US10177840B2
A communication apparatus configured to communicate with a router included in a first network and a multiplexer that multiplexes a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths transmitted from the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus comprising a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit and receive a first signal to and from the router, transmit and receive a second signal to and from another communication apparatus in a second network through the multiplexer, the second signal having a transmission scheme different from the first signal, mutually convert the first signal and the second signal with each other, detect a first communication disabled state between the another communication apparatus and the communication apparatus, and transmit, to the router, a first detection signal for detecting adjacency relationship between the communication apparatus and the router when the first communication disabled state is detected.
US10177838B2
The systems and processes described herein can reduce the footprint of the internal devices of a wireless device by combining the DC-DC supply regulator with a FEM. Further, the device footprint can be further reduced by sharing the integrated DC-DC supply regulator among multiple FEMs reducing or eliminating the use of a separate DC-DC supply regulator for each FEM of a wireless device. Moreover, in certain embodiments, by integrating the DC-DC supply regulator into a 2G FEM, power efficiency can be improved for some wireless devices. For example, the DC-DC supply regulator may be used to supply power to a PA used for high-band 2G transmission functions. Using the DC-DC supply regulator can improve power efficiency compared to systems that supply the power for the high-band 2G PA directly from the power supply (e.g., the battery).
US10177835B2
An adaptive interference cancellation apparatus for cancelling a side lobe between neighboring cells installed in a repeater and capable of improving quality of a communication signal and preventing frequent handover by maintaining a serving base station signal among repeater signals and cancelling an interference signal from a neighboring cell is provided. The adaptive interference cancellation apparatus for a side lobe between neighboring cells, which is installed in a mobile communication repeater system comprising an omni-directional antenna, includes: three directional antennas installed around the omni-directional antenna; an output signal selector configured to select and output two of three directional antenna incident signals; and an adaptive noise canceller configured to adaptively filter the two directional antenna incident signals output from the output signal selector, estimate a noise reference signal, and extract a serving base station signal by subtracting the estimated noise reference signal from an omni-directional antenna incident signal.
US10177833B2
Systems and methods for capture, recording, and regeneration of subtle energy resonance signals are described herein. A system for capturing and recording the signals may include an antenna array disposed within an electromagnetic shield, a signal processor, and a memory coupled to at least one processor. The antenna array may include at least one antenna comprising a conductive disk and an amplifier circuit board, the antenna array detecting and receiving subtle energy resonance signals from a source. The signal processor converts the analog signals into digital signals, which are then stored into the memory. The electromagnetic shield houses the antenna array and minimizes electromagnetic interference with the received signal. Such a controlled environment ensures the purity of the recorded subtle energy resonance signals for regeneration. Regeneration is accomplished with a second antenna coupled to a digital regeneration device for short-range broadcasting, affecting manifestations of subtle energy resonance in a subject.
US10177831B2
A particular communications protocol is used for antenna training to accomplish directional communications in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, pertinent information for various requests, responses, and status reports, is included in information elements.
US10177829B2
When wireless communication is performed, a signal can be formed into a spiral beam (H), the spiral pitch of the signal can be changed, and a plurality of spiral beams (H) with different spiral pitches can be transmitted and received. A wireless signal transmitting antenna (10) includes a signal emitting means (A) having N number of antenna elements (A1, . . . , AN) (where N is an integer satisfying N≥2) equally spaced on a circumference of circle, and a signal distribution means (B) for generating, from an input first signal (S), N number of second signals (G1, . . . , GN) having a phase difference from one another and outputting the N number of second signals (G1, . . . , GN) to the N number of antenna elements (A1, . . . , AN), respectively, so that a spiral beam (H) with the equiphase surface inclined spirally is output from the signal emitting means (A).
US10177823B2
Provided is an antenna control technique for forming the boundary of a communication area at a desired location. An antenna parameter control apparatus 2 calculates an antenna parameter in a case of feeding electric currents with an equal intensity in mutually reverse directions to two antennas 1A, 1B which generate a magnetic field. The antenna parameter control apparatus 2 includes an input parameter acquisition unit 21 that acquires input parameters for calculating the antenna parameter; and a parameter calculation unit 22 that calculates an inter-center distance d between the antennas 1A, 1B as the antenna parameter based on the input parameters.
US10177818B2
Provided is a device for transmitting wireless power. The wireless power transmitting device includes a communication unit, a power receiving unit, and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain, through the communication unit, communication establishment information and location information associated with a wireless charging area from a tag device, establish, through the communication unit, communication with a wireless power transmitting device based on the communication establishment information, and control to transmit the location information to the wireless power transmitting device. The power receiving unit wirelessly receives the power from the wireless power transmitting device after the communication unit transmits the location information.
US10177813B1
A method and a device are disclosed including a PLC node having a synchronizer, a modem with a transceiver, and a computing device coupled with a power line for power line data communications. In various embodiments, a coordinator or Data Concentrator Unit (DCU) coordinates the communication of PLC nodes. The PLC nodes are configured to detect a zero crossing of the power line wave form and transmit or receive data within time slots defined with respect to the detected zero crossing. In other embodiments, the time slots may be synchronized using a frame sync signal, an external signal, or polling. In various embodiments, the time slots may be random access or assigned. In some embodiments, the modem and/or node may be placed in a sleep mode when not communicating to reduce power consumption and be awaken when an allocated time slot is approaching.
US10177810B2
Embodiments described herein provide echo cancellation power saving management at a cable transceiver. An echo response signal having a first number of signal components is obtained, via an echo cancellation filter. At a first iteration for calculating a first accumulative echo power, a respective echo tap that corresponds to the first iteration is identified. The first accumulative echo power is calculated for the respective iteration by summing powers of outputs from a last echo tap to the respective echo tap. It is then determined whether the first accumulative echo power, exceeds a pre-determined echo power threshold. If the first accumulative echo power exceeds the pre-determined echo power threshold, a first turn-off indication is sent to the echo cancellation filter to turn off all echo taps including and between the last echo tap to the first echo tap.
US10177805B2
A method and an apparatus for tuning an FIR filter in an in-band full duplex transceiver. The method for tuning an FIR filter includes: converting an input signal of the FIR filter into a first signal that is a baseband signal; converting a signal obtained by subtracting an output signal of the FIR filter from the self-transmitted interference signal into a second signal that is the baseband signal; and calculating attenuation of the FIR filter using the first signal and the second signal.
US10177804B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to an electronic device protection module configured with a casing adapted to cushion and removably retain the electronic device, a bi-fold component mechanically coupled with the casing, and a releasable electronic device accessory pouch attaching receptacle disposed in the bi-fold component. In an illustrative example, the electronic device may be a smartphone. The casing may be, for example, elastically deformable, cushioning the smartphone against impact. In some examples, the casing may be configured with openings or buttons to enable device operation. In some designs, the bi-fold component may be configured with pockets adapted to secure currency or cards. In some embodiments, the attaching receptacle may releasably attach an accessory pouch to the bi-fold component. Various examples may advantageously provide portable device protection and enhanced access to the user's device accessories, for example, protecting the user's device and storing the user's accessories in the accessory pouch.
US10177795B1
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure provide approaches for mapping entries to a cache using a function, such as cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The function can calculate a colored cache index based on a main memory address. The function may cause consecutive address cache indexes to be spread throughout the cache according to the indexes calculated by the function. In some embodiments, each data context may be associated with a different function, enabling different types of packets to be processed while sharing the same cache, reducing evictions of other data contexts and improving performance. Various embodiments can identify a type of packet as the packet is received, and lookup a mapping function based on the type of packet. The function can then be used to lookup the corresponding data context for the packet from the cache, for processing the packet.
US10177793B2
Apparatuses and methods for performing an error correction code (ECC) operation are provided. One example method can include generating a codeword based on a number of low density parity check (LDPC) codewords failing a LDPC decoding operation and performing a BCH decoding operation on the codeword.
US10177792B2
A method of encoding a bitstream includes obtaining at least one current input word of the bitstream to encode, determining at least one nominal codeword associated with the at least one input word according to an error-control code, selecting one of the at least one nominal codeword or a substitute codeword in order to keep a current running digital sum and/or a running alternate sum bounded, and outputting an encoded word comprising the selected codeword. Embodiments make it possible to generate an encoded bitstream which is “DC free” and “Nyquist free” while providing error correction with a fixed coding rate.
US10177791B1
An apparatus may include a circuit that performs one or more read and recovery operations for one or more data segments including updating an outer code syndrome for one or more recovered data segments recovered by the one or more read and recovery operations and preventing updates of the outer code syndrome for one or more failed data segments not recovered by the one or more read and recovery operations.
US10177790B2
A bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 5/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 64-symbol mapping.
US10177781B2
A method includes selectively coupling first and second input nodes of a capacitive bridge to first and second voltages, respectively, and selectively coupling first and second output nodes of the capacitive bridge to first and second output terminals, respectively, during a first phase of a clock cycle. The method further includes selectively coupling the first and second input nodes to the second and first voltages, respectively, and selectively coupling the first and second output nodes to the second and first output terminals, respectively, during a second phase of the clock cycle.
US10177780B2
In the conventional technique, only an output having a bandwidth identical to the bandwidth of individual DACs has been obtained even by using a plurality of DACs. Also, even when the output of a bandwidth broader than the individual DAC is obtained, there has been a problem associated with asymmetricity of a circuit configuration. In a signal generating device of the present invention, a plurality of normal DACs are combined to realize an analog output of a broader bandwidth beyond the output bandwidth of the individual DACs, and the problem of the asymmetricity of the circuit configuration is also resolved. A desired signal is separated into a low-frequency signal and a high-frequency signal in a frequency domain, and a series of operation of constant (r)-folding the amplitude of the high-frequency signal and shifting it on the frequency axis to superimpose it on the low-frequency signal are made in a digital domain. The output of each DAC is switched by an analog multiplexer.
US10177778B2
An apparatus comprising M time-interleaved analog to digital converters (ADC) that sample an input signal at M sampling phases, wherein M is equal to or greater than 4. A phase control circuit adjusts at least M−1 sampling phases of the M sampling phases. The phase control circuit comprises M−1 phase error detector circuits. Each phase error detector circuit detects a corresponding phase error for a corresponding sampling phase of the M−1 sampling phases based on a sample captured at a sampling phase of the M sampling phases immediately preceding the corresponding sampling phase and a sample captured at a sampling phase of the M sampling phases immediately subsequent to the corresponding sampling phase.
US10177773B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes an input clock terminal, an output clock terminal, a first input data terminal, and a set of input data terminals having a number of terminals. A divide-by-two block is coupled to the output clock terminal. A modular one-shot clock divider is coupled between the input clock terminal and the divide-by-two block. The modular one-shot clock divider is further coupled to the set of input data terminals. An intermediate clock generation block is coupled between the input clock terminal and the modular one-shot clock divider. The intermediate clock generation block includes a first digital logic block coupled between the input clock terminal and the modular one-shot clock divider. The first digital logic block is further coupled to the first input data terminal, and a clock-blocking block is coupled between the divide-by-two block and the first digital logic block.
US10177757B2
A system for mitigating a solid state power controller (SSPC) open or closed state change caused by single event latchup (SEL) includes an ON circuit, an OFF circuit operatively connected in parallel to the ON circuit, a holding capacitor operatively connected in parallel with the ON circuit and the OFF circuit, and a power switching device operatively connected to the holding capacitor and the ON circuit. The system is configured to maintain, during and after the SEL, a drive state voltage to the power switching device that is stored in the holding capacitor prior to the SEL.
US10177756B2
The isolated gate driver according to the present invention comprises a low voltage part including a PWM transmission unit for receiving a PWM signal from a microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage PWM signal, and a low voltage logic block for receiving a control signal from the microcontroller unit and outputting a low voltage control signal; an insulation part for boosting the low voltage PWM signal and the low voltage control signal into a high voltage PWM signal and a high voltage control signal, respectively; and a high voltage part including a high voltage logic block for outputting a slew rate control signal in accordance with the high voltage control signal, and a slew rate controller for controlling a slew rate of a gate voltage of a power device external to the isolation gate driver such that the gate voltage of the power device has the slew rate depending on the slew rate control signal at a rising edge or a falling edge, wherein the high voltage part is insulated from the low voltage part by the insulation part.
US10177753B2
An integrated circuit includes a control circuit, a first-in first-out circuit, and a serializer circuit. The control circuit generates parallel pulse-width modulation data in first parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The first-in first-out circuit stores the parallel pulse-width modulation data indicated by the first parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The first-in first-out circuit outputs the stored parallel pulse-width modulation data in second parallel pulse-width modulation signals. The serializer circuit converts the parallel pulse-width modulation data indicated by the second parallel pulse-width modulation signals to serial pulse-width modulation data in a serial pulse-width modulation signal.
US10177751B2
A delay circuit includes a plurality of cascaded delay elements responsive to control signals. Each delay element is configurable to receive an input signal on a forward path and return the input signal on two return paths. A control unit is connected to the plurality of cascaded delay elements and configured to generate a first set of control signals for defining a first configuration of the plurality of cascaded delay elements, a second set of control signals for causing a delay element of the plurality of cascaded delay elements to change from a powered off status to a powered on status while configured in an initialization mode, and a third set of control signals for defining a second configuration of the plurality of cascaded delay elements.
US10177742B2
Active feedback is used with two electrodes of a four-electrode capacitive-gap transduced wine-glass disk resonator to enable boosting of an intrinsic resonator Q and to allow independent control of insertion loss across the two other electrodes. Two such Q-boosted resonators configured as parallel micromechanical filters may achieve a tiny 0.001% bandwidth passband centered around 61 MHz with only 2.7 dB of insertion loss, boosting the intrinsic resonator Q from 57,000, to an active Q of 670,000. The split capacitive coupling electrode design removes amplifier feedback from the signal path, allowing independent control of input-output coupling, Q, and frequency. Controllable resonator Q allows creation of narrow channel-select filters with insertion losses lower than otherwise achievable, and allows maximizing the dynamic range of a communication front-end without the need for a variable gain low noise amplifier.
US10177741B1
Several embodiments of an envelope tracking active circulator is disclosed with a method to cascade them. In an active transistor based circulator (active circulator), gate (base) and drain (collector) bias voltage can be adjusted by RF or microwave input envelop signal. This is called envelop tracking active circulator. In this concept, input RF signal is detected by detection circuit, such as detection diode or coupler and converted into low frequency envelop signal by the proper filtering circuitry. The generated envelop signal controls the supply voltage of the drain and gate with the proper function of the envelop signal to improve active circulator insertion loss, isolation and power handling capability. This concept can be applied to any type of solid-state FET (Field effect transistor) transistor based active circulator, as long as they have bias dependent trans-conductance and capacitances inside. For a BJT (bipolar junction transistor) based active circulator, base bias current supply modulator will be used instead of voltage supply modulator.
US10177730B2
A packet-based radio receiver (10) comprises an automatic gain control system (17) and a signal-level detector (18, 19, 20) for monitoring an analog signal derived from radio signals received by the radio receiver. The signal-level detector (18, 19, 20) comprises a binary memory cell (22, 24) and a monitoring system. The monitoring system comprises a comparator (21, 23) arranged to receive a reference voltage at a first input and the analog signal at a second input. The monitoring system is arranged to (i) continuously monitor the voltage of the analog signal, (ii) detect when the monitored signal exceeds the reference voltage, and (iii) store a predetermined binary value in the memory cell (22, 24) in response to such a detection. The automatic gain control system (17) is arranged to control the gain of a variable-gain component (12, 13, 14) of the radio receiver in dependence on the contents of the binary memory cell (22, 24).
US10177726B1
A power splitting (or combining) arrangement includes a waveguide having a plurality of output (or input) ports and an input (or output) port configured to receive (or transmit) electromagnetic waves having a frequency in a designated frequency band. Each output (or input) port is configured to electrically couple with an input (or output) terminal of a corresponding one of a plurality of active devices. Each output (or input) port has a respective output impedance associated with the frequency band. The power splitting (or combining) arrangement is configured such that the respective output (or input) impedance of each output (or input) port substantially matches an input (or output) impedance of the corresponding one of the plurality of active devices.
US10177721B2
A limiter circuit is integrated into an RF power amplifier. The limiter circuit automatically starts adding attenuation at the input of the RF power amplifier after a predetermined input power level threshold is exceeded, thereby extending the safe input drive level to protect the amplifier. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the limiter circuit is implemented using a pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (PHEMT) device or a metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) device. Diode connected transistors or Schottky diodes may also be used in the limiter circuit.
US10177708B2
A wire-tensioning system can be used to maintain tension in power wires extending from components of solar panels. A tensioning component attached to the frame of the solar panel and attached to the power wires can be used to maintain tension in the power wires, both when the power wires are unconnected to power wires of adjacent solar panels, and after the power wires are connected to the power wires of adjacent solar panels. Some attachment structures may be configured to be easily removable and re-attachable to the frame of the solar panel, while other attachment structures may be configured to penetrate or dig into the frame of the solar panel to form a more permanent attachment therebetween.
US10177707B2
A PV panel wire cover assembly includes an elongate wire cover and a plate coupler, the assembly used with a PV panel having perimeter trim with a leg spaced apart from the PV panel to define a gap therebetween. The leg of the perimeter trim has a perimeter trim thickness. The wire cover has first and second opposite sides and a first flange extending from the first side with a slot formed therein. The plate coupler includes a fastener and a plate having proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion sized for receipt within the gap. The fastener passes through the slot and has first and second portions engaging the first flange and the proximal portion of the plate respectively. The wire cover can be fastened to the perimeter trim of the PV panel through the plate coupler without penetrating the PV panel.
US10177706B2
A device for regulating the supply to a photovoltaic converter, the device comprising: a laser source (2); a photovoltaic converter (6) that feeds a DC-DC converter (8); circuit (100) for regulating the input impedance of said DC-DC converter (8) as a function of the operating voltage (Us) of the photovoltaic converter (6) and of its no-load voltage (Us0); and circuit (42) for measuring an output voltage of the DC-DC converter (8) and for producing a regulation signal (SR) for regulating the laser source.
US10177700B2
In a surgical power tool that includes an electric motor positioned in a housing and a movable element extending from the housing and operatively actuated by the electric motor, a controller can repeatedly interrogate for faults a plurality of components in or on the housing, such as the electric motor, the controller, a battery, a trigger, and a mode switch. Upon finding a component in a fault condition, the controller can engage a critical error handler that disengages the electric motor, disables at least some of the plurality of components, and directs a microprocessor in the controller into a safe software state. Upon engaging the critical error handler, the controller can further write to a memory an error code corresponding to which of the plurality of components is in the fault condition. The error code can be accessible via a wired or wireless connection.
US10177695B2
A position estimation unit of a motor control apparatus includes a counter electromotive voltage estimation unit configured to estimate a counter electromotive voltage generated in a motor based on generated voltage and current of the motor, and an arc tangent calculation unit configured to perform an arc tangent calculation using coordinate data on a two-dimensional plane based on the estimated counter electromotive voltage to calculate an angle of deviation. The arc tangent calculation unit includes a rotation calculation unit configured to repeatedly perform a rotation calculation of coordinate data on a fundamental wave and a harmonic; a rotation direction judgment unit configured to judge a rotation direction of a subsequent rotation calculation based on a result of the rotation calculation of the rotation calculation unit; and a deviation angle calculation unit configured to calculate a total of rotation angles obtained as a result of the rotation calculation.
US10177692B2
This variable electric motor system comprises an electrically powered device and a planet gear transmission device. One of a sun gear shaft, a planet gear carrier shaft, and an internal gear carrier shaft of the planet gear transmission device constitutes an output shaft, another shaft constitutes a constant-speed input shaft, and the other shaft constitutes a variable-speed input shaft. The electrically powered device includes: a constant-speed electric motor including a constant-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the constant-speed input shaft; and a variable-speed electric motor including a variable-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the variable-speed input shaft. The variable-speed rotor has a shaft insertion hole formed therethrough in the axial direction, the shaft insertion hole having a cylindrical shape centered on the axis. The constant-speed rotor is inserted through the shaft insertion hole.
US10177691B2
A power tool is provided including a brushless direct-current (BLDC) electric motor having a stator and a rotor. The power tool includes power switches including high-side switches and low-side switches disposed on a direct-current (DC) bus line between a power supply and the electric motor, and a controller configured to electronically brake the motor by simultaneously closing the high-side switches or the low-side switches to electrically short the stator windings. In an embodiment, the controller is configured to monitor a voltage of the DC bus line, and if the voltage of the DC bus line is lower than a voltage threshold, execute electronic braking by toggling between closing the high-side switches and closing the low-side switches over braking cycles, and if the voltage of the DC bus line is greater than the voltage threshold, execute braking by closing only the high-side switches or the low-side switches over the braking cycles.
US10177689B2
The power generation efficiency is to be enhanced by converting vibration energy including various direction components into electric energy without waste. A cantilever structure is adopted, in which a first plate-like bridge portion (120) and a second plate-like bridge portion (130) extend in a shape of a letter U from a fixing-portion (110) fixed to the device housing (200) and a weight body (150) is connected to the end. On the upper surface of the cantilever structure, a common lower layer electrode (E00), a layered piezoelectric element (300) and discrete upper layer electrodes (Ex1 to Ez4) are formed. The upper layer electrodes (Ez1 to Ez4) disposed on a center line (Lx, Ly) of each plate-like bridge portion take out charge generated in the piezoelectric element (300) due to deflection caused by the Z-axis direction vibration of the weight body (150). The upper layer electrodes (Ex1 to Ex4, Ey1 to Ey4) disposed on both sides of the center line (Lx, Ly) of the plate-like bridge portion take out charge generated in the piezoelectric element (300) due to deflection caused by the X-axis or Y-axis direction vibration of the weight body (150).
US10177687B2
An oscillatory wave motor includes a piezoelectric element, an elastic member that includes a projecting portion, a friction member that moves relative to the elastic member and includes a contact surface in contact with the projecting portion, and pressing unit that brings the projecting portion into contact under pressure with the contact surface in a pressing direction that is a direction of a perpendicular line of the contact surface. The projecting portion includes a spherical portion formed in a center of the projecting portion, a contact portion formed on or near a center of the spherical portion, a flat portion formed around the spherical portion, and a corner portion formed around the flat portion. The spherical portion, the flat portion and the corner portion are configured to have a uniform thickness and to have flexibility in the pressing direction with the contact portion as a center.
US10177684B2
A converter arrangement for an AC system includes a phase leg including a first sub-converter, a second sub-converter, an IPT interface configured for connecting the first and second sub-converters with a phase line A, and at least one DC bus connected to the first and second sub-converters. The first sub-converter is connected in parallel with the second sub-converter between the DC bus and the IPT interface. Each of the first and second sub-converters includes a chain-link converter connected to the IPT interface and including a plurality of converter cells connected in series with each other, and a common DC link multilevel converter connected to the DC bus and in series with the chain-link converter.
US10177681B2
A power converter circuit includes a chopper circuit configured to receive an input voltage and generate a chopper voltage with an alternating voltage level based on the input voltage, an autotransformer including at least one tap, the autotransformer being coupled to the chopper circuit and configured to generate a tap voltage at the at least one tap, and a selector circuit configured to receive a plurality of voltage levels. At least one of these the voltage levels is based on the at least one tap voltage. The selector circuit is further configured to generate a selector output voltage based on the plurality of voltage levels such that the selector circuit selects two of the plurality of voltage levels and switches at a switching frequency between the two voltage levels.
US10177675B2
An object of the present invention is to achieve reduction in height of an electric power conversion device while maintaining high performance of the electric power conversion device. An electric power conversion device according to the present invention includes: a first power semiconductor module, a second power semiconductor module, a third power semiconductor module, and an AC circuit body that transmits and detects U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase AC currents, and when a direction along an arrangement direction of the first power semiconductor module and the second power semiconductor module is defined as a first column, the third power semiconductor module and the AC circuit body are disposed along a second column being in a direction parallel to the first column, and the AC circuit body is disposed in a space that is in a direction orthogonal to the first column and faces the second power semiconductor module, and is in a direction parallel to the second column and faces the third power semiconductor module.
US10177674B2
Even when a grounding capacitor is included at either end of a common mode coil, there is noise that flows from a load into a metal frame, and there is a need to restrict an amount of noise propagating to a system power supply. Because of this, a noise loop is formed of a rectifier circuit, an inverter, a first electrical wire that connects a positive polarity side of the rectifier circuit and the inverter, a second electrical wire that connects a negative polarity side of the rectifier circuit and the inverter, a ground wire terminal that can connect a load connected to an output terminal or the inverter, and a conductive plate that connects at least one or the first electrical wire and second electrical wire and the ground wire terminal.
US10177672B2
A power system can include a first tap changer for a first regulated transformer, where the first tap changer has a plurality of first positions. The power system can also include a second tap changer for a second regulated transformer, where the second tap changer has a plurality of second positions. The power system can further include at least one first instrument transformer coupled to the first regulated transformer. The power system can also include at least one second instrument transformer coupled to the second regulated transformer. The power system can further include a controller coupled to the at least one first instrument transformer and the at least one second instrument transformer, where the controller adjusts the first tap changer to a first adjusted position among the first positions based on the first measurements of the first regulated transformer and the second measurements of the second regulated transformer.
US10177670B1
A flyback power converter circuit includes: a transformer including a primary winding coupled to an input power and a secondary winding coupled to an output node, a primary side switch controlling the primary side winding to convert the input power to an output power on the output node through the secondary side winding, a clamping circuit including an auxiliary switch and an auxiliary capacitor connected in series to form an auxiliary branch which is connected with the primary side winding in parallel, and a conversion control circuit for adjusting an auxiliary ON time of the auxiliary switch during an OFF time of the primary side switch according to an estimated parasitic diode conduction time of a parasitic diode of the auxiliary switch; the auxiliary ON time is controlled to be substantially equal to and coincides with the estimated parasitic diode conduction time.
US10177663B2
A multi-phase power controller coupled to resonant power converting circuits providing an output voltage is disclosed. The multi-phase power controller includes a current sensing unit, a frequency adjusting circuit and a duty cycle adjusting circuit. The current sensing unit, coupled to a first resonant power converting circuit, provides a first sensing current. The frequency adjusting circuit includes an error amplifier and a first ramp signal generation circuit. The error amplifier provides an error signal according to the output voltage and a reference voltage. The first ramp signal generation circuit provides a first ramp signal according to the error signal. The duty cycle adjusting circuit provides a first PWM signal to the first resonant power converting circuit according to a default voltage and the first ramp signal. The change of the duty cycle of the first PWM signal is related to the first sensing current, the default voltage and the first ramp signal.
US10177655B2
Provided is a voltage regulator capable of stably suppressing overshoot. The voltage regulator includes a non-regulated state detection circuit for detecting a non-regulated state, and an overshoot suppression circuit. The overshoot suppression circuit is configured to operate when the non-regulated state detection circuit detects the non-regulated state.
US10177653B2
An impedance circuit for a charge pump arrangement and a charge pump arrangement are disclosed. In an embodiment, the impedance circuit includes a first current mirror circuit with a first bias serving as a current input terminal, a first output serving as a current output terminal and a first input for coupling with a pre-selected potential. The impedance circuit further includes a first charge pump for biasing the first current mirror circuit with a first reference current, wherein the first charge pump includes a first biasing output coupled with the first bias of the first current mirror circuit.
US10177651B2
A system for eliminating inrush current to electrical equipment while providing a user increased control is proposed. The user of the device is able to control the speed of the ramp up of alternating current (AC) to the electrical equipment, regardless of the load. When the ramp up meets its full power, the device of the present system will disable itself while allowing power to flow directly to the electrical equipment. The present system allows for user controlled delay time as well as microcontroller controlled current sensing. Further, the device shuts off power to the electrical equipment if an overdraw of current (e.g. a short circuit in an amplifier) is detected. This feature may be an early warning, indicating a need for technical repair before irrevocable damage is done to the components of the electrical equipment.
US10177649B1
A power conversion apparatus and a synchronous rectification (SR) circuit thereof are provided. The power conversion apparatus includes a transformer and the SR circuit. A primary winding of the transformer receives an input voltage. A secondary winding of the transformer provides an output voltage to an output terminal. The SR circuit includes a SR transistor and a SR controller. The SR transistor is coupled between the secondary winding and the output terminal and controlled by a control signal. The SR controller is coupled to the SR transistor to receive a first detecting signal, and generates the control signal according to the first detecting signal. When the SR controller detects that the SR circuit is abnormal, the SR controller generates the controller signal to keep the SR transistor at an on state so as to perform an abnormal protection on the SR circuit.
US10177644B1
A voltage converter includes a high side power transistor coupled to an input voltage node and a low side power transistor coupled to the high side power transistor at a switch node. The switch node is configured to be coupled to an inductor. A slope detector circuit is configured to receive a signal indicative of a current through the inductor. The inductor current is a triangular waveform comprising a ramp-up phase and a ramp-down phase. The slope detector circuit also is configured to generate an output signal encoding when the inductor current is ramping up and when the inductor current is ramping down.
US10177629B2
A method for producing electrical energy in a combined energy generation plant which comprises an air treatment unit and a power station unit is proposed. In a first operating mode, air is liquefied to form an air liquefaction product and, in a second operating mode, an air liquefaction product is converted into a gaseous or supercritical state, in which said product is introduced into the power station unit and is used for producing electrical energy. In a third operating mode, air is condensed in the air treatment unit and used in the power station unit directly for producing electrical energy. It is envisaged that, in the first operating mode, the air is cooled to several temperature levels by two liquid coolants and the air liquefaction product is correspondingly heated. In addition, in the first operating mode, the air is condensed stepwise over several pressure levels.
US10177628B2
An electrical power tool has an electronically commutated drive motor, preferably a direct current motor. The motor includes a stator core equipped with an insulating body, on which core a motor winding is embodied. Also included in the motor is at least one electrically conductive connector element for electrical connection of the motor winding, the connector element being disposed on the insulating body. The connector element has a fastening segment, and a receptacle for reception of the fastening segment is provided on the insulating body. The fastening segment and the receptacle have complementary geometrical shapes that prevent self-actuated detachment of the fastening segment disposed in the receptacle.
US10177621B2
A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
US10177617B2
An external rotor motor includes an inner stator and an external rotor. The external rotor includes a casing and a plurality of magnets. The casing has an annular inner wall. The annular inner wall faces the inner stator and surrounds the inner stator. The magnets are placed along the annular inner wall of the casing. The magnets surround the inner stator. An end of at least one of the magnets has a round edge, a curvature radius of the round edge is R, a thickness of the at least one of the plurality of magnets is T, and the following condition is satisfied: 0.85≤R/T≤1.
