US09966792B2
An uninterruptible power supply circuit is provided. The uninterruptible power supply circuit includes a first diode, a second diode, a bridge rectifier, and one or more electrical loads. The first diode, the second diode, the bridge rectifier, and the one or more electrical loads are electrically connected in the uninterruptible power supply circuit to drive the one or more electrical loads with a DC voltage or the intended AC supply voltage when the AC supply voltage is cutoff.
US09966790B2
A vehicle system includes a plurality of capacitors each forming a portion of a vehicle structure, and a parallel electrical link between a pair of the plurality of capacitors, such that the pair of capacitors act as an aggregate capacitor.
US09966787B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a resonator that generates an induced current by electromagnetic coupling. The resonator includes a first conductor, a plurality of second conductors, a one end of each of the second conductors being electrically coupled to a first point of the first conductor, and an other end of each of the second conductors being electrically coupled to a second point of the first conductor, and at least one impedance load connected with the second conductors in series or in parallel. Thus, the resonator may generate current through the first and second conductors.
US09966784B2
The present disclosure provides a method for improving battery life of electronic devices such as Bluetooth headsets, smart-watches among others running on small batteries, for example coin batteries. The method may include wireless sound power transmission through suitable techniques such as pocket-forming, while including receivers and capacitors in the aforementioned devices. Wirelessly charged capacitors may provide sufficient power on which devices may run, and thus, battery life of such electronic devices may be enhanced.
US09966780B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for use in preserving and/or recovering the lifetime and charge storage capacity of batteries. The methods include pulse charging, energy juggling, energy leveling, all resulting in extended battery life. Methods of storing batteries for maintaining their capacity at their nominal level for extended periods of time are also presented.
US09966778B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first switch unit being connected between an electrical load and a battery, a second switch unit being connected between the electrical load and the battery, and being connected in parallel with the first switch unit, a first control unit that controls the first switch unit so as to control supplying power from an external apparatus to the electrical load and charging the battery with power supplied from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus, and a second control unit that controls the second switch unit based on whether power is supplied from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus. In a case where power is not supplied from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus, the second control unit controls the second switch unit to supply power from the battery to the electrical load via the second switch unit.
US09966772B2
A battery-charge control device comprises an attachment-detecting unit, a temperature-obtaining unit, a voltage-obtaining unit, a threshold-value-determining unit, a determination unit, and a completion-processing unit. The threshold-value-determining unit determines, based on a battery temperature obtained by the temperature-obtaining unit, a completion-threshold-value corresponding to the battery temperature for determining necessity of charging when the attachment-detecting unit detects that the battery pack is attached to the battery charger. The determination unit performs a determination of whether a voltage obtained by the voltage-obtaining unit is equal to or greater than the completion-threshold-value determined by the threshold-value-determining unit when the attachment-detecting unit detects that the battery pack is attached to the battery charger. The completion-processing unit performs a specified battery-charge completion processing indicating unnecessity of charging of the battery by the battery charger when the determination unit determines that the obtained voltage is equal to or greater than the completion-threshold-value.
US09966771B2
Power bank system. In one embodiment, a power bank system includes a docking station and a power bank configured to dock with the docking station such that the power bank is configured to provide electrical power to the docking station while the power bank is docked with the docking station.
US09966769B2
A battery charging monitor is provided including a non-invasive sensor electrically connected to at least one battery cell of at least one battery, which is configured to measure an internal temperature of the at least one battery cell. The non-invasive internal temperature sensor is connected to the microcontroller that is configured to determine a rate of change of the internal temperature of the at least one battery cell based on the internal temperature of the at least one battery cell, determine a state of charge of the at least one battery cell based on the rate of change of the internal temperature, and cause a charging rate to be applied, by a battery charger, to the at least one battery cell based on the determined state of charge.
US09966759B2
A battery monitor circuit includes a first monitoring unit for detecting voltages of battery cells in a first group, a second monitoring unit for detecting voltages of battery cells in a second group, and a current cancellation unit for canceling a difference between first and second currents that flow through the first and second monitoring units, respectively. One terminal of a series connection of the battery cells in the first and second groups and one terminal of the first monitoring unit are connected, the other terminal of the first monitoring unit and one terminal of the second monitoring unit are connected, and the other terminal of the second monitoring unit and the other terminal of the series connection are connected. The current cancellation unit is disposed between a connection point between the first and second monitoring units and a middle connection point in the middle of the series connection.
US09966754B2
A circuit breaker is disclosed for an electrical circuit. The circuit breaker includes a tripping unit; at least one current sensor; and an input for a signal, at which a blocking signal for a circuit breaker arranged upstream on the energy sink side, can be received. The tripping unit; at least one current sensor; and an input are all connected to a control unit. A connectable blocking function is provided. The ascertained current is compared with a first current limit value, the exceeding of which requires this first current value to be present for a first period of time in order to prompt interruption of the electrical circuit; and is compared with a second current limit value. Different periods of time need to be present to prompt interruption when the blocking function is disengaged or engaged.
US09966753B2
An apparatus for predicting an operating time in a power device includes an operating characteristic parameter estimating unit, and only the operation historical data in the vicinity of a current operation environmental condition is extracted and input by a vicinity operation historical data extracting unit.
US09966748B1
A one-bolt type junction box includes a main body in which electrical parts are installed, a lower cover configured to cover a lower portion of the main body, sockets installed on a lower surface of the main body, side connectors installed in the lower cover so as to be coupled to the sockets, a single fixing bolt installed in the main body, a single fixing nut provided in the lower cover so as to be threadedly coupled to the fixing bolt, a central connector mounted in a central portion of the junction box in which the fixing bolt and the fixing nut are disposed, and a connector seating member in which the central connector is seated. The central connector is configured to be mounted on the lower cover in a state in which the central connector is seated on the connector seating member.
US09966747B1
A universal surface flush junction box which provides an improved way to transition from in-wall wiring to surface (out of wall) wiring in a building, which requires no additional mounting brackets or conduit bends, which thereby allows for a one trip complete rough-in installation and greatly reduces the amount of sealant required for smoke, fire and acoustical seal.
US09966739B2
A container energy storage system is provided, including a container, a plurality of functional assemblies, and a splitting plate, wherein the splitting plate has a connecting port electrically connected to the functional assemblies. The container includes a hollow main body having an opening and two doors pivotally connected to the hollow main body. The functional assemblies are disposed in the hollow main body, and the splitting plate is disposed between the functional assemblies and the opening. When the doors are in a closed position, the doors cover the opening.
US09966734B2
The present invention discloses a semiconductor laser comprising an optical waveguide structure which may include a lower waveguide layer, an active layer of multiple quantum wells and an upper waveguide layer, which are successively stacked from bottom to top, a grating layer being formed on upper portion of the active layer, wherein the upper waveguide layer, a cladding layer and a contact layer are formed as a ridge which has a light incidence end surface and a light output end surface, wherein a beam expanding structure is formed on one end of the output end surface. The beam expanding structure has a beam expanding portion with a shape gradually contracted inwards from the light output end surface. Preferably, the beam expanding portion has a horizontal divergence angle of 5° to 20°.
US09966731B2
A laser system includes a plurality of diode lasers, a cryogenic cooling system circulating a cryogenic coolant and coupled to the plurality diode lasers to cool the plurality of diode lasers with the cryogenic coolant, and a fuel cell coupled to the plurality of diode lasers to power the plurality of diode lasers and situated to receive the cryogenic coolant from the cryogenic cooling system as fuel for the fuel cell. A method of operating a high power laser system includes cooling a plurality of diode lasers with a cryogenic cooling system circulating a cryogenic coolant, fueling a fuel cell with a portion of the cryogenic coolant circulating in the cryogenic cooling system, and powering the plurality of diode lasers with power generated by the fuel cell.
US09966730B2
A surface-emitting laser apparatus includes a surface-emitting laser substrate; a microlens substrate; and an adhesion agent. The surface-emitting laser substrate includes a semiconductor substrate; and a surface-emitting laser and plural first adhesion fixing regions formed on a first face of the semiconductor substrate. The microlens substrate includes a microlens configured to receive light emitted by the surface-emitting laser; plural pier portions protruding toward a side of the first face of the semiconductor substrate; and plural second adhesion fixing regions, formed at positions corresponding to the first adhesion fixing regions on surfaces of the pier portions. The adhesive agent causes the first adhesion fixing regions and the second adhesion fixing regions to adhere to each other. A restoring force acts on the adhesive agent in a case where the adhesive agent is melted. The surface-emitting laser substrate and the microlens substrate are self-aligned with each other according to the restoring force.
US09966723B2
A laser including a solid state laser gain medium having a D-shaped cross section and an unstable resonator laser cavity including the solid state laser gain medium configured with a geometric magnification in a range of 1 to 5 under the intended operating conditions, including the effects of thermal lensing in the gain medium. An optical switching device in the unstable resonator laser cavity generates a pulse duration in the range of 0.05 to 100 nanoseconds. A diode-pump source is configured to inject pump light through the curved or barrel surface of the D-shaped gain medium.
US09966709B2
A connector, which is coupled to a first communication component, including: a connector body; a fitting portion, which is formed on one end of the connector body, configured to fix the connector body by being adhered to a wall of the first communication component; and a ground stabilization member coupled to the connector body and the first communication component, wherein the ground stabilization member includes: a fixing portion configured to fix the ground stabilization member to an inner wall of the connector body; an insertion portion inserted in an insertion hole of the first communication component, wherein a plurality of slots imparting elasticity are formed; and a ground contact portion configured to perform a grounding function by contacting an inner wall of the insertion hole due to the elasticity.
US09966686B2
A connector is disclosed. The connector has an insulation body, a conductive terminal disposed on the insulation body, and a scratching terminal disposed on the insulation body. The scratching terminal is electrically isolated from the conductive terminal. An electrical contact of a mating conductive terminal of a mating connector comes into electrical contact with the scratching terminal before electrically contacting the conductive terminal during mating with the connector.
US09966683B2
A connector terminal includes two top side contact points each of which makes point contact with a top surface of a counter connector terminal and three bottom side contact points each of which makes point contact with a bottom surface of the counter connector terminal and which are not aligned in a straight line, the two top side contact points doing not overlap the three bottom side contact points when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the counter connector terminal in a fitted state, a position of a center of gravity as determined by arrangement positions of the two top side contact points coincides with a position of a center of gravity as determined by arrangement positions of the three bottom side contact points when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the top surface of the counter connector terminal in the fitted state.
US09966682B2
A female connection terminal includes a first female terminal having a substantially cylindrical shape with openings at one end and another end, a second female terminal having a substantially cylindrical shape with openings at one end and another end, and a coupling spring coupling together the first female terminal and the second female terminal at the other end of the first female terminal and the other end of the second female terminal. The coupling spring connects the first female terminal and the second female terminal to each other without, when viewed from an upper side, overlapping at least one of the openings of the first female terminal on the other end side and at least one of the openings of the second female terminal on the other end side.
US09966680B2
A contact carrier is disclosed. The contact carrier comprises a base body, a contact having a holding section disposed within the base body, and a tool channel extending adjacent to the holding section, the holding section exposed in the tool channel.
US09966674B2
A termination connection box for a direct-current (DC) cable, including: a connecting semiconducting layer configured to cover an exposed conductor of the DC cable and an insulating layer of the DC cable; a conductor withdrawal rod electrically connected to the exposed conductor of the DC cable; and a heat shrinkable tube formed of functionally gradient material having non-linear electrical characteristics. The heat shrinkable tube includes: a first end electrically connected to the conductor and which covers a portion of the conductor withdrawal rod and the connecting semiconducting layer; a second end opposite to the first end, electrically connected to the outer semiconducting layer, and which covers a portion of the outer semiconducting layer; and a middle portion positioned between the first end and the second end, and which is in direct contact with and covers an outer circumferential surface of the insulating layer.
US09966667B2
An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from conductive housing structures running along the edges of a device. The antenna may have a pair of switchable return paths that bridge a slot between the antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. An adjustable component and a feed may be coupled in parallel across the slot. The adjustable component may switch a capacitor into use or out of use and the return paths may be selectively opened and closed to compensate for antenna loading due to the presence of external objects near the electronic device.
US09966664B2
Multi-band antenna systems for communication systems are disclosed. An antenna system includes at least one low band dipole radiating element for radiating RF energy in a low frequency range and at least one group or column of high band dipole radiating assemblies for radiating RF energy in a high frequency range. The low band dipole radiating element may be constructed to provide improved control beam width stability of the high band dipole radiating assemblies and improved cross-polarization performance in the low frequency range. The high band dipole radiating assemblies include high band dipole radiating elements and shrouds surrounding the high band dipole radiating elements. The shrouds are configured to improve the beam width stability and cross-polarization of the high band dipole radiating elements, improve isolation between the high band dipole radiating elements and to shift resonance of the high band dipole radiating assemblies below the low frequency range.
US09966662B2
An antenna for use in a communication system with a number of plates connected to a ground plane, where when the number of plates are excited by at least two electrical signals, the number of plates are arranged to radiate at least two electromagnetic signals each having an independent resonant frequency.
US09966660B2
Provided is an electromagnetic wave shielding sheet including: a substrate that is formed in a nano-web form by spinning a polymer material into fiber strands by a spinning method; a conductive metal layer that is formed on one surface of the substrate for shielding electromagnetic waves; and an adhesive layer formed on the other surface of the substrate, to thereby make a thickness of the electromagnetic wave shielding sheet thin, and improve electromagnetic wave shielding performance.
US09966656B1
A rectenna for high efficiency RF-to-DC wireless energy harvesting that includes an off-center-fed dipole antenna and a rectifying circuit, wherein the rectifying circuit comprises at least one rectifying diode. The input impedance of the antenna may be directly conjugate matched to the impedance of the rectifying circuit over a wide range of frequencies and/or under different operating conditions. The impedance matching network required by a conventional rectenna system may therefore be eliminated using the methods disclosed for the design and implementation of the rectenna. The rectenna offers consistently high RF-to-DC power conversion efficiency over a wide range of frequencies and under different operating conditions. The rectenna may be connectible to a rectifying circuit utilizing different types of rectifying diodes.
US09966652B2
A packaged electronic device includes an integrated antenna as part of a conductive leadframe. The conductive leadframe includes a die paddle have an elongated conductive beam structure configured as a transmission line, and a ground plane structure disposed surrounding the die paddle. The ground plane includes a gap where the transmission line extends to an edge of the packaged electronic device. In one embodiment, selected leads within the leadframe are configured with conductive connective structures as ground pins, source pins, and/or wave guides. In an alternate embodiment, a portion of the integrated antenna is embedded and partially exposed within the body of the packaged electronic device.
US09966651B2
A wireless communication device includes a housing and an antenna. The housing includes a frame. The frame includes a metal portion and a non-metal portion connected to the metal portion. The antenna includes a base board and a radiating body. The radiating body is partially surrounding the base and electrically connected to the base board. The radiating body is formed by the metal portion.
US09966647B1
A software defined antenna can include a light source and a photoconductive surface. The photoconductive surface can be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. A plurality of electrically isolated pixels can be embedded in the photoconductive surface. The antenna can further include a processor with computer software incorporated to manipulate the light source to selectively illuminate the surface matrix in a predetermined pattern. As the surface matrix becomes illuminated, the illuminated portion of the matrix surface electrically connects the pixels, resulting in the desired radiation pattern. The software can be manipulated to further manipulate the light source to change antenna frequency, gain and bandwidth parameters, as desired by the user. Similarly, the pixels can be selectively illuminated to cause a desired radiation pattern, such as circular, sector scan or raster patterns.
US09966644B2
A cathode for a lithium air battery, the cathode including: an organic-inorganic composite material including a coating layer on at least one portion of a surface thereof, wherein the coating layer includes a positively charged silane compound and an ionic bond forming anion. Also a lithium air battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing the cathode.
US09966642B2
A battery autoclaving system is provided including a battery pack having a housing, a battery cell disposed within the housing, and an isolation region disposed between the housing and the battery cell. The isolation region may be formed at least partially from at least one of a thermal insulating material, a phase change material or any combination thereof. The system may include a temperature sensor adapted to sense at least one of a temperature of the battery cell temperature of the isolation region. The system may include and an autoclave configured to receive a temperature indication from the temperature sensor and to inhibit autoclaving when the temperature indication exceeds a predetermined value.
US09966640B2
The efficiency in layout of an exhaust space for a power source apparatus mounted in an in-car space is increased and uncomfortableness is suppressed due to air discharged from the power source apparatus into the in-car space. A vehicle on which a power source apparatus is mounted includes the power source apparatus disposed in an in-car space of the vehicle, a cooling apparatus supplying air within the in-car space to the power source apparatus, and a cooling duct which the air discharged from the power source apparatus flows. The cooling duct is connected to any one of a first cooling flow path formed by a pillar of the vehicle, a second cooling flow path formed by a frame portion of the vehicle and a stepped portion provided for the frame portion, and a third cooling flow path formed by the frame portion and a scuff plate portion.
US09966639B2
A battery monitoring device is configured to include a monitoring unit that transmits state information that indicates a state of a battery and that interrupts, using an interrupter, a power supply from a battery to a load upon receiving a power-interruption request or when a power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted, and a controller that transmits a power-interruption request to the monitoring unit upon determining, on the basis of the state information transmitted from the monitoring unit, that an anomaly has occurred in the battery, wherein the controller interrupts, using an interrupter, a power supply to the monitoring unit upon determining that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, or that an anomaly has occurred in the monitoring unit.
US09966632B2
Provided are a nonaqueous electrolytic solution having an electrolyte salt dissolved in a nonaqueous solvent, the nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing from 0.001 to 5% by mass of 1,3-dioxane and further containing from 0.001 to 5% by mass of at least one selected from a specified phosphoric acid ester compound, a specified cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound, and a cyclic acid anhydride containing a side chain having allyl hydrogen; and an energy storage device using the same. This nonaqueous electrolytic solution is capable of improving electrochemical characteristics at high temperatures and further capable of not only improving a capacity retention rate after a high-temperature cycle test but also decreasing a rate of increase of an electrode thickness.
US09966625B2
The present invention provides a non-aqueous redox flow battery comprising a negative electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid negative electrolyte, a positive electrode immersed in a non-aqueous liquid positive electrolyte, and a cation-permeable separator (e.g., a porous membrane, film, sheet, or panel) between the negative electrolyte from the positive electrolyte. During charging and discharging, the electrolytes are circulated over their respective electrodes. The electrolytes each comprise an electrolyte salt (e.g., a lithium or sodium salt), a transition-metal free redox reactant, and optionally an electrochemically stable organic solvent. Each redox reactant is selected from an organic compound comprising a conjugated unsaturated moiety, a boron cluster compound, and a combination thereof. The organic redox reactant of the positive electrolyte comprises a tetrafluorohydroquinone ether compound or a tetrafluorocatechol ether compound.
US09966615B2
A recharger includes a manifold having an input to couple to a hydrogen generating module and an output port to couple to at least one rechargeable fuel cell. A vacuum pump is coupled to the manifold to evacuate the manifold. A valve is coupled to the manifold between the vacuum pump and the input of the manifold. A controller is coupled to control the vacuum pump and the valve, as well as an optional fan.
US09966612B2
The fuel flow channels (20a) of the end fuel cell (9a) at the anode end (34) of a fuel cell stack are significantly deeper than the fuel flow field channels (20) of the remaining fuel cells (9) in the stack, whereby fuel starvation caused by ice in the fuel flow channels is avoided during cold startup. The fuel flow field channels of the end cell (9) at the anode end of the stack is between about 0.15 mm and about 1.5 mm deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the remaining fuel cells of the stack, or between about 35% and about 65% deeper than the fuel flow field channels in the remaining fuel cells of the stack.
US09966609B2
Disclosed is a process for making a gas diffusion electrode that comprises an electrically conductive substrate, a gas diffusion layer (GDL) and an active layer (AL). The process comprises forming the GDL and/or the AL by pressing and/or rolling a mass obtained by subjecting electrically conductive carbon material and polymeric binder and, in the case of the AL, electroactive catalyst to high energy mixing in a liquid medium, followed by the separation of solid matter from the liquid medium and, optionally, drying of the separated solid matter.
US09966606B2
A binder composition for power storage devices comprising a polymer which contains at least 3 to 40 mass % of a first recurring unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid ester having an alicyclic hydrocarbon group and 1 to 40 mass % of a second recurring unit derived from an α, β-unsaturated nitrile compound based on 100 mass % of the total of all recurring units.
US09966597B2
There are provided a method of manufacturing a jelly roll-type electrode assembly and a method of manufacturing a secondary battery using the electrode assembly. The method of manufacturing the electrode assembly includes notching a cathode and an anode, elongated in one direction, in a constant size and shape to form a plurality of electrode units, laminating the cathode and the anode with a separator disposed therebetween to form a unit cell, and winding the unit cell by bending the connection units so that the electrode units of the cathode and the anode overlap each other. In the manufacturing of the jelly roll-type electrode assembly and the polymer secondary battery, whose production process can be easily simplified, a jelly roll-type electrode assembly and a polymer secondary battery, both of which exhibit excellent design flexibility, can be manufactured.
US09966595B2
An electrode material includes inorganic particles of LiFexMn1-x-yMyPO4 and a carbonaceous film coating surfaces of the inorganic particles, and volume of micropores having micropore diameter of 2 to 10 nm is 3 to 11 cm3/g. A method for manufacturing an electrode material includes immersing the inorganic particles in an aqueous solution having pH of 7.0 to 10.0; producing a slurry including the inorganic particles, a carbonaceous film precursor, and water; producing a dried substance of the slurry by drying the slurry; and calcinating the dried substance in a non-oxidative atmosphere of 500° C. to 1,000° C., and an amount of the carbonaceous film precursor blended into 100 parts by mass of the inorganic particles when converted to a carbon element is 1.0 to 5.0 parts by mass. An electrode includes the electrode material. A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; and a non-aqueous electrolyte, the cathode being the electrode.
US09966591B1
Methods, stacks and electrochemical cells are provided, which improve production processes and yield flexible and durable electrode stacks. Methods comprise depositing an electrode slurry on a sacrificial film to form an electrode thereupon, wherein the electrode slurry comprises a first solvent, attaching (e.g., laminating) a current collector film, which is produced at least partly using a second solvent, onto the formed electrode, to yield a stack, wherein a binding strength of the electrode to the current collector film is higher than a binding strength of the electrode to the sacrificial film, and delaminating the sacrificial film from the electrode while maintaining the attachment of the electrode to the current collector film. Additional layers such as a cell separator and an additional electrode may be further attached using similar steps.
US09966587B2
This application relates to batteries that are capable of routing signals that are separate from the charge supplied by the batteries. In some embodiments, a battery can incorporate a conductive trace that extends through a portion of the battery to allow for signals to be routed through the battery, as opposed to around the battery. The conductive trace can be a single wire, multiple wires, a coaxial trace, optical cable, or any other mechanism for allowing a signal to be transmitted between one or more components. By providing the conductive trace within the battery, shorter pathways to components can be created thereby reducing signal or power loss over the pathways.
US09966579B2
A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and having an opening at a side thereof for receiving the electrode assembly; a cap assembly coupled to the case at the opening; a first insulation member surrounding the case, an extending portion of the first insulation member extending above the cap assembly; and a second insulation member on the cap assembly and contacting the portion of the first insulation member extending above the cap assembly, the second insulation member being a coated layer.
US09966577B2
A battery includes an outer package including a laminated film including one or more resin layers, a terminal, and a melt-bonding assisting member including a thermoplastic resin and extending along the terminal. The outer package includes a melt-bonded region at which the terminal is sandwiched between the one or more resin layers. The terminal includes an inner part, a sandwiched part, and an outer part arranged in a first direction. The melt-bonding assisting member internally and externally extends in the first direction beyond contact with the outer package.
US09966573B2
The disclosure discloses a display apparatus and an organic light emitting diode device, wherein the organic light emitting diode device including a glass substrate, an anode layer, an organic layer and a cathode layer laminated sequentially, the refractive index of the anode layer is larger than the refractive index of the glass substrate, wherein a through hole is formed in the anode layer so that partial of the incident light from the organic layer can be extracted through the through hole to the glass substrate in order to reduce the total reflection phenomenon of the contracting surface of the anode layer and the glass substrate.
US09966572B2
A flexible organic light emitting diode display and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method has steps of: performing a patterning process on a photoresist layer to form a plurality of photoresist portions; etching a fluoropolymer layer to form a plurality of polymerization portions; depositing a material of a light extracting enhanced layer on the photoresist portions to form a plurality of light extracting enhanced portions; removing the fluoropolymer layer and the photoresist layer; fabricating a buffer layer on the light extracting enhanced portions; and fabricating a second waterproof layer on the buffer layer.
US09966550B2
The present invention provides an organic EL element having high luminous efficacy and productivity and an organic EL panel including the organic EL element. The organic electroluminescent element of the present invention includes, in the given order, an anode, a hole-transport layer, a luminescent unit, an electron-transport layer, and a cathode. The luminescent unit includes a mixed light-emitting layer and includes a luminescent dopant layer at least between the hole-transport layer and the mixed light-emitting layer or between the electron-transport layer and the mixed light-emitting layer. The mixed light-emitting layer contains a first luminescent host material and a first luminescent dopant material. The luminescent dopant layer consists essentially of a second luminescent dopant material and is thinner than the mixed light-emitting layer.
US09966538B2
A novel compound for improving the power efficiency and the lifespan of a light-emitting element, and a light-emitting element and an electronic device including the same are provided. And the new compound may provide excellent light-emitting efficiency and extended lifespan, and may improve thermal stability (heat resistance) for the electronic device.
US09966536B2
An organic electroluminescent (EL) device including an anode; an emission layer for obtaining luminescence via a singlet excited state; and a laminated structure between the anode and the emission layer, the laminated structure including at least three layers having different components, wherein the laminated structure includes a first layer including a hole transport compound, the hole transport compound being obtained by doping an electron accepting compound having a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level of about −9.0 eV to about −4.0 eV; and a second layer between the first layer and the emission layer, the second layer being closer to the emission layer than the first layer and including a compound represented by the following Formula 1:
US09966533B2
A method of fabricating an organic photovoltaic device. The method includes providing a first electrode which by applying a layer of conductive material onto a transparent substrate. The conductive material forms the first electrode. The method also includes placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material on top of the first electrode. The active layer is configured to convert photonic energy into electrical energy. Placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material includes placing an active layer of organic photovoltaic material having ferroelectric dipoles dispersed therein. The method further includes applying a second electrode on top of the active layer of organic photovoltaic material.
US09966532B2
A dendrimer compound characterized by comprising a core represented by the following formula (1-1), (1-2), (1-3), or (1-4) and at least one kind of dendritic structure selected among dendritic structures represented by the following formulae (3) and (4).
US09966517B2
An LED leadframe or LED substrate includes a main body portion having a mounting surface for mounting an LED element thereover. A reflection metal layer serving as a reflection layer for reflecting light from the LED element is disposed over the mounting surface of the main body portion. The reflection metal layer comprises an alloy of platinum and silver or an alloy of gold and silver. The reflection metal layer efficiently reflects light emitted from the LED element and suppresses corrosion due to the presence of a gas, thereby capable of maintaining reflection characteristics of light from the LED element.
US09966514B2
A light emitting diode package structure allows for an improved light-emitting efficiency by including a first reflecting material layer with through holes; a flip chip on the first reflecting material layer, with the electrodes inlaid in the through holes of the first reflecting material layer; a first transparent material layer surrounding the side surface of the flip chip except the electrodes; and a second reflecting material layer surrounding the first transparent material layer. An interface between the first transparent material layer and the reflecting material layer is an inclined plane, an arc plane, or an irregular shape, to thereby facilitate upward light reflection of the flip chip. A wavelength conversion material layer is over the first reflecting material layer, the flip chip, and the second reflecting material layer.
US09966512B2
The invention relates to an illumination system having a light scattering and conversion plate comprising a non-converting but scattering layer and a thinner converting layer. By separating scattering and conversion, the characteristics of the illumination system can greatly be increased.
US09966508B2
The addition of a chain transfer agent (CTA) or a reversible-addition fragmentation chain transfer agent (RAFT CTA) such as (2-(dodecyl-thiocarbonothioylthio)-2-methylpropionic acid) during the formation of quantum dot polymer films yields films characterized by high and stable quantum yields.
US09966507B2
Embodiments of the invention include a wavelength-converting material defined by AE3−x1−y+zRE3−x2+y−z[Si9−wAlw(N1−yCy)[4](N16−z−wOz+w)[2]]Eux1,Cex2, where AE=Ca, Sr, Ba; RE=Y, Lu, La, Sc; 0≤x1≤0.18; 0≤x2≤0.2; x1+x2>0; 0≤y≤1; 0≤z≤3; 0≤w≤3.
US09966504B2
By using a light emitting device including an insulating substrate and a light emitting unit formed on the insulating substrate, the light emitting unit including: a plurality of linear wiring patterns disposed on the insulating substrate in parallel with one another, a plurality of light emitting elements that are mounted between the wiring patterns while being electrically connected to the wiring patterns, and a sealing member for sealing the light emitting elements, as well as a method for manufacturing thereof, it becomes possible to provide a light emitting device that achieves sufficient electrical insulation and has simple manufacturing processes so that it can be manufactured at a low cost, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US09966499B2
A method for manufacturing a light emitting diode structure uses a removable prefilled layer to attach the flip-type chip on a temporary substrate. A growth substrate of the flip-type chip is removed by laser lift-off, and then the light emitting diode structure is attached to a transparent support body. Lastly, the temporary substrate and the prefilled layer are removed.
US09966497B2
A method of fabricating a nonpolar gallium nitride-based semiconductor layer is provided. The method is a method of fabricating a nonpolar gallium nitride layer using metal organic chemical vapor deposition, and includes disposing a gallium nitride substrate with an m-plane growth surface within a chamber, raising a substrate temperature to a GaN growth temperature by heating the substrate, and growing a gallium nitride layer on the gallium nitride substrate by supplying a Ga source gas, an N source gas, and an ambient gas into the chamber at the growth temperature. The supplied ambient gas contains N2 and does not contain H2.
