a time that is inconsistent with data corresponding to the first digital calendar. The code is executable by the processor to synchronize the triggering calendar entry with a second digital calendar corresponding to the user without synchronizing each calendar entry of the multiple calendar entries.
US10924539B2
A method and a device for selecting an aggregation node are provided. The method includes: acquiring a trust value list for each of nodes in a cluster, the trust value list for each of the nodes including trust values for each of the nodes, acquired by remaining nodes in the cluster; acquiring an actual trust value for each of the nodes according to the trust value list for each of the nodes; calculating an actual remaining energy ratio of each node according to a self-calculated remaining energy ratio of the node calculated by itself and other-calculated remaining energy ratios for the node calculated by the remaining nodes in the cluster; calculating an energy-trust integrated value for each of the nodes according to the actual trust value and the actual remaining energy ratio; and selecting an aggregation node according to the energy-trust integrated values for the nodes.
US10924536B2
A method for locating an optimum storage node for serving a data file request received via a communications network, includes: receiving a file request from a user device coupled to the communications network; determining a geocode value based on a communications network address associated with the user device, wherein the geocode value is indicative of a geographic location of the user device; selecting a storage node from a plurality of storage nodes coupled to the communications network to serve the file request, wherein the storage node is selected based at least in part on the geocode value; and redirecting the file request to the selected storage node for handling.
US10924531B2
Device, process and program for determining and alerting a user of the existence of nearby acquaintance, including: providing a first electronic communication device having near-field transmitting and receiving communications capability, a user interface and control circuitry; transmitting from the first communication device an inquiry to determine the presence in the near-field of a compatible second electronic communication device; upon receipt of a positive response to the inquiry, transmitting from the first communication device anonymous user indicia; receiving anonymous user indicia from the second communication device; coordinating the received anonymous user indicia to determine the presence of any matches between the transmitted anonymous user information and the received anonymous user indicia; and providing either a list of matches or an indication of no matches to the user via the user interface. Based on the information exchanged, the users can determine whether a relationship between the users exists or might be created.
US10924529B2
A system and method of transmitting data by using a widget window are provided. A method of transmitting, by a first device, a file by using a widget window includes selecting a file stored in the first device, and moving the file to the widget window, when the file is moved to the widget window, displaying a device selection list, and, when at least one device is selected from the device selection list, providing the file to the selected device, wherein the file is provided to the selected device via a second device that is connected with the first device.
US10924526B2
A first device receives information indicating changed network conditions for a network supporting a call with a second device at a first audio bit rate, and provides, to the second device, a packet instructing use of a second audio bit rate. The first device starts a timer associated with receiving an indication that the second device is using the second audio bit rate, and receives, from the second device, a response packet at the first audio bit rate. The first device determines that the timer has expired, and provides, to the second device, additional packets instructing use of the second audio bit rate. The first device determines that a threshold quantity of additional packets have been provided to the second device, and re-negotiates the second audio bit rate with the second device. The first device continues the call with the second device at the second audio bit rate.
US10924522B1
According to an exemplary embodiment, multiple users participate in a session to watch source media content (e.g., a movie or a video). Typically, an end user accesses the session via a mobile app executing on the user's mobile device, while the session itself is hosted in a server-based collaboration infrastructure. The source media content comprises at least one branching storyline. At a branch, a storyline in the source media content (typically a series of connected video clips) branches in at least two directions. According to the approach herein, and to facilitate the collaboration, upon reaching the branch, the participants in the session vote to determine the direction the story should then take going forward. Votes cast by the participants then determine which path the story advances. In so doing, the participants—working collaboratively—act as the producers or directors of the movie. In this manner, the system provides an entertaining and collaborative session that is highly interactive and enables the users themselves to determine how the story plays out.
US10924518B2
Various implementations disclosed herein enable programming user plane gateway controllers over enhanced N9 interfaces. In various implementations, a method of gateway controlling is performed by a computing device including one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. In various implementations the method includes determining, by a first packet gateway controller connected to a first session manager device, that a user equipment moved to a geographical area that is served by a second session manager device. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, by the first packet gateway device, a set of information for a second packet gateway device. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting, by the first packet gateway device, a session establishment request via a first network interface to the second packet gateway controller using segment routing via a second network interface.
US10924517B2
A threat management facility generates a simulated phishing threat based on one or more characteristics of users of an enterprise network and transmits the simulated phishing threat to the users of the enterprise network. Based on whether a user fails to respond appropriately to the simulated phishing threat, the threat management facility may adjust a profile of the user. Network traffic to and from an endpoint associated with the user may be processed according to the adjusted profile.
US10924516B2
The disclosure relates generally to methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing network connections. A system for managing network connections includes a storage component, a decoding component, a rule manager component, and a notification component. The storage component is configured to store a list of expected connections for a plurality of networked machines, wherein each connection in the list of expected connections defines a start point and an end point for the connection. The decoding component is configured to decode messages from the plurality of networked machines indicating one or more connections for a corresponding machine. The rule manager component is configured to identify an unexpected presence or absence of a connection on at least one of the plurality of network machines based on the list of expected connections. The notification component is configured to provide a notification or indication of the unexpected presence or absence.
US10924513B1
Systems of the present disclosure can detect user activities on endpoint devices based on the interference patterns those actions produce in wireless transmissions between those endpoint devices and another device (e.g., an edge device operating as a web security gateway). A web security gateway sends time-series data describing interference on wireless transmissions sent from, or received by, an agentless endpoint device to a network security service. In response, the network security service uses a machine-learning model to infer a type of an action that occurred on the agentless endpoint device concurrently with the wireless transmissions. The network security service sends an indication of the action type to the web security gateway. The web security gateway applies a network security policy to the action or a network communication associated therewith.
US10924509B2
Digital data processing systems of the type in which a server digital data device (“server”) is coupled to a client digital data device (“client”) over a network, e.g., the Internet, include web server software executing within an application layer on the server that responds to a request from the client by (i) validating a key received from the client with that request, (ii) generating a result code indicative of a success of that validation, (iii) initiating processing of the request, including invoking server resource software executing outside the application layer. The server resource software, which checks the result code upon invocation and before performing a protected operation required for processing the request, responds to a result code indicating that the result did not validate by exiting before executing the protected operation.
US10924506B2
An example method of monitoring computing resources in a cloud computing environment may include receiving a request to subscribe to a monitoring service with respect to computing resources associated with a user account, the request specifying access information for a cloud computing system comprising a plurality of virtual machines associated with the computing resources. The method may further include monitoring, using the access information, the plurality of virtual machines. The method may further include identifying, in view of the monitoring, a virus-infected application running on a virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines. The method may further include terminating the virus-infected application. The method may further include receiving, in view of the monitoring, resource usage data reflecting types and duration of usage of the computing resources. The method may further include generating, in view of the usage data, a report reflecting usage of the computing resources.
US10924505B2
Systems and methods for enhancing the security of an account by reducing the ability of an attacker to determine that an account includes multiple passcodes for accessing the account. An example method may comprise: accessing an account that comprises a first passcode providing constrained access to a set of computing resources and a second passcode providing unconstrained access to the set of computing resources; associating the account with a randomized resource limit that restricts a quantity of passcodes associated with the account; receiving a request to create a third passcode for the account; and denying the creation of the third passcode for the account in view of the randomized resource limit.
US10924503B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for identifying false positives in malicious domain data using network traffic data logs. Example methods may include determining a first domain name identifier in a set of domain name identifiers classified as malicious, determining a first IP address associated with the first domain name identifier, and determining first virtual private cloud (VPC) flow log data that corresponds to historical network traffic associated with the first IP address. Certain methods may include determining second VPC flow log data that corresponds to historical network traffic associated with a second IP address that is classified as non-malicious, determining, using the first VPC flow log data and the second VPC flow log data, that the first VPC flow log data is non-malicious, and determining that the first domain name identifier is to be classified as non-malicious.
US10924502B2
Techniques for providing network security and anomaly detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, network traffic may be monitored in order to create a model of network traffic over a first period of time. Based on the model of network traffic, one or more inflated files may be created and stored on a system, wherein the inflated files are of a sufficient file size such that attempts to exfiltrate one or more of the files may be detected based by network monitoring tools. The inflated files may further include one or more indicators of sensitivity, including indicators of the presence of sensitive information that is not actually included in the inflated files. Network traffic characteristics may then be repeatedly or continuously monitored in order to update the size of the one or more inflated files based on changes in network traffic characteristics.
US10924499B2
Embodiments include a method, system and computer program product for performing the detection of genuine social media profiles. In some embodiments, a request is received for a target user to join the social network. The request can be used to analyze one or more categories associated with a user profile information of at least one of a requesting user or the target user, and a category score can be calculated for one or more categories. A total score can be calculated from the one or more category scores, and a notification can be provided to the target user indicating the total score.
US10924497B2
A JIT service in a cloud computing environment manages just-in-time access to resources in the cloud computing environment for an external device. When JIT access to a resource is requested by a device, the JIT service retrieves a JIT policy for the resource that includes geolocation criteria limiting the geolocation from which JIT access can be automatically granted. The geolocation of the device is evaluated against the geolocation criteria. If the geolocation criteria and any other criteria of the JIT policy are satisfied, the JIT service provisions JIT access to the resource for the device.
US10924492B2
Provided is an information leakage prevention technique which does not require a dedicated device for access management on a network, and which offers excellent security policy flexibility. An information leakage prevention system comprises: a client terminal including a client processing unit which performs network control in accordance with an acquired security policy; and a management server including a user database in which information concerning a user of the client terminal is stored, a security policy database in which a security policy defining a network control content for each attribute of the user is stored, and a server processing unit which selects the security policy on the basis of the attribute of the user and a time of delivery of the security policy, and which transmits the selected security policy to the corresponding client terminal.
US10924485B2
An electronic signing authorization method includes converting a signing request submitted by an end user into a predetermined format, verifying an identity of an authorizing user of an authorization layer according to a predetermined verification process, accepting input data of the authorizing user of the authorization layer when the identity of the authorizing user of the authorization layer is verified, and outputting an authorization command according to the input data when the input data includes authorization data. The predetermined format includes at least one of a text format, an audio format, or a video format. The authorization command corresponds to rejecting the signing request, not authorizing the signing request, or authorizing the signing request.
US10924484B2
A method and system for determining a cost to allow a blockchain-based admission to a protected entity. The method includes identifying, in a blockchain network, a conversion transaction identifying a conversion of a first-type of access tokens with access tokens of a second-type, wherein the transaction designates at least the protected entity; determining a conversion value for converting the first-type of access tokens into the second-type access tokens, wherein the conversion value is determined based on at least one access parameter; and converting, based on the determined conversion value, a first sum of the first-type access tokens into a second sum of the second-type access-tokens, wherein a client spends the second sum of the second-type access tokens to access the protected entity, the determined conversion value is the access cost to the protected entity.
US10924478B2
A computer system identifies one or more characteristics corresponding to a memory of a user device based on analyzing information stored in the memory of the user device during one or more instances of a first time period. The computer system detects an untrusted user device attempting to access an account during a second time period. In response to the detecting the untrusted device attempting to access the account, the computer system compares one or more characteristics of the information stored in a memory of the untrusted user device to the identified one or more characteristics. In response to determining that a similarity level between the one or more characteristics of the information stored in the memory of the untrusted device and the identified one or more characteristics is above a threshold level, the computer system allows access to the account.
US10924476B2
Real-time facial recognition is augmented with an additional second biometric-based security gesture authentication. Facial biometric authentication is performed on a user for access to a resource. When facial authentication is successful, an image or a video of the user is captured performing a security gesture. Pixel values from the image or video are compared against expected pixel values for the security gesture and when the comparison is within a threshold, the user is provided access to the resource.
US10924464B2
Credentials and other sensitive strings can undergo automatic rotation before each transmission or storage of those credentials. String modification, which can utilize a key stretching algorithm, can be used to modify the credential before transmission. This can be for an initial sign up, a subsequent login, or another such action. A random number can be generated to determine the number of iterations for the key stretching algorithm to be applied. For subsequent actions, a new random number can be added to the prior iteration number in order to create a new string that can be generated using the previously utilized iteration number and the new random number, with only the new random number being transmitted with the modified credential string. This increases security, as the transmission itself cannot be used to recover the original plaintext credential if recovered.
US10924462B2
A cryptanalysis method comprising: (A) Performing a ciphertext-only direct cryptanalysis of A5/1 and (B) Using results of Step (A) to facilitate the decryption and/or encryption of further communications that are consistent with encryption using the session key and/or decryption using the session key, wherein the cryptanalysis considers part of the bits of the session key to have a known fixed value, and wherein the cryptanalysis finds the session key. An efficient known plaintext attack on AS/2 comprises trying all the possible values for R4, and for each such value solving the linearized system of equations that describe the output; The solution of the equations gives the internal state of RI, R2, and R3; Together with R4, this gives the full internal state which gives a suggestion for the key.
US10924455B2
A method and a system for implanting a handshake between a source cluster having files replicated to a destination cluster, the system comprising: a source cluster having a plurality of nodes and replication manager; and a destination cluster having a plurality of nodes, a replication manager and single port manager which run on each node of the destination cluster, wherein the replication managers of the source and destination clusters are configured to replicate all files and processes on the nodes of the source cluster to the nodes of the destination cluster, wherein all replicated files and processes register with the single port manager, and wherein the single port manager is configured to communicate with the source cluster via a single port and to provide descriptors of the required replicated files and processes via a kernel.
US10924454B2
Computing device and method for generating a fabric-wide IPv6 address in a data center comprising a plurality of fabrics. A configuration file is stored in a memory of a computing device. The configuration file comprises an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) base prefix and a fabric identifier. A processing unit of the computing device determines a host identifier. The processing unit generates an IPv6 prefix, by combining the IPv6 base prefix stored in the configuration file and the fabric identifier stored in the configuration file. The processing unit generates an IPv6 address, by combining the IPv6 prefix and the host identifier. The processing unit further advertises the generated IPv6 address.
US10924453B2
A method for automatically assigning a group address to a first controllable luminaire device of a plurality of controllable luminaire devices. The method determines whether adding the first controllable luminaire device to a logical community of controllable luminaire devices causes a number of controllable luminaire devices within the logical community of luminaire devices to exceed an established threshold. When it is determined that adding the first controllable luminaire device to the logical community of luminaire devices causes the number of controllable luminaire devices within the logical community of luminaire devices to exceed the established threshold, the method automatically assigns to each of the plurality of luminaire devices within the logical community of luminaire devices a group address for use in simultaneously controlling the luminaire devices as a group.
US10924451B2
When a communication device obtains an IP address from a DHCP server at the time of detecting link-up, an IP address of the communication device is changed before and after the link-up. When link-up is detected, the communication device determines whether or not it is necessary to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server again. Then, in a case where it is unnecessary to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server again, the communication device does not obtain the IP address from the DHCP server.
US10924445B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a number of notifications of activity relevant to a user. Each notification has an associated type. The method also includes calculating an interest of each activity to the user based at least in part on the type of each notification; ranking the notifications based at least in part on the calculated interest; and sending one or more of the notifications to the user. Each of the sent notifications has a ranking higher than a pre-determined threshold ranking.
US10924437B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling the transfer of data packets in an IP network. A device transmits a plurality of data packets in the IP network that are received by a switch on an input port. The switch analyses the data packets received by the device and extracts information identifying the type of device connected, and on the basis of this information, identifies in an internal memory area the criteria for setting the operating parameters of an application software executed by the device. The switch provides the device with operating parameters that are calculated on the basis of the criteria contained in the memory area such that the device subsequently executes the application software using the values provided by the switch.
US10924436B2
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a switch that includes a processor, ports, and memory that includes instructions, which when executed by the processor perform a method. The method includes obtaining, via a port, a global task-server mapping from a first server, detecting that one of the ports is congested. The method further includes, based on the detecting, identifying a task associated with the one of the ports using the global-task server mapping, generating a task listing based on the identifying, generating an alert including the task listing, and transmitting the alert to an administrator.
US10924432B2
Systems and methods can provide for fabric level verification of host defined port GUIDs in a high performance computing network. A lightweight scheme for fabric level verification of host defined port GUIDs is provided wherein a virtual machine is assigned a set of GUIDs that travel with the virtual machine, even on migration or re-start.
US10924428B2
An onboard device includes an electronic control unit configured to set priorities depending on a classification of probe data, and a communication unit configured to transmit, prior to probe data having a lower priority among the probe data, probe data having a higher priority among the probe data to a data center.
US10924425B2
Virtual element management systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed. A virtual element management system may include an orchestration layer, a control layer, and one or more adapters. The orchestration layer may receive a request formatted in accordance with a device-independent language from customer premises equipment via a first interface and may communicate the request to an appropriate adapter via the control layer. The adapter may translate the request to a device-specific request formatted in accordance with a device-specific language and may communicate the request to a network device via a second interface.
US10924422B2
A method and system are provided for implementing enhanced network device identifying and labeling via a connected Ethernet cable. A system includes a server having a port connected by the Ethernet cable to a port of a switch. An Ethernet runt packet containing metadata identifying the server name and the port is transmitted on the Ethernet cable by the server. Another Ethernet runt packet containing metadata identifying the switch name and the port is transmitted on the Ethernet cable by the switch. Use of the transmitted metadata of the Ethernet runt packets enables dynamically identifying and labeling the Ethernet cable, the connected server and port and switch and port.
US10924420B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform initiating a cluster of controller instances for executing a multi-dimensional event engine; configuring the cluster of controller instances in a topology, wherein the topology applies a distributed lock to designate an active controller instance selected from the cluster of controller instances to be utilized as the multi-dimensional event engine; and after configuring the cluster of controller instances, executing the multi-dimensional event engine. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10924413B2
Embodiments of this application provide a transmission path determining method and apparatus, where the method includes: determining that a current path corresponding to a flow to which a to-be-transmitted packet belongs is congested; and determining a target path for the to-be-transmitted packet based on a path congestion information table, and adding information about the target path to the to-be-transmitted packet, so as to transmit the to-be-transmitted packet based on the target path, where a congestion degree of the target path is less than a congestion degree of the current path, each entry of the path congestion information table includes a transmission path and congestion information corresponding to the transmission path, and the congestion information is used to indicate a congestion degree of the transmission path.
US10924404B2
A system that includes multiple hosts, each running a plurality of virtual machines. The system may be, for example, a cloud computing environment in which there are services and a service coordination system that communicates with the hosts and with the services. The services include a middleware management service that is configured to maintain per-tenant middleware policy for each of multiple tenants. The middleware management service causes the middleware policy to be applied to network traffic by directing network traffic to a middleware enforcement mechanism. This middleware policy is per-tenant in that it depends on an identity of a tenant.
US10924392B2
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for measuring edge-based quality of experience (QoE) metrics. For instance, a network device may construct a topological representation of a network, including indications of nodes and links connecting the nodes within the network. For each of the links, the network device may select a node device of the two node devices connected by the respective link to measure one or more QoE metrics for the respective link, with the non-selected node device not measuring the QoE metrics. In response to selecting the selected node device, the network device may receive a set of one or more QoE metrics for the respective link for data flows flowing from the selected node device to the non-selected node device. The network device may store the QoE metrics and determine counter QoE metrics for data flows flowing from the non-selected node device to the selected node device.
US10924387B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method and a network switch device for preventing the occurrence of loops in a network topology comprising a plurality of network switch devices, each switch device is assigned a unique SW-ID. The method comprises exchanging each SW-ID between all switch devices; and building, for each switch device, a routing table. The method further comprises when receiving, at a first switch device, a data frame from a second switch device that includes an SS-ID, assigned to the second switch device, and the data frame is received at a port of the first switch device, if, according to the routing table of the first switch device, the assigned SW-ID for this port is different from the SS-ID included in the data frame, discarding the data frame, otherwise, processing forward the data frame.
US10924386B2
Some embodiments provide a set of one or more network controllers that communicates with a wide range of devices, ranging from switches to appliances such as firewalls, load balancers, etc. The set of network controllers communicates with such devices to connect them to its managed virtual networks. The set of network controllers can define each virtual network through software switches and/or software appliances. To extend the control beyond software network elements, some embodiments implement a database server on each dedicated hardware. The set of network controllers accesses the database server to send management data. The hardware then translates the management data to connect to a managed virtual network.
US10924384B2
Systems and methods include, at a first Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speaker node which interconnects two autonomous systems, receiving an advertisement containing available bandwidth on one or more links between the two autonomous systems from a second BGP speaker node; and, for a BGP best path calculation between the two autonomous systems at the first BGP speaker node, selecting a link of the one or more links based on the available bandwidth on the link from the advertisement. At the first BGP speaker node, the systems and methods can further include determining bandwidth on the one or more links; and transmitting an updated advertisement based on the determined bandwidth. The bandwidth can be determined based on a configurable sampling interval. The transmitted update can be provided if the determined bandwidth has changed from a previous value by more than a configurable threshold.
US10924374B2
In one embodiment a network device includes multiple interfaces including at least one egress interface, which is configured to transmit packets belonging to multiple flows to a packet data network, control circuitry configured to generate event-reporting data-items, each including flow and event-type information about a packet-related event occurring in the network device, a memory, and aggregation circuitry configured to aggregate data of at least some of the event-reporting data-items into aggregated-event-reporting data-items aggregated according to the flow and event-type information of the at least some event-reporting data-items, store the aggregated-event-reporting data-items in the memory, and forward one aggregated-event-reporting data-item of the aggregated-event-reporting data-items to a collector node, and purge the one aggregated-event-reporting data-item from the memory.
US10924373B2
An optical line terminal (OLT) for an optical network configured to communicate with optical network units (ONUs) in a PON-type optical network, the OLT including: a processing circuitry, for each ONUs, to manage a transmission delay time in transmission to the ONU to manage an acceptable waiting time of uplink data of the ONU; to obtain an uplink transmission start time and data amount of the optical network unit, based on uplink assignment information; and to generate uplink transmission grant information, which is made up of a time point and time length of uplink transmission to the ONU, wherein the processing circuitry determines the uplink transmission grant information on transmission to the ONU, based on a transmission delay time of the ONU, on the uplink transmission start time and data amount of the ONU, and on the acceptable waiting time of uplink data of the ONU.
US10924361B2
Decentralized data analytics management is provided. For example, a method comprises the following steps. An analytic request is generated. The analytic request specifies one or more data sets and at least one analytic algorithm to be executed on the one or more data sets, wherein the one or more data sets and the at least one analytic algorithm are hosted on a set of clouds. The analytic request is published to the set of clouds to initiate negotiation with at least a portion of the set of clouds to determine a set of terms for execution of the at least one analytic algorithm on the one or more data sets. Execution of the at least one analytic algorithm on the one or more data sets can proceed as per the negotiated set of terms.
US10924359B2
Described are systems and methods for implementing and operating a Device Abstraction Proxy (DAP). In one embodiment, the DAP includes a communications interface to connect the DAP to one or more access aggregation devices, each having a plurality of physical ports to provide Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) communication services to a plurality of remote DSL terminals via the plurality of physical ports. The DAP may further include a memory and processor to execute a virtual access aggregation device, in which a subset of the plurality of physical ports are allocated and linked to corresponding logical ports. The DAP may further include a global rule-set module to define operational constraints for the DSL communication services, and a management interface to allow at least one broadband access management system to manage the subset of physical ports allocated to the virtual access aggregation device subject to the operational constraints.
US10924356B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for network service scheduling. The apparatus includes interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The interface circuitry receives network traffic data from devices in a content delivery network (CDN) that provides network services. The processing circuitry obtains historical network traffic data of the network services. The historical network traffic data includes network traffic measures of the network services in past time units from a present moment. The processing circuitry predicts future network traffic of the network services in a next time unit after the present moment according to the historical network traffic data of the network services. Then the processing circuitry schedules network resources for the network services according to the predicted future network traffic.
US10924352B2
Example methods are provided a first node to perform data center network topology discovery in a data center network. One example method may comprise the first node receiving multiple probe packets that include a first probe packet and a second probe packet in response to a probing process initiated by a second node. The method may also comprise extracting, from the first probe packet, first metadata that is added by a first subset of multiple intermediate network devices and extracting, from the second probe packet, second metadata that is added by a second subset of the multiple intermediate network devices. The method may further comprise processing the first metadata and the second metadata to identify respective first forwarding path and second forwarding path from the second node to the first node.
US10924348B1
Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for splitting decision trees between server and client. The client of the systems and methods sends a configuration query. The server of the system and method receives the configuration query. The server retrieves Config rule(s) according to the configuration query. Each of the Config rule(s) can be represented by decision tree(s). The server evaluates the decision tree(s). If a definitive True or False cannot be derived from the evaluation using server knowledge, the server prunes the decision tree(s) and returns them to client side for further evaluation.
