US10966357B2
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic shielding device including at least one hollow protective textile sleeve having a main rest diameter D1 and an interior volume configured to receive one or several elongated element(s), and at least one hollow connecting textile sleeve having a rest diameter D2, D2 greater than Dl. The protective textile sleeve includes a substantially annular front part having a front open end, the connecting textile sleeve includes a substantially annular rear part having a rear open end, and the shielding device includes a first electrically conductive securing area in which the rear part of the connecting sleeve and the front part of the protective sleeve are at least partly secured.
US10966352B2
This disclosure describes a cooling system, for example, for rack mounted electronic devices (e.g., servers, processors, memory, networking devices or otherwise) in a data center. In various disclosed implementations, the cooling system may be or include a liquid cold plate assembly that is part of or integrated with a server tray package. In some implementations, the liquid cold plate assembly includes a base portion and a top portion that, in combination, form a cooling liquid flow path through which a cooling liquid is circulated and a thermal interface between one or more heat generating devices and the cooling liquid.
US10966348B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor cooling device which optimally keeps the mixing amount of microbubbles in the refrigerant and prevents the reduction of the cooling effect of the semiconductor module. The semiconductor cooling device includes a refrigerant circulation path through which refrigerant circulates, a heat exchanger provided on the refrigerant circulation path on which a semiconductor module is installable and configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and the semiconductor module, a microbubble generator provided on the refrigerant circulation path, and configured to generate microbubbles in the refrigerant, a controller configured to control the microbubble generator, and a refrigerant sensor configured to measure a temperature, a flow rate, a flow velocity, or a pressure of the refrigerant circulating in the refrigerant circulation path. The controller is configured to control the microbubble generator based on a measurement result measured by the refrigerant sensor to control the generation amount of microbubbles.
US10966347B2
A liquid cooling device includes body. The body has liquid inlet and liquid outlet. The liquid outlet has first internal thread on its inner wall. The liquid inlet has second internal thread on its inner wall. Another liquid cooling device has body, first thread adapter and second thread adapter. The first thread adapter is movably disposed on the liquid outlet, and has a first internal thread on its inner wall. The second thread adapter is movably disposed on the liquid inlet, and has a second internal thread on its inner wall. Still another liquid cooling device has a body. The body has a liquid passage. The liquid passage has internal thread on its inner wall. Yet another liquid cooling device has body and thread adapter. The body has a liquid passage. The thread adapter is movably disposed on the liquid passage, and has internal thread on its inner wall.
US10966344B2
A heat dissipation device which is effectively vibration-free in relation to its host includes a fan, an enclosure, and a mounting apparatus. The mounting apparatus includes a receiving bracket for receiving the fan, a locking member, and a vibration-absorbing member slidably mounted to the enclosure. The receiving bracket has a locating member corresponding to the locating slot. The locating member is locked, and the vibration absorbing member abuts against a side of the receiving bracket, receiving and not transmitting the vibrations of a cooling fan.
US10966340B2
A module, comprising: a door disposed on a front face of the module; a tray is accessible through the door, the tray including a slot to accept a memory module, wherein the memory module includes a plurality of slots for memory devices and wherein the tray is extendable from a recessed position within the module to a position extended from the module, to allow insertion of the memory module in the tray; and an interface to connect the memory module to a host.
US10966336B2
The invention relates to an electrical equipment, in particular for electrical or hybrid vehicles, comprising a casing, said casing comprising a casing element comprising a side wall and defining an inner space. The side wall of the casing element comprises a material offset towards the inner space thereof forming a zone for connecting the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the electrical energy source such that said material offset overlaps the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor only making visible, from the outside of said side wall, the positive visible terminal and the negative visible terminal.
US10966335B2
A fin frame baseplate is disclosed. Specific implementations include a baseplate configured to be coupled to a substrate, a fin frame including a base portion coupled to the baseplate, and a plurality of fins extending from the base portion, the plurality of fins protruding from the base portion. The fin frame may include a plurality of openings therethrough.
US10966328B2
A display apparatus includes: a flexible display panel including a first display area, a second display area which is spaced apart from the first display area, and a folding area between the first display area and the second display area; a first supporting part under the flexible display panel corresponding to the first display area; a second supporting part under the flexible display panel corresponding to the second display area; and a first adhesive layer between the flexible display panel and the first and second supporting parts in the first display area, the second display area, and the folding area, and attached to the first and second supporting parts.
US10966323B2
A dispensing apparatus includes a frame having a gantry configured to provide movement in the X axis and Y axis directions, and first and second dispensing units coupled to the gantry and configured to dispense material onto a substrate. The second dispensing unit is coupled to the gantry by an automatic adjustment mechanism. The dispensing apparatus further includes a controller configured to control the operation of the gantry, the first dispenser, the second dispenser, and the automatic adjustment mechanism. The automatic adjustment mechanism is configured to move the second dispenser in the X axis and Y axis directions to manipulate a spacing between the first dispensing unit and the second dispensing. Methods of dispensing material on the substrate are further disclosed.
US10966320B2
The present invention relates to a gap supporter for a printed circuit board, and a package including a gap supporter for a printed circuit board and an insulation sheet coupled thereto. A gap supporter for a printed circuit board includes a fixed body part which has a metal thin-film formed on the surface of the lower end thereof, and is fixed to one surface of the printed circuit board by soldering of the metal thin-film; a clamping groove formed in a groove shape on the fixed body part, and having an insulation sheet inserted and clamped thereto to protect an element on one surface of the printed circuit board; and an anti-separation part formed on the other end of the fixed body part so as to be defined by the clamping groove, so as to fix the insulation sheet and prevent the insulation sheet from being separated.
US10966318B2
A component carrier includes an electrically insulating layer structure having a first main surface and a second main surface with a through hole extending through the electrically insulating layer structure between the first main surface and the second main surface. An electrically conductive bridge structure connects opposing sidewalls of the electrically insulating layer structure delimiting the through hole. A vertical thickness of the electrically insulating layer structure is not more than 200 μm and a narrowest vertical thickness of the bridge structure is at least 20 μm.
US10966313B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board having test points in which test points and pads are formed on the printed circuit board and then are electrically connected to each other, so that it is possible to form the pads having a pitch interval smaller than that in the related art. This may contribute to miniaturization of the printed circuit board by mounting a connector smaller than that in the related art on the printed circuit board, and may enable the preformed test points to be used as they are even after the connector used is removed from the printed circuit board. Also provided is a printed circuit board manufactured thereby.
US10966308B2
A device is disclosed herein which may comprise a droplet generator producing droplets of target material; a sensor providing an intercept time signal when a droplet reaches a preselected location; a delay circuit coupled with said sensor, the delay circuit generating a trigger signal delayed from the intercept time signal; a laser source responsive to a trigger signal to produce a laser pulse; and a system controlling said delay circuit to provide a trigger signal delayed from the intercept time by a first delay time to generate a light pulse that is focused on a droplet and a trigger signal delayed from the intercept time by a second delay time to generate a light pulse which is not focused on a droplet.
US10966307B2
An X-ray source arrangement (10) for generating X-ray radiation (102), a method for operating the X-ray source arrangement (10), and an X-ray imaging apparatus (100) are provided. The X-ray source arrangement (10) comprises an X-ray tube (22), a converter arrangement (16) with an inverter (18) and a resonant converter (20) for providing a source voltage to the X-ray tube (22), a pre-controller (12), and a modulator (14). The pre-controller (12) is configured for determining a reference duty ratio (r, 26) of the resonant converter (20) as a continuous function of time based on a mathematical model of the resonant converter (20), and for providing a control signal (13) correlating with the reference duty ratio (r, 26) to the modulator (14). The modulator (14) is configured for determining a switching signal (15) based on the control signal (13), and for providing the switching signal (15) to the inverter (18) of the converter arrangement (16) for actuating the inverter (18).
US10966300B2
A light source and method for making the same are disclosed. The light source includes a plurality of Segmented LEDs connected in parallel to a power bus and a controller. The power bus accepts a variable number of Segmented LEDs. The controller receives AC power and provides a power signal on the power bus. Each Segmented LED is characterized by a driving voltage that is greater than 3 times the driving voltage of a conventional LED fabricated in the same material system as the Segmented LED. The number of Segmented LEDs in the light source is chosen to compensate for variations in the light output of individual Segmented LEDs introduced by the manufacturing process. In another aspect of the invention, the number of Segmented LEDs connected to the power bus can be altered after the light source is assembled.
US10966297B2
A method of controlling a power supply electrically coupled to a dimmer and a light source includes receiving a plurality of sample values corresponding to dimmer levels, comparing a sample value of the plurality of sample values with one or more inflection points, the one or more inflection points being associated with a plurality of slew-rates, identifying a particular slew-rate among the plurality of slew-rates based on the comparison, and generating a control signal based on the particular slew-rate for transmission to the power supply.
US10966296B1
An LED controller is used with a video source and at least one LED unit, and includes a control signal generator and a driver. The control signal generator performs pulse width modulation based on a first clock signal, a second clock signal and a data signal, which is generated by the video source, to generate at least one control signal. The first and second clock signals are independent of a vertical synchronization signal that is generated by the video source. The driver generates, based on the at least one control signal, at least one drive signal that is related to light emission of the at least one LED unit.
US10966294B2
An illumination device for a motor vehicle includes one or more multi-color LED units which each have a settable color point and settable brightness, wherein each multi-color LED unit is an individual semiconductor component having multiple single-color LEDs of different colors and a microcontroller. The single-color LEDs and the microcontroller are surrounded by a housing of the semiconductor component. The microcontroller is designed to control each single-color LED of an associated multi-color LED unit depending on a current temperature value of the associated multi-color LED unit in such a way that a set color point and a set brightness are held constant during operation of the associated multi-color LED unit.
US10966292B2
Disclosed herein is a method of forming a multi-layered metallic part. The method comprises forming a plurality of ductile layers made of a metallic material having a first ductility. The method also comprises forming at least one high-strength powder layer made of a powdered metallic material having a second ductility higher than the first ductility. The method further comprises assembling the plurality of ductile layers and the at least one high-strength powder layer in an alternating and stacked formation to form a multi-layered metallic assembly. The method additionally comprises oscillating a crystallographic phase of the powdered metallic material of the at least one high-strength powder layer between a first crystallographic phase and a second crystallographic phase.
US10966291B2
A power conversion apparatus and a power conversion method are provided. The power conversion apparatus includes a rectifier configured to convert AC power to DC power, a smoothing filter configured to control the DC power received from the rectifier to be constant, an inverter configured to convert the DC power received from the smoothing filter into high-frequency power by turning the DC power on and off using a switching device, and a control unit configured to control the rectifier and the inverter. A rating of output power from the inverter is determined in accordance with a frequency of the high-frequency power output from the inverter, a current-applying time, and an operation rate obtained by dividing the current-applying time by a sum of the current-applying time and a non-current-applying time.
US10966284B2
An apparatus of a RAN node in which flexible feedback for user data transferred between RAN nodes is described. The DL PDCP PDUs to be delivered to a UE is transmitted over an Xn or X2 interface between RAN and NG-RAN nodes, respectively. Feedback received allows transmitting RAN node to control downlink user data flow. The feedback contains a DDDS frame that includes a highest transmitted and delivered PDCP SN indicator parameter that respectively indicates whether a highest transmitted and successfully delivered PDCP PDU is present in the DDDS message and a highest transmitted and successfully delivered PDCP SN PDU parameter that provides feedback respectively about a transmitted status of the PDU sequence and an in-sequence delivery status of the PDUs to the UE. Buffered PDUs reported by the DDDS message are removed from memory as transmitted or successfully delivered PDUs.
US10966281B2
A transmission timing information sending method, a transmission timing information receiving method, and related apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes configuring, by a base station, higher layer signaling, wherein the higher layer signaling comprises at least one transmission timing set comprising at least one transmission timing value, and the at least one transmission timing set is related to at least one of the following factors: a subcarrier width, a TDD manner, or a terminal capability, sending, by the base station, the higher layer signaling to a terminal, determining, by the base station, downlink control information (DCI), wherein the DCI is used to instruct the terminal to determine the transmission timing value in the at least one transmission timing set, wherein the determined transmission timing value is a slot that the terminal is instructed to use when sending feedback information and sending, by the base station, the DCI to the terminal.
US10966279B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for reserving radio resources for sidelink (SL) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) transmissions are described. In embodiments, a user equipment may select to create an SL grant when a configuration indicates to transmit SL transmissions based on sensing using indicated resources. And when a number of consecutive unused transmission opportunities on the indicated resources is equal to a configured value, the UE may release all currently reserved radio resources, set a resource reservation interval, and select a set of resources spaced by the resource reservation interval as reserved resources for transmission of the one or more sidelink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10966277B1
Technologies for preventing insider attacks in a wireless network are described. A processor of a first device receives a disconnect frame with i) a source address that identifies a wireless access point (WAP) device in a wireless network and ii) a destination address that the disconnect frame is addressed to all devices in the wireless network. The processor sends a frame to the WAP device after expiration of a configurable delay and receives an acknowledgment frame from the WAP device. The processor determines that the disconnect frame is a non-authorized disconnect frame received from a second device and is not to be processed. The processor can increment a first counter value to a second counter value, the second counter value indicating how many times a non-authorized disconnect frame is received at the first device. The processor sends a management frame with the second counter value to the WAP device.
US10966276B2
A signal transmission method includes: determining, by a terminal device, at least one start time point for entering an activated state of radio resource control (RRC) active discontinuous reception (DRX); and receiving, by the terminal device at each of the at least one start time point, a first signal sent by a network device, the first signal being used by the terminal device to determine, from at least one downlink receiving beam, a target downlink receiving beam for receiving and decoding a downlink control channel sent by the network device.
US10966274B2
Coordination of RRC configurations between an LTE NB and an NR NB in dual connectivity with a UE are performed using an RRC container that includes shared or coordinated parameters. For example, an NR NB determines to alter a configuration of a UE. The NR NB transmits a coordinated RRC container with coordinated UE parameters to an LTE NB and transmits a UE parameter RRC container to the LTE NB. The LTE NB evaluates the coordinated container for compliance with the UE capability. If satisfied, the LTE NB can send both containers (in a single RRC message or multiple RRC messages) to the UE.
US10966265B2
A communication system and method for supporting a plurality of vehicle-to-everything radio access technologies (V2X RATs) is provided. The communication system configured to support multiple V2X RATs transmits, using a first V2X RAT, an indication of its availability to support an interworking function between the plurality of V2X RATs. The communication system receives an instruction to provide the interworking function between different V2X RATs. The interworking function may be incorporated in a vehicle that is joined to a platoon configured to use a first V2X RAT, and provide the interworking function between the first and a second V2X RAT. The interworking function may be used to add further vehicles to the platoon that communicate using only the second V2X RAT.
US10966264B2
A communication system includes a control wireless station. One or more data payload-conveying wireless stations rely on the control wireless station to provide control information to a mobile communication device to control conveyance of data over one or more data channels to the mobile communication device. For example, to connect to a remote network, a mobile communication device establishes a first wireless communication link with the control wireless station. The mobile communication device establishes a second wireless communication link with a data conveying wireless station. The first wireless link conveys control information from the control wireless station to the mobile communication device. The second wireless link conveys data payload information. The control information conveyed over the first wireless link controls conveyance of the data payload information over the second wireless communication link.
US10966258B2
Disclosed are various systems and methods for monitoring and maintaining networks, such as networks associated with a wireless access point. In an aspect, a user device that was connected the wireless access point and loses connectivity to the access point can receive network parameters for implementing a new wireless network, where the network parameters are associated with the network as implemented by the wireless access point that is no longer available. The user device can activate a new wireless hotspot mode using the received network parameters. The resulting new wireless hotspot can implement various aspects of the wireless access point and associated network. The new wireless hotspot enabled by the user device can allow other devices, previously connected to the access point, to automatically connect to the new wireless hotspot.
US10966256B2
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 for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes acquiring information regarding resource set comprising a plurality of random access channels, selecting a random access channel among the plurality of the random access channels, and transmitting, to a base station, a preamble on the random access channel.
US10966247B2
The present invention provides according to one of its aspects a method of queueing a data frame in one of a plurality of traffic queues at a communication station for transmission over a communication channel in a communication network comprising a plurality stations and an access point (AP). The method comprising selecting a traffic queue based on at least one of 1) a transmission mode, direct link or uplink, of the data frame, and 2) a transmission mode of the traffic queue; and queueing the data frame in the selected traffic queue. The transmission mode of the traffic queue may be a Multi-User (MU) uplink (UL) mode if a data frame previously stored in the traffic queue has been transmitted, since a predetermined period of time, in a resource unit (RU) provided by the AP within a transmission opportunity granted to the AP on the communication channel. The transmission mode may also be a Single-User (SU) mode.
US10966245B2
Embodiments of this application provide a channel configuration method. The method includes: determining, by a base station, a quantity of system flows based on a random access channel detection result; configuring, by the base station, an uplink channel and a downlink channel based on the quantity of system flows, where the uplink channel is a radio frequency channel used for uplink transmission, and the downlink channel is a radio frequency channel used for downlink transmission; and transmitting, by the base station, data based on the configured uplink channel and the configured downlink channel. Therefore, while system transmission performance is ensured, a communication requirement can be flexibly met, and system processing resources and transmission resources can be saved.
US10966240B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a preemption indication identifying at least one symbol of a grant for preemption. The user equipment may selectively preempt the at least one symbol of the grant based at least in part on a receive time of the preemption indication, a processing time threshold, and a preemption time of the at least one symbol of the grant. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10966239B1
Improved wearable optics is disclosed. The wearable optics comprises a frame member and a lens. The wearable optics also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the wearable optics. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the wearable optics for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the wearable optics to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like.
US10966235B2
A scheduling node (110) transmits, to a radio node (105) configured for sub-subframe operation, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration message (210) configuring the radio node (105) for sub-subframe-based SPS. The SPS configuration message (210) comprises an identifier of the radio node (105) and indicates a pattern of sub-subframes (82) in which a resource allocation for the radio node (105) repeats. The radio node (105) receives the SPS configuration message (210) and configures the radio node (105) for sub-subframe-based SPS according to the SPS configuration message (210).
US10966234B2
This application discloses an uplink control information transmission method and related apparatus, to resolve a prior-art problem that joint coding and transmission cannot be performed in a scenario in which PUCCH resources of SRs are not aligned with a PUCCH resource of a HARQ/CSI in time domain. The method comprises: determining a PUCCH, wherein the first PUCCH carries first uplink control information (UCI), and the first UCI comprises HARQ information or CSI; determining a second PUCCH, wherein the second PUCCH carries second UCI, wherein a time domain position of the second PUCCH overlaps a time domain position of the first PUCCH, and the second UCI comprises a SR; and when the second UCI meets a condition, only sending the second UCI on the second PUCCH.
US10966227B2
A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication by a first WLAN communication device is described. A first media access control (MAC) data unit is generated at the first WLAN communication device. The first MAC data unit is transmitted from the first WLAN communication device to a second WLAN communication device via a first WLAN communication channel having a first radio frequency (RF) bandwidth. A second MAC data unit is received at the first WLAN communication device from the second WLAN communication device via a second WLAN communication channel having a second RF bandwidth that does not overlap the first RF bandwidth. The second MAC data unit corresponds to an acknowledgment of the first MAC data unit from the second WLAN communication device.
US10966223B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) to operate in a New Radio (NR) system comprises one or more baseband processors to determine if two or more uplink signals partially overlap, determine a multiplexing rule, a dropping rule, or a priority rule for the two or more uplink signals, and to multiplex, drop, or prioritize the two or more uplink signals for transmission according to the multiplexing rule, dropping rule, or priority rule, and a memory to store two or more uplink signals.
US10966220B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for scheduling, load balancing and/or pilot assignment in MIMD cellular deployments (e.g., reciprority-based MIMO cellular deployments). In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, by the central controller from at least one AP, for at least one user terminal, a size of a user set and user rate information indicative of a rate that can be provided to the user terminal when served in a group of one or more user terminals; and determining, by the central controller, based on user rate information and the user set size, an allocation of AP resources among the user terminals for the at least one AP.
US10966217B2
A wireless base station includes a state-of-emergency determiner, a silent section detector, a priority level controller, a resource allocation request detector, and a resource controller. The state-of-emergency determiner determines a state of emergency. In a case of the state of emergency, the silent section detector detects a silent section for a downlink voice packet. In the case of the state of emergency, the priority level controller lowers a transmission priority level of a packet in the silent section for the downlink voice packet. In the case of the state of emergency, the resource allocation request detector detects a request for allocation of an uplink radio resource to a silent section for an uplink voice packet. In the case of the state of emergency, the resource controller lowers a priority level for the allocation of the uplink radio resource to the silent section for the uplink voice packet.
US10966215B2
Wireless networking devices scan for available channels and gather data about the channels and the RF environment. Using this information, each wireless networking device determines a cost value for each available channel and a quality value for its overall RF neighborhood. Each wireless networking device select the channel with the best cost value as a candidate channel for use. The wireless networking devices may submit channel requests to the arbiter for approval. If two or more wireless networking devices are requesting the same channel, the arbiter assigns the channel to the wireless networking device with the worst RF neighborhood quality. The arbiter informs the wireless networking devices if their channel requests are approved. If a wireless networking device's channel request is not approved, the wireless networking device will rescan the remaining available channels to select a different candidate channel to be approved.
US10966209B2
An external client requests the location of a UE using control plane signaling. The UE sends downlink location measurements, such as Reference Signal Time Differences, for a plurality of base stations (BSs) to a serving BS at a layer 1 or layer 2 protocol level and at first periodic intervals. The UE and the plurality of BSs send additional location measurements, such as receive time-transmission time differences, to the serving BS at second periodic intervals, which are longer than the first periodic intervals. The serving BS uses the additional location measurements and downlink location measurements to determine timing information, such as Real Time Differences, for the plurality of BSs. The serving BS determines the location of the UE using the downlink location measurements and the timing information at the first periodic intervals and sends the location to the external client using user plane signaling to reduce delay.
US10966208B2
A voice service processing method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a base station, voice configuration indication information from user equipment (UE), where the voice configuration indication information is used to indicate at least one voice configuration supported by the UE; and configuring, by the base station, a voice transmission scheme for the UE based on the voice configuration indication information. The UE can initiate a voice service on a 5G network, and a high-quality and convenient voice service can be provided for a user.
US10966205B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method, and a communications apparatus and system. User equipment can communicate with the network device by using a plurality of beams, the plurality of beams include a first beam and at least one second beam, the first beam is a serving beam used by the user equipment to listen to control information, and the second beam is a beam other than the serving beam. The method includes: determining, by the user equipment, that the serving beam is blocked; and obtaining, by the user equipment, a first message from the network device by using the first beam or the second beam. According to the method, the UE may determine that the serving beam is blocked, and further obtain the first message sent by the network device, thereby eliminating an adverse effect caused by the blocking of the serving beam. Correspondingly, the network device may also determine that the serving beam is blocked, and further send the first message, thereby eliminating an adverse effect caused by the blocking of the serving beam.
US10966204B2
Disclosed are a control information sending method and detecting method, a base station, a terminal, and a computer storage medium. The method includes: a base station determining first-type physical layer control information, which is used for indicating a first-type control parameter of a second-type physical layer control channel; determining second-type physical layer control information, which is used for indicating a second-type control parameter of a data channel; sending the first-type physical layer control information; and sending the second-type physical layer control information on the second-type physical layer control channel.
US10966198B2
Various aspects described herein relate to receiving wireless communications from an access point, determining resources of the wireless communications associated with a search space for control information in the received wireless communications, and performing one or more of a set of blind decodes over the search space to decode at least low latency control information associated with a low latency communication technology, wherein the low latency communication technology utilizes a transmission time interval (TTI) having a duration that is less than a subframe of a legacy communication technology.
US10966187B2
Described are a method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system supporting Machine-Type Communication (MTC) and an apparatus therefor. The method includes: monitoring a first search space configured for an MTC Physical Downlink Control Channel (MPDCCH), in which the first MPDCCH includes first control information for scheduling of a first Physical Downlink shared Channel (PDSCH) for transferring a Single Cell-Multicast Control Channel (SC-MCCH); receiving the first PDSCH based on the first control information; monitoring a second search space configured for a second MPDCCH using a group identifier acquired through the SC-MCCH, in which the second MPDCCH includes second control information for scheduling of a second PDSCH for transferring a Single Cell-Multicast Traffic Channel (SC-MTCH); and receiving the second PDSCH based on the second control information, in which configuration information for a frequency bandwidth used for the second PDSCH may be transferred through the SC-MCCH.
US10966185B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to generate a transmission is provided. In this method, a UE starts a time alignment timer when a time alignment command is received. The UE receives an uplink grant; and generates an initial transmission or a retransmission according to the uplink grant only when the time alignment timer is running upon receiving the uplink grant. In addition, the uplink grant is received through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) indicated by a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) of the UE.
US10966180B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless device includes a transmitter; and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to transmit a first frame including information that designates a plurality of frequency components and instructing execution of frequency multiplexing transmission by a plurality of wireless communication terminals; and the receiver is configured to receive the second frame by at least one frequency component of the plurality of frequency components. The first frame has either a first form or a second form, the first form designates individual terminal identifiers of the plurality of wireless communication terminals, the terminal identifiers each being associated with at least one of the plurality of frequency components, and the second form designates a group identifier of a group to which the plurality of wireless communication terminals belong.
US10966173B2
Accurate position capability can be quickly provided using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). When associated with a WLAN, a wireless device can quickly determine its relative and/or coordinate position based on information provided by an access point in the WLAN. Before a wireless device disassociates with the access point, the WLAN can periodically provide time, location, and decoded GPS data to the wireless device. In this manner, the wireless device can significantly reduce the time to acquire the necessary GPS satellite data (i.e. on the order if seconds instead of minutes) to determine its coordinate position.
US10966172B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive information that identifies a time offset associated with backhaul physical random access channel (PRACH) resources. The time offset may be different from a time offset that is identified based at least in part on a PRACH configuration index The wireless communication device may identify a set of backhaul PRACH resources based at least in part on the time offset. The wireless communication device may transmit a RACH transmission using the identified set of backhaul PRACH resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10966164B2
A user equipment (UE) can include processing circuitry configured to, during a physical random access channel (PRACH) procedure, select a first synchronization signal (SS) block from a plurality of SS blocks within a received SS burst set, the SS block selected based on signal quality measurements of the plurality of SS blocks. A PRACH preamble is encoded for transmission to a base station using a PRACH resource subset corresponding to the selected SS block, the transmission using a UE transmit (Tx) beam of a plurality of available Tx beams and transmit power indicated by a power ramping counter. Upon failing to detect a random access response (RAR) from the base station, a second SS block is selected, the power ramping counter is reset, and the PRACH preamble is encoded for re-transmission using a second PRACH resource subset and transmit power indicated by the reset power ramping counter.
US10966163B2
The disclosure provides a method for reducing radiation and a mobile terminal. The method comprises: detecting whether a current operating mode of the mobile terminal is a voice call mode or a data communication mode; and if the current operating mode of the mobile terminal is the voice call mode, transmitting by an AP side a preset first AT command to a modem to control the modem to restore a maximum transmit power for normal operation; if the current operating mode of the mobile terminal is the data communication mode, transmitting by the AP side a preset second AT command to the modem to control the modem to reduce the maximum transmit power.
US10966161B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for in-packet transmission power control. Measurement circuitry in communication with a transmission stage of a device is configured to generate a transmitted signal strength measurement signal based on an output of the transmission power amplifier during transmission of a packet. Measurement conversion circuitry connected to the measurement circuitry is configured to convert the transmitted signal strength measurement signal from the measurement circuitry to an output power measurement. Power control circuitry connected to the measurement conversion circuitry is configured to generate a power correction signal based on the output power measurement and an output power target value. Power ramping circuitry connected to the power control circuitry is configured to provide a gain signal to the transmission stage of the device based on the power correction signal.
US10966157B2
A method and apparatus for controlling an uplink power in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) sets a first maximum power for a first set of uplink subframes for a first eNodeB (eNB) in which the UE can allocate up to the first maximum power to uplink signals to be transmitted to the first eNB, and sets a second maximum power for a second set of uplink subframes for the first eNB in which the UE can allocate up to the second maximum power to uplink signals to be transmitted to the first eNB. The uplink signals are transmitted to the first eNB only in the first set of uplink subframes. Further, the uplink signals are transmitted to both the first eNB and a second eNB in the second set of uplink subframes.
US10966155B1
In a method for low-power wireless communication, a primary connectivity radio transmits a wake-up radio configuration request to a wireless device and receives a wireless wake-up configuration response comprising a wake-up identifier for distance aware wake-up notification mode. A companion low-power wake-up radio receives from the wireless device, a wireless wake-up radio measurement reference for which it measures a receive signal strength, determines it as a reference level, and associates the reference level with the wake-up identifier. The wake-up radio then receives from the wireless device, a wake-up frame that includes a received wake-up identifier. The wake-up radio determines that the received wake-up identifier compares with the wake-up identifier associated with the reference level. The wake-up radio measures a receive signal strength of the wireless wake-up frame and wakes-up the primary connectivity radio, if the receive signal strength of the wireless wake-up frame is above the reference level.
US10966147B2
Provided in the embodiments are a method for configuring network slice indexes, a device and a computer storage medium. The method may be applied to a network side device, and includes: configuring corresponding Shortened Slice Indexes (SSIs) for Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) of a first type of network slices based on a set partition granularity, wherein NSSAI of a network slice and an SSI corresponding to the NSSAI indicate the same network slice, and a length of the NSSAI is longer than a length of the SSI corresponding to the NSSAI; and sending a downlink message bearing the NSSAI and the corresponding SSIs of the first type of network slices to User Equipment (UE).
US10966141B2
The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and an apparatus to determine a beacon signal for a network node, where the network node is configured to connect with a cluster of access points in a wireless communication network, and where the beacon signal identifies the cluster; and send the beacon signal towards the wireless communication network. Further, the exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and an apparatus to determine a dominant access point of a cluster of access points based on signaling from at least one access point associated with the cluster of access points; and in response to the determining, direct communications towards the dominant access point of the cluster of access points.
US10966137B2
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptively changing which transmission scheme a user equipment is to use based on a Doppler metric (e.g. Doppler frequency) as evaluated against a threshold Doppler value. A network instructs a user equipment to use a Rank-1 precoder cycling transmission scheme if the Doppler metric of user equipment is above a threshold value, or to use a closed loop MIMO transmission scheme if the user equipment has a Doppler metric below the threshold value. The network can instruct the user equipment via a suitable message, or by switching off TPMI and notifying the user equipment thereof.
US10966135B2
Aspects of data re-direction are described, which can include software-defined networking (SDN) data re-direction operations. Some aspects include data re-direction operations performed by one or more virtualized network functions. In some aspects, a network router decodes an indication of a handover of a user equipment (UE) from a first end point (EP) to a second EP, based on the indication, the router can update a relocation table including the UE identifier, an identifier of the first EP, and an identifier of the second EP. The router can receive a data packet for the UE, configured for transmission to the first EP, and modify the data packet, based on the relocation table, for rerouting to the second EP. In some aspects, the router can decode handover prediction information, including an indication of a predicted future geographic location of the UE, and update the relocation table based on the handover prediction information.
