US10341786B2
The present invention regards a hearing aid device at least one environment sound input, a wireless sound input, an output transducer, electric circuitry, a transmitter unit, and a dedicated beamformer-noise-reduction-system. The hearing aid device is configured to be worn in or at an ear of a user. The at least one environment sound input is configured to receive sound and to generate electrical sound signals representing sound. The wireless sound input is configured to receive wireless sound signals. The output transducer is configured to stimulate hearing of the hearing aid device user. The transmitter unit is configured to transmit signals representing sound and/or voice. The dedicated beamformer-noise-reduction-system is configured to retrieve a user voice signal representing the voice of a user from the electrical sound signals. The wireless sound input is configured to be wirelessly connected to a communication device and to receive wireless sound signals from the communication device. The transmitter unit is configured to be wirelessly connected to the communication device and to transmit the user voice signal to the communication device.
US10341782B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to an ultrasonic receiver for detecting ultrasonic energy received at a first surface of the ultrasonic receiver. The ultrasonic receiver includes an array of pixel circuits disposed on a substrate, each pixel circuit in the array including at least one thin film transistor (TFT) element and having a pixel input electrode electrically coupled to the pixel circuit. The ultrasonic receiver is fabricated by forming a piezoelectric layer so as to be in electrical contact with the pixel input electrodes. Forming the piezoelectric layer includes coating a solution containing a polymer onto the array of pixel circuits, crystallizing the polymer to form a crystallized polymer layer and poling the crystallized polymer layer.
US10341772B2
A system and method of providing a signal to wireless speakers. An audio stick connects to a source device and provides the audio signal to the wireless speakers. The audio stick combines the functionality of two separate devices: an audio receiver device and a transmitter device for the wireless speakers.
US10341770B2
Dynamic loudness equalization of received audio content in a playback system, using metadata that includes instantaneous loudness values for the audio content. A playback level is derived from a user volume setting of the playback system, and is compared with a mixing level that is assigned to the audio content. Parameters are computed, that define an equalization filter that is filtering the audio content before driving a speaker with the filtered audio content, based on the instantaneous loudness values and the comparing of the playback level with the assigned mixing level. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10341769B1
A sound amplification system integrated with back cavity pressure sensing, including: a loudspeaker body, including: a vibrating diaphragm, a voice coil connected with the vibrating diaphragm, and a back cavity, wherein the voice coil is connected to a driving unit, a microphone is in the back cavity, and the microphone senses an internal pressure of the back cavity; a computing unit, making an estimation of a displacement of the vibrating diaphragm based on the internal pressure; and a processing unit, determining the displacement of the vibrating diaphragm when compared with a reference displacement, when it is determined that the displacement exceeds a set threshold, a pre-compensation signal is generated and provided to the driving unit.
US10341764B2
Techniques associated with structures for dynamically tuned audio in a media device are described, including receiving data associated with an acoustic output, determining a target frequency response associated with an audio device, the audio device implemented with a hybrid radiator formed using a smart fluid or artificial muscle material, determining a value associated with a property of the smart fluid or artificial muscle material, calculating, using a dynamic tuning application, a magnitude of an external stimulus associated with the value, and sending a control signal to a source, the control signal configured to cause the source to apply the external stimulus, an application of the external stimulus of the determined magnitude configured to change the property of the smart fluid or artificial muscle material.
US10341761B2
A portable audio system includes a housing defining a common acoustic cavity a woofer disposed at a first end of the housing in the common acoustic cavity and a tweeter disposed at a second end of the housing, opposite to the first end, in the common acoustic cavity facing the woofer. A waveguide is disposed in the common acoustic cavity between the woofer and the tweeter to separate the woofer and the tweeter. The waveguide disperses and distributes sound waves generated by the woofer and tweeter.
US10341753B2
An earring-type microphone to be hung on and used in the ear includes fixing members to be fixed to both ears of a user and a cable formed from an elastic member, of which both ends are respectively positioned at two fixing members, such that one side of the cable comes into close contact with the neck of the user. Speakers are respectively coupled to ends of the cable. A microphone part is provided at one side of the cable for inputting a voice. If force is applied to the microphone part when the user inputs the voice, the cable is stretched such that the microphone part moves from the neck of the user toward the area around the mouth. If the force applied to the microphone part is removed, the microphone part comes into close contact with the area around the mouth by the elastic force of the cable.
US10341736B2
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a social interface for sharing media experience information between households in a community. Users of different households may form the community. The social interface may be provided as an application on a mobile device or an Internet webpage as a portal to the community. An example implementation involves a device displaying representations of: a plurality of households; an indication of a selected household; one or more zones within the selected household; and a representation of media being played by a selected zone of the one or more zones. While displaying the representations, the device receives, from a server, data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households; and, in response, updates the graphical display to display at least an updated representation of media being played by the selected zone.
US10341735B2
Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) for sharing content service provider subscriptions for user-selected media assets. The media guidance application may receive a media asset selection from the user and provide options to share subscriptions from the user's friends to allow the user to access the media asset.
US10341734B2
A media system, receives a received sequence of media content, for presentation at the media system and generates a comparison fingerprint of the received sequence of media content. The comparison fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the received sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for identification of additional content to a server system. The request is based at least in part on the comparison fingerprint. The media system receives a response to the request, including information enabling additional content to be selected for display at the media system based at least in part on the identification of the received sequence of media content, and presents a displayed sequence of media content that includes at least a portion of the received sequence of media content and at least a portion of the additional content.
US10341730B2
A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. A web-based Content Management System receives content uploaded online in file formats with metadata for title and topical area, and automatically converts it into video data format compatible with the VOD content delivery system indexed by title and topical area. A User Interface for the system delivers listings data to the viewer's TV indexed by title and topical area specified by the uploaded metadata.
US10341729B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that recommends media content based on activities recently performed by a user. For example, in response to determining that a user recently finished the laundry, the media guidance application may recommend a movie that other users accessed after finishing the laundry.
US10341722B2
A distributed indoor antenna system for over-the-air television reception includes technological improvements that increase signal quality on a display device. The system includes a plurality of active distributed antenna nodes and a reception gateway. The distributed antenna nodes are placed and oriented at various spaced-apart locations around a user's residence or other location of interest. Each of the plurality of active distributed antenna nodes includes an antenna, a demodulator, and a Wi-Fi converter. The plurality of active distributed antenna nodes receives the broadcast signals, decodes the broadcast signals, and transcodes the decoded broadcast signals into a Wi-Fi signal format. The reception gateway receives the transcoded broadcast signals and determines which signal or which signal combination to retransmit to the display device.
US10341717B2
An exemplary method includes a content delivery system determining that a user profile of a user is logged in to a first access device during a media content session associated with the first access device in which the first access device presents media content to the user, detecting that the user moves outside a vicinity of the first access device while the user profile is logged in to the first access device during the media content session, identifying, in response to the user moving outside the vicinity of the first access device, a second access device associated with the user and that is within a vicinity of the user, and automatically providing, in response to the identifying, session management content corresponding to the media content session associated with the first access device for presentation by the second access device while the user is outside the vicinity of the first access device. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.
US10341712B2
Video clips may be automatically edited to be synchronized for accompaniment by audio tracks. A preliminary version of a video clip may be made up from stored video content. Occurrences of video events within the preliminary version may be determined. A first audio track may include audio event markers. A first revised version of the video clip may be synchronized so that moments within the video clip corresponding to occurrences of video events are aligned with moments within the first audio track corresponding to audio event markers. Other audio tracks similar to the first audio track may be identified based on audio characteristic parameters. Other revised versions of the video clip may be synchronized.
US10341711B2
A remote controller device, according to one embodiment, includes a display screen on which can be displayed a first item of video content as well as video content programming information. The first item of video content is displayed on the remote controller display screen and corresponds to the same video content that simultaneously is being displayed on a screen of a TV that can be controlled by the remote controller device. In response to a user command for selecting a program or video that currently is not being shown on the TV, a second item of video content is displayed on the remote controller display screen while the TV continues to show the first item of video content. In response to another user command, the remote controller device causes the TV to change channels (or otherwise change its reception to another content source) and display the second item of video content.
US10341706B2
A computing device includes memory for storing commercial metadata and offer metadata harvested from within an offer distribution network. A processor compares the commercial metadata related to a broadcast commercial to be streamed to a client media device with the offer metadata related to available offers from offer providers, to generate a comparison. The processor then selects an offer from the available offers based on the comparison; determines when and over what video stream the broadcast commercial is to be streamed; detects that a screen device is paired to the client media device; and delivers the offer to a display of the screen device during streaming of the broadcast commercial over the video stream to the client media device. When a user of the screen device selects an indicia of the offer, the offer is collected into a virtual wallet from which the offer can be redeemed in various ways.
US10341701B2
A method and apparatus can include a system processor and a system controller. The system controller can retrieve data from at least one database, the data including information associated with at least one of subscribers, multimedia content, and subscriber interaction with customer premises equipment, and transmit, to a customer premises equipment of a subscriber, a recommendation of multimedia content. The system processor can formulate an input dataset from the retrieved data, perform nonlinear clustering on the input dataset to formulate subscriber and multimedia content clusters having similarities between elements therein, and determine the recommendation of multimedia content based on a metric distance between vector elements of the formulated subscriber and multimedia content clusters and the metric distance crossing a threshold.
US10341698B2
Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming using alternative streams of protected content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a processor, and memory containing a client application. In addition, the client application configures the processor to: request a top level index file identifying a plurality of alternative streams of protected content, where each of the alternative streams of protected content are encrypted using common cryptographic information; obtain the common cryptographic information; request portions of content from at least the plurality of alternative streams of protected content; access the protected content using the common cryptographic information; and playback the content.
US10341697B2
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for a replacement sequence of content to a content replacement system, and receives replacement media content selected based on the identified first sequence of media content. The media system presents the replacement media content to the end-user instead of the first sequence of media content. Presenting the replacement media content begins at a position in the first sequence of media content that is determined based on the reference position.
US10341692B2
A system for delivering audio and video to one or more users comprising a video/audio receiver, an encoder process/encoder machine operationally associated with the video/audio receiver, an UPLOADer Process/machine operationally associated with the encoder process/encoder machine, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) operationally associated with the UPLOADer Process/machine and one or more client/subscriber machines operationally associated with the CDN.
US10341685B2
A system for signaling extension functions used in decoding a sequence including a plurality of pictures, each picture processed at least in part according to a picture parameter set is disclosed. An extension presence signaling flag is read and used to determine whether flags signaling the performance of extension functions are to be read. The flags are only read if indicated by the extension presence signaling flag.
US10341684B2
A high definition surveillance video storage optimization system executes purging directives according to policy and retention meta data. Segments of video are purged from storage when thresholds of retention metrics are applied and when policy permits. Retention metrics are determined from acoustic sound energy, radiation energy, access control events, and movement. Policies reflect calendars and elapsed time, percentage of available storage, statutory and judicial mandates, and utility of the stored segments. Extrinsic sensor data and operations are recorded into non-transitory retention meta data stores. Metrics are transformed into retention flags at either time of recordation or time of purgation. Security file storage includes metadata about the environment acquired by sensors include doors, audio noise, object identification and tracking and inputs which influence retention or purging. A circuit filters for motion and stores metadata per segment. Meta data enables content based purging of least consequential files.
US10341681B2
3D video coding/decoding supporting inter-component prediction is made operatable with respect to a broader range of settings with respect to accompanying individual views with depth and deactivation/enablement of inter-component prediction, by using one or more flags in the data stream to control the enablement/disablement of the availability of inter-component prediction for coding units of a current picture.