US10177616B2
The present invention relates to a spoke-type permanent magnet rotor (1) used in brushless direct current electric motors (13), forming the rotating part inside the stator (14) that forms the stationary part thereof and having an air gap (15) between the inner surface of the stator (14) and itself, comprising a cylindrical core (2) produced from ferromagnetic laminations or ferromagnetic powder metal, a shaft (3) fixed to the core (2) and forming the rotational axis of the rotor (1), a hub (5) disposed at the center of the core (2) and having a shaft hole (4) that bears the shaft (3), more than one pole segment (6) disposed all around the hub (5), more than one magnet slot (7) disposed between the pole segments (6), more than one magnet (8) tangentially magnetized, placed in the magnet slots (7) and extending outwards in the radial direction, and two end rings (9) produced from non-magnetic materials such as plastic and aluminum and fixed on the front and rear planar surfaces of the core (2) by the injection molding method.
US10177615B2
A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.
US10177612B2
A material of the stator core is different from a material of the housings, in a state where one end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the first housing, and the other end portion in the axis direction of the stator core is contacted to the second housing; and a neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the first housing is contacted to the stator core, and another neighboring portion of a contact portion, at which the second housing is contacted to the stator core, are connected by a connecting component in the axis direction, of which material is the same as a material of the stator core, whereby the first housing and the second housing are connected each other; and the first housing and the second housing face each other in a state where a gap intervenes between both housings.
US10177608B2
A wireless power transmission system is designed to transmit power through a permeable conductive barrier layer. The system comprises a power transmitting circuit including a first inductive coil. A power receiving circuit includes a second inductive coil located on the opposite side of the barrier layer to the first inductive coil. A biasing magnet or electromagnet is provided and characterised by its ability to substantially saturate the magnetisation of the barrier layer in a region adjacent to the first and second inductive coils.
US10177607B2
Techniques are described herein for delivering retrodirective wireless radio frequency (RF) power to a client device in a wireless power delivery environment. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for delivering directed wireless RF power to a client device in a wireless power delivery environment via multiple wireless power signals over multiple wireless power delivery paths. The client device includes one or more RF client transceivers that collectively have a radiation and reception pattern in a three-dimensional space proximate to the client device. The techniques identify the wireless power delivery paths over which wireless power signals can be delivered and deliver the wireless power in a manner that matches the client radiation and reception pattern in the three-dimensional space proximate to the client device.
US10177606B2
Efficient power transmission from an acoustic transmitter to an electrical load on an implanted device is provided using a control system that at least varies the transmitted acoustic frequency. Varying the transmitted frequency can change the electrical impedance of the acoustic transducer in the receiver that receives power from the transmitter. This ability to vary the transducer impedance can be used to optimize power delivery to the load.
US10177599B2
A contactless power feeding system comprises a power feeding device and a movable device. The movable device is installed on a power feeding case of the power feeding device, and a liquid crystal TV (E) is installed on the movable device. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired position on a wall (W) in a room (R) by moving the movable device along the power feeding case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be arranged at a desired height by moving the liquid crystal TV (E) in the axial direction of a guide pipe provided on a power receiving case. The liquid crystal TV (E) can be directed in a desired direction by rotating the liquid crystal TV (E) around the guide pipe. The contactless power feeding system feeds power to the liquid crystal TV (E) via the power feeding device and the movable device.
US10177597B2
A method and a system of control of power consumption of communications between electrical modules of an electrical infrastructure, including a star-shaped communication network between a central module, or master module, and a set of slave modules, the master module being set up to be connected to the slave modules by non-wireline communications links in a star pattern, and a processing circuit set up to regulate the power levels of communications links at least in a direction of reception by the master module from at least one slave module or by at least one slave module from the master module.
US10177596B2
Examples disclosed herein involve backup power management. In an example, an amount of backup power to power a load bank is estimated, a set of power sources are selected from a plurality of power sources based on respective states of charge of the plurality of power sources and the estimated amount of backup power, and the selected set of power sources are placed in circuit to provide backup power to the load bank via the selected set of power sources.
US10177594B2
A radiating metamaterial antenna including at least two metamaterial unit cells formed from a metamaterial layer. Each metamaterial unit cell includes: (i) a first metal portion disposed on the metamaterial layer, the first metal portion including an interior perimeter that surrounds an aperture defined by the first metal portion, and (ii) a second metal portion disposed within the aperture, wherein a perimeter of the second metal portion has a separation from the interior perimeter of the first metal portion. The radiating metamaterial antenna further includes a feed that is configured to excite one or more of the at least two metamaterial unit cells with an electromagnetic signal to cause the at least two metamaterial unit cells to radiate electromagnetic energy.
US10177579B2
Disclosed is a battery management system for transmitting a secondary protection signal and a diagnosis signal using a small number of insulation elements. N battery management units included in the battery management system transmit at least two pieces of data via one communication line through time division. N data signals transmitted from the N battery management units are transmitted in a sequential order or are mixed to one signal and transmitted to an external device.
US10177578B2
A power distribution device for use with rechargeable batteries, such as power tool batteries or battery packs, that is capable of powering a number of accessory devices such as geographical positioning system devices, depth finders, phones and radios.
US10177576B2
A charger circuit for providing a charging current and voltage to a battery includes a power delivery unit, a capacitive power conversion circuit and a reverse blocking switch circuit. The power delivery unit converts an input power to a DC voltage and current. The capacitive power conversion circuit includes a conversion switch circuit including plural conversion switches coupled with one or more conversion capacitors, and a conversion control circuit. The DC current is regulated to a predetermined DC current level, and the conversion control circuit controls the connections of the plural conversion capacitors such that the charging current is scaled-up of the predetermined DC current level substantially by a current scale-up factor. The reverse blocking switch circuit is coupled in series with the capacitive power conversion circuit. The body diode of the reverse blocking switch is reversely coupled to the body diode of the conversion switch.
US10177572B2
A device includes a bidirectional switch circuit 10, a control unit 20 that performs virtual AC/DC conversion processing to acquire a plurality of interline voltage generation sections according to a plurality of modes divided according to a magnitude relation between voltages in each phase and that generates a switching pattern of the bidirectional switch circuit 10 to perform virtual DC/DC conversion processing corresponding to the plurality of interline voltage generation sections based on a second carrier waveform pattern CW2 according to the plurality of modes and a signal level G1 of a P-phase, a current setting unit 50 that inputs a current direction and an amount of current that flows in a power line LU, a current detection unit 51 that detects the current direction and the amount of current of the power line LU, and a current adjustment unit 52 that increases and decreases the signal level G1.
US10177571B2
Disclosed are various receive circuits by which to receive a plurality of guided surface waves transmitted by a plurality of guided surface waveguide probes over a surface of a terrestrial medium according to various embodiments.
US10177563B1
The systems and methods described are for adjusting over current protection values during changes in load current. In one aspect, a method includes, monitoring a load current amplitude value at a power input connected to an electrical load; determining a rate of change of the load current amplitude value; determining whether the rate of change of the load current amplitude value exceeds a predefined rate threshold value; in response to determining that the rate of change of the load current amplitude value exceeds the predefined rate threshold value: adjusting an over current protection value from a first over current protection value to an adjusted over current protection value for a first predefined amount of time; and at the expiration of the first predefined amount of time, at least partially reversing the adjustment to the over current protection value.
US10177560B2
A battery monitoring device is configured to include a monitoring unit that monitors a state of a battery, an interrupter that interrupts a power supply to a load, and another interrupter that interrupts a power supply to the interrupter, wherein the monitoring unit controls an operation of the interrupter such that a power supply to the load is interrupted, and controls an operation of the other interrupter such that a power supply to the interrupter is interrupted.
US10177551B1
A grounding system, structured to ground a number of cables supported by a support assembly, includes a multi-function line assembly and a number of conductive mounting assemblies. Each conductive mounting assembly is structured to be coupled to the multi-function line and to a conductive pile.
US10177548B2
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to enclosures, such as, electrical enclosures, for example, explosion-proof enclosures, and including advantageous features and methods usable with such enclosures. Disclosed features and techniques relate to: an enclosure fastening device; a visual indicator; an enclosure handling assist arrangement; a control handle; and a reset controller.
US10177547B2
A cable processing machine includes a cable processing station with a cable processing tool. An interface receives from a sensor at least one physical parameter value indicating a capability of the cable processing machine for executing a processing step. A capability determination component determines, based on the physical parameter, that the capability is insufficient. A voice instruction generator component generates voice instructions for an operator, relating to an action to be performed by operator for restoring capability of the cable processing machine to enable the execution of the cable processing step. Voice instructions are audio output generated on wearable audio device associated with operator, and sent to the audio output device. A confirm component receives confirmation that action for restoring the capability of the cable processing machine is complete, and the capability determination component validates restoration of the capability. The cable processing tool executes the processing step if capability is restored.
US10177543B2
The disclosed invention ensures safe operation of an electrical switchgear by preventing an operator from contacting or interacting with an active circuit breaker. One way this is accomplished is through a locking system that prevents a door to the interior of the switchgear from opening until the circuit breaker is in a disengaged position. A second way this is accomplished is by a manipulation restriction system that prevents the circuit breaker from being manually moved unless the door is closed. Another way this is accomplished is by a circuit breaker decoupler, accessible from the exterior of the switchgear that can directly manipulate the circuit breaker into disengagement.
US10177542B2
A contactor arrangement includes a post, a fastener and a temperature sensor. The post defines a post axis. The fastener is fixed to the post along the post axis. The temperature sensor is in thermal communication with the contactor conductor and post through the fastener and is electrically insulated from the post for monitoring resistive heat generation in a contactor fixed to the post by the fastener.
US10177541B2
The invention concerns an aerosol charger having electrical discharge comprising: a body (2); an ion source (3) comprising two electrodes (31, 32); the charger being characterized in that the body (2) and at least a first electrode (32) of the ion source (3) are aligned along a same axis of longitudinal symmetry (AA′) of the charger, the body (2) surrounding the first electrode (32) in such a way as to define an area (5) for an aerosol to flow between a space defined between the body (2) and the first electrode (32); and in that the first electrode (32) comprises a hole (321) in communication with the area (5) for the aerosol (Ae) to flow, the hole (321) being designed to allow ions formed at the ion source (3) to pass therethrough in order for them to mix with an aerosol (Ae) flowing in the area (5) for the aerosol (Ae) to flow.
US10177523B2
An optical fiber apparatus and a method of recovering radiation-induced-attenuation (RIA) onto a rare-earth-doped optical fiber under irradiation are provided in this disclosure. A light source is coupled to a rare-earth doped optical fiber. The light source emits a combination of mode locked pulsed light and non-mode locked quasi-continuous-wave light. The mode locked pulsed light are used to recover RIA onto the rare-earth doped optical fiber in real time, and the non-mode locked light are used to pump the rare-earth doped optical fiber as a gain medium. Each pulsed duration of the mode locked pulsed light is much shorter than operation duration of the non-mode locked light, such that an instantaneous power of the mode locked pulsed light exceeds a saturated pumping power required for the rare-earth doped optical fiber, so as to effectively elevate the core temperature of rare-earth doped fiber to achieve a confined photo-annealed recovery of RIA onto rare-earth doped fibers.
US10177507B2
An electrical power coupler is configured to convey electrical power upon detecting that a compatible other coupler is properly aligned and no undesirable operating conditions are detected. The power coupler includes a first ferromagnetic metal adjacent a first magnet, a hall sensor for detecting a magnetic field in the first ferromagnetic metal, and at least two first electrical contacts. A control unit is in electrical communication with the power conductors, and includes an electrical switch operable to selectively allow a flow of electricity from a power source through the associated power conductors when the hall sensor detects the magnetic field, such as when the first electrical contacts are in contact with at least two second electrical contacts of another electrical power coupler. The second electrical contacts make contact with the first electrical contacts upon proper alignment of a correspondingly configured other electrical power coupler.
US10177502B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the housing and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue, each row of contacts including two outermost ground contacts; and a shielding shell enclosing the contact module; wherein at least one of the ground contacts in one or both rows of the contacts has an extension, and the tongue has on at least one of the upper and lower surfaces a step exposing the extension.
US10177498B1
An electrical connector assembly which has a first connector and a second connector. The first connector and second connector have connector housings with first latching areas extending from the top surfaces of the connector housings and second latching areas extending from the bottom surfaces of the connector housing. Sealing members are positioned proximate wire-receiving faces of the connector housings. Rear seal cover members are positioned in the connector housings. The rear seal cover members are configured to cooperate with the sealing members to prevent the rear seal cover members from being latched to the connector housing when the terminals are not fully inserted into the terminal receiving cavities of the connector housings.
US10177487B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a cable connector equipped with a locking device essentially composed of an operation part pivotally mounted to the case, and a locking part pivotally mounted to the operation part, and a host connector equipped with a locking ear for locking with the locking part wherein the host connector forms a forward protrusion to form an outer region and an inner region each provided with a sealing member adapted to be compressed in the front-to-back direction by locking mechanism.
US10177486B2
A connector includes a terminal, a housing, a waterproofing member and a waterproofing member cover. The waterproofing member includes a cylindrical sealing portion in which an insertion hole for the terminal is formed, and a guide portion disposed at least on a rear side in a terminal insertion direction in the insertion hole of the sealing portion and having a tapered shape so as to guide the terminal toward the insertion hole. The waterproofing member includes an elastically-deformable thin portion in a periphery of the sealing portion so that weight generated when the terminal guided to the insertion hole by the guide portion expands the insertion hole is larger than weight necessary for moving the sealing portion in a direction perpendicular to the terminal insertion direction.
US10177483B1
An electrical connector assembly includes a module stack, a front housing, and a spring member. The module stack includes multiple contact modules disposed side by side. The module stack includes multiple signal contacts that project beyond a front side thereof. The front housing is mechanically coupled to the module stack at the front side and surrounds the signal contacts. The front housing defines cavities that receive mating contacts of a mating connector to engage the signal contacts. The front housing is movable relative to the module stack along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector assembly between a retracted position and an extended position. The spring member is held between the module stack and the front housing. The spring member engages the module stack and the front housing to bias the front housing towards the extended position.
US10177481B1
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a plurality of contact-receiving passageways extending through thereof along a front-and-back direction, a plurality of contacts inserted into the corresponding contact-receiving passageways along a rear-to-front direction and a limiting member assembled to the insulative housing. The contacts includes at least one row arranged along a transverse direction, and each contact defines a contacting part contacting with a complementary contact and a crimping portion connected with a wire. The insulative housing defines a positioning slot on one side thereof along a height direction, and the positioning slot extends along a transverse direction, the limiting member is inserted and retained in the positioning slot for locking the plurality of contacts simultaneously.
US10177475B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body, multiple terminals and a metal member. The insulating body has a base and side walls. The base is provided with receiving slots. The side walls are higher than the base, and encircled to form an accommodating space for accommodating a chip module. The terminals are received in the receiving slots. Each terminal has a contacting portion lower than a top surface of the side walls. The contacting portions electrically connect with the chip module. The metal member is injection molded at the side walls and the base to reinforce the structure of the side walls and the base, and preventing the insulating body from warping at a high temperature.
US10177474B2
A connector comprises a cage and a top cover. The cage has a lower portion received in an opening of a circuit board in an insertion direction. A thickness of the lower portion in the insertion direction is disposed in the opening in an assembled position. The top cover is attached to an outer wall of the cage and has a plurality of pins. The pins are inserted in the insertion direction into a plurality of insertion holes extending through the circuit board around the opening in the assembled position.
US10177467B1
A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a backshell. The electrical connector includes a housing and electrical conductors held in the housing. The electrical conductors are terminated to a cable that extends from a cable end of the electrical connector. The backshell has an overmolded body and a latch assembly for removably coupling the cable connector assembly to one or more of a panel or a mating connector. The overmolded body is a unitary, one-piece body that surrounds the electrical connector around a full perimeter of the electrical connector. The latch assembly includes a latch frame and a latch member. The latch frame is embedded in the overmolded body. The latch member is held by the latch frame. The latch member includes a deflectable spring beam configured to engage the panel or the mating connector.
US10177453B2
An antenna array having radiating elements and delay lines provided over a sandwich of layers that includes variable dielectric-constant material. The value of the variable dielectric-constant material at various points over the antenna is controlled via software, hence changing the operational characteristics of the antenna using software. The sandwich of layers may be a standard flat panel display, wherein images depicted on the flat panel display are software controlled with a program designed to change the dielectric constant, thus providing scanning and tuning ability to the array. That is, different images are programmed according to specifically desired change in the dielectric property of different pixels under different patches or feed-lines of the array, thereby controlling the frequency and/or directivity of the array.
US10177440B2
According to the present invention, a mobile terminal includes a main body including a front side with which a display unit is combined, a first antenna mounted on the main body, extended in a first direction and including a first slot of which one end is closed and another end is opened, a second antenna mounted on the main body, extended in a second direction corresponding to a direction opposite to the direction to which the first slot is extended and including a second slot of which one end is closed and another end is opened, a power supply unit mounted in the inside of the main body, a first feeder configured to supply power to the first antenna from the power supply unit and a second feeder configured to supply power to the second antenna from the power supply unit.
US10177434B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for an antenna system. The antenna system includes a main reflector, a phased array feed, and a mechanical steering system. The phased array feed is configured to receive and/or transmit signals reflected off the main reflector and to electronically steer a transmitted signal on a first axis. The main reflector and the phased array feed are both attached to the mechanical steering system, and the mechanical steering system is configured to move the transmitted signal along a second axis.
US10177431B2
An apparatus, e.g. a cavity resonator, includes a floor and a cover. A conductive post is located between the floor and the cover and has a void oriented along a longitudinal axis of the post. A dielectric spacer is located between the cover and the post and a dielectric rod is located within the void. A resilient dielectric is located within the void between the dielectric spacer and the floor.
US10177424B1
An aircraft hybrid cooling system is disclosed. The aircraft hybrid cooling system includes a conduit through an aircraft that is configured to allow airflow through the conduit. The aircraft hybrid cooling system additionally includes a battery assembly positioned in the conduit, configured to provide for airflow past a battery in the battery assembly in a first mode of operation and configured to provide flow of a cooling medium past the battery in a second mode of operation. In some embodiments, the battery in the battery assembly is cooled via airflow in the event the aircraft is in flight and is cooled via an applied cooling medium in the event the aircraft is grounded.
US10177421B2
Light is transmitted from a light source through or from a separator of a battery cell and received by one or more light detectors. The light that is normally transmitted through the separator is scattered, absorbed, wavelength-shifted or otherwise distorted by an impending fault in the vicinity of or within the separator. The change in light due to the impending fault is measured by a detector and a signal from the detector is processed to identify the impending fault so that a warning can be generated indicative of the impending fault. In particular, one or both of the light source and detector are enclosed within a battery cell housing and receive power from the electrodes of the battery cell.
US10177412B2
An electrolyte composition and a sodium secondary battery are provided. The electrolyte composition includes an alcohol compound and a metallic salt, wherein the metallic salt consists of a sodium salt formed. The sodium secondary battery includes the electrolyte composition, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US10177410B2
Provided are a lithium secondary battery electrolyte and a lithium secondary battery. The lithium secondary battery electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a pyrrole derivative. The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator, and the lithium secondary battery electrolyte. The secondary battery electrolyte according to the present invention has advantages of excellent stability at a high temperature and high discharge capacity at a low temperature.
US10177406B2
Solid electrolyte materials as well as their applications and methods of manufacture are disclosed. In one embodiment, a solid electrolyte material has a formula of A3+δCl1−δBδO, where δ is greater than 0. In the above formula, A is at least one of Li and Na, and B is at least one of S, Se, and N. In another embodiment, a solid electrolyte material is a crystal structure having the general formula A3XO, where A is at least one of Li and Na. Additionally, X is Cl, at least a portion of which is substituted with at least one of S, Se, and N. The solid electrolyte material also includes interstitial lithium ions and/or interstitial sodium ions located in the crystal structure.
US10177404B2
A magnesium-ion battery includes a first electrode including an active material and a second electrode. An electrolyte is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrolyte includes a magnesium compound. The active material includes tin.
US10177399B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, a case in which the electrode assembly and an electrolyte are received, and a finishing member attached to an outer surface of the electrode assembly. The finishing member includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer has one surface attached to the electrode assembly. The second layer and the third layer are different from each other and are sequentially provided on another surface of the first layer. The second layer and the third layer react to the electrolyte.
US10177389B2
An electrochemical device includes a plurality of electrode assemblies that define a plurality of electrochemically active areas. A non-electrically-conductive manifold includes a common manifold passage and a plurality of branch passages that extend, respectively, between the electrochemically active areas and the common manifold passage. Each of the branch passages includes a first region and a second region that differ in surface area.
US10177386B2
The present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery which is capable of preventing the degeneration of a positive electrode active material and the generation of a gas during operating a battery due to humidity, by including a surface treatment layer of an amorphous glass including an alkali metal oxide and an alkaline earth metal oxide on the surface of a core including a lithium composite metal oxide and by decreasing humidity reactivity, and a secondary battery including the same.
US10177383B2
A nano-coating material, capable of being bonded to the surface of a metal or an alloy substrate, the nano-coating material includes a compound having, in a polymer main chain, (A) a first side chain or a terminal, each having a binding group containing a benzene ring having at least one pair of adjacent hydroxyl groups; and (B) a functional second side chain.
US10177382B2
An additive for a positive electrode material includes an internal component and an external component. The internal component contains a silane coupling agent modified inorganic lithium salt. The external component is formed on a surface of the internal component and contains a polymer with a low melting point. The internal component and the external component form a core-shell structure together, and the shell has a porosity of 0.01% to 20%. A positive electrode material and a lithium-ion battery including the additive, and method of preparing the lithium-ion battery are also provided.
US10177380B2
The present invention relates to an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite is used, when applied to a lithium secondary battery, intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions is more facilitated and conductivity of an electrode is improved even if no or little conductive material is used. Furthermore, the increase in conductivity can lead to not only a further improvement in rate performance of a lithium secondary battery but also a reduction in interfacial resistance.
US10177378B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to battery electrodes incorporating composites of graphene and selenium-sulfur compounds for improved rechargeable batteries. In one embodiment, a conductive composition comprises a conductive composition having a Se—S compound, a conductive additive. The Se—S compound is present as SexS8-x, wherein 0
US10177372B2
A metal oxide composite including a first metal oxide composite layer, and a second metal oxide layer, wherein the first metal oxide composite layer and the second metal oxide layer are alternately stacked in a thickness direction; and a third metal oxide layer that is disposed on a side surface of the stacked structure, wherein the third metal oxide layer includes a metal oxide that is a same metal oxide as a metal oxide included in the stacked structure.
US10177368B2
An anode compartment for rechargeable lithium or sodium batteries, including: a solid electrolyte; a collector deposited on the solid electrolyte; and an active material made of lithium metal or sodium metal which has been grown between the solid electrolyte and the collector in order to form an electrode made of lithium metal or sodium metal with the collector, in which the collector is made of an amorphous alloy. A method for manufacturing such an anode compartment and a battery including said anode compartment is also presented.
US10177367B2
Method for producing metallic surface discharge electrodes on nonmetallic substrates comprising the following steps: a) producing a metallic seed layer on a substrate; b) electrically contacting the seed layer with a metal wire network and an electrolyte containing metal ions; c) electrodepositing a metal film from the electrolyte at least on the seed layer, with the metal wire network being embedded into the metal film, wherein d) metal wire filaments that are movable relative to one another are arranged to form an electrically percolating metal wire network, e) the arrangement of the metal wire filaments is cast into a gel and the gel is dried thereafter to the gel matrix, and f) the dried gel matrix with the metal wire network embedded therein is applied to the substrate and is wetted with a solvent of the gel matrix. Furthermore, the invention relates to a semifinished product for carrying out the method.
US10177366B2
High purity lithium and associated products are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a lithium metal product in which the lithium metal is obtained using a selective lithium ion conducting layer. The selective lithium ion conducting layer includes an active metal ion conducting glass or glass ceramic that conducts only lithium ions. The present lithium metal products produced using a selective lithium ion conducting layer advantageously provide for improved lithium purity when compared to commercial lithium metal. Pursuant to the present disclosure, lithium metal having a purity of at least 99.96 weight percent on a metals basis can be obtained.
US10177361B2
A coating liquid according to the present invention comprises polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), boric acid and/or an organometallic compound having the ability of cross-linking PVA, an inorganic filler, a water-soluble compound having a carboxyl group and/or a sulfonic group, and water. According to the present invention, a coating liquid can be obtained which is useful in the preparation of a laminated porous film having suppressed powder fall-off and excellent heat shape stability.
US10177359B2
The present disclosure relates to a separator for an electrochemical device with pores having predetermined diameter, permeation time, and tortuosity, to allow for smooth movement of lithium ions and a method for manufacturing the same, and smooth movement of lithium ions may be optimized by the separator for an electrochemical device.
US10177357B2
Provided is a method for producing a porous polyimide film with which it is possible to suppress the occurrence of curling in the polyimide-fine particle composite film obtained by firing the unfired composite film. The method for producing a porous polyimide film of the present invention includes, in the following order: forming an unfired composite film using a varnish that contains a resin including polyamide acid and/or polyimide, fine particles, and a solvent; immersing the unfired composite film in a solvent including water; firing the unfired composite film to obtain a polyimide-fine particle composite film; and removing the fine particles from the polyimide-fine particle composite film.
US10177343B2
The present invention provides a light extraction substrate for an organic light emitting device, comprising: a base substrate; a scattering layer formed on the base substrate and made of TiO2; a plurality of first light scatterers formed inside the scattering layer and having a porous form; and a flat layer formed on the scattering layer, wherein the scattering layer is internally permeated by a part of the materials constituting the flat layer.
US10177337B2
A lighting apparatus using an organic light emitting diode according to the present disclosure is configured such that a substrate is planarized by forming an anti-scratch layer on a cathode electrode to fully cover the cathode electrode.The present disclosure having such configuration can uniformly maintain pressing pressure by virtue of the anti-scratch layer even while winding or unwinding the substrate for pulse aging, thereby preventing damages due to scratches or particles.
US10177326B2
A polymeric dielectric may include a coordination complex of a modified elastic polymer and a metal cation. The modified elastic polymer may include an organic ligand moiety that coordinates the metal cation in a main chain of the elastic polymer. Provided are a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device and a thin film transistor including the same.
US10177314B2
Apparatus including one or more carbon nanotubes; one or more fullerenes directly covalently bonded to the one or more carbon nanotubes; and one or more photoactive molecules bonded to the one or more fullerenes.
US10177313B2
The present invention relates to polymers comprising one or more (repeating) unit(s) of the formula (I) which are characterized in that Ar1 and Ar1′ are independently of each other are an annulated (aromatic) heterocyclic ring system, containing at least one thiophene ring, which may be optionally substituted by one, or more groups, and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially in organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes, or in a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors, organic photovoltaics (solar cells) and photodiodes.
US10177305B2
Devices are described that include a multi-layered structure that is non-magnetic at room temperature, and which comprises alternating layers of Co and at least one other element E (such as Ga, Ge, and Sn). The composition of this structure is represented by Co1-xEx, with x being in the range from 0.45 to 0.55. The structure is in contact with a first magnetic layer that includes a Heusler compound. An MRAM element may be formed by overlying, in turn, the first magnetic layer with a tunnel barrier, and the tunnel barrier with a second magnetic layer (whose magnetic moment is switchable). Improved performance of the MRAM element may be obtained by placing a pinning layer between the first magnetic layer and the tunnel barrier.
US10177284B2
A sidewall light emitting ultraviolet light emitting diode and a method of manufacturing thereof are disclosed. A light emitting structure is formed in an active region recessed from a substrate surface, and the light emitting structure is formed by growth in a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate. Also, a reflective metal layer is formed above or below the light emitting structure such that ultraviolet light can be released in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction which is the growth direction of the light emitting structure.
US10177257B2
A thin film transistor, a method for fabricating the same, a display substrate, and a display device are disclosed. The method comprises: forming in sequence a light shielding layer, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer; and forming a pattern of the light shielding layer, the insulating layer, and the semiconductor layer in one patterning process. A polycrystalline silicon layer can be formed into an active layer and an amorphous silicon layer into the light shielding layer, by using only one mask. The number of masking processes is reduced by one, which simplifies a fabricating process of the thin film transistor.
US10177251B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer having a first plane and a second plane; a source electrode; a drain electrode; first and second gate electrodes located; an n-type drift region and a p-type body region; n-type first and second source regions; a p-type first silicon carbide region and p-type second silicon carbide region having a p-type impurity concentration higher than the body region; first and second gate insulating layers; a p-type third silicon carbide region contacting the first silicon carbide region, a first n-type portion being located between the first gate insulating layer and the third silicon carbide region; and a p-type fourth silicon carbide region contacting the second silicon carbide region, a second n-type portion being located between the second gate insulating layer and the fourth silicon carbide region.
US10177250B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a trench extending into a semiconductor substrate and a polysilicon gate electrode in the trench; forming a body region of a first conductivity type in the substrate adjacent the trench and a source region of a second conductivity type adjacent the body region and the trench; forming a dielectric layer on the substrate; forming a gate metallization on the dielectric layer which covers part of the substrate and a source metallization on the dielectric layer which is electrically connected to the source region, spaced apart from the gate metallization and covering a different part of the substrate than the gate metallization; and forming a metal-filled groove in the polysilicon gate electrode which is electrically connected to the gate metallization. The metal-filled groove extends along a length of the trench underneath at least part of the source metallization.
US10177246B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the semiconductor structure are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of dummy gates on a substrate, a capping layer on each dummy gate, and a dielectric layer over the substrate, wherein the dielectric layer has a top surface above each dummy gate. The method also includes performing a first ion implantation process on the dielectric layer to form a first stop layer in the dielectric layer. A top surface of the first stop layer is above or coplanar with a top surface of each dummy gate. Further, the method includes performing a first planarization process on the capping layer and the dielectric layer to expose the top surface of each dummy gate. A removal rate of the first stop layer is smaller than a removal rate of the dielectric layer when performing the first planarization process.
