US10200914B2
A system manages a quality of service provided to an electronic device during a communication session in a network. A quality of service monitor of the electronic device detects satisfaction of a quality of service adjustment condition for changing the quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network. A quality of service manager of the electronic device requests an adjusted quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network. A communication interface of the electronic device communicates in a communication session at the adjusted quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network.
US10200913B2
An information distribution apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store connection information used to allow one of a plurality of terminals or a group of terminals among the plurality of terminals to be coupled to the information distribution apparatus. The processor is the processor configured to receive an access request from a first terminal among the plurality of terminals. The access request requests to access the information distribution apparatus. The processor is the processor configured to notify the first terminal of first connection information used to allow the first terminal to be individually coupled to the information distribution apparatus. The processor is the processor configured to replace, upon determining to allow the first terminal to access the information distribution apparatus, second connection information currently stored in the memory with the first connection information to allow the first terminal to access the information distribution apparatus.
US10200911B2
A control method and apparatus for load transmission is provided. The control method includes: receiving a trigger event reported by a proxy server, where the trigger event includes a first transmission delay of a first member transmission path and a second transmission delay of a second member transmission path, and reporting the trigger event when one of the first and the second transmission delays is greater than a first delay threshold, The method also includes initiating a request to a packet data network gateway and obtaining network information fed back by the packet data network gateway. The method also includes controlling, according to the first transmission delay, the second transmission delay, and the network information, the proxy server to perform corresponding load distribution.
US10200907B2
In one example embodiment, a network control node includes a memory having computer-readable instruction stored therein, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to determine an uplink correction parameter based on at least one of network loading conditions and a modulation coding scheme used for transmission of data packets on an uplink channel from a user equipment to the network control node, determine a target signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for the user equipment based on the uplink correction parameter, and adjust the modulation coding scheme based on the determined target SINR.
US10200906B2
Systems and methods providing radio resource management (RRM) to facilitate the co-existence of the neighboring cells, such as to manage radio resources for deployments utilizing a same frequency or overlapping frequencies, using discovery signal transmission are disclosed. Discovery signal transmission may be used to enable network elements of a wireless communication system to discover other network elements of the wireless communication system, whether such other network elements are operating with respect to a cell of a same or different operator. Transmission of discovery signals may be utilized to detect situations of dominant interference, whereby the network elements of neighboring cells may provide protected resources for each other. The protected resources may comprise particular frequencies, time slots, channels, etc.
US10200902B2
An apparatus for determining characteristics of a radio within a communications network includes a radio, RF signal sensor, and analyzer. The radio transmits RF signals and has transmission operating parameters with respective predetermined values defined by a regulatory agency, a manufacturer, a user and a provider, the values having respective thresholds, a unique identifier; and an over-the-air operating mode in which the signals comprise the identifier. The sensor receives the signals from the radio having characteristics correlating with the transmission operating parameters. While the signals are being received during the operating mode, the analyzer measures the signal characteristics and determines health of the radio by analyzing whether the measured characteristics transmitted are within the respective thresholds of the values, and concludes that health is acceptable if the measured characteristics are within the thresholds, and concludes that health is unacceptable if at least one measured characteristic is outside a threshold.
US10200900B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coverage assessment system operable to receive, via a network, coverage parameter data from a user device, where the coverage parameter data includes location data generated by the user device. The coverage assessment system is further operable to generate coverage assessment data based on the coverage parameter data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200894B2
Interference management methods are proposed to facilitate multi-cell, multi-user millimeter wave cellular networks. One method includes a feedback approach in which a base station (BS) device collects information from mobile devices in the cell operated by the BS device and other BS devices in other cells. Each mobile device feeds back a best beams set and a worst interference beams set to its serving BS device and the information is shared amongst other BS devices in the network. According to the information, BS devices implement a beam selection criterion to select a beam for downlink transmission. To reduce feedback cost, another method leverages the channel reciprocity in time division duplexing to use the measured uplink power and interference information to select the narrow beam for downlink transmission. The BS device selects the narrow beam that establishes a reliable channel and reduces interference to mobile devices in neighboring cells.
US10200888B2
Provided is a method for generating inter-cell information for inter-cell interference removal in a wireless communication system. A method by which a terminal removes inter-cell interference comprises the steps of: receiving a signal from a serving cell and a neighboring cell adjacent to the serving cell; identifying the priority of the serving cell for feedback of channel information on the basis of an identifier of the cell and a resource block; identifying whether there is feedback of channel information on the signal received on the basis of the priority; and transmitting the channel information to a base station of the serving cell according to the identification of whether there is feedback.
US10200879B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein are directed to a tactical wireless base station, and applications thereof. A tactical wireless base station may include a plurality of hardware or software radios configured to facilitate communication over any wireless protocol. The tactical wireless base station may be deployed on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to search for a wireless signal of a target user equipment (UE) corresponding to a lost hiker, for example, in an area out of range of traditional base stations, and/or to locate the target UE to convey the location to rescuers. In some instances, a tactical wireless base station can be deployed in a handheld device and may coordinate with other tactical wireless base stations in order to triangulate a location of user equipment. Further, the tactical wireless base stations may be deployed during network outages to provide indications of events, such as during emergencies.
US10200873B2
A method for managing spectrum sharing in a wireless communication network includes identifying a set of users in the wireless communication network which shares a spectrum of communication, classifying the set of users into multiple subsets of users, and scheduling, within a given time slot, one subset of users among the multiple subsets of users to transmit and receive data at the same time so that the scheduled subset of users shares the spectrum of communication. The users in a subset are selected by comparing the desired channel strength with the sum of strengths of the strongest interference from that user and the strongest interference to that user, all values in dB scale.
US10200872B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for direct current (DC) subcarrier handling for narrowband user equipment (UE). A UE may identify a narrow bandwidth region allocated for operation within a wide bandwidth carrier, determine that the narrow bandwidth region is centered about a different frequency than a center subcarrier of the wide bandwidth carrier, and, accordingly, select an operating mode. Various operating modes may include down-converting a carrier frequency of the allocated narrow bandwidth region. A base station may support narrowband UE operation by determining that the narrow bandwidth region is centered about a different frequency than a center subcarrier of the wide bandwidth carrier and rate matching subcarriers of the narrow bandwidth region around tones of a center frequency of the narrow bandwidth region.
US10200869B2
A method performed by a network node, for detecting a false base station in a communications network. The network node operates in the communication network and is adapted to serve a network device via a serving Radio Access, RA, node. The network node sends a message to a network device, which message comprises configuration data configuring the network device to perform measurements in order to collect information transmitted by network nodes in a surrounding area of the network device. The network node further receives a message comprising measurement reports from the network device according to the configuration. The network node further provides an indication that a false base station is present when a difference between the received information in the measurement report and a predetermined target information is detected.
US10200868B1
A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) electronic device includes initiating a security access code software application on the AR electronic device. A user of the AR electronic device is identified. A first electronic computing device at or near a current location of the user is identified. The first electronic computing device is an input device for entry of a security code to permit access to a protected asset. A determination is made as to whether the user is authorized to access the protected asset. When a determination is made that the user is authorized to access the protected asset, a security access code is displayed on the AR electronic device. The security access code permits the user to access the protected asset via the first electronic computing device.
US10200864B2
The present application aims to provide a method and device for managing a wireless access point (AP), so as to address the problem of the difficulty in identifying the actual owner of the wireless AP when multiple users share the password of the wireless AP. In particular, in the technical solution provided by the present application, wireless AP-related first authentication information of a first user is acquired, and then owner information of a wireless AP can be automatically determined according to ownership related information of the wireless AP and the first authentication information, thereby conveniently and efficiently determining an owner of the wireless AP. Furthermore, the owner information can be more accurately determined by reasonably configuring a priority level of the authentication information, so as to assign the ownership of the wireless AP to the actual owner.
US10200863B2
Some implementations may provide a method to have a user authenticated at a point of service. The method includes: accessing, by a target system, a multi-dimensional symbol rendered on a display of a mobile computing device of the user, the multi-dimensional symbol encoding endpoints and actions for the target system to perform in order to request and authenticate an identity of a user; decoding data in the multi-dimensional symbol to retrieve an identity token plus information about the authentication actions and the user's identity system; requesting the corresponding authentication actions of the user's identity system to include specific authentication measures for the user to perform as well as data for the user to release; and performing the authentication actions as requested and encoded in the multi-dimensional symbol such that the physical identity of the user of the mobile computing device is verified and the user consents to release the requested identity information at the point of service.
US10200861B2
We disclose various embodiments that enable a mobile terminal to authenticate a base station before the mobile terminal proceeds to attach to the corresponding network and/or camp on the corresponding cell, e.g., during the initial network selection and attachment or during an idle mode. In an example embodiment, the authentication processing includes the mobile terminal generating and sending to a candidate base station a system query with a nonce. The candidate base station is deemed to be authentic only if the acknowledgement generated and transmitted in response to the system query includes a copy of the nonce properly signed by a digital signature generated using one or more security keys. In some embodiments, the system query may also include a request for GPS coordinates and/or selected system information signed using a digital signature, which the mobile terminal may beneficially use to further strengthen the protection against a spoofing attack.
US10200860B1
Methods and systems for multimedia messaging service (MMS) authentication over IP networks are disclosed. An access identifier records message corresponding to a user by a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) forwarded by a server is received. Data from the access identifier records message including a mobile directory number, a framed IP address, access network information and a session ID is extracted and stored in a cache accessible to the MMSC. Network IP authentication is executed to determine that the user has a valid IP address. Client IP authentication of the user is executed to determine that the valid IP address is stored in the cache. A correspondence between the valid IP address and a mobile directory number of the user is determined. The user is authenticated for MMS over the IP network based on the correspondence.
US10200854B2
Certain embodiments provide a method including obtaining data at a first time using at least one sensor associated with a mobile computing device, the at least one sensor arranged to gather data regarding at least one operating factor for the mobile computing device, the mobile computing device configured to receive market data and execute a trading application. The example method includes analyzing the data obtained from the at least one sensor to determine the at least one operating factor. The example method includes determining a first operating state of the mobile computing device based on the at least one operating factor. The example method includes altering a function of the mobile computing device with respect to the trading application based on the first operating state.
US10200851B2
A position information distribution server includes: a communication unit that is provided outside a core network and receives identification information of a cellular phone and position information of the cellular phone from base transceiver stations, switching centers, VLRs, or an HLR; and a recording unit that records a first table including information to specify a server transmitting the position information among position information provision servers, for each identification information of the cellular phone. The position information provision servers are servers that provide position information services for transmitting the position information transmitted from the position information distribution server to information terminals. When the communication unit receives the identification information and the position information of the cellular phone, the communication unit transmits the identification information and the position information of the cellular phone to a server shown in the first table among the position information provision servers.
US10200849B1
Systems and methods for auto-pairing using a plurality of protocols are described. One embodiment of a system includes an environment computing device that includes a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) hardware component for facilitating communication via a BLE protocol. The environment computing device may also include a Bluetooth classic hardware component for facilitating communication via a Bluetooth classic protocol and a memory component that stores logic. When the logic is executed by the environment computing device, the environment computing device may establish, via the BLE hardware component, a BLE connection with a user device, may receive a message via the BLE connection to turn on a Bluetooth classic discover mode, and may establish a Bluetooth classic connection with the user device.
US10200841B2
A method for transferring data using optimized short message transport includes receiving at a first network node an attach request message. The attach request message includes short-message data. The first network node receives from a second network node a short-message data response message. The short-message data response message includes at least one of an address for a short message service center, an indication that indicates no mobile-terminated message is pending for the UE, or a short-message entity destination address.
US10200838B2
The disclosure is directed to a method of providing location information for a mobile electronic device and a mobile electronic device using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the mobile electronic device would receive a first signal that indicates capturing a multimedia file. In response to receiving the first signal, the mobile electronic device would transmit to an external device a second signal in response to receiving the first signal. In response to transmitting the second signal, the mobile electronic device may receive from the external device a first location information or an ephemeris. The mobile electronic device may then determine the first location information either based on the first location information as received or based on the ephemeris. Also, the mobile electronic device may associate the multimedia file with the first location information.
US10200834B2
An Internet of Thing (IoT) device includes a body and sensors including a camera and an accelerometer; a processor; and a wireless transceiver coupled to the processor.
US10200831B2
An IP short message gateway (IP-SM-GW) utilizes multiple addresses for delivering short messages between an IP network and a cellular network. The IP short message gateway can have multiple SCCP addresses that correspond to categories of origin/destination IP addresses of short messages. In response to a request to deliver a short message between an IP network and a cellular network, the IP short message gateway identifies an IP address associated with the origin/destination of the short message. The IP short message gateway then identifies at least one of its multiple SCCP addresses based on the identified IP address. The IP short message gateway can generate a response message that includes the identified SCCP address. The identified SCCP address in the response message will be available to SMSC or IMS. SMSC or IMS can implement differentiated handling of short messages based on SCCP addresses received from the IP short message gateway.
US10200812B2
A device and a method are provided. The device includes at least one biometric identification circuit, a data storage device, a radio-frequency communication circuit, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether the user is an authorized user of the tracking device and to control transmission of at least one identification signal by the radio-frequency communication circuit.
US10200811B1
A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel.
US10200808B2
Methods and devices for determining a number of mobile devices travelling from a first location to a second location are disclosed. A method includes determining a first subset of mobile location records associated with the first location, determining mobile device identifiers associated with the first subset, and modifying mobile location records in the first subset by replacing a mobile device identifier contained in each mobile location record with a new identifier of the first subset. The method may then determine a second subset of mobile location records associated with the second location, modify mobile location records in the second subset by replacing a mobile device identifier contained in each mobile location record with a new identifier of the first subset, and determine a number of mobile devices that travelled from the first location to the second location based upon the new identifier of the first subset.
US10200801B2
According to an embodiment, a transducer system includes a transducing element and a symmetry detection circuit. The transducing element includes a signal plate, a first sensing plate, and a second sensing plate. The symmetry detection circuit is coupled to a differential output of the transducer element and is configured to output an error signal based on asymmetry in the differential output.
US10200799B2
A hearing device has a microphone for detecting an acoustic signal from the environment of the hearing device, and a housing in which the microphone is arranged. The housing is formed with a microphone opening through which the microphone communicates with the environment of the hearing device for detecting the acoustic signal. The hearing device further has a damping element, by way of which the microphone is supported against the housing. Moreover, the hearing device has a barrier element for sealing the microphone opening against moisture in a sound-transmitting manner. The damping element has a pocket in which the barrier element is received reversibly. Furthermore, the barrier element is sealed off from the housing by way of the damping element all around the microphone opening.
US10200794B2
Detection of audible and ultrasonic signals is provided by a microelectromechanical microphone. The detection range of ultrasonic signals can be configurable. In certain embodiments, the microelectromechanical microphone can include a band-pass sigma-delta modulator that can generate a digital signal representative of an ultrasonic signal. In addition or in other embodiments, the microelectromechanical microphone can include an event detector device that can determine that an ultrasonic event has occurred and, in response, can send a control signal to an external device. Detection of ultrasonic signals can be utilized in vehicular applications and/or gesture recognition.
US10200790B2
An earpiece includes an earpiece housing, a processor disposed within the ear piece housing, a speaker operatively connected to the processor, at least one microphone operatively connected to the processor, and a cellular transceiver disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the processor. The cellular transceiver may be a low energy long term evolution (LTE) cellular transceiver. The ear piece may include an inertial sensor disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the processor. The earpiece may further include a short range transceiver disposed within the earpiece housing. The short range transceiver may be a Bluetooth transceiver. The earpiece may also include a slot within the earpiece housing for receiving an identity module.
US10200789B2
The present principles relate to a method, for configuring an audio rendering and/or acquiring device of a communication system comprising a master device, the audio rendering and/or acquiring device being adapted to use at least one channel of a plurality of audio channels of the master device, the method being performed in the audio rendering and/or acquiring device. According to an embodiment, the method includes obtaining a state of at least one of the audio channels, the state of an audio channel being representative of a current assigning of the audio channel to another audio rendering and/or acquiring device and selecting the at least one audio channel to be used according to its state. The present principles also relate to the corresponding audio rendering and/or acquiring device, system, computer readable program product and computer readable storage medium.
US10200783B2
A speaker system having a first plate-like component, which has at least one speaker, and a second plate-like component, which is fastened to the first component so that it is pivotable about a first pivot axis, the system having at least one third component which is fastened to the second component so that it is pivotable about a second pivot axis, the pivot axes each being positioned on lateral edges of the components and preferably being at right angles to one another.
US10200782B2
A speaker structure includes a speaker box, a speaker unit, and an elastic component. An air pressure inside the speaker box is lower than that outside the speaker box. The speaker unit is disposed on the speaker box and includes a first vibrating assembly. The elastic component is disposed in the speaker box and connected to the first vibrating assembly and the speaker box in the speaker unit. When the speaker unit operates, the first vibrating assembly of the speaker unit vibrates, and the elastic component produces a pre-force correspondingly, the total pressure of the pre-force and the air pressure inside the speaker box equals to the air pressure outside the speaker box to balance the first vibrating assembly at an equilibrium position.
US10200775B2
A device includes a balloon inflation module having an involuted balloon housed within a lumen, an integrated reservoir in fluid communication with the involuted balloon where the balloon inflation module is configured to selectively displace a volume of fluid from the integrated reservoir into the involuted balloon and from the involuted balloon into the integrated reservoir. The device also includes a port configured to receive an accessory module. In one embodiment, the accessory module is a communication module having a logic circuit coupled to an ambient microphone configured to pick up ambient audio content, an ear canal microphone configured to pick up audio in the proximity of an ear canal, and an ear canal receiver configured to provide audio content in the proximity of the ear canal. In some embodiments, the integrated reservoir is formed within portions of a push button spring-loaded pump assembly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200774B1
A sensor cord construction to prevent capacitance variation is described herein. A sensor may be connected to a controller via a cord that includes a first cable and a second cable. The first cable includes first shield wires that are twisted around the first cable in a first direction, and the second cable includes second shield wires that are twisted around the second cable in a second direction that is opposite the first direction. When the cord is twisted, one of the first or second cables may provide a positive capacitance variation, while the other of the first or second cables may provide a negative capacitance variation in an amount that is directly proportional to the positive capacitance variation. Thus, the controller detects a minimum capacitance variation, when the cord is twisted, due to the capacitance variation of the first cable and the second cable canceling each other out.
US10200772B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image and a vibration member attached to a surface of the display panel, where the vibration member receives a sound signal, generates a vibration in response to the sound signal, and transfers the vibration to the display panel to allow the display panel to output a sound.
US10200771B2
A service switching system and a service switching method, where the system includes at least two service processing subracks and at least one optical cross-connect subrack. Each service processing subrack is connected to each optical cross-connect subrack using an optical fiber. Each service processing subrack is configured to perform service switching for an externally inputted service data electrical signal, and then convert it into an optical signal, and send to one or more optical cross-connect subracks, or vice versa. Each optical cross-connect subrack is configured to receive a service data optical signal from one or more service processing subracks and perform optical cross-connection for the service data optical signal, and then output the service data optical signal to the one or more service processing subracks, which reduce interconnection costs of the service switching system.
US10200770B2
A method of managing optical services in a node in an optical network utilizing a flexible grid includes utilizing a Media Channel (MC) Trail Termination Point (TTP) to model frequency allocation of a MC on the node; utilizing a Network Media Channel (NMC) Connection Termination Point (CTP) to model a specific port for an optical channel corresponding to the NMC; utilizing a NMC cross connection (CRS) to model a path of the NMC in the MC; and programming hardware in the node based on the MC TTP, the NMC CTP, and the NMC CRS.
US10200762B2
A system and method for improving media delivery and display. By utilizing a memory buffer in a DVR or similar device, and broadcasting linear content at a rate other than 1×, services like video on demand or regular broadcasters can be more versatile. For example viewers can start over without launching a separate VOD session. If part of the linear content requested is not in the buffer, a switched multicast stream can be sent to with the proper section of content. Other receivers on the network may also receive the stream and buffer the content if the content is related to what a viewer is viewing.
US10200760B2
A method and apparatus for providing a mobile video blog (vlog) service in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method captures video content sourced from a mobile device used by a mobile user through a mobile vlog posting service portal, and provides a vlog viewing function accessible to a viewer through a vlog viewing service portal, wherein the vlog viewing function affords viewing of the video content and is provided in accordance with a user profile of the viewer, wherein the user profile comprises a viewing preference of the viewer.
US10200754B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for media monitoring and audience measurement. For example, an optical capture meter can capture data of an optical pulse stream detected from a media remote control. A key code detector can determine a key code, based on a query optical pulse signature including a query symbol alphabet. The key code corresponds to the key activated on the media remote control to control a media activity (e.g., changing television channels.) The foregoing can provide a generalized way of key code detection of media remote controls from various different manufacturers without complete prior knowledge and/or implementations of various different infrared signaling protocols employed in various media remote controls.
US10200751B2
Methods, apparatus, and machine readable storage media to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a status from a media presentation status server indicating whether there is more than a sufficient likelihood of media being presented at a present location of a mobile device; collecting audio with the mobile device when the status indicates there is more than the sufficient likelihood of media being presented; and not collecting audio when the status indicates there is not more than the sufficient likelihood of media being presented.
US10200749B2
The insertion of an advertisement or other new content into a time slot between content segments advantageously occurs by selecting the new segment to fill its associated slot as closely as possible. Play out of a successive content segment occurs for distribution over at least one of a first set of channels and at least one second channel until the occurrence of the time slot whereupon the new content segment undergoes play out for distribution over the at least one second channel. If the new content segment has a duration longer than the time slot, the length of at least one content segment gets reduced to provide substantially seamless play out.
US10200748B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing commercial (advertisement) detection in digital media environments. A media stream, for example, a video stream of television shows or movies, can be analyzed either in advance or in realtime, to determine commercial segments or blocks within the media stream, and to distinguish them from (non-commercial) content segments or blocks. In accordance with an embodiment, frame features, black spaces, cue points, or other segment or block information can be used to improve the accuracy and precision with which commercials are identified. Particular commercials can be identified, together with information as to the location of those commercials within the media stream. In accordance with an embodiment, the media streams can be used within an on-demand cloud-based media environment, which allows a user to select within a plurality of media channels, or to locate or skip particular commercials.
US10200746B1
Various arrangements are detailed herein related to managing scheduled events using a home assistant and an integrated video service. Using a network-enabled video camera, a video stream of a location may be captured. The video stream captured may be used to determine an identity of a user present at the location. In response to identifying the identity of the user, access to a cloud-based calendar account for the user may be determined to be authorized. The cloud-based calendar account linked with the user may be accessed. A next calendar event mapped to the cloud-based calendar account that is scheduled to occur within a threshold time duration may be determined. A description linked with the next calendar event may be accessed. A network-enabled smart home assistant device may be used to synthesize speech to announce details related to the next event.
US10200741B2
A data processing device, includes a bus, a demultiplexer which receives content including video data and audio data.A memory interface which is coupled to the bus, and which is connectable to a memory for temporarily accumulating the video data and the audio data output from the demultiplexer.
US10200732B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for output-aligned avail blanking for video streams are disclosed. Frame-rate conversion is performed on a video input. The video input is associated with a starting point in time for a break such as an avail break, and the video input has an input frame rate. The frame-rate conversion generates one or more video outputs whose frame rates may differ from the input frame rate. Blanking is performed on the video outputs after the frame-rate conversion. The blanking comprises modifying or inserting a sequence of frames, and a beginning of the sequence of frames is aligned with an indication of a start of the break. For multiple video outputs, a starting frame for the break is selected from the output having the lowest frame rate so that the start of the break is synchronized across the video outputs.
US10200728B2
A receiving system and a data processing method are disclosed. The receiving system includes a receiving unit, a demodulator, a first handler, and a second handler. The receiving unit receives a broadcast signal including fast information channel (FIC) data, mobile service data, and a service signaling channel, the FIC data including a field indicating that a table signaling service guide bootstrap information to the service signaling channel is included therein, and the mobile service data and the service signaling channel are packetized into an RS frame belonging to a desired ensemble. The demodulator demodulates the received broadcast signal. The first handler acquires service guide bootstrap information from the table included in the service signaling channel. And, the second handler accesses a service guide announcement channel by using the service guide bootstrap information.
US10200725B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for adjusting a bitrate for a data stream according to user consumption of the data stream. In embodiments, a computing device may determine a virtual resolution based on an absolute resolution of a display device associated with the computing device and a relative display size of the display device. The relative display size may be based on a user position and an absolute display size of the display device. The computing device may request data stream segments of a data stream encoded at a bitrate based on the virtual resolution, and provide the data stream segment for display on the display device. The virtual resolution may also be based on user attributes and/or device attributes. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10200723B2
Systems and methods are provided for converting live streaming content or other streaming content to video-on-demand streaming content. In one embodiment, a stream conversion application receives a request to access electronic content from a target stream, such as a live stream. The request identifies the live stream. The request includes at least one time code specifying a start time for accessing electronic content in the live stream. The stream conversion application obtains the at least one time code from the request. The stream conversion application retrieves content segments from the live stream based on the at least one time code during or after publication of the live stream. The content segments include the requested electronic content from the live stream. The stream conversion application generates a video-on-demand stream by combining the content segments. The stream conversion application provides access to the video-on-demand stream.
US10200719B2
As part of a process of encoding video data, a video encoder applies a transform to a non-square residual block to generate a block of transform coefficients. Furthermore, the video encoder modifies the transform coefficients such that each respective transform coefficient of the block of transform coefficients is based on the respective dequantized transform coefficient multiplied by a factor of √{square root over (2)} or an approximation of √{square root over (2)}. As part of a process of decoding video data, a video decoder applies, by the video decoder, a dequantization process to transform coefficients of a non-square transform block. The video decoder modifies the dequantized transform coefficients such that each respective dequantized transform coefficient of the dequantized transform coefficients is based on the respective dequantized transform coefficient divided by a factor of √{square root over (2)} or an approximation of √{square root over (2)}.
US10200712B2
Since complexity is high in derivation of an enhancement merge candidate which is a scalable merge candidate, a problem may arise in that a processing amount is large when the enhancement merge candidate is used in a case where a prediction unit in which it is necessary to derive many merge candidates is small. In a merge candidate derivation section including an enhancement merge candidate section that derives a merge candidate referring to an inter-layer picture and a base merge candidate derivation section that derives a merge candidate not referring to an inter-layer picture (referring to the temporary picture or the adjacent block of the same layer), the merge candidate derived from the base merge candidate and the merge candidate derived from the enhancement merge candidate are added to a merge candidate list in a case where the size of a prediction unit is greater than a predetermined size. The merge candidate derived from the base merge candidate is added to the merge candidate list in a case where the size of the prediction unit is equal to or less than the predetermined size.
US10200711B2
In an example, a method of processing video data includes determining a candidate motion vector for deriving motion information of a current block of video data, where the motion information indicates motion of the current block relative to reference video data. The method also includes determining a derived motion vector for the current block based on the determined candidate motion vector, where determining the derived motion vector comprises performing a motion search for a first set of reference data that corresponds to a second set of reference data outside of the current block.
US10200702B2
An image decoding method supporting a plurality of layers according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: when an initial reference picture list of a current picture is configured, receiving flag information indicating whether reference picture set information of a reference layer to which the current picture refers is used; generating the initial reference picture list on the basis of the flag information; and predicting the current picture on the basis of the initial reference picture list. Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for generating a reference picture list including a picture of a layer, which is different from a layer to be currently encoded and decoded, and an apparatus using the same.
US10200697B2
Methods and apparatuses for display stream compression pixel format extension using subpixel packing are disclosed. In one aspect, the method involves packing pixel values arranged in an O-channel format for encoding by an M-channel codec. The method may further involve receiving a set of input pixel values, each input pixel value including O input subpixel values arranged in the O-channel format. The method may involve rearranging each of the input subpixel values into a set of output pixel values, each set of output pixel values comprising M output subpixel values arranged in an M-channel format, O having a greater value than M, wherein at least a portion of the rearranged M output subpixels maintain their relative spatial positioning from prior to being rearranged from the O input subpixel values. The method may also involve providing the output pixel values to the M-channel codec.
US10200682B2
An active grating, a three-dimensional display device and a three-dimensional display method are provided. The three-dimensional display device comprises: a display panel (1) and an active grating (2) disposed oppositely; a face recognition module, configured to acquire a distance from a current viewer to the active grating (2); a first calculating module, in signal connection with the face recognition module, configured to calculate a theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions (21) when the current viewer see an ideal 3D image at a current position, according to the distance acquired by the face recognition module and a first corresponding relationship between the distance from the current viewer to the active grating and the theoretical horizontal width of each of the light shielding region of the active grating when the current viewer see the ideal 3D image; and an adjusting module, in signal connection with the first calculating module and a driving circuit of the active grating respectively, configured to send a corresponding first control instruction to the driving circuit according to the theoretical horizontal width calculated by the first calculating module so as to adjust an actual horizontal width of each of the light shielding regions (21) of the active grating, so that the actual horizontal width equals to the theoretical horizontal width. The three-dimensional display device provided by embodiments of the invention can change the viewing region position according to position coordinates of the viewer, so that the ideal 3D image can be seen by the viewer not positioned at a fixed viewing region position, thus, improving practicality of the three-dimensional display device obviously.
US10200679B2
Disclosed are an embedded system, a fast 3D camera system based on structured light, and a method for acquiring 3D images using the system. The embedded system includes a pattern generation module for generating the pattern in real time and a camera trigger module for converting a camera synchronization signal into a trigger signal and transmitting the signal to a camera. A transform module for transforming the pattern into a video signal and a communication module for receiving a command for projecting patterns and capturing images may be further included. The fast 3D camera system based on structured light includes an embedded system for generating a pattern in real time upon receiving a command for projecting patterns and capturing images, a projection device for projecting the pattern, and a camera for capturing the image of an object onto which the pattern is projected.
US10200677B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing and manipulating images and video. In particular, a multi-view interactive digital media representation can be generated from live images captured from a camera. The live images can include an object. An angular view of the object captured in the live images can be estimated using sensor data from an inertial measurement unit. The multi-view interactive digital media representation can include a plurality of images where each of the plurality of images includes the object from a different camera view. When the plurality of images is output to a display, the object can appear to undergo a 3-D rotation through the determined angular view where the 3-D rotation of the object is generated without a 3-D polygon model of the object.
US10200656B2
A display apparatus with an around-view monitor function includes a camera configured to acquire an image by capturing an image of a view around a vehicle, a memory configured to store the captured image, and a processor. The processor is configured to, based on the captured image of the view around the vehicle, fix a view point for the around-view monitor function, designate a viewing area at the fixed view point for the around-view monitor function, and generate a fixed around-view monitor image representing the viewing area at the fixed view point. The display apparatus also includes a display unit configured to display the fixed around-view monitor image.
US10200654B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to allow real time manipulation of objects within multiple dynamic and augmented video streams/feeds synchronized in an augmented reality (AR) or multi-dimensional space. Under such an approach, a participant/user of a first AR system would be able to connect with participants/users of a second same, similar or different AR system and to share their initial and/or augmented video streams with those users to enhance the AR experience from one participant to many. Through real time synchronization of augmented video streams in the AR systems, the users of both the first and the second AR system can see, share, manipulate and interact with the augmented content/objects either in his/her own augmented video streams or in the augmented video streams of another user.