US10341672B2
A method and a system for media synchronization are described. The method for media synchronization may include collecting stream source information, generating network delay information between stream sources by performing a delay test between the stream sources, setting synchronization information of a stream source corresponding to a specific channel based on the collected stream source information and the network delay information, measuring network delay with at least one user terminal to receive the stream source, and updating the synchronization information based on the measured network delay.
US10341666B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for sharing a candidate list. A method of generating a merging candidate list for a predictive block may include: producing, on the basis of a coding block including a predictive block on which a parallel merging process is performed, at least one of a spatial merging candidate and a temporal merging candidate of the predictive block; and generating a single merging candidate list for the coding block on the basis of the produced merging candidate. Thus, it is possible to increase processing speeds for coding and decoding by performing inter-picture prediction in parallel on a plurality of predictive blocks.
US10341652B2
An image coding method includes: performing Sample SAO processing on Y signal, Cb signal, and Cr signal which are included in a target block; performing arithmetic coding on a first flag indicating whether or not an SAO parameter, which indicates details of the SAO processing, of the target block is identical to an SAO parameter for a left neighboring block immediately left of the target block; and performing arithmetic coding on the SAO parameter for the target block, when the SAO parameter for the target block is different from the SAO parameter for the left neighboring block. In the arithmetic coding on the first flag, a single context is used to perform the arithmetic coding on the first flag for the luminance signal, the chrominance Cb signal, and the chrominance Cr signal.
US10341645B2
Provided is an image display device having a display panel and a light source that may include a light path conversion sheet on the display panel; and a reflecting plate on the light path conversion sheet, the reflecting plate reflecting a light emitted from the light source, wherein the light path conversion sheet directs the light reflected from the reflecting plate toward the display panel.
US10341643B2
A method for decoding a compressed image stream, the image stream having a plurality of frames, each frame consisting of a merged image including pixels from a left image and pixels from a right image. The method involves the steps of receiving each merged image; changing a clock domain from the original input signal to an internal domain; for each merged image, placing at least two adjacent pixels into an input buffer and interpolating an intermediate pixel, for forming a reconstructed left frame and a reconstructed right frame according to provenance of the adjacent pixels; and reconstructing a stereoscopic image stream from the left and right image frames. The invention also teaches a system for decoding a compressed image stream.
US10341635B2
A stereoscopic imaging method includes: acquiring a convergence disparity value, which corresponds to a screen position at which a viewer is looking, from an original disparity map corresponding to first and second images that correspond to different viewing angles; generating a disparity transformation model based on the convergence disparity value and viewer-related information; transforming the original disparity map into a transformed disparity map based on the disparity transformation model; and synthesizing the first and second images into a stereoscopic image based on the transformed disparity map.
US10341631B2
Creating a sub-titles stream or file composed of sub-titles elements. For each sub-titles element in said sub-titles elements, a sub-titles element is inserted into the sub-titles stream or file, at least one end-of-block condition related to a mode of presentation of sub-titles is verified, and a datum representative of an end of a block according to the mode of presentation of sub-titles is inserted into the sub-titles stream or file upon satisfying said at least one end-of-block condition. A sub-titles stream or file may be presented on a terminal of a user by selecting on the terminal a mode of presentation of sub-titles, reading a sub-titles block associated with the mode of presentation in the stream or file, and presenting on the terminal the at least one sub-titles block according to the mode of presentation.
US10341630B2
A time lapse video is created in real-time, without post-production. User configurations are set for a time lapse video recording. A real-time video feed is received into a buffer. Based on a user configuration for frequency, certain frames in the buffer can be discarded prior to generating the video file. The time lapse video is output as a video file according to user configurations.
US10341629B2
An in-place imaging device, including: a housing and a support stand, the housing including: a camera; a wireless communication module; a touch sensitive screen configured for displaying content and receiving input; and a processing unit; wherein the imaging device is adapted to capture footage with the camera and transmitting the footage via the wireless communication module to a network access point. The footage is transmitted to a media server via a communications network to which the network access point is connected.
US10341627B2
A system, method, and/or apparatus for displaying and selecting information using a single, handheld device is provided. The handheld device includes a combined projection and selection tool that projects a user interface for selection of information by the same device. As incorporated into a single unit, the components of the handheld device generally include a camera, a light-emitting component, and a projector, with at least one of the components being stabilized relative to the movement of the handheld device. At least a part of the projected image from the handheld device is selectable based on the position of the stabilized component relative to the position of a nonstabilized component. The handheld also includes a trigger for selection of one or more of the projected items based on position of a laser indicator pointed at the projected image.
US10341623B2
An optical projection system includes a light source module, an optical engine, a thermoelectric generator, a storage unit, a plurality of electronic devices, and a selection unit. The light source module is capable of emitting at least one light beam, and the optical engine receives the light beam and modulates the light beam according to at least one image signal to form an image beam. The thermoelectric generator absorbs heat in the optical projection system and converts the heat into electrical energy, and the storage unit stores the electrical energy. The electronic devices receive the electrical energy stored in the storage unit and have at least two different threshold voltages. The selection unit selectively turns on at least one of electronic devices according to a state of charge of the storage unit.
US10341622B2
Smaller halftone tiles are implemented on a first modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This techniques uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to effectively increase the number of levels provided by a given tile size in the halftone modulator. It addresses the issue of reduced contrast ratio at low light levels for small tile sizes and allows the use of smaller PSFs which reduce halo artifacts in the projected image and may be utilized in 3D projecting and viewing.
US10341621B2
Full-color images of low-light scenes are generated by the systems and methods described herein using only two light channels. An array of photosensitive pixels includes two sets of pixels, the first sensitive only to light associated with a first light channel, the second only to light associated with a second light channel. Thus the first set of pixels generate a first set of electrical signals in response to incident light within the first light channel, and the second set of pixels generate a second set of electrical signals in response to incident light within the second light channel. An image processor receives the first and second sets of electrical signals and generates a full-color image of the scene by processing only signals generated by the first and second sets of pixels.
US10341615B2
A system and method for mapping of text events from multiple sources with camera outputs is provided. The system includes a CCTV keyboard for assigning each surveillance camera to one or more zones containing one or more point of transaction devices; a capture section for receiving data from one of the one or more transaction devices when the capture section receives a data request command from the CCTV keyboard; and a CCTV switching system for displaying video from the at least one or more surveillance cameras and data from the transaction device. The method assigns each surveillance camera to one or more zones containing one or more transaction devices; receives data from one of the one or more transaction devices when the data request command is received; and displays video from the at least one or more surveillance cameras and data from the transaction device.
US10341609B1
A method and apparatus for synchronizing group video is provided herein. Upon a triggering event, users viewing a video over an LTE network will transmit synchronization information (e.g., a frame number, or a time stamp of the video frame, . . . , etc.) over an LMR and/or LTE network. In response, user devices will synchronize to the same spot in the video.
US10341604B2
A camera system includes a lens-changeable camera body and an interchangeable lens. The camera system includes a usage history information collecting unit configured to collect a plurality of usage history information related to a usage state of the camera system, a usage history information storage unit configured to store the collected usage history information, an information extracting unit configured to extract, from a plurality of the usage history information stored in the usage history information storage unit, usage history information related to the interchangeable lens being attached, and a lens-related information storage unit configured to store the extracted usage history information related to the interchangeable lens.
US10341598B1
A method for notifying a user of a television to save power consumption by a plurality of multimedia devices connected to the television is proposed. When the television presents desired multimedia content based on signals provided by one of the multimedia device, the television detects whether the other multimedia device(s) is (are) providing signals of multimedia content at the same time. Upon detecting that any one of the other multimedia device(s) is providing signals of multimedia content, the television outputs a user-perceivable notification accordingly.
US10341596B1
An image sensor system including: a timing control circuit, an image sensor and a modulation circuit. The timing control circuit is arranged to determine if a coding condition is fit according to an input signal and generate a control signal when the coding condition is fit, wherein the input signal is generated in response to each pulse of a clock signal. The image sensor is coupled to the timing control circuit, and the image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, wherein one of the plurality of pixels receives the control signal from the timing control circuit and outputs a sensing signal. The modulation circuit is coupled to the image sensor and arranged to receive the sensing signal and generate an output signal according to the sensing signal, wherein a frequency of the output signal is different from a frequency of the sensing signal.
US10341595B2
An image sensor includes two or more phase-difference detection pixels disposed adjacent to each other, a plurality of general pixels spaced apart from the phase-difference detection pixels, first and second peripheral pixels, and first to third light shields. The first and second peripheral pixels are adjacent to the phase-difference detection pixels, and between the phase-difference detection pixels and the general pixels. The first light shield is disposed in one of the general pixels and has a first width. The second light shield extends into the first peripheral pixel from a first area between the phase-difference detection pixels and the first peripheral pixel, and has a second width different from the first width. The third light shield extends into the second peripheral pixel from a second area between the phase-difference detection pixels and the second peripheral pixel, and has a third width different from the first width.
US10341589B2
An imaging device includes: a pixel array section having an array of pixels, each of which has a photoelectric converting device and outputs an electric signal according to an input photon; a sense circuit section having a plurality of sensor circuits each of which makes binary decision on whether there is a photon input to a pixel in a predetermined period upon reception of the electric signal therefrom; and a decision result IC section which integrates decision results from the sense circuits, pixel by pixel or for each group of pixels, multiple times to generate imaged data with a gradation, the decision result IC section including a count circuit which performs a count process to integrate the decision results from the sense circuits, and a memory for storing a counting result for each pixel from the count circuit, the sense circuits sharing the count circuit for integrating the decision results.
US10341585B2
An electronic device includes a lens, an optical filter asymmetric to an optical axis of the lens, and an image sensor including a visible light image sensor and a non-visible light image sensor. The optical filter has an opening and is configured to transmit visible light and block at least one type of non-visible light. The visible light image sensor is configured to sense the visible light and the non-visible light image sensor is configured to sense the at least one type of non-visible light.
US10341565B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for compensating for image motion induced by a relative motion between an imaging platform and a scene. During an exposure period, frames of the scene may be captured respectively in multiple spectral bands, where one of the spectral bands has a lower light level than the first spectral band, and contemporaneous frames include a nearly identical induced image motion. Image eigenfunctions are utilized to estimate the induced image motion from the higher SNR spectral band, and compensate in each of the multiple bands.
US10341562B1
Video information generated by an image sensor for a capture period and motion information of the image sensor during the capture period may be obtained. The video information may define images of a video based on light received within a field of view of an image sensor during the capture period. Relative positions of the image sensor between different moments within the capture period may be estimated based on the motion information. Depth information for a portion of an environment of the image sensor may be determined based on the video information generated at the different moments and the relative positions of the image sensor between the different moments, or based on stereo depth mapping. A translational motion correction may be applied to one or more of the images based on the depth information and the relative positions of the image sensor to warp the image(s) and stabilize the video.
US10341561B2
In a distributed video encoding system, a video is encoded by splitting into video segments and encoding the segments using multiple encoders. Prior to segmenting the video for distributed video encoding, image stabilization is performed on the video. For each frame in the video, a corresponding transform operation is first computed based on an estimated camera movement. Next, the video is segmented into multiple video segments and the corresponding per-frame transform information for the multiple video segments. The video segments are then distributed to multiple processing nodes that perform the image stabilization of the corresponding video segment by applying the corresponding transform. The results from all the stabilized video segments are then stitched back together for further video encoding operation.