US09966490B1
An ultraviolet sensor comprises a glass substrate, a semiconductor structure, an electrode layer and a thin film metallic glass. The semiconductor structure comprises a semiconductor seed layer formed on the glass substrate and a plurality of semiconductor nanostructures formed on the semiconductor seed layer. The electrode layer is formed between the semiconductor seed layer and the plurality of semiconductor nanostructures. The thin film metallic glass is in contact with the semiconductor structure, wherein an interface between the thin film metallic glass and the semiconductor structure forms a Schottky barrier junction to inhibit dark current and increase signal-to-noise ratio.
US09966471B2
A device includes a first semiconductor strip, a first gate dielectric encircling the first semiconductor strip, a second semiconductor strip overlapping the first semiconductor strip, and a second gate dielectric encircling the second semiconductor strip. The first gate dielectric contacts the first gate dielectric. A gate electrode has a portion over the second semiconductor strip, and additional portions on opposite sides of the first and the second semiconductor strips and the first and the second gate dielectrics.
US09966469B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure having a top face and a first side face and a second side face opposite to the first side face, forming a lower cover layer over the first and second side faces, forming an upper cover layer over the first and second side faces, the upper cover layer being spaced apart from the lower cover layer so that exposed regions of the first and second side faces are formed between the lower cover layer and the upper cover layer, and forming first and second semiconductor layers over the exposed regions of the first and second side faces, respectively.
US09966468B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. First, a fin-shaped structure is formed on a substrate, a first liner is formed on the substrate and the fin-shaped structure, a second liner is formed on the first liner, part of the second liner and part of the first liner are removed to expose a top surface of the fin-shaped structure, part of the first liner between the fin-shaped structure and the second liner is removed to form a recess, and an epitaxial layer is formed in the recess.
US09966465B1
A non-volatile memory device is provided. The non-volatile memory device includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a charge trapping layer, a ferroelectric material layer, and a gate layer. The first dielectric layer is disposed on the substrate, the charge trapping layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer, the ferroelectric material layer is disposed on the charge trapping layer, and the gate layer is disposed on the ferroelectric material layer.
US09966460B2
A switching device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first element range and an ineffective range. First trenches extend in a first direction across the first element range and the ineffective range. Second trenches are provided in each inter-trench region within the first element range and are not provided within the ineffective range. A gate electrode is disposed in the trenches. No contact hole is provided in an interlayer insulating film within the ineffective range. The first metal layer covers the interlayer insulating film. The insulating protective film covers a portion of the first metal layer on its outer peripheral side within the ineffective range. The second metal region is in contact with the first metal layer within an opening of the insulating protective film, and is in contact with a side surface of the opening.
US09966454B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises forming a silicide region on a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate structure on the semiconductor substrate adjacent the silicide region, forming a dielectric layer on the gate structure and on the silicide region, forming a first liner layer on the dielectric layer, removing a portion of the first liner layer and a portion of the dielectric layer to form an opening exposing a top surface of the silicide region, forming a second liner layer on the first liner layer and on sides and a bottom of the opening, removing a portion of the second liner layer from a top surface of the first liner layer and from the bottom of the opening to re-expose a portion of the top surface of the silicide region, and forming a contact layer in the opening directly on the re-exposed portion of the top surface of the silicide region.
US09966452B2
A semiconductor device includes an SOI substrate and a MISFET formed on the SOI substrate. The SOI substrate has a base substrate, a ground plane region formed on the base substrate, a BOX layer formed on the ground plane region and an SOI layer formed on the BOX layer. The base substrate is made of silicon and the ground plane region includes a semiconductor region made of silicon carbide.
US09966451B1
Some embodiments include an integrated structure having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. Recesses extend into the conductive levels. The conductive levels have projections above and below the recesses. The projections have outer edges. An outer periphery of an individual conductive level is defined by a straight-line boundary extending from the outer edge of the projection above the recess in the individual conductive level to the outer edge of the projection below the recess in the individual conductive level. A depth of the recess is defined as a horizontal distance from the straight-line boundary to an innermost periphery of the recess. The recesses have depths of at least about 5 nm. Charge-blocking regions extend within the recesses. Charge-storage structures are along the charge-blocking regions. Gate dielectric material is along the charge-storage structures. Channel material is along the gate dielectric material.
US09966447B2
A technique of manufacturing a semiconductor device of stable operation is provided. There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a first process of forming an insulating film from a nitrogen-containing organic metal used as raw material, on a semiconductor layer by atomic layer deposition; a second process of processing the insulating film by oxygen plasma treatment in an atmosphere including at least one of oxygen and ozone; and a third process of processing the insulating film by heat treatment in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere, after the second process.
US09966444B2
Disclosed is a thin film transistor, including a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The source electrode includes a loop structure with an opening, and a width of the opening is less than a maximum width of an inner ring of the loop structure of the source electrode in a direction identical to a direction of the width of the opening. The drain electrode is surrounded by the loop structure, and is not in contact with the source electrode. The drain electrode is distant from the inner ring of the loop structure of the source electrode at a same interval.
US09966440B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming transistor devices having reduced parasitic contact resistance relative to conventional devices. The techniques can be implemented, for example, using a metal contact such as one or more metals/alloys on silicon or silicon germanium (SiGe) source/drain regions. In accordance with one example embodiment, an intermediate tin doped III-V material layer is provided between the source/drain and contact metal to significantly reduce contact resistance. Partial or complete oxidation of the tin doped layer can be used to further improve contact resistance. In some example cases, the tin doped III-V material layer has a semiconducting phase near the substrate and an oxide phase near the metal contact. Numerous transistor configurations and suitable fabrication processes will be apparent in light of this disclosure, including both planar and non-planar transistor structures (e.g., FinFETs, nanowire transistors, etc), as well as strained and unstrained channel structures.
US09966435B2
A novel semiconductor transistor is presented. The semiconductor structure has a MOSFET like structure, with the difference that the device channel is formed in an intrinsic region, so as to effectively decrease the impurity and surface scattering phenomena deriving from a high doping profile typical of conventional MOS devices. Due to the presence of the un-doped channel region, the proposed structure greatly reduces Random Doping Fluctuation (RDF) phenomena decreasing the threshold voltage variation between different devices. In order to control the threshold voltage of the device, a heavily doped poly-silicon or metallic gate is used. However, differently from standard CMOS devices, a high work-function metallic material, or a heavily p-doped poly-silicon layer, is used for an n-channel device and a low work-function metallic material, or heavily n-doped poly-silicon layer, is used for a p-channel FET. Doped or insulating regions are used to increase the control on the channel conductivity.
US09966432B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices. A semiconductor device includes a metal gate electrode stacked on a semiconductor substrate with a gate insulation layer disposed therebetween, spacer structures disposed on the semiconductor substrate at both sides of the metal gate electrode, source/drain regions formed in the semiconductor substrate at the both sides of the metal gate electrode, and an etch stop pattern including a bottom portion covering the source/drain regions and a sidewall portion extended from the bottom portion to cover a portion of sidewalls of the spacer structures, in which an upper surface of the sidewall portion of the etch stop pattern is positioned under an upper surface of the metal gate electrode.
US09966430B2
A method of making a nanowire device includes disposing a first nanowire stack over a substrate, the first nanowire stack including alternating layers of a first and second semiconducting material, the first semiconducting material contacting the substrate and the second semiconducting material being an exposed surface; disposing a second nanowire stack over the substrate, the second nanowire stack including alternating layers of the first and second semiconducting materials, the first semiconducting material contacting the substrate and the second semiconducting material being an exposed surface; forming a first gate spacer along a sidewall of a first gate region on the first nanowire stack and a second gate spacer along a sidewall of a second gate region on the second nanowire stack; oxidizing a portion of the first nanowire stack within the first gate spacer; and removing the first semiconducting material from the first nanowire stack and the second nanowire stack.
US09966429B2
A semiconductor device such as a Zener diode includes a first semiconductor material of a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor material of a second conductivity type in contact with the first semiconductor material to form a junction therebetween. A first oxide layer is disposed over a portion of the second semiconductor material such that a remaining portion of the second semiconductor material is exposed. A polysilicon layer is disposed on the exposed portion of the second semiconductor material and a portion of the first oxide layer. A first conductive layer is disposed on the polysilicon layer. A second conductive layer is disposed on a surface of the first semiconductor material opposing a surface of the first semiconductor material in contact with the second semiconductor material.
US09966424B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a pixel structure, and a wiring pattern. The substrate includes a plurality of pixel regions each having sub-pixel regions and a transparent region. The pixel structure is disposed in the sub-pixel region on the substrate. The wiring pattern is disposed in the transparent region and the sub-pixel region on the substrate, and is electrically connected to the pixel structure. The wiring pattern extends in a first direction that is from the transparent region into the sub-pixel region, and has at least one opening in the transparent region.
US09966423B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide an OLED substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, an OLED display panel and an electronic equipment. The OLED substrate and the manufacturing method thereof provided by the embodiments of the present invention apply a transparent first cathode and a reflective second cathode, realizing top emitting and bottom emitting in a first region covered by electronic elements and a second region other than the first region respectively, increasing the light emitting area and the aperture ratio of pixels, thereby realizing double-sided display of OLED display device.
US09966420B2
A display device includes a substrate with a major surface and a cover opposing the substrate. An array of light emitting pixels is disposed over a generally central portion of the major surface, and interposed between the substrate and the cover. A seal is disposed over a peripheral portion of the substrate, and interposed between and interconnecting the substrate and the cover. Between the seal and the substrate, a lower insulation layer, an upper insulation layer, and a structure located between the lower and upper insulation layers and including at least one metal layer. The upper insulation layer includes an uneven top surface. A contour of the uneven top surface of the upper insulation layer may conform with or follow that of the top uneven surface of the structure. The seal contacts and is bonded to the uneven top surface of the upper insulation.
US09966413B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) module and a lamp using the same are provided. The LED module includes a substrate and several light-emitting packages. Each light-emitting package includes an optical wavelength conversion layer and a light-emitting diode having a first light-output surface, a bonding surface, and several second light-output surfaces. The bonding surface is opposite the first light-output surface and connected to the substrate. The second light-output surfaces are between the first light-output surface and the bonding surface. The optical wavelength conversion layer covers the first and second light-output surfaces. The distance between the bonding surface and the top surface of the optical wavelength conversion layer represents a light source thickness. The distance between two adjacent light-emitting packages represents a spacing of light sources. Specifically, the ratio of the spacing of light sources to the light source thickness is between 1 and 6.3.
US09966411B2
A method of manufacturing an image capturing apparatus is provided. The method comprises forming a structure which includes an interlayer insulation film having a plurality of opening portions above an imaging and a peripheral region, forming a first film so as to cover the structure arranged above the imaging and the peripheral region while filling the plurality of opening portions, planarizing the first film to form a waveguide member above the imaging and the peripheral region, forming a second film so as to cover the waveguide member above the imaging and the peripheral region after the planarizing the first film, polishing the second film to expose the waveguide member arranged above the imaging region and removing a portion of the waveguide member arranged above the peripheral region so as to expose the interlayer insulation film after the polishing the second film.
US09966409B2
An imaging device for electromagnetic radiation, especially for x-ray and/or gamma radiation, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the imaging device includes a layering including a number of detection elements, a number of read-out boards and a base board. Each of the detection elements is electrically contacted with a respective read-out board via a plurality of first solder contacts. Each read-out board includes a plurality of through-contacts and is electrically contacted with the base board via a plurality of second solder contacts.
US09966390B2
A display device includes first to fifth insulating films, first to third conductive films, semiconductor film, a planarization layer, an organic resin film, a pixel electrode, an opposing electrode and a light-emitting member. The first insulating film includes nitrogen. The second and third insulating films include oxygen. The fifth insulating film is an inorganic insulating film. The fourth insulating film, the fifth insulating film, the planarization layer and the organic resin film include first to fourth opening, respectively. An edge portion of the third opening and an edge portion of the fourth opening are rounded. Part of the third conductive film and part of the planarization layer are located in the second opening. Part of the pixel electrode and part of the organic resin film are located in the third opening. Part of the light-emitting member and part of the opposing electrode are located in the fourth opening.
US09966387B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device, includes providing a strained silicon on insulator (SSOI) structure, the SSOI structure comprises, a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, a silicon germanium layer disposed on the dielectric layer, and a strained semiconductor material layer disposed directly on the silicon germanium layer, forming a plurality of fins on the SSOI structure, forming a gate structure over a portion of at least one fin in a nFET region, forming a gate structure over a portion of at least one fin in a pFET region, removing the gate structure over the portion of the at least one fin in the pFET region, removing the silicon germanium layer exposed by the removing, and forming a new gate structure over the portion of the at least one fin in the pFET region, such that the new gate structure surrounds the portion on all four sides.
US09966386B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first to third conductive layers extending along a first direction, and a memory portion. A portion of the second conductive layer is provided between the third conductive layer and a portion of the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first end portion crossing the first direction. The second conductive layer includes a second end portion crossing the first direction. The third conductive layer includes a third end portion crossing the first direction. A position in the first direction of a portion of the second end portion is between a position of the first end portion and a position of the third end portion. The position in the first direction of the portion of the second end portion is between a position of another portion of the second end portion and the position of the third end portion.
US09966379B2
A semiconductor device may include a first inverter, a second inverter, a first access transistor, and a second access transistor. A drain electrode of the first access transistor or a source electrode of the first access transistor may be electrically connected to both an output terminal of the first inverter and an input terminal the second inverter. The drain electrode of the first access transistor may be asymmetrical to the source electrode of the first access transistor with reference to a gate electrode of the first access transistor. A drain electrode of the second access transistor or a source electrode of the second access transistor may be electrically connected to both an output terminal of the second inverter and an input terminal the first inverter.
US09966374B2
A semiconductor device includes gates and a low-k spacer. The low-k spacer includes low-k spacer portions formed upon the gate sidewalls and a low-k spacer portion formed upon a top surface of an underlying substrate adjacent to the gates. When a structure has previously undergone a gate processing fabrication stage, the gates and at least a portion of the top surface of the substrate may be exposed thereby allowing the formation of the low-k spacer. This exposure may include removing any original gate spacers, removing an original liner formed upon the original spacers, and removing any original fill material formed upon the liner.
US09966370B2
A method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor devices is provided. A number of semiconductor chips are fastened on an auxiliary support. The semiconductor chips are spaced apart from one another in a lateral direction. A reflective layer is formed, at least in regions between the semiconductor chips. A composite package body is formed at least in certain regions between the semiconductor chips. The auxiliary support is removed and the composite housing body is separated into a number of optoelectronic semiconductor devices. Each optoelectronic semiconductor device has at least one semiconductor chip, part of the reflective layer and part of the composite package body as a package body.
US09966368B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region disposed in a semiconductor substrate and an uppermost metal level including metal lines, where the uppermost metal level is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. Contact pads are disposed at a major surface of the semiconductor device, where the contact pads are coupled to the metal lines in the uppermost metal level. An isolation region separates the contact pads disposed at the major surface. Adjacent contact pads are electrically isolated from one another by a portion of the isolation region. Reflective structures are disposed between the upper metal level and the contact pads, where each of the reflective structures that is directly over the active region completely overlaps an associated portion of the isolation region separating the contact pad.
US09966361B1
An electronics package includes an insulating substrate and electrical components coupled to a first surface of the insulating substrate. A multi-thickness conductor layer is formed on a second surface of the insulating substrate opposite the first surface. The multi-thickness conductor layer extends through vias in the insulating substrate to connect with contact pads of the electrical components. The multi-thickness conductor layer has a first thickness in a region proximate the first electrical component and a second thickness in a region proximate the second electrical component, the first thickness greater than the second thickness. The electronics package also includes a first redistribution layer having a conductor layer formed atop a portion of the multi-thickness conductor layer having the second thickness. A top surface of the conductor layer is co-planar with or substantially co-planar with a top surface of a portion of the multi-thickness conductor layer having the first thickness.
US09966351B2
A method and device for input/output connections is provided. Devices and methods for connection structure are shown with improved mechanical properties such as hardness and abrasion resistance. Land grid array structures are provided that are less expensive to manufacture due to reductions in material cost such as gold. Ball grid array structures are provided with improved resistance to corrosion during fabrication. Ball grid array structures are also provided with improved mechanical properties resulting in improved shock testing results.
US09966340B2
The present invention provides a flexible substrate for packaging and a package. The flexible substrate for packaging includes a bendable region provided in a central region of the flexible substrate; chips provided at both sides of the bendable region and at both ends of the flexible substrate, respectively; and a wire provided to be connected between the chips and to pass through the bendable region. A portion of the wire corresponding to the bendable region is provided with an anti-stress structure, and the anti-stress structure is configured to release a tensile resistance and a compressive resistance when the bendable region is bent.
US09966339B2
A method for forming an interconnect structure includes forming a dielectric layer overlying a substrate, forming an opening in the dielectric layer, forming a metal-containing layer overlying the opening in the dielectric layer, forming a conformal protective layer overlying the metal-containing layer, filling a conductive layer in the opening, and performing a thermal process to form a metal oxide layer barrier layer underlying the metal-containing layer.
US09966335B2
A semiconductor device has an interposer frame mounted over a carrier. A semiconductor die has an active surface and bumps formed over the active surface. The semiconductor die can be mounted within a die opening of the interposer frame or over the interposer frame. Stacked semiconductor die can also be mounted within the die opening of the interposer frame or over the interposer frame. Bond wires or bumps are formed between the semiconductor die and interposer frame. An encapsulant is deposited over the interposer frame and semiconductor die. An interconnect structure is formed over the encapsulant and bumps of the first semiconductor die. An electronic component, such as a discrete passive device, semiconductor die, or stacked semiconductor die, is mounted over the semiconductor die and interposer frame. The electronic component has an I/O count less than an I/O count of the semiconductor die.
US09966329B2
Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a lead frame having a semiconductor chip mounted thereon; providing a heat radiating frame having a heat radiating plate; and resin sealing the semiconductor chip and the heat radiating plate with the lead frame and the heat radiating frame in a stacked state. The method further includes the steps of: separating a frame body of the heat radiating frame from the lead frame having a sealing body; and applying an inspection to detect resin-unfilled regions to the lead frame having the sealing body. Since the frame body of the heat radiating frame shielding an inspection region is removed before the inspection, it becomes possible to perform the inspection using transmitted light.
US09966328B2
A semiconductor power device is disclosed. The semiconductor power device comprises a lead frame unit, two or more pluralities of single in-line leads, two or more semiconductor chip stacks, and a molding encapsulation. Each semiconductor chip stack includes a high-side semiconductor chip, a low-side semiconductor chip and a clip connecting a top surface of the high-side semiconductor chip to a bottom surface of the low-side semiconductor chip. This invention further discloses a method for fabricating semiconductor power devices. The method comprises the steps of providing a lead frame strip having a plurality of lead frame units; providing two or more pluralities of single in-line leads; attaching two or more high-side semiconductor chips to each lead frame unit; connecting each of the two or more high-side semiconductor chips to a respective lead by a respective clip of two or more first clips; attaching a respective low-side semiconductor chip of the two or more low-side semiconductor chips to each clip of the two or more first clips; molding an encapsulation; and singulating the lead frame strip and the encapsulation to form the semiconductor power devices.
US09966327B2
A lead frame according to one embodiment includes a lead part including an inner lead and an outer lead connected to the inner lead, and a frame unit supporting the lead part. The inner lead has a terminal portion having a facing surface and a back surface in the opposite side from the facing surface. The facing surface faces a conductive pattern of a wiring board. An outer region of the terminal portion is provided with a solder thickness ensuring portion where the facing surface is depressed toward the back surface. The solder thickness ensuring portion is thinner than a center region of the facing surface. A center region of the back surface is flat without a depression.
US09966321B2
An interposer may comprise a metal layer above a substrate. A dam or a plurality of dams may be formed above the metal layer. A dam surrounds an area of a size larger than a size of a die which may be connected to a contact pad above the metal layer within the area. A dam may comprise a conductive material, or a non-conductive material, or both. An underfill may be formed under the die, above the metal layer, and contained within the area surrounded by the dam, so that no underfill may overflow outside the area surrounded by the dam. Additional package may be placed above the die connected to the interposer to form a package-on-package structure.
US09966319B1
A method for assembling a packaged integrated circuit for operating reliably at elevated temperatures is provided. The method includes providing an extended bond pad over an original die pad of an extracted die to create a modified extracted die. The extracted die is a fully functional semiconductor die that has been removed from a finished packaged integrated circuit. The method also includes placing the modified extracted die into a cavity of a package base and bonding a new bond wire between the extended bond pad and a lead of the package base or a downbond, and sealing a package lid to the package base and the cavity of the package.
US09966316B2
According to one embodiment, deposition supporting system, depositing apparatus and manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes a depositing apparatus that deposits stacked bodies on wafers allocated to stations and a host computer. The host computer evaluates feature amounts convertible to misalignments at predetermined points on the stacked bodies of the respective wafers, and specifies the stations to which the wafers are to be allocated based on the feature amounts of the stacked bodies in the respective stations. The depositing apparatus allocates the wafers to the stations based on the specification from the host computer.
US09966308B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a sacrificial layer in a first contact hole of a first dielectric layer, forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, and forming a second contact hole in the second dielectric layer, the second contact hole being aligned with the first contact hole, removing the sacrificial layer from the first contact hole, forming a liner layer on the second dielectric layer and in the first and second contact holes, and forming a copper contact in the first and second contact holes.
US09966304B2
An improved interconnect structure and a method for forming the interconnect structure is disclosed that allows the interconnect structure to achieve a lower Rc. To lower the Rc of the interconnect structure, an α-phase inducing metal layer is introduced on a first Ta barrier layer of β phase to induce the subsequent deposition of Ta thereon into the formation of an α-phase Ta barrier layer. The subsequently deposited Ta barrier layer with a primary crystallographic structure of α phase has a lower Rc than that of the β-phase Ta barrier layer.
US09966289B2
An apparatus and method capable of reducing the footprint of substrate processing system. An apparatus includes a housing chamber including a housing cabinet which houses housing containers for housing substrates, and a housing container carrying mechanism provided on the ceiling of the housing chamber and configured to carry the housing containers.
US09966283B2
A pressurizing-type lamp annealing device which can easily handle a substrate to be treated having a large surface area. An embodiment of the pressurizing-type lamp annealing device includes: a treatment chamber (25); a holding part (23) disposed in the treatment chamber to hold a substrate to be treated; a gas-introduction mechanism for introducing a pressurized gas into the treatment chamber; a gas-discharge mechanism for discharging the gas in the treatment chamber; a transparent tube (20) disposed in the treatment chamber; and a lamp heater (19) placed in the treatment chamber to irradiate the substrate with a lamp light through the transparent tube.
US09966277B2
An arrangement is provided. The arrangement may include: a substrate having a front side and a back side, a die region within the substrate, a multi-purpose layer defining a back side of the die region, and an etch stop layer disposed over the multi-purpose layer between the multi-purpose layer and the back side of the substrate. The multi-purpose layer may be formed of an ohmic material, and the etch stop layer may be of a first conductivity type of a first doping concentration.
US09966275B2
Methods for reducing oxygen content in an oxidized annealed metal nitride film comprising exposing the film to a plasma.
US09966266B2
An apparatus for semiconductor wafer treatment includes a wafer holding unit configured to receive a single wafer, at least a solution supply unit configured to apply a solution onto the wafer and an irradiation unit configured to emit irradiation to the wafer. The irradiation unit further includes at least a plurality of first light sources configured to emit irradiation in FIR range and a plurality of second light sources configured to emit irradiation in UV range.
US09966257B2
A composition of matter comprising at least one nanowire on a graphitic substrate, said at least one nanowire having been grown epitaxially on said substrate, wherein said nanowire comprises at least one group III-V compound or at least one group II-VI compound or comprises at least one non carbon group (IV) element.
US09966255B2
Methods of densifying films, cross-linking films, and controlling the stress of films are provided herein. Methods include forming a removable film on a substrate comprising a material to be densified, and annealing the substrate to transfer stress from the removable film to the material and thereby densify the material. Some methods involve depositing a tensile capping layer on the material to be densified on a substrate and annealing the substrate at a temperature greater than about 450° C. Some methods include clamping the substrate including the material to be densified to a shaped pedestal using an electrostatic chuck to apply compressive stress to the material to be densified.
US09966252B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: (a) forming an oxide film having a predetermined thickness on a substrate by alternately repeating: (a-1) forming a layer containing a predetermined element on the substrate by supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element into a process vessel accommodating the substrate and exhausting the source gas from the process vessel; and (a-2) changing the layer containing the predetermined element into an oxide layer by supplying an oxygen-containing gas and an hydrogen-containing gas into the process vessel, wherein inside of the process vessel is under a heated atmosphere having a pressure lower than an atmospheric pressure; and exhausting the oxygen-containing gas and the hydrogen-containing gas from the process vessel; and (b) modifying the oxide film formed on the substrate by supplying the oxygen-containing gas and the hydrogen-containing gas into the process vessel, wherein the inside of the process vessel is under the heated atmosphere having the pressure lower than the atmospheric pressure, and exhausting the oxygen-containing gas and the hydrogen-containing gas from the process vessel.
US09966247B2
A wafer component supply device supplying a wafer component and a feeder, such as a tape feeder supplying an electronic component, are set in a component mounting machine. When the wafer component is to be inverted and mounted on a circuit substrate, the wafer component supply device allows the wafer component present on an inverted supply head to be sucked by a mounting head of the component mounting machine at a position where the supply head and a stage are moved down by a vertical movement mechanism. An order of an operation for inverting the wafer component and mounting the wafer component on the circuit substrate and an operation for mounting the feeder component on the circuit substrate is set so that the supply head and the mounting head do not interfere with each other; and an operation for moving down the supply head and the stage, allowing the wafer component to be sucked by the supply head, and inverting the wafer component is performed so as to overlap with an operation for sucking and mounting the feeder component by the mounting head.
US09966233B2
A plasma processing apparatus of exciting a processing gas into plasma by applying a high frequency power between an upper electrode and a lower electrode provided within a processing chamber and performing a plasma process on a target object to be processed with the plasma includes a DC power supply configured to apply a DC voltage to the upper electrode; a ground electrode connected to the DC power supply; and an annular shield member provided outside the ground electrode. A groove is formed into a downward recess at an outer peripheral portion of the ground electrode, and an upper end of the shield member is positioned above an upper end of the peripheral portion of the ground electrode. A protruding portion, which is protruded toward a center of the ground electrode, is formed at a portion of the shield member positioned above the ground electrode.
US09966230B1
A multi-column electron beam device includes an electron source comprising multiple field emitters fabricated on a surface of a silicon substrate. To prevent oxidation of the silicon, a thin, contiguous boron layer is disposed directly on the output surface of the field emitters. The field emitters can take various shapes including a pyramid, a cone, or a rounded whisker. Optional gate layers may be placed on the output surface near the field emitters. The field emitter may be p-type or n-type doped. Circuits may be incorporated into the wafer to control the emission current. A light source may be configured to illuminate the electron source and control the emission current. The multi-column electron beam device may be a multi-column electron beam lithography system configured to write a pattern on a sample.
US09966226B2
A cross-section processing and observation method performed by a cross-section processing and observation apparatus comprises a cross-section processing step of forming a cross-section by irradiating a sample with an ion beam; a cross-section observation step of obtaining an observation image of the cross-section by irradiating the cross-section with an electron beam; and repeating the cross-section processing step and the cross-section observation step so as to obtain observation images of a plurality of cross-sections. In a case where Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDS) measurement of the cross-section is performed and an X-ray of a specified material or of a non-specified material that is different from a pre-specified material is detected, an irradiation condition of the ion beam is changed so as to obtain observation images of a plurality of cross-sections of the specified material, and the cross-section processing and observation of the specified material is performed.
US09966216B2
A new ultra-thin high-efficiency photoelectron source utilizing a metallic photonic resonant cavity having a photonic resonant cavity with a top metallic layer with a plurality of openings, each having an average dimension less than the wavelength of the excitation photons in vacuum, a bottom metallic layer and a photoelectron emission layer of semiconductor positioned between the top metallic layer and the bottom metallic.
US09966214B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a spool in which a coil is wound around its outer peripheral surface, and a magnetic core is inserted in its inside; a yoke arranged along the spool; and an insulating member provided between a first member including the coil, and second members including a fixed contact portion, a movable contact portion, an armature and the yoke to contribute to insulation between the first member and the second members, wherein the insulating member is provided with an opening portion at a portion that does not face the second members, and the spool is inserted in the insulating member from the opening portion to be placed in the insulating member.
US09966208B2
The present invention discloses a manual operation device for low voltage switching apparatus. An operating handle is provided with a fixing groove. The fixing groove is matched with a second fixing plate, the second fixing plate is placed in the fixing groove. A reset torsion spring is arranged between the second fixing plate and the fixing groove. A pawl is rotatably mounted on the second fixing plate through a fixing pin, the pawl rotates about the fixing pin. One end of a first reset spring is connected to the top end of the pawl, the other end of the first reset spring is connected to the operating handle. The operating handle i mounted on a mounting shaft of an operating mechanism of the low voltage switching apparatus. A mounting plate is provided with a rotation shaft, the rotation shaft is the rotation shaft of an energy storage mechanism of the low voltage switching apparatus. The mounting shaft and the rotation shaft are not concentric. A ratchet wheel is rotatably mounted on the rotation shaft, the bottom end of the pawl is engaged with an intertooth position of the ratchet wheel. A stop detent is provided on the bottom of the mounting plate, the stop detent is rotatably mounted on the mounting plate. The top end of the stop detent is engaged with an intertooth position of the ratchet wheel. One end of a second reset spring is connected to the bottom end of the stop detent, the other end of the second reset spring is fixed on the mounting plate.