US10924347B1
Configuration value persistence management (CVPM) tools and techniques provide faster persistence of networking device configuration values than classic approaches. CVPM consolidates configuration dump events based on certain dump conditions. Configuration value changes are journaled, and running configuration values are dumped to a data store only when the dump conditions are satisfied, instead of dumping all of the running configuration values whenever any of them is changed. Both the persistence of configurations and the restoration of persisted configurations are described. Configuration dump conditions may utilize device availability indicators, device load calculations, configuration change load calculations, dump age, or journal size, for example, or combinations thereof, with various thresholds. Thresholds may be hard, soft, or probabilistic. A wide variety of kinds of configuration values for many different kinds of networking devices may be efficiently and safely persisted and restored using CVPM in various computing environments.
US10924342B2
Computer-implemented methods for configuring an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge node in an IIoT network to perform one or more functions, including: performing a situation analysis to determine a required change in one or more of an analytical model, a runtime component, and a functional block of the IIoT edge node based on a change in the one or more functions; and automatically provisioning a new or updated functional module to the IIoT edge node, based on the situation analysis, the new or updated functional module including one or more components, wherein each component includes at least one of a rules set, a complex domain expression with respect to a process industry, an analytical model, and a protocol decoder.
US10924337B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for coordinating a resource usage of a connected endpoint based on a resource slice. In some embodiments, a method for a connected endpoint that contributes to a provisioning of a cloudification service in a vehicular micro cloud includes modifying an operation of a communication unit of the connected endpoint to receive a Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) message that includes a command to implement a resource slice for provisioning the cloudification service. The resource slice describes a set of onboard resources to be reserved by the connected endpoint. The method further includes providing the set of onboard resources to execute one or more tasks for the cloudification service based on the resource slice so that a resource usage of the connected endpoint is coordinated based on the resource slice to improve performance of the connected endpoint.
US10924335B2
A method includes deploying a network device within a fabric having a management network by attaching the network device through the management network to a port of a role allocator, wherein the role allocator includes one or more ports designated as first level port connections and one or more other ports designated as second level port connections. If the deployed network device is attached to one of the ports designated as first level port connections, the deployed network device is configured as a first level device. If the deployed network device is attached to one of the ports designated as second level port connections, the deployed network device is configured as a second level device.
US10924331B2
A controller area network (CAN) communication system is provided. The CAN communication system comprises: a CAN bus; at least one electronic control unit (ECU) coupled to the CAN bus; a host module coupled to the CAN bus for controlling the operation of the at least one ECU. The host module comprises: a controller; and at least two adapters coupled between the CAN bus and the controller for communication therebetween. The controller is configured to monitor a communication between a first adapter of the at least two adapters and the CAN bus by a second adapter of the at least two adapters when the controller is communicating with the CAN bus through the first adapter, and to switch its communication with the CAN bus from through the first adapter to through the second adapter when a failure of the communication between the first adapter and the CAN bus is determined.
US10924328B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations comprising determining a plurality of metrics of data trafficked through a session border controller (SBC), the SBC in communication with an endpoint device and positioned along a data transmission connection between a network and a IP multi-media subsystem (IMS); detecting a jitter performance metric of the data; in response to detecting the jitter, determining that an endpoint network response time (NRT) is degraded; in response to determining that the endpoint NRT is degraded, determining that an endpoint signaling response time (ART) is degraded; and in response to determining that the endpoint ART is degraded, identifying the endpoint device as a root cause of the jitter performance metric of the data.
US10924322B2
A process for modifying wireless data compression for a wireless electronic device includes displaying an application for modifying data compression on a display of the electronic device. The process further includes receiving a request from a user to modify a current data compression with a new data compression through an input device, evaluating the requested new data compression request in view of predetermined information of the user with a processor, and updating the wireless data compression with the new data compression after the evaluation with the processor.
US10924298B2
Example implementations relate to construction of a network service chain. For example, a system for construction of a network service chain can include a detection engine to detect a portion of a first network policy directing a subset of packets to a first service and a portion of a second network policy directing the subset of packets to a second service, and a construction engine to construct a network service chain of the first service and the second service in an order determined from a priority assigned to the first network policy and a priority assigned to the second network policy.
US10924294B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an eMBMS system that includes a GW-C device connected to a mobility management entity and broadcast/multicast service center and a GW-U device connected to a base station and the mobility management entity. The GW-C device is configured to perform core network signaling interaction with the broadcast/multicast service center and the mobility management entity, and to send a forwarding indication message to the GW-U device. The GW-U device is configured to receive signaling from the base station and send the signaling to the GW-C device according to the forwarding indication message. The GW-C device is further configured to receive and process the signaling from the GW-U device. The GW-U device is further configured to send a received broadcast/multicast service data packet to the base station according to the forwarding indication message.
US10924289B2
Embodiments of the invention provide improved account authentication using public-private key cryptography instead of passwords. Instead of registering a password and using that password to login to an account, an authentication server of an account provider registers a public key received from a user device. To authenticate the user device for logging into an account, the authentication server generates a challenge and encrypts using the registered public key. The encrypted challenge is sent to the user device, which can decrypt the challenge using the private key corresponding to the registered public key. The decrypted challenge is used for authentication instead of using a password. The private key corresponding to the public key is securely stored and not revealed to the authentication server.
US10924287B2
A method is set forth for signing and subsequently verifying a plurality of digital messages, including the following steps implemented using at least one processor-based subsystem: selecting parameters including an integer q, a relatively smaller integer p that is coprime with q, and a Gaussian function parameter; generating random polynomial f relating to p and random polynomial g relating to q; producing a public key that includes h, where h is equal to a product that can be derived using g and the inverse of f mod q; producing a private key from which f and g can be derived; storing the private key and publishing the public key; producing a plurality of message digests by hashing each of the digital messages with the public key; for each message digest, producing a digital signature using the message digest, the private key, and a Gaussian noise polynomial related to the Gaussian function parameter; and performing a batch verification procedure utilizing the plurality of digital signatures and the public key to determine whether the digital signatures are valid.
US10924280B1
A method of using a digital notary in distributed ledger technology for block construction and verification is disclosed that comprises creating, via a birth block creator server in a network, a birth block comprising electronic device information associated with an electronic device and an instruction set. The method also comprises confirming, by a digital notary server in the network, that the instruction set was built in trust and adding, by the digital notary server, a digital notary component to the birth block in response to the confirmation. The method further comprises creating a subsequent block for the electronic device that comprises the instruction set and the digital notary component, validating the subsequent block based on the digital notary component without consensus from a plurality of consensus servers in the network, and storing the subsequent block in response to the validation.
US10924277B2
The authenticity and/or integrity of data is determined based on cryptographic measurements. In some cases, the data is executable code of a computer program stored in system memory. In other cases, the data is firmware stored in a storage device or a boot device. In yet other cases, the data is executable code that is part of an update being received by an application controller. For example, the update may be a secure over-the-air (SOTA) update of software stored in firmware (e.g., on a storage device or a boot device).
US10924276B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a hardware accelerator to execute cryptography operations including a Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) operation and an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) operation. The hardware accelerator may include: a multiplier circuit comprising a parallel combinatorial multiplier; and an ECC circuit coupled to the multiplier circuit to execute the ECC operation. The ECC circuit may compute a prime field multiplication using the multiplier circuit and reduce a result of the prime field multiplication in a plurality of addition and subtraction operations for a first type of prime modulus. The hardware accelerator may execute the RSA operation using the multiplier circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10924271B2
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling access to vehicles in rental, loaner, shared-use, and other vehicle fleets. Some of the present systems, devices, and methods use encrypted virtual keys that can be relayed to a vehicle computing device via a user's mobile device. Such virtual keys can be command-specific such that successful use of a virtual key results execution of a predetermined command or group of commands, and further commands require one or more additional virtual keys with the additional commands. Others of the present systems, devices, and methods provide tools: for provisioning or initial pairing of vehicle computing devices with corresponding vehicles, identifying and permitting a user to select locally available vehicles, prompting vehicle computing devices to retrieve pending commands from a server, and/or various other functions described in this disclosure.
US10924266B2
A communication apparatus includes a storage device to store information indicating connection records of one or a plurality of terminals, and a processor. The processor performs a process including selecting one of a plurality of methods of exchanging a cipher key for communication with a target terminal that is to be connected to the communication apparatus, according to a combination of an input and output capability of the communication apparatus and an input and output capability of the target terminal, and outputting the input and output capability of the communication apparatus that causes the combination to select a method that exchanges the cipher key with the target terminal when the information indicating the connection records of the target terminal is stored in the storage device.
US10924254B2
The disclosure is related to a method and a system for long-distance full-duplex wireless communication. The system is mainly composed of a control circuit, at least one wireless transmission module and one or more wireless gateway modules. The wireless gateway module can receive data from a terminal node via one of multiple channels. The control circuit instructs a wireless transmission module to transmit data. The system utilizes the wireless transmission module to deal with the data from the gateway modules. In the method, in order to achieve full-duplex communication, the system obtains transmission parameters of every terminal node, sets up a transmission schedule with respect to signals having various frequencies within designated time slots according to the operating environment of the node, assigns a transmission priority within the time slots and stores the setting in the node.
US10924253B2
In one embodiment, a method receives a downstream signal and an upstream signal in a same frequency band. The downstream signal and the upstream signal are separated into a first path and a second path. The downstream signal using the first path and the upstream signal using the second path are amplified in an analog domain. The method isolates the downstream signal and the upstream signal from one another and sends the downstream signal downstream to a subscriber device and sends the upstream signal towards a full duplex node.
US10924244B2
This application relates to the mobile communications field, and in particular, to a channel state information (CSI) feedback technology in a wireless communications system. In a CSI feedback method, a network device allocates, for a feedback of one piece of CSI of user equipment, a physical uplink control channel resource including two physical resource block (PRB) pairs, and the user equipment uses a low bit-rate modulation and coding scheme for a CSI bit, and sends CSI on the physical uplink control channel resource.
US10924241B2
A plurality of multicarrier signals is generated. Each of the plurality of multicarrier signals includes a pilot symbol sequence at a same temporal point in each multicarrier signal. Each pilot symbol sequence includes a plurality of pilot symbols with non-zero amplitude. The pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other at the same temporal point. A quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each pilot symbol sequence is greater than or equal to a quantity of the plurality of multicarrier signals to be transmitted. The plurality of multicarrier signals are transmitted in an identical frequency band from a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas includes two, three, or four antennas.
US10924235B2
The present invention discloses a method of receiving a phase tracking reference signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same.
US10924222B2
A method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, an HARQ-ACK to a network device based on received HARQ-ACK feedback indication information sent by the network device, where the HARQ-ACK feedback indication information is used to indicate a transmission time interval commonly occupied by at least one terminal device to feed back an HARQ-ACK and proprietary information about an HARQ-ACK fed back by each terminal device, and the at least one terminal device includes the first terminal device. In this technical solution, HARQ-ACK feedback indication information can indicate proprietary information about an HARQ-ACK fed back by a terminal device, thereby reducing a load of an uplink control channel when the terminal device feeds back the HARQ-ACK.
US10924211B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and device, so as to increase an uplink/downlink data transmission throughput. The method includes: splitting a to-be-transmitted transport block into N code blocks with incompletely equal sizes, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; performing error correction coding on the N code blocks to obtain N encoded bit blocks; and non-orthogonally transmitting the N encoded bit blocks by using resources that are the same in at least one dimension of a time domain, a frequency domain, a space domain, and a code domain.
US10924203B1
Various arrangements for adaptive modulation of terminal to satellite communications are presented herein. A terminal may access a feedback data structure to perform a lookup based on a power level received as feedback. Based on performing the lookup using the power level in the feedback data structure, the terminal may determine a type of modulation to be used. The terminal may transmit one or more data packets to the satellite using the determined type of modulation without changing communication channel or requesting permission via the satellite to change modulation.
US10924201B2
This application discloses a data sending method, a signaling sending method, an apparatus, and a system, and relates to the communications field. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a downlink reference signal sent by an access network device; measuring, by the terminal, the downlink reference signal, to obtain a plurality of uplink precoding vectors; sending, by the terminal, SRSs to the access network device on a plurality of uplink SRS resources, where SRSs sent on different uplink SRS resources are precoded by using different uplink precoding vectors; receiving, by the terminal, uplink scheduling signaling sent by the access network device, where the uplink scheduling signaling is used to indicate a resource index of at least one uplink SRS resource.
US10924190B2
An optical receiver is provided with: an optical reception circuit which receives wavelength multiplexed light including signal light, converts the signal light into an electrical signal by coherent detection of the signal light using local oscillation light, and outputs the power of the local oscillation light, the bit error rate of the signal light and the electrical signal; and a controller which monitors the power of the local oscillation light and the bit error rate, calculates the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal light on the basis of the power of the local oscillation light and the bit error rate, and finds the number of wavelengths of the wavelength multiplexed light and the power per wavelength of the signal light on the basis of the signal-to-noise ratio and the power of the local oscillation light.
US10924187B2
An optical transceiver includes: a first OSA and a second OSA; a circuit board; an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer which includes a plurality of internal fibers, is optically connected to each of the first OSA and the second OSA through each of the internal fibers, and multiplexes the single optical signal to generate an optical transmission signal or demultiplexes an optical reception signal to generate the single optical signal; a receptacle which is optically connected to the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, transmits the optical transmission signal to the outside, and receives the optical reception signal; and a second holding member which holds the first OSA and the second OSA and is engaged with the circuit board. The second holding member includes a first guide which guides the internal fiber and a second guide which detours the internal fiber with respect to the first guide.
US10924186B1
An optical fiber link includes a local host control device including a microcontroller unit transmitting a host transmitting signal, and an electrical-to-optical converter converting the host transmitting signal to a laser beam optical signal; a remote sensor device including a sensor device transmitting a sensor transmitting signal and an optical return module selectively passing or blocking part of the laser beam optical signal; and a fiber cable including an upstream fiber link and a downstream fiber link and establishing communications between the local host control device and the remote sensor device, the laser beam optical signal being delivered from the local host control device to the remote sensor device through the downstream fiber link. The optical return module selectively passes or blocks the part of the laser beam optical signal delivered by the downstream fiber link based on the sensor transmitting signal to the upstream fiber link.
US10924182B2
The invention is directed to a system and method for troubleshooting in an optical data network that has a laser transmitter/receiver unit that outputs a data signal and an OTDR unit that produces an OTDR probe signal. The data and OTDR probe signals, typically at different wavelengths, are coupled into one end of a trunk fiber which is coupled at its far end to an optical circuit that includes a number of wavelength-selective optical switches and has multiple outputs that are directed to different end users. The optical switches are configurable so as to provide the OTDR probe signal to only one of the optical circuit's outputs while maintaining the data signal at the same output, while also maintaining the data signal, without the OTDR probe signal, at other outputs.
US10924181B2
In one embodiment, a communicating device (e.g., either a ground station server or a particular distributed module of a satellite communication system) mitigates congestion on a particular return communication path via an intermediate satellite from the plurality of distributed modules to the ground station server. In particular, in response to determining that the level of congestion is above a threshold, then the communication device mitigates the congestion by, e.g., one or both of either a) determining an uncongested return communication path from a particular distributed module to the ground station server, ensuring that the uncongested return communication path would not interfere with any unintended receiver, and then causing the particular distributed module to use the uncongested return communication path, and b) enforcing one or more communication restrictions on a utilized return communication path to reduce the effect of a communication on the overall congestion of the utilized return communication path.
US10924179B2
Techniques, systems, devices, and methods for utilizing a mobile communicator for communicating with multiple satellites, e.g., simultaneously over an interval of time, are disclosed. The mobile communicator is disposed on a vehicle, and the multiple satellites may be disposed in different satellite constellations operating in different orbits. The mobile communicator establishes multiple communication links to the multiple satellites by utilizing only the set of antenna resources provided by a single antenna platform or array. Subsets of the antenna resources are dynamically apportioned and adapted, e.g., while the vehicle travels, to establish and maintain different communication links to different satellites via different spatial channels and their respective air interfaces to thereby maintain optimal satellite communicative connectivity. On-board connectivity services for personal electronic devices and/or other on-board applications may be supported by the disclosed techniques.
US10924175B2
Network devices and systems in 5G and new radio (NR) infrastructures can utilize beam management operations to ensure communications for beam management procedure triggering including beam reporting, even during fall-back mode when the current receive (Rx) beam for downlink (DL) and transmit (Tx) beam for uplink (UL) fail. Additionally, reduction in overhead can be achieved with a reference beam pair link based beam reporting in a fall-back mode or not. This beam reporting can be a group based beam reporting and based on Reference Signal Received Powers (RSRPs) of beams and a differential RSRP corresponding thereto.
US10924170B2
A wireless transmitter includes a radio interface and transmitter circuitry. The radio interface includes multiple transmit antennas. The transmitter circuitry is configured to hold multiple steering matrices specifying weights to be applied to one or more spatial streams transmitted via the multiple transmit antennas to a receiver that includes one or more receive antennas, the multiple steering matrices are specified over multiple sub-carriers, to calculate smoothed weights, by applying to the weights of the steering matrices phase-only corrections that reduce phase variations among the weights of the steering matrices over the sub-carriers, and to transmit to the receiver beam-formed transmissions of the one or more spatial streams over the sub-carriers, by applying to the spatial streams the smoothed weights in the respective sub-carriers.
US10924167B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may identify a codebook matrix having a number of rows equal to a first number and a number of columns equal to a second number, the first number equal to a number of UEs supported for communication with a base station, and the second number equal to a sequence length of a set of UE specific signature sequences, where the rows of the codebook matrix comprise a Welch bound equality (WBE) achieving vector set. The UE may identify a UE specific signature sequence based at least in part on a mapping between an identifier associated with the UE to one or more rows of the codebook matrix, and communicate with the base station based at least in part on the UE specific signature sequence.
US10924164B2
Apparatus and methods for beamforming communication systems with power control based on antenna pattern configuration are provided. In certain embodiments, a beamforming communication system includes an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements. The beamforming communication system further includes a plurality of signal conditioning circuits operatively associated with the antenna elements, and an antenna array management circuit that generates a plurality of control signals that individually control the signal conditioning circuits. The antenna array management circuit achieves a desired level of power control based on generating the control signals to select an antenna pattern configuration associated with a desired power control level.
US10924151B2
A transmitter device which transmits a first transmit signal and a second transmit signal having different wireless communication standards. The transmitter device includes a power amplifier that amplifies the first transmit signal in a first transmission mode. A first impedance circuit provides the amplified first transmit signal to a radio frequency output port. A second impedance circuit is connected to the first impedance circuit and provides an additional impedance to the first impedance circuit in the first transmission mode. A first switch provides the second transmit signal to the first impedance circuit in a second transmission mode. A second switch connects the second impedance circuit and a ground in the first transmission mode, and floats the second impedance circuit in the second transmission mode.
US10924144B2
Energy harvesting Internet of Things (IOT) devices are shown including configurations involving a persistent memory, microcontroller, and flat antenna for electromagnetic RF harvesting. In one embodiment, multiple cycles of energy harvesting are performed by an IOT device, where power harvested via the flat antenna is transferred to a power storage of the device such that when the power storage has an amount of power the microcontroller performs processing resulting in state data stored to persistent memory, then during an additional cycle or cycles of energy harvesting, the device completes a process resulting in a payload that is sent to an end node via wireless transmission. Additional energy harvesting may be provided via an energy harvesting input that provides device input and causes additional energy for harvesting. Configurations include ones where energy harvesting is performed by the device, based on capturing vocal energy from a human voice spoken to the device. Configurations also include IOT devices coupled to cloud processing and cloud storage, cloud IOT device state setting, cloud IOT device state getting, cloud provisioning, etc.
US10924137B2
A method for generating a polar code cN of length N and dimension K, on the basis of a generator matrix GN of size N×N, is provided. The method includes generating a distance spectrum vector dTp=(dTp(1), . . . , dTp(p)) of size p of the kernel Tp, wherein dTp(h), h=1, . . . , p, corresponds to a maximum value among all possible minimum distances of all possible polar codes of size p and dimension h generated on the basis of the kernel Tp. The method also includes generating a distance spectrum vector dGN of size N of the generator matrix GN on the basis of the distance spectrum vector dTp, determining the set of K information bit indices I on the basis of the distance spectrum vector dGN, and generating the polar code cN on the basis of the set of K information bit indices I.
US10924122B2
A system and method for phase alignment of multiple PLLs are disclosed. The system comprises a plurality N of PLLs (PLL_1 . . . PLL_N) and a plurality N of phase detectors (DET_1 . . . DET_N). The plurality N of phase detectors and the plurality N of PLLs are connected in a loop such that an i-th phase detector (DET_i) is configured to receive an i-th feedback signal (FB_i) generated from the i-th PLL and an (i+1)-th feedback signal (FB_i+1) generated from the (i+1)-th PLL, and the N-th phase detector (DET_N) is configured to receive the first feedback signal (FB_1) generated from the first PLL and the N-th feedback signal (FB_N) generated from the N-th PLL. The an i-th phase detector (DET_i) is configured to generate an i-th adjustment signal indicating an i-th phase difference between the i-th and (i+1)-th feedback signals for adjusting a phase of the i-th or (i+1)-th PLL, wherein i=1, 2, 3, . . . N−1. The N-th phase detector (DET_N) is configured to generate a N-th adjustment signal indicating a N-th phase difference between the first and N-th feedback signals.
US10924120B1
An oscillator circuit includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) with a plurality of voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a clock divider circuit receiving the VCO phase outputs and outputting a first stage clock signal with an adjustable clock period related to the PLL period based on selecting a combination of two of the VCO phase outputs. The first stage clock signal has a balanced duty cycle at frequencies that are related to the PLL frequency by even fractional divisions of the VCO phase output period based on the quantity VCO phase outputs, and an unbalanced duty cycle at frequencies that are related by odd fractional divisions. A duty cycle adjustment (DCA) circuit receives the first stage clock signal selectively adjusts a falling edge of the first stage clock signal to provide an even duty cycle and feeds a resulting signal to the second stage clock signal output.
US10924119B1
A clock data recovery circuit configured to receive an input data signal that includes an embedded clock signal includes a clock recovery circuit including a phase detector configured to detect a phase of the embedded clock signal and to generate a recovery clock signal from the input data signal based on the detected phase; and a data recovery circuit configured to generate a recovery data signal from the input data signal by using the recovery clock signal. The phase detector includes a sampling latch circuit configured to output a first sample signal and a second sample signal from the input data signal; and an edge detection circuit configured to generate a phase control signal based on the first sample signal and the second sample signal and output the phase control signal in a period in which the second sample signal is output from the sampling latch circuit.
US10924117B2
A method for designing an FPGA may include determining blocks required for each of a plurality of applications; determining a size of the FPGA accommodating the determined blocks for each of the plurality of applications; and laying out the determined blocks for each of the plurality of applications in a block array of the FPGA.
US10924114B2
A skew compensation circuit includes a skew detection circuit configured to generate skew detection signals by detecting a skew characteristic of a basic logic element constituting a semiconductor apparatus, a skew compensation signal generation circuit configured to generate a skew compensation signal by comparing the skew detection signals and a plurality of reference voltages, a variable delay circuit configured to generate a compensation signal by delaying an input signal by a delay time varied according to the skew compensation signal, and a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate the plurality of reference voltages of which offset components are compensated for according to variations of a temperature and an external voltage.
US10924108B2
A circuit arrangement is enclosed. The circuit arrangement includes a first electronic circuit; a second electronic circuit; and a coupling circuit connected between the first electronic circuit and the second electronic circuit. The first electronic circuit is at least partially integrated in a first region of a semiconductor layer, the second electronic circuit is at least partially integrated in a second region of the semiconductor layer, and the second region adjoins a first insulating layer formed on a first surface of the semiconductor layer and is electrically insulated from the first region by a second insulating layer. Further, the coupling circuit is arranged in a third insulating layer formed on a second surface of the semiconductor layer and comprises at least two capacitors connected in series.
US10924104B2
A power-switch-system (PSS) having a low-side transistor (LSS) and a high-side transistor (HSS), which are switchable to be conductive or switched to be blocking in respectively alternating time-segments of a switching-period of the PSS. A source-terminal of the LSS is connected to a load-terminal, and a drain-terminal of the LSS is connected to a supply-voltage via a storage-inductor. A drain-terminal of the HSS is connected to the load-terminal, and a source-terminal of the HSS is connected to the supply-voltage via the storage-inductor. Provided is a PSS of this kind, the LSS having at least two transistor-segments. At least two of the transistor-segments have a different electrical resistance in the connection to the storage-inductor. The PSS provides that at least two of the transistor-segments are switched at a different point in time during a switching operation of the PSS to reduce unwanted voltage fluctuations, without markedly increasing switching losses.
US10924096B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a dynamic lane-to-lane skew reduction technique having (a) a clocking architecture configured to provide a corresponding first delayed clock signal and a corresponding second delayed clock signal through a first and a second plurality of routing traces, respectively, and (b) a number of skew compensation circuits configured to process the corresponding first delayed clock signal and the corresponding second delayed clock signal to generate a corresponding user clock signal for a corresponding lane of a transmitter. In an illustrative example, a first routing trace may transmit a first delayed clock signal in a direction opposite to a second routing trace transmitting a second delayed clock signal. By implementing the technique, each transmitter lane may receive a corresponding user clock signal having substantially the same delay relative to a reference clock signal such that dynamic lane-to-lane skew may be advantageously reduced.