US10200653B2
A system and method is described for facilitating a video connection between service providers and service consumers (clients) based on a queue of providers waiting in video rooms. Upon entry into a video room using a networked camera and microphone, each service provider receives a timestamp. Clients requiring service connect to the available provider with the oldest timestamp. In certain embodiments, the queue holds math tutors and the cameras are document cameras.
US10200645B2
An image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, a switch circuit coupled to the pixels and configured to substantially simultaneously output signals output only from pixels having similar characteristics among the pixels in response to a control signal; and a comparison circuit configured to convert the signals output from the switch circuit into digital signals. The pixels having similar characteristics are located across among the plurality of pixels.
US10200642B2
A camera module of the disclosure includes: an imaging unit that includes a plurality of pixels, acquires a first detection value in one of the pixels in a second term out of a first term, the second term, a third term, and a fourth term that are set in order, acquires a second detection value in the relevant one of the pixels in the fourth term, and obtains a pixel value of the relevant one of the pixels on the basis of a difference between the first and second detection values; a lens unit including a lens and an actuator that drives the lens; and a driver unit that generates a drive signal and drives the actuator using the drive signal, in which the drive signal makes a transition in each of the first and third terms.
US10200641B2
One problem addressed by the present invention is to provide an optical sensor, a solid-state imaging device, and methods for reading the signals therefrom, which contribute greatly to the development of industry and the realization of a safer and more secure society. One solution according to the present invention is an optical sensor having a light-receiving element, storage capacitors that store a charge, and a transfer switch for transferring to the storage capacitors a charge generated by light input to the light-receiving element, wherein the storage capacitors are a floating diffusion capacitor and a lateral overflow integration capacitor, and the transfer switch is a non-LDD/MOS transistor, that is, a non-LDD/MOS transistor for which the impurity concentration of the drain region is reduced by 50%.
US10200639B2
[Object] The present technique relates to an image pickup device, an image pickup method, and a program that enables pixels having 4 types of spectral sensitivities to be controlled while changing exposure times.[Solving Means] The present technique is applicable to an image pickup device including pixels having 4 types of spectral sensitivities, that include pixels having a panchromatic spectral sensitivity and are arranged on an image pickup surface, pixels that realize a first exposure and pixels that realize a second exposure different from the first exposure being arranged on the image pickup surface with respect to the 4 types of spectral sensitivities. Further, a first line in which first pixels having the panchromatic spectral sensitivity are arranged in a two-pixel cycle in a specific direction and a second line in which the first pixels are arranged while deviating by one pixel from the first line in the specific direction are arranged alternately in a direction orthogonal to the specific direction, and pixels having spectral sensitivities different from the spectral sensitivity of the first pixels are arranged in a 2- or 4-pixel cycle in the specific direction for each of the spectral sensitivities and 2-dimensionally constitute a cyclic arrangement of 4×4 pixels in which the first spectral sensitivity pixels are arranged in a checkerboard arrangement.
US10200636B2
Multiple cameras are arranged in an array at a pitch, roll, and yaw that allow the cameras to have adjacent fields of view such that each camera is pointed inward relative to the array. The read window of an image sensor of each camera in a multi-camera array can be adjusted to minimize the overlap between adjacent fields of view, to maximize the correlation within the overlapping portions of the fields of view, and to correct for manufacturing and assembly tolerances. Images from cameras in a multi-camera array with adjacent fields of view can be manipulated using low-power warping and cropping techniques, and can be taped together to form a final image.
US10200633B2
A camera system includes a plurality of camera apparatuses that output respective video data in a packetized format. A relaying apparatus receives the packetized video data from the plurality of camera apparatuses and relays selected selected packetized video data from a particular one of the plurality of camera apparatuses on a frame basis.
US10200630B2
Image capturing apparatuses having an exposure control unit configured to execute exposure control by changing at least one of parameters of an aperture value, an accumulation period of a charge in an image sensor, and an amplification amount of a signal output by the image sensor; and a generation unit configured to generate aperture control information related to a change in the aperture value in the exposure control are included. In a case where an aperture value is changed in accordance with a luminance change of an object, the generation unit generates the aperture control information with which, with respect to a specific aperture value which is settable, an actual aperture value discretely changes. In the case where an aperture value is changed in accordance with the luminance change of the object, on the basis of the aperture control information, the exposure control unit discretely changes the aperture value.
US10200626B2
An imaging system for imaging a sample in a medium carried in a container WP as an imaging object comprises: an imaging object includes an imager which obtains an original image by imaging the imaging object; and a data processor which generates multi-gradation image data by performing a gradation correction on the original image, wherein the data processor associates a luminance value corresponding to a luminance of the medium in the original image with a maximum gradation value in the gradation correction.
US10200624B2
A camera system is configured to capture, via a plurality of cameras, 360 degree image information of a local area, at least a portion of which is in stereo. The camera system determines respective exposure settings for the plurality of cameras. A minimum shutter speed and a maximum shutter speed are determined from the determined exposure settings. A set of test exposure settings is determined using the determined minimum shutter speed and maximum shutter speed. A set of test images is captured using the plurality of cameras at each test exposure setting in the set of test exposure settings. Each set of test images includes images from each of the plurality of cameras that are captured using a same respective test exposure setting. A global exposure setting is selected based on the captured sets of test images. The selected global exposure setting is applied to the plurality of cameras.
US10200617B2
A camera apparatus includes: a display signal generation section configured to generate an indicator display signal for displaying an indicator at a position in accordance with an inclination of a camera body in a predetermined direction; and a combination section configured to combine a captured image signal with the indicator display signal in order to obtain a view finder image signal, wherein the display signal generation section generates the indicator display signal such that a display of the indicator is masked using a mask area having a predetermined width and with a position corresponding to a predetermined inclination of the indicator in a movement direction as center.
US10200610B2
A camera system includes a lens assembly and image processing electronics internal to the camera housing and thermally coupled to the battery assembly. The battery assembly is sensitive to low ambient temperatures and may become damaged if the temperature of the assembly becomes sufficiently low. The camera system comprises a thermal management system that dissipates heat from electronic components of the camera to increase or maintain the temperature of the battery assembly. The thermal management configures the electronic components in different modes to create a step-wise increase of the resistive heat generated in the camera system and thereby increase the temperature of the components in the camera system.
US10200609B2
An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that generates a panoramic image based on captured image data so that the subject is positioned in a reference position in the panoramic image.
US10200606B2
An image processing apparatus comprises an image obtaining unit configured to obtain an omnidirectional image, a traveling direction obtaining unit configured to obtain information on a traveling direction of an image capturing apparatus when the omnidirectional image was shot, and a processing unit configured to perform processing of panoramic expansion on the omnidirectional image obtained by the image obtaining unit, based on the information on the traveling direction obtained with the traveling direction obtaining unit, such that an image portion corresponding to the traveling direction is positioned at a horizontal center in a panoramically expanded image, wherein the processing unit performs processing of panoramic expansion in accordance with change in the traveling direction in a case where the traveling direction changes while shooting the omnidirectional image that is a moving image.
US10200604B2
To provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing program, an image processing method, and a microscopic system that are capable of acquiring a high-resolution image that is suitable for scientific verification.An image processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an image conversion unit and an image generation unit. The image conversion unit converts a first picked-up image and a second picked-up image into frequency components, the first picked-up image being obtained by picking up an image of an observation target object with first illumination light via a microscope optical system, the second picked-up image being obtained by picking up an image of the observation target object with second illumination light via the microscope optical system, the second picked-up image having a contrast in a low frequency band lower than that of the first picked-up image and a contrast in a high frequency band higher than that of the first picked-up image. The image generation unit combines a low frequency component of the first picked-up image and a high frequency component of the second picked-up image with each other to generate a composite image.
US10200599B1
Methods, devices, and systems for determining one or more image capture settings are disclosed. In some aspects a device includes a processor coupled to a first camera and a second camera. In one aspect, the device may include the first camera and the second camera. The processor is configured to cause the first camera to capture a first image frame and cause the second camera to capture a second image frame. The second image frame being captured at a point in time after the first image frame is captured. The processor is also configured to determine an image capture setting for the first camera based on the second image frame.
US10200596B1
Camera modules that may be dynamically adjusted during capture of an image. The camera may include a sensor that captures images using line scan imaging or other scanning technologies. A controller may dynamically control adjustment or movement of the camera lens by an actuator as an image is scanned by the sensor. The lens may be controlled to be in different positions and in different orientations in relation to the sensor as different lines or areas of pixels of the sensor are read. When capturing an image, a region of the sensor may be read, the lens may be adjusted, and a next region of the sensor may be read according to a pattern. Different focus, depth of field, perspective, and other effects may be achieved at different areas or regions of the image during image capture.
US10200589B2
An autofocus apparatus includes a control unit configured to set an offset amount based on information relating to a shape of a first high-frequency component of an image signal obtained by photoelectrically converting an object image formed by an image pickup optical system that includes a focus lens while driving the focus lens, and to move the focus lens to a position that shifts from a first position of the focus position by a sum of the offset amount and a predetermined amount that is determined by characteristic information of the image pickup optical system.
US10200588B2
The imaging apparatus of the present technique is provided with an imaging unit configured to generate an image signal from a subject; and an evaluation value calculator configured to calculate an evaluation value that indicates a degree of focusing on the subject from the image signal obtained by the imaging unit for each block, and to output the evaluation value. The imaging apparatus is further provided with a combining unit configured to generate a focus assist video image based on the focus evaluation value, output from the evaluation value calculator, of each block, to combine the generated assist video image with the image signal, and to output the assist video image combined with the image signal; and a display unit configured to display an image in which the assist video image combined by the combining unit is combined.
US10200586B2
In synchronous interval photographing by a plurality of imaging apparatuses, an imaging apparatus functioning as a master clocks a photographing interval in the interval photographing, sequentially generates photographing instruction signals at clocked photographing intervals, instructs its own imaging section to perform image photographing every time a photographing instruction signal is generated, and transmits the photographing instruction signal to the other imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus functioning as the slave instructs its own imaging section to perform image photographing every time a photographing instruction signal is received from the imaging apparatus functioning as the master.
US10200580B2
An imaging module includes an electrical cable; a solid-state imaging element having an imaging unit orthogonal to an axis direction of a tip of the electrical cable; and a flexible wiring substrate in which the solid-state imaging element and the electrical cables are electrically connected together. The flexible wiring substrate includes an element mounting portion mounting the solid-state imaging element and two rear pieces that are bent at both end portions of the element mounting portion and extend in a direction moving away from the element mounting portion. An internal space of the flexible wiring substrate surrounded by the element mounting portion and the two rear pieces is filled with an adhesive resin in which the rate of volumetric shrinkage in curing is 3% or more.
US10200575B1
A capture settings for one or more image capture devices may be determined. The capture setting may define one or more aspects of operation for the image capture device(s). The aspect(s) of operation for the image capture device(s) may include one or more aspects of operation for a processor of the image capture device(s), an image sensor of the image capture device(s), and/or an optical element of the image capture device(s). A machine-readable optical code may be generated based on the capture setting and/or other information. The machine-readable optical code may convey the capture setting for the image capture device(s) such that a first image capture device capturing a first image including the machine-readable optical code may: (1) identify the machine-readable optical code within the first image; (2) determine the capture setting conveyed by the machine-readable optical code; and (3) operate in accordance with the capture setting.
US10200560B2
Automated sharing of digital images is described. In example implementations, a computing device, such as a smart phone, captures a digital image depicting multiple faces of multiple persons included in the digital image. The computing device is capable of automatically distributing a copy of the digital image to the subjects of the digital image. To do so, a digital image sharing module determines a person identifier using facial detection and recognition. The person identifier, which can be derived from facial characteristics, is used to search a contact information database and find a matching entry. The matching entry includes contact information associated with the person in the digital image. The sharing module transmits a copy of the digital image to the person using the contact information. The digital image sharing module can also display a sharing status indicator indicative of whether the digital image can be, or has been, transmitted automatically.
US10200548B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry that receives a list of file identification information from an external apparatus that stores, for one or more files to be output, file identification information for identifying the file to be output connected to the image processing apparatus via a network, registers, in a memory, output information including file identification information of a first file at least one file of the one or more files that has been output, and based on a result of comparing the list of the file identification information that is received with the file identification information included in the output information, controls a display to display a screen for selecting a file to be output, the screen indicating at least one of the first file and a second file, the second file being at least one file of the one or more files that has not been output.
US10200545B2
A volume adjustment method and apparatus, and a terminal is presented. Perform analysis on the collected sound signal surrounding a user terminal, to obtain composition information, where the composition information includes sound types included in the sound signal and proportions of sounds of the various types, and the sound types include blank sound, human sound, and noise; determine a current scene mode of the user terminal according to the composition information; and adjust volume of the user terminal according to the determined scene mode, thereby significantly reducing occurrence of a case, caused by mistaken determining of the scenario, in which play volume adjustment does not conform to the scenario, and enhancing user experience.
US10200544B2
Shared usage plans are popular with families, friends, and small businesses. These shared usage plans share some cumulative utilization of resources, such as communications services. Even though multiple devices may share a monthly allotment of resources, an individual threshold is established for each device. The multiple individual thresholds may then be dynamically regulated to maintain the monthly allotment of resources.
US10200541B2
A wireless end-user device operates a network data traffic classifier and a policy enforcer in a kernel space and a service monitoring and reporting agent and a policy control agent in the user space. The user can accordingly view and set application network data traffic policies and view application network data usage, with the traffic classification/policy enforcement functions provided securely and efficiently within the kernel, through which the network data traffic flows to a modem.
US10200536B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a service request and facilitating a first service session whereby customer equipment accesses the first service session via a first contact mode. A first contact resource is associated with the first service session, participating in a communication exchange with the customer equipment via the first service session according to the first contact mode. A customer inquiry is determined via the first customer service session. The customer inquiry is analyzed and a second customer contact resource is associated with the first service session based on the analysis of the customer inquiry. The second contact resource participates in the communication exchange via the first service session and according to a second contact mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200530B2
In some implementations, a computing device may determine a location of the computing device. The computing device may have an associated first phone number. The computing device may determine that the location of the computing device is outside a geographic area in which a carrier associated with the first phone number provides service. The computing device may send a registration request to a local network indicating that the computing device is operating in an over the top mode. The computing device may originate an outgoing call from the computing device. The outgoing call appears to a called party to originate from a second phone number that is different from the first phone number.
US10200527B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing alarms and notifications pursuant to contextual cues pertaining to the persisting relevance or utility of such alarms and notifications. The systems and methods involve receiving, at a local computing device comprising an output device, the output device configured to output at least one of visual, aural, and tactile output, input instructing the output device to provide output in the form of a notification at a predetermined time. The systems and methods further involve receiving contextual information at a notification manager, analyzing the contextual information at the notification manager, and cancelling, suppressing, or replacing the notification at the local computing device based on the analysis of the contextual information.
US10200526B2
There is provided an information processing device, including a processing unit configured to associate, based on a captured image obtained by imaging a remote controller including an operation device and an operation signal transmitted from the remote controller in response to an operation on the operation device, the operated operation device with the operation signal.
US10200521B2
A mobile terminal and a control method thereof are disclosed. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a terminal body provided with a first body and a second body, and formed to switch from either one of an open configuration in which inner surfaces of the first and second bodies are open and a closed configuration in which the inner surfaces are covered to the other one thereof; a hinge portion configured to connect the first and second bodies, and support the first and second bodies to rotate relative to each other; a display unit comprising inner display regions disposed on the inner surfaces of the first and second bodies, and first and second extended display regions extended from the inner display regions and disposed on outer sides of the first and second bodies; and a controller configured to display a notification icon indicating the occurrence of an event in the first extended display region when the event occurs in at least one application in the closed configuration, and move the notification icon to the second extended display region and change a notification priority of the event when a touch input applied to the notification icon is dragged to the second extended display region.
US10200519B2
Systems and methods for dynamically causing a terminal to change audio codec modes during a session with another terminal. In one aspect, the terminal is forced use to switch to a more resilient audio codec mode when the quality of wireless channel being used by the terminal deteriorates below a threshold.
US10200514B2
Embodiments of an access point (AP) may comprise memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, and transceiver circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry of the AP may be configured to generate a trigger frame to allocate a center 26 tone RU for an HE-trigger-based PPDU, the center 26 tone RU having an adjacent upper 20 MHz subchannel and an adjacent lower 20 MHz subchannel. In an embodiment, the center 26 tone RU is for a station (STA) and wherein the trigger frame indicates to the STA to transmit a pre-HE-STF preamble on one of the adjacent upper 20 MHz subchannel, the adjacent lower 20 MHz subchannel, or both the adjacent upper and lower 20 MHz subchannels, and configure the wireless device to transmit the trigger frame to the station.
US10200495B2
In one embodiment a system component in a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN including a request router and edge caches, the request router being operable to determine which edge cache should serve content to a client, the system competent including a processor, and a memory to store data used by the processor, wherein the processor is operative to receive a request for content from the client, and based on a decision to shut down a first edge cache after the client has already downloaded some of the content from the first edge cache, participate in a process to transfer the client from downloading the content from the first edge cache to downloading the content from a second edge cache in the middle of the client downloading the content so that the client continues downloading the content from the second edge cache. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US10200494B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing distributed caching in a transactional processing environment. The caching system can include a plurality of layers that provide a caching feature for a plurality of data types, and can be configured for use with a plurality of caching providers. A common data structure can be provided to store serialized bytes of each data type, and architecture information of a source platform executing a cache-setting application, so that a cache-getting application can use the information to convert the serialized bytes to a local format. A proxy server can be provided to act as a client to a distributed in-memory grid, and advertise services to a caching client, where each advertised service can match a cache in the distributed in-memory data grid, such as Coherence. The caching system can be used to cache results from a service.
US10200488B2
Webpage loading methods and devices include, in addition to sending an address of a first webpage to a server, a client further sends a name of a first-webpage resource stored in the client, such that the server can determine, according to the address of the first webpage and the name of the first-webpage resource stored in the client, a first push resource to be sent to the client, where the first push resource is all the resources required for loading the first webpage apart from the first-webpage resource stored in the client, which avoids pushing, by the server to the client, a resource that has been locally stored in the client, and therefore saves a bandwidth resource of a communications network.
US10200481B2
A method and system are provided for processing an interaction request. The method includes detecting the interaction request for a first interaction session using a first interaction channel between a request initiator and a request service provider, assigning an identifier to the interaction request, determining a task associated with the interaction request, and obtaining context data of a plurality of other interaction sessions associated with the identifier. The plurality of other interaction sessions occur proximal in time with the first interaction session. The context data is related to activity of the request initiator. The method also includes associating a subset of the context data with the interaction request. The subset of the context data is the context data of the plurality of other interaction sessions that are related to the task. The method also includes facilitating the first interaction session using the subset of the context data.
US10200479B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for multiple device and multiple line enabled computing devices and computing appliances are described herein. A device number can be assigned to a computing device and can be unique to the computing device. A plurality of alias numbers can be provided to the computing device and enabled for use by the computing device. Alias numbers can be enabled on multiple computing appliances, such that a user can transfer voice or video calls between devices using the alias numbers. Further, monitoring components in a home environment, for example, can be associated with one or more alias number so that security alerts can be provided to the various computing devices and computing appliances associated with the alias numbers.
US10200476B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for remotely configuring gateway devices in a gateway-based Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network. Remotely configurable gateway devices are provided for Internet Protocol (IP) communications between consumption measuring devices and a utility central facility. Communications between the gateway device and central facility may be by way of wired or wireless communications and may include configuration information multicast from the central facility to selected gateway devices.
US10200468B2
An active agenda tool is provided that may be executed at one or more networked computing devices. Each connected active agenda tool includes functionality for displaying an agenda interface and for maintaining agenda item timers. The agenda interface includes an agenda and various interactive controls. The agenda includes a plurality of editable agenda items, each having a corresponding agenda item timer maintained by the agenda tool for recording time dedicated to that agenda item during the meeting. Collateral content, which may be shared among the network computing devices, can be associated with one or more of the agenda items. Agenda data representing the displayed agenda items is changed each time a displayed agenda item is modified during the meeting. Any changes to the agenda data may be distributed to each of the networked computing devices, so that each connected agenda tool can update its agenda during the meeting.
US10200463B2
A system and method for improving the performance of a network by more efficient virtual network resource allocation includes identifying VNF functionality implemented across a set of virtual resources in a network and determining an allocation parameter associated with the efficiency of the VNF functionality and the set of virtual resources. The VNF functionality is reallocated in a subset of the set of virtual resources based on the allocation parameter.
US10200447B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing FTP data connections between a client and a server via a multi-core system. Both client-side and server-side data connections are allowed to be served on a core that is the same as a core that has processed the corresponding control connection using at least one of receive side scaling (RSS) filter rules and changes in port allocation logic. In a cluster where control connection and data connection can reach different nodes based on an RSS distribution, the node which has processed the control connection is also allowed to process the corresponding data connection using at least one of RSS filter rules, service registration, changes in port allocation logic and node-to-node (N2N) messages. The systems and methods discussed herein apply to active FTP, passive FTP, and active FTP with a random port in which the server initiates data connection from a non-standard FTP port.
US10200444B1
A system and method for coordinating screen saver initiation and functionality. The system comprises at least one client station, each of the at least one client station having a screen saver module associated therewith; and a central control station in communication with each of the at least one client station over a network, the central control station having a screen saver control module for controlling each of the screen saver modules associated with the at least one client station.
US10200440B2
A method comprising interposing an interface device in communication with both a terminal and a meter; and using the interface device for, exchanging data with the terminal and the meter using a first protocol and a second protocol, respectively, at least one of which utilizes an RF field; identifying an originating device using the data from each of the terminal and the meter; and generating an output for use over the first protocol or the second protocol in response to the originating device.
US10200428B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for unicast routing of a media stream to subscribers are disclosed. A stream routing service is implemented using one or more computing devices that are provisioned from a multi-tenant provider network. The service acquires a media stream over one or more input channels from a media source. The service replicates the media stream to a plurality of subscriber components that have subscribed to the media stream. The media stream is replicated to the subscriber components using unicast transmission to individual addresses of the subscriber components.
US10200419B2
A content editing method and apparatus for efficiently editing of content by allowing one user who edits the content to confirm a region of the content edited by another user. The content editing method includes displaying a content select interface used by the first electronic device to select content stored in a server; displaying a content edit interface used to edit the content if the content is selected through the displayed content select interface; and displaying an object informing a redundant access to the selected content when a second electronic device attempts to edit a part of the selected content that is being edited by the first electronic device through the content edit interface.
US10200412B2
Techniques for network-based security for mobile devices based on device state are disclosed. In some embodiments, network-based security for mobile devices based on device state includes receiving a Host Information Profile (HIP) report for a mobile device from a mobile device management (MDM) service at the security device, in which the HIP report includes device state information for the mobile device; applying a policy based on the HIP report for the mobile device and the device state; and performing access control at the security device based on the policy based on the HIP report for the mobile device.
US10200406B1
An example method includes providing, by a computing system, first randomized configuration information, generating, by the computing system and based on the first randomized configuration information, a first unique instance of a software component, providing second randomized configuration information, wherein the second randomized configuration information is different from the first randomized configuration information, and generating, based on the second randomized configuration information, a second unique instance of the software component that is executable on the runtime computing system. The first and second unique instances of the software component comprise different instances of the same software component that each are configured to have uniquely different operating characteristics during execution on the runtime computing system, and the first and second unique instances of the software component are each further configured, during execution on the runtime computing system, to output false information to an external computing system.
US10200403B2
A system for providing secure browsing via a transparent network proxy is disclosed. The system may receive, from a client, a request to access a resource. The request may include an identifier that may be utilized to locate the resource. Once the request is received, the system may determine if the resource is not trusted, such as if the identifier is determined to be unknown or suspicious. If the resource is determined to not be trusted by the system, the system may forward the request to a virtual machine manager that may select a browser virtual machine from a pool of browser virtual machines. After the browser virtual machine is selected, the browser virtual machine may stream a rendering of the resource to the client based on the request. The rendering of the resource may be provided in lieu of the actual resource.
US10200398B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for use in a distributed client-side user monitoring and attack system are disclosed herein. An example method includes providing a first set of instructions from a security application server to a target application server, the first set of instructions to, when executed, cause a client device to transmit a request for an image to the security application server. In response to the request for the image, a connection is opened between the client device and the security application server. Via the connection opened in response to the request for the image, a second set of instructions is provided to cause the client device to perform a vulnerability test on the target application server and communicate a result of the vulnerability test via the connection.
US10200396B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to share content. In some aspect, an address associated with a packet is identified at an electronic device. The address is associated with a node on a traverse path of the packet. The address is compared with a list of one or more addresses associated with a security risk. The node is determined to have a security risk based on the address matching an address in the list of one or more addresses. In response to determining, a notification is outputted at the electronic device. The notification indicates that the traverse path of the packet has a security risk.
US10200394B2
A system and method for investigating trust scores. A trust score is calculated based on peer transfers, a graphical user interface displays actuatable elements associated with a first peer transfer from the peer transfers, in response to receiving an indication the first actuatable element has been actuated, recalculating the trust score without the first peer transfer.
US10200393B2
Certain embodiments involve selecting metrics that are representative of large metrics datasets and that are usable for efficiently performing anomaly detection. For example, metrics datasets are grouped into clusters based on, for each of the clusters, a similarity of data values in a respective pair of datasets from the metrics datasets. Principal component datasets are determined for the clusters. A principal component dataset for a cluster includes a linear combination of a subset of metrics datasets included in the cluster. Each representative metric is selected based on the metrics dataset having a highest contribution to a principal component dataset in the cluster into which the metrics dataset is grouped. An anomaly detection is executed in a manner that is restricted to a subset of the metrics datasets corresponding to the representative metrics.
US10200391B2
Systems and methods analyze input files to automatically determine malware signatures. A set of input files known to contain a particular type of malware can be provided to a file analyzer. The file analyzer can analyze the file using a sliding window to create vectors from values that are provided by multiple filters that process each window. The vectors created for a file define a response matrix. The response matrices for a set of input files can be analyzed by a classifier to determine useful vector components that can define a signature for the malware.
US10200387B2
A user state tracking and anomaly detector for multi-tenant SaaS applications operates in association with a log management solution, such as a SIEM. A given SaaS application has many user STATES, and the applications often have dependencies on one another that arise, for example, when a particular application makes a request (typically on behalf of a user) to take some action with respect to another application. The detector includes a mapper that maps the large number of user STATES to a reduced number of mapped states (e.g., “red” and “green”), and a dependency module that generates user-resource dependency graphs. Using a dependency graph, a SaaS modeler in the detector checks whether a particular dependency-based request associated with a SaaS application is valid. State and dependency information generated by the mapper and dependency module are reported back to the log management solution to facilitate improved logging and anomaly detection.
US10200384B1
A system and method for detecting malicious activity through one or more local analyzers and a central analyzer. The local analyzer captures packets that are part of communications over a network, generates a signature from information obtained from one or more of the captured packets, and determines whether the signature matches any signature of a first plurality of signatures stored in a first storage device that is accessible to the first local analyzer. The central analyzer remotely receives a portion of the information and the signature from the first local analyzer in response to the signature failing to match any of the signatures stored in the first storage device. The central analyzer determines whether the signature matches any global signature stored within a second storage device that is accessible to the central analyzer.
US10200383B2
Methods and systems for neutralizing malicious locators. Threat actors may shut down their web pages or applications (i.e., resources) that serve malicious content upon receiving request(s) configured to be perceived by the resource as non-browser requests. Therefore, initiating (large-scale) non-browser requests, or requests that are at least perceived as non-browser requests, may effectively act to inhibit, or even nullify, intended attack vectors.
US10200380B2
A system for providing layered security is disclosed. In particular, the system may include determining a state of a first device of a device ecosystem and a state of a second device of the device ecosystem. Based on the states of the first and second devices, the system may include calculating a confidence score for the device ecosystem. If the confidence score satisfies a threshold score for enabling access to a selected system, the system may include transmitting an access code to the device ecosystem. Based on the access code, the system may enable the device ecosystem to access the selected system. If, however, the confidence score does not satisfy the threshold score, the system may include requiring the device ecosystem to provide additional authentication information in order to access the selected system.
US10200378B2
Systems, methods, and machine readable medium are provided for improving access to electronic data. An application is provided that generates a graphical user interface on a first client device requesting the server-based application via a web browser on the first client device. Credentials from a user of the first client device. After authorization of the user credentials, input from the user is received via the graphical user interface indicating an URL for a website, a file path for a document, and text. The entered input is stored in a local browser cache on the first client device and in a remotely-located database as being associated with the user credentials. Subsequently, a display is generated on the first client device, by the application, of electronic data related to the entered input.
US10200365B2
A biometric authentication system is disclosed that provides authentication capability using biometric data in connection with a challenge for parties engaging in digital communications such as digital text-oriented, interactive digital communications. End-user systems may be coupled to devices that include biometric data capture devices such as retina scanners, fingerprint recorders, cameras, microphones, ear scanners, DNA profilers, etc., so that biometric data of a communicating party may be captured and used for authentication purposes.
US10200349B2
In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The embodied program instructions, in response to being executed by a processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to receive an eye gaze of a source user generated by a source augmented reality or virtual reality device (source AR/VR device) on a receiver AR/VR device and determine gazed content from the eye gaze of the source user using a password key phrase determination feature. The embodied program instructions also cause the processing circuit to generate a symmetric password key utilizing the gazed content according to a set of password determination rules and receive encrypted data from the source AR/VR device on the receiver AR/VR device. Additionally, the embodied program instructions cause the processing circuit to decrypt the encrypted data using the symmetric password on the receiver AR/VR device.
US10200346B2
The present specification discloses an improved method of encrypting a file and distributing the encrypted file over a network from a user computer to a remote computer, which includes providing an interface to a file encryption application to a user; receiving an input designating an encryption option from among a plurality of encryption options; based upon said input designating an encryption option, and based upon a format of said file, causing a separate application specific to said format to encrypt said at least one file, wherein said encrypted file is adapted to be decrypted using a passcode and wherein said passcode is transmitted to the user via at least one message type.
US10200333B1
A virtual bulletin board system (10) has a display (14) to present a visual announcement and/or a speaker (16) to present an audible announcement, and a sensor (18) to read badge identification information from a badge (22) presented to the sensor by a user (24). The system relates the badge identification number to an email address or a text message address, such as the email address of the user of the badge or the telephone number of the user, and sends information regarding the announcement, or a calendar entry for the announcement, to that address. Multiple announcements may be presented and each announcement may correlated with the timing that a badge is presented so that the desired announcement information is sent to the user.