US10966129B2
An apparatus and method for providing handover support information in a mobile communication system are provided. A method for an Base Station (BS) to provide information necessary for measurement report trigger performance to a Mobile Station (MS) after the MS determines neighboring BSs in a mobile communication system includes, in a case where the MS is an active mode MS, providing a Time To Trigger (TTT) independently by a specific neighboring BS to the active mode MS and, in a case where the MS is an idle mode MS, providing a reselection time period (Treselection) independently by the specific neighboring BS to the idle mode MS.
US10966124B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for wireless communications are disclosed. A first base station may receive one or more message from a second base station. The messages may include downlink beamforming information elements for a downlink cell. Each downlink beamforming information element may be associated with a respective group of resource blocks of a plurality of groups of resource blocks in the downlink cell. The first base station may select a first beamforming codeword for at least one group of resource blocks of the plurality of groups of resource blocks based on the downlink beamforming information associated with the at least one group of resource blocks. The first base station may transmit, to a wireless device, signals on the at least one group of resource blocks employing the first beamforming codeword.
US10966101B2
Examples provide a mobile communication system, user equipment, a base station, base band circuitry, methods, machine readable media and computer programs to communicate in a mobile communication system. The method for user equipment, which is configured to communicate in a mobile communication system, comprises receiving, using radio resources on a first antenna beam, an instruction to receive control data on radio resources on a second antenna beam; acknowledging reception of the instruction; and monitoring the radio resources on the first antenna beam for a repetition of the instruction after receiving the instruction.
US10966096B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for system recovery from a system user interface process malfunction may include (i) determining that a system user interface (UI) process is executing on the computing device, (ii) determining that a message indicating a malfunction of the system UI process is displayed on the computing device, (iii) identifying a mobile application that was executing on the computing device at a time of the malfunction of the system UI process, and (iv) in response to identifying the mobile application that was executing at the time of the malfunction of the system UI process, performing a security action for recovery from the malfunction of the system UI process. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10966083B2
An anchor key generation method, device, and system, where the method includes generating, by a unified data management network element (UDM), an intermediate key based on a cipher key (CK), an integrity key (IK), and indication information regarding an operator; sending, by the UDM, the intermediate key to an authentication server function (AUSF); receiving, by the AUSF, the intermediate key; generating, by the AUSF, an anchor key based on the intermediate key; sending, by the AUSF, the anchor key to a security anchor function (SEAF); and generating, by the SEAF, a key (Kamf) based on the anchor key, where the Kamf is used to derive a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) key.
US10966075B2
Methods and systems for providing virtual beacons are presented. According to one aspect, a method for providing a virtual beacon at a first location comprises transmitting, by a transmitter at a second location geographically different from the first location, an information signal using a transmit power level, Pj, and including an advertised transmit power level, PA, both selected to be indicative of a distance, d, between a location of a receiver of the information signal and the first location. The signal transmitted from the second location emulates a signal that would have been produced by a beacon located at the first location. The information signals may be aimed at one or more User Equipments (UEs), and/or may be focused on one or more specific target locations rather than on individual UEs.
US10966073B2
Apparatus and methods for premises device identification and characterization. In one embodiment, the premises devices are IoT (“internet of things”) devices having wireless interfaces, and the disclosed apparatus and methods “passively” canvass or assess a given premises as to its IoT profile, including both transparent and proxy-managed installations via a software-defined radio (SDR) device incorporated into a host device at the premises (e.g., DOCSIS modem, DSTB, wireless AP/router, or gateway). The SDR is controlled by logic operative to run on the host device (and optionally a network-side process), enabling the SDR to scan the RF environment within the premises in particular frequency bands typically associated with IoT devices and protocols. Information regarding each particular device is transmit to a network-side management process for use in populating the user's cloud-based EPG, selectively targeting advertising or other content to the premises, or yet other functions.
US10966064B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor that can maintain a first virtual task list associated with one of a sending user or a receiving user. A first message originating at equipment of the sending user is received and content of the first message is analyzed to determine a task. Behavior information is obtained associated with one of the sending user, the receiving user or both, and first virtual task list is adjusted to obtain a modified virtual task list according to the content of the first message and the behavior information. A second message is provided to one of the receiving user or another user according to the modified virtual task list. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10966054B2
A guidance information providing system includes a plurality of mobile shop vehicles and a server device. Each mobile shop vehicle of the mobile shop vehicles includes first circuitry and the server device includes second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle and configured to send the location information on the mobile shop vehicle. The second circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle, configured to generate map information indicating a layout of the plurality of mobile shop vehicles, and configured to output the map information.
US10966046B2
An audio rendering system includes a processor that combines audio input signals with personalized spatial audio transfer functions preferably including room responses. The personalized spatial audio transfer functions are selected from a database having a plurality of candidate transfer function datasets derived from in-ear microphone measurements for a plurality of individuals. Alternatively, the personalized transfer function datasets are derived from actual in-ear measurements of the listener. Foreground and background positions are designated and matched with transfer function pairs from the selected dataset for the foreground and background direction and distance. Two channels of input audio such as voice and music are processed. When a voice communication such as a phone call is accepted the music being rendered is moved from a foreground to a background channel corresponding to a background spatial audio position using the personalized transfer functions. The voice call is simultaneously transferred to the foreground channel.
US10966040B1
An example playback device is configured to (i) receive, via a network interface, data representing a command to play back audio content, where the audio content is a first type of audio content, (ii) during playback of the first type of audio content via an audio amplifier configured to drive a speaker, apply a first calibration and a second calibration to playback by the playback device, where the first calibration at least partially offsets one or more acoustic characteristics of an environment surrounding the playback device when applied to playback by the playback device, and where the second calibration corresponds to the first type of audio content, and (iii) during playback of a second type of audio content via the audio amplifier configured to drive the speaker, apply a third calibration to playback by the playback device, where the third calibration corresponds to the second type of audio content.
US10966030B2
A MEMS microphone includes a substrate having a cavity defining a vibration area and a peripheral area surrounding the vibration area, a back plate disposed over the substrate and having a plurality of acoustic holes, a diaphragm disposed between the substrate and the back plate to cover the cavity, the diaphragm defining an air gap together with the back plate, and the diaphragm sensing an acoustic pressure to generate a displacement, a plurality of anchors arranged along a circumference of the diaphragm, and spaced apart from each other to define a plurality of slits configured to serve as first vent channels for communicating the air gap with the cavity, and at least one vent hole penetrating through the diaphragm, and serving as a second vent channel for communicating the air gap with the cavity.
US10966028B2
The mobile terminal includes a playback signal generation unit that generates a playback signal for playing back a music and outputs the playback signal to a first sound output unit; an interruption detection unit that detects interruption of an output of the sound from the first sound output unit during the playback of the music; an output detection unit that detects that the sound from a second sound output unit can be output; and a time measurement unit that measures a time period after interruption is detected until it is detected by the output detection unit that the output is possible. The playback signal generation unit outputs a playback signal for playing back the music from a playback position advanced forward from a playback position, in which the interruption has been detected, in correspondence to the time period measured by the time measurement unit.
US10966027B2
An audio adjustment system for a vehicle includes a detection module that is configured to receive an image and detect a face of at least one of a passenger of the vehicle and a pedestrian near the vehicle. An age estimation module is configured to estimate an age of the at least one of the passenger and the pedestrian based on the detected face. An adjustment determination module is configured to determine an audio adjustment parameter for an audio signal based on the estimated age of the at least one of the passenger and the pedestrian.
US10966014B2
From a first microphone, first microphone signals are received that represent first sound waves. From a second microphone, second microphone signals are received that represent second sound waves. In response to the first microphone signals, analog processing is performed to estimate noise in the first sound waves, and first analog signals are generated for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the first sound waves. In response to the second microphone signals, digital processing is performed to estimate noise in the second sound waves, and digital information is generated for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the second sound waves. The digital information is converted into second analog signals that represent the digital information. The first and second analog signals are combined into third analog signals for cancelling at least some of the estimated noise in the first and second sound waves.
US10966013B2
A rotary bracket that comprises a first bracket, a second bracket, a fixing piece, and a rotary connecting piece, wherein the fixing piece comprises a fixing body, the transfer end of the first bracket is rotatably connected with the rotary connecting piece, the plug end of the second bracket penetrates through the insertion interface and is fixed in the mounting cavity.
US10966012B2
A wireless earbud (100) for in-ear use has an earbud housing (110), a loudspeaker (130), a rechargeable battery (140), a first microphone (132) and a second microphone (134). The first microphone (132) is adapted to pick up sound internally from an ear canal of a user wearing the wireless earbud. The second microphone (134) is adapted to pick up sound externally from outside of the ear canal of the user wearing the wireless earbud. Disclosed is also a storage and charging capsule (200) for at least one wireless earbud (100a, 100b). The capsule has an elongate insert part (240) having an earbud chamber (246) adapted to receive the or each wireless earbud (100a, 100b). A cover part (260) slidably receives the elongate insert part (240) and is placeable in an open position in which the cover part is retracted from the elongate insert part to allow insertion/removal of the or each wireless earbud (100a, 100b) into/from the earbud chamber (246) of the elongate insert part (240). The cover part is also placeable in a closed position in which it encapsulates the elongate insert part. The storage and charging capsule (200) further has a power source (270), and a magnetic connector interface (257) in the earbud chamber (246) of the elongate insert part (240). The magnetic connector interface (257) is connected to the power source (270) and is adapted to engage with a respective at least one charge pad (101) of the earbud (100a, 100b) so as to secure the earbud (100a, 100b) in the earbud chamber and allow charging thereof by the power source (270).
US10966000B1
Systems and methods for determining the answers to user queries regarding content, and presenting options for the user to view the answers. Searches are conducted to determine the answer to a query and, once the answer is found, various options are presented to the user, allowing the user the choice to view the answer in multiple different ways.
US10965997B2
Television is the largest advertising category in the United States with over 65 billion spent by advertisers per year. A variety of different targeting algorithms are compared, ranging from the traditional age-gender targeting methods employed based on Nielsen ratings, to new approaches that attempt to target high probability buyers using Set Top Box data. The performance of these different algorithms on a real television campaign is shown, and the advantages and limitations of each method are discussed. In contrast to other theoretical work, all methods presented herein are compatible with targeting the existing 115 million Television households in the United States and are implementable on current television delivery systems.
US10965996B2
A notifiable event pertaining to an interaction with a series of videos from a particular user may be detected. Another user who is associated with the particular user and who has stopped viewing the series of videos may be identified. The another user may be assigned an affinity score indicating a user interest to continue viewing the series of videos. A notification identifying the particular user and the notifiable event pertaining to the interaction with the series of videos by the particular user may generated where the notification includes a reference to a point in the series of videos that is associated with a portion of the series of videos at which the another user has stopped viewing the series of videos. Furthermore, the notification may be transmitted to the another user.
US10965994B2
The present disclosure provides a method for determining a recommended video, a data processing computer server and a system. The computer server determines candidate virtual scenes, users currently participating in the candidate virtual scenes, and a user corresponding to a virtual role in the candidate virtual scenes. After selecting a target virtual scene from the candidate virtual scenes, the computer server determines representation data of virtual roles of the target virtual scene, selects a target virtual role from the virtual roles of the target virtual scene according to the representation data of the virtual roles of the target virtual scene, and generates a recommended video at a viewing angle of the target virtual role in the target virtual scene.
US10965985B2
A display apparatus includes presence detection circuitry for detecting an individual in proximity to the display apparatus; a display for displaying video content and a user interface; a processor in communication with the user input circuitry, the display, and the search history database; and non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code. The instruction code is executed by the processor and causes the processor to: a) determine, from the presence detection circuitry, a user in proximity of the display apparatus; b) determine one or more program types associated with the user; c) determine available programs that match the predicted one or more programs; and d) update the user interface to depict a listing of one or more of the available programs that match the predicted one or more programs.
US10965984B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for minimization of video re-buffering using local animation are disclosed. A client device stores a portion of a video stream into a video buffer and displays the portion on a display. The stream is received from a media streaming system via one or more networks. The client device discontinues displaying the video stream. The client device generates a visualization of metadata that is displayed on the display while the video stream is not displayed. While the visualization of metadata is displayed on the display, the client device stores a newer portion of the video stream in the video buffer. The client device discontinues displaying the visualization of metadata and resumes displaying the video stream on the display.
US10965972B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, at least one communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the display and the at least one communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The electronic device may receive user activity information including information of content, which is currently being played or has been previously played in the electronic device, from a content provider (CP) server through an internet of things (IoT) server when one or more external electronic devices are discovered and may display a first UI for recommending playing the content, which is being currently played or has been previously played in the electronic device, through at least one of the one or more external electronic devices on the display, based on the discovered one or more external electronic devices and the list of the external electronic device.
US10965957B1
Introduced here is a technique to create small compressed image files while preserving data quality upon decompression. Upon receiving an uncompressed data, such as an image, a video, an audio, and/or a structured data, a machine learning model identifies an object in the uncompressed data such as a house, a dog, a text, a distinct audio signal, a unique data pattern, etc. The identified object is compressed using a compression treatment optimized for the identified object. The identified object, either before or after the compression, is removed from the uncompressed data. The uncompressed data with the identified object removed is compressed using a standard compression treatment.
US10965956B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an affine model in a merge mode. The processing circuitry obtains, from a buffer, motion information of bottom locations in a neighboring block that is adjacent of the current block in the current picture, and determines parameters of the affine model that is used to transform between the block and a reference block in a reference picture based on the motion information of the bottom locations in the neighboring block. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the current block based on the affine model.
US10965951B2
A pipeline video decoder with memory latency management includes memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor converts a received bitstream into symbol data including pixel data and intra-prediction and inter-prediction control parameters. The processor generates decoder-pipeline region (DPR)-based coarse motion data based on the inter-prediction control parameters. The processor further fetches one or more reference blocks associated with a current prediction unit (PU) of a DPR based on the coarse motion data, and generates decoded motion data based on the inter-prediction control parameters and refined motion data. The refined motion data is generated based on the decoded motion data and the one or more reference blocks.
US10965950B2
Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing content-adaptive deblocking to improve the visual quality of video images compressed using block-based motion-predictive video coding. For instance, in certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, edge information is obtained using global orientation energy edge detection (“OEED”) techniques on an initially deblocked image. OEED detection can provide a robust partition of local directional features (“LDFs”). For a local directional feature detected in the partition, a directional deblocking filter having an orientation corresponding to the orientation of the LDF can be used. The selected filter can have a filter orientation and activation thresholds that better preserve image details while reducing blocking artifacts. In certain embodiments, for a consecutive non-LDF region, extra smoothing can be imposed to suppress the visually severe blocking artifacts.
US10965949B2
A system configured to decode video data in a packetized elementary stream (PES) including frames of image data. The system includes a processor configured to receive a transport stream including control information associated with the image data including video metadata parameters associated with application specific functions applicable to the image data. The processor is also configured to receive the PES including the frames of image data in video access units. The processor is configured to retrieve and decode the retrieved video access units using the control information to form a signal including the frames of image data. The system also includes a storage device configured to store the frames of image data and the control information.
US10965947B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection. In one exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture; in which one of a plurality of trees structures is selected to code a binary set of data for indicating coefficient significance for the block. In another exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture, in which one or more trees are used to encode a binary set of data for indicating coefficient significance for the block, the one or more trees each having a plurality of nodes, at least one of the nodes of the one or more trees being modified responsive to at least one parameter.
US10965937B2
A system for monitoring displayed content, such as advertisements, has at least one sensor that is used to monitor an electronic display and provide information about the operation of the display, such as the content being displayed or whether one or more components of the display are operating correctly. The sensor is selected, positioned, and/or otherwise configured to limit the its ability to collect information in the environment surrounding the display so as to reduce concerns about the use of the sensor in a private or secure environment. The system may be used to confirm that the hardware of the display system is operating correctly and displaying the proper content at the proper times.
US10965930B2
A method of displaying an Augmented Reality, AR, Graphical User Interface, GUI, on a device. The method comprises detecting PoIs that are located off-screen based on visual data acquired by the camera and on information related to locations of PoIs. Then, for each detected off-screen PoI, a zone of a predetermined shape and centered on the Poi is determined, the zone being at least partly located on-screen. On-screen apexes corresponding to intersections of edges of the respective zones are determined and a continuous curve is determined based on the on-screen apexes. A GUI is displayed by superimposing the visual data and the continuous curve, wherein the operations are performed in real time during acquisition of the visual data.
US10965916B2
A video file processing method for making and outputting an event film according to video files is provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one video file and detecting a plurality of events and an occurring time of each event in the video file; extracting a plurality of event clips including the events from the video file according to the occurring time; obtaining an event film by assembling a plurality of concerned clips in the event clips according to a merging rule; and outputting the event film. In addition, a video file processing device and a monitoring system using the method are also provided.
US10965914B2
A camera mount may include a base member having a rear face to face a support structure and a front face, the front face a curved guide surface, a camera support having a rear face facing the front face of the base member, the rear face of the camera support comprising a guide abutting surface and a retainer resiliently biasing the guide abutting surface against the curved guide surface to releasably retain the camera support at one of a plurality of different positions along the curved guide surface and at one of a plurality of different available orientations relative to the support structure.
US10965913B2
A person is detected from a moving image of the monitoring area, and position information on the person is acquired. Temporal statistical processing is performed on the position information, statistical information relating to a staying situation of the person is acquired in accordance with setting of a target period of time for the statistical processing, and thus a heat map moving image is generated. Furthermore, a mask image corresponding to a person image area is generated at every predetermined point in time based on the position information on the person. A monitoring moving image that results from superimposing the heat map image and the mask image onto a background image is generated and is output at every predetermined point in time.
US10965905B2
The present invention provides an image processing method, wherein the method includes the steps of: receiving an image signal including a first frame and a second frame; determining edges of a foreground in the first frame and the second frame according to at least one motion vector of the first frame and the second frame; determining an edge of the foreground in an interpolated frame according to the edge of the foreground in the first frame and the edge of the foreground in the second frame; and directly using one or more motion vectors of a background adjacent to the foreground in the first frame or the second frame to serve as one or more motion vectors of an outer region of the edge of the foreground in the interpolated frame.
US10965904B2
Disclosed is a display method, including: decoding an input signal comprising an audio signal and a video signal, and identifying a resolution of the decoded video signal; in response that the video signal has an 8K resolution, outputting the video signal to an back end for processing through a first interface, and outputting an on-screen display adjustment signal to the back end for processing through a second interface; in response that the video signal has a 4K or 2K resolution, preprocessing outputting the video signal to the back end for processing through the second interface, and outputting the OSD signal generated by the SoC to the back end for processing through the first interface; and mixing and coding the video signal and the OSD signal, and outputting the mixed and coded signals to a screen for display.
US10965894B2
A system comprises an image sensor comprising an array of infrared sensors operable to capture an image of a scene, an integration timing circuit variably controlling an integration time of the infrared sensors, a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) operable to generate signals from the infrared sensors corresponding to the captured image of the scene, and an automatic gain control operable to applied a gain to the generated signals. The system further comprises a dynamic range compensation controller operable to receive image parameters corresponding to the generated signals, compare the received image parameters to target image parameters, and generate an integration timing signal for controlling the integration timing circuit.
US10965884B2
The present invention provides a novel head-mounted display on which a video image received through wireless communication at a predetermined frequency is displayed, a display controlling apparatus, a display controlling method, and a program. A video image receiving section (94) receives a video image from an entertainment apparatus (14) through wireless communication at a predetermined frequency. A display controlling section (96) causes the video image received through the wireless communication at the predetermined frequency to be displayed on a display section of an HMD (12) in the case where it is decided that a user mounts the HMD (12). A display controlling section (96) causes a video image acquired by using a method other than reception in the video image receiving section (94) through the wireless communication at the predetermined frequency to be displayed on the display section of the HMD (12) before the video image received by the video image receiving section (94) through the wireless communication at the predetermined frequency is caused to be displayed on the display section of the HMD (12).
US10965882B2
A video display apparatus includes: an inputter that receives an input of divided video signals representing divided images obtained by dividing an output image and acquires signal information for each of the divided video signals; a video signal processor that applies processing to the divided video signals and generates an output video signal representing an image obtained by combining the divided images; a controller that acquires the signal information from the inputter and supplies a control signal relating to the processing to the video signal processor; and a display that displays the image represented by the output video signal, and the number of kinds of signal information acquired by the controller with respect to some divided video signals among the divided video signals is greater than the number of kinds of signal information acquired by the controller with respect to the other divided video signals.
US10965880B2
An information processing apparatus 14 includes a reception unit 22 that receives information based on a captured image obtained by an imaging device, an extraction unit 28 that extract a plurality of image data of which a degree of similarity with a subject specified by the information received by the reception unit 22 is equal to or greater than a predetermined value from a first image data group obtained by the bracket imaging and/or a second image data group obtained by non-bracket imaging which are accumulated in advance, a generation unit 30 that generates the imaging condition of the bracket imaging by using the plurality of image data extracted by the extraction unit 28, and a transmission unit 32 that transmits the imaging condition of the bracket imaging generated by the generation unit 30 to the imaging device.
US10965873B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) receiving, by a camera system that includes at least one camera, input from a user instructing the camera system to adjust a framing of the camera, (ii) directing, by the camera system, the camera to adjust the framing, (iii) determining a predicted modified camera frame that approximates an actual modified camera frame predicted to result from directing the camera to adjust the framing, (iv) displaying, before completely receiving visual data that results from the actual modified camera frame from the camera, the predicted modified camera frame to the user, (v) receiving the visual data including the actual modified camera frame from the camera after the camera adjusts the camera frame, and (vi) displaying the actual modified camera frame to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10965868B2
Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data based on one or more parameters. In one embodiment, various spatial portions or regions of image data (e.g., a still or moving image) are weighted according to the perceived or measured quality. Processing for these weighted regions can be selectively altered or adjusted so as to optimize one or more operational parameters including for example processing and/or memory requirements, or speed.
US10965865B2
An apparatus for recording a drive video of a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a position measuring device configured to acquire a position of the vehicle, a camera configured to capture an image of an area around the vehicle, and a controller configured to determine a capturing requirement of the camera based on the position of the vehicle, and to determine whether to apply the capturing requirement to the camera based on a user input.
US10965863B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for changing settings based on a fingerprint. An apparatus includes a fingerprint sensor, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The memory stores code executable by the processor to detect a fingerprint using the fingerprint sensor. The memory stores code executable by the processor to determine that an actively executing application comprises a setting associated with the detected fingerprint. The memory stores code executable by the processor to change the setting for the actively executing application associated with the detected fingerprint.
US10965860B2
A coupling device 20 includes a first resistive element 22, and a single-pole single-throw switch 21 that is controlled by a digital camera 10 to, in a coupled state in which the digital camera 10 is coupled to an accessory 30, switch an electrical connection state of the first resistive element 22 and a second resistive element 31 included in the accessory 30 to a resistance detection terminal D2 of the digital camera 10 between a first connection state in which the second resistive element 31 is connected to the resistance detection terminal D2 and a second connection state in which the first resistive element 22 and the second resistive element 31 are connected to the resistance detection terminal D2.
US10965854B2
A topographical measurement system uses an imaging cartridge formed of a rigid optical element and a clear, elastomeric sensing surface configured to capture high-resolution topographical data from a measurement surface. The imaging cartridge may be configured as a removable cartridge for the system so that the imaging cartridge, including the rigid optical element and elastomeric sensing surface can be removed and replaced as a single, integral component that is robust/stable over multiple uses, and easily user-replaceable as frequently as necessary or desired. The cartridge may also usefully incorporate a number of light shaping and other features to support optimal illumination and image capture.
US10965851B2
A camera device includes a lens assembly, a driver, and a photosensitive assembly. The driver drives the lens assembly. The photosensitive assembly is mounted to the lens assembly. The photosensitive assembly includes a filter, a photosensitive chip, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board. The first circuit board defines a first through hole. The photosensitive chip is received in the first through hole. The filter is fixed to a side of the first circuit board and covers the first through hole. The second circuit board is fixed to a side of the first circuit board facing away from the filter and is electrically coupled to the first circuit board. The photosensitive chip is electrically coupled to the second circuit board.
US10965841B2
A receiving device for reducing video latency includes a display render unit, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The display render unit performs a video transmission to output a video to a display apparatus. The video generated by a video capture unit of the sending device is transmitted through the communication interface to the receiving device. The memory stores at least one computer readable instruction. The processor accesses and executes the at least one computer readable instruction to: determine whether a video latency is necessary to be reduced; determine a target reduced latency based on a target line count and a current line count; and determine a first period based on the target reduced latency and an accelerating scheme at the display render unit. The display render unit performs the video transmission to the display apparatus based on the accelerating scheme for the first period.
US10965838B2
When at least one application of copy, scan, and fax applications installed in an image forming apparatus is enabled, execution of a function corresponding to the enabled application is restricted.
US10965834B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of combining the addition of a plurality of items in an original file in various forms, and outputting the file. A storage unit correlates additional content identification information for identifying additional content that is content added to the original file or content after change; additional content manager information for identifying a manager of the additional content; and add location identification information for identifying a location where the additional content is to be provided in the original file with the additional content and stores the information. A control unit provides the additional content that is extracted from a file other than the original file based on the additional content identification information, or that is acquired from the manager based on the additional content manager information to the original file based on the add location identification information, and causes the file to be outputted as the output target file.
US10965822B1
Methods and systems for preventing the cropping of faces depicted by digital photographs are provided. To this end, the methods and systems may automatically detect the presence of faces depicted by the digital photographs and generate a facial boundary for the faces. The methods and system may also generate a crop boundary at which the photograph is cropped. In some scenarios, the systems and methods attempt to locate the crop boundary on the digital photograph to prevent omitting a portion of the facial boundary. Additionally or alternatively, users are provided an interface to manually set a location for the crop boundary. The user is warned if the crop boundary omits a portion of the facial boundary. The digital photographs and crop boundaries are sent to a printer to generate a physical print of the digital photographs.
US10965819B2
The disclosed telecom information processing system and method thereof allows a telecommunications provider to enable its business and organisational customers to view, report on and analyse the expenses that have been billed (historical invoicing periods) or will be billed (real-time outstanding invoicing period) to the customer for their usage of telecommunications services (typically call charges and/or data charges and/or other charges) as agreed in their contractual arrangements, by directly ingesting call data records (CDRs) and data usage records from the network and calculating the correct invoicing based on records held in the software invention, defining those contractual arrangements.
US10965816B2
In a method for testing an audio communication system of an aircraft, it is detected whether a jack plug of a headset is plugged into a jack of the audio communication system. Subject to the condition that no jack plug is detected, an electrical connection is made between an audio output of the jack and a microphone input of the jack by means of a test bridge circuit provided for at the jack. Furthermore, a test input signal is applied to an audio input connected to the audio output of the jack, and a test output signal is tapped off at a microphone output connected to the microphone input of the jack. The test output signal is used to ascertain a functional state of the audio communication system. Furthermore, an aircraft having an audio communication system is described.
US10965812B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for generating a recommended conversation topic flow. A server executes a topic modelling algorithm on voice call transcripts to determine a distribution of topics present in the transcripts. The server generates a historical topic flow for each transcript by determining topic-related words in text blocks in the transcript and assigning a score to each text block. The server categorizes each topic flow as positive or negative based upon outcomes associated with the transcript. The server trains a classification model using the categorized topic flows as input. The server captures a bitstream corresponding to a current voice call and converts the bitstream into unstructured text. The server executes the classification model on the unstructured text to determine whether a call topic flow is positive or negative. The server generates topic recommendations and transmits the recommendations to a second client device.
US10965802B2
A method of controlling use of network-connectable devices is provided. The method includes monitoring by a first computational process, operating at a first processor utilization level, communication on a user device operated by a particular user and determining based on the monitoring by the first computational process a trigger event. The method further includes monitoring by a second computational process, operating at a second processor utilization level higher than the first processor utilization level, the communication on the user device responsive to determining the trigger event. Use of the user device is restricted based at least on the monitoring by the second computational process of the communication.
US10965799B2
Disclosed is a sanitary sleeve for an electronic device. The sanitary sleeve comprising a top flexible member, wherein one or more edges of the top flexible member may be joined with one or more edges of a bottom flexible member to provide a housing between the top flexible member and the bottom flexible member. Further, the housing may be configured to retain the electronic device. Further, the top flexible member may include two panels separated by a slit-like aperture to allow insertion of the electronic device within the housing.
US10965795B2
A system can include one or more content distribution sites to provide content to one or more content satellite offices for delivery toward a set of destination devices for display. A content distribution site, of the one or more content distribution sites, can include one or more streamer devices. The one or more streamer devices can be associated with a single spoofed Internet protocol (IP) address. The spoofed IP address can facilitate failover among the one or more streamer devices. The one or more streamer devices can be configured to provide the content toward the set of destination devices using multicast with forward error correction (FEC). A content satellite office, of the one or more content satellite offices, can be configured to subscribe to a multicast group associated with the one or more streamer devices. The multicast group can be associated with the spoofed IP address to facilitate the failover among the one or more streamer devices.
US10965791B2
A method and system for differentiating different Protocol Data Units (PDU) in a D2D communication network. The type of PDU to be differentiated is assigned/associated with a unique data/value and transmitted to the destination, by a transmitting User Equipment. At the receiving end, the receiving User Equipment differentiates between different types of PDU packets received, based on the unique data associated with the collected data. Further, the received PDU data is processed based on a suitable packet processing function that matches the PDU type of the PDU data received.
US10965787B2
A computer-implemented method for providing vehicle data to a mobile device is disclosed. The method may include: receiving raw vehicle data from one or more vehicle data streams using one or more protocols; recording the received raw vehicle data from the one or more vehicle data streams in a file format; and transmitting the recorded vehicle data to a mobile device having at least one application configured to interpret the transmitted vehicle data.
US10965786B2
Compression techniques can reduce the fronthaul throughput in split radio access network (RAN) architectures for next generation designs. Adaptive fixed-point mapping can reduce the throughput requirements between a baseband unit (DU) and a remote radio unit (RU). Thus, a bit or plurality of bits can indicate the type of data being passed over the fronthaul. Consequently, adaptive mapping between precoded downlink data and non-precoded downlink data suited to the type of data passed over the fronthaul can achieve high compression ratios.
US10965785B2
A computer-implemented schema-independent method of modeling data from diverse sources is described. A server transmits to a client computer a blueprint for visualizing and interacting with data, wherein the blueprint defines an application, for visualizing and interacting with data. The application may operate on the client computer within a web browser and may include program code or scripts that operate within the web browser and transmit data and commands to and from the server. In response to receiving a data fetch message from the application, the server receives data from a selected one of a plurality of domains. The server then transforms the received data into a semantic data format. The transformed data is then stored by the server as a first data set. The first data set can then be transmitted to the client computer for further processing and visualization by the application using the blueprint.
US10965781B2
Methods, apparatuses, and devices, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for displaying webpage content are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving an access request of a first user to access a webpage; determining webpage content according to the access request of the first user; determining a second user identifier comprised in the webpage content based on the webpage content; determining a presentation identifier from one or more presentation identifiers corresponding to the second user according to the determined second user identifier and the webpage content, wherein the one or more presentation identifiers are configured to identify the corresponding second user; and returning the webpage content to the first user, wherein the webpage content comprises the determined presentation identifier corresponding to the determined second user identifier.