US10341560B2
A method is executed at a camera for controlling a camera mode. The camera is operated in a night mode in which an IR filter is not interposed between a lens assembly and a sensor array of the camera. While operating in the night mode, the camera receives at the sensor array ambient light that is not filtered by the IR filter, and determines whether the received ambient light is due to a light source other than an IR light source. The camera continues operation of the camera in the night mode when it is determined that the received ambient light is due to an IR light source. In some implementations, the camera switches the operation of the camera from the night mode to a day mode when it is determined the received ambient light is due to a light source other than an IR light source.
US10341559B2
A multicamera panoramic imaging system having no parallax. In an example, the multicamera panoramic imaging system includes multiple discrete, imaging systems disposed in a side-by-side array, wherein a field of view of each discrete, imaging systems is conjoined with a field of view of each adjacent discrete imaging system, further wherein a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any one of the discrete imaging systems will be substantially parallel to a stencil of chief rays at the edge of the field of view of any adjacent ones of the discrete imaging systems such that all of the substantially parallel stencils of chief rays appear to converge to a common point when viewed from object space. A method for forming an image of an object having no parallax.
US10341555B2
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus that involves improved characterization of an object based on its surface roughness and other unique features without having to necessarily define a fixed and predetermined region of interest. In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides a method for characterizing an object based on a pattern of the object's surface roughness. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a unique image of a feature on the surface of the object, converting the image obtained into certain electrical signals and processing the electrical signals so they are associated with the object and thereby provide a characterization of the object that is used to generate a unique identifying signature for the object.
US10341554B2
A portable communication device is provided for generating a panorama image. The portable communication device includes a touchscreen display; a fingerprint sensor; an image sensor; and a processor adapted to display, via the touchscreen display, a preview image obtained via the image sensor; receive, via the fingerprint sensor, a user input while the preview image is presented; and in response to the user input, generate a panorama image using the image sensor.
US10341537B2
Spectator view into an interactive gaming world showcased in a live event held in a real-world venue
A method including establishing a multi-player gaming session of a gaming application that generates an interactive gaming world, the live event being a real-world venue where players playing the gaming application are present. A 3D live view of the venue is generated based on captured video streams, and generated for a physical POV anchored to a physical location in the venue. The 3D live view is streamed to an HMD of a remote user located outside the venue, and presents an augmented reality view of the live event. A request is received from the remote user to jump into the gaming session as a spectator of the interactive gaming world from a virtual POV defined by a virtual location in the gaming world. The spectator view is delivered to the HMD of the remote user for display, the spectator view presenting a virtual reality view of the interactive gaming world.
US10341536B2
Disclosed are an imaging device, a control method therefor, and an imaging system capable of allowing efficient use by multiple users and achieving improvement of a rate of operation. An imaging device which photoelectrically reads fluorescence or chemiluminescence emitted from an object to image the object includes a control unit which receives first control information for controlling a first function and second control information for controlling a second function from a plurality of external terminals and performs control based on the received first and second control information. The control unit recognizes the execution states of the first function and the second function in each external terminal based on the first and second control information output from each external terminal, restricts simultaneous processing of the first function in the plurality of external terminals, and performs parallel processing of the first function and the second function in the plurality of external terminals.
US10341534B2
Example implementations relate to color compensation. Some examples may print a calibration target background on a non-opaque media. The calibration target background may have a color that increases a dynamic range of a set of color measurements of a calibration target foreground. Some examples may print the calibration target foreground over the calibration target background. Additionally, some examples may measure an optical density of the calibration target foreground with a reflective sensor and may calibrate a printer based on the measured optical density.
US10341508B2
An image file temporarily copied to a storage unit from an outside in order to create an album is deleted from the storage unit after the album is ordered. Therefore, the image file needs to be copied again from the outside in order to re-edit the album that has been created once, degrading user operability and requiring many apparatus resources. In order to solve this, according to an example of the present invention, in an information processing apparatus which lays out a plurality of images, images are obtained, the obtained images are stored in the storage unit, and the obtained images are selected and laid out. At this time, information on the selected images is left, and images other than these are deleted from the storage unit.
US10341500B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a non-volatile memory; a volatile memory being configured to store first, second and third programs; and a processor configured to: in a first activation processing mode, transfer the first program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory; transfer the second program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory based on the stored first program; and parallelly perform, first processing based on the stored second program and transfer of the third program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory, and in a second activation processing mode, transfer the first program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory; transfer the third program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory based on the stored first program; and parallelly perform second processing based on the stored third program and transfer of the second program from the non-volatile memory to the volatile memory.
US10341495B2
Presented are a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for aiding emergency response. The method includes receiving, by a processor, a plurality of data corresponding to a geographic location from a plurality of data sources. The method further includes aggregating, by the processor, the plurality of data. The method still further includes determining, by the processor, a first profile and a second profile based on the aggregated plurality of data. The method can conclude with transmitting, by the processor, the first profile to a plurality of user equipments and the second profile to at least one user equipment, wherein the at least one user equipment is different from the plurality of user equipments.
US10341494B2
An approach to managing emergency response data for providing in response to an emergency call makes use of different management approaches depending on the source of the data. For example, data provided directly by the individual to whom the data refers may be handled in one way, while data provided indirectly by an entity or other individual may be handled in another way. Information provided indirectly may be validated and/or its source indicated when presented to an emergency responder.
US10341493B1
Techniques described herein are directed to utilizing an interposing phone number and associated phone tree to direct phone calls intended for a merchant to a customer-facing user interface that facilitates online requests to integrate multiple input channels (e.g., requests made by phone and requests made online) into a single output workflow. An interposing phone number provided by a third-party service can be associated with a merchant profile and an interposing phone tree can be implemented in association with an incoming call directed to the interposing phone number. A path of the interposing phone tree can cause a message including a link to be sent to a mobile device associated with the incoming call. Responsive to receiving an indication of activation of the link, an instruction can be sent to the mobile device causing a customer-facing user interface to be presented to enable a customer to interact with the merchant.
US10341492B2
Method, device, and system being performed by a first station. The method includes receiving a first call identification of a first communication session between the first station and a second station. The method further includes receiving a request, from a third station, to allow the first communication session to be transferred from the first station to the third station. Following the receipt of the request, the method includes displaying a prompt on the first station for permission to allow the first communication session to be transferred to the third station and, when the permission is received, transmitting a response, to the third station, granting permission to transfer the first communication session from the first station to the third station. Additionally, upon the call being transferred, an advisory, such as an audio or visual message, may alert the second client station of the call transfer event.
US10341491B1
Identifying unreported issues in computing applications based on customer service interactions and website analytics. A computing system may receive communication data between a CSP and a user. The system may analyze the communication data using an NLP algorithm to identify a plurality of concepts in the communication data. The system may identify, based on the concepts, a target application associated with the communications between the CSP and the user. The system may receive analytics data from a web server hosting the target application and identify a feature of the target application that is not functioning. The system may then assign a priority to the feature of the target application that is not functioning based on a type of the feature and the received analytics data and generate a service issue record for the feature of the target application that is not functioning and the assigned priority.
US10341487B2
An authentication system to validate the authenticity of call center agents by using a reverse authentication procedure. The authentication system includes a verification module that verifies the authenticity of agents calling from the call center. The verification module retrieves reference answers in response to the user-provided query questions from a media server. The media server may be located inside the enterprise network. These reference questions and their corresponding reference answers are provided by users when registering with the enterprise network.
US10341486B2
A wireless communication network provides various services to its subscribers. Techniques and architecture described herein allow subscribers to the wireless communication network to configure various services related to handling of telephone calls to the subscribers. Such techniques allow for a user to define preferences related to third parties that call the user and how the user wishes for such calls from the third party to be handled by the wireless communication network.
US10341477B2
There is disclosed a mobile terminal comprising a body; a ground of a printed circuit board loaded in the body; a data port located in the body to have an external input terminal inserted therein and connected with the ground; a metallic member defining an exterior of the body and comprising a slit; a feeding portion connected with a first point of the metallic member and configured to supply power; a first ground line connected with the ground at a second point located between the first point of the metallic member and the slit; and a second ground line connected with the data port connected with the ground when the external input terminal is inserted in the data port, so that the mobile terminal has to include no additional switch to reduce the number of the components and the antenna of the mobile terminal may be selectively and structurally connected without the algorithm configured to manipulate the switch by sensing that the external input terminal is inserted in the data port to operate the switch to minimize the expense increase cost to improve the antenna performance.
US10341460B2
Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Account information can be reconciled locally to determine whether to add or enable an active account or an account proxy to a client device. Account proxies can be quickly enabled by a single user action. The methods and systems allow enabled accounts and account proxies to be removed from a first client device without propagating the deletion to a second client device.
US10341445B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying members that increase engagement at an online social network. In one example, a method includes retrieving network connectivity and member interaction data for members of an online social networking service that includes a plurality of explicit social networks, building statistical correlations between properties of the respective explicit social networks and interactions between members of the respective explicit social networks, and ranking a set of potential new members for one of the explicit social networks according to the statistical correlations and a statistical likelihood that the new members will increase member interactions with the explicit social network.
US10341440B2
A method and a corresponding device are provided for transferring messages in a computer network, characterized in that in a first operating mode prior to the transmission of a message, it is checked whether or not it is a message which relates to a synchronization of nodes of the computer network.
US10341431B2
A method and apparatus is presented for announcing the existence of cryptographic key pairs within a distributed ledger system in which no central trusted authority is available, consisting of sending a key announcement message by a network connected device to other network connected devices over a peer-to-peer network for inclusion in the distributed ledger. Once a valid key announcement message for a public key is included in the ledger, any future transactions that reference an address associated with the public key or other messages concerning said public key are accepted by other network connected devices on the peer-to-peer network and are included in the distributed ledger. If transactions or other messages reference an address not associated with an announced public key, they may be rejected by the peer-to-peer network and may not be included in the distributed ledger.
US10341430B1
Systems and methods for graph based artificial intelligence systems for identity management systems are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may utilize a network graph approach to peer grouping of identities of distributed networked enterprise computing environment. Specifically, in certain embodiments, data on the identities and the respective entitlements assigned to each identity as utilized in an enterprise computer environment may be obtained by an identity management system. A network identity graph may be constructed using the identity and entitlement data. The identity graph can then be clustered into peer groups of identities. The peer groups of identities may be used by the identity management system and users thereof in risk assessment or other identity management tasks.
US10341428B2
A method is provided of using a set of servers to provide deferential services that have a pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes defining a virtual checkpoint frame interval that is constrained to a duration of up to half of the pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes collecting packets and transactions occurring during the interval that are processed by a current server. The method includes, responsive to an end of the interval, (i) writing, to a shared state database, a state of processing of the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and (ii) releasing the packets and transactions occurring during the interval. The method includes copying the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and the state, from the current server to another server for subsequent processing, responsive to an indication of an instance loss on the current server.
US10341427B2
In providing packet forwarding policies in a virtual service network that includes a network node and a pool of service load balancers serving a virtual service, the network node: receives a virtual service session request from a client device, the request including a virtual service network address for the virtual service; compares the virtual service network address in the request with the virtual service network address in each at least one packet forwarding policy; in response to finding a match between the virtual service network address in the request and a given virtual service network address in a given packet forwarding policy, determines the given destination in the given packet forwarding policy; and sends the request to a service load balancer in the pool of service load balancers associated with the given destination, where the service load balancer establishes a virtual service session with the client device.