US09966202B2
A keyswitch includes a cap, a support structure, a first magnet, and a baseplate having a bending arm protruding from the baseplate and a support rib extending horizontally to form a receiving space with the bending arm. The support structure includes a first support member pivoted to the baseplate and against the cap and a magnetic permeable plate extending from the first support member and being above the receiving space. The first magnet is inserted into the receiving space to be supported by the support rib and be pressed by the bending arm. When the cap is pressed to make the magnetic permeable plate away from the first magnet as the first support member rotates, the cap moves to a pressed position. When the cap is released, a magnetic attraction force between the magnetic permeable plate and the first magnet drives the magnetic permeable plate to approach the first magnet.
US09966200B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, and a liquid solution with which the capacitor element is impregnated. The capacitor element includes: an anode foil having a dielectric layer thereon, and a cathode layer including a conductive polymer and in contact with the dielectric layer. The liquid solution contains at least one of polyalkylene glycol and derivatives thereof. A total weight content of polyalkylene glycol and derivatives thereof in the liquid solution is 15 wt % or greater with respect to a weight of the liquid solution.
US09966198B2
Solar cells are provided which comprise an electron transporting layer and a light sensitizing layer of perovskite disposed over the surface of the electron transporting layer. The perovskite may have a formula selected from the group consisting of A2MX6, Z2MX6 or YMX6, wherein A is an alkali metal, M is a metal or a metalloid, X is a halide, Z is selected from the group consisting of a primary ammonium, an iminium, a secondary ammonium, a tertiary ammonium, and a quaternary ammonium, and Y has formula Mb(L)3, wherein Mb is a transition metal in the 2+ oxidation state L is an N—N neutral chelating ligand. Methods of making the solar cells are also provided, including methods based on electrospray deposition.
US09966197B2
A novel hybrid lithium-ion anode material based on coaxially coated Si shells on vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (CNF) arrays. The unique cup-stacking graphitic microstructure makes the bare vertically aligned CNF array an effective Li+ intercalation medium. Highly reversible Li+ intercalation and extraction were observed at high power rates. More importantly, the highly conductive and mechanically stable CNF core optionally supports a coaxially coated amorphous Si shell which has much higher theoretical specific capacity by forming fully lithiated alloy. Addition of surface effect dominant sites in close proximity to the intercalation medium results in a hybrid device that includes advantages of both batteries and capacitors.
US09966196B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor and method for making the capacitor are provided. The capacitor includes a sintered porous anode body; a sintered anode substrate; a dielectric that overlies at least a portion of the anode body and at least a portion of the anode substrate and that is also formed within at least a portion of the anode body; a solid electrolyte cathode overlying at least a portion of the dielectric that overlies the anode body; an anode termination that is electrically connected to the anode substrate; and a cathode termination that is electrically connected to the solid electrolyte. The anode body is disposed on a planar surface of the anode substrate, and both the anode body and substrate are formed from a powder of a valve metal composition. Further, the anode substrate is hermetic and impermeable to liquids.
US09966187B2
A coil component includes: a pillar part, quadrangular planar parts formed at both ends of the pillar part, a coil formed by winding an insulating sheath conductor around the pillar part, electrode terminals that are electrically connected to both ends of the coil, and an outer sheath covering the coil at least partially; wherein the pillar part and quadrangular planar parts are made of ferrite material; the outer sheath contains metal magnetic grains and resin material; and based on a section obtained by cutting through the center of the pillar part vertically to the long-axis direction of the pillar part, the cross-section area of the pillar part is greater than the cross-section area of the outer sheath.
US09966182B2
This disclosure relates generally to semiconductors, and more particularly, to structures and methods for implementing high performance multi-frequency inductors with airgaps or other low-k dielectric material. The structure includes: a plurality of concentric conductive bands; a low-k dielectric area selectively placed between inner windings of the plurality of concentric conductive bands; and insulator material with a higher-k dielectric material than the low-k dielectric area selectively placed between remaining windings of the plurality of concentric conductive bands.
US09966177B2
A reactor includes a core made of a magnetic material; a resin mold that encloses the core; a coil that is wound around the core through the resin mold; a plurality of fasteners located on the resin mold; and a supporting member that is secured to the resin mold through the fasteners. At least one of the plurality of fasteners is a flexible fastener.
US09966174B2
A magnetic sealing closure, comprising: a. a first flexible strip, with a plurality of cavities adapted to incorporate a plurality of magnetic elements; b. a second flexible strip, with a plurality of cavities adapted to incorporate a plurality of magnetic elements; wherein said sealing closure comprises membranes connectable to said first strip, and a second membrane connectable to said second strip, such that said plurality of magnetic elements of said second strip are embedded within said plurality of cavities between said second strip and said second membrane; when said first and second strips and are brought together from the side of said first and second membranes, magnetic elements of said first and said second strips magnetically attract each other, such that a sealing is provided.
US09966167B1
The present invention provides a system and method for producing superconducting joints between superconductive segments of a Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductor, thereby eliminating the heat generating resistive joints that are commonly known in the art for connecting two or more smaller Bi-2212 conductive segments to create an Bi-2212 conductor of adequate length.
US09966165B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an electrical cable can be configured to electrically connect to contact pads that are carried by a substrate. The electrical cable can include at least one, such as a pair, of electrical signal conductors and at least one, for instance a pair, of electrically conductive drain wires. A drain wire in the electrical cable can define a first surface that is configured to face the substrate and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The drain wire can define a height that is greater than 0.2 mm as measured from the first surface to the second surface along a straight line.
US09966164B2
The present invention provides an insulated coated wire comprising a wire, a wire coating layer disposed around the wire, and a wire adhesive layer disposed around the wire coating layer, wherein the wire coating layer is of one type of or a combination of two or more types of a fluorine resin, a polyamide-imide resin and a low dielectric polyimide resin having a relative permittivity of less than 3.6 at 10 GHz, and a multi-wire wiring board using the insulated coated wire.
US09966160B2
A collimating system for collimating a radiation beam having a first multileaf collimator and a second multileaf collimator configured such that the radiation beam will pass through the first multileaf collimator before passing through the second multileaf collimator, and pass through the second multileaf collimator before hitting its target. The leaves of the first multileaf collimator and the leaves of the second multileaf collimator may be configured to move independently of one another.
US09966151B2
There are provided a current sensing circuit and a memory device having the same. A current sensing circuit includes a current mirror unit suitable for outputting a first voltage and a second voltage; a chunk current controller suitable for generating the first voltage by generating a current through at least one page buffer; a fail bit counter suitable for adjusting a current at a first node where the first voltage is output in response to fail bits received from the page buffer; an allowed bit counter suitable for adjusting the current at the first node according to predetermined allowed bits; and a target range setting unit suitable for adjusting a current at a second node where the second voltage is output in response to a target code.
US09966146B2
According to one embodiment, a controller groups a plurality of memory cells in each of the pages into a plurality of groups. The plurality of groups includes a first group and a second group. In a case of reading data from a first page, The controller performs first reading. The first reading includes reading data from the first page by using a first operation parameter for the first group. The controller performs second reading. The second reading includes reading data from the first page by using a second operation parameter for the second group. The controller merges first read data and second read data, and return the merged data as read data read from the first page. The first read data is acquired by the first reading. The second read data is acquired by the second reading.
US09966141B2
A nonvolatile memory cell includes a first-conductivity-type silicon substrate, a metal layer formed in a surface of the first-conductivity-type silicon substrate, a second-conductivity-type diffusion layer formed in the surface of the first-conductivity-type silicon substrate and spaced apart from the metal layer, an insulating film disposed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type silicon substrate between the metal layer and the second-conductivity-type diffusion layer, a gate electrode disposed on the insulating film between the metal layer and the second-conductivity-type diffusion layer, and a sidewall disposed at a same side of the gate electrode as the metal layer and situated between the gate electrode and the metal layer, the sidewall being made of insulating material.
US09966138B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a device and a method are provided. The device includes one or more resistive random access memory (ReRAM) elements. The device further includes a random number generator configured to generate a random number in dependence on impedance values of the one or more ReRAM elements.
US09966124B2
A memory device includes: a memory cell; a data buffer which receives write data; a first latch circuit which latches data stored in the memory cell; a second latch circuit which latches data transferred from the data buffer; a controller which performs a first transfer operation to transfer data from the data buffer to the second latch circuit after a write command is received and then a first period elapses; and a write circuit which performs a write operation to write data of the second latch circuit to the memory cell after the first transfer operation, when data of the first latch circuit is different from the data of the second latch circuit. The controller performs a second transfer operation to transfer data from the second latch circuit to the first latch circuit after the write operation.
US09966118B2
Systems and methods of synchronous memories and synchronous memory operation are disclosed. According to one illustrative implementation, a memory device is disclosed comprising memory circuitry having a memory output, the memory circuitry including a sense amplifier having a first output and a second output, a first data path coupled to the first output of the sense amplifier, the first data path including 2 latches/registers, and a second data path coupled to the second output of the sense amplifier, the second data path including a plurality latches/registers. In further implementations, various control circuitry, connections and control signals may be utilized to operate the latches/registers in the first and second data paths according to specified configurations, control, modes, latency and/or timing domain information, to achieve, for example, pipelined output latching and/or double data rate output.
US09966104B2
A control device is provided which mixes and outputs two types of audio signals processed under standards different from each other; in particular, an audio signal of ASIO standard and an audio signal of WDM standard. An audio interface is connected to a computer, and an audio signal is input to the computer. A mixer module of the computer mixes an audio signal which is effect-processed by an ASIO application and an audio signal reproduced by a WDM application, outputs the mixed audio signal to the audio interface, and also outputs the mixed audio signal to the WDM application and records the sound. In each step of the process, double buffering is used to reduce sound drop-out.
US09966097B2
An information recording method of the present disclosure is an information recording method for recording information on a write-once information recording medium, including one or more recording layers, each of the recording layers being spiral-shaped on which a land track and a groove track are alternately repeated as recording tracks, each of the recording tracks being divided into blocks, each of the blocks being a minimum unit in which recording is performed. The information recording method includes: recording the information on the information recording medium in a unit of each of the blocks; and controlling recording on the information recording medium. In the control step, switching is performed whether to perform recording in a block to be recorded in which the information is to be recorded next among the blocks based on recording conditions of the recording tracks adjacent on both sides of the block to be recorded.
US09966095B2
A magnetic media for magnetic data recording having reduced signal noise. The magnetic media includes a magnetic recording layer that has first, second and third portions. The first portion at the bottom of the magnetic recording layer includes an oxide and has a high anisotropy field. The third portion, located at the top of the magnetic recording layer has a low anisotropy field and does not include an oxide. The second portion, located between the first and third portions has an anisotropy field that is between that of the first and third magnetic portions. The second portion includes a thin layer of a material that has an extremely low anisotropy field that is located within a material having a higher magnetic anisotropy.
US09966093B1
A heat assisted magnetic recording head gimbal assembly comprises a light source unit, a heat assisted magnetic recording head, a suspension, an actuator, and a slider. The light source unit comprises a light emitting element and a submount. The suspension comprises a load beam and a flexure movably coupled with the load beam. The actuator is deformably coupled to the flexure. The slider is supported by the suspension and coupled to the flexure and the light source unit. The slider includes the heat assisted magnetic recording head. First and second solders or conductive adhesives are positioned on opposite longitudinal sides of the light source unit, so that the first solder or conductive adhesive electrically and mechanically connects the submount to a wiring supplying power, while the second solder or conductive adhesive electrically and mechanically connects the light emitting element to the wiring.
US09966092B2
To provide an ion beam etching method which enables a highly uniform IBE process even under a low-angle-incident static condition, without increase in the size of an apparatus. The ion beam etching method includes: changing a position of an opening portion with respect to a substrate; etching the substrate with an ion beam passing through the opening portion; and reducing a tilt angle as a center of a site where the ion beam is incident on the substrate moves away from the ion source.
US09966090B2
A motion inducing system for playing sounds over a gramophone is provided. An electrical signal such as that from a digital music player is converted to lateral movement of a surface using a linear motion transducer. The lateral movement moves the stylus of a gramophone, and the music from the digital music source is played over the horn of the gramophone.
US09966087B1
A method that may be performed by a device may include receiving, from a personal camera, streaming content via a first WiFi interface. The method may include receiving a vocal instruction regarding the streaming content. The method may include determining configuration information based on which to modify or provide the streaming content. The configuration information may be determined based on one or more of: location information associated with the device, or the vocal instruction. The method may include modifying the streaming content, to obtain modified streaming content, based on the configuration information. The method may include providing the modified streaming content via a second WiFi interface.
US09966086B1
A system may be configured to interact with a user through speech using a first and second audio devices, where the first device produces audio and the second device captures audio. The second device may be configured to perform acoustic echo cancellation with respect to a microphone signal based on a reference signal provided by the first device. The reference and microphone signals may have the same nominal signal rates. However, the signal rates may drift from each other over time. In order to synchronize the rates of the signals, each of the devices maintains a signal index. The second device compares the values of the two signal indexes over time to determine rate differences between the reference and microphone signals and then corrects for the rate differences.
US09966084B2
A method and a device for achieving object audio recording and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method includes performing a sound collection operation via a plurality of microphones simultaneously to obtain a mixed sound signal. The method also includes identifying the number of sound sources and position information of each sound source and separating out an object sound signal corresponding to each sound source from the mixed sound signal according to the mixed sound signal and set position information of each microphone. The method further includes combining the position information and the object sound signal of individual sound sources to obtain audio data in an object audio format.
US09966080B2
An audio object encoder comprises a receiver (701) which receives N audio objects. A downmixer (703) downmixes the N audio objects to M audio channels, and a channel circuit (707) derives K audio channels from the M audio channels, K=1, 2 and K
US09966072B2
Methods, and devices and systems, for example an answering machine system, are provided for determining a language among a plurality of languages available for a voice to text transcription of phone calls between a caller and a recipient. In the method, at least two of said available languages are proposed to the caller. The proposed languages are based on a phone country code corresponding to said caller, a phone country code corresponding to said recipient, a language from a set of languages available for the transcription by said answering machine system, or a language selected automatically on the basis of parameters set by the caller or the recipient. The caller selects said language by interacting with said answering machine system, and a corresponding voice message is transcribed into text of the selected language for forwarding to said recipient.
US09966070B2
An electrically operated domestic appliance, in particular a kitchen appliance, includes a voice recognition device, which voice recognition device is designed to compare voice signals of a user with known control commands for operating the domestic appliance, and includes an activation device for activating the voice recognition device. The activation device has an optical detection device, wherein the activation device is designed to activate the voice recognition device in dependence on information captured by the optical detection device. A method operates the domestic appliance.
US09966068B2
An electronic device with one or more processors and memory includes a procedure for sharing information with a third party recipient. In some embodiments, the device receives a speech input from a first user, the speech input specifying a second user different from the first user, and an information item to be shared with the second user. In response to the speech input, the device initiates a background process during which a digital assistant searches for the information item and causes the information item to be sent to the second user without further review and instruction from the first user.
US09966065B2
Systems and processes are disclosed for handling a multi-part voice command for a virtual assistant. Speech input can be received from a user that includes multiple actionable commands within a single utterance. A text string can be generated from the speech input using a speech transcription process. The text string can be parsed into multiple candidate substrings based on domain keywords, imperative verbs, predetermined substring lengths, or the like. For each candidate substring, a probability can be determined indicating whether the candidate substring corresponds to an actionable command. Such probabilities can be determined based on semantic coherence, similarity to user request templates, querying services to determine manageability, or the like. If the probabilities exceed a threshold, the user intent of each substring can be determined, processes associated with the user intents can be executed, and an acknowledgment can be provided to the user.
US09966060B2
The method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. A first speech input including at least one word is received. A first phonetic representation of the at least one word is determined, the first phonetic representation comprising a first set of phonemes selected from a speech recognition phonetic alphabet. The first set of phonemes is mapped to a second set of phonemes to generate a second phonetic representation, where the second set of phonemes is selected from a speech synthesis phonetic alphabet. The second phonetic representation is stored in association with a text string corresponding to the at least one word.
US09966059B1
An acoustic interference cancellation system that performs beamforming using a subset of microphones from a microphone array. For example, a first group of microphones from an array can be used to generate target signals that focus on the direction of the desired speech in the audio and a second group of microphones from the array can be used to generate reference signals that include the environmental noise, audio from a loudspeaker, etc. The reference signals of the second group of microphones can then be used to isolate the actual speech from the target signals of the first group of microphones. The microphone array can be three dimensional, allowing a device to simplify beamforming calculations by selecting subsets of microphones along different planes. In addition, directional microphones and remote microphones may be used to improve a quality of the reference signals.
US09966043B2
An identifier control device includes: a cumulative transmission and reception initiation control unit that instructs a plurality of controlled devices, via a network, to initiate cumulative transmission and reception; a distance determination command transmission unit that transmits to each of the plurality of controlled devices via the network a distance determination command; a distance recognition unit that determines the distances on the network with respect to the respective plurality of controlled devices, based on response signals transmitted by the respective plurality of controlled devices after the accumulation time has elapsed from when each of the plurality of controlled devices receives the distance determination command; and an identifier control unit that sets to each of the plurality of controlled devices, via the network, an identifier for each of the plurality of controlled devices determined based on the determined distances on the network.
US09966033B2
The present disclosure proposes a detection device for a display panel. The detection device includes twelve signal source input terminals for inputting a detection signal, and twelve shorting bars corresponding to the signal source input terminals one on one. One end of the shorting bar is connected to the corresponding signal source input terminal, and the other end of the shorting bar is connected to a corresponding data line on the display panel.
US09966026B2
A GOA substrate includes GOA circuit units connected in cascade. The GOA circuit unit includes an output module, a reset module, a latch module, and an input module. The output module is used for outputting the scan signal based on a trigger signal. The reset module is used for resetting the trigger signal based on the reset signal. The latch module is used to hold and pull down the electric potential of the trigger signal. The input module is used for receiving the scan signal outputted by the previous stage GOA circuit unit. The input module includes a first CMOS transmission gate and a first transistor. The input module can lower the equivalent on-resistance of the transistor, elevate the drive current between the input terminal and the output terminal, so to increase level transmission speed, lower drive power loss of the transistor and improve the stability of the circuit.
US09966025B1
The present invention provides a gate driving circuit, of which respective odd stage GOA unit circuits are cascade connected, and respective even stage GOA unit circuits are cascade connected; the odd stage first, second scan control signals (VfO, VrO), the odd stage scan start signal (STVO), the odd stage first, second high frequency clock signals (CK1O, CK2O) are located corresponding to the odd stage GOA unit circuits; the even stage first, second scan control signals (VfE, VrE), the even stage scan start signal (STVE), the even stage first, second high frequency clock signals (CK1E, CK2E) are located corresponding to the even stage GOA unit circuits; by controlling the voltage levels of the odd stage first, second scan control signals (VfO, VrO) and even stage first, second scan control signals (VfE, VrE) in cooperation with the odd stage scan start signal (STVO) and the even stage scan start signal (STVE) of different sequences, the odd stage GOA unit circuits and the even stage GOA unit circuits can be controlled to perform forward scan or backward scan at the same time or in time division.
US09966007B2
Discussed are an organic light emitting display which can reduce flicker, along with power consumption, and a driving method thereof. In a low-power operation mode of the organic light emitting display, at least one holding frame is placed between writing frames in which image data is written, the output of the source driver is enabled during the writing frames, the output of the source driver is disabled during the holding frames, and the emission driver is controlled during the holding frames to increase the toggle frequency of the emission signal to be higher than or equal to N times the frame frequency (N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2). The driving method can reduce the perceived flicker.
US09966004B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate comprising a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel arranged in a matrix; a scan line on the substrate and extending in a row direction; a red data line, a green data line, and a blue data line between adjacent pixel columns to cross the scan line; a driving voltage line alternating with the red data line, the green data line, and the blue data line; and a horizontal driving voltage line extending parallel with the scan line and electrically connected to the driving voltage line.
US09965994B2
The array substrate includes a substrate and at least one display pixel arranged on the substrate. The display pixel includes a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels arranged along a row direction and a column direction. The period along the row direction or the column direction includes three display pixels. Wherein within at least one period along the row direction and the column direction, the display pixel of the first row includes one second pixel and two first pixels adjacent to the second pixel. The display pixel of the second row includes one first pixel and two second pixels adjacent to the first pixel. The display pixel of the third row includes one first pixel and two second pixels adjacent to the first pixel, and the first pixel of the third row is in different column from the first pixel of the second row.
US09965988B2
A system, method and apparatus are set forth which adjusts one or more of the brightness, vibrancy and color shift of displayed content based upon the at least approximate age of the viewer. At a display (15) the user's age is at least approximated by accessing an established user data file (835, 837) containing age determining data and/or capturing a facial image (804) of the user and processing the same to determine at least the approximate age of the user. Based upon the age determination the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may be adjusted to account for the effects of the aging of the human eye. User overrides (900, 902, 904) may be provided for the user to alter or turn off the adjustments. Adjustment of the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may also take into account ambient light conditions.
US09965987B2
A display device and a method for driving the display device are provided, which pertain to the technical field of display, and can reduce the negative influence of data lines in a RGBW display device on the light transmittance. The display device comprises a display panel having a plurality of pixel units arranged as an array. Each of the pixel units comprises three adjacent pixels located in the same column, and each of the pixels comprises a first color sub pixel, a second color sub pixel, a third color sub pixel, and a fourth color sub pixel. In each of the pixel units, the three fourth color sub pixels each share a corresponding data line with a first color sub pixel, a second color sub pixel and a third color sub pixel respectively of different pixels. The present disclosure can be applied to display devices, such as liquid crystal television, liquid crystal display device, mobile phone, and tablet PC, etc.
US09965981B1
The invention includes methods and apparatus for a balloon support bracket that may be secured to an attachment surface such as a light pole or fence and may further be coupled with one or more helium-free balloons through a balloon support. Additional embodiments include novel quick-release coupling and security features to enhance ease of use and deter theft.
US09965971B2
The present disclosure relates generally to question answering systems and methods and, particularly, to systems and methods for domain adaptation in question answering.
US09965968B2
A computing device may include a display, a memory to store electronic textbook data comprising at least one configurable problem to be solved for a system having a plurality of different parameters, a user input device, and a processor coupled to the display, the memory, and the user input device. The processor may be configured to display the electronic textbook data with the at least one configurable problem on the display, selectively change at least one of the parameters of the system to define a new solution for the at least one configurable problem based upon the user input device, and display the new solution on the display.
US09965957B2
An image of the nearby surroundings of a user's vehicle is displayed, which includes images of the user's vehicle and threshold lines that define a range of distance from the user's vehicle. The image of the nearby surroundings of the user's vehicle is changed in accordance with a positional relationship between another vehicle and the range of distance.
US09965953B1
An Enhanced Traffic Sign Information Messaging System (ETSIMS) that provides the methodology, functions and support equipment to provide vehicles, which might not be within sight of the traffic message sign, with all or some prioritized parts of the message displayed on the sign, or an enhanced version of the information provided on the sign, including traffic information messages inferred from the message displayed on the traffic message sign. ETSIMS may also provide messages of this type without the need for the physical presence of a sign on the roadway.
US09965948B2
Methods and systems for utilizing a mobile computing device (e.g., such as a mobile phone) for use in controlling a model vehicle are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a mobile computing device provides various user controls for generating signals that are communicated to a radio transmitter device coupled with the mobile computing device, and ultimately broadcast to a receiver residing at a model vehicle. With some embodiments, the mobile computing device may be integrated with a controller housing which provides separate user controls, such that a combination of user controls present on the mobile computing device and the controller housing can be used to control a model vehicle.
US09965947B2
A transmitter device for coupling to a vehicle and for conducting a transmission to a remote system includes a transmitter and a processing circuit coupled to the transmitter and having an input interface. The input interface is coupled to an existing user interface of the vehicle for receiving an input to cause the transmitter to conduct its transmission to the remote system. The input interface is coupled to a vehicle sensor for receiving a vehicle sensor input including a motion status of the vehicle. The processing circuit is configured to prevent the transmitter from conducting its transmission to the remote system unless the motion status of the vehicle indicates the vehicle is travelling at a speed less than a threshold speed.
US09965945B2
Patient monitoring system includes a master unit. The master unit is configured to receive signal data of the patient from a plurality of acquisition devices. The master unit is also configured to receive a warning signal from a triggered acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices. The warning signal is communicated by the triggered acquisition device upon determining that corresponding physiological signals of the triggered acquisition device satisfy a designated condition. In response to receiving the warning signal from the triggered acquisition device, the master unit is configured to analyze the signal data from another acquisition device of the plurality of acquisition devices to determine whether the warning signal is clinically relevant or clinically irrelevant or unreliable. The master unit may permit a patient alarm or suppress the patient alarm based on the signal data from another acquisition device.
US09965939B2
A method for estimating a level of damage to perishable cargo during transportation of the cargo using data collected by a portable monitoring device. The method includes measuring vibrational data associated with the cargo. The vibrational data is monitored by a vibration sensor of the portable monitoring device. The method further includes incrementing a counter in the portable monitoring device in response to an amplitude of the measured vibrational data exceeding a predetermined threshold. The method also includes determining if the counter value exceeds a predetermined value, and generating an alert indicating damage to the cargo in response to determining the counter value has exceeded the predetermined value.
US09965938B1
The present invention includes systems and methods for managing restroom traffic at an event venue. Sensors at restroom facilities receive line and occupancy data and transmit the data to a system for processing. The system generates information regarding a travel time, a wait time, line length, and occupancy for each facility at the event venue. The generated information is transmitted to an event app associated with a ticket and a seat for an event at the venue. The system can notify the user when the combined travel time and wait time for a facility falls below a predetermined threshold.
US09965936B1
A safe network system is provided, wherein the safe network system communicatively couples to proximate peripheral and adjunct devices for identifying threats, sending threat alerts, providing routes to safe locations in threatened areas, and checking in on network users during and after the identified threat.
US09965933B1
Devices, apparatuses, and methods for detecting product straps are provided. An example product security device for detecting product straps may include a base, and a pivot member affixed to the base via a first hinge. The pivot member may be configured to physically engage a strap to maintain the pivot member in a non-deflected position. The example device may further include a biasing member configured to urge the pivot member into a deflected position and a sensor configured to detect when the pivot member is in the deflected position. The sensor may be configured to, in response to detecting that the pivot member is in the deflected position, generate an alert signal. The example device may also include processing circuitry configured to receive the alert signal and, in response to receiving the alert signal, transmit an alert triggering signal to initiate an alert.
US09965926B2
A gaming system, device and method are disclosed herein. The system, in an embodiment, is operable upon a wager input and involves competing symbols associated with a sports event having a series of incremental outcomes. The system is operable to provide an output corresponding to a payout value depending upon which symbol is selected.
US09965924B2
A method and system for implementing a multi-zone blackjack game, wherein a starting zone value is only zero and a game objective is to reach a numerical value in a maximum amount of zones. In the method and system, a gaming operator device receives an initial wager from a player, reveals each card to a player and receiving an input from the player regarding which zone area to place each card in, determines which zone or zones card placement is permitted, repeats the step of revealing and receiving and the step of determining until a determination is made that card placement is not permitted, and resolves the wager according to a predetermined pay scale.
US09965914B2
A magnetic detecting device according to an embodiment includes: a magnetic sensor head in which a plurality of magnetic sensing elements including a first magnetic sensing element and a second magnetic sensing element are arranged; and an environmental magnetism corrector. The plurality of magnetic sensing elements is arranged in one line over a length that is greater than a width of a sheet, in a direction that is orthogonal to a movement direction of the sheet. The environmental magnetism corrector corrects a first output signal output by the first magnetic sensing element, based on a second output signal output by the second magnetic sensing element. The magnetic sensor head has a sheet passage area that faces a sheet that passes over the magnetic sensor head, the first magnetic sensing element is positioned inside the sheet passage area, and the second magnetic sensing element is positioned outside the sheet passage area.
US09965908B2
Systems and methods of accessing a control system are provided. Some methods can include a mobile device transmitting a wireless entry request signal to a tag device, the wireless entry request signal including a mobile device identifier and a system identifier, upon receipt of the wireless entry request signal, the tag device comparing the mobile device identifier and the system identifier with a list of authorized identifiers, when the tag device determines that both the mobile device identifier and the system identifier match an entry in the list of authorized identifiers, the tag device transmitting a data file to the mobile device, the data file containing a door identifier of a door, and the mobile device transmitting an access request signal to a controller for use by the controller in unlocking the door, the access request signal including the mobile device identifier, the door identifier, and the system identifier.
US09965907B1
A system for frequent data readings includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is to receive frequent data readings. The frequent data readings include a newest data reading. The processor is to determine a simplified running characteristic based at least in part on the newest data readings and a last simplified running characteristic, and store the simplified running characteristic.
US09965903B2
Systems and methods which provide metering of postage value using accumulated postage information are shown. Embodiments implement an accumulated postage register in a postage security device which is incremented each time a postage indicium is generated and which is reset when a postage value settlement operation is performed. Accumulated postage may be paid for using various accounts, including pre-funded or pre-paid accounts, credit accounts, debit accounts, and billing accounts. Accordingly, embodiments may be used with respect to a post-paid metering model, a pre-paid metering model, and combinations thereof.
US09965898B2
A system for generating an overlay display comprises an overlay display, a camera and a processor connected to the overlay display and the camera. The overlay display is arranged to overlay an output on a background, the camera is arranged to detect the background, and the processor is arranged to receive a desired color for the output, determine the actual color of the background, and calculate the output color from the desired color and the actual color of the background.
US09965890B1
Improved techniques for generating video content are disclosed. In some embodiments, a frame is first rendered using a first rendering option. It is then determined whether the frame is an independent frame (I-frame) or a predictive frame (P-frame). In the event that the frame is an I-frame, the frame is rendered using a second rendering option. In the event that the frame is a P-frame, the frame as rendered by the first rendering option and a previous frame as rendered by the first rendering option are used to determine prediction error. The first rendering option comprises a lower computational complexity than the second rendering option.
US09965864B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium containing instructions for controlling mining machines. One system includes an image sensor for capturing an image of a cutting face of a mine and interface sensing and control system for obtaining the image, identifying an anomaly in the image, calculating a distance between the anomaly and a reference, and using the distance to automatically instruct a mining machine control system to keep a cutter head of the mining machine within a seam.