US10965774B2
According to some embodiments, a system to automate platform provisioning for an enterprise includes a platform resource computer store containing a set of electronic data records (each including a component identifier and a set of computing characteristic values). A profile engine may receive a platform request from a user associated with the enterprise and identify, based on data in the platform resource computer store, a resource bundle of components appropriate in view of the platform request. A platform generator may receive platform requirements based on the identified resource bundle of components and provide input data to a REST API service. Final platform definition information for the enterprise may be stored into a central repository. According to some embodiments, a platform provisioning system may process IaaS and PaaS automation components and utilize a return service to generate infrastructure binding data to couple components in the resource bundle to each other.
US10965772B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems, and devices for invoking an interface for a hybrid cloud. In one aspect, a computing system receives, from an invoker, an interface invocation request for a hybrid cloud, the request including a uniform resource locator address and information of a first target cloud platform. In accordance with the request, the computing system determines an interface of the first target cloud platform, e.g., a type of the first target cloud platform, a region of the interface of the first target cloud platform; and an interface within the region as the interface of the first target cloud platform. Next, the computing system sends the request to the interface of the first target cloud platform and then receives a response from the interface of the first target cloud platform.
US10965766B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing user interface development tools. In one aspect, a method includes receiving console logs that specify sequences of user interface events that occurred during user sessions. For each of multiple user sessions, a received console log for the user interface events that occurred during that user session is identified. Playback data that presents visual changes of one or more user interfaces of the publisher that occurred during that user session is generated. An interactive interface is generated and provided. The interface includes session replay area in which the playback data presents the visual changes of the one or more user interfaces of the publisher that occurred during that user session and a console log area that presents console entries from the console log for the user interface events that occurred during that user session.
US10965763B2
Systems and methods that facilitate capturing web analytics data are disclosed. One example method can include the acts of receiving a web page request from a client computer and providing the requested web page to the client computer. The requested web page can include one or more analytics tags. The method can also include capturing at least one of client side information, performance of, or one or more user interactions with the web page and providing the captured information to a web server associated with the web page. These interactions can include user actions that do not include a call to a web server, such as actions that occur during an AJAX flow.
US10965755B2
A communication system for a train having a lead locomotive power group and at least one remote locomotive power group, the system including: a lead locomotive computer in communication with a first and second lead communication device and programmed to: generate a command message; transmit or cause the transmission of the command message from the first lead communication device in a predetermined time slot; and transmit or cause the transmission of the command message from the second lead communication device in a different predetermined time slot; and at least one remote locomotive computer in communication with at least one remote communication device and programmed to directly or indirectly receive the command message from the first lead communication device and/or the second lead communication device. A communication method for a train is also disclosed.
US10965749B2
The present disclosure relates to a network, comprising a switch, a server and a database, and specifically the dynamic batching of data from the switch to the server for uploading to the database according to dynamic feedback received from a monitoring device arranged to obtain operation metrics from at least one of the server device and the database.
US10965745B2
Methods for providing remote access to an application executing on a remote server. A client computer includes a client remote access program that is used to connect to a server remote access program. At the client computer, a client difference program having encoded data indicative of changes to the application since changes were last received from the server computer is generated and transmitted to the server remote access program. At the server computer, the client difference program is executed to update the application and a server difference program is generated having encoded changes to the application since the changes were last received from the client computer. The server difference program is transmitted to the client computer to update the application.
US10965741B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are described herein. In some embodiments, a computing platform may deploy a cloud application comprising a first instance of the cloud application. Further, the computing platform may direct a DNS to the first instance of the cloud application. Next, the computing platform may determine that a second instance of the cloud application should be deployed. Additionally, the computing platform may create a first global traffic manager configured with at least a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the first endpoint is associated with the first instance and is enabled, and where the second endpoint is associated with the second instance, and is disabled. Subsequently, the computing platform may direct the DNS to the first global traffic manager. The computing platform may then direct the DNS to the first global traffic manager, enable the second endpoint. In addition, the computing device may direct, based on metadata associated with each of a plurality of users, each of the plurality of users to one of the first instance and the second instance, wherein one or more users are directed to each of the first instance and the second instance.
US10965734B2
A method and system for managing an application with multiple modes are described. A device manager that manages a mobile device may monitor the mobile device. The device manager may detect that a first type of application that runs in a managed mode (or in multiple managed modes) and an unmanaged mode is installed on the mobile device. When the application is executed on the device, the application executes in accordance with the selected application mode, e.g., based on location, user, role, industry presence, or other predefined context.
US10965733B2
The current document is directed to efficient, distributed-search methods and subsystems within distributed computer systems, including computer systems distributed over multiple sets of geographically distributed data centers, each comprising multiple discrete computer systems, such as multi-processor servers. In one implementation, the distributed-search methods and subsystems are implemented locally within participating entities as well as within one or more distributed-search engines. Each search is directed, by a participant, to identify attribute-associated entities within, provided by, connected to, or otherwise accessible to a distributed computing system having attribute values specified or indicated by the search query. Certain attribute values are continuously collected and centrally stored by the one or more centralized distributed-search engines while other attribute values are obtained through information requests distributed among participating entities.
US10965730B2
A method which facilitates the offering and subscription to infoservices and sending of information to subscribers based on web feeds is disclosed. In an embodiment of the invention only a link is placed on a website allowing any visitor/readers to subscribe to receive newly published content of that website, without the owner of that website having to take any additional steps to offer this infoservice. Subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive, for example only messages which are linked to certain tags or contain certain keywords, and how they should be delivered, for example by email, mobile, news page or web feed. The central infoservices platform additionally allows publishers of the infoservice's underlying web feed to prove ownership of the infoservice's underlying website or web feed, and providing publishers access to the collected information about subscribers of the infoservice.
US10965726B2
Content may be received at an edge location in one format, but delivered to a terminal on an access network in another format. The received content may be transcoded at the edge location. The transcoded content may be stored, or immediately delivered. The transcoded content may be fragmented prior to storage. Multiple copies of the transcoded content may be maintained in multiple formats. These formats may be aligned with one another such that delivery of the content can include delivering portions of the content in one format and other portions of the content in another format.
US10965716B2
A request to establish a session with a first server is received from a client device. The first server is associated with a first hostname, and the request includes information identifying a second hostname purported to correspond to the first server. A Domain Name System (DNS) lookup using the second hostname is performed. A determination that the second hostname was spoofed by the client device is determined based on a response to the DNS lookup. In response to the determination being made that the request received from the client device includes the spoofed second hostname, a determination that the client device has injected or overridden at least one of an HTTP Host header and a Server Name Indicator in the request is made, and an action to take with respect to the client device is determined.
US10965696B1
Techniques are provided for evaluating anomaly detection algorithms using impersonation data derived from user transaction data. An exemplary method comprises obtaining transaction data of a given enterprise organization comprising transactions of a plurality of users; generating impersonation data by modifying one or more features of a subset of the transaction data of the given enterprise organization; classifying (i) at least a portion of the transaction data of the given enterprise organization, and (ii) at least a portion of the impersonation data using the anomaly detection algorithm of the given enterprise organization, wherein records of the impersonation data comprise a known classification; and evaluating a performance of the anomaly detection algorithm of the given enterprise organization by comparing the classification of records of the impersonation data by the anomaly detection algorithm with the known classification.
US10965689B2
A page request is received from a browser. A page script corresponding to the page request is allocated from a plurality of page scripts corresponding to the page request. The page script is transmitted to the browser for generation of a script execution parameter by execution of the page script by the browser. A page verification request is received from the browser, where the page verification request includes the script execution parameter. Whether a page verification request is expired is determined, where if the page verification request is expired, generating error prompt information indicating a page expiration. If the page verification request is not expired, whether the script execution parameter is valid, is determined. If the script execution parameter is valid, the validity is indicated, otherwise the page request is rejected.
US10965684B2
Methods for logically grouping Internet of Things (IoT) devices are described. One or more logical zones are defined. Each logical zone includes one or more physical zones, one or more virtual zones, or a combination of physical and virtual zones. Each IoT device is associated with at least one logical zone. Communication between the IoT devices is restricted based on the zones with which the IoT devices are associated.
US10965683B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for authenticating requests to access one or more accounts over a network using authenticity evaluations of two or more automated decision engines are discussed. A login request for access to a user account may be submitted to multiple decision engines that each apply different rulesets for authenticating the login request, and output an evaluation of the authenticity of the login request. Based on evaluations from multiple automated decision engines, the login request may be allowed to proceed to validation of user identity and, if user identity is validated, access to the user account may be authorized. Based on the evaluations, the login attempt may also be rejected. One or more additional challenge question may be returned to the computing device used to request account access, and the login request allowed to proceed to validation of identity if the response to the challenge question is deemed acceptable.
US10965680B2
An authority management method and device in a distributed environment, and a server are provided. The method includes: obtaining usage information of a user when the user uses an object storage product, the usage information including the user's behavior, status and feature; determining a matching degree between the usage information of the user and usage information predicted by a portrait model of the user; and applying a preset early warning mechanism to the user's access authorities according to the matching degree.
US10965678B2
A method of rolling security for a system that includes multiple server groups, such as a first server group of one or more servers and a second server group of one or more servers. The method includes repeatedly initiating rebuilding of the first server group of one or more servers. The method also includes repeatedly initiating rebuilding of the second server group of one or more servers. The rebuilding of the first server group of one or more servers is staggered in time from the rebuilding of the second server group of one or more servers. The servers may be physical servers or virtual machines. Rolling security may also be applied to software containers, computing devices within a data center, and computing devices outside of a datacenter.
US10965668B2
A graphlet is extracted from a relation graph for digital identity verification. The relation graph contains data element nodes collected about access activities, such as user access context, payment instrument, address, device information, etc. The graph can be examined to identify node groups in demarcation areas. Nodes outside of the demarcation areas represent data elements of a user; and the data elements in the demarcation areas may or may not be of the user in general. The system determines a matching score between the nodes outside of the demarcation areas and the nodes in a demarcation area. The nodes in the demarcation area are attributed to the user if the matching score is above a threshold. The nodes attributed to the user are combined as the graphlet showing the data elements of the user and used in user authentication and/or access control via electronic signature.
US10965667B2
In one embodiment, a user authentication server may use geo-location tracking to determine whether to present an enhanced identity challenge. A communication interface 180 may receive a user login attempt by a user and a current location of the user login attempt. A data storage 150 may store a user location profile of the user. A processor 120 may execute a comparison of the current location to the user location profile. The communication interface 180 may present the user with an enhanced identity challenge before allowing user access based on the comparison.
US10965665B1
Systems and methods for network security are provided. Various embodiments of the present technology provide systems and methods for an identity security gateway agent that provides for privileged access. Embodiments include a system and method that uses a single sign-on (SSO) (or similar) mechanism to facilitate a user accessing web-based service providers, but separates the assertion and entire SSO process from the user credential.
US10965654B2
A device may monitor traffic associated with a user equipment (UE) on multiple interfaces of a network. The device may determine an identity associated with the UE or the traffic on the multiple interfaces by correlating identifiers associated with the UE or the traffic across the multiple interfaces. The identity may uniquely identify a subscriber associated with the UE or the traffic. The device may determine a set of elements to be used to decipher the traffic after determining the identity associated with the UE or the traffic. The device may decipher the traffic utilizing the set of elements after determining the set of elements.
US10965649B2
Instead of specifying actual transport layer IP addresses as a basis for a secure tunnel's security association, an approach described herein specifies virtual addresses. Then suitable network appliances intercept and modify packets in order to map between the virtual addresses and actual addresses. The virtual addresses satisfy IPsec or another authentication procedure that checks packets using the security association. The actual addresses are used by transport layer protocols. This overlay approach permits a session to failover from one network connection to another without requiring restoration of the session in a newly created secure tunnel after one of the network interfaces becomes unavailable, thereby obsoleting the security association based in part on the IP address of the now unavailable interface. This innovative approach also allows the use of parallel paths and the use of one-to-many or many-to-one path topologies, which would otherwise not be permitted.
US10965648B2
An enforcement module operating on a server or on a network midpoint device obtains a management instruction controlling communications of a target workload. The enforcement module configures a firewall of a network midpoint device upstream from the target workload to enforce the management instruction. The configuration mechanism may be dependent on the particular capabilities and characteristics of the network midpoint device.
US10965642B2
A Network Address Translation (NAT) method, apparatus and device are provided. Based on the method, a target IP address and its reference port are obtained from a NAT resource pool, wherein the reference port is a port in a consecutive port range of the target IP address; a first five-tuple corresponding to a packet is generated based on the target IP address, the reference port and an original five-tuple of the packet, and a second five-tuple is obtained by masking first-class bits of two classes of ports of the first five-tuple respectively; a target five-tuple is determined in a plurality of consecutive hash buckets of a hash table based on a hash result of the second five-tuple; and the target five-tuple and the original five-tuple are recorded in the hash table and a corresponding result table, and the packet is NAT-processed based on the target five-tuple.
US10965635B2
Technical solutions are described to arbitrarily order and access email messages based on text analysis and social network analysis. One general aspect includes a system that includes an email server and an email client. The email server generates a topic map of email messages stored on the email server. The email server also generates a social map of users with accounts on the email server. The email server receives an email message from a first user, the email message directed to a second user. The email server sends the email message to a third user in response to determining that the email message is relevant to the third user. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as methods, computer products.
US10965617B2
A RF router for routing n input signals to m destinations, where the router comprises a backplane coupled to a plurality of RF input terminals, a plurality of RF output terminals, a plurality of splitters and a plurality of connectors. The backplane is also coupled to a controller and a plurality of connectors for receiving a plurality of switching matrices. The RF router comprises a plurality of u×v input switch matrices, a plurality of p×q intermediate switch matrices and a plurality of r×s output switch matrices, where at least one of the plurality of u×v input switch matrices, the plurality of p×q intermediate switch matrices and the plurality of r×s output switch matrices are redundant.
US10965612B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing access to computing environments are provided. Based on a resource-ownership policy manager (i.e., a self-service engine and a runtime policy evaluation engine) that provides resource-ownership policy operations executed to apply a resource owner's policies only on resource owned by the resource owner. In operation, at runtime, a first resource instance is identified and an entity is determined to be the resource owner of the first policy and first resource instance. The first policy is applied to the first resource instance because the entity owns both the first policy and the first resource instance. A second resource instance is identified and the entity is determined not to be the resource owner of the second resource instance. A second resource policy of the entity is not applied to the second resource instance because the entity is not the owner of the second resource instance.
US10965610B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) for each tenant in a plurality of tenants within a multi-tenant service system, assigning a probability factor to the tenant that indicates a likelihood that the tenant will be selected when a resource of the multi-tenant service system is available, (2) detecting that the resource of the multi-tenant service system is available, (3) probabilistically selecting a tenant from the plurality of tenants by using the probability factors assigned to the tenants in the plurality of tenants, and (4) directing the multi-tenant service system to allocate the resource to the selected tenant for execution of a work item received from the selected tenant. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10965603B2
A video packet stream is transmitted from a transmitting device to a receiving device over a network, by transmitting an audio packet stream to the receiving device, determining a measure of network bandwidth in dependence on one or more metrics associated with receiving the audio packet stream at the receiving device, and enabling a video packet stream in dependence on the determined measure.
US10965597B2
Examples may include techniques to route packets to virtual network functions. A network function virtualization load balancer is provided which routes packets to both maximize a specified distribution and minimize switching of contexts between virtual network functions. Virtual network functions are arranged to be able to shift a context from one virtual network function to another. As such, the system can be managed, for example, scaled up or down, regardless of the statefullness of the virtual network functions and their local contexts or flows.
US10965591B2
A system includes a first MODEM configured to generate a first data packet (including a first virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instance identifier associated with a first service, a first user group, or both) based on a first radio-frequency (RF) signal and a second MODEM configured to generate a second data packet (including a second VRF instance identifier associated with a second service, a second user group, or both) based on a second RF signal. The system includes a network device configured to receive the first data packet, transmit a first packet (including a first header that includes a first indicator associated with a first VRF instance) to a first device via a network, receive the second data packet, and transmit a second packet (including a second header that includes a second indicator associated with a second VRF instance) to a second device via the network.
US10965588B2
As described herein, various nodes in a 3GPP network, including a user equipment (UE), can be used to insert metadata in uplink traffic so that the network and/or an (S)Gi-LAN can make traffic steering decisions based on the metadata. For example, the UE can insert metadata into its uplink traffic so that the services in the (S)Gi-LAN can be better leveraged. In one embodiment, network nodes are able to insert metadata that relates directly to the UE and that relates to the operating conditions of the network nodes that the UE is using to send uplink data, so that the services in the (S)Gi-LAN can be better leveraged.
US10965585B2
This application provides a method for transmitting path load information and a network node. The method includes: obtaining, by the network node, M pieces of path load information; aggregating, by the network node into one load metric based on the M pieces of path load information, load of all shortest paths that are from the network node to the destination node and that pass through M adjacent nodes corresponding to the M pieces of path load information, where the load metric indicates total load of all the shortest paths from the network node to the destination node; and sending, by the network node, information about the load metric to another adjacent node other than the M adjacent nodes of all adjacent nodes of the network node.
US10965584B1
A communication node of a multi-node communication network includes a communication interface and a controller. In embodiments, the controller is configured to: receive a data packet from a first additional communication node; determine if the data packet comprises a time-sensitive data packet; determine if a length of the data packet is less than a length threshold; transmit the data packet via a conventional routing procedure to at least one second additional communication node of the multi-node communication network if the data packet comprises a non-time-sensitive data packet or if the length of the data packet is greater than the data packet length threshold; and transmit the data packet via a packet flooding procedure to the at least one second additional communication node if the data packet comprises a time-sensitive data packet and if the length of the data packet is less than the length threshold.
US10965580B2
A system for determining network device transiting data attributes includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to run a first script on all static ports of a network and run a second script on all known ports of the network. The system may parse the parameters returned from the first and second scripts to identify one or more identified ports of the known ports. The system may run a third script on the one or more identified ports to force one or more denials at the identified ports. Based on the one or more denials, the system may determine network device transiting data attributes including but not limited to allowed protocols and directionality for each of the one or more identified ports.
US10965577B2
A method is executed by a network device implementing a session-sender to perform a test to determine whether differentiated services code point (DSCP) and explicit congestion notification (ECN) are modified in a single test session in a forward direction and a reverse direction between the session-sender and a session-reflector, where multiple DSCP and ECN are tested using the single test session. The method includes determining a first initial forward DSCP and ECN, generating a first test packet including the first initial forward DSCP and ECN, and sending the first test packet to the session-reflector in the single test session. The method further includes determining a second initial forward DSCP and ECN, generating a second test packet including the second initial forward DSCP and ECN, and sending the second test packet to the session-reflector in the single test session.
US10965572B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide effective, efficient, scalable, and convenient technical solutions that address and overcome technical challenges associated with transferring data files in a distributed network having multiple data sources and multiple data destinations. In some examples, a computer system, device, platform, or the like is configured to control the data transfers between other computing systems, devices, platforms, or the like in a computing environment. Controlling the data transfer includes, in some examples, detecting the data transfer between a data source and a data destination, evaluating a data transfer condition associated with the data transfer, determining a data transfer instruction based, at least in part, on the data transfer condition, and providing the data transfer instruction to the data source. The data source then transfers the data to the data destination in accordance with the data transfer instruction.
US10965570B2
In order to improve a transient response and stability of remote control when a transmission delay varies, a remote control device receives a control result from a control target device, generates control data for performing a feedback control with dead time compensation, based on the control result and a delay setting value, determines the delay setting value, based on a history of a delay amount of transmitted/received data to/from the control target device, transmits the delay setting value, and transmits the control data and a generation time of the control data. And, a delay adjustment device receives control data from a remote control device and storing the control data, receives a delay setting value to be used for dead time compensation in the remote control device, and outputs the control data to a control target, based on the delay setting value and a generation time of the control data.
US10965565B2
A method and an apparatus for monitoring bandwidth condition are provided. The method includes: determining a monitoring reference period of bandwidth data of a target domain name every preset monitoring interval duration; obtaining bandwidth-data average values of the target domain name in the monitoring reference period during a current statistical cycle and a plurality of historical statistical cycles; determining, according to the bandwidth-data average values and a preset confidence level, a bandwidth dynamic interval corresponding to the monitoring reference period; and monitoring, according to current bandwidth data of the target domain name and the bandwidth dynamic interval, a current bandwidth condition of the target domain name. Using the disclosed method and apparatus is able to detect abnormal bandwidth condition in time, which is conducive to repairing the abnormal condition before the service provider detects the bandwidth anomaly, and thus ensures the overall service quality of the client.
US10965563B2
A system and method for monitoring the health of an identity services engine (ISE) system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining, from a plurality of ISE nodes within an ISE system, historical performance metrics for the plurality of ISE nodes; computing, based on the historical performance metrics, a model for the plurality of ISE nodes representing healthy behavior for the plurality of ISE nodes; obtaining, from the plurality of ISE nodes, real-time performance metrics for the plurality of ISE nodes; comparing the real-time performance metrics for the plurality of ISE nodes to the model for the plurality of ISE nodes; determining, based on the comparing, a health of the plurality of ISE nodes; and configuring the ISE system to route network traffic away from unhealthy ISE nodes.
US10965562B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service that monitors a network detects anomalies in the network by applying one or more machine learning-based anomaly detectors to telemetry data from the network. The network assurance service receives ranking feedback from a plurality of anomaly rankers regarding relevancy of the detected anomalies. The network assurance service calculates a rescaling factor and quantile parameter by applying an objective function to the ranking feedback, in order to optimize the rescaling factor and quantile parameter of the one or more anomaly detectors. The network assurance service adjusts the rescaling factor and quantile parameter of the one or more anomaly detectors using the calculated rescaling factor and quantile parameter.
US10965556B2
In one embodiment, a network element in a network maintains a probabilistic data structure indicative of devices in the network for which telemetry data is not to be sent to a device classification service. The network element detects a traffic flow sent from a source device to a destination device. The network element determines whether the probabilistic data structure includes entries for both the source and destination devices of the traffic flow. The network element sends flow telemetry data regarding the traffic flow to the device classification service, based on a determination that the probabilistic data structure does not include entries for both the source and destination of the traffic flow.
US10965555B2
A method and system of accelerating monitoring of network traffic. The method may include receiving, at a network chip of a network device, a network traffic data unit; capturing, by the network chip, the network traffic data unit based on a traffic sampling rate; adding, by the network chip, a sampling header to the network traffic data unit to obtain a sampled network traffic data unit; sending the sampled network traffic data unit from the network chip to a sampling engine; receiving, from the sampling engine, a flow datagram that includes a network traffic data unit portion and a flow datagram header; generating a flow network data traffic unit that includes the flow datagram; and transmitting the flow network data traffic unit towards a collector.
US10965535B2
A method of dynamically controlling use of a shared computing resource by a set of virtual-computing sessions of a client computing device includes state identification operations on per-virtual-channel event data to identify activity states of virtual channels of the sessions, performing a resource allocation operation on activity state data including (i) accumulating activity state data for all virtual channels of each session to produce per-session activity values, and (ii) using the per-session activity values to generate resource usage control signals representing a target pattern of use of the shared computing resource by the sessions based on their activity values. An enforcement operation uses the resource usage control signals to establish the target pattern of use of the shared resource of the sessions.
US10965533B1
Provided are systems and methods for segmenting and grouping a plurality of network nodes into one or more clusters. Content may be delivered from a transmitting user node to a receiving user node based on which cluster the receiving user node resides. The grouping of the clusters may be dynamically updated in real-time based on user activity data. Such user activity data may be collected from both a transmitting user node (e.g., server) and a receiving user node (e.g., user device) to map the delivery of a relevant communication. Advantageously, a transmitting user may deliver content to other relevant users and a receiving user may receive content from other relevant users.
US10965527B2
Systems and methods for enacting or applying configuration changes (e.g., updates, optimizations) in a network element of a production network are provided. The configuration changes may be proposed and enacted in a collaboration system between artificial intelligence (AI) devices and human-controlled devices. According to one implementation, a system includes a production network having a plurality of network elements and a computer connected to the production network. The computer is configured to request a new configuration update regarding a first network element. The system further includes an electronic ledger configured to store a history of one or more configuration updates that have been previously enacted with respect to the first network element.
US10965523B1
A provisioning system receives network element information from a wireless communication network that characterizes a virtual network element. The provisioning system determines that the virtual network element is active and that a provisioning data link is not operational between the virtual network element and the provisioning system. The provisioning system determines a network address for the virtual network element. The provisioning system exchanges network signaling with the virtual network element using the network address to establish the provisioning data link. The provisioning system transfers provisioning data to the virtual network element over the provisioning data link.
US10965517B2
Systems are provided for logging transactions in heterogeneous networks that include a combination of one or more instrumented components and one or more non-instrumented components. The instrumented components are configured to generate impersonated log records for the non-instrumented components involved in the transaction processing hand-offs with the instrumented components. The impersonated log records are persisted with other log records that are generated by the instrumented components in a transaction log that is maintained by a central logging system to reflect a complete flow of the transaction processing performed on the object, including the flow through the non-instrumented component(s).
US10965512B2
A multi-carrier cellular wireless network (400) employs base stations (404) that transmit two different groups of pilot subcarriers: (1) cell-specific pilot subcarriers, which are used by a receiver to extract information unique to each individual cell (402), and (2) common pilots subcarriers, which are designed to possess a set of characteristics common to all the base stations (404) of the system. The design criteria and transmission formats of the cell-specific and common pilot subcarriers are specified to enable a receiver to perform different system functions. The methods and processes can be extended to other systems, such as those with multiple antennas in an individual sector and those where some subcarriers bear common network/system information.
US10965508B2
An apparatus and method for transmission of a single-carrier waveform from multiple transmit antennas including both a reference signal and data in a discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol.
US10965501B2
Systems and methods for electronic devices including two or more semiconductor devices coupled via an interconnect. The interconnect includes multiple lanes each having a link between the first and second semiconductor devices. One or more lanes of the multiple lanes each include clock and data recovery circuitry to perform full clock and data recovery. One or more other lanes of the multiple lanes each do not include clock and data recovery circuitry and instead includes a phase adjustment and clock multiplier circuit that is slave to clock and data recovery circuitry of the one or more lanes.
US10965498B2
Provided is a communication relay apparatus configured to relay communication between a plurality of segments of a network by a plurality of communication devices including an indoor unit and an outdoor unit connected to one another via the network, the communication relay apparatus including a relay setting unit configured to set a first mode value corresponding to processing of relaying all frames and a second mode value corresponding to processing of relaying a frame on the basis of a destination address of the frame, and a relay determination unit configured to perform processing of relaying the frame in an operation mode corresponding to a relay mode value set by the relay setting unit.
US10965490B2
A method includes dividing, at a cable modem termination system, a transmit stream into multiple data streams. The multiple data streams include a first data stream and a second data stream. Each of the multiple data streams has a lower bit rate than a bit rate of the transmit stream. The method includes transmitting, via the cable modem termination system, the first data stream over at least a first channel of a group of channels. The method also includes transmitting, via the cable modem termination system, the second data stream over at least a second channel of the group of channels. The group of channels supports traffic to a plurality of destinations. The first channel and the second channel are frequency-division multiplexed channels.
US10965473B2
Methods, systems, and devices may be used for assigning names and bootstrapping of security credentials for Smart Objects inside a Digital Home environment. Methods, systems, and devices for identification and security bootstrapping of a smart object within a digital home environment may include automated assignment of a device level ID and security credential for each smart object in the home using a resource directory.
US10965472B2
In some examples, a first computing device of a first entity receives a first digital certificate from a certificate authority computing device and generates a first self-signed certificate associated with the first digital certificate. The first computing device may store the first self-signed certificate associated with the first digital certificate in a repository associated with a repository computing device. Further, the first computing device may receive a notification indicating an update by a computing device of a second entity to contents of the repository. The first computing device receives a copy of the contents of the repository including at least a second digital certificate and a second self-signed certificate associated with the second entity. The first computing device may verify the contents of the repository and generate a genesis block of a blockchain based on a result of the verifying.
US10965470B2
Disclosed are: a communication technique and a system therefor for fusing, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system. Provided is a method for installing a profile of a terminal having an embed universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: requesting for an eUICC authentication certificate to an eUICC and receiving the eUICC authentication certificate; and transferring a profile package to the eUICC so as to install a profile, wherein the received eUICC authentication certificate further comprises an eUICC manufacturer (EUM) authentication certificate.
US10965464B1
A mobile device, computer program recording medium and method support surreptitious communication with a user via a mobile device via binary tactile inputs and outputs. A communication module of the mobile devices receives a first alphanumeric message that is converted to a first binary coded message that is rendered as first and second vibration outputs that are humanly distinguishable. A touch input component of one of a touch screen and a motion sensor detects a sequential pattern of user touches. Distinguished first and second tactile inputs in the sequential pattern identify a second binary coded message that is converted into a second alphanumeric message. First and second alphanumeric messages are comprised of a combination of characters selected from one or more of: (i) letters; (ii) numerals; and (iii) symbols.
US10965462B2
A method for conducting an operation including (a) lifting coefficients of a data structure from a representation modulo q to a representation modulo q′, wherein the data structure comprises values which are reduced modulo q, wherein q and are integers; (b) randomizing the coefficients in modulo q′, wherein for each coefficient a random value is multiplied with the value of q and the result of this multiplication is added to the coefficient; (c) conducting an operation on the lifted and randomized coefficients; and (d) reducing the lifted and randomized coefficients by conducting an operation modulo q.
US10965456B2
Various techniques provide systems and methods for facilitating data encryption/decryption and almost immediate erasure of associated information. In one example, a method includes receiving first data in a first memory. The method further includes receiving a first key in a second memory. The method further includes generating, by a logic circuit, second data based on the first data and the first key. The method further includes providing the second data for transmission. The method further includes erasing the first data and/or the first key in one-half clock cycle of generating the second data. Related methods and devices are also provided.
US10965452B2
An image processing apparatus communicates with a user's portable terminal, where the portable terminal includes an authentication module for biometric authentication. When the image processing apparatus receives verification data issued by a service providing system, the image processing apparatus uses the portable terminal's authentication module for the biometric authentication and requests a device authentication system cooperating with the service providing system to issue an authentication token.
US10965445B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based unexpected data detection are described herein. In some arrangements, a node within a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network may receive a plurality of network function requests corresponding to the decentralized network. The node may analyze the plurality of network function requests to identify whether the requests included unexpected data and/or irregular data, and/or are associated with flagged wallets and/or smart contracts.
US10965436B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for using a common frequency spectrum for simultaneous upstream and downstream communications in a network by implementing directional diversity techniques. Non-reciprocal coupling devices, such as circulators, may be configured in the network to provide unidirectional transmission of each signal to prevent interference. In some embodiments, feed-forward interference cancellation is utilized to increase signal isolation of upstream and downstream signals.
US10965433B2
The present disclosure relates to switching of bandwidth parts in wireless communication network. Embodiments may provide a method performed by a wireless device for switching of bandwidth parts. The method comprises: receiving (1501) a first message from a base station indicating a first physical uplink control channel; receiving (1502) a second message from the base station indicating switching from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part; in response to the second message, switching (1504) to the second bandwidth part for communication with the base station, with a utilization of the first physical uplink control channel A radio resource, such as a physical uplink control channel may be allocated previously to the wireless device, thus, service interruptions for the wireless device during the switch of bandwidth part may be reduced.