US10341423B2
A server receives, from a first mobile device, a request for content identified by a first resource identifier and a set of presence codes. The set of presence codes includes a presence code for the first mobile device and at least one other presence code for one or more mobile devices in proximity to the first mobile device. The server selects a set of allocated resource identifiers associated with one or more presence codes for one or more of the mobile devices in proximity to the first mobile device having the content cached therein. Each allocated resource identifier in the set is different than the first resource identifier. The server then sends to the first mobile device the set of allocated resource identifiers and associated presence codes for use in retrieving the content cached in at least one of the mobile devices in proximity to the first mobile device.
US10341416B2
A mobile radio communications network within which a mobile radio communications device is to operate with access to a Small Data Transmission (SDT) feature is disclosed. The network includes a first network device arranged to receive SDT signalling initiated by the mobile radio communications device and a second network device arranged to receive signalling from the first network device as part of an establishment procedure for attempted SDT communications, the first network device being further arranged to determine if SDT should be prevented for the mobile radio communications device and responsive to its signalling exchange with the second network device, and to initiate a SDT rejection message for use in the control of the mobile radio communications device if SDT is to be prevented.
US10341413B2
Provided are a method and system for synchronizing a robot with a server. The service sends a time service command including a current time of the server to the robot, and the robot receives the time service command, so as to enable time synchronization of the robot with the server. A control device receives first command data carrying a first timestamp sent from the server, and then determines whether the first timestamp in the first command data has expired. If the first timestamp has expired, the control device receives command data resent from the server until second command data carrying an unexpired second timestamp is received. Finally, the control device controls the robot to execute a corresponding action at a time corresponding to the second timestamp based on the second command data, so as to realize the synchronization of the robot with the command data sent from the server.
US10341411B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing message encode/decode as a service are disclosed. According to one method for providing message encoding or decoding as a service, the method occurs at an encode/decode function (EDF) node. The method includes receiving a message encode or decode operation request containing a message identifier and an operation identifier. The method also includes performing, using the operation identifier, a message encode or decode operation involving accessing or modifying at least one TLV element decoded from a message indicated by the message identifier. The method further includes sending a response indicating whether the message encode or decode operation was successfully performed.
US10341406B2
In one implementation a method of transmitting a multimedia file over a data network is provided that involves receiving from a device in a data network a first message in a first protocol that request first data associated with the multimedia file, the first data being useable by the device to establish a streaming session that involves a transmission of the multimedia file. The first message includes identifying data of a referring site. The method also involves transmitting to the device the first data and optionally the identifying data of the referring site and then receiving from the device a second message in a second protocol for the purpose of creating a streaming session associated with the multimedia file. A streaming session is then created for transmitting the multimedia file to the device. In another implementation a method is provided that involves receiving in a computing device from a referring site an identifier of first data associated with a multimedia file and identifying data of the referring site, wherein the first data is useable for establishing a streaming session for downloading the multimedia file. The method further involves transmitting from the computing device a first message in a first protocol that requests the first data associated with the multimedia file and receiving in the computing device the first data. Upon receiving the first data the computing device transmits a second message in a second protocol for the purpose of creating the streaming session associated with the multimedia file, the second message including the first data and the identifying data of the referring site. The computing device then receives via the streaming session, all or a portion of the multimedia file. In some implementations, the first protocol and the second protocol are the same.
US10341404B2
A system and method provides dynamically selected media content to someone using an electronic device in a social network environment. Items of media content are selected for the user based on his or her relationships with one or more other users. The user's relationships with other users are reflected in the selected media content and its format. An order is assigned to the items of media content, for example, based on their anticipated importance to the user, and the items of media content are displayed to the user in the assigned order. The user may change the order of the items of media content. The user's interactions with media content available in the social network environment are monitored, and those interactions are used to select additional items of media content for the user.
US10341399B2
A method and apparatus for sharing presentation data, interactions, and annotation information between devices. The method includes: converting the presentation data into at least one image; transmitting the at least one image to the second device; displaying an image from among the at least one image on a screen of the first device, and transmitting image identification information about the displayed image to the second device; adding annotation data to the displayed image, based on a user input; and transmitting annotation information about the annotation data to the second device. The second device displays an image corresponding to the image identification information on a screen of the second device based on the image identification information, and the second device displays the annotation information on the image displayed on the screen of the second device the annotation information.
US10341397B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium, storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for causing at least portions off display screens of plural terminals connected to each other through a network to display information in a synchronous manner, includes receiving material information indicating information regarding a material to be displayed, receiving operation information indicating details of operations that users perform on the respective terminals, and recording minutes information in which the material information, the operation information, and time information indicating times at which the users perform the operations are associated with each other.
US10341396B2
A method and device are described for transmitting a text message over a voice call. The method includes initiating a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session for the voice call wherein the SIP session comprises at least one of a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE request and a SIP INFO request. The method includes inserting a text message in at least one of the SIP INVITE request and the SIP INFO request. The method further includes transmitting, by the communication device, the text message over the SIP session to a called device.
US10341395B2
This disclosure is directed to an apparatus for modifying a temporal signal association in a complex computing network such that a future computing operation is intelligently executed based on the modified signal association.
US10341391B1
A processing device in one embodiment comprises a processor coupled to a memory and is configured to obtain data characterizing a plurality of network sessions for a given user identifier. The network sessions are initiated from one or more user devices over at least one network and may comprise respective virtual private network (VPN) sessions. The processing device is further configured to extract features from the obtained data, to detect at least one potentially anomalous network session among the plurality of network sessions for the given user identifier by applying the extracted features to a support vector machine model, and to apply a rules-based verification process to the detected potentially anomalous network session in order to verify that the detected potentially anomalous network session is an anomalous network session. An alert is generated based on a result of the rules-based verification process and transmitted to a security agent.
US10341389B2
In some examples, a system receives a context of an application to request a set of network traffic, the context including a requested behavior of a service enabled by the application, and provides a policy to a network device of a network, the policy to regulate the set of network traffic based on the context, the policy provided to the network device to cause the network device to route the set of network traffic based on applying the policy, the routing comprising forwarding the set of network traffic to a destination or denying transmission of the set of network traffic to the destination.
US10341386B2
The management server includes a policy storage that stores a security policy, and a first hardware processor that, in response to reception of a preparation completion notification from each of all of two or more information processing apparatuses, outputs an update instruction to each of the two or more information processing apparatuses. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes a security information storage that stores security information, and a second hardware processor that executes a process using any of the stored security information, acquires new security information corresponding to security information to which the reference date and time, which the current date and time have passed, correspond, transmits a preparation completion notification to the management server, and in response to reception of the update instruction from the management server, updates the security information with the new security information.
US10341381B2
A technique includes performing a plurality of instances of retrieving components of a security key from a plurality of locations of an electronic device and constructing the security key from the components. The technique includes inhibiting electromagnetic field-based eavesdropping from being used to reveal the security key, where the inhibiting includes varying a protocol that is used to retrieve the components among the instances.
US10341379B2
Apparatus and methods for mitigating network attacks, such as by dynamically re-routing traffic. Various disclosed embodiments manipulate path-based routing of the backbone network to insert a scrubbing appliance within the backbone network topology, rather than using traditional network addressed tunnels in the edge network. In one implementation, traffic entering the backbone network ingress peer routers (from either another backbone network, or an edge network) is normally destination-address routed via the backbone to its appropriate egress router based on a path label; however, when a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is detected, the ingress peer router inserts an additional hop into the path label that redirects dirty traffic to a substantially centralized scrubbing appliance. The benefits of the disclosed solutions include, among other things, significantly reduced attack response/recovery times without significant capital outlays.
US10341374B1
Systems and methods include implementing a remote machine learning service that collects digital event data; collecting incumbent digital threat scores generated by an incumbent machine learning model and successor digital threat scores generated by a successor digital threat machine learning (ML) model; implementing anomalous-shift-detection that detects whether the successor digital threat scores of the successor digital threat ML model produces an anomalous shift; if the anomalous shift is detected by the machine learning model validation system, blocking a deployment of the successor digital threat model to a live ensemble of digital threat scoring models; or if the anomalous shift is not detected by the machine learning model validation system, deploying the successor digital threat ML model by replacing the incumbent digital threat ML model in a live ensemble of digital threat scoring models with the successor digital threat ML model.
US10341372B2
Detecting anomalous user behavior is provided. User activity is logged for a set of users. The user activity is divided into distinct time intervals. For each distinct time interval, logged user activity is converted to a numerical representation of each user's activities for that distinct time interval. A clustering process is used on the numerical representations of user activities to determine which users have similar activity patterns in each distinct time interval. A plurality of peer groups of users is generated based on determining the similar activity patterns in each distinct time interval. Anomalous user behavior is detected based on a user activity change in a respective peer group of users within a distinct time interval.
US10341365B1
A method for hiding transition events during malware detection comprising processing of an object within a VM, intercepting an attempted execution of an instruction located on a page in memory associated with the VM, responsive to determining the page includes instructions corresponding to one of a predefined set of function calls, (i) inserting a first transition event into the memory at a location on the page of a first instruction of the instructions, and (ii) setting a permission of the page to be execute only, and responsive to further processing within the VM causing an attempt to read from or write to the page including the first transition event, (i) halting processing within the VM, (ii) removing the first transition event, (iii) setting the permission of the page to prohibit execution, and (iv) resuming the processing is shown.
US10341362B2
Communications are established between a base station and a mobile unit. The mobile unit analyzes the content of at least some information received from the base station relating to neighboring cells. When the analyzing indicates that the base station is a cloned base station, a warning is initiated to the user.
US10341358B2
A method for authenticating a meter reading. The method includes obtaining a measurement representing a measured attribute of a user, analyzing the measurement to generate an authentication code, generating the meter reading based on the measurement and the authentication code, presenting, by the metering device, the meter reading to the user who alters and reports the meter reading as a reported meter reading, analyzing, by a meter reading analysis device, the reported meter reading to detect that the meter reading was altered by the user, and generating, by the meter reading analysis device and in response to the detecting, a dispatch request to dispatch a human inspector for validating the measurement.
US10341354B2
A high availability (HA) Identity Bridge (IDBridge) between an on-premises Active Directory (AD) and a cloud-based Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) is provided. A connection to an AD, coupled to a first network, is established. A connection to an IDCS, coupled to a second network, is established, the IDCS including a System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) directory. A plurality of selectable AD OUs are displayed in a GUI, and a selection of one or more OUs is then received. Each member group of the selected OUs is displayed in the GUI, and a selection of one or more member groups of the selected OUs is then received. The users of the selected OUs and the selected member groups of the selected OUs are monitored to identify users and groups that have been added, modified or deleted. The identified users and groups are then synchronized to the SCIM directory.
US10341350B2
Disclosed embodiments include identifying a first identity having a first level of privileged network access, identifying a network resource that the first identity is communicating with, classifying the network resource as a network resource to be dynamically monitored, dynamically monitoring connections activity of the identified network resource to determine a second identity, wherein the second identity is determined based on it having a second level of privileged network access that is different from the first level of privileged network access and having attempted to establish a connection with the network resource, classifying, based on the determination of the second identity, the network resource as a potential source of privileged access escalation vulnerabilities, and performing, based on the classification that the network resource is a potential source of privileged access escalation vulnerabilities, at least one of: triggering an alert regarding the potential source of privileged access escalation vulnerabilities, performing a network security remediation operation for at least one of the first identity, the second identity, and the network resource, and identifying a plurality of other identities with levels of privileged network access different from the first level of privileged network access and that have attempted to establish connections with the network resource.