US09965863B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for segmenting three-dimensional images. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for segmenting a three-dimensional image is provided. The method may include receiving the three-dimensional image acquired by an imaging device, and creating a first stack of two-dimensional images from a first plane of the three-dimensional image and a second stack of two-dimensional images from a second plane of the three-dimensional image. The method may further include segmenting, by a processor, the first stack and the second stack of two-dimensional images using at least one neural network model. The method may also include determining, by the processor, a label map for the three-dimensional image by aggregating the segmentation results from the first stack and second stack.
US09965860B2
The invention relates to a method of gaze estimation. As to determine the position of the gaze without calibrating the system used for determining the gaze, the method comprises: detecting at least a location of the center of at least an eye on at least an eye image of a viewer watching at least a video image displayed on a screen; determining at least a first position of the gaze of the viewer on the screen by using the at least a detected location of the center of the at least an eye and a mapping function based on center-bias property of human gaze distribution. The invention also relates to a device configured for estimating the gaze.
US09965856B2
A stereo camera system useful in, for example, range finding applications. The system is designed for simple manufacture and long term stability. It includes a thermally stable substrate onto which are mounted multiple imagers. The relative positions of the imagers and corresponding optical elements are maintained in precise alignment.
US09965852B2
System and method for diagnosing brain conditions including evaluating fiber pathways of white matter tracts using a diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) process, tracking the propagation of waves traveling at specific angles to the fiber pathways by performing a 3D magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) process at the same spatial resolution and voxel position as the DTI, analyzing the viscoelastic properties using an inversion having at least nine elastic coefficients, determining the curvature along the pathways, differentiating the spatial-spectral filter twice with respect to arc length along the pathways, and diagnosing a brain condition based on the viscoelastic properties.
US09965846B2
A method and apparatus for detecting crystal orientation of a silicon wafer is proposed. The detection method uses a camera shooting device to irradiate the silicon wafer in a rotation manner in different angular directions and obtains the corresponding reflection intensities, based on which a reflection curve is drawn for a grain of interest in a polar coordinate system; normal directions of three or more faces of a regular octahedron of a grain <111> are determined by identifying a pixel brightness extreme value in the reflection curve, and then all normal vectors of the regular octahedron are calculated, so that a crystal orientation of the grain of interest may be calculated. The camera shooting device has a light source and one or more camera shooting probes.
US09965840B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for determining the weight of product (2), in particular a pharmaceutical product, which is located in a container (3). The device comprises at least one x-ray source (28), which produces a radiation path (18), for passing radiation through the container (3), and a sensor (14), which detects the radiation of the container (3) through which radiation is passed in the form of an image (12), wherein an evaluating apparatus (14), is provided, which divides the image (12) of the container (3) through which radiation is passed into at least one evaluation region (21) in which there is no product (2).
US09965839B2
An apparatus for quality inspection of shafts includes a rotary table having cutout grooves at the outer periphery thereof. The rotary table includes an upper disk and a lower disk stacked in the vertical direction so as to be rotatable relative to each other; and plate members provided on the upper surface of the lower disk and inserted in respective first cutouts formed at the outer periphery of the upper disk. One of groove edges of each cutout groove is constituted by one side edge of each first cutout, and the other groove edge is constituted by one side edge of each plate member. Second cutout, corresponding to the first cutout and provided in the lower disk, are grooves including side edges, and an end edge perpendicular to the side edges. The distance between these side edges is larger than the maximum groove width of the cutout grooves.
US09965836B2
Provided is a method for performing a Fourier transformation for generating a computer-generated holographic (CGH) image. The method includes generating first intermediate data by performing a first FFT calculation that relates to coordinates of a pupil of a user with respect to input image data; generating second intermediate data by calculating a light concentration effect correction term for correcting a light concentration effect occurring at the pupil of the user and multiplying the first intermediate data by the light concentration effect correction term; and performing a second FFT calculation that relates to the coordinates of the pupil of the user with respect to the second intermediate data.
US09965829B2
A method interactively displays panoramic images of a scene. The method includes measuring 3D coordinates of the scene with a 3D measuring instrument at a first position and a second position. The 3D coordinates are registering into a common frame of reference. Within the scene, a trajectory includes a plurality of trajectory points. Along the trajectory, 2D images are generated from the commonly registered 3D coordinates. A trajectory display mode sequentially displays a collection of 2D images at the trajectory points. A rotational display mode allows a user to select a desired view direction at a given trajectory point. The user selects the trajectory display mode or the rotational display mode and sees the result shown on the display device.
US09965822B2
An image processing method and electronic device are provided. The image processing method includes receiving an instruction to process an input image, determining at least one image processing unit to be used to execute the instruction based on a state of an electronic device, dividing the input image and distributing the divided input image to the determined at least one image processing unit, and processing the divided image using the at least one image processing unit and combining the processed divided image.
US09965811B2
Techniques to promote messages in a social networking services to increase communication opportunities while throttling unsolicited messages are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may have a message generation component and a message delivery component. The message generation component may be operative to receive a request from a first member of a social networking service (SNS) to send a message for a second member of the SNS. The message delivery component may be operative to deliver the message to one of multiple mailboxes for the second member based on a tiered payment schedule. The tiered payment schedule may include a first parameter to represent a relationship type between the first and second members, a second parameter to represent a subscriber tier for the second member, and a third parameter to represent a promotional cost associated with the subscriber tier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09965809B2
Disclosed is a method and system for extracting a mathematical structure associated with a financial table. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method uses a LR-(Left-to-Right) parser reducing stack and a LR-parser nonreducing stack to generate a final reducing stack representative of the mathematical structure.
US09965806B2
A system and method for mass market hedge fund investing is proposed that preferably works in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury's Treasury Direct program for direct investment in U.S. Government securities. A primary investment in a principal-guaranteed, fixed term financial instrument, such as U.S. Government securities, including U.S. Notes, Bonds and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) having principal linked to the Consumer Price Index, wherein the principal is guaranteed to the extent of the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government, generates an interest income stream. The interest stream is electronically diverted to a separate account within an aggregated pool invested in a hedge fund over a predetermined time horizon. The fund is preferably run by an experienced chief portfolio strategist and a money-management team.
US09965804B1
Systems, methods, and program products for providing an exchange traded product holding digital math-based assets are disclosed. Shares based on digital math-based assets may be created using one or more computers by determining share price information based upon quantities of digital math-based assets held by a trust, electronically receiving a request from an authorized participant user device to purchase a quantity of shares, electronically transmitting a quantity of digital math-based assets to one or more destination digital asset accounts for receipt of digital math-based assets from the authorized participant based on the determined share price information and the requested quantity of shares, and electronically issuing shares to the authorized participant.
US09965801B1
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual fitting system. The system may store sizing data including a 3-dimensional model of a target. The system may then receive user input data indicating the selection of a test object. In response to this identification, the system may receive a 3-dimensional model of the test object. The system can then apply the test object model to the target model to create a virtual fit model, and provide the virtual fit model to the computing device.
US09965799B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving media content for interactive product display systems used with different products in different retail establishments. Product interaction data characterizing consumer gestures performed in connection with the different products in the different retail establishments is collected. The media content and product interaction data is analyzed to form marketing data. The display of media content at an interactive product display system of a retail establishment is remotely initiated.
US09965796B2
Methods and systems for facilitating the purchase of an item on a social networking website are described. Merchants can embed payments in buttons displayed on social networking websites to enable payments at the point of discovery, such as on Pinterest® or Facebook®. As the items associated with the buttons are shared further, the embedded payment capability follows the shared items. For example, a Pinterest® pin has the payment capability embedded within it so as the pin gets re-pinned in the Pinterest® platform, shared on blogs, shared on platforms like Facebook®, or surfaces on Google® Search, the payment capability is also available on those platforms. In some instances, open standards such as oEmbed or Open Graph are used to create the buttons with the payment capability and make creation of the buttons simpler for merchants.
US09965793B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining dimensional criteria of a physical space and identifying a set of items that satisfy the dimensional criteria. For example, the dimensional criteria may be determined based on an image depicting the physical space or search terms provided by a user. Composite keys may be generated based on the dimensional criteria and one or more search terms provided by the user, and the generated composite keys may be used to search one or more databases storing sorted item keys and corresponding item identifiers.
US09965789B2
Systems and techniques for pre-purchase wearable device testing are described herein. A wearable device may be identified as a trial device to a wearable ensemble. Trial data corresponding to the trial device may be provided to a wearable ensemble system that includes the wearable ensemble.
US09965779B2
A content delivery provider may stream an application to each of a plurality of computing devices. The content delivery provider may transmit an offer to download the application to each of the plurality of computing devices, after a first initial display interval. The provider may receive a number of positive user interactions with the offer after the first initial display interval, and a total number of positive user interactions with the offer. The provider may automatically adjust the initial display interval by a factor proportional to a desired first-display quantile divided by the number of positive user interactions after the first initial display interval. The application may be streamed to a second computing device, and the offer to download the application transmitted to the second computing device, after the adjusted initial display interval.
US09965770B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may be directed to the intelligent distribution, redemption, and tracking of coupons. Modernized couponing processes described herein may provide meaningful synergy between three different parties, namely the shopper, the retailer, and the product supplier. For example, while shopping at a retailer, a shopper may use their device to scan a barcode of a product that they wish to purchase. Based on the scanned barcode, relevant coupon offers associated are identified and presented to the shopper on the user device. The shopper may then select one or more coupon offers to be redeemed at the point of sale.
US09965767B2
In general, systems, components, methods, and techniques for gathering, recording, and development of accurate user demographics attributed to accesses by client systems of webpage, web content, or other online resources is provided. For a given a subset of unique users having known demographics for a segment of traffic or general population, a demographic profile may be created for all users of the segment or population within a tolerable margin of error. Demographic data for unique machine identifications (IDs) may be assigned, aggregated, and derived from a single source, or multiple sources, such as panel data, beacon level surveys, cookie exchanges, and the overlay of profile cookies from other publishers.
US09965765B2
This invention relates to a system and method for presenting to a user relevant areas of distributed computer network sites. In particular, the invention disclosed infers and cross reference user mind sets with data stores of potential user goals. The user mind sets indicate a navigational goal of a user over the distributed computer network. In addition, the invention cross-references indicated user goals with data stores of service and service providers providing those services. The invention presents targeted service and service providers to the user across the distributed computer network thereby enabling the user to navigate towards the user goal.
US09965756B2
To make a payment, a smartphone presents artwork for a payment card (e.g., a Visa card) that has been selected by a user from a virtual wallet of such cards. Encoded in the displayed artwork is payment information that has been encrypted with a context-dependent session key. A cooperating system (e.g., a retailer's point of sale system) uses a camera to capture an image of the artwork, and independently creates the session key from its own context sensor(s), enabling decryption of the payment information. Such technology provides a superior transaction security model at a fraction of the cost of competing chip card payment systems (which require, e.g., expensive physical cards, and single-purpose reader hardware). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09965746B1
Systems and methods are shown which provide processor-based self-service systems for use with respect to controlled environment facilities. Embodiments provide processor-based self-service systems having robust input/output capabilities in order to support a wide range of functionality. Processor-based self-service systems of embodiments are adapted to be deployed within a controlled environment facility, such as within a lobby area, a holding area, and/or a restricted area of a controlled environment facility. According to embodiments, processor-based self-service systems are used with respect to a plurality of functions and a plurality of users, thereby processing a variety of information associated with a controlled environment facility. Embodiments operate to aggregate, compile, correlate, and link information to provide data heretofore unavailable from separate or manual systems used with respect to controlled environment facilities.
US09965741B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems and techniques for mass execution of analytical models across multiple dimensions of client, collateral, deal structure, third party, and other data relevant to predicting optimal decisions in real-time. In some embodiments, disclosed systems and techniques increase decisioning speed through the reduction of computational loads on disclosed decisioning systems. Further disclosed systems and techniques may scale-out analytical modeling computations through, among other technological solutions, advanced execution environments that are asynchronous and non-blocking in nature so as to allow the execution of a plurality of analytical models in parallel and optimizing the results.
US09965734B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing the deployment of employees in a restaurant. For example, some embodiments are directed to determining whether an employee who has vacated his/her assigned station has acted appropriately in doing so, and if not, causing the employee to be redirected to his/her assigned station. Determining whether an employee acted appropriately in leaving his/her assigned station may involve analyzing video recordings of the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, operational data describing events occurring in the restaurant at or around the time the employee left his/her station, and/or other information, which may supply valuable context in determining whether or not the employee acted properly. If the employee acted improperly, he/she may be redirected to his/her assigned station, using automated, semi-automated and/or manual techniques.
US09965732B2
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a computer to execute a process including displaying a screen on which it is possible to set an area affected by a characteristic of a road around a specific facility, which is the area set based on the facility; and displaying, on a graphic, information specifying a section of road that is contained in the area affected by the characteristic relating to the specific facility on the displayed screen and that is affected by a possible selected type of repair work on the road according to the fact that the section belongs to the affected area.
US09965727B2
Aspects relate to a computer implemented method for resolving abnormal contention on a computer system. The method includes detecting, using a processor, abnormal contention of a serially reusable resource caused by a first process, wherein the abnormal contention includes the first process blocking the serially reusable resource from a second process that is waiting to use the serially reusable resource. The method includes collecting, in a computer storage medium, resource data in a serialized resource history database and analyzing the resource data associated with the serially reusable resource and adjusting, using the processor, resource allocation for the first process of the serially reusable resource based on the resource data. The method also includes processing, using the processor and the serially reusable resource, the first process based on the resource allocation and releasing, using the processor, the serially reusable resource by the first process in response to the first process completing.
US09965718B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout.
US09965711B2
Provided are: a transfer medium supply unit that supplies a transfer medium for image formation; a storage unit that records supply unit setting information regarding the transfer medium supply unit and transfer medium information regarding the transfer medium; and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the control unit allows setting, in the supply unit setting information, the transfer medium information of the transfer medium to be used in the transfer medium supply unit, records the supply unit setting information including the set transfer medium information in the storage unit, and when the set transfer medium information is changed in the supply unit setting information, sets history information of the transfer medium information in the supply unit setting information including the changed transfer medium information and records the history information in the storage unit.
US09965710B2
An image processing apparatus including a contour extraction section which extracts a contour pixel of an object from pixels in image data that has tone values of a plurality of colors for each of the pixels; and a contour processing section which executes thinning processing of adjusting a tone value of an object color of the object and trapping processing of adjusting a tone value of a background color among tone values of colors in the contour pixel of the object which is extracted by the contour extraction section or in a contour pixel of the background of the object, wherein the contour processing section links an adjustment amount of the tone value of the background color by the trapping processing to an adjustment amount of the tone value of the object color by the thinning processing.
US09965706B1
A printing managing apparatus includes: a job attribute correlating information acquiring unit that acquires job attribute correlating information that correlates pieces of individual job attribute information used in plural respective printing control apparatus with common job attribute information for each job attribute that can be set in print job information so as to be common to the plural printing control apparatus as transmission destination candidates of the print job information; an attribute specification information converting unit as defined herein; and a manipulation control processing unit as defined herein.
US09965701B2
There are provided an apparatus and method for generating a heat map that displays crowd density with visual properties such as colors. The image processing apparatus includes at least one processor to implement: an information obtainer configured to obtain an image by photographing a region of interest and location information indicating a location from which the image is photographed; a density map generator configured to generate a crowd density map of the image based on crowd density information estimated from the image; a perspective map generator configured to generate a perspective map that provides distance information indicating a real-life distance between two points of the image based on the location information; and a heat map generator configured to generate a heat map that displays the crowd density information on a map of the region of interest based on the distance information.
US09965694B2
A terminal for measuring at least one dimension of an object includes at least one imaging subsystem and an actuator. The at least one imaging subsystem includes an imaging optics assembly operable to focus an image onto an image sensor array. The imaging optics assembly has an optical axis. The actuator is operably connected to the at least one imaging subsystem for moving an angle of the optical axis relative to the terminal. The terminal is adapted to obtain first image data of the object and is operable to determine at least one of a height, a width, and a depth dimension of the object based on effecting the actuator to change the angle of the optical axis relative to the terminal to align the object in second image data with the object in the first image data, the second image data being different from the first image data.
US09965690B2
An on-vehicle control device includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires a captured image from an image-capturing device, the image-capturing device capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle; a judged range dividing unit that divides a predetermined judged range of an image-capturing range of the image-capturing device into a plurality of regions; a feature point extracting unit that extracts a feature point having predetermined characteristics in the surroundings of the vehicle from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit; a point accumulating unit that accumulate points for a region where there is the feature point extracted by the feature point extracting unit, among the plurality of regions, for a plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring unit in time series; and a judging unit that judges whether a foreign matter is adhered to the image-capturing device based on scores resulting from accumulating points of the plurality of regions.
US09965679B2
A device may obtain a document, of a document type, from which specific information is to be captured. The specific information to be captured may depend on a document class associated with the document. The device may identify the document class, associated with the document, based on a characteristic of the document. The document class may identify a category of document in which the document is included, and may be associated with multiple document types. The device may determine field information associated with the document class. The field information may include information that identifies a portion of the document where the specific information is located, or may include information that identifies a manner in which the specific information can be identified within the document. The device may analyze the document, based on the field information, in order to capture the specific information. The device may provide the captured specific information.
US09965668B2
A fingerprint image acquisition device includes: a light source, a finger touching surface, a convex lens, an image sensor and a grating. The light source is a surface light source, and the grating is disposed on a light output surface of the light source. The light source is configured to emit a light beam, the grating is configured to change a propagation direction of the light beam to form a detection light beam, the finger touching surface is configured for a user to place a finger thereon to reflect the detection light beam and thereby obtain a reflected light beam, the convex lens is configured to focus the reflected light beam on the image sensor, and the image sensor is configured to generate a fingerprint image based on the focused reflected light beam. Accordingly, the invention can make the structure of the fingerprint image acquisition device be more compact.
US09965660B2
A communication device having a function for supplying electric power to a communication partner may include a non-contact control section configured to balanced-output transmission power, an antenna circuit configured to transmit the transmission power as an electromagnetic wave, and a matching circuit which is disposed between an output of the non-contact control section and an input of the antenna circuit and is configured to perform impedance matching. The matching circuit and the antenna circuit are respectively provided with two systems and circuit structures from the output of the non-contact control section to the antenna circuits via the matching circuits of the two systems are formed symmetrically.
US09965658B2
In embodiments of person-centric RFID tag activation, an RFID tag is configured so as to be active or inactive based on proximity to a person. An RFID tag includes an integrated circuit (IC), an antenna coupled to the IC, and skin proximity activation circuitry. For example embodiments, the skin proximity activation circuitry is configured to establish an active state for the RFID tag if proximate to skin and an inactive state if not proximate to skin. For an example implementation, an RFID tag is placed in an operationally active state in which an interrogation signal is detectable by an IC if at least one skin contact point is touching skin. For another example implementation, an RFID tag is placed in a communicatively active state in which a received interrogation signal may trigger the sending of a response signal if a detected temperature comports with a human-appropriate range of temperatures.
US09965654B2
Techniques for securely displaying sensitive information against attempts to capture such information via screenshots are introduced. Similar to the pieces of a puzzle, a plurality of images that collectively represent a keypad (for example) are generated and each image represents a different part of the characters. The generated images are to be displayed to a human user in a sequential fashion at at least a predetermined minimum frame rate, such that the plurality of images sequentially displayed are perceivable by the human user collectively as the keypad. In each of the plurality of images, at least a part of the characters of the keypad is disguised or concealed, and in some embodiments, to the extent that not a single character of the keypad is recognizable by a human or a machine. Further, bogus data can be selectively inserted to enhance security.
US09965649B2
In a query-response model system of network communication, to protect user data privacy, a plurality of Camouflage Queries are automatically generated to be sent along with Intended Queries. The mix of intended queries and the Camouflage Queries masks and obscures the intended queries. Camouflage Messages or queries create a noisy background and thus lower the signal to noise ratio (SNR) for a server or interceptor to detect the intended queries.
US09965648B1
A masking system and method for automatically masking sensitive user information on a webpage is provided. The method includes the steps of identifying a location of the first user data of the first type of sensitive user information on the webpage, updating an initial path to the first user data to account for changes to the initial path detected in response to repeated visits to the webpage, wherein the updated initial path to the first user data is stored as a stable path, locating a second user data associated with a second type of sensitive user information on the webpage, by accessing a central database containing path information to a location of the second user data on the webpage, and masking the first user data and the second user data on the webpage, using the stable path and the path information obtained from the central database.
US09965642B2
One or more systems and/or techniques are provided for managing a partially encrypted file system, for storage hardware virtualization, and/or for storage management. In example, data may be stored in a partially encrypted file system, where sensitive data is encrypted for security and non-sensitive data is unencrypted, which may mitigate energy usage otherwise used for encrypting non-sensitive data, thus improving battery life. In an example, a storage device may be exposed to applications as a plurality of isolated storage structures where an application is provided data access to an isolated storage structure assigned to the application but not to isolated storage structures assigned to other applications, which may provide hardware level isolation with improved energy efficiency. In an example, a storage management component, configured to provide isolation and encryption, may be integrated into a computing device as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or a system on a chip (SoC).
US09965640B1
A message distribution system replicates a collection of messages across multiple regional data centers. When any of the data centers receives a message for distribution from an authorized publisher, it transmits the message to each of the other data centers so that the collection of messages is immediately replicated among each data center. When any data center determines that a subscriber is connected to it, that data center determines which messages in the data collection the subscriber is authorized to receive, and it automatically sends those messages to the subscriber.
US09965637B2
A method for activating at least one function of a control device of a motor vehicle, which includes the steps: a) generating a random value in the control device; b) calculating a reference value from the random value by the control device; c) transmitting the random value to a remote control unit and from the remote control unit to a server; d) verifying the authorization of the remote control unit transmitting the random value by the server and if an authorization of the remote control unit is provided: e) generating a response value from the random value by the server; f) transmitting the response value to the remote control unit and from the remote control unit to the control device; and g) comparing the response value with the reference value and, if the response value matches the reference value, activating the at least one function of the control device.
US09965631B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for analyzing malicious code in a multi-core environment. The apparatus for analyzing malicious code includes a core setting unit for setting at least one monitoring core, on which malicious code is to be monitored, among cores of a multi-core Central Processing Unit (CPU), and executing a monitoring program on the monitoring core, a behavioral information collection unit for, when execution cores that are not set as the monitoring core execute analysis target code, collecting pieces of behavioral information using the monitoring program and a hardware debugging device, and a storage unit for storing the behavioral information.
US09965628B2
Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods that allow for a generic, decentralized system that is independent of a centralized resource and allows for the reporting and protecting of all types of smart devices including smart phones, laptop, tablets, or smart packages, and the like. In embodiments, the device comprises a security module or modules that interface with a decentralized network that maintains a secure distributed transactional ledger, or block chain, in order to send and/or receive data via the block chain. In embodiments, the device may not operate when its ability to access a communication channel provided via secure distributed transactional ledger has been impeded or otherwise hindered.
US09965626B2
Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to detect a potential attack on a memory of a memory device. In some examples, a processor may send a request to the memory device. The request may include a request for information that relates to memory writes to the memory of the memory device. The processor may receive a response from the memory device. The response may include the information that relates to the memory writes. The processor may determine, based on the response, an amount of memory of the memory device written to during an interval of time. The processor may detect the potential attack based on the amount of memory written to and based on the interval of time. The processor may then generate an alert based on the detection of the potential attack.
US09965620B2
This disclosure is directed to a system for system for application program interface (API) monitoring bypass prevention. Operation of an API function may be preserved by generating a binary translation based on the API function native code. The native code may then be protected to prevent API monitoring bypassing. In one embodiment, access permission may be set to non-executable for a memory page in which the native code is stored. Attempts to execute the native code may generate exceptions triggering API monitoring. Alternatively, some or all of a body section of the native code may be replaced with at least one trap instruction that cause exceptions triggering API monitoring or engaging protective measures. Use of the trap instruction may be combined with at least one jump instruction added after a header section of the native code. Execution of the jump instruction may cause execution to be redirected to API monitoring.
US09965615B2
The invention is a method of transferring user data from a first instance of a package to a second instance of another package corresponding to an upgraded version. The first instance stores the user data in its own storage format. The two instances are embedded in a secure element. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a direct channel within the portable secure device between the two instances, the first instance gets in a locked state where it refuses any service requests except the communication with the second instance, prepares a pack by formatting the user data in a transport format, and automatically sends the pack to the second instance through the direct channel, the second instance retrieves the user data from the pack and stores the user data in another storage format.
US09965609B2
Authenticating users comprises a computing device that receives a manual authentication input of a user and initiates a first user session between the user and the user computing device. The device communicates a request for a first user authorization data from an authentication technology associated with the one or more computing devices and receives the first user authentication data. The user or the device terminates the first user session and subsequently receives an input of the user to initiate a second user session. The device communicates a request for second user authentication data from the authentication technology and compares the first user authentication data and the second user authentication data. The device identifies a match of one or more features of the first user authentication data and one or more features of the second user authentication data and authorizes the user to conduct the second user session.
US09965607B2
Embodiments may take the form of devices and methods to help expedite matching biometric data in a validation process. One embodiment, for example, may take the form of a method for biometric validation including receiving a biometric input and retrieving metadata data of a most recently matched template. The method also includes evaluating the metadata and selecting one or more nodes from the most recently matched template for comparison. Additionally, the method includes comparing the selected one or more nodes with the received biometric input and determining if the selected one or more nodes match with the received biometric input. Also, the method includes validating the received biometric input if the selected one or more nodes match with the received biometric input.
US09965604B2
Registration of an application in a per-user registration model includes the creation and storage of duplicate registration data for multiple user accounts present on a system. This duplication of registration data may be reduced by storing at least a portion of identical data in a per-machine location in the system memory where it is accessible to all user accounts. Instead of needing to separately re-compute and/or re-store duplicate registration data in multiple per-user locations in the memory, each user account may access and utilize the registration data stored in the per-machine location. Pre-computing and storing a portion of the application registration data in a per-machine location in the memory may also allow the system to defer the registration of the application.
US09965599B2
A method of setting function includes first to fourth steps. The first step connects a recording medium to a first electrical apparatus having an optional function either disabled or temporarily enabled, the recording medium containing license information to enable the optional function. The second step allows first electrical apparatus to authenticate the license information. The third step, subsequent to the second step, enables the optional function of the first electrical apparatus. The fourth step, subsequent to the third step, records the optional function as having been authenticated in the license information.
US09965590B1
According to various embodiments, a healthcare collaboration system and methods are provided to enable physicians and other participants in the healthcare system to efficiently collaborate with one another by engaging in system-facilitated consultations. As used herein, a consultation may generally refer to communications established between two or more users of the healthcare collaboration system. In general, the system and methods described herein provide the ability for users to establish consultations with other users at a mutually convenient time, whether or not there exists a prior relationship between the users. In exchange for time spent conducting consultations, users may be compensated using any number of compensation methods. By providing a platform that facilitates communication and collaboration among healthcare participants, both patients and physicians are benefited by improving the efficiency of medical diagnosis and treatment, thereby increasing satisfaction and lowering costs of the healthcare system.
US09965587B2
A method includes: measuring a blood glucose (bG) level in a blood sample; storing the bG level and a time of receipt of the blood sample; storing a classification of the blood sample; in response to the receipt of the blood sample, selecting a group of stored bG levels having the classification of the blood sample and that were received within a predetermined period before receipt of the blood sample; calculating a bG evaluation parameter from the selected bG levels; evaluating the bG evaluation parameter in relation to first predetermined criteria, the first predetermined criteria including a first threshold indicative of a high bG level or a low bG level; selectively displaying an indication of recognition of a pattern in the selected bG levels when the bG evaluation parameter is greater than or less than the first threshold; and selectively removing the indication from the display.
US09965585B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided for determining genetic or molecular aberrations in a biological sample. Biological samples including cell-free DNA fragments are analyzed to identify imbalances in chromosomal regions, e.g., due to deletions and/or amplifications in a tumor. Multiple loci are used for each chromosomal region. Such imbalances can be used to diagnose (screen) a patient for cancer, as well as prognosticate a patient with cancer, or to detect the presence or to monitor the progress of a premalignant condition in a patient. Severity of an imbalance and the number of regions exhibiting an imbalance can be used. A systematic analysis of non-overlapping genomic segments can provide a general screening tool. A patient can be tested over time to track severity of each of one or more chromosomal regions and a number of chromosomal regions to enable screening and prognosticating, as well as monitoring of progress (e.g. after treatment).
US09965570B2
Methods, devices and computer program products for performing predicate evaluation on a compressed variable length character string are disclosed. Aspects include determining upper and lower boundaries of a false positive range for a predicate, the false positive range for the predicate being a range in which a result of the predicate evaluation may lead to a false positive error. Aspects also include compression-encoding the upper and lower boundaries of the false positive range and performing a first comparison for comparing the compressed variable length character string with the compression-encoded upper and lower boundaries of the false positive range. Aspects further include determining a result of the predicate evaluation based on at least a result of the first comparison processing.
US09965569B2
A computer device may reduce user error when constructing a search query. The computing device may display one or more search terms within a search box based on user input. The computing device may display initial autosuggest candidates and detect a user-selected initial autosuggest candidate. The computing device may display the user-selected initial autosuggest candidate within the search box as a preliminary search query, without automatically initiating a web search for the preliminary search query. The computing device may receive new autosuggest candidates having the preliminary search query as a common prefix, generate truncated autosuggest candidates by removing the common prefix from each new autosuggest candidate, and display the truncated autosuggest candidates.
US09965557B2
A system for support and management of search for documents is presented. The system includes a knowledge-database, query interface and communication to a database of documents to be searched. Information generated during a search session is collected by the system and is added to the knowledge-database. The information is ranked automatically according to the usage of that information by the user. During successive search session or during a search made by another user, the system uses the knowledge-database to support the users with keywords, queries and reference documents.