US10924088B1
An optical pulse to voltage signal converter may include a photodetector, a front end-circuit, and a signal processor. The front-end circuit may include a tunable loading network configured to convert a stream of current pulses from the photodetector into a stream of input voltage signals, at least one tunable voltage source configured to generate at least one stream of signals with at least one select voltage, and at least one amplifier coupled to the at least one tunable voltage source. The at least one amplifier may be configured to compare the stream of input voltage signals and the at least one stream of signals with the at least one select voltage to generate at least one stream of output voltage signals with a select duty-cycle phase and duty-cycle resolution. The amplifier may be further configured to output the at least one stream of output voltage signals to the signal processor.
US10924081B2
A substrate for a surface acoustic wave device or bulk acoustic wave device, comprising a support substrate and an piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, wherein the support substrate comprises a semiconductor layer on a stiffening substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is closer to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the material of the piezoelectric layer than that of silicon, the semiconductor layer being arranged between the piezoelectric layer and the stiffening substrate.
US10924079B2
Disclosed herein is a device and method for intelligently reducing power consumption in an audio amplifier in the device, and in particular Class-D amplifiers, through the use of metadata associated with settings of the playback device and/or content to be played on the playback device. The device includes components for analyzing the settings and content metadata and regulates the voltage provided to the audio amplifier based on this analysis.
US10924076B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for changing a distributed mode loudspeaker's fundamental frequency. One of the systems includes a distributed mode loudspeaker comprising an actuator that includes: a supported portion, and a cantilevered portion having a length, a first fundamental frequency, and adapted to create a force to cause vibration of a load to generate sound waves using the first fundamental frequency; a support element connected to the supported portion of the actuator and adapted to adjust, based on a change to a shape of the support element, a size of the length of the cantilevered portion to change the first fundamental frequency to a second fundamental frequency with which the load will generate sound waves; and a frequency selection module that provides a signal to the support element to cause the support element to change shape.
US10924075B2
Variable gain amplifiers (VGA) with output phase invariance are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a VGA is operable in a selected gain setting chosen from multiple gain settings that provide different amounts of amplification to a radio frequency (RF) input signal. The VGA includes a gain transistor that has a substantially constant bias current across the gain settings, such that the VGA's output phase, input impedance matching, and/or input return loss are substantially constant. The gain setting of the VGA is selected by controlling relative biasing of a pair of cascode transistors each connected to the gain transistor by a corresponding degeneration resistor. The degeneration resistors provide compensation that reduces or eliminates a difference in output phase of the VGA across gain settings, for instance, by introducing a zero in a transfer function of the VGA that cancels a pole arising from the cascode transistors.
US10924074B2
A differential input stage of a circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. Drains of the first and third transistors couple together at a first node, and drains of the second and fourth transistors couple together at a second node. A first slew boost circuit includes a fifth transistor and a first current mirror. A gate of the fifth transistor couples to the second node. A source of the fifth transistor couples to the first node. The first current mirror couples to the fifth transistor and to the second node. A second slew boost circuit includes a sixth transistor and a second current mirror. A gate of the sixth transistor couples to the first node. A source of the sixth transistor couples to the second node. The second current mirror couples to the sixth transistor and to the first node.
US10924071B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a principal surface parallel to a plane defined by a first direction and a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, and the principal surface having a first side parallel to the first direction; first unit transistors, each amplifying a first signal in a first frequency band to output a second signal; and second unit transistors, each amplifying the second signal to output a third signal and aligned in the second direction between the first side and a substrate center line in the first direction in plan view of the principal surface. A first center line in the first direction of a region in which the first unit transistors are aligned is farther from the first side than a second center line in the first direction of a region in which the second unit transistors are aligned.
US10924062B2
A power amplifying apparatus includes a first bias circuit configured to generate a first bias current by adding a boost current to a base bias current generated from a reference current, a first amplification circuit configured to receive the first bias current and amplify a signal input through an input terminal of the first amplification unit to output a first amplified signal, and a bias boosting circuit configured to generate the boost current, based on a magnitude of a harmonic component in the amplified signal output from the first amplification circuit.
US10924058B2
A CMOS gain element is disclosed herein. Also disclosed herein are splitters, comprising the CMOS gain element, and local oscillator distribution circuitry comprising the splitters and the CMOS gain elements. Semiconductor devices comprising the local oscillator distribution circuitry may have smaller footprints and reduced power consumption relative to prior art devices.
US10924054B2
A failure diagnosis method for an inverter circuit includes a first monitoring step of monitoring an inter-terminal voltage between a high-potential-side terminal and a low-potential-side terminal of each of a plurality of driving devices included in the inverter circuit, and a second monitoring step of monitoring a power supply voltage of the inverter circuit. A determination step of determining whether there is a failure in each of the driving devices from a value of the inter-terminal voltage and a value of the power supply voltage is included.
US10924049B2
Control method for oscillating motor and osculating motor The control unit is further used for storing the set pulse parameters, and outputting alternating pulses with corresponding pulse widths and frequencies according to the set pulse parameters, so that the oscillating arm oscillates in an oscillation mode corresponding to the pulse parameters; wherein the oscillation mode comprises at least one of a full-amplitude oscillation mode, a sub-amplitude oscillation mode, an in-situ shaking mode and a composite oscillation mode, wherein the composite oscillation mode is generated by superposition of the full-amplitude oscillation mode and the in-situ shaking mode, or is generated by superposition of the sub-amplitude oscillation mode and the in-situ shaking mode.
US10924046B2
A motor driven power steering apparatus includes a steering logic unit for generating a current command to operate a drive motor according to a driving condition of a vehicle, a motor speed sensor for sensing a rotation condition of the drive motor to output a motor speed, a motor control unit for receiving the current command and the motor speed from the steering logic unit and the motor speed sensor, respectively, and calculating an output voltage from a voltage table according to current-speed based on the current command and the motor speed to output a voltage command to operate the drive motor, a coordinate conversion unit for converting the two-phase voltage command outputted from the motor control unit into a three-phase voltage, and a motor driving unit for outputting the three-phase voltage converted from the coordinate conversion unit to the drive motor as a PWM voltage.
US10924044B2
A method of reducing cold startup time of a genset which includes an engine and a generator for providing a requested power to a utility grid or load comprises determining if the generator is electrically coupled to a utility grid or load. In response to determining the generator is electrically coupled to the utility grid or load, a speed bias value is controlled in response to the power being produced by the genset. The speed bias signal represents a difference between a target power output and a current power output of the genset. The power of the engine is controlled using the speed bias value.
US10924043B2
Systems and apparatuses include a control unit structured to communicate with a first generator set, a second generator set, and a third generator set, operate the first generator set as an output generator in an exercise mode, and operate the second generator set and the third generator set as load generators in the exercise mode to use electrical power produced by the first generator set. The second generator set uses a second genset portion of the electrical power and the third generator set uses a third genset portion of the electrical power.
US10924040B2
One example is a system for controlling a motor during startup. The system includes measurement logic, pattern detection logic, and mode logic. The measurement logic monitors a back-electromotive force (BEMF) signal representing a BEMF of an electric motor and the pattern detection logic monitors this signal to detect instances of the monitored BEMF signal exhibiting a predetermined pattern. The mode logic enables control of the electric motor according to a plurality of modes of control. In some examples, the mode logic initially employs a first mode of control and switches from the first mode of control to a second mode of control in response to the pattern detection logic detecting that a BEMF signal exhibits the predetermined pattern over a plurality of commutation states.
US10924028B2
A power converter comprising an energy transfer element is coupled between an input of the power converter and an output of the power converter. A cascode circuit generates a first sense signal and a second sense signal. A controller controls the switching of the cascode circuit to transfer energy from the input of the power converter to the output of the power converter. The controller comprising a current sense circuit generates a current limit signal and an overcurrent signal in response to the first sense signal and the second sense signal. A control circuit generates a control signal in response to the current limit signal and the overcurrent signal. A drive circuit comprising a first stage gate drive circuit generates a drive signal in response to the control signal to reduce EMI, and a second stage of gate drive circuit to enable accurate current sensing of the cascode circuit.
US10924023B2
A control circuit having power limit for controlling an AC-DC voltage converter. The control circuit includes a first sensing circuit having an auxiliary winding used to sense a voltage on an inductive element of the converter to generate a first sensing signal, a second sensing circuit used to sense the current flowing through the inductive element to provide a second sensing signal, and a power limit circuit. The power limit circuit generates a power indication signal indicative of the input power of the converter based on the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. When the power indication signal is larger than a power threshold, a controllable switch of the converter is turned off.
US10924016B2
A USB Type-C device supporting a bidirectional power supply, includes: a first device terminal configured to be coupled to a second USB Type-C device; a second device terminal configured to be coupled to a rechargeable DC voltage power source; and a reversible switched-mode power supply coupled to the first device terminal and the second device terminal.
US10924007B2
Multi-phase interleaving control in a power supply device is accelerated. In addition, in accelerating the multi-phase interleaving control in the power supply device, acceleration in detecting a feedback signal and stabilization of a control system in a high-frequency band are promoted. Eliminating the need of the feedback signal according to a slow response detector, and using a detection signal obtained by a detector for detecting an AC signal capable of rapid response, thereby accelerating the multi-phase interleaving control in the power supply device. Then, the control system is stabilized, by satisfying a condition where gain is equal to 1 or less in a transfer function of the control system including an LC circuit, and a condition where a phase shift caused by dead time of switching time does not affect the sampling cycle.
US10924004B2
A converter circuit arrangement and a method for operating a converter circuit arrangement are disclosed. In an embodiment an arrangement includes a switched-mode input converter sub-stage comprising a step-up converter configured to convert a rectified input voltage on an input side into an intermediate voltage higher than the rectified input voltage, a switched-mode output converter sub-stage configured to convert the intermediate voltage into a direct output voltage at an output side, a switch configured to switch both the switched-mode input converter sub-stage and the switched-mode output converter sub-stage and a control circuit configured to control the switched-mode output converter sub-stage to a power demand at the output side independent of the switched-mode input converter sub-stage by operating the switch with a controlled duty cycle, wherein the control circuit is connected to the switched-mode output converter sub-stage and the output side and configured to apply a first control parameter based on a sensed output voltage and/or a sensed output current and to apply a second control parameter based on a sensed current and/or a sensed voltage of the switched-mode output converter sub-stage.
US10924003B2
A controller IC has, for example, a current detection terminal for detecting a coil current passing in a switching power supply and an on-timing setter configured to check for a ground short circuit at the current detection terminal when an output transistor turns off to generate an on-timing setting signal so as to turn on the output transistor, during normal operation, at the time point that the coil current has decreased to a zero value or a value close thereto and, during a ground short circuit, after the lapse of a predetermined minimum off-period.
US10924002B2
A transient response enhancement circuit for buck-type voltage converters, wherein, the transient load changing detecting module detects the output voltage of the buck-type voltage converter. The first control signal is generated when the increase of the output voltage is detected, and the second control signal is generated when the decrease of the output voltage is detected, thereby self-adaptively detecting the time of the buck-type voltage converter in response to the load changing. The compensation voltage predicting operation module predicts and adjusts the compensation voltage and the adjusted compensation voltage is superimposed on the buck-type voltage converter through the internal active compensation module to adjust the duty ratio of the buck-type voltage converter. The drive controlling insertion logic module can further improve the response speed.
US10924000B2
A DC/DC converter is provided which can be produce easily and inexpensively with an alternating current component with which a superimposed direct current is reduced in an output voltage (ripple). A C+DC/DC converter includes an input and output, a series arm which is arranged between the input and the output and in which at least one first inductor and first capacitor are arranged, and a capacitor arranged in a first shunt arm at the output. A second shunt arm arranged parallel to the first shunt arm is equipped with a first switch and a second switch arranged in series and a second inductor such that the first connection of the inductor is connected to a point between the first inductor and the first capacitor and the second connection of the inductor is connected to a point between the first and the second switch.
US10923997B2
Long-stator linear motor with vehicle arranged for movement along transport path. Motor includes holding structure(s) having drive coils, on which passive part of vehicle is arranged; and guide surface and guide track running along path. Passive part has first drive magnet(s) arranged parallel to guide surface with air gap. Vehicle has first profile member(s) arranged on guide track and positioned by pressing force acting in transverse direction onto guide track with respect to an ascending direction running normally to movement direction and transverse direction. First running member(s) support passive part on holding structure against attractive force acting between drive magnets and drive coils to ensure the air gap. Vehicle has first auxiliary guide member(s) which, interacting with an auxiliary guide on holding structure at least in divergence and/or convergence areas of path, delimits movement of vehicle in a positive and/or negative ascending direction at least on one side.
US10923992B2
A drive device for use in a vehicle includes a motor, a substrate, and at least one inter-system ground connection capacitor. The motor includes a plurality of motor windings within one housing. Multiple inverters are mounted on the substrate. Each inverter is connected to a different battery and a different ground to form a system, where each of the motor windings is associated with its own system. The inter-system ground connection capacitor is mounted on the substrate, and electrically connects the grounds of the systems together to reduce electrical noise propagated outside the drive device to other parts in the vehicle.
US10923986B2
A magnetic anti-lock device for a rotating shaft is described. The magnetic anti-lock device utilizes opposing magnets to reduce the varying force required to rotate the shaft and increases efficiency of the rotating shaft. The magnetic anti-lock device includes at least one inner magnet attached to the rotating shaft, and at least one outer magnet fixed in position relative to the rotating shaft. The inner magnet passes the outer magnet each time the shaft rotates creating a repulsive force to reduce the force necessary to rotate the shaft.
US10923970B2
A brushless winding field type rotary electric machine between a starting device and a stationary case, having a stator held in the case and internally equipped with an AC coil generating a rotating magnetic field by an AC current; a field core held in the case and internally equipped with a field coil excited by a DC current; a rotor disposed around the starting device outer periphery and rotatable with respect to the stator and the field coil; a first air gap formed between the stator and the rotor, delivering a magnetic flux between the two; a second air gap formed between the field core and the rotor, delivering a magnetic flux between the two. The second air gap has an inclined section inclined with respect to a rotation shaft axial direction so that the rotor radially outer portion is positioned on the radially outer side than the field core.
US10923968B2
Techniques and examples pertaining to combined wireless charging and position tracking are described. A method may involve a processor of an apparatus operating in a first mode to effect wireless charging via at least a first coil of a plurality of coils of the apparatus. The method may also involve the processor operating in a second mode to effect position tracking via at least a second coil of the plurality of coils of the apparatus.
US10923966B2
In one embodiment, a coil structure for wireless power transfer comprises a ferrite core and at least two coils wound around the ferrite core, the at least two coils located symmetrically about a geometric center of the ferrite core, the at least two coils wound in such a way that when a first current flows in a first spatial direction in one of the at least two coils a second current flows in a second spatial direction in the other one of the at least two coils. In one embodiment, the coil structure is implemented in a wireless power receiver to receive power from a wireless power transmitter or to guide alignment of the receiver to the transmitter. In another embodiment, the coil structure is implemented in a wireless power transmitter to produce a magnetic field for wireless power transfer.
US10923961B2
A control method of a wireless power receiver is provided. The control method includes wirelessly receiving a first power from a wireless power transmitter; based on the received first power, loading a first communication stack from a memory stored in a communication module of the wireless power receiver; establishing a communication connection with the wireless power transmitter based on the first communication stack; wirelessly receiving a second power from the wireless power transmitter; based on residual capacity of a battery of the wireless power receiver exceeding a minimum power threshold according to the received second power, determining to re-initialize the communication connection with the wireless power transmitter; transmitting a message including a time period required to complete at least one procedure for re-initializing the communication connection with the wireless power transmitter; and wirelessly receiving the second power from the wireless power transmitter while re-initializing the communication connection with the wireless power transmitter.
US10923953B2
An inductive power receiver for an inductive power transfer system comprising: a power pick up stage including a receiving coil for receiving power transmitted by a transmitter; a load stage connected to the power pick up stage; a power regulation stage configured to provide a voltage in series with the power pick up stage wherein the voltage switches between at least a first amplitude and a second amplitude that is different from the first amplitude; and a controller configured to control the power regulation stage to regulate the power delivered to the load stage.
US10923951B2
Disclosed is a magnetic induction power supply device, which switches the unit coil having the smallest number of windings to a rectification unit at the initial operation, thereby preventing the parts damaged due to an excessive inrush voltage. The disclosed magnetic induction power supply device switches the unit coil having the smallest number of windings to the rectification unit when emergency power is applied from a first power supply unit or a second power supply unit. The second power supply unit can supply the power source induced in the unit coils to a sensing unit as the emergency power.
US10923946B1
A backup power supply system and a method for providing power to an electrical load are provided. The system includes at least one supercapacitor, a battery and a power supply controller. The controller is configured to determine whether an output of a primary power supply for the load meets a first predetermined condition, determine, when the output of the primary power supply does not meet the first predetermined condition, a level of current required by the load, provide current to the load from the supercapacitor if the level of current required by the load meets a second predetermined condition, and, provide current to the load from the battery if the level of current required by the load does not meet the second predetermined condition until an output of the battery meets a third predetermined condition and thereafter provide current to the load from the supercapacitor.
US10923942B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus comprising a battery encapsulated within a sealed enclosure, an electronic device encapsulated within the sealed enclosure, a power control circuit encapsulated within the sealed enclosure, and a loop of conductive medium connected to the power control circuit. The electronic device is in a deactivated state. At least a portion of the loop of conductive medium passes out of and back into the sealed enclosure. In response to severing of the at least portion of the loop of conductive medium which is outside of the sealed enclosure, the power control circuit is configured to cause activation of the electronic device.
US10923940B2
A charger power supply successively performs a constant-current charging process and constant-voltage charging process in accordance with a compensation signal. The process includes a plurality of first time periods during which a first output current is provided and a plurality of second time periods during which a second output current is provided. One of a current feedback loop and a voltage feedback loop is selected by comparing output signals of two loops. The current feedback loop has a first reference voltage compensated by a difference between a first voltage corresponding to a first output voltage during the plurality of first time periods and a second voltage corresponding to a second output voltage during the plurality of said time periods.
US10923933B2
The present disclosure is provided with a power station including: an inverter for converting a direct current outputted by one or more battery packs into an alternating current; a rectifier for converting an alternating current into a direct current for charging the one or more battery packs; at least one battery pack interface configured to removably receive the one or more battery packs, that is originally used as a power source for a handheld electric power tool or a garden tool. A power system includes the power station, the one or more battery packs and an external electrical device coupled to the power station.
US10923931B2
An information handling system includes an motion sensor, an embedded controller, and a battery charge indicator. The motion sensor detects a battery charge request, and provides a trigger signal in response to the battery charge request being detected. The embedded controller receives the trigger signal from the motion sensor, and requests a relative state of charge of a battery in response to the trigger signal. The embedded controller then receives the relative state of charge of the battery, and provides a relative state of charge indication signal. The battery charge indicator receives the relative state of charge indication signal, and outputs an indication of the relative state of charge of the battery based on relative state of charge indication signal.
US10923929B2
A recharging system includes a contact pad charger having a compressible contact pad conformable to a rechargeable device body for charging a power storage device in the rechargeable device body. The contact pad charger includes a power supply configured to provide a supply voltage. The compressible contact pad is electrically coupled to the power supply and defines a first variable resistance in response to a first conductor compression. The rechargeable device body includes a power manager electrically coupled to the power supply and is configured to receive a variable input voltage in response to a first variable voltage drop across the first conductor and to provide a regulated output voltage in response to the received variable input voltage. The regulated output voltage is less than the supply voltage. The power storage device is electrically coupled to the power manager and configured to receive the regulated output voltage for charging.
US10923921B2
The disclosure features wireless energy transfer sources that include at least two source resonators and a power source, where: each of the at least two source resonators has a nominal impedance when a device resonator is not positioned on or near any of the at least two source resonators, the nominal impedances of each of the at least two source resonators varying by 10% or less from one another; and the at least two source resonators are configured so that during operation of the wireless energy transfer source, when a device resonator is positioned on or near a first one of the at least two source resonators: (a) the impedance of the first source resonator is reduced to a value smaller than the nominal impedances of each of the other resonators by a factor of 2 or more.
US10923918B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling injection and absorption of reactive power in a wind power plant (WPP). In addition to wind turbine generators (WTG), the wind power plant comprises reactive power regulating devices, such as MSU and STATCOM devices. The reactive power regulating devices are controlled by wind power plant controller so that the combined amount of reactive power produced by the wind turbine generators and the reactive power regulating devices satisfies a desired amount of reactive power. In case of communication fault between the power plant controller and one of the reactive power regulating devices, the power plant controller is reconfigured so as to compensate the capability of the reactive power regulating device to inject or absorb the amount of reactive power.
US10923911B2
A controllable electrical outlet may be used to control one or more standard electrical outlets. The controllable electrical outlet may include a first connection configured to be electrically coupled to a hot connection, a second connection configured to be electrically coupled to a standard electrical outlet, and a third connection configured to be electrically coupled to a neutral connection. The controllable electrical outlet may also include a load control circuit, a communication circuit, and a control circuit. The load control circuit may be electrically coupled in series between the first and second screw terminals to control power delivered to the standard electrical outlet, and the control circuit may be coupled to the load control circuit and the communication circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control power delivered to the standard electrical outlet in response to a wireless signal received via the communication circuit.
US10923892B2
A cable cleat assembly secures a bundle of cables to a ladder rack. The cable cleat assembly includes a base and two side bodies. Each side body is pivotally mounted to one of the ends of the base. Each side body has a first end, a middle section, and a second end. The first end of each side body includes a mounting member. The mounting member has a peg extending from each side of the mounting member and a circumferential rib. The pegs are mounted in the base with the circumferential rib positioned between alignment ribs extending from the base to enable the side bodies to pivot from an open position to a closed position.
US10923879B2
It is provided a method for fabricating an electroabsorption modulated laser comprising generating a single mode laser section and an electroabsorption modulator section, comprising fabricating at least one n-doped layer of the laser section and at least one n-doped layer of the modulator section; generating an isolating section for electrically isolating at least the n-doped layer of the laser section and the n-doped layer of the modulator section from one another. Generating the isolating section comprises epitaxially growing at least one isolating layer and structuring the isolating layer before the generation of the n-doped layer of the laser section and the n-doped layer of the modulator section.
US10923877B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a surface-mount laser apparatus. One example apparatus includes an on-chip laser, a passive waveguide, and a waveguide detector. The waveguide detector includes a first ridge waveguide. The on-chip laser includes a second ridge waveguide. The on-chip laser is coupled with the passive waveguide by the second ridge waveguide, and the waveguide detector is coupled with the passive waveguide by the first ridge waveguide.
US10923875B2
An optical device may include a package having a first port for receiving signal light, a source for providing pump light, a combiner for combining the signal light and the pump light into combined light, a second port for sending the combined light, a third port for receiving amplified light, and a free-space optical system for filtering amplified signal light from the amplified light, and a fourth port for sending the amplified signal light. The free-space optical system may include beam shaping optics that enlarge a beam size of the amplified light prior to the filtering.
US10923871B2
A manufacturing method of a crimping terminal includes a terminal supply step of supplying the crimping terminal to a crimping position with a wire by a terminal supply device, the crimping terminal including a terminal connection portion, a wire connection portion to be crimped onto the wire, and a joint portion linking side walls of the terminal connection portion and the wire connection portion, a support step of supporting a bottom portion of the crimping terminal supplied to the crimping position by a first mold, a crimp step of deforming the wire connection portion while relatively moving toward the first mold, and crimping the wire connection portion onto the wire by a second mold, and a regulation step of regulating a width of the joint portion so as not to be wider than a width of the terminal connection portion, by sandwiching the joint portion from both sides in a width direction when the second mold crimps the wire connection portion by a regulation portion.
US10923852B2
The present disclosure relates to a female connecting member, a male connecting member, an adapter, a mobile terminal, and an electronic equipment. The female connecting member has a first end face. The first end face has a first groove. The first groove is defined by a first side face and a first bottom face encompassed by the first side face. The first side face is provided with N conductive rings along a depth direction of the first groove, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
US10923848B2
The disclosure relates to a modular barrel contact system suitable for use with a variety of electrical connectors. The contact system includes a barrel having an opening extending therethrough and designed to receive an electrical contact and a wire. When the barrel is crimped, the contact and wire are brought together with improved mechanical strength and electrical performance. The barrel includes features for securely inserting and retaining the contact system within a housing of the electrical connector.