US10965420B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to sending and monitoring for a decoding candidate. Certain aspects provide a method for decoding information sent via a wireless transmission. The method generally includes receiving an indication of an association between a first decoding candidate and a second decoding candidate, monitoring the first decoding candidate in a search space of a first set of resources, the first decoding candidate received from a wireless node, and monitoring the second decoding candidate in a search space of a second set of resources, the second decoding candidate received from the wireless node, wherein the monitoring of the second decoding candidate is based on the association between the first and second decoding candidates.
US10965414B2
A signal configuration method, device and storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring at least one type of reference information, wherein the reference information is used to characterize a configuration status of a communication network; and configuring time domain and/or frequency domain resources for a phase-tracking reference signal based on the at least one type of reference information, and obtaining configuration information of the time domain and/or frequency domain resources for the phase-tracking reference signal, wherein the configuration information includes a density or a pattern corresponding to the time domain and/or frequency domain resources.
US10965413B2
System and method for communicating an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) frame format
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) frame communicated over a 20 MegaHertz (MHz) channel may include eight 26-tone resource units (RUs), one 26-tone bifurcated RU, and a direct current (DC) region. The eight 26-tone RUs may include twenty-six consecutive data and pilot tones, and the bifurcated 26-tone RU may be split into two 13-tone portions each of which include thirteen consecutive data and pilot tones. The DC region may include seven null tones. In one example, the DC region of the 20 MHz MU-OFDMA frame consists of three DC tones and four null-data tones.
US10965412B2
Coordinate multi-point (CoMP) transmission is facilitated by resolving collisions between feedback reporting. Based upon the conditions within the network, collision resolution may be by dropping a channel report during a subframe, multiplexing channel reports from a plurality of user equipment, compressing channel reports from a plurality of user equipment, and combined reporting, either through joint reports or by using carrier aggregation, for conditions between a user equipment and a plurality of transmission points. New signaling and reporting formats facilitate selection of a collision resolution suitable for current network conditions.
US10965402B2
A transmitting node determines data for a first service will be transmitted during a time period when data for a second service will be transmitted. The data for the first service requires lower latency than the data for the second service and the data for the first service includes an original set of data for the first service and at least one repetition of the original set of data for the first service. The transmitting node adjusts resources consumed by the data for the first service based on available transmission resources. During the time period the transmitting node then transmits the data for the first service using the adjusted resources while data for the second service is transmitted during the time period.
US10965401B2
Data to be transmitted over a channel from a transmitter to a receiver is encoded to obtain a codeword. The codeword is defined by a plurality of variable nodes associated with a plurality of the check nodes of a bipartite graph representing the code. The codeword is transmitted over the channel such that certain variable nodes are transmitted prior to other variable nodes. The certain variable nodes are associated with a subset of the check nodes of the bipartite graph and define a subcodeword known at the receiver. At the receiver, a decodability of the transmitted codeword is estimated using the subcodeword prior to receiving all variable nodes of the codeword.
US10965395B2
Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding a downlink control channel transmission, such as but not exclusively a High Speed Signalling Control Channel, HS-SCCH, transmission, in a wireless communications network. A method in a network node for encoding a downlink control channel transmission, comprises determining that channel conditions are below a threshold level, and in response to determining that channel conditions are below the threshold level, performing at least one of: encoding one or more predetermined control information bits into the downlink control channel transmission, and encoding a reduced number of control information bits into the downlink control channel transmission by omitting one or more control information bits, wherein the one or more omitted control information bits are predetermined control information bits. The method further comprises transmitting the downlink control channel transmission to a user equipment. A method in a user equipment for decoding a downlink control channel transmission, comprises receiving the downlink control channel transmission, and decoding the downlink control channel transmission based on knowledge of the predetermined control information bits.
US10965391B1
In various embodiments, an audio streaming system may provide bi-directional communication, in which content data is streamed from a server associated with a streaming service to a plurality of client devices and user generated audio data can also be transmitted from a client device to the streaming service over a network such as the Internet. In some embodiments, the client device includes both audio playback and voice communications capabilities such that a communication channel can be established between listeners and the streaming service via the client device and over the network. Automated speech recognition may also be used to translate the user-generated audio data into text such that the content can be further analyzed, such as to sort, categorize, rank, or filter the user-generated audio data. The user-generated audio data may also be analyzed for audio quality, such as to filter out poor quality data.
US10965386B1
A system may include a processor and an antenna array including antenna radiating elements. The processor may be configured to: receive first, second, third, and fourth measurement coding matrixes; calculate a reference encoding matrix with coherent signal leakage de-embedded by subtracting the fourth measurement coding matrix from the third measurement coding matrix; calculate a differential encoding matrix providing twice a signal-to-noise ratio by adding the first measurement coding matrix and the second measurement coding matrix; calculate a differential matrix decoded back to conventional Hadamard matrix by subtracting the differential encoding matrix providing twice a signal-to-noise ratio from the reference encoding matrix with coherent signal leakage de-embedded; calculate complex calibration coefficients for the antenna radiating elements by multiplying an inverse Hadamard matrix by the differential matrix decoded back to conventional Hadamard matrix; and program the antenna array with amplitude and phase offsets computed from the complex calibration coefficients.
US10965378B2
Techniques are described for implementing an out-of-band communication channel used to exchange control channel information in sub-carrier-based optical communication systems. In an example implementation, an apparatus includes an optical tap coupled to an optical communication path carrying a modulated optical signal carrying a plurality of optical subcarriers. The optical tap has a first output configured to supply a first portion of the modulated optical signal and a second output configured to supply a second portion of the modulated optical signal. The plurality of optical subcarriers are amplitude modulated based on control data at a first frequency, and each of the plurality of optical subcarriers is modulated to carry user data at a second frequency greater than the first frequency. The apparatus is configured to supply the control based on the first portion of the modulated optical signal.
US10965368B2
A relay device is provided for relaying communication between a radio base station and a communication terminal, which includes a relay function management unit to switch on or off a relay function for relaying communication between the radio base station and the communication terminal, and a change command transmission unit to transmit, to the communication terminal, a change command of a handover threshold for the communication terminal which has established a wireless communication connection with the relay device in a case where the relay function management unit switches off the relay function.
US10965360B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE configured to receive a plurality of beams through a plurality of different receive beam directions, each of the beams including broadcast information on a PBCH. The apparatus may be further configured to determine, for each of a subset of the received beams, a log likelihood ratio (LLR) for coded bits of the broadcast information. The apparatus may be further configured to decode the broadcast information associated with each of the subset of the received beams, and determine a refined receive beam direction based on the determined LLRs and based on whether the broadcast information associated with each of the subset of the received beams fails to decode or is successfully decoded.
US10965353B2
A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US10965351B2
A method comprises configuring a transmission mode for a user equipment (UE) based on user equipment specific reference signals (UE-RS) and configuring one or more precoding resource groups; and providing a dynamic indication to indicate which precoding resource group is valid for a physical downlink shared channel.
US10965346B2
A near-field device, including: a near-field receiver coupled to a near-field receiver antenna and a decoder circuit; wherein the near-field receiver antenna is configured to be capacitively coupled at a first location on a conductive structure; wherein the near-field receiver antenna is configured to receive a near-field signal from the conductive structure through the receiver's capacitive coupling; and wherein the decoder circuit is configured to detect variations in the near-field signal.
US10965342B2
A system for data transfer in a rotorcraft includes a power bus extending from a power source in a main fuselage of the rotorcraft to provide electrical power to electrical loads located in a tail boom section of the rotorcraft, a first power line communication node on the power bus in the tail boom section of the rotorcraft, a second power line communication node on the power bus in the main fuselage of the rotorcraft, and a digital sensor bus connected to the first power line communication node. Information from the digital sensor bus is transmitted to the first power line communication node and across the power bus to the second power line communication node.
US10965330B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for a tunable digital power amplifier (DPA). The tunable DPA may be coupled to a reconfigurable capacitor to form a frequency tunable DPA. The capacitance of the reconfigurable capacitor may be adjusted to optimize the DPA to operate at a desired frequency band. The single tunable DPA may operate over a wide range of frequencies.
US10965326B2
A front-end module includes a substrate, and a receiving circuit that is provided in or on the substrate and in which CA is executed. The receiving circuit includes a first filter, a first inductor, and a first LNA disposed on a first path, and a second filter, a second inductor, and a second LNA disposed on a second path. A coil axis of the first inductor and a coil axis of the second inductor are different from each other.
US10965319B2
A bit flipping algorithm for an LDPC decoder evaluates a data sequence d with respect to a parity code matrix H. Where one or more checks fail, bits of d are flipped such that for some iterations, the bits are flipped with bias toward and original data sequence r. For example, for some iterations, where the number of failed checks are below a first threshold T1, bits are only permitted to flip back to the value of that bit in the original data sequence r. In such iterations, bits are permitted to flip from the value in the original data sequence r only when the number of failed checks is greater than a second threshold T2, T2>T1. Values for thresholds may be based on a number of flipped bits from a previous iteration and may be calculated using a syndrome s=Hd from a previous iteration.
US10965318B2
Systems and methods are described for performing Layered Belief LDPC decoding on received Standard Belief LDPC encoded data bursts. In on implementation, a receiver: demodulates a signal, the demodulated signal including a noise corrupted signal derived from a codeword encoded using standard belief LDPC encoding; converts the noise corrupted signal derived from the standard belief LDPC encoded codeword to a noise corrupted signal derived from a layered belief LDPC encoded codeword; and decodes the noise corrupted signal derived from the layered belief LDPC encoded codeword using a layered belief LDPC decoder. In further implementations, systems are described for reducing collisions in Layered Belief LDPC decoders that occur when multiple parity checks need the same soft decision at the same time. In these implementations, elements in an original LBD decoder table are rearranged to increase the distance between elements specifying the same location in a RAM where soft decisions are stored.
US10965316B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving an input data stream, partitioning the input data stream into a plurality of data blocks, and compressing the data blocks utilizing a plurality of processor sets. Each processor set is assigned a data block to compress. The processor sets compress in parallel to exploit inter-block parallelism. Each processor set comprises one or more processors that collaborate in compressing an assigned data block to exploit intra-block parallelism. The method further comprises writing a plurality of compressed data blocks resulting from the compressing to a storage device in encoded form.
US10965313B2
A receiver includes a receiver circuit to receive a first transition in a first direction, a second transition in a second, different direction after the first transition and a third transition in the first transition after the second transition of a signal. A first time period between the first and third transitions is indicative of a datum to be received. The receiver circuit is also configured to determine a second time period between the first transition and a second transition and to determine an additional datum to be received based at least on the determined second time period between the first and second transitions. Using the determined second time period allows for more information to be received in a reliable manner.
US10965312B2
A capacitance-to-digital converter and an associated method and computer program product are provided that have an extended measurement range. A capacitance-to-digital converter includes first and second capacitors with the second capacitor being configured to measure a change in a value. The capacitance-to-digital converter also includes first and second switches switchably connecting the first and second capacitors, respectively, to a reference voltage while the first and second switches are in a first position such that charge is stored by the first and second capacitors in response to the reference voltage. The capacitance-to-digital converter further includes a saturation detector configured to detect the charge stored by the second capacitor equaling or exceeding the charge stored by the first capacitor and, in response, causing the first and second switches to switch to a second position while continuing to measure the change in the value with the charge stored by the second capacitor.
US10965309B1
A delta-sigma modulator (DSM) with non-recursive computation of delta-sigma residues comprising: an input port for receiving a digital input signal; a residue calculation circuit coupled to the input port for calculating delta-sigma residues non-recursively; a DSM output calculation circuit coupled to the output of the residue calculation circuit for generating an output of the DSM; and a second input port for receiving a control signal, wherein the control signal dynamically adjusts an output frequency band of the DSM.
US10965308B1
A digital-to-analog converter comprises a plurality of first digital-to-analog converter cells configured to generate a first analog signal based on first digital data, wherein the first digital-to-analog converter cells of the plurality of first digital-to-analog converter cells are coupled to a first output node for coupling to a first load. Further, the digital-to-analog converter comprises a plurality of second digital-to-analog converter cells configured to generate one or more second analog signals based on second digital data, wherein the second digital-to-analog converter cells of the plurality of second digital-to-analog converter cells are coupled to one or more second output nodes, and wherein the plurality of first digital-to-analog converter cells and the plurality of second digital-to-analog converter cells are coupled to a power supply node for coupling to a mutual power supply.
US10965306B2
A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter includes a comparator circuit, a capacitor group, an additional capacitor and a control circuit. The comparator circuit compares voltages at first and second input terminals thereof to generate a comparison result. The capacitor group and the additional capacitor are coupled to the first input terminal. The control circuit controls voltages of capacitors of the capacitor group according to the comparison result. In a first period, the control circuit provides a first voltage to the first input terminal and the additional capacitor, and provides an analog signal to the capacitors. In a second period, the control circuit stops providing the first voltage and controls a specific capacitor of the capacitor group to enter into a floating state. In a third period, the control circuit provides a second voltage to the additional capacitor. The second voltage is lower than the first voltage.
US10965295B1
A clock generation circuit is disclosed. The clock generation circuit includes a first PLL circuit configured to generate a first output clock based on a first input clock, where the first PLL circuit includes a first feedback divider circuit. The clock generation circuit also includes a second PLL circuit configured to generate a second output clock based on a second input clock, where the second PLL circuit includes a second feedback divider circuit. The first input clock is generated based on the second output clock.
US10965294B1
In described examples, a storage cell ring includes circularly coupled storage cells. Each storage cell includes a respective capacitor for generating a respective integrated voltage responsive to a respective duration a respective storage cell is selected, a respective thresholding converter for generating a respective thresholded signal for indicating whether the respective integrated voltage has crossed a threshold, and respective selection circuitry configured to generate a respective select signal responsive to select signals generated by a respective adjacent storage cells. The ring is coupled to an analog quantifier for generating a conversion value responsive to the generated respective integrated voltage and a respective select signal. The ring is coupled to a loop counter for generating a loop count value responsive to changes of values of at least some of the respective thresholded signals. The conversion value and the loop count value can comprise a time measurement.
US10965292B1
A DLL device and an operation method for the DLL device are provided. The DLL device includes a delay line, a replica circuit, a phase detector, and a delay controller. The delay line delays an input clock in response to a delay code to provide a delayed clock. The replica circuit generates a feedback clock according to the delayed clock. The phase detector compares the input clock with the feedback clock to generate a delay control signal. The delay controller generates the delay code at a first time point according to the delay control signal based on a control clock and delays a replica delay time length to provide the delay code to the delay line at a second time point. The delay line adjusts the input clock at the second time point. A cycle of the control clock is adjusted to be larger than the replica delay time length.
US10965291B2
A delay locked loop includes a main delay circuit including a plurality of unit delay lines that generate a plurality of internal clocks by delaying an input clock, delay amounts of the plurality of unit delay lines being adjusted in response to code signals; a sub-delay circuit including a plurality of sub-delay lines that generate a plurality of phase clocks by respectively delaying the input clock and the plurality of internal clocks; a phase detector configured to compare phases of the plurality of phase clocks and provide a phase detection signal according to a result of the comparison; and a digital circuit configured to update the code signals corresponding to the plurality of unit delay lines one by one at a time when the phase detection signal is provided to the digital circuit.
US10965289B2
A MOS device of an IC includes pMOS and nMOS transistors. The MOS device further includes a first Mx layer interconnect extending in a first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together, and a second Mx layer interconnect extending in the first direction and coupling the pMOS and nMOS transistor drains together. The first and second Mx layer interconnects are parallel. The MOS device further includes a first Mx+1 layer interconnect extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first Mx+1 layer interconnect is coupled to the first Mx layer interconnect and the second Mx layer interconnect. The MOS device further includes a second Mx+1 layer interconnect extending in the second direction. The second Mx+1 layer interconnect is coupled to the first Mx layer interconnect and the second Mx layer interconnect. The second Mx+1 layer interconnect is parallel to the first Mx+1 layer interconnect.
US10965285B2
A capacitive sensing device can include multiple capacitive sensors. A first device controller is operatively connected to a portion of the capacitive sensors, while a second device controller is operatively connected to another portion of capacitive sensors. A common node or shield can be connected between the first device controller and the second device controller. Charging and discharging events of selected drive lines in the capacitive sensing device and/or of the common node or shield can be synchronized to reduce undesirable effects such as noise and/or to prevent the charging events and the discharging events from overlapping with each other. One or more reference capacitive sensors can be shared by the multiple device controllers.
US10965284B1
A voltage mode signal transceiving device and a voltage mode signal transmitter thereof are provided. The voltage mode signal transmitter includes a driver, an output resistor, and a compensation capacitor. The driver provides a transmitting signal to an output end, where the output end is coupled to a receiver. The output resistor is connected in series to a coupling path between the driver and the receiver. The compensation capacitor and the output resistor are coupled in parallel. A capacitance value of the compensation capacitor is essentially equal to a capacitance value of an equivalent capacitor on an input end of the receiver.
US10965283B2
An apparatus can include: a drive circuit for a floating switch having first and second transistors coupled in series, where gate terminals of the first and second transistors are coupled together, and source terminals of the first and second transistors are coupled together; a control circuit coupled to the gate terminals of the first and second transistors, and being configured to control on and off states of the first and second transistors; and a clamp circuit configured to clamp gate-source voltages of the first and second transistors to maintain current switching states of the first and second transistors.
US10965277B1
Inter-integrated circuit input circuitry includes a pull-up current circuit and an input circuit. The input circuit includes an output inverter, an input inverter, and a pull-up circuit. The pull-up circuit is coupled to an input of the input inverter, and includes a pull-up transistor and a cascode transistor. The pull-up transistor is coupled to the input of the input inverter. The cascode transistor is coupled to the pull-up current circuit and the pull-up transistor, and configured to isolate the pull-up transistor from capacitance of a conductor coupled to the pull-up current circuit and the input circuit.
US10965276B2
A charge pump method and apparatus is described having various aspects. Noise injection from a charge pump to other circuits may be reduced by limiting both positive and negative clock transition rates, as well as by limiting drive currents within clock generator driver circuits, and also by increasing a control node AC impedance of certain transfer capacitor coupling switches. A single-phase clock may be used to control as many as all active switches within a charge pump, and capacitive coupling may simplify biasing and timing for clock signals controlling transfer capacitor coupling switches. Any combination of such aspects of the method or apparatus may be employed to quiet and/or simplify charge pump designs over a wide range of charge pump architectures.
US10965261B2
The present disclosure provides an amplifier circuit that includes one or more amplifier stages, each of the one or more amplifier stages including a complementary transistor configuration. The complementary transistor configuration includes an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. The NMOS transistor is electrically coupled in parallel to the PMOS transistor. The amplifier circuit further includes an output amplifier stage electrically coupled to an output of the one or more amplifier stages, the output amplifier stage including a non-complementary transistor configuration including one or more NMOS transistors or PMOS transistors.
US10965257B2
A signal processing circuit that achieves functionality similar to that of a switched capacitor circuit without the necessity a clock. The circuit compensates for finite open loop gain and for offset voltages in the components, allowing the circuit to “calculate” the result of a problem represented by the circuit essentially immediately upon the presentation of a new input or set of inputs. After the circuit is initialized to remove gain, an input is applied to the circuit, and propagates through the network and affects the state of amplifier outputs; the propagation from the input through capacitors to the ultimate output(s) of the circuit is the analog calculation taking place. The calculation is not mediated by a clock, but rather the calculation corresponds to the circuit's one-time response to the application of the inputs. Using these techniques complex signal processing circuits and even analog neural networks may be constructed.
US10965244B2
A handling system for receptor devices of solar energy suitable for allowing the handling of said devices on a first axis and on a second axis, substantially orthogonal with respect to each other, said system being constrainable on fixed structures composed of supporting poles kept in position by a network of tie-rods. The system comprises a main tube rotating around said first axis, to which a plurality of secondary tubes are connected, also rotating around their own axis, fixed substantially perpendicularly to the main tube, the receptor devices being fixed on said secondary tubes. The main rotating tube comprising both the handling mechanism around the first axis and the handling mechanism around the second axis activated by a respective first motor and second motor.
US10965243B2
A solar tracking system for tracking the orientation of solar energy is disclosed. The solar tracking system may be integrated with solar cells and solar concentrators. The solar tracking system may have a first (22) and second (24) tracker module array that are opposite from another, aligned in substantially identical orientation, and form a tracker module pair array (1000). Tracker module pairs (12, 14; 12, 144) may allow motion relative to one another while maintaining substantially identical orientation. Solar concentrators may be attached to opposing tracker modules of a tracker module pair forming an array of solar concentrators. A base bar array (28) may be coupled to at least one tracker module pair. A transmission may operably rotate the base bar array and the tracker module pair array simultaneously.
US10965238B2
A power conversion apparatus includes a power converter circuit that outputs an AC power to an electric motor, and circuitry that controls the power converter circuit to add a first change, accompanying a change of a power generated by the electric motor, to a first phase angle, which is a phase angle of a magnetic flux direction of the electric motor corresponding to the AC power, extracts a component generated by the first change from first information indicating the electric power supplied to the electric motor, and estimates the power generated by the electric motor based on the component.
US10965237B2
A driving device includes a connection switching unit to switch a connection state of coils between a first connection state and a second connection state in which a line voltage is lower than in the first connection state, a controller to control a motor and the connection switching unit, and a rotation speed detector to detect a rotation speed of the motor. When the connection state of the coils is the first connection state and the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed detector becomes higher than or equal to a first rotation speed, the controller causes the motor to rotate at a second rotation speed higher than the first rotation speed, and then causes the connection switching unit to switch the connection state of the coils from the first connection state to the second connection state.
US10965234B2
A motor controller for driving an interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor has a current feedback control unit that calculates a q-axis current restriction value based on a dq-axis voltage instruction value and a dq-axis current detection value, so that a power source current flowing in an inverter circuit is controlled to be equal to or lower than a target power source current. Provided that a torque current proportional to an output torque of the motor is defined as a torque current, a torque current converter converts the q-axis current restriction value to a torque current restriction value by using a d-axis current detection value. A torque current instruction value restrictor restricts a torque current instruction value with the torque current restriction value. A dq-axis current converter converts a post-restriction torque current instruction value to a d-axis current instruction value and a q-axis current restriction value.
US10965226B2
A power conversion apparatus and a power conversion system that ensure safety capable of reliably performing an emergency stop and have a failure monitoring function are provided. The command signal for emergency stop of the power conversion apparatus between the supervisory monitoring and control device and the power conversion apparatus is to be a dual system, and the supervisory monitoring and control device monitors a performance of emergency stop of the power conversion apparatus by delaying the start of operation for a predetermined time from the operation command signal output. The supervisory monitoring and control device check a soundness of the power conversion apparatus by generating a test operation signal during that delay period.
US10965225B2
This motor control devices provided with: a motor control unit which generates a command value on the basis of a motor drive command acquired from a PLC over a communication line; a drive unit which supplies motor drive voltage according to the command value; an interruption unit which interrupts transmission of the drive signal to the motor; a safety input unit which receives an emergency stop input operation over a control signal line; a reset input unit which receives a reset input operation; a determination unit which determines whether or not safety is maintained on the basis of input to the safety input unit; and a safety control unit which, when the safety input unit receives an emergency stop input operation, performs interruption processing of the drive signal through the interruption unit, and when the reset input unit receives a reset input operation, performs restart processing if safety is maintained.
US10965216B2
An integrated circuit comprising: a high-side pMOSFET comprising a drain and a gate; a node coupled to the drain of the high-side pMOSFET; a voltage-to-current circuit comprising a first nMOSFET and a first resistor, the first nMOSFET comprising a gate and a source, the first resistor comprising a terminal coupled to the source of the first nMOSFET; an error amplifier comprising an output port coupled to the gate of the first nMOSFET; a skip clamp nMOSFET comprising a source coupled to the output port of the error amplifier; and a current limit clamp pMOSFET comprising a source coupled to the output port of the error amplifier.
US10965215B2
According to an aspect of one or more exemplary embodiments, there is provided a constant on-time buck converter with calibrated ripple injection having improved light load transient response and reduced output capacitor size. The constant on-time buck converter may include a controller having a pulse width modulator (PWM) comparator that generates an on-time request, an error amplifier that regulates an average feedback voltage to an internal reference voltage, and passes a feedback node ripple signal to an input of the PWM comparator, an on-time generator that outputs an on-time signal that controls an on-time of the buck converter based on the on-time request, a MOSFET driver that drives the buck converter based on the output of the on-time generator, a zero crossing detection circuit configured to detect when a current through an inductor of the buck converter equals zero, and an injection signal generator coupled to the on-time generator, and that is configured to output an injection signal that limits a dip in an output voltage of the buck converter during a load transient based on an output of the zero crossing detection circuit indicating that the current through the inductor of the buck converter equals zero. The error amplifier may receive a feedback voltage based on the output of the injection signal generator and based on the output voltage of the buck converter.
US10965207B2
A vehicle powertrain includes a direct-current (DC)-DC power converter and a controller. The DC-DC power converter includes first, second, and third legs in parallel, wherein the first leg is configured to carry a first DC current substantially equal to a sum of DC currents of the second and third legs. The controller may be configured to modulate switches of the first leg at a frequency greater than at least twice that of the second and third legs.
US10965186B2
A drum brake apparatus is provided for a vehicle air braking system. The drum brake apparatus comprises a wheel drum having a first interior chamber. The drum brake apparatus also comprises a drum brake assembly disposed in the first interior chamber of the wheel drum and mounted on inboard side of the wheel drum. The drum apparatus further comprises a brake drum adapter mounted on outboard side of the wheel drum and providing a second interior chamber in which an electric drive motor can be disposed. The drum brake apparatus also comprises a wheel hub disposed in the second interior chamber of the brake drum adapter and to which a wheel rim can be mounted.
US10965180B2
A rotary actuator includes: an electric motor; a case that receives the electric motor; a rotatable body that is configured to transmit an output of the electric motor to an outside of the case; a seal member that seals between the rotatable body and the case; and a labyrinth forming portion that forms a labyrinth space in a path that extends from an outside space of the case to a sealing point of the rotatable body, at which the rotatable body is sealed by the seal member.
US10965175B2
An air pulse device according to the invention is used, in particular, in a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The air pulse device comprises an electric motor (2) having a rotor (16) and a stator (14). The stator is mounted about a support means (10) such that it is in contact with said support means, the latter being made of an electrically conductive material and connected to an electrical ground. Moreover, a shield (70) is disposed in the vicinity of the stator, said shield also being electrically connected to the electrical ground.
US10965174B2
The present power generator includes: a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in a rotation direction; a stator including a plurality of coils provided to face the plurality of permanent magnets, each of the plurality of coils being configured to generate AC voltage during rotation of the rotor; and a plurality of magnetic bodies respectively provided in the plurality of coils, in a direction of center axis of each of the coils, a length (Lm) of each of the magnetic bodies being set to be shorter than a length (Lc) of each of the coils. Accordingly, a larger amount of power than that in a coreless structure is generated.
US10965171B2
A power supply apparatus of this invention includes a communication unit that performs transmission of power and transmission/reception of information, in a non-contact manner, a plurality of object sensors that are provided on a placing table, and generate object detection signals, a determiner that determines, based on identification information of the electronic device acquired by the communication unit, whether or not the detection signals from the object sensors are within predetermined reference value ranges, a power supply unit that supplies power to the electronic device if it is determined that the detection signals are within the reference value ranges, and a controller that uses signals from object sensors that have not detected placement of the electronic device for detecting extraneous object, and that controls the power supply unit based on whether or not an extraneous object is detected.
US10965162B2
A power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. Coils in the power transmitting and receiving devices are used to transmit and receive wireless power signals. The coils may include pot core coils, figure eight coils, solenoids, and other coils. A solenoid array may extend under a charging surface in a wireless power transmitting device. Solenoids in the array may be separated from each other by small gaps. Solenoids may have rectangular outlines, hexagonal outlines, or other shapes. Pot core coils may have a magnetic material with a circular groove of a groove of other suitable shapes that contains wire windings. Figure eight coils may have first and second adjacent magnetic cores with respective counterclockwise and clockwise wire windings. Magnets and other alignment structures can be used to help align coils in transmitting and receiving devices.
US10965158B2
In a system for non-contact transmission of electrical energy to a mobile part movably arranged on a facility floor, a charge unit is situated in a recess of the floor, the charge unit has a receiving part having upper and lower cover parts, a primary winding is accommodated in the upper cover part, the receiving part at least partially restricts a space region that accommodates an electronic circuit, a bore penetrates the lower cover part, and terminates via its first end region in the space region and terminates via its other end region in a further space region which is at least partially restricted by a dome wall provided on the lower cover part, and a diaphragm is situated on the bore.
US10965157B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction, a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface enclosing a space between the first surface and the second surface, a display exposed at least partially through the first surface, a first conductive coil positioned inside the housing, positioned above the display when viewed from above the second surface, and having an axis substantially perpendicular to the first direction or the second direction, and a second conductive coil and a third conductive coil positioned inside the housing, positioned above the first conductive coil when viewed from above the second surface, and having an axis substantially horizontal to the first direction or the second direction.
US10965148B1
A method for managing backup power in the event of a power supply deficit or disruption includes detecting the power supply deficit and recruiting some or all of the backup battery units associated with electronic devices in the system to provide a backup power supply. Depending on the severity of the power supply failure, the selected backup battery units can be reconfigured from providing power to local electronic devices to providing power along a backup power supply pathway to other electronic components in the system.
US10965146B2
The present patent application relates to a high-voltage motor vehicle electrical system comprising an electrical heating device and at least on further consumer during switching on of which, undesired electromagnetic oscillations may occur in the electrical system. According to the invention, these are suppressed by initially switching on the heating device, before the further consumer is switched on. Switching on the heating device changes the complete impedance of the electrical system such that a resonant enhancement of the interference oscillations is prevented. Preferably, the heating device is switched on only as shortly as possible (only during the switching on process of the further consumer) in order to minimize an undesired heating.
US10965138B2
The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and device for charging a battery, and storage medium. The method for charging a battery includes acquiring a battery temperature; determining a charging current value In for the nth charging stage of the battery, according to the battery temperature and a mapping relationship between different temperature ranges and charging current values I, wherein a preset charging cut-off voltage value Vn for the nth charging stage is greater than Vn−1; charging the battery with Ij in the jth charging stage; acquiring a voltage value of the battery at the current time; if the voltage value is less than Vj, continuing to charge the battery with Ij; if the voltage value is not less than Vj and j
US10965130B2
A battery management system comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; a multiplexing switch apparatus connected to each set of cells; and at least one controller configured to use the multiplexing switch apparatus to selectively discharge the sets of cells based on at least one criterion. A battery pack comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; and an integrated switching control system comprising at least one switch connected to each set of cells, wherein the integrated switching control system is configured to control the at least one switch to discharge the sets of cells sequentially or selectively based on at least one criterion. A battery management method or a battery pack control method.
US10965120B2
An embodiment electronic circuit includes an electronic switch comprising a load path, and a control circuit configured to drive the electronic switch and configured to operate in one of a first operation mode and a test mode. The control circuit comprises a test mode input and is configured to operate in the test mode based on a test signal received at the test mode input. The control circuit in the first operation mode is configured to generate a first protection signal based on a current-time-characteristic of a load current of the electronic switch and drive the electronic switch based on the first protection signal.