US10177243B1
Described herein is an N type extended drain transistor formed from a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) wafer. The transistor has a buried P type region formed by the selective implantation of P type dopants in a semiconductor layer of the wafer at a location directly below a drift region of the transistor. The transistor also includes a source located in a P well region and a drain. The buried P type region is in electrical contact with the P well region. The N type drift region, the source, and the drain are also located in a portion of the semiconductor layer surrounded by dielectric isolation. A buried dielectric layer located below the portion of the semiconductor layer electrically isolates the portion of the semiconductor layer from a semiconductor substrate located below the buried dielectric layer.
US10177237B2
A semiconductor device that includes a gate structure on a channel region of a semiconductor device. Source and drain regions may be present on opposing sides of the channel region. The semiconductor device may further include a composite gate sidewall spacer present on a sidewall of the gate structure. The composite gate sidewall spacer may include a first composition portion having an air gap encapsulated therein, and a second composition portion that is entirely solid and present atop the first composition portion.
US10177230B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region including a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor region adjoining the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region including a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes at least one of a drift zone and a base zone in the first semiconductor region, and at least one type of deep-level dopant in an emitter region of the second semiconductor region. The at least one type of deep-level dopant has a distance to the valence or conduction band of at least 100 meV.
US10177229B2
A semiconductor material includes a compositionally-graded transition layer, an intermediate later and a gallium nitride material layer. The compositionally-graded transition layer has a back surface and a top surface, and includes a gallium nitride alloy. The gallium concentration in the compositionally-graded transition layer increases from the back surface to the front surface. The intermediate layer is formed under the compositionally-graded transition layer. The gallium nitride material layer is formed over the compositionally-graded transition layer, and has a crack level of less than 0.005 μm/μm2.
US10177226B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a stacked nanosheet and resulting structures having equal thickness work function metal layers. A nanosheet stack is formed on a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes a first sacrificial layer formed on a first nanosheet. A hard mask is formed on the first sacrificial layer and the first sacrificial layer is removed to form a cavity between the hard mask and the first nanosheet. A work function layer is formed to fill the cavity between the hard mask and the first nanosheet.
US10177219B2
A semiconductor device, including a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, and a parallel pn layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer. The parallel pn layer includes a plurality of first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type, and a plurality of second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type. The first and second semiconductor regions are alternatingly arranged in a direction parallel to the surface of the semiconductor layer. Each second semiconductor region has at least one first region that is a region having a group 18 element introduced therein.
US10177218B2
A diode includes upper and lower electrodes and first and second N-type doped semiconductor substrate portions connected to the lower electrode. A first vertical transistor and a second transistor are formed in the first portion and series-connected between the electrodes. The gate of the first transistor is N-type doped and coupled to the upper electrode. The second transistor has a P channel and has a P-type doped gate. First and second doped areas of the second conductivity type are located in the second portion and are separated by a substrate portion topped with another N-type doped gate. The first doped area is coupled to the gate of the second transistor. The second doped area and the other gate are coupled to the upper electrode.
US10177215B1
A microelectronic device includes a capacitor having a lower plate of interconnect metal, a capacitor dielectric layer with a lower silicon dioxide layer, a silicon oxy-nitride layer, and an upper silicon dioxide layer, and an upper plate over the capacitor dielectric layer. The silicon oxy-nitride layer has an average index of refraction of 1.85 to 1.95 at a wavelength of 248 nanometers. To form the microelectronic device, the lower silicon dioxide layer, the silicon oxy-nitride layer, and the upper silicon dioxide layer are formed in sequence over an interconnect metal layer. The upper plate is formed, leaving the lower silicon dioxide layer, the silicon oxy-nitride layer, and at least a portion of the upper silicon dioxide layer over the interconnect metal layer. An interconnect mask is formed of photoresist over the upper plate and the silicon oxy-nitride layer, using the silicon oxy-nitride layer as an anti-reflection layer.
US10177210B2
A display device includes a substrate having an edge portion, a display region located on the substrate and separated from the edge portion, a drive circuit region between the display region and the edge portion, a terminal region on the edge portion; and wirings in the display region, the drive circuit region, and an area between the drive circuit region and the terminal region, wherein at least one wiring of the wirings include a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer overlapping the first conductive layer in a plan view and separated from the first conductive layer, a first connection portion where the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected, a second connection portion where the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected, and the first connection portion is separated from the second connection portion.
US10177207B2
An organic light emitting diode display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; an auxiliary electrode formed at the same layer as the first electrode; a pixel defining layer having a first contact hole overlapping a part of the auxiliary electrode; an organic light emitting member disposed on the pixel defining layer and having a second contact hole enclosing the first contact hole; and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting member and inside the first contact hole and the second contact hole, wherein the second electrode is in contact with the auxiliary electrode through the first contact hole and the second contact hole.
US10177193B2
An array of mesa photodiodes, including a useful layer of CdxHg1-xTe wherein pads are formed. The array includes a first doped zone having a first N or P doping; and second doped zones having a second P or N doping of a different type from that of the first doping, and each extending on an upper region of a pad. The first doped zone includes at least one first region having a first doping density, located at least under each of the pads; and at least one second region, located between two neighboring pads, and having a second doping density higher than the first doping density, each second region being separated from the closest second doped zone by at least one portion of the first region.
US10177190B2
A photoelectric conversion portion, a charge holding portion, a transfer portion, and a sense node are formed in a P-type well. The charge holding portion is configured to include an N-type semiconductor region, which is a first semiconductor region holding charges in a portion different from the photoelectric conversion portion. A P-type semiconductor region having a higher concentration than the P-type well is disposed under the N-type semiconductor region.
US10177182B2
An image sensor includes: a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel that are adjacent to each other; and an upper shield, wherein the first sub-pixel includes a first photodiode and a first storage diode, and the second sub-pixel includes a second photodiode and a second storage diode, and the upper shield is formed over the first and second storage diodes vertically overlap with the first and second storage diodes.
US10177181B2
There is provided a photodiode array including a semiconducting substrate and a plurality of photodiodes that are disposed at a surface of the substrate. Each photodiode is laterally spaced apart from neighboring photodiodes by a lateral substrate surface region. An optical interface surface of the substrate is arranged for accepting external input radiation. A plurality of electrically conducting fuses are disposed on the substrate surface. Each fuse is connected to a photodiode in the plurality of photodiodes. Each fuse is disposed at a lateral substrate surface region that is spaced apart from neighboring photodiodes in the plurality of photodiodes.
US10177179B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT) device may include a data line and a gate line formed on a base substrate, a TFT connected to the data line and the gate line, and a magnetic field antenna spaced apart from the data line and the gate line on the base substrate. The magnetic field antenna may be connected to the TFT and configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the TFT or to control a driving of the TFT.
US10177178B1
An integrated circuit (IC) microdisplay structure is disclosed. The structure can include: a first oxide layer positioned on a substrate; a first voltage source (VSS) pad within the first oxide layer; a metal pillar disposed within the first oxide layer and on the first VSS pad; a first gallium nitride layer disposed on the metal pillar and extending over the first oxide layer; and at least one subpixel formed from the first gallium nitride layer. Alternatively, the structure can include a first oxide layer positioned on a substrate; a first metal layer positioned on the first oxide layer; a first gallium nitride layer on the first metal layer; and at least one subpixel formed from the first gallium nitride layer. The structure may further include a subpixel driver electrically connected to the at least one subpixels where a portion of the subpixel driver is vertically aligned with a subpixel.
US10177171B2
A display panels having a direct contact of the source or drain and pixel electrode. The display panels includes an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate and at least one TFT and at least one pixel electrode on the array substrate. The TFT includes a gate, a source, a drain, a gate insulation layer and a trench layer, the trench layer include an AS Island pattern and a doped layer, the source and the drain are arranged on the doped layer, and the AS Island pattern is arranged on the gate insulation layer. The source or the drain directly contacts with the pixel electrode without any material layers provided there between.
US10177165B1
A method for fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) having a SONOS memory device and a logic/analog device requiring different gate oxide layers comprises steps as follows: A substrate having a high voltage region, a memory region and a logic/analog is firstly provided. Next, a first gate oxide layer is formed on the high voltage region, the memory region and the logic/analog. The first gate oxide layer is then patterned to expose the logic/analog region and to define a first channel area and a second channel area respectively on the memory region and the high voltage region. Subsequently, a silicon oxide-silicon nitride-silicon oxide (ONO) structure is formed on the first channel area. A second gate oxide layer is then formed on the logic/analog and patterned to define a third channel area.
US10177160B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a peripheral structure, a lower insulating layer, and a stack. The substrate includes a peripheral circuit region and a cell array region. The peripheral structure is on the peripheral circuit region. The lower insulating layer covers the peripheral circuit region and the cell array region and has a protruding portion protruding from a flat portion. The stack is on the lower insulating layer and the cell array region, and includes upper conductive patterns and insulating patterns which are alternately and repeatedly stacked.
US10177154B2
After forming a laterally contacting pair of a semiconductor fin and a conductive strap structure having a base portion vertically contacting a deep trench capacitor embedded in a substrate and a fin portion laterally contacting the semiconductor fin, conducting spikes that are formed on the sidewalls of the deep trench are removed or pushed deeper into the deep trench. Subsequently, a dielectric cap that inhibits epitaxial growth of a semiconductor material thereon is formed over at least a portion of the base portion of the conductive strap structure. The dielectric cap can be formed either over an entirety of the base portion having a stepped structure or on a distal portion of the base portion.
US10177150B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes preparing a substrate including a first region and a second region, sequentially forming a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer on the first and second regions, patterning the first and second semiconductor layers to form a lower semiconductor pattern and an upper semiconductor pattern on each of the first and second regions, selectively removing the lower semiconductor pattern on the second region to form a gap region, and forming gate electrodes at the first and second regions, respectively.
US10177147B2
A semiconductor device is provided. Gates of first PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together for receiving an input signal. Gates of second PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Gates of third PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Gates of fourth PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together. Drains of fourth PMOS and NMOS transistors are coupled together for providing an output signal. When the first, second, third and fourth NMOS transistors are connected in parallel and the first, second, third and fourth PMOS transistors are connected in parallel, the output signal is provided according to the input signal and a first logic function. When the first and second NMOS transistors are connected in serial and the first and second PMOS transistors are connected in serial, the output signal is provided according to the input signal and a second logic function.
US10177142B2
A circuit suitable for data backup of a logic circuit is provided. The circuit includes first to fourth nodes, a capacitor, first to third transistors, and first and second circuits. Data can be loaded and stored between the circuit and the logic circuit. The first node is electrically connected to a data output terminal of the logic circuit. The second node is electrically connected to a data input terminal of the logic circuit. The capacitor is electrically connected to the third node. The first transistor controls electrical continuity between the first node and the third node. The second transistor controls electrical continuity between the second node and the third node. The third transistor controls electrical continuity between the second node and the fourth node. The first and second circuits have functions of raising gate voltage of the first transistor and raising gate voltage of the second transistor, respectively.
US10177140B2
A transistor includes an emitter of a first conductivity type, base of a second conductivity type, collector of the first conductivity type, and cathode of a lateral suppression diode. The emitter is disposed at a top surface of the transistor and configured to receive electrical current from an external source. The base is configured to conduct the electrical current from the collector to the emitter. The base is disposed at the top surface of the transistor and laterally between the emitter and the collector. The collector is configured to attract and collect minority carriers from the base. The cathode of the first conductivity type is surrounded by the base and disposed between the emitter and the collector, and the cathode is configured to suppress a lateral flow of the minority carriers from the base to the collector.
US10177138B2
A semiconductor device used in a protection circuit including a thyristor and an LCR circuit which includes a coil L, a capacitor C and a resistor R, the semiconductor device may include: a semiconductor layer in which the thyristor is provided; an insulating film provided on the semiconductor layer; and a pair of electrodes provided on the insulating film and connected to a protection target circuit, wherein at least one of the coil L, the capacitor C and the resistor R is provided in the insulating film, and the at least one of the coil L, the capacitor C and the resistor R is connected to an anode of the thyristor by a first metal wire filling a first hole provided in the insulating film.
US10177134B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a plurality of trenches formed in the substrate; and a plurality of functional element forming regions arrayed along each of the trenches, including a channel forming region as a current path, wherein the plurality of functional element forming regions includes a first functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively small and a second functional element forming region in which the area of the channel forming region per unit area is relatively large, and the first functional element forming region is provided at a region where heat generation should be suppressed.
US10177124B1
The present invention discloses a flexible micro-LED display module, comprising: a flexible substrate, a substrate protection layer, a lattice matching layer, an LED array, a transparent conductive substrate, and a light conversion layer. The light conversion layer is constituted by a plurality of red light conversion units, a plurality of green light conversion units, and a plurality of blue light conversion units, such that one pixel is formed by one red light conversion unit, one green light conversion unit, one blue light conversion unit, and several light-emitting elements. In the case of some light-emitting elements failing to radiate light normally, the defective pixel correction circuit is used to apply luminous intensity adjusting process to other light-emitting elements working normally, so as to make the flexible micro-LED display module able to display video or images with the lowest number of defective pixels capable of meeting the requirements of pixel standards.
US10177115B2
Methods of forming and structures of packages are discussed herein. In an embodiment, a method includes forming a back side redistribution structure, and after forming the back side redistribution structure, adhering a first integrated circuit die to the back side redistribution structure. The method further includes encapsulating the first integrated circuit die on the back side redistribution structure with an encapsulant, forming a front side redistribution structure on the encapsulant, and electrically coupling a second integrated circuit die to the first integrated circuit die. The second integrated circuit die is electrically coupled to the first integrated circuit die through first external electrical connectors mechanically attached to the front side redistribution structure.
US10177113B2
A method of mass transferring electronic devices includes following steps. A wafer is provided. The wafer includes a substrate and a plurality of electronic devices. The electronic devices are arranged in a matrix on a surface of the substrate. The wafer is attached to a temporary fixing film. The wafer is cut so that the wafer is divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks includes at least a part of the electronic devices and a sub-substrate. The temporary fixing film is stretched so that the blocks on the temporary fixing film are separated from each other as the temporary fixing film is stretched. At least a part of the blocks is selected as a predetermined bonding portion, and each of the blocks in the predetermined bonding portion is transferred to a carrying substrate in sequence, so that the electronic devices in the predetermined bonding portion arc bonded to the carrying substrate. The sub-substrates of the blocks are removed. Another method of mass transferring electronic devices is also provided.
US10177112B2
A method of manufacturing a package which comprises encapsulating at least part of an electronic chip by an encapsulant, subsequently covering a part of the electronic chip with a chip attach medium, and attaching the encapsulated electronic chip on a chip carrier via the chip attach medium.
US10177102B2
Tamper-proof electronic packages and fabrication methods are provided which include a glass substrate. The glass substrate is stressed glass with a compressively-stressed surface layer. Further, one or more electronic components are secured to the glass substrate within a secure volume of the tamper-proof electronic package. In operation, the glass substrate is configured to fragment with an attempted intrusion event into the electronic package, and the fragmenting of the glass substrate also fragments the electronic component(s) secured to the glass substrate, thereby destroying the electronic component(s). In certain implementations, the glass substrate has undergone ion-exchange processing to provide the stressed glass. Further, the electronic package may include an enclosure, and the glass substrate may be located within the secure volume separate from the enclosure, or alternatively, the enclosure may be a stressed glass enclosure, an inner surface of which is the glass substrate for the electronic component(s).
US10177093B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the device including gate structures on a substrate; source/drain layers on portions of the substrate that are adjacent the gate structures, respectively; first contact plugs contacting upper surfaces of the source/drain layers, respectively; a second contact plug contacting one of the gate structures, a sidewall of the second contact plug being covered by an insulating spacer; and a third contact plug commonly contacting an upper surface of at least one of the gate structures and at least one of the first contact plugs, at least a portion of a sidewall of the third contact plug not being covered by an insulating spacer.
US10177088B2
An antifuse structure including an opening through a dielectric material to a contact surface and an antifuse material layer present within the opening. The antifuse material layer may be a phase change material alloy of tantalum and nitrogen, wherein at least a base surface of the antifuse material layer is present on the contact surface and sidewall surfaces of the antifuse material layer are present on sidewalls of the opening through the dielectric material. An airgap or solid material core may be in the opening atop the base surface of the phase change material alloy. An electrically conductive material may be in direct contact with at least the antifuse material layer.
US10177087B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of conductive areas formed on the substrate at a first vertical level; a first wiring layer formed on the substrate at a second vertical level which is higher than the first vertical level, the first wiring layer including first lines that extend in a first direction, one first line of the first lines connected to a first conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas through a via contact; a second wiring layer formed on the substrate at a third vertical level which is higher than the second vertical level, the second wiring layer including second lines that extend in a second direction that crosses the first direction, one second line of the second lines connected to a second conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas; and a deep via contact spaced apart from lines of the first wiring layer in a horizontal direction and extending from the second conductive area to the one second line.
US10177086B2
In a microelectronic component having conductive vias (114) passing through a substrate (104) and protruding above the substrate, conductive features (120E.A, 120E.B) are provided above the substrate that wrap around the conductive vias' protrusions (114′) to form capacitors, electromagnetic shields, and possibly other elements. Other features and embodiments are also provided.
US10177082B2
A method of forming a semiconductor package includes growing a layer of carbon nano material on a chip. The chip has a first surface and a second surface and the layer of carbon nano material is grown on the first surface of the chip. The layer of carbon nano material is configured to provide a path through which heat generated from the chip is dissipated. A substrate is attached to the second surface of the chip. A molding compound is formed above the substrate to encapsulate the chip and the layer of carbon nano material.
US10177081B2
A device may include a lead frame, where the lead frame includes a central portion, and a side pad, the side pad being laterally disposed with respect to the central portion. The device may further include a thyristor device, the thyristor device comprising a semiconductor die and further comprising a gate, wherein the thyristor device is disposed on a first side of the lead frame on the central portion. The device may also include a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) device electrically coupled to the gate of the thyristor device, wherein the PTC device is disposed on the side pad on the first side of the lead frame; and a thermal coupler having a first end connected to the thyristor device and a second end attached to the PTC device.
US10177069B2
A heat-dissipating structure is formed by bonding a first member and a second member, each being any of a metal, ceramic, and semiconductor, via a die bonding member; or a semiconductor module formed by bonding a semiconductor chip, a metal wire, a ceramic insulating substrate, and a heat-dissipating base substrate including metal, with a die bonding member interposed between each. At least one of the die bonding members includes a lead-free low-melting-point glass composition and metal particles. The lead-free low-melting-point glass composition accounts for 78 mol % or more in terms of the total of the oxides V2O5, TeO2, and Ag2O serving as main ingredients. The content of each of TeO2 and Ag2O is 1 to 2 times the content of V2O5, and at least one of BaO, WO3, and P2O5 is included as accessory ingredients, and at least one of Y2O3, La2O3, and Al2O3 is included as additional ingredients.
US10177056B2
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of extracting a die from an original packaged integrated circuit, modifying the extracted die, reconditioning the modified extracted die, placing the reconditioned die into a cavity of a hermetic package base, bonding a plurality of bond wires between reconditioned die pads of the reconditioned die to leads of the hermetic package base or downbonds to create an assembled hermetic package base, and sealing a hermetic package lid to the assembled hermetic package base to create a new packaged integrated circuit. Modifying the extracted die includes removing the one or more ball bonds on the one or more die pads. Reconditioning the modified extracted die includes adding a sequence of metallic layers to bare die pads of the modified extracted die. The extracted die is a fully functional semiconductor die with one or more ball bonds on one or more die pads of the extracted die.
US10177054B2
A method for remapping an extracted die is provided. The method includes one or more of removing an extracted die from a previous integrated circuit package, the extracted die including a plurality of original bond pads having locations that do not correspond to desired pin assignments of a new package base and bonding an interposer to the extracted die. The interposer includes first bond pads configured to receive new bond wires from the plurality of original bond pads and second bond pads corresponding to desired pin assignments of the new package base, each individually electrically coupled to one of the first bond pads and configured to receive new bond wires from package leads or downbonds of the new package base.
US10177053B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor manufacturing and the teachings of the present disclosure may be embodied in a semiconductor chip with an interconnect monitor. Some embodiments may include arrays of diodes on the semiconductor chip; each diode with a stack of vertical interconnects and metal contacts, the stack and the diode connected in series and control mechanisms for addressing the diodes. The control mechanisms may include first inverters for applying either a high or a low voltage to columns of the diode stacks, connected at one end of each diode stack. Each first inverter may include reverse logic receiving a reverse logic signal and configured to invert a logic signal fed to the device for applying a relatively high or low voltage and second inverters for applying either a high or a low voltage to rows of the diode stack in the one of the plurality of arrays, connected at a second end of said diode stack, wherein each second inverter comprises reverse logic receiving an inverted reverse logic signal and configured to invert a logic signal fed to the device for applying a relatively high or low voltage.
US10177051B2
Methods and apparatuses for modifying a work function of transistors included in an integrated circuit are disclosed. A tester unit may be configured to test an integrated circuit that includes a plurality of circuit paths. The tester unit may be further configured to analyze the results from testing the integrated circuit and, based on the analysis, identify a circuit path that fails to meet a desired performance goal. A work function of a transistor included in the identified circuit path may be modified by the tester unit using an energy source external to the integrated circuit.
US10177050B2
A dynamically tunable process kit, a processing chamber having a dynamically tunable process kit, and a method for processing a substrate using a dynamically tunable process kit are provided. The dynamically tunable process kit allows one or both of the electrical and thermal state of the process kit to be changed without changing the physical construction of the process kit, thereby allowing plasma properties, and hence processing results, to be easily changed without replacing the process kit. The processing chamber having a dynamically tunable process kit includes a chamber body that includes a portion of a conductive side wall configured to be electrically controlled, and a process kit. The processing chamber includes a first control system operable to control one or both of an electrical and thermal state of the process kit and a second control system operable to control an electrical state of the portion of the side wall.
US10177047B2
After forming an interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer over a semiconductor material portion located on a substrate, a gate trench is formed extending through the ILD layer to expose a channel region of the semiconductor material portion. A gate structure is then formed within the gate trench. Epitaxial semiconductor regions are subsequently formed within source/drain contact openings formed on opposite sides of the gate structure, followed by forming source/drain contact structures on the epitaxial semiconductor regions.
US10177046B2
A technique relates to forming a semiconductor device. A first substrate is provided adjacent to a second substrate. The first substrate has a first surface orientation, and the second substrate has a second surface orientation different from the first surface orientation. An n-type field effect transistor (NFET) device is formed with the first substrate. The NFET device includes a first source, a first drain, and one or more first fins. The first source and the first drain have a vertical relationship with respect to the one or more first fins. A p-type field effect transistor (PFET) device is formed with the second substrate. The PFET device includes a second source, a second drain, and one or more second fins. The second source and the second drain have a vertical relationship with respect to the one or more second fins.
US10177045B2
Bulk CMOS RF switches having reduced parasitic capacitance are achieved by reducing the size and/or doping concentration of the switch's N-doped tap (N-Tap) element, which is used to conduct a bias voltage to a Deep N-Well disposed under each switch's P-Type body implant (P-Well). Both the P-Well and the N-Tap extend between an upper epitaxial silicon surface and an upper boundary of the Deep N-well. A low-doping-concentration approach utilizes intrinsic (lightly doped) N-type epitaxial material to provide a body region of the N-Tap element, whereby an N+ surface contact diffusion is separated from an underlying section of the Deep N-well by a region of intrinsic epitaxial silicon. An alternative reduced-size approach utilizes an open-ring deep trench isolation structure that surrounds the active switch region (e.g., the Deep N-well and P-Well), and includes a relatively small-sized N-Tap region formed in an open corner region of the isolation structure.
US10177042B2
A semiconductor device includes a first trench and a second trench, a liner pattern along a portion of side surfaces and along bottom surfaces of the first and the second trenches, respectively, a work function metal in the first and the second trenches and on the liner pattern, respectively, a first barrier metal in the first trench and on the work function metal, and having a first thickness, a second barrier metal in the second trench and on the work function metal, and having a second thickness thicker than the first thickness, and a first fill metal on the first barrier metal.
US10177038B1
A method for semiconductor fabrication includes providing a device structure having an isolation structure, a fin adjacent the isolation structure, gate structures over the fin and the isolation structure, one or more dielectric layers over the isolation structure and the fin and between the gate structures, a first contact hole over the fin, and a second contact hole over the isolation structure. The method further includes depositing a protection layer and treating it with a plasma so that the protection layer in the first contact hole and the protection layer in the second contact hole have different etch selectivity in an etching process; and etching the protection layer to etch through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the first contact hole without etching through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the second contact hole.
US10177035B2
It is prevented that when a predetermined number of semiconductor chips having transistors are manufactured from one semiconductor wafer, manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device is increased due to excess semiconductor chips manufactured from the semiconductor wafer. A first bipolar transistor including a first emitter region having a first area is formed in a first chip formation region in an exposure region that can be exposed by one exposure step, and a second bipolar transistor including a second emitter region having a second area different from the first area is formed in a second chip formation region in the exposure region.
US10177033B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of non-semiconductor material portions at a first side of a semiconductor substrate; forming semiconductor material on the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions to bury the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions within semiconductor material; removing at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate from a second side of the semiconductor substrate to uncover the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions at a backside of the semiconductor device; and forming a rough surface at the backside of the semiconductor device by removing at least a subset of the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions while at least a part of a semiconductor material located laterally between the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions remains or by removing at least a part of a semiconductor material located laterally between the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions while the plurality of non-semiconductor material portions remain.
US10177022B2
The present invention provides a temporary-bonding adhesive having excellent heat resistance, whereby a semiconductor circuit formation substrate and a support substrate can be bonded by a single type of adhesive layer, the adhesive force thereof does not change over the course of steps for manufacturing a semiconductor device or the like, and the adhesive can subsequently be easily de-bonded at room temperature under mild conditions; and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device using the temporary-bonding adhesive. The present invention includes a temporary-bonding adhesive wherein a polyimide copolymer having at least an acid dianhydride residue and a diamine residue, the diamine residue including both of (A1) a polysiloxane-based diamine residue represented by a general formula (1) in which n is a natural number from 1 to 15, and (B1) a polysiloxane-based diamine residue represented by a general formula (1) in which n is a natural number from 16 to 100, the polyimide copolymer containing 40-99.99 mol % of the (A1) residue and 0.01-60 mol % of the (B1) residue.
US10177020B2
A buffer system for a semiconductor device fabrication tool includes one or more retractable shelves, one or more sliding assemblies positionable above the one or more load ports of the semiconductor device fabrication tool, and one or more lifting assemblies. The one or more retractable shelves are configured to support sealable containers. The one or more sliding assemblies are configured to receive the sealable containers and are further configured to transport the sealable containers to one or more positions beneath the one or more retractable shelves. The one or more lifting assemblies are configured to transport the sealable containers between any two of the group including one or more retractable shelves, the one or more sliding assemblies, and the one or more load ports.
US10177013B2
A monocrystal and polycrystal texturing device includes a device body, various stations arranged in the device body, a transmission device and a control system. The various stations are respectively a dipping acid texturing station, a spray washing station, a drying station, a spray alkali texturing station, a spray washing station, a dipping acid treatment station, a spray washing station, an acid treatment station, a spray washing station and a drying station arranged in sequence. The transmission device is for transmitting a silicon wafer to each station in sequence. The spray alkali texturing station is also connected with a heating device. The control system controls the working status of each station and the heating device. The technology of the present invention has the advantages of stable operation, high efficiency and reliability, and can conduct seamless switching among polycrystal acid texturing, monocrystal alkali texturing, monocrystal acid texturing, and monocrystal alkali texturing.
US10177011B2
A chip packaging method includes forming a first redistribution layer and a first dielectric layer on a first temporary carrier to generate a plurality of first conductive interfaces close to the first temporary carrier, each pair of neighboring first conductive interfaces having a first pitch; forming a second dielectric layer on a first portion of the first redistribution layer and the first dielectric layer so as to cover the first portion of the first redistribution layer and expose a second portion; and forming a second redistribution layer and a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer to generate a plurality of second conductive interfaces. A circuitry being formed by at least the first redistribution layer and the second redistribution layer and each pair of neighboring second conductive interfaces has a second pitch larger than the first pitch.
US10176996B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a replacement metal gate and a fabrication process with reduced lithography steps. Using selective etching techniques, a layer of fill metal is used to protect the dielectric layer in the trenches, eliminating the need for some lithography steps. This, in turn, reduces the overall cost and complexity of fabrication. Furthermore, additional protection is provided during etching, which serves to improve product yield.
US10176993B2
A third semiconductor layer (105) including a third nitride semiconductor is provided between an electrode (110) and a second semiconductor layer (104) including a second nitride semiconductor. The band gap of the second nitride semiconductor is set such that the carrier movement between a first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by a diffusion process. The thickness of the second semiconductor layer (104) is set such that the carrier movement between the first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by the diffusion process. The carrier movement between the first semiconductor layer (103) and the third semiconductor layer (105) via the second semiconductor layer (104) is rate-determined by a field emission process.
US10176991B1
High-quality, single-crystalline silicon-germanium (Si(1-x)Gex) having a high germanium content is provided. Layers of the high-quality, single-crystalline silicon-germanium can be grown to high sub-critical thicknesses and then released from their growth substrates to provide Si(1-x)Gex films without lattice mismatch-induced misfit dislocations or a mosaic distribution of crystallographic orientations.
US10176985B2
The method includes the steps of: storing slurry containing optical matter particles into a slurry tank; stirring the slurry inside the slurry tank by causing a bubble producing unit arranged below a liquid surface of the slurry to produce bubbles; and spraying the slurry onto a coating target including a light emitting element from a nozzle arranged above the coating target.
US10176968B2
The present invention relates to enabling a versatile charged particle beam device, which is used for a wide range of kinds of samples to be observed and has parameters of emission conditions of a primary charged particle beam that is difficult to be registered in advance, to be operated easily and accurately even by a less-experienced operator and to obtain high-resolution images. A charged particle beam device according to the present invention includes, for example: a charged particle source, a focusing lens for a primary charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle source, an objective lens for focusing the primary charged particle beam, a movable objective aperture having multiple objective apertures disposed on a side of the charged particle source with respect to the objective lens, a detector of a secondary signal from the sample resulting from emission of the primary charged particle beam, a display unit configured to process and display a detected secondary signal, and a storage unit configured to store multiple emission conditions of the primary particle beam. The operation controller makes one emission condition be selected, determines whether or not the objective aperture is suitable for the selected emission condition, displays that the objective aperture is unsuitable when the objective aperture is unsuitable, and preadjusts the primary charged particle beam according to the selected emission condition and stores the preadjustment result as parameters for the emission conditions when the objective aperture is suitable.