US10341349B2
Intelligent methods of providing online security against hackers, which prevents the hackers from obtaining unauthorized access to secure resources. A first application session established between a first client and a first application of a first host device is detected. The first application is associated with a first plurality of security time limits that divide security for the first application into security tiers. A duration of the first application session established between the first client and the first application is monitored. One or more first security actions are executed against the first application session responsive to the duration of the first application session reaching a security time limit of the first plurality of security time limits. One or more second security actions are executed against the first application session responsive to the duration of the first application session reaching another security time limit of the first plurality of security time limits.
US10341346B2
An information processing method executed in a computer, the processing method including: starting a network application that belongs to a specified network domain, starting a security application that restricts accesses from the network application except for specified accesses including accesses within same network domain, detecting a peripheral device coupled to the computer, and generating an interface for accessing to the detected peripheral device so that the generated interface belongs to the same specified network domain as the network application.
US10341339B2
The various embodiments set forth an apparatus comprising an earpiece, a sensor configured to measure an inherent attribute associated with a user, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with a wireless access point of a wireless communication network, and a controller. The controller is configured to establish authenticated access to the wireless communication network based on the inherent attribute associated with the user. An advantage of the disclosed embodiment is that a hearable device can conveniently authenticate user access to a network with enhanced security, based on one or more inherence factors that are measured by the hearable device.
US10341338B1
A processing device of a server executing an application establishes a network connection to a client device having a smart card, detects a program call associated with an authentication of a user of the client device for accessing the application, and determines, based on the program call, whether the smart card is a remote smart card for the server. Responsive to determining that the smart card is the remote smart card, the processing device redirects the program call to the client device via a communication channel of the network connection and authenticates, by the server, the user of the client device in view of data returned by the program call, as if the remote smart card were local to the server.
US10341331B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that retains firmware and performs processing based on the firmware, receives a command from an external device, and transmits a predetermined response to the external device as processing of the firmware in a case where the received command is a predetermined authentication command.
US10341329B2
A method is provided for generating a public/private key pair and certificate. The method includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) with an IC specific initial public and private key pair and a public key certificate signed by a manufacturer of the IC. A smartcard having stored thereon customer unique configuration data related to the IC is provided to a customer of the IC manufacturer. The smartcard enables the customer to generate a customization value and a customized public key using the customer unique configuration data. In response to the customer receiving the public key certificate signed by the IC manufacturer from the IC, the customer is enabled to provide the customization value, the customized public key, and a public key certificate signed by the customer to the IC. The IC is thus enabled to generate a customized private key, thus providing an IoT device with a public/private key pair and a certificate signed by the device manufacturer without the use of a trusted party.
US10341326B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to providing network security. A network security device parses an initial handshake or communication to establish an encrypted channel between two endpoints. The network security device validates a certificate chain between the two endpoints and determines a reputation for each of one or more signers of a respective one or more certificates of the certificate chain. The network security device determines a certificate reputation for the certificate chain.
US10341325B2
Disclosed are various examples for determining whether a client device complies with compliance rules while authenticating a user account. A client certificate can include an identifier corresponding to a client device. An identity provider can extract the identifier while authenticating the user account. The identity provider can determine whether the client device complies with compliance rules prior to authenticating the user account on the client device.
US10341316B2
A password manager injects credentials into a web browser request. A user can browse to a form provided by a server that includes a password field. A plug-in requests a password for the field from a password manager. The actual password is not provided to the plug-in or the browser. The password manager provides a proxy password that is not the actual password for the field. A request interceptor in a separate process from the browser intercepts the completed request as it is sent to the server and replaces the proxy password with the actual password.
US10341315B2
Disclosed are examples of managing access sessions for a computing device. In some examples, a key is generated using a code obtained through a user interface. The key decrypts data stored in a data store of a client device. The key is decrypted using a boot time that represents a latest time the client device was booted. The key is stored in secured storage that is accessible by the at least one application based on a developer certificate.
US10341309B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system and method for cryptographically protecting data transferred between spatially distributed computing devices. An intermediary database may be used to facilitate the protected data transfer and/or record the data transfers. A first computing device may transfer, to the intermediary database, encrypted data that may be securely transferred to other computing devices. A second computing device may generate a GUI used to view data available from the intermediary database. Once data is selected by the second device, the second device may transfer a key (or other encryption mechanism) to the first device. The first computing device may encrypt the data using the received key and transmit the encrypted data to the intermediary database. The intermediary database may transmit the encrypted data to the second computing device, and the second computing device may decrypt and use the data. Similar data transfers may be performed among numerous other computing devices connected to the intermediary database.
US10341308B2
Various method for transmitting information from a first information provider to a second information provider via an information intermediary are disclosed. At a first point in time and at the information intermediary, first information from the first information provider is received. A plurality of different types of data regarding the first information are generated. The plurality of different types of data regarding the first information are associated with a unique identifier of the first information. At a second point in time and at the information intermediary, a token comprising the unique identifier of the first information and an identifier of the type of data regarding the first information is received. The data regarding the first information of the type indicated in the token is retrieved. At least part of the data regarding the first information of the type indicated in the token is transmitted to the second information provider.
US10341304B1
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for retrieving authentication credentials and decryption keys to access remotely stored user-generated content. The systems and methods receive a first authentication credential and access a second authentication credential based on receiving the first authentication credential. The system and methods generate an authentication token and an encryption token. Based on the authentication token, the system and methods access a set of encrypted content and an encrypted content key. The systems and methods decrypt the encrypted content key using the encryption token and decrypt the set of encrypted content using the decrypted content key. At least a portion of the content is presented at the user device.
US10341302B2
A method for establishing a secure communication session over communication paths between one or more client devices and one or more server computers according to a communication protocol includes initiating the session including passing communication through a proxy on a device on the communication paths, passing session initiation information between the client devices and the server computers via the proxy, passing encrypted content between the client devices and the server computers over secure communication sessions, each established for exclusive access from one client device and one server computer based on the exchanged session initiation information between said client device and said server computer whereby the proxy does not have access to the content, and modifying, using the proxy, at least some information passing between a client device and a server computer such that the communication to and from the server computer adheres to the communication protocol.
US10341299B2
In a computer-implemented method for collecting firewall flow records, firewall flow records are received from a plurality of data end nodes of a virtualized infrastructure comprising a distributed firewall according to a collection schedule, wherein the collection schedule defines which data end nodes of the plurality of data end nodes from which firewall flow records are collected, a frequency of collection of firewall flow records from the data end nodes, and an amount of firewall flow records collected from the data end nodes. Firewall flow records received at a firewall flow record collection queue are processed, such that the received firewall flow records are prepared for storage at a flow record data store. The collection schedule is dynamically adapted based at least in part on the processing of the received firewall flow records, such that the firewall flow record collection queue is available for processing firewall flow records prior to receiving additional firewall flow records from the data end nodes.
US10341285B2
Systems, methods and devices for distributed memory management comprising a network component configured for network communication with one or more memory resources that store data and one or more consumer devices that use data, the network component comprising a switching device in operative communication with a mapping resource, wherein the mapping resource is configured to associate mappings between data addresses associated with memory requests from a consumer device relating to a data object and information relating to a storage location in the one or more memory resources associated with the data from the data object, wherein each data address has contained therein identification information for identifying the data from the data object associated with that data address; and the switching device is configured to route memory requests based on the mappings.
US10341284B2
There is provided a method of recipient management with electronic messages having time defined actions, comprising: defining for an electronic message to a recipient, according to data inputted by a user at a user client terminal, one or more actions for the recipient to perform and a time frame for performance of the one or more actions; sending the electronic message to a recipient client terminal of a recipient to trigger a monitoring of performance of the one or more actions by the recipient at the client terminal during the time frame; receiving an indication of the performance of the one or more actions based on the monitoring from the recipient client terminal; and presenting on the user client terminal a notification in response to the indication.
US10341280B2
Provided are a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for providing a message based on a group unit. A message providing method includes classifying a message received at a user terminal into a predefined group; creating a representative item of the group using a message included in the group; and providing message items through a message list in message box that includes the message received at the user terminal by including the representative item as an item associated with the group and by grouping messages included in the group in the message list.
US10341278B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for determining, for comments associated with a content item, response likelihood scores indicating likelihood of a user responding to the comments, and presenting the comments to the user according to the determined response likelihood scores. A response likelihood score of the user responding to a comment is determined according to an emotion score associated with the comment and a user propensity of the user responding to comments with similar emotion scores for a topic of the content item. The comments associated with the content item are ranked based on the response likelihood scores associated with the comments. An arrangement of the comments can be determined based on the rankings of the comments, and the comments can be presented to the user according to the determined arrangement.
US10341277B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a video to subscribers of a messaging system. A method includes obtaining a live video stream generated by a video source. The method also includes publishing one or more messages including one or more frames of the live video stream to a first channel of a plurality of channels. The video source is associated with the first channel.
US10341275B2
Various embodiments provide a commenting system for multiple users to provide and share comments to shared documents. For example, users can share a web link to a collection of content items, such as documents, spreadsheets, photos, and any other media, with other users stored in an online content management system. The commenting system can provide a comment interface displayable alongside a respective content item and the comments can be saved for each user and the content item with associated comments can be synced across the multiple users. The comments can scroll independently of the content in a content item or the comments can be linked to a location therein and the scrolling of the comments can be linked to the scrolling of the content item such that corresponding comments are displayed.
US10341274B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media for modifying presence and electronic messages are described; the system includes a sending terminal, at least one modification parameters database, which contains a plurality of modification parameters, at least one message modification agent and a recipient moiety, including a message user agent, in which the modification parameters in the database are updated dynamically; the method includes sending a message, obtaining at least one modification parameter, from a database which contains a plurality of modification parameters, applying to the message at least one modification parameter by a message modification agent and delivering a modified message to the recipient.
US10341270B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced application interoperability are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may present, on at least one display screen, a first user interface that is associated with a first application. In response to determining that the at least one display screen has been rotated from a first orientation to a second orientation, the computing device may present, on the at least one display screen, a second user interface that is associated with a second application different from the first application. In one or more embodiments, the second user interface may include at least some information that is contextually related to information included in the first user interface. In addition, a state of the first application may be preserved when the second user interface that is associated with the second application is presented.
US10341259B1
A network device can utilize multiple priority arbiters to support different programmable priorities for different virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) subsystems. Each priority arbiter can be logically connected to all the VRF subsystems in the network device. Each priority arbiter can support a set of features corresponding to functional requirements of a VRF subsystem. A particular priority arbiter can be selected from the multiple priority arbiters based on an association of the VRF subsystem to that priority arbiter.
US10341258B2
Systems and methods for dynamic adjustment of a connection's priority in a network include configuring the connection with a dynamic priority and setting a current priority based on one or more factors, wherein the connection is a Layer 0 connection, a Layer 1 connection, and a combination thereof; detecting an event in the network requiring a change to the current priority, wherein the event changes the one or more factors; and causing a change in the current priority of the connection based on the event.
US10341255B2
Example implementations relate to a switch resource manager for a network switching device. In an example, a network switching device includes a packet switching device and an operating system kernel. The operating system kernel includes a driver for the packet switching device. The network switching device also includes a switch resource manager including a library of commands for the packet switching device. The switch resource manager can send commands to the packet switching device via the driver. The operating system kernel can load a network operating system instance into user space of the network switching device.
US10341253B2
A device may receive data associated with network resources. The data may be received from another device and from a system. The data may include an attribute of the network resources. The device may process the data to align the data received from the other device and from the system. The device may determine a manner in which the network resources are to be consolidated based on the attribute of the network resources. The device may perform an action based on determining the manner in which the network resources are to be consolidated. The action may be associated with consolidating the network resources.