US10923846B1
A contact assembly for providing high current capabilities between an electrical terminal and a mating terminal. The contact assembly includes a conductive housing and a spring contact element. The spring contact element has first resilient contact arms, second resilient contact arms, and third resilient contact arms. The first resilient contact arms are positioned proximate the inner wall. The second resilient contact arms have second resilient contact portion bent portions which extend over the first end of the housing from the inner wall to the outer wall to retain the spring contact element in position on the housing. The third resilient contact portions have third resilient contact portion bent portions which extend over the second end of the housing from the inner wall to the outer wall to retain the spring contact element in position on the housing.
US10923841B1
A peripheral component interconnect includes a cable with a header. The header includes a cable connector and a heat sink. The heat sink has a cross-section that is reduced at an end that is opposite of the cable connector. In addition or in the alternative, a peripheral component interconnect card includes a circuit board and a bracket, an electrical component, a board connector, and a rail mounted to the circuit board. The bracket includes a port for a cable to pass through, and the rail is configured to engage the cable and define a pathway that rotates between the bracket and the board connector. In addition or in the alternative an electrical connection system includes a chassis with a guide, a card, and a cable. The cable includes a guiding feature that engages the guide which directs the cable connector from being misaligned to being aligned with the board connector.
US10923839B2
A linking board displacement mechanism is adapted to carry a linking board. The linking board displacement mechanism includes a base and two linkage bars. The linking board is disposed on the base. The two linkage bars are connected together in a cross configuration and are respectively hinged at the base. The linkage bars drive the base to move along a first axis stably. A first connector of the linking board is aligned with a second connector of an electronic device along the first axis. An electronic apparatus including the linking board displacement mechanism is also provided.
US10923816B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna system of a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a mainboard accommodated in the housing, a plastic holder covering the mainboard, and a USB interface installed on the mainboard. The antenna system includes a radiator formed on a surface of the plastic holder facing the housing, and a feed end, a first ground point and a second ground point that are disposed on the mainboard. The radiator includes a feed end and a ground feed end spaced apart from each other, a connection end connecting the feed end and the ground feed end, a first stub connected to the ground feed end, and a second stub and a third stub connected to the feed end. The antenna system provided by the present disclosure is more space-saving, and reduces the impact of the USB interface on the antenna.
US10923811B2
An antenna element is provided. The antenna element comprises: a support structure; a radiating structure arranged on or within the support structure, said radiating structure comprising: a radiating element having a resonant frequency inside an operating frequency band of the antenna element; and a filter connected to the radiating element and configured to filter out harmonics of the operating frequency band. An antenna system is also provided, which comprises a first antenna element according to the first aspect configured to radiate in a first operating frequency band, and a second antenna element configured to radiate in a second operating frequency band, wherein the second operating frequency band overlaps with harmonics of the first operating frequency band.
US10923809B2
A communication apparatus, an electronic apparatus and an antenna adjustment method thereof are provided. The communication apparatus includes an antenna system, a tuning portion and a switch circuit. The antenna system includes at least two antenna units. The tuning portion is disposed between the at least two antenna units and includes at least two branch units. The switch circuit is coupled to the tuning portion. The switch circuit switches a conduction from a first one of the branch units to a second one of the branch units according to a switching signal. The switching signal is related to performances of the antenna system. Accordingly, a dynamic and flexible adjustment mechanism can be provided to increase throughput and improve users' internet experience.
US10923806B2
A broadband helical microstrip antenna having a small foot print is disclosed. A PCB (printed circuit board) has a first planar side opposite a second planar side with dielectric material therebetween. The first planar side comprising a plurality of spaced apart non-linear antenna segments, each non-linear antenna segment having one or more electrical vias to the second planar side of the printed circuit board. The second planar side comprising a plurality of spaced apart parallel linear antenna segments. The plurality of non-linear antenna segments and the plurality of linear antenna segments form the broadband helical microstrip antenna symmetrical about a center line formed by a centered linear antenna segment of the plurality of spaced apart parallel linear antenna segments of the second planar side.
US10923804B2
An exemplary antenna system has first and second antenna elements, where a diplexer is connected to each second element. First phase shifters are connected to the first elements and to the diplexers, and second phase shifters are connected to the diplexers, but not to the first elements. Either a different bandpass filter is connected to the first and second phase shifters or a single multiplexer is connected to all phase shifters. The antenna system can be used to support communications over first and second sub-bands with independent beam tilts and equivalent beamwidths, where all of the elements are used for the first sub-band, and the second elements, but not the first elements, are used for the second sub-band. Each first element is separated from an adjacent element by a first distance, and each second element is separated from an adjacent element by a second distance different from the first distance.
US10923795B2
A slot antenna in a vehicle glazing established between the surface of the vehicle portal for the glazing and the peripheral edge of an IR reflective coating that has a bus bar over the coating edge. The antenna slot is fed directly by a voltage probe and/or a conductive line located in the slot and parallel to the bus bar. Multiple voltage probes and conductive lines can support respective antennas. A second conductive line is parallel and cooperates with the first conductive line to form a coupled coplanar line that links to the antenna slot. The longitudinal location of the links and the length of the coplanar lines are adjusted to excite multiple frequency modes. Multiple antennas can be used to broaden overall bandwidth or to add additional frequency modes.
US10923793B2
An object of the present invention is to improve an antenna for IoT services intended for things that constitute an internal space. There is provided an antenna device including an antenna and a dielectric body. In an internal space which is constituted by plural faces including a first face which is an electrically conductive body, the antenna device is adapted to have a shape to be fit inside a hole in the first face. The antenna device is installed, not protruding from the hole to an outer space. The antenna and the dielectric body are placed in series between the internal space and the outer space.
US10923790B2
Systems and methods which provide low-loss dielectric microstrip line (DML) circuits for use with respect to signals in the terahertz frequency range are described. Low-loss DML integrated circuits of embodiments, such as may comprise DML transmission lines, DML couplers, DML crossovers, etc., may be based on silicon technology and are adapted for signal frequencies in the range of 750-925 GHz. A DML circuit implementation may be comprised of silicon on insulator based DML structure having a silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulation layer as the middle layer of the DML, wherein the device layer (HR—Si) and the handle layer (HR—Si) are the top and bottom layers of the DML. A high-precision fabrication process for the SOI wafer, wherein the height of the dielectric microstrip lines can be accurately controlled, may be utilized to fabricate DML circuits of embodiments. A non-contact measurement technology may be used to test the DML circuits of embodiments.
US10923786B2
A housing assembly and a method of manufacturing the housing assembly. The housing assembly includes a trap portion and a heat transfer portion. A first plate member of the heat transfer portion has one or more first and second flanges having a length L1 and L2. A second plate member of the heat transfer portion has one or more first and second flanges having a length L3 and L4 that are larger than the lengths L1 and L2. At least a portion of the one or more first and second flanges of the first plate member are integrally connected to at least a portion of said one or more first and second flanges of said second plate member. Additionally, at least a portion of the one or more first and second flanges of the second plate member are overmoulded within the tray portion of the housing assembly.
US10923785B2
A charging station for an electricity charging station having an underground liquid cooling arrangement and a corresponding electricity charging station.
US10923783B2
A heat exchanger for use with at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules comprising at least one battery cell housed within a rigid container, the heat exchanger defining an internal fluid passage for a heat exchanger fluid and having at least one compliant region that is configured to be compressed to facilitate thermal contact between the heat exchanger and the two battery modules.
US10923779B2
A method for coordinating a charging operation for charging an energy storage mechanism of a piloted motor vehicle. A control mechanism that is external to the vehicle carries out: provision of a state-of-charge signal, which describes a current state of charge; provision of a schedule calendar signal, which describes schedule information of a user, on the basis of the provided schedule calendar signal; establishing a point in time of the time schedule; establishment of a state of charge as a threshold value required for adhering to the time schedule; if the current state of charge corresponds to the threshold value or drops below the threshold value, setting of geographic coordinates of a charging station as a drive destination that makes available at least one charging facility for charging the energy storage mechanism, and generation of a control signal for steering the motor vehicle.
US10923776B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and responding to forces influencing batteries of electronic devices are provided. One or more sensors may be provided at various positions within a battery assembly including one or more battery cells within an enclosure. In some embodiments, a sensor may be provided between a battery cell and a portion of the enclosure. In other embodiments, a sensor may be positioned between two adjacent cells in a stack. Each sensor may detect a force influencing a battery cell of the assembly. In some embodiments, the sensor may be a force sensing material having a conductance configured to vary based on the influencing force. In other embodiments, the sensor may be a contact sensor that detects when the influencing force moves two elements together.
US10923763B2
Solid-state lithium ion electrolytes of lithium metal sulfide based composites are provided which contain an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. Composites of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the composite materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the composite lithium ion electrolytes are also provided. Electrodes containing the lithium metal sulfide based materials and batteries with such electrodes are also provided.
US10923748B2
An air cell includes a plurality of electrode structures each including a filling chamber for an electrolyte liquid interposed between an air electrode and a metal negative electrode; an electrode housing portion individually housing the plural electrode structures; and a liquid supply unit which supplies the electrolyte liquid to the plural electrode structures. The electrode housing portion includes a plurality of liquid injection holes to inject the electrolyte liquid into the filling chambers of the respective electrode structures and a plurality of liquid junction prevention portions each dividing a space between the liquid injection holes adjacent to each other. The liquid supply unit includes a liquid injection device allowing the electrolyte liquid to flow into the plural liquid injection holes.
US10923747B2
A stop control method for a fuel cell system of a vehicle can include: determining whether a fuel cell of the fuel cell system is shut down when a key-off signal is received; comparing a voltage of the fuel cell with a first set voltage when it is determined that the fuel cell is not shut down; controlling a voltage of a high-voltage terminal downwardly when the voltage of the fuel cell is larger than the first set voltage; turning on a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) relay a first time after controlling the voltage of the high-voltage terminal downwardly; turning off a high-voltage terminal relay a first time after turning on the COD relay, the high-voltage relay disposed between the fuel cell and the high-voltage terminal; and shutting down the fuel cell and performing key-off control after turning off the high-voltage terminal relay.
US10923744B2
An electrochemical system that can serve as a heat engine or heat pump is disclosed. The electrochemical system comprises a first electrode assembly, a second electrode assembly, a first electrolyte and a second electrolyte. The first electrode assembly, configured to operate at a first temperature, includes a first electrode set and a second electrode set. The second electrode assembly, configured to operate at a second temperature different from the first temperature, includes a first electrode set and a second electrode set. The first electrolyte is configured to circulate between the first electrode set of the first electrode assembly and the first electrode set of the second electrode assembly. The second electrolyte is configured to circulate between the second electrode set of the first electrode assembly and the second electrode set of the second electrode assembly.
US10923743B2
A gas supply and discharge system may have a fuel cell arrangement having at least one electrode, a gas-gas heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first gas to be supplied to the electrode and a second gas discharged or dischargeable from the second electrode, and a humidifier for transferring humidity between the first gas and the second gas. The first gas to be supplied to the electrode can be introduced into the gas-gas heat exchanger before the supply of the first gas to the electrode, and such that the second gas can be introduced into the gas-gas heat exchanger from the electrode in order to transfer heat between the first gas and the second gas in the gas-gas heat exchanger. The first gas and the second gas can be introduced into the humidifier from the gas-gas heat exchanger in order to transfer humidity between the first gas and the second gas in the humidifier. The first gas can be introduced into the fuel cell arrangement from the humidifier and can be supplied to the electrode.
US10923741B2
A fuel cell separator includes a separator body configured to be arranged between membrane electrode assemblies and includes recesses and projections formed in the separator body. The projections include first projections that are configured to face an electrode layer of the membrane electrode assembly. A thin film is arranged on a surface of each of the first projections. The recesses include first recesses that open in a protruding direction of the first projections. Each of the first recesses is configured to form a passage through which oxidizing gas or fuel gas is supplied to the electrode layer. A portion of each of the thin films that is in contact with the electrode layer of the membrane electrode assembly includes a groove, the groove connecting to at least one of the passages located on opposite sides of one of the first projections that includes the thin film.
US10923729B2
A method of manufacturing a Lithium battery (100) with a current collector formed of pillars (11) on a substrate face (10), wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned structures forming electrically conductive pillars (11) on the substrate face (10) with upstanding pillar walls extending from a pillar base to a pillar top; wherein the pillars are covered with a laminate comprising a first electrode (12), a solid state electrolyte layer (13); a second electrode layer (14), and a topstrate (20) forming an electrode part; and wherein at least one of the first electrode layer, second electrode layer and topstrate layer is non-conformally coated to prevent Lithium intercalation into the first or second electrode near the pillar base by limiting cracking at the pillar base when volume expansion/contraction of the electrode layers happens during the battery charge/discharge cycles.
US10923702B2
A connection module to be attached to a power storage element group having a plurality of power storage elements includes a plurality of bus bars each connecting electrode terminals of adjacent power storage elements, a wire bundle that is a bundle of wires for transmitting information, and an insulating protector that holds the plurality of bus bars. The insulating protector includes a protector body that insulates the bus bars from each other and a wire fixing portion provided at a position of the protector body at which the wires are drawn out, and the wire fixing portion includes an extension portion to which the wire bundle is to be fixed and that extends from an end portion of the protector body in a direction in which the wire bundle is drawn out, and a reinforcing portion that is continuous with the extension portion and the protector body.
US10923692B2
A battery cell (1) has electrodes (9), an electrolyte (7) and a housing (3) surrounding the electrodes (9) and the electrolytes (7). The housing (3) is composed of a plurality of housing components (11) adhesively bonded to one another by an adhesive composite (13) along opposite abutment faces (21). The adhesive composite (13) has a first adhesive composite component (15) which is interposed between the opposite abutment faces (21) and which is resistant and impermeable to the electrolyte (9); a second adhesive composite component (17) which is over regions of the two housing components (11) adjacent to the first adhesive composite component (15), and which is composed of a cured material; and a third adhesive composite component (19) which is over regions of the two housing components (11) adjacent to the second adhesive composite component (17) and which is impermeable to water and/or oxygen.
US10923691B2
The present disclosure provides insulated assemblies for electronics packaging, the assemblies in some embodiments including an electrical connection extending through a tube that extends through an insulating vacuum space.
US10923687B2
A manufacturing method of a display panel and a display panel are provided. The advantages thereof are that a shadow area of an edge of a pixel caused by an angle of evaporation can be avoided and reduced, a pixel position accuracy (PPA) shift caused by raising a temperature of a fine metal mask during a coating process can be prevented, and it is applicable to manufacture of high-resolution display panels.
US10923684B2
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of fabricating the same. The organic light-emitting display device includes a substrate including a plurality of subpixels and an overcoat layer disposed in light-emitting areas of the plurality of subpixels. The overcoat layer includes microlenses composed of a plurality of concave portions or a plurality of convex portions. Organic electroluminescent devices are disposed on the overcoat layer. At least one subpixel of the plurality of subpixels includes first microlenses and second microlenses of the microlenses, the second microlenses being different from the first microlenses.
US10923677B2
The present disclosure provides a film structure, a display device, and a method for fabricating a film structure, and relates to the field of display technology. The present disclosure provides a first organic layer having a sloped edge on a substrate, a climbing angle between the sloped edge and the substrate is less than a breakable angle, and wherein the breakable angle is an angle at which the first additional layer on the sloped edge of the first organic layer cracks or is about to crack.
US10923675B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel includes a display area, and the display area includes: a light transmissive zone; a display zone surrounding the light transmissive zone; and a common layer disposed on the display zone; the common layer includes an organic electroluminescence device and a thin film encapsulation layer, and there is no common layer disposed on the light transmissive zone.
US10923673B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting panel, including: an organic layer, a first electrode disposed on one side of the organic layer, and a second electrode disposed on the other side of the organic layer. The second electrode includes a buffer electrode layer and a conductive electrode layer sequentially stacked on the organic layer.
US10923668B2
An electroluminescent device, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device including the same. The electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport layer and including light emitting particles, an electron transport layer disposed on the emission layer and including nanoparticles having electron transport capability, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer, wherein at least a portion of the nanoparticles having electron transport capability include an inorganic oxide core represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a metal-organic compound chemically bound to the surface of the inorganic oxide core. MxOy Chemical Formula 1
US10923667B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10923659B2
Provided herein are wafers that can be used to align carbon nanotubes, as well as methods of making and using the same. Such wafers include alignment areas that have four sides and a surface charge, where the alignment areas are surrounded by areas that have a surface charge of a different polarity. Methods of the disclosure may include depositing and selectively etching a number of hardmasks on a substrate. The described methods may also include depositing a carbon nanotube on such a wafer.
US10923648B2
Various embodiments may relate to a memory cell. The memory cell may include a first cell electrode, a first insulator layer and a first magnetic free layer between the first cell electrode and the first insulator layer. The memory cell may also include a second cell electrode, a second insulator layer, and a second magnetic free layer between the second cell electrode and the second insulator layer. A magnetic pinned layer may be between the first insulator layer and the second insulator layer. A direction of magnetization of the first magnetic free layer may be changeable in response to a current flowing between a first end and a second end of the first cell electrode. A direction of magnetization of the second magnetic free layer may be changeable in response to a current flowing between a first end and a second end of the second cell electrode.
US10923646B2
Superconducting switch having a persistent and a non-persistent state and its use as a driver in a memory system are described. An example superconducting switch includes a first superconducting layer and a second superconducting layer. The superconducting switch includes a first magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization state. The superconducting switch includes a second magnetic layer capable of being at least in a first or a second magnetization state. The superconducting switch is capable of being in a first state or a second state, and the superconducting switch is configured such that an application of a magnetic field to the second magnetic layer changes a magnetization of the second magnetic layer from the first magnetization state to the second magnetization state placing the superconducting switch in the second state and a removal of the magnetic field automatically returns the superconducting switch from the second state to the first state.
US10923639B2
A method for producing a light reflecting layer-including optical semiconductor element includes the steps of temporarily fixing electrode surfaces of a plurality of optical semiconductor elements each having the electrode surface provided with an electrode, a light emitting surface opposing the electrode surface and provided with a light emitting layer, and a connecting surface connecting a peripheral end edge of the electrode surface to that of the light emitting surface to a temporarily fixing sheet at spaced intervals to each other; filling a first gap between the optical semiconductor elements that are next to each other with a light reflecting sheet and forming a light reflecting layer on the connecting surfaces of the plurality of optical semiconductor elements; removing the light reflecting layer attaching to the light emitting surfaces of the plurality of optical semiconductor elements; and cutting the light reflecting layer between the optical semiconductor elements that are next to each other.
US10923638B2
An electronic device includes a carrier substrate having a front face and an electronic chip mounted on the front face. An encapsulation cover is mounted above the front face and bounds a chamber in which the chip is situated. A front opening is provided in front of an optical component of the chip. An optical element, designed to allow light to pass, is mounted on the cover in a position which covers the front opening of the cover. The optical element includes a central region designed to deviate light and a positioning pattern that is visible through the front opening. An additional mask is mounted on the encapsulation cover in a position which extends in front of the optical element. A local opening of the additional mask is situated in front of the optical component.
US10923637B2
A method of manufacturing a plurality of conversion elements includes providing a first conversion layer on an auxiliary carrier, the first conversion layer converting electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range into electromagnetic radiation of a second wavelength range, applying a second conversion layer on the first conversion layer, the second conversion layer converting electromagnetic radiation of the first wavelength range into electromagnetic radiation of a third wavelength range, and separating the generated layer stack such that a plurality of conversion elements are generated, wherein each conversion element includes at least one first converting region having material of the first conversion layer, each conversion element includes at least one second converting region having material of the second conversion layer, and the converting regions are arranged laterally side by side.
US10923635B2
A method to produce a light-emitting device package includes mounting junctions on pads of a metalized substrate, where the junctions are at least partially electrically insulated from each other, and forming wavelength converters, where each wavelength converter is located over a different junction and separated by a gap from neighboring wavelength converters.
US10923634B2
A method of making a wavelength converter includes (a) combining a luminescent material and inorganic nanoparticles with a liquid methoxy methyl polysiloxane precursor to form a liquid dispersion, the precursor having a methoxy content of 10 to 50 weight percent (wt %), the inorganic nanoparticles including at least 10 weight percent of the dispersion; (b) applying the liquid dispersion to a non-stick surface; (c) curing the liquid dispersion to form a filled polymer sheet; and (d) cutting the sheet to form individual wavelength converters having a desired shape.
US10923632B2
A light emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including a first layer including a first and a second regions, and a second layer above the second region, the first region including extending portions each extending into the second region from an outer peripheral region; a first insulating layer including first through-holes respectively located on the extending portions, and a second through-hole located above the second region; a second insulating layer including a third and a fourth through-holes; a first external electrode connected with the first layer via the first through-holes; and a second external electrode connected with the second layer via the second through-hole. The extending portions are each located in an area, on a top surface of the first layer, other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the first external electrode and other than an area overlapping any of corner portions of the second external electrode.
US10923629B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor body includes a semiconductor layer sequence including an active region that generates radiation, an n-conducting semiconductor layer and a p-conducting semiconductor layer, wherein the active region is arranged between the n-conducting semiconductor layer and the p-conducting semiconductor layer and the p-conducting semiconductor layer includes a first doping region with a first dopant and a second doping region with a second dopant different from the first dopant, and the p-conducting semiconductor layer includes a further doping region doped with the first dopant and has a thickness of at most 2 nm.
US10923628B2
Techniques, devices, and systems are disclosed and include LEDs with a first flat region, at a first height, including a plurality of epitaxial layers such as a first n-layer, a first p-layer, and a first active layer. A second flat region at a second height and parallel to the first flat region includes at least a second n-layer. Sloped sidewalls connect the first flat region and the second flat region and include at least a third n-layer. The p-layer of the first flat region is thicker that at least a portion of the third region. A p-contact is formed on the first p-layer and an n-contact is formed on the second n-layer.
US10923627B2
Light emitting diodes and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a light emitting diode (LED) includes a substrate, a semiconductor material carried by the substrate, and an active region proximate to the semiconductor material. The semiconductor material has a first surface proximate to the substrate and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface of the semiconductor material is generally non-planar, and the active region generally conforms to the non-planar second surface of the semiconductor material.
US10923625B2
Provided is a light source device including a substrate, a first light emitting element disposed on the substrate and including a first reflective layer, a second light emitting layer configured to emit light of a second wavelength, a first etch stop layer, a first light emitting layer configured to emit light of a first wavelength different from the second wavelength, and a first nanostructure reflective layer, and a second light emitting element disposed on the substrate, spaced apart from the first light emitting element, and comprising a second reflective layer having same material and thickness as the first reflective layer, a third light emitting layer having same material and structure as the second emitting layer and configured to generate light of the second wavelength, a second etch stop layer having same material and thickness as the first etch stop layer, and a second nanostructure reflective layer.
US10923620B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting diode is provided, including the following steps in succession, while maintaining a substrate in a vapour-phase epitaxial growth chamber: epitaxial deposition, with an atmosphere having a first non-zero concentration of ammonia in the chamber, of a first GaN alloy layer P-doped with magnesium; epitaxial deposition, on the first GaN alloy layer, of a sacrificial GaN alloy layer in a second atmosphere in the chamber that is not supplied with magnesium; placing the second atmosphere inside the chamber under conditions with a second concentration of ammonia that is at least equal to a third of the first non-zero concentration so as to remove the sacrificial GaN layer; and then epitaxial deposition of a second N-type doped GaN alloy layer so as to form a tunnel junction with the first GaN alloy layer.
US10923616B2
A solar cell can include a substrate and a semiconductor region disposed in or above the substrate. The solar cell can also include a conductive contact disposed on the semiconductor region with the conductive contact including a conductive foil bonded to the semiconductor region.
US10923600B2
A transistor with stable electrical characteristics. A semiconductor device includes a first insulator over a substrate, a second insulator over the first insulator, an oxide semiconductor in contact with at least part of a top surface of the second insulator, a third insulator in contact with at least part of a top surface of the oxide semiconductor, a first conductor and a second conductor electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor, a fourth insulator over the third insulator, a third conductor which is over the fourth insulator and at least part of which is between the first conductor and the second conductor, and a fifth insulator over the third conductor. The first insulator contains a halogen element.
US10923593B1
A transistor comprises a top source/drain region, a bottom source/drain region, a channel region vertically between the top and bottom source/drain regions, and a gate operatively laterally-adjacent the channel region. An upper material is directly above a lower material. The upper material is in at least one of the top source/drain region, the bottom source/drain region, and the channel region. The lower material is in at least one of the top source/drain region, the bottom source/drain region, and the channel region. The upper material comprises 1 atomic percent to 10 atomic percent elemental-form H and 0 total atomic percent to less than 0.1 total atomic percent of one or more noble elements. The lower material comprises 0 atomic percent to less than 1 atomic percent elemental-form H and 0.1 total atomic percent to 10 total atomic percent of one or more noble elements. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US10923582B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed having a plurality of gate trenches formed on the surface thereof, each filled with a gate insulating film and a gate electrode. A transistor region is defined between adjacent gate trenches forming a pair, and includes an n+-type emitter region, a p-type base region, and an n−-type drift region disposed lateral to each gate trench in the pair, in order in a depth direction of the gate trench from a front surface side of the semiconductor layer. A p+-type collector region disposed on a back surface side of the semiconductor layer with respect to the n−-type drift region. A plurality of emitter trenches are formed one either side of each of the gate trenches in the pair of gate trenches.