US10176962B2
An X-ray emitter has an X-ray tube which contains a vacuum envelope in which an emitter and an anode are disposed. The emitter can be heated by an external flat emitter filament supply. Accordingly the emitter is configured as a filament emitter and an interface circuit is arranged between the filament emitter and the flat emitter filament supply. In this manner, a flat-emitter-based X-ray emitter can be replaced by a filament-emitter-based X-ray emitter in an X-ray emitter system without any configuration changes.
US10176960B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for enhancing the collection of charge carriers, such as electrons. Methods of manufacturing the devices are also disclosed. An electronic device can include a cathode, an anode, a gate electrode, and a focus electrode. The cathode can include a cathode substrate and an emitting region that is configured to emit an electron flow. The anode can include an anode substrate and a collection region that is configured to receive and/or absorb the electron flow. The gate electrode can be receptive to a first power source to produce a voltage in the gate electrode that is positively-biased with respect to the cathode. The focus electrode can be receptive to a second power source to produce a voltage in the focus electrode that is negatively-biased with respect to the gate electrode and/or the cathode.
US10176952B2
Provided is an electromagnetic relay that is reduced in size and has great flexibility in designing. For this purpose, when a predetermined time has passed after generation of an arc at least either between a movable contact and a fixed contact or between a movable contact and a fixed contact, an arc generated between the movable contact and the fixed contact is extended by a magnetic field generation unit to be longer than an arc generated between the movable contact and the fixed contact.
US10176949B2
A control apparatus for a relay and controlling method thereof. The controlling method includes: detecting an input voltage of the relay and a current flowing through the relay; obtaining a voltage zero crossing point information according to the input voltage and a reference voltage value; turning on the relay at an initial turn-on time point according to the voltage zero crossing point information, and obtaining a real turn-on time point of the relay according to the current flowing through the relay; obtaining a turn-on delay of the relay according to the initial turn-on time point and the real turn-on time point, and adjusting the initial turn-on time point to obtain a compensated turn-on time point according to the turn-on delay.
US10176948B2
A manual charging apparatus for a vacuum interrupter, including a motor for charging a closing spring mounted on a vacuum interrupter; a charging shaft configured to rotate by a rotational force of the motor; and a manual charging handle coupled to one end of the charging shaft and configured to manually rotate the manual charging handle, wherein the manual charging handle includes an insertion part formed in an cylindrical shape and inserted into one end of the charging shaft; an extension part vertically bent from the insertion part and extended to increase a revolution torque; and a handle part vertically bent from the extension part and configured to apply a manual operation force, and wherein the insertion part includes a rotation restriction means configured to restrict a rotation in one direction.
US10176936B2
A repairable electrical component includes one or more electrodes and a pliable casing, the one or more electrodes positioned within the pliable casing, wherein the repairable electrical component is configured to self-repair if the repairable electrical component or any part of the repairable component is partially damaged. A method of forming a repairable electrical component includes forming one or more electrodes, the electrodes comprising a core, an intermediate layer of ferromagnetic material and a pyrrole based material defining an outer layer, the outer layer encapsulating the core and ferromagnetic layer, positioning the one or more electrodes within an electrolyte, providing a casing to enclose the one or more electrodes and the electrolyte, the casing formed from a polyurethane material.
US10176929B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes a capacitor element that having an anode with a core portion and a porous portion, a dielectric layer covering the porous portion, and a cathode including a solid electrolyte layer covering at least part of the dielectric layer; an exterior body that encloses the capacitor element so as to expose an end of the anode; a first external electrode connected to the cathode; and a second external electrode connected to the end of the anode. The thickness of the porous portion at the end of the anode that is exposed from the exterior member is smaller than the thickness of the porous portion in a region covered by the cathode.
US10176922B2
In an embodiment, a multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 is constituted in such a way that four capacitive components C1 to C4 that are connected in series are formed between a first internal electrode layer group 14 and a second internal electrode layer group 15 adjacent to it, wherein, among the four capacitive components C1 to C4, the facing area Sc1 that defines the capacitance value of the capacitive component C1 closest to the first external electrode 12 and the facing area Sc4 that defines the capacitance value of the capacitive component C4 closest to the second external electrode 13 are greater than the facing areas Sc2 and Sc3 that define the capacitance values of the two remaining capacitive components C2 and C3, respectively. The multilayer ceramic capacitor is capable of satisfying the needs for both size reduction and voltage resistance increase.
US10176915B2
A bistable linear electromagnet comprising a first housing (10) and a second housing (11) in alignment, a movable armature (18) comprising a rod (19) and a shuttle (20) that is slidably mounted, and a first coil (13) positioned in the first housing and a second coil (15) positioned in the second housing. A cavity (25) is made in a measurement wall (4) of one of the housings, and the electromagnet comprises a magnetic field sensor (26) positioned in the cavity and designed to measure a magnetic flux existing in a magnetic path formed by the walls of said housing and by the shuttle, in order to detect whether the shuttle has moved towards or away from the abutment wall of said first or second housing.
US10176914B2
A method for controlling a current flowing through a consumer comprises the following steps, which are periodically traversed: determining a dither current based on a dither signal and a definite point in time, wherein the dither signal is determined by a frequency, an amplitude and a signal form and actuating a flow control valve to produce the sum of a target current and the determined dither current by the consumer. Furthermore, the method comprises determining an indication to the current flowing through the consumer; compensating the indication by the factor of the dither current; and providing the indication, wherein the determination of the dither current and the determination of the indication are synchronized with each other in a predetermined way.
US10176910B2
The present invention provides a non-oriented silicon steel with excellent magnetic properties and a manufacturing process therefor. During the manufacturing process of the present invention, the temperature T of the molten steel of steel tapped from a converter during steelmaking and the carbon content [C] and the free oxygen content [O] comply with the following formula: 7.27×103≤[O][C]e(−5000/T)≤2.99×104, and the final annealing step uses tension annealing at a low temperature for a short time. A non-oriented silicon steel with a low iron loss, and excellent anisotropy of iron loss can be obtained by means of the manufacturing process of the present invention.
US10176901B2
A system configured to passively filter radioactive materials from a flow may include one or more particulate removal devices; one or more water removal devices; and/or one or more radionuclide removal devices. At least one of the one or more particulate removal devices may mechanically remove particulates of the radioactive materials from the flow. At least one of the one or more water removal devices mechanically may remove water from the flow. At least one of the one or more radionuclide removal devices may remove radioactive aerosols, reactive radioactive gases, or radioactive aerosols and reactive radioactive gases from the flow using engineered filter media. A filter may include a body, including an inlet and an outlet. The body may be configured to store filter media, to contain pressure from gas explosions, and/or to allow the stored filter media to move toward the outlet when pressure at the inlet increases.
US10176896B2
A CT-based clinical decision support system provides coronary decision support. With or without CT-FFR, a machine learnt predictor predicts the clinical decision for the patient based on input from various sources. Using the machine learnt predictor provides more consistent and comprehensive consideration of the available information. The clinical decision support may be provided prior to review of coronary CT data by a radiologist and/or treating physician, providing a starting point or recommendation that may be used by the radiologist and/or treating physician.
US10176894B2
A method includes determining whether the electronic device is attached on a human body and controlling the electronic device based on information regarding at least one of a body condition of a user, the body condition measured when the electronic device is attached, the user wearing the electronic device a position where the electronic device is attached or detached, or when the electronic device is attached or detached. An electronic device includes a memory configured to store an instruction to enable the processor to determine whether the electronic device is attached on a human body and to control the electronic device based on information regarding at least one of a body condition as measured when the electronic device is attached, the user wearing the electronic device, a position where the electronic device is attached or detached, and a time when the electronic device is attached or detached.
US10176892B2
A system and method for presenting summarized information of medical reports. The system and method receiving a plurality of medical reports, each medical report including a plurality of sections, each of the sections including text content, correlating corresponding sections of each of the medical reports into section types, extracting the text content of the sections of the medical reports for a selected section type and aggregating, into a single display, the text content of the sections of all the medical reports for the selected section type.
US10176888B2
An architecture allows individual system components to be developed and tested individually, i.e., as distinct modules, and to be subsequently combined through standardized electrical and communication interfaces. Any combination of these modules can be implemented to form different products that provide any number of functions, such as an integrated system for monitoring a health condition and/or delivering a medication. The architecture also provides an approach for dynamically updating the product and offering its users the latest generation of technology even after the users have already purchased the product. In particular, the embodiments employ the communication interfaces to also provide connection to a remote network that can update or upgrade the product's software when the product is out in the field.
US10176887B1
Methods for assaying properties in tissues or organs of drugs and other chemical compounds and substances include ex vivo normothermic perfusion with a fluid containing a test substance to obtain data regarding the tissue or organ, the substance and/or an interaction of the substance and the tissue or organ. The data can be used as, for example, part of a submission to a government regulatory organization.
US10176882B1
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a non-volatile memory, a one-time programmable (OTP) memory, and a processor operative to write data values to the non-volatile memory and then initiate programming of a first bit of the OTP memory, the first bit being associated with locking the non-volatile memory from further data being written thereto, and after the non-volatile memory has been locked from further data being written thereto, initiate programming of the second bit of the OTP memory in order to lock the non-volatile memory from further data being erased therefrom.
US10176880B1
Technology for a memory device is described. The memory device can include a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller. The memory controller can apply a first voltage level to a selected wordline associated with the plurality of memory cells during a body reset operation. The memory controller can apply a second voltage level to an unselected wordline associated with the plurality of memory cells during the body reset operation. The selected wordline can transit to a stable negative pillar potential, such that selected memory cells associated with the selected wordline can have a reduced threshold voltage instability.
US10176874B2
A storage device includes bit lines including a first bit line and a second bit line, memory units including a first memory string having memory cells connected in series, connected to the first bit line, and a second memory string having memory cells connected in series, connected to the second bit line, word lines each connected in common to a gate of a memory cell in the first string and a gate of a memory cell in the second string, and a controller configured to control voltages applied to the bit lines and the word lines during writing. When writing is performed on a selected memory cell of the first memory string, a first voltage is applied to a selected word line connected to the gate of the selected memory cell while a second voltage higher than a zero voltage is applied to the first bit line.
US10176873B2
A semiconductor memory device and a reading method thereof are provided. A flash memory includes a memory cell array; a page buffer/reading circuit, holding data of a selected page of the memory cell array; a decoding/selecting circuit, selecting n bits data from the data held by the page buffer based on a column address; and a data bus for n bits, which is connected to the decoding/selecting circuit. The decoding/selecting circuit further connects n/2 bits data of an even address to a lower bit position of the data bus and connects n/2 bits data of an odd address to a upper bit position of the data bus based on the column address. When the start address is the odd address, data of the odd address and data of the even address next to the odd address are selected.
US10176871B2
A page buffer circuit may include: a first node; a first switching circuit configured to pre-charge the bit-line based on a voltage provided to the first switching circuit; a sensing node; a second switching circuit configured to discharge the sensing node when the voltage value of the first node is lower than a voltage value associated with a voltage inputted to the second switching circuit during an evaluation period; a sense latch configured to latch a voltage being determined based on the voltage level of the sensing node, during a strobe period; and a third switching circuit configured to prevent the voltage value of the first node from being lower than a voltage value associated with a voltage inputted to the third switching circuit independently from the voltage at the sense latch.
US10176870B1
The present disclosure includes multifunctional memory cells. A number of embodiments include a gate element, a charge transport element, a first charge storage element configured to store a first charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the first charge storage element includes a nitride material, and a second charge storage element configured to store a second charge transported from the gate element and through the charge transport element, wherein the second charge storage element includes a gallium nitride material.
US10176867B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining level-thresholds for q-level memory cells. A group of the memory cells are read to obtain respective read signal components. The read signal components are processed in dependence on signal level to produce a signal level vector, comprising a series of elements, indicative of the distribution of read signal components in order of signal level. A plurality of possible sets of q−1 elements corresponding, respectively, to q−1 level-thresholds which partition the signal level vector into q segments, is then defined. The q−1 level-thresholds for the group of memory cells are then determined by selecting from said possible sets that set for which a predetermined difference function, dependent on differences in signal level for elements in each of said q segments for the set, has an optimum value.
US10176866B1
An RRAM device is disclosed. The RRAM device includes a lower electrode structure over a conductive lower interconnect layer, an upper electrode structure over the lower electrode structure, and a switching layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode structure. The switching layer has switching layer outer sidewalls. The RRAM device also includes a recap layer having a vertical portion that extends vertically from corners of the switching layer along the upper electrode sidewalls. The recap layer has a horizontal portion that extends horizontally from the corners to the switching layer outer sidewalls.
US10176865B2
An integrated circuit comprising at least one logic tile, wherein at least one logic tile includes a mesh interconnect network. The mesh network includes (i) a plurality of interconnected multiplexers, wherein each multiplexer includes inputs, an output, and a plurality of selection inputs to receive signals that control whether an input is connected to the output and (ii) an inactive/static multiplexer which includes inputs, an output that is inactive/static, and a plurality of selection inputs to receive signals that control whether an input of the inactive/static multiplexer is connected to the output wherein such output is connected to an input of at least one of the interconnected multiplexers of the mesh network. In operation, the selection signals applied to the selection inputs of the inactive/static multiplexer are programmed to concurrently connect two or more inputs to the output of the inactive/static multiplexer.
US10176857B1
The present disclosure relates to a structure which includes a dual write bit switch device which includes a plurality of bit switch devices positioned at different positions of a memory cell array, and which is configured to enable write operations at a specified number of cells per bit line of the memory cell array.
US10176851B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to performing a loop structure for operations performed in memory. An example apparatus might also include a controller configured to cause sensing circuitry to iterate through a plurality of first elements and a plurality of second elements via a loop structure to perform an operation using the plurality of first elements and the plurality of second elements, wherein a conditional statement associated with the loop structure is used to determine whether at least one of a plurality of bits stored as an iterator mask has a particular bit-value. An example apparatus might also include sensing circuitry controllable to perform a shift operation using the iterator mask at each iteration of the loop structure and perform an AND operation using the iterator mask at each iteration of the loop structure.
US10176849B1
The disclosed technology includes methods and systems that reduce off-track write retry operations in shingled magnetic recording systems. In one implementation, the method includes writing data to an initial track, determining which side of the initial track is a shingled side, calculating a percentage of position error signal (PES) at a shingled side end of the initial track (PES1) when an off-track write operation occurs, determining whether the PES1 meets a first pre-determined threshold, continue writing data to a second track responsive to determining the PES1 is below a first pre-determined threshold, calculating a percentage of PES at a shingled side end of the second track (PES2), determining whether a combined value of PES1 and PES2 is above a second predetermined threshold to determine a probability value of the initial track being erased, and continue writing to a third track if the combined value is below the second predetermined threshold.
US10176835B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk comprising servo data, and an actuator configured to actuate a head over the disk. A servo controller is configured to generate digital control values at a first sample rate based on the servo data and transmit the digital control values over a serial interface to a driver circuit. The driver circuit is configured to generate predictive oversampled control values at a second sample rate higher than the first sample rate based on at least two of the digital control values received from the servo controller, apply the predictive oversampled control values to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to generate an analog control signal, and apply the analog control signal to the actuator.
US10176825B2
In general, according to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sound source separation processor and an audio controller. The sound source separation processor is configured to perform a sound source separation function that separates an input audio signal into a voice signal and a background sound signal and emphasizes either the voice signal or the background sound signal. The audio controller is configured to control, based on scene information relating to a scene included in video, performance of the sound source separation function during display of the scene.
US10176823B2
Electronic system for audio noise processing and noise reduction comprises: first and second noise estimators, selector and attenuator. First noise estimator processes first audio signal from voice beamformer (VB) and generate first noise estimate. VB generates first audio signal by beamforming audio signals from first and second audio pick-up channels. Second noise estimator processes first and second audio signal from noise beamformer (NB), in parallel with first noise estimator and generates second noise estimate. NB generates second audio signal by beamforming audio signals from first and second audio pick-up channels. First and second audio signals include frequencies in first and second frequency regions. Selector's output noise estimate may be a) second noise estimate in the first frequency region, and b) first noise estimate in the second frequency region. Attenuator attenuates first audio signal in accordance with output noise estimate. Other embodiments are also described.
US10176822B2
A computerized method for filtering a digital audio file to generate an output audio file that induces optimal health and cognitive ability in a listener of a playback of the output audio file is described herein. The method includes the steps of identifying a plurality of target frequencies that span within an octave, identifying a plurality of mid-point frequencies that are situated at mid-points between any two adjacent target frequencies, applying a peaking filter to the digital audio file centered around the plurality of mid-point frequencies to produce highest frequency attenuation at the plurality of mid-point frequencies, and generating the output audio file.
US10176819B2
A method for converting speech using phonetic posteriorgrams (PPGs). A target speech is obtained and a PPG is generated based on acoustic features of the target speech. Generating the PPG may include using a speaker-independent automatic speech recognition (SI-ASR) system for equalizing different speakers. The PPG includes a set of values corresponding to a range of times and a range of phonetic classes, the phonetic classes corresponding to senones. A mapping between the PPG and one or more segments of the target speech is generated. A source speech is obtained, and the source speech is converted into a converted speech based on the PPG and the mapping.
US10176810B2
Approaches provide for using voice information to influence the importance of search result categories for a search query. For example, various embodiments may provide search results for a search query based on a most relevant search result category to the search query. Voice information associated with a subsequent user interaction may be analyzed to identify whether the search result category is correct or if search results from a different category should be provided. Additionally, the voice information may be used to update the relevance score of the search result category to the search query to improve the category matching of future queries.
US10176809B1
Systems and methods for compressing and decompressing audio data are described. A server may receive input audio data corresponding to a spoken utterance from a speech-controlled device. The server performs speech processing on the input audio data to determine a spoken command and spoken solicited content. The server may then communication with a device associated with an application to obtain output audio data. The server may compress the output audio data by removing portions of audio data therefrom at regular intervals (e.g., milliseconds). The server may then send the compressed output audio data and instructions for decompressing the compressed output audio data to the speech-controlled device. Further, a speech-capturing device may also compress audio data corresponding to an utterance. The speech-capturing device may compress based on various factors, including the speech characteristics of the speaking user.
US10176798B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and intelligent conversion of text into real user speech according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving a textual message from a first user, and accessing a voice profile associated with the first user, where the voice profile includes a real voice of the first user and at least one of emotional patterns relating to the first user, context distinctions relating to the first user, and speech characteristics relating to the first user, where accessing further includes extracting the real voice and at least one of an emotional pattern, a context distinction, and a speech characteristic based on subject matter of the textual message. The method may further include converting the textual message into a real speech of the first user based on the voice profile including the real voice and at least one of the emotional pattern, the context distinction, and the speech characteristic.
US10176791B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor configured to sense a motion of a bow to the string instrument, a vibration sensor configured to sense a vibration generated by the string instrument, and a control module configured to determine a fingering position of a user with respect to the string instrument using the motion of the bow and the vibration.
US10176777B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of signal lines that extend in a second direction in the display region; a vertical drive circuit that is coupled to first ends of the scanning lines and applies a vertical scanning pulse to the first ends to select each row of the pixels in the display region; a horizontal drive circuit that performs a display operation of supplying an image signal to each of the pixels in the row selected by the vertical drive circuit through the signal lines; and a plurality of switches that are coupled to second ends of the scanning lines respectively. Each of the switches supplies the same potential as that supplied to the first ends by the vertical drive circuit to the second end corresponding thereto in an idle period.
US10176770B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for controlling liquid crystal display brightness, and a liquid crystal display device. The method for controlling liquid crystal display brightness according to the present application determines a backlight adjustment rule according to a grayscale value distribution of an image signal and a first preset rule, adjusts a zoned backlight value corresponding to a zoned image data block according to the backlight adjustment rule, as well as drives and controls the backlight source brightness of the corresponding backlight zone by using the adjusted zoned backlight value, thereby adjusting the zoned backlight values for image signals of different grayscale value distributions by using different backlight adjustment rules, significantly improving the picture hierarchy of different image signals, and enhancing the displaying quality of the picture.
US10176767B2
The present disclosure relates to a source drive IC of liquid crystal panels. The source drive IC includes a digital signals module, a Gamma reference voltage module, a comparator, a power voltage module, a selector, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a buffer amplifier. In addition, a driving method of liquid crystal panels may reduce the power consumption of the buffer amplifier to decrease the temperature of the source drive IC so as to enhance the reliability of the liquid crystal panel.
US10176754B2
An electro-optical apparatus includes a plurality of display portions and a control portion. The respective display portions have a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels has a light-emitting element that emits light using current that is input at a predetermined cycle from a power supply line in a period from selecting a scanning line until selecting the subsequent scanning line. The control portion controls the display portions such that one of an input number of times of current from the power supply line to the light-emitting element in the period and an input time of current from the power supply line to the light-emitting element in each of the predetermined cycles changes in conjunction with each other in the display portions that are different from each other and the other changes independently from each other in the display portions that are different from each other.
US10176753B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for controlling brightness of an OLED screen. The method comprises: obtaining brightness of a first sub-pixel in an M-th column of pixels; obtaining brightness of a second sub-pixel; and increasing brightness of the first sub-pixel based on a difference in brightness between the second sub-pixel and the first sub-pixel, if brightness of the second sub-pixel is greater than that of the first sub-pixel.
US10176752B2
A gate driver suitable for integration with the backplane of an AMOLED display includes first and second clock signal sources producing first and second clock signals each having alternating active and inactive portions configured such that when one of the clock signals is active the other of the clock signals is inactive, and active portions of the first and second clock signals do not overlap. In a daisy chain of circuits for producing gate signals, each of the circuits except the last has an output coupled to the input of the next circuit in the chain. A source of a start token signal is coupled to an input of a first circuit in the daisy chain. Each of the circuits is configured to produce a gate signal one clock cycle after an active portion of one of the clock signals is received.
US10176746B2
Provided is a gate driver and a method of driving the same, which enables a voltage level of a Q node to be stably maintained in a blank section by: inputting a clock signal that directly provides a high level to the Q node through a reset signal input end of a reset signal for resetting the Q node of a gate driver integrated circuit; inputting a reset signal for each blank section between frames; or providing a higher gate high voltage and a lower gate low voltage. There may be provided a gate driver integrated circuit that has a robust structure with high reliability and avoids an error of a scan signal by maintaining the voltage level of the Q node to be stable in the blank section, and a method of driving the same.
US10176745B2
A data conversion unit is disclosed which includes: a transformation portion configured to transform R (red), G (green) and B (blue) sub-pixel data signals of input image data into R, G, B and W (white) sub-pixel data signals; and a brightness reinforcement portion configured to adjust brightness of a transformed W sub-pixel data signal included in the transformed R, G, B, and W sub-pixel data signals based on brightness distribution of the input image data.
US10176744B2
A method for driving a display panel is provided. The method includes turning on a first light source for generating a first light in a first sub-frame, turning on a second light source for generating a second light in a second sub-frame, turning on a third light source for generating a third light in a third sub-frame, outputting same first gate signals a first gate line and a second gate line adjacent to the first gate line, and outputting one of a first data signal corresponding to the first gate line or a second data signal corresponding to the second gate line to a data line during an active period of the first gate signals. The second frame is consecutive to the first frame.
US10176740B2
Provided is a display device including a gate driver configured to output a plurality of gate signals to a plurality of gate lines during each of a first frame and a second frame, and a display panel configured to display a first image during the first frame and to display a second image during the second frame, the second frame being longer in duration than the first frame, wherein each of the gate signals includes a high interval having a first voltage level and a low interval having a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level, and wherein the second voltage level of the gate signals during the second frame is lower than the second voltage level of the gate signals during the first frame.
US10176723B2
An obstacle avoidance system is provided to assist a pilot in avoiding obstacles. The obstacle avoidance system includes a set of proximity sensors and a pilot interface device. The set of proximity sensors detects nearby obstacles by emitting a signal and receiving a reflected signal from an obstacle. A processor receives an obstacle indication from the set of proximity sensors and detects the obstacle that is in proximity to the aircraft based at least in part on the reflected signal. The processor acquires a distance and a direction to the obstacle and calculates a threat level posed by the obstacle. The pilot interface device is operable to display the following: an ownship icon indicative of the aircraft, a velocity vector icon indicative of a velocity vector of the aircraft, and an obstacle graphic indicative of the distance, direction, and threat level of the obstacle.
US10176715B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a first-device location for representing a smart vehicle; identifying a unintelligent-vehicle location associated with the first-device location, the unintelligent-vehicle location for representing an unintelligent vehicle; determining a smart vehicle data for representing the smart vehicle data from an environmental sensors of the smart vehicle; and generating with a vehicle control circuit, an area profile for the unintelligent-vehicle location, based on the smart vehicle data for representing geographic relationship between the unintelligent vehicle and the smart vehicle, a further vehicle, or a combination thereof.
US10176713B2
The present invention relates to an emergency alert and warning apparatus and, more particularly, to a road emergency alert and warning apparatus which is installed on a median strip or a guide rail of an expressway or the like to alert a driver of a rear vehicle of an emergency situation when a traffic accident occurs during nighttime driving, thereby preventing an additional secondary accident. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the emergency alert and warning apparatus comprises: an operation switch which is installed on a median strip or a guide rail of a road to allow a user to generate an operation signal when a traffic accident occurs; a control unit which receives the operation signal to output a control signal, and transmits or relays traffic accident notification data to another neighboring emergency alert and warning apparatus through a wired or wireless communication; a warning display unit which is installed rearward with respect to a traveling direction of a vehicle and includes a plurality of LEDs that are turned on and off in response to the control signal of the control unit; and a photovoltaic cell which converts solar energy into electric energy, processes the electric energy into a constant voltage through a DC/DC converter, and supplies power.
US10176705B1
In a method for remote monitoring of alarms, an audio test signal is generated by an alarm device while the alarm device is at a particular location and the audio sensors are arranged in a physically separated configuration. The audio test signal is processed to generate alarm identification data that includes data indicative of directionality of the audio test signal. The plurality of audio sensors, arranged in the physically separated configuration, sense an audio signal that the alarm device generated in response to detecting an alarm condition, and the audio signal and directionality data are processed to determine that the alarm device generated the audio signal. A user is caused to be notified that the alarm device was triggered.
US10176704B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US10176703B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for monitoring on route transportations. The method includes obtaining a driving route of a target vehicle; obtaining a reference position on the driving route away from a first current position of the target vehicle; determining a second current position of the target vehicle after a reference time; determining a distance between the second current position and the reference position is greater than a preset distance; and sending a signal to a target terminal indicating that the target vehicle is off-route.
US10176702B2
A distress situation recognizing and remote assistance summoning device for recognizing a distress situation which may be encountered by a transport vehicle, and for summoning assistance via a wireless communications link is shown and described. The device may be self-contained in one unit and clamped to a tube member of the vehicle. The device includes microprocessor, a battery, a power cable connectable to a vehicle electrical system, accelerometer and gyroscope for sensing impacts, GPS capability, wireless communications capability for summoning assistance, an annunciator for annunciating transmission of an assistance request, a manual assistance request feature, a request cancellation feature, a delay feature delaying the assistance request, a visible and an audible beacon annunciating location of the vehicle, and a coverage annunciator signaling that the vehicle is in an area not in potential communication with a recipient of the request for assistance.
US10176700B2
An apparatus for providing data communication and power to a device located in a room having a power outlet is disclosed. The power outlet may be a standard AC outlet, for example. The apparatus includes a cable extending from the device and having a plug comprising a plug body. Prongs extend from the plug body and couple to the power outlet to receive power. A first near field communication antenna is carried by the plug body. A communication module has a second near field communication antenna and is located in the room in proximity to the plug. At least one of the first near field communication antenna and the second near field communication antenna communicates data wirelessly to the other of the first near field communication antenna and the second near field communication antenna.
US10176699B2
A tracking system determines if a tracking device is located within a safe zone based on whether a set of safe conditions are satisfied. The set of safe conditions includes a geographic boundary or a geographic location and corresponding threshold distance. The set of safe conditions can also include a time window during which a safe zone is active. When a tracking device is within a safe zone (e.g., geographically and temporally), the tracking device is determined to be safe, and notifications associated with the tracking device can be minimized. The safe zones may be user-selected, user-defined, or determined based on data analytics. If a set of safe conditions are not satisfied, the tracking system generates and sends a notification to the user of the tracking device indicating that the tracking device may be lost.
US10176692B1
Computing device(s) are configured for managing the reunification of students with parents during an emergency or a drill for a simulated emergency. The reunification of students with guardians may be managed through the operations of various user interfaces (UIs) presented on the device(s). Different UIs may be configured to support different personnel performing different roles in the reunification process. The UIs may include one or more of a student supervisor UI, a location supervisor UI, a runner UI, a guardian greeter UI, a reunification officer UI, or an incident commander UI. The various UIs enable different personnel to track the location and status of individuals, such as students and guardians, during various stages of a reunification process, enable personnel to dynamically update a centralized database with current information regarding the location and status of individuals, and view real time information regarding the location and status of individuals.
US10176686B2
A system and method used for monitoring conditions in a space through characterizing detected occupants with properties in accordance with time, location and tracked traversal path. The intruder as a detected occupant is distinguished from the tenant, property management staff, and visitor. The system triggers an alert indicative of a condition by sending signals and messages to selected devices or systems as receiving nodes. A condition, such as collected sensor data incompliant to a threshold, is detected and an alert is triggered. A user carried mobile device such as the cellular phone, elevator control system operative in a building are possible receiving nodes of a triggered alert for a detected condition.
US10176685B2
The present invention relates to an intrusion detection system. The intrusion detection system is installed in a surveillance area and may comprise: an image heat ray device for measuring infrared heat generated from an intruder intruding into the surveillance area to determine an intrusion occurrence and generate an alarm signal for indicating the intrusion occurrence, generating a first image and a second image by shooting an image in the surveillance area, generating an intrusion signal including the generated alarm signal, the first image, the second image and a reference image which is an image shot prior to a situation of the intrusion occurrence in the surveillance area, and transmitting the generated intrusion signal to a controller through a frequency for a security system; the controller for receiving the intrusion signal from the image heat ray device and transmitting the received intrusion signal to a server through an Internet network; and the server for receiving the intrusion signal from the controller, transmitting the intrusion signal to the controller and a pre-mapped mobile communication terminal, extracting the alarm signal, the reference image, the first image, and the second image from the received intrusion signal, displaying the extracted alarm signal in an alarm signal display area of a display unit installed at the server, and displaying the extracted reference image, first image, and second image, on an image display screen of the display unit.