US10341250B2
A device may provide, to a first party, a user interface including information identifying one or more types of network functionalities for implementation, by a second party, in a network implementation. The user interface may be associated with receiving a selection of a configuration for the network implementation. The device may detect an interaction with the user interface associated with selecting the configuration for the network implementation. The configuration for the network implementation may indicate integration of a set of third party network functionalities associated with a set of third parties. The device may automatically provision a set of computing resources for the network implementation based on the configuration for the network implementation. The device may provide, to the first party, access to the network implementation based on automatically provisioning the set of computing resources.
US10341247B2
A method for determining path health to conduct a plurality of Input-Output (IO) operations along a healthy path in a network is provided. The present invention may include receiving an IO request from a user and sending the received IO request on a first path. The present invention may include determining a first IO response has exceeded a threshold time on the first path. The present invention may include determining the first path has degraded based on the exceeded threshold time. The present invention may include generating a duplicate IO request and sending on a second path. The present invention may include receiving the duplicated IO response before receiving the original IO response. The present invention may include determining a health state associated with the slower path. The present invention may include refreshing a path state machine based on the determined health state associated with the slow path.
US10341242B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a programmable packet classification framework for use in a network device in a high performance network. The packet classification framework can comprise a plurality of hardware-based programmable classification primitives, including a key composition primitive, a key composition rule primitive, a match action logical structure, and a next action primitive. The classification primitives can be logically strung together, with the results from one classification primitive fed into the next one until the processing of a data packet is completed. The classification framework can use a state machine to track states of the data packet processing, and dynamically adjust behaviors of the classification primitives based on the processing states of a data packet. With the programmable classification primitives, the classification framework can recursively parse data packets of a plurality of protocols without requiring any hardware changes.
US10341221B2
Methods and network devices are disclosed for traffic-engineered forwarding through a new form of bit indexed explicit replication. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a first node in a network a message comprising a message bit array, and comparing bit values at one or more bit positions in the message bit array to one or more entries in a forwarding table stored at the first node. The one or more bit positions correspond in this embodiment to links in the network. This embodiment of the method further includes forwarding the message over a link represented in the forwarding table if a result of the comparing indicates that the link is included in a path to be taken by the message. In a further embodiment of the method, the message is a multicast message and forwarding the message comprises forwarding a replica of the multicast message.
US10341215B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for emulating network traffic patterns on a virtual machine are disclosed. In one example, the method includes generating a user specification based on a plurality of network traffic patterns and computer processing usage patterns and receiving, at a virtual machine hosted by a DUT, the user specification containing the plurality of network traffic patterns and computer processing usage patterns. The method further includes generating a plurality of network traffic sequences based on the plurality of network traffic patterns and a plurality of computer processing usage pattern instruction sequences based on the plurality of computer processing usage patterns. The method also includes distributing each of the plurality of network traffic sequences among a plurality of virtual network interface cards (VNICs) and distributing each of the plurality of computer processing usage pattern instruction sequences among a plurality of virtual processing cores in the virtual machine.
US10341208B2
A method for predicting available bandwidth for a candidate flow on a link in a distributed network includes obtaining information about a plurality of flows carried by the link, the information including a current bandwidth consumption for each of the flows carried by the link; identifying whether each of the flows carried by the link has a local constraint or a remote constraint; and computing the available bandwidth for the candidate flow based at least in part on the information about the flows carried by the link and the identification of whether each of the flows carried by the link has a local constraint or a remote constraint. The predicted available bandwidth can be used to predict bandwidth consumption for active flows. The predicted available bandwidths can be used in selecting file block placement options.
US10341207B1
In some examples, a method is described. The method can, for example be performed by a network switch and can include receiving instructions to monitor a switch resource, monitoring time-series data for traffic received and transmitted by the switch, identifying peaks for the switch resource in a specified time period for the monitored data, comparing the identified peaks with data provided during a training phase to identify whether the monitored data includes an anomaly, and generating an alert when the data is identified as containing an anomaly.
US10341205B2
A web session recording system comprising at least one server, the server comprising one or more network cards and at least one processing unit configured to: monitor one or more ports of the network cards, the ports being used for conducting a plurality of web sessions; and send web session recording enabling data relating to the web sessions to a data repository, for recording the web sessions; wherein the monitor and the send enable recording the web sessions without access to resources external to the server.
US10341203B2
A method performed by a network device includes: receiving an input indicating a change in an auxiliary network from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the auxiliary network is configured to obtain copies of packets from a traffic production network; determining a first network policy, wherein the first network policy is for application in the auxiliary network when the auxiliary network is in the first configuration; and determining a second network policy by the network device based on the received input and the first network policy, wherein the second network policy is for application in the auxiliary network when the auxiliary network is in the second configuration.
US10341202B2
A method (5) and a system 100 are provided for maintaining a self-service terminal (1). The maintenance is effected using a mobile terminal (3), such as a smartphone. A server application that can communicate first via a communication link (23) with a terminal application that is executed on the mobile terminal (3) and second via a network connection (21) with the self-service terminal (1) is executed on a server (2). Direct communication between the mobile terminal (3) and the self-service terminal (1) is not necessary. The mobile terminal (3) uses a still picture production apparatus (31) to capture both an identifier (11) for the self-service terminal (1) and an identifier (121) for a maintained component (12) of the self-service terminal (1), and transmits corresponding data to the server (2). On the basis of this, the server application can ascertain update data and communicate them to the self-service terminal (1).
US10341198B2
A device can receive a request to deploy a container to provide a service. The request can include information identifying a set of parameters associated with the container. The device can validate the request using the information identifying the set of parameters. The device can deploy the container on a back-end host. The back-end host can lack connectivity to an external network. The device can receive a first indication that the container was successfully deployed on the back-end host. The device can deploy a proxy container on a front-end host. The front-end host can have connectivity to the external network. The device can receive a second indication that the proxy container was successfully deployed on the front-end host. The device can provide a third indication. The third indication can indicate that the container was successfully deployed.
US10341189B2
Disclosed aspects relate to operator fusion management in a stream computing environment. A topology model which indicates a set of stream operators, a set of connections between the set of stream operators, and a set of stream operator attributes for the set of stream operators may be established. Based on the topology model, a set of operator fusion management operations to combine the set of stream operators into a set of processing elements may be determined. The set of processing elements may be constructed by performing the set of operator fusion management operations.
US10341185B2
Various embodiments are described herein to enable physical topology independent dynamic insertion of a service device into a network. One embodiment provides for a network system comprising a set of network elements to interconnect a set of host devices, the set of network elements having a physical topology defined by the physical links between network elements in the set of network elements, and a network management device including a network management module to monitor and configure the set of network elements, the network management module to configure the set of network elements to enable dynamic insertion of a network service device into the network to logically couple to one or more host devices in the set of host devices to the network service device independently of a location of the one or more host devices and the network service device within the physical topology.
US10341176B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provided for a system for provisioning network resources. The system includes a network provisioning abstraction layer having an application interface for receiving network provisioning requests from applications and determine provisioning instructions for fulfilling the requests. Each of the received provisioning instructions is queued in a priority queuing system according to a request priority. The provisioning instructions for the highest priority requests are removed from the front of the queue and sent to a resource interface that relays the requests to the appropriate network resources.
US10341167B2
A system and method for distributed error detection in gas distribution systems comprises sensors coupled to a metering device, and configured to collect sensor information indicative of an operation of the metering device. An electronic volume corrector associated with the metering device serves as a gateway for transmission of sensor information indicative of the operation of the metering device. A computer system is configured to receive sensor information indicative of an operation of the metering device provided by an electronic volume corrector, identify parameters indicative of deviations from the intended operation of the metering device, perform pattern comparisons of the sensor information with reference information, and provide a performance indication of the metering device.
US10341151B2
Method and devices determine parameters governing a concatenated reference signal design based on Zadoff-Chu sequences and having a limited correlation with other reference signals arriving at a same transmission point, wherein the concatenated reference signal has a controlled cubic metric. The cubic metric control is achieved by selecting base sequence root indices, phase shifts and/or block configurations in view of information related to the other reference signals.
US10341148B2
The invention provides a sigma-delta modulator (SDM) and associated system improving spectrum efficiency of wired interconnection. The SDM may comprise a main circuit for transferring an aggregated signal by a signal transfer function, and a noise shaping circuit for shaping noise away from a low-pass band by a modified noise transfer function. A frequency response of the modified noise transfer function may have a notch at a passband, and the passband may not overlap with the low-pass band.
US10341140B2
In one embodiment, a packet switching device is configured to operate as a spoke or a hub in a Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network (DMVPN) using one or more initially negotiated service overlay capabilities including service encapsulation to use in communicating service overlay data packets between the packet switching device and another device (e.g., spoke, hub) of the DMVPN over an established tunnel (e.g., secure protocol channel). The packet switching device is further configured to negotiate updated one or more service overlay capabilities including updated service encapsulation to use in communicating service overlay data packets with another device (e.g., spoke, hub) without dropping the already established tunnel. In one embodiment, the negotiation between the packet switching device and another device (e.g., spoke, hub) of the DMVPN uses Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP). In one embodiment, the service encapsulation uses Network Service Header (NSH).
US10341135B2
A zone controller system that includes global communication of inputs, outputs and controller states from all zone controllers allowing each zone controller to operate based on inputs, outputs and controller states from all other zones. The zone controller system may also include direct one-to-one communication connections that allow additional communications. The system may include a user interface to configure operation of the zone controllers utilizing programmable logic equations that may use as variables the inputs, outputs and controller states of any zone controller. The user interface may be implemented in an off board configuration tool that is run on a computer connected to the global network. The system may also utilize one-to-one communications connections to provide self-repair and auto-configuration features. Each zone controller may store its ID(s) and configuration parameters on two other zone controllers, where they can be recovered for self-repair and auto-configuration.
US10341132B2
A performance assessment device for evaluating a building management system (BMS). The device includes a communication interface. The communication interface is configured to communicate with a BMS network, the BMS network in communication with the BMS. The device further includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive data related to the BMS via the communication interface. The processing circuit is further configured to evaluate the received BMS data to generate a current status of the BMS inventory, and to further generate an assessment of the BMS performance. The assessment of the BMS performance includes one or more performance metrics associated with the performance of the BMS.
US10341126B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include generating a content token, wherein the content token is generated for a particular content type of a particular application service based on a trust relationship established between the particular application service and a mobile service provider; and embedding the content token in one or more packets of a plurality of packets sent to a user equipment (UE) for one or more Internet Protocol (IP) flows associated with the particular content type, wherein the content token is embedded in an unencrypted portion of each packet that is separate from an encrypted data payload portion of each packet.
US10341121B2
The system, method, and computer program product described herein may provide the capability to handle a variety of types of transactions, not just payment transactions. In addition, system, method, and computer program product described herein may provide the capability for users to be able to control the confidentiality of their transactions, for the system to control access to transactions, for the system to be capable of auditing transactions, and to provide accountability of the validating entities.
US10341118B2
A security network system may include a security gateway operable to establish a client session between the security gateway and a client device. The security gateway is operable to receive client session information from the client session. The client session information includes an identification of a server with which the client device needs to exchange data. The security network system may also include a Hardware Security Module (HSM) in communication with the security gateway. The HSM is operable to establish, in concert with the security gateway, a secure session between the security gateway and the server based on the client session data, a public key, a secret key, and context attributed to the secure session.
US10341112B2
A biometric verification device is arranged to compare a reference hash with a verification bit string obtained from a biometric. The biometric verification device includes a candidate bit string generator arranged to generate candidate bit strings from the verification bit string and error probabilities; a hash unit arranged to apply a cryptographic hash function to the generated candidate bit strings to obtain candidate hashes; and a comparison unit arranged to verify if a candidate hash generated by the hash unit matches a reference hash.