US10200329B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting an abnormal message, comprising: diving a text of a detected message into a plurality of text segments; obtaining one or more account attributes of each text segment, and determining a publication proportion parameter corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment; determining a first factor corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment according to the publication proportion parameter; determining a second factor of the detected message according to the first factor corresponding to the account attributes of each text segment; and determining according to the second factor of the detected message whether the detected message is an abnormal message. Through the combination of publication account attributes of messages with undifferentiated text segmentation and the use of Bayesian algorithm, batches of junk messages of a microblog account are effectively limited, and the flexibility of junk message processing is improved.
US10200315B2
Described are systems and methods that receive from a virtual concierge system a text-based inquiry from a user having an interest; store the inquiry in a queuing system, generate a match between an online assistant and the user based on content of the stored inquiry and profile data of the online assistant, and establish a text-based communication between an electronic device of the user and an electronic device of the online assistant in response to generating the match, the text-based communication including the content of the stored inquiry.
US10200288B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for shaping data traffic in a local area network (LAN) are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving data traffic information from one or more sensors of a plurality of network elements within the LAN, determining that a data traffic shaping action is required based on a comparison of the data traffic information to one or more rules stored in a rules engine and transmitting a control signal to a gateway to configure the gateway to process the data traffic in accordance with the data traffic shaping action.
US10200287B2
A network resource processing apparatus, method, and system, which is used to resolve a communication congestion problem between network devices during network resource processing, is presented. A receiving module receives computation environment information that are corresponding to a computation task and network information of each computation node, provides the computation environment information to a bandwidth decision module and a generation module, and provides the network information of each computation node to the generation module; the bandwidth decision module decides a to-be-allocated bandwidth for the computation task according to the computation environment information; the generation module generates routing configuration policy information for the computation task according to the network information of each computation node, the decided to-be-allocated bandwidth, and the computation environment information, and provides the routing configuration policy information to a sending module; and the sending module sends the routing configuration policy information to a routing configuration controller.
US10200285B2
A method for selecting an access network in a terminal of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: if traffic is generated in the terminal, selecting an access network according to the characteristics of the generated traffic and network selection policy information; and transmitting and receiving the generated traffic via the selected access network. According to the embodiment, the present invention adjusts priorities of accesses given to users and applications in a wireless communication system including heterogenerous networks, thereby reducing processes for reselecting an access network of a user terminal, and reducing the cases of unnecessarily accessing a network having a low priority or requiring high costs for a long time. Therefore, the present invention can enhance user convenience and improve communication efficiency.
US10200283B2
In aspects of automatic rerouting in Thread networks, a router device in a mesh network receives a packet to forward to a destination node, and the packet includes a Routing Locator (RLOC) for the destination node. The router device can determine that the packet cannot be forwarded using the RLOC. The router device can then initiate an address query over the mesh network, where the address query includes an Endpoint Identifier (EID) of the destination node. The router device can receive an EID-to-RLOC mapping for the EID from a node device in the mesh network, and forward the packet to the destination node using the received EID-to-RLOC mapping.
US10200281B1
Embodiments are directed to a relay that receives packets from a source gateway associated with a source gateway identifier (GID) and a target GID associated with a target gateway where each GID is separate from a network address or a hostname of the source gateway or the target gateway. The relay determines a connection route based on an association between the connection route and an ingress identifier obtained from the packets. The relay provides the connection route based on the source GID and the target GID. The relay determines network address information associated with the target gateway based on the connection route. And, the relay forwards the packets provided by the source gateway to the target gateway based on the network address information.
US10200275B2
Methods and systems for hardware-accelerated packet multicasting are provided. According to one embodiment, a first multicast packet to be multicast to a first multicast destination is received by a virtual routing system. The multicast packet is caused to be transmitted to the multicast destination by: (i) directing the multicast packet to a first VR of multiple VRs instantiated within the virtual routing system by selecting the first VR from among the multiple VRs to multicast the multicast packet; (ii) configuring the virtual routing system to use a routing context associated with the selected VR in connection with processing of the multicast packet; (iii) reading at least a portion of the multicast packet from one of multiple multicast address spaces associated with the selected VR; and (iv) forwarding the multicast packet to the first multicast destination. Similar steps are then performed for a second multicast packet.
US10200272B1
In some implementations, a system can be used to selectively transmit bandwidth-intensive data over a cellular network based on dynamically determining resource availability over the cellular network. Monitoring system data to be transmitted to a remote server can initially be obtained by a component of a monitoring system. One or more network performance tests may be performed on a carrier network associated with the monitoring system. One or more network performance parameters can be computed based on results of the one or more network performance tests. The one or more network performance parameters can then be evaluated in relation to transmission requirements associated with the monitoring system data. A particular transmission strategy to use in transmitting the monitoring system data to the remote server can then be selected from among multiple transmission strategies. The monitoring system data is then transmitted to the server in accordance with the particular transmission strategy.
US10200271B2
A method for testing a composite service is provided. The method may include installing a first debug probe on a first service. The method may include installing a second debug probe on a second service. The method may include executing the composite service, whereby the composite service comprises the first service and the second service. The method may include receiving a first service interaction log and a second service interaction log, whereby the first interaction log records a first plurality of I/O, and whereby the second interaction log records a second plurality of I/O. The method may include generating a global scheduling script based on the first service interaction log and the second interaction log. The method may include sending the first plurality of I/O to the first debug probe and the second plurality of I/O to the second debug probe based on the global scheduling script.
US10200270B2
This invention relates to methods for correlating media streams and signaling sessions of services, for example, in a passive monitoring system of a packet-switched network. Furthermore, the invention also relates to an implementation of these methods in hardware and software, and provides a signaling plane probe, a media plane probe and a correlation unit. Moreover, a passive monitoring system comprising one or more of these hardware devices is provided. To correlate media streams and signaling sessions of services, the invention proposes to independently generate correlation keys in a media plane probe for monitored media streams and correlation keys for signaling sessions that are monitored by a signaling plane probe in a fashion that matching correlation keys are generated for a respective service. By identifying reports on the media streams and reports on the signaling session that contain matching correlation keys respectively, the media streams and the signaling streams are correlated in a correlation unit.
US10200268B2
Content delivery is adapted based on network congestion. A method identifies multiple types of content, including a first type and a second type. The method receives, via a network, a first upload request to upload content of the second type from a client device and a second upload request to upload content of the first type from the client device. The method also determines a degree of congestion of the network. This includes obtaining historical latency data for the network and estimating a latency of the network based at least in part on the historical latency data. The method also determines whether the degree of congestion satisfies a congestion criterion. When the degree of congestion of the network satisfies the congestion criterion, the method prioritizes the first type of content over the second type of content and delays the first upload request while granting the second upload request.
US10200260B2
The technology disclosed relates to understanding traffic patterns in a network with a multitude of processes running on numerous hosts. In particular, it relates to using at least one of rule based classifiers and machine learning based classifiers for clustering processes running on numerous hosts into local services and clustering the local services running on multiple hosts into service clusters, using the service clusters to aggregate communications among the processes running on the hosts and generating a graphic of communication patterns among the service clusters with available drill-down into details of communication links. It also relates to using predetermined command parameters to create service rules and machine learning based classifiers that identify host-specific services. In one implementation, user feedback is used to create new service rules or classifiers and/or modify existing service rules or classifiers so as to improve accuracy of the identification of the host-specific services.
US10200259B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting obscure cyclic application-layer message sequences in transport-layer message sequences may include (i) collecting a composite sequence of transport-layer messages that are exchanged between a first computing device and a second computing device over a single long-standing transport-layer connection, (ii) constructing a sequence graph from the composite sequence, (iii) traversing the sequence graph to discover a first obscure cyclic sequence of application-layer messages in the composite sequence, and (iv) performing a security action using a representation of the first obscure cyclic sequence. In some examples, the composite sequence may include the first obscure cyclic sequence and a second obscure cyclic sequence of application-layer messages that were exchanged by the first computing device and the second computing device, and each message in the composite sequence may include a distinguishing feature. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10200257B2
There is disclosed means for in a communications device enabling an indirect communications channel between the communications device and at least one further communications device. A data service selected from a set of data services is associated with an identity code. The identity code identifies the communications device. Data related to the identity code is transmitted to a server. The data is preferably transmitted through a radio-frequency based communications interface. The identity code is broadcasting during a predetermined period of time and intended to be received by the at least one further communications device. The broadcast is preferably transmitted through a short-range non-radio frequency based communications interface.
US10200254B2
A computer-implemented method for determining service flow rank based on service flow dependency is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of data flow information for a plurality of data flows. Each data flow of the plurality of data flows includes a source, a destination, a start time, and an associated service. The method also includes determining a plurality of dependency sets based on the plurality of data flow information. Each dependency set of the plurality of dependency sets includes at least a first data flow and a second data flow. The method further includes calculating a plurality of dependency strengths based on the plurality of dependency sets, calculating a plurality of total service scores based on the first data flows of the plurality of dependency sets, and calculating a plurality of service flow ranks based on the plurality of dependency strengths and the plurality of total service scores.
US10200249B1
A determination is made that network access between a virtualized graphics device and a compute instance of a client is to be enabled. A source network address for graphics-related traffic of the compute instance is identified. From a range of source port numbers associated with the source network address, a particular source port number which is unused is found. Routing metadata is transmitted to one or more routing devices indicating that a key based at least in part on (a) the source network address and (b) the particular source port number is to be used to identify a route for network packets from the first application compute instance to a virtualized graphics device.
US10200246B1
A blueprint is a program/document that describes a real object and includes the expertise to create and operate that object. Example objects include machines (e.g., computer or server), and systems, such as an e-commerce site, in which computers are nodes or elements. A “parent” blueprint can include, e.g., by reference, a “child” blueprint. Customizable parameters of the child blueprint are imported and instantiated into the parent blueprint so that a developer of the parent blueprint can edit the values of the customizable parameters through an application program interface (API) of the parent blueprint without affecting the child blueprint. When the parent blueprint is deployed, the provisioning of the child blueprint follows the customized parameter values rather than the original values for those parameters. The ability to modify instantiated parameters greatly simplifies the development of complex blueprints.
US10200243B2
The operating configuration at a node in a wireless communication network, at a neighboring node in the network, and/or at one or more wireless devices supported by the network, is updated based on determining timing information for an impending interruption of a radio link in the network to avoid erroneous operation during the impending interruption, which interruption is associated with an external system. The determination of interruption timing, which may be inferred, e.g., from detecting prior interruptions, or which may be known from information about the external system, and the modification of the operating configuration(s) permits the network to operate with greater stability, control, and accuracy during the interruptions than would be possible if the interruptions were simply treated as intermittent radio link failures.
US10200241B2
A system for automatically establishing a network. The system includes a main device group including a main wireless transceiver device, a control device and a first network interface and a secondary device group including a secondary wireless transceiver device, a secondary device group slave device and a second network interface. The main wireless transceiver device wirelessly communicating with the secondary wireless transceiver device to instruct the main device group and the secondary device group to form a network wherein the control device communicates with the secondary device group slave device over the first network interface and the second network interface, respectively. The control device wirelessly controls functions of the secondary device group slave device with instructions sent over the network. The main wireless transceiver device only wirelessly communicates with the secondary wireless transceiver device when the main wireless transceiver device and the secondary wireless transceiver device are in a location.
US10200240B2
A method for configuring an M2M system having an M2M frontend with one or more gateways and an M2M backend includes specifying, by an operator entity, one or more commands to be achieved in said M2M system by the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend; specifying, by a stylesheet providing entity, one or more stylesheets for the one or more gateways of the M2M frontend representing information for interpretation of general gateway configurations for the one or more gateways; calculating, by a synergy description entity, one or more synergy descriptions representing an impact of one or more gateway operational parameters on the specified commands; calculating the general gateway configurations for a plurality of gateways by evaluating the synergy descriptions with respect to the specified commands by a configuration entity; and providing specific gateway configurations by applying the specified stylesheets on the general gateway configurations.
US10200232B1
A digital quadrature architecture is presented that employs switched current digital power amplifiers and uses a digital class-B input code profile in combination with non-overlapping LO signals to overcome the low efficiency problems of conventional quadrature architectures. By employing digital class-B signals, the number of I/Q cells is reduced to half and the need for extra processing of the sign bits is eliminated in the transmitters, thereby improving the efficiency.
US10200227B2
In a multi-user communication system, a pre-coder in a transmitter comprises a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) spreader provides data symbols spread with Fourier coefficients to generate DFT-spread data symbols. An OFDM modulator, such as an inverse-DFT, modulates the DFT-spread data symbols onto OFDM subcarriers to produce a pre-coded OFDM transmission signal. The Fourier coefficients reduce the transmission signal's peak to average power.
US10200225B2
A method includes generating a preamble for a protocol version of a wireless local area network, where the preamble includes a legacy signal L-SIG field and a high efficiency signal HE-SIG field that are arranged in order, the HE-SIG field includes a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing OFDM symbol and a second OFDM symbol that are arranged in order, and an input information bit of the first OFDM symbol is the same as that of the second OFDM symbol, and sending the preamble to a receive end device, so that the receive end device restores the preamble, and when determining that input information bits obtained after restoring the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol are the same, determines that the preamble is the preamble of the protocol version.
US10200224B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting data in a non-licensed band. The method of transmitting downlink data in the non-licensed band may comprise the steps of: generating, by a base station, downlink data and transmitting the downlink data to a terminal through a downlink subframe. The downlink data may comprise wireless LAN preamble, PDCCH data, and PDSCH data. The wireless LAN preamble may comprise information on time resources for communication between the base station and the terminal, and the PDCCH data may comprise control data for the terminal. Also, the PDSCH data may comprise traffic data for the terminal.
US10200221B2
Provided are a method for a user equipment to select a codebook index in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the method. The method performed by the user equipment comprises performing zero padding for a first vector, wherein the first vector represents a channel state measured by a receive antenna for a first transmit antenna; performing IFFT for a second vector, wherein the second vector is obtained by performing the zero padding for the first vector; performing receive antenna combining for a third vector, wherein the third vector is obtained by performing IFFT for the second vector; and detecting a maximum element from a fourth vector, wherein the fourth vector is obtained by performing the receive antenna combining for the third vector.
US10200217B2
A method for adaptively-tuned digital self-interference cancellation includes generating a digital self-interference cancellation signal from a digital transmit signal based on a transform configuration; combining the digital self-interference cancellation signal with a receive signal to form a digital residue signal; generating a composite residue signal from the digital residue signal and the digital transmit signal; and updating the transform configuration based on the composite residue signal.
US10200213B1
A system includes a gateway device receiving satellite or cable content, storing the satellite or cable content in a memory, receiving broadband content from a broadband source, and storing the broadband content in the memory. The user device communicates a listing request to the gateway device. The gateway device forms a list comprising broadband content stored in the memory and satellite or cable content stored in the memory in response to the listing request and communicates the list to the user device through a network including the gateway device and the user device. The user device generates a selection signal corresponding to a first content from the list and communicating the selection signal to the gateway device through the network. The gateway device determines a network condition, allocates gateway resources in response to the network condition and communicates the first content therethrough after allocating.
US10200206B2
A method of requesting an inquiry reply during a synchronous remote meeting is provided. The method includes recording a synchronous meeting between remote users to generate a meeting recording, generating an inquiry during the synchronous meeting to create a generated inquiry, identifying a portion of the meeting recording relevant to the inquiry during the synchronous meeting, and transmitting the generated inquiry and the captured portion of the recording to a recipient user.
US10200191B2
An electronic calculating device (100) for performing obfuscated arithmetic in a commutative ring (Zn; Zn[x]/f(x)) is presented. The calculating device comprising a storage (110) arranged to store an increment table (T) defined for an increment ring element (1; ut), the increment table mapping an input ring element (k=uk1−uk2) to an output integer-list (T((k1,k2))=(l1, l2)) encoding an output ring element (I=ul1−ul2), such that the output ring element equals the increment ring element ring-added to the input ring element (I=k+1). Using the increment table, a ring addition unit (130) adds a first addition-input integer-list ((a1, a2)) encoding a first addition-input ring element and a second addition-input integer list ((b1, b2)) encoding a second addition-input ring element. The device may comprise a ring multiplication unit (140) also using the increment table.
US10200188B2
Generating, at a plurality of delay stages of a local oscillator, a plurality of phases of a local oscillator signal, generating a loop error signal based on a comparison of one or more phases of the local oscillator signal to one or more phases of a received reference clock, generating a plurality of phase-specific quadrature error signals, each phase-specific quadrature error signal associated with a respective phase of the plurality of phases of the local oscillator signal, each phase-specific quadrature error signal based on a comparison of the respective phase to two or more other phases of the local oscillator signal, and adjusting each delay stage according to a corresponding phase-specific quadrature error signal of the plurality of phase-specific quadrature error signals and the loop error signal.
US10200186B2
A system is connected to a single-wire communication line to perform bidirectional communication between a master side and a slave side, and an input clock-side transistor connected between a GND level and the communication line performs switching according to an input clock. A first transistor is connected between a first potential and the communication line, a second transistor has one end connected to a second potential, and a master-side resistor is connected between the other end of the second transistor and the other end of a third transistor. A fourth transistor is connected between the communication line and a third potential equal to or higher than the first potential, and a slave-side resistor is connected between the communication line and the GND level.
US10200182B2
Systems and methods for signaling in an increased carrier monitoring wireless communication environment are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may include control circuitry to configure the UE for increased carrier monitoring; determine, based on a first signal received from a network apparatus, whether a reduced performance group carrier is configured; determine, based on a second signal received from the network apparatus, whether a scaling factor is configured; and in response to a determination that no reduced performance group carrier is configured and a determination that no scaling factor is configured, allow the UE to monitor fewer carriers than required by increased carrier monitoring. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US10200181B2
A wireless device receives at least one message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups. The wireless device transmits, in a subframe and in a first PUCCH group, at least one SRS employing a sounding procedure for the first PUCCH group. The sounding procedure may depend, at least in part, on transmissions of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) or a PUCCH in the first PUCCH group and may be independent of transmissions of PUCCH and PUSCH in a second PUCCH group.
US10200180B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for performing an uplink Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operation in an asymmetric multicarrier communication network environment. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting a HARQ packet to a base station in a transmit time interval of one of a plurality of partitions of an uplink allocation interval on a first carrier by a mobile station. Then, the method includes determining a partition of the uplink allocation interval in which the HARQ packet is transmitted, and determining a HARQ feedback region in the subsequent downlink subframe corresponding to the determined partition. The method further includes receiving HARQ feedback information in the determined HARQ feedback region in the subsequent downlink subframe on a second carrier from the base station.
US10200174B2
A communication system is configured that includes a mobile terminal, one or more relay devices, and a base station for communicating with the mobile terminal via any of the one or more relay devices, where the mobile terminal includes a reception unit for receiving a reference signal transmitted from the one or more relay devices, a determination unit for determining a relay device to be used for communication with the base station based on the reference signal received by the reception unit from the one or more relay devices, and a transmission unit for transmitting to the base station information indicating the relay device determined by the determination unit.
US10200172B2
Different filtered-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (f-OFDM) frame formats may be used to achieve the spectrum flexibility. F-OFDM waveforms are generated by applying a pulse shaping digital filter to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Different frame formats may be used to carry different traffic types as well as to adapt to characteristics of the channel, transmitter, receiver, or serving cell. The different frame formats may utilize different sub-carrier (SC) spacings and/or cyclic prefix (CP) lengths. In some embodiments, the different frame formats also utilize different symbol durations and/or transmission time interval (TTI) lengths.
US10200169B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may broadcast a synchronization signal using a narrowband portion of a bandwidth of a cell. The synchronization signal may include a sequence repeated over several symbol periods using a cover code to support power-efficient cell acquisition. A user equipment (UE) receiving the synchronization signal may determine frequency and timing information for a cell by performing a weighted combination and accumulation of low complexity autocorrelation and cross-correlation procedures on the synchronization signal. The reduced complexity correlation procedures may be enabled based on the use of the cover code and a base sequence. In some cases, the cross-correlation may be performed at multiple sampling rates. The use of the cover code within the synchronization signal may also support correlation procedures that use recursive or repeated updates, which may allow for further reduced computational complexity relative to other cell search procedures.
US10200166B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for determining resource elements REs used for Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) transmission schemes. The techniques generally include determining, by a User Equipment (UE), a set of data REs used for Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) operation. The determination is based on a CoMP scheme and data REs available to particular base stations involved in the CoMP operation. The technique further includes processing data received via the CoMP operation on the determined set of data REs.
US10200163B1
In a carrier detector, the simple latch is replaced with a pulse timer and reference control module which outputs logic high (H) when more than two consecutive toggled signals come within 1.5 baud periods and keeps logic high (H) until it misses a toggled signal for two baud periods. This carrier detector has a tolerance for a false detection which happens when the frequency shifts from lower to higher and the input amplitude level does not reach a detectable level. With this transition, the amplitude level at filter output becomes higher due to the transient response of the filter and eventually this would trigger the comparator for only one baud period. The deglitch circuit, however, ignores this clock edge in the carrier detector as provided herein.
US10200162B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Wireless communications systems operating in unlicensed or shared radio frequency spectrum band may use different modes to manage hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. HARQ feedback may be transmitted autonomously or, in some cases, HARQ feedback may be solicited from a user equipment (UE) for one or several HARQ processes. Solicited feedback may be referred to as polled feedback and autonomous feedback may be referred to as unpolled feedback. Polled and unpolled feedback may be transmitted using different physical channels, and may be grant-based or triggered without an express grant. Buffers for polled and unpolled feedback may be separately maintained and managed. In a multicarrier configuration, uplink control information (UCI) for one or more carriers may be transmitted on a subset of configured uplink carriers. A number of carriers used for UCI may depend on operating conditions of a UE.
US10200157B2
A technology related to a distributed antenna system is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a distributed antenna system may include a master unit and a plurality of remote units. The master unit may be interfaced with a wireless communications network and perform a bidirectional simultaneous digital radio frequency distribution of a wireless signal. The plurality of remote units may be each coupled to the master unit, and each perform a wireless transmission or reception of a split radio frequency signal to or from terminals located within a coverage. The master unit and the plurality of remote units may transmit or receive digital radio frequency signals in a wavelet transform domain. The master unit may determine whether the digital radio frequency signal, transmitted by each of the remote units, is normal, and merge the digital radio frequency signals.
US10200150B2
A method includes determining, at a device, that transmission data indicates that first data was transmitted via a digital radio channel. The method also includes determining, at the device, that reception data indicates that second data was received via the digital radio channel. The first data has a first size that is less than a second size of the second data. The method also includes determining, at the device, whether an error occurred in transmission of the first data based on determining whether each of a plurality of portions of the first data is included at least once in the second data. Other aspects are also disclosed.
US10200149B2
A super-frame for transmission in an optical communications system comprises two or more data frames and a parity frame. All frames in the super-frame have been encoded in accordance with a first Forward Error Correction (FEC) scheme. The parity frame is computed over the two or more data frames (prior to or concurrently with or after encoding via the first FEC scheme) according to a second FEC scheme. At a receiver, the super-frame is decoded in accordance with the first FEC scheme to generate a set of FEC decoded frames in which residual errors are clustered, that is, are non-Poisson. The second FEC scheme, which is particularly suited or designed to correct the clustered non-Poisson residual errors, is used to correct the residual errors.
US10200141B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference cancellation method for an enhanced physical downlink control channel E-PDCCH, comprising steps of: (1) allocating different orthogonal covering code OCC sequences to different cells and/or different users; and (2) combining a plurality of control channel elements CCEs constituting one PDCCH with a cell-specific OCC sequence and/or a user-specific OCC sequence respectively, so as to enable a user equipment to cancel interference on the PDCCH.
US10200132B2
An optical communication system includes an optical transmitter, a plurality of optical receivers, and a splitter that splits light transmitted by the optical transmitter to the plurality of optical receivers. The optical transmitter includes a variable-wavelength light source capable of transmitting light of a first wavelength and light of a third wavelength between the first wavelength and a second wavelength. A first optical receiver of the plurality of optical receivers includes a first optical filter having a first transmission band including the first and third wavelengths, and a first receiving unit that receives light having passed through the first optical filter. A second optical receiver of the plurality of optical receivers includes a second optical filter having a second transmission band including the second and third wavelengths, and a second receiving unit that receives light having passed through the second optical filter.
US10200128B1
Systems and methods for generating radio frequency signals and/or microwave signals using a tunable optical source. An optical frequency comb including multiple optical components is received or generated based on an optical signal. A subset of optical components is selected from the multiple optical components. A detector array having two or more square law detectors is uniformly illuminated with the subset of optical components. Each square law detector of the detector array outputs an electrical signal having a difference frequency corresponding to a difference in frequency between the subset of optical components. A radio frequency or microwave output signal with a narrow bandwidth centered at a target frequency is generated by coherently summing each of the output signals output by the square law detectors.
US10200126B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupler that includes a tapered collar that surrounds a transmission wire. A coaxial coupler, that surrounds at least a portion of the transmission wire, guides an electromagnetic wave to the tapered collar. The tapered collar couples the electromagnetic wave to propagate along an outer surface of the transmission wire. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10200123B2
An optical network communication system includes an optical hub, an optical distribution center, at least one fiber segment, and at least two end users. The optical hub includes an intelligent configuration unit configured to monitor and multiplex at least two different optical signals into a single multiplexed heterogeneous signal. The optical distribution center is configured to individually separate the at least two different optical signals from the multiplexed heterogeneous signal. The at least one fiber segment connects the optical hub and the optical distribution center, and is configured to receive the multiplexed heterogeneous signal from the optical hub and distribute the multiplexed heterogeneous signal to the optical distribution center. The at least two end users each include a downstream receiver configured to receive one of the respective separated optical signals from the optical distribution center.
US10200117B2
To provide an optical communication technology that brings flexibility to ROADM systems.An optical communication device according to the present invention drops and adds an optical signal from and to wavelength-division multiplexed optical signals that are transmitted on a main path between network terminal stations, the device including: first means and second means capable of selecting an optical signal of a predetermined wavelength from inputted optical signals and of outputting the selected optical signal; third means for splitting optical signals inputted from a first terminal station on the main path into the first means and the second means; fourth means for splitting optical signals inputted from a branch path in the network into the first means and the second means; and fifth means capable of selectively outputting to a second terminal station on the main path either an optical signal outputted by the first means or an optical signal outputted by the second means.
US10200115B2
Systems, methods, and devices for high-efficiency wireless frequency division multiplexing are provided. A method includes exchanging, at an access point, at least one frame reserving a wireless medium with at least one of a first and second wireless device. The method further includes receiving a first communication on a first set of wireless frequencies from the first wireless device. The method further includes receiving a second communication, at least partially concurrent with the first communication, on a second set of wireless frequencies from the second wireless device. The method further includes transmitting at least one acknowledgment of the first and second communication. The first set and the second set are mutually exclusive subsets of a set of wireless frequencies available for use by both the first and second wireless device.
US10200105B2
An electronic device may include a peripheral conductive housing wall. The housing wall may be patterned to form first and second continuous regions defining opposing edges of a patterned region. The patterned region may include slots that divide the wall into conductive structures between the first and second continuous regions. A tuning element for an antenna in the device may be formed from the conductive structures and the slots in the patterned region. The slots and the conductive structures in the patterned region may be configured to mitigate any excessive capacitances between the first and second continuous regions in one or more desired frequency bands to optimize antenna efficiency. The slots may be narrow enough so as to be invisible to the un-aided human eye. This may configure the first and second continuous regions to appear to a user as a single continuous piece of conductor.
US10200096B2
In one or more aspects data packets are transmitted to a receiver using predefined spatial mapping matrices, a quality of reception is received from the receiver for each of the predefined spatial mapping matrices, and one of the predefined spatial mapping matrices is selected for transmitting additional data packets to the receiver based on a highest quality of reception.
US10200093B2
A beamforming method of millimeter wave communication is introduced herein. the beamforming method is adapted to a base station and includes following steps. A plurality of periodic signals are transmitted by using a frame header of M radio frames via Q base station beams designated as Q scan beams while performing a network entry, wherein M≥1 and Q≥1. Data packets are transceived by using a payload region of the M radio frames via at least one scheduled beam while a user equipment connection is performed via the scheduled beam selected from the Q base station beams.
US10200090B2
A method of operating a Near Field Communication (NFC) function in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes detecting an NFC tag during execution of a particular mode, comparing the NFC tag with preset lists, omitting a reading operation of the NFC tag if the NFC tag is an NFC tag which is included in a blocking list, and reading the NFC tag if the NFC tag is an NFC tag which is included in an application mapping list.
US10200085B1
A measurement instrument and associated method: receive at a first input an aggressor signal (e.g., a supply voltage) from a device under test (DUT); capture samples of the aggressor signal; receive at a second input a victim signal from the DUT, wherein the received victim signal includes jitter induced thereon from the aggressor signal; capture samples of the received victim signal; apply the captured samples of the aggressor signal and the captured samples of the received victim signal to a predetermined model, which represents the jitter induced onto the received victim signal from the aggressor signal, to produce a system of equations; ascertain a plurality of unknown parameters in the predetermined model from the system of equations; and apply the predetermined model with the ascertained parameters to the captured samples of the aggressor signal to estimate the jitter induced onto the received victim signal from the aggressor signal.
US10200080B2
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for cancelling self-interference caused by full-duplex communication. In a full-duplex communication device, the receiver will generally experience significant self-interference from the full-duplex communication device's own transmitter transmitting a strong outbound signal over the same channel that the receiver is to receive a weak inbound signal. The apparatus and method are configured to adjust a phase and gain of the outbound signal provided at the output of a power amplifier (PA) and inject the phase and gain adjusted outbound signal at the input of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) to cancel the interference from the outbound signal in the inbound signal.
US10200079B2
A transceiver arrangement comprises a receiver arranged for frequency-division duplex communication; a transmitter arranged for frequency-division duplex communication; a transmission port for connecting to an antenna; a balancing impedance circuit arranged to provide an impedance arranged to mimic the impedance at the transmission port; and a filtering arrangement, which comprises filters of a first type and filters of a second type, connecting the receiver, transmitter, transmission port and balancing impedance circuit. The filters of the first type are arranged to pass signals at transmitter frequency and attenuate signals at receiver frequency and are connected between the transmitter and the transmission port and between the receiver and the balancing impedance circuit. The filters of the second type are arranged to attenuate signals at transmitter frequency and pass signals at receiver frequency and are connected between the transmitter and the balancing impedance circuit and between the receiver and the transmission port. A communication device is also disclosed.
US10200076B1
A system for wired analog self-interference cancellation includes a coarse delayer that delays a sampled RF transmit signal by a first delay amount; a frequency downconverter that downconverts the sampled RF transmit signal to IF; a first canceller tap group comprising a first per-tap-group delayer, a first sampling coupler, a first per-tap delayer, and first and second analog vector modulators that generates an IF self-interference cancellation signal; a frequency upconverter that upconverts the IF self-interference cancellation signal to RF; and a receive coupler that combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal with the RF receive signal, reducing self-interference.
US10200072B2
There is provided a portable device (2) for wirelessly communicating with a remote further device (4). The portable device comprises a power source (6) chargeable by a power supply (8) separate from the portable device. The portable device is configured to have a plurality of coupling states associated with the power supply. The power supply is separate from the device and remote from the further device. The portable device also comprises communication apparatus (10) wirelessly connectable to the further device and configured to enable the portable device to have a wireless connection state associated with the further device. A processor (12) is configured to monitor a change between a first and a second of the said coupling states; and, output data for changing the connection state based upon the change from the first coupling state to the second coupling state.