US10965117B2
The application includes a method to control a leakage current protection device in a photovoltaic apparatus, said photovoltaic apparatus being adapted to be electrically connected to an electric power distribution grid having one or more phase voltages at an AC section of the photovoltaic apparatus. The method includes executing a first control procedure to control the leakage current protection device, the first control procedure providing for a comparison of current check values indicative of leakage currents in the photovoltaic apparatus with one or more predefined current threshold values for the leakage currents. The method includes executing a monitoring procedure to check the phase voltages and identify possible relevant positive transients of the phase voltages. If the monitoring procedure identifies relevant positive transients of the phase voltages, one or more new current threshold values for the leakage currents are provided, the execution of the first control procedure is terminated and a second control procedure to control the leakage current protection device is executed, the second control procedure providing for a comparison of the current check values with the new current threshold values for the leakage currents, the second control procedure being executed for a predefined time interval only. After the predefined period of time has passed, the execution of the second monitoring procedure is terminated and the first control procedure is again executed.
US10965108B1
An electrical box having an enclosure and a conduit hub adapter that is configured to engage a portion of the enclosure. The enclosure defines an opening that is configured to receive an electrical power conductor. The conduit hub adapter is movable with respect to the enclosure from a disengaged position to an engaged position. A retainer may be positioned adjacent the opening to engage the conduit hub adapter when in the engaged position and secure the conduit hub adapter to the enclosure. The conduit hub adapter may be configured for engagement with the enclosure in a single orientation. The retainer may be configured so that it may only be disengaged from the conduit hub adapter from within an interior space of the enclosure. The enclosure may have a second opening with a second conduit hub adapter configured to engage the enclosure adjacent the second opening.
US10965099B2
A LIDAR unit includes: an LD driver, a laser diode, and a scanner corresponding to an emission unit; a photo detector, a current/voltage conversion circuit, a A/D converter and an valuable segmenter that correspond to a light receiving unit; a landmark position prediction unit and landmark map acquisition unit that acquire position information indicating the position of a landmark on a map; and a synchronization controller that generates a valuable pulse trigger signal and a segment extraction signal. Based on a predicted current vehicle position value and the position of the landmark on the map, the landmark position prediction unit determines a predicted angular range of the landmark. The synchronization controller generates the valuable pulse trigger signal and the segment extraction signal such that the scan density of the light pulse is higher in the predicted angular range than the scan density of the light pulse in the other range.
US10965097B2
A light emitting device includes: a base including: a main body, and a frame disposed on an upper surface of the main body; one or more laser elements disposed on the upper surface of the main body and positioned inward of the frame; a cover including: a support member that is fixed on an upper surface of the frame and has an opening inside the frame, and a light transmissive portion disposed so as to close the opening; and a lens body disposed on the support member and above the light transmissive portion. A difference between a thermal expansion coefficient of the light transmissive portion and a thermal expansion coefficient of the lens body is smaller than a difference between a thermal expansion coefficient of the light transmissive portion and a thermal expansion coefficient of the main body.
US10965090B2
A laser apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a laser chamber including a pair of electrodes and configured to emit, at each of a plurality of pulse repetition frequencies, a pulse laser beam having a pulse energy corresponding to a voltage applied between the electrodes; an energy detector provided on an optical path of the pulse laser beam and configured to detect the pulse energy of the pulse laser beam; a voltage control unit configured to control the applied voltage based on a target pulse energy and the pulse energy detected by the energy detector; and a pulse energy control unit configured to periodically vary the target pulse energy at a modulation frequency corresponding to each of the pulse repetition frequencies with a reference energy being a center of variation.
US10965086B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical resonant cavity and a display panel. The optical resonant cavity includes a light conversion layer, the optical resonant cavity is configured to emit light with a specific wavelength range, and the light conversion layer is arranged at at least one wave node of a center wavelength of the light with the specific wavelength range in the optical resonant cavity.
US10965084B1
A planar waveguide laser crystal assembly includes an optical bench and a laser crystal mount mounted on the optical bench. The laser crystal mount includes an upper housing having an interior horizontal surface and an exterior horizontal, a lower housing coupled to the upper housing and having an interior horizontal surface and an exterior horizontal surface, and a cavity defined between the interior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings. A laser crystal is mounted in the cavity of the laser crystal mount. Each of the exterior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings is oriented parallel to a length of the laser crystal. The laser crystal assembly further includes a heat dissipating structure thermally coupled to at least one of the exterior horizontal surfaces of the upper and lower housings to dissipate heat transferred from the laser crystal mount.
US10965083B2
An automatic-robotic-system-for-cable assembly system and method is provided. The method and system are configured to use a cartridge which holds one or both ends of the cable. The cartridge moves along an automatic cable assembly line, with the line segmented into different stages, at which a process is performed by a specific machine. Different machines, such as actuators or modular machines, perform operations on the cartridge at the different stages. In preparation for or as part of the operations, the actuators or modular machines may apply one or more forces to the cartridge, causing one or more of the following to occur: moving an end of the cartridge to a modular machine, rotating an end of the cable, tipping the ends of the cable, etc. In this way, use of the cartridge enables the automatic assembly of the cables held in the cartridge.
US10965076B2
An electronic device lacking an internal power supply comprises electronic circuitry, an external power adapter having an input connector for receiving AC power from a conventional AC power outlet and for providing a low-voltage output signal to an output connector, and a first port electronically coupled to the electronic circuitry for receiving the low-voltage output signal from the output connector of the power adapter and for providing the low-voltage output signal to the electronic circuitry.
US10965069B1
A receptacle breakaway system for power pedestals includes an electric power receptacle having a body and mounting ears with an axis passing through the body and mounting ears. A mounting plate having a hole passing there through is configured for passage of the receptacle's body wherein the mounting ears engage a face of the mounting plate. A first retainer is rigidly coupled to the mounting plate at a first position offset from the receptacle's axis. The first retainer extends at least partially over a first of the mounting ears. A second retainer is rigidly coupled to the mounting plate at a second position offset from the receptacle's axis. The second retainer extends at least partially over a second of the mounting ears. The receptacle's axis passes between the first position and second position.
US10965068B1
An in-wall power adapter configured to control the application of power to a load is described. The in-wall power adapter may comprise a first plurality of contact elements accessible on at least one outer surface of the in-wall power adapter, the first plurality of contact elements comprising a first contact element configured to receive a power signal and a second contact element configured to receive a neutral signal; an outlet configured to receive the power signal and the neutral signal; and a recess for receiving a control attachment; wherein the recess comprises a second plurality of contact elements configured to provide the power signal and the neutral signal to the control attachment.
US10965064B2
A receptacle connector having a plurality of airflow holes positioned to avoid heat buildup inside a receptacle shell, preventing deformation to the housing of a short, high density connector during solder reflow. The airflow holes may be in a bent portion joining a top face and rear face of the shell. The receptacle connector may be mounted to a substrate, such as a printed circuit board, leaving a gap between the connector and the substrate, forming an airflow passage between the substrate and the receptacle connector, enabling heated air to reach mounting portions of terminals of the connector during soldering, but reducing heat buildup within the shell. The passage, alone or in combination with a cutout in a face of the shell, may expose terminal contacts of the receptacle connector to provide for easy inspection and rework of the solder joints between the terminal contacts and the substrate.
US10965061B2
A securing apparatus for mechanically securing at least one connecting plug to a housing is provided, where the securing apparatus contains (a) a bow-like shaped base body, where the body can slide laterally onto the housing, and be fixed to the housing, (b) at least one receiving section, which is formed on the base body and which is designed for receiving the connecting plug, and (c) a plurality of strip-shaped, tightenable securing devices, which are capable of securing the connecting plug to the base body and/or the base body to the housing.
US10965059B2
An electronic device includes: a first board configured as a printed circuit board having an electronic circuit component mounted thereon; a second board configured as a printed circuit board having an electronic circuit component mounted thereon; a board-to-board connector configured to electrically connect the first board and the second board, the board-to-board connector including a first terminal on the first board and a second terminal on the second board, the second terminal being configured to be connected to the first terminal; and a grip member on the second board.
US10965057B2
A method checks a sealing of an interior space of a plug connection that is to be tested. The plug connection has two plug connection elements, namely a plug connector element and a mating connector element, the plug connector element being plugged into the mating connector element in a plug-in direction. One of the plug connection elements additionally has a test opening to the interior space, via which, for the purpose of checking the sealing, a test medium is applied to the interior space, and the test opening is then sealed toward the interior space.
US10965052B2
A connector holding mechanism includes a biasing member provided in a through hole formed in a bottom plate of a storage body, a cover having a connector insertion hole and an inclined surface which is fixed to the through hole, a connector, in which a terminal is loosely inserted into the connector insertion hole, and a flange portion protruding from an outer periphery of the housing biased by the biasing member. When the connector is waiting to be fitted to a stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is inclined due to abutment between the inclined surface and the flange with respect to a virtual line perpendicular to the bottom surface, and when the connector is fitted to the stored object, the connector is held in a posture where the terminal is vertical along the virtual line.
US10965048B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a contact element (3) of an electrical plug connector (1), said method comprising the following steps: providing an electrically non-conductive carrier element (4), and coating the carrier element (4) with an electrically conductive material, wherein the produced coating (6) forms the only electrical signal conductor. The invention further relates to an electrical plug connector having a contact element (3), which is characterized in that the contact element (3) comprises a carrier element (4) coated with an electrically conductive material, wherein the coating (6) forms the only electrical signal conductor.
US10965046B2
A terminal 20 includes a terminal connection portion 21 connected to a counterpart terminal and a board connection portion 24 connected to a conductive path 13 of a board 11. The board connection portion 24 has a plate shape portion 25 that is a plate shape. The plate shape portion is disposed behind the terminal connection portion 21 and is soldered to the conductive path 13 of the board 11. The board connection portion has a plate-shape first projection walls 28A to 28D that are bent from edge portions of a lateral direction side of the plate shape portion 25 and that project to an opposite side to the board 11 side. The plate shape portion 25 and the first projection walls 28A to 28D have a plating layer 37 that is formed on a plate surface of the plate shape portion and the first projection walls.
US10965036B2
An antenna system includes an antenna substrate, and an antenna element mounted on the antenna substrate. The antenna substrate includes a substrate body, a first ground layer, a feed line, and a first radiation element. The feed line includes a first connection. The first radiation element includes a width-changing portion and a second connection. The antenna element includes an element body, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a second radiation element. The second radiation element is provided in the element body and connects the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal is connected to the first connection. The second terminal is connected to the second connection.
US10965035B2
Reconfigurable antenna systems with ground tuning pads are provided herein. In certain configurations, an antenna system includes a module substrate including a ground plane and a ground tuning pad configured to receive a ground voltage from the ground plane. The antenna system further includes an antenna element and a tuning conductor that is spaced apart from the antenna element and operable to load the antenna element. Furthermore, a switch is electrically connected between the tuning conductor and the ground tuning pad, and operates to selectively connect the tuning conductor to the ground plane by way of the ground tuning pad to provide tuning to the antenna element.
US10965008B2
An electronic device housing may have a rear housing wall that forms a metal ground plane. A slot may be formed in the metal ground plane. The slot may have one or more open ends along an edge of the ground plane. A near-field communications loop antenna may overlap the slot. The near-field communications loop antenna may have one or more turns. A current path through the metal ground plane may form one of the turns in the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot may form portions of non-near-field-communications antennas in addition to the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot in the non-near-field-communications antennas may be fed using an indirect antenna feed structure. Components such as a capacitor and inductor may help allow non-near-field communications antenna and the near-field communications antenna to be formed from common portions of the metal ground plane.
US10964997B2
Technologies for a long-lived 3D multimode microwave cavity are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a series of overlapping holes are drilled into a monolithic block of aluminum forming a cavity. The dimensions of the cavity formed by the overlapping holes can be made long by drilling a long series of holes in a row and can be made high by drilling holes a certain depth into the cavity. If two dimensions of the cavity are bigger than the diameter of the holes used to create the cavity, then the cavity can support electromagnetic waves that cannot propagate through the holes, leading to a long lifetime in the cavity. A superconducting qubit or other non-linear element can be inserted into the cavity, which can controllably interact with each of several modes of the cavity. In this way, the modes of the cavity can act as components in a quantum memory.
US10964993B2
The technology described herein is directed towards a cryogenic-stripline microwave attenuator. A first high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire and a second high thermal conductivity substrate such as sapphire, along with a signal conductor comprising one or more attenuator lines between the substrates form a stripline. A compression component such as one or more screws, vias (plus clamps) and/or clamps presses the first high thermal conductivity substrate against one side of the signal conductor and presses the second high thermal conductivity substrate against another side of the signal conductor. The high thermal conductivity of the substrates facilitates improved thermalization, while the pressing of the substrates against the conductor reduces the thermal boundary (Kapitza) resistance and thereby, for example, improves thermalization and reduces thermal noise.
US10964988B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. Exemplary battery arrays that may be incorporated into electrified vehicle battery packs may include a grouping of battery cells and a circuit connector module configured for electrically connecting the grouping of battery cells. The circuit connector module may include a first bus bar made of a single material and a second bus bar that is fusible and made of at least two dissimilar materials.
US10964984B2
A battery installation for an at least partially electrically operated motor vehicle and to a motor vehicle having such a battery installation. The battery installation includes a receptacle installation for providing a receptacle space for at least one battery module having at least one battery cell. The receptacle installation includes an upper part-structure which delimits the receptacle space in an upward and/or a lateral manner, and a lower part-structure which delimits the receptacle space in a downward manner. The lower part-structure herein includes an upper component that is configured so as to be planar, and a lower component that is configured so as to be planar, and at least one reinforcement component that is disposed between the upper component and the lower component and is configured as a hollow profile.
US10964983B2
A packaging material for batteries, which is not susceptible to the formation of a pinhole or cracking during the forming, while having excellent formability, and is effectively suppressed in curling after the forming, which is formed of a laminate with at least a base layer, an adhesive layer, a metal layer and a thermally fusible resin layer in this order, and wherein: the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in one direction and the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in a perpendicular direction in the same plane are both within the range of from 400 N/15 mm to 1,000 N/15 mm (inclusive); and the absolute value of the difference between the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in the one direction and the tensile modulus of elasticity of the base layer in the other is 150 N/15 mm or less.
US10964981B2
The present invention provides a battery module comprising: a plurality of battery cells of which the horizontal length of a front surface is formed to be longer than the vertical length and which are vertically stacked; a cooling fin which has a first cooling part contacting an upper and lower surface of adjacent battery cells, and a second cooling part extending from both side surfaces of the first cooling part and contacting both side surfaces of the battery cells which are in contact with the first cooling part; and a side cooling fin which has an ground part contacting a side surface of the second cooling part of the cooling fin, and contacting a heat sink located in a lower part.
US10964977B2
Disclosed are a separator for secondary batteries with enhanced stability and a method of manufacturing the separator. The separator can prevent self-discharge which may occur when a porous non-woven fabric material is used for a separator; can perform a shutdown function at a high temperature of 200° C. or less; and can avoid even under harsh conditions of high temperatures, deterioration in stability caused by internal short-circuit of positive and negative electrodes. In particular, the separator for secondary batteries of the present invention includes a porous non-woven fabric material impregnated with a baroplastic polymer powder and pores of the porous non-woven fabric material are filled with the baroplastic polymer powder by pressing an assembly of the secondary battery.
US10964974B2
A solid electrolyte is constituted by lithium phosphorus oxynitride (LiPON). A multiplication value obtained by multiplying a ratio of a peak intensity of nitrogen atoms having a single bond with one P atom and having a double bond with another P atom to a peak intensity of an N2 state in a Raman spectroscopy spectrum by a ratio of a content amount of N atoms to a content amount of P atoms is greater than or equal to 0.40.
US10964973B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to devices, systems and methods of producing high energy density batteries having a semi-solid cathode that is thicker than the anode. An electrochemical cell can include a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector and an ion-permeable membrane disposed between the positive electrode current collector and the negative electrode current collector. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a first distance from the positive electrode current collector and at least partially defines a positive electroactive zone. The ion-permeable membrane is spaced a second distance from the negative electrode current collector and at least partially defines a negative electroactive zone. The second distance is less than the first distance. A semi-solid cathode that includes a suspension of an active material and a conductive material in a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte is disposed in the positive electroactive zone, and an anode is disposed in the negative electroactive zone.
US10964969B2
Disclosed herein is a secondary battery electrode manufacturing device including a slurry supply unit for supplying a secondary battery electrode mixture slurry, an electrode mixture layer forming mold configured to have a hollow structure having a first open surface and a second open surface, the first open surface and the second open surface being opposite each other, the electrode mixture slurry supplied from the slurry supply unit being injected into a hollow region of the electrode mixture layer forming mold, a drying unit for drying the electrode mixture slurry injected into the hollow region of the electrode mixture layer forming mold, a press for pressing the dried electrode mixture slurry to form an electrode mixture layer sheet, and a mold support unit for supporting the electrode mixture layer forming mold in the state in which the top surface of the mold support unit faces the first open surface of the electrode mixture layer forming mold.
US10964968B2
A fuel cell stack at least includes a first dummy cell provided at one end of a stack body formed by stacking a plurality of power generation cells in a stacking direction. A dummy assembly of the first dummy cell includes a first electrically conductive porous body, a second electrically conductive porous body, and a third electrically conductive porous body, which are stacked in this order. A first joint layer is interposed between the first electrically conductive porous body and the second electrically conductive porous body to join the first and second electrically conductive porous bodies together, and a second joint layer is interposed between the second electrically conductive porous body and the third electrically conductive porous body to join the second and third electrically conductive porous bodies together. The first joint layer and the second joint layer are provided at different positions in the stacking direction.
US10964967B2
A process for the recovery of a perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer from a component comprising a perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer is disclosed, the process comprising immersing the component comprising the perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer in a solvent comprising an aliphatic diol and heating. Also disclosed is the use of the recovered perfluorosulphonic acid ionomer, for example in to prepared a proton conducting membrane or a catalyst ink.
US10964963B2
A method for calculating voltage loss of a fuel cell is provided. The method includes sensing an open circuit voltage that is generated in a stack when the switch is opened and detecting an operation voltage and an operation current that are generated in the stack when the switch is closed. A first change graph of voltage data over time is calculated using the voltage data and current data from a time when the switch is opened in a state where the switch is closed. A first voltage of a point at which a trend line for an interval where the voltage data linearly varies with the time meets the first change graph is sensed and then an ohmic resistance voltage loss is calculated using a difference between the first voltage and the operation voltage.
US10964961B2
In a fuel cell system, a controller is configured to, to stop the fuel cell system, (a) execute an oxidizing gas consumption process by supplying a fuel gas to an anode and sweeping current from a fuel cell while a supply-side on-off valve and an exhaust-side on-off valve are closed to seal the remaining oxidizing gas in the cathode, and (b) stop sweeping the current at a time point at which the difference between pressure of the cathode that decreases in response to the sweeping of the current and an estimated pressure value of the cathode that decreases by consumption of the oxidizing gas remaining in the cathode in response to the sweeping of the current becomes larger than a predetermined determination threshold value to end the oxidizing gas consumption process.
US10964952B2
A positive electrode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode current collector, a protective layer provided on a surface of the positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode composite material layer containing a positive electrode active material provided on a surface of the protective layer. The protective layer includes an insulating filler, a binder, and a conductive material. The protective layer is composed of a central portion and an end portion in a plan view as seen from the stacking direction. The ratio of the conductive material in the end portion of the protective layer is smaller than the ratio of the conductive material in the central portion of the protective layer. The ratio Sc/S of the area Sc of the end portion of the protective layer to the total area S of the protective layer in plan view is 0.12 or more.
US10964949B2
An electrode binder of a lithium ion battery comprising: (a) a polyvinylidene binder dispersed in an organic diluent with (b) a (meth)acrylic polymer dispersant. The binder can be used in the assembly of electrodes of lithium ion batteries.
US10964943B2
Disclosed is a lithium-cobalt based complex oxide represented by Formula 1 below including lithium, cobalt and manganese wherein the lithium-cobalt based complex oxide maintains a crystal structure of a single O3 phase at a state of charge (SOC) of 50% or more based on a theoretical amount: LixCo1-y-zMnyAzO2 (1) wherein 0.95≤x≤1.15, 0
US10964942B2
A nickel based micro-structured material and methods are shown. In one example, the nickel based micro-structured material is used as an electrode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery. One specific example shown includes NiO-decorated Ni nanowires with diameters around 30-150 nm derived from Ni wire backbone (around 2 μm in diameter). In one specific example, The NiO nanowire foam can be manufactured with bio-friendly chemicals and low temperature processes without an templates, binders and conductive additives, which possesses the potential transferring from lab scale to industrial production.
US10964941B2
The present invention relates to a sodium-ion battery comprising a positive electrode compartment comprising a positive electrode, said positive electrode comprising a Na-insertion compound; a negative electrode compartment comprising a negative electrode, said negative electrode comprising metallic sodium; and an electrolyte composition comprising a solid sodium-ion conductive ceramic electrolyte and a catholyte comprising a metallic salt with formula MY, wherein M is a cation selected from an alkali metal and an alkali-earth metal; and Y is an anion selected from [R1SO2NSO2R2], CF3SO3−, C(CN)3−, B(C2O4)2− and BF2(C2O4)−, wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from fluorine or a fluoroalkyl group. The device is able to operate below the melting point of the anode component.
US10964940B1
This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials consisting of a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework including micropores and mesopores having a total volume of 0.5 to 1.5 cm3/g; and (b) silicon located at least within the micropores of the porous carbon framework in a defined amount relative to the volume of the micropores and mesopores. At least 20 wt % of the silicon is characterized as surface silicon by thermogravimetric analysis.
US10964936B2
Provided is an anode active material electrode for a lithium battery. This electrode layer comprises multiple particulates of an anode active material, wherein at least a particulate is composed of one or a plurality of particles of an anode active material being encapsulated by a thin layer of sulfonated elastomer/graphene composite having from 0.01% to 50% by weight of graphene sheets dispersed in a sulfonated elastomeric matrix material, wherein the encapsulating shell composite has a thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, a lithium ion conductivity from 10−7 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm, and an electrical conductivity from 10−7 S/cm to 100 S/cm when measured at room temperature. The anode active material is preferably selected from Si, Ge, Sn, SnO2, SiOx, Co3O4, Mn3O4, etc., which has a specific capacity of lithium storage greater than 372 mAh/g (the theoretical lithium storage limit of graphite).
US10964930B2
A battery pack includes a pouch cell having electrode tabs extending therefrom, each of the tabs defining perforations, a bus bar in contact with the tabs, and respective agglomerations of mechanically bound solid metal particles each filling one of the perforations to mechanically bind and electrically connect the tabs to the bus bar.
US10964927B2
The present application relates to a separator and an electrochemical device. The present application provides a separator comprising: a porous substrate and a porous layer, wherein the porous layer is disposed on a surface of the porous substrate and comprises inorganic particles and a binder. The porous substrate has an absolute plastic deformation rate in a first direction ranging from about 40% to about 1800%. By using the separator provided in the present application, the safety performance of lithium ion batteries is improved.
US10964919B2
The present teachings relate to an organic electroluminescent transistor with improved light-emission characteristics. More specifically, the present organic electroluminescent transistor has an emissive ambipolar channel including at least one layer of an n-type semiconductor material, at least one layer of a p-type semiconductor material, and at least one layer of an emissive material arranged between the layers of the p-type and n-type semiconductor materials, where the multilayer emissive ambipolar channel includes, among various layers, a layer of a p-type semiconductor material comprising a benzothieno-benzothiophene compound, and/or a layer of an emissive material comprising a blend material that includes an organic carbazole derivative as the host matrix compound and an iridium complex as the guest emitter.
US10964913B2
A display device may include a hole, a display element, a switching element, a groove, a planarization layer, and a cover layer. The switching element may be electrically connected to the display element. The encapsulation layer may cover the display element. The groove may be located between the hole and the display element. A portion of the planarization layer may be located between a first edge of the planarization layer and a second edge of the planarization and may be located in the groove. The first edge of the planarization layer may be located closer to the display element than the second edge of the planarization layer. The cover layer may at least partially cover the first edge of the planarization layer.
US10964909B2
An OLED display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The OLED display device includes a substrate including a display area provided with an organic light emitting element and a pad area provided with a plurality of pads, the pad area formed around the display area, an encapsulation layer formed on the substrate such that the encapsulation layer covers the organic light emitting element, and a dam formed between the display area and the pad area, the dam controlling flow of an organic film material constituting the encapsulation layer.
US10964908B2
A display module includes a window including a base substrate and a bezel pattern overlapping the base substrate in a plan view, and a display panel. The bezel pattern includes a first bezel pattern extending along an edge of the base substrate, and a second bezel pattern which extends from the first bezel pattern and of which at least a portion defines a transmission area. The display panel includes a glass substrate, an encapsulation substrate on the glass substrate, a sealing member coupling the glass substrate and the encapsulation substrate and overlapping the first bezel pattern in the plan view, a circuit element layer disposed on the glass substrate and including a transistor, and a display element layer disposed on the circuit element layer and including light emitting elements. The display element layer exposes a portion of a layer disposed thereunder, which corresponds to the transmission area.
US10964906B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting display panel and an organic light-emitting display apparatus. The organic light-emitting display panel includes an array base substrate including a plurality of driving elements, and includes a plurality of organic light-emitting devices. Each of the plurality of organic light-emitting devices is corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of driving elements, and the each of the plurality of organic light-emitting devices includes an anode and a cathode, a cathode, an organic luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a transition layer. The organic luminous layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode, the electron transport layer is disposed between the luminous layer and the cathode, and the transition layer is disposed between the cathode and the electron transport layer, and the transition layer includes an organic material.
US10964891B2
An organic light-emitting medium including a pyrene derivative represented by the following formula (1) and a phenyl-substituted anthracene derivative represented by the following formula (2): wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 20 ring atoms.
US10964890B2
The present disclosure relates to OLED and PV devices including transparent electrodes that are formed of conductive nanostructures and methods of improving light out-coupling in OLED and input-coupling in PV devices.
US10964879B2
A method of manufacturing a dielectric device includes epitaxially growing a metal film on a substrate, forming a dielectric film on the metal film such that the dielectric film has a preferentially oriented structure, forming a first electrode film having a non-oriented or amorphous structure on the dielectric film, removing the substrate and the metal film from the dielectric film or removing the substrate from the metal film, and forming a second electrode film having a non-oriented or amorphous structure on the dielectric film or the metal film.
US10964868B2
The disclosure relates to an LED display module, and more particularly to an LED display module, in which a conductive metal thin film layer formed by deposition is used to configure lateral side wiring for connecting an upper circuit pattern and a lower circuit pattern of a substrate, thereby removing a bezel, and guaranteeing display quality because a division line or a bezel line is not seen even when a plurality of modules undergoes tiling to get a desired display size.
US10964865B2
A method for manufacturing a printed board includes steps of; providing a starting board comprising a base member having a plate-like shape, having an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and having an insulation property, a first metal layer disposed on the upper surface, and a second metal layer disposed on the lower surface; and laser machining a through-hole penetrating the starting board in a thickness direction of the starting board by irradiating a laser beam irradiation area of the starting board with a laser beam from a side of the starting board on which side the first metal layer is disposed. The method further includes a step of etching the second metal layer so as to remove a portion of the second metal layer located in the laser beam irradiation area, prior to the step of laser machining.
US10964861B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor components, comprising the following steps: preparing a plurality of semiconductor chips spaced in a lateral direction to one another; forming a housing body assembly, at least one region of which is arranged between the semiconductor chips; forming a plurality of fillets, each adjoining a semiconductor chip and being bordered in a lateral direction by a side surface of each semiconductor chip and the housing body assembly; and separating the housing body assembly into a plurality of optoelectronic components, each component having at least one semiconductor chip and a portion of the housing body assembly as a housing body, and each semiconductor chip not being covered by material of the housing body on a radiation emission surface of the semiconductor component, which surface is located opposite a mounting surface. The invention also relates to a semiconductor component.
US10964858B2
Light emitting diodes, components, and related methods, with improved performance over existing light emitting diodes. In some embodiments, light emitter devices included herein include a submount, a light emitter, a light affecting material, and a wavelength conversion component. Wavelength conversion components provided herein include a transparent substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, and a phosphor compound disposed on the upper surface or lower surface, wherein the wavelength conversion component is configured to alter a wavelength of a light emitted from a light source when positioned proximate to the light source.
US10964857B2
A method is described for preparing a nanorods assembly. The method comprises providing a mixture comprising at least a liquid crystal and nanorods and depositing said mixture on the surface of at least substrate. The method further comprises aligning said nanorods with their long axis of the nanorods along a preferred direction on said substrate resulting in a nanorods and liquid crystal assembly, said aligning being performed by applying an external alternating current electrical field.
US10964856B1
Disclosed herein is a method of preparing a white light-emitting material. The method of preparing a white light-emitting material includes the steps of: (a) depositing a metal for the formation of a blue light-emitting material on a substrate by performing thermal evaporation; (b) forming a material in which green and blue light-emitting materials are hybridized by placing the substrate, on which the metal film is deposited in step (a), in a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) reactor and exposing the substrate to silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) in a plasma state; and (c) forming a red light-emitting material in the material formed in step (b) by annealing the material formed in step (b) so that the red, green and blue light-emitting materials are hybridized.
US10964853B2
Wavelength converters including coarse particles/grains of a red nitride phosphor are disclosed. In some embodiments the red nitride phosphor is a (Ca,Sr,Ba)2Si5N8:Eu phosphor with a D50 grain size or a D50 particle size that is ≥5 microns. The red nitride phosphor may be encapsulated within an organic matrix or present in an inorganic matrix. In the latter case, the inorganic matrix may include fine grains with a D50 grain size <5 microns. Methods of making such wavelength converters and devices including such wavelength converters are also described.
US10964845B2
Techniques, devices, and systems are disclosed and include LEDs with a first flat region, at a first height from an LED base and including a plurality of epitaxial layers including a first n-layer, a first active layer, and a first p-layer. A second flat region is provided, at a second height from the LED base and parallel to the first flat region, and includes at least a second n-layer. A sloped sidewall connecting the first flat region and the second flat region is provided and includes at least a third n-layer, the first n-layer being thicker than at least a portion of third n-layer. A p-contact is formed on the first p-layer and an n-contact formed on the second n-layer.
US10964841B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes: providing a wafer comprising: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, and a semiconductor structure provided at the first surface; irradiating a laser beam into an interior of the substrate from a second surface side of the substrate, which comprises: forming a plurality of first modified regions, a plurality of second modified regions, and a plurality of third modified regions in the interior of the substrate; and subsequently, separating the wafer into a plurality of light-emitting elements.
US10964834B2
A photodetector includes: a silicon layer of a first conductivity type; a first semiconductor layer that is provided in the silicon layer, of a first conductivity type, and having an impurity concentration higher than a carrier concentration of the silicon layer; a second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, of a second conductivity type, and forming a pn boundary with the first semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer provided in the silicon layer, of a first conductivity type, having an impurity concentration higher than that of the silicon layer, and separated from the first semiconductor layer; a first electrode connected to the silicon layer; and a second electrode connected to the second semiconductor layer.