US10176681B2
An actuator is connected to an operating element of a manual user interface and outputs a haptic feedback signal to the user via the operating element. The operating element includes a sensor that detects a sensor signal generated by a manual input of the user as a reaction to the emitted feedback signal. The user's reaction time is determined. If the reaction time is shorter than a predetermined limit value, future haptic feedback signals are adjusted in such a way that their haptically perceptible intensity is reduced, and if the reaction time is greater than the predetermined limit value, future haptic feedback signals are changed in such a way that their haptically perceptible intensity is increased.
US10176656B2
An electronic locking device can be configured to become active from a low power state, receive physical input to unlock, and provide access to a replaceable power supply. An electronic locking device can use a combination of physical input and discovery of an authorized mobile device to enable transition from a locked state to an unlocked state. Authorization can be internally stored or externally obtained through a service. An electronic locking device can match a series of physical interactions to a series of stored interactions to enable transition from a locked state to an unlocked state, when an authorized device is unavailable. An electronic locking device can provide access to a replaceable power supply when a latch is released.
US10176653B2
An apparatus including a central access control system and an access reader. The access reader is structured to receive an access credential from the central access control system, and includes a first connector connected with a second connector with the second connector connected to a cable, and with the cable in electronic communication with the central access control system. Connection of the first connector and the second connector places the access reader in electronic communication with the central access control system.
US10176643B2
Three-dimensional reference object data indicating a boundary of a reference object contained in a real video image is generated from first data containing the real video image based on a positional relation between a virtual screen position where the real video image is displayed and a virtual camera position corresponding to a camera position. Second data is generated, which indicates an object constituting a virtual three-dimensional CG space generated by reproducing an actual space where the real video image is taken. Third data is data in which the virtual camera position in the virtual three-dimensional CG space is determined in such a manner that the boundary of the reference object in the reference object data and a boundary of the object corresponding to the reference object in the second data are caused to coincide with each other.
US10176641B2
Examples disclosed relate to displaying virtual objects. One example provides, on a display device comprising a camera and a display, a method comprising acquiring, via the camera, image data imaging an environment, receiving a user input requesting display of a three-dimensional virtual object, comparing dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to dimensional information for a field of view of the display device, modifying the three-dimensional virtual object based upon comparing the dimensional information for the three-dimensional virtual object to the dimensional information for the field of view to obtain a modified three-dimensional virtual object, and displaying the modified three-dimensional virtual object via the display.
US10176640B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating, conducting, and reporting digital surveys utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods assist administrators in generating digital surveys utilizing interactive virtual environments via a virtual reality device and/or augmented reality elements via an augmented reality device. Similarly, the disclosed systems and methods can provide digital surveys via augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices, for instance, by monitoring user interactions via the augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices and providing digital surveys based on the monitored user interactions. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods can present survey results and allow administrators to interact with survey results utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices.
US10176639B2
A virtual image generation system and method is provided. A plurality of synthetic image frames of the three-dimensional scene are rendered, and sequentially displayed to an end user. Each of the displayed image frames has a non-uniform resolution distribution.
US10176633B2
An integrated map and navigation program is described. The program provides a first operational mode for browsing and searching a map. The program provides a second operational mode for providing a navigation presentation that provides a set of navigation directions along a navigated route by reference to the map.
US10176629B2
A digital Earth system based upon a hexagonal subdivision of a polyhedron representation of the Earth utilizes a computer-implemented method for assigning identifiers. The method comprises defining a tessellation of hexagonal cells, the tessellation having a first axis and a second axis, the first axis being perpendicular to a first side of the hexagonal cells, the second axis being 120 degrees from the first axis and being perpendicular to a second side of the hexagonal cells; selecting an origin cell for the tessellation and assigning a unique identifier comprising a first value and a second value thereto; and assigning a unique identifier to each cell other than the origin cell, the unique identifier for each of these cells comprising a first vector value and a second value, the first vector value and the second vector value being indicative of the location of the cell to the origin cell along the first and second axis respectively.
US10176624B2
Techniques for illumination-guided example-based stylization of 3D renderings are described. In implementations, a source image and a target image are obtained, where each image includes a multi-channel image having at least a style channel and multiple light path expression (LPE) channels having light propagation information. Then, the style channel of the target image is synthesized to mimic a stylization of individual illumination effects from the style channel of the source image. As part of the synthesizing, the light propagation information is applied as guidance for synthesis of the style channel of the target image. Based on the guidance, the stylization of individual illumination effects from the style channel of the source image is transferred to the style channel of the target image. Based on the transfer, the style channel of the target image is then generated for display of the target image via a display device.
US10176619B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with emotion augmented animation of avatars are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may comprise an animation augmentation engine to receive facial data of a user, analyze the facial data to determine an emotion state of the user, and drive additional animation that supplements animation of the avatar based at least in part on a result of the determination of the emotion state of the user. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10176618B2
A positioning unit identifies first positional information of a mobile terminal device. A communication unit acquires second positional information identified in the other mobile terminal device. An imaging unit captures an image of a surrounding environment. An acquisition unit acquires information related to a status dependent on an environment surrounding the other mobile terminal device. A display unit displays, in a captured image, another device icon indicating another positioning unit, and displays the acquired information in association with the other device icon.
US10176605B2
Systems and methods for dynamic display of hierarchical data (e.g., a tree) are provided. Dynamic display enables a user to navigate the hierarchical data by dragging, without having to select expand/contract icons. The systems and methods use a tree spacing structure to determine relative spacing of nodes based on a focus line and to automatically expand and collapse visual representations of nodes in the tree. Nodes on the focus line may be evenly spaced along the focus line, and all of the other nodes in the hierarchy not on the focus line may be positioned based on their relationship to nodes on the focus line, using the tree spacing structure. Ancestor nodes of nodes on the focus line may be positioned between their direct first and last child and children of focus level nodes may be positioned directly behind the focus level node.
US10176601B2
One example method to improve image quality of projection image data may include obtaining projection image data and channel offset data associated with the projection image data. The channel offset data may be acquired using the flat panel detector and include at least one set of channel offset data values associated with respective channels of the flat panel detector. The method may also include generating channel offset drift data representing one or more variations of the channel offset data from a reference channel offset data. The method may further include generating offset-compensated projection image data by modifying the projection image data based on the channel offset drift data to compensate for the one or more variations of the channel offset data.
US10176598B2
A method and system for optimizing N dimensional volume data for transmission is disclosed. The device and method including organizing points based on XYZ location, into volumes, which are recursively divided by N into smaller volumes, where N is greater than 1, and decompressing each volume, by encoding a reference volume then encoding the remaining volumes as a distance from the reference cuboid or the most recently recorded cuboid.
US10176593B1
Systems and methods for locating and/or tracking objects in an environment are discussed. The system may include non-visible light emitters and a camera and server system including an image geometry module configured to determine the location of an identified object in the environment. Objects may be identified based on a predefined frequency and/or pattern of pulses.
US10176591B2
A system for determining the absolute position of a first object with respect to a second object includes a scalar element attached to the first object and a measuring device attached to the second object. The scalar element comprises a series of coded regions. The coded region represents a number designating a position along an axis of the scalar element. The measuring device includes a two-dimensional optical sensor array configured to capture an image of a portion of the scalar element. The system also includes a processor configured to receive the image and determine an absolute position of the first object with respect to the second object based on at least one coded region of the series of coded regions.
US10176585B2
A method and an electronic apparatus for image background learning are provided. In the method, a memory space for recording multiple historical background values of each pixel in an input image is disposed in a memory device, in which the memory space is divided into a lock area and an open area. Whenever receiving the input image, a processor determines whether each pixel in the input image is a background pixel according to the historical background values recorded in the memory space. If the pixel is determined as the background pixel, the processor updates one of the historic background values recorded in the open area by using the pixel value of the pixel while keeping the historical background values in the lock area unchanged. The processor also periodically switches a location of the lock area in the memory space, so as to forget old historical background values.
US10176582B2
Embodiments of the invention introduce the concept of a virtual fiducial marker (VFM). This marker will not be placed prior to preoperative imaging. It will therefore not initially appear in the preoperative 3D image. Instead, the marker will be virtually placed in the 3D data set prior to surgery, and as such the marker does not even need to be attached to the patient, if the patient is not expected to move during surgery. The idea behind such a VFM comes from the observation that there is a big variation in the difficulty of an image based registration depending on the quality of the images and their field of view. However, provided two initial registrations to high quality wide field of view images can be carried out, it then becomes possible to use these registrations to insert a virtual fiducial marker within the 3D preoperative image. Once inserted it may then be used to obtain a starting position for a registration procedure, and particularly to obtain in-plane translations. It may also be used at the end of a registration to provide a measure of registration accuracy, to verify the registration and detect mis-registrations.
US10176581B2
The present disclosure discloses an image registration method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a target plane; orthogonally projecting the optical center of each of the cameras in the planar camera array onto the target plane, to obtain a projected point of the optical center of each of the cameras; generating a rectangular grid on the target plane according to the projected points of the optical centers of the cameras in the planar camera array; obtaining a target grid point of each of the cameras according to the rectangular grid; determining a target camera coordinate system of each of the cameras; and registering, images collected by the cameras in the planar camera array. In embodiments of the present disclosure a target camera coordinate system of a camera is determined again, thereby greatly reducing complexity of subsequent image registration.
US10176575B2
Methods and systems are provided for assessing the presence of functionally significant stenosis in one or more coronary arteries, further known as a severity of vessel obstruction. The methods and systems can implement a prediction phase that comprises segmenting at least a portion of a contrast enhanced volume image data set into data segments corresponding to wall regions of the target organ, and analyzing the data segments to extract features that are indicative of an amount of perfusion experiences by wall regions of the target organ. The methods and systems can obtain a feature-perfusion classification (FPC) model derived from a training set of perfused organs, classify the data segments based on the features extracted and based on the FPC model, and provide, as an output, a prediction indicative of a severity of vessel obstruction based on the classification of the features.
US10176573B2
A method for dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) image processing and kinetic modeling of an organ's region-of-interest is provided. The method includes deriving at least a contour of an exterior of the organ's region-of-interest from one or more of a plurality of images; generating a spline function in response to the derived contour of the exterior of the organ's region-of-interest from the one or more of the plurality of images; registering the plurality of images wherein the organ's region-of-interest has been segmented; deriving a tracer curve for the organ's region-of-interest in the registered images, the tracer curve indicating a change in concentration of a contrast agent flowing through the organ's region-of-interest over a time period; and kinetic modeling by fitting a kinetic model to the tracer curve to generate one or more maps of tissue physiological parameters associated with the kinetic model.
US10176558B2
In an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes determining presence of at least one moving object in a scene based on two or more burst images corresponding to the scene captured by a first camera. One or more portions of the scene associated with the at least one moving object are identified, and, information related to the one or more portions is provided to a second camera. An image of the scene captured by the second camera second camera is received, where a pixel level shutter disposed in front of an image sensor of the second camera is programmed to periodically open and close, throughout a duration of said image capture, for pixels of the image sensor corresponding to the one or more portions of the scene. A deblurred image corresponding to the scene is generated based on the image.
US10176549B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for remote rendering of computer graphics. The system includes a graphics application program resident at a remote server. The graphics application is invoked by a user or process located at a client. The invoked graphics application proceeds to issue graphics instructions. The graphics instructions are received by a remote rendering control system. Given that the client and server differ with respect to graphics context and image processing capability, the remote rendering control system modifies the graphics instructions in order to accommodate these differences. The modified graphics instructions are sent to graphics rendering resources, which produce one or more rendered images. Data representing the rendered images is written to one or more frame buffers. The remote rendering control system then reads this image data from the frame buffers. The image data is transmitted to the client for display or processing. In an embodiment of the system, the image data is compressed before being transmitted to the client. In such an embodiment, the steps of rendering, compression, and transmission can be performed asynchronously in a pipelined manner.
US10176538B2
A method and computer program product for managing hydrocarbon field production, e.g., petro-chemical reservoir production. The hydrocarbon field is modeled using the finite volume method (FVM) model and the finite element method (FEM). Centroids are located in each FVM cell and each FEM element and overlapping cells are identified. After determining the distance between centroids for overlapping cells, fluid characteristics are mapped to the FEM element centroids, weighted inversely for distance between the respective centroids. A permeability/conductivity weighted average is determined for pore pressure and temperature of sub-volumes clustered around each FEM element node. Field production may be adjusted in response to FEM element node characteristics.
US10176536B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for locating, filtering, ranking and then providing a selection of potential “meet-up” venue(s) and time(s) recommendations to a group of users of a device having an interface and a display (e.g., a smart phone or a tablet) based on the geographic area delineated by a user and the user's contacts who are invited to the “meet-up”. The methods and systems calculate, filter and rank the most convenient “meet-up” venue and time based on the current location of group members, taking into account a plurality of factors, such as time, distance, schedule, group member's interests, availability, and the like. The methods and systems then provide a selection of the top ranking “meet-up” venues to the group members. Thereafter, the group members vote for the most suitable location among the ranked “meet-up” venues.
US10176533B2
The invention disclosed is a system for providing an aggregated econometric database with selectable sources of economic data. The econometric database is accessible to a system application that graphically displays econometric data over selected periods, and allows display of external economic data in conjunction with internal company metrics. The system applications further provide for identifying the features of indicators, economic and business forecasting, and providing alerts based on the available econometric data.
US10176527B1
A shading system creates a shaded region on a structure, enabling 3D scanning techniques that rely on light detection to generate a 3D model. The shading system includes a vehicle or device that moves the shading system into place. A light, such as a laser dot or line, can be projected onto the shaded region of the structure and detected by a 3D scanner.
US10176522B1
Techniques are described for monitoring a plurality of financial transactions of a customer performed across a plurality of financial accounts. The techniques may include determining a subset of the plurality of financial transactions based on a first metric applied to the plurality of financial transactions. The techniques may further include identifying a suggested financial transaction based on a second metric applied to the subset of the plurality of financial transactions. The techniques may further include presenting the suggested financial transaction to the customer via a user interface associated with at least one of the plurality of financial accounts.
US10176520B2
A method and apparatus for displaying a product. The three-dimensional model includes objects and a spatial relationship of the objects to each other. A group of the objects in the three-dimensional model is identified based on a policy applied to a user input selecting a portion of the product and assigns a value to a group of attributes associated with the group of the objects. The value assigned to the group of the attributes indicates that the group of the objects is to be displayed on the display system. Other objects in the objects having the attributes without the value are not displayed. The attributes associated with the objects are outputted in which the group of the objects is displayed in three dimensions on the display system using the attributes associated with the objects, enabling a desired level of performance in visualizing the three-dimensional model of the product.
US10176517B2
A vehicle with an integrated advertising system. The vehicle can include a computer, at least one receiver, and a driving control. At least one receiver may be configured to communicate wirelessly, for example with an antenna or satellite. The receiver may receive advertising or retail information pertaining to a good or service, also including housing, a menu, or entertainment opportunities. The advertising or retail information may be communicated to a user within the vehicle, and the user may indicate a desire to purchase the good or service. The user may instruct the computer to drive the vehicle to the location of the good or service autonomously or the user may instruct the computer to purchase the good or service, or both.
US10176516B2
An online marketplace system may allow sellers to create listings for items to sell. A seller may create a listing using an application installed on the seller's mobile device. The application may be configured so that a seller can very quickly provide information regarding an item, and therefore create a listing within minimal time investment. The application monitors data connectivity and detects connectivity problems that may create delays in providing item information to the online marketplace system. When there are problems with connectivity, the application caches the item information so that the user of the application does not perceive any latencies. When data connectivity improves, the application sends the cached item information to the online marketplace system for creation of the listing.
US10176515B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for virtual online jewelry sales in secondary markets.
US10176506B2
There is provided a product search system including a user interface through which a target product can be efficiently searched and specified from a number of products registered in a product master with high speed while reducing work load. In a representative embodiment of the present invention, there are provided a phrase analysis unit which acquires a character string of a product name of each of the products contained in a list of the products, divides the character string into phrases by a predetermined division character or a symbol to acquire words, and sets a word satisfying a predetermined condition in each of the words to a search word, and a search word processing unit that shows the search word to the user, narrows the products contained in the list down to products of which the product names contain a search word designated by the user, and outputs the narrowed products.
US10176503B2
Data processing systems and methods, according to various embodiments are adapted for efficiently processing data to allow for the streamlined assessment of the risk level associated with particular privacy campaigns. The systems may provide a centralized repository of templates of privacy-related question/answer pairings for various vendors, products (e.g., software products), and services. Different entities may electronically access the templates (which may be periodically updated and centrally audited) and customize the templates for evaluating the risk associated with the entities' respective business endeavors that involve the relevant vendors, products, or services.
US10176501B2
Systems and methods for guaranteed redemption of sale items. The systems and methods can include a payment system for issuing a payment instrument to a customer when the sale item is not available in a retail location. The systems and methods can further include a redemption system for redeeming the payment instrument for the sale item.
US10176500B1
One or more content items can be received at a data recognition module. The data recognition module can utilize, individually or in any combination, image recognition (e.g., OCR, object recognition, etc.), audio recognition (e.g., speech recognition, music identification, etc.), and/or text recognition (e.g., text crawling) in order to identify or recognize at least a portion of the one or more content items. Based on the identified content portion(s), the one or more content items and/or their respective source(s) can be classified. In one example, an image containing a not yet machine-readable curse word can be included in a source webpage. The image can be received at the data recognition module. The curse word contained in the image can be recognized/identified using an OCR process. Based, at least in part, on the recognized/identified curse word, the image and/or the webpage can be classified as likely being associated with inappropriate material.
US10176493B2
A system and method for compensating subscribers for permitting playing of advertisements as ring back tones and direct activation of advertised services is provided. The method includes receiving by a telecommunication service provider a call initiated by a caller. The method further includes establishing status of at least one of caller and callee by checking home location register of the telecommunication service provider. Establishing status includes determining RBT subscription status of caller and callee. Depending on the RBT subscription status of caller and callee, the call is transferred to a tone player within RBT system of at least one of caller and callee. A compensation system then selects a media file to be played to caller based on RBT to Advertisement ratios of subscribers. The selected media file may be an RBT file or an advertisement message, which is then played to the caller.
US10176490B2
An advertisement distribution control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a view count determination unit and a distribution/non-distribution decision unit. The view count determination unit determines the number of views of content information being distributed. The distribution/non-distribution decision unit decides whether or not to distribute advertisement information to terminal apparatuses viewing the content information based on the number of views determined by the view count determination unit.
US10176479B2
Exemplary embodiment of the present invention would provide systems, including Internet-based systems, and computer-implemented methods, for providing online Buyers and Sellers who physically transact an exchange of an item at a local meeting place, indicia of confirmation of the exchange on which to base a background online payment. In particular, exemplary embodiments of the present invention would provide a way for Buyers and/or Sellers to input an identifier for online authentication to confirm that a physical exchange of an item sold had been transacted and that would accordingly provide an online system with a basis to charge the relevant Buyer's account for a sale amount and pay the Seller for the item sold.
US10176476B2
A platform for performing secure personalized transactions in a multi-domain ecosystem includes a personalization tier that enables service provider personalization for one or more ecosystem elements stored on a mobile device. Further, the platform includes an enabling tier for facilitating interoperation between the personalization tier and a client device. The platform further includes a service tier that may be operating independently of the enabling tier and may enable service delivery for a plurality of services.
US10176472B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling the generation of a token corresponding to a tone generated by a telephony system, comprising receiving one or more dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones generated by a telephony system, generating a token based on the one or more DTMF tones; and transmitting the generated token to a merchant system.
US10176458B2
Aspects include a method, a system and a computer program product. The method includes identifying, on an electronic platform providing for an exchange of messages among multiple participants, at least one open issue to be resolved. Data is collected from the exchanged messages to determine a participation interaction parameter and a solution quality parameter associated with at least one open issue. The participation interaction parameter includes an accountability dynamic factor and collaboration dynamic factor and the solution quality parameter includes a velocity factor, a dormancy factor, and an extinction factor. When a sum of the participation interaction parameter and the solution quality parameter is below a threshold value, at least one open issue participant is invited to the electronic platform. It is also determined when the at least one open issue becomes a closed issue.
US10176455B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems of managing products at a retail sales facility include scanning a product in a stocking cart at the retail sales facility using a hand-held electronic device including a processor. At least two of the following three functions may be performed based on the scanning of the product. First, the stocking cart may be audited by comparing scanned data to data contained in an inventory management database. Second, a determination of whether the item is on a pick list may be made, which may include determining a demand for the scanned product to arrive at a decision whether to store the product in the stock room or place it on a shelf on the sales floor. Third, if the item is to be stored in the stock room, a determination of whether identical items are stored in bins in the stock room may be made.
US10176445B2
Among other things, information is obtained by computer about Internet-related assets of organizations. The information is used to identify relationships between the organizations with respect to the assets. The information about the identified relationships is made available for display or analysis or both.
US10176441B2
For distributed analysis of time-series data in a smart entity environment, the data is received from a data source in the environment. An overall analysis of the data is distributed to a first node in the environment. In a network operating the environment the first node is at a smaller distance from the data source as compared to a second node. A first portion of the overall analysis is performed on the data at the first node to produce a first conclusion. The first conclusion is routed to the second node. The second node performs a second portion of the overall analysis. Using the first conclusion, from the first node, a first action is caused to occur on a component of the environment. The data source is associated with the component, the data is indicative of a condition in the environment, and the component participates in the condition.
US10176434B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for mining feedback are described. A set of one or more lexical patterns associated with one or more of a suggestion and a defect report are determined and the set of one or more lexical patterns are matched against a plurality of feedback items to generate a distance learning training set. A distance learning technique is applied to the distance learning training set to generate a distance learning model and the distance learning model is used to identify one or more candidate feedback items of the plurality of feedback items, each of which is one or more of a candidate suggestion and a candidate defect report.
US10176432B2
A technique relates to providing a superconducting quantum device. A fixed frequency transmon qubit is provided. A tunable frequency transmon qubit is provided. The fixed frequency transmon qubit is coupled to the tunable frequency transmon qubit to form a single qubit.
US10176428B2
The various aspects configure a mobile computing device to efficiently identify, classify, model, prevent, and/or correct the conditions and/or behaviors occurring on the mobile computing device that are related to one or more peripheral devices connected to the mobile computing device and that often degrade the performance and/or power utilization levels of the mobile computing device over time. In the various aspects, the mobile computing device may obtain a classifier model that includes, tests, and/or evaluates various conditions, features, behaviors and corrective actions on the mobile computing device that are related to one or more peripheral devices connected to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may utilize the classifier model to quickly identify and correct undesirable behaviors occurring on the mobile computing device that are related to the one or more connected peripheral devices.
US10176425B2
An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed having resistive memories that provide a resistance to each corresponding input voltage signal. Input voltages are applied to the analog neuromorphic circuit. Each input voltage represents a vector value that is a non-binary value included in a vector that is incorporated into a dot-product operation with weighted matrix values included in a weighted matrix. A controller pairs each resistive memory with another resistive memory. The controller converts each pair of resistance values to a single non-binary value. Each single non-binary value is mapped to a weighted matrix value included in the weighted matrix that is incorporated into the dot-product operation with the vector values included in the vector. The controller generates dot-product operation values from the dot-product operation with the vector and the weighted matrix where each dot-product operation is a non-binary value.
US10176420B2
A strip-type substrate includes a foil having a number of substrate units for producing chip card modules. The substrate has an inner face for at least partial direct or indirect contacting of a semiconductor chip and an outer face lying opposite the inner face. The foil includes of steel, in particular high-grade steel, and a first layer of nickel or a nickel alloy on at least some sections of the outer face.
US10176417B2
A wireless communication device includes a loop antenna that wirelessly communicates with a device of another party through an occurrence of an eddy current, a parallel inductor connected in parallel to the loop antenna, and a wireless IC element that is connected to the parallel inductor and that processes a transmission/reception signal. At least the parallel inductor and the wireless IC element provide a predetermined resonant frequency.
US10176414B1
Examples described herein describe a battery charger for a transaction card. According to some implementations, a charging device may detect a transaction card is received within a charging slot when an integrated circuit (IC) chip of the transaction card is in contact with a charging terminal; request a user device to provide power to charge the transaction card via the charging terminal, wherein the user device is communicatively coupled to the charging terminal; receive the power from the user device; and provide the power to the transaction card to charge a battery of the transaction card.
US10176413B2
A tamper or copy resistant information bearing device is disclosed. The information bearing device comprises a first data bearing pattern and a second data bearing pattern in overlap. At least a portion of the first data bearing pattern overlaps with at least a portion of the second data bearing pattern to form an overlapping region comprising an overlapped data bearing pattern. At least some information bearing elements of the first type and at least some information bearing elements of the second type in said overlapping data bearing pattern are joined or connected in abutment to form a plurality of overlapped information bearing elements. An overlapped information bearing element comprises a first portion due to said information bearing element of the first type, a second portion due to said information bearing element of the second type, and a third portion due to merging or overlapping of said information bearing element of the first type and said information bearing element of the second type.
US10176412B2
Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.
US10176404B2
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for recognizing a three-dimensional modeled object from a two-dimensional image. The method comprises providing a first set of two-dimensional images rendered from three-dimensional modeled objects, each two-dimensional image of the first set being associated to a label; providing a second set of two-dimensional images not rendered from three-dimensional objects, each two-dimensional image of the second set being associated to a label; training a model on both first and second sets; providing a similarity metric; submitting a two-dimensional image depicting at least one object; and retrieving a three-dimensional object similar to the said at least one object of the two-dimensional image submitted by using the trained model and the similarity metric.
US10176381B2
The present invention relates to a video analysis system for an energy-consuming building equipment. The video analysis system includes a camera and an image processing unit to monitor people who appear in a target region, and in an actual space where the camera coexists with the energy-consuming building equipment, a height from the camera to a bottom surface of the actual space ranges from 2 to 10 meters. The present invention further relates to an intelligent building management system provided with the video analysis system for the energy-consuming building equipment. With the video analysis system of the present invention, a security system of a building is combined with the energy-consuming building equipment by means of an optimal camera design/arrangement, which can improve the operation efficiency of the whole building significantly and achieve a desirable energy-saving effect.
US10176377B2
An approach for an iris liveness detection is provided. A plurality of image pairs is acquired using one or more image sensors of a mobile device. A particular image pair is selected from the plurality of image pairs, and a hyperspectral image is generated for the particular image pair. Based on, at least in part, the hyperspectral image, a particular feature vector for the eye-iris region depicted in the particular image pair is generated, and one or more trained model feature vectors generated for facial features of a particular user of the device are retrieved. Based on, at least in part, the particular feature vector and the one or more trained model feature vectors, a distance metric is determined and compared with a threshold. If the distance metric exceeds the threshold, then a first message indicating that the plurality of image pairs fails to depict the particular user is generated. It is also determined whether at least one characteristic, of one or more characteristics determined for NIR images, changes from image-to-image by at least a second threshold. If so, then a second message is generated to indicate that the plurality of image pairs depicts the particular user of a mobile device. The second message may also indicate that an authentication of an owner to the mobile device was successful. Otherwise, a third message is generated to indicate that a presentation attack on the mobile device is in progress.
US10176371B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for imaging identification information. In one aspect, a method is performed at a client device having a camera and a display. The method includes: (1) obtaining information regarding a type of a document to be imaged; (2) obtaining a video stream of the document; (3) determining whether the video stream of the document meets one or more imaging criteria; (4) determining whether the document in the video stream has a document type that matches the obtained type; (5) if the imaging criteria are not satisfied or the credential document does not have a matching credential document type, presenting an indication that the document is not ready to be imaged; and (6) if the imaging criteria are satisfied and the document has a matching credential document type, presenting an indication that the document is ready to be imaged.
US10176370B2
A system, method and computer program product to validate documents is provided. A processor receives an image of a document. The processor identifies a plurality of fixed contents of the document. The processor identifies a plurality of field contents of the document. The processor determines a type of the document based, at least in part, on the plurality of fixed contents and the plurality of field contents. The processor validates the plurality of field contents of the document based, at least in part, on rules associated with the type of the document. The processor generates a validated document.
US10176363B2
A method for analyzing digital holographic microscopy (DHM) data for hematology applications includes receiving a plurality of DHM images acquired using a digital holographic microscopy system. One or more connected components are identified in each of the plurality of DHM images and one or more training white blood cell images are generated from the one or more connected components. A classifier is trained to identify a plurality of white blood cell types using the one or more training white blood cell images. The classifier may be applied to a new white blood cell image to determine a plurality of probability values, each respective probability value corresponding to one of the plurality of white blood cell types. The new white blood cell image and the plurality of probability values may then be presented in a graphical user interface.
US10176359B2
A method of acquiring inputs is provided. The method may include determining one of a fingerprint recognition mode and a touch recognition mode as an input recognition mode of a display device, acquiring a fingerprint input based on information received from sensing lines of the display device, and acquiring a touch input by short-circuiting the sensing lines.
US10176354B2
Described herein are systems and methods configured for serving pixel mapped content to one or more merchandising communication systems. A merchandising communication system may be included at a retail environment or other location. Pixel mapped content may include barcodes, text, and other desired content.
US10176349B1
A control system for indoor position and vector tracking includes a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters to detect a mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The control system includes an intelligent controller to receive location information from the RF transmitters and to calculate a vector associated with the mobile RFID tag. The intelligent controller may utilize the vector as a control input to an algorithm for selecting a control operation for one or more of plurality of networked devices.
US10176346B2
A system for reading transponders may include a printed circuit board and an electrotextile antenna. The printed circuit board may include an RFID reading circuit, and the electrotextile antenna may be electrically connected to the printed circuit board via a connection. The electrotextile antenna may be composed of a material made by blending or coating textiles with a metal, and the electrotextile antenna may be configured to transmit and receive signals between the RFID reading circuit and RFID tags.
US10176338B2
A method, system and computer program product for processing documents containing restricted information. One aspect concerns storing documents in a distributed but secure manner, for example using keysets.
US10176326B2
In one implementation, a method for providing security on an externally connected controller includes launching, by the controller, a kernel level security layer that includes a whitelist of permitted processes on the controller, the whitelist being part of a custom security policy for the controller; receiving, at the security layer, a request to run a particular process; determining, by the security layer, a signature for the particular process; identifying, by the security layer, a verified signature for the process from the whitelist; determining, by the security layer, whether the particular process is permitted to be run on the controller based on a comparison of the determined signature with the verified signature from the whitelist; and blocking, by the security layer, the particular process from running on the automotive controller based on the determined signature not matching the verified signature for the process.