US10200071B1
This disclosure provides a system and method for separating a first signal from a second signal of a plurality of constituent signals within a composite signal. The method can include receiving a first portion of the composite signal at a first clock rate and exponentiating it to detect the first signal and the second signal within the composite signal and determine modulation estimates of the first and second signals and at least one symbol rate. The method can also include resampling the first portion based on the modulation estimates at x-times the at least one symbol rate to determine symbol trajectory, modulation type, and offset information between the first signal and the second signal. The method can include determining a synthesized first signal and a synthesized second signal representing the first signal and the second signal within the first period of time at a second clock rate that is a multiple of the first clock rate.
US10200070B2
A modem includes a modulator and a demodulator. The demodulator includes a direct current removing (DCR) circuit to transition between an acquisition mode, where the DCR circuit operates with a first loop gain; and a tracking mode, where the DCR circuit operates with a second loop gain. The second loop gain is smaller than the first loop gain, and the timing of the transition between the acquisition mode and tracking mode is programmable.
US10200061B2
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a plurality of polarization processors, including n inputs and n outputs, where n is an integer, wherein the plurality of polarization processors is configured to polarize channels with different bit-channel reliability; and at least one permutation processor, including n inputs and n outputs, wherein each of the at least one permutation processor is connected between two of the plurality of polarization processors, and connects the n outputs of a first of the two of the plurality of polarizations processors to the n inputs of a second of the two of the plurality of polarization processors between which each of the at least one permutation processor is connected in a permutation pattern, wherein at least one permutation processor is configured to not further polarize a bit channel.
US10200052B2
In some examples, a system comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to receive an analog input signal and a reset signal, the ADC to convert the analog input signal into a digital signal. The system comprises a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), coupled to the ADC, to convert the digital signal into an internal analog signal. The system includes a first capacitor, coupled to the DAC, to receive the internal analog signal. The system comprises a first switch, coupled to the first capacitor, to provide the analog input signal to the first capacitor. The system comprises a second switch to couple the first capacitor to ground.
US10200051B2
One example includes a pipelined analog-to-digital converter device. The pipelined analog-to-digital converter device includes a capacitive digital-to-analog converter, a first analog-to-digital converter, and a second analog-to-digital converter. The capacitive digital-to-analog converter includes a capacitor comprised of a top plate and a bottom plate, the capacitive digital-to-analog converter sampling an analog input signal applied to the pipelined analog-to-digital converter device while the capacitor is grounded, holding the sampled analog input while the top plate is floated, and outputting a residue voltage. The second analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the top plate of the capacitor, the second analog-to-digital converter producing a second digital representation of voltage on the top plate of the capacitor after the top plate is floated, wherein the second digital representation represents fine bits produced by the first stage of the pipelined analog-to-digital converter device.
US10200050B1
An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may generate an output signal with a regulated voltage and maintain a constant switch frequency having a first on time and a first off time. The second circuit may generate a shifted signal based on a phase delay with respect to the output signal and maintain a shifted frequency having a second on time and a second off time. The second on time may follow the first on time by the phase delay. The second on time may be based on the first on time and transient conditions of a load. The apparatus may implement an automatic phase shift adjustment. A current sensing comparison may implement a cycle-by-cycle comparison between the output signal and the shifted signal to determine the second on time and perform a tuning operation to achieve inductor current balancing.
US10200028B2
An electric assembly includes a reverse conducting switching device and a rectifying device. The reverse conducting switching device includes transistor cells for desaturation configured to be, under reverse bias, turned on in a desaturation mode and to be turned off in a saturation mode. The rectifying device is electrically connected anti-parallel to the switching device. In a range of a diode forward current from half of a maximum rating diode current of the switching device to the maximum rating diode current, a diode I/V characteristic of the rectifying device shows a voltage drop across the rectifying device higher than a saturation I/V characteristic of the switching device with the transistor cells for desaturation turned off and lower than a desaturation I/V characteristic of the switching device with the transistor cells for desaturation turned on.
US10200021B1
In accordance with an embodiment, a synchronous N pulse burst generator includes an input for an intermediate frequency trigger signal and a signal path extending from the input. The signal path includes a series of N AND gates and an OR gate. Each AND gate is arranged to receive two inputs from the signal path. The signal path introduces a time delay between the two inputs received by each AND gate. A second input of the two inputs is inverted. The signal path introduces the time delay between successive AND gates from the series of N AND gates. An OR gate receives outputs from the series of N AND gates and outputs an A/D clock signal.
US10200018B2
The present disclosure provides D flip-flops and signal driving methods using D flip-flops thereof. An exemplary D flip-flop includes a pulse signal generating circuit configured to input a first clock signal, a first data signal, a second data signal and a third data signal and generate a clock pulse signal. The clock pulse signal responds a rising-edge and a falling-edge of the first clock signal. The pulse clock signal is a pulse signal when the first data signal is opposite to the second data signal. The D flip-flop also includes a latching circuit configured to sample and transfer the first data signal and a data signal opposite to the first data signal to be used as the second signal and a fourth data signal respectively when the clock signal is at the high level.
US10200014B2
There is provided a communication receiver comprising: an input for receiving a radio frequency, RF, input signal; and at least one finite impulse response, FIR, discrete time filter, DTF. The at least one FIR DTF comprises: an input circuit comprising an input port for sampling the RF input signal at a sampling frequency that is comparable to the input RF input signal; and N parallel branches, each branch having a set of input unit sampling capacitances, where each unit sampling capacitance is independently selectively coupleable to an output summing node. The input circuit is configured to convert an equivalent input impedance of the at least one FIR DTF around the sampling frequency to a real impedance.
US10200012B2
A high-frequency filter (10) includes resonators (21, 31, and 32), an inductor (41), and a switch (51). The resonator (21) is connected between a first input/output terminal (P1) and a second input/output terminal (P2). One end of the inductor (41) is connected between the resonator (21) and the first input/output terminal (P1). One end of the resonator (31) is connected to the other end of the inductor (41). The switch (51) selects either a connection portion that connects the inductor (41) and the resonator (31) or the resonator (32) and connects either the connection portion or the resonator (32), which has been selected, to a terminal of the resonator (21) on the side of the second input/output terminal (P2). The switching between the connection modes of the switch (51) changes the circuit configuration of the high-frequency filter (10).
US10199995B2
A programmable amplifier circuit includes an amplifier, an input capacitor coupled to an input of the amplifier, a feedback capacitor coupled to the input of the amplifier and an output of the amplifier, and a switched-capacitor resistor circuit. The switched-capacitor resistor circuit is coupled between the input of the amplifier and the output of the amplifier, and configured for simulating a feedback resistor element to provide a resistance for a feedback path of the amplifier by using at least one capacitor placed between the input of the amplifier and the output of the amplifier to avoid leakage current(s) flowing back to an input of the amplifier.
US10199978B2
A multiphase driver device includes: one phase driver circuit of a first type including a first monitoring transistor and a first monitoring resistor generating a first voltage that is proportional to a first source current supplied to a one of the plurality of semiconductor switches; and a plurality of phase driver circuits of a second type each including a second monitoring transistor and a second monitoring resistor generating a second voltage that is proportional to that a second source current supplied to corresponding one of the remaining semiconductor switches, each of the plurality of phase driver circuits of the second type further including a comparator that compares the second voltage to the reference voltage, and a first regulating transistor that adds a first regulating current to the second source current in accordance with an output of the comparator.
US10199977B1
Electrical systems and devices with substrate interconnections having reduced parasitic inductance are provided. A first substrate includes one or more capacitors and plurality of connection interfaces, wherein a first subset of connection interfaces electrically connected to a first reference voltage are interleaved with a second subset of connection interfaces electrically connected to a different reference voltage. A second substrate includes a third subset of connection interfaces are electrically connected to a first terminal of a first switching element and the first subset of connection interfaces and a fourth subset of connection interfaces electrically connected to a second terminal of a second switching element and the second subset of connection interfaces, and the third subset and the fourth subset are also interleaved.
US10199975B2
Subsea power supply assembly (10, 20) supplying electric power to a motor (11) at a second location (90) from a first location (80), comprising a variable speed drive (13) (VSD) and a step-up transformer (15) connected to it. At a subsea location the assembly comprises a first step-down transformer (17) with input (17a) and output (17b) and an uninterruptable power supply (25) having an input (25a). A step-out cable (19) supplies power from the step-up transformer (15) to the motor (11). The cable (19) connects to the first step-down transformer (17). The speed of the electric motor (11) is proportional to the output frequency of the VSD (13). The power receiving input (25a) of the uninterruptable power supply (25) connects to the output (17b) of the first step-down transformer (17), thereby receiving electrical power with frequency equal to the output frequency of the VSD (13).
US10199969B2
A method of operation of a turbogenerator system is described. The system comprises a plurality of turbogenerators provided in parallel and in fluid communication with a gas stream. The method comprises identifying one or more of the turbogenerators which are currently operating closest to their maximum power output, and adjusting the speed of one or more of the turbogenerators to cause the power outputs of the plurality of turbogenerators to become more similar. In this way, it is possible to match the power output of the plurality of turbogenerators.
US10199966B2
A brushless motor drive device includes the following: an inverter circuit configured to energize and drive the winding of a brushless motor; a current detection circuit configured to detect the current value of the winding; a control unit configured to control the rotation of the motor; and an RC filter including a resistor and a capacitor. The control unit includes the following: a drive control unit configured to generate a signal to drive the inverter; a clock generation circuit configured to generate a clock pulse to be used as a reference for an operation period; a pulse output circuit configured to generate a pulse signal with a changing frequency based on the clock pulse and to apply the pulse signal to the RC filter; an AD converter circuit connected to the capacitor of the RC filter and the current detection circuit; and an AD-conversion-error calculation unit configured to calculate the conversion error of the AD converter circuit. The AD-conversion-error calculation unit calculates the conversion error based on the difference between the output value of the AD converter circuit produced in response to an input of the voltage of the capacitor and an AD-converted value calculated from the charging time of the capacitor.
US10199965B2
A magnetic sensor integrated circuit, a motor and an application apparatus. The magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensor, a signal processing unit, an output control circuit and an output port. The magnetic sensor receives a constant current sense a magnetic polarity of an external magnetic field and output a differential signal. The signal processing unit amplifies the differential signal and eliminates an offset of the differential signal to obtain a magnetic field detection signal. The output control circuit control, at least based on the magnetic field detection signal, the magnetic sensor integrated circuit to operate in at least one a first state in which a current flows from the output port to the outside and a second state in which a current flows from the outside into the output port.
US10199962B2
An actuator in a HVAC system includes a motor and a drive device driven by the motor. The drive device is coupled to a movable HVAC component for driving the movable HVAC component between multiple positions. The actuator includes an input connection configured to receive an input signal and a processing circuit coupled to the motor. The processing circuit is configured to determine whether the input signal is an AC voltage signal or a DC voltage signal. The processing circuit is configured to operate the motor using an AC motor control technique in response to determining that the input signal is an AC voltage signal and configured to operate the motor using a DC motor control technique in response to determining that the input signal is a DC voltage signal.
US10199960B2
A vibration wave motor includes: a vibrator including a vibration plate and a piezoelectric element; a friction member frictionally contacting the vibrator; a pressing member generating a pressing force to bring the vibrator in frictional contact with the friction member; and a pressing force transmitting member between the vibrator and the pressing member to transmit the pressing force to the vibrator. The vibrator and the friction member move in a relative movement direction by an elliptical vibration, and the pressing force transmitting member includes: an engagement portion formed near a contact portion with the pressing member and engaged with the pressing member; a first restricting portion restricting movement in the relative movement direction; and a second restricting portion. restricting movement in a direction perpendicular to a pressing direction by the pressing member and the direction. The pressing force transmitting member is rotatably held with respect to the pressing member.
US10199959B2
The piezoelectric actuator of the present invention has at least one ceramic component. The ceramic component has an output surface and two driving surfaces. The ceramic component has a height and the output surface is rectangular in shape, wherein the length of the short axis side of the output surface is shorter than the height. Therefore, when a pulse wave input voltage is applied on the driving surfaces, the output surface generates an elliptical motion.
US10199957B1
According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a bidirectional converter comprising a first interface, an input bridge coupled to the first interface, an inverter portion coupled to the input bridge and comprising a first bidirectional converter, a second bidirectional converter, and an output filter coupled to the first bidirectional converter and the second bidirectional converter, a second interface coupled to the output filter, and a controller configured to operate the input bridge to draw DC power from a DC source and provide power to the inverter portion, to operate, in a first mode, the first bidirectional converter, in conjunction with the output filter, to generate a positive half cycle of an output voltage waveform at the second interface, and to operate, in a second mode, the second bidirectional converter, in conjunction with the output filter, to generate a negative half cycle of the output voltage waveform at the second interface.
US10199953B2
A power conversion device comprising: a plurality of first power semiconductor modules incorporating a series circuit of a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device, the series circuit connected in parallel to a series circuit of a first capacitor and a second capacitor which are connected in series to a direct current power supply; a plurality of second power semiconductor modules incorporating a bi-directional semiconductor device connected between a connection point between the first capacitor and the second capacitor and a connection point between the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device; and a laminated bus bar connecting main circuit terminals of the plurality of first power semiconductor modules and the plurality of second power semiconductor modules to each other. The laminated bus bar includes a pair of output bas bars disposed at a front side and a back side, respectively so as to facing each other.
US10199949B1
The present invention provides an active-clamp flyback circuit and a control method thereof. The active-clamp flyback circuit includes a flyback switching power supply, and further includes a first capacitor and a first switch tube. One end of the first capacitor is connected with a high potential end of an input power supply, the other end is connected with a first end of the first switch tube, and a second end of the first switch tube is connected with a common end of the main power switch tube and the primary winding. A turn-off moment of the first switch tube is adjusted according to time when the main power switch tube is turned on and the first switch tube is turned off and voltages at both ends of the magnetizing inductor. The present invention can reduce the turn-on loss of the main power switch tube.
US10199946B2
Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power converter. An example system controller includes: a first controller terminal configured to output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current flowing through a primary winding of a power converter, the drive signal being associated with a switching period corresponding to a switching frequency; and a second controller terminal configured to receive a feedback signal associated with an output voltage related to a secondary winding of the power converter. The first controller terminal is further configured to: output the drive signal to close the switch during the on-time period; and output the drive signal to open the switch during the off-time period. The system controller is configured to set the switching frequency to one or more frequency magnitudes, each of the one or more frequency magnitudes being smaller than or equal to an upper frequency limit.
US10199941B2
In order to set the output voltage of a resonant converter to a desired value by means of a simple additional circuit while the resonant converter is in open circuit operation, it is intended that at least one capacitor each (C1, C2) is connected in parallel to the electrical switching elements (S1, S2) of the secondary side of the resonant converter (1).
US10199929B2
Disclosed examples include a transient event detector circuit to detect transient events in a switching converter, including a DLL circuit to detect changes in a duty cycle of a pulse width modulation signal used to operate a switching converter, and an output circuit to provide a status output signal in a first state when no transient event is detected, and to provide the status output signal in a second state indicating a transient event in the switching converter in response to a detected change in the duty cycle of the pulse width modulation signal.
US10199921B2
A load detecting device for detecting whether a load is connected to a power supply device includes a no-load condition detector configured to detect a no-load condition using a sensing voltage having a frequency variant with a switching frequency of the power supply device, a circuit configured to acquire a signal having a waveform differing according to a connection or detachment between the load and the power supply device after the no-load condition is detected by the no-load condition detector, and a detachment detector configured to detect whether the load is detached by sensing the signal acquired by the circuit.
US10199918B2
In one embodiment, a controller for a power supply may be configured to operate as a quasi-resonant controller while operating in a discontinuous current mode and to operate as one of a pulse width or pulse frequency modulation controller while operating in a continuous current mode. The controller may have an embodiment that varies a frequency of the switching drive signal around a center frequency while operating in the continuous current mode, and varies a value of a current sense signal but not vary the frequency of the switching drive signal around a center frequency while operating in the discontinuous current mode.
US10199917B2
A current mode hysteretic buck converter employing an auto-selectable frequency locking circuit is disclosed. The auto-selectable frequency locking type buck converter include a current mode hysteretic buck converter for converting an input DC voltage into a lower DC voltage, and a frequency locking unit for locking a switching frequency of the current mode hysteretic buck converter wherein the switching frequency is locked through adjusting a locking value of the switching frequency to be a predetermined value according to a size of a load. The buck converter is, based on the current mode hysteretic control, related to a circuit that locks the switching frequency of the converter to reduce the difficulty of designing electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters in the converter. In addition, the buck converter can improve the efficiency at light load by adjusting the switching frequency which is locked according to the load current.
US10199915B2
A method for controlling a modular multi-level converter comprises the steps of: collecting control input variables from the converter; transmitting the control input variables to a controller of the converter via a first communication medium; determining, in the controller, and actual state of the converter and at least one control output variable based on a model of the converter; and transmitting the control output variable to the converter for controlling the converter via a second communication medium. The model of the converter accounts for the first and/or the second communication medium.
US10199913B2
A primary part for a linear motor, a linear motor comprising such primary part, and a method for manufacturing such primary part. The primary part comprises a housing, a pre-casted unit having at least two coils which are mutually fixed in position by a solidified first casting material, a plurality of spacer elements disposed between the pre-casted unit and the housing, the plurality of spacer elements contacting the housing and ensuring a space between the housing and the pre-casted unit, and a solidified second casting material filling the space between the housing and the pre-casted unit. The solidified second casting material ensures a fixed connection of the housing to the pre-casted unit.
US10199907B2
A wet cavity electric machine includes a stator core having stator poles formed by a post and a wire wound about the post to form a stator winding, with the stator winding having end turns, a rotor having two rotor poles and configured to rotate relative to the stator and a channel for liquid coolant to flow through the rotor to at least one nozzle, and liquid coolant sprays from the at least one nozzle at least a portion of the stator windings.
US10199903B2
A device for deflecting at least a portion of a cooling fluid flowing axially in an intermediate space is arranged between a rotor and a stator of a rotating electrical machine, in particular of a turbogenerator, wherein at least one blade can be arranged on a prespecifiable section of an outer face of the rotor and in the intermediate space, which blade is designed and can be arranged in such a way that a portion of the cooling fluid flowing in the intermediate space can be radially deflected in the direction of the stator by said blade.
US10199902B2
An external connection connector includes: an insulating resin molded body in which are formed integrally: a second flange portion that is fixed to a first axial end surface of a first bulging portion of a unit housing; an extended portion that extends from the second flange portion alongside an outer circumferential surface of the actuator housing toward the first axial end; a first flange portion that extends radially inward from a first axial end of the extended portion; and a connector portion that is formed on the first flange portion; and a plurality of electrical conductors that are insert-molded into the insulating resin molded body such that first ends thereof protrude inside the connector portion and second ends thereof protrude into a connection window that is formed on a second bulging portion of a heatsink, the electrical conductors being connected to control portion connecting terminals inside the connection window.
US10199898B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator core, a coil, and a molded portion. The stator core includes an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. The teeth protrude radially inward from the annular yoke. The coils are wound around the teeth respectively. The coil includes a coil end that protrudes toward an axially outer side from an axially end surface of the stator core. The molded portion is a resin member that covers the coil end. The molded portion includes a first member. The first member includes a communication portion that communicates inside of the molded portion with outside of the molded portion.
US10199897B2
A stator has a field winding, the winding comprising a plurality of axial conductors connected at their ends to form at least one circuit with a number of turns. Each axial conductor is disposed within a tubular axial insulation member, the tubular axial insulation members being disposed within a stack of laminations. The axial conductors and the tubular insulation members are radially distributed at equal angles. The position of the axial conductors and the tubular insulation members is predetermined.
US10199892B2
The present invention relates to a spoke-type permanent magnet rotor (1) used in brushless direct current electric motors (12), forming the rotating part inside the stator (13) that forms the stationary part thereof and having an air gap (14) between the inner surface of the stator (13) 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 aluminum and plastic and fixed on the front and rear planar surfaces of the core (2) by the injection molding method.
US10199891B2
A rotor includes: a rotor core; magnets disposed in housing holes having openings in end faces of the rotor core; a filler injected through the openings into the housing holes; and end plates fixed to the end faces. The end plates have recesses at positions facing inlets of the filler.
US10199878B2
A wireless power transceiver includes input generator, inverter, battery, antenna, impedance matching circuit, and mode voltage changer. The input generator outputs an input voltage as a primary input voltage and a secondary input voltage in a power transmitting mode. The input generator outputs a power supply voltage as a primary input voltage and outputs a ground voltage as a secondary input voltage in a power receiving mode. The inverter outputs to the second node, an inverted version of the input voltage in the power transmitting mode, and outputs to the first node, a rectified voltage of the second node in power receiving mode. The impedance matching circuit is connected between the second node and the antenna. The mode voltage changer converts a battery voltage of the battery to output the power supply voltage in the power transmitting mode, and charges the battery with a voltage converted from the power supply voltage in the power receiving mode.
US10199875B2
A transmitter for transmitting wireless power according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a transmission side communication unit, wherein the transmission side communication unit transmits a first control signal to a reception side communication unit, then receives a second control signal including information about an amount of power of the first control signal from the reception side communication unit, and controls the amount of power of the first control signal by comparing the amount of power of the first control signal with a predetermined range based on the second control signal.
US10199868B2
A device configured to receive power (20B), the device comprising a coil (21L) having a resistance, and at least one circuit (30) configured to calculate a target voltage value based on an amount of power received by the device and the resistance of the coil, and control received power voltage based on the calculated target voltage value.
US10199851B2
A secondary battery module capable of feeding power to a wearable device in a non-contact manner is provided. A power feeding system for an electronic device is provided. The power feeding system includes a secondary battery module and an electronic device. The secondary battery module includes a flexible secondary battery, a power sending portion for non-contact power transmission, a flexible thermoelectric power generating device, and a belt portion storing the flexible secondary battery and the flexible thermoelectric power generating device. The electronic device includes a power receiving portion for non-contact power transmission and is capable of power transmission from the power sending portion for non-contact power transmission which is included in the secondary battery module to the power receiving portion for non-contact power transmission which is included in the electronic device.
US10199850B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may generate and transmit power waves that, as result of their physical waveform characteristics (e.g., frequency, amplitude, phase, gain, direction), converge at a predetermined location in a transmission field to generate a pocket of energy. Receivers associated with an electronic device being powered by the wireless charging system, may extract energy from these pockets of energy and then convert that energy into usable electric power for the electronic device associated with a receiver. The pockets of energy may manifest as a three-dimensional field (e.g., transmission field) where energy may be harvested by a receiver positioned within or nearby the pocket of energy.
US10199837B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a connector to which an external device is connected, a control unit identifying a connected external device and controlling operations of a voltage conversion unit and a charging and discharging unit according to a result of an identification, the voltage conversion unit bypassing a supply voltage supplied from the external device, boosting the supply voltage, or converting a battery voltage of a battery connected to an electronic device to supply a converted voltage to the external device, according to the result of the identification, and the charging and discharging unit lowering a voltage supplied from the voltage conversion unit or bypassing the battery voltage of the battery to the voltage conversion unit, according to the result of the identification.
US10199832B2
A photovoltaic DC power distribution system provides a DC-DC converter having an output serially connected between a photovoltaic module array and a power converter, such as an inverter, in which the input voltage to the power converter is the sum of the voltage from the array and a voltage output of the DC-DC converter. The DC-DC converter only handles a portion of the power transferred from the array to the power converter.
US10199819B2
A resonant converter includes a first switch on the primary side and a second switch coupled to the first switch, a synchronization rectification switch on a secondary side configured to conduct during a conduction period in response to a switching operation of the first switch, and a switch control circuit configured to determine an operating region of the resonant converter to be below resonance based on a result of a comparison between the conduction period and an on period of the first switch.
US10199818B2
A system and method of over-voltage protection includes a switch coupled between a power source and a load, a detection circuit configured to detect an onset of an over-voltage event at the load; and a driver circuit coupled to the switch and the detection circuit. The driver circuit includes a boost sub-circuit that provides a low-resistance path for opening the switch in a boost mode, the boost mode being triggered by the onset of the over-voltage event and having a predetermined duration and a steady state sub-circuit that provides a high-resistance path for holding the switch open during steady state operation when the boost mode.
US10199815B2
A watertight electrical compartment for use in an irrigation device can include a compartment body having a chamber and a sealing section configured to mate with one or more sealing rings. A sealing cap can mate with the sealing section and/or the sealing rings to seal the chamber. A cap retainer can be advanced over at least a portion of the sealing cap. One of the compartment body and cap retainer can have internal threads to be screwed onto external threads of the other one of the compartment body and cap retainer. The cap retainer can also have a stopping feature to keep the sealing cap in its sealed position. The watertight electrical compartment can be used in a wireless flow sensor assembly, a battery operated irrigation controller, and/or a battery-operated central controller device, to provide irrigation control, and/or sensor information, without the need for AC power.
US10199802B1
In an example, the present invention provides a gallium and nitrogen containing laser diode device. The device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate material comprising a surface region, which is configured on either a ({10-10}) crystal orientation or a {10-10} crystal orientation configured with an offcut at an angle toward or away from the [0001] direction. The device also has a GaN region formed overlying the surface region, an active region formed overlying the surface region, and a gettering region comprising a magnesium species overlying the surface region. The device has a p-type cladding region comprising an (InAl)GaN material doped with a plurality of magnesium species formed overlying the active region.
US10199797B2
A light-emitting element module includes: a Peltier device; a light-emitting element that is disposed on the Peltier device; and a package that accommodates the Peltier device and the light-emitting element, the package including a base on which the Peltier device is disposed and a lid joined to the base and. When Ts is external temperature of the package, Tv is temperature of the light-emitting element, Tc1 is temperature of the base, and Tc2 is temperature of the lid, Ts
US10199794B1
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array may comprise a doped substrate layer. The VCSEL array may comprise a plurality of VCSELs on the doped substrate layer. The VCSEL array may comprise a buffer structure between the doped substrate layer and the plurality of VCSELs. The buffer structure, or a combination of the buffer structure and a layer of the plurality of VCSELs, may provide electrical isolation from the plurality of VCSELs to the doped substrate layer. The VCSEL array may comprise an isolation structure between adjacent VCSELs of the plurality of VCSELs. The isolation structure may provide electrical isolation between a first VCSEL, of the adjacent VCSELs, and a second VCSEL of the adjacent VCSELs. The first VCSEL and the second VCSEL may be different VCSELs.
US10199778B2
High speed connector inserts and cables having improved heat conduction, high strength, and may be manufactured in a reliable manner. One example may provide a connector insert having several paths by which heat may be removed from circuitry in the cable insert. In one example, heat may be removed from one or more circuits by forming a thermal path between a circuit and a shield of the connector insert. Another path may include one or more pads on a side of an integrated circuit board that are soldered directly to the shield. A braiding surrounding a cable may be soldered or otherwise thermally connected to the shield. Another example may provide a cable having a braiding that includes one or more types of fibers, such as aramid fibers. Another example may provide for increased manufacturability by using a wire comb and a solder bar.
US10199776B2
An electrical connector includes a terminal module including an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals and a shielding plate. The insulating housing defines a base and a mating tongue extending from the base, the mating tongue defines opposite mating surfaces, a front face and opposite side faces connecting with the mating surfaces and the front face. The terminals include contacting sections exposed upon the mating surfaces and leg sections out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded in the insulating housing and includes a main portion disposed between the mating surfaces and two thickened side portions, the side portions enclose opposite side faces of the mating tongue and each provides a side latch at an outer side face thereof. The side portions extend forward to the front face of the mating tongue and rearward to the base.
US10199774B2
A connector system includes a connector mounted on a circuit board. The circuit board has deeper backdrilled vias and the connector has modified signal terminal that can mate with the backdrilled vias so as to provide a surprising increase in the performance of signal traces provided in the top layers of the circuit board.
US10199771B2
A plug system with a plug connector, such as a high-current plug, and a mating plug connector, such as a high-current socket, for coupling to the plug connector by a lock device which counteracts a withdrawal of the plug connector from the mating plug connector in a locked position (I), wherein the lock device has a lever part which is secured to the plug connector in a pivotal manner and a securing clip which is attached to the lever part in an articulated manner for engaging into an engagement portion of the mating plug connector in the locked position (I).
US10199770B2
A connector includes a base member having a first surface facing a rear surface of a flexible substrate and a projection projecting from the first surface, and a contact which has a second surface facing a flexible conductor exposed on a front surface of the flexible substrate and a projection accommodating portion disposed in the second surface, the first surface of the base member coming into contact with the rear surface of the flexible substrate and the second surface of the contact coming into contact with the front surface of the flexible substrate, the projection being inserted into the projection accommodating portion with the flexible substrate being sandwiched therebetween, and an inner peripheral surface of the projection accommodating portion coming into contact with the flexible conductor in a direction parallel to the second surface to electrically connect the contact to the flexible conductor.
US10199756B2
An electrical connector for electrically connecting a chip module to a circuit board includes: a body, configured to upward support the chip module, where the body is provided with a plurality of accommodating holes; and multiple terminals, respectively accommodated in the accommodating holes correspondingly. Each of the terminals includes a flat plate portion along a vertical direction and a connecting portion connected to the flat plate portion. An elastic arm is formed by bending and extending from at least one end of the connecting portion so as to abut the chip module or the circuit board. When the chip module presses the terminal downward, a side edge of the elastic arm abuts the flat plate portion. The structure of an elastic arm can be simplified to reduce the processing difficulty thereof.
US10199755B2
An apparatus that is used to enclose and stack electrical components in varying configurations. The configurations are achieved by easily manipulating the way the apparatus is stacked. The stacking of apparatus' is achieved easily, and with little cost in manufacturing.
US10199743B2
An array antenna includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third metal layer that are sequentially laminated, where multiple metal through holes are disposed on the second dielectric layer, the multiple metal through holes form a feeding section, the first metal layer includes multiple subarrays, each subarray includes multiple radiating arrays and one power splitter, the power splitter includes a central area and multiple branches extending from the central area, the multiple radiating arrays are respectively connected to ends of the multiple braches that are far from the central area, multiple coupling slots are disposed on the second metal layer, the multiple coupling slots respectively face central areas, the feeding section is used to feed a signal.
US10199735B2
A TEM line to double-ridged waveguide launcher and horn antenna are disclosed. The launcher uses multiple probes or one or more wide-aspect probes across the ridge gap to minimize spreading inductance and a TEM combiner or matching taper to match the impedance of the probes over a broad bandwidth. The horn uses a power-law scaling of gap height relative to the other dimensions of the horn's taper in order to provide a monotonic decrease of cutoff frequencies in all high-order modes. Both of these techniques permit the implementation of ultra-wideband designs at high frequencies where fabrication tolerances are most difficult to meet.