US10923578B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a drift region of a first conductivity type in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface, a body region of a second conductivity type between the drift region and the first main surface, and a plurality of trenches in the first main surface and patterning the semiconductor substrate into a plurality of mesas including a first mesa and a dummy mesa. The plurality of trenches includes at least one active trench. The first mesa is arranged at a first side of the active trench, and the dummy mesa is arranged at a second side of the active trench. A gate electrode is arranged in the active trench, and a source region of the first conductivity type is in the first mesa. A one-sided channel of the transistor is configured to be formed in the first mesa.
US10923575B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for forming contacts includes forming an oxide layer over and along a first liner layer. A first spacer layer is formed along the first liner layer opposing the oxide layer. A work function metal layer is formed along the first spacer layer opposing the first liner layer. A gate is formed on and along the work function metal opposing the first spacer. A second spacer layer is formed on the oxide layer. Portions of the oxide layer, the first liner layer, the first spacer, the work function metal layer and the second spacer layer are removed which forms a recess between the gate and the first spacer layer. A second liner layer is deposited in the recess. A low-resistance metal is deposited in the removed portions to form the first contact.
US10923568B2
A semiconductor device includes a p-type SiC layer, a gate electrode, and a gate insulating layer between the SiC layer and the gate electrode. The gate insulating layer includes first and second layers and first and second regions. The second layer is between the first layer and the gate electrode and has a higher oxygen density than the first layer. The first region is across the first layer and the second layer, and includes at least one first element selected from the group consisting of N (nitrogen), P (phosphorus), As (arsenic), Sb (antimony), and Bi (bismuth) and the first region having a first concentration peak of the at least one first element. The second region is provided in the first layer, includes a second element from Ta (tantalum), Nb (niobium), and V (vanadium) and, the second region having a second concentration peak of the at least one second element.
US10923556B2
A display device includes a substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, a pixel unit which is provided in the display area and includes a plurality of pixel columns, and data lines which are respectively connected to the pixel columns and apply data signals to the pixel columns. The non-display area includes a fanout area, a bent area, and a pad area which are sequentially arranged. The respective data lines are disposed on different layers in the fanout area and the pad area. A resulting display device can reduce resistance deviation between data signals in a first data line and a second data line, thereby reducing vertical line defects.
US10923549B2
A display apparatus including a shielding conductive layer is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a substrate, a driving thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, wherein the driving thin film transistor includes a driving semiconductor layer and a driving gate electrode, a scan line overlapping the substrate and extending in a first direction, a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein the data line is insulated from the scan line by an insulating layer, a node connection line disposed on a same layer as the scan line, and a shielding conductive layer disposed between the data line and the node connection line, in which a first end of the node connection line is connected to the driving gate electrode via a first node contact hole.
US10923542B2
A display module includes a display module, the display module includes a display panel and a touch panel disposed on the display panel, the display module has a first end; a first flexible circuit board is disposed at the first end of the display module; a second flexible circuit board is disposed at the first end of the display module, wherein the second flexible circuit board is disposed on a side of the first flexible circuit board, and the second flexible circuit board includes a plurality of curved portions.
US10923540B2
In a fingerprint recognizable organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and display device provided by the present disclosure, optical fingerprint recognition is implemented by a fingerprint recognizing sensor formed by poly-Si in a thin film transistor array of the OLED display panel. Space for disposing the fingerprint recognizing sensor is enlarged because the space occupied by the poly-Si in the thin film transistors array is narrowed by reducing the number of thin film transistors. In addition, the optical fingerprint recognizing sensors are disposed within the display panel, therefore, the display panel can implement image display and fingerprint recognition sensing at the same time. As a result, the usage experience is improved because fingerprint recognition sensing can be implemented in display area. The OLED display panel of the present disclosure can be applied in a liquid crystal display panel.
US10923537B2
A display screen having an irregular shape and a display device are provided. The display screen has a contour line defining an active display area. The display screen includes a plurality of repeatedly arranged first light emitting units and a plurality of repeatedly arranged second light emitting units. The number of sub-pixels in the first light emitting units is greater than or equal to the number of sub-pixels in the second light emitting units. The first light emitting units and the second light emitting units with different structures are combined and filled with the contour line of the display screen to define the active display area, and the contour line is fit by different shapes of the first light emitting units and the second light emitting units.
US10923535B2
An organic semiconductor detector for detecting radiation has an organic conducting active region, an output electrode and a field effect semiconductor device. The field effect semiconductor device has a biasing voltage electrode and a gate electrode. The organic conducting active region is connected on one side to the field effect semiconductor device and is connected on another side to the output electrode.
US10923532B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first lower area provided on the semiconductor substrate, and including a plurality of magnetoresistive effect elements, a second lower area provided on the semiconductor substrate, and being adjacent to the first lower area, a first upper area provided above the first lower area, and including a first material film formed of an insulating material or a semiconductor material, and a second upper area provided above the second lower area, being adjacent to the first upper area, and including a second material film formed of an insulating material different from a material of the first material film.
US10923529B2
A display substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a driving substrate and a micro LED chip, wherein the micro LED chip includes a main body and an electrode pin, a TFT is arranged on the driving substrate, the micro LED chip is coupled to the TFT, and the display substrate further includes: a heat dissipation structure arranged between the micro LED chip and the TFT, wherein the heat dissipation structure is electrically coupled to the electrode pin of the micro LED chip.
US10923525B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device embedded with micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) components in a MEMS region. The MEMS components, for example, are infrared (IR) thermosensors. The device is encapsulated with a CMOS compatible IR transparent cap to hermetically seal the MEMS sensors in the MEMS region. The CMOS cap includes a base cap with release openings and a seal cap which seals the release openings.
US10923522B2
A backside illuminated image sensor includes pixel regions disposed in a substrate, an insulating layer disposed on a frontside surface of the substrate, a bonding pad disposed on a frontside surface of the insulating layer, and an anti-reflective layer disposed on a backside surface of the substrate. The substrate has a first opening for partially exposing a backside surface of the insulating layer, and the insulating layer has a third opening for partially exposing a backside surface of the bonding pad. The anti-reflective layer comprises a first portion disposed on an inner side surface of the first opening and a second portion disposed on a portion of the backside surface of the insulating layer exposed by the first opening and having a second opening connecting the first opening with the third opening, and a first spacer is disposed on inner side surfaces of the second opening and the third opening.
US10923521B2
The fan-out sensor package includes: a core member having a through-hole; an integrated circuit (IC) for a sensor disposed in the through-hole and having a first surface having a sensor region and first connection pads disposed thereon, a second surface opposing the first surface and having second connection pads disposed thereon, and through-silicon vias (TSVs) penetrating between the first and second surfaces and electrically connecting the first and second connection pads to each other; an encapsulant covering the core member and the second surface of the IC for a sensor and filling at least portions of the through-hole; a redistribution layer disposed on the encapsulant; and vias penetrating through at least portions of the encapsulant and electrically connecting the redistribution layer and the second connection pads to each other.
US10923515B2
An image sensor device includes a plurality of pixel cells arranged in a pixel array, a control circuit for controlling an exposure phase and a sampling phase of the image sensor device. Each of the plurality of pixel cells includes a photodiode, a storage diode, and a floating diffusion region. The control circuit is configured to activate the photodiode in a plurality of time windows to sense light reflected from a target as a result of a corresponding plurality of emitted light pulses, with a pre-determined delay time between each time window and a corresponding emitted light pulse. The photodiode can be activated using a plurality of bias voltage pulses or a plurality of global shutter signal pulses.
US10923512B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The preparation method of an array substrate comprises: forming the active layer, a gate insulating layer, the gate metal layer and the patterned photoresist sequentially on a substrate; forming a gate electrode transition pattern by etching a gate metal layer via a patterned photoresist, using a wet etching process and a dry etching process sequentially; and doping an area of the active layer not sheltered by the gate electrode transition pattern with ions to form a heavily doped area of the active layer.
US10923506B2
An electroluminescence display device is disclosed, which may use a polysilicon thin film transistor and an oxide thin film transistor together by using a dual line with respect to a plurality of switching transistors arranged on the same line. The electroluminescence display device includes a first active layer; a first gate line arranged on the first active layer and intersecting the first active layer; a second active layer forming a channel different from that of the first active layer, arranged on the first gate line; and a second gate line arranged on the second active layer and intersecting the second active layer. The first gate line and the second gate line are overlapped with each other, and the first gate line and the second gate line supply the same gate signal.
US10923494B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device comprises forming sacrificial structures and support pillars on a material. Tiers are formed over the sacrificial structures and support pillars and tier pillars and tier openings are formed to expose the sacrificial structures. One or more of the tier openings comprises a greater critical dimension than the other tier openings. The sacrificial structures are removed to form a cavity. A cell film is formed over sidewalls of the tier pillars, the cavity, and the one or more tier openings. A fill material is formed in the tier openings and adjacent to the cell film and a portion removed from the other tier openings to form recesses adjacent to an uppermost tier. Substantially all of the fill material is removed from the one or more tier openings. A doped polysilicon material is formed in the recesses and the one or more tier openings. A conductive material is formed in the recesses and in the one or more tier openings. An opening is formed in a slit region and a dielectric material is formed in the opening. Additional methods, semiconductor devices, and systems are disclosed.
US10923491B2
Embodiments of through array contact structures of a 3D memory device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a first substrate. The alternating layer stack includes a first region including an alternating dielectric stack, and a second region including an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The memory device further includes a barrier structure extending vertically through the alternating layer stack to laterally separate the first region from the second region, multiple through array contacts in the first region, each through array contact extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack, an array interconnection layer in contact with the through array contacts, a peripheral circuit formed on a second substrate. and a peripheral interconnection layer on the peripheral circuit. The array interconnection layer is bonded on the peripheral interconnection layer, such that the peripheral circuit is electrically connected with at least one through array contact.
US10923489B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device is provided including a gate electrode disposed on a substrate and having a pad region, a cell vertical structure passing through the gate electrode, a dummy vertical structure passing through the pad region, and a gate contact plug disposed on the pad region. The cell vertical structure includes a cell pad layer disposed on a level higher than that of the gate electrode and a cell channel layer opposing the gate electrode, the dummy vertical structure includes a buffer region formed of a material different from that of the cell pad layer and a dummy channel layer formed of a material the same as that of the cell channel layer, and at least a portion of the buffer region is located on the same plane as at least a portion of the cell pad layer.
US10923482B2
Disclosed is an illustrative bit cell that includes a first inverter circuit that includes a first input node and a first output node and a second inverter circuit that includes a second input node and a second output node, wherein the first output node is coupled to the second input node and the second output node is coupled to the first input node. The bit cell also includes a first extension field effect transistor that includes a first gate structure, a first cell-internal S/D region and a first cell boundary node S/D region, wherein first cell-internal S/D region electrically terminates within the cell boundary. The first gate structure is electrically coupled to one of the first or second input nodes and it is also shorted to the first cell-internal S/D region.
US10923466B2
A vertical transient voltage suppression device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type, a first doped well having a second conductivity type, a first heavily-doped area having the first conductivity type, a second heavily-doped area having the first conductivity type, and a diode. The first doped well is arranged in the semiconductor substrate and spaced from the bottom of the semiconductor substrate, and the first doped well is floating. The first heavily-doped area is arranged in the first doped well. The second heavily-doped area is arranged in the semiconductor substrate. The diode is arranged in the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the second heavily-doped area through a conductive trace.
US10923464B2
A connection system of semiconductor packages includes: a printed circuit board; a first semiconductor package disposed on a first surface of the printed circuit board and connected to the printed circuit board through first electrical connection structures; a second semiconductor package disposed on a second surface of the printed circuit board and connected to the printed circuit board through second electrical connection structures; and a third semiconductor package disposed on the first 10 semiconductor package and connected to the first semiconductor package through third electrical connection structures. The first semiconductor package includes an application processor (AP), the second semiconductor package includes a memory, and the third semiconductor package includes a power management integrated 15 circuit (PMIC).
US10923461B2
A light-emitting module and a tandem light-emitting device include an insulating housing, a control chip, a light-emitting unit, and a plurality of pins. The insulating housing has an upper accommodating space and a lower accommodating space, the lower accommodating space is below the upper accommodating space directly, and the upper accommodating space forms an opening at the upper end of the insulating housing. The control chip is located in the lower accommodating space. The light-emitting unit is located in the upper accommodating space and is electrically connected to the control chip. A plurality of pins are exposed outside the insulating housing. The control chip can receive an electrical signal transmitted by an external control device through the pins to control the illumination of the light-emitting unit.
US10923452B2
A substrate bonding apparatus for bonding a first substrate to a second substrate includes: a first bonding chuck including: a first base; a first deformable plate provided on the first base to support the first substrate; and a first pneumatic adjustor configured to deform the first deformable plate by adjusting a first pressure in a first cavity formed between the first deformable plate and the first base; and a second bonding chuck including: a second base; a second deformable plate provided on the second base to support the second substrate; and a second pneumatic adjustor configured to deform the second deformable plate by adjusting a second pressure in a second cavity formed between the second deformable plate and the second base. The first deformable plate is deformed such that a first distance between the first base and the first deformable plate is varied based on the first pressure, and the second deformable plate is deformed such that a second distance between the second base the second deformable plate is varied based on the second pressure.
US10923447B2
A semiconductor device assembly is provided. The assembly includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die disposed over the first semiconductor die. The assembly further includes a plurality of die support structures between the first and second semiconductor dies and a plurality of interconnects between the first and second semiconductor dies. Each of the plurality of die support structures includes a stand-off pillar and a stand-off pad having a first bond material with a first solder joint thickness between them. Each of the plurality of interconnects includes a conductive pillar and a conductive pad having a second bond material with a second solder joint thickness between them. The first solder joint thickness is less than the second solder joint thickness.
US10923443B2
A substrate for an electronic device may include a first layer, a second layer, and may include a third layer. The first layer may include a capacitive material, and the capacitive material may be segmented into a first section, and a second section. Each of the first section and the second section may include a first surface and a second surface. The second layer may include a first conductor. The third layer may include a second conductor. The first surface of the second section of capacitive material may be directly coupled to the first conductor. The second surface of the second section of the capacitive material may be directly coupled to the second conductor. A first filler region may include a dielectric material and the first filler region may be located in a first gap between the first section of capacitive material and the second section of capacitive material.
US10923439B2
A technique for making a glass core substrate that is less prone to cracking. A core substrate of the present invention includes a glass plate and a first conductor pattern provided on a first main surface of the glass plate. The first conductor pattern includes a first nickel plating layer that is provided on the first main surface of the glass plate and has a phosphorus content of 5 mass % or less and a first copper plating layer that is provided on the first nickel plating layer.
US10923438B2
A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a through substrate via structure in a substrate, and forming a first trench in the substrate. The method includes stacking a first stacked die package structure over the substrate using a plurality of first bonding structures. The first bonding structures are between the substrate and the first stacked die package structure, and a there is plurality of cavities between two adjacent first bonding structures. The method also includes forming an underfill layer over the first stacked die package structure and in the cavities, and the underfill layer is formed in a portion of the first trench. The method further includes forming a package layer over the underfill layer.
US10923431B2
A device includes an interposer, which includes a substrate having a top surface. An interconnect structure is formed over the top surface of the substrate, wherein the interconnect structure includes at least one dielectric layer, and metal features in the at least one dielectric layer. A plurality of through-substrate vias (TSVs) is in the substrate and electrically coupled to the interconnect structure. A first die is over and bonded onto the interposer. A second die is bonded onto the interposer, wherein the second die is under the interconnect structure.
US10923425B2
An apparatus, a method, and a method of manufacturing an integrated circuit having a metal layer, metal wires within the metal layer being configured such that they have a regular pattern.
US10923419B2
A semiconductor device is provided which includes an interlayer dielectric formed on a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer, having a trench, formed on the interlayer dielectric, a barrier film formed on side and bottom surfaces of the first trench, an electric fuse formed on the barrier film, a second insulating layer formed to directly contact the electric fuse, and a third insulating layer formed on the second insulating layer. A linear expansion coefficient of the electric fuse is greater than a linear expansion coefficient of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and a melting point of the barrier film is greater than a melting point of the electric fuse.
US10923415B2
Semiconductor packages that mitigate warpage and/or other types or mechanical deformation of package substrates are provided. In some embodiments, a package substrate can include a peripheral conductive region having an assembly of rigid conductive members, such as metal layers, metal interconnects, or a combination thereof. The peripheral conductive region can be integrated into the package substrate during the manufacturing of the package substrate. In some implementations, lithographically defined conductive members can be leveraged to form extended conductive layers that can provide increased stiffness compared to nearly cylindrical conductive vias. Non-peripheral conductive regions also can be integrated into a semiconductor package in order to reduce specific patterns of mechanical deformations and/or to provide other functionality, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding.
US10923411B2
A method for manufacturing the ultrathin heat dissipation structure includes providing a copper clad sheet, the copper clad sheet comprising an insulation layer and a copper clad layer; stamping the copper clad sheet to form a plurality of containing grooves and a plurality of ribs around each of the plurality of containing grooves, the cooper clad layer is used as an inner surface of the containing groove and the insulation layer is then an outer surface of the containing groove; providing bond blocks on each of the plurality of ribs; infilling phase-change material into the containing grooves of the copper clad sheet; providing a cover, pressing the cover to the bond blocks, the cover is fixed with the copper clad sheet by the bond blocks, the cover seals the containing grooves, and the phase-change material is received in the containing grooves; and solidifying the bond blocks.
US10923407B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including an interconnection structure provided on a cell region of a substrate to include a first line and a second line sequentially stacked on the substrate, and a defect detection structure provided on a peripheral region of the substrate to include first and second defect detection lines provided at the same levels as those of the first and second lines, respectively.
US10923404B2
An inspection method according to an embodiment is an inspection method of performing laser marking on a semiconductor device (D) including a substrate (SiE) and a metal layer (ME) formed on the substrate (SiE), and the inspection method includes specifying a fault point (fp) in the semiconductor device (D) by inspecting the semiconductor device (D), and irradiating the semiconductor device (D) with laser light having a wavelength that is transmitted through the substrate (SiE) from the substrate (SiE) side so that a marking is formed at least at a boundary between the substrate (SiE) and the metal layer (ME) on the basis of the fault point (fp).
US10923403B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to fin-based field effect transistor (FET) devices formed on a substrate. In a non-limiting example, the devices a first fin formed in a p-type FET (PFET) region of the substrate, wherein the first fin includes a top region, a central region, and a bottom region. The central region of the first fin includes an epitaxial first material in-situ doped with a first type of semiconductor material at a first concentration level. The top region of the first fin includes the epitaxial first material in-situ doped with the first type of semiconductor material at the first concentration level, along with an anneal-induced second concentration level of the first type of semiconductor material. A final concentration level of the first type of semiconductor material in the top region includes the first concentration level and the second concentration level.
US10923401B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques for providing a gate cut critical dimension (CD) shrink and active gate defect healing using selective deposition. The selective silicon on silicon deposition described herein effectively shrinks the gate cut CD to below lithographic limits and repairs any neighboring active gate damage resulting from a processing window misalignment by refilling the inadvertently removed sacrificial material. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a sacrificial gate is formed over a shallow trench isolation region. A portion of the sacrificial gate is removed to expose a surface of the shallow trench isolation region. A semiconductor material is selectively deposited on exposed sidewalls of the sacrificial gate. A gate cut dielectric is formed on a portion of the shallow trench isolation between sidewalls of the semiconductor material.
US10923389B2
Structures for air-gap spacers in a field-effect transistor and methods for forming air-gap spacers in a field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed on a top surface of a semiconductor body. A dielectric spacer is formed adjacent to a vertical sidewall of the gate structure. A semiconductor layer is formed on the top surface of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor layer is arranged relative to the vertical sidewall of the gate structure such that a first section of the first dielectric spacer is located in a space between the semiconductor layer and the vertical sidewall of the gate structure. A second section of the dielectric spacer that is located above a top surface of the semiconductor layer is removed. An air-gap spacer is formed in a space from which the second section of the dielectric spacer is removed.
US10923382B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a heater plate. The heater plate is provided between the ceramic dielectric substrate and the base plate. The heater plate includes first and second support plates, first and second resin layers, and a heater element. Each of the first and second resin layers is provided between the first support plate and the second support plate. The heater element includes first and second electrically conductive portions. The first electrically conductive portion is provided between the first resin layer and the second resin layer. The second electrically conductive portion is separated from the first electrically conductive portion in an in-plane direction. The first resin layer contacts the second resin layer between the first electrically conductive portion and the second electrically conductive portion.
US10923379B2
An insulator-type substrate is positioned on a support surface of a substrate support structure in exposure to a plasma. An initial clamping voltage is applied to an electrode within the substrate support structure to rapidly accumulate electrical charge on the support surface to hold the substrate. A backside cooling gas is flowed to a region between the substrate and the support surface, and a leak rate of the backside cooling gas is monitored. A steady clamping voltage is applied to the electrode, and the steady clamping voltage is adjusted in a step-wise manner to maintain the monitored leak rate of the backside cooling gas at just less than a maximum allowable leak rate. Or, a pulsed clamping voltage is applied to the electrode, and the pulsed clamping voltage is adjusted to maintain the monitored leak rate of the backside cooling gas at just less than the maximum allowable leak rate.
US10923378B2
A method for transferring components from a transfer head to a receiving substrate is disclosed. The method includes monitoring signals indicative of a pitch mismatch between locations on the transfer head and locations on the receiving substrate and actuating at least one actuator based at least in part on the monitored signals to reduce the mismatch of the pitch of the locations on the transfer head and the locations on the receiving substrate.
US10923375B2
A substrate loading device including a frame adapted to connect to a substrate processing apparatus, the frame having a transport opening through which substrates are transported to the processing apparatus, a cassette support connected to the frame for holding at least one substrate cassette container proximate the transport opening, the support configured so that a sealed internal atmosphere of the container is accessed from the support at predetermined access locations of the container, and the cassette support has a predetermined continuous steady state differential pressure plenum region, determined at least in part by boundaries of fluid flow generating differential pressure, so that the predetermined continuous steady state differential pressure plenum region defines a continuously steady state fluidic flow isolation barrier disposed on the support between the predetermined access locations of the container and another predetermined section of the support isolating the other predetermined section from the predetermined access locations.
US10923363B1
Techniques herein include a method of patterning semiconductor wafers with improved line edge roughness (LER) and/or line width roughness (LWR), including lines below 12 nm in width. An initial bilayer mandrel is formed. The top layer is trimmed to a particular ratio. A reversal material protects uncovered portions of the lower layer, while a central portion is removed, resulting in two mandrels, each one fifth the initial mandrel width. The resulting mandrels are transferred into two underlying layers to form second bilayer mandrels. Sidewall spacers are formed on the second bilayer mandrels, and a fill material can fill remaining spaces. A planarization step can planarize the substrate to a bottom layer of the second bilayer mandrels, which results in a multi-line layer having square profile lines at 1:1 spacing ratio without spacer rounding.
US10923358B2
In a substrate processing method for etching a silicon oxide layer formed on a surface of a substrate, a surface of the silicon oxide layer is hydrophilized. Then, the silicon oxide layer is etched by supplying a halogen-containing gas to the substrate and sublimating a reaction product generated by reaction between the halogen-containing gas and the silicon oxide layer.
US10923346B2
A Group III nitride semiconductor for growing a high-quality crystal having a low defect density and a method for producing the Group III nitride semiconductor. The Group III nitride semiconductor includes an RAMO4 substrate including a single crystal represented by the general formula RAMO4 (where R represents one or more trivalent elements selected from the group consisting of Sc, In, Y and lanthanoid elements, A represents one or more trivalent elements selected from the group consisting of Fe(III), Ga and Al, and M represents one or more divalent elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Mn, Fe(II), Co, Cu, Zn and Cd); a p-type Group III nitride crystal layer disposed on the RAMO4 substrate; a plurality of n-type Group III nitride crystal layers disposed on the p-type Group III nitride crystal layer; and a Group III nitride crystal layer disposed on the n-type Group III nitride crystal layers.
US10923342B2
A selective modification method of a base material surface includes subjecting at least a part of a surface of a base material to at least one surface treatment selected from the group consisting of an oxidization treatment and a hydrophilization treatment. The base material includes a surface layer and includes an oxide, a nitride or an oxynitride of silicon, or a combination thereof in a first region of the surface layer. A nonphotosensitive composition is applied directly or indirectly on the surface of the base material after the surface treatment. The nonphotosensitive composition includes: a first polymer containing a nitrogen atom; and a solvent. It is preferred that the base material contains a metal in a second region which is other than the first region of the surface layer. In the surface treatment step, an O2 plasma treatment is preferably conducted.