US09965556B2
A system for building topical interest profiles for members of a situational awareness system using location tracking information. Members who participate in the system activate location tracking on their mobile communication devices and provide the system with real-time access to the location tracking data. The situational awareness system analyzes a member's location tracking data, detects potential topics of interest for the member based on the location tracking data, and then prompts the member to update their profile data to include the detects potential topics of interest. If the member adds a suggested topic to their profile, the situational awareness system includes the member in situational awareness information provided to requesters seeking information concerning members interested in the added topic. The situational awareness system may also direct online queries to the member relating to the added topic and increase the member's priority for participating in online queries.
US09965554B2
A computerized system and method is presented for analyzing quotations made in a quoting document of text originally found in a source document. The quoting document and source document can be web pages publicly available on the World Wide Web. The present invention analyzes the quoting document for quoted text, searches the source document for that text, and stores the existence of the quotation in association with the source document. When displaying the source document, quoted text is highlighted. A link is provided between items of quoted text and a list of documents that have quoted that text. From this list the full text of a quoting document may be displayed.
US09965546B2
A system includes receiving a substring to be searched and determining one or more N-grams associated with the received substring. A lookup of each of the one or more N-grams is performed using an N-gram index. A set of tokens associated with each of the one or more N-grams is calculated and a determination is made if the substring exits in the calculated set of tokens. The results of the determination if the substring exits in the set of tokens are outputted.
US09965542B2
A method for data storage implemented in a data storage system is disclosed. Data storage nodes may be interconnected by means of a communications network. The method may include sending a request for a first data item to a plurality of storage nodes. The first data item may include a reference to a second data item stored in the storage system. The method may include receiving the first data item from at least one storage node, and sending a request for the second data item to the plurality of storage nodes based on the reference included in the first data item.
US09965538B2
A log manager causing events to be written to the primary and the secondary computing systems for high availability, and returning threads quickly. Rather than cause every event write to be immediately written to the secondary computing system, the log management component is triggered to write to the secondary computing system upon detecting event write requests of event writes of a particular event type. In response to detecting such an event write, the log management component gathers a group of event writes corresponding to that particular event write, and dispatches the event writes as a group. The particular thread that initiated the particular event write of the particular event type is returned after dispatching the event write group, but before or without confirmation of the particular event write group has been written to the secondary computing system.
US09965537B2
A method including: receiving one or more first transactions at the computer replay system from one or more data sources; storing the one or more first transactions in a transactional database; updating a current state of one or more first records in a historical database based on the one or more first transactions; receiving a request from a first user for a replay of the data starting at a first moment; determining a state of the one or more first records in the historical database at the first moment; providing the state of the one or more first records at the first moment to the first user; determining one or more second transactions in the transactional database that occurred after the first moment; and providing sequentially the one or more second transactions to the first user. Other embodiments are provided.
US09965529B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing search results while maintaining search context. A search system may display a plurality of links related to a received search query, wherein the links are all of the same entity type. The system may display sets of search results related to the plurality of links, while continuing to display the plurality of links.
US09965528B2
The present invention relates generally to gathering, verifying, and providing information in an easy-to-understand format. Representations are obtained and evaluated to extract selected content or content information from which certain synthesized information can be gathered, collected, estimated, calculated, or determined. In addition, supplemental synthesized information may be gathered, collected, estimated, calculated, or determined.
US09965526B1
Techniques for determining multiple item comparisons may be provided. For example, a system may monitor user interaction of a plurality of users that includes viewing and ordering items. The system may determine one or more items that compete, such that ordering a first item in the competing category of items lowers a probability that the user will also order a second item. The system may determine a subset of the competing items and providing information about the comparison and/or items for presentation to a user.
US09965524B2
The technology disclosed relates to automatic generation of tuples from a record set for outlier analysis. Applying this new technology, user need not specify which 1-tuples to combine into n-tuples. The tuples are generated from structured records organized into features (that also could be fields, objects or attributes.) Tuples are generated from combinations of feature values in the records. Thresholding is applied to manage the number of tuples generated. The technology disclosed further relates to indexing and searching high dimensional tuple spaces in a computer-implemented system.
US09965518B2
An operator graph is established for processing elements configured to perform operations on tuples of streaming data. A first processing element in the operator graph includes a barrier operator that joins output of upstream operators. It is determined that at least one timeout condition has occurred at the barrier operator and substitute data tuple values are generated for missing tuple output data from at least one of the upstream operators. A first barrier tuple output is generated by joining the substitute data tuple values with received data tuple values from the upstream operators. A copy of the received data tuple values is stored. It is determined that a set of one or more tuples received at the barrier operator includes the missing tuple output data. A second barrier tuple output is generated by joining the missing tuple output data values with the copy of the received data tuple values.
US09965509B2
A method, system and computer program product for generating answers to questions. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an input query, identifying a plurality of candidate answers to the query; and for at least one of these candidate answers, identifying at least one proof of the answer. This proof includes a series of premises, and a multitude of documents are identified that include references to the premises. A set of these documents is selected that include references to all of the premises. This set of documents is used to generate one or more scores for the one of the candidate answers. A defined procedure is applied to the candidate answers to determine a ranking for the answers, and this includes using the one or more scores for the at least one of the candidate answers in the defined procedure to determine the ranking for this one candidate answer.
US09965506B2
A method includes receiving a first search query from a user device. The method includes identifying, by a computer search system and using the first search query, an entity type indicating a category for at least a portion of the first search query. The method includes generating, by the computer search system, a second search query including the entity type identified using the first search query. The method also includes performing, by the computer search system, a search for software applications using the second search query. The method further includes generating a list of software applications identified during the search.
US09965502B2
A storage system comprises a controller; a memory; and one or more objects each including content data and metadata. The metadata is used to construct user-defined content properties, each content property providing an ability to extract a specific metadata field from the objects by referring to a user-defined content property name of the content property. The content properties are organized into user-defined content classes, each content class grouping a set of content properties into a named category under a user-defined content class name. The controller is operable to index the content properties of the content classes to create an index. The content properties being indexed are identified by the content property names. In some embodiments, the controller is operable to de-dupe the index, for content properties having same values expressed differently in different metadata formats, by directing the differently expressed values to same index field under same content property name.
US09965500B2
A mixed join between database column and row tables employs an algorithm that recognizes both row and column store, and is executable upon the data in its native form (row or column) without requiring conversion between orientations. The native mixed join algorithm accesses the column dictionary of the column table for efficient join processing. The native mixed join algorithm may also exploit an inverted index (if present) to search a record (e.g. docid) with a given value. In particular, the native mixed join algorithm looks up a column dictionary for a join condition, while iterating the row table and returning matched records in a pipelined manner.
US09965497B2
Techniques are provided for moving data between partitions. Such a process may be performed without requiring any locks that block transactions that target a partition from being executed. Instead, such transactions may proceed while a move operation is being performed. The move operation involves copying data from the targeted partition to another partition that is hidden from (or “invisible” to) those transactions that attempt to read from or write to the partition. During the move operation, changes that are made to the partition are also reflected in a journal. Eventually, the changes reflected in the journal are drained and applied to the hidden partition. Once the partition and the hidden partition are synchronized, the identities of the partitions are swapped so that future transactions will target the previously-hidden partition instead of the previously-viewable partition.
US09965496B2
A global user record that can be found in a search for posixAccount-type records is created in a database, then a zone user record of a type that cannot be found in a search for posixAccount-type records is associated with it. Finally, the zone user record is augmented so that it, too, will be found in a search for posixAccount-type records. Global and zone-specific group records are created similarly.
US09965495B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for saving a search query as metadata with an image, comprising receiving image search results from an image search string query, receiving one or more image files from the image search results as one or more selected image files for storage, generating metadata based on the image search string query, associating the metadata with the one or more selected image files, and storing the one or more selected image files with the metadata.
US09965492B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using location aliases. In some implementations, a query is received, and a user that submitted the query is identified. It can be determined that one or more terms of the query represent an alias for a user-specific geographical location that has not been designated for the identified user. In response, a prompt can be provided to the user to specify a geographical location corresponding to the one or more query terms, data indicating a geographical location is received, and data is stored that indicates that, for the identified user, the one or more terms are an alias for the geographical location. One or more search results responsive to the query are provided, where the alias corresponds to the geographical location input in response to the prompt.
US09965490B2
A method for creating a virtual environment (VE) in a non-global zone (NGZ) from a unified archive (UA). An instruction is received to create a VE within a NGZ of a global zone (GZ) using an image file of the VE located in the UA. The contents of the UA are accessible via a virtual file system (VFS) having an index. A directory of the VFS corresponding to guest data of the UA is identified. The guest data is associated with the NGZ and includes the image file. A copy of the index including only portions of the index corresponding to the guest data is created. A guest VFS is created within the NGZ based on the copy. The guest VFS makes only the contents of the UA corresponding to the guest data accessible. The image file is accessed using the guest VFS and used to create the VE.
US09965488B2
Various embodiments for managing data in a data storage having data deduplication. A back reference data structure is configured for user data segments as a mechanism to identify an affected storage block to which information in the back reference data structure refers. The back reference data structure is initialized such that a resolution of the back reference data structure diminishes as a number of the user data segments referencing the affected storage block increases.
US09965486B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a datafile and associated metadata, wherein the associated metadata has a reserved area of storage space and a known format, determining a sampled format for the associated metadata, wherein the sampled format creates available spaces within the reserved area of storage space, determining data to be embedded in the associated metadata, inserting the data to be embedded into a least one of the available spaces, and providing the datafile and the associated metadata with the inserted data.
US09965485B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first display controller, an accepting unit, a grouping unit, and a memory controller. The first display controller controls a display to display plural images representing respective files. The accepting unit accepts an operation for selecting at least two or more images from among the plural images. The grouping unit forms a group by associating plural files represented by the at least two or more images with one another with the at least two or more images kept displayed on the display in a case where the accepting unit has accepted the operation. The memory controller controls a memory to store information indicating display positions of the at least two or more images on a screen in association with the group that has been formed by the grouping unit.
US09965479B2
In one example embodiment, a method is implemented to relink a data item. The method includes identifying that a data item, referenced by a referencing document, is absent from a data item location for the data item indicated by the referencing document. User preference data, indicating a designated relink location to search for absent data items, is accessed. The relink location is searched for the absent data items. Another example embodiment may include a method to relink a current data item to a replacement data item location by accessing user preference data and searching a relink location for a replacement data item in accordance with the relink location indicated by the user preference data.
US09965473B2
A system in which data stored in a first information processing apparatus is migrated to a second information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises: an export unit configured to export migration target data that is stored in a storing unit; and a recording unit configured to record time information indicating the time of exporting performed by the export unit, and the export unit furthermore compares the time information and information regarding an update date of the data stored in the storing unit and exports data updated at or subsequent to the time indicated by the time information as a difference migration target.
US09965468B2
A method and an apparatus for acquiring a network resource where the method includes extracting language configuration information of a browser, and placing the language configuration information into a language list, sending a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request to a web server, locating a position of a media element, matching a value of a language attribute of a specified resource element in the media element with the language information in the language list, selecting a media resource address, and finally according to the media resource address, requesting a media resource from the web server and loading the media resource. Hence, the browser can automatically select a media file of a specified language version according to a language preference of a user, thereby reducing a workload of a website developer. Additionally, the user does not need to perform manual selection, thereby enhancing user experience.
US09965464B2
User interactions with a computing system are sensed and recorded. The recording represents a process for controlling a computer system. Voice input are received and the computer system actions that are taken based upon the voice inputs and a task recording.
US09965460B1
Disclosed herein is a method of extracting keywords from a document based on certain statistical, positional and natural language data, as well as relationship maps between the keywords. Under this method, document data are processed to obtain an NLP result for each sentence of the document, and based on the NLP result, words in the document are filtered and grouped into terms; a frequency analysis as well as a co-occurrence analysis are performed over the terms to output one or more keywords representing the document.
US09965448B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores an encoding program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes first encoding a first character string in input data to a first code, when the first character string being registered in a first dictionary, the first code being associated with the first character string in the first dictionary; second encoding a second character string in input data to a second code and registering the second character string to a dynamic dictionary, when the second character string being not registered in the first dictionary, the second code being associated with the second character string and preliminary information in the dynamic dictionary; and generating encoded data including the encoded input data and the dynamic dictionary.
US09965445B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods displaying and formatting text on an electronic display. A gesture input may be received via a gesture input device associated with the electronic display. For instance, a touchscreen may receive a touch gesture input. Each of a plurality of gesture inputs may be associated with a formatting rule and/or a text-component for selecting a portion of displayed text. Selected text may be formatted according to the formatting rule associated with the received gesture input. The formatted text may be displayed on the electronic display. A data store may associate each of the plurality of gesture inputs with a formatting rule that can be applied to selected text. Alternatively, a data store may associate each of the plurality of gesture inputs with a formatting rule and a text-component that defines to which component of text the formatting rule should be applied.
US09965439B2
A multi-protocol retimer apparatus and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for performing retiming between first and second devices according to a plurality of protocols comprises: a receiver operable to receive data; a transmitter to transmit data; a first data path coupled to the receiver and the transmitter and operable to transfer data received from the receiver to the transmitter during protocol specific training, where the first data path comprises control circuitry to control protocol specific training of one or both of the transmitter and receiver in response to an indication of one protocol of the plurality of protocols; and a second data path coupled to the receiver and the transmitter, the second data path having a lower latency than the first data path and for use in transferring data received from the receiver to the transmitter after protocol specific training.
US09965437B2
A microcontroller for a control unit or a vehicle control unit, includes a central processing unit (CPU), at least one interface-unspecific input module, at least one interface-unspecific output module, at least one routing unit and at least one arithmetic unit for processing interface-specific information. The microcontroller is configurable so that the at least one interface-unspecific input module, the at least one interface-unspecific output module, the at least one routing unit and the at least one arithmetic unit for processing interface-specific information fulfill the functions corresponding to one of multiple serial interfaces, in particular of SPI, UART, LIN, CAN, PSI5, FlexRay, SENT or Ethernet. In addition, the arithmetic unit is configured to generate an entire output message frame from the second payload data as output data and to transmit the same to the interface-unspecific output module.
US09965427B2
A method for assigning addresses to nodes of a bus system, and installation, bus nodes being furnished with an identical delivery address, where (i) an assigning entity, particularly a central computer, start-up computer or bus node sends information to the delivery address via the bus system, (ii) the information includes a first address, (iii) an action is performed whose effect is detected by a first bus node, (iv) the first bus node accepts the first address, (v) the first bus node sends a response to the assigning entity, and (vi) steps (i) through (v) are repeated, each time with a further address for a further bus node.
US09965426B2
According to various embodiments, a method of operating a two-wire digital bus includes applying a bias voltage to the two-wire digital bus at a first interface node, measuring a common mode voltage of the two-wire digital bus at the first interface node, and adjusting the bias voltage at the first interface node based on the measured common mode voltage.
US09965411B2
A communication system of the present disclosure includes a communication device that is communicatively coupled to a peripheral device. The peripheral device selects a selectable impedance from among multiple selectable impedances to communicate peripheral device information to the communication device. The communication device operates in an acquisition mode of operation to determine the selectable impedance to recover the peripheral device information. Optionally, the communication device can transition to a response mode of operation to respond to the peripheral device information.
US09965409B2
The present disclosure relates to a system which includes a memory controller interface, a memory unit interface, and a correction block. The memory controller interface includes a digitally-controlled delay line (DCDL). The memory unit interface is coupled to the memory controller interface, and is configured to communicate with the memory controller interface through a first signal and a second signal. The correction block is configured to determine a result of alignment between the first signal and the second signal, and to provide a correction signal configured to align the first signal to the second signal. Other systems, devices and methods are disclosed.
US09965407B2
In one example, place IO commands on queues which is to cause an application module to initiate IO operations, place task management commands on queues which is to cause the application module to initiate task management operations including sending task marker requests to the target interface module, place task marker on respective queues responsive to task marker requests associated with the task management commands, and receive a task marker completion message indicating receipt of IO commands and task management commands associated with the task marker requests.
US09965405B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a system comprising a processing unit executing an enumeration process over a high performance I/O network having endpoint locations that can be populated with endpoint devices. The system further comprises endpoint emulators to represent endpoint devices at endpoint locations unpopulated during the enumeration process. The system facilitates accessing certain endpoint devices later inserted (e.g., hot plugged) into the endpoint locations that were unpopulated during the enumeration process. The endpoint emulators can be implemented using various techniques, such as cards plugged into card slots coupled to the endpoint locations, or emulation software and/or firmware exposed to the processing unit. In an embodiment, the system is a test system for testing endpoint devices (e.g., PCIe SSDs), which test system can facilitate hot plugging of units under test in test slots that were unpopulated during the enumeration process.
US09965399B2
A computer system that is programmed with virtual memory accesses to physical memory employs multi-bit counters associated with its page table entries. When a page walker visits a page table entry, the multi-bit counter associated with that page table entry is incremented by one. The computer operating system uses the counts in the multi-bit counters of different page table entries to determine where large pages can be deployed effectively. In a virtualized computer system having a nested paging system, multi-bit counters associated with both its primary page table entries and its nested page table entries are used. These multi-bit counters are incremented during nested page walks. Subsequently, the guest operating systems and the virtual machine monitors use the counts in the appropriate multi-bit counters to determine where large pages can be deployed effectively.
US09965390B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a cache storage device and a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to select a cache block descriptor (CBD) from amongst a plurality of CBDs, the selected CBD including indications of being fragmented in the cache storage device. The logic is also configured to determine whether to defragment the selected CBD. Moreover, the logic is configured to defragment the selected CBD on the cache storage device in response to a decision to defragment the selected CBD.
US09965388B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of page buffers including a plurality of cache latches, exchanging data with the memory cell array through the plurality of bit lines, wherein the plurality of cache latches are arranged in a column direction in parallel with the plurality of bit lines and a row direction perpendicular to the plurality of bit lines, and have a two-dimensional arrangement of M stages in the column direction, where M is a positive integer not corresponding to 2L and L is zero or a natural number.
US09965387B1
A memory device can include an interface comprising a plurality of control and address connections and at least one set of data connections; memory circuits comprising a plurality of storage locations randomly accessible for read and write operations in response to an address value received on the address connections; and accelerator circuits coupled to the memory circuits and configured to perform at least one predetermined operation on data stored in the memory device to generate modified data for storage within the memory circuits in response to at least one command received on the interface; wherein the at least one command is supplemental to read and write commands executable by the memory device.
US09965381B1
Identifying data for placement in a storage system having a plurality of storage classes includes subdividing the data into portions, for each of the portions, independently determining at least one score for a particular portion based on a metric corresponding to access of the particular portion, where the at least one score for the particular portion is independent of scores for other ones of the portions, and identifying sub-portions of data for placement in a particular storage class based on the at least one score of a portion of data corresponding to the sub-portions. The at least one score may be based on short term access statistics and long term access statistics. The access statistics may include read misses, writes, and prefetches.
US09965377B1
In one example, a method includes receiving a partially complete development package, verifying one or more parameters of the development package, and approving the development package for code development upon satisfactory verification. Next, developer code is received and packaged into the partially complete development package to create a completed development package. The completed development package is then deployed to a group of nodes where the code can be run and tested.
US09965375B2
A core includes a memory buffer and executes an instruction within a virtual machine. A processor tracer captures trace data and formats the trace data as trace data packets. An event-based sampler generates field data for a sampling record in response to occurrence of an event of a certain type as a result of execution of the instruction. The processor tracer, upon receipt of the field data: formats the field data into elements of the sampling record as a group of record packets; inserts the group of record packets between the trace data packets as a combined packet stream; and stores the combined packet stream in the memory buffer as a series of output pages. The core, when in guest profiling mode, executes a virtual machine monitor to map output pages of the memory buffer to host physical pages of main memory using multilevel page tables.
US09965374B2
Embodiments include computing devices, apparatus, and methods implemented by the apparatus for implementing profile guided indirect jump checking on a computing device, including encountering an indirect jump location of implementing an indirect jump during execution of a program, identifying an indirect jump target of the indirect jump, determining whether the indirect jump location and the indirect jump target are associated in a profile guided indirect jump table, and determining whether the indirect jump location and the indirect jump target are associated in a compiler guided indirect jump table in response to determining that the indirect jump location and the indirect jump target are not associated in the profile guided indirect jump table.
US09965370B2
A port of a first device includes remote device detection logic to detect, on a link, a remote second device, determine, from a voltage generated at the port, whether the second device is direct current (DC)-coupled or alternating current (AC)-coupled to the link, and select one of first settings or second settings to be applied at the port in communications over the link with the second device based on whether the second device is DC-coupled or AC-coupled.
US09965366B2
Techniques and systems for performing a network activity within a network. The technique includes assigning one or a plurality of network devices subnets with network devices for performing network activities. Network devices within the assigned network device subnets can be assigned to act as a primary network device and a backup network device. The primary network device can perform the network activity. The backup network devices can monitor the primary network device and continue performing the network activities if the primary network device fails or is rogue.
US09965365B2
A power supply failover system/method providing uninterruptable power to protected load devices (PLD) is disclosed. The system includes a failover switch controller (FSC) with inputs from an AC I/V monitor (AIV), AC cycle counter (ACC), failover switch timer (FST), and overcurrent protection timer (OPT). The FSC utilizes these inputs to control failsafe switching of a bypass phase switch (BPS) and AC phase switch (ACS) to the PLD when power from the APS is determined to be good by the AIV. When power from the APS is determined to be compromised by the AIV, the FPS disables the ACS/BPS and enables a DC switch (DCS) and battery isolation switch (BIS) to connect a DC source to the PLD after a time period determined by the FST. APS/DCS overcurrent protection is limited by OPT intervals allowing a smooth transition between the APS to DCS during power failover/failback.
US09965360B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for synchronizing lost change between a source table and a replica table. An embodiment operates by detecting a restart at a source node or a replica node. Row-ID values of replication log entries are then compared to row-ID column values of rows at a replica table of the replica node. Replication errors at a source table or the replica table are then determined based on the row-ID comparison. The rows of the source table and the replica table are then updated based on the determination.
US09965359B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for removing a deadlock during replication from distributed source tables to a replica node. An embodiment operates by detecting a deadlock at a parallel log replayer at a replica node. A first replication log entry from a queue at the parallel log replayer is then selected based on whether removing the first replication log entry from the queue removes the deadlock. The first replication log entry is then forwarded to a waiting queue. A second replication log entry is then replayed at the parallel log replayer. After replaying the second replication log entry, the first replication log entry is replayed at the parallel log replayer.
US09965357B1
Systems and methods for backing up and restoring virtual machines in a cluster environment. An instrumentation interface enables configuration data to be stored with save sets during backup and enables the configuration of the destination to be adjusted based on the stored configuration during a restore.
US09965343B2
Disclosed is a method of determining concurrency factors for an application running on a parallel processor. Also disclosed is a system for implementing the method. In an embodiment, the method includes running at least a portion of the kernel as sequences of mini-kernels, each mini-kernel including a number of concurrently executing workgroups. The number of concurrently executing workgroups is defined as a concurrency factor of the mini-kernel. A performance measure is determined for each sequence of mini-kernels. From the sequences, a particular sequence is chosen that achieves a desired performance of the kernel, based on the performance measures. The kernel is executed with the particular sequence.
US09965341B2
A method for exchanging data between processes includes: establishing a connection with a server process via a server interface obtained by encapsulating a port; receiving a data process request carrying a name of the server process from a client process via a client interface obtained by encapsulating the port; sending the data process request to the server process via the server interface; establish a connection between the client process and the server process according to the name of the server process; forwarding data sent from the client process to the server process via the server interface; and forwarding data processed by the server process to the client process via the client interface.
US09965340B2
A first event notification is received. The first event notification is associated with a first event. Criteria is determined based, at least in part, on the first event notification. A first component is identified based, at least in part, on the criteria a component graph. An operational status associated with the first component is determined. It is determined not to generate a second event notification based, at least in part, on the operational status.
US09965335B2
A task allocation method, a chip are disclosed. The method includes: determining a number of threads included in a to-be-processed task; determining, in a network-on-chip formed by a multi-core processor, a continuous area formed by routers-on-chip corresponding to multiple continuous idle processor cores whose number is equal to the number of the threads; if the area is a non-rectangular area, determining a rectangular area extended from the area; and if predicted traffic of each router-on-chip that is connected to a non-idle processor core and in the extended rectangular area does not exceed a preset threshold, allocating the multiple threads of the to-be-processed task to the idle processor cores in the area. According to the task allocation method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, problems of large hardware overheads, a low network throughput, low system utilization are avoided.
US09965334B1
Methods and/or systems for provisioning storage capacity of a virtual machine are disclosed. Storage provisioning requests are received from virtual machines executing within a physical host environment. The provisioning requests are validated and processed to generate or otherwise expand storage capacities of the requesting virtual machines.
US09965324B2
A multiprocessor computer system and method for use therein are provided for assigning processes to processor nodes. The system can determine a first pair of processes and a second pair of processes, each process of the first pair of processes executing on different nodes and each process of the second pair of processes executing on different nodes. The system can determine a first priority value of the first pair of processes, based at least in part on a first resource access rate of the first pair of processes; and determine a second priority value of the second pair of processes, based at least in part on a second resource access rate of the second pair of processes. The system can determine the first priority value is greater than the second priority value; and determine to reassign a first process of the first pair of processes to a first node, wherein a second process of the first pair of processes is executing on the first node.
US09965323B2
A data storage device may be configured to use multiple task queues to schedule tasks. The multiple task queues may be configured based on an architecture of the data storage device. In some implementations, the multiple task queues may be used to organize tasks received from an access device. In other implementations, the multiple task queues may be used to identify tasks, and identification of the tasks may be associated with an order of execution of the tasks.
US09965314B2
A method for processing virtualization of computers that are part of a group into virtual computers is provided. The method includes obtaining relationship data from the computers, where the relationship data identifies parameters used to communicate within the group. Then, the method analyzes utilization parameters for each of the computers of the group. A visual model for proposed virtualization of the group of computers is then generated. The visual model identifies hosting machines designated to define a virtual computer for each of the computers, where the visual model provides a graphical illustration of the group of computers once converted to virtual computers. The method enables adjustment of the proposed virtualization of the group of computers. Then, an execution sequence of virtualization operations to be carried out is generated, if execution of the proposed virtualization is triggered, and the execution sequence is saved to storage and accessed upon execution.
US09965288B2
Techniques are provided for preconfiguring hardware prior to BIOS boot up, and in particular, accessing a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) feature descriptor in the BIOS read only memory area, the BIOS feature descriptor comprising information associated with a BIOS of the server; and utilizing the BIOS feature descriptor, prior to boot up operations of the server, to configure hardware of the server.
US09965281B2
A unified architecture for dynamic generation, execution, synchronization and parallelization of complex instruction formats includes a virtual register file, register cache and register file hierarchy. A self-generating and synchronizing dynamic and static threading architecture provides efficient context switching.
US09965273B2
Provided is a signal processing circuit occupying a small circuit area. A common arithmetic operation element is shared between a plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units. An arbitration circuit selects, when the plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units simultaneously generate requests for arithmetic operations to use the common arithmetic operation element, the predetermined sequence control unit based on priority information about the plurality of arithmetic operation sequence control units, causes the common arithmetic operation element to execute the arithmetic operation requested from the selected arithmetic operation sequence control unit, and returns the result of the arithmetic operation to the selected arithmetic operation sequence control unit.
US09965269B2
A system and a method determine a global update to an inference model and distribute the global update to a plurality of wearable apparatuses. In one implementation, the system includes a data interface and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is programmed to receive, via the data interface and from a first one of the plurality of wearable apparatuses, first update information associated with the inference model. The at least one processing device is further programmed to receive, via the data interface and from a second one of the plurality of wearable apparatuses, second update information associated with the inference model. The at least one processing device is further programmed to analyze the first update information and the second update information to determine the global update to the inference model, and transmit, via the data interface, the global update to the plurality of wearable apparatuses.
US09965268B2
This invention prevents rollback of firmware of an information processing apparatus. The apparatus including a security chip includes a counter which holds a value which monotonically increases, a version management unit which manages a current version number of software in the apparatus, a first verification unit which verifies validity of update software of the software and a version number of the update software, a rollback detection unit which detects whether a version of the update software is newer than a version of the current software, an update unit which updates the software using the update software, and a second verification unit which verifies whether the update unit has successfully updated the software. If the software has been successfully updated, the version management unit increases the value held in the counter until the value matches the version number of the update software.
US09965255B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to managing code origination data for a stream computing environment. A first set of code origination data which corresponds to a first computing object and a second set of code origination data which corresponds to a second computing object may be detected for utilization to develop a streaming application in the stream computing environment. Based on the first and second sets of code origination data, a code assembly arrangement with respect to the first and second computing objects may be determined. The code assembly arrangement may be established with respect to the first and second computing objects to develop the streaming application.
US09965254B2
A computer-implemented method for class load optimizing. The method determines whether a caller method within the class has a specific signature call using the context of the class. The method determines a callee method within the class using the context of the class. Furthermore, the method retrieves a class object of the class and converts the callee method to a second method, in response to the caller method having the specific signature, the callee method being of the specific signature and callee method being the first argument of the caller method.
US09965247B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for receiving a voice command and determining an appropriate action for the media playback system to execute based on user identification. The systems and methods receive a voice command for a media playback system, and determines whether the voice command was received from a registered user of the media playback system. In response to determining that the voice command was received from a registered user, the systems and methods configure an instruction for the media playback system based on content from the voice command and information in a user profile for the registered user.
US09965244B2
Embodiments are described herein that provide a dedicated command device that is bonded to a zone player or zone to perform adjustments to the zone player or zone. In an example implementation, a command device receives an instruction to pair with a first playback device that is associated with a group of playback devices that includes the first playback device and at least one additional playback device. The group of playback devices is associated with at least one group variable controlling playback by the playback devices of the group. The command device receives an input to adjust a first group variable of the at least one group variable and transmits, via a wireless communications interface, a command that causes an adjustment of the first group variable for the group of playback devices.