US10199732B2
An apparatus comprising at least one antenna for transmission and/or reception of circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation. The antenna includes a radiating element, a static element, and a single feed line. The single feed line is coupled between the radiating element and a circuit that drives the antenna. The radiating element has a non-symmetrical outer perimeter shape. The radiating element may include an aperture. The antenna may further include a ground element and a supplemental ground feed structure, the supplemental ground feed structure located between the radiating element and the ground element and the radiating element located between the supplemental ground feed structure and the static element.
US10199727B2
A variable capacitor-based antenna adjustment method and a related apparatus. A first signal strength of a first communications system with a highest priority that is supported by an antenna having a variable capacitor is detected, and when the first signal strength is relatively strong to meet a first release condition, a capacitance value of the variable capacitor is adjusted to a preset capacitance value, where the preset capacitance value is closer to a second capacitance value corresponding to a working frequency band of a second communications system supported by the antenna, so that a working frequency band of the antenna having the variable capacitor is closer to the working frequency band of the second communications system, and therefore, communication quality of the second communications system is improved.
US10199722B2
A radome structure of an antenna system is provided having a plurality of switchable antenna elements disposed around a perimeter of the radome structure that can simultaneously track multiple targets and be implemented in a variety of different applications. Each of the switchable antenna elements can be individually switched between different radiation patterns to support different applications. The antenna system may include an infrared (IR) sensor pedestal, an IR sensor disposed on the IR pedestal and a plurality of switchable radio frequency (RF) antenna elements disposed in a circumferential direction around the IR sensor pedestal. In an embodiment, each of the plurality of switchable RF antenna elements can be switched from a first radiation pattern to a second radiation pattern to change an array radiation pattern of the antenna.
US10199719B2
An antenna of an electronic device is provided. The antenna includes a substrate including a ground portion, an external metallic frame of the electronic device, a float ground portion arranged to be connected to the external metallic frame in a state of being disconnected from the substrate, and at least one radiator electrically connected to the float ground portion. Upon being fed with power, the at least one radiator may operate as an antenna radiator, or a section of the external metallic frame may operate as the antenna radiator.
US10199718B2
An antenna may be formed from a peripheral conductive housing structure in an electronic device that is separated from an antenna ground by a gap. An antenna feed may be formed from a metal trace on a flexible printed circuit that spans the gap. The metal trace may have a line segment that joins a wider pad portion of the trace at a junction. A stiffener on the flexible printed circuit may have a protrusion that overlaps the junction. A metal bracket attached to the peripheral housing structure may be soldered to the pad. A metal member with meandering paths may form a return path in the antenna. The meandering path may have parallel segments that extend along an inner surface of the peripheral conductive housing structure to prevent the metal member from rotating when a screw is used to screw the metal member to the peripheral conductive housing structure.
US10199709B2
Provided is a microwave power combiner. A 2-way microwave power combiner includes a first input stage and a second input stage each through which a microwave signal is input; a first output stage through which a sum signal between the microwave signals is output, in response to the microwave signals input through the first input stage and the second input stage having the same phase; and a second output stage through which a difference signal between the microwave signals is output, in response to the microwave signals input through the first input stage and the second input stage having different phases. The first input stage, the second input stage, the first output stage, and the second output stage are connected using a suspended line that includes a conductive line positioned on a dielectric layer provided between air layers.
US10199708B2
A multiport distribution network is provided that supports N inputs and N outputs, where N>1, the multipart distribution network providing an independent distribution path extending from each input to each output, each path being formed from a sequence of at least two fundamental units. Each fundamental unit comprises a circuit formed of multiple resonator cavities and having n input ports for receiving respective input signals, and n output ports for outputting respective output signals, where n>1, and wherein the circuit is configured to: (i) at each input port, split an input signal received at that input port into n equal signal components and provide each of the n signal components to a respective output port of the circuit; and (ii) at each output port, combine the signal components received from the n input ports to form an output signal for that output port. The multipart distribution network is configured to apply the same filter transfer function along each independent distribution path.
US10199703B2
The present disclosure provides for a phase shifter having at least one phase shift section. The phase shift section includes an input port for receiving an incoming radio frequency signal, an output port for transmitting an outgoing radio frequency signal, an input junction coupled to the input port, an output junction coupled to the output port, and a plurality of transmission lines. The input junction includes a first plurality of cantilever type switches, and the output junction includes a second plurality of cantilever type switches. Each transmission line connects one of the first plurality of cantilever type switches to a corresponding one of the second plurality of cantilever type switches. The first plurality of cantilever type switches, the second plurality of cantilever type switches, and the plurality of transmission lines are formed in a coplanar waveguide.
US10199702B2
A phase shifter includes a cavity (100) and a first fixed transmission line (301), a second fixed transmission line (302), and a slidable transmission line (201) that are located in the cavity (100). The first fixed transmission line (301) is provided with a first open slot (3011), the second fixed transmission line (302) is provided with a second open slot (3021), and opening directions of the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021) are opposite to each other. Two ends of the slidable transmission line (201) are respectively clamped in the first open slot (3011) and the second open slot (3021), so that the slidable transmission line (201) is electrically connected to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302). The slidable transmission line (201) slides relative to the first fixed transmission line (301) and the second fixed transmission line (302).
US10199700B2
In a temperature adjusting structure for an electric power storage device as well as in a temperature adjusting method for an electric power storage device, a temperature adjusting air that exchanges heat with a case in which an electric power generation element is housed is guided in a longitudinal direction of a circulation path. Then, a vortex flow that swirls with the longitudinal direction being a rotational axis is generated in the air that flows through the circulation path, and the vortex flow is brought into contact with a lateral surface of the case.
US10199676B2
A secondary battery pack including end plates capable of suppressing a deformation caused by an expansion force of unit cells, a movable wall disposed between at least one end plate and one side face of a unit cell, elastic members disposed between at least one end plate and the movable wall, and connecting bars configured to connect the end plates with each other disposed on both opposite end sides of the at least one unit cell.
US10199670B2
A device includes a case having a surface with a perforation and a first cavity containing a gas generating fuel. A first membrane is supported by the case inside the first cavity. The first membrane has an impermeable valve plate positioned proximate the perforation. The first membrane is water vapor permeable and gas impermeable and flexes responsive to a difference in pressure between the cavity and outside the cavity to selectively allow water vapor to pass through the perforation to the fuel as a function of the difference in pressure. A second membrane that is water vapor permeable gas impermeable is coupled between an outside of the case exposed to ambient atmospheric gas and the valve plate creating a reference pressure second cavity configured to reduce the effects of ambient pressure transients on the difference in pressure. A fuel cell membrane may be included in the device to produce electricity.
US10199666B2
An object is to reduce the noise and the vibration caused in operation of an injector in a non-power generation state of a fuel cell. There is provided a fuel cell system comprising fuel cells configured such that each fuel cell includes an anode, an electrolyte membrane and a cathode; an injector that is configured to supply hydrogen to the anode; and a controller that is configured to control operation of an injector to make pressure of the anode reach a target pressure. In a non-power generation state that is after a start of the fuel cell system but is before power generation of the fuel cells, the controller sets a second target pressure that is higher than a first target pressure to the target pressure and controls operation of the injector to make the pressure of the anode equal to the second target pressure. After the pressure of the anode is increased to be higher than the first target pressure, the controller sets the first target pressure to the target pressure and controls operation of the injector to make the pressure of the anode equal to the first target pressure. The first target pressure is a pressure required to supply hydrogen over the entire anodes in the fuel cell stack.
US10199663B2
A cell structure for a fuel cell stack that is formed by stacking unit cells C each including a membrane electrode assembly 1 and a pair of separators 2 holding the membrane electrode assembly 1 therebetween. The membrane electrode assembly 1 includes a frame 3 in the periphery having such a size as to extend outward over the edges of the separators 2. Communication holes 21, 22 in communication with the front and back sides are formed in the frame 3 in an area from a sealing part 11 between frames 3 adjacent in the cell stacking direction to a sealing parts 12 between the membrane electrode assembly 1 and the separators 2. The air in a space Q formed between the inner and outer sealing parts 11, 12 is allowed to be released to the outside through the communication holes 21, 22, and a breakage of the adhesive of the sealing parts 11, 12 is thereby prevented.
US10199657B2
A metal-air battery and a component air cathode including a solid ionically conductive polymer material.
US10199646B2
An anode material for a lithium ion device includes an active material including silicon nanoparticles and boron carbide nanoparticles. The boron carbide nanoparticles are at least one order of magnitude smaller than the silicon nanoparticles. The weight percentage of the silicon is between about 4 to 35 weight % of the total weight of the anode material and the weight percentage of the boron carbide is between about 2.5 to about 25.6% of the total weight of the anode material. The active material may include carbon at a weight percentage of between 5 to about 60 weight % of the total weight of the anode material. Additional materials, methods of making and devices are taught.
US10199643B2
A negative electrode includes an active material. The active material includes a silicon-based core and a two-dimensional, layered mesoporous carbon coating in continuous contact with the silicon-based core. The two-dimensional, layered mesoporous carbon coating is capable of expanding and contracting with the silicon-based core. The negative electrode also includes a binder.
US10199642B2
A durable electrode material suitable for use in Li ion batteries is provided. The material is comprised of a continuous network of graphite regions integrated with, and in good electrical contact with a composite comprising graphene sheets and an electrically active material, such as silicon, wherein the electrically active material is dispersed between, and supported by, the graphene sheets.
US10199640B2
Alloy particles for negative electrode active material are proposed, which can impart anti-oxidation property to Si-containing alloy particles, and suppress oxidation of the negative electrode active material due to electrolyte at a considerably high level. A negative electrode material of secondary battery is achieved by a negative electrode material of secondary battery which is capable of intercalating and de-intercalating lithium and which consists of alloy particles including a silicon phase, a metal phase and bismuth, in which a crystallite size of the silicon phase is 10 nm or smaller, and the metal phase includes at least one kind of metal alloying with silicon but not with lithium, and the negative electrode material includes primary particles formed at least by the silicon and the metals.
US10199639B2
A secondary alkaline battery using manganese dioxide is described. The battery includes a mixed cathode material with birnessite-phase manganese dioxide or electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD), a bismuth compound and a copper compound selected from the group consisting of elemental copper and a copper salt. In some embodiments, a conductive carbon and/or a binder may also be included.
US10199636B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material containing-layer. The active material containing-layer includes active material particles containing at least one selected from a niobium titanium composite oxide and a composite oxide which is expressed by the general formula LixM11-yM2yTi6-zM3zO14+δ. The active material particles include primary particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 10 μm and secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 30 μm. A pore diameter distribution of the active material containing-layer which is obtained by mercury porosimetry has a first peak which has a maximum value within a range of 0.01 to 2 μm and a second peak which has a maximum value within a range of exceeding 6 μm and equal to or smaller than 20 μm. An intensity of the second peak is 1/10 to ⅕ of an intensity of the first peak.
US10199634B2
A method of preparing an amorphous film of lithiated metal sulfide or oxysulfide of formula LiαM(O1-βSβ)γ using a lithiated target material: M being advantageously selected from the group comprising Al, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ge, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Ta, W, Pb, Bi, and mixtures thereof; and α≥0.5; 1≥β≥⅔; 2≥α/γ≥⅓.
US10199630B2
Electrode terminals are provided. The electrode terminal includes a copper substrate and a metal layer covering at least one surface of the copper substrate, wherein the metal layer includes greater than or equal to about 10 wt % and less than or equal to about 80 wt % of tungsten (W), and an additional metal comprising nickel (Ni), silver (Ag), gold (Au), platinum (Pt), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), lead (Pb), tin (Sn), molybdenum (Mo), beryllium (Be), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), or a combination thereof. An electro-chemical device and an electro-chemical device module including the same are also provided.
US10199625B2
A bus bar according to an embodiment includes a block-shape thick portion, two thin portions provided along the thick portion on both sides, and two bend portions that connect the thick portion and the thin portions, the connected thick portion and the thin portions being elastically deformable.
US10199623B2
A separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery, including a porous substrate and an adhesive porous layer that is formed on at least one side of the porous substrate and contains a carbon material and a polyvinylidene fluoride resin. The separator has an initial static voltage of 0 V as measured in accordance with JIS L1094.
US10199622B2
A battery cell (2) comprising at least one electrode unit (10) having an anode (82), a cathode (84) and a separator (83) which is arranged between the anode (82) and the cathode (84). In this case, the separator (83) has an electrically conductive core layer (93) and at least one ionically permeable edge layer (91, 92). The invention also relates to a method for controlling ion flow within the battery cell (2), wherein an electrical connection is established between the electrically conductive core layer (93) of the separator (83) and a current collector (81) of the anode (82) or a current collector (85) of the cathode (84).
US10199620B2
A system for attaching a thermal battery to a flange of a power supply section of an underwater craft, such as a torpedo, comprising a fixing sleeve arranged around and fixed to the battery and provided with fixing lugs comprising holes for the passage of screws for attachment to the flange, wherein the sleeve is in an overall shape of a C, of which an intermediate part and ends of branches comprise the fixing lugs for fixing the fixing sleeve to the flange.
US10199613B2
The purpose of the first invention is to provide a packaging material for batteries, which has excellent resistance to electrolyte solution. A packaging material for batteries, which is composed of a laminate that sequentially comprises at least a base layer, an adhesive layer, a metal foil layer and a sealant layer in this order. This packaging material for batteries is able to have excellent resistance to electrolyte solution by disposing an acid-reactive resin layer containing an acid curable resin between the adhesive layer and the metal foil layer and/or between the metal foil layer and the sealant layer.
US10199610B2
A display apparatus includes a display layer, an encapsulation layer, and a reflective layer. The display layer is on a substrate and includes a non-emission area adjacent to an emission area. The encapsulation layer is over the display layer. The reflective layer is on the encapsulation layer and includes a first opening corresponding to the emission area and a reflecting area adjacent the first opening and corresponding to the non-emission area. The reflective layer transmits light in a first mode and reflects light in a second mode different from the first mode.
US10199608B2
An organic electroluminescence display apparatus includes an insulating layer including a concave portion having a concave first upper surface, a first electrode including a curved electrode portion having a concave second upper surface overlapped with the concave portion, a pixel definition layer including a first opening defined therethrough to expose the second upper surface, an organic layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the organic layer, and a light blocking layer including a second opening defined therethrough. The second opening has a width smaller than the first opening and overlaps with the first opening.
US10199603B2
The present disclosure relates to forming a bond with a high peel resistance between a bonding layer and an adjacent barrier layer. Such articles are particularly useful in the preparation of a device, in particular a luminescent device, and a method is described for assembly of the luminescent device. The luminescent device includes an encapsulation system using flexible transparent barrier film and an ultraviolet (UV) radiation curable (meth)acrylate matrix. The moisture sensitive luminescent material can be, for example, a quantum dot material disposed in a film, or a film construction that includes an OLED structure.
US10199602B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display on the substrate, a dam outside the display and spaced from the display, the dam having a stacked multi-layer structure and having a first side surface that faces the display, a second side surface opposite to the display, and a top, a groove in a separation area between the display and the dam, and an encapsulation layer that includes a first inorganic layer and an organic layer on the first inorganic layer, the first inorganic layer covering the display and extending along an inner surface of the groove, and an end of the organic layer being contained in the groove.
US10199590B2
In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a photovoltaic cell module including a plurality of photovoltaic cell structures including a hole transport layer and an electron transport layer which are disposed on a common photoelectric conversion layer so that electromotive force polarities are alternately different, wherein the photovoltaic cell structures are electrically connected in series.
US10199580B2
An organic EL device includes an anode, an emitting layer, an electron transporting zone and a cathode in this sequence, in which the electron transporting zone contains an aromatic heterocyclic derivative represented by a formula (1) below. In the formula (1), X1 to X3 are a nitrogen atom or CR1, and A is represented by a formula (2) below. In the formula (2), L1 is s single bond or a linking group, and HAr is represented by a formula (3) below. In the formula (3), Y1 is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or the like, and one of X11 to X18 is a carbon atom bonded to L1 by a single bond and the rest of X11 to X18 are a nitrogen atom or CR13
US10199568B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic storage device includes a substrate, a dummy contact disposed on a top surface of the substrate, extending linearly in a direction substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate, and floating electrically, and a magnetoresistive effect element included in a layer and insulated from the dummy contact, wherein the layer is disposed on the top surface of the dummy contact.
US10199567B2
A sensor includes: an integrated circuit having a power supply lead, a ground lead and a signal lead; a power supply terminal connected to the power supply lead; a ground terminal connected to the ground lead; a first signal terminal connected to the signal lead; a second signal terminal connected to the first signal terminal; a filter member having one end connected to one of the terminals and another end connected to another one of the terminals; and a sealing body sealing the integrated circuit, the terminals and the filter member. A part of each terminal is exposed from the sealing body.
US10199562B2
A method of fabricating an electronic device, the method including: arranging a device chip with no bump located on a lower surface of the device chip on a mounting substrate including a bump located on an upper surface of the mounting substrate; and bonding a pad located on the lower surface of the device chip and the bump by applying an ultrasonic wave to the device chip from an upper surface of the device chip.
US10199560B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing a stretchable nanoparticle-polymer composite foams that exhibit piezoelectric properties. In one aspect, a nanoparticle-polymer composite structure includes a curable liquid polymer; piezoelectric nanoparticles; and graphitic carbons.
US10199552B2
A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a light emitting element disposed on a front surface of the wiring substrate, and a conductor pattern formed on a rear surface of the wiring substrate. The conductor pattern includes a slit or a hole that fails to separate the conductor pattern into two parts.
US10199546B2
A micro-transfer color-filter device comprises a color filter, an electrical conductor disposed in contact with the color filter, and at least a portion of a color-filter tether attached to the color filter or structures formed in contact with the color filter. In certain embodiments, a color filter is a variable color filter electrically controlled through one or more electrodes and can be responsive to heat, electrical current, or an electrical field to modify its optical properties, such as color, transparency, absorption, or reflection. In certain embodiments, A color-filter device includes connection posts and can be provided in or on a source wafer suitable for micro-transfer printing. In some embodiments, a color-filter device is disposed on a device substrate and can include a control circuit for controlling the color filter. An array of micro-transfer color-filter devices can be disposed on a display substrate in order to form a display.
US10199541B2
A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device comprises The light-emitting device comprises a light-emitting stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer and an active layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; and a third semiconductor layer on the light-emitting stack and comprising a first sub-layer, a second sub-layer and a roughened surface, wherein the first sub-layer has the same composition as that of the second sub-layer, and the second sub-layer is farther from the light-emitting stack than the first sub-layer; wherein the first sub-layer and the second sub-layer each comprises a Group III element and a Group V element, and an atomic ratio of the Group III element to the Group V element of the first sub-layer is less than an atomic ratio of the Group III element to the Group V element of the second sub-layer.
US10199535B2
A semiconductor structure comprising a buffer structure and a set of semiconductor layers formed adjacent to a first side of the buffer structure is provided. The buffer structure can have an effective lattice constant and a thickness such that an overall stress in the set of semiconductor layers at room temperature is compressive and is in a range between approximately 0.1 GPa and 2.0 GPa. The buffer structure can be grown using a set of growth parameters selected to achieve the target effective lattice constant a, control stresses present during growth of the buffer structure, and/or control stresses present after the semiconductor structure has cooled.
US10199523B2
A surface region of a semiconductor material on a surface of a semiconductor device is doped during its manufacture, by coating the surface region of the semiconductor material with a dielectric material surface layer and locally heating the surface of the semiconductor material in an area to be doped to locally melt the semiconductor material with the melting being performed in the presence of a dopant source. The heating is performed in a controlled manner such that a region of the surface of the semiconductor material in the area to be doped is maintained in a molten state without refreezing for a period of time greater than one microsecond and the dopant from the dopant source is absorbed into the molten semiconductor.The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor material structure in which a junction is formed and may incorporate a multi-layer anti-reflection coating. The anti-reflection coating is located on a light receiving surface of the semiconductor material structure and comprises a thin layer of thermal expansion mismatch correction material having a thermal expansion coefficient less than or equal to that of the semiconductor material, to provide thermal expansion coefficient mismatch correction. An anti-reflection layer is provided having a refractive index and thickness selected to match the semiconductor material structure so as to give good overall antireflection properties to the solar cell.
US10199518B2
A method is provided for making smooth crystalline semiconductor thin-films and hole and electron transport films for solar cells and other electronic devices. Such semiconductor films have an average roughness of 3.4 nm thus allowing for effective deposition of additional semiconductor film layers such as perovskites for tandem solar cell structures which require extremely smooth surfaces for high quality device fabrication.
US10199515B2
A vacuum package includes a substrate, a pair of through electrodes that penetrates the substrate, each of the pair of the trough electrodes having first end portion, and a getter that is joined to the first end portions of the pair of the through electrodes, and is heated by electronic conduction via the pair of the through electrodes A portion of the getter between the through electrodes is spaced apart from the substrate.
US10199500B2
A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for weaker and softer dielectric layer. The insert layer may be applied between two weaker dielectric layers or the insert layer may be used with a single layer of dielectric material. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.
US10199498B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a stacked body, a pillar structure, at least one charge storage film, and a first electrode. The stacked body includes electrode films stacked separately from each other. The pillar structure is provided in the stacked body and includes a semiconductor layer extending in stacking direction of the stacked body. The charge storage film is provided between the semiconductor layer and the electrode films. The first electrode is provided in the stacked body, spreads in the stacking direction and a first direction along a surface of the substrate, and contacting the substrate. The first electrode includes a first portion containing a material having conductivity and a second portion containing a material that a linear expansion coefficient is lower than a linear expansion coefficient of silicon, and positioned at a substrate side than the first portion in the stacking direction.
US10199484B2
An improvement is achieved in the performance of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first trench gate electrode and second and third trench gate electrodes located on both sides of the first trench gate electrode interposed therebetween. In each of a semiconductor layer located between the first and second trench gate electrodes and the semiconductor layer located between the first and third trench gate electrodes, a plurality of p+-type semiconductor regions are formed. The p+-type semiconductor regions are arranged along the extending direction of the first trench gate electrode in plan view to be spaced apart from each other.
US10199482B2
An apparatus includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device configured to protect a circuit from ESD conditions. The protection device includes an emitter region having a first diffusion polarity; a collector region laterally spaced apart from the emitter region, and having the first diffusion polarity; and a barrier region interposed laterally between the emitter region and the collector region while contacting the emitter region. The barrier region has a second diffusion polarity opposite from the first diffusion polarity. The device can further include a base region having the second diffusion polarity, and laterally surrounding and underlying the emitter region and the barrier region. The barrier region can have a higher dopant concentration than the base region, and block a lateral current flow between the collector and emitter regions, thus forming a vertical ESD device having enhanced ESD performance.
US10199481B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes carrying out a first heat treatment accompanied by nitration on a first insulating film and a silicon carbide substrate in a first gas atmosphere, after the carrying out of the first heat treatment and after a temperature of the silicon carbide substrate has become 700° C. or less, removing the silicon carbide substrate from a processing apparatus and exposing the silicon carbide substrate to air in an atmosphere outside of the processing apparatus, and after the exposing of the silicon carbide substrate to air in the atmosphere, carrying out a second heat treatment on the first insulating film and the silicon carbide substrate in a second gas atmosphere which is an inert gas.
US10199462B2
Semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) employing localized low dielectric constant (low-K) material in inter-layer dielectric (ILD) material for improved speed performance are disclosed. To speed up performance of selected circuits in an IC that would otherwise lower overall speed performance of the IC, low-K dielectric material is employed during IC fabrication. The low-K dielectric material is provided in selected, localized areas of ILD material in which selected circuits are disposed. In this manner, the IC will experience an overall increased speed performance during operation, because circuit components and/or circuit element interconnects of selected circuit(s) that are disposed in the low-K ILD material will experience reduced signal delay. Also, by use of low-K dielectric material in only selected, localized areas of ILD material of selected circuits, mechanical and/or thermal stability concern issues that would arise from use of low-K dielectric material in all of the ILD material in the IC are avoided.
US10199460B2
An n-type region and a p-type region of a first parallel pn layer are arranged parallel to a base front surface, in a striped planar layout extending from an active region over an edge termination region. In the n-type region, a gate trench extending linearly along a first direction is provided. In an intermediate region, in a surface region on the base front surface side of the first parallel pn layer, a second parallel pn layer is provided. The second parallel pn layer is arranged having a repetition cycle shifted along a second direction ½ a cell with respect to a repetition cycle of the n-type region and the p-type region of the first parallel pn layer. A gate trench termination portion terminates in the intermediate region between the active region and the edge termination region, and is covered by the p-type region of the second parallel pn layer.
US10199455B2
A method of manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) device comprising 1) preparing a semiconductor substrate with an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type supported on the semiconductor substrate of a second conductivity type; 2) applying a gate trench mask to open a first trench and second trench followed by forming a gate insulation layer to pad the trench and filling the trench with a polysilicon layer to form the first trench gate and the second trench gate; 3) implanting dopants of the first conductivity type to form an upper heavily doped region in the epitaxial layer; and 4) forming a planar gate on top of the first trench gate and apply implanting masks to implant body dopants and source dopants to form a body region and a source region near a top surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10199451B2
A lower electrode is made of a TiN-based material and provided at a base of a dielectric film in a DRAM capacitor. The lower electrode includes first TiON films provided at opposite outer sides, the first TiON films having a relatively low oxygen concentration, and a second TiON film provided between the first TiON films, the second TiON film having a relatively high oxygen concentration.
US10199449B2
A display device includes: a substrate; pixels, the pixels each including at least one transistor and a light emitting device connected to the transistor; data lines and scan lines connected to the pixels; and a power line supplying power to the light emitting device. The transistor includes an active pattern on the substrate, source and drain electrodes each connected to the active pattern, a gate electrode on the active pattern, an interlayer insulating layer covering the gate electrode, the interlayer insulating layer including a first interlayer insulating layer, a second interlayer insulating layer, and a third interlayer insulating layer, which are sequentially stacked, and a protective layer provided on the interlayer insulating layer. The third interlayer insulating layer includes a concave part in a region in which the light emitting device and the second conductive layer overlap with each other, and the second conductive layer is in the concave part.
US10199448B2
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes a substrate comprising a display region and a peripheral region. The OLED device further includes a conductive layer disposed in the peripheral region on the substrate and including an opening portion exposing at least a portion of the substrate, the conductive layer having an undercut shape. The OLED device additionally includes an insulation layer disposed on the conductive layer, the insulation layer including an opening that exposes the opening portion. The OLED device further includes a common layer disposed in both the display region and the peripheral region on the insulation layer and on the substrate exposed by the opening portion. The common layer disposed on the substrate exposed by the opening portion is spaced apart from the common layer disposed on the insulation layer.
US10199442B1
Provided is an organic light-emitting display panel, including: an array substrate, an organic light-emitting element arranged on the array substrate, and an encapsulation portion; the organic light-emitting element includes a reflective layer, a pixel definition layer including pixel definition parts, a light-emitting pixel layer including light-emitting pixel parts each arranged between the pixel definition parts, a cathode layer arranged on a side of the light-emitting pixel layer away from the reflective layer, and a support layer arranged between at least one pair of adjacent light-emitting pixel parts of the light-emitting pixel layer; the support layer includes a metal part and an annular organic part placed on a side of the metal part away from the array substrate; the encapsulation portion includes at least one organic encapsulation layer and at least one inorganic encapsulation layer; and the encapsulation portion covers the organic light-emitting element.
US10199437B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes first pixels, second pixels, and third pixels. The OLED display includes a first column including a plurality of the first pixels alternately arranged with a plurality of the second pixels; and a second column adjacent to the first column and comprising a plurality of the third pixels. One of the first pixels and one of the second pixels in the first column correspond to more than two of the third pixels in the second column. Rendering driving is applied such that high resolution of more than 350 pixels per inch (PPI) may be realized without deterioration of the image quality while the total number of pixels is smaller than in a pentile matrix arrangement.
US10199434B1
A phase change memory device includes a vertical stack of multiple two-dimensional arrays of pillar structures. Each of the multiple two-dimensional arrays of pillar structures is located within a respective array level. Each two-dimensional array among the multiple two-dimensional arrays of pillar structures is contacted by a respective overlying one-dimensional array of conductive rails laterally extending along a first horizontal direction and a respective underlying one-dimensional array of conductive rails laterally extending along a second horizontal direction different from the first direction. Each pillar structure within the multiple two-dimensional arrays of pillar structures includes a phase change memory element and a selector element in a series connection with the phase change memory element. A first set of dielectric isolation structures having a first homogeneous composition vertically extends continuously through two vertically neighboring array levels.
US10199433B2
Provided is an electronic device including a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory may include: a first portion of a variable resistance element, the first portion having an island shape and including at least a free layer which has a variable magnetization direction; a second portion of the variable resistance element, the second portion having a line shape which extends in a direction over the first portion and including at least a pinned layer which has a pinned magnetization direction; and a tunnel barrier layer interposed between the free layer and the pinned layer.
US10199430B2
Monolithic integrated device having an architecture that allows an acoustic device to transduce either surface acoustic waves or bulk acoustic waves, comprising: a substrate layer being the base of the device; an inter-layer dielectric disposed on top of the substrate layer; an electronic circuitry substantially formed in the inter-layer dielectric and supported by the substrate layer, the electronic circuitry comprises a plurality of metal layers; and a piezoelectric layer being sandwiched between a top electrode and a bottom electrode within the inter-layer dielectric. The top electrode is an upper metal layer belonging to the electronic circuitry and the bottom electrode is a lower metal layer belonging to the electronic circuitry. To transduce the bulk acoustic waves, the inter-layer dielectric is formed with a top cavity above the top electrode and a bottom cavity below the bottom electrode.
US10199427B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: plural photodiodes formed in different depths in a unit pixel area of a substrate; and plural vertical transistors formed in the depth direction from one face side of the substrate so that gate portions for reading signal charges obtained by photoelectric conversion in the plural photodiodes are formed in depths corresponding to the respective photodiodes.
US10199423B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor is provided that includes a substrate including a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a first recess region that is recessed from the first surface toward the second surface. The CMOS image sensor further includes a transfer gate on the substrate, and a source follower gate on the first recess region. The source follower gate is within the first recess region and partially covers a portion of the first surface of the substrate.
US10199419B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including: a plurality of bumps (13) on a first semiconductor substrate (11); and a lens material (57) in a region other than the plurality of bumps on the first semiconductor substrate, wherein a distance between a side of a bump closest to the lens material and a side of the lens material closest to the bump is greater than twice a diameter of the bump closest to the lens material, and wherein the distance between the side of the bump closest to the lens material and the side of the lens material closest to the bump is greater a minimum pitch of the bumps.
US10199409B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate with a first transistor therein. The first transistor includes a first source-drain formed by a doped region in the first semiconductor substrate. An intermediary insulating layer is formed on and above the first semiconductor substrate. A second semiconductor substrate is formed on and above the intermediary insulating layer. A second transistor is formed in the second semiconductor substrate, and includes a second source-drain formed by a doped region in the second semiconductor substrate. A trench is formed in the second semiconductor substrate and in contact with the doped region for the second semiconductor substrate. The trench has a thickness equal to that of the second semiconductor substrate. Metal wiring extends from a contact with the doped region for the first source-drain, through the intermediary insulating layer and the trench, to make electrical contact with the doped region for the second source-drain.