US10923340B2
An apparatus for electroplating metal on a semiconductor substrate with improved plating uniformity includes in one aspect: a plating chamber configured to contain an electrolyte and an anode; a substrate holder configured to hold the semiconductor substrate; and an ionically resistive ionically permeable element comprising a substantially planar substrate-facing surface and an opposing surface, wherein the element allows for flow of ionic current towards the substrate during electroplating, and wherein the element comprises a region having varied local resistivity. In one example the resistivity of the element is varied by varying the thickness of the element. In some embodiments the thickness of the element is gradually reduced in a radial direction from the edge of the element to the center of the element. The provided apparatus and methods are particularly useful for electroplating metal in WLP recessed features.
US10923332B2
A plasma processing method is performed in a state where a focus ring is disposed on a supporting table to surround an edge of a substrate by a plasma processing apparatus. The plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber and the supporting table provided in the chamber and configured to support the substrate mounted thereon. The plasma processing method includes forming an organic film on the focus ring to reduce a difference between a position of an upper surface of the focus ring in a vertical direction and a reference position, and performing plasma processing on the substrate after the formation of the organic film.
US10923326B2
The present disclosure relates to a gas distribution apparatus for substrate processing apparatuses, including: a distribution body distributing a process gas toward a substrate supporting unit supporting a substrate; a first injection hole provided in the distribution body, a process gas which is to be distributed toward the substrate supporting unit being injected through the first inject hole; and a second injection hole provided in the distribution body at a position spaced apart from the first injection hole, a process gas which is to be distributed toward the substrate supporting unit being injected through the second inject hole, and a substrate processing apparatus.
US10923323B2
A plasma generating unit capable of improving in-surface uniformity of plasma and a plasma processing apparatus using the same are provided. The plasma generating unit provided in the plasma processing apparatus includes a dielectric window 16; a slot plate 20 provided on the dielectric window 16; and a coaxial waveguide electrically connected to the slot plate 20 and configured to transmit a microwave. The coaxial waveguide includes an inner conductor 31; and an outer conductor 32 configured to surround the inner conductor 31. The plasma generating unit further includes a pressing component PM configured to elastically press the inner conductor 31 toward the slot plate.
US10923316B2
There is provided a primary beam scanning apparatus capable of producing data having a bit depth higher than the resolution of an analog-to-digital converter. The primary beam scanning apparatus is capable of controlling a scan rate of a primary beam for scanning a specimen. The scanning apparatus includes a detector for detecting signals generated in response to irradiation of the specimen with the primary beam and providing an analog output signal, an analog-to-digital converter for sampling the analog signal and converting it into a digital signal, and an arithmetic section for averaging the digital signal.
US10923311B1
An apparatus for ion implantation is disclosed. The apparatus comprising an arc chamber and an electron source device. The electron source device includes a cathode and a filament. The filament is disposed within the cathode. The cathode has a body and a cap disposed over the body. The cap has a receiving surface and a emitting surface opposite the receiving surface. The emitting surface has a convex shape facing the receiving area of the arc chamber and the receiving surface has a conical shape where a center area is a flat surface and the center area being surrounded by a tapered sidewall.
US10923304B1
An operating mechanism for a circuit breaker including an opening, first actuator assembly and a closing, second actuator assembly. The first actuator assembly is structured to operatively engage at least one movable contact and is structured to move the at least one movable contact from a first configuration to a second configuration. The second actuator assembly is structured to operatively engage the at least one movable contact and is structured to move the at least one movable contact from the second configuration to the first configuration. The first actuator assembly and the second actuator assembly are split cooperative actuator assemblies.
US10923302B2
A switchgear includes a movable part capable of reciprocating movement, a movable contact coupled to the movable part and capable of reciprocating movement relative to the movable part, a biasing member that biases the movable contact, a latch capable of switching between a first state in which movement of the movable contact in the first direction is restricted and a second state in which movement of the movable contact in the first direction is permitted, and a fixed contact provided on a side of the first direction with respect to the movable contact. When the movable part and the movable contact move in a first direction, after movement for a predetermined distance, the movement of the movable contact is restricted by the latch in the first state, and then, when the movable part has moved further in the first direction, the latch is switched to the second state.
US10923299B2
A switch including a waterproof and light leak prevention structure is disclosed. The switch according to an embodiment of the present invention is a switch including a light emitting member and a push switch on a mount, and includes a switch including a cover plate provided on the mount and configured to cover the light emitting member and the push switch, and the cover plate comprises includes a rubber dome disposed at a position corresponding to the push switch, a light emitting member cover configured to cover the light emitting member at a predetermined distance from an upper surface of the light emitting member, and a light leak prevention protrusion configured to surround a periphery of the light emitting member and to extend upward up to a predetermined height.
US10923292B2
Provided is a wiring module configured to be attached to a plurality of power storage elements that are arranged side-by-side, the wiring module including a plurality of electric wires, and a plurality of coupling units in which the plurality of electric wires are routed. A left coupling unit of the plurality of coupling units has a left routing portion in which at least one of the plurality of electric wires is routed, and a center coupling unit adjacent to the left coupling unit of the plurality of coupling units has a center routing portion in which at least one of the plurality of electric wires is routed. The left routing portion is provided with a left engagement portion, and the center routing portion is provided with a center engagement receiving portion that engages with the left engagement portion.
US10923288B2
A method for producing an electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor is provided that can reduce defects in a chemical formation film formed at a chemical formation voltage of 500 V or higher. For producing the electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, an aluminum electrode is brought into contact with pure water having a temperature of 70° C. or higher to form a hydrated film having a suitable film thickness on the aluminum electrode at a hydration step, and then chemical formation is performed thereon at a chemical formation voltage of 500 V or higher in a chemical formation solution having a temperature of 40° C. or higher at a chemical formation step. At the chemical formation step, when the relative velocity of the chemical formation solution to the aluminum electrode is represented by a three-dimensional velocity vector B−A and the absolute value of the velocity vector B−A is represented by |B−A|, the absolute value |B−A| of the velocity vector satisfies the following conditional formula. 3 cm/s≤|B−A|≤100 cm/s
US10923279B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a laminate, a first external electrode on a first end surface of the laminate, and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the laminate. The laminate includes a central layer portion in which each first internal electrode layer and each second internal electrode layer oppose each other with a dielectric ceramic layer therebetween, peripheral layer portions sandwiching the central layer portion in a lamination direction, and side margins sandwiching the central layer portion and the peripheral layer portions in a width direction. The side margins each include an inner layer disposed closest to the laminate, an outer layer disposed farthest from the laminate, and a buffer layer disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer.
US10923276B2
A coil electronic component includes a body having a coil portion embedded therein and having a form in which magnetic particles are dispersed in a first insulating material, a first atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer formed along a surface of the coil portion using a second insulating material, a second ALD layer formed along a surface of the first ALD layer using a third insulating material, and external electrodes connected to the coil portion.
US10923267B2
An electrical transformer comprises a primary circuit extending between two ends. The primary circuit has at least one of the ends thereof connected with a power supply so that a first electrical current from the power source flows through the primary circuit. A secondary circuit is connected with an electrical load. The first and second circuits each have a respective plurality of wire segments having a length and being connected in series. The wire segments are supported so as to extend in pathways adjacent and parallel to each other over the length thereof so that, when viewed in cross section, the wire segments are arranged around a first point with the wires of the primary circuit alternating with the wires of the secondary circuit. The current in the first circuit causes formation of a second electrical current in the secondary circuit that is transmitted to the load.
US10923259B2
A coil component includes a body, a coil disposed inside of the body and forming one coil track when being viewed in a laminated direction, external electrodes disposed on an outer surface of the body. The coil track includes corner portions and linear portions connecting the respective corner portions to each other, and a line width of the corner portion is greater than that of the linear portion.
US10923245B2
A terminal material for connectors, which is obtained by sequentially laminating on a substrate that is formed of copper or a copper alloy, a nickel or nickel alloy layer, a copper-tin alloy layer and a tin layer in this order, and: the tin layer has an average thickness of from 0.2 μm to 1.2 μm (inclusive); the copper-tin alloy layer is a compound alloy layer that is mainly composed of Cu6Sn5, with some of the copper in the Cu6Sn5 being substituted by nickel, and has an average crystal grain diameter of from 0.2 μm to 1.5 μm (inclusive); a part of the copper-tin alloy layer is exposed from the surface of the tin layer, with the exposure area ratio being from 1% to 60% (inclusive); the nickel or nickel alloy layer has an average thickness of from 0.05 μm to 1.0 μm (inclusive) and an average crystal grain diameter of from 0.01 μm to 0.5 μm (inclusive).
US10923244B2
A phosphor screen for a Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) image intensifier includes a wafer structure, a lattice of interior walls, a thin film phosphor layer, and a reflective metal layer. The wafer structure has a naturally opaque top layer and an active area defined within the naturally opaque top layer. The lattice of interior walls is formed, within the active area, from the naturally opaque top layer. The thin film phosphor layer is disposed in the active area, between the lattice of interior walls. The reflective metal layer that is disposed atop the thin film phosphor layer. In at least some instances, the thin film phosphor layer is a non-particle phosphor layer.
US10923242B2
A device and method that enables a specimen that is to be converted into a radioisotope to be inserted into an extended, retractable thimble of a nuclear reactor moveable in-core detector system and be harvested after irradiation either during reactor operation or a refueling outage without damaging the retractable thimble. The specimen is enclosed within the interior of a forward portion of a tubular member having a closed lead end and structured to travel within the retractable thimble. The tubular member is sized to extend from a position above and proximate the desired core elevation the specimen is to be irradiated at to a location above a seal table that the retractable thimble extends through. The specimen is inserted and withdrawn from the core by inserting or withdrawing the tubular member from above the seal table. Desirably, the forward end of the tubular member is divided into several specimen compartments.
US10923225B2
Athletic performance sensing and/or tracking systems include components for measuring or sensing athletic performance data and/or for storing and/or displaying desired information associated with the athletic performance to the user (or others). Such systems can allow users a wide variety of options in creating workouts, selecting and presenting media content during the athletic performance, etc., e.g., to help keep users entertained and motivated. In some instances, user feedback may be used, optionally in combination with objective data relating to a workout, to control features of the workout routine, to control the music or other media content selected and/or presented, and/or to control features of future workout routines and/or the presented media content.
US10923223B2
A data-enabled syringe collection container. The data-enabled syringe collection container may include an upper inlet body; a container body coupled to the upper inlet body; an electronics module configured for sensing and tracking dose events, the electronics module coupled to at least one of the upper inlet body or the container body; and wherein the upper inlet body may include an inlet lid; a first opening; an entry channel; and a receiving assembly including a dropout door, and wherein the inlet lid is configured for covering and accessing the first opening, the entry channel is configured to provide a passage way from the first opening to the receiving assembly, and the dropout door is configured to allow passage through a second opening into the container body.
US10923217B2
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to an apparatus including a scale. The scale includes a platform in which a plurality of electrodes are integrated and configured and arranged for engaging a user and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is electrically integrated with the plurality of electrodes to process user-corresponding data with physiologic parameter data obtained while the user is standing on the platform and therefrom derive and output derivation data indicative of a physiologic status of the user for assessment of a condition or treatment of the user that corresponds with the physiologic status, and store, in response to the derived derivation data, additional data in the memory circuit to supplement the user-corresponding data with information corresponding to the physiologic parameter data obtained while the user is standing on the platform.
US10923215B2
Systems and methods for tracking samples via sample tracking chains are presented. Sample tracking chains represent digital data structures instantiated according to intrinsic properties of a sample. Each link in the chain is a block of data representing an observed intrinsic state of the sample and is linked at least to a previous block representing a previous state. The sample tracking chain and blocks can be indexed for later retrieval by the intrinsic properties of the corresponding sample's state. The sample tracking chain can take the form of a blockchain possibly stored as part of a private or public distributed ledger. Disclosed sample tracking chains provide a full life cycle audit trail for sample processing.
US10923213B2
In embodiments of latent space harmonization (LSH) for predictive modeling, different training data sets are obtained from different measurement methods, where input data among the training data sets is quantifiable in a common space but a mapping between output data among the training data sets is unknown. A LSH module receives the training data sets and maps a common supervised target variable of the output data to a shared latent space where the output data can be jointly yielded. Mappings from the shared latent space back to the output training data of each training data set are determined and used to generate a trained predictive model. The trained predictive model is useable to predict output data from new input data with improved predictive power from the training data obtained using various, otherwise incongruent, measurement techniques.
US10923212B2
A memory control method for a rewritable non-volatile memory module including a plurality of physical units is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes: reading first data from a first physical unit of a rewritable non-volatile memory module; decoding the first data by a decoding circuit; updating reliability information according to the decoded first data; reading second data from a second physical unit of the rewritable non-volatile memory module; and decoding the second data by the decoding circuit according to the updated reliability information.
US10923203B2
A semiconductor device includes a one-time programmable (OTP) memory including a key program area and a plurality of key protection setting areas. A key is stored in the key program area, and a plurality of setting values that protect the key stored in the key program area are programmed in the key protection setting areas. The semiconductor device further includes a key register and a key protection control logic circuit. The key register is configured to load the key stored in the OTP memory. The key is accessible to secure software when the key is loaded into the key register. The key protection control logic circuit is configured to load the key stored in the OTP memory into the key register based on the setting values programmed in the key protection setting areas of the OTP memory.
US10923190B2
According to one embodiment, a device includes: a memory cell between the first and second interconnects; a first circuit in a domain having a range of a first voltage to a second voltage higher than the first voltage, the first circuit controlling supply of the second voltage to the first interconnect; a second circuit in a domain having a range of a third voltage lower than the first voltage to the first voltage, the second circuit controlling supply of the third voltage to the second interconnect; and a third circuit in a domain having a range of a fourth voltage lower than the first voltage to a fifth voltage higher than the first voltage, the third circuit controlling supply of a sixth voltage to the first and second interconnects.
US10923187B2
Provided is a storage device that includes a plurality of first wiring lines including a plurality of first and second selection lines, a plurality of second wiring lines including a plurality of third and fourth selection lines, a first selection line driver that applies a first voltage and a second voltage to one or more selection lines of the plurality of first and second selection lines respectively, the first voltage and the second voltage being one of a first and a second selection voltage, and the first and the second voltage are different, and a second selection line driver that applies a third voltage and a fourth voltage to one or more selection lines of the plurality of third and fourth selection lines respectively, the third voltage and the fourth voltage being one of the first and the second selection voltage, and the third and the fourth voltage being different.
US10923181B2
The semiconductor memory device including a data strobe signal input buffer configured to receive a data strobe signal and generate an input data strobe signal, a data input buffer configured to receive data delayed by a first delay time compared to the data strobe signal and generate input data, a latency control signal generator configured to generate and activate a first on-die termination control signal during a first period in which the data strobe signal is applied in response to receiving a write command, a first on-die termination control circuit configured to vary a first variable resistance code in response to the first on-die termination control signal, and a data strobe signal termination circuit configured to terminate the data strobe signal and including a first on-die termination resistor, a resistance value of which varies in response to the first variable resistance code may be provided.
US10923178B1
The present disclosure generally relates to enhanced write performance by taking into consideration user write performance preferences as well as enhanced post write read (EPWR) scheduling. The user provides the write performance preferences to the data storage device. When a write operation happens, the data storage device checks the write performance preference for the current LBA as well as the write performance preference for the previous LBA. The data storage device will also check whether the current word line is scheduled for EPWR. Based upon the write performance preferences for the LBAs and the EPWR scheduling, the data can be written out of order to meet the user's write performance preferences. If the data is written out of order, the flash translation layer (FLT) is informed of the switch.
US10923174B2
Provided is a semiconductor controller that includes: an input buffer for comparing a data signal received from the outside with a reference voltage and storing the data signal; and a reference voltage control unit for generating the reference voltage corresponding to a protocol condition of the received data signal set between a first protocol condition and a second protocol condition and providing the reference voltage to the input buffer.
US10923171B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a first counter circuit configured to periodically update a count value during a first operation mode, a burst clock generator configured to successively generate a burst pulse predetermined times when the count value indicates a predetermined value, and a row address control circuit configured to perform a refresh operation on the memory cell array in response to the burst pulse.
US10923156B1
A system is provided to receive a first request to write data to an HDD which comprises a plurality of platters with corresponding heads, wherein a respective platter includes a plurality of tracks. The system aligns the heads at a same first position on a first track of each platter, and distributes the data as a plurality of data sectors to track sectors located at the same first position on the first track of each platter. The system then receives a second request to read the data from the HDD, and aligns the heads at a same random position on the first track of each platter. Subsequently, the system reads, during a single rotation of the platters, all data stored on the first track of each platter, stores the read data in a data buffer, and reshuffles the read data in the data buffer to obtain the requested data.
US10923151B2
A device includes: an information acquisition unit configured to obtain music piece information containing at least information on a beat position in music piece data; a lighting control unit configured to control a lighting fixture with reference to a change point of a lighting effect, whose minimum unit is defined by the beat position; and an operation interlock control unit configured to apply, in response to an operation performed on a music piece reproduction apparatus configured to reproduce the music piece data or a music piece reproduction controller configured to control the music piece reproduction apparatus, the lighting effect corresponding to the operation to the control of the lighting fixture.
US10923147B2
Magnetic media including a magnetic recording layer structure of at least six magnetic recording sublayers and at least six non-magnetic exchange control sublayers in an alternating pattern are provided. The magnetic recording layer structure includes a gradient of platinum content across the magnetic recording sublayers such that a top magnetic recording sublayer has a lowest platinum content and a bottom magnetic recording sublayer has a highest platinum content. In one such case, the magnetic media includes a substrate and the magnetic recording layer structure on the substrate. In another case, a method of fabricating such magnetic media is provided.
US10923143B2
A magnetic tape and servo elements of a magnetic head for reading and writing to the magnetic tape can ascertain servo band signals from different servo bands that are vertically aligned and adjacent to one another. When operating in a write or read mode, at least two servo elements can be activated to respond to a write/read operation based on a determined position across a width of the servo bands in the magnetic tape. The determined position is based on various pattern combinations from different servo band identifiers from the servo band signals.
US10923121B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for generating a searchable transcript of a group-based audio/video connection within a group-based communication system.
US10923118B2
An audio input method includes: in an audio-input mode, receiving a first audio input by a user, recognizing the first audio to generate a first recognition result, and displaying corresponding verbal content to the user based on the first recognition result; and in an editing mode, receiving a second audio input by the user and recognizing and generating a second recognition result, converting the second recognition result to an editing instruction, and executing a corresponding operation based on the editing operation. The audio-input mode and the editing mode are switchable.
US10923116B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for placing secondary content into a break of unknown duration in a stream of primary content. In one aspect the described techniques may include receiving information indicative of a break in streaming of the primary content, such as metadata data that is inserted into the stream of primary content, for example, on a client device. A duration of the stream of the primary content may be obtained. Secondary content may be played, for example during a break in the streaming of the primary content. Upon detecting that the duration of the stream of the primary content has increased to a second duration, for example, in response to the client device receiving additional primary content, the primary content may be streamed.
US10923115B2
A method and system of dynamically generating computerized dialog. Natural language input previously from a user and cognitive context are analyzed. A dictionary is selected as a function of the natural language input and stored information previously known about the user. A corpus including knowledge of the topics of interest is further selected. One or more expressions are extracted from a network accessible data source. The one or more expressions extracted from the network accessible data source are filtered through the dictionary and the corpus. Dialog is generated in response to the natural language input, as a function of the cognitive context and topic of interest by integrating the one or more expressions filtered through the dictionary and corpus.
US10923112B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating representation of acoustic sequences. One of the methods includes: receiving an acoustic sequence, the acoustic sequence comprising a respective acoustic feature representation at each of a plurality of time steps; processing the acoustic feature representation at an initial time step using an acoustic modeling neural network; for each subsequent time step of the plurality of time steps: receiving an output generated by the acoustic modeling neural network for a preceding time step, generating a modified input from the output generated by the acoustic modeling neural network for the preceding time step and the acoustic representation for the time step, and processing the modified input using the acoustic modeling neural network to generate an output for the time step; and generating a phoneme representation for the utterance from the outputs for each of the time steps.
US10923110B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product for adapting an acoustic model to a specific environment are defined. An adapted model obtained by adapting an original model to the specific environment using adaptation data, the original model being trained using training data and being used to calculate probabilities of context-dependent phones given an acoustic feature. Adapted probabilities obtained by adapting original probabilities using the training data and the adaptation data, the original probabilities being trained using the training data and being prior probabilities of context-dependent phones. An adapted acoustic model obtained from the adapted model and the adapted probabilities.
US10923109B2
A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for facilitating training of conversational agents are disclosed. The method includes automatically extracting a workflow associated with each conversation from among a plurality of conversations between agents and customers of an enterprise. The workflow is extracted, at least in part, by encoding one or more utterances associated with the respective conversation and mapping the encoded one or more utterances to predefined workflow stages. A clustering of the plurality of conversations is performed based on a similarity among respective extracted workflows. The clustering of the plurality of conversations configures a plurality of workflow groups. At least one conversational agent is trained in customer engagement using a set of conversations associated with at least one workflow group from among the plurality of workflow groups.
US10923105B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for mapping hyperarticulated sounds to text units are presented. A plurality of textual units may be received. The plurality of textual units may be processed with a natural language processing engine. A sentence structure for the plurality of textual units may be identified, wherein the sentence structure comprises a plurality of words. The plurality of words may be processed with a text-to-speech engine. A text-to-speech output comprising a plurality of pronunciations may be identified, wherein each of the plurality of pronunciations corresponds to a syllabic unit of one of the plurality of words. A hyperarticulated vowel sound may be mapped to each syllabic unit from the text-to-speech output. A pronunciation instruction corresponding to each hyperarticulated vowel sound may be caused to be surfaced.
US10923102B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for broadcasting a response based on artificial intelligence, and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a user-input speech query; generating a response corresponding to the query; obtaining a recorded speech of a mood meaning corresponding to a modal particle in the response and matched with the response; combining the obtained recorded speech with a TTS-generated speech to perform TTS broadcast of the response. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to enhance an effect of broadcasting the response.
US10923099B2
An acoustical lens (20) for an ultrasound probe (14) is disclosed. The acoustical lens comprises an inner surface (26) for facing an emission surface (46) of an ultrasound transducer (40) and for receiving ultrasound waves from the ultrasound transducer. The acoustical lens further comprises an outer surface (24) for emitting the ultrasound waves received at the inner surface, wherein the inner surface is formed as a convexly curved surface and wherein at least one recess (34) is associated to an edge of the inner surface for capturing mold material.
US10923095B2
There is provided a laminated soundproof structure formed by laminating a single layer soundproof structure having one or more soundproof cells which are arranged in a two-dimensional plane and each of which includes a frame, a film, and an opening portion including a hole. The single layer soundproof structure has a shielding peak frequency, which is determined by the opening portion of each of the soundproof cells and at which a transmission loss is maximized, on a lower frequency side than a first natural vibration frequency of the film of each of the soundproof cells. The soundproof cells of the single layer soundproof structures are laminated with a distance therebetween, and at least some of the laminated soundproof cells have the same conditions of the frame, the film, and the opening portion.
US10923091B2
Provided is an instrument pedal device that can be quieter when operated. According to the present invention, a pedal is rotatably supported on a base part by a first shaft. A rotation part is rotatably supported on the base part by a second shaft. A connection part is rotatably supported on the pedal by a third shaft. The connection part is rotatably supported on the rotation part by a fourth shaft. Urging force that is for making the pedal, as rotated from an initial position, return to the initial position is applied by a spring. The pedal can rotate from the initial position to a lowermost position in which the second shaft, the third shaft, and the fourth shaft are in the same plane. The urging force of the spring increases the closer the pedal gets to the lowermost position.
US10923089B2
A method and an information processing apparatus to generate a digital score file of a song are described. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a candidate audio file satisfying a first condition from audio files of unaccompanied singing of the song without instrumental accompaniment. The processing circuitry is configured to divide the candidate audio file into valid audio segments based on timing information of the song, and extract pieces of music note information from the valid audio segments. Each of the pieces of music note information includes at least one data set of a music note in the song. The data set includes an onset time, a duration, and a music note value of the music note. The processing circuitry is configured to generate the digital score file based on the pieces of music note information.
US10923080B2
A detection substrate, a display panel and a display apparatus are provided in the disclosure. The detection substrate includes a first substrate and at least one device pair for fingerprint identification-brightness detection on the first substrate. Each of the at least one device pair for fingerprint identification-brightness detection includes a fingerprint identification device, an insulating layer and a brightness detection device which are sequentially stacked on the first base.
US10923078B2
A photo sensor includes: a first substrate including a concave surface; a plurality of photo sensor units on the concave surface; and a cover covering the concave surface, the cover being spaced apart from the photo sensor units, and including a transmissive region and a non-transmissive region.