US09965238B2
A method and an apparatus for sharing display frame are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit, and a processing unit. In the method, a plurality of electronic apparatuses are searched by the processing unit through the communication unit, where each of the electronic apparatuses is configured to display a corresponding display frame. The processing unit selects one or a plurality of the electronic apparatuses, and synchronously displays at least first frame displayed by the display unit on one or a plurality of the selected electronic apparatus.
US09965237B2
Methods, systems and processor-readable media for supporting bidirectional communications and data sharing. One or more wireless hand held devices can be registered with one or more controllers associated with one or more multimedia displays. One or more profile icons can be selected for use as a cursor(s) during interaction of the wireless hand held device(s) with one or more multimedia display(s) during rendering of an event as data on the multimedia display(s). Supplemental data can be provided from the multimedia display(s) and/or a remote database to the wireless hand held device(s) based on a selection of the data rendered on the multimedia display(s) marked by the cursor utilizing the wireless hand held device(s).
US09965235B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-readable instructions which are readable by a controller of a device provided with a communication interface and a notification interface. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the controller, cause the device to perform determining whether pre-operations defined in multiple jobs contained in a workflow have successfully completed. In response to determination that the pre-operations have successfully completed, the device is caused to execute a main-process in which main-operations respectively defined in the multiple jobs contained in the workflow in order. In response to determination that at least one of the pre-operations has abended, the notification interface is caused to notify that the multiple jobs defined in the workflow are inexecutable.
US09965222B1
A data processing system includes a memory channel and a data processor coupled to the memory channel. The data processor includes a memory controller coupled to the memory channel and is adapted to access at least one rank of double data rate memory. The memory controller includes a command queue for storing received memory access requests, and an arbiter for picking memory access requests from the command queue, and then providing the memory access requests to the memory channel. The memory access requests are selected based on predetermined criteria, and in response to a mode register access request to quiesce pending operations. Additionally, the memory controller includes a mode register access controller that in response to the mode register access request, generates at least one corresponding mode register set command to a memory bus. The memory controller then relinquishes control of the memory bus to the arbiter thereafter.
US09965220B2
Various aspects include methods for managing memory subsystems on a computing device. Various aspect methods may include determining a period of time to force a memory subsystem on the computing device into a low power mode, inhibiting memory access requests to the memory subsystem during the determined period of time, forcing the memory subsystem into the low power mode for the determined period of time, and executing the memory access requests to the memory subsystem inhibited during the determined period of time in response to expiration of the determined period of time.
US09965212B1
During conversion and transfer of data from a physical machine to a virtual hard disk, a transmuter generates a catalog of contents of the physical machine. Catalog entries are compared to a set of alterations templates which alter matching data. The altered data is then stored in the virtual hard disk. Alterations templates may include filters that exclude unwanted or duplicated catalog entries, mapping filters that transfer source catalog entries to target locations on the virtual hard disk, and add-on filters that add additional data or location references to catalog entries. The disclosed process allows modifications to be made in a systematic way during data transfer.
US09965210B2
A system and methods for in-storage on-demand data decompression. Compressed data are stored in a storage device connected to a host computer. When decompressed data are needed, the host computer sends a decompression command to the storage device indicating which data are to be decompressed, and instructing it how to decompress the data. The storage device decompresses the data and stores the decompressed data, making it available to the host.
US09965205B2
A data storage device includes a conversion block suitable for performing a scramble operation on write data, and generating random write data, wherein the scramble operation includes inversion/non-inversion processing and calculation processing based on a random pattern.
US09965201B1
An improved technique for managing data storage includes relocating allocated blocks within a range of a physical address space of a file system to free the allocated blocks. The range has a length equal to a length of one or more full stripes of a RAID group that stores content of the file system. In response to receiving data to be written to the file system, the file system arranges the data in the range of contiguous blocks and performs one or more full-stripe writes to write the data to the RAID group.
US09965193B2
An improved way of communicating data operation commands within a non-volatile storage controller is presented. The non-volatile storage controller includes an internal processing unit that is communicatively coupled with an associated host system, a master controller, and a plurality of local controllers that are communicatively coupled with a non-volatile memory. Upon receiving a series of data operations commands from the host system, the internal processing unit is configured to apply address shadowing when communicating the series of commands to the master controller such that the internal processing unit does not need to repetitively send the same set memory addresses to the master controller when issuing the series of commands.
US09965186B2
A memory device and techniques for its operation are presented. After operating on power received from a host, the memory device determines that it is no longer receiving host power and, in response, activates a power source on the memory device itself. Using this reserve power, the memory device can then perform data management operations. The techniques can also be applied to a digital appliance having a non-volatile memory. The memory device or digital appliance can prioritize its memory management operation during the host/user operating window based on the ability to perform these operations outside of the host/user operating window. Additionally, in a data write operations, where the memory device receives data from a host, stores the data in volatile memory, and then writes the data into the non-volatile memory, the memory device sends the host an acknowledgment of the data having been written into the non-volatile memory after it has been store in the volatile memory, but before the write into the non-volatile memory is complete.
US09965181B2
Data is stored in a hybrid HDD that includes a magnetic storage medium and a nonvolatile solid-state device according to multiple modes of operation: a full caching mode, a transitional caching mode, and an HDD only mode. The mode of operation may be selected based on the current condition or performance of individual storage regions in a nonvolatile solid-state device of the hybrid HDD, or on the current condition or performance of the nonvolatile solid-state device as a whole. As the nonvolatile solid-state device undergoes wear, performance of the hybrid HDD is maintained by using less reliable memory blocks in the nonvolatile solid-state device as a read cache, even when these memory blocks are considered too unreliable to store dirty data.
US09965175B2
A system, method and computer program product for use in digital note taking with handwriting input to a computing device are provided. The computing device is connected to an input device in the form of an input surface. A user is able to provide input by applying pressure to or gesturing above the input surface using either his or her finger or an instrument such as a stylus or pen. The present system and method monitors the input strokes. The computing device further has a processor and at least one application for recognizing the handwriting input under control of the processor. The at least one system application is configured to cause display of, on a display interface of a computing device, digital ink in a block layout in accordance with a layout of blocks of the handwriting input and a configuration of the computing device display interface.
US09965172B2
Disclosed are a video transition method and system, including performing a screen transition operation from a first moving picture to a second moving picture in response to a first transition gesture input during playing the first moving picture when the first moving picture and a second moving picture connected with the first moving picture are sequentially played at predetermined times, suspending the first moving picture being played and playing the second moving picture in response to a completion in the screen transition operation to the second moving picture, performing a screen transition operation from the second moving picture to the first moving picture in response to a second transition gesture input during playing the second moving picture, and suspending the second moving picture being played and playing the first moving picture in response to a completion in the screen transition operation to the first moving picture.
US09965157B2
A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the personal display device may adjust displayed media to overlay features of a theater, thus giving the user the impression of being in the theater. In some embodiments, the personal display device may receive a user selection of a seat in the theater, and may adjust the media display accordingly. In some embodiments, the personal display device may detect the user's movements using one or more sensors and may adjust the displayed image based on the user's movements. For example, the device may detect a user's head movement and cause the portion of media displayed to reflect the head movement.
US09965153B2
A method, system, and computer program product for human-machine interface devices. Embodiments commence upon receiving a set of dimensions then generating a first interactive user interface comprising a series of concentric rings corresponding to the set of dimensions. The concentric rings comprise a series of wedges representing dimension values. A second interactive user interface is displayed, wherein the second interactive user interface comprises at least some of the set of dimensions, and wherein a user interaction upon the first interactive user interface causes a change in the second interactive user interface. Embodiments can include a selector to select a wedge and/or a slice, and the second interactive user interface can be presented as a table. User interaction upon the second interactive user interface is reflected simultaneously on the first user interface and user interaction upon the first user interface is reflected simultaneously on the table.
US09965150B2
A popular highlight may be presented to a user who wishes to make the popular highlight a personal user highlight. Upon activation of a control, a personal user highlight is generated from the popular highlight. The user may then manipulate the resulting personal user highlight as they would any other user highlight.
US09965146B2
This specification describes technologies relating to user interfaces for mobile devices. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a touch input to access an application management interface on a mobile device; presenting an application management interface; receiving one or more inputs within the application management interface including an input to install a particular application; installing the selected application; and presenting the installed application.
US09965144B2
An information processing apparatus includes an image display unit, an arrangement unit, and a marker display unit. The image display unit displays images. Upon acceptance of an instruction to rearrange an image selected from among the images in an arrangement area including one of the images, the arrangement unit rearranges the selected image at a rearrangement position in the arrangement area on the image display unit. The marker display unit displays a marker image between an image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged lower in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is lower than the position of the selected image, or displays the marker image between the image at the rearrangement position and an image arranged higher in rank than the image at the rearrangement position when the rearrangement position is higher than the position of the selected image.
US09965141B2
Methods, systems, and user interfaces enable users identify a user-selected location of a user interface with reduced movement and motor effort. A first selection indicator is overlaid on the user interface and moved in a first direction. Responsive to receiving a first user input to stop movement of the first selection indicator, movement of the first selection indicator is ceased over a first location of the user interface. A second selection indicator is overlaid on the user interface and the second selection indicator is moved in a second direction. Responsive to receiving a second user input to stop movement of the second selection indicator, movement of the second selection indicator is ceased over a second location of the user interface. The user-selected location of the user interface is selected based at least in part on the first and the second locations of the user interface.
US09965128B2
The present disclosure provides a touch sensing unit, a touch substrate and a method for producing the touch substrate, a touch display panel and a touch display apparatus. The sensing unit includes: at least one pair of first electrode and second electrode spaced apart from each other; at least one elastic base body in which pressure-sensitive conductive material is contained, the at least one elastic base body forcing the corresponding first electrode and second electrode in the at least one pair of first electrode and second electrode to be electrically connected with each other when it is deformed by a force; and a touch panel arranged at the side of the at least one elastic base body to which the force is applied. It may sense touch action of a finger by conductive property of pressure-sensitive conductive material to improve convenience of finger touching and multiple point touch performance.
US09965121B2
To provide a display capable of achieving downsizing and a touch detection method. The display includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix form, a plurality of scanning lines disposed in each row of the pixel array and supplying scanning signals to the plurality of pixels disposed in corresponding rows, a plurality of signal lines disposed in each column of the pixel array and supplying image signals to the plurality of pixels disposed in corresponding columns, a plurality of common electrodes disposed in each of the columns of the pixel array and supplied with driving signals for detecting touch, and a semiconductor device for touch including a plurality of driving terminals for supplying the driving signals. Here, the plurality of driving terminals of the semiconductor device for touch are smaller in number than the plurality of common electrodes disposed in the pixel array.
US09965119B2
A high-sensitivity self-capacitance in-cell touch display panel device includes a sensing electrode layer having plural sensing electrodes, a display control circuit, a touch sensing control circuit, and an amplifier with gain greater than zero. The display control circuit is powered by a first power source and connected to a first ground. The touch sensing control circuit is coupled to the sensing electrodes for performing a touch sensing. The touch sensing control circuit is powered by a second power source and connected to a second ground, wherein the first power source and the first ground are different from the second power source and the second ground. The amplifier is connected to the touch sensing control circuit and a common voltage layer. The touch sensing control circuit applies a sensing signal sensed by at least one sensing electrode to the amplifier for being amplified and applied to the common voltage layer.
US09965103B2
In a touch module, a light emitted by the light source undergoes a total reflection in the third substrate. when a first spacer is pressed against a third substrate by pressing a location on a second substrate, the light undergoing the total reflection in the third substrate escapes out of the third substrate and irradiates onto a photosensitive part corresponding to the pressed first spacer, the irradiated photosensitive part generates an electrical signal, and a pressed location on the second substrate is determined by detecting the electrical signal transmitted to an optical current detection line electrically connected to the irradiated photosensitive part. The touch module may reduce the cost and is adapted to be applied to a large size touch screen.
US09965102B2
A virtual keyboard system and typing method are provided. The virtual keyboard system includes a projector configured for projecting a key area having keys onto a projection plane, a storage device configured for storing a key value mapping table, a typed position coordinate obtaining device configured for obtaining coordinates of a typed position of the key area, and a key value obtaining device configured for obtaining key values corresponding to the coordinates of the typed position from the key value mapping table. The key values are outputted when a projected virtual key area is touched by a user.
US09965099B2
Electrodes of a sensor unit are fewer than segments; and, are arranged so that at least one electrode has an overlapping portion in each segment. An element data configuration part repeats processing of correcting a number m of provisional element data on the basis of predetermined information determined in accordance with an electrode pattern and a segment pattern on an operation surface so that a number n of provisional detection data calculated from the number m of provisional element data on the basis of the predetermined information approach a number n of detection data output from a capacitance detection part.
US09965098B2
The present disclosure provides a clamshell electronic device. The clamshell electronic device includes a touch module, a sensing device and a calculation unit. The touch module is arranged to detect touch events. The sensing device is arranged to detect whether an upper cover and a lower cover of the clamshell electronic device are separated, and produce a detecting signal when the upper cover and the lower cover are separated. The calculation unit is arranged to count the number of times the upper cover and the lower cover are separated according to the detecting signal to obtain a separated number, and calibrate the touch module when a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition comprises that the separated number is greater than a predetermined number.
US09965092B2
A force-responsive sensor incorporating a force-sensitive element is in communication with a power controller. The power controller changes one or more performance characteristics associated with the force-responsive sensor. A performance characteristic can include a bias voltage or current, a duty cycle, a sampling rate, and so on. The performance characteristic(s) can be changed in response to a touch event or based on an operational setting of the force-responsive sensor (or an electronic device incorporating the force-responsive sensor). Regulation of the performance characteristic(s) reduces power consumption of the force-responsive sensor.
US09965091B2
Provided is a technique whereby, in an input device in which a plurality of touch panels are arranged so as to be adjacent to one another, even if an upper limit number of input operations on the touch panels as a whole is less than the total number of input operations, an input operation with respect to the touch panels as a whole can be determined according to frequencies of input operations. The input device detects contact positions corresponding to input operations detected at fixed time intervals on each of the touch panels arranged so as to be adjacent to one another, and outputs contact positions the number of which is less than the sum of the numbers of the input operations detectable during the fixed time interval on the respective touch panels. Based on the contact positions corresponding to the input operations detected at fixed time intervals, the input device specifies frequencies of the input operations with respect to the touch panels, and among the contact positions corresponding to the input operations detected at fixed time intervals, preferentially determines the contact position on the touch panel with a greater frequency of the input operation as a contact position to be output.
US09965090B2
A process determines touch orientation of touches on a sense array of a touch-sensing device. The process obtains first touch data and second touch data of a conductive object proximate to the sense array at two temporally proximate times. The first and second touch data are then used to determine a first touch orientation, and the second touch data is used to determine a touch area and a provisional touch orientation. A touch orientation change is then determined as an absolute difference between the first touch orientation and the provisional touch orientation. The touch orientation change is compared with a threshold change, and the touch area is compared with a threshold area. In accordance with comparison results, the first touch orientation, the provisional orientation, or a weighted combination of them is designated as a second touch orientation corresponding to one of the two temporally proximate times.
US09965078B2
A pressure-sensing touch system for recognition of a touch event caused by a pressure applied at a touch position is disclosed which includes a light guide plate, a light output plate, a light source subsystem, a plurality of interference plates, a plurality of detectors and a controller. Upon application of the pressure at the touch position, a change in an intensity distribution of output light exiting from two through-openings of the interference plate occurs. The plurality of detectors are configured to detect the change. The controller is configured to recognize the touch event based on the detecting by the plurality of detectors. Also disclosed are a pressure-sensing touch method and a display system.
US09965075B1
The present disclosure provides an integrated touch control display panel, including a substrate, a plurality of stripe shaped common electrodes sequentially arranged in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a plurality of common electrode slits located between any two adjacent stripe shaped common electrodes. Each section of the common electrode slit includes a first slit, a second slit, and a connection slit located between the first slit and the second slit. An orthogonal projection of a center line of the connection slit on the substrate is located inside or coincides with a triangle formed by an orthogonal projection of the intersection point of center lines of the first and second slits, the intersection point of center lines of the first and connection slits, and the intersection point of center lines of the second and connection slits on the substrate.
US09965074B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts, detects a contact, determines a location and intensity of the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, and displays a response, the response being based at least in part on an input-output mapping of intensity to response at the contact location. The input-output mapping including a first input-output relationship between intensity and response over a first range of intensity values, a second input-output relationship between intensity and response over a second range of intensity values, and a transitional intensity value where the first range of intensity values meets or overlaps the second range of intensity values. At the transitional intensity value, the first input-output relationship has a first rate of change, the second input-output relationship has a second rate of change, and the first rate is substantially the same as the second rate.
US09965070B2
The invention relates to a method including the steps of: displaying first successive images on a screen; acquiring at least one second image; searching for the position of at least one actuation member relative to the screen based on an analysis of the second image; and modifying at least one of the next first images to be displayed if conditions of determination of the position of the actuation member in the second image are only partially fulfilled.
US09965068B2
The present application discloses a method and a device for operating a terminal having a touch screen, and the method includes steps of: starting to count a predetermined first time period when a predetermined condition is met; when an operation is performed by a user on a predetermined non-readily-mis-pressed region of the touch screen during the first time period, implementing the operation, otherwise implementing an operation performed by the user on a readily-mis-pressed region. The method and the device for operating a terminal having a touch screen provided by the disclosure solve the problem of error operations when a user holds the terminal by one hand and performs operations, thereby providing the user with conveniences.
US09965067B2
A multiuser, multi-interface computing system includes a computer system, and a continuous substrate including a first surface and a second surface. The substrate includes at least two touch sensitive regions, each touch sensitive region including a continuous touch sensitive surface that covers at least a portion of at least one display and an individual interface for selecting applications. The touch sensitive surface is configured to serve as the primary input to the computer system. The continuous substrate is transparent within the touch sensitive regions. The multiuser, multi-interface computing system is configured so that the at least two users can use the touch sensitive regions simultaneously.
US09965064B2
An apparatus, a method and a non-transitory computer readable medium is provided. The apparatus includes: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing computer program instructions configured, working with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: detecting bending of a flexible auto-stereoscopic display comprising a parallax barrier arrangement; and compensating for movement of the parallax barrier arrangement, caused by the bending of the flexible auto-stereoscopic display, by adjusting one or more characteristics of the flexible auto-stereoscopic display in dependence upon the bending of the flexible auto-stereoscopic display.
US09965055B2
In embodiments of a passive stylus with RFID-enabled sensing, a computing device includes a touchscreen that senses touch contact, and includes an RFID interrogator to interrogate passive RFID tags. The stylus includes a conductive tip designed for interaction with the touchscreen of the computing device. The stylus integrates a pressure sensor that senses pressure when the conductive tip of the stylus contacts the touchscreen. The stylus also includes at least one RFID antenna that is positioned in a body of the stylus to prevent detuning the RFID antenna when the stylus is held for use. The passive RFID tag can receive pressure sensor data from the pressure sensor in the stylus, and the passive RID tag can be read by the RFID interrogator to determine the pressure applied to the conductive tip of the stylus in order determine whether the stylus is contacting the touchscreen or only hovering above it.
US09965050B2
Interactive electronic system having a screen and a three-axis compass sensor for detecting flipping of pages of a book, wherein the book comprises a plurality of pages, each having with one or more magnets, and wherein the system is arranged to detect the flipping of pages of the book by the data readings of the value of one axis, X, Y, or Z; or the magnitude of the calculated vector of the values of the axes X, Y, and Z. Also a method of interaction comprises: downloading the software of the book to the electronic device; putting the book which contains the sensors in a pre-determined area near the electronic device in manner to identify the pages; calibrating the system; obtaining the values of the magnitude of the magnetic field by the compass sensor to detect the page that is open; displaying the corresponding digital content in synchronization.
US09965048B2
A transmissive head-mount type display device including a display configured to display a virtual image, and capable of transmitting an external sight. The head-mounted display including at least one processor or circuit configured to obtain an object located in a predetermined distance range from the display, and a position of a specific object included in the external sight, control the display to display a virtual image associated with the obtained object, identify a change in the position of the specific object based on a position of the specific object obtained, select the object based on a relationship between the change in the position of the specific object identified and a position of the object obtained, and control the display to display a specific check image associated with the object selected as the virtual image.
US09965045B2
This invention discloses a Chinese input method using Pinyin plus a new tone notation on a Western keyboard or keypad to input Chinese characters, characterized in that the user can input a Chinese compound word (polysyllabic word) containing several syllables and tones by just keying in a series of letters representing the syllables and tones of the word, and the letters are all joined together without causing any confusion. This feature is attributed to the new tone input method of this invention, which is characterized in that the three letters j, q and x are used to input three of the four tones of Putonghua (Mandarin), and “no entry” is used to input the remaining tone. There is a detailed logical reasoning in the specification of this patent application explaining how this method can achieve the feature of “syllables with tones are joined together without causing confusion”. Input of these syllables with tones via just a Western keyboard, together with the important feature of “the syllables with tones are joined together without causing confusion”, will have a major impact on the technical field of Chinese input method.
US09965027B2
An application control system and method is adapted for use with an entertainment system of a type including a display such as a monitor or TV and having display functions. A control device may be conveniently held by a user and employs an imager. The control system and method images the screen of the TV or other display to detect distinctive markers displayed on the screen. This information is transmitted to the entertainment system for control of an application or is used by the control device to control an application.
US09965019B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of functional units each to independently execute instructions and a clock distribution circuit having a clock signal generator to generate a clock signal. The clock distribution circuit is coupled to receive a first operating voltage from a first voltage rail and the functional units are coupled to independently receive at least one second operating voltage from one or more second voltage rails. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09965003B2
An electronic assembly including a circuit board, a heat-generating element, and a heat pipe is provided. The heat-generating element includes a bottom surface and a side surface connected to the bottom surface. The heat-generating element is mounted on the circuit board via the bottom surface. The heat pipe is thermally coupled to the side surface of the heat-generating element to absorb heat from the heat-generating element. Additionally, an electronic device includes a casing, a display, and the above-described electronic assembly. The display is mounted on the casing. The electronic assembly is disposed in the casing. The heat-generating element is mounted on the circuit board and its side surface is thermally coupled to the heat pipe. As a result, the limitation on the thickness of the heat pipe is relaxed, thereby allowing the efficiency of the heat pipe to be increased.
US09964995B1
An information handling system having rotationally coupled housing portions supports a flexible display disposed across the housing portions with a hinge structure that manages flexible display curve radius in a folded configuration. Cylindrical spools integrated at opposing sides of a housing interface with a flexible display to rotate as the flexible display slides relative to the housing in response to housing rotation. Antenna disposed on the cylindrical spools change orientation as the housing rotates so that selection of different antenna provide desired radio signal characteristics.
US09964992B2
A computer docking station for supporting a portable computer includes a body with a cradle portion configured to support a portion of the portable computer, and an arm portion spaced from the cradle portion. A latching member is coupled with the arm portion and movable between a first position relative to the arm portion, in which the portable computer can be removed from the docking station, and a second position relative to the arm portion, in which the portable computer cannot be removed from the docking station. The computer moves the latching member from the second position to the first position, in a direction toward the cradle portion, as the computer is inserted into the docking station and the latching member automatically moves from the first position to the second position, in a direction away from the cradle portion, as the computer is fully inserted into the docking station.
US09964989B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop that includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of components, elements, circuitry, etc.). One particular example implementation of the electronic device may include a first body coupled to a first housing, a second body coupled to a second housing, and two or more taut flexible bands, wherein the taut flexible bands couple the first body to the second body and allow for timed rotation of the first housing relative to the second housing. In some examples, the hinge is a low profile hinge and can rotate about three hundred and sixty degrees.
US09964986B2
An apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC). The IC includes a regulator to receive a plurality of input voltages and to provide a regulated output voltage to a load. The regulator includes a plurality of voltage regulators that receive the plurality of input voltages and provide the regulated output voltage as an output of the regulator. The IC further includes a controller that controls the regulator by using a voltage regulator in the plurality of voltage regulators to generate the regulated output voltage from the plurality of input voltages.
US09964984B2
A system for allocating power generation between a constant speed generator set and a variable speed generator set. A controller determines an operating power demand from on-line consumers, and determines an anticipated transient power demand from a new consumer or one with an increasing power demand. The controller allocates the electrical power response between the generator sets to meet both the operating power demand prior to a transient condition and the total power demand upon the occurrence of the transient condition. The allocation may be based upon operating modes of the system.
US09964977B2
A device is disclosed that includes a delay circuit, a detection circuit, and a bias circuit. The delay circuit is configured to generate an oscillating signal in response to a reference signal, a first bias voltage, and a second bias voltage. The detection circuit is configured to compare the oscillating signal with the reference signal, to generate a detect signal. The bias circuit is configured to adjust the first bias voltage and the second bias voltage according to the detect signal and a reference voltage.
US09964973B2
Hazard detection systems according to embodiments described herein are operative to provide failsafe safety detection features and user interface features using circuit topology and power budgeting methods that minimize power consumption. The safety detection features can monitor environmental conditions (e.g., smoke, heat, humidity, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, radon, and other noxious gasses) in the vicinity of the hazard detection system associated and alarm occupants when an environmental condition exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US09964968B2
The present disclosure provides improved particle processing (e.g., cytometry and/or cell purification) systems and methods that can operate in an autonomous fashion. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for assemblies, systems and methods for analyzing, sorting, and/or processing (e.g., purifying, measuring, isolating, detecting and/or enriching) particles (e.g., cells, microscopic particles, etc.) where human intervention is not required and/or is minimized. The systems, assemblies and methods of the present disclosure advantageously improve run performance of particle processing systems (e.g., cell purification systems, cytometers) by significantly reducing and/or substantially eliminating the burden of operation for human intervention by automating numerous functions, features and/or steps of the disclosed systems and methods.
US09964965B2
A proportional motion control valve includes an electro-mechanical actuator that provides an infinitely controlled pressure setting in response to an electric signal applied to the electro-mechanical actuator. In another aspect, a proportional motion control valve includes a pilot-operated valve disposed intermediately with respect to a cage and a valve body to fluidly isolate an internal cavity of the valve body from a bore of the cage. The pilot-operated valve is subjected to a hydraulic opening force of pilot fluid that is present in the bore of the cage. A spring is disposed within the internal cavity of the valve body and arranged to subject the pilot-operated valve to a closing spring force.
US09964964B2
An automatic balancing valve is described, wherein a flow controller device is provided and comprises at least translationally movable plug and a respective valve seat that cooperates with the plug in order to automatically adjust the fluid flow rate through the valve. A ring nut, combined with the flow controller device, is rotationally hand-operated to move a choking member placed inside the valve. The movement transmission from the ring nut to the choking member is achieved by a mechanism comprising a plurality of toothed gears.
US09964963B2
The invention relates to a pressure equalizing insert (1) which is provided for installation in a valve (10) for regulating a fluid stream in particular in a HVAC system. The pressure equalizing insert (1) comprises a housing (2) having an actuating member (3) which is movably mounted thereon and is configured to at least partially guide the fluid stream regulated by the valve (10) and, when the pressure equalizing insert (1) is installed, co-operates with a valve seat (15) depending upon a pressure difference prevailing in the fluid stream in order to regulate the fluid stream. The invention further relates to a valve (10) having an installed pressure equalizing insert (1), wherein the pressure equalizing insert (1) can be inserted in particular as a pre-assembled assembly into the valve (10).
US09964962B2
A system and method prevent product-type contamination in a bulk liquid storage tank. A control unit receives an indication of a storage product type in the bulk storage and a delivery product type in the tanker truck. The control unit compares the delivery product type with the storage product type and controls delivery based on a result of the comparison.
US09964961B2
A method and apparatus are presented for guiding a store, represented by a dynamic system having transitory nonlinear characteristics, between release from a platform and an activation of a mission autopilot along an optimal path. A nominal reference trajectory is determined that optimizes a desired performance index for the dynamic system using optimal control theory. A feedback control system is implemented that optimizes an original performance index to second order in a presence of disturbances along the optimal path using neighboring optimal control. The feedback control system converges to a linear time invariant regulator approaching the desired operating condition along the optimal path. Finally, control of the store is transitioned to the mission autopilot.
US09964960B2
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided and includes a fuselage, wings extending outwardly from the fuselage to define a wing plane and a prop-rotor operably disposed to generate thrust, a flight computer and controllable surfaces disposed on at least one of the fuselage, the wings and the prop-rotor. The controllable surfaces are controllable by the flight computer to position the wing plane in accordance with a predominant local wind direction.
US09964959B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for inspecting an aircraft fuel tank. The invention also relates to an aircraft fuel tank including an inspection apparatus. The invention provides an aircraft fuel tank, the aircraft fuel tank containing a robotic device. The robotic device is arranged to be movable within the aircraft fuel tank. The robotic device further comprises a sensor for inspecting the aircraft fuel tank.
US09964955B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods of use pertaining to a visual mapping and transportation management system for determining a location of a user and directing a vehicle to the user's location. Embodiments include a navigation application installed upon a user's mobile computing device and configured to transmit a user image from the device to an image-matching server storing a map composed of keyframes, each having a stored image, a known geometric pose, and numerous extracted interest features. The server also includes a processor configured to extract interest features from the user image, compare the interest features between the user image and the stored images, identify common interest features between the two, and based on the common interest features and known geometric poses of the stored images, determine a global geometric pose of the user image before directing the vehicle to the user's location. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09964952B1
Systems and methods for controlling the motion of an autonomous are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer implemented method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data associated with one or more objects that are proximate to the autonomous vehicle. The data includes a predicted path of each respective object. The method includes identifying at least one object as an object of interest based at least in part on the data associated with the object of interest. The method includes generating cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes determining a motion plan for the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the cost data associated with the object of interest. The method includes providing data indicative of the motion plan to one or more vehicle control systems to implement the motion plan for the autonomous vehicle.
US09964951B1
Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.
US09964942B2
Embodiments of a system and a method for continuously measuring cementitious board during the continuous manufacture thereof can be used in connection with the manufacture of various cementitious products, including gypsum wallboard, for example. Embodiments of a system and a method for continuously measuring cementitious board during its continuous manufacture can be used online in a continuous manufacturing process to effectively determine the degree to which cementitious slurry has set (e.g., expressed as percent hydration) at a predetermined location, such as, near a cutting station, for example. A height measuring system can be used to determine the relative amount the cementitious board sags as it passes over an unsupported span disposed between the forming station and the cutting station and to correlate the measured sag distance with a value of percent hydration of the cementitious slurry of that particular portion of the cementitious board.