US10964828B2
Provided are a bifacial P-type PERC solar cell, preparation method, module and system. The bifacial P-type PERC solar cell consecutively comprises a rear silver electrode (1), rear aluminum grid lines (2), a rear passivation layer (3), P-type silicon (4), an N-type emitter (5), a front silicon nitride film (6), and a front silver electrode (7); the rear silver electrode (1) is perpendicularly connected with the rear aluminum grid lines (2), grid line backbones (10) are disposed on the rear aluminum grid lines (2), an outer aluminum grid frame (9) is disposed around the rear aluminum grid lines (2), the grid line backbones (10) are connected with the rear aluminum grid lines (2), and the outer aluminum grid frame (9) is connected with the rear aluminum grid lines (2) and the rear silver electrode (1); a first laser grooving region (8) is formed in the rear passivation layer (3) with laser grooving, and the rear aluminum grid lines (2) are connected to the P-type silicon (4) via the first laser grooving region (8); the first laser grooving region (8) includes a plurality of sets of first laser grooving units (81) arranged horizontally, each of the sets of first laser grooving units (81) includes one or more first laser grooving bodies (82) arranged horizontally, and the rear aluminum grid lines (2) are perpendicular to the first laser grooving bodies (82). The solar cell is simple in structure, low in cost and easy to popularize, and has a high photoelectric conversion efficiency.
US10964826B2
A photoelectric conversion section of a solar cell has a first electrode layer and a collecting electrode that are formed in this order on a first principal surface, and has a second electrode layer that is formed on a second principal surface. The collecting electrode includes a first electroconductive layer, an insulating layer, and a second electroconductive layer in this order on the first electrode layer. The first and second electroconductive layers are electrically connected via an opening section in the insulating layer. At peripheral edge of the first and second principal surfaces, the photoelectric conversion section has an insulating region excluding the first or second electrode layer. On the side of the principal surface having no insulating region, the first or second electrode layer is formed up to the peripheral end of the relevant principal surface.
US10964825B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and a Schottky electrode formed to come into contact with a surface of the semiconductor layer, and has a threshold voltage Vth of 0.3 V to 0.7 V and a leakage current Jr of 1×10−9 A/cm2 to 1×10−4 A/cm2 in a rated voltage VR.
US10964821B2
To reduce defects in an oxide semiconductor film in a semiconductor device. To improve electrical characteristics of and reliability in the semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a gate electrode and a gate insulating film over a substrate, forming an oxide semiconductor film over the gate insulating film, forming a pair of electrodes over the oxide semiconductor film, forming a first oxide insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the pair of electrodes by a plasma CVD method in which a film formation temperature is 280° C. or higher and 400° C. or lower, forming a second oxide insulating film over the first oxide insulating film, and performing heat treatment at a temperature of 150° C. to 400° C. inclusive, preferably 300° C. to 400° C. inclusive, further preferably 320° C. to 370° C. inclusive.
US10964802B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third layers, and a first insulating layer. The first layer includes first to fifth partial regions. The first partial region is between the fourth and third partial regions. The second partial region is between the third and fifth partial regions. The first insulating layer includes first and second inter-layer regions. The second layer includes first and second intermediate regions. The first intermediate region is provided between the first partial region and the first inter-layer region. The second intermediate region is provided between the second partial region and the second inter-layer region. The third layer includes first to third nitride regions. The first inter-layer region is between the first intermediate region and the first nitride region. The second inter-layer region is between the second intermediate region and the second nitride region.
US10964801B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, at least one active semiconductor fin, at least one first dummy semiconductor fin, and at least one second dummy semiconductor fin. The active semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The first dummy semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate. The second dummy semiconductor fin is disposed on the substrate and between the active semiconductor fin and the first dummy semiconductor fin. A top surface of the first dummy semiconductor fin and a top surface of the second dummy semiconductor fin are curved in different directions.
US10964799B2
A FinFET includes a semiconductor fin including an inner region, and a germanium-doped layer on a top surface and sidewall surfaces of the inner region. The germanium-doped layer has a higher germanium concentration than the inner region. The FinFET further includes a gate dielectric over the germanium-doped layer, a gate electrode over the gate dielectric, a source region connected to a first end of the semiconductor fin, and a drain region connected to a second end of the semiconductor fin opposite the first end. Through the doping of germanium in the semiconductor fin, the threshold voltage may be tuned.
US10964793B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell having a conductive gate comprising ruthenium. A charge-blocking region is adjacent the conductive gate, a charge-storage region is adjacent the charge-blocking region, a tunneling material is adjacent the charge-storage region, and a channel material is adjacent the tunneling material. Some embodiments include an assembly having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels. The wordline levels contain conductive wordline material which includes ruthenium. Semiconductor material extends through the stack as a channel structure. Charge-storage regions are between the conductive wordline material and the channel structure. Charge-blocking regions are between the charge-storage regions and the conductive wordline material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US10964788B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer, a first dielectric layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode, a source field plate disposed on the semiconductor layer and the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the source field plate, and a source electrode disposed on the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the source field plate. The gate electrode has a first sidewall and a second sidewall respectively disposed on the first side and the second side. The source field plate extends from the first side to the second side. A portion of the source field plate is disposed to correspond to the second sidewall. The semiconductor device further includes a third dielectric layer disposed on the source electrode and a drain structure disposed on the second side.
US10964787B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductor; a first insulator thereover; a first oxide thereover; a second oxide thereover; a second conductor and a third conductor that are separate from each other thereover; a third oxide over the first insulator, the second oxide, the second conductor, and the third conductor; a second insulator thereover; a fourth conductor thereover; and a third insulator over the first insulator, the second insulator, and the fourth conductor. The second oxide includes a region where the energy of the conduction band minimum of an energy band is low and a region where the energy of the conduction band minimum of the energy band is high. The energy of the conduction band minimum of the third oxide is higher than that of the region of the second oxide where the energy of the conduction band minimum is low. Side surfaces of the first oxide and the second oxide are covered with the third oxide.
US10964783B2
A semiconductor device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a substrate, an n− type layer, a plurality of trenches, a p type region, a p+ type region, an n+ type region, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor device may include a plurality of unit cells. A unit cell among the plurality of unit cells may include a contact portion with which the source electrode and the n+ type region are in contact, a first branch part disposed above the contact portion on a plane, and a second branch part disposed below the contact portion on a plane, the plurality of trenches are separated from each other and disposed with a stripe shape on a plane.
US10964779B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a first trench including a dielectric material disposed in the substrate. The first trench includes a transferred pattern of a first polymer of a directed self-assembly stack including the first polymer and a second polymer. The semiconductor structure also includes a second trench including a first vertical metal plate disposed in the substrate adjacent a first sidewall of the first trench, and a third trench including a second vertical metal plate disposed in the substrate adjacent a second sidewall of the first trench. The first vertical metal plate in the second trench, the dielectric material in the first trench, and the second vertical metal plate in the third trench provide a metal-insulator-metal vertical plate capacitor.
US10964777B2
Integrated circuits such as multi-channel receivers may require loop inductors resistant to electromagnetic field interference. Such loop inductors may include multiple non-overlapping loops each defining a corresponding dipole, the multiple dipoles summing to zero, with at least one of said loops having unequal areas. The multiple non-overlapping loops may include: a center loop defining a central magnetic dipole; and a plurality of peripheral loops equally spaced around a perimeter of the center loop, each peripheral loop defining a peripheral magnetic dipole oriented opposite the central magnetic dipole, the plurality of peripheral loops substantially canceling a field from the central magnetic dipole. The total number of loops may be odd, with particular embodiments of three, five, and seven loop designs disclosed. Single and multi-turn embodiments are provided.
US10964759B2
A display device includes a display element configured to generate a first color light, an encapsulation member on the display element and including an inorganic layer at an outermost portion thereof, a color conversion layer on the encapsulation member and including a first color conversion part configured to transmit the first color light, a second color conversion part configured to convert the first color light into a second color light, and a third color conversion part configured to convert the first color light into a third color light, and a buffer layer between the encapsulation member and the color conversion layer, wherein a difference in refractive index between the buffer layer and the inorganic layer is about 0.5 or less.
US10964757B2
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color that is a red-shifted color of a deep blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels. Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may also provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color, and where the plurality of sub-pixels comprise a light blue sub-pixel, a deep blue sub-pixel, a red sub-pixel, and a green sub-pixel.
US10964754B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup element in order to enable inhibition of a variation in the photoelectric conversion characteristic of an organic photoelectric conversion film due to atmospheric exposure and a manufacturing method of the solid-state image pickup element, and an electronic device. The solid-state image pickup element includes: a photoelectric conversion film formed above a semiconductor substrate; and a sidewall sealing a side face of the photoelectric conversion film. The sidewall includes a re-deposited film of a film directly under the sidewall. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor or the like.
US10964753B2
Disclosed is an optoelectronic device including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; a metal layer pattern disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a buffer layer covering the metal layer pattern; and a photoelectric conversion layer on the buffer layer. The metal layer pattern includes a metal having a negative dielectric constant and the buffer layer includes a compound selected from silicon nitride (SiNx, 0
US10964735B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device and an electronic device that can expand a dynamic range in a pixel having a high-sensitivity pixel and a low-sensitivity pixel. The solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a two-dimensional manner, in which the pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit having lower sensitivity than the first photoelectric conversion unit, and a size of the second photoelectric conversion unit in an optical axis direction in which light enters is smaller than a size of the first photoelectric conversion unit in the optical axis direction.
US10964727B2
A flexible array substrate includes an active area and a bending area. The bending area is adjacent to the active area. The bending area includes a protection layer and at least one signal line disposed on the base substrate. The protection layer is located on the at least one signal line at a side away from the base substrate. An orthographic projection of the protection layer on the base substrate has an overlapping region with an orthographic projection of the at least one signal line on the base substrate, the Young modulus of the protection layer is larger than or equal to the Young modulus of the at least one signal line.
US10964725B2
A display device includes: a display panel having a first side and a second side facing the first side in a first direction, the display panel including a recessed portion having a recessed shape from the first side of the display panel toward the second side in the first direction, the recessed portion including a side extended from the first side of the display panel; a pad portion disposed on a front surface of the display panel, the pad portion being adjacent to at least one side of the recessed portion; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) connected to the pad portion, the FPC being bent to a rear surface of the display panel around the at least one side of the recessed portion, the rear surface opposing the front surface.
US10964722B2
A Micro LED display substrate, a method for manufacturing the Micro LED display substrate, and a Micro LED display device are provided. In the method, the Micro LED is transferred onto the organic layer of the array substrate, one etching is performed to form through hole on both the protective layer and the array substrate, and then one metal deposition is performed to simultaneously form an electrode of the Micro LED and a structure electrically connecting the graphene layer with the source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor. Compared with the related art in which the electrode of the Micro LED and the structure electrically connecting the graphene layer with the source or drain electrode of the thin film transistor are formed through two etchings and two metal depositions, the method provided by the present disclosure saves the process steps, simplifies the process and reduces the costs.
US10964720B2
A semiconductor memory device including a substrate including a first block and a second block each having a cell array region and a connection region, a stack including insulating layers and gate electrodes and extending from the cell array region to the connection region, first cell channel structures in the cell array region of the first block and passing through the stack to be electrically connected to the substrate, first dummy channel structures in the connection region of the first block and passing through the stack, second cell channel structures in the cell array region of the second block and passing through the stack, and second dummy channel structures in the connection region of the second block and passing through the stack may be provided. The first dummy channel structures are electrically insulated from the substrate, while the second dummy channel structures are electrically connected to the substrate.
US10964714B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, an electrode structure including gate electrodes sequentially stacked on the substrate, a source structure between the electrode structure and the substrate, vertical semiconductor patterns passing through the electrode structure and the source structure, a data storage pattern between each of the vertical semiconductor patterns and the electrode structure, and a common source pattern between the source structure and the substrate. The common source pattern has a lower resistivity than the source structure and is connected to the vertical semiconductor patterns through the source structure.
US10964710B2
A non-volatile memory device may include a first semiconductor layer including a peripheral region, the peripheral region including one or more peripheral transistors on a lower substrate. The non-volatile memory device may further include a second semiconductor layer on the peripheral region, the second semiconductor layer including an upper substrate, the second semiconductor layer further including a memory cell array on the upper substrate. The upper substrate may include a first upper substrate on the first semiconductor layer, a first layer on the first upper substrate, and a second upper substrate on the first layer.
US10964708B2
A device includes a fuse-array mat including a plurality of fuse-array elements. Each fuse-array element includes a fuse comprising a fuse line having less than or equal to 50% of a dimension of the fuse line disposed over an active area of the fuse-array element, wherein the fuse is configured to be activated to indicate a fuse state of the fuse of two possible fuse states of the fuse. Additionally, each fuse-array element includes an access device comprising a gate line having more than 50% of a dimension of the gate line disposed over the active area of the fuse-array element.
US10964706B2
A 3-D IC includes a substrate having a substrate surface. A first semiconductor device has a first electrical contact and is formed in a first area of the surface on a first plane substantially parallel to the substrate surface. A second semiconductor device has a second electrical contact and is formed in a second area of the surface on a second plane substantially parallel to the surface and vertically spaced from the first plane in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface. A first electrode structure includes opposing top and bottom surfaces substantially parallel to the substrate surface, and a sidewall connecting the top and bottom surfaces such that the electrode structure forms a three dimensional electrode space. A conductive fill material is provided in the electrode space, and a dielectric layer electrically separates the conductive fill material into a first electrode electrically connected to the first contact of the first semiconductor device and a second electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor device and electrically insulated from the first electrode. A first circuit terminal extends vertically from the top or bottom surface of the electrode structure and is electrically connected to the first electrode.
US10964698B2
A field effect transistor (FET) for an nFET and/or a pFET device including a substrate and a fin including at least one channel region decoupled from the substrate. The FET also includes a source electrode and a drain electrode on opposite sides of the fin, and a gate stack extending along a pair of sidewalls of the channel region of the fin. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer and a metal layer on the gate dielectric layer. The FET also includes an oxide separation region separating the channel region of the fin from the substrate. The oxide separation region includes a dielectric material that includes a portion of the gate dielectric layer of the gate stack. The oxide separation region extends completely from a surface of the channel region facing the substrate to a surface of the substrate facing the channel region.
US10964697B2
Non-planar semiconductor devices having doped sub-fin regions and methods of fabricating non-planar semiconductor devices having doped sub-fin regions are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure involves forming a plurality of semiconductor fins above a semiconductor substrate. A solid state dopant source layer is formed above the semiconductor substrate, conformal with the plurality of semiconductor fins. A dielectric layer is formed above the solid state dopant source layer. The dielectric layer and the solid state dopant source layer are recessed to approximately a same level below a top surface of the plurality of semiconductor fins, exposing protruding portions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins above sub-fin regions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins. The method also involves driving dopants from the solid state dopant source layer into the sub-fin regions of each of the plurality of semiconductor fins.
US10964692B2
A three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) and associated forming method are provided. In some embodiments, a second IC die is bonded to a first IC die through a second bonding structure and a first bonding structure at a bonding interface. The bonding encloses a seal-ring structure in a peripheral region of the 3D IC in the first and second IC dies. The seal-ring structure extends from the first semiconductor substrate to the second semiconductor substrate. The bonding forms a plurality of through silicon via (TSV) coupling structures at the peripheral region of the 3D IC along an inner perimeter of the seal-ring structure by electrically and correspondingly connects a first plurality of TSV wiring layers and inter-wire vias and a second plurality of TSV wiring layers and inter-wire vias.
US10964690B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming semiconductor structures including resistors between gates on self-aligned gate edge architecture. A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor fin extending in a first direction, and a second semiconductor fin adjacent to the first semiconductor fin, extending in the first direction. A first gate structure is disposed proximal to a first end of the first semiconductor fin and over the first semiconductor fin in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, and a second gate structure is disposed proximal to a second end of the first semiconductor fin and over the first semiconductor fin in the second direction. A first structure comprising isolation material is centered between the first and second semiconductor fins. A second structure comprising resistive material is disposed in the first structure, the second structure extending at least between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US10964682B2
A data storage system is described that uses wafer-level packaging. In one embodiment an apparatus includes a silicon wafer, a plurality of memory cells formed directly on the wafer, an encapsulant formed over the memory cells, a plurality of wiring connections to connect the memory cells to an external interface, a memory controller, and an external interface.
US10964675B1
The present invention provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof, the method comprising: providing a backplate, the backplate comprises a substrate and a driving circuit set on the substrate; providing a plurality of LED chips; transferring the LED chips vertically to the backplate to electrically connect the bottom electrode of the LED chips to the driving circuit; providing a cover plate, the cover plate comprises a plate body and a ground circuit set on the plate body; covering the backplate with the cover plate, such that the ground circuit is aligned with at least a portion of the driving circuit, and the top electrode of each of the LED chips is electrically connected to the ground circuit; and pressing the cover plate, such that the LED chips are tilted relative to a vertical direction.
US10964668B2
Transistor packages in space-constrained applications are disclosed. An apparatus may comprise a first transistor package and a second transistor package, wherein the first transistor package is stacked upon the second transistor package. The apparatus may further comprise a cover coupled to a printed circuit board (PCB) that is configured to cover at least a portion of the stacked first and second transistor packages. The first and second transistor package may be components in a power circuit that is configured to down-convert a received voltage from a first voltage level to a second, lower voltage level.
US10964667B2
A semiconductor device, and a method of forming the device, are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first die having a first plurality of contact pads and a second die having a second plurality of contact pads. A substrate is bonded to a first contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads and a first contact pad of the second plurality of contact pads in a face-to-face orientation with the first die and the second die. A first through via extends through the substrate. Molding material is interposed between the first die, the second die and the substrate, the molding material extending along sidewalls of the first die, the second die, and the substrate. A second through via is positioned over a second contact pad of the first plurality of contact pads, the second through via extending through the molding material.
US10964660B1
An electronic device assembly includes one or more discrete electronic components mounted onto a substrate having a 3D, 2.5D, or N×2D geometric classification. The substrate surface includes a specific mounting location to which an electronic component is to be electrically connected, where each specific mounting location includes one or more electrical connection points, such as contact pads. An anisotropic conductive film (ACF) is applied to the substrate surface covering the one or more electrical connection points of the specific mounting location, and the electronic component is placed on the ACF and properly aligned with the specific mounting location on the substrate surface. Pressure and heat are applied to compress the ACF to form an electrical interconnection between corresponding pairs of the electrical connection points on the electronic device and the specific mounting location on the substrate surface.
US10964651B2
An apparatus includes an interposer and a plurality of dies stacked on the interposer. The interposer includes a first conductive network of a first trigger bus. Each of the plurality of dies includes a second conductive network of a second trigger bus, and an ESD detection circuit and an ESD power clamp electrically connected between a first power line and a second power line, and electrically connected to the second conductive network of the second trigger bus. The second conductive network of the second trigger bus in each of the plurality of dies is electrically connected to the first conductive network of the first trigger bus. Upon receiving an input signal, the ESD detection circuit is configured to generate an output signal to the corresponding second conductive network of the second trigger bus to control the ESD power clamps in each of the plurality of dies.
US10964643B2
Insulating layers of a redistribution layer of a semiconductor package may be formed as a polymer film having inorganic fillers formed therein. The inorganic fillers may trap reactive materials to inhibit and/or substantially prevent the metal conductors, such as chip pads of the semiconductor chip being packaged, from being damaged by the reactive material. As a result, the reliability and the durability of the semiconductor package may be improved.
US10964640B2
A gate electrode is formed in a trench formed in a semiconductor substrate. A gate interlayer insulating film is formed to cover the gate electrode and the like. A gate interconnection and an emitter electrode are formed in contact with the gate interlayer insulating film. A glass coating film and a polyimide film are formed to cover the gate interconnection and the emitter electrode. A solder layer is formed to cover the polyimide film. The gate interconnection and the emitter electrode are each formed of a tungsten film, for example.
US10964635B2
A power-electronic metal-ceramic module (10) comprising a metal-ceramic substrate (12) made of a ceramic carrier (14) having a metal top and bottom ply (16, 18), which is joined on or in the metal top ply (16) and/or the metal bottom ply (18) with a metal layer (16, 18, 22, 23) forming a frame (24) for accommodating at least one electronic component (30) and at least one electronic component (30) accommodated in the frame (24).
US10964629B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes attaching semiconductor dies to an array of leadframes and positioning a clip array in alignment with the array of leadframes within a mold cavity, the clip array including clips that electrically connect to at least some of the semiconductor dies and a siderail along a perimeter of the clip array. The siderail forms a set of reliefs extending from an outer edge of the siderail to an inner edge of the siderail, the inner edge being adjacent to the array of leadframes. The method also includes injecting a mold compound into the mold cavity through a flow path including the set of reliefs of the siderail to form a mold block at least partially covering the semiconductor dies.
US10964621B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a memory device with a high resistivity thermal barrier are described. In some examples a barrier material may be positioned over a memory cell region, an oxide region, and/or a through-silicon via (TSV). The barrier may include a first region above the memory cell region and a second region above the TSV. A process, such as a plasma treatment, may be applied to the barrier, which may result in the first and second regions having different thermal resistivities (e.g., different densities). Accordingly, due to the different thermal resistivities, the memory cells may be thermally insulated from thermal energy generated in the memory device.
US10964612B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area, crack lines disposed in the non-display area; and a first crack pad and a second crack pad connected to both ends of the crack lines. The crack lines comprise a plurality of crack line units connected to each other. Each of the plurality of crack line units comprises a plurality of sub-crack lines connected in parallel. In this manner, the efficiency of inspecting for cracks can be improved.
US10964606B2
A film forming system is to form an organic film on a substrate having a pattern formed on a surface thereof, includes: an organic film formation section configured to perform an organic film formation treatment on the substrate to form the organic film on the substrate; a film thickness measurement section configured to measure a film thickness of the organic film on the substrate; and an ultraviolet treatment section configured to perform an ultraviolet irradiation treatment on the organic film on the substrate to remove a surface of the organic film. In the film forming system, the organic film formation section, the film thickness measurement section, and the ultraviolet treatment section are disposed side by side in this order along a transfer direction of the substrate.
US10964602B2
A method of fabricating a vertical fin field effect transistor with a merged top source/drain, including, forming a source/drain layer at the surface of a substrate, forming a plurality of vertical fins on the source/drain layer; forming protective spacers on each of the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial plug between two protective spacers, forming a filler layer on the protective spacers not in contact with the sacrificial plug, and selectively removing the sacrificial plug to form an isolation region trench between the two protective spacers.
US10964601B2
A method of fabricating a vertical fin field effect transistor with a merged top source/drain, including, forming a source/drain layer at the surface of a substrate, forming a plurality of vertical fins on the source/drain layer; forming protective spacers on each of the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial plug between two protective spacers, forming a filler layer on the protective spacers not in contact with the sacrificial plug, and selectively removing the sacrificial plug to form an isolation region trench between the two protective spacers.
US10964585B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor structure and a method for forming same. One form of the forming method includes: providing a base, including a substrate and a fin protruding out of the substrate, where a fin mask layer is formed on the top of the fin, and the base includes a graphics-intensive region and a graphics-sparse region; forming an isolation material layer on the substrate exposed by the fin, to expose a top of the fin mask layer; performing first etching processing on the isolation material layer, where a residual isolation material layer covers a partial sidewall of the fin mask layer, and a top of the residual isolation material layer located on the graphics-sparse region is lower than a top of the residual isolation material layer located on the graphics-intensive region; removing the fin mask layer after the first etching processing is performed; and performing second etching processing on the residual isolation material layer using an isotropic dry etching process after the fin mask layer is removed, where the etched isolation material layer is used as an isolation layer, and the isolation layer covers a partial sidewall of the fin. Embodiments of the present disclosure help to improve the height consistency of the tops of isolation layers located on different graphics density regions, thereby improving the performance of the semiconductor structure.
US10964579B2
According to the embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a porous part. The ceramic dielectric substrate has a first major surface placing a suction object, a second major surface on an opposite side to the first major surface, and a through hole provided from the second to first major surface. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate and includes a gas introduction path communicating with the through hole. The porous part is provided in the gas introduction path. The porous part includes sparse portions including pores and a dense portion having a higher density than the sparse portions. Each of the sparse portions extends in a first direction from the base plate toward the ceramic dielectric substrate. The dense portion is positioned between the sparse portions. The sparse portions include the pores and a wall portion provided between the pores.
US10964567B2
Disclosed herein is a processing apparatus including a wafer testing unit for testing whether or not a wafer carried from a cassette mount unit is a wafer corresponding to a processing condition. The wafer testing unit measures characteristics of the carried wafer by a measuring section, and a determining section of a control unit compares actual measurements of the wafer characteristics measured by the measuring section with setpoints of wafer characteristics corresponding to the processing condition, to thereby determine conformability of the carried wafer. When it is determined by the determining section that the carried wafer is a wafer corresponding to the processing condition, the wafer is carried to a processing unit and processed. When it is determined by the determining section that the carried wafer is not a wafer corresponding to the processing condition, an error is notified by a notifying section.
US10964561B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for integrated circuit controlled ejection system (ICCES) for massively parallel integrated circuit assembly (MPICA). A unique Integrated Circuit (IC) die ejection head assembly system is described, which utilizes Three-Dimensional (3D) printing to achieve very high resolution manufacturing to meet the precision tolerances required for very small IC die sizes.
US10964560B2
Provided are a substrate chuck and a substrate bonding system including the substrate chuck. The substrate bonding system includes a lower substrate chuck and an upper substrate chuck disposed on the lower substrate chuck. The lower substrate chuck has a non-flat lower substrate contact surface, and the upper substrate chuck has a flat upper substrate contact surface.
US10964553B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes mounting a semiconductor element on a first electrode disposed on a first surface of a substrate; preparing a metal plate including a main body part and a projection part; mounting the metal plate on the first surface side of the substrate, by joining the projection part to a second electrode that is disposed on the first surface of the substrate; sealing the semiconductor element and the projection part with a sealing resin; and forming an electrode terminal made of a base end part that is connected to the second electrode and has a side surface that is covered by the sealing resin, and a tip end part that is integrally formed with the base end part and that projects from a front surface of the sealing resin, by etching the main body part excluding a portion overlapping with the projection part.
US10964551B2
CMP selectivity, removal rate, and uniformity are controlled both locally and globally by altering electric charge at the wafer surface. Surface charge characterization is performed by an on-board metrology module. Based on a charge profile map, the wafer can be treated in an immersion bath to impart a more positive or negative charge overall, or to neutralize the entire wafer before the CMP operation is performed. If charge hot spots are detected on the wafer, a charge pencil can be used to neutralize localized areas. One type of charge pencil bears a tapered porous polymer tip that is placed in close proximity to the wafer surface. Films present on the wafer absorb ions from, or surrender ions to, the charge pencil tip, by electrostatic forces. The charge pencil can be incorporated into a CMP system to provide an in-situ treatment prior to the planarization step or the slurry removal step.
US10964550B2
A method for surface planarization of an object using a light source of a specific wavelength according to an embodiment includes: providing an object in a main chamber; injecting an etching gas into the main chamber; inputting the light source of a specific wavelength onto a surface of the object; and controlling a temperature of the object. According to the method, it is possible to minimize the side effects such as scratches or contamination of the sample that occur in a conventional chemical-mechanical planarization process. In addition, it is possible to allow precise planarization in nanometers (nm) and simultaneously perform planarization to a side surface of a device as well as a large-sized surface, thereby reducing cost and time required for the planarization process. Moreover, since the surface roughness and the electrical conductivity are improved, it is possible to increase the efficiency and output of the LED device.
US10964526B2
A substrate processing method includes forming a liquid film of a processing liquid covering an entire upper surface of a horizontally-held substrate; heating the substrate to make the processing liquid of the substrate evaporate to form a gas phase layer between the upper surface of the substrate and the processing liquid and maintain the liquid film on the gas phase layer; blowing a gas at a first flow rate onto the liquid film on the substrate to partially remove the processing liquid to open a hole in the liquid film; heating the substrate to spread the hole to an outer periphery of the substrate and move the liquid film on the gas phase layer to remove the processing liquid, constituting the liquid film, off the substrate; and blowing a gas at a second flow rate greater than the first flow rate onto a region of the upper surface of the substrate within the hole after the hole opening step to spread the hole to the outer periphery of the substrate and move the liquid film on the gas phase layer to remove the processing liquid, constituting the liquid film, off the substrate.
US10964519B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for mass-spectrometric analysis and three-dimensional imaging of the surface of a sample, comprising at least one energy source for desorbing and/or ionizing atoms from the surface of a sample, a displacement stage, and a light source. Further, it comprises an interface in order to be able to interchange data with a mass spectrometer such that measurement data can be transmitted from a mass spectrometer to the evaluation unit via the interface such that the chemical composition of the measurement point can be determined by the evaluation unit. The surface of a sample can be captured in three dimensions and the topography of this surface can be determined by the evaluation unit.
US10964514B2
An electrode for transmitting radiofrequency power to a plasma processing region includes a plate formed of semiconducting material and a high electrical conductivity layer formed on a top surface of the plate and integral with the plate. The high electrical conductivity layer has a lower electrical resistance than the semiconducting material of the plate. The electrode includes a distribution of through-holes. Each through-hole extends through an entire thickness of the electrode from a top surface of the high electrical conductivity layer to a bottom surface of the plate. In some embodiments, the plate can be formed of a silicon material and the high electrical conductivity layer can be a silicide material formed from the silicon material of the plate.
US10964507B2
A shield around an x-ray tube, a voltage multiplier, or both can improve the manufacturing process by allowing testing earlier in the process and by providing a holder for liquid potting material. The shield can also improve voltage standoff. A shielded x-ray tube can be electrically coupled to a shielded power supply.
US10964505B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a MEMS device for reducing ESD. A contacting switch is used to ensure that there is a closed electrical contact between two electrodes even if there is no applied bias voltage.
US10964503B2
A relay has a case, a first fixed terminal including a first fixed contact, a second fixed terminal including a second fixed contact, a movable touch piece including a first movable contact that is disposed facing the first fixed contact and a second movable contact that is disposed facing the second fixed contact, the movable touch piece being disposed in the case and disposed so as to be movable in a contact direction in which the first movable contact and the second movable contact come into contact with the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact and a separation direction in which the first movable contact and the second movable contact separate from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact. The first fixed terminal includes a first contact support configured to support the first fixed contact.
US10964500B2
An electromagnetic relay includes: an excitation coil; a movable core; a movable contactor that operates by following the movable core; a fixed contactor that is in contact with the movable contactor when the excitation coil is energized; a base that supports the fixed contactor; a fixed yoke fixed to the base; a moving yoke; a first pressing spring that biases the moving yoke toward the movable contactor; and a second pressing spring that biases the movable contactor such that the movable contactor and the fixed contactor are in contact with each other. The moving yoke is disposed to be in contact with a surface of the movable contactor opposite from the fixed contactor and to oppose the fixed yoke through the movable contactor. The moving yoke is provided to be able to contact and separate from the movable contactor.
US10964492B2
Device, circuit, system, and method for arc suppression. A contact separation detector is configured to output an indication of a separation state of a pair of electrical contacts. A contact bypass circuit, coupled to the contact separation detector, is configured to provide an electrical bypass between the pair of contacts based on the indication.
US10964469B2
Core-coil devices operate by electromagnetic induction and include inductors, transformers, and electromagnets. Cooled core-coil devices include a magnetic core having a channel through it, and a coil wound around the core. Cooled core-coil devices additionally include a coolant loop that carries ferrofluid coolant through the channel and forms a loop with the channel that extends outside the core. Ferrofluid coolant circulates in the loop without a pump due to a thermo-magnetic response to the device's thermal and magnetic field gradients and thereby cools the core while simultaneously adding to the device's inductance.