US10176321B2
According to one embodiment, a malware classification scheme operating with an electronic device, configured with one or more hardware processors and a memory that stores the software handling the malware classification scheme that is conducted through analysis of behavior-based rules, is described. This malware classification scheme (i) conducts a determination whether a sequence of rules correspond to potential malicious behaviors detected during analysis of a malware sample within one or more virtual machines, and in response to determining that the sequence of rules corresponds to potential malicious behaviors, (ii) conducts an attempt to classify the malware sample to at least one known malware family based on an analysis of the sequence of rules.
US10176316B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for verifying an authenticity of an electronic device are disclosed. An apparatus includes one or more heat generating components coupled to an electronic device and arranged in a particular configuration such that, when selectively activated, the one or more heat generating components emit thermal radiation in a specific heat pattern that corresponds to the particular configuration and the selective activation. The specific heat pattern is readable by a thermal reading device to obtain information regarding the apparatus.
US10176312B2
User authentication for a user device can leverage one or more fingerprint sensor regions capable of detecting and/or recognizing a user's fingerprints. The user can define a fingerprint gesture or sequence of fingerprint gestures as a passcode, with access to a protected function being conditional on the user performing the defined fingerprint gesture or sequence of fingerprint gestures. Different fingerprint gestures or fingerprint gesture sequences can invoke or authorize different functions of the device. Fingerprint gestures from two or more users in the same location or in different locations can be used to unlock a protected function of a device.
US10176311B2
A method for controlling a terminal through a voice input is provided. The method includes receiving a voice input when the terminal is in a state in which the terminal is locked and performing an operation corresponding to the voice input if the voice input corresponds to a preset command.
US10176303B1
A computer-implemented method for generating digital media tasks, authorizing digital media associated with the digital media tasks, and evaluating the digital media is provided. In an embodiment, a server computer creates a digital media task and sends it to one or more mobile computing devices. When the server receives digital media from a mobile computing device, the server computer determines whether it is authorized to provide other computing devices with access to the digital media. Determining whether the server computer is authorized to provide other computing devices with access to the digital media may comprise determining whether the server computer has current waivers for the digital media or whether supervisory computing device has provided authorization.
US10176297B2
A point-of-care computer system is provided, including a display positioned in a point-of-care location. The point-of-care computer includes hardware coupled to a frame of a hospital bed.
US10176292B2
The present invention provides STING crystals. The present invention also provides STING modulators that interact with sites present in and/or defined by such crystals. The present invention also provides methods of making and using such crystals and modulators. Other aspects and/or features of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, reading the present specification.
US10176280B2
A modeling framework for evaluating the impact of weather conditions on farming and harvest operations applies real-time, field-level weather data and forecasts of meteorological and climatological conditions together with user-provided and/or observed feedback of a present state of a harvest-related condition to agronomic models and to generate a plurality of harvest advisory outputs for precision agriculture. A harvest advisory model simulates and predicts the impacts of this weather information and user-provided and/or observed feedback in one or more physical, empirical, or artificial intelligence models of precision agriculture to analyze crops, plants, soils, and resulting agricultural commodities, and provides harvest advisory outputs to a diagnostic support tool for users to enhance farming and harvest decision-making, whether by providing pre-, post-, or in situ-harvest operations and crop analyses.
US10176278B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide functionality simulating the physical behavior of at least one object in a three dimensional (3D) scene that is divided into a plurality of zones. One such example embodiment comprises: providing at least a first zone and a second zone topologically adjacent, each zone having its own computing resource, providing an object located in one or both zones, and simulating the physical behavior of the object, the simulation being performed by the computing resource of each one of said first and second zones.
US10176270B2
Included are method, article of manufacture, and device that serve to embed a universal script object into programming code used for rendering a web page, convert the universal script object into JavaScript, and upon receiving a request for a web page, send the converted and embedded universal script object towards a requestor. The universal script object may be converted from HTML or some other language.
US10176266B2
A computer system extracts contender values as positively associated with a pre-defined value from a compilation of one or more electronically stored semi-structured document(s) and/or one or more electronically stored unstructured document(s). The computer system performs a multi-dimensional analysis to narrow the universe of contender values from all words on a page of the compilation to the contender value(s) with the highest likelihood of being associated with the pre-defined value. The system's platform allows every user of the system to customize the system according to the user's needs. Various aspects can enable users to mine document stores for information that can be charted, graphed, studied, and compared to help make better decisions.
US10176264B2
A database of technical support calls, or queries received for technical support, is used to identify popular topics for an entity such as a company. The topics may be issues related to products provided by the company such as software. Relevant information is collected for each topic from internal sources (such as knowledge bases or other technical publications) and external sources (such as webpages or online forums). The information is used to create topic pages for each topic that are meant to provide information related to the topic, as well as guide users to resources where additional information for the topic can be obtained. The generated topic pages are encoded using a schema that is recognizable by search engines so that the contents of the topics pages can be presented by the search engines directly in a search results page.
US10176259B1
This invention discloses how Virtual Database Technology can be used to make disparate data appear to be (or act as) the sort of uniform data one expects to find within a single relational database. In particular, we show how to process queries similar to those one might use in a database, even though the underlying data may be missing some of the capabilities that are required by normal databases. Whereas traditional databases require that all the tuples in a table be stored, our approach allows queries over tables where the tuples are generated as required from the data sources, and may not be stored anywhere. We show how such facilities can be used as a new foundation for Internet search.
US10176249B2
A system, and corresponding method, for retrieving image and metadata from multiple sources in response to a query received from an originator having a corresponding clearance level. The query is received through an interface and then any errors or ambiguities in the received query are determined and corrected to create a parsed query. A standardized query is created from the parsed query and has a system usable format including corresponding query processing limitations and the standardized query is stored for later processing. The standardized query comprises one or more terms not accessible to the originator. The stored standardized query is processed to collect resulting corresponding image and metadata information. The query results are presented to the originator if a corresponding clearance level of the query results is at or below the clearance level of the originator.
US10176246B2
In some examples, a time-series data set can be analyzed and grouped in a fast and efficient manner. For instance, fast grouping of multiple time-series into clusters can be implemented through data reduction, determining cluster population, and fast matching by locality sensitive hashing. In some situations, a user can select a level of granularity for grouping time-series into clusters, which can involve trade-offs between the number of clusters and the maximum distance between two time-series in a cluster.
US10176244B2
In one embodiment, processing location data collected with a mobile device having a positioning system includes accepting trajectory data representing successive geographic positions of the mobile device, where the positions are associated with corresponding times. A set of coordinate segments is determined to represent in the accepted trajectory data, such that the trajectory data represent repeated traversals of at least some of the coordinate segments. A textual characterization is associated with each segment of the determined set of coordinate segments, and then a representation of the trajectory data (for example, an electronic diary) is formed using the textual characterization of the coordinate segments and stored. In some examples, a text based query associated with the accepted trajectory data is accepted and a response is determined using the stored representation of the trajectory data.
US10176241B2
Systems and methods for the identification and reconciliation of network resource information are herein disclosed. In an implementation, a system includes instructions stored in memory for processing a request received from a data source to update a record of a network resource by receiving data relating to an attribute of a network resource of a computer network from a first data source, wherein the network resource is associated with a configuration item of a configuration management database, the configuration item including data relating to the attribute from a second source; determining that the first data source is authoritative for the attribute based on a priority of the first data source, a priority of the second data source, and a staleness period of the second data source; and processing the request by updating the attribute based on the data.
US10176233B1
Methods and systems are disclosed that generate life scores for individuals based on various information associated with the individuals. For example, life scores may be based on data associated with several aspects of the individual's life, such as work, family, hobbies, education, etc. The life scores may be generated in realtime and/or periodically and provided to the individual and/or shared with others in various formats.
US10176231B2
Provided are techniques for estimating most frequent values. A sample of values made up of rows is received from each of multiple nodes. The sample of values from each of the multiple nodes are aggregated to generate a sample table storing the rows. A descending list of most frequent values and associated frequencies is obtained using the sample table. Most frequent values are pruned from the descending list whose associated frequencies are below a minimum absolute frequency. The remaining most frequent values are extrapolated to reflect a data set.
US10176225B2
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products. A system includes a first data center, a second data center, and a third data center. The multiple data centers are configured to replicate a logical collection of data that comprises multiple logical partitions of data. The system comprises a first writing subsystem that is designated to write updates to a copy of a first logical partition of data that is stored by the first data center. The system comprises a second writing subsystem that is designated to write updates to a copy of a second logical partition of data that is stored by the second data center. The system comprises a third writing subsystem that is designated to write updates to a copy of a third logical partition of data that is stored by the third data center.
US10176222B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for optimizing a query plan reuse in a database server system accessible by a plurality of client connections. An embodiment comprises determining if a query plan in a global cache storage is reserved by a client connection of a plurality of client connections, generating a cloned query plan from the query plan based on the determining, and associating the cloned query plan with a second client connection of the plurality of client connections.
US10176219B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing alternative query suggestions. For example, a spoken natural language expression may be received and converted to a textual query by a speech recognition component. The spoken natural language expression may include one or more words, terms, and/or phrases. A phonetically confusable segment of the textual query may be identified by a classifier component. The classifier component may determine at least one alternative query based on identifying at least the phonetically confusable segment of the textual query. The classifier may further determine whether to suggest the at least one alternative query based on whether the at least one alternative query is sensical and/or useful. When it is determined to suggest the at least one alternative query, the at least one alternative query may be provided to and displayed on a user interface display.
US10176217B1
Techniques for automatically scheduling builds of derived datasets in a distributed database system that supports pipelined data transformations are described herein. In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises, in association with a distributed database system that implements one or more data transformation pipelines, each of the data transformation pipelines comprising at least a first dataset, a first transformation, a second derived dataset and dataset dependency and timing metadata, detecting an arrival of a new raw dataset or new derived dataset; in response to the detecting, obtaining from the dataset dependency and timing metadata a dataset subset comprising those datasets that depend on at least the new raw dataset or new derived dataset; for each member dataset in the dataset subset, determining if the member dataset has a dependency on any other dataset that is not yet arrived, and in response to determining that the member dataset does not have a dependency on any other dataset that is not yet arrived: initiating a build of a portion of the data transformation pipeline comprising the member dataset and all other datasets on which the member dataset is dependent, without waiting for arrival of other datasets.
US10176216B2
A method for verifying data consistency between update-in-place data structures and append-only data structures containing change histories associated with the update-in-place data structures is provided. The method includes loading data from an update-in-place data structure to a first set of hash buckets in a processing platform, loading data from append-only data structures to a second set of hash buckets in the processing platform, performing a bucket-level comparison between the data in the first set of hash buckets and the data in the second set of has buckets, and generating a report based on the bucket-level comparison.
US10176210B2
The methods and systems can include a database management component configured to manage database instances, the database management component also configured to receive a first data request operation on the distributed database, an execution component configured to process the first data request operation including at least one write request on at least one database instance managed by the database management component, and a fault prediction component configured to detect a potential page fault responsive to a target data of the write request, wherein the execution component is further configured to suspend execution of the first data request operation, request access a physical storage to read the target data into active memory, and re-execute the first data request operation after a period of time for suspending the first data request operation.
US10176206B2
A web service interface may receive a web service request that describes multiple objects. Each of the multiple objects may be associated with a common object, such as in a parent-child relationship. The web service can identify the common object and the multiple relationships between objects, and instead of creating duplicate versions of the common object, the web service can create a single record representing the common object in, for example, a database. Records for each of the multiple objects referring to the common object can reference the common object record in the database using, for example, foreign keys.
US10176205B2
Provided are techniques for using parallel inserts to insert into a column store. A list of sub-ranges for a columnar table is created. A change statement for one or more rows to be inserted into the columnar table is received. For each of the received change statements, a sub-range from the list of sub-ranges is identified and data is serially inserted into the identified sub-range of the columnar table, while allowing parallel processing of each change statement for different sub-ranges of the columnar table.
US10176200B2
A system and method to detect similarities between images. The system and method allow comparisons between a query image and one or more catalog images in a manner that is resilient to scanning, scaling, rotating, cropping and other distortions of the query image. The system includes an image processing module that determines and/or calculates principle features of a catalog image and constructs a feature vector using one or more of the principle features. The system also includes a matching module that matches a query image to one or more catalog images. The system finds matches based on a distance measure of features present in the query image and features present in the catalog images.
US10176194B2
A crowdsourced search and locate platform has been developed and put into practice. A plurality of geospatial images of a geographical region of interest are presented to a plurality of participants in an internet mediated crowdsourcing campaign for the purpose of identifying and tagging specific features of interest to the campaign administrator. An algorithm of the invention, CrowdRank, monitors the identification accuracy of the participants both absolute and compared to other participants calculating a score used to weight each identification made by that user. CrowdRank also chooses images to maximize campaign efficiency and calculates the confidence level of each feature identification.
US10176192B2
A cloud storage system provides remote access to a file associated with the cloud storage system. In response to a request to access the file, the cloud storage system identifies applications available to the request generator and capable of accessing the file, which may include both online web-based applications and applications installed on a device with which the user is accessing the file. The cloud storage system determines an application type of an identified application, and provides file access to the identified application based on the application type.
US10176188B2
Systems and methods for automated creation of a dictionary of scientific terms are described herein. Initially, input data is filtered to obtain a primary file having a plurality of term-ID pairs with each term-ID pair having a unique term ID and a scientific term. Further, a remove-term file is generated based on one or more term-ID pairs identified from the primary file such that the scientific terms of each term-ID pair corresponds to one of additional terms, frequent scientific terms, and undesirable terms. At least one term-ID pair from among the one or more term-ID pairs is altered to obtain a modified term-ID pair based on modification rules. The modified term-ID pair is added to an add-term file and a modified file is obtained based on the remove-term file and the add-term file. Duplicate term-ID pairs present in the modified file are removed to obtain the dictionary of scientific terms.
US10176176B2
A method for assisting video content searches over a communication network by a user, comprising: A step of determining a first content item (CZ) by said user; A step of automatically extracting semantic data from this first content item; A step of automatically generating queries for at least one service, as a function of semantic data, making it possible to retrieve a set of videos on this service or these services; A step of presenting that set of video content to the user.
US10176169B2
A method and system for providing translation information are disclosed. The method for providing translation information includes: S1, receiving a source language statement inputted by a user, and acquiring a current target language statement according to the source language statement; S2, displaying the current target language statement and a preset control on a current interface; and S3, receiving an operation performed on the preset control from the user, and acquiring another target language statement according to the operation and displaying the other target language statement on the current interface. With the method, many translation results of one complete statement may be provided fast and conveniently without repeatedly selecting words or phrases from several candidate items, such that the user may view more translation results, thus improving the accuracy of translation and the user satisfaction level effectively.
US10176168B2
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) based search query spelling correction techniques are described herein. In one or more implementations, search data regarding searches performed by clients may be logged. The logged data includes query correction pairs that may be used to ascertain error patterns indicating how misspelled substrings may be translated to corrected substrings. The error patterns may be used to determine suggestions for an input query and to develop query correction models used to translate the input query to a corrected query. In one or more implementations, probabilistic features from multiple query correction models are combined to score different correction candidates. One or more top scoring correction candidates may then be exposed as suggestions for selection by a user and/or provided to a search engine to conduct a corresponding search using the corrected query version(s).
US10176166B2
Mechanisms for identifying hidden meaning in a portion of natural language content are provided. A primary portion of natural language content is received and a secondary portion of natural language content is identified that references the natural language content. The secondary portion of natural language content is analyzed to identify indications of meaning directed to elements of the primary portion of natural language content. A probabilistic model is generated based on the secondary portion of natural language content modeling a probability of hidden meaning in the primary portion of natural language content. A hidden meaning statement data structure is generated for the primary portion of natural language content based on the probabilistic model.
US10176165B2
Disambiguation in mention detection. The method includes: determining at least one location in a text at which a target surface form in the text appears; obtaining an overall word-bag context of the target surface form in the text, the word-bag context at each of the at least one location including words within a predetermined neighborhood of the location; obtaining an overall resource context of the target surface form in the text, the resource context at each of the at least one location including resources corresponding to a further surface form within a predetermined neighborhood of the location; and determining a similarity between the target surface form and a candidate resource for the target surface form based on the overall word-bag context and the overall resource context. A system for disambiguation in mention detection is also provided.
US10176129B2
A control method for a first device of an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) system including a microcontroller unit (MCU), includes receiving a first indication from the MCU of the I2C system, wherein the first indication configures the first device from a slave mode to a master mode; polling the first device itself for status information of the first device when the first device is in the master mode; determining whether the status information of the first device matches a target status after polling; and determining to perform a parameter adjustment on a second device of the I2C system when determining that the status information of the first device matches the target status.
US10176127B2
A technology precluding attacks through peripheral devices thefts to a network of electronic appliances, by utilizing physical chip identification devices, is disclosed. The electronic appliances in the network are divided into the peripheral devices and the stem servers managing the registration information of the peripheral devices. The stem servers are under the central control with software, and the peripheral devices are controlled at device-level with the physical chip identification devices implemented in the chip. Thus, the security of the whole network is efficiently enhanced.
US10176121B2
An apparatus for encrypting an input memory address to obtain an encrypted memory address is provided. The apparatus comprises an input interface for receiving the input memory address being an address of a memory. Moreover, the apparatus comprises an encryption module for encrypting the input memory address depending on a cryptographic key to obtain the encrypted memory address. The encryption module is configured to encrypt the input memory address by applying a map mapping the input memory address to the encrypted memory address, wherein the encryption module is configured to apply the map by conducting a multiplication and a modulo operation using the cryptographic key and a divisor of the modulo operation, such that the map is bijective.
US10176118B2
A method includes storing a first block of main memory in a cache line of a direct-mapped cache, storing a first tag in a current tag field of the cache line, wherein the first tag identifies a first memory address for the first block of main memory, and storing a second tag in a previous miss tag field of the cache line in response to receiving a memory reference having a tag that does not match the tag stored in the current tag field. The second tag identifies a second memory address for a second block of main memory, and the first and second blocks are both mapped to the cache line. The method may further include storing a binary value in a last reference bit field to indicate whether the most recently received memory reference was directed to the current tag field or previous miss tag field.
US10176115B2
A server LPAR operating in a virtualized computer shares pages with client LPARs using a shared memory region (SMR). A virtualization function of the computer receives a get-page-ID request associated with a client LPAR to identify a physical page corresponding to a shared page included in the SMR. The virtualization function requests the server LPAR to provide an identity of the physical page. The virtualization function receives a page-ID response comprising the identity of a server LPAR logical page that corresponds to the physical page. The virtualization element determines a physical page identity and communicates the physical page identity to the client LPAR. The virtualization element receives a page ID enter request and enters an identity of the physical page into a translation element of the computer to associate a client LPAR logical page with the physical page.
US10176113B2
Method and apparatus for constructing an index that scales to a large number of records and provides a high transaction rate. New data structures and methods are provided to ensure that an indexing algorithm performs in a way that is natural (efficient) to the algorithm, while a non-uniform access memory device sees IO (input/output) traffic that is efficient for the memory device. One data structure, a translation table, is created that maps logical buckets as viewed by the indexing algorithm to physical buckets on the memory device. This mapping is such that write performance to non-uniform access SSD and flash devices is enhanced. Another data structure, an associative cache is used to collect buckets and write them out sequentially to the memory device as large sequential writes. Methods are used to populate the cache with buckets (of records) that are required by the indexing algorithm. Additional buckets may be read from the memory device to cache during a demand read, or by a scavenging process, to facilitate the generation of free erase blocks.
US10176104B2
An apparatus comprises processing circuitry, an instruction cache, decoding circuitry to decode program instructions fetched from the cache to generate macro-operations to be processed by the processing circuitry, and predecoding circuitry to perform a predecoding operation on a block of program instructions fetched from a data store to generate predecode information to be stored to the cache with the block of instructions. In one example the predecoding operation comprises generating information on how many macro-operations are to generated by the decoding circuitry for a group of one or more program instructions. In another example the predecoding operation comprises generating information indicating whether at least one of a given subset of program instructions within the prefetched block is a branch instruction.
US10176101B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method to allocate a segment of a buffer to each of a plurality of threads to use for writing data. Each of a plurality of threads are assigned to one of a plurality of segments in a buffer, wherein the threads write to the segment to which they are assigned. A free segment list indicates segments which are not assigned to one of the threads. In response to one of the segments assigned to one of the threads becoming a full segment having less than a threshold amount of free space, indicating the full segment assigned to the thread in the free segment list and assigning one of the segments in the free segment list to the thread different from the full segment.
US10176097B2
An in-memory cluster computing framework node is described. The node includes storage devices having various priorities. The node also includes a resource monitor to monitor the operation of the storage devices. The node also includes a resource scheduler. When the resource monitor indicates that a storage device is at or approaching saturation, the resource scheduler can migrate data from that storage device to another storage device of lower priority.
US10176088B2
A first execution plan for a first version of a structured query language statement can be requested from a database management system. The first execution plan for the first version of the structured query language statement can be loaded into a first directed graph tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes. The first directed graph tree structure can be scanned to determine whether a full table scan for accessing requested data is represented by at least a one of the plurality of nodes of the directed graph tree structure. Responsive to determining that the full table scan for accessing the requested data is represented by the at least one of the plurality of nodes of the directed graph tree structure, a first indicator that indicates a fault condition can be output.
US10176081B1
A method for monitoring application program interface integrations is provided. The method includes identifying, based on monitored transactions, a plurality of run time dependencies between at least two services. Also, the method includes creating, for each of the identified dependencies, a context of the dependency. In addition, the method includes setting a baseline state of a system utilizing the contexts.
US10176077B2
A computer implemented method for selecting breakpoints for cross-layer debugging is provided. The method includes receiving code comprising a plurality of layers, and executing a static analysis of the code to obtain a use-definition (UD) chain, alias information, and a parameter mapping for each of the plurality of layers. The method also includes determining a statement of the code that produces one of an error and a failure, and generating a table comprising a plurality of fields including a working statement field, watching variable field, and a watching function field. The method includes adding the determined statement to the working statement field and performing a cross-layer analysis includes identifying at least one used variable and its associated alias as watching variables from the added working statement, searching the code based on the watching variable field. The method includes generating cross-layer suspect code points based on the cross-layer analysis.
US10176064B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for granular replication for data protection. For example, a first storage controller may host a first volume. A consistency group, comprising a subset of files, logical unit numbers, and/or other data of the first volume, is defined through a consistency group configuration. A baseline transfer, using a baseline snapshot of the first volume, is used to create a replicated consistency group within a second volume hosted by a second storage controller. In this way, an arbitrary level of granularity is used to synchronize/replicate a subset of the first volume to the second volume. If a synchronous replication relationship is specified, then one or more incremental transfer are performed and a synchronous replication engine is implemented. If an asynchronous replication relationship is specified, then snapshots are used to identify delta data of the consistency group for updating the replication consistency group.
US10176063B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to faulty recovery mechanisms for a three-dimensional (3-D) network on a processor array. One embodiment comprises a multidimensional switch network for a processor array. The switch network comprises multiple switches for routing packets between multiple core circuits of the processor array. The switches are organized into multiple planes. The switch network further comprises a redundant plane including multiple redundant switches. Multiple data paths interconnect the switches. The redundant plane is used to facilitate full operation of the processor array in the event of one or more component failures.
US10176061B2
In one embodiment, a system for migrating virtual machines in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing the virtualization environment and a migration controller. Each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, one or more user virtual machines (UVMs) and a virtual machine controller. The system further implements a virtual disk comprising a plurality of storage devices, the virtual disk being accessible by the virtual machine controllers, which conduct I/O transactions with the virtual disk. The migration controller determines a segment size and, for each host machine, determines a number of required segments for the UVMs running on the host machine. The controller computes a number of reserved segments based on a total number of host machines and a largest one of the numbers of required segments. The reserved segments are then assigned among the plurality of host machines.
US10176051B2
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing data. In some embodiments, this includes analyzing a first container at a block level, determining a first level of granularity based on the analysis of the first container, based on the first level of granularity, identifying a first set of data objects, storing metadata of the first set of data objects in a recovery catalog, based on the first set of data objects, identifying a second container, analyzing the second container at a block level, determining a second level of granularity based on the analysis of the second container, based on the second level of granularity, identifying a second set of data objects, storing metadata of the second set of data objects in the recovery catalog, wherein the recovery catalog is stored in a storage device.
US10176042B2
Provided are a method, system, and apparatus using reliability information from multiple storage units and a parity storage unit to recover data for a failed one of the storage units. A decoding operation of the codeword is performed in each of the storage units comprising the data storage units other than the target data storage unit and the parity storage unit to produce reliability information. In response to the decoding operation failing for at least one additional failed storage unit comprising the data and/or parity storage units other than the target data storage unit that failed to decode, reliability information is obtained for the data portion of the at least one additional failed storage unit. The reliability information obtained from the storage units other than the target data storage unit is used to produce corrected data for the data unit in the target data storage unit.
US10176023B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing a protocol stack for handling memory access requests associated with one or more block devices. The method includes the steps of allocating a thread to process a task associated with a memory access request for a block device; and executing the thread to process the task, wherein the thread implements a state machine that manages calls to two or more layers of the protocol stack. A task dispatcher is implemented for managing the execution of tasks using at least one thread pool, the tasks managing the calls to the various layers of the protocol stack. The protocol stack may implement abstraction layers for virtual storage devices as well as the real block devices.
US10176022B2
An improvement to the process for identifying software problems in performance testing is achieved by dynamically adjusting workloads in real-time to stress the functionality of an application suspected of causing a software problem.
US10176019B2
Embodiments of the invention provide for systems and computer program products for management of logically partitioned computing resources of a data processing system configured with hypervisors that each manages one or more logical partitions of the computing resources. The data processing system is configured with domains, and allocated to each domain are one or more hypervisors and logical partitions managed thereby. For a first domain, a token is received from a second domain. The token identifies available computing resources of the second domain that are available for temporary allocation. The data processing system determines whether the available computing resources of the second domain are needed by the first domain based at least in part on the received token. Responsive to determining that the available computing resources are needed by the first domain, the available computing resources are temporarily allocated to the first domain for use thereby.
US10176011B2
System and method for automatically generating and executing service operation, implementation for executing a task is disclosed. Task information and Entity relationship model associated with task is processed to identify part of the Entity Relationship Model matching with the task. Service operation template associated with the task is identified based on task information; and part of the Entity relationship model and service operation template is processed dynamically to generate and execute service operation implementation for executing the task. In another aspect, a part of an Entity relationship instance model associated with the task is identified dynamically based on the part of the Entity Relationship Model matching with the task and the task information; and part of the Entity relationship Instance model and service operation template processed dynamically, to generate and execute the service operation implementation for executing the task.
US10176008B2
Systems herein allow a user to load a virtual work environment on a terminal, such as a workstation, based on authentication mechanisms built into a user device, such as a cell phone. The user device can authenticate with a management server using an SAML token. The management server can track which virtual machines and configurations make up the user's work environment, and can send that information to the user device for loading the virtual machines. When the user wishes to load the virtual machines at a terminal, the user device can send the SAML token to the terminal for use in authenticating with the management server. The management server can then provide the configurations for the virtual machines that the user selects to load at the terminal.
US10176001B2
A simulation device being a “host” simulates execution of a program in a “guest” using a cache for reading instructions in the program. In the simulation device, an execution unit executes instructions described in host code stored in a buffer. When host code wherein a next instruction being an instruction to be executed by the execution unit next is described is not stored in the buffer, a processing unit reads from a storage medium a guest code group with a size of a cache line, including guest code wherein the next instruction is described, converts the guest code group read, generates a host code group including the host code wherein the next instruction is described, and collectively writes the host code group generated, as a host code block, in the buffer.
US10175997B2
A method for storage retrieval, including receiving a request for application content. The request includes a first field identifier. The method further includes submitting a query to a content repository, for each asset including the first field identifier, receiving a first asset including the first field identifier and a second asset including the first field identifier, and extracting a first variability tag from the first asset and a second variability tag from the second asset based on the first asset having a matching asset property value to the second asset. The first asset and second asset are scored based at least on the first variability tag and at least on the second variability tag to obtain a first and second score, respectively. The method further includes selecting the first asset based on the first score and the second score, and transmitting the first asset as the application content.
US10175996B2
A power and data housing assembly includes a housing body configured to retain and support an electronic device assembly in the form of an interactive display screen and associated electronics. The electronic device assembly is communicatively coupled to at least one peripheral device. The electronic device assembly is configured to provide interactive functions that include text messaging, time-keeping, calendar functions, calculations, game-playing, and audio/video media playback. The electronic device assembly is further configured to provide interactive control of and display of data from the at least one peripheral device. The electronic device is further configured to mirror a personal computing device's display on the electronic device assembly's display.
US10175991B2
An apparatus and method of submitting hardware accelerator engine commands over an interconnect link such as a PCI Express (PCIe) link. In one embodiment, the mechanism is implemented inside a PCIe Host Bridge which is integrated into a host IC or chipset. The mechanism provides an interface compatible with other integrated accelerators thereby eliminating the overhead of maintaining different programming models for local and remote accelerators. Co-processor requests issued by threads requesting a service (client threads) targeting a remote accelerator are queued and sent to a PCIe adapter and remote accelerator engine over a PCIe link. The remote accelerator engine performs the requested processing task, delivers results back to host memory and the PCIe Host Bridge performs a co-processor request completion sequence (status update, write to flag, interrupt) included in the co-processor command.
US10175989B2
A processor including multiple processing units for processing multiple elementary instructions in parallel, the elementary instructions including one or more syllables, each having a rank in the elementary instruction, and an input circuit configured to receive an instruction bundle including multiple elementary instructions, and to transmit to the processing units all syllables of first rank of the elementary instructions of the instruction bundle before syllables of second rank of the elementary instructions of the instruction bundle, the syllables of same rank being ordered according to the target processing unit of each syllable.
US10175984B2
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The plurality of non-core resources includes an off-core cache memory, configured to store memory operands which may have been cached from a system memory that are not present in one or more on-core cache memories.