US10341109B2
Exposure of sensitive information to users is controlled using a first security token containing user identity and user credentials to represent the user who requests services, and a second security token containing two other identities, one identifying the token issuer and the other identifying the owning process. When requesting services, the token-owning process sends a security token to indicate who is making the request, and uses its key to digitally sign the request. The token-owning process signs the request to indicate that it endorses the request. A receiving server accepts a request if (1) the token-owning process endorses the request by signing the request; (2) the token is valid (token is signed by its issuer and the digital signature is verified and unexpired); (3) user entity, which can be a real user or a deployment or a server process, that is represented by the token has the authorization to access the specified resources; and (4) the token-owning process is authorized to endorse the user entity represented by the token to access the specified resources.
US10341107B2
Method, server, and communication device for updating identity-based cryptographic private keys of compromised communication devices. One method includes receiving, at a server, a security status indicating that the security of a first communication device has been compromised. The first communication device is associated with a user and includes a first identity-based cryptographic private key and a first user identifier. The method also includes, responsive to receiving the security status, determining, with the server, a second user identifier based on the first user identifier. The method further includes determining, with the server, a second identity-based cryptographic private key based on the second user identifier. The method also includes distributing, via the server, the second identity-based cryptographic private key to a second communication device. The second communication device is associated with the user.
US10341106B2
A first entity may provide a request to transmit data from the first entity to a second entity. The first entity may receive a session key from the second entity in response to the request where the session key is encrypted by a second key that is based on a combination of a public key and a location associated with the second entity. A location associated with the first entity may be identified. Furthermore, a first key may be generated based on a combination of the location associated with the first entity and a private key that corresponds to the public key. The first key may decrypt data encrypted by the second key when the location associated with the first entity corresponds to the location associated with the second entity.
US10341099B2
Embodiments of an invention for cryptographic key generation using a stored input value and a stored count value have been described. In one embodiment, a processor includes non-volatile storage storing an input value and a count value, and logic to generate a cryptographic key based on the stored input value and the stored count value.
US10341089B2
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher can be performed in a manner that preserves the secrecy of cryptographic keys, even under the intense scrutiny of a reverse-engineer observing every aspect of the computation. A method can include loading a key in a non-standard representation. The method can also include processing the key with respect to data in at least three first type rounds and a plurality of second type rounds. The processing the key with respect to data can include either encrypting the data using the key or decrypting the data using the key. The first type rounds can be configured to maintain an order of channels of bits at an output from the order of corresponding channels of bits at an input. The second type rounds can be configured to vary the order of channels of bits at an output from the order of corresponding channels of bits at an input.
US10341087B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for converting between different cipher systems, such as, for instance, between a cipher system used for a first encryption environment and a different cipher system used for a second encryption environment, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to an encryption engine that supports memory operations between two or more encryption environments. Each encryption environment can use different cipher systems while the encryption engine can translate ciphertext between the different cipher systems. In various embodiments, for instance, the first encryption environment may include a main memory that uses a position dependent cipher system and the second encrypted environment may include a secondary memory that uses a position independent cipher system.
US10341079B2
The described technology provides front-end antenna architecture for wireless communication that manages multiple frequency sub-bands in a manner that results in a low insertion loss rate. Further, the components of the architecture are smaller than typical wireless communication antenna architectures, and therefore the described architecture can be accommodated in a smaller area than typical architectures without a decrease in efficiency. A matching circuit is communicatively connected to each frequency sub-band's respective signal path. When two or more sub-bands are requested for high-speed wireless communication, the matching circuits match the impedance of each sub-band with one-another. Matching the impedance allows two or more sub-bands to be used to wirelessly communicate while maintaining high efficiency. The matching circuits are disabled when only one sub-band is needed for wireless communication.
US10341074B2
A base station transmits message(s) to a wireless device. The message(s) comprise configuration parameters of a cells comprising secondary cells. The configuration parameters comprise: a deactivation timer value for a deactivation timers of the secondary cells. At least one parameter indicates that a group of cells comprise first secondary cells of the secondary cells. A scheduling grant for transmission of packet(s) is transmitted via the group of cells comprising the first secondary cells. First deactivation timers corresponding to the first secondary cells are restarted in response to transmitting the scheduling grant.
US10341071B2
A radio transmission apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and circuitry configured, based on information associated with an estimated communications channel condition, to generate a single modulation signal or a plurality of modulation signals based on the estimated communications channel condition information, and to (i) transmit the single modulation signal from the first antenna or (ii) transmit the plurality of modulation signals which include different information from each other over an identical frequency band from the first antenna and the second antenna at an identical temporal point. The single modulation signal and the plurality of modulation signals contain parameter information indicating a number of modulation signals transmitted at the same time.
US10341069B2
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes a processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV selects a resource unit (RU) from an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) sub-carrier plan for use in supporting communications with another WDEV. The WDEV transmits a signal to the other WDEV that includes information that specifies the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan and then supports communications with the other WDEV using the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan. The OFDMA sub-carrier plan includes multiple OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plans of different sized RUs and null sub-carriers.
US10341067B2
A transmission device includes: an acquiring unit acquires LTF parameters, and acquires a start position I of allocated subcarriers, where the LTF parameters include a frequency domain transform parameter and a time domain transform parameter that are required for generating an LTF sequence; a frequency domain transform unit performs, according to the frequency domain transform parameter and the start position I, a frequency domain transform on an LTF basic sequence to obtain an LTF symbol; a time domain transform unit performs, according to the time domain transform parameter, a time domain transform on the LTF symbol to obtain the LTF sequence; and a sending unit adds the LTF sequence to a first data frame, and sends the first data frame to a second device, so that the second device determines the LTF basic sequence according to the LTF sequence and performs channel estimation according to the LTF basic sequence.
US10341065B2
During operation, an interface circuit in an electronic device may receive, from a second electronic device (such as an access point in a WLAN), an uplink trigger frame that may specify an access category. In response to the uplink trigger frame, the electronic device may first include data associated with the specified access category in one or more frames, and then may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device. Moreover, when all the data associated with the specified access category has been transmitted or when there is no data associated with the specified access category, and when there is leftover time in an allocation associated with the uplink trigger frame, the interface circuit may transmit the one or more frames to the second electronic device with additional data associated with another access category that is different from the specified access category.
US10341064B2
There is provided a method for defining at least one channel reservation window the method comprising: setting length for each of the at least one channel reservation window such that each channel reservation window comprises a plurality of sub-frames; dividing the length of each channel reservation window into a transmission part and an idle part, wherein the idle part consists of one or more symbols in one sub-frame; maximizing, at a symbol level accuracy, the length of the transmission part such that a ratio between the length of the idle part and the length of the transmission part fulfills a predetermined criterion; and concatenating the transmission part and the idle part so as to form the channel reservation window.
US10341054B2
A method for sending forward error correction (FEC) configuration information by a sending apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes sending source FEC configuration information for an FEC source packet to a receiving apparatus, wherein the source FEC configuration information includes information related to an FEC source or repair packet that is sent first among at least one FEC source or repair packet if an FEC source or repair packet block includes the at least one FEC source or repair packet.
US10341052B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method and device for polar code rate matching in a wireless communication network. A device of the network receives a bit sequence of K information bits. The device polar codes the bit sequence to obtain N encoded bits. The device interleaves the encoded bits to obtain N interleaved bits and then stores the N interleaved bits into cyclic cache. The device sequentially outputs M bits of the N interleaved bits from the cyclic cache according to a rate matching manner, wherein the rate matching manner is one of shortening, puncturing or repetition. When the rate matching manner is puncturing, the (N−M+1)th bit to the Nth bit of the interleaved bit sequence are output from the cyclic cache.
US10341047B2
According to one embodiment, a system is described that comprises a network device adapted to receive a media stream that includes a plurality of packets. The network device of the system processes the media stream, targeted for a client device that is communicatively coupled to the network device, by perform a number of operations. A first operation includes analyzing a packet type for each packet of the plurality of packets and detecting an event causing difficulty for the client device to successfully receive the media stream. Based on both detecting the event and analyzing the packet type for each packet of the plurality of packets, the network device only transmits a portion of the media stream to the client device, where the portion of the media stream is the received media stream absent one or more packets of the plurality of packets.
US10341035B2
The present invention relates to a method for continuously reading, on a client device (11), content broadcast within a peer-to-peer network (10) of client devices (11, 12), said content being made up of a sequence of segments, the client device (11) comprising a first buffer memory (M1) provisionally storing at least one raw segment of said content, each raw segment being in a format that is suitable for transfer within the peer-to-peer network (10), the method being characterized in that it includes the implementation by data-processing means (110) of the device (11) of the following steps: (a) converting at least one raw segment from the first buffer memory (M1) into a format suitable for reading on the device (11), and storing said converted segment in a second buffer memory (M2) of the device (11), so that the second buffer memory (M2) stores a number between a minimum number and a maximum number of converted segments arranged upstream from a reading point of said content; (b) reading, from the second buffer memory (M2), at least one fragment of the converted segment arranged at said reading point; (c) deleting, from said second buffer memory (M2), at least one converted segment arranged downstream from said reading point, so that the second buffer memory (M2) stores a number no higher than a maximum number of converted segments arranged downstream from a reading point of said content, the associated raw segment being stored provisionally in the first buffer memory (M1).
US10341031B2
A communication system includes an optical receiver that receives a modulated optical signal and converts same back to electrical form by a photodiode. The photodiode includes an optical input and a dc bias input, and outputs a photocurrent. The optical communication system includes a photodiode linear operation point feedback loop communicating with the photodiode based on an intermodulation distortion contour plot corresponding to the photodiode. The intermodulation distortion contour plot includes a plurality of linear operation points for the photodiode. The photodiode linear operation point feedback loop operates the photodiode at a respective operation point of the plurality of linear operation points. Optionally, the photodiode linear operation point feedback loop includes a voltage-biasing feedback loop receiving the photocurrent and outputting to the dc bias input a bias voltage based on the intermodulation distortion contour plot, and/or an optical power regulating feedback loop communicating with the optical input.
US10341030B2
A receiver architecture and method recovers data received over an optical fiber channel in the presence of cycle slips. In a first cycle slip recovery architecture, a receiver detects and corrects cycle slips based on pilot symbols inserted in the transmitted data. In a second cycle slip recovery architecture, a coarse cycle slip detection is performed based on pilot symbols and a cycle slip position estimation is then performed based on carrier phase noise. The receiver compensates for cycle slips based on the position estimation.
US10341029B2
The present invention mainly discloses an optoelectronic receiver circuit with dark current correction function, comprising: a transimpedance amplifier (TIA), a first variable resistor, a second variable resistor, a photodiode, a leakage compensation photodiode, at least one first leakage correction photodiode, at least one first switch, at least one second leakage correction photodiode, and at least one second switch. In the present invention, the first switch and the second switch are used for enabling the first leakage correction photodiode and the second leakage correction photodiode when the dark current of the leakage compensation photodiode cannot fully cancel a leakage portion of a photodiode current of the photodiode, such that the leakage portion of the photodiode current can be completely eliminated by the dark current of the leakage compensation photodiode and the dark currents provided by the two leakage correction photodiodes.