US10964468B2
A magnetic memory structure employs electric-field controlled interlayer exchange coupling between a free magnetic layer and a fixed magnetic layer to switch a magnetization direction. The magnetic layers are separated by a spacer layer disposed between two oxide layers. The spacer layer exhibits a large IEC while the oxide layers provide tunnel barriers, forming a quantum-well between the magnetic layers with discrete energy states above the equilibrium Fermi level. When an electric field is applied across the structure, the tunnel barriers become transparent at discrete energy states via a resonant tunneling phenomenon. The wave functions of the two magnets then can interact and interfere to provide a sizable IEC. IEC can control the magnetization direction of the free magnetic layer relative to the magnetization direction of the fixed magnetic layer depending on the sign of the IEC, induced by a magnitude of the applied electric field above a threshold value.
US10964463B2
Provided is an alloy for R-T-B based rare earth magnet. “R” is one or more of a rare earth element, ‘T’ is one or more of a transition metal element essentially including Fe or Fe and Co, and “B” is boron. The alloy includes a single or a plural number of main phase (A), having a minimum length of 10 μm or more and a maximum length of 30 μm or more and 300 μm or less, in a cross section cut along a thickness direction of the alloy. The main phase (A) includes an R2T14B phase, and an area ratio of the main phase (A) to an entire cross section is 2% or more and 60% or less.
US10964462B2
The invention concerns a manufacturing method for an electrical resistor (1), in particular for a low-resistance current measuring resistor, with the following steps (S1-S4): a) providing a plate-shaped base part (9) for the resistor (1), the base part (9) having a certain thickness and corresponding to the thickness a certain value of an electrical component characteristic (R), the thickness-dependent electrical component characteristic (R) preferably being the electrical resistance (1) of the base part (9), the sheet resistance or the transverse resistance, and b) rolling the base part (9) with a certain degree of rolling (AG), the thickness of the base part (9) decreasing in accordance with the degree of rolling (AG) and the value of the component characteristic (R) changing accordingly, c) measuring the thickness-dependent electrical component characteristic (R) on the rolled base part (9), and d) adaptation of the degree of rolling (AG) as a function of the measured electrical component characteristic (R), in particular in the context of a closed-loop control system with the electrical component characteristic (R) as controlled variable and the degree of rolling (AG) as control variable. Furthermore, the invention includes an appropriately manufactured resistor and a corresponding production plant.
US10964455B2
The device, system and process of the present invention greatly reduces the time and space necessary to assemble a wire harness enables efficient manufacture of wire harnesses. The present invention comprises at least a wire viewer module, a machine vision and optical character recognition module, a cassette tray platform, designed to receive and hold in place a cassette tray, having one or more receptacles designed to receive and hold in place a wire harness connector, having multiple pin-hole cavities illuminated from below or behind by a light source mounted on a two-axis translation stage or gantry to identify a cavity for wire insertion. Moreover, the present invention may further comprise a portable, computer-implemented system capable of executing a series of automated process steps designed to identify wire markings and guide the error-free insertion of identified wires into wire harness connector pin-hole receptacles for assembly of a wire harness.
US10964452B2
Provided are a core electric wire for multi-core cable that is superior in flex resistance at low temperature, and a multi-core cable employing the same. A core electric wire for multi-core cable according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a conductor obtained by twisting element wires, and an insulating layer that covers an outer periphery of the conductor, in which, in a transverse cross section of the conductor, a percentage of an area occupied by void regions among the element wires is from 5% to 20%. An average area of the conductor in the transverse cross section is preferably from 1.0 mm2 to 3.0 mm2. An average diameter of the element wires in the conductor is preferably from 40 μm to 100 μm, and the number of the element wires is preferably from 196 to 2,450. The conductor is preferably obtained by twisting stranded element wires obtained by twisting subsets of element wires. The insulating layer preferably comprises as a principal component a copolymer of ethylene and an α-olefin having a carbonyl group.
US10964449B2
An insulated electric wire includes a conductor and an insulating layer coated in periphery of the conductor. The insulating layer is made of a resin composition containing a base polymer and a flame retardant. The flame retardant is made of silane-treated aluminum hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide treated with a treatment agent other than a silane coupling agent and/or untreated aluminum hydroxide. The base polymer contains a polymer having a polar group. The resin composition contains the flame retardant, a content of which is more than 40 parts by mass and equal to or less than 80 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the base polymer. The resin composition contains the silane-treated aluminum hydroxide, a content of which is equal to or more than 10 parts by mass and equal to or less than 70 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the flame retardant.
US10964448B1
A ribbon cable with desirable properties including mechanical integrity, resistance to propagation of a flame, and a compact structure is provided. The ribbon cable may be formed by wrapping a flexible layer around a plurality of parallel cable cores. The flexible layer may be adhered to itself and may conform to the outer surfaces of the cores. The flexible layer may, at its edges, overlap such that the edges may be readily adhered to each other. Some or all of the cable cores may be individually shielded. The cable may also include metal foil adjacent one or two sides of the cable cores or, in some instances, encircling the cable cores.
US10964436B2
A system for injecting hydrogen into Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) reactor support systems in operation during reactor startup and/or shutdown. The system the hydrogen injection system includes at least one hydrogen source, flow control equipment, and pressure control equipment. The pressure control equipment being configured to regulate a pressure of a hydrogen flow between the at least one hydrogen source and the at least one first BWR support system based upon an operating pressure of the at least one first BWR support system.
US10964434B2
A computerized Medical Information Navigation Engine (“MINE”) extracts clinical knowledge, by identifying coded elements with reimbursement potential contributing to payoff based on clinical history, and subtracting coded elements documented in an encounter from the coded elements, based on business logic. The MINE sorts the remaining coded elements in accordance with one optimization criteria to payoff based on clinical history.
US10964424B2
Ultrasound image recognition systems and methods, and artificial intelligence training networks for such systems and methods, are provided. An ultrasound data information system includes an ultrasound image recognition training network that is configured to receive ultrasound training images and to develop ultrasound image knowledge based on the received ultrasound training images. An ultrasound imaging device acquires ultrasound images of a patient, and the device includes an ultrasound image recognition module. The ultrasound image recognition module is configured to receive the ultrasound image knowledge, receive the acquired ultrasound images from the ultrasound imaging device, and determine, based on the ultrasound image knowledge, whether the received ultrasound images represent a clinically desirable view of an organ or whether the clinically desirable views indicate normal function or a particular pathology. The received ultrasound images are transmitted to the ultrasound image recognition training network for further training and development of updated ultrasound image knowledge.
US10964423B2
Disclosed and claimed is a system and method of rating or labeling a digital therapeutic to digital content comprising uploading digital content; selecting at least one condition from a plurality of conditions that the uploaded digital content is intended to cure, the selected condition indicating at least one of a feeling, sensation, mood, mental state, physical state, emotional condition, physical status; and overlaying a therapeutic label to the digital content corresponding to the selected condition.
US10964422B2
An apparatus (2) for user exercise monitoring is disclosed. The apparatus (2) comprises a frame (4), a motion sensing unit (10) and a user input unit (12) supported by the frame (4), and a harness (6) configured to secure the frame (4) to a user body part. The user input unit (12) comprises a continuous input device (72). Also disclosed is a method for monitoring user exercise via a monitoring apparatus (2) secured to the user. The method comprises sensing user motion with the monitoring apparatus (2) and receiving, via the motioning apparatus (2), user input during exercise. The user input is received via a continuous input device (72) on the monitoring apparatus.
US10964419B2
A method for monitoring medicine dispensing is disclosed. A set of events from an intelligent container is received. The intelligent container belongs to a set of intelligent containers, each container associated with a medicine. It is determined whether the set of events satisfies a rule associated with the intelligent container. If the rule is satisfied, a message is created to be sent to a subscribing device as a result of the determination.
US10964417B2
A patient platform for patient engagement and treatment compliance is disclosed. In an example, a processor is configured to obtain medical information from a patient for engagement and treatment compliance tracking. To obtain the medical information, the processor causes a user interface to be displayed with fields to be populated with medical information. After receiving a selection of a data field, the processor provides an option to enter medical information from an image. If the option is selected, the processor receives a recorded image of a medical device or a screen of a medical device, extracts text from the image, enables a selection of at least a portion of the text from the image, and writes the selected text from the image into the data field of the user interface as the medical information. The processor transmits the medical information to a patient medical record stored in a clinician database.
US10964413B2
A system for providing access to patient records. The system can include computing devices and emitting devices carried by physicians for identifying each physician and scanning devices configured to detect and communicatively link to the emitting devices based on the proximity of the physician to an examination room, and a manager module communicatively linked to the scanning devices and configured to manage signal data from the scanning devices. The system can also include servers communicatively linked with the computing devices, scanning devices, and manager module, and configured to authenticate and register a patient, synchronize the physician identifier, patient identifier, personal wellness electronic record (PWER), and examination room identifier based upon physician's proximity to an examination room, initiate a session at the computing device at the examination room, transfer the PWER to the computing device, and terminate the session based upon the physician leaving the examination room.
US10964405B2
A memory module performs a memory readiness test, and reports results to a host system. The memory module initializes a status register with an initial ready time value and a memory readiness status. The memory module conducts the memory readiness test, and while conducting the memory readiness test, estimates a new ready time based on the progress of the memory readiness test. The memory module updates the ready time value in the status register based on the new ready time. After finishing the memory readiness test, the memory module updates the memory readiness status in the status register.
US10964395B2
A memory system, a memory device, a memory controller and an operating method thereof. By issuing a first status check signal when a first delay time elapses since a first point in time at which a program operation for first memory cells corresponding to a first word line is started and by issuing a second status check signal when a second delay time different from the first delay time elapses since a second point in time at which a program operation for second memory cells corresponding to a second word line is started, it is possible to efficiently perform a status check operation related with a program operation of data.
US10964392B2
A memory system includes a controller suitable for providing first data, a cache program command corresponding to the first data, second data, and a normal program command corresponding to the second data; and a memory device suitable for programming the first data to a target die according to the cache program command, setting the target die to a normal state after the program operation for the first data is completed, and programming the second data to the target die according to the normal program command.
US10964391B2
The present invention relates to a programming circuit and a programming method of a flash memory, the programming circuit includes a programming transistor and a storage cell connected in series, a gate of the programming transistor is connected to a word line, a gate of the storage cell is connected to a control gate, one end of the programming transistor is connected to a bit line, the other end of the programming transistor is connected to one end of the storage cell, and the other end of the storage cell is connected to a source line. By programming the flash memory by the programming circuit and method of the present invention, the efficiency of latter stage programming can be improved without increasing channel current, thereby improving the efficiency of the entire programming process, shortening the total programming time, and improving the performance of the flash memory.
US10964389B2
A cell structure is disclosed. The cell structure includes a first unit comprising a first group of transistors and a first data latch, a second unit comprising a second group of transistors and a second data latch a read port unit comprising a plurality of p-type transistors, a search line and a complementary search line, the search line and the complementary search line function as input of the cell structure, and a master line, the master line functions as an output of the cell structure, the first unit is coupled to the second unit, both the first and the second units are coupled to the read port unit. According to some embodiments, the first data latch comprises a first and a second p-type transistors, a first and a second n-type transistors.
US10964384B2
A method for controlling a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) is proposed. The method calculates a number of a bit value of a data when the data is to be written to the resistive random access memory. Each bit of the data is flipped and the data is written to the ReRAM if the number of the bit value is greater than a half of a length of the data. The data as it original is written to the ReRAM if the number of the bit value is less than a half of the length of the data.
US10964377B2
A semiconductor storage device includes first, second, and third transistors, first, second, and third bit lines connected to the first, second, and third transistors, a word line connected to the first, second, and third transistors, and a control circuit configured to perform a program operation for writing data to the second and third transistors, including raising a first voltage applied to the first bit line at a first timing, raising a second voltage applied to the word line at a second timing, raising a third voltage applied to the second bit line at a third timing, raising a fourth voltage applied to the third bit line at a fourth timing, and lowering the first voltage at a fifth timing. The first voltage is raised to a first predetermined voltage, and each of the third and fourth voltages is raised to a second predetermined voltage smaller than the first predetermined voltage.
US10964366B2
There is provided a magnetic memory that can suppress the increase in manufacturing costs while recording multivalued information in one memory cell, the memory including first and second tunnel junction elements each having a laminated structure including a reference layer with a fixed magnetization direction, a recording layer with a reversible magnetization direction, and an insulating layer sandwiched between the reference layer and the recording layer, a first selection transistor electrically connected to first ends of the first and second tunnel junction elements, a first wire electrically connected to a second end of the first tunnel junction element, and a second wire electrically connected to a second end of the second tunnel junction element.
US10964359B2
Shift register includes input sub-circuit coupling input terminal to first node responsive to signal of first clock terminal in input stage, control sub-circuit transmitting signal of second clock terminal to intermediate output terminal according to level at first node and controlling potential of third node according to potential of intermediate output terminal and signal of third clock terminal in input, output and reset stages, pull-up sub-circuit coupling second level terminal to final output terminal responsive to potential of intermediate output terminal in output stage, first voltage stabilization sub-circuit stabilizing voltage between final output terminal and third node responsive to signal of next-stage node connection terminal, pull-down transistor having gate electrode coupled to third node, first electrode coupled to first level terminal, and second electrode coupled to final output terminal. First voltage stabilization sub-circuit lowers potential of third node to level lower than signal of first level terminal in reset stage.
US10964355B2
A device includes a memory array. The memory array includes a first sub-bank, a first strap cell coupled to the first sub-bank, and a first continuous data line. The first continuous data line includes a first portion and a second portion coupled to the first sub-bank via the first strap cell. The first portion of the first continuous data line is disposed above the first strap cell and the second portion of the first continuous data line is disposed above the first portion of the first continuous data line.
US10964353B2
An electronic device with a detachable structure is provided. The electronic device includes a bracket, a connector, a module frame and a carried unit. The bracket includes a bracket wedging portion, wherein the bracket has a receiving recess, the receiving recess has a first side and a second side, the first side is opposite to the second side, and the bracket wedging portion is located on the first side. The connector is disposed on the second side of the bracket. The module frame is detachably connected to the bracket. The module frame can be easily attached to or detached from the bracket, reducing the time and effort required for assembly.
US10964339B2
Many processes for audio signal processing can benefit from voice activity detection, which aims to detect the presence of speech as opposed to silence or noise. The present disclosure describes, among other things, leveraging energy-based features of voice and insights on first and second formant frequencies of vowels to provide a low-complexity and low-power voice activity detector. A pair of two channels is provided whereby each channel is configured to detect voice activity in respective frequency bands of interest. Simultaneous activity detected in both channels can be a sufficient condition for determining that voice is present. More channels or pairs of channels can be used to detect different types of voices to improve detection and/or to detect voices present in different audio streams.
US10964338B2
The present disclosure discloses a mood recognition method, a device, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a sample text; obtaining a plurality of recordings corresponding to the sample text, in which the plurality of recordings are speech obtained by reading the sample text using a plurality of mood types; extracting a mood feature from each of the plurality of recordings, and determining a mood type corresponding to the mood feature; establishing a mood recognition model based on the sample text, mood features extracted from the plurality of recordings, and mood types corresponding to the mood features; and performing mood recognition on a speech data of a user based on the mood recognition model to obtain a corresponding mood meaning.
US10964330B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for processing recordings of events. The technique includes applying a machine learning model to a plurality of samples from one or more recordings of the events to generate a plurality of embeddings representing the plurality of samples. The technique also includes generating a plurality of labels that identify speakers associated with the plurality of samples based on metadata comprising timestamps of voice activity during the events and participants associated with the voice activity. The technique further includes storing mappings of the plurality of embeddings to the plurality of labels.
US10964320B2
This disclosure relates generally to optically switchable devices, and more particularly, to methods for controlling optically switchable devices. In various embodiments, one or more optically switchable devices may be controlled via voice control and/or gesture control. The method may be implemented on a network of optically switchable devices, and may be implemented to control the optical state of a plurality of optically switchable devices on the network.
US10964318B2
A system and method to receive a spoken utterance and convert the spoken utterance into a recognized speech results through an automatic speech recognition service. A spoken utterance into a recognized speech result through an automatic speech recognition service. The recognized speech results are interpreted through a natural language processing module. A normalizer processes the recognized speech results that transforms the recognized speech interpretations into predefined form for a given automatic speech recognition domain and further determines which automatic speech recognition domains or the recognized speech results are processed by a dedicated dialogue management proxy module or a conversation module.
US10964310B2
A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
US10964306B2
Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) systems and methods that reduce latency to improve performance. In certain embodiments the systems sample a noise signal using a sample period to create a stream of digital signal data that is representative of the noise signal. A data transport layer carries the digital signal data to a signal processor. The transport layer temporally organizes the digital signal data to place the digital signal data within an initial phase of a sample period. The remaining phase of the sample period is set to a duration that allows the signal processor to process the digital signal data carried in the initial phase and to output the processed data during the same sample period. In this way, the processing of data occurs within one sample period and the latency is reduced and predictable.
US10964302B2
An article includes a MAX phase solid and a high temperature melting point metallic material interdispersed with the MAX phase material.
US10964300B2
An audio signal processing method, belongs to the field of terminal technologies. The audio signal processing method includes: acquiring a first audio signal of a target song sung by a user; extracting timbre information of the user from the first audio signal; acquiring intonation information of a standard audio signal of the target song; and generating a second audio signal of the target song based on the timbre information and the intonation information.
US10964293B2
Embodiments are directed to managing display hardware for visualizing data a network computer. A modeling engine may provide a data model includes a plurality of data objects and a display model that includes a plurality of display objects that may be based on the plurality of data objects. Action objects may be associated with display objects in the display model. A display engine may display the display model on a hardware display based on context information that includes performance characteristics of the hardware display. In response to a trigger events, action objects may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information. In response to detecting input signals associated with the action objects the display model may be modified based on the action objects. The modified display model may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information.
US10964291B2
A sticker system includes at least a head-mounted device and a sticker. In an embodiment, the sticker system receives an image of the sticker captured by an imaging sensor. The sticker system determines registration information by processing a fiducial marker of the sticker shown in the image. The sticker system determines location information of the HMD. Additionally, the sticker system determines a position of the sticker relative to the HMD using the registration information and the location information. The sticker system provides a (e.g., augmented reality) graphic to the HMD for presentation to the user based on the position of the sticker.
US10964290B2
According to one implementation, a system for enhancing energy efficiency during display of an image through selective reduction of pixel intensity includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive a first image including multiple pixels and having a first display power consumption when displayed on a display, and to change the intensity of each of a predetermined subset of the pixels of the first image into a predetermined intensity to generate a second image. The second image has a second display power consumption when displayed on the display, the predetermined intensity being such that the second display power consumption is lower than the first display power consumption.
US10964276B2
A display apparatus includes: a light emission unit including a plurality of light sources that emit light; a display unit displays an image by modulating the light on the basis of frames; a determination unit determines a luminescence intensity of each of the light sources for each sub-frame; and a control unit controls lighting of each of the light sources for each sub-frame at the luminescence intensity, wherein the determination unit (1) determines a leakage light quantity, wherein the leakage light quantity is a transmission quantity of light from other light sources that is generated due to response delay in modulation by the display unit, for each region of the display unit corresponding to each of the light sources, and (2) determines the luminescence intensity in accordance with the difference of the leakage light quantity between the regions.
US10964271B2
Disclosed are a source driver and a display device using the same, and the display device includes the source driver that generates sensing data by performing a pre-processing operation on pixel data obtained by sensing display pixels, and a timing controller that generates correction data for correction for pixel characteristics by performing a post-processing operation on the sensing data.
US10964264B1
An electroluminescent display panel including a pixel driving circuit that includes a light-emitting element, a first capacitor connected to a first node and a second node, a second capacitor connected to the second node and a high potential voltage line, a driving transistor supplying electric current to the light-emitting element, a first switching circuit controlled by a first scan signal and turned on during the sampling period to compensate for a time-varying characteristic of the driving transistor, a second switching circuit controlled by a second scan signal and turned on during the programming period to apply a data voltage to the second node, and a light emission control circuit controlled by an emission signal and turned on during the initialization period and the emission period to apply the high potential voltage to the driving transistor.
US10964262B1
Techniques for reducing image artifacts on a display s may include receiving image data, such that the image data includes pixel luminance data for a frame of image data. The technique may also include determining an emission duration for a pixel of the plurality of pixels during a sub-frame of the frame of image data based on the pixel luminance data. The technique may also include determining an emission duration extension to apply to the emission duration associated with the sub-frame based on a luminance baseline associated with the sub-frame, a luminance level associated with the sub-frame, and a time period associated with the sub-frame. The technique may then involve sending an emission signal to the pixel, such that the emission signal is configured to cause the pixel to emit light for a duration that correspond to the emission duration and the emission duration extension.
US10964258B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display region. The display region has a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a switching transistor having a gate electrically connected to a scanning line and controlling the input of an image signal provided from a signal line, a drive transistor input with the image signal through the switching transistor and controlling a current value based on the image signal, a display element having a first electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor and emitting light by a current supplied through the drive transistor, a storage capacitor having a first electrode electrically connected to a gate of the drive transistor, and a reset transistor connected between the first electrode of the display element and a reset line, and having a gate electrically connected to the scanning line.
US10964256B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device are provided. A driving sub-circuit of the pixel circuit is configured to provide a data signal from the data signal terminal to the driving node under the control of a driving signal from the driving signal terminal. A holding sub-circuit of the pixel circuit is configured to acquire a potential of the driving node under the control of a first switching signal from the first switching signal terminal, and maintain the potential of the driving node unchanged under the control of a first power signal from the first power signal terminal and a second power signal from the second power signal terminal. A light emitting sub-circuit of the pixel circuit is connected to the driving node and is configured to emit light under the driving of the driving node.
US10964250B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a timing controller. The timing controller generates first output image data based on input image data and sets a driving frequency of the display panel as a first frequency in a first operation mode. The timing controller converts the input image data into second output image data and sets the driving frequency of the display panel as a second frequency lower than the first frequency in a second operation mode. The display panel displays a first image based on the first frequency and the first output image data in the first operation mode. The first image is represented by X grayscales. The display panel displays a second image based on the second frequency and the second output image data in the second operation mode. The second image is represented by Y grayscales, where Y is less than X.
US10964249B2
A source driving circuit including source channels each of which includes a source amplifier is disclosed. The source amplifier includes an internal amplifier configured to output a first pull-up signal and a first pull-down signal in response to a first gamma signal; an output circuit configured to output a first source driving signal in response to the first pull-up signal and the first pull-down signal; and first and second switch circuits connecting the internal amplifier and the output circuit, and configured to transfer the first pull-up signal and the first pull-down signal corresponding to the first gamma signal or a second pull-up signal and a second pull-down signal corresponding to a second gamma signal of another source channel, to the output circuit.
US10964244B2
[Object] An object is to suppress an occurrence of display unevenness in a pause-and-drive operation. [Solution] A display device configured to perform pause-and-drive operation includes an nth stage circuit connected to one end of an nth gate bus line, and an nth transistor connected to the other end of the nth gate bus line. One of a first clock signal group (AGCK1 to AGCK6) is input to the nth stage circuit. One of a second clock signal group (BGCK1 to BGCK6) is input to the nth transistor. In a pause period in which all clock signals of the first clock signal group are fixed at an inactive level, one or more pulses (P3 to P6) are included in the second signal group.
US10964239B2
A lighting test device for a display panel includes: a connection part including a first connection test pad, a second connection test pad and a plurality of test pads, which are arranged at an end of the connection part, where the connection part is allowed to be connected to the display panel through the first connection test pad, the second connection test pad and the test pads; and a test circuit which outputs a connection test signal to the first connection test pad, receives a feedback signal through the second connection test pad, and adjusts voltage levels of test signals to be applied to the test pads based on the connection test signal and the feedback signal.
US10964229B2
A welding system includes a welding torch. The welding torch includes a sensor configured to detect a motion associated with the welding torch, a temperature associated with the welding torch, or some combination thereof. A display of the welding torch is activated, a determination is made that the welding torch has been involved in a high impact event, live welding using the welding torch is disabled, a software selection is made, or some combination thereof, based on the motion, the temperature, or some combination thereof.
US10964225B2
An information processing apparatus includes a question output controller that selects and outputs an easier question to respond from plural questions as a time difference between a time associated with an event and an expected response time that is a time at which a respondent of a question about the event is likely to respond is larger.
US10964216B2
A method for providing information about a probable driving intention of a first vehicle. The method includes ascertaining, using a locating device, first position data, which indicate the approximate position of the first vehicle, and map data for the first position data, and capturing, using cameras and/or sensors in the first vehicle, information about the surroundings in proximity to the first vehicle. The method also includes determining information about a probable trajectory of the first vehicle, and providing information about a probable driving intention of the first vehicle, based on the information about the probable trajectory of the first vehicle, the position data, the information about the surroundings and the map data. The method also includes transmitting the information about the probable driving intention of the first vehicle to a second vehicle and/or one or more vehicle-external entities.
US10964211B2
A vehicle driving assistance device includes a driving assistance controller and an acquisition portion. The driving assistance controller includes a signal information acquisition part, a remaining distance calculator, and a driving assistance information output portion. The acquisition portion acquires information on (i) a vehicular speed and remaining distance to the intersection of an intersecting-side vehicle travelling on an intersecting road that joins a main road at the intersection, (ii) an arrival time when the intersecting-side vehicle arrives at the intersection, or (iii) lighting period information of an intersecting-side traffic signal. The driving assistance controller updates lighting period information of a main-side traffic signal based on information acquired from a road-to-vehicle communication transceiver, and outputs driving assistance information based on the updated lighting period information.
US10964210B1
Systems and apparatuses for generating customized driving assistance outputs are provided. The system may collect initial sensor data from a rotating mobile device. The system may analyze the initial sensor data to determine whether to collect additional sensor data. Based on analysis of the initial sensor data and the additional sensor data, the system may determine a customized driving assistance output. The system may determine one or more notification outputs and one or more instruction outputs for the driver based on the customized driving assistance output. The system may update an aggregate driving output based on whether or not the instruction output was completed, as determined from subsequent sensor data.
US10964200B2
An alarm method and system reduces costs, and the alarm method includes obtaining a detection signal from a terminal device, where the detection signal is a signal sent by the terminal device when the terminal device detects whether there is an available network, and performing an alarm operation when the detection signal meets a first condition.
US10964193B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a system includes an audio signal analyzer configured to receive one or more audio microphone signals, and configured to determine a first pattern matching result by determining whether the one or more microphone signals include at least one audio pattern of one or more predefined audio patterns. Moreover, the system includes an air pressure signal analyzer configured to receive an air pressure change signal indicating an air pressure change, or configured to receive an air pressure signal indicating a current air pressure. The air pressure signal analyzer is configured to determine a second pattern matching result by determining whether the air pressure signal or the air pressure change signal includes at least one pressure sensor pattern. Furthermore, the system comprises an evaluator configured to indicate, depending on the first pattern matching result and depending second pattern matching result that a predefined event occurred.
US10964190B2
A system having eyeglasses including hinged stems, a plurality of sensors and an alarm, and a method implanting the system. The system additionally includes a triaxial accelerometer, an IR transmitter, an IR receiver, and a barometric sensor. The sensors are set up in the stems and the rims of the eyeglasses and connected to a processing and calculation unit having a microprocessor and a memory. A computer program in the processing and calculation unit collects and analyzes data issued by the sensors, and triggers the alarm based on the analysis of the data.
US10964186B2
A web server based system for 24/7 managed care services to clients with Alzheimer, Autism, and assisted living is provided in the invention. The system uses intelligent digital camera with built in AI algorithms to monitor client's activities, uses voice recognition, and two way voice communication and thus requires no body wearing devices. The camera detects client's movements—such as sitting, lying, and falls—and generates appropriate alarms to a central server for a client assistance operator to act. The smarts in the camera can analyze client's vicinity to pre stored scenes, client's emotion and generate alerts to the client assistant operator. The system uses an intelligent digital client assistant device with built in smarts for speaker independent voice recognition to provide client access to entertainment, e-commerce, and other voice activated services. The system in the invention uses a drone to monitor remotely movement of the client in case it leaves premises without informing a caregiver. The drone pilot monitors the movement and informs local authority to assist the client. The web server allows all managed care services needed to provide a good quality of life to the clients while monitoring their well-being and safety and relieves burden on the caregiver. The system in the invention allows clients remote virtual office visit to a physician, and monitors client's vehicle movement if client drives away from home. The system can also be used in other security related applications.
US10964184B2
An integrated circuit chip (2), an antenna (3) and a tamper loop (4), and in addition to this, a light emitting diode (LED) (20), configured to be activated, i.e. supplied with current, upon a signal received by the antenna (3). The LED (20) is integrated in the device in such a way that when the LED is activated in the above-described way, the LED lights up so as to become visible by the naked eye, on the condition that the tamper loop (4) is in a predefined state, either open or closed. The LED (20) is coupled between the same terminals (8,9) of the integrated circuit chip (2) as the tamper loop (4).
US10964180B2
Software intrusion protection systems to prevent remote access to sensitive data are very prevalent. In some cases, additional physical access protection may also be desired. By preventing physical access to a system an intruder may not be able to physically “steal” component parts of the system and then obtain their contents (or design criteria) at a remote site (e.g., after the physical theft). Monitors are provided to detect potential access to a secure computer system and identify if inappropriate access to the secure computer system is obtained (or is imminent). In a case where unauthorized access is predicted, warnings and alerts may be sent prior to an actual breach. Upon determination that a breach may be likely to occur, techniques to protect data (e.g., erasure, destruction, etc.) and component parts may be initiated. Sensors monitor internal and external physical environmental conditions to assist in detection of intrusion.
US10964179B2
Methods and systems are disclosed to facilitate creating the sensation of vibrotactile movement on the body of a user. Vibratory motors are used to generate a haptic language for music or other stimuli that is integrated into wearable technology. The disclosed system in certain embodiments enables the creation of a family of devices that allow people such as those with hearing impairments to experience sounds such as music or other input to the system. For example, a “sound vest” or other wearable array transforms musical input to haptic signals so that users can experience their favorite music in a unique way, and can also recognize auditory or other cues in the user's real or virtual reality environment and convey this information to the user using haptic signals.
US10964173B2
The present invention relates to gaming machines, systems and methods of gaming. There are a number of different ways available for determining an award by current gaming machines and systems. In this embodiment, a game controller is arranged to determine an award depending on the number of columns spanned by a cluster of symbols and the number of symbol positions in the cluster.
US10964171B1
Systems and methods of conducting wagering games involving, among other things, a modified Blackjack wagering game in which a card in a player hand may be exchanged with a card in the dealer hand.
US10964162B2
A kiosk for gaming by patrons. An identification scanner may scan an identification document into digital form. A biological sensor such as a camera may obtain biological data describing a human patron. Input-output device(s) mounted in the kiosk may present information and accept registration/login information and gaming commands from a human patron. A currency acceptor and dispenser may accept money. The kiosk may ask a patron to insert an identification document into the identification scanner, and scan the document. The kiosk may obtain biological data describing the patron. The kiosk may verify the identity of the patron and acceptability of the patron for gaming based at least in part on the digital form of the patron's identification and the biological data. The kiosk may accept currency for deposit into a wagering account. Once the patron is verified and the account is funded, the kiosk may offer gaming activities to the verified patron out of the wagering account, and pay out gaming winnings at the currency dispenser.