US09964941B2
Disclosed are a method, a device and a system for improving system accuracy of an X-Y motion platform, and the method includes: taking a picture of a preset calibration board synchronously as a controlled equipment on an X-Y motion platform moves, and analyzing the picture to obtain pixel coordinates of a calibration point in the picture, where the preset calibration board is taken as a reference; acquiring actual coordinates of the calibration point on the calibration board, and calculating actual position coordinates of the controlled equipment on the X-Y motion platform from the actual coordinates and the pixel coordinates of the calibration point; and adjusting a motion control system of the X-Y motion platform according to the actual position coordinates, to control the motion of the X-Y motion platform to perform motion compensation for the controlled equipment. With the technical solution of the invention, the system accuracy can be improved, and the requirements for assembly and device selection can be reduced.
US09964939B2
A trajectory display device comprises a position information acquisition part acquiring position information of a drive axis of a machine tool, a tool coordinate calculation part calculating the coordinate value of a tool tip point based on the position information, and a tool vector calculation part setting a tool vector along the tool axis with the tool tip point as the starting point. The trajectory display device comprises an intersection calculation part calculating the coordinate values of the intersection points of the tool vector with preset flat planes and a display part displaying the tool axis trajectories represented by a line connecting the intersection points.
US09964922B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with a developing roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than a second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the first electrical contact is from the developing roller shaft. The supply electrode includes a first electrical contact in contact with the supply roller shaft, and a second electrical contact positioned closer to the developing roller shaft than the second agitator gear is to the developing roller shaft. The second electrical contact of the supply electrode is positioned farther from the developing roller shaft than the second electrical contact of the developing electrode is from the developing roller shaft.
US09964914B2
Provided is an electrophotographic member that has a high excessive charging-suppressing effect under a low-temperature and low-humidity environment, and has high charge-providing performance under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each including the electrophotographic member. The electrophotographic member is an electrophotographic member including an electro-conductive substrate and an electro-conductive resin layer, the electro-conductive resin layer contains a cation and at least one anion selected from the group consisting of anions represented by the following formulae (1) to (5): where X represents an arbitrary halogen atom, n in the structural formula (4) represents an integer of from 2 to 6, and n in the structural formula (5) represents an integer of 2 or 3.
US09964911B2
Included are an output member including a coupling allowed to be engaged with a unit; an input member; an input-side engagement member; an output-side engagement member allowed to be engaged with the input-side engagement member; an elastic member urging the input-side engagement member toward the output-side engagement member; and a disengagement member which moves the input-side engagement member at an engaged position, at which engagement with the output-side engagement member is allowed, to a disengaged position at which engagement with the output-side engagement member is released. In each of a state where the input-side engagement member is at the engaged position and a state where the input-side engagement member is at the disengaged position, a space is formed in which the output-side engagement member is allowed to move in the shaft direction when the output member is pressed to the shaft direction.
US09964902B2
A fixing device includes: a fixing member; a pressure member pressed against the fixing member; a plurality of halogen lamp heaters configured to heat the fixing member; a temperature detecting unit configured to detect a temperature of the fixing member; and a control unit configured to perform half-wave control on at least one first halogen lamp heater by calculating an output Duty and performing energization or de-energization for each half-wave of an AC waveform, and perform switch on/off control on a second halogen lamp heater, the second halogen lamp heater being other than the first halogen lamp heater, wherein the first halogen lamp heater and the second halogen lamp heater have reference voltages satisfying the reference voltage of the first halogen lamp heater
US09964899B2
A destaticizing device has a destaticizing member, a holding member, and a body portion. The destaticizing member has a plurality of destaticizing needless. The holding member holds the destaticizing member. The body portion has the holding member removably attached to it. The destaticizing member has attachment holes for attachment to the holding member. The holding member has a plurality of bosses inserted in the attachment holes respectively and an engaging portion in a snap-fit shape for attachment to the body portion. The body portion has an engaged portion with which the engaging portion is engaged.
US09964897B2
A developing device includes a first developing roller, a second developing roller, a first end portion configured to restrict the amount of developer on the second developing roller, a restriction member, and a collecting roller configured to collect developer on the first developing roller. The second end portion is located at a position where magnetic force interference with a magnetic force generated by the second developing roller and the collecting roller is not caused.
US09964891B2
A replaceable unit for an image forming apparatus according to one example embodiment includes a housing and at least one transmissive member positioned on an exterior of the housing. The at least one transmissive member is arranged to receive optical energy from the image forming apparatus and has a transmissivity for modifying an amount of the optical energy that leaves the at least one transmissive member relative to an amount of the optical energy received by the at least one transmissive member. The at least one transmissive member indicates information relating to a characteristic of the replaceable unit.
US09964885B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. Each of the plurality of toner particles includes a toner core and a shell layer covering the toner core. The shell layer contains a thermosetting resin. A content ratio of a toner component insoluble in tetrahydrofuran is at least 90 mass % relative to mass of the toner. Melt viscosity of the toner at 75° C. is at least 1.0×104 Pa·s and no greater than 1.0×105 Pa·s. The thermosetting resin is preferably a melamine resin or a urea resin. The toner core preferably contains a binder resin, and the binder resin has a softening point (Tm) of at least 85° C. and no greater than 95° C.
US09964877B2
An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor having an overcoat layer and a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade and a tip of the cleaning blade contacts with the photoreceptor toward the direction opposite to the rotation direction, wherein the toner particle contains a crystalline polyester resin, an average circularity of the toner particles is from 0.955 to 0.971, a content ratio of the toner particles having a particle diameter of 4.5 μm or more and less than 7.5 μm and a circularity of 0.980 or more is from 16% by number to 40% by number, and a content ratio of the toner particles having a particle diameter of 7.5 μm or more and less than 15 μm and a circularity of 0.900 or more and less than 0.940 is 3% by number or less.
US09964869B2
A triarylamine derivative represented by general formula (1) below. In the general formula (1), R1, R2, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 each represent, independently from one another, a hydrogen atom, an optionally substitute alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, or an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 14, R3 represents an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 4, X represents an alkylene group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6 or an oxygen atom, and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.
US09964866B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit includes the following steps. A substrate including a plurality of exposure fields is provided, and each of the exposure field includes a target portion and a set of alignment marks. Measure the set of alignment marks of each exposure field by a measuring system to obtain alignment data for the respective exposure field. Determine an exposure parameter corresponding to each exposure field and an exposure location on the target portion from the alignment data for the respective exposure field by a calculating system. Feedback the alignment data to a next substrate.
US09964860B2
An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate to light passing through liquid, and includes a stage that holds the substrate. The stage includes a substrate holder including a support member that supports a rear surface of the substrate and a first circumferential wall surrounding the support member. A second circumferential wall surrounds the substrate holder and forms a first groove between the second circumferential wall and the substrate holder, and a second groove on an outer side thereof. A plate member surrounds the substrate on the support member, and a recovery passage recovers liquid flowing from a liquid supply system to a gap between the plate member and the substrate. The second circumferential wall is under the gap so that part of an upper surface of the second circumferential wall faces the substrate rear surface and another part of the upper surface faces a rear surface of the plate member.
US09964849B2
The method for forming a resin cured film pattern according to the invention comprises a first step in which there is formed on a base material a photosensitive layer composed of a photosensitive resin composition comprising a binder polymer with a carboxyl group having an acid value of 75 mgKOH/g or greater, a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and having a thickness of 10 μm or smaller, a second step in which prescribed sections of the photosensitive layer are cured by irradiation with active light rays, and a third step in which the sections of the photosensitive layer other than the prescribed sections are removed to form a cured film pattern of the prescribed sections of the photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive resin composition comprises an oxime ester compound and/or a phosphine oxide compound as the photopolymerization initiator.
US09964845B2
A projection apparatus is provided with an optical device to diffuse a coherent light beam, an irradiation unit to irradiate a coherent light beam to the optical device, a color generator to perform wavelength conversion of and transmission of light beams in a first illumination zone, in a time division manner, at least one relay optical system to change a travel direction of the wavelength-converted light beam and a travel direction of a light beam to generate an illumination light beam which illuminates a second illumination zone, a spatial light modulator to generate a modulated image to the second illumination zone, and a projection optical system. The first illumination zone and the second illumination zone have a conjugate relationship. The color generator has a transmission portion to transmit the diffused coherent light beam, without diffusing the diffused coherent light beam.
US09964830B2
An electrophoretic display apparatus includes a first substrate, a plurality of sub-pixel structures, a color filter array, and an electrophoretic layer. The sub-pixel structures are disposed on the first substrate, and each of the sub-pixel structures includes a plurality of sub-pixel sub-structures. The color filter array is disposed above the sub-pixel structures, and includes a plurality of filter units. The filter units are divided into a plurality of groups having different colors, and the filter units belonging to the groups having different colors are alternately disposed above the sub-pixel structures. Each of the filter units corresponds to the sub-pixel sub-structures of at least one sub-pixel structure, and at least two of the sub-pixel sub-structures of the same sub-pixel structure are adapted to be applied different voltages. The electrophoretic layer is disposed on the sub-pixel structures.
US09964829B2
Provided is a transparent display apparatus including a lower panel on which a shutter region and a light emitting region are horizontally disposed, an upper panel including a recessed region configured to cover the shutter region and the light emitting region to face the lower panel, a light emitting device, and a shutter device. The shutter device includes a lower electrode and an electrochromic material layer that are sequentially laminated in the shutter region of the lower panel, an upper electrode disposed in the recessed region of the upper panel, and an electrolyte layer filled between the electrochromic material layer and the upper electrode.
US09964826B2
The present disclosure provides a transflective switchable liquid crystal display device and its display module. The liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal unit and a transflector driving unit arranged in this order; wherein the transflective driving unit further includes a first substrate, a first electrode layer arranged on the first substrate, a first liquid layer arranged on the first electrode layer, and a second liquid layer surrounding and covering the first liquid layer. The spreading and shrinking state of the first liquid layer are changed by controlling the voltage of the first electrode layer, and the transmissive mode and the reflective mode of the liquid crystal display module are switched. The liquid crystal display module enables the liquid crystal display to have a high opening, a high penetration, or a highly reflective display in both the transmission mode and the reflection mode.
US09964821B2
The present invention provides a curved liquid crystal display panel. In the curved liquid crystal display panel of the present invention, a TFT substrate is provided thereon with a black matrix corresponding to a trunk portion of a pixel electrode such that portions of the sub-pixels within two opposite side zones of the curved liquid crystal display panel that generate dark patterns and portions of the sub-pixels within a central zone of the curved liquid crystal display panel having the same width as that of the dark patterns are shielded, whereby through sacrifice of a portion of aperture ratio, the brightness of the curved liquid crystal display panel is made homogenized through all areas thereof thereby preventing brightness difference between the central zone and two opposite side zones of the curved liquid crystal display panel.
US09964814B2
A liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate including pixels, a liquid-crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, pixel electrodes disposed on the first substrate, each of the pixel electrodes disposed in a pixel region of the respective pixels, and a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrodes, where each of the pixel electrodes includes, a stem electrode extended in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting the first direction to divide the pixel region into quadrants, the quadrants corresponding to first to fourth domains, respectively, first branch electrodes, second branch electrodes, third branch electrodes, a first in-between electrode, and a second in-between electrode, and where widths of the first to third branch electrodes are equal to one another, and widths of the first and second in-between electrodes increase as farther from the stem electrode.
US09964802B2
The present disclosure relates to a backlight module and a liquid crystal device. The backlight module includes a LED light source and a lens bar. The LED light source is arranged on the LED substrate and includes a plurality of LED lamps encapsulated by CSP. The lens bar is arranged in the front of the LED light source and includes a plurality of chambers. Internal walls of the chambers are parabola-shaped curved surfaces. Each of the LED lamps is arranged in a rim of a focal point formed by the parabola-shaped curved surface such that the curved surface above the LED lamps is symmetrical to that below the LED lamps. With such configuration, the LED light source encapsulated by the CSP may be incorporated in edge-type BLU so as to avoid the optical leakage issue.
US09964794B2
Discussed is a liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment including a substrate including a unit pixel having first to third sub-pixels arranged in a delta structure; and a first electrode and a second electrode in each of the first to third sub-pixels, each of the first and second electrodes including a first bar and a plurality of second bars branching off from the first bar, the first bar of the first electrode and the first bar of the second electrode facing each other and being parallel with each other, the second bars of the first electrode and the second bars of the second electrode interleaved with each other, wherein the first and second bars of the third sub-pixel makes first and second angles, respectively, relative to a first polarization axis.
US09964793B2
A dissipation or rigid support layer for a display device (such as a touch screen display device) is provided herein. The display device may include a display unit (e.g., a LCD unit and backlight unit), an internal electronics component, and a dissipation layer disposed between the display unit and the internal electronics component. The dissipation layer may be affixed to a surface of the display unit, and the dissipation layer may be configured to at least partially disperse a mechanical force applied by the internal electronics component on the display unit when an input force moves the dissipation layer into contact with the internal electronics component. In some examples, the dissipation layer is affixed to the surface of the display unit via an adhesive layer (e.g., an optically clear adhesive layer).
US09964792B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) defines an active area and a surrounding non-display area defined. The LCD includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a temperature controller. The second substrate includes a shading unit corresponding to the active area. The liquid crystal layer is between the first substrate and the second substrate. The temperature controller includes a heater configured to provide heat of the LCD to ensure a satisfactory function of the LCD.
US09964785B2
A display device including a frame, a glass light guide plate, an optical film set, a display panel, a reflector, a back plate and an electronic element is provided. The frame has a first connecting surface and a second connecting surface. The glass light guide plate has a first glass surface and a second glass surface opposite to the first glass surface. The first glass surface is connected to the first connecting surface. The optical film set is disposed on the first glass surface. The display panel is disposed on the optical film set. The reflector is disposed under the second glass surface. The back plate is connected to the second connecting surface. The back plate constructs an accommodating space with the frame and the glass light guide plate. The electronic element is connected to the back plate and located in the accommodating space.
US09964780B2
Methods and apparatus to enhance levels of oxygen in tear fluid under a worn advanced contact lens are described. The advanced contact lens may include an insert which is impermeable to fluid flow across its body. The method of enhancement may include creating pores through the insert, creating channels in portions of the contact lens body, including layers of absorptive material, including devices to generate or release oxygen or means of moving tear fluid under the contact lens.
US09964778B2
Disclosed herein is a camera lens module. The camera lens module in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a vibration correction carrier, a rolling unit disposed in parallel to a direction vertical to an optical axis and configured to support the vibration correction carrier, a lens barrel carrier disposed on a side opposite the vibration correction carrier based on the rolling unit, and a base configured to mount the vibration correction carrier and the lens barrel carrier on the base.
US09964773B2
A true three-dimensional volumetric imaging device includes an imaging light source, a light source adjusting unit, an imaging plate, and a movement driving unit. The light source adjusting unit is arranged between the imaging light source and the imaging plate, and the imaging plate is connected to the movement driving unit. A light beam emitted from the imaging light source is incident onto the imaging plate after being adjusted by the light source adjusting unit, and the movement driving unit causes the imaging plate to oscillate in a direction parallel to an outgoing direction of the light beam emitted from the imaging light source. In the true three-dimensional volumetric imaging device, the true three-dimensional volumetric display of an image is achieved. An algorithm herein is simpler, and a more complete volumetric object can be shown.
US09964772B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional image display apparatus, which includes a first reflecting plate and a display unit. The first reflecting plate corresponds to a first visual angle, has a first reflecting surface, and is made of a translucent material. The display unit receives a first color-depth image corresponding to the first visual angle, and projects the first color-depth image to the first reflecting surface to form a virtual image. The display unit also has a first side, which is used to display the first color-depth image, and a predetermined angle is formed between the first side and the first reflecting surface.
US09964764B2
Visual training aids including an eyewear article including a lens, an image generator mounted to the eyewear article in a position to display an image on the lens, a processor operatively connected to and in data communication with the image generator, a global positioning system operatively connected to and in data communication with the processor, a computer readable medium operatively connected to and in data communication with the processor. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a pair of eyeglasses. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a display monitor mounted to the eyewear. In some examples, the visual training aid includes a camera mounted to the eyewear.
US09964761B2
A head-up display for a motor vehicle includes a housing, which may be integrated into an instrument panel of the motor vehicle. A combiner is configured to combine an image of the head-up display and an environment in front of the motor vehicle observable through the combiner. The combiner is movable from a position of non-use into a position of use. An image generator is configured to generate the image. A cover may be brought into a closed position, which covers the housing when not in use. The cover has an opening to enable an emission of light of a light beam of the image generator with the cover closed.
US09964758B2
A deflection mirror arrangement for an optical measurement apparatus having at least one mirror unit, which is arranged on a rotatable shaft and includes at least one deflection mirror, and having a drive unit, which drives the rotatable shaft, and to an optical measurement apparatus having such a deflection mirror arrangement is disclosed. The at least one mirror unit may include at least two deflection mirrors, which are arranged in a common horizontal plane and spaced apart radially with respect to the rotatable shaft. The drive unit may be disposed at least partially in the space between the two deflection mirrors.
US09964757B2
There is provided a laser scanning microscope apparatus including a first moving part equipped with an objective lens and configured to move the objective lens in a first direction, and a second moving part configured to be movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first moving part and equipped with the first moving part and a reflecting mirror that guides laser light radiated to an observation object and returning light of the observation object in a predetermined direction.
US09964747B2
An imaging apparatus (100) for imaging an object (1) under investigation, in particular a biological object, comprises a light source device (10) arranged for an illumination of the object (1), a light detector device (20) arranged for detection of light emitted by the object (1) in response to the illumination of the object (1), an acoustic detector device (30) arranged for collecting acoustic signals generated in the object (1) in response to the illumination of the object (1), an image reconstruction device (40) arranged for reconstructing an optical image and an opto-acoustic image of the object (1), and a resolution adaptation device (50) being capable of adjusting imaging properties of the opto-acoustic image, said imaging properties including at least one of the spatial resolution and the imaging depth of the opto-acoustic image. Furthermore, an imaging method for imaging an object (1) under investigation, in particular a biological object, is described.
US09964745B2
Focus assemblies for laser radar are situated to receive a measurement beam that is focused at or in the focus assemblies. In some examples, focus assemblies include a corner cube and a return reflector, and the measurement beam is focused on, at, or within the corner cube or return reflector. A polarizing beam splitter and a quarter wave plate can be situated so that an input measurement beam and an output measurement beam can be separated.
US09964735B2
An optical image capturing system is provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09964726B2
A telecommunications assembly including a housing and a plurality of modules mounted within the housing. The modules includes a rear face in which is mounted at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the housing are positioned at least one fiber optic adapters. Inserting the module through a front opening of the housing at a mounting location positions the connector of the module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the housing. The adapters within the interior of the housing are mounted to a removable holder. A method of mounting a telecommunications module within a chassis.
US09964725B1
A tool and method of use for installing fiber optic strands. The tool accepts the strand in a hollow interior and feeds the strand out an end of the tool. A foot of the tool embeds the strand into a leading bead of caulk and smooths out the caulk. A curved guide transitions the fiber from the reel into the tube without exceeding the fiber's minimum bending radius.
US09964720B2
The temperature at different locations along a multiplexed laser array may be monitored by sensing temperature at two locations within a transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) package housing the laser array. The temperature at the two locations is used to determine a temperature tilt across the laser array. Estimated temperatures may then be determined at one or more other locations along the laser array from the temperature tilt. The estimated temperature(s) may then be used to adjust the temperature proximate the other locations, for example, for purposes of tuning lasers at those locations along the laser array to emit a desired channel wavelength. The TOSA package may be used in an optical transceiver in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical system, for example, in an optical line terminal (OLT) in a WDM passive optical network (PON).
US09964715B2
A fiber optic cable assembly includes a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic connector. The cable includes a jacket having an elongated transverse cross-sectional profile that defines a major axis and a minor axis. Strength components of the cable are anchored to the connector. The fiber optic connector includes a multi-fiber ferrule defining a major axis that is generally perpendicular to the major axis of the jacket and a minor axis that is generally perpendicular to the minor axis of the jacket. Certain types of connectors include a connector body defining a side opening that extends along a length of the connector body; a multi-fiber ferrule configured for lateral insertion into the connector body through the side opening; and a cover that mounts over the side opening after the multi-fiber ferrule has been inserted into the connector body through the side opening.
US09964713B2
A female hardened fiber optic connector for terminating an end of a fiber optic cable that is suitable for making an optical connection with another hardened cable assembly and cable assemblies using the same are disclosed. The female hardened fiber optic connector includes a connector assembly, a crimp body, a connector sleeve, and female coupling housing. The connector sleeve has one or more orientation features that cooperate with one or more orientation features inside the female coupling housing. The crimp body has a first shell and a second shell for securing the connector assembly at a front end of the shells and a cable attachment region rearward of the front end for securing a cable.
US09964702B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that implements an optical interface. The system includes a semiconductor chip with a silicon layer, which includes a silicon waveguide, and an interface layer (which can be comprised of SiON) disposed over the silicon layer, wherein the interface layer includes an interface waveguide. The system also includes an optical coupler that couples an optical signal from the silicon waveguide in the silicon layer to the interface waveguide in the interface layer, wherein the interface waveguide channels the optical signal in a direction parallel to a top surface of the semiconductor chip. The system additionally includes a mirror, which is oriented to reflect the optical signal from the interface waveguide in a surface-normal direction so that the optical signal exits the top surface of the semiconductor chip.
US09964695B2
This display includes a light source portion, a first heat radiation member for radiating heat generated by the light source portion, a rear housing covering the first heat radiation member in a state in contact with the first heat radiation member, and a cover member covering a rear surface of the rear housing so that the rear surface of the rear housing is partially exposed outward. The first heat radiation member is arranged on a region corresponding to a region of the rear housing exposed outward from the cover member as viewed from the side of the rear surface.
US09964693B2
The present disclosure discloses a monitor and a backlight module thereof. The backlight module includes a circuit board, a strip light, a buckle, and a quantum tube. The strip light is fixed to the circuit board. The buckle is fixed to the circuit board. The quantum tube is engaged into the buckle, and the quantum tube is parallel to the strip light, which are provided with an interval. The quantum tube is located between the light guide plate and the strip light, the light is emitted from the strip light to the light guide plate through the quantum tube. Through the above way, the present disclosure can ensure high luminous efficiency of the quantum tube in the backlight module, so that the color gamut of the backlight module is maintained at a high state.
US09964692B2
Aspects of this invention relate to a system that provides an illuminated feature for an LED luminaire that can be used with opposite linear runs of LEDs to light the edges or sides of a luminaire without requiring additional LEDs. The system may include a light guide assembly located along an end housing of a light fixture, the light guide assembly including a light guide with a light guide end located proximate to one or more captured LEDs from a first plurality of LEDs located along a first side housing of the light fixture, and another light guide end located proximate to one or more captured LEDs from a second plurality of LEDs located along a second side housing of the light fixture, wherein the light guide receives the light from the one or more captured LEDs from the first plurality of LEDs and the one or more captured LEDs from the second plurality of LEDs and projects the light through the light guide, wherein when covered by a lens, the light emitted from the light guide is equivalent in appearance to the light emitted from the first plurality of LEDs and the second plurality of LEDs.
US09964691B2
A backplane for a display device which includes a plate-like body for securing a rectangular printed circuit board (PCB). The body includes a first clamping part corresponding to a first side edge of the PCB having an L-shaped bend facing towards the PCB for clamping the first side edge. The body further includes a second clamping part corresponding to a second side edge of the PCB having a U-shaped bend facing towards the PCB for clamping the second side edge. The second side edge is parallel to the first side edge. A riveting column is secured on the body uncovered by the PCB, the riveting column is located at the same side of the PCB as the first clamping part, and a spring is secured on the riveting column and presses the edge of the PCB against the body.
US09964686B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of prism patterns disposed between a display panel and a light guide plate and having a shape of an inverted triangle, each of the plurality of prism patterns including a first pattern including a first side having a shape of an inverted triangle, which faces the display panel, a second side connecting one end of the first side to a vertex of the inverted triangle disposed under the first side, and a third side connecting the other end of the inverted triangle to the vertex and a second pattern having a refractive index less than that of the first pattern and disposed in the first groove that is defined in the second side to extend in a direction crossing the second side.
US09964680B2
The present disclosure describes luminescent solar concentrators that include photoluminescent nanoparticles. The photoluminescent nanoparticles include a semiconductor nanocrystal that sensitizes the luminescence of a defect. The defect can include, for example, an atom, a cluster of atoms, or a lattice vacancy. The defect can be incorporated into the semiconductor nanocrystal, adsorbed onto, or otherwise associated with the surface of the semiconductor nanocrystal.
US09964675B2
Disclosed are embodiments of photo-luminescent display systems and photo-luminescent visual elements creating eye-catching displays of visual advertising or marketing messages that are very effective at generating interest, engagement, and loyalty in the viewing public. Photo-luminescent pigment containing visual elements are illuminated by one or more remotely located emitters at a first wavelength that is outside the human visual spectrum. In response, the visual elements then radiate at one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum. Additional features control unwanted reflections and unwanted transmission of radiation at the first wavelength. Additional features control the uniformity of radiation of one or more wavelengths within the human visual spectrum.
US09964665B2
A gamma-ray spectrometer calibration system comprises a light guide, a photomultiplier tube, a laser, and analysis electronics. The light guide is optically coupled to the scintillation crystal, the laser and the photomultiplier tube, such that the laser can provide reference signals to the photomultiplier tube. In some embodiments, one or more temperature sensors are provided, such that the analysis electronics determine initial settings and adjust the initial settings based on the temperatures measured by the temperature sensors. Additional apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed.
US09964664B2
A method and sensing apparatus for elevators that detects an intrusion into a volume defined relative to a path across an opening. The sensing apparatus has a closure member for the opening that can be controllably displaced to define a gap in the opening. A first group of at least two emitters of electromagnetic signals located on either the closure member or a boundary member are directed into the volume and a second group of at least two receivers for electromagnetic signals located on the opposite side of the gap to the emitters. The method causes at least one of the emitters to emit a primary beam along a first axis into the volume, allows at least one of the receivers to receive a secondary beam of radiation, and enables one or more of the receivers to provide an output signal into the network.
US09964661B2
A determination device includes a geomagnetism value obtaining unit for obtaining a geomagnetism value detected with a geomagnetism sensor; and a geomagnetism value determining unit for determining a type of moving object among a plurality of types of moving objects according to the geomagnetism value obtained with the geomagnetism value obtaining unit.
US09964646B2
A method and apparatus for tracking the position of an aircraft. A tracking device comprises a satellite navigation system receiver, a satellite communications transceiver, and a processor hermetically sealed within a housing attached on an outside of the aircraft. The satellite navigation system receiver is used to identify the position of the aircraft using navigation signals received from a satellite navigation system. The processor generates position information identifying the position of the aircraft as identified using the navigation system receiver. The processor sends the position information to a receiving station via a communications satellite in a low Earth orbit using the satellite communications transceiver. The position information is automatically generated by the processor and sent to the receiving station at a desired rate.
US09964641B2
An object detection device includes: an object detection portion which detects an object around a vehicle; a support member by which the object detection portion is attached to the vehicle; and a cover member which is provided in at least one of the object detection portion and the support member and extends from the object detection portion side toward the outside of the vehicle, wherein the cover member includes a cover main body portion, a receiving portion which receives a load applied from the outside of the vehicle, and a first fragile portion which is provided between the cover main body portion and the receiving portion, wherein the support member includes a second fragile portion.
US09964637B1
A method for tracking an object of interest with a passive radar system using multiple radar sensors. The method includes the steps of receiving, with at least one controller, radar sensor characteristics and radar sensor locations data for a plurality of radar receivers occupying an area of interest. Data indicative of direct or reflected radar return signals from emitters of opportunity received by the plurality of radar receivers is also received at the controller. From this data, objects of interest are identified. The controller is configured to calculate optimized radar sensor parameters for the plurality of radar receivers for each identified object of interest, and transmit the same to the plurality of radar receivers for implementation. Radar return data received by the plurality of radar receivers using the optimized sensor parameters is provided to the central controller, and updated optimized sensor parameters according to the updated received radar return data are calculated.
US09964631B2
A radar apparatus includes: a transmission unit including a plurality of transmission antennas which are arranged at a predetermined transmission antenna interval, and configured to radiate a transmission signal using the plurality of transmission antennas; a reception unit including a plurality of reception antennas which are arranged at a predetermined reception antenna interval, and configured to receive a reception signal when the transmission signal is reflected by an object, through the plurality of reception antennas; and a signal processing unit configured to detect the object based on the reception signal received by the reception unit.
US09964628B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to joint compounds for sealing exterior sheathing wallboards applied on the exterior of buildings. This invention also relates to a process of preparing such exterior joint compounds. The joint compounds of this invention comprise an aqueous emulsion system and provide water resistance comparable to the substrate on which they are applied, that is, the exterior sheathing wallboards.
US09964627B1
A system and method detect direction of movement. The system includes at least two radio frequency identification (RFID) readers arranged in different locations. The RFID readers transmit respective location signals from their locations and receive corresponding response signals from a portable electronic device (PED) when the PED is within range to receive the corresponding location signals, respectively. The system includes a controller configured to determine whether the individual response signals received by the RFID readers respectively satisfy a predetermined condition at a first time and a second time after the first time. The controller is configured to determine a direction of movement of the PED relative to the locations of the RFID readers during the first and second times based on whether the response signals respectively satisfy the predetermined condition at the first and second times, and control operations of the PED based on the determined movement of the PED.