US10199403B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and color filters disposed on the first substrate, each color filters respectively configured to transmit light of one of first through fourth colors, in which at least one of the color filters includes at least one column protruding from the first substrate.
US10199401B2
An array substrate includes a pixel unit, a data line, a first gate line and a second gate line. Adjacent two columns of pixel units are collectively connected to one data line, adjacent two of the pixel units in each row of pixel units are respectively connected to the first and second gate lines, the pixel unit includes a transistor, and the transistor in each pixel unit is provided adjacent to the data line. In adjacent two columns of pixel units, transistors of two diagonally adjacent pixel units are provided adjacent to the data line and connected respectively to the first and second gate lines. The first and second gate lines surround the gate electrode of the transistor, respectively, and the first and second gate lines are connected to the gate electrode of the transistor at positions of the gate electrode away from the data line.
US10199390B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes gate electrodes three dimensionally arranged on a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor pattern extending from the semiconductor substrate and crossing sidewalls of the gate electrodes, a metal liner pattern formed between the semiconductor pattern and formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of each of the gate electrodes, and a charge storage layer formed between the semiconductor pattern and the metal liner pattern.
US10199382B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a gate dielectric layer on a base substrate including an N-type logic region, a P-type logic region, a first pull down transistor (PDT) region, a second PDT region, and a pass gate transistor (PGT) region, forming a first work function layer (WFL) in the first N-type threshold-voltage (TV) region, the P-type logic region, the second PDT region, and the PGT region, forming a second WFL on the first WFL in the first P-type TV region, and forming a third WFL on the second WFL in the first P-type TV region, the first WFL in the second P-type TV region, and the gate dielectric layer in the second N-type TV region and the first PDT region. The thickness of the third WFL is smaller than the thickness of the first WFL. The method further includes forming a fourth WFL on the substrate.
US10199379B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region on a substrate, a device isolation film on the substrate to define the active region, a gate trench including a first portion in the active region and a second portion in the device isolation film, a gate electrode including a first gate embedded in the first portion of the gate trench and a second gate embedded in the second portion of the gate trench, a first gate capping pattern on the first gate and filling the first portion of the gate trench, and a second gate capping pattern on the second gate and filling the second portion of the gate trench, an upper surface of the first gate being higher than an upper surface of the second gate, and the first gate capping pattern and the second gate capping pattern have different structures.
US10199374B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate having a first transistor on a first region, a second transistor on a second region, a trench isolation region, a resistor-forming region is provided. A first ILD layer covers the first region, the second region, and the resistor-forming region. A resistor material layer and a capping layer are formed over the first region, the second region, and the resistor-forming region. The capping layer and the resistor material layer are patterned to form a first hard mask pattern above the first and second regions and a second hard mask pattern above the resistor-forming region. The resistor material layer is isotropically etched. A second ILD layer is formed over the substrate. The second ILD layer and the first ILD layer are patterned with a mask and the first hard mask pattern to form a contact opening.
US10199371B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a switching element which is defined on the semiconductor substrate, and a temperature sense element which is provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate independently from the switching element and characterized by being dependent on a temperature.
US10199368B2
An integrated circuit includes at least one input-output pad and a terminal intended to be connected to a source of a reference potential and further including a protection structure including a thyristor forward-connected between the pad and the terminal. The thyristor includes a first resistor between its cathode gate and the terminal. At least one Zener diode is disposed between the thyristor and the pad. The anode of the Zener diode is connected to the cathode gate of the thyristor and the cathode of the Zener diode is connected to the pad via at least one second resistor. The junction of the Zener diode is different from the junctions of the PNPN structure of the thyristor.
US10199364B2
A single multichip package is provided, comprising: a substrate having opposing upper and lower surfaces. A first die is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate and includes one or more non-volatile memory devices. A second die is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate, and includes at least one of: (a) a non-volatile memory controller that facilitates transfer of data to/from the one or more non-volatile memory devices, (b) a register clock driver for volatile memory devices, and/or (c) one or more multiplexer switches configured to switch between two or more of the volatile memory devices. A plurality of wire bonds connect the first and second dies. A plurality of solder balls are located on the lower surface of the substrate for mounting the single multichip package to a printed circuit board, the plurality of solder balls electrically coupled to the first die and the second die.
US10199354B2
A stacked-chip assembly including an IC chip or die that is electrically interconnected to another chip and/or a substrate by one or more traces that are coupled through sidewalls of the chip. Electrical traces extending over a sidewall of the chip may contact metal traces of one or more die interconnect levels that intersect the chip edge. Following chip fabrication, singulation may expose a metal trace that intersects the chip sidewall. Following singulation, a conductive sidewall interconnect trace formed over the chip sidewall is to couple the exposed trace to a top or bottom side of a chip or substrate. The sidewall interconnect trace may be further coupled to a ground, signal, or power rail. The sidewall interconnect trace may terminate with a bond pad to which another chip, substrate, or wire lead is bonded. The sidewall interconnect trace may terminate at another sidewall location on the same chip or another chip.
US10199352B2
Wafer bonding edge protection techniques are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming Cu interconnects in a wafer includes: forming a dielectric layer on the wafer; forming a first mask on the dielectric layer; patterning the first mask with a footprint/location of the Cu interconnects, wherein the patterning of the first mask is performed over an entire surface of the wafer; forming a second mask on the first mask, wherein the second mask covers a portion of the patterned first mask at an edge region of the wafer; patterning trenches in the dielectric layer through the first mask and the second mask, wherein the second mask blocks formation of the trenches at the edge region of the wafer and thereby provides edge protection during patterning of the trenches; and forming the Cu interconnects in the trenches. A wafer bonding method and interconnect structure are also provided.
US10199347B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a source electrode on the front surface thereof, a diode that has an anode electrode on the front surface thereof, and a first conductive member through which output signals from the source electrode pass. The semiconductor device further includes a first wiring member that electrically connects the source electrode and the first conductive member, and a second wiring member that electrically connects the anode electrode and the first conductive member and that has a wider surface area than the first wiring member. The semiconductor device includes a second conductive member where the semiconductor chip and the diode are arranged.
US10199341B2
Provided is a substrate structure, including: a substrate body having a conductive contact; an insulating layer formed on the substrate body with the conductive contact exposed therefrom; and an insulating protection layer formed on a portion of a surface of the insulating layer, and having a plurality of openings corresponding to the conductive contact, wherein at least one of the openings is disposed at an outer periphery of the conductive contact. Accordingly, the insulating protection layer uses the openings to dissipate and disperse residual stresses in a manufacturing process of high operating temperatures.
US10199323B2
An item may have a flexible support structure and may include a flexible component. The flexible component may have electrical components mounted on component mounting regions in a flexible circuit substrate. The component mounting regions may be interconnected by serpentine interconnect paths or other flexible interconnect paths. The flexible circuit substrate and component mounting regions may extend along a longitudinal axis of the flexible component or may form a two-dimensional array. Two-dimensional mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be used in forming displays. The mesh-shaped flexible circuit substrates may be auxetic substrates that widen when stretched (e.g., structures with a negative Poisson's ratio that become thicker perpendicular to applied force when stretched) and that therefore reduce image distortion. Temporary tethers may help hold flexible circuit substrates together until intentionally broken following assembly of a flexible component into the flexible support structure.
US10199320B2
A method of fabricating an electronic package is provided, including: providing a carrier body having a first surface formed with a plurality of recessed portions, and a second surface opposing the first surface and interconnecting with the recessed portions; forming on the first surface of the carrier body an electronic structure that has a plurality of conductive elements received in the recessed portions correspondingly; and removing portion of the carrier body, with the conductive elements exposed from the second surface of the carrier body. Therefore, the carrier body is retained, and the fabrication cost is reduced since temporary material is required. The present invention further provides the electronic package thus fabricated.
US10199318B2
The invention provides a semiconductor package assembly. The semiconductor package assembly includes a redistribution layer (RDL) structure. The RDL structure includes a conductive trace. A redistribution layer (RDL) contact pad is electrically coupled to the conductive trace. The RDL contact pad is composed of a symmetrical portion and an extended wing portion connected to the symmetrical portion. The extended wing portion overlaps at least one-half of a boundary of the symmetrical portion when observed from a plan view.
US10199313B2
The present disclosure relates to a ring-frame power package that includes a thermal carrier, a spacer ring residing on the thermal carrier, and a ring structure residing on the spacer ring. The ring structure includes a ring body and a number of interconnect tabs that protrude from an outer periphery of the ring body. Herein, a portion of the carrier surface of the thermal carrier is exposed through an interior opening of the spacer ring and an interior opening of the ring body. The spacer ring is not electronically conductive and prevents the interconnect tabs from electrically coupling to the thermal carrier. Each interconnect tab includes a top plated area and a bottom plated area, which is electrically coupled to the top plated area.
US10199305B2
In a semiconductor device, a plurality of small depressions are formed to overlap each other in a first joining region of a back surface of a heat releasing plate. A streaky scratch or the like created on the back surface of the heat releasing plate is removed or reduced, by forming the small depressions overlapping each other on the heat releasing plate. In addition, when the small depressions are formed in the first joining region of the back surface of the heat releasing plate, the hardness of the first joining region of the back surface increases. Hence, the scratch is prevented from being created on the back surface of the heat releasing plate on which the depressions are formed to overlap each other in the first joining region of the back surface.
US10199302B1
Molded air cavity packages and methods for producing molded air cavity packages are disclosed. In one embodiment, the molded air cavity package includes a base flange, retention posts integrally formed with the base flange and extending from the flange frontside in a direction opposite the flange backside, and retention tabs having openings through which the retention posts are received. A molded package body is bonded to the base flange and envelopes, at least in substantial part, the retention posts and the retention tabs. The molded air cavity package further includes package leads extending from the molded package body. In certain implementations, the package leads and the retention tabs comprise singulated portions of a leadframe. Additionally or alternatively, the retention posts may be staked or otherwise physically deformed in a manner preventing disengagement of the retention posts from the retention tabs along a centerline of the molded air cavity package.
US10199299B1
Mold compound transfer systems and methods for making mold compound transfer systems are disclosed herein. A method configured in accordance with a particular embodiment includes placing a sheet mold compound in a containment area defined by a tray cover, and dispensing a granular mold compound over the sheet mold compound. The sheet mold compound can have a first density and the overall granular mold compound can have a second density less than the first density. The method further comprises transferring the solid sheet carrying the dispensed grains to a molding machine without using a release film.
US10199295B2
A display panel and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to each other. An integrated circuit (IC) is arranged at a non-display region of the first substrate, and at least one supporting component is arranged beyond a portion of the non-display region where the IC is arranged. A thickness of the at least one supporting component is larger than a thickness of the IC.
US10199292B2
A semiconductor device includes a signal processing circuit configured to generate an output signal, an output pad, an output line connecting the signal processing circuit to the output pad, the output signal from the signal processing circuit being output from the output pad through the output line, a shorting pad formed in the output line, a switch connected between the shorting pad and the output pad, and configured to connect the signal processing circuit to the output pad when the switch is on, and disconnect the signal processing circuit from the output pad when the switch is off, and a wiring line connecting the shorting pad to the output pad.
US10199289B1
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer uses non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one chamfer short or leakage, at least one corner short or leakage, and at least one via open or resistance, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective chamfer short, corner short, and via open test areas.
US10199287B1
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer uses non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-side short or leakage, at least one chamfer short or leakage, and at least one via open or resistance, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-side short, chamfer short, and via open test areas.
US10199278B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, wherein a hardmask is formed on each of the plurality of fins, forming a gate structure around the plurality of fins, selectively depositing a dummy dielectric on the hardmask on each of the plurality of fins, depositing a dielectric layer on the gate structure and around the dummy dielectrics, selectively removing the dummy dielectrics and the hardmasks with respect to the dielectric layer and the gate structure to create a plurality of openings exposing portions of the gate structure, and selectively removing the exposed portions of the gate structure through the plurality of the openings.
US10199273B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; an inter layer dielectric disposed on the substrate; a TSV penetrating the substrate and the ILD. In addition, a plurality of shallow trench isolations (STI) is disposed in the substrate, and a shield ring is disposed in the ILD surrounding the TSV on the STI. During the process of forming the TSV, the contact ring can protect adjacent components from metal contamination.
US10199264B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to self-aligned interconnect structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes an interconnect structure which is self-aligned with an upper level via metallization, and both the interconnect structure and the upper level via metallization are composed of a Pt group material.
US10199261B1
The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to dielectric repair for via and skip via structures and methods of manufacture. The method includes: etching a via structure in a dielectric layer; repairing sidewalls of the via structure with a repair agent; and extending the via structure with an additional etching into a lower dielectric layer to form a skip via structure exposing a metallization layer.
US10199252B2
Etch uniformity is improved by providing a thermal pad between an insert ring and electrostatic chuck in an etching chamber. The thermal pad provides a continuous passive heat path to dissipate heat from the insert ring and wafer edge to the electrostatic chuck. The thermal pad helps to keep the temperature of the various components in contact with or near the wafer at a more consistent temperature. Because temperature may affect etch rate, such as with etching hard masks over dummy gate formations, a more consistent etch rate is attained. The thermal pad also provides for etch rate uniformity across the whole wafer and not just at the edge. The thermal pad may be used in an etch process to perform gate replacement by removing hard mask layer(s) over a dummy gate electrode.
US10199243B2
A substrate processing method is a substrate processing method which applies sequentially common etching processing which is common to each of a plurality of substrates. The common etching processing has an etching step and a high-temperature liquid discharge step. The substrate processing method further includes a piping heating step in which, of the plurality of common etching processings applied to the plurality of substrates, before the initial common etching processing, the pipe wall of the common piping is raised in temperature up to a predetermined second liquid temperature higher than a first liquid temperature and in each of the common etching processings, after each of high-temperature liquid discharge steps and before each of next etching steps, there is not performed a step in which the pipe wall of the common piping is lowered in temperature.
US10199241B2
A gas supply device of supplying a gas into a processing space from a gas supply source includes a facing plate that faces the processing space and includes multiple through holes; multiple gas distribution plates; and a cover plate. The facing plate, the gas distribution plates, and the cover plate are stacked in sequence. In a surface, which faces the facing plate, of the gas distribution plate closest to the facing plate, multiple gas diffusion spaces including a first gas diffusion space and a second gas diffusion space are formed, and in each of the gas distribution plates, a first gas supply path through which a processing gas or an additional gas is supplied into the first gas diffusion space and a second gas supply path through which the processing gas or the additional gas is supplied into the second gas diffusion space are formed.
US10199240B2
A substrate processing method and apparatus which can remove an anti-drying liquid, which has entered a three-dimensional pattern with recessed portions formed in a substrate, in a relatively short time. The substrate processing method includes the steps of: carrying a substrate, having a three-dimensional pattern formed in a surface, into a processing container, said pattern being covered with an anti-drying liquid that has entered the recessed portions of the pattern; heating the substrate and supplying a pressurizing gas or a fluid in a high-pressure state into the processing container, thereby forming a high-pressure atmosphere in the processing container before the anti-drying liquid vaporizes to such an extent as to cause pattern collapse and bringing the anti-drying liquid into a high-pressure state while keeping the liquid in the recessed portions of the pattern; and thereafter discharging a fluid in a high-pressure state or a gaseous state from the processing container.
US10199237B2
A method for manufacturing a power-module substrate includes a lamination step of laminating a ceramic member and a copper member through an active metal material and a filler metal having a melting point of 710° C. or lower, and a heating treatment step of heating the ceramic member and the copper member laminated together.
US10199236B2
A thin film transistor, a manufacturing method thereof, and a method for manufacturing an array substrate are provided. The method for manufacturing the thin film transistor includes: forming an active layer film on a base; and forming a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor using a conductive photoresist.
US10199234B2
A method of forming a metal silicide can include depositing an interface layer on exposed silicon regions of a substrate, where the interface layer includes a silicide forming metal and a non-silicide forming element. The method can include depositing a metal oxide layer over the interface layer, where the metal oxide layer includes a second silicide forming metal. The substrate can be subsequently heated to form the metal silicide beneath the interface layer, using silicon from the exposed silicon regions, the first silicide forming metal of the interface layer and the second silicide forming metal of the metal oxide layer.
US10199232B2
Exemplary metal line structure and manufacturing method for a trench are provided. In particular, the metal line structure includes a substrate, a target layer, a trench and a conductor line. The target layer is formed on the substrate. The trench is formed in the target layer and has a micro-trench formed at the bottom thereof. A depth of the micro-trench is not more than 50 angstroms. The conductor line is inlaid into the trench.
US10199215B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are described herein. Methods for passivating dielectric materials include forming alkyl silyl moieties on exposed surfaces of the dielectric materials. Suitable precursors for forming the alkyl silyl moieties include (trimethylsilyl)pyrrolidine, aminosilanes, and dichlorodimethylsilane, among others. A capping layer may be selectively deposited on source/drain materials after passivation of the dielectric materials. Apparatus for performing the methods described herein include a platform comprising a transfer chamber, a pre-clean chamber, an epitaxial deposition chamber, a passivation chamber, and an atomic layer deposition chamber.
US10199208B2
An apparatus for separating ions includes an electrode arrangement having a length extending between first and second ends. The first end is configured to introduce a beam of ions into an ion transmission space of the arrangement. An electronic controller applies an RF potential and a DC potential to an electrode of the electrode arrangement, for generating a ponderomotive RF electric field and a mass-independent DC electric field. The application of the potentials is controlled such that a ratio of the strength of the ponderomotive RF electric field to the strength of the mass-independent DC electric field varies along the length of the electrode arrangement. The generated electric field supports extraction of ions having different m/z values at respective different positions along the length of the electrode arrangement. Ions are extracted in one of increasing and decreasing sequential order of m/z ratio with increasing distance from the first end.
US10199207B1
The present inventive concepts relate to determining an isotope ratio using mass spectrometry. Mass spectra of ions are obtained by generating ions, guiding the ions through a device having a mass transfer function that varies with ion current, providing at least some of the ions to a mass analyzer and obtaining a mass spectrum of the ions and determining the ion current of the ions provided to the mass analyzer. An isotope ratio of the ions is determined for each mass spectrum. Using the determined isotope ratio and determined ion current for each mass spectrum, a calibration relationship is determined that characterizes the variation of the determined isotope ratios and the measured ion currents across the mass spectra. Then, a measured isotope ratio obtained at a determined ion current is adjusted using the calibration relationship to adjust the measured isotope ratio to an adjusted isotope ratio corresponding to a selected ion current.
US10199205B2
A miniature mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an atmospheric pressure ionization source and a first vacuum chamber having an atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary, a second vacuum chamber located downstream of the first vacuum chamber and a third vacuum chamber located downstream of the second vacuum chamber. An ion detector is located in the third vacuum chamber. A first RF ion guide is located within the first vacuum chamber and a second RF ion guide is located within the second vacuum chamber. The ion path length from the atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary to an ion detecting surface of the ion detector is ≤400 mm. The mass spectrometer further comprises a tandem quadrupole mass analyzer, a 3D ion trap mass analyzer, a 2D or linear ion trap mass analyzer, a Time of Flight mass analyzer, a quadrupole-Time of Flight mass analyzer or an electrostatic mass analyzer arranged in the third vacuum chamber. The product of the pressure P1 in the vicinity of the first RF ion guide and the length L1 of the first RF ion guide is in the range 10-100 mbar-cm and the product of the pressure P2 in the vicinity of the second RF ion guide and the length L2 of the second RF ion guide is in the range 0.05-0.3 mbar-cm.
US10199197B2
A photocathode is formed on a monocrystalline silicon substrate having opposing illuminated (top) and output (bottom) surfaces. To prevent oxidation of the silicon, a thin (e.g., 1-5 nm) boron layer is disposed directly on the output surface using a process that minimizes oxidation and defects. An optional second boron layer is formed on the illuminated (top) surface, and an optional anti-reflective material layer is formed on the second boron layer to enhance entry of photons into the silicon substrate. An optional external potential is generated between the opposing illuminated (top) and output (bottom) surfaces. The photocathode forms part of novel electron-bombarded charge-coupled device (EBCCD) sensors and inspection systems.
US10199196B2
A two-level latch mechanism for an operation mechanism of a circuit breaker is provided. The operation mechanism includes: a tripping component, a left side plate, a right side plate, a latch, a half shaft, a lever, and a main shaft. The tripping component, the latch and the lever are mounted between the left side plate and the right side plate. The half shaft and the main shaft penetrate through the left side plate and the right side plate, and extend out of the left side plate and the right side plate. The tripping component, the latch, the half shaft, the lever, and the main shaft move in linkage. The tripping component includes a tripping buckle and a latch surface is disposed on a second end of the tripping buckle. The tripping component, the latch component and the half shaft component form a two-level latch.
US10199194B2
A disconnecting electrical apparatus includes a disconnecting block, including elements for disconnecting an electric current each able to be actuated with a coupling member, to switch this disconnecting element to a blocking state or a state allowing the electric current to pass, an actuator block, provided with a controllable electromagnet suitable for generating an electromagnetic force, a mobile container provided with a magnetic plate, which displaces the coupling members, under the effect of the electromagnetic force, so as to switch the disconnecting elements. The apparatus also includes a connection interface inserted between the disconnecting block and the actuator block, the mobile container being housed inside the connection interface.
US10199184B2
This application relates to illuminated dome switches and a dome switch assembly having a first contact carried by a switch base and a dome shaped structure coupled to and supported by the switch base, the dome shaped structure comprising a material that is flexible and capable of internally transmitting visible light. The switch assembly can include a second contact coupled to the dome shaped structure and arranged opposite the first contact, and a light source configured to emit visible light, the light source in optical communication with the dome shaped structure such that at least some of the visible light emitted by the light source passes into the material and is subsequently emitted by the material in a generally uniform manner.
US10199183B2
A medium- or high-voltage switch (10), comprising a high-vacuum enclosure (111); first and second contacts (121, 122) that are mounted to be movable in translation relative to each other inside the enclosure (111) between an open position in which the first and second contacts (121, 122) are spaced apart; and a closed position in which the first and second contacts (121, 122) are in electrical contact. The switch (10) further comprises a conductor (210, 220, 230) arranged inside the enclosure (111) in such a manner that there exists a pressure threshold inside the enclosure (111) from which partial discharges are generated by said conductor, at least when the first and second contacts (121, 122) are in the closed position and the medium or high voltage is applied to the switch (10). The invention further relates to a switch assembly and to a method of testing such a switch.
US10199171B2
Disclosed herein is a thin film type capacitor element, including: a body part formed by stacking a plurality of dielectric layers; a first internal electrode provided in the body part and including a first non-plated region; a second internal electrode including a second non-plated region; a first via formed in the first non-plated region; and a second via formed in the second non-plated region.
US10199169B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a pair of external electrodes; a first internal electrode that is coupled to one of the pair of external electrodes; a dielectric layer that is stacked on the first internal electrode and contains BaTiO3 and Ni; and a second internal electrode that is stacked on the dielectric layer, contains Ni, and is coupled to another one of the pair of external electrodes, wherein Ni is contained in five regions, which are equally divided region of a region between locations 50 nm away from the first and second internal electrodes in a stacking direction between the first and second internal electrodes, and a Ni concentration in at least one of end regions located closest to the first internal electrode and the second internal electrode among the five regions is greater than a Ni concentration in a central region of the five regions by 10% or more.
US10199157B2
An inductor has a conductor layer formed by multiple concentric co-planar turns of ultra-thick metal (UTM) adapted to receive current at a frequency of at least one gigahertz. The multiple turns of UTM proceed from an innermost turn to an outermost turn, and aluminum stacking is provided over all of the UTM turns except at least the innermost turn, thereby optimizing the Q of the inductor.
US10199155B2
A core has first to third magnetic leg portions. First and second windings wound on the first and second magnetic leg portions, respectively, are connected in series to constitute a first reactor. A third winding wound on the third magnetic leg portion constitutes a second reactor. A magnetic field produced from the first reactor and a magnetic field produced from the second reactor reinforce each other in the second magnetic leg portion, but weaken each other in the first magnetic leg portion. In accordance with increase in currents, the operation of the first and second reactors changes from a magnetically uncoupled mode in which the first and second reactors operate in a magnetically non-interfering state to a magnetically coupled mode in which the first and second reactors operate in a magnetically interfering state.
US10199149B2
A laser assembly for generating laser output light at an output wavelength of approximately 183 nm includes a fundamental laser, an optical parametric system (OPS), a fifth harmonic generator, and a frequency mixing module. The fundamental laser generates fundamental light at a fundamental frequency. The OPS generates a down-converted signal at a down-converted frequency. The fifth harmonic generator generates a fifth harmonic of the fundamental light. The frequency mixing module mixes the down-converted signal and the fifth harmonic to produce the laser output light at a frequency equal to a sum of the fifth harmonic frequency and the down-converted frequency. The OPS generates the down-converted signal by generating a down-converted seed signal at the down-converted frequency, and then mixing the down-converted seed signal with a portion of the fundamental light. At least one of the frequency mixing, frequency conversion or harmonic generation utilizes an annealed, deuterium-treated or hydrogen-treated CLBO crystal.
US10199143B2
A power cable includes an insulation layer, itself, having high dielectric strength. An electric field to be applied to the insulation layer is effectively buffered, degradation of the insulation layer can be prevented during a cable connection step such that the life of the power cable is extended and simultaneously, the thickness of the insulation layer is minimized such that an outer diameter of the cable is reduced, thereby enabling flexibility, ease of installation, workability and the like of the cable to be improved.
US10199140B2
A high-power low-resistance electromechanical cable constructed of a conductor core comprising a plurality of conductors surrounded by an outer insulating jacket. Each conductor has a center conductor element surrounded by a plurality of copper wires, wherein the plurality of copper wires is compacted to have a non-circular cross-section. The center conducting element may be one of a fiber optic strand, a copper wire having an indented outer surface, or a twisted conductor pair. Each conductor also includes a conductor insulating jacket encapsulating the plurality of copper wires and center conducting element. A first armoring layer of a plurality of strength members is wrapped around the outer insulating jacket. A second armoring layer of a plurality of strength members may also be wrapped around the first layer. A polymer jacket layer may encapsulate the first and/or second armoring layers of strength members.
US10199132B2
A copper alloy sheet material comprises (by mass %) from 2.50 to 4.00% in total of Ni and Co, from 0.50 to 2.00% of Co, from 0.70 to 1.50% of Si, from 0 to 0.50% of Fe, from 0 to 0.10% of Mg, from 0 to 0.50% of Sn, from 0 to 0.15% of Zn, from 0 to 0.07% of B, from 0 to 0.10% of P, from 0 to 0.10% of REM, from 0 to 0.01% in total of Cr, Zr, Hf, Nb and S, the balance Cu and unavoidable impurities. A number density of coarse secondary phase particles (particle diameter of 5 mm or more) is 10 per mm2 or less. A number density of fine secondary phase particles (particle diameter of from 5 to 10 nm) is 1.0·109 per mm2 or more. A Si concentration in the parent phase is 0.10% by mass or more.
US10199129B1
The method and system disclosed provides radionuclide contamination mitigation by applying an aqueous carrier solution comprising a cation to a surface bearing a radionuclide contaminant to cause the radionuclide contaminant to enter solution forming a laden solution, then contacting the laden solution with a sequestering agent to bind to the radionuclide contaminant to form a laden sequestering agent. The removal and sequestration of the radionuclide contaminant from the contaminated surface leads directly to a reduction in the amount of radiologically-impacted critical infrastructure and the environment. The method and system are able to be performed or utilized economically with materials quickly available in the event of a radiological dispersion event.
US10199121B2
Provided is an integrated circuit that includes a reset electrically connected to a select line of a multiplexer and an OR gate. The multiplexer receives data from a power source. The multiplexer and the OR gate comprise a circuit. A clock is electrically connected to the OR gate. The OR gate is electrically connected to a clock input of a latch. The latch includes the clock input, a scan enable input, a data input, and a data output. A regular logic data path is electrically connected to the multiplexer, and the multiplexer is further electrically connected to the data port of the latch.
US10199115B2
Systems and method for a host-driven data refresh of a Flash memory include registers provided in the Flash memory for storing various settings related to refresh operations, such as, when to start/stop refreshing, target partitions in the memory, target start/end address ranges for refreshing, refresh algorithms, refresh rate requirements, etc. A host can control the various settings for start/stop refreshing, target partitions in the memory, target start/end address ranges for refreshing, refresh algorithms, through the corresponding registers; and the Flash memory can control various values related to refresh rate requirements through corresponding registers. In this manner, a standard platform or interface is provided within the Flash memory for refresh operations thereof.
US10199114B2
A flash memory device includes an array of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells, at least one detection NVM cell, and a sensing circuit. The array of NVM cells are configured to store data. The sensing circuit is coupled to the at least one detection NVM cell and is configured to measure a charge on the at least one detection NVM cell. The sensing circuit is also configured to compare the measured charge with a threshold charge level and to trigger a refresh of the array of NVM cells in response to the measured charge being less than the threshold charge level.
US10199109B2
Multiple embodiments of a low power sense amplifier for use in a flash memory system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the loading on a sense amplifier can be adjusted by selectively attaching one or more bit lines to the sense amplifier, where the one or more bit lines each is coupled to an extraneous memory cell.
US10199104B2
A memory device includes a static random-access memory (“SRAM”) circuit and a first nonvolatile memory (“NVM”) string, a second NVM string, a first and a second drain select gates (“DSGs”). The SRAM circuit is able to temporarily store information in response to bit line (“BL”) information which is coupled to at the input terminal of the SRAM circuit. The first NVM string having at least one nonvolatile memory cell is coupled to the output terminal of the SRAM. The first DSG is operable to control the timing for storing information at the output terminal of the SRAM to the first nonvolatile memory. The second NVM string having at least one nonvolatile memory cell is coupled to the output terminal of the SRAM. The second DSG controls the timing for storing information at the output terminal of the SRAM to the second nonvolatile memory string.
US10199095B1
A structure includes a 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 using a strapped bit line on a selected column of the memory cell array.
US10199088B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for cache invalidate. An example apparatus comprises a bit vector capable memory device and a channel controller coupled to the memory device. The channel controller is configured to cause a bulk invalidate command to be sent to a cache memory system responsive to receipt of a bit vector operation request.
US10199087B2
Disclosed are various embodiments related to stacked memory devices, such as DRAMs, SRAMs, EEPROMs, ReRAMs, and CAMs. For example, stack position identifiers (SPIDs) are assigned or otherwise determined, and are used by each memory device to make a number of adjustments. In one embodiment, a self-refresh rate of a DRAM is adjusted based on the SPID of that device. In another embodiment, a latency of a DRAM or SRAM is adjusted based on the SPID. In another embodiment, internal regulation signals are shared with other devices via TSVs. In another embodiment, adjustments to internally regulated signals are made based on the SPID of a particular device. In another embodiment, serially connected signals can be controlled based on a chip SPID (e.g., an even or odd stack position), and whether the signal is an upstream or a downstream type of signal.