US10964158B2
A serial network switch for an electronic gaming machine adds auxiliary serial ports suitable for communication with an existing slot accounting system in a casino gaming environment.
US10964147B2
Systems and methods for electronic ticketing, monitoring, and indicating permissive use of facilities for family entertainment centers that implement connected terminal devices or kiosks, wireless communication networks, and a plurality of electronic wearable devices. Customers perform transactions with or without a facility employee, using the wearable device as a means of identifying the patron within the facility in addition to verifying the validity of said transactions. Systems and methods provide real-time status information regarding patrons via visual indicators embedded within wearable devices, gamification of facility attractions through an embedded motion-tracking component embedded in the wearable device, and alerts that provide facility employees with activity and/or status information about patrons.
US10964146B2
An circuit includes a first inductive coil and a second inductive coil each including a plurality of metal traces. The first and second inductive coils are each configured to receive a first signal from an electromagnetic field and generate respective first and second output voltages. Each of the first inductive coil and the second inductive coil are configured to inductively couple to the electromagnetic field. A first circuit element is configured to receive the first output voltage and generate a first response at a first power level of the first output voltage. A second circuit element is configured to receive the second output voltage and transition to an active state to perform one or more functions when the second output voltage exceeds a second power level. The first and second power levels are related to movement of the first and second inductive coils through the electromagnetic field.
US10964143B2
An apparatus includes a controller and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the controller to initiate or perform operations including adjusting a lock between a first state and a second state and adjusting a container bar between a locked state and an unlocked state. The lock is configured to, in the first state, secure a cover over an opening of a container body or couple an end of a membrane to a container base.
US10964140B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for accommodating unattended services at a property. In one aspect, a monitoring system is disclosed that includes a processor and a storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations can include receiving a request to enter the property to perform the unattended service, configuring the monitoring system to allow access to a first portion of the property associated with the unattended service without triggering an alarm event, obtaining image data of the property after the monitoring system is configured to allow access to the first portion of the property, determining, based on the obtained image data, that an unattended service provider has entered into a second, different portion of the property, and triggering an alarm event.
US10964137B2
The present invention relates to a risk information collection device which includes: a degree of risk calculator to calculate a degree of risk of a travel state of the vehicle based on travel information of the vehicle, a visually-recognized object specifier to combine visual line information of a driver of the vehicle and object information around the vehicle and specify a name of a visually-recognized object of the driver to set a visually-recognized object candidate, a passenger information acquirer to acquire passenger information including at least words pronounced by a passenger, a risk-inducing factor candidate setter to set a risk-inducing factor candidate for specifying a risk-inducing factor based on the passenger information, and a risk-inducing factor specifier to specify a risk-inducing factor based on the degree of risk, the visually-recognized object candidate, and the risk-inducing factor candidate.
US10964132B2
An apparatus for detecting fault states of an aircraft is provided. The apparatus receives training data including operational parameters of the aircraft operating over a plurality of training flight legs and applies a first clustering algorithm separately to the training data to produce first clustered data. The apparatus applies a second clustering algorithm to the first clustered data to produce second clustered data that indicates a plurality of states describing behavior of the aircraft operating over the training legs and applies a third clustering algorithm to identify one or more fault states of the aircraft from the plurality of states based on the training data and the second clustered data. The apparatus receives messages carrying data from the aircraft over a digital datalink, detects a fault state of the one or more fault states from the data, and generates an alert of the fault state.
US10964125B2
Various examples of the present disclosure provide a mobile sensing and smart payment system. The mobile sensing and smart payment system includes a terminal-identity-information-collection module, and a background data processing center. The background data processing center is configured to successively and respectively trigger, in a suitable time slot, a user information extraction process to extract mobile terminal identity information corresponding to each passenger; based upon extracted mobile terminal information to determine start and destination stations for each passenger; and calculate a charge for each passenger based upon the start and destination stations, and a fee schedule. The present disclosure can effectively determine a charge for each passenger without a need for a corresponding passenger to swipe a card or insert a coin through a traditional gate machine, and thus is advantageous over conventional systems.
US10964121B2
Technologies for merging three-dimensional models of dental impressions include a computing device that generates multiple three-dimensional models that are each indicative of a dental impression of a user's dental arch. The models may be generated by scanning the dental impressions. The computing device determines whether a model is indicative of the complete anatomy of the user's arch and, if not, merges multiple models with a merge strategy to generate a merged model. The models may be merged by aligning geometry of the models, selecting geometry from one of the models using the merge strategy, and generating the merged model that includes the selected geometry. The merge strategy may include selecting from the model associated with the dental impression that includes the most detail of the user's anatomy or selecting from the model with the greatest depth.
US10964114B2
Systems and methods are provided for capturing by a camera of a user device, a first image depicting a first environment of the user device; overlaying a first virtual object on a portion of the first image depicting the first environment; modifying a surface of the first virtual object using content captured by the user device; storing a second virtual object comprising the first virtual object with the modified surface; and generating for display the second virtual object on a portion of a second image depicting a second environment.
US10964109B1
A method for creating a complete three-dimensional model of a vehicle, along with a corresponding virtual tour and means for navigating said model is disclosed.
US10964106B2
Method and system for dynamically modifying visual rendering of a visual element in a computer generated environment from an interactive computer simulation. Pre-identified distinctive visual characteristics are associated with the visual element. A tangible instrument module is sued to provide one or more commands for controlling a simulated vehicle of the interactive computer simulation. At the interactive computer simulation station, dynamically modifying the one or more pre-identified distinctive visual characteristics of the visual element is performed considering at least a relative directional vector between the simulated vehicle and the visual element in the computer generated environment, the relative directional vector being determined in real-time during execution of the interactive computer simulation prior to rendering the visual element for display.
US10964104B2
A system for monitoring an industrial system may have a computing device that generates a first three-dimensional (3D) visualization based on 3D video associated with an industrial system. The first 3D visualization may have one or more 3D device visualizations of industrial automation devices, and each 3D device visualization of the industrial automation devices that may depict a 3D object that corresponds to an industrial automation device in the industrial system. The computing device may display the first 3D visualization via an electronic display and detect a gesture in a first set of image data comprising the surrounding of the user and the first 3D visualization. The gesture is indicative of a modification associated with the first 3D visualization. The computing device may receive additional 3D video associated with the industrial system, generate a second 3D visualization based on the modification and the additional 3D video, and display the second 3D visualization via the electronic display.
US10964096B2
A method for determining if an object in a colour three-dimensional environment rendered in real time on a display by a computer is visible for user with a defined point of observation in the three-dimensional environment. The object is defined by at least one area with a predefined colour (CD) where said area is rendered with a colour (CR) that is different from the predefined colour due to the rendering conditions at a defined time point. There is a pre-defined pseudocolour (CP), where a colour is defined as colour values for each of the red (R), green (G) and blue (B) channels.
US10964092B2
Described is a method for the visualization of medical image data as volume data. As part of the method, medical image data is acquired. A 3D mask is produced by segmenting the image data and classifying the segmented regions into predefined classes. Furthermore, the image data and the mask data are saved in two separate 3D texture files. A translation vector is then calculated, which describes the displacement of a segmented volume element between an original position and a destination position. In addition, a pictorial display of the image data is produced by applying a raycasting method to the stored image data. Finally, a displacement by the translation vector of a segmented volume element in the pictorial display is performed. A visualization entity is also described. Moreover, a medical imaging system is described.
US10964089B1
A method for coding view-dependent texture attributes of points in a 3D point cloud prior to transmission and decoding includes creating a supplemental enhancement information (SIE) message for the 3D point cloud prior to transmission and decoding. The SEI message includes parameters related to texture attributes of individual points in the 3D point cloud for a plurality of viewing states at an initial time, such that when the SIE message is received at a decoder, the decoder is enabled to use the message to classify the texture attributes and apply one or more texture attributes to individual points such that the texture of each individual point in the decoded 3D point cloud is a correct representation of texture of that individual point in the 3D point cloud prior to transmission and decoding for each of the viewing states.
US10964079B2
A map-editing method is provided for an electronic device. The method includes obtaining a panorama image and a corresponding acquisition position; selecting an image region containing a road element from the panorama image; and projecting the selected image region to a top-view image containing the road element. The method also include obtaining an extracted road element that is automatically extracted and matching the acquisition position; comparatively displaying the extracted road element and the top-view image on a map according to the acquisition position; and obtaining an editing instruction of the extracted road element displayed on the map, and responding to the editing instruction.
US10964078B2
System, device, and method of image processing, particularly utilizing machine learning and computer vision. A user selects a particular shirt from an online catalog; and instead of seeing an image of the shirt on the shelf or being worn by a model, the system generates and shows to the user an image of that particular shirt being virtually dressed by that particular user. The user requests the system to show search results for blue pants; and instead of producing generic images of blue pants, on the shelf or worn by various models, the system generates user-tailored search results that shown various types of blue pants being virtually worn by the user himself, or virtually worn by a particular other person that is selected by the user. The system enhances the product image by correcting it and by adding realistically-looking shading and wrinkles.
US10964066B2
A colored three-dimensional point cloud is encoded in at least two depth and texture images. The proposed method and device use inverse project pixels of the first image and inverse project pixels to the second image. When the inverse projecting of a first pixel of the first image and the inverse projecting of a second pixel of the second image refer to a common generated point, that is two 3D points closer to each other than the imprecision due to the encoding and compression of the images, the color value of the pixel of first and second pixels having the lowest local depth variance is attributed to the common generated point.
US10964065B2
An image evaluation apparatus which is capable of evaluating an image that can be given positive evaluations in a networking service. Images included in post data posted on a networking service and evaluating values for the post data are obtained at predetermined time intervals. When the post data has been obtained, first parameters are generated by applying an image analysis process to the images. The first parameters and the evaluation values are stored in association with each other. Upon input of image to be evaluated, a second parameter is generated by applying the image analysis process to the image to be evaluated. A first parameter corresponding to the second parameter is extracted from the plurality of stored first parameters. Parameter evaluation values representing variations in the evaluation values associated with the extracted first parameter in notifying order are calculated. Notification of the calculated parameter evaluation values is provided.
US10964064B1
A seasonal color coding system for recommending a customized seasonal color harmony palette to a user is disclosed. The system includes a scanning module to scan attributes comprising a skin color, a hair color, and an eye color, a plurality of colors of tangible objects, or a combination thereof associated with a plurality of users. The system further includes an analysis module to analyze the plurality of attributes by using mathematical algorithms to identify colors corresponding to each of the attributes. The system further includes a categorization module to determine a category for the user based on the identified colors corresponding to each of the attributes. The system further includes a recommendation module to provide recommendations for the customized seasonal color harmony palette to the user based on the determined category.
US10964061B2
A deep neural network (DNN) system learns a map representation for estimating a camera position and orientation (pose). The DNN is trained to learn a map representation corresponding to the environment, defining positions and attributes of structures, trees, walls, vehicles, etc. The DNN system learns a map representation that is versatile and performs well for many different environments (indoor, outdoor, natural, synthetic, etc.). The DNN system receives images of an environment captured by a camera (observations) and outputs an estimated camera pose within the environment. The estimated camera pose is used to perform camera localization, i.e., recover the three-dimensional (3D) position and orientation of a moving camera, which is a fundamental task in computer vision with a wide variety of applications in robot navigation, car localization for autonomous driving, device localization for mobile navigation, and augmented/virtual reality.
US10964060B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to generating training image data for a convolutional neural network, encoding parameters into a convolutional neural network, and employing a convolutional neural network that estimates camera calibration parameters of a camera responsible for capturing a given digital image. A plurality of different digital images can be extracted from a single panoramic image given a range of camera calibration parameters that correspond to a determined range of plausible camera calibration parameters. With each digital image in the plurality of extracted different digital images having a corresponding set of known camera calibration parameters, the digital images can be provided to the convolutional neural network to establish high-confidence correlations between detectable characteristics of a digital image and its corresponding set of camera calibration parameters. Once trained, the convolutional neural network can receive a new digital image, and based on detected image characteristics thereof, estimate a corresponding set of camera calibration parameters with a calculated level of confidence.
US10964057B2
An information processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor programmed to cause the apparatus to: hold label information regarding presence of a target object, the label information being set for the target object in an image; obtain a reliability of the label information; cause a display apparatus to display the label information and an image corresponding to the label information in the image, based on the reliability; accept an operation made by a user; and modify the label information based on the operation.
US10964048B2
Provided is an apparatus for generating an image, the apparatus including a processor configured to detect at least one object near a vehicle by using a result of sensing a surrounding area of the vehicle, determine a direction and a distance from the vehicle to the detected at least one object, and generate an image of the surrounding area of the vehicle based on the determined direction and distance. Therefore, the apparatus may accurately express a shape of the object and a relative location between the vehicle and the object on a three-dimensional (3D) image of the surrounding area of a vehicle.
US10964044B2
In a method of operating a measurement device, an image acquisition unit acquires a first image of a subject. A display control unit displays the first image or a second image regarding the first image on a display. A reading unit reads one or more pieces of reference information from a storage medium. The reference information represents two reference positions on the subject. The display control unit displays the one or more pieces of reference information on the display. A setting unit sets two reference positions on the first image or the second image after the first image or the second image is displayed on the display and the reference information is displayed on the display.
US10964042B2
A detection device including: a detector that detects an object from one viewpoint; a reliability calculator that calculates reliability information on the object at the one viewpoint by using a detection result of the detector; and an information calculator that calculates shape information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result of the detector and the reliability information and calculates texture information on the object at the one viewpoint by using the detection result, the information calculator generates model information on the object at the one viewpoint based on the shape information and the texture information.
US10964041B2
An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image and distance information concerning a distance from an in-focus plane, which corresponds to each pixel included in the image; a setting unit configured to set an image processing condition according to the distance information based on an output characteristic of an output apparatus concerning a sharpness; and a processing unit configured to perform image processing for the image using the distance information obtained by the obtaining unit and the image processing condition set by the setting unit, wherein the processing unit changes, in accordance with the distance information, a band of a spatial frequency of the image to which the image processing is applied.
US10964038B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for processing 3D data, an apparatus for processing 3D data, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring three-dimensional point cloud data to be processed; mapping the three-dimensional point cloud data into a two-dimensional image space to obtain a first depth map; performing an expansion processing on the first depth map after changing an occlusion relation between target objects contained in the first depth map; and changing the occlusion relation between the target objects contained in the first depth map subject to the expansion processing to obtain a second depth map matched to the three-dimensional point cloud data.
US10964033B2
A visual tracker may track an object by identifying the object in a frame, and the visual tracker by identify the object in the frame within a search region. The search region may be provided by a motion modeling system that independently models the motion of the object and models the motion of the camera. For example, an object motion model of the motion modeling system may first model the motion of the object, assuming the camera is not in motion, in order to identify the expected position of the object. A camera motion model of the motion modeling system may then update the expected position of the object, obtained from the object motion model, based on the motion of the camera.
US10964017B2
The present disclosure relates to training one or more neural networks for vascular vessel assessment using synthetic image data for which ground-truth data is known. In certain implementations, the synthetic image data may be based in part, or derived from, clinical image data for which ground-truth data is not known or available. Neural networks trained in this manner may be used to perform one or more of vessel segmentation, decalcification, Hounsfield unit scoring, and/or estimation of a hemodynamic parameter.
US10964014B2
A defect detecting method, a defect detecting system, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. The defect detecting method includes applying a rank filter to multiple scan images of consecutive dies of a reference wafer scanned by a wafer inspection tool to obtain multiple reference die images; collecting multiple target die images of a target die of a target wafer scanned by the wafer inspection tool; comparing the target die images with the reference die images to detect multiple defects according to differences of pixel values of corresponding pixels in the target die images and the reference die images; and excluding multiple common defects from the detected defects to detect at least one mask defect printed on the target wafer, where the common defects are obtained by the wafer inspection tool performing a wafer inspection on the target wafer.
US10964011B2
A method is provided for model training to detect defective products. The method includes sampling training images of a product to (i) extract image portions therefrom made of a center patch and its context and (ii) black-out the center patch. The method further includes performing unsupervised back-propagation training of a Contextual Auto-Encoder (CAE) model using (i) the image portions with the blacked-out center patch as an input and, (ii) the center patch as a target output and, (iii) an image-based loss function, to obtain a trained CAE model. The method also includes sampling positive and negative center-patch-sized portions from the training images. The method additionally includes normalizing, using the trained CAE model, the positive and negative center-patch-sized portions. The method further includes performing supervised training of a classifier model using the normalized positive and negative center-patch-sized portions to obtain a trained supervised classifier model for detecting the defective products.
US10964007B2
A method of inspecting cased goods includes advancing at least one case of goods on a conveyor, generating an illumination sheet of parallel illuminating rays with at least one electromagnetic source, and capturing an image, formed by the illumination sheet passing through a diffuser with at least one camera located so as to capture illumination from diffused parallel rays of the light sheet, where the image case embodies a goods image that is generated by the case goods moving between the light source and the at least one camera, where part of the parallel sheet of light is at least partially blocked by the case of goods, thus generating a gray level image.
US10964006B2
A computer that identifies a fake image is described. During operation, the computer receives an image. Then, the computer performs analysis on the image to determine a signature that includes multiple features. Based at least in part in the determined signature, the computer classifies the image as having a first signature associated with the fake image or as having a second signature associated with a real image, where the first signature corresponds to a finite resolution of a neural network that generated the fake image, a finite number of parameters in the neural network that generated the fake image, or both. For example, the finite resolution may correspond to floating point operations in the neural network. Moreover, in response to the classification, the computer may perform a remedial action, such as providing a warning or a recommendation, or performing filtering.
US10964000B2
Systems and techniques for noise reduction in video are described. Example implementations provide improved motion-adaptive temporal or spatio-temporal noise reduction that use an improved blending of the current frame with previous frames. The improved blending may be particularly effective for processing video captured in noisy environments such as low-light and/or mobile environments. In some example implementations, the improved blending is based on more accurately distinguishing between pixel difference in adjacent images that are caused by motion rather than noise.
US10963994B2
A computer-implemented method of anonymizing at least one feature in a scene comprises receiving one or more images representing the scene and applying a sorting algorithm to the image(s) to identify features within the image(s) and classify the features according to at least one predetermined feature category to produce at least one classified feature in the image(s). An annotation scheme, specifying at least one obscuring annotation type to be applied to at least one corresponding feature category, is applied to the image(s). The image(s) are then modified by, for each classified feature in the image(s) having an annotation indicating that said classified feature is in a feature category corresponding to a particular obscuring annotation type to be applied, applying the particular obscuring annotation type to that classified feature in the image(s) so that at least one identifying aspect of that classified feature is obscured within the image(s).
US10963987B2
A video processing method includes receiving a bitstream, and decoding, by a video decoder, the bitstream to generate a decoded frame. The decoded frame is a projection-based frame that has a 360-degree image/video content represented by triangular projection faces packed in a triangle-based projection layout. An omnidirectional image/video content of a viewing sphere is mapped onto the triangular projection faces via a triangle-based projection of the viewing sphere. An equator of the viewing sphere is not mapped along any side of each of the triangular projection faces.
US10963984B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for interaction monitoring for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. Execution of an application is initiated on a virtual compute instance that is implemented using CPU and memory resources of a server. Instruction calls are produced by the execution of the application and sent from the server to a graphics server over a network. The graphics server comprises a physical GPU, and a virtual GPU is implemented using the physical GPU and attached to the virtual compute instance. GPU output is generated at the graphics server based at least in part on execution of the instruction calls using the virtual GPU. A log of interactions between the application and the virtual GPU is stored. The interactions comprise the instruction calls sent to the graphics server and responses to the instruction calls sent to the virtual compute instance.
US10963980B2
A system and method of alerting and responding to a school emergency allows faculty members to alert other faculty members and students of an educational institution of an emergency all at the same time. Moreover, the method allows faculty members to automatically contact a first responder in order to resolve the emergency. The faculty member is able to include details of an emergency such as, but not limited to, the location of the emergency and the type of emergency situation. Additionally, the method notifies parents after the emergency is resolved and provides a feature which allows parents to find their children using a global positioning system (GPS) module.
US10963973B2
A user of a content sharing platform is identified a playlist is generated for the user. The playlist is generated based on one or more of the user's social interactions with other entities and the user's actions associated with other media items. The playlist may be modified or deleted if the user does not access the playlist or does not consume media items from the playlist within a threshold period of time.
US10963968B1
Systems and methods are described for using data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to generate insurance claim estimates that an insured individual may quickly review, approve, or modify. When an insurance-related event occurs, such as a vehicle collision, crash, or disaster, one or more UAVs are dispatched to the scene of the event to collect various data, including data related to vehicle or real property (insured asset) damage. With the insured's permission or consent, the data collected by the UAVs may then be analyzed to generate an estimated insurance claim for the insured. The estimated insurance claim may be sent to the insured individual, such as to their mobile device via wireless communication or data transmission, for subsequent review and approval. As a result, insurance claim handling and/or the online customer experience may be enhanced.
US10963960B1
A computer system is described that automatically allocates credit between two or more users of a shared line of credit. For example, a computer system is configured to monitor information relating to a plurality of credit needs of a plurality of users of a shared line of credit and feed the information into a trained machine learning model to automatically determine whether an amount of credit allocated to each user of the plurality of users is sufficient for the respective user's credit need. Based on output from the model, the computer system may automatically reallocate credit to at least a first one of the users identified as needing additional credit from at least a second one of the users identified as having unused or unneeded credit.
US10963959B2
A score factor system that may generate a score factor user interface that displays summary credit information for a particular consumer in selected credit categories. The system constructs flippable score factor interfaces for such display that, when touched, may be reversed to display explanatory text on how the corresponding credit category affects their credit report.
US10963958B1
The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and products for assessing collateral data, including appraisal data, and providing timely notification of any problems or anomalies identified for the collateral. A central server may access collateral data from a remote data source, apply rules to the collateral data to detect problems, and then create a notification describing the problems. The central server may rapidly transmit the notification to remote computing devices that were registered by a lender, so that the lender may act quickly to remediate the problems. A collateral viewer application that interacts with the notifications may also be provided to lenders.
US10963956B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure are directed to providing a plurality of grammatical components of a computer language for representing financial events of a user, receiving first financial information pertaining to the user from a first computing device, the first financial information defined using a first grammatical component in the plurality of grammatical components of the computer language; receiving second financial information pertaining to the user from a second computing device, the second financial information defined using a second grammatical component in the plurality of grammatical components of the computer language; and extracting the first financial information from the first grammatical component and the second financial information from the second grammatical component by parsing the first grammatical component and the second grammatical component.
US10963941B2
A method for providing recommendations to users includes obtaining stored data structure triples and actual ratings associated with the data structure triples; training a machine learning model using the stored data structure triples and associated actual ratings, wherein training the machine learning model includes generating user, product, and review representations based on the stored data structure triples and their associated ratings; predicting, by the machine learning model, ratings using the generated user, product, and review representations; and making recommendations based on the predicted ratings.
US10963920B2
Mechanisms for dynamically integrating content with a web page are disclosed. Statistical data that identifies a plurality of metrics associated with viewership of a web page of a plurality of web pages on a web server is received. Based on the statistical data, the web page is predicted to meet a future viewership metric. Based on the prediction, the web page is identified as a web page predicted to meet the future viewership metric. A web page identifier that identifies the web page is received from a client device. The client device is provided with a high-viewership ad content descriptor from a plurality of ad content descriptors for use in conjunction with presenting the web page to a user.
US10963919B2
An information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit, and a converting unit. The transmitting unit transmits advertisement information to an apparatus provided for presenting an advertisement. The receiving unit receives operation information from the apparatus. The converting unit performs conversion after the receiving unit receives the operation information, the conversion leading to reduction of an amount of the advertisement information. The transmitting unit transmits, to the apparatus, the advertisement information having undergone the conversion performed by the converting unit.
US10963914B2
An advertisement remarketing method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a gaze tracking circuit configured to track a gaze of a user relative to a plurality of advertisements displayed on content-serving devices to determine a focus level of the user with respect to each of the plurality of advertisements, a list creating circuit configured to create a plurality of ranked lists ranking the focus level of the user for each of the plurality of advertisements, each of the plurality of ranked lists corresponding to a different content-serving device of the content-serving devices, and a remarketing circuit configured to remarket advertisements to the user on a user device based on the plurality of ranked lists.
US10963905B2
A mobile device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a retail machine configured for wireless communications based on broadcasted information transmitted by the retail machine and including an identifier corresponding to the retail machine; transmits the identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including a promotional offer for products or services offered by the retail machine; displays the promotional offer; detects selection of a promotional offer; receives a notification from the retail machine that a product or service was provided by the retail machine for a user of the mobile device; transmits confirmation information associated with the notification to the server, receives promotion validation information from the server indicating validation of the promotional offer; and based on the promotion validation information, displays information confirming application of the promotional offer.
US10963892B2
Methods and systems for creating a location-based information sharing platform are described. The method includes receiving location coordinates of a location of a user. The method includes computing great-circle distances between a plurality of points and the location coordinates using a mathematical formula. The plurality of points represents location coordinates of items of interests near the location of the user. The method includes determining a range information of the location of the user based at least on the computed great-circle distances. The range information includes a plurality of range coordinates. The method includes querying a content database based on the plurality of range coordinates to retrieve information lying within the plurality of range coordinates from available data in the content database. The method further includes facilitating access of the retrieved information to the user.
US10963891B2
In response to a conversion action associated with an online advertisement (“ad”), an advertiser associated with the ad generates a unique identifier (e.g., a pseudo random number), which is transmitted to a payment system through a user device. In some implementations, the unique identifier can be generated by a payment system in response to a request from an advertiser. The advertiser stores the unique identifier in a secure location that is accessible by the payment system. The payment system compares the received unique identifier with the stored unique identifier. If the received unique identifier matches the stored unique identifier, and if the received unique identifier was not previously generated by the advertiser, then the payment system deems the conversion action to be valid.
US10963887B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for utilizing proxy contact information in order to allow merchants to communicate with customers. For instance, a payment service may receive, from a first merchant device, payment information and first contact information for a customer during a first transaction. The payment service may then associate the payment information with the first contact information. Next, the payment service may receive the payment information from a second merchant device during a second transaction. Based on receiving the payment information, the payment service may identify the first contact information using the association between the payment information and the first contact information, generate second contact information for the customer, associated the second contact information with the first contact information, and send the second contact information to the second merchant device. The second merchant can use the second contact information to communicate with the customer.
US10963886B2
A computerized method for generating a time-limited number for use in a payment card transaction involving a payment card issued by a financial institution. The payment card comprises an original payment card number. A first plurality of digits of the original payment card number is provided to a processor. The first plurality of digits are predetermined digits associated to the financial institution. A desired expiration date through which the time-limited number is valid for acceptance in the payment card transaction is provided to the processor. A program is executed by the processor to set a first plurality of digits in the time-limited number to the first plurality of digits in the original payment card number, generate a first number corresponding to the desired expiration date, set a second plurality of digits in the time-limited number to the first number, and output the time-limited number.
US10963874B2
A system that automates the clearing and settlement of electronic coupons (E-Coupons) by leveraging existing technologies and enabling E-Coupon redemption at any merchant having electronic funds transfer (EFT) capabilities, such as credit/debit card acceptance. The system reduces opportunities for fraud, reduces or eliminates the need for manual clearinghouse counting and sorting of coupons, and provides an electronic audit trail for coupon redemption, tying a specific purchase to a specific coupon. After registering and selecting coupons, consumers then use an E-Coupon card or account access device at a merchant's point-of-sale (POS) terminal. E-Coupon values are deducted from the consumer's final amount due. Both consumer package goods manufacturers (CPGs) and merchants may be charged a fee. Expired coupons are automatically removed from the account and their value refunded to the CPGs. Reports on redeemed coupons and consumer profiles can be generated and provided to CPGs or merchants.
US10963869B2
A social networking system, computer program product, and methods with a Personal Avatar executing on a first server node and a zero knowledge Arbiter executing on a second server node in a network of the social networking system. The Personal Avatar communicates social networking system messages in a communication session using a zero knowledge protocol with the zero knowledge Arbiter executing on the second server node operating in zero knowledge and using zero knowledge verifiable computing to enforce usage conditions on social networking system messages communicated in a communication session with the zero knowledge Arbiter. The zero knowledge Personal Avatar communicates social networking system messages in a communication session using a zero knowledge protocol with the zero knowledge Arbiter. The methods ensure privacy of an end user of the social networking system.
US10963866B2
Systems and methods for processing payment transactions using combination payment cards. The combination payment card is associated with an open-loop account and one or more closed-loop accounts. Transaction information is received from a point-of-sale device. At least one of the closed-loop and open-loop account is debited.
US10963864B2
The present invention is directed to a smartcard that enables a one-time pin code offline security authentication with a card reader. This is achieved by generating a one-time pin code when the user inputs their pin code. The inputted pin code is encrypted and matched with the encrypted user correct pin code. If there is a match the one-time pin code is stored in memory and the transaction can proceed.
US10963851B2
A cash-dispensing banking terminal has a housing, a transmitter, a receiver, a cash dispenser, and a processor to control the cash dispenser. A pre-created transaction request was earlier created with a mobile device before a banking customer and the mobile device arrive at the cash-dispensing banking terminal. A remote computing device authenticates and authorizes the transaction request before the customer and the mobile device arrive at the cash-dispensing banking terminal. When the transaction is authenticated and authorized, a remote computer generates an executable transaction request and generates and sends a transaction identifier associated with an executable transaction request to the mobile device. The receiver receives the transaction identifier from the mobile device, when the customer is at the banking terminal. The remote computer and/or other devices verify the transaction identifier is valid. The banking terminal performs the transaction request while the customer is at the banking terminal.
US10963849B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for facilitating a cashless transaction between a merchant and a customer, a system implementing the method, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform steps of the method. The method includes receiving, from an electronic device of the merchant, a transaction message including merchant identification data, customer identification data, and data on cost of the transaction, retrieving, from a merchant database, a profile of the merchant identified by the merchant identification data, communicating a payment message to a mobile device of the customer identified by the customer identification data, receiving, from the online payment interface accessible by the customer mobile device via the address link, authorization of the transaction by the customer and details of a customer payment vehicle, and transferring the transaction cost from the customer payment vehicle to the merchant financial account.
US10963845B2
A system and method for student attendance management are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: installing a site-resident data collection module in a site location; using the site-resident data collection module to collect student information, attendance data, and other site data from the site location; transferring the site data to a host location; performing data transformation and normalization operations on the site data to convert the site data to a common format, the data transformation and normalization operations including district-specific data transformation rules; performing district configuration operations to configure rules specifying how and when alerts can be sent to recipients based on the site data; performing scheduling and reporting operations to generate and distribute alerts, including attendance letters, to recipients based on the site data and the configured rules; and performing scheduling of multiple individual conferences via a block conferencing feature provided by a user interface.
US10963843B2
A patrol tracking system is disclosed, comprising an NFC carrier, a handheld device and a cloud server equipment, wherein the NFC carrier can be placed at a patrol location such that an administrator can scan the NFC carrier by means of the control unit of the handheld device, accordingly establish an NFC device setup file, and then upload it to the cloud server equipment; afterwards, when a patroller arrives at the patrol location, it is possible to use the handheld device to scan the NFC carrier, and, upon completing the scanning operation, create a patrol record file including relevant GPS coordinates, and then upload it to the cloud server equipment such that the back-end administrator can exactly manage and control the actual patrol location of the patroller thereby achieving the purpose of precise and credible patrol inspections.