US09964620B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system (10) includes an angle indicator module (36), and a display device (40). The angle indicator module (36) adds at least one visual indicator (1) to an image (46) depicting a magic angle (2) orientation relative to a static magnetic B0 field (4) and the image (46), the image (46) reconstructed from magnetic resonance data received in the B0 field (4). The display device (40) displays (74) the image with the visual indicator. A magic angle is an angle of arccos (1/√3) relative to the static magnetic B0 field (4). Moreover, the visual indicator may indicate the likelihood of a magic angle artifact to the operator.
US09964616B2
Methods, apparatus, and other embodiments associated with producing a quantitative parameter map using magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) are described. One example apparatus includes a data store that stores a grouped set of MRF signal evolutions, including a group representative signal and a low-rank representative, a set of logics that collects a received signal evolution from a tissue experiencing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in response to an MRF excitation, a correlation logic that computes a correlation between a portion of the received signal evolution and a portion of a group representative signal, a pruning logic that generates a pruned grouped set, and a matching logic that determines matching quantitative parameters based on the received signal evolution and the low-rank representative.
US09964615B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). The method comprises the steps of: subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence for acquiring MR signal data, wherein the MR signal data are acquired as a function of k-space position and time by using an irregular k-space sampling pattern with sub-sampling of k-space; reconstructing MR image data from the MR signal data, which MR image data comprise spatial dimensions and a frequency dimension, sparsity of the MR image data in a transform domain being exploited for suppressing sub-sampling artefacts in the MR image data. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program.
US09964611B2
An NMR spectrometer (1′) has a sample changer (4′) with at least one cylindrical sample holder (7′, 7″) for receiving an elongated NMR sample at a loading position (5) and for transferring the NMR sample into the measurement volume at a transfer position (6). The sample holder is open in an upward direction and the cylinder axis of the cylindrical sample holder is inclined at the loading position by an angle of inclination a of between 30 and 60 degrees with respect to the vertical and it extends vertically at the transfer position. A positioning device is provided, which transfers the NMR sample at or after the transfer position into the measuring position in the measurement volume with a vertically aligned sample axis of the NMR sample. The spectrometer enables a more ergonomically favorable feed of the sample.
US09964600B2
A method of open-switch fault detection in a two-level voltage source power converter comprises the steps of: i. acquiring the waveforms of three-phase alternating current of the two-level voltage source power converter; ii. calculating at least a first time derivative of each acquired waveform; and iii. using the at least first time derivatives to determine whether an open-switch fault is present in the two-level voltage source power converter.
US09964595B2
A register circuit for which an initial value can be changed without using a flip-flop including both a set terminal and a reset terminal is provided. The register circuit includes an initial value wiring line, a write signal terminal, a clock signal terminal, a first flip-flop, an output control circuit, a second flip-flop, and a selector.
US09964594B2
A test architecture accesses IP core test wrappers within an IC using a Link Instruction Register (LIR). An IEEE P1500 standard is in development for providing test access to these individual cores via a test structure called a wrapper. The wrapper resides at the boundary of the core and provides a way to test the core and the interconnections between cores. The test architecture enables each of the plural wrappers in the IC, including wrappers in cores embedded within other cores, with separate enable signals.
US09964591B2
A method and circuit are provided for implementing enhanced scan data testing for test time reduction and decreased scan data interdependence with on product multiple input signature register (OPMISR++) testing, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides. A respective Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator (PRPG) provides channel input patterns to a respective associated scan channel used for the OPMISR++ diagnostics. Control inputs are coupled to the Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator (PRPG) providing PRPG control distribution. The PRPG selectively provides controlled channel input patterns for the respective scan channel responsive to the control inputs.
US09964587B2
A semiconductor structure includes at least two via chains. Each via chain includes at least one first conductive component, at least one second conductive component and at least one via. The first conductive component has an axis along an extending direction of the first conductive component. The via connects the first conductive component to the second conductive component. The via has a center defining a shift distance from the axis of the first conductive component. The shift distances of the via chains are different. A testing method using such a semiconductor structure includes drawing a resistance-shift distance diagram illustrating a relationship between the resistances of the via chains and the shift distances of the via chains. At least one dimensional feature is obtained from the resistance-shift distance diagram.
US09964584B2
A method for manufacturing a display device including a light-emitting pixel and a drive transistor that drives the light-emitting pixel using current, includes: (a) placing the display device in a light-emitting state; (b) placing the display device in a no-light-emitting state after (a); (c) leaving the display device in the non-light-emitting state for a predetermined period; (d) placing the display device in the light-emitting state again after (c); and (e) start measuring luminance of the display device at a start of (d).
US09964578B1
A car circuit tester that detects circuit is revealed. The car circuit tester is applied to circuit system and devices of cars for selective measurement of voltage and temperature. The car circuit tester includes a main machine, a sensing part, a processor and a screen. The processor is connected to screen circuit and circuit of the sensing part. The sensing part is in direct contact with an object to be detected and used for inputting voltage signals or temperature signals to the processor. After receiving the signals, the processor outputs parameters to the screen. The parameters are shown on or played through the screen.
US09964573B2
A characteristic impedance of an electric transmission line is measured by way of extraction. In the method, a first probe and a second probe are provided, wherein the first probe and the second probe are separable and independently operable probes. A first characteristic impedance of a first circuit where a first terminal of the first probe and a first terminal of the second probe are directly interconnected to each other is first measured. Then a second characteristic impedance of a second circuit where the first terminal of the first probe and the first terminal of the second probe are connected to opposite terminals of the electric transmission line, respectively, is measured. The characteristic impedance of the electric transmission line can then be obtained according to the first characteristic impedance and the second characteristic impedance.
US09964571B2
A directional coupler is configured to provide a forward and/or a backward signal derived from a high-frequency signal. The directional coupler comprises a coupling element coupled to a main line, wherein the main line is configured to transport the high frequency signal. The directional coupler further comprises a signal line connecting the coupling element to a measuring port. The signal line comprises a defected ground structure inserted between the coupling element and the measuring port.
US09964565B2
A detector for detecting at least one electric quantity in an electric conductor, and an overhead network for distributing electricity. The detector includes a frame on which a mechanism is fixed, the mechanism including a magnetic toroid, divided into two branches rotatable around an axis defined by the frame, between a separated position and a position closed around the electric conductor, a current sensor, divided into two branches rotatable around an axis defined by the frame, between a separated position and a position closed around the electric conductor, the current sensor performing an AC current measurement, a force transmitting element transmitting a rotational force to the magnetic toroid and the current sensor, the element being provided with at least one portion to receive the conductor by bearing, and a first clamp including two clamp arms, and a second clamp including two clamp arms.
US09964564B2
A sensor for measuring current in a conductor has a substrate in the form of a stratified plate having a first metallization layer, a second metallization layer and an isolation layer between the first metallization layer and the second metallization layer, the substrate having a coil that winds along a coil axis parallel to the first metallization layer, having at least one winding. Each winding has a first track in the first metallization layer connected by a via through the first isolation layer to a second track in the second metallization layer, and the substrate has a measurer to measure the current in the coil, and having at least one winding only winding around non-magnetic material.
US09964557B2
A system and a method for slug edge detection in a microchannel of a microfluidic device is provided. Specifically, the system comprises an image sensor in communication with the microchannel. The microchannel has at least two fluid slugs each of which has a marker of different color providing color gradient across the edge between the adjacent fluid slugs. An edge score function is generated for each channel segmentation dividing the microchannel into two segments at a specific location along the microchannel. The edge score function is proportional to a between class variance for intensity values associated with the two selected channel segments. The edge location is determined as the location along the channel defining one of the channel segmentations based at least in part on the edge score function.
US09964553B2
A blood testing apparatus includes a loader configured to receive a test medium, the test medium including a test object to be tested; a controller configured to perform control to operate the loader to receive the test medium in response to receiving an input of a trigger signal indicating a test start in an emergency mode; a display configured to display a user interface screen indicating the emergency mode; and an analyzer configured to automatically start analysis of the test object under the control of the controller when the test medium is received.
US09964551B2
Optimized affinity reagent compositions for binding paclitaxel, such as antibodies, antibody fragments, and antibody derivatives, related methods of use, and related kits, are provided herein. Affinity reagents that comprise one or more complementary determining regions (CDRs) optimized from anti-paclitaxel antibodies antibody 8A10 and 3C6 are specifically provided. The disclosed affinity reagents are useful for binding and detecting paclitaxel in a sample, such as for determining or optimizing future doses of paclitaxel in a subject that was previously administered with paclitaxel.
US09964545B2
A method for identifying a polypeptide a specimen can include (i) treating a specimen suspected of including an insulin with a base; (ii) extracting a first fraction of the treated specimen by solid phase extraction using a mixed mode or polymeric reversed-phase media and a first solvent including an acid; (iii) separating a component of the first fraction by liquid chromatography using a chromatographic surface including a hydrophobic surface group and one or more ionizable modifiers, and a second solvent including an acid; and (iv) analyzing the component of the first fraction by mass spectroscopy, thereby identifying the polypeptide, if present, using a signal corresponding to a sequence fragment ion from the polypeptide. The signal can correspond to an intact multiply charged precursor fragment selected in a first quadrupole and its corresponding sequence fragment ion selected in a final quadrupole.
US09964528B2
The invention relates to the use of nanoparticles of at least one oxide of at least one transition metal doped with a rare earth element, particularly YxVO4Eu1-x nanoparticles obtained through a sol-gel process, as a sensitive material in a chemical sensor for detecting peroxide-compound vapors. The material is used in a liquid process, in a spray of the initial sol, or in a solid thin film after being deposited on a substrate. The inorganic, fluorescent character of the nanoparticles makes it possible to obtain a sensitive material for an optical sensor that has good performance stability over time. The intended uses are the detection of explosives or explosive precursors, particularly peroxides, the control or monitoring of atmospheric pollution and ambient-air quality, and the monitoring of industrial sites.
US09964522B2
A component inspection apparatus and a method for ultrasonic inspection of a component, including low pressure last stage steam turbine blades, are disclosed. The apparatus includes a guide member, a guide adapting member and scanning probes. The guide member includes a first surface and a distal second surface. The first surface is configured to adaptably mirror the shape of portions of the component to be inspected. The guide adapting member is capable of releasably attaching the second surface of the guide member. to be changeable as per the shape of the component. The scanning probes may be located on the guide adapting member in a manner configured to be movable along the second surface of the guide member to generate and receive ultrasonic waves used to inspect the component.
US09964508B2
A water vapor sensor comprises a substrate and a film of carbon nanotubes impregnated with surfactant on the substrate. The substrate is of material which is inert relative to the film. Two or more electrical conductors are in contact with in spaced apart zones of the film, whereby the impedance of the film may be measured. The sensor is housed in housing which protects the sensor but also allows exposure of the film to water vapor.
US09964496B2
The invention relates to a method for the quality assessment of a component produced by means of an additive manufacturing method. In the course of the method, it is checked first of all whether the component violates predetermined absolute limits in order to rule out the existence of serious malfunctions in the additive manufacturing process. Subsequently, a component-dependent targeting process is determined. On the basis of this targeting process, the limits for deviations are established and deviating actual values of the component are isolated and assessed by means of various parameters.
US09964495B1
Near-field spray characteristics are established from local measurements which are acquired by data acquisition sub-system capable of complete scanning of the area (volume) of interest in the spray which uses different laser-based probes (shadowgraphy, PIV, diffraction) to obtain drops related measurements. A mechanical patternator measures volume flux distribution of the spray under study. The measurement data are post-processed to obtain spatially-resolved spray characteristics which are mapped in a spherical coordinate system consistent with the kinematics of the spray. A data compression scheme is used to generate compact analytical functions describing the nozzle spray based on the measurement data. These analytical functions may be useful for initiating the nozzle spray in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) based spray dispersion and fire suppression modeling.
US09964491B2
An exemplary sensor chip includes a substrate, a metal pattern formed on a side of the substrate that is irradiated with excitation light, and a first substance and a second substance provided near the metal pattern. A first intensity Xa of the first surface-enhanced Raman-scattered light from the first substance and a second intensity Xb of the second surface-enhanced Raman-scattered light from the second substance are detected. An intensity ratio Xc, as obtained by dividing the second intensity Xb with the first intensity Xa, is calculated.
US09964490B2
The present invention relates to devices and methods for measuring the quantity of multiple analytes in a sample. The device is designed such that each of the analyte sensing elements is configured to measure the quantity of a predetermined analyte and where the machine executable instructions are configured to select the proper analyte sensing element corresponding to the analyte to be measured.
US09964488B2
A method is provided for verifying the authenticity of an article which bears a security mark. The method includes irradiating the security mark with a time-varying light source, ascertaining at least one portion of the emissions spectrum of the irradiated security mark with at least one photodetector, determining the photoluminescence lifetime of the security mark by monitoring the time or frequency response of the photodetector, and verifying the authenticity of the article only if the security mark exhibits a photoluminescence which has a lifetime that falls within the range of appropriate values for each portion of the photoluminescence spectrum for which the photoluminescence lifetime of said security mark was ascertained.
US09964487B2
The invention relates to a detection apparatus (1) for detecting particles on or close to a particles detection surface (5) in a first optical detection mode and in a second optical detection mode, wherein a component of a light detection system (8) and/or a component of an optical system (9) of the detection apparatus is arranged to be used in the first detection mode and in the second detection mode. Since a component of the light detection system and/or a component of the optical system is arranged to be used in the first detection mode and in the second detection mode, this component does not need to be provided twice, i.e. for being used in the first detection mode and for being used in the second detection mode. This can lead to a reduced number of components and can make the detection apparatus technically less complex.
US09964483B2
A low-temperature safe sensor package. The package includes a housing having an internal cavity, an inlet port in communication with the internal cavity and a fluid source, and an outlet port in communication with the internal cavity. A sensor carrier is moveably arranged within the internal cavity. A spring element is arranged between the sensor carrier and a portion of the housing for biasing the sensor carrier into an operating position within the internal cavity.
US09964478B2
A destructive inspection method of a vitreous silica crucible for pulling a silicon single crystal evaluates a crack state of an inner surface of the vitreous silica crucible supported by a graphite susceptor when a load is instantaneously applied to at least one point on the inner surface via an automatic center punch while pushing the tip portion of the automatic center punch against the inner surface. The destructive inspection method can inspect the vitreous silica crucible under conditions as close to the actual conditions of use as possible.
US09964474B2
A process for capturing or concentrating microorganisms for detection or assay comprises (a) providing a concentration device comprising a sintered porous polymer matrix comprising at least one concentration agent that comprises diatomaceous earth bearing, on at least a portion of its surface, a surface treatment comprising a surface modifier comprising ferric oxide, titanium dioxide, fine-nanoscale gold or platinum, or a combination thereof; (b) providing a sample comprising at least one microorganism strain; and (c) contacting the concentration device with the sample such that at least a portion of the at least one microorganism strain is bound to or captured by the concentration device.
US09964473B2
A method of removing a floatation liquid from between a microscope slide and a paraffin embedded biological specimen including position the microscope slide with the paraffin embedded biological specimen floated thereon onto a slide support element. The slide support element is rotated to cause the microscope slide and the paraffin embedded biological specimen to move in a way that causes the floatation liquid disposed between the microscope slide and the paraffin embedded biological specimen to be removed from between the microscope slide and the paraffin embedded biological specimen.
US09964470B2
Methods and apparatus for determining indoor air contaminant levels independent of outdoor contaminant levels. In one embodiment, an infinite geometric series is used to compute a true indoor air contaminant level in a room.
US09964462B2
A flexible sheet-type leak sensor device according to the present invention comprises: a flexible base sheet made of a non-conductive fluorine-based synthetic resin comprising ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE); conductive lines formed on a surface of the base sheet so as to have a predetermined pattern and so as not to meet or cross each other, the conductive lines being formed by depositing on the base sheet surface a carbon black-containing, conductive fluorine-based synthetic resin comprising ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE); and a conductive material composed of pure carbon black, formed at the bottom of the conductive lines.
US09964456B2
A system is provided for determining total exerted power value that is determined based on power measured at only one side of a bicycle by determining a side-to-side pedaling power asymmetry and estimating the total exerted power as a function of values of the one-sided power measurement and the side-to-side pedaling power asymmetry.
US09964442B2
A terahertz spectrometer includes: a terahertz-wave emitter and a terahertz receiver elements. The terahertz wave generated by means of generating beat frequency corresponding to the difference between two rapidly tunable continuous wave lasers. Having a difference in time between the interrogating signal and the reference signal at the receiver end side, which corresponds to intermediate frequency (IF), not centered around the baseband, i.e. zero Hertz. The offset step size of the intermediate frequency from zero Hertz is linearly correlated to the position of the interrogated object position.
US09964432B2
Method and system for measuring vibration in two or three directions in objects (12) by using three illumination light beams (11A-C) for measurement of in-plane vibrations in two directions, where one of the three illumination light beams (11A-C) is common for the two in-plane measurements, and where the three illumination light beams (11A-C) are configured to provide free space at one side of the object (12) for easier access to the object. The method and system is further arranged for using two illumination light beams (30A-B) for measuring vibrations in the object (12) in a third direction, which third direction is out-of-plane direction, where one illumination light beam (30A) is illuminating the object (12) through an imaging objective (16) and one illumination light beam (30B) is used as reference beam.
US09964431B1
The various technologies presented herein relate to extracting a portion of each pulse in a series of pulses reflected from a target to facilitate determination of a Doppler-shifted frequency for each pulse and, subsequently, a vibration frequency for the series of pulses. Each pulse can have a square-wave configuration, whereby each pulse can be time-gated to facilitate discarding the leading edge and the trailing edge (and associated non-linear effects) of each pulse and accordingly, capture of the central portion of the pulse from which the Doppler-shifted frequency, and ultimately, the vibration frequency of the target can be determined. Determination of the vibration velocity facilitates identification of the target being in a state of motion. The plurality of pulses can be formed from a laser beam (e.g., a continuous wave), the laser beam having a narrow bandwidth.
US09964424B2
Provided are a laser-welded structure and a laser welding method for a cover and a housing ensuring high reliability and suppressing changes in characteristics due to burrs protruding into a subpassage of the flow sensor. To this end, this flow sensor is provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber sealed between these and housing electronic components or wiring, and a subpassage through which the fluid flows that is to be sensed, and is characterized in that there are projections provided on both ends of the joining section of the cover where the housing and the cover are laser-welded, and the height of the projection on the subpassage side is greater than the height of the projection on the side opposite of the subpassage.
US09964421B1
An fluid flow rate measuring device preferably includes an airfoil, a differential pressure sensor and a programmable electronic controller. The airfoil includes a leading edge, a first pressure chamber, a second pressure chamber, and a trailing edge. At least one first hole is formed through the first pressure chamber. At least one second hole is formed through the second pressure chamber adjacent the trailing edge. The at least one first hole communicates with the first pressure chamber. The at least one second hole communicates with the second pressure chamber. The first and second pressure chambers are connected to first and second input ports of the differential pressure sensor. The differential pressure sensor outputs a voltage to the programmable electronic controller. The programmable electronic controller takes a square root of the differential pressure and multiplies it by a K factor to produce an fluid flow rate in CFM.
US09964417B2
Calibration device and calibration method for calibration of a laser beam horizontal trueness testing device whereby the calibration device comprises an elongated support body for support of an elongated laser housing with a longitudinal axis and a laser source, whereby a laser beam is emittable in a direction of the longitudinal axis. According to the calibration method, calibration parameters are determined based on at least three impinging positions of the laser beam of the laser housing for at least two different rotational positions of the laser housing in a first face and at least one position of the laser housing in a second opposing face.
US09964416B2
Various embodiments may include methods and systems for locating health facilities based on a cost of healthcare. Information may be received identifying a source for receiving health service cost information. Further, vehicle user insurance information may be transmitted to obtain health service cost information. The health service cost information may be received from the identified source and presented at a vehicle computer. The identified source may include information by or from a health facilities and/or information from one or more members of the public.
US09964409B1
A method of creating a local map includes: receiving, at a mobile electronic data processing apparatus, a request from a server to generate a map of a specified destination; sending to the server a message accepting the request to generate the map responsive to receiving, at a user input of the mobile electronic data processing device, a user command indicating acceptance of the request; generating, using a processor, information related to construction of the map; an transmitting, from the mobile electronic data processing apparatus, the information related to construction of the map.
US09964407B2
A leveling device having at least one opening that houses a leveling vial and having a channel formed from a working surface, where at least one magnet and at least one spacer are retained in the channel.
US09964400B1
An apparatus, method, and system for height-measurement are provided. The apparatus, and method includes initiating, and calibrating a height-measuring-device to capture and store a one-time calibration-mode distance. Then, in operation-mode, a foot-platform connected to a retractable-tape is pulled atop an object/user. Electronic signals from a laser-device are generated as a means to measure both calibration-mode and operation-mode distances. These distances are then resolved and stored as a height-measurement for a user/object, and the resulting height-measurement is displayed on a screen.The height-measurement data from each object/user are compared to one another. The height-measuring-device also includes a predictive algorithm that determines the future height of users.
US09964397B2
The invention provides for generating a set of signature signals that correspond to a range of depths within a target. These signature signals can include multiple individual reference signals and be can modified to compensate for specific characteristics of the target. In the preferred embodiment the members of the set of signature signals are correlated with data sets by phase rotating individual reference signals to determine maximum and minimum correlation and thereby enabling determination of the scattering characteristic of the target at each depth. Also a pilot signal is monitored to dynamically determine the phase relationship between individual reference signals and thereby avail of phase sensitive detection techniques to enhance SNR at deeper regions where multiple individual reference signals exist.
US09964395B2
A position indicator includes a resonant circuit configured to receive electromagnetic waves transmitted intermittently from a position detection device with a first duration and a second duration. The second duration is shorter than the first duration. The position indicator also includes a load resistance value control circuit configured to control a load resistance of the resonant circuit such that different values of the load resistance are set for the first duration and the second duration. A value of the load resistance set for the second duration is smaller than a value of the load resistance set for the first duration.
US09964391B2
A method for automatically receiving a sensor head of a coordinate measuring machine. The sensor head comprises a first changing interface for coupling the sensor head with a carrier structure of the coordinate measuring machine, and a second changing interface for coupling a cable element with the carrier structure. The second changing interface of the sensor head is arranged on an end of the cable element distal to the sensor head, and is spatially separated from the first changing interface. The sensor head is initially provided in a magazine location of the coordinate measuring machine. The sensor head is received with the first changing interface in a first receiver of the magazine location, and the second changing interface is received in a second receiver of the magazine location.
US09964389B2
A device for measuring a workpiece surface along an X-axis, the measured surface residing generally within an X-Y plane. The measuring device has a ring body supported on a pivot body for pivoting in a limited angular range about a pivot axis spaced from and substantially parallel to the X-axis. The measuring device also has a base fixed in the direction of the Y-axis and a ring body supported on the base for limited movement relative to the base in a direction substantially parallel to the Y-axis. A measurement wheel is rotatable about an axis of rotation defined by the ring body and rolls along the workpiece surface when the workpiece and the measurement device move relative to one another in the direction of the X-axis.
US09964363B2
Technologies provide a heat pipe having a controlled torque resistance. The techniques disclosed herein provide a heat pipe that can function as a coupling device and as a thermal interface between two moving components of a device without the need of a mechanical hinge. In some configurations, a heat pipe comprises a housing having an outer surface and having an inner surface defining a cavity. The heat pipe can also comprise one or more components for transferring heat from a first region to a second region. In addition, the heat pipe is configured to provide a predetermined torque resistance about a first axis that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the heat pipe. Components, such as a heat source and a heat sink, that are attached to the heat pipe can be hingeably coupled with a predetermined torque resistance without requiring a hinge and a separate thermal interface device.
US09964362B2
A thermosyphon heat exchanger includes a plurality of first conduit elements and a plurality of second conduit elements. Each first conduit element has a heat absorbing portion defining a first plane and a first fluid transfer portion defining a second plane. The first plane and the second plane are twisted relative to each other. Each second conduit element has a heat releasing portion and a second fluid transfer portion or a connection to a fluid return line. At least one first conduit element and at least one second conduit element are connected to each other such that the fluid in the thermosyphon heat exchanger can flow in a closed loop through said first conduit element and said second conduit element.
US09964355B2
Improved methods for preparing highly porous mesh media and loading functional particles into the media are described herein. The highly porous media can be used as supports for catalyst materials for a variety of applications, such as desulfurization. Pre-manufactured catalyst can be loaded into the sintered open media. Thus, the contamination issues associated wetlay paper making and pre-oxidation, the deactivation issues associated with the sintering and pre-oxidation steps, and the corrosion issues associated with the catalyst formation step can be avoided. The methods described herein result in the formation of highly porous media with functional particles immobilized inside.
US09964348B2
A system includes a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, and a controller. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of a refrigerant at a compressor. The compressor receives the refrigerant from a second compressor. The pressure sensor measures a pressure of the refrigerant at the compressor. The controller receives one or more of the measured temperature and the measured pressure and determines that one or more of the measured temperature and the measured pressure exceed a threshold. In response to that determination, the controller actuates a pulse valve coupled to a liquid injection line. The pulse valve controls the flow of a liquid refrigerant from a flash tank through the liquid injection line to mix with the refrigerant at the compressor.
US09964346B2
A space conditioning system includes a hot gas reheat section and one or more modulating valves to direct a percentage of refrigerant flow to the hot gas reheat section. The hot gas reheat section includes multiple refrigerant circuits arranged in parallel. A control valve is used to allow the refrigerant to flow through selected ones of the multiple refrigerant circuits in response to the percentage of refrigerant flow directed to the hot gas reheat section, thereby varying the internal volume of the hot gas reheat section available to the refrigerant. Refrigerant charge hold-up within the hot gas reheat section can thereby be minimized.
US09964342B2
An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a machine chamber in which a compressor serving as a vibration source and at least two refrigerant-circuit components and are provided. One of the refrigerant-circuit components and is provided with an elastic tab while an other refrigerant-circuit component or is provided with a catching portion that is engageable with the elastic tab. The refrigerant-circuit components and are brought into close contact with each other by the elastic tab and the catching portion.
US09964337B2
A closed loop fluid thermosiphon that uses solar energy to progressively boost the air temperature passing through it and comprises a heat sink segment capable of absorbing energy from the sun and a heat exchange segment that transfers energy to the air passing through the heat exchange and progressively boosts the air's temperature that is capable of being either used independently with other passive solar elements, as part of a solar energy system, or in combination with active solar elements, as part of a hybrid solar energy system.
US09964334B2
A method of determining presence of a flame in a furnace of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The method comprises determining, using a controller, whether a processor signal (G) is active, responsive to a determination that the processor signal (G) is active, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of a flame-test input control signal, an output state of a first comparator, responsive to a determination that the output state of the first comparator is high, determining, using the controller prior to assertion of the flame-test input control signal, an output state of a second comparator, and responsive to a determination that the output state of the second comparator is low, transmitting, using the controller, a notification that a flame is present.
US09964332B2
A vaporization system for liquid precursor includes a bubbler portion configured to store liquid precursor and to supply carrier gas into the liquid precursor to vaporize the liquid precursor to generate vaporized precursor. A baffle portion is arranged in fluid communication with the bubbler portion and includes N heated baffles, where N is an integer greater than or equal to one. The vaporized precursor generated by the bubbler portion passes through the N heated baffles before flowing to a substrate processing system.
US09964331B2
The present invention relates to an instantaneous heater, comprising a heating assembly, wherein the heating assembly includes a heating element, a first shell, a first inlet tube, a first water outlet, a hot water cavity, a cold water cavity and a capillary tube, the hot water cavity is in the first shell, the heating element is in the hot water cavity, the hot water cavity communicates with the cold water cavity, the first inlet tube communicates with the cold water cavity, the first water outlet is on the top of the first shell and communicates with the hot water cavity, the capillary tube is in the cold water cavity, one end of the capillary tube communicates with the hot water cavity and the other end communicates with the outside of the first shell. The instantaneous heater boasts simple structure, low cost and effective prevention of vapor from rapidly erupting.
US09964329B2
A 6-way valve (20) comprises two similar 3-way sub-valves (20a, 20b) being mechanically coupled with each other, such that both sub-valves (20a, 20b) are always in the same position, whereby each sub-valve (20a, 20b) has three different valve ports (33, 34, 35) and a valve member (22′) with an internal connecting channel (29), which valve member (22′) can moved between first and second end positions via an intermediate position such that in said first end position the first (33) and third (35) valve ports are connected with each other by means of said connecting channel (29), in said second end position the second (34) and third (35) valve ports are connected with each other by means of said connecting channel (29), and in said intermediate position said connecting channel (29) is disconnected from said first and second valve ports (33, 34).A simple and effective volume/pressure relief means (28) is provided at one of said valve members (22′), which volume/pressure relief means (28) establishes a hydraulic relief connection between said first or second valve port (33, 34) and said third valve port (35) of the respective sub-valve (20a or 20b), when said sub-valves (20a, 20b) are in said intermediate position, and is inactive, when said sub-valves (20a, 20b) are in the first or second end positions.
US09964328B2
A thermostat includes a housing, a touch-sensitive display configured to display visual media and receive user inputs, and processing electronics configured to operate the touch-sensitive display. The housing includes a base and a display mount. The base includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall connecting the top wall to the bottom wall, a first side wall connecting the top wall to the bottom wall, and a second side wall connecting the top wall to the bottom wall. The top wall, the bottom wall, the first side wall, and the second side wall define an internal volume. The display mount is cantilevered upward from the top wall and includes a mounting surface perpendicular to the top wall of the base. The housing is not opaque. The display is attached to the mounting surface and is not opaque. The processing electronics are positioned within the interior volume.
US09964323B2
In some embodiments, a system for operating an HVAC control network includes a first control unit communicatively coupled to a first plurality of HVAC units and a first interactive display, the first control unit further comprising a software access point (softAP). A second control unit, the second control unit communicatively coupled to a second plurality of HVAC units and a second interactive display. The second control unit may include a push button. The second control unit may connect to the first control unit to create an HVAC control network using a Wi-Fi direct protocol by invoking a Wi-Fi direct, push button configuration protocol in response to detecting that the push button has been depressed. The first control unit may control the second plurality of HVAC units over the HVAC control network in response to the second control unit connecting to the first control unit.