US10923075B2
A method of displaying an image, a display device, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may comprise: acquiring an image to be displayed, the image comprising a plurality of layers; superimposing first image information of pixels in each of the plurality of layers, so as to obtain second image information of pixels in an overlaid layer image; arranging the second image information based on a plurality of colors, so as to obtain third image information comprising a plurality of portions; and displaying each portion having the same color sequentially in a preset order of the plurality of colors.
US10923072B2
A method and a device for displaying non-standard resolution data are provided. The method includes: reading signal source data and determining whether the signal source data is standard resolution data; in a case that the signal source data is non-standard resolution data, determining whether the non-standard resolution data is already stored in a memory; in a case that the non-standard resolution data is already stored in the memory, displaying the non-standard resolution data; and in a case that the non-standard resolution data is not stored in the memory, storing the non-standard resolution data in the memory and displaying the non-standard resolution data.
US10923066B2
A display device with a variant-shape display region other than the rectangular display region is configured to form a scanning line drive circuit along the variant-shape display region. The scanning line drive circuit includes bus wiring group with clock wiring for supplying clocks with three or more phases and the power supply wiring for supplying power, and the unit circuits for configuring the shift register including five or more transistors. The bus wiring and the unit circuits are formed on the different regions so as not to cross with one another.
US10923051B2
Method and apparatus for backlight black frame insertion optimization, medium, and electronic device
A method for backlight black frame insertion optimization includes: acquiring a current display mode of the wearable smart device; acquiring a current motion state of the wearable smart device; and generating a control signal according to the current display mode and the current motion state to adjust backlight black frame insertion of the wearable smart device.
US10923041B2
The present disclosure provides a detection method and a detection device for an array substrate driving circuit. In the detection method, in an all-on stage, a first supply voltage signal is input to a power terminal, a first data voltage signal is input to a data input terminal, a first sensing voltage signal is input to a sensing voltage terminal, a first gate-on signal is input to a first gate terminal, and a second gate-on signal is input to a second gate terminal. In a data voltage changing stage, the first data voltage signal is changed to a second data voltage signal. In a measurement stage, a voltage at a first electrode terminal of the light emitting device is measured, and the measured voltage is compared with a theoretical voltage to determine whether the array substrate driving circuit is normal.
US10923040B2
A gate driver can include a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a transistor T1 configured to apply a start signal of a gate-on voltage to a node Q in response to a clock signal and activate the node Q; a transistor T7 configured to supply an emission signal of the gate-on voltage to an output node when a node QA is bootstrapped in synchronization with a timing at which the node Q is activated; a QB controller configured to activate a node QB based on the clock signal, the start signal and a voltage of the node Q; and a transistor T8 configured to supply the emission signal of a gate-off voltage to the output node while the node QB is activated prior to activation of the node Q.
US10923039B2
Provided are an OLED pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The OLED pixel circuit includes: an initialization sub-circuit coupled to a driving sub-circuit, a first signal terminal, a first voltage terminal and an initial voltage terminal, respectively, and configured to initialize the driving sub-circuit; a data writing and compensation sub-circuit coupled to the driving sub-circuit, a scan signal terminal and a data voltage terminal, respectively, and configured to perform threshold voltage compensation for the driving sub-circuit; the driving sub-circuit further coupled to a light-emitting control sub-circuit and the first voltage terminal, and configured to drive a light-emitting sub-circuit to emit light after threshold voltage compensation has been performed.
US10923038B2
A display device comprises a display panel in which a plurality of subpixels are disposed, wherein the plurality of subpixels include a first subpixel, a second subpixel, a third subpixel, and a fourth subpixel that are sequentially disposed in a single row or column; a gate driver disposed on the display panel and supplying a scanning signal to the plurality of subpixels; a first island pattern disposed in each area of the first subpixel and the third subpixel; a second island pattern disposed in each area of the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel; a first connection line electrically connecting the first island pattern disposed in the area of the first subpixel and the first island pattern disposed in the area of the third subpixel; and a second connection line electrically connecting second island pattern disposed in the area of the second subpixel and the second island pattern disposed in the area of the fourth subpixel, wherein the first connection line and the second connection line are electrically disconnected from each other, and the gate driver independently drives the first connection line and the second connection line.
US10923036B2
A display panel and an electroluminescence display using the same are discussed. The display panel includes pixels in which data lines and gate lines are crossed and which are arranged in a matrix form, and a gate driver configured to supply a gate pulse to the gate lines. Each pixel circuit of the pixels includes one or more n-type transistors and two or more p-type transistors. A gate driver of the display panel includes a first gate driving circuit configured to supply a first gate signal to an n-type transistor of the pixel circuit using a plurality of n-type transistors, a second gate driving circuit configured to supply a second gate signal to one of the p-type transistors of the pixel circuit using a plurality of p-type transistors, and a third gate driving circuit configured to supply a third gate signal to the other one of the p-type transistors of the pixel circuit using a plurality of n-type transistors.
US10923030B2
An EL display apparatus is provided. A display screen includes pixels arranged in a matrix, with each pixel including an EL device and a pixel circuit. A source driver circuit is configured to output an analog video signal to each pixel. A gate driver circuit is on at least one side of the display screen, with the gate driver circuit including first and second gate driver circuits. Each pixel includes a driving transistor, a first switch transistor, and a second switch transistor. A gate terminal of the first switch transistor is connected to a first gate signal line of the first gate driver circuit, and a gate terminal of the second switch transistor is connected to a second gate signal line of the second gate driver circuit. The first and second switch transistors are on/off controlled, independently, by the first and second gate driver circuits.
US10923025B2
A method for compensating the pixel driving circuit may include: in a light emitting phase of the pixel driving circuit, sensing an electric signal of the first electrode of the electroluminescent element, and calculating an electrical compensation signal based on the electric signal; in the light emitting phase of the pixel driving circuit, sensing a brightness signal of the electroluminescent element by a photosensitive sensor and calculating an optical compensation signal according to the brightness signal; and generating a comprehensive compensation signal according to the electrical compensation signal and the optical compensation signal, and controlling a signal on a control terminal of the drive transistor according to the comprehensive compensation signal.
US10923024B2
An LED display module contains a PCB, one or more layers of molding compound disposed on the surface of the PCB, a network of conductive tracks disposed on a surface of the one or more layer of molding compound away from the PCB, a plurality of through-holes extending through the one or more layers of molding compound, and an array of LED chips disposed in the one or more layers of molding compound. Each of electrodes on the LED chip is connected to one of the conductive pads via a conductive path. The conductive path comprises a conductive material inside one of the plurality of the through-holes and a portion of the network of conductive tracks.
US10923023B1
Hybrid chiplets, display backplanes, and displays with integrated hybrid chiplets are described. In an embodiment, a hybrid chiplet includes a micro LED chiplet stacked on a micro driver chiplet that includes at least one drive transistor and a bottom side including a plurality of bottom chiplet contacts for electrical connection with a display backplane.
US10923019B2
An irregular display panel and a display device are provided. A display region has an irregular boundary. The display panel includes low-luminance pixels, and normal pixels arranged away from the irregular boundary. The pixel rows and/or the pixel columns include pixel groups each including a first pixel group and a second pixel group. The number of pixels adjacent to the irregular boundary in the first pixel group is greater than that in the second pixel group, and the number of low-luminance pixels of the first pixel group is greater than or equal to that of the second pixel group. The pixel includes at least three sub pixels each including an electrode having at least one slit. The total slit lengths of the low-luminance pixels in a same pixel group increase gradually in a direction from the irregular boundary to the display region.
US10923015B2
A display device may include a plurality of pixels that may display image data on a display. The display device may also include a circuit that may receive pixel data including a gray level for at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels. The circuit may then receive an emission clock signal using a clock circuit based on the pixel data, such that the emission clock signal may cause the at least one pixel to receive a current for an amount of time based on the gray level. The circuit may then gate off the clock circuit after the amount of time.
US10923009B2
An image compensator includes: a shift path updater for updating a first preliminary shift direction of a fixed image included in an image in a preset first period according a first shift scenario, and updating a second preliminary shift direction of the fixed image in a preset second period according a second shift scenario; a shift direction determiner for correcting the first preliminary shift direction and the second preliminary shift direction respectively to a first target shift direction and a second target shift direction, based on a result obtained by comparing the first preliminary shift direction and the second preliminary shift direction; a first shift controller for performing a first image shift, based on the first target shift direction; and a second shift controller for performing a second image shift, based on the second target shift direction.
US10923005B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and provides a display panel and a display apparatus for improving the accuracy of test signals acquired in a VT test. The display panel includes a base substrate. The base substrate is provided with a plurality of test leads in a non-display area, and the plurality of test leads includes a circuit board lead and a test point lead. The base substrate is also provided with a test pad and a test circuit board pin in the non-display area. The circuit board lead is electrically connected to the test circuit board pin, the test point lead is electrically connected to the test pad, and the test pad being reused as a circuit board alignment mark.
US10923004B2
An information processing apparatus configured to paste a full-spherical panoramic image along an inner wall of a virtual three-dimensional sphere; calculate an arrangement position for arranging a planar image closer to a center point of the virtual three-dimensional sphere than the inner wall, in such an orientation that a line-of-sight direction from the center point to the inner wall and a perpendicular line of the planar image are parallel to each other, the planar image being obtained by pasting an embedding image to be embedded in the full-spherical panoramic image, on a two-dimensional plane; and display a display image on a display unit. The display image is a two-dimensional image viewed from the center point in the line-of-sight direction in a state in which the full-spherical panoramic image is pasted along the inner wall of the virtual three-dimensional sphere and the planar image is arranged at an arrangement position.
US10923001B2
A combined primary label and secondary label comprises a first piece of paper, a first release coating disposed on a portion of the first piece of paper, a second piece of paper, a second release coating different from the first release coating and disposed on a portion of the second piece of paper. The combined primary and secondary label further comprises an adhesive layer disposed between the first and second pieces of paper such that (i) a primary label can be peeled away with at least some adhesive of the adhesive layer from the second release coating disposed on the portion of the second piece of paper, and (ii) a secondary label can be peeled away with at least some adhesive of the same adhesive layer from the first release coating disposed on the portion of the first piece of paper.
US10922985B2
Systems and methods directed to evaluating and enabling enhanced glide slope angles are provided. The method includes, in a control module, identifying a designated glide slope angle (D_GSA) based on a designated approach procedure; receiving and processing sensor data and navigation data; and, generating an adaptive glide slope angle (A_GSA) and an associated final capture altitude (FCA) based thereon. The method includes determining whether (a) an altitude constraint applies at the FCA, and determining whether (b) a level segment exists at the FCA. When (a) and (b) are concurrent, the method enables modification of the designated approach procedure with the A_GSA; and, the method prevents modification of the designated approach procedure with the A_GSA when there is no concurrence of (a) and (b).
US10922983B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising maintaining a weather model based on predicted weather conditions for an air traffic control zone. A hash table comprising multiple hash entries is maintained. Each hash entry comprises a timestamped predicted weather condition for a cell in the zone. A flight plan request for a drone is received. The request comprises a planned flight path for the drone. For at least one cell on the planned flight path, same latitude or same longitude cells, whichever is most closely orthogonal to a direction of the planned flight path, are heuristically probed. Weather conditions for the at least one cell are estimated based on predicted weather conditions for the same latitude or same longitude cells. An executable flight plan is generated if the planned flight path is feasible based on the estimated weather conditions; otherwise, a report including an explanation of infeasibility is generated instead.
US10922981B2
An apparatus, method and computer readable medium, the method comprising: obtaining raw maritime data from a plurality of sources, the raw maritime data indicative of a geolocation of vessels at different times and comprises duplicative data obtained from separate sources; analyzing the raw maritime data to produce for each vessel a vessel story comprising a set of activities and corresponding timestamps, wherein the set of activities associated with each vessel is smaller by at least one order of magnitude than the raw maritime data associated with the each vessel; identifying a pattern in the vessel story associated with a vessel, wherein the pattern conforms with a risk event; and validating the risk event using the raw maritime data or vessel stories, whereby identifying the risk event using reduced resources than required to identify the risk event in the raw maritime data, and without increasing false positive metrics.
US10922978B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling autonomous vehicles to provide automated emergency response functions. A computing platform may receive vehicle data associated with a vehicle from an on-board vehicle monitoring system associated with the vehicle. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect an occurrence of an emergency at a location. Thereafter, the computing platform may select an autonomous vehicle to respond to the emergency at the location based on autonomous vehicle state information. Then, the computing platform may generate one or more dispatch commands directing the autonomous vehicle to move to the location and execute one or more emergency response functions. Subsequently, the computing platform may send, to an on-board autonomous vehicle control system associated with the autonomous vehicle, the one or more dispatch commands directing the autonomous vehicle to move to the location and execute the one or more emergency response functions.
US10922971B2
A driving support device includes: an intersection information acquiring unit 3 to obtain signal light information about traffic signals installed at one or more intersections ahead of a road along which the vehicle is traveling and to obtain distances to the intersections; a vehicle state detector 4 to detect a position and speed of travel of the vehicle; a signal passableness deciding unit 5 to decide a passable or impassable state of the traffic signals by the vehicle from the signal light information, the distances to the intersections, and the position and speed of travel of the vehicle; and a display controller 7 to display the passable or impassable state of the traffic signals decided by the signal passableness deciding unit 5 by changes of color on the map.
US10922965B2
An approach is provided for automatically detecting a merge lane traffic jam. The approach involves, for example, determining a plurality of road links in proximity to a merge point comprising a highway and a ramp. The method also involves processing probe data collected from the plurality of road links to classify the plurality of road links, one or more sublinks of the plurality of road links, or a combination thereof into at least one of a highway upstream class, a merging area class, a highway downstream class, a ramp downstream class, and a ramp upstream class. The method further involves determining vehicle speed data for the highway upstream class, the merging area class, the highway downstream class, the ramp downstream class, the ramp upstream class, or a combination thereof. The method further involves automatically determining an occurrence of the merge lane traffic jam based on the vehicle speed data.
US10922955B2
Disclosed is a rechargeable battery interconnected smoke detector system of one or more smoke detector(s) wired into a dedicated circuit with a single location housing a DC power backup source, such as a rechargeable DC battery. The DC power backup source may be replaceable or rechargeable with DC current from and AC-DC transformer, a photovoltaic cell, or other means. Electronic relays within the system provide a current to the dedicated circuit by selecting between the line-voltage alternating current source and the DC power backup.
US10922952B1
A method for public safety answering point to emergency operations center communications is provided. The method may comprise monitoring incidents at a public safety answering point (PSAP) to determine how many incidents are emergency operations center (EOC) affecting incidents. The method may further comprise determining a PSAP status, the status based in part on the EOC affecting incidents. The method may further comprise sending the PSAP status to an EOC, wherein the EOC determines if a response will be initiated, based, in part, on the PSAP status. The method may further comprise receiving an indication from the EOC that the response will be initiated. The method may further comprise altering a PSAP operations based on the EOC initiating the response.
US10922950B2
A relay with an intermediate alert mechanism and a method for producing an intermediate alert in association with a relay. The relay comprises an input sampling module configured to detect a parameter of a source to be monitored; a processing module configured to determine a working range based on a threshold level and a working condition, and the processing module further configured to automatically determine at least one intermediate level within the working range based on the threshold level. The processing module causes the transmission of an intermediate trigger signal when the detected value of the parameter reaches the intermediate level.
US10922945B2
A bed or chair exit sensing device to be placed in, on or in relation to a bed or chair, and adapted to detect a person leaving the bed or chair, comprising a piezoelectric sensor and a data processing device adapted to determine, by processing the signals from the piezoelectric sensor, when the person is leaving the bed, characterized in that the bed or chair exit sensing device comprises an accelerometer sensor, and said data processing device is adapted to determine bed or chair exit of a person on the basis of combined processing of the signal from said piezoelectric sensor and the signal from said accelerometer sensor.
US10922944B2
A method for detecting the status of a caregiver with respect to one or more patients or detecting possible caregiver impairment includes monitoring an environmental aspect of the patient. The monitored environmental aspect is at least one of caregiver physical activity, caregiver physiological state, and patient surroundings. The method assesses conformance/nonconformance of each monitored aspect relative to a specified norm for that aspect. If the assessment of conformance/nonconformance indicates an intuitive concern of the caregiver or a possible impairment of the caregiver, the method issues a signal to a destination which indicates the possible concern or impairment. A system for carrying out the method includes a sensing subsystem, a processor, and machine readable instructions. The machine readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the system to identify, in response to information sensed by the sensing subsystem, the possibility of caregiver concern or impairment.
US10922935B2
Methods and systems are described for detecting a premise condition. According to at least one embodiment, a method for detecting a premise condition includes detecting a sound with a security system component, determining with the security system component whether the sound belongs to a recognized class of sounds, sending the recognized class to a remote control unit, and causing with the remote control unit a predetermined response to occur based on the recognized class.
US10922929B2
Embodiments of this concept are directed to a video poker gaming device that deals five cards to a player and selects five more cards that represent the possible cards used in a later draw. From these ten cards, the gaming device if a winning combination above a threshold amount is possible. If such a winning combination is not possible, in some embodiments, the device automatically ends the game and deals a new hand. If a win over the threshold amount is possible, the gaming device allows the player to hold and draw cards. This increases the speed of play of the poker game and focuses game play on hands where winning combinations are likely.
US10922921B2
Gaming systems and methods for employing one or more aspects of player influence to alter or modify one or more parameters of a random generation of one or more game outcomes.
US10922917B2
A system and method for assessing personal preferences and interests of end-users by engaging one or more end-users in a game in which the end-user may be given a chance to win a product item from a collection of product items selected by the end-user.
US10922908B2
A method includes obtaining, at a processor, first data associated with operation of a vehicle. The first data includes sensor data from sensor(s) onboard the vehicle and indicates one or more parameter values of a first parameter measured by the sensor(s) and one or more associated timestamps. The method includes determining, by the processor, a first amount of storage space associated with storing a first portion of the first data in accordance with a first storage scheme and a second amount of storage space associated with storing the first portion in accordance with a second storage scheme that is different than the first storage scheme. The method further includes storing the first portion of the first data in a memory in accordance with the first storage scheme based on the first amount of storage space satisfying a first threshold that is based on the second amount of storage space.
US10922906B2
A system for monitoring operation of a vehicle includes a processing device including an interface configured to receive measurement data from sensing devices configured to measure parameters of a vehicle system. The processing device is configured to receive measurement data from each of the plurality of sensing devices, and in response to detection of a malfunction in the vehicle, input at least a subset of the measurement data to a machine learning classifier associated with a vehicle subsystem, the classifier configured to define a class associated with normal operation of the vehicle subsystem. The processing device is also configured to determine whether the subset of the measurement data belongs to the class, and based on at least a selected amount of the subset of the measurement data being outside of the class, output a fault indication, the fault indication identifying the vehicle subsystem as having a contribution to the malfunction.
US10922903B2
Examples described may enable provision of remote assistance for an autonomous vehicle. An example method includes a computing system operating in a rewind mode. In the rewind mode, the system may be configured to provide information to a remote assistance operated based on a remote-assistance triggering criteria being met, such as determining that the autonomous vehicle has been stopped for a period of time. When the triggering criteria is met, the remote assistance system may provide data from the time leading up to when the remote-assistance triggering criteria was met that was capture of the environment of autonomous vehicle to the remote assistance operator. Based on viewing the data, the remote assistance operator may provide and input to the system that causes a command to be issued to the autonomous vehicle.
US10922898B2
The disclosure describes techniques for apparel simulation. For example, processing circuitry may determine a body construct used for generating a shape of a virtual representation of a user, determine that one or more points on a virtual apparel are within the body construct, and determine, for each of the one or more points, a respective normal vector. Each respective normal vector intersects each respective point and is oriented towards the body construct. The processing circuitry may also extend each of the one or more points to corresponding points on the body construct based on each respective normal vector and generate graphical information of the virtual apparel based on the extension of each of the one or more points to the corresponding points on the body construct.
US10922887B2
An augmented reality display system is configured to use fiducial markers to align 3D content with real objects. The augmented reality display system can optionally include a depth sensor configured to detect a location of a real object. The augmented reality display system can also include a light source configured to illuminate at least a portion of the object with invisible light, and a light sensor configured to form an image using reflected portion of the invisible light. Processing circuitry of the display system can identify a location marker based on the difference between the emitted light and the reflected light and determine an orientation of the real object based on the location of the real object and a location of the location marker.
US10922882B2
Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein provide game terrain generation system that can generate height field data from a sketch of graphical inputs from a user via a graphical user interface. The game terrain generation system can use a model, such as a trained neural network, to apply macro and micro topological features on top of the height field data to generate game terrain data. The game terrain generation system can identify boundaries between different styles of terrain and generate transitions between the styles to create a more realistic terrain boundary.
US10922876B2
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for redirecting a user's movement through a physical space while the user views a virtual environment. A temporary visual suppression event is detected when a user's eyes move relative to the user's head while viewing a virtual scene displayed on a display device, an orientation of the virtual scene relative to the user is modified to direct the user to physically move along a planned path through a virtual environment corresponding to the virtual scene, and the virtual scene is displayed on the display device according to the modified orientation.
US10922871B2
A device, system, and method cast a ray projection from a perspective view. The method includes determining a first mask for a first object from a first frame captured by a first camera. The method includes determining a second mask for the first object from a second frame captured by a second camera. The method includes generating a 3D mask by associating the first mask and the second mask. The method includes determining a location of the 3D mask. The method includes generating the ray projection of the 3D mask from a perspective of a second object.
US10922870B2
A method of digital continuous and simultaneous three-dimensional painting, drawing and three-dimensional object navigating with steps of providing a digital electronic display capable of presenting two pictures for a right eye and a left eye; providing means for creating a continuous 3D virtual canvas by digitally changing a value and sign of horizontal disparity between two images for the right eye and the left eye and their scaling on the digital electronic display corresponding to instant virtual distance between the user and an instant image within the virtual 3D canvas; providing at least one multi-axis input control device allowing digital painting or object navigating within virtual 3D canvas by providing simultaneous appearance of a similar objects on the images for the right eye and the left eye on the digital electronic display.
US10922863B2
Certain embodiments involve efficiently generating and/or modifying an outline of electronic text. For example, a system obtains data indicating a glyph identifier associated with a first glyph of a plurality of glyphs displayed via a graphical user interface. The system retrieves a first outline of the first glyph from a cache using the glyph identifier and determines a transformation matrix associated with the first outline of the first glyph. The system generates first base art data for the first glyph, the first base art data including the first outline of the first glyph and the transformation matrix. The system converts the first glyph into the first outline based at least in part on the first base art data and then displays the first outline via the graphical user interface.
US10922860B2
Computing systems and computer-implemented methods can be used for automatically generating a digital line drawing of the contents of a photograph. In various examples, these techniques include use of a neural network, referred to as a generator network, that is trained on a dataset of photographs and human-generated line drawings of the photographs. The training data set teaches the neural network to trace the edges and features of objects in the photographs, as well as which edges or features can be ignored. The output of the generator network is a two-tone digital image, where the background of the image is one tone, and the contents in the input photographs are represented by lines drawn in the second tone. In some examples, a second neural network, referred to as a restorer network, can further process the output of the generator network, and remove visual artifacts and clean up the lines.
US10922858B2
A display apparatus includes: an operation input device configured to designate a data range of an observed value; an analysis condition setting device configured to determine an analysis range or an analysis parameter of the observed value, corresponding to the number of samples included in the data range; a computation device configured to analyze a waveform or a trend of the observed value on the basis of the analysis range or analysis parameter; and a display screen generation device configured to cause a display device to display a waveform or a straight line as a computation result of the computation device.
US10922852B2
Oil painting simulation techniques are disclosed which simulate painting brush strokes using a trained neural network. In some examples, a method may include inferring a new height map of existing paint on a canvas after a new painting brush stroke is applied based on a bristle trajectory map that represents the new painting brush stroke and a height map of existing paint on the canvas prior to the application of the new painting brush stroke, and generating a rendering of the new painting brush stroke based on the new height map of existing paint on the canvas after the new painting brush stroke is applied to the canvas and a color map.
US10922835B2
A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes an object identifier and a barrier setting unit. The object identifier is configured to identify an object in a detected region ahead of an own vehicle. The barrier setting unit is configured to set a barrier located at a closest end of the object, with a relative distance from the object to the own vehicle in a traveling direction of the own vehicle being shortest at the closest end. The barrier is devoid of avoidability by the own vehicle with use of a traveling mode of the own vehicle.