US10199082B2
A computer memory system, delay calibration circuit, and method of operating a delay calibration circuit are provided. The disclosed method includes providing a delay-line ring oscillator on silicon of a chip, providing at least one counter on the silicon of the chip, and measuring a chip-specific delay for performing an operation with the chip by synchronizing the at least one counter and operation of the delay-line ring oscillator with a timing trigger.
US10199079B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array area, a peripheral area, and an interface area. The memory cell array area may include at least one memory plane. The peripheral area may be formed adjacent to one side of the memory cell array area. The interface area may be formed adjacent to one side of the peripheral area and include a plurality of data input/output pads. The peripheral area may include a data path logic area formed between the memory cell array area and the interface area. The interface area may include at least one SerDes (serializer/deserializer) area configured to transmit, to the memory cell array area, data inputted through the data input/output pads, or output, through the data input/output pads, data received from the memory cell array.
US10199077B2
A memory arrangement and method to arrange memories are disclosed. The memory arrangement comprises at least two memory chips (M1, M2) arranged on a Printed Circuit Board, PCB. A first memory chip (M1) is arranged on a first surface of the PCB, a second memory chip (M2) is arranged on a second surface of the PCB. The second memory chip (M2) is placed back to back to the first memory chip (M1) and oriented such that respective pins having the same function on the first memory chip (M1) and the second memory chip (M2) are placed opposite to each other and connected by vias to respective signal traces arranged between the first and second surfaces of the PCB.
US10199073B2
The content reproduction method includes receiving a select signal for selecting one or more pieces of content; and reproducing the selected pieces of content and one or more pieces of content which were generated or reproduced together with the selected pieces of content in a temporal space within a range.
US10199060B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a head having at least two modules, each of the modules having an array of transducers and at least one servo transducer. An axis of each array is defined between opposite ends thereof. The axes of the arrays are oriented about parallel to each other. The axes of the arrays are spaced from one another in an intended direction of tape travel thereacross. The array of a first of the modules is offset from the array of a second of the modules in a first direction parallel to the axis of the array of the second module. All of the transducers of the first module are positioned on a first side of an imaginary line oriented in the intended direction of tape travel, wherein all of the transducers of the second module are positioned on a second side of the imaginary line.
US10199055B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device including a disk, a head that writes data in the disk, and reads data from the disk, and a controller that generates second data of when first data is written in the disk based on the first data read from the disk, generates third data indicating change in an amplitude of the first data due to thermal fluctuation based on the second data, and adjusts the first data based on the third data.
US10199048B2
A method for separating an audio signal into a harmonic signal component and a transient signal component is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: transferring the audio signal into a frequency space in order to obtain a transferred audio signal in dependence on frequency and time and applying a non-linear smoothing filter to the transferred audio signal over frequency to obtain a filtered transient signal in which the harmonic signal component is suppressed relative to the transient signal component. The method further includes applying the non-linear smoothing filter to the transferred audio signal over time to obtain a filtered harmonic signal in which the transient signal component is suppressed relative to the harmonic signal component and determining the harmonic signal component and the transient signal component based on the filtered harmonic signal and the filtered transient signal.
US10199045B2
Disclosed is a binaural rendering method and apparatus for decoding a multichannel audio signal. The binaural rendering method may include: extracting an early reflection component and a late reverberation component from a binaural filter; generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of a multichannel audio signal base on the early reflection component; and applying the late reverberation component to the generated stereo audio signal.
US10199040B2
A method of automatic speech recognition, the method comprising the steps of receiving a speech signal, dividing the speech signal into time windows, for each time window, determining acoustic parameters of the speech signal within that window, and identifying speech features from the acoustic parameters, such that a sequence of speech features are generated for the speech signal, separating the sequence of speech features into a sequence of phonological segments, and comparing the sequential phonological segments to a stored lexicon to identify one or more words in the speech signal.
US10199038B1
Deep recurrent neural networks applied to speech recognition. The deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are preferably implemented by stacked long short-term memory bidirectional RNNs. The RNNs are trained using end-to-end training with suitable regularisation.
US10199033B1
An active noise control apparatus (100) includes: a sound source signal generating unit (1) generating a sound source signal from a control frequency determined in accordance with a noise source (400); a control signal filter (2) generating an original control signal by filtering the sound source signal; a stabilization processing unit (5) generating a control signal by filtering the original control signal to allow a signal in a frequency band including the control frequency to pass through, and to block a signal in a frequency band including disturbance added to the noise; a reference signal filter (3) generating a reference signal by filtering the sound source signal. The apparatus further includes: a filter coefficient updating unit (4) updating a filter coefficient sequence of the control signal filter using an error signal being an interference between a secondary noise generated from the control signal and the noise, and the reference signal.
US10199029B2
An earpiece of a headset uses a first signal and a second signal received from an in-ear microphone and an outside microphone, respectively, to enhance microphone signals. The in-ear microphone is positioned at a proximal side of the earpiece with respect to an ear canal of a user, and the outside microphone is positioned at a distal side of the earpiece with respect to the ear canal. A processing unit includes a filter, which digitally filters out in-ear noise from the first signal using the second signal as a reference to produce a de-noised signal to thereby enhance the microphone signals.
US10199028B2
Disclosed is an ultrasonic transducer mounting assembly comprising an ultrasonic transducer element, a transducer housing inside which the ultrasonic transducer element is arranged, and an accommodation unit inside which the transducer housing is clamped in a clamping section. The disclosed assembly is characterized in that the clamping section comprises at least one bearing that has at least one rolling element, in particular at least one ball bearing that has at least one ball, for acoustically decoupling the transducer housing from the accommodation unit.
US10199012B2
Parameters of a display may be adjusted in response to accessing a time value corresponding to an electronic device that includes the display. A brightness value of the display may be adjusted based on the time value to maintain a display characteristic value within a predefined range and below a threshold. The display characteristic value may be independently controllable by one of the brightness or the color temperature of the display. A set of red green blue (RGB) color values of the display may be adjusted independent of the adjustment to the brightness value to maintain the display characteristic value within the predefined range and below the threshold while maintaining the brightness value of the display. In some examples, the RGB color values of the display may be adjusted at approximately the same time as the adjustment of the set of RGB color values of the display is performed.
US10199011B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for generating a tone mapping function used in adjusting the power consumed by a backlight of an electronic display. One such method includes sampling an image frame in framebuffer space and generating a tone mapping function in linear space. The tone mapping function may have at least two portions: a nondistorting portion that does not to distort pixels to which it applies when an intensity of a backlight of the electronic display is modified and a distorting portion that does distort pixels to which it applies when the intensity of the backlight is modified. Thereafter, the intensity of the backlight may be modified based at least in part on the nondistorting portion of the tone mapping function, the tone mapping function converted to framebuffer space, and the tone mapping function applied to the image frame or a subsequent image frame.
US10199010B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display driving system and a display apparatus. The display driving system comprises: a voltage adjustment circuit comprising an analog display signal input terminal, a trigger signal input terminal and an analog display signal output terminal. The voltage adjustment circuit is configured to adjust a blue voltage signal inputted to the analog display signal input terminal, in response to an adjustment trigger signal inputted to the trigger signal input terminal, to lower a light emission brightness corresponding to the blue voltage signal, and output the adjusted blue voltage signal via the analog display signal output terminal. In the display driving system, the adjustment trigger signal is inputted to the trigger signal input terminal and the blue voltage signal inputted to the analog display signal input terminal is adjusted, such that the blue voltage signal outputted from the analog display signal output terminal has a reduced amplitude.
US10199006B2
A first flipflop outputs a first signal synchronized with a first clock signal, a second flipflop outputs a second signal synchronized with a second clock signal, and a third flipflop outputs a third signal synchronized with a third clock signal. The second flipflop includes first to third transistors. In the first transistor, the second clock signal is input to a first terminal and the second signal is output from a second terminal. In the second transistor, a first signal is input to a first terminal, a second terminal is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor, and the first clock signal is input to a gate. In the third transistor, the third signal is input to a first terminal, a second terminal is electrically connected to the gate of the first transistor, and the third clock signal is input to a gate.
US10198992B2
An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate signal lines and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including an anode and cathode terminals; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one of the source signal lines; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.
US10198985B2
The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, and the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The apparatus provide, when causing the pixel to form the tone using the ON period, multiple ON period sets separately from each other in the one frame period. Each ON period set includes one or more ON periods. The apparatus sets a temporal interval between temporal centers of the respective ON period sets to 60% or less of the one frame period or to 5.0 ms or less.
US10198978B2
An optical evaluation workstation evaluates quality metrics (e.g., optical contrast) of optical elements of a HMD. The workstation includes a test pattern, an optical element feed assembly, a light source, a camera and a control module. The light source backlights the test pattern with diffuse light. The optical element feed assembly receives an optical element of a HMD and places the optical element at a first distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the optics block in the HMD and an exit pupil of the HMD. The camera images the test pattern through the optical element and the camera is positioned at a second distance from the test pattern corresponding to a distance between the exit pupil and an electronic display in the HMD. The control module generates a test report for presentation to a user based on the evaluation of the optical element.
US10198976B2
In a viewing object display set, it is possible to prevent a reduction in a sense of reality when a viewing object is seen. Specifically, the display set for viewing the viewing object includes the viewing object that is attached to a display surface and an object for visual effect that is provided on a viewing position side with respect to the viewing object and shields at least a portion of the viewing object. The object for visual effect is arranged so as to shield the boundary between the viewing object and the display surface.
US10198973B2
A Numerical Configuration Apparatus comprises a frame structure means and a numeric display means. The frame structure means may be comprised mainly of a base frame member and a display securing member. Use display securing member is coupled to the base frame member so that it may be moved towards and away from the base frame member in a controlled manner. Use numeric display means has multiple component members which are pivotally mounted to the frame structure means, and secured in place by the display securing member. Each component has at least two sides, with one side having a different feature, such as color, to distinguish between the two sides. Preferably, the non-distinguishing side should have the same feature, such as color, of the display securing member. Some of the component members are mounted in a generally horizontal position upon the frame structure means, while others are mounted in a generally vertical position.
US10198969B2
A surgical simulation device may include a support structure, a tray carried by the support structure, and animal tissue carried by the tray. A simulated human skeleton portion may be carried by the support structure above the animal tissue, and simulated human skin covers the simulated human skeleton portion. The support structure may permit selective horizontal and vertical positioning of the tray relative to the support structure to thereby permit selective horizontal and vertical positioning of the animal tissue relative to the simulated human skeleton portion and simulated human skin.
US10198968B2
The present invention provides a method for creating a computer model of a patient specific joint for treatment planning. The method includes identifying a ligament of a joint of a patient under a load at a predefined position of the joint. The method further includes constructing, with the use of a computer, a computer model of the joint of the patient having: a first bone model, a second bone model, and a ligament model connecting the first and second bone models corresponding to the identified ligament, wherein the ligament model is constructed as at least one fiber based on a predefined slack length.
US10198966B2
The present invention provides a surgical training device for training laparoscopic first entry surgical techniques. The training device includes a simulated abdominal wall that is penetrable with an optical trocar. A receptacle containing a tissue simulation is located inside the receptacle. The tissue simulation is observable via scope placed inside the optical trocar. Upon penetration of the one or more of the simulated abdominal wall and receptacle, the tissue simulation appears to translate distally relative to the simulated abdominal wall. The distal translation is effected by a variety of ways including the release of negative pressure inside the receptacle upon penetration and the expansion of an elastic wall of the receptacle with the introduction of fluid under pressure into the receptacle.
US10198962B2
A learning management system (LMS) for tracking student progress as students learn how to weld in a real-time, simulated, virtual reality welding training environment. Systems and methods to help welding instructors and students manage the data associated with instruction and learning in a virtual reality welding environment are provided. Welding student training data generated by students while using virtual reality welding systems is stored in a centralized database. The centralized database is accessible by a user (e.g., a welding instructor) using a personal computer having a learning management software application (LMSA) installed thereon. The LMSA is configured to allow the user to access at least a portion of the student training data for one or more of viewing, analysis, grading, and reporting.
US10198960B1
A computer implemented method for providing feedback of harmonic content relating to a music track, includes receiving music track information; generating harmonic music track parameters based on the received music track information; displaying notation information for a user for performing the music track at a given time for the music track based on the harmonic music track parameters; receiving harmonic user content generated by an instrument performed by the user, using at least one capturing device; generating real-time performance feedback for the user based on comparison of the harmonic user content and the harmonic music track parameters according to predefined settings; receiving reference harmonic user content from a plurality of reference users over a public network; adjusting, based on the reference harmonic user content, at least one of the following: the predefined settings; and the harmonic music track parameters.
US10198959B2
A system for use in a lecture environment in which a lecturer delivers a lecture to students. The lecturer can broadcast questions to the students to test their understanding of the subject matter of the lecture, and the students' answers to those question are made available to the lecturer in real time. This makes it possible for the lecturer to adapt the lecture to the students' level of understanding of the subject matter of the lecture.
US10198955B1
Techniques for verifying a location and identification of a landing marker to aid an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to deliver a payload to a location may be provided. For example, upon receiving an indication that a UAV has arrived to a delivery location, a server computer may process one or more images of an area that are provided by the UAV and/or a user interacting with a user device. A landing marker may be identified in the image and a representation of the landing marker along with instructions to guide the UAV to deliver the payload to the landing marker may be transmitted to the UAV and implemented by the UAV.
US10198944B2
An automatic driving device includes a position acquisition unit configured to acquire position information on another automatically-driving vehicle and another manually-driving vehicle, a route searching unit configured to search a route, a calculation unit configured to calculate a ratio of the number of the other automatically-driving vehicles to a total number of all other vehicles on the route for each route based on the position information on the other automatically-driving vehicle and the position information on the other manually-driving vehicle when a plurality of routes is searched, a selection unit configured to select the route wherein the other automatically-driving vehicle ratio calculated by the calculation unit is highest as a route for the host vehicle to travel, and a control unit configured to control automatic driving of the host vehicle so travel along the selected route.
US10198934B2
A method and security system arrangement are disclosed for processing incoming signals at an alarm monitoring station. The method includes analyzing the incoming signals to assess if any particular incoming signal includes characteristics of a facsimile signal to thereby identify whether or not a given incoming signal is a facsimile signal. If the analyzing identifies that a given incoming signal includes characteristics of a facsimile signal, thus identifying that the given incoming signal is likely a facsimile signal, the alarm monitoring station refrains from initiating an alarm handling procedure to handle the given incoming signal. Caller ID information may be extracted from the facsimile signals received by the alarm monitoring station, and added to a call block list. Calls originating from caller IDs on the call block list may be blocked by the alarm monitoring station.
US10198921B2
A transportable container assembly including a transportable container defining an enclosed interior space and having an opening member cooperatively engaging a mounting frame. The opening member has a closed position and an open position and access to the interior space is permitted in the open position. A localized device or system is attached to the transportable container and is coupled to an electrical power source. A reed switch apparatus coupled to the transportable container communicates the position of the opening member to the localized device or system. The localized device or system provides a localized function depending on the reported position of the opening member. The localized function includes at least one of a group consisting of a local lighting function, local locking mechanism action and local refrigeration system action/function. The localized device or system communicates the position of the opening member to a remote device or system at a location remote from the transportable container. The remote device or system is capable of providing remote monitoring and control functions or actions at the transportable container depending on the communicated position of the opening member.
US10198920B1
A wearable electronic device may include a wearable band and audio output transducers carried by the wearable band. The wearable electronic device may also include respective haptic actuators carried by the wearable band and adjacent respective ones of the audio output transducers. A drive circuit may be configured to concurrently drive the audio output transducers with respective first drive signals, and drive the haptic actuators with respective second drive signals different than the first drive signals.
US10198919B2
A system, apparatus and method are disclosed. The system includes a command module that generates haptic commands; a haptic actuator; a drive circuit that applies a first driving voltage in response to a first haptic command and applies a second driving voltage in response to a second haptic command. The apparatus includes a haptic actuator; a DC power supply; a first power supply circuit that outputs a first DC voltage; a second power supply circuit that outputs a second DC voltage higher than the first DC voltage; a drive circuit that applies a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage; and a controller that designates an operating mode. The method includes generating a first haptic command and a second haptic command; applying a first driving voltage to a haptic actuator; and applying a second driving voltage to the haptic actuator.
US10198917B2
A mobile emergency light device includes a casing (1), a moving closure cover (2), a translucent lens (3), an electronic circuit board (5) for control, and a combined reflector (4), in which the combined reflector (4) has an inverted bell shape and is open at both ends, in which the electronic circuit board is securely connected to the combined reflector (4), and provided with a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LED), suitably angled towards the combined reflector (4), and in which the casing (1) forms inside this a cylindrical cavity (13), whose interior houses an automatic switch, driven by the base of the casing approaching a ferromagnetic material.
US10198913B1
In one implementation, an electronic five-card draw poker gaming system using common physical cards includes a plurality of physical playing cards; a scanner that is configured to identify each of the plurality of physical playing cards as they are dealt; a plurality of player computing equipment with graphical displays that are programmed to provide individualized gaming interfaces for a plurality of players; and a gaming computing system that is communicably connected to the scanner and the plurality of player computing equipment to determine five-card draw poker gaming outcomes for each of the plurality of players based on commonly dealt cards and player actions.
US10198910B2
The disclosure discloses an improved online betting system platform for making in-play sports betting wages. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, the platform is configured to identify a request by a player to join a tournament with a predefined entry fee and compete for rewards derived as a function of predefined entry fees by a wager pool of players betting on the same tournament. Once the request to join is acknowledged by the platform, the player is automatically added to the list alongside all the other wager pool of players registered for the tournament. Thereafter, the platform displays sporting event information including different bet types that can be waged on the basis of the predefined entry fee, and updates the sporting event information in real time in response to in-play activities associated with the live sporting event. The platform recognizes and records player bets up to the limit of the predefined entry fee and tracks winning and losing bets in real time. A leaderboard automatically calculates the winnings of the wager pool of players and displays, in real time fashion, the current leaders, in terms of winnings, during the tournament. The leaderboard updates the leaderboard automatically during the tournament to reflect changes in leaderboard standings in response to placed bets settling and clearing, as well as in response to real time changes in odds of still pending bets.
US10198904B2
A method of operating an electronic gaming machine includes generating an interactive game environment in accordance with game data, the interactive game environment having a viewing area may include a plurality of visible game components as a subset of the interactive game environment, displaying the viewing area with the plurality of visible game components, monitoring eye gaze of a player to collect player eye gaze data, determining a location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area using the player eye gaze data, and in response to the location of the eye gaze of the player relative to the viewing area, changing a resolution of a portion of the viewing area other than a portion of the viewing area corresponding to location of the eye gaze of the player on the viewing area. Related electronic gaming machines are also disclosed.
US10198902B2
A gaming machine, such as a video slot or video poker machine located in a casino or other gaming environment, may be configured to provide simultaneous play by both an in-person player and one or more remote players. Session identifiers may be assigned to the gaming machine that correspond to the game session of the in-person player and the game session of any remote players.
US10198900B2
A game system is provided. The game system includes a computer server able to implement at least one instant draw game, the computer server being configured to perform several successive instant draws and to calculate winnings of the player at the end based on the results of the successive instant draws. The computer server is configured to command the display of data based on the result of a preceding instant draw, to detect an action by the player in response to the display of the data, to trigger an instant draw following the detection of an action by the player, and to command the display of subsequent data. The subsequent instant draw depends on the preceding instant draw and/or the action by the player, and the subsequent data depends on the following instant draw and/or the action by the player. A method for executing a game is also provided.
US10198892B2
A system is disclosed for charging or billing for access to wireless power. The device requiring power communicates with the power provider and the billing method is determined. A consumer may be required to provide billing information, or if the billing information is already associated with an existing account, the consumer account is automatically charged for the wireless power. The account may include prepaid charging minutes that are debited as wireless power is provided, or the account may be billed for the wireless power that is provided. The charging/billing for the wireless power may be used to receive value for the power that is provided, while remaining consumer friendly.
US10198885B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.
US10198879B2
Methods and systems for logging driving information associated with a vehicle when driven are disclosed. In one aspect, a mobile telecommunications device is provided that is adapted for installation to a vehicle and configured to log driving information associated with the vehicle when driven. The mobile device is arranged to register the start of a driving period during which the mobile device is installed to the vehicle and the vehicle is being driven by a driver. The mobile device is also arranged to process sensor data during the driving period to derive driving information associated with how the vehicle is driven. The mobile device is also arranged to store a selection of the driving information to a memory.
US10198874B2
Systems, devices, methods, computer program products, and electronic apparatuses for aligning components in virtual reality environments are provided. An example method includes detecting a first input from a handheld controller of a virtual reality system, responsive to detecting the first input, instructing a user to orient a handheld controller in a designated direction, detecting a second input from the handheld controller; and responsive to detecting the second input, storing alignment data representative of an alignment of the handheld controller.
US10198872B2
Methods and systems for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of endoscopic data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. In one embodiment, a method for processing a plurality of images captured by an endoscope includes preprocessing a plurality of images captured by an endoscope and including at least a portion of an organ. In many embodiments of the invention, the preprocessing includes estimating variations in light intensity within scenes captured by the plurality of images, and generating a set of color-adjusted images based on those variations. The method according to some embodiments of the invention may include generating a 3D point cloud representing points on a surface of the organ based on the set of color-adjusted images, defining a mesh representing the surface of the organ based on the 3D point cloud, and generating a texture of the surface of the organ based on the set of color-adjusted images.
US10198868B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a luminance value obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second luminance values of first and second captured images of a physical space, wherein the first and second captured images are respectively captured by first and second image capturing units; a parameter obtaining unit for respectively obtaining first and second tracking parameters of automatic exposure control corresponding to a change in brightness of the physical space for the first and second image capturing units; and a setting unit for setting a first image capturing parameter for the first image capturing unit based on the first luminance value and the obtained first tracking parameter and a second image capturing parameter for the second image capturing unit based on the second luminance value and the obtained second tracking parameter.
US10198863B2
A method of managing Proxy Objects by attaching Meta Data to each Proxy and HD Object. The Meta Data enables the user to programmatically swap one Proxy Object with one or more HD Objects. All Proxy Objects and HD Objects are stored in a secure database structure that protects the content owner's intellectual property while providing access by users to the proxy objects and all related product information. Non-technical and non-CAD users are able to configure objects within a space by selecting an object, browsing a catalog of possible alternative objects, viewing specific product details and then selecting the object to replace the selected object. Once a new object is selected. A photo realistic 360 image of a scene is created in real time without any special software on the user's computer or any special training.
US10198857B2
A method of automatically transforming a computerized 3D model having regions of images utilized as textures on one or more physical objects represented in the 3D model (such as building sides and roofs, walls, landscapes, mountain sides, trees and the like) to include material property information for one or more regions of the textures of the 3D model. In this method, image textures applied to the 3D model are examined by comparing, utilizing a computer, at least a portion of each image texture to entries in a palette of material entries. The material palette entry that best matches the one contained in the image texture is assigned to indicate a physical material of the physical object represented by the 3D model. Then, material property information is stored in the computerized 3D model for the image textures that are assigned a material palette entry.
US10198850B2
An apparatus and method are described for texture compression, decompression and filtering. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: determining distances between each of a plurality of texels of a texture block and each of a plurality of approximation points; generating a decompression matrix comprising a plurality of radial basis function RBF values over the distances using a specified type of RBF; using the decompression matrix to generate a decompression-filtering matrix according to a defined filter function, the decompression-filtering matrix being usable to generate a decompressed and filtered version of the texture block as a result of the filter function being integrated into the decompression-filtering matrix.
US10198840B2
Apparatuses (IP) and related methods to visualize previously suppressed image structures in a radiograph (RD). A graphical indicator (505, 510, 515) is superimposed on the radiograph (RD) to indicate the suppressed image structure (412). The apparatuses allow toggling in our out the graphical indicator (505, 510, 515) or to toggle between different graphical renderings thereof.
US10198838B2
Various embodiments may include methods executed by processors of computing devices for geometry based work execution prioritization. The processor may receive events, such as images. The processor may overlay a boundary shape on the event to identify discard regions of the event lying outside the boundary shape. The processor may identify work regions of the events lying within the working boundary shape. The devices may determine a cancellation likelihood for each of the identified work regions of the events. The processor may assign a trimming weight to each of the identified work regions based on the determined cancellation likelihoods. The processor may then add each of the identified work regions as a work item to an execution work list in an order based on the assigned trimming weights. The work items may be processed in order of trimming weight priority.
US10198835B2
A method and apparatus for continuous RF signal visualization with high resolution acquires RF signal data within a specified frequency bandwidth seamlessly to produce digitized time domain data. The digitized time domain data is processed in both the frequency and time domains to form high resolution spectral and time traces which are stored. To match human visualization abilities, the high resolution traces are combined to form low resolution traces which are displayed. With the spectral traces, spectrum bitmaps may be generated and stored so that the spectrum bitmap for any displayed spectral trace may be recalled and displayed. The high resolution traces for any specified low resolution trace may be recalled for display. Finally multiple trigger event types may be generated and displayed with the displayed traces.
US10198830B2
An information processing apparatus includes a correlation unit that correlates distance information indicating a distance to an emission position of electromagnetic waves emitted in a shooting direction of a plurality of image pickup units with a first pixel in a first image that constitutes images taken by the image pickup units, the distance information being obtained based on reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves and the first pixel corresponding to the emission position of the electromagnetic waves, and a generation unit that generates a parallax image by using the distance information correlated with the first pixel for parallax computation of pixels in a second image that constitutes the images.
US10198827B2
A method of inspecting a sample includes performing a focusing operation on a target pattern of a sample. The focusing operation includes scanning the target pattern at different focusing levels to obtain a plurality of focus images. The method further includes using at least one of the plurality of the focus images as a target pattern image of the target pattern and then measuring a dimension of the target pattern based on the target pattern image.
US10198825B2
A method for analyzing three-dimensional image data of a target region of a subject, the method comprising identifying a region of interest within the target region containing imaging information predictive of a disease state of the target region, calculating at least two radiomic features associated with the region of interest, and classifying the region of interest based on the calculated radiomic features.
US10198822B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed for determination of lesions identified in medical images of differing perspectives. One of the methods includes obtaining images of a breast of a patient, each image being from a perspective, wherein the images include at least a first image and a second image. A skin contour line representing an obliquity of a chest wall of the patient is determined. A posterior nipple line extending from a nipple included in the first image is determined that perpendicularly intersects with the skin contour line. An interactive user interface is presented that includes the posterior nipple line on the first image. Compatibility information for lesions indicated in each of the first and second image is determined, the information indicating whether a first lesion in the first image is a same lesion in the breast as a second lesion in the second image.
US10198821B2
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method is capable of automatically segmenting and detecting a tattoo within an image. An image may be initially obtained. A block coverage pattern that identifies multiple blocks within the obtained image may be determined. A set of processing operations may then be performed for each block. The processing operations may include calculating a plurality of statistical features. A confidence score reflecting a likelihood that at least a portion of the block includes a predetermined graphical attribute associated with tattoos may be calculated. A subset of the multiple blocks of the image that have a respective confidence score greater than a predetermined threshold value may be identified. A portion of the image that includes one or more blocks from among the subset of the multiple blocks may then be determined to correspond to a tattoo.
US10198816B2
Systems and methods for processing electronic imaging data obtained from medical imaging procedures are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to data processing mechanisms for medical imaging and diagnostic workflows involving the use of machine learning techniques such as deep learning, artificial neural networks, and related algorithms that perform machine recognition of specific features and conditions in imaging data. In an example, a deep learning model is selected for automated image recognition of a particular medical condition on image data, and applied to the image data to recognize characteristics of the particular medical condition. Based on the characteristics recognized by the automated image recognition on the image data, an electronic workflow for performing a diagnostic evaluation of the medical imaging study may be modified, updated, or prioritized.
US10198807B2
This invention comprises methods, systems, and devices for tagging objects with one or more particles of complex geometry, individually and in combination. The particles are created via the process of either artificial or biological/natural self-assembly and are used for tagging or labeling various goods in order to identify those goods. The particles may be used individually or in combination as a plurality of particles which are scattered or positioned in a pattern. For example, the use of ultrabright fluorescent silica particles comprising complex optical fluorescent spectra and/or geometrical shapes to tag and authorize objects is disclosed. Application methods and materials are disclosed as well as methods and devices for detecting and decoding resulting tags or labels.
US10198804B2
A method for determining fabric and upscaled properties of a geological sample, such as a rock sample. A system for the method also is provided.
US10198767B2
An enhanced system and method for executing options trades are disclosed. The lead market maker entitlements are integrated with sophisticated order types, including dark order types, so that the lead marker maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the lead market maker is at the NBBO when an order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. The lead market maker is not provided an opportunity to price improve to execute with a specific incoming order. Additionally, market makers who are not the lead market maker in an option series may be granted the privileges of a lead market maker for the purpose of executing with a specific incoming directed order if the designated market maker is at the NBBO when a directed order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. The system and method disclosed encourages market makers to quote the best price possible, which in turn has the effect of narrowing spreads. Furthermore, as only displayed orders at the NBBO are eligible to execute ahead of market makers quoting at the NBBO, the system and method encourages users to display their best prices and sizes to the marketplace.
US10198762B1
Technology for determining the order of the search results to maximize a financial goal is described. In an example embodiment, a method, implemented using the one or more computing devices, such as client and/or server devices, may receive a product search request from a user device associated with a user and retrieve a set of products from a product database based on the product search request. Based on a purchase probability and one or more of a margin and a price for that product, the method determines an expected financial gain for each of the products of the set and sorts the set of products into an ordered set of products having an order based on the expected financial gain associated with each of the products. The method may then provide the ordered set of products for display to the user on the user device.
US10198761B2
A computer system for determining buying online and picking up in store. A computer receives from a shopper a request for buying online and picking up in store. The computer parses stores carrying an item purchased online and connections of the shopper in a social network. The computer provides the shopper with a list of one or more connections for picking up the item for the shopper. The computer sends to one of the one or more connections a token for picking up the item and information of a store where the item is picked up, after the shopper chooses the one of the one or more connections for picking up the item. The computer sends to the shopper a notification, after the item is picked up by the one of the one or more connections for picking up the item.
US10198759B2
A method and a system to automatically coordinate remote inspectors are provided. Initially, a listing is identified for remote inspection in an online publication system. The listing may describe an item for sale that is, in turn, associated with a geographical location and a category. One or more remote inspectors are identified based on the geographical location and the category associated with the item for sale. The listing and respective profiles of each of the one or more remote inspectors is published to a buyer. A selection of a selected remote inspector is received from the buyer. A template inspection report is provided to the selected remote inspector. Once the remote inspector has inspected the item for sale, the buyer is provided a completed inspection report received from the selected remote inspector.
US10198756B2
A method and associated e-commerce system for dynamically repricing an online subscription automatically identify a competing offer that offers a product that is equivalent to a subscribed product. If the competing offer offers a quantity of the equivalent product that is different from a quantity specified by the subscription, or if the competing offer is effective during a period of time that differs from a replenishment period of the subscription, the system automatically reconciles the differences and compares the resulting unit cost of the subscription product to the unit cost of the competing offer product. The system then determines whether it would be more beneficial to the subscriber to reprice a certain number of units of the subscription or to reprice the subscription for a certain period of time, and raises or lowers the price of the subscription accordingly as a function of this determination.