US10175980B2
A computing unit is disclosed, comprising a first memory bank for storing input activations and a second memory bank for storing parameters used in performing computations. The computing unit includes at least one cell comprising at least one multiply accumulate (“MAC”) operator that receives parameters from the second memory bank and performs computations. The computing unit further includes a first traversal unit that provides a control signal to the first memory bank to cause an input activation to be provided to a data bus accessible by the MAC operator. The computing unit performs one or more computations associated with at least one element of a data array, the one or more computations being performed by the MAC operator and comprising, in part, a multiply operation of the input activation received from the data bus and a parameter received from the second memory bank.
US10175978B2
In response to detecting a software build break during testing, a change to a particular file committed to the software build that caused the software build to break is identified. A record of the change to the particular file is added to a sensitivity database, the sensitivity database accumulating multiple records of changes to the files of the software build during development of the software build. A relative level of failure of the particular file from the files of the software build based on the record in comparison with the multiple records is calculated. A sensitivity rating of the particular file to cause breaks in the software build based on the relative level of failure of the particular file weighted by one or more factors is generated. The sensitivity rating is output to one or more integrated development environment interfaces with access to the particular file of the software build.
US10175973B2
A method for upgrading microcode in a multi-module storage system may include selecting a first module from two or more modules and operating the first module using an upgraded microcode. The method may include monitoring the performance of the first module by a second module of the two or more modules and rendering an indication of performance of the first module. Further, the method may include determining whether the indication of performance of the first module is greater than or equal to a performance metric.
US10175970B2
A method for updating a configuration of software is disclosed. The method is performed at a terminal device having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes sending, to a server device, a request for updating the software configuration. The request includes a version number of a software configuration parameter group, which includes a group of parameters associated with the software configuration. The method also includes receiving, from the server device and in response to the request, data of the software configuration parameter group and a latest version number of the software configuration parameter group when that latest version number is different than the version number included in the request. The method further includes updating the software configuration based on the received data, and updating the version number based on the received latest version number.
US10175967B2
A migration system for migrating an application between environments is provided. The migration system includes analyzes a profile of the application on a first environment based on a conformance check. The migration system reconstructs application dependencies with respect to a second environment, based on the application profile analysis, to produce an updated environment with reconstructed application dependencies. The migration system migrates the application from the first environment to the updated environment with the reconstructed application dependencies.
US10175963B2
A method is provided for executing a code sequence on a security module. The code sequence comprises codes to be replaced and codes to be interpreted. A temporary replacement takes place of a respective code to be replaced by a partial code sequence that comprises at least one code having an interpretable code value. The replacement taking place is dependent on the code value of the code to be replaced. An interpretation of the codes to be interpreted in the code sequence and in the partial code sequence takes place with the aid of interpretation information for code values. During the replacement step, the partial code sequence for the code value of the code to be replaced is additionally produced in dependence on a piece of selection information.
US10175962B2
Techniques disclosed herein describe joining processing elements (e.g., of a streams processing environment) using optimization techniques, such as by whole program optimization. An optimization tool evaluates multiple processing elements based on one or more optimization rules. The optimization tool identifies, based on the evaluation, processing elements that can be merged. The optimization tool joins the identified processing elements together.
US10175960B2
A method for user interface (UI) automation area coverage is presented. The method extracts document information from a unit test class, the unit test class being code used to test a user interface (UI). The method searches for a keyword within the extracted document information to find a keyword match. The method receives a weight factor from a user the weight factor giving more importance to certain keywords over the other keywords. The method weights specified keywords based on a weight factor, the weight factor increasing or decreasing an importance to the specified keywords. The method assigns a weight score to each keyword match based on the number of keyword matches and the weight factor. Furthermore the method generates a user interface report, the UI report comprising the weight score.
US10175947B1
According to an embodiment, an arithmetic device is configured to receive M input signals each representing a two-state value and M coefficients to output an output signal representing a two-state value. The device includes a positive-side current source, a negative-side current source, M cross switches, a coefficient memory unit, and a comparator. The positive-side current source is configured to output a first voltage corresponding to a value of 1/L of the current output from a positive-side terminal. The negative-side current source is configured to output a second voltage corresponding to a value of 1/L of the current output from a negative-side terminal. The memory unit includes M cells corresponding to the respective M coefficients. The comparator is configured to output an output signal having a value corresponding to a comparison result of the first voltage with the second voltage. Each M cell includes a first resistor and a second resistor.
US10175940B2
A managing device (10) includes: a display (11) that displays, as a selectable object, a process executable under a current state; an inputter (12) that accepts an inputting with voice; a selector (13) which compares the displayed process with the inputting accepted while the selectable object is being displayed, and which selects any one of the displayed processes; an executor (14) that executes the selected process; and a state changer (15) that changes the current state to a new state based on the current state and a result of the selected process upon completion of the selected process. When the selected process starts, the display (11) displays, as a pre-settable object, a process becoming executable in a state prospectively changed upon completion of the selected process.
US10175931B2
Provided is a signal processing device including a display control unit for causing a display to display an image corresponding to a specified place, a sound-collection-signal input unit for inputting a sound collection signal of a sound collection unit that collects a user sound produced with microphones surrounding the user, an acoustic-signal processing unit for performing a first acoustic-signal process for reproducing a sound field where the user sound is sensed as if the sound were echoing in the place on the signal input by the sound-collection-signal input unit, based on a first transfer function measured in the place to indicate how a sound emitted on a closed surface inside the place echoes in the place and then is transferred to the closed-surface side, and a sound-emission control unit for causing a sound based on the processed signal to be emitted from speakers surrounding the user.
US10175926B1
A multifunction proximity digital billboard, including a set of display panels each positioned and formed to provide an information display; a resource bay that includes a set of resources for driving a content of the display panels and for communication to and from the digital billboard; a removable module for providing a function that is adapted to a particular deployment of the digital billboard, a set of sensors to gather environmental data and a charging module for charging external mobile devices.
US10175924B2
There is provided an information processing system. A recognition unit recognizes a user near a display device that displays information. An acquiring unit acquires information of an interest level with respect to each theme of the user who is recognized by the recognition unit. A display control unit controls the display device to highlight the information on the theme according to the interest level corresponding to the theme.
US10175923B2
A display system includes one HMD and another HMD, and the one HMD includes an image display section adapted to display an image so that an outside view can visually be recognized, and an imaging section adapted to take an image of a range including at least a part of the outside view, which can visually be recognized in the image display section. Further, the one HMD includes a communication section, and a control section adapted to make the image display section display the image. The another HMD includes an image display section, a communication section, a display control section adapted to display the image based on the information received from the one HMD, an operation detection section, and a control section adapted to generate the guide information and transmit the guide information.
US10175917B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a program executable by a terminal apparatus. The program causes the terminal apparatus to execute: a first determination processing for determining whether an operating system of the terminal apparatus can convert a format of content data from a first format into a second format; a first conversion processing for causing the operating system to convert the format of the content data from the first format into the second format, in response to a convertible determination made in the first determination processing; a second conversion processing for causing a server connected to the terminal apparatus to convert the format of the content data from the first format into the second format, in response to a non-convertible determination made in the first determination processing; and an output processing for outputting the content data in the second format converted in the first or second conversion processing.
US10175898B2
A semiconductor device includes a connector connectable to a host, a power supply circuit which includes an input portion that receives first power from the host via the connector, an output portion, and a switch that is connected to the input portion and the output portion and controls whether to supply the first power to the output portion, the power supply circuit generating second power and third power from the first power, a semiconductor memory which receives the second power from the output portion, and a controller which receives the third power from the output portion and controls the semiconductor memory. The power supply circuit turns off the switch and stops supply of power to the semiconductor memory and the controller when the second power exceeds a first value or when the third power exceeds a second value.
US10175897B2
A data server, method and computer readable storage medium for receiving a current request relating to a data archive, determining a number of queued requests relating to the data archive present in a request queue, determining a waiting time for the current request based on the number of queued requests and adding the current request to the request queue after the waiting time has elapsed.
US10175893B2
Scheduling memory accesses in a memory system having a multiple ranks of memory, at most r ranks of which may be powered up concurrently, in which r is less than the number of ranks. If fewer than r ranks are powered up, a subset of requested powered down ranks is powered up, such that at r ranks are powered up, the subset of requested powered down ranks to be powered up including the most frequently accessed requested powered down ranks. Then, if fewer than r ranks are powered up, a subset of unrequested powered down ranks is powered up, such that a total of at most r ranks is powered up concurrently, the subset of unrequested powered down ranks to be powered up including the most frequently accessed unrequested powered down ranks.
US10175890B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods of reading data from a memory device using non-binary ECCs. The memory device includes multiple memory cells where each memory cell has multiple pages that are arranged in distinct layouts for physical addresses thereof. When a read request is received from a host device to obtain data from a specific page of a specific memory cell of a memory device, rather than reading the data from all pages of the memory cell, the data can be read from just the desired page and then decoded. Following decoding, the data can be delivered to the host device. Because only the data from a specific page of a memory cell is read, rather than the entire memory cell, the read latency is reduced when compared to reading the entire memory cell.
US10175887B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system is configured to operate as one of semiconductor storage devices in a storage array. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller executes a write operation of writing data, received from a host, to the nonvolatile memory, and an internal operation for managing the memory system. When starting the internal operation, the controller estimates a value related to an amount of reduction in performance of the write operation due to the start of the internal operation, based on content of the started internal operation, and notifies the host or one or more other semiconductor storage devices of the estimated value.
US10175884B2
An information handling system for interacting with a peripheral interaction device having a plurality of conductive pads comprising a display screen having a touch screen including a touch sensor device that detects contact by a polymer conductor interface device assembly having a plurality of conductive pads, a processor executing instructions for a peripheral interaction device degradation management system that determines whether there is degradation in the touch signal response of at least one conductive pad of the polymer conductor interface device assembly below a degradation threshold signal level; and the processor adjusting drive signal voltages if a touch signal response falls below the degradation threshold signal level.
US10175872B2
The invention relates to a method for editing a media record in a terminal device of a cellular network, which editing means removing at least one portion of the original contents of the media record. The state of the editing is shown on the display of the terminal device with a pointer arrangement according to the invention. The invention also relates to a cellular network terminal device in which the method is utilized. In the terminal device the media record editing is controlled with a program application according to the invention.
US10175871B2
An electronic device with a display displays a user interface on the display. The device determines a first set of content-display values for one or more content-display properties of first content that corresponds to a respective region of the display. The device determines a first set of control-appearance values for one or more control-appearance parameters based on the first set of content-display values. The device displays a control in the respective region of the display, where an appearance of the control is determined based on the first content and the first set of control-appearance values, and displaying the control includes applying a blur operation to the first content to generate first blurred content and overlaying a translucent colored layer over the first blurred content.
US10175862B2
Methods and apparatus for providing an advertisement in a sidebar, and/or in a slidesheet associated with an application module displayed in the sidebar. The advertisement is targeted to the sidebar user based upon user specific information maintained by a content provider. The user specific information can comprise, sidebar application information, user preference information, shared user information and other information associated with the user that can be used to select an advertisement targeted to the user. An advertisement displayed in a slidesheet can be selected based upon user information and/or the functionality provided by the application module associated with the slidesheet.
US10175859B2
An information processing apparatus includes a screen, a receiving unit that receives an operation performed on the screen, a display that displays a document having multiple pages on the screen on a page-by-page basis, a processing mode changing unit that, upon detecting a predetermined first operation on the document displayed on the screen, changes from a first processing mode that moves one page at a time to a second processing mode that moves multiple pages, and a moving unit that, upon detecting a predetermined second operation in the second processing mode, moves multiple pages within the document. As the predetermined first operation, the processing mode changing unit detects continued detection of a first position where a drag operation has ended, or detects, while the first position is detected, an operation performed at a second position different from the first position.
US10175857B2
There is provided an image processing device including a superimposition display position determining unit which determines a position of an object having a predetermined flat surface or curved surface out of an object imaged in an input image based on an environment map, a superimposition display image generating unit which generates a superimposition display image by setting superimposition display data at the position of the object determined by the superimposition display position determining unit, an image superimposing unit which superimposes the superimposition display image on a visual field of a user, an operating object recognizing unit which recognizes an operating object imaged in the input image, and a process executing unit which executes a process corresponding to an item selected based on a position of the operating object recognized by the operating object recognizing unit.
US10175851B2
This disclosure describes a method for managing a network device. The method includes a management server transmitting to an object server a request message comprising information about the network device and receiving a management object from the object server. The method includes the management server receiving the management object, where the management object comprises: i) information identifying a device management action and ii) a command string for use in commanding the network device to perform the device management action. After receiving the management object, the method includes the management server displaying an action menu comprising a menu item associated with the network device and with the device management action. The method further includes the management server receiving an indication of selection of the menu item. The method also includes the management server, after receiving the indication, transmitting to the network device the command string.
US10175843B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display substrate, an encapsulation substrate formed over the display substrate, and a window formed over the encapsulation substrate, wherein the window includes a surface facing the display substrate. The OLED display further includes a contact sensing layer formed on the surface of the window and a touch driver formed on the surface of the window and electrically connected to the contact sensing layer, wherein the touch driver is configured to drive the touch sensing layer.
US10175835B2
A detection method for detecting ripples of a touch screen, and a detection plate and a detection assembly used in the method are disclosed by embodiments of the present invention, the detection method comprising steps of: manufacturing a detection plate, one surface of which is provided with a plurality of grids arranged in a regular array, which grids are formed by intersecting a plurality of grid lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of grid lines extending in a second direction; placing the surface of the detection plate at a predetermined angle with respect to a surface of one side of the touch screen where the a glass plate is located, such that the grid lines on the detection plate are imaged on the touch screen; and observing grid lines imaged on the touch screen, and determining the existence of ripples at a position of the touch screen corresponding to a curved portion of the imaged grid lines in case of the curved portion of the imaged grid lines. According to the embodiments of the invention, conditions of the ripples on the touch screen can be determined intuitively and easily according to curved conditions of the grid lines imaged on the touch screen, by imaging the grid lines on the detection plate onto the touch screen, such that the accuracy of detection is enhanced.
US10175833B2
A method of operating a force-sensitive input device having an input surface comprises declaring a first press action upon detecting an amount of force applied to the input surface that exceeds a first no-press force value by at least a first press threshold value, determining a maximum force value applied to the input surface during the first press action, and setting a release threshold value for a subsequent release action based on the determined maximum force value.
US10175828B2
A method for authenticating capacitive touch, executed through a system interworking with a capacitive touch screen supporting multi-touch, comprises receiving touch point information for touch points recognized as multi-touch through the capacitive touch screen, reading the touch point information and identifying a specified touch point corresponding to any one specified touch portion fixed and arranged in a previously specified position in design among touch portions of a touch device in which capacitively touchable touch portions are arranged according to a previously designed unique geometric relationship, coordinate-rotating the touch points or a geometric relationship for the touch points to match a designed geometric relationship based on a reference point corresponding to the specified touch point, and authenticating whether the coordinate-rotated geometric relationship matches the designed geometric relationship within a tolerance range or identifying the designed geometric relationship matching the coordinate-rotated geometric relationship within a tolerance range among the designed geometric relationships.
US10175824B2
Embodiments herein describe input devices that include receivers for sampling capacitive sensing signals that perform continuous-time demodulation. An input device is provided that includes a plurality of sensor electrodes in a sensing region of the input device and a processing system coupled to the plurality of sensor electrodes and configured to generate a first measurement of a capacitive sensing signal acquired using a first sensor electrode of the plurality of sensor electrodes during a first time period, that comprises effects of a first modulated signal driven onto at least one of the plurality of sensor electrodes, the first measurement generated at a first sensing frequency based on a clock signal; periodically dither the clock signal; and adjust a demodulation frequency based on the dithered clock signal to generate a second measurement of the capacitive sensing signal during a second time period at the first sensing frequency based on the dithered clock signal.
US10175823B2
Provided is a technology for generating a sensor-driving waveform using a waveform generator, generating a sensor-driving signal and a sensor-driving auxiliary signal according to the sensor-driving waveform, and providing the same to a sensor electrode and adjacent electrodes.
US10175816B2
A display device includes: a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region for displaying an image; a second electrode opposed to the first electrodes; a plurality of switching elements that are arranged in the display region and coupled to the first electrodes or the second electrode; a gate line for supplying a scanning signal for scanning the switching elements; a data line for supplying a signal to the switching elements that are coupled to the switching elements; and conductive wire that is opposed to the second electrode via an insulating layer and is coupled to the switching elements.
US10175814B2
Provided is a touch panel capable of operating without dependence on visual observation, or a command-input method thereof. Provided is a touch panel with low power consumption, or a command-input method thereof. A command-input method of a touch panel including a first touch sensor and a second touch sensor includes a first step of sensing an object by the first touch sensor, a second step of starting operation for enabling operation of the second touch sensor, a third step of sensing the object by the second touch sensor, a fourth step of executing a first command by the touch panel, and a fifth step of starting operation for disabling the operation of the second touch sensor.
US10175813B2
A touch panel board includes an electrode board, a cover panel, a flexible wiring board, a guard portion, and a ground connection wire. The electrode board includes a support board, sensor electrodes supported on the support board, and connection terminals electrically connected to the sensor electrodes and supported on the support board and collectively arranged on an outer side with respect to the sensor electrodes. The flexible wiring board includes conductive wires, one end thereof being connected to the connection terminals, respectively, and a ground wire. The conductive guard portion is arranged on a side of the opposing surface of the projected end portion to be arranged on an outer side with respect to the connection terminals. The ground connection wire electrically connects the guard portion and the ground wire.
US10175812B2
The disclosure discloses an elimination method of parasitic capacitance and a device. During a touch scanning period, inputting a first simulation signal to source electrode lines and inputting a second simulation signal to multiplex lines can eliminate parasitic capacitance. Waveforms of the first simulation signal and a touch scanning signal input in a common electrode are identical or similar, waveforms of the second simulation signal and the touch scanning signal input in the common electrode are similar, waveforms of the third simulation signal and the touch scanning signal input in the common electrode are similar, a second simulation waveform includes a first target high level, a second target high level, a first target low level and a second target low level that are generated by different modules, the first target high level>the second target high level>the first target low level>the second target low level.
US10175810B2
A touchscreen panel includes touch sensors on a base film and routing wires connected to the touch sensors, wherein the base film has a main area and a tail area protruding from the main area, the main area includes an active region where the touch sensors are placed and a bezel region located on the outside of the active region, and the routing wires pass through the bezel region and the active region, and connect terminals provided at one end of the tail area and the touch sensors.
US10175805B2
The application of a watershed algorithm to pixels and their touch values obtained from a scan of a touch sensor panel to determine patches corresponding to images of touch is disclosed. Prior to applying the watershed algorithm, background pixels having little or no touch values can be eliminated. A primary merge algorithm can then merge adjacent patches together when the saddle point between them is shallow as compared to the peak represented by the patches. However, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels below a certain threshold, these two patches may not be merged under the assumption that the patches might have been caused by different fingertips. Conversely, if two candidate patches for merging have a total number of pixels above a certain threshold, these two patches can be merged under the assumption that the patches were caused by a single thumb or palm.
US10175793B2
Disclosed are a touch display panel, a driving circuit and a driving method of a touch display panel. The touch display panel includes a common electrode layer which used for display. The common electrode layer is also used as a touch detection electrode layer for touch detection. The common electrode layer is divided into a number of regions, which are respectively connected to the same number of selectors that are each connected to each of the same number of common voltage generating circuits to receive the same number of common voltages and selectively transmit the common voltages to the plurality of regions.
US10175789B2
A mobile device according to one aspect includes an acceleration sensor configured to detect an acceleration value, and a controller configured to determine between a moving state and a non-moving state, based on the acceleration value. The controller changes sensitivity of the acceleration sensor between the moving state and the non-moving state.
US10175786B2
A force touch display device, comprising a display panel and a force touch detecting module, wherein the force touch detecting module is arranged opposite to the display panel, and the force touch detecting module is configured to detect an amount of deformation of the force touch display device so as to determine a force level of a touch force. A force touch control method is also disclosed.
US10175782B2
An input apparatus includes a conductive layer having flexibility, a plurality of structures, a reaction force of which is non-linearly changed with respect to a pressing amount, a capacitance-type sensor layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between the plurality of structures and the sensor layer. The intermediate layer has a plurality of hole portions into which the plurality of structures is pressed, respectively.
US10175773B2
Disclosed are keyboards and keyboard switches sensitive to touch, including, hover and pressure. The keyboard switches have transmit and receive antennae that are spaced apart such that no portion of the transmit antenna touches any portion of the receive antenna. The keyboard switches are arranged in logical rows and logical columns such that each of the keyboard switches is associated with one row and one column. Signal emitters are conductively coupled to the transmit antennae for each of the keyboard switches associated with each of the rows, and each of the signal emitters are adapted to cause each of the transmit antennae to transmit one or more source signals. Receivers are coupled to the receive antennae for each of the keyboard switches associated with each of the columns, and each of the receivers are adapted to capture a frame of signals present on the coupled receive antennae. A signal processor adapted to determine a measurement from each frame, corresponding to an amount of the source signals present on the receive antennae during a time the corresponding frame was received. The signal processor further adapted to determine a keyboard switch touch state from a range of touch states based at least in part on the corresponding measurement.
US10175765B2
An information processing device that detects the position of a subject shot by a camera in a three-dimensional space is provided. The information processing device includes a depth image acquiring section that acquires a depth image in which the distance of a subject in the depth direction from the camera is represented as a pixel value on an image plane, a spatial structure identifying section that identifies the position of a plane forming a predetermined angle with a gravity vector among subject surfaces by detecting a coordinate point collection representing the plane on the basis of the distribution of coordinate points obtained by inverse projection of pixels of the depth image to the three-dimensional space based on the direction of the gravity vector, and a target object extracting section that generates and outputs position information of a predetermined target object on the basis of the position of the plane.
US10175764B2
A method and apparatus for controlling an operation of a camera that allows a user to conveniently control a camera apparatus according to a gesture of a subject input through a lens of a camera, and the camera apparatus are provided. The method includes receiving an image input through a camera lens; generating an image frame; detecting a motion of a subject included in the image frame by comparing the image frame with at least one previous frame stored before the image frame is generated; determining whether the motion of the subject is a User Interface (UI) gesture; and performing, if the motion is the UI gesture, an operation corresponding to the UI gesture.
US10175761B2
A haptic output device includes a touch surface, a sensor configured to sense an input at the touch surface, and a controller configured to read the sensor, identify a location of the input, switch from a read mode to a write mode, and write a voltage based on the location of the input to generate an electrostatic output.
US10175760B2
A haptically enabled system receives a haptic effect primitive comprising a plurality of input parameters and receives an input from a sensor. The system generates a haptic effect signal from the haptic effect primitive, the haptic effect signal comprising a plurality of output parameters where at least one of the output parameters is varied based on the sensor input. The system then applies the haptic effect signal to an actuator.
US10175757B2
An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display displays a user interface object on the display, detects a contact on the touch-sensitive surface, and detects a first movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the first movement corresponding to performing an operation on the user interface object, and, in response to detecting the first movement, the device performs the operation and generates a first tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface. The device also detects a second movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface, the second movement corresponding to reversing the operation on the user interface object, and in response to detecting the second movement, the device reverses the operation and generates a second tactile output on the touch-sensitive surface, where the second tactile output is different from the first tactile output.
US10175749B2
A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display apparatus includes a transparent display which displays information, a sensor which senses background information in a first direction, and a controller configured to modify a display state of the displayed information on the transparent display based on the sensed background information.
US10175747B2
An energy management system configured to manage operation states of load apparatuses installed in facility includes an instruction unit (14), a target evaluation unit (16), a presentation control unit (17) and a user device (60). According to a target power-saving ratio in a facility where load apparatuses (30) are installed, the instruction unit (14) controls operations of the load apparatuses (30). The user device (60) has a function for displaying information. The target evaluation unit (16) evaluates consumption of utility energy by the load apparatuses (30) with respect to a predetermined target value. The presentation control unit (17) controls so that the user device (60) displays an icon of which form varies according to an evaluation result by the target evaluation unit (16).
US10175745B2
A method and system for optimizing power consumption of a data center by dynamic workload adjustment. Workload of the data center is dynamically adjusted from a current workload distribution to an optimal workload solution. The optimal workload solution is a candidate workload solution of at least one candidate workload solution having a lowest sum of a respective power cost and a respective migration cost. Each candidate workload solution represents a respective application map that specifies a respective workload distribution among application programs of the data center. Dynamically adjusting the workload of the data center includes: estimating a respective overall cost of each candidate workload solution, selecting the optimal workload solution that has a lowest overall cost as determined from the estimating, and transferring the optimal workload solution to devices of a computer system for deployment.
US10175744B2
Methods and apparatus relating to link power savings with state retention are described. In one embodiment, one or more components of two agents coupled via a serial link are turned off during idle periods while retaining link state in each agent. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10175735B2
A powered medical communication hub including a housing and a rear interface assembly. The rear interface assembly includes a first data link configured to transmit first medical data to a processing system and a power link configured to receive a first amount of power. The hub also includes a power distribution module disposed within the housing, electrically coupled to the power link, and configured to convert the first amount of power into a plurality of power levels, and a forward interface assembly including a first connector communicatively coupled to the first data link and electrically coupled to the power distribution module, the first connector being configured to provide a first medical sensing device coupled thereto with a second amount of power equal to one of the plurality of power levels and receive the first medical data from the first medical sensing device.
US10175729B2
To provide an opening and closing device which can eliminate the torque fluctuations and ensure a secure unlocking, the opening and closing device based on biaxial hinge ensures that, when the second casing is opened from the close position to the initial opened position, and the stopper plate rotates relative to the first hinge shaft up to the initial opened position, the hinge shaft switcher switches from restraints to the rotation of the first hinge shaft to those to the rotation of the second hinge shaft, thus fixes the stopper plate at the initial opened position. The opening torque of the second casing is merely the sum of the torsion torque of the torsion spring and the friction torque of the first free stop tilting mechanism, and not subject to torque fluctuations. Therefore, the second casing can be securely opened.
US10175727B2
Provided are an electric shock protection device and a mobile electronic apparatus including the same. The electric shock protection device is disposed between a human contactable conductor and an internal circuit unit of an electronic device, in order to pass static electricity without causing dielectric breakdown when the static electricity is introduced from the conductor, and block a leakage electric current of an external power source introduced from a ground of the circuit unit, the following formula is satisfied: Vbr>Vin where Vbr is a breakdown voltage of the electric shock protection device, and Vin is a rated voltage of an external power source of the electronic device.
US10175713B1
An accelerating and braking device is disclosed for a vehicle. The accelerating and braking device includes a support tube pivotably coupled adjacent to the steering column. A brake tube links the control tube with the brake pedal for activating and deactivating the brake pedal. A position sensor is coupled to the control tube. A control engaging the position sensor for producing a variable signal output from the position sensor during rotation of the control. The position sensor electrically coupled to the electronic control module. A first rotational displacement of the position sensor causing an increase in velocity of the vehicle. A second rotational displacement of the position sensor causing a decrease in velocity of the vehicle. A first spring and a second spring engaging the control for causing the second rotational displacement and the decrease in velocity of the vehicle.
US10175700B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to minimize command dynamics of a satellite are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a steering law module to calculate a first set of vectors to maneuver a space vehicle, and calculate a second set of vectors based on projecting the first set of vectors onto a fixed plane. The apparatus further includes an attitude controller to generate an attitude command based on the first and the second sets of vectors to prevent an unplanned rotation by the space vehicle.
US10175689B2
A service providing system includes a self-moving apparatus and a server apparatus. The self-moving apparatus provides a service by moving to a predetermined destination and includes a detection unit and a reporting unit. The detection unit detects a state of the self-moving apparatus. The reporting unit sends a report about the detected state to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a reception unit, a report-reception unit, and a first instruction unit. The reception unit receives a user instruction for causing the self-moving apparatus to move to the destination if the self-moving apparatus is in a predetermined state. The report-reception unit receives the report from the self-moving apparatus. The first instruction unit instructs the self-moving apparatus to move to the destination upon the reception unit receiving the user instruction if the report received by the report-reception unit indicates that the self-moving apparatus is in the predetermined state.
US10175686B2
Devices, methods, and systems for distributed rule based automated fault detection are described herein. One system includes a data extractor engine configured to: extract configuration data relating to an environment based on a number of defined rules, and receive monitored data relating to the environment, an AFD engine configured to evaluate the monitored data in view of the configuration data to determine a state of the environment, and a fault generation engine to determine whether the state of the environment is outside a range defined by the number of defined rules.
US10175682B2
A method of configuring an automation control system using point configuration software. At least an extract from a control program file having program elements and program element attributes for executing in an automatic controller of the automation control system is translated into a common representation including common program element types and common attributes. Mapping template files are applied including mapping rules and mapping parameters defining how the program elements and program element attributes are mapped into at least one automation system point with point attributes, and values for each point attribute. Common program element types and/or common attributes are matched with the mapping template files according to the mapping rules to generate at least one matching program element. The matching program element is converted into an automation system point configuration (system point configuration) which is stored in persistent storage of or accessible by the automation control system.
US10175666B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes determining, by a processor-based capability determining element, different capabilities of each of different devices connected through one or more networks. The different capabilities include communication capabilities and manageability capabilities. The method further includes classifying, by the processor-based capability determining element, the different devices according to capability maturity rankings supported by the different capabilities to provide maturity-based capability classifications for the different devices. The capability maturity rankings are based on capability maturity criteria. The method also includes dynamically managing, by a controller, operations of the different devices in accordance with the maturity-based capability classifications.
US10175653B1
Watch bands with multiple light tubes, each light having a light fiber and at least one light-emitting diode for providing light to each light tube. The light-emitting diode may produce a wide color gamut for the light fiber to produce light in each light tube. Each light-emitting diode may produce a different color and light intensity different from the other light tubes in the watch band. The light tubes doubles as the structure for attaching a watch body to a user's wrist and as a carrier of light to add variety and style to the watch band. The watch band may have a variety of different attachment mechanisms for attaching and securing the watch body to the user's wrist.
US10175651B2
A method and apparatus for processing a three-dimensional image are provided. The method includes receiving original color data and original depth data of a plurality of layers of an original holographic image, selecting reference layers from among the plurality of layers, mapping adjustment color data of a non-selected layer, which is determined based on using the original depth data of the non-selected layer and the reference layers, to each of the reference layers, and generating a computer generated hologram image by using the original color data of the reference layers and the adjustment color data that has been mapped to the reference layers.
US10175648B1
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a fan configured to discharge air inside the main body out of the main body, and a paper sensor arranged between a conveyance path of a paper that has passed through a fusing unit and the fan to sense the paper passing through the fusing unit, wherein a light sensing area of the paper sensing unit is open toward the fan.