US10922832B2
Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to divide a first image projection into a plurality of regions, the plurality of regions comprising a plurality of points, determine an accuracy rating for the plurality of regions, and apply one of a first rendering technique to a first region in the plurality of regions when the accuracy rating for the first region in the plurality of regions fails to meet an accuracy threshold or a second rendering technique to the first region in the plurality of regions when the accuracy rating for the first region in the plurality of regions meets an accuracy threshold, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10922826B1
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for operating a monitoring system incorporating a digital twin. In one exemplary method of operating the digital twin, one or more images captured by an imaging apparatus may be used to define a first portion of a surveilled area as a zone of primary interest and a second portion of the surveilled area as a zone of secondary interest. The digital twin may be utilized to primarily focus on the zone of primary interest such as for determining a pattern of movement of one or more objects in the zone of primary interest. One or both of the zone of primary interest and the zone of secondary interest may be dynamically redefined upon receiving additional images that indicate a modification in the pattern of movement of one or more objects in the surveilled area.
US10922824B1
A system, components, and methodologies are provided for image data processing and subsequent use to detect and/or identify objects and object movement in such image data to enable assistance, automation, control and/or documentation regarding transportation vehicle movement. An affine contour filter provides the ability to extract precise sub-pixel roots of contours that represent boundaries of blobs in an image that undergoes small affine changes such as translation, rotation and scale. Thereby lateral contour tracking may be performed wherein movement of an object may be tracked within the field of view of a camera by aligning the contours associated with the object in space-time. As a result, the size and shape of the object to be tracked need not be specified ahead of time.
US10922821B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to generate virtual motion sensor data from computer animations are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a tracker component that can track virtual location data corresponding to a feature of a computer animated character in a virtual environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a virtual motion sensor component that, based on the virtual location data, can generate virtual motion sensor data.
US10922817B2
A perception device, including at least one image sensor configured to detect a plurality of images; an information estimator configured to estimate from each image of the plurality of images a depth estimate, a velocity estimate, an object classification estimate and an odometry estimate; a particle generator configured to generate a plurality of particles, wherein each particle of the plurality of particles comprises a position value determined from the depth estimate, a velocity value determined from the velocity estimate and a classification value determined from the classification estimate; an occupancy hypothesis determiner configured to determine an occupancy hypothesis of a predetermined region, wherein each particle of the plurality of particles contributes to the determination of the occupancy hypothesis.
US10922816B2
Various approaches provide improved segmentation from raw data. Training samples are generated by medical imaging simulation from digital phantoms. These training samples provide raw measurements, which are used to learn to segment. The segmentation task is the focus, so image reconstruction loss is not used. Instead, an attention network is used to focus the training and trained network on segmentation. Recurrent segmentation from the raw measurements is used to refine the segmented output. These approaches may be used alone or in combination, providing for segmentation from raw measurements with less influence of noise or artifacts resulting from a focus on reconstruction.
US10922811B2
A system includes a computer programmed to detect a first and a second object in received image data, determine a mesh of cells on each of the first and second object surface, upon identifying a cell of the mesh on the first object mismatched to a corresponding cell on the second object to refine the mismatched cell to a plurality of cells, wherein identifying the mismatch is based on a at least one of a mismatch in a color, texture, shape, and dimensions, stop refining the cell upon determining that a refinement of the refined cell of the first object results in a refined cell that is matched to a corresponding refined cell of the second object, and output location data of mismatched cells of the first and second objects. A mismatched cell has at least one of a color mismatch, texture mismatch, and shape mismatch.
US10922806B2
A system and method to check for flow anomalies, such as leaks, in a washer system includes collecting sound information originating from the washer system and collecting an image of the washer system. The system and method are configured to determine a location of a flow anomaly in the washer system based on the sound information and the image of the washer system.
US10922803B2
Methods are provided for determining whether an image captured by a capturing device is clean or dirty. These methods include: receiving the image captured by the image capturing device; splitting the received image into a plurality of image portions according to predefined splitting criteria; performing, for each of at least some of the image portions, a Laplacian filter of the image portion to produce a feature vector including Laplacian filter features of the image portion; providing the feature vectors to a first machine learning module that has been trained to produce a clean/dirty indicator depending on corresponding feature vector, the clean/dirty indicator including a probabilistic value of cleanness or dirtiness of corresponding image portion; and determining whether the image is clean or dirty depending on the clean/dirty indicators produced by the first machine learning module. Systems and computer programs suitable for performing such methods are also provided.
US10922800B2
An image processing circuit includes a memory, a gamma converter which converts a first image data signal of a frame to a current image data signal thereof corresponding to first or second gamma types based on a spatial distribution pattern, a compression circuit which separates the current image data signal into first and second gamma signals corresponding to the first and second gamma types and compresses the first and second gamma signals to first and second compression gamma signals to store the first and second compression gamma signals, a decompression circuit which output a previous image data signal of a previous frame by decompressing the first and second compression gamma signals and combines first and second decompression gamma signals, and a gamma correction circuit which performs a gamma adjustment based on current and previous image data signals to output a second image data signal.
US10922797B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage mediums for providing, for display on a display device, GUI having an image, each pixel of the image associated with a particular brightness; identifying external incoming light that is incident on the display device; measuring, by a sensor array within the display device, a brightness of the incoming light at locations of the display device; calculating, by a display adjustment computing module, a normal distribution of the brightness of the incoming light across the display device based on the measured brightness at the locations of the display device; determining, by the display adjustment computing module, that a brightness distribution of the incoming light is greater than the normal distribution of the brightness of the incoming light across the display device; and, in response, adjusting, by the display adjustment computing module, the particular brightness of one or more pixels of the image.
US10922764B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing personalized dining checks created by individualized check item ownership or payment enabled by associating device and table indicia. One method includes: receiving information identifying the mobile devices of one or more patrons and information identifying a table indicia as a result of associating the mobile devices of the one or more patrons with a table indicia; receiving requests for dining items, transaction amounts for each dining item, and payment preferences associated with each dining item from each of the one or more patrons; determining the amounts owed by each patron, based on the dining items requested by each patron, transaction amounts for each dining item, and the payment preference of each patron for each requested dining item; and outputting the amount owed by each patron to an electronic storage medium or display of the mobile device of each patron.
US10922759B1
A computer-implement method may bundle insurance and financial products, and visually depict a current status for an application for each product within the bundle, such as applications related auto, home, life, or renters insurance, and/or vehicle loans. In one aspect, the method may determine a standard status icon or message for each product. A data server may receive a customer identification and selection of a first product offered, and determine a context of an application for the first product, wherein the context represents a state of progress of the application for the first product, and determine a standard status of the application corresponding to the context. The status is selected from a group of statuses standardized across two or more product lines sold by the company. The data server may further generate a status message including the status of the application and transmit the status message to a client device.
US10922754B2
A computer system conducts transactional monitoring to detect different types of possible cases in order to prevent financial crimes and assist businesses to comply with different types of laws and regulations. The computer system derives a total risk score for each of a group of entities based on risk factors. Each of the risk factors is assigned a risk score. The computer system also detects an entity when the total risk score of the detected entity differs from a reference derived from total risk scores of the group of entities by a pre-determined margin. The computer system also assists a user to identify at least one transaction that has caused the detected entity to have a total risk score that differs from the reference derived from the total risk scores of the group of entities.
US10922745B2
Systems and methods for machine-based matching of lodging inventory from a plurality of disparate reservation provider systems address the difficulties inherent in comparing prices to obtain a lowest possible price, which difficulties are inherent in the distribution of inventory to multiple third-party reservation providers who are generally permitted to utilize their own naming conventions when describing lodging inventory and who are also free to at least some extent to set prices for the various lodging inventory within their control. The systems and methods match room types using information obtained from the multiple third-party reservation providers, whereby direct comparisons can be made between prices for the same room types even when the reservation providers do not utilize identical descriptions or naming conventions for the respective room inventories.
US10922744B1
Various embodiments of systems and methods allow the presentation of a content item with a marketplace section. A system can receive a content item and analyze the content item to identify at least one featured object in the content item. The system can then match the at least one featured object with a marketplace item. If the marketplace item passes various filtering criteria, then the author of the content item can approve the marketplace item being presented with the content item. A system can then receive data for the content item from an application server and data for the marketplace item from a marketplace server and generate a unified presentation of the content item and the marketplace item. A user can then interact with a marketplace section to buy the marketplace item.
US10922740B2
A service provider system may implement an enterprise catalog service that manages software products and portfolios of software products on behalf of service provider customer organizations. A graph processing service of the enterprise catalog service may create a graph representation of the enterprise catalog service data, including principals, product listings, portfolios, and constraints (and the relationships between them) that may be used to manage access control, launch contexts, and searches within the enterprise catalog service. A primary (key-value) store may maintain an adjacency list and a secondary index of de-normalized edges. A secondary (document) store may maintain the de-normalized edges. In response to various queries directed to the graph processing service, the service may query the adjacency list or the secondary index. For example, one query may return a list of products that an end user can access, and another may return a count of products within a portfolio.
US10922728B2
A method includes receiving a request regarding an exchange item that is associated with a computing device. The method further includes generating first dynamic exchange item information based on static exchange item information. The method further includes generating a first verification code based on the first dynamic exchange item information and the request. The method further includes sending the first verification code to the computing device. The method further includes receiving a computer ID and a reply code. The method further includes determining whether the computer ID matches the static owner ID. When the computer ID matches the static owner ID and the reply code corresponds to the first verification code, sending the first dynamic exchange item information to the computing device. When the computer ID does not match the static owner ID or the code does not match the first verification code, deleting the first dynamic exchange item information.
US10922724B2
One variation of a method for quantifying user engagement includes: serving a digital advertisement to a mobile device; recording a first proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on a display of the mobile device during a first sampling period; recording a second proportion of pixels of the digital advertisement rendered on the display of the mobile device during a second sampling period offset in time from the first sampling period; calculating a cumulative pixel exposure of the digital advertisement at the mobile device based on a combination of a first product of the first proportion of pixels and a duration of the first sampling period and a second product of the second proportion of pixels and a duration of the second sampling period; and storing the cumulative pixel exposure as an engagement metric for a user consuming the digital advertisement at the mobile device.
US10922720B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing delivery of content and tracking the same via audio cues. For example, a client computing device may monitor ambient sound for audio that matches audio sampled from broadcast content. In response to detecting matching audio, the client computing device transmits tracking data to a centralized content server. The content server records the tracking information and evaluates whether the matching audio was detected within a geographic area associated with the broadcast content. If so, the content server executes additional actions including transmitting supplemental content to the client computing device and/or updating summary level metrics that indicate receptions of broadcast content within target geographic locations.
US10922714B2
A virtual universe system has a system and method for identifying spam avatars based upon the avatar's behavior characteristics through the use of Turing tests. The system may provide a Turing test unit for performing Turing tests and an analysis unit that compares the behavior characteristics of new or newly changed avatars against the behavior characteristics of known spam avatars to determine if the avatar has known spam avatar characteristics. It may further have a scoring system to calculate a spam score based upon similarities of the comparison and identifying the avatar as a spam avatar based upon the calculated spam score. It may further compare the calculated spam score with a spam score threshold wherein the avatar is identified as a spam avatar if the calculated spam score is equal to or greater than the calculated spam score.
US10922713B2
An online system generates dynamically optimized content items composed of creatives selected from a set of creatives provided by a content provider according to a set of rules associated with the creatives. Creatives include the title, image, video, descriptive text and other different types of components. The online system also receives rules describing one or more actions that can be performed on each of the creatives and under what condition for the assembly of the content item. For a target user of the content item, the online system applies the rules to remove creatives that violate the rules. Each creative that satisfies the rules is analyzed and ranked based on the likelihood that the target user will interact with a content item that includes that particular creative. For a different user, a different sponsored content item having different creatives chosen from the same set of creatives is generated.
US10922711B2
A facial recognition system for customer relationship management (CRM) is provided. The system includes one or more cameras, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and a backend server. The one or more cameras are disposed within a retail establishment, and are configured to capture one or more images of a patron within the establishment. The point-of-sale (POS) terminals are operably coupled to the one or more cameras, where one or more of the POS terminals receives the one or more images, and transmits a request over a network for recognition of the patron. The backend server is disposed other than where the POS terminals are disposed, and is operably coupled to the POS terminals via the network, and is configured to receive the request, to recognize the patron, to access loyalty program data corresponding to the patron, and to transmit the loyalty program data to the POS terminals.
US10922709B2
Discounted ticket prices for flight itineraries are obtained by purchasing merchandises offered by the airlines or by the airline partners. For example, duty free merchandises, souvenirs or specialty items are purchased together with the flight tickets to lower the prices of the flight itineraries.
US10922707B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable storage media for facilitating payments for consumer transactions and redemption of deal offerings. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, receive payment for one or more products, determine a deal voucher's current value and cause the redemption of the deal voucher.
US10922703B2
The present invention is a method and system to verify carpool occupancy compliance for access to High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, High Occupancy or Toll (HOT) lanes, or other vehicle-occupancy contingent rewards and other incentives. The present invention uses software and hardware devices with radio-frequency transmitter modules to permit the determination of rewards or incentives based upon meeting thresholds of occupancy, verification of use, or number of points accrued. This driver-rider co-location is performed via push notification and server analysis of driver and rider GPS data. Alternatively, co-location is performed using a combination of GPS data analysis and photographic analysis. Occupancy compliance rewards can be communicated directly to the driver and riders within a vehicle.
US10922696B2
Systems and methods are provided for training a machine learning model using a plurality of data related to a product and services support system to determine a plurality of parameters to be used to search for one or more results for an input stream and storing the plurality of parameters in one or more databases. Systems and methods further provide for receiving an input stream from a user computing device, parsing the input stream to generate a parsed input stream, translating the parsed input stream into one or more of the plurality of parameters output from the machine learning model to generate a search string, searching a knowledge base using the search string to determine one or more results associated with the parsed input stream, and providing at least one result of the one or more results associated with the parsed input stream to the user computing device.
US10922693B2
Exemplary embodiments provide methods and systems for configuring spending or credit limits for individual mobile devices for the same account, such as a credit card account. The spending limits may be configured by the primary account holder through a website or mobile application. A token id is set on the mobile device that corresponds to the account. The token id is unique for the individual mobile device During a mobile payment transaction, the token id is mapped back to the corresponding account and the available spending limit is evaluated with respect to the transaction. Based on this evaluation, an approval or denial for the transaction is generated.
US10922691B2
A station device in a biometric pre-identification system uses identity to perform one or more actions. Identities are determined (such as via a backend) using biometric information. A biometric pre-identification device obtains biometric information and/or a digital representation thereof from a person approaching the station device. The biometric pre-identification device transmits such to the station device, facilitating the station to begin and/or perform various actions. The station device begins or performs the actions using the identity determined based on the biometric information before the person arrives at the station device.
US10922685B2
Systems and methods for authorizing a blockchain transaction. A verification network receives a transaction request for the blockchain transaction from a payer device including a first signature generated by a first private key associated with a payer. The verification network broadcasts a verification request to verification system(s) which assess pre-agreed threshold parameters. If the parameter(s) are satisfied, at least one verification system perfects the transaction by generating a second signature using a second private key, and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network. If the parameter(s) are not satisfied, verification offer(s) from among the verification system(s) including the second signature(s) are used to prompt the payer device to confirm the blockchain transaction by selecting at least one of the offer(s). The verification network receives selected offer(s) from the payer device and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network, in accordance with the selected offer(s) and the transaction request.
US10922680B2
A method of processing card number data and device including: determining, according to an expiration time corresponding to a card number, a table set corresponding to the card number, and including card number information corresponding to the card number into at least one card number storage table of the table set, wherein the table set comprises a plurality of card number storage tables, each table set corresponds to an expiration time, the expiration time corresponding to all card numbers in the table set is the same as the expiration time corresponding to the table set, and the card number information includes the card number and card number associated data; and after reaching an expiration time corresponding to a table set, performing a cleaning operation on all card number information in the table set. The provided method and device can increase cleaning and maintenance efficiency and reduce maintenance costs.
US10922677B2
A display instruction associated with a graphic code is received from a terminal device and at a client computing device. A biometric feature identifier associated with a biometric feature that is verified by a server is obtained by the client computing device. A code string that includes the biometric feature identifier is generated by the client computing device. The graphic code that includes the code string is displayed at the client computing device, to permit completion of a service by the terminal device using the graphic code.
US10922676B2
A profile is maintained in a mobile device for storing authentication data associated with a primary user of a mobile device, and at least one secondary user that is authorized to use the mobile device. When the mobile device is at a business location, the secondary user is passively authenticated, and upon successful authentication: an image is displayed over a portion of a default lock screen wallpaper when the mobile device is in a screen locked state, wherein the image contains a scanning code, and a financial transaction (e.g., a cloud-based transaction) is facilitated at the business location based on the scanning code without unlocking the mobile device, wherein the financial transaction associated with a financial account of the primary user. Power is conserved in the mobile device by not unlocking it at the business location to conduct the financial transaction.
US10922673B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, authorize initiated exchanges of data based on tokenized data characterized by a limited temporal or geographic validity. For example, an apparatus may receive a first signal that includes first information identifying a first geographic position of a client device. The apparatus may also obtain a digital token representative of a pre-authorization of a data exchange between the client device and a terminal device during a corresponding temporal interval. The terminal device may, for example, be disposed within a geographic region that includes the first geographic position of the client device. The apparatus may generate and transmit a second signal that includes the digital token to the client device. In some examples, the apparatus may transmit the second signal being through a programmatic interface associated with an application program executed by the client device.
US10922657B2
Systems for using social media sites in recruiting activities. Potential candidates for job openings are considered using computer-implemented analysis of an online social referral graph and a rule base. Content from one or more social data sources is retrieved and analyzed to identify potential candidates for a job opening. The potential candidate's social data comprises information used as a reputation score pertaining to the potential candidate and as a reputation score pertaining to the potential candidate's social connections. An employee database is cross referenced to find a match between employees and any of the potential candidate's social connections. A referral score based on an influence contribution measure, a clout contribution measure, a generosity contribution measure, an activity contribution measure, an impact contribution measure, or an engagement contribution measure is calculated. When the reputation score and/or the referral score meets or exceeds a threshold, the potential candidate is considered for outreach.
US10922649B2
A system and method for monitoring stocked shelves is disclosed. A shelf monitor comprising an array of sensors id deployed in proximity to a stocking shelf and so that the sensors face a region on the stocking shelf containing shelved goods. A CPU module is configured to receive outputs from the sensors and execute a detection algorithm to detect a change event in the shelved goods and an algorithm to train the detection algorithm. Shelf monitors can be used in multiple numbers; a master shelf among the shelf monitors serves to aggregate data and local control of the system. A master controller can establish communication with a cloud server, allowing many additional features such as integrating the shelf monitoring system with inventory and point-of-sale databased.
US10922647B2
At the time of manufacture of medical items that are to be consumed during patient care, a unique identification number is assigned to each item and the number is encoded in an RFID tag attached to the item. The manufacturer registers the unique identification number for each individual medical item in a Unique Device Identification (UDI) Serialized Tracking Database. The UDI Serialized Tracking Database maps each unique identification number to each item's UDI number that has been assigned by the Food and Drug Administration. As each item is consumed during medical treatment and its cost is billed to payers, the unique identification number of the item is reported and verified. This provides for detection of certain types of fraud in the dispensing of medical items by validating that necessary supplies were actually used during patient care.
US10922641B1
Systems and methods which provide known shipper information in association with unknown shipper indicia as disclosed. Embodiments operate to collect information regarding a shipper and associate the shipper information with unknown shipper indicia. Where shipper information satisfactory to a known shipper requirement has not otherwise been collected, embodiments operate to perform a transaction matrix analysis to determine a shipper identification risk level. Such transaction matrix analysis may operate to analyze multiple pieces of shipper information (e.g., collected from different sources) to provide a determination as to a level of risk that the shipper information correctly and/or uniquely identifies the shipper. A shipping service provider, when accepting an item for shipment and/or when processing the item during shipment, may use the unknown shipper indicia to access shipper information associated therewith in accordance to embodiments of the invention to provide an appropriate level of shipping services.
US10922632B2
A client device accepts event information for which a people flow prediction is to be performed from a user and the client device inputs the accepted event information to a people flow prediction device. The people flow prediction device outputs a result of people flow prediction responsive to the input event information to the client device and the client device displays the result of people flow prediction to the user. The people flow prediction device performs a people flow prediction by temporally and spatially allocating an event attendance which has been input from the client device to pathways, each connecting a transport facility at which a people flow originates and an event site. Consequently, it is possible to predict a flow of people who attend an event or the like, the people flow differing from that in an ordinary situation, without need to input real-time data.
US10922629B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system that manages remote access including receiving a reservation request from a client computing device to access a physical location at a future specified time period secured by one or more remote locking devices. A determination is made on when one or more stored criteria associated with the one or more remote locking devices have been satisfied by the requesting client computing device. An identifier for the requesting client computing device and an access code to unlock the one or more remote locking devices during the future specified time period which is accessible by the one or more remote locking devices without further communication with the remote access management computing device is provided when the determination indicates the one or more stored criteria are satisfied. Additionally, the access code to the requesting client computing device is provided when the determination indicates the one or more stored criteria are satisfied.
US10922595B2
Technology for generating, reading, and using machine-readable codes is disclosed. There is a method, performed by an image capture device, for reading and using the codes. The method includes obtaining an image, identifying an area in the image having a machine-readable code. The method also includes, within the image area, finding a predefined start marker defining a start point and a predefined stop marker defining a stop point, an axis being defined there between. A plurality of axis points can be defined along the axis. For each axis point, a first distance within the image area to a mark is determined. The distance can be measured from the axis point in a first direction which is orthogonal to the axis. The first distances can be converted to a binary code using Gray code such that each first distance encodes at least one bit of data in the code.
US10922591B2
An image forming apparatus includes a gradation converting circuit, a printer engine, an image inspecting circuit, and a color tone control circuit. The gradation converting circuit includes a threshold value generating section that generates threshold values, a first gradation correcting section that converts gradation values of image data, a second gradation correcting section that converts output values from the first gradation correcting section based on a gradation control parameter, and a gradation processing section that reduces tone levels of the second gradation correcting section by comparing output values from the second gradation correcting section and the threshold values. The color tone control circuit builds a prediction model for predicting, in response to the output values from the first gradation correcting section, measurement values to be measured by the image inspecting circuit, and corrects the gradation control parameter based on the measurement values and values predicted by e prediction model.
US10922590B2
An apparatus for performing object recognition includes an image camera to capture a first resolution image and a depth map camera to capture a second resolution depth map. The first resolution is greater than the second resolution. The apparatus is configured to perform object recognition based on the image and the depth map.
US10922581B2
A method of performing person re-identification for images captured by at least two camera pairs operating with different environmental factors. Descriptors representing characteristics of objects corresponding to a person in the images are clustered. A probability distribution of the clustered descriptors is determined. A coupling map for the images is determined based on the probability distribution. A cross-correlation between at least two of the coupling maps is determined. A similarity of the images captured by the camera pairs is determined according to the cross-correlation. Person re-identification is performed for the different environmental factors using the descriptors, based on the determined similarity.
US10922573B2
Described herein are software and systems for analyzing videos and/or images. Software and systems described herein are configured in different embodiments to carry out different types of analyses. For example, in some embodiments, software and systems described herein are configured to locate an object of interest within a video and/or image.
US10922558B2
Methods described herein relate to reducing the computational intensity of vision-based localization. Methods may include: receiving sensor data from a vehicle traveling along a road; identifying one or more features of the environment from the sensor data; classifying the one or more identified features into one or more of a plurality of semantic classifications for the features; identifying map image data based on an identified location of the vehicle; identifying one or more features in the map image data; comparing one or more identified features of a first semantic classification with one or more features of the map image data of the first semantic classification; and registering a localized location of the vehicle within the environment based, at least in part, on the one or more identified features of the first semantic classification corresponding to the one or more features of the map image data of the first semantic classification.
US10922555B1
An apparatus includes an interface, display, memory, and processor. The interface receives a video feed including first and second camera feeds, each feed corresponding to a camera located in a store. The processor stores a video segment in memory, assigned to a person and capturing a portion of a shopping session. The video segment includes first and second camera feed segments, each segment corresponding to a recording of the corresponding camera feed from a starting to an ending timestamp. Playback of the first and second camera feed segments is synchronized, and a slider bar controls a playback progress of the camera feed segments. The processor displays the camera feed segments and copies of the slider bar on the display. The processor receives an instruction from at least one of the copies of the slider bar to adjust the playback progress of the camera feed segments and adjusts the playback progress.
US10922551B2
A method for scene frame matching for automatic content recognition. The method includes receiving fingerprints indicative of frames of a media stream. The method also includes obtaining scene centroids of corresponding scenes of the media stream. Each scene includes fingerprints ranging from an initial frame having a corresponding initial fingerprint and a last frame having a corresponding last fingerprint. Each scene centroid represents a mean of fingerprints corresponding to a respective scene. The mean of fingerprints is determined by an average of pixel values corresponding to the fingerprints of the respective scene. For each scene centroid, the method includes determining a distance between the respective scene centroid and a target fingerprint of a corresponding target frame of the media stream and determining a target scene of the target frame as being the respective scene of the scene centroid having a shortest distance to the target fingerprint of the target frame.