US10198753B2
A personalization system includes a preprocessing component configured to receive a request from a user over a communications network and generate a request key using predefined attributes of the request. A categorization component is configured to map the request key to a subset of domain-dependent vocabulary. An augmentation and buffer component is configured to augment the request with the subset of domain-dependent vocabulary mapped to the request key by the categorization component and to buffer request sequences in queues according to sequence identifiers. An embedding model component is configured to update an embedding model using the buffered request sequences. A personalization component is configured to provide a personalization using the updated embedding model.
US10198725B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods related to facilitating card present transaction. In one embodiment, a service provider system may receive a request from a merchant to initiate a card present transaction associated with a consumer. The service provider system may determine an identifier associated with a mobile device associated with the consumer. The service provider system may communicate to the mobile device, based at least in part on the identifier, a message that facilitates invocation of a transaction module associated with the mobile device. The service provider system may facilitate the car present transaction based at least in part on an interaction with the transaction module.
US10198722B2
According to one embodiment, a commodity-sales-data processing apparatus includes a display section, an image pickup section, an identifying section, a price-information acquiring section, and an amount calculating section. The image pickup section picks up images of commodities placed in a predetermined image pickup region on a display region of the display section. The identifying section identifies the commodities disposed in the predetermined image pickup region on the basis of the images picked up by the image pickup section. The price-information acquiring section acquires price information concerning prices of the commodities identified by the identifying section. The amount calculating section calculates a payment amount for the commodities on the basis of the price information acquired by the price-information acquiring section.
US10198721B2
Embodiments include a database that maintains a respective status of mobile ATMs that indicates the location and cash available for withdrawal, a communication interface that receives a request for a mobile ATM from a user device, the request including user device location data, a location processor that compares the user device location data to location data of the mobile ATMs, and determines a first mobile ATM that is closest to the user device based on the user device location data, and a backend transaction processor that processes the transaction when confirmed. The communication interface transmits an alert that includes the request to the first mobile ATM, receives a response, transmits another alert that includes the location of the first mobile ATM and an estimated time that the first mobile ATM will arrive at the location associated to the user device, and receives confirmation from the first mobile ATM.
US10198715B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for generating, at a computing device, a collaboration container associated with a project. One or more requirements associated with the project is received using the collaboration container. The one or more requirements is mapped into changes for a web content management artifact. The web content management artifact is generated from the collaboration container. Collaboration for the web content management artifact is received. A status of the web content management artifact is promoted to the collaboration container, wherein promoting includes publically publishing at least a portion of the web content management artifact, closing at least the portion of the collaboration container, and archiving at least the portion of the collaboration container.
US10198711B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for a retail shopping facility to track products being shelved therein. In one example, this tracking is accomplished without the use of RFID tags and RFID readers, but instead, employs overhead electronic image capturing devices. By one approach, the images obtained are compared to a store planogram and alerts are sent to the associate or worker stocking the shelves to correct the stocking process. As the images may be captured and analyzed in real-time, the system may redirect the worker during the shelving process to prevent items from being stocked or shelved in an incorrect location for long. In one embodiment, the system includes a product database, overhead electronic image capturing devices, portable electronic devices, and a control circuit in communication with the product database, overhead electronic image capturing devices, and the portable electronic devices.
US10198705B2
According to some embodiments, a data acquisition computer may receive a first task request, including a data source communication identifier, from a back-end application. The data acquisition computer may perform a first data acquisition process and determine indications of: when the data source expects to return to a normal operating condition, a quality of service received by the data source from a service provider, and a quality of service performed by the back-end application server. The back-end application server might generate and transmit the task request, for example, a first pre-determined period of time after an event associated with the data source. The back-end application server may also detect that a second pre-determined period of time after the event has occurred and facilitate a second data acquisition process including at least one rating within a scale of ratings provided by the data source.
US10198703B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for prioritizing one or more instructional control strategies to reduce time-variant energy demand of a built environment associated with renewable energy sources. The computer-implemented method includes collection of a first set of statistical data, fetching of a second set of statistical data, accumulation of a third set of statistical data, reception of a fourth set of statistical data and gathering of fifth set of statistical data. Further, the computer-implemented method includes parsing and comparison of the first set of statistical data, the second set of statistical data, the third set of statistical data, the fourth set of statistical data and the fifth set of statistical data. In addition, the computer-implemented method includes identification and prioritization of one or more instructional control strategies to reduce the time-variant energy demand associated with the built environment.
US10198701B2
One aspect of the application provides a cueing device. The device is configured to alert a user to a perishable item associated with the cueing device based on one or more cueing parameters indicative of an urgency of the perishable item and a context for alerting the user to a status of the perishable item. The device includes a visual output capable of providing multiple levels of visual alert. The device further includes an input capable of receiving, from the user, an acknowledgement to an alert, or a cueing parameter. The device further includes one or more sensors configured to detect environmental characteristics affecting the perishable item. The device further includes a wireless communication interface.
US10198700B2
A system and method are provided for generating and transmitting push notifications in connection with a transport service. Push notification triggers can be configured by a user via an application-based user interface corresponding to an application specific to the transport service. A user profile associated with the user can be accessed to detect one or more preconfigured push notification triggers, and thereafter transport service activity can be dynamically monitored for trigger events. Such trigger events can cause the system to generate and transmit push notifications to the user's mobile device.
US10198699B2
A method and system for reserving a time slot to gain access to a resource, such as an attraction, ride, show or event, as may be found in an amusement park. A portable module is used to determine a time when the user is able to access the resource based on reservation requests and throughput, without need for a docking station or continuous communication with a central database of all reservations and queue times.
US10198695B2
A manifold-aware ranking kernel (MARK) for information retrieval is described herein. The MARK is implemented by using supervised and unsupervised learning. MARK is ranking-oriented such that the relative comparison formulation directly targets on the ranking problem, making the approach optimal for information retrieval. MARK is also manifold-aware such that the algorithm is able to exploit information from ample unlabeled data, which helps to improve generalization performance, particularly when there are limited number of labeled constraints. MARK is nonlinear: as a kernel-based approach, the algorithm is able to lead to a highly non-linear metric which is able to model complicated data distribution.
US10198690B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for feature extraction using multiple neurosynaptic core circuits including one or more input core circuits for receiving input and one or more output core circuits for generating output. The method comprises receiving a set of input data via the input core circuits, and extracting a first set of features from the input data using the input core circuits. Each feature of the first set of features is based on a subset of the input data. The method further comprises reordering the first set of features using the input core circuits, and generating a second set of features by combining the reordered first set of features using the output core circuits. The second set of features comprises a set of features with reduced correlation. Each feature of the second set of features is based on the entirety of said set of input data.
US10198689B2
Described is a system for object detection in images or videos using spiking neural networks. An intensity saliency map is generated from an intensity of an input image having color components using a spiking neural network. Additionally, a color saliency map is generated from a plurality of colors in the input image using a spiking neural network. An object detection model is generated by combining the intensity saliency map and multiple color saliency maps. The object detection model is used to detect multiple objects of interest in the input image.
US10198686B2
An insert for a chip card includes a body provided with a cavity in which is inserted an electronic module provided with a microelectronic chip connected to an inductive or capacitive coupling. The body has a stack of layers at least a first layer of which comprises a first booster antenna and a second layer of which comprises a second booster antenna, the various booster antennas being coupled together inductively and/or capacitively, and at least one of the booster antennas being coupled inductively and/or capacitively with the coupling of the module. The body furthermore comprises at least one metal plate disposed between two layers of ferrite, the first and second booster antennae and the metallic plate being arranged in such a way that at least one of the two booster antennas and the electronic module remain coupled together inductively and/or capacitively, despite the presence of the metal plate.
US10198684B2
A smart card module includes a substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, which is opposite the first main surface. The substrate has a plurality of plated-through holes, which extend through the substrate from the first main surface to the second main surface. The smart card module further includes a chip over the first main surface of the substrate, a first metal structure over the second main surface of the substrate, electrically insulating material, which covers the first metal structure, and a second metal structure over the electrically insulating material, wherein the second metal structure is electrically insulated from the first metal structure by the electrically insulating material. The chip is connected to the first metal structure by at least one first plated-through hole. The chip is connected to the second metal structure by at least one second plated-through hole.
US10198682B2
According to one embodiment, a receiving system includes a first receiving circuit and a second receiving circuit each receiving a differential signal with a positive phase signal and a negative phase signal, and a controller controlling the first and second receiving circuits. The first receiving circuit comprises a first differential amplifier outputting a first signal in a first time frame in which a polarity of the differential signal does not change dependent on a passage of time. The second receiving circuit comprises a second differential amplifier outputting a second signal in a second time frame in which the polarity of the differential signal changes dependent on the passage of time.
US10198678B2
This power receiving-type information acquisition and transmission device 101 is provided with one or more power receiving means 110 which receive power supply waves that can supply power, one or more power storage means 120 which store power obtained by the power receiving means, one or more information acquisition means 130 which acquire information by expending at least part of the aforementioned power of the power receiving means 110 and/or the power storage means 120, and one or more information transmission means 140 which utilize the power from the power storage means 120 to transmit information externally. This enables regular or steady information collection, and enables transmitting said information stably, on a permanent basis and remotely, i.e., either over a short or long distance externally.
US10198674B2
A method of controlling memory usage in a graphics rendering system. The method comprises converting a plurality of layers of graphical objects to an intermediate format representation, the layers being formed by grouping the graphical objects into a plurality of layers based on a first complexity threshold; and in response to detecting a memory shortage condition in execution of the graphics rendering system, determining a second complexity threshold based on the detected memory shortage condition, the second complexity threshold being lower than the first complexity threshold. The method also comprises identifying a layer of the plurality of layers based on the second complexity threshold, the identified layer being different to a layer which triggered the memory shortage condition, and converting the identified layer of graphical objects to the intermediate format representation to release memory occupied by graphical objects of the identified layer.
US10198668B2
There is provided an apparatus for supporting Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) based on a speed of a probe. The apparatus includes a region of interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from a current image acquired from a probe; and an ROI classifier configured to determine whether to classify the ROI using a determined state of a speed, and classify the ROI according to a result of the determination.
US10198657B2
An all-weather thermal-image pedestrian detection method includes (a) capturing diurnal thermal images and nocturnal thermal images of a same pedestrian and non-pedestrian object in a same defined block to create a sample database of thermal images, wherein the sample database comprises pedestrian samples and non-pedestrian samples; (b) performing LBP encoding on the pedestrian samples and the non-pedestrian samples, wherein complementary LBP codes in the same defined block are treated as identical LBP codes; (c) expressing the LBP codes in the same defined block as features by a gradient direction histogram (HOG) to obtain feature training samples of the pedestrian samples and the non-pedestrian samples; (d) entering the feature training samples into a SVM to undergo training by Adaboost so as to form a strong classifier; and (e) effectuating pedestrian detection by searching the strong classifiers in thermal images with sliding window technique to detect for presence of pedestrians.
US10198656B2
In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for determining a degree of homogeneity in one or more inspection images of cargo in one or more containers, comprising: determining whether a zone of interest in one or more processed inspection images comprises one or more patterns, wherein the one or more processed inspection images are processed from one or more inspection images generated by an inspection system configured to inspect the one or more containers; and in the event that one or more patterns is determined and that a variation in the determined one or more patterns is identified, classifying the one or more inspection images as having a degree of homogeneity below a predetermined homogeneity threshold.
US10198647B2
Systems and methods of operation for a machine-readable symbol reader for estimating the distance of a scanned target object or item labeled with indicia, such as a machine-readable symbol. The reader may include an illumination subsystem which projects a light pattern (e.g., line) out from the reader. The reader may capture an image of the target object while the light pattern is projected thereon and analyze at least one detectable characteristic of the pattern to estimate distance of the target object relative to the reader. A one-dimensional sensor array of the reader may be exploited in part for imaging a symbol and in part for imaging detectable characteristics (e.g., edges) of the projected illumination pattern which allows for estimation of the reading distance. A central portion of the one-dimensional sensor array may be dedicated to imaging a machine-readable symbol and lateral portions may be dedicated to implementing a range finder.
US10198646B2
A cascaded finite-state-transducer array includes a plurality of finite-state-transducers, the finite-state-transducers being distributed in space. The finite-state-transducer array is configured with dedicated data transfer channels between the finite-state-transducers to transfer specific data types. Each data stream on a dedicated data transfer channel may transmit a particular data type, which may be sorted in increasing order of start offsets or token IDs.
US10198644B2
The invention teaches a multiple reference optical coherence tomography scanner that provides a subdermal fingerprint scan, covers an area of approximately 16 mm-17 mm×10 mm in less than a second, and fits into a slim profile of less than 6 mm in thickness, thereby fitting within the slim consumer electronics such as the iPhone and similar consumer electronics. Various embodiments are taught.
US10198634B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided herein for detecting and tracking one or more movable objects. A method for supporting visual tracking may be provided. The method may comprise: receiving a plurality of image frames captured at different times using an imaging device, wherein each image frame comprises a plurality of pixels that are associated with a plurality of feature points; analyzing the plurality of image frames to compute movement characteristics of the plurality of feature points; and identifying at least one tracking feature relative to at least one background feature based on the movement characteristics of the plurality of feature points.
US10198629B2
A method for cropping photos images captured by a user from an image of a page of a photo album is described. Corners in the page image are detected using corner detection algorithm or by detecting intersections of line-segments (and their extensions) in the image using edge, corner, or line detection techniques. Pairs of the detected corners are used to define all potential quads, which are then are qualified according to various criteria. A correlation matrix is generated for each potential pair of the qualified quads, and candidate quads are selected based on the Eigenvector of the correlation matrix. The content of the selected quads is checked using a salience map that may be based on a trained neuron network, and the resulting photos images are extracted as individual files for further handling or manipulation by the user.
US10198628B2
There is disclosed a method of analyzing a digital image of a document (to determine, as example, a document suitability for server-based OCR processing) in a computer system that includes a user electronic device (for acquiring or storing a digital image of a document) connectable to a server (for executing the server-based OCR processing of the digital image to create a recognized-text document). The method is executable by the user electronic device and comprises: acquiring the digital image of the document; analyzing an OCR quality parameter associated with a compressed digital image to be created from the digital image using a compression algorithm and a compression parameter; in response to the OCR quality parameter being above or equal to a pre-determined threshold: transmitting the compressed digital image to the server. Optionally, the method further comprises compressing the digital image using the compression algorithm and the compression parameter to create the compressed digital image before transmission thereof.
US10198626B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for modeling facial representations using image segmentation with a client device. The systems and methods receive an image depicting a face, detect at least a portion of the face within the image, and identify a set of facial features within the portion of the face. The systems and methods generate a descriptor function representing the set of facial features, fit object functions of the descriptor function, identify an identification probability for each facial feature, and assign an identification to each facial feature.
US10198624B2
There is disclosed a system and method of performing facial recognition from RGB image data. The method includes generating a lower-resolution image from the RGB image data, performing a convolution of the lower-resolution image data to derive a probability map identifying probable facial regions and a probable non-facial regions, and performing a first deconvolution on the lower-resolution image using a bilinear interpolation layer to derive a set of coarse facial segments. The method further includes performing a second deconvolution on the lower-resolution image using a series of unpooling, deconvolution, and rectification layers to derive a set of fine facial segments, concatenating the set of coarse facial segments to the set of fine facial segments to create an image matrix made up of a set of facial segments, and generating a binary facial mask identifying probable facial regions and probable non-facial regions from the image matrix.
US10198623B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional facial recognition method and system. The method includes: performing pose estimation on an input binocular vision image pair by using a three-dimensional facial reference model, to obtain a pose parameter and a virtual image pair of the three-dimensional facial reference model with respect to the binocular vision image pair; reconstructing a facial depth image of the binocular vision image pair by using the virtual image pair as prior information; detecting, according to the pose parameter, a local grid scale-invariant feature descriptor corresponding to an interest point in the facial depth image; and generating a recognition result of the binocular vision image pair according to the detected local grid scale-invariant feature descriptor and training data having attached category annotations. The present disclosure can reduce computational costs and required storage space.
US10198618B2
A commodity registration apparatus configured to perform object recognition includes an interface connected to receive captured images, a storage unit storing a dictionary for the object recognition, and a processor. The processor is configured to designate a learning target article for learning processing, extract, from each captured image, feature value indicating feature of an article contained in the captured image, compare each of the extracted feature values with stored feature values of the learning target article registered in the dictionary and calculate a similarity degree therebetween, generate relationship information indicating a relationship between the captured images based on the calculated similarity degrees, exclude captured images that meet a predetermined condition based on the relationship information, and execute the learning processing by adding, to the dictionary with respect to the learning target article, the feature values indicating features of the article contained in the non-excluded captured images.
US10198613B2
Systems and methods may be used by an automatic fingerprint identification system to estimate patterns of a latent fingerprint. A latent fingerprint image, and a plurality of reference ridge flow maps may initially be obtained. Each reference ridge flow map may be associated with a particular fingerprint pattern. A latent ridge flow map for the obtained latent fingerprint image may be computed. One or more characteristics associated with the latent ridge flow map may be compared to one or more characteristics associated with each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. A similarity score between the latent ridge flow map and a particular reference ridge flow map may be computed for each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. One or more fingerprint patterns present within the latent fingerprint may then be determined and provided for output.
US10198612B1
A method includes: normalizing intensities at each pixel in a fingerprint slap scan image such that variations of pixel intensities between fingerprint ridges and valleys are regularized; subsequently dividing the fingerprint slap scan image into blocks of pixels; for each block of pixels, estimating a spatial separation between adjacent fingerprint ridges as well as a ridge orientation for each fingerprint ridge within the particular block of pixels; calculating a distortion map for the various blocks by projecting, according to the estimated ridge orientation for each fingerprint ridge, an adjustment to the estimated spatial separation that is based on a difference between the estimated spatial separation and a target spatial separation; and warping the fingerprint slap scan image to compensate for the calculated distortion map such that the fingerprint ridges in the warped fingerprint slap scan image are scaled to compensate for local variations of adjustments in the calculated distortion map.
US10198607B2
A method begins by detecting a variance of one or more RF characteristics of a wireless sensor from a desired value of the one or more RF characteristics, due to exposure to an environmental condition. The tuning circuit is operably coupled to an antenna that includes a tail section that is located in a radio frequency (RF) limited area, and a head section that is located in a non-RF limited area. The method continues by adjusting the tuning circuit in response to the detecting of the variance. The method continues by generating a message regarding the adjusting of the tuning circuit, wherein a level of the adjusting of the tuning circuit is representative of the variance of the one or more RF characteristics sensed by the tail section. The method continues by transmitting the message to one or more of an RF reader and a computing device.
US10198594B2
A method for displaying notification information on an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes: receiving notification information in a lockscreen state; determining a user type of a user to view the notification information; determining a display mode of the notification information according to the user type; and displaying the notification information on the electronic device according to the display mode.
US10198589B2
Securely distributing a backup file includes identifying a file to be stored, generating a plurality of file chunks from the file, transmitting from a first device, each of the plurality of file chunks to one of a plurality of storage locations, and generating, at the first device, a map that identifies the storage location for each chunk. Retrieving a distributed backup file includes receiving a request to retrieve a file, obtaining a map corresponding to the file, wherein the map identifies a storage location for each of a plurality of file chunks of the file, retrieving the plurality of file chunks from the identified locations, and generating the requested file by combining the plurality of file chunks.
US10198580B2
A process transforms compiled software into a semantic form. The process transforms the code into a semantic form. The process analyzes behavior functionality by processing precise programming behavior abstractions stored in a memory and classifies the code as malware based on the code behavior. Another method identifies the starting point of execution of a compiled program. The method calculates a complexity measure by calculating the number of potential execution paths of local functions; identifies the number of arguments passed to local functions; and identifies the starting point of execution of the compiled program. Another method provides interactive, dynamic visualization of a group of related functions wherein a user can explore the rendered graph and select a specific function and display functions that are color coded by their ancestral relation and their function call distance to the selected function.
US10198579B2
System and method to detect domain generation algorithm malware and systems infected by such malware
Systems and methods for detection of domain generated algorithms (DGA) and their command and control (C&C) servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, such an approach includes examining DNS queries for DNS resolution failures, and monitoring certain set of parameters such as number of levels, length of domain name, lexical complexity, and the like for each failed domain. These parameters may then be compared against certain thresholds to determine if the domain name is likely to be part of a DGA malware. Domain names identified as being part of a DGA malware may then be grouped together. Once a DGA domain name has been identified, activity from that domain name can be monitored to detect successful resolutions from the same source to see if any of the successful domain resolutions match these parameters. If they match specific thresholds, then the domain is determined to be a C&C server of the DGA malware and may be identified as such.
US10198576B2
Systems and method identify potentially mislabeled file samples. A graph is created from a plurality of sample files. The graph includes nodes associated with the sample files and behavior nodes associated with behavior signatures. Phantom nodes are created in the graph for those sample files having a known label. During a label propagation operation, a node receives data indicating a label distribution of a neighbor node in the graph. In response to determining that the current label for the node is known, a neighborhood opinion is determined for the associated phantom node, based at least in part on the label distribution of the neighboring nodes. After the label propagation operation has completed, differences between the neighborhood opinion and the current label distribution for nodes are determined. If the difference exceeds a threshold, then the current label may be incorrect.
US10198570B2
Disclosed are a dynamic password lock and a remote password lock apparatus. The dynamic password lock includes a bolt, a bolt actuation device, a microprocessor, an unlocking authentication device and a power supply conversion device, the unlocking authentication device being connected electrically with the bolt actuation device through the microprocessor to actuate the bolt, in which: the dynamic password lock further includes a physical interface, the physical interface is connected electrically with the microprocessor to serve as a communication interface for the dynamic password lock to communicate with external communication equipment; and the physical interface is connected electrically with the power supply conversion device to serve as a powering interface for external powering equipment to power the dynamic password lock. The remote password lock includes the dynamic password lock, an IPC and a storage device.
US10198564B2
An image processing apparatus which is capable of realizing security improvements without degrading the usability. A user is authenticated, and an operation screen accepting an operation input from the user is displayed. A job is executed according to an instruction of the user authenticated by the user authenticating unit. It is determined whether or not the job of which execution is instructed by the user, is being executed when the user authenticating unit authenticates the user. A first operation screen through which the user inputs an instruction for the job in execution is displayed when the job executing unit is executing the job, of which execution is instructed by the user, whereas another operation screen through which another user inputs an instruction for another job is displayed when not.
US10198543B2
A computer system is provided that enables a designer of a circuit design to fracture and reconstitute a larger design for both computer modeling of the functionality and the physical implementation or rendering of the circuit design. More particularly, the designer may refine or re-work a sub-module of the larger sub-circuit without having to create a corresponding sub-module in the physical implementation. This capability thus avoids the significant complexity required for sub-module refinement in the current state of the art, and provides the designer with a much simpler flow.
US10198539B1
Systems, methods, and products implementing a dynamic register transfer level (DRTL) monitor are disclosed. The DRTL monitor may be rapidly constructed and implemented in one or more emulator devices during the runtime of the emulation of a device under test (DUT). The systems may receive monitor modules and corresponding monitor instances in high level hardware description language and compile the monitor modules and instances to generate a monitor within the one or more emulator devices. The systems may then connect one or more input ports of the monitor to one or more signal sources in the DUT. The systems may further allow removal of the monitor, addition or more monitors, and/or modification of the monitor during the run time of the emulation of the DUT.
US10198538B1
The embodiments described herein may improve utilization of an emulator system's resources, and may improve efficiency and effectiveness in bug-identification and/or target-debugging; the components described herein may improve utilization of the emulator's resources, reduce wait time to execute emulation routines, and may limit or eliminate the need to stop or kill emulations in process. The various embodiments described herein allow for dynamically associating domains and targets by dynamically allocating and assigning domains with particular target connections, which are pins and/or wires that connect target pods to the emulation system. An emulation system may comprise one or more target MUXs that are situated between the target connections and the domains, to allow the relationships between target pods and domains to be identified and switched dynamically. The target MUXs may be reprogrammed while emulations are ongoing, in order to redirect data communications between available domains and target pods of target systems.
US10198534B2
Disclosed herein is a method and computing system for illustrating elevations in an image corresponding to an area of interest that is at least a portion of a mine worksite. The method includes determining, by a selection, a first dataset that includes a plurality of elevation values defining an elevation topography for a first area of interest. The method further includes, for each of the at least a portion of the elevation values in the first dataset, determining a corresponding color for illustrating the elevation value according to a scale of colors. The scale spans a defined range of altitudes. Each color in the scale is definable by a hue; and at least one parameter for influencing at least one of a lightness and a darkness of the color. The color scale is defined to progress through a spectrum of hues across the defined range of altitudes. The method also includes generating a first image portraying at least a 3-dimensional, non-plan view of the elevation topography for the first area of interest, illustrating the at least a portion of the elevation values of the first dataset in the corresponding determined colors.
US10198523B2
Embodiments are provided for utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network. An electronic document may be published from a client computer to a first server computer in the computer network. During publication, the first server computer may create a static rendition of the electronic document and a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer. The first server computer may store the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer. Other embodiments may also include receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document and sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client for making the revisions to the electronic document.
US10198520B2
Techniques for search with more like this refinements are disclosed. In some embodiments, search with more like this refinements includes receiving a product and a context (e.g., the context can include related category information, user context, and/or other context related information); generating a search query based on the product and the context; and determining a plurality of products that match the search query to generate more like this search results.
US10198519B2
When a user enters a primary search query into a primary search query input area to perform a first search of the primary search query, disclosed is a method and system for automatically entering the primary search query into a secondary search query input area to perform a second search of the primary search query. When the user enters a secondary search query into the secondary search query input area to perform a first search of the secondary search query, the method and system automatically enters the secondary search query into the primary search query input area to perform a second search of the secondary search query.
US10198516B2
A method of analyzing data is presented. The method includes generating a query based on a topic of interest, expanding search terms of the query, executing the query on one or more data sources, monitoring a specific data source selected from the one or more data sources. The monitoring is performed to monitor for matches to the query.
US10198512B2
Techniques for improving search relevance using past searchers' reputation are described. According to various embodiments, a specification of a search query term corresponding to a skill is received from a searcher, in connection with a search for members of an online social networking service having the skill. Thereafter, a list of search results is generated and displayed based on the search query term, each of the search results corresponding to a member of the online social networking service. A subsequent interaction between the searcher and a specific member corresponding to one of the search results is detected. A skill reputation score associated with the searcher and the skill is then accessed. Thereafter, a search relevance score associated with the specific member and the skill is modified based on the skill reputation score associated with the searcher and the skill.
US10198509B2
A complex video event classification, search and retrieval system can generate a semantic representation of a video or of segments within the video, based on one or more complex events that are depicted in the video, without the need for manual tagging. The system can use the semantic representations to, among other things, provide enhanced video search and retrieval capabilities.
US10198508B1
Systems and methods are provided for searching and identifying quotes in response to a query from a user. Consistent with certain embodiments, systems and methods are provided for identifying one or more subject entities associated with the query and for identifying, from a database or from search results obtained in response to the query, a set of quotes corresponding to the one or more subject entities. Further, systems and methods are provided for determining quote scores for the identified quotes based on at least one of the relationship of each quote to the one or more subject entities, the recency of each quote, and the popularity of each quote. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for organizing the identified quotes in a rank order based on the quote scores and selecting quotes based on the rank order or based on the quote scores. In addition, systems and methods are provided for transmitting information to display the selected quotes on a display device.
US10198500B2
A system and method dynamically analyze documents to determine relevancy of a document relatively quickly and efficiently. Potentially relevant documents can be determined using a search string and then converted into corresponding document data structures for analysis. Keywords can be used to identify documents of interest from the document data structures. Tools are provided to assess the relevancy of documents, including tools to determine the frequency of keywords in the documents, to compare documents, and to contrast documents. Algorithms are provided that use prior searches to determine sets of relevant documents. Adaptive search methods are provided that refine searching during analysis to reduce a number of documents that are not sufficiently relevant. A dynamic relevancy matrix can be generated that provides access to keyword frequency and associated keyword frequency for a plurality of documents.
US10198487B2
A computer-assisted method, computer system, and program product provide the functionality of a portal for persons to find, based on a topic of interest, the nearest relevant in-person gathering of other persons interested in the topic as well. The system provides for the automated creation of groups and for their automatic sustainment through automatic scheduling of periodic gatherings. Strangers in geographic proximity are automatically brought together into chapters formed around the topic of interest. Chapters may be led by organizers, and gatherings may have hosts. Automatic functions for venue selection, venue voting, cancellation, and feedback are provided.
US10198486B2
A method, system, and article of manufacture comprising tabulating, for a plurality of users making recommendations, information including respective user interests and recommendations, storing the tabulated information in a database, responsive to a query from a client machine, the query seeking a recommendation from a user having a particular user interest, filtering the stored tabulated information to determine recommendations from users having the particular user interest, and presenting the recommendations to the client machine. Also included is a community of parents who are registered on one site to find on other sites products that they are curious about or want to give feedback on, and then collect those items and share insights or request guidance from at least some of the individual parents in the community.
US10198480B2
According to an example, at least one hot account is determined for each category according to quality scores and correlation degrees of history user generated content (UGCs); after a UGC newly posted by the hot account is received, if a quality score of the newly posted UGC is higher than a predefined quality score threshold and a correlation degree between the newly posted UGC and the category that the hot account belongs to is higher than a predefined correlation degree threshold, the newly posted UGC is determined as a hot UGC.
US10198479B2
Provided are systems and methods for the contextual retrieval and contextual display of records. A search query and/or search results may be contextually enhanced based on (i) natural language processing (NLP) models, (ii) user behavior, and/or (iii) relationships between various entities involved in a search, such as between users, records, and/or fields of expertise. Contextually enhanced search results may be delivered and displayed to a user on a user interface in a contextually relevant order.
US10198478B2
Systems and methods for cladistics-based content searching, analysis, and diagrammatic representation of results; the importing of patent claims, parsing of the claims into their elements and sub-elements, semantically analyzing the claims sub-elements to determine the technology; semantically analyzing the database records to find matching technology content, displaying the matching technology content, and visually linking the matching technology content to relevant hierarchically-displayed elements and sub-elements.
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Examples of the disclosure enable performing semantic joins using a big table corpus. Pairs of values from at least two data sets are identified. The pairs of values include one value from a first one of the data sets and one value from a second one of the data sets. Statistical co-occurrence scores for the identified pairs of values are determined based on historical co-occurrence data. The determined statistical co-occurrence scores are used for predicting a semantic relationship between the at least two data sets. The predicted semantic relationship is used for joining the at least two data sets.
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Some embodiments provide, for a policy framework that manages application of a plurality of policies to a plurality of resources in a computing environment, a method for providing a user interface. The method displays a first display area for viewing and editing policies imported by the policy framework from a first several heterogeneous sources. The method displays a second display area for viewing and editing information regarding computing resources imported by the policy framework from a second several heterogeneous sources. The method displays a third display area for viewing and editing binding rules for binding the policies to the computing resources.