US10175644B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a main body and a cartridge having an image carrier and a first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier. The main body includes a second coupling, a rotator and a receiving member. The second coupling is configured to rotate together with the first coupling about a rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling. The rotator includes gear teeth. The rotator is configured to rotate the second coupling in response to receiving the drive force from the drive source, and to rotate together with the second coupling about the rotation axis coaxially with the second coupling. The rotator, which is configured to rotate about the rotation axis coaxially with the first coupling configured to rotate the image carrier, overlaps with the receiving member when viewed from an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis.
US10175643B1
A replaceable imaging unit according to one example embodiment includes a photoconductor unit positioned at the front of a housing of the imaging unit. First and second alignment guides extend outward at the same height from first and second sides of the housing, respectively, on the photoconductor unit and run parallel to each other along a front-to-rear dimension of the housing. Each of the first and second alignment guides includes a front contact member at a front end thereof and a rear contact member at a rear end thereof. The front contact members are positioned further outward sideways than the rear contact members. Bottom surfaces of the front and rear contact members are unobstructed to permit the bottom surfaces of the front and rear contact members to sit on top of corresponding guide rails in the image forming device to control a vertical position of the imaging unit.
US10175640B1
An assembly removable structure includes an assembly that includes a connectable member and that is attached to and removed from a receiving member of an apparatus body in a first direction, a connection member disposed on the apparatus body to be movable forward and backward in a cross direction that crosses the first direction, the connection member being connected to the connectable member while being in a projecting state, a switch member operated independently of a lid member and capable of switching the connection member between a first position, in which the connection member is connected to the connectable member, and a second position, in which the connection member is removed from the connectable member, the lid member rendering the receiving member open and closed, and a holding device that holds the switch member in the second position when the assembly is removed from the receiving member.
US10175635B2
A housing structure includes a housing, a cover, and a plurality of paths of gas. The cover spatially partitions an inside and an outside of the housing. The plurality of paths of gas connect the inside and the outside of the housing and include a plurality of bypass portions. Two or more paths of gas of the plurality of paths of gas communicate with an outside of the cover via a single housing opening that communicates an inside and the outside of the cover with each other.
US10175633B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developer storage portion, a developing roller, a magnetic force generating portion, and an image carrying member. The magnetic force generating portion is provided in the developing roller and generates a magnetic force for keeping the developer on an outer circumferential surface of the developing roller. The image carrying member is disposed to face the developing roller across a predetermined developing gap, is rotationally driven, receives the toner from the developer supplied to the developing gap by the developing roller, and keeps a toner image on an outer circumferential surface of the image carrying member. The image forming apparatus, during non image formation, supplies a more amount of developer to the developing gap than an amount of developer for developing supplied to the developing gap during image formation such that the outer circumferential surface of the image carrying member is cleaned.
US10175631B2
A ground plate includes an electrically conductive planar member having a long axis and a perpendicular short axis. The planar member has an elongated hexagonal shape having two opposing long sides, two opposing relatively shorter sides, and four angled sides between the long sides and the relatively shorter sides with a hollow central opening. Spring clips extend from inner edges of the hollow central opening. The inner edges from which the spring clips extend are parallel to the long axis. Each spring clip includes a distal end portion curving outward from the hollow central opening and is configured to contact a shaft extending through the hollow central opening to form an electrical connection between the planar member and the shaft. A tab projection extends from an outer edge of each of the relatively shorter sides. Each tab projection is in the same plane as the planar member.
US10175619B1
A fixing device includes a heating member that heats a developer image on a recording medium; a controlling member that controls a surface temperature of the heating member by coming into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heating member; a measuring member that measures, on a downstream of the controlling member and on an upstream of a pressing member in a rotation direction of the heating member, the surface temperature; and a supporting unit that causes the controlling member to come into contact with and be separated from the outer circumferential surface by rotating a supporting member around a rotation fulcrum. A distance between the rotation fulcrum and a contact position at which the controlling member comes into contact with the outer circumferential surface is longer than that between the rotation fulcrum and a measurement position at which the measuring member measures the surface temperature.
US10175617B2
A fixing apparatus that fixes an image onto a recording material includes: a belt; a nip plate contacting an inner surface of the belt; a roller configured to form a nip portion with the nip plate; a supporting member supporting the nip plate, the supporting member having a cross section in a shape of U, and supporting, with two legs, a surface of the nip plate opposite to a surface contacting the belt; and a guide member disposed on an upstream side of the nip plate and including a guide portion, wherein the recording material on which the image is formed is heated while being conveyed through the nip portion, and the image is fixed onto the recording material, and the guide member is supported by a first surface and a second surface of an upstream side leg among the two legs of the supporting member.
US10175614B2
A belt device includes a plurality of support rotators, a belt, a cleaner, and a rotator inclination unit. The belt is looped around the plurality of support rotators and moves according to rotation of the plurality of support rotators. The cleaner contacts a surface of the belt to remove foreign substances. The rotator inclination unit inclines an inclined support rotator that is at least one of the plurality of support rotators. The cleaner is disposed in contact with a portion of the belt stretched taut between the inclined support rotator and another support rotator. A pushing amount of the cleaner relative to the belt varies according to inclination of the inclined support rotator and is smallest in a state in which the inclined support rotator is not inclined by the rotator inclination unit.
US10175611B2
A toner conveyance device includes a conveying screw having a shaft and a spiral blade. The spiral blade includes a start end-side blade adjacent to a bearing positioned at a start end part side in a toner conveyance path, a terminal-side blade adjacent to a bearing positioned at a terminal part side, and an intermediate blade. A toner discharge port is provided between the intermediate blade and the terminal-side blade. A spiral winding direction of the terminal-side blade is opposite to that of the intermediate blade, a spiral winding direction of the start end-side blade is equal to that of the intermediate blade, and a blade diameter of the start end-side blade and a blade diameter of the terminal-side blade are smaller than that of the intermediate blade.
US10175608B2
A developing device includes a developing roller, a conveyor roller and a developer stirring unit. The developing roller is arranged to face a photoconductive drum at a predetermined developing position. The developing roller includes a fixed first magnet and a first sleeve. The conveyor roller is arranged to face the developing roller at a predetermined facing position. The conveyor roller includes a fixed second magnet and a second sleeve. The developer stirring unit stirs the developer and supplies the developer to the conveyor roller. The first magnet includes a first magnetic pole composed of a predetermined magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole arranged downstream of and adjacent to the first magnetic pole and having the same polarity as the first magnetic pole. The developer is transferred from the developing roller to the conveyor roller after passing through a repulsive magnetic field formed by the first and second magnetic poles.
US10175605B2
A network system including a customer replaceable unit (CRU) having an excellent security function for operation information which system can realize improvement of the use efficiency of operation information for making the CRU operate, and reduction in costs, is provided. An apparatus main body of a multifunction printer, a server, a personal computer, etc. are connected to a network of a network system, and a CRU is attached to the apparatus main body so as to be detachable. Operation information necessary for making the CRU operate is stored in the server. The apparatus main body obtains operation information of the CRU from the server via the network and stores the obtained operation information into a buffer memory, and causes the CRU to operate based on the operation information. The operation information stored in the buffer memory is erased when communication between the apparatus main body and the CRU ends.
US10175600B1
A charging member includes a cylindrical or columnar conductive substrate, an elastic layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer. When in analysis of a circumferential direction period of a surface shape of the elastic layer, a maximum amplitude value in a period region of less than 5 mm is Ae, and when in analysis of a circumferential direction period of a surface shape of the surface layer, a maximum amplitude value in the period region of less than 5 mm is As, the charging member satisfies As/Ae≤0.9.
US10175596B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes plural toner particles containing a crystalline resin, a non-crystalline resin, and a plurality of releasing agent domains. The number of releasing agent domains having a dispersion diameter of at least 50 nm and no greater than 700 nm is at least 15 and no greater than 50 per one toner particle in cross-sections of the toner particles. A total area of the releasing agent domains having a dispersion diameter of at least 50 nm and no greater than 700 nm in the cross-sections of the toner particles is at least 5% and no greater than 20% relative to an area of the cross sections of the toner particles.
US10175592B2
A toner has positive chargeability. Particles of the toner each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles adhering to a surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include first external additive particles and second external additive particles. The first external additive particles have positive chargeability and are each a first silica particle having a surface treated with a positive chargeability imparting agent and a hydrophobing agent. The second external additive particles have negative chargeability and are each a second silica particle having a surface treated only with a silane compound. The silane compound is at least one alkylalkoxysilane represented by formula (I) shown below. In formula (I), R1 represents an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 16. R2, R3, and R4 each represent, independently of one another, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group.
US10175588B2
Disclosed herein is a decompression processing apparatus for processing a wafer in a decompressed state including a chamber having a decompressing unit configured to decompress the inside of the chamber, an opening and closing door configured to open and close a carrying-in-and-out opening for carrying the wafer into and out of the chamber, and an inert gas supply source configured to supply an inert gas to the inside of the chamber. The inside of the chamber is maintained in a dry state by continuing to supply the inert gas in a state in which the opening and closing door is opened.
US10175586B2
A method of correcting an optical image formed by an optical system, the method including obtaining a map indicative of a polarization dependent property of the optical system across a pupil plane of the optical system for each spatial position in an image plane of the optical system, combining the map indicative of the polarization dependent property of the optical system with a radiation map of the intensity and polarization of an input radiation beam to form an image map, and using the image map to correct an optical image formed by directing the input radiation beam through the optical system.
US10175578B2
A pattern forming method includes coating an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition onto a substrate to form an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film, coating a composition for forming a protective film onto the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film to form a protective film, exposing the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film covered with the protective film, and developing the exposed actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film using a developer containing an organic solvent, in which the protective film contains a compound (A) including at least one group or bond selected from the group consisting of an ether bond, a thioether bond, a hydroxyl group, a thiol group, a carbonyl bond, and an ester bond, and a resin (X).
US10175576B2
Provided is a curable composition for photo imprints excellent in the mold releasability and the ink jettability. The curable composition for photo imprints, comprising: a polymerizable compound (A); a photo-polymerization initiator (B); and a mold releasing agent (C), the mold releasing agent (C) being represented by the formula (I) below. Rf represents a C1-8 fluorine-containing alkyl group having two or more fluorine atoms; m represents 1 or 2; L represents a single bond or divalent linking group; n represents 1 or 2; X represents a single bond, oxygen atom, sulfur atom, or nitrogen atom; R1 represents a C1-8 substituent being free from a polymerizable group; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, C1-8 substituent, or divalent linking group; p represents 1 or 2, q represents 0 or 1, and r represents 1 or 2; R1 and R2 may combine with each other to form a ring.
US10175567B2
A light source device includes a light source section that emits laser beam, a member reducing light quantity unevenness of the laser beam, a diffusion member that is provided in a traveling optical path of the laser beam between the light source section and the member reducing light quantity unevenness and diffuses the laser beam, a detection element that detects a physical characteristic of the diffusion member and outputs a state detecting signal, and an abnormal state determiner that determines an abnormal state of the diffusion member based on the state detecting signal.
US10175564B2
A projector assembly includes a light emitting diode (LED) array, wherein the LED array has an array axis, wherein the LED array includes a plurality of LEDs arranged along the array axis, and wherein the plurality of LEDs are individually addressable. The projector assembly includes a rotatable actuator supporting the LED array, wherein the rotatable actuator has a rotation axis, and wherein the rotation axis and the array axis are parallel. The projector assembly includes a collimator positioned in optical communication with the LED array for collimating light emitted from the plurality of LEDs and a set of imaging optics positioned in optical communication with the collimator for focusing collimated light and forming a first image of the LED array at a distance, wherein the first image includes a first axis corresponding to the array axis and a second axis orthogonal to the rotation axis.
US10175556B2
A method and a system method for generating optical multipartite quantum states, comprising generating optical fields by at least two different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes and overlapping the optical fields spontaneously generated from the different spontaneous four-wave mixing processes into a same resonator mode of a third-order nonlinear resonator. The system comprises a multi-colored laser source exiting a nonlinear third-order resonator at different resonance frequencies belonging to different mode families of the resonator.
US10175552B2
An optical module (1A) includes a polarization beam splitter (10) that receives input light (L1) including a p-polarization component using a light splitting surface (11), a first polarization element (20) that rotates a polarization plane of the input light (L1) transmitted through the light splitting surface (11), a first reflective SLM (30) that modulates the input light (L1) to generate first modulation light (L2), a second polarization element (40) that rotates a polarization plane of the first modulation light (L2) passing through the first polarization element (20) again and reflected by the light splitting surface (11), and a second reflective SLM (50) that modulates the first modulation light (L2) to generate second modulation light (L3). The second modulation light (L3) passes through the second polarization element (40) again, is transmitted through the light splitting surface (11), and then is output.
US10175544B2
Ensure conduction between an electronic component and a circuit substrate having reduced pitches in wiring of the circuit substrate or electrodes of the electronic component and prevent short circuits between electrode terminals of the electronic component. A connection body including an electronic component connected to a circuit substrate via an anisotropic conductive adhesive agent containing conductive particles; wherein the conductive particles are regularly arranged; and wherein the conductive particles have a particle diameter that is ½ or less than a height of a connecting electrode of the electronic component.
US10175541B2
It is possible to separate each liquid crystal display panel from a mother board in which multiple liquid crystal display panels are formed even with a thin glass substrate, by forming a columnar spacer in the boundary between liquid crystal display panels, forming a scribe line corresponding to the columnar spacer on both sides of the counter substrate and the TFT substrate in the mother board, and forming a separation line between the scribe lines by applying a bending stress to the mother board. Since the columnar spacer is formed in a portion corresponding to the scribe line, the strength in this portion increases, so that the proper scribe lines and break lines can be formed when the thickness of the glass substrate is reduced to about 0.15 mm.
US10175536B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device, a quantum rods alignment plate and the method for making the same. The method includes following steps: providing a substrate; arranging a quantum rods layer on the substrate, the surface of the quantum rods layer has a first group, the first group includes an alignment group, the alignment group is used to align the liquid crystal. By the above method, the present disclosure can saving the cost of the production and can greatly increase the transmission and the brightness of the liquid crystal display device, and also enhance the display color gamut of the liquid crystal display device.
US10175533B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display module which emits display light, an optical element which transmits or reflects the display light, a reflective element which retroreflects the display light reflected from the optical element, and a first light-guide which imparts directivity toward the optical element to the display light emitted from the display module.
US10175525B2
A polarizing waveguide plate includes a pair of spaced transparent plates that define a gap therebetween. Disposed within the gap is a composite material formed of a mixture of polymer mater and liquid crystal material. Positioned proximate to one edge of the gap is an edge light, while a reflector/converter is positioned proximate to another edge of the gap. During operation, unpolarized light is emitted from the edge light and is received within the gap. As such, a portion of the light polarized in a first direction is permitted to exit the waveguide, while the remaining portion of the light that is polarized in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, is converted by the converter/reflector so that its polarization is also in the first direction. As such, substantially all of the unpolarized light from the edge light is emitted by the polarizing waveguide plate as polarized light.
US10175524B2
The present disclosure proposes a method of fabricating a color filter. The method includes: forming a permeable film on a glass substrate and drying the permeable film; and covering a black mask with a first hollow area, a red mask with a second hollow area, a green mask with a third hollow area, and a blue mask with a fourth hollow area on the dried permeable film successively, and only one of the four masks being covered each time; putting the permeable film covered by the masks into a particle solution corresponding to a respective color successively for forming the color filter comprising a black shielding area, a red area, a green area, and a blue area. The color filter is fabricated in a simpler manufacturing process. The thickness of the black shielding area of the color filter is accordance to the thickness of the RGB primary color area.
US10175523B2
According to an aspect, a substrate for a display apparatus includes: a first substrate; and at least one translucent coloring layer that overlaps with the first substrate. The at least one translucent coloring layer overlaps with an entire surface of a display region in which an image is displayed. A color of the at least one translucent coloring layer is identical across the entire surface of the display region.
US10175522B2
A light deflection diffusion sheet, a stacked light deflection diffusion sheet, and a stacked optical sheet that are used in a liquid crystal panel are disclosed. A liquid crystal display (LCD) device include a liquid crystal panel having a length direction and a width direction; a surface light emitting module; a base sheet disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the surface light emitting module; a light diffusion layer disposed on a surface of the base sheet facing the surface light emitting module and diffusing light incident from the surface light emitting module; and a light deflection layer disposed on a surface of the base sheet facing the liquid crystal panel and controlling a travel direction of the light.
US10175521B2
The invention provides an optical composite layer structure with a built-in touch sensitive polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) structure. The optical composite layer structure comprises an upper transparent substrate, a lower transparent substrate, an upper transparent conductive layer, a lower transparent conductive layer and a PDLC layer. A PDLC circuit and a touch sensitive circuit are provided on the upper and lower transparent conductive layers. A cable region that is electrically connected to external soft circuit cables is provided at an end of the upper transparent conductive layer and the lower transparent conductive layer to electrically connect to an external control unit. With a touch sensitive operation of a touch sensitive circuit of the optical composite layer structure, a signal instruction is provided to the control unit. The corresponding PDLC circuit may drive the corresponding regions of PDLC layer to conduct the change of light transmission of local region.
US10175520B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel for displaying an image, a heat source arranged at a side surface of at least one side of the display panel, a heat absorbing section for absorbing heat generated by the heat source, a back surface plate arranged at a back surface side of the display panel and made of a metal, a portion of the back surface plate being in c lose contact with the heat absorbing section, a front surface plate arranged at a front surface side of the display panel and made of a metal, and a middle chassis arranged between the front surface plate and the heat absorbing section.
US10175516B2
The present invention discloses a double side display frame, comprising a top, a first side part, a bottom and a second side part which are connected end to end and jointly surround a backlight cavity, and the bottom and the top are oppositely located between the first side part and the second side part; the first side part comprises a first window and a first installation slot, and the first window penetrates a middle part of the first side part and communicates with the backlight cavity, and the first installation slot is located at periphery of the first window; the second side part comprises a second window and a second installation slot, and the second window penetrates a middle part of the second side part and communicates with the backlight cavity, and the second installation slot is located at periphery of the second window.
US10175514B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing display panel. The manufacturing method includes: S1: providing a support substrate; S2: arranging a glass substrate on the support substrate; S3: arranging a flexible substrate on the glass substrate; S4: arranging a pad area on the flexible substrate; S5: completing the display panel into a box process or packaging process; S6: peeling off the support substrate; S7: cutting the glass substrate and the flexible substrate in accordance with a predetermined display panel size, and peeling the glass substrate and the flexible substrate after the cutting. The method of manufacturing a display panel using a thin and light glass substrate is possible to avoid the occurrence of severe drooping and warping which can prevent the drooping and the overall warping of the both ends of the thin glass substrate, thereby enhancing the convenience and the accuracy in the manufacturing process.
US10175510B2
A smart optical material characterized in that when the material is at ambient temperature (≤30° C.), it is opaque to at least one color light in the visible light spectrum and when the material is at an elevated temperature of at least 80° C., it is substantially transparent to the at least one color light. The smart optical material is also characterized as having before thermal aging an elongation-at-break of at least 15% and after thermal aging in air at 200° C. for seven days an elongation-at-break that is unchanged or is at least 12% and has decreased by from >0% to less than 50%. Also included are related formulations, methods, uses, articles and devices.
US10175501B1
Described is a wearable item, such as eyewear, that is formed to be stored and worn on a user's wrist. The eyewear includes a pair of lenses separated by a nose bridge assembly. Arms are affixed with each of the lenses. Notably, the pair of lenses are foldable between an open configuration in which they can be worn as eyeglasses and a collapsed configuration in which they fold toward one another and can be worn on the user's wrist.
US10175492B2
A display device system providing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) displays in the same device and a method for switching between augmented reality and virtual reality modes in the embodiments of the device are disclosed. The system enables users to view an augmented reality setting, interact with objects, and switch to a virtual reality setting or vice versa without having to switch devices. When switching from virtual reality to augmented reality, a shuttering mechanism may open allowing the user to see the real environment within an augmented setting. Position on the user in the physical reality may be tracked relative to position of the user in the AR or VR. Some actions may be triggered based on the tracked location and orientation of the user.
US10175491B2
The present invention comprises a compact optical see-through head-mounted display capable of combining, a see-through image path with a virtual image path such that the opaqueness of the see-through image path can be modulated and the virtual image occludes parts of the see-through image and vice versa.
US10175477B2
A display system of a vehicle includes a windshield of a vehicle, an interior rearview mirror assembly, an assembly disposed at an upper region of the windshield, and a display device disposed at the assembly. The upper region of the windshield includes a display region. The display device is operable to project a mirror image of display information towards and onto the display region of the windshield for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The display information is viewable at the display region of the windshield and is viewable and discernible by the driver of the vehicle when the driver is normally operating the vehicle.
US10175463B1
In some aspects, an afocal adaptor for an optical device comprises a housing. The housing includes a first and a second optical channel. A divider is configured between the first optical channel and the second optical channel to prevent transmission of electromagnetic radiation between the first optical channel and the second optical channel. At least one lens is associated with each of the first optical channel and the second optical channel. A particular at least one lens is configured to provide a focal point for each of the first optical channel and the second optical channel and to guide a particular type of electromagnetic radiation through each of the first optical channel and the second optical channel. The electromagnetic radiation is guided into a corresponding first receiving optical channel and a second receiving optical channel associated with the optical device. A coupling mechanism is attached to the housing and configured to permit attachment of the housing to the optical device.
US10175455B2
A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis 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 are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10175453B2
The invention provides an optical imaging lens assembly comprising two lens elements (a positive optical power lens element and a negative optical power lens element) separated by an air gap. The positive lens element of the system may comprise fluorite crystal (CaF2) or other material with similar optical properties. The negative lens element of the system may be made from an optical material, typically glass, having a refractive index ne that lies within the 1.56
US10175451B2
An imaging device comprises an image sensor on which phase difference detection pixels are formed, a rapid shooting controller that carries out rapid shooting of still pictures by causing operation of the image sensor, and generates and stores image data based on image signals output by the image sensor, and a controller for focusing control that carries out the rapid shooting and causes operation of the image sensor between one exposure of the rapid shooting and the next to carry out first focus detection based on focus detection signals generated by the phase difference detection pixels, carries out second focus detection based on focus detection signals generated by the phase difference detection pixels as a result of the rapid shooting, and carries out focus adjustment based on results of the first focus detection and results of the second focus detection.
US10175448B2
An arrangement for improving adhesive attachment of micro-components in an assembly utilizes a plurality of parallel-disposed slots formed in the top surface of the substrate used to support the micro-components. The slots are used to control the flow and “shape” of an adhesive “dot” so as to quickly and accurately attach a micro-component to the surface of a substrate. The slots are formed (preferably, etched) in the surface of the substrate in a manner that lends itself to reproducible accuracy from one substrate to another. Other slots (“channels”) may be formed in conjunction with the bonding slots so that extraneous adhesive material will flow into these channels and not spread into unwanted areas.
US10175447B2
An array imaging module includes a molded photosensitive assembly which includes a supporting member, at least a circuit board, at least two photosensitive units, at least two lead wires, and a mold sealer. The photosensitive units are coupled at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The lead wires are electrically connected the photosensitive units at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The mold sealer includes a main mold body and has two optical windows. When the main mold body is formed, the lead wires, the circuit board and the photosensitive units are sealed and molded by the main mold body of the mold sealer, such that after the main mold body is formed, the main mold body and at least a portion of the circuit board are integrally formed together at a position that the photosensitive units are aligned with the optical windows respectively.
US10175446B1
A lens mount apparatus comprising a molded first lens component and a second lens component formed integrally with the first lens component through injection-compression molding the second lens component on the first lens component in a secondary operation, resulting in mechanochemical attachment of the second lens component on the first lens component to produce the unitary lens mount apparatus without compromising the lens mount apparatus optics, wherein at least one of the first and second lens components is an optical lens.
US10175445B2
Apparatus for the alignment of optical beams includes an optical beam; a beam splitter in the path of the optical beam; the beam splitter splits the optical beam into at least two sub-beams paths; a first one of the at least two sub-beam paths is directed through one or more optical devices for amplification of lateral shift alignment; a second one of the at least two sub-beams is directed through one or more optical devices for amplification of angular alignment; the first and the second sub-beams impinge on first and second screens.
US10175439B2
Optical fiber cables (1001) comprising at least one optical fiber transmission medium (1006) and at least one elongated polymeric protective component (1002) surrounding at least a portion of the optical fiber transmission medium. The elongated polymeric protective component (1002) comprises a polymeric matrix material and a plurality of microcapillaries containing a polymeric microcapillary material, where the polymeric matrix material has a higher flexural modulus than the polymeric microcapillary material. Also disclosed are dies and methods for making such optical fiber cables and protective components.
US10175433B2
A MEMS based alignment technology based on mounting an optical component on a released micromechanical lever configuration that uses multiple flexures rather than a single spring. The optical component may be a lens. The use of multiple flexures may reduce coupling between lens rotation and lens translation, and reduce effects of lever handle warping on lens position. The device can be optimized for various geometries.
US10175417B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including a backlight with vertically stacked light emitting diodes (LEDs). The LCD device includes an LCD panel and a backlight for illuminating the LCD panel. The backlight includes a plurality of LEDs and a light guide. The plurality of LEDs are stacked vertically and disposed behind the LCD panel along one or more edges of the LCD panel. The plurality of LEDs include at least a first color LED and a second color LED emitting first light and second light at a first direction, respectively, at a first wavelength and a second wavelength, respectively. The light guide is disposed behind the LCD panel and adjacent to the plurality of LEDs. The light guide is configured to combine the first light and the second light received from the plurality of LEDs into combined light to illuminate the LCD panel.
US10175416B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source, a light guide plate, and a receiving part. The display panel is configured to receive light to display an image. The light source is configured to emit the light. The light guide plate is configured to receive and guide the light to the display panel. The receiving part is configured to hold the light source and the light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a first light guide part and a second light guide part. The first light guide part includes a first material. The second light guide part includes a second material different from the first material. The second light guide part has a tapered shape and is coupled to the first light guide part.
US10175415B2
A liquid crystal display device provided with a liquid crystal display panel having a pair of transparent substrates disposed to face with each other via a liquid crystal layer, and a backlight unit disposed on a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel for radiating a backlight ray is configured to have a plate member opposite a side wall surfaces of the liquid crystal display panel and a side wall surfaces of the backlight unit. The plate member is fixed to the side wall surface of the liquid crystal display panel and the side wall surface of the backlight unit.
US10175409B2
A backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes: a light bar, a quantum dot encapsulated tube and a light guide plate; the light bar and light guide plate are disposed at two sides of quantum dot encapsulated tube respectively, the light bar and quantum dot encapsulated tube are disposed in parallel, the light bar and quantum dot encapsulated tube are located at a light incident surface side of light guide plate, a plurality of LED lights are disposed on the light bar at a side facing towards the quantum dot encapsulated tube, an LED light corresponding to valid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is monochromatic LED light, an LED light corresponding to invalid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is white LED light, and invalid area of quantum dot encapsulated tube is within irradiation range of the white LED light.
US10175407B1
A housing includes a head, a head mount, and a bracket. The head includes a midsection, a rod extending from the midsection, and a connection member extending in an opposite direction therefrom. A bore extends through the length of the midsection, the rod, and the connection member. The head mount comprises a hollow receiving member open at a first end and has a bottom face at a second end. The bracket includes first and second bracket sections. A top face of the first section is fixed to the bottom face of the hollow receiving member. In a use position, an inside face of the first bracket section is positioned against a first side of a surface, and an inside face of the second bracket section is positioned against a second opposing side of the surface. The first and second bracket sections are secured together using mechanical fasteners.
US10175394B2
A substrate with multilayer reflective film for discovery of critical defects by inhibiting the detection of pseudo defects attributable to surface roughness of a substrate or film using a highly sensitive defect inspection apparatus. The substrate has a multilayer reflective film obtained by alternately laminating a high refractive index layer and a low refractive index layer on a main surface of a mask blank substrate used in lithography, wherein an integrated value I of the power spectrum density (PSD) at a spatial frequency of 1 μm−1 to 10 μm−1 of the surface of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film, obtained by measuring a region measuring 3 μm×3 μm with an atomic force microscope, is not more than 180×10−3 nm3, and the maximum value of the rower spectrum density (PSD) at a spatial frequency of 1 μm−1 to 10 μm−1 is not more than 50 nm4.
US10175392B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US10175390B2
An optical element is provided which reflects a reduced amount of light even under a very high intensity lighting system used for a surgical operation, a dental treatment etc., has anti-fogging performance, and is transparent and useful for face protection. The optical element has a flexible transparent substrate and a plurality of structures disposed on opposite surfaces of the substrate at a pitch equal to or less than the wavelength of visible light. The structures are formed from a cured product of a resin having a hydrophilic functional group.
US10175384B2
A probe is provided that contacts the inner surface of the casing or other production tubing and imparts energy to the surface at the contact point, for example as heat energy or mechanical energy. Energy is imparted around the circumference of the casing, and a fiber optic distributed sensor located on the outer surface of the casing is used to measure and record the energy that it receives while the probe is moved to impart energy around the circumference. A record of energy versus position of the probe around the circumference can be obtained, from which maxima in the detected energy measurements can then be found. The position around the circumference which gave the maximum measurement should be the position at which the optical fiber of the fiber optic distributed sensor is located. In addition, an ultrasonic arrangement is also described, that relies on ultrasonic sound to provide detection.
US10175381B2
The present application discloses an X-ray scanner having an X-ray source arranged to emit X-rays from source points through an imaging volume. The scanner may further include an array of X-ray detectors which may be arranged around the imaging volume and may be arranged to output detector signals in response to the detection of X-rays. The scanner may further include a conveyor arranged to convey an object through the imaging volume in a scan direction, and may also include at least one processor arranged to process the detector signals to produce an image data set defining an image of the object. The image may have a resolution in the scan direction that is at least 90% as high as in one direction, and in some cases two directions, orthogonal to the scan direction.
US10175380B2
A microfluidic device and method is described to parallelize a pressure-volume-temperature (“PVT”) analysis such that a portion of the pressure, temperature and volume analysis is performed separately from others. The resulting PVT data is then recombined statistically for a complete PVT analysis. The microfluidic device may also obtain compositional data of the fluid to perform an equation of state analysis or reservoir simulations.