US10341023B2
Novel tools and techniques for provisioning a wireless base station functionality at a terminal enclosure are provided. A system includes a first network device, first transceiver, first antenna, second network device, second transceiver, and a second antenna. The first network device may be communicatively coupled to a first network via a first medium and a second medium. The first network device may include a first transceiver coupled to the first network via the first medium, and a first antenna coupled to the first transceiver. The second network device may be coupled to a second network, and include a second transceiver coupled to a second antenna. The first and second network devices may be configured to communicate wirelessly, wherein data communicated from the second network device to the first network device is transmitted to the first network via the first medium.
US10341020B2
A system or method for logical lane aggregation provides data across a first set of interconnect lanes and determines that at least one interconnect lane is unavailable. The system or method redistributes data to a second set of interconnect lanes, the second set not including the at least one interconnect lane, in response to the at least one interconnect lane being unavailable. The system or method can be used to provide flexible Ethernet logical lane aggregation (FELLA).
US10341017B1
A visible light audio system is operable to enable free space optical communication of audio signals via transmission of modulated light intensity at a light source to a photo diode being operably engaged with a demodulator and audio output device. Embodiments of the visible light audio system may be utilized, for example, in commercial, residential, or church buildings to transmit audio signals to occupants via the overhead lighting of the building. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be utilized in any commercial application where line of sight transmission of an audio signal is required or beneficial for occupants of an interior structure to receive a location-specific audio message.
US10341013B2
A system and a method for use in satellite communication are presented. The system comprising (a) one or more antenna units for receiving and transmitting electromagnetic radiation in selected frequency ranges, (b) a modem unit configured for modulating received input signals and modulating output electronic data to signals to be transmitted, (c) a processor unit connected to said one or more antenna units and to said modem unit. The processor unit comprises: antenna orientation optimizer module configured and operable for varying azimuth and elevation of signal transmission and reception the antenna units; and network registration module configured and operable for registering the system to a communication network. The registering comprising: selecting a free private communication channel provided by the network, generating a corresponding signal sequence for transmission to a hub. The registering module is configured to be responsive to appropriate notification signals in said private communication channel.
US10340992B2
A terminal device decodes a code block of a transport block, and in a case that a first transmission mode is configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on a first total number of soft channel bits; in a case that a second transmission mode is configured and first information is configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on the first total number of soft channel bits; and in a case that the second transmission mode is configured and the first information is not configured, a rate matching for the code block is processed based on a second total number of soft channel bits. Here, the first information indicates the maximum number of layers associated with PDSCH transmission.
US10340991B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node for determining a precoder for a transmission to a first wireless device in a wireless communications network. The network node obtains at least a Rank Indicator, RI, of the channel used for transmissions to the first wireless device. The network node also obtains information about a preferred interference subspace for the transmissions to the first wireless device from a second wireless device in the wireless communications network, wherein the second wireless device is interfered by the transmissions to the first wireless device. The network node determines the precoder for the transmission to the first wireless device based on the obtained information about a preferred interference subspace if the at least obtained RI of the channel fulfills a first threshold criterion. Embodiments of the network node are also described.
US10340985B2
A system and method for transferring power includes a power transmitting unit for transmitting power and a power receiving unit for receiving power from the power transmitting unit. The power transmitting unit may be positioned outside a human body and the power receiving unit is located on an intrabody instrument adapted to be movable from the outside of the human body to inside the human body. The intrabody instrument may be a medical instrument connected to or incorporated within a robotic arm. The power transmitting unit may wirelessly transfer power to the power receiving unit in a continuous, non-interrupted manner.
US10340967B2
A transceiver that allows dynamic high-pass filter (HPF) cut-off frequency adjustment may include a mixer circuit to mix a local oscillator (LO) signal with a receive (RX) signal received from a transmitter to generate a baseband signal. The transceiver may further include a high-pass filter (HPF) having an adjustable cut-off frequency that is used to reduce a DC offset of the baseband signal. A control circuit can dynamically control components of the HPF to set the adjustable cut-off frequency at a first frequency during a first time period and at a second frequency during a second time period.
US10340961B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first transmit path, a second transmit path, and a switch element. The first transmit path can provide a first radio frequency (RF) signal in accordance with a nominal specification. The second transmit path can provide a second RF signal in accordance with an intermittent specification, in which the first and second RF signals are within the same transmit band. The switch element can provide the first RF signal as a transmit mode output in a first state and provide the second RF signal as the transmit mode output in a second state.
US10340960B2
A military communications unit that utilizes a relatively high-bandwidth digital communication networks (e.g., cellular networks) is capable of acting as a wireless communications hub for a soldier, vehicle, weapon, or other entity. The military communications unit can obtain data from multiple devices via close-range wireless technologies and communicate with training or operational networks. The military communications unit can be flexible in its capacity to relay data by formatting data in accordance with Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), High-Level Architecture (HLA), and/or another distributed computer simulation standard. Moreover, the military communications unit may be further capable of “re-banding,” enabling communications using cellular protocols and/or standards in non-cellular frequency bands.
US10340957B2
A method, system, and computer readable medium are provided for monitoring a signal source. The illustrative method includes receiving an analog signal from the signal source, converting the analog signal into a digital signal having a frequency that is representative of an amplitude of the analog signal, and monitoring at least one parameter of the analog signal by counting features of the digital signal or time-measuring a distance between the features of the digital signal.
US10340950B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for encoding, generally including obtaining a payload, determining a set of internal nodes to distribute one or more non-payload bits to based, at least in part, on a target maximum likelihood (ML) search space size for internal nodes in a polar decoding tree, a search space size of each of the internal nodes, and an available number of the non-payload bits left to distribute, forming an information stream by interleaving the non-payload bits with bits of the payload by, for each internal node in the set of internal nodes, assigning one or more non-payload bits to one or more leaf nodes in a subtree rooted at that internal node in the set of internal nodes, and generating a codeword by encoding the information stream using a Polar code.
US10340939B1
A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter with improved kick-back linearization includes a signal input terminal, a capacitive digital-to-analog converter, a first switch, and a second switch. The signal input terminal is configured to receive a signal to be digitized. The capacitive digital-to-analog converter includes a first capacitor array, a second capacitor array, and a coupling capacitor. The first capacitor array includes a plurality of capacitors. The second capacitor array includes a plurality of capacitors. The coupling capacitor connects the first capacitor array to the second capacitor array. The first switch is configured to switchably connect a bottom plate of each of the capacitors of the first capacitor array to the signal input terminal. The second switch is configured to conduct a voltage on the bottom plate of the coupling capacitor to the signal input terminal.
US10340933B1
A time interleaved digital to analog converters (TIDACs) system having a pre-processing filter to filter a digital signal prior to being converted by a respective digital-to-analog converter (DAC) of the TIDACs system to correct for mismatches between the DACs of the TIDACs system. Calibrating the pre-processing includes converting a discrete waveform at a first DAC to a first analog signals and at a second DAC to a second analog signal and combining the first and second analog signals into a combined signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts the combined signal to a digital signal to determine an actual frequency response of the TIDACs system. A desired frequency response of the TIDACs system is received and a pre-processing filter is generated for the first DAC and the second DAC based on the actual frequency response of the TIDACs system and the desired frequency response of the TIDACs system.
US10340932B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a noise-shaping successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) using Sampled Analog Technology (SAT) filter techniques for filter construction. A SAR ADC includes an SAR for receiving an analog input signal and outputting a digital decision, a digital-to-analog converter and logic circuitry for converting the digital decision of the SAR to a present analog residue for a present conversion cycle, a filter for processing a previous analog residue from a previous conversion cycle, and for feeding a processed previous analog residue back to the SAR, a summer for summing the processed previous analog residue from the filter and the present analog residue, and generating a summer output, and a comparator for comparing the summer output and a first reference signal and generating a comparator output. The filter includes a capacitor array for filtering the previous analog residue to generate the processed previous analog residue.
US10340925B1
A digital locking loop circuit (DLLC), such as a digital phase-locked loop or digital delay-locked loop, includes a digitally-controlled frequency generator, a digital loop filter configured to output a digital control signal for the frequency generator, and a multi-stage time-to-digital converter to detect phase error between an input reference clock signal and an output signal fed back from the frequency generator, to adjust the digitally-controlled frequency generator to decrease the phase error. Each phase-error detection stage detects a phase error component at a respective resolution, and combinatorial logic combines the components into a phase error signal. The plurality of stages may operate in parallel to provide different portions of the phase error signal. The DLLC may include a fractional phase interpolator to adjust the target frequency by a fractional amount, and one of the stages includes conversion circuitry to compensate for a fractional phase. A method also is provided.
US10340916B1
An electronic device includes a plurality of hardware functional blocks, the hardware functional blocks being logically grouped into two or more islands, with each island including a different one or more of the hardware functional blocks. A hardware controller in the electronic device is configured to determine a present activity being performed by at least one of the hardware functional blocks. The hardware controller then, based on the present activity, configures supply voltages for the hardware functional blocks in some or all of the islands.
US10340912B2
A power on reset circuit, comprising: a threshold level control circuit (120) configured to set threshold level values of power on reset and power off reset; a capacitor charge and discharge circuit (130) configured to output a power on reset signal according to the threshold level values set by the threshold level control circuit; and a current bias circuit (110) configured to provide a reference current not varying with a power supply to the threshold level control circuit (120) and the capacitor charge and discharge circuit (130), comprising: a first reference current output terminal connected to the threshold level control circuit (120); a second reference current output terminal connected to the capacitor charge and discharge circuit (130); and a third reference current output terminal connected to the capacitor charge and discharge circuit (130).
US10340905B2
Related-art back bias generation circuits cause a problem where a long time is required for transition between an operating state and a standby state because driving power is lowered to reduce the power consumption in the standby state. A back bias generation circuit outputs a predetermined voltage. The predetermined voltage is the back bias voltage of a substrate in a standby mode. A bias control circuit stores an electrical charge while a circuit block is in an operating mode, supplies the stored electrical charge to the substrate of a MOSFET included in the circuit block when the circuit block transitions from the operating mode to the standby mode, and subsequently supplies the output of the back bias generation circuit to the substrate of the MOSFET.
US10340904B2
One embodiment relates to a multiple-channel serializer circuit that includes a plurality of one-channel serializers. A one-channel serializer of the plurality of one-channel serializes includes a local 2× frequency clock generator with a non-divider structure. Other embodiments relate to methods of using a non-divider circuit to generate a local 2× frequency clock signal in a one-channel serializer of a multiple-channel serializer. Another embodiment relates to a local 2× frequency clock generator circuit with a non-divider structure. The local 2× frequency clock generator circuit includes a first circuit path which is selected by multiplexers for a first serialization ratio and may also include a second circuit path which is selected by the multiplexers for a second serialization ratio. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
US10340893B1
A method for compensating the bandedge ripple of an analog filter, using a circuit comprising a low pass filter is described. The method comprises receiving, at the analog filter, a plurality of tones of different frequencies from a tone generator, measuring, an amplitude of each tone in the plurality of tones after each tone is processed by the analog filter, storing the measured amplitudes and frequencies in a database, measuring a bandedge ripple by measuring a difference in amplitude between a first tone and a second tone from the plurality of tones, and selecting a low pass filter, from a plurality of low pass filters, based on the measured difference.
US10340882B2
A bulk acoustic wave filter includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer including a piezoelectric material, the piezoelectric layer disposed between the first and second electrodes, and a passive element disposed on one surface of a housing. The housing is coupled to the substrate to accommodate the piezoelectric layer, the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10340881B2
There is provided a bonded substrate including: a quartz substrate; and a piezoelectric substrate which is bonded on the quartz substrate and on which a surface acoustic wave propagates, wherein the quartz substrate and the piezoelectric substrate are bonded at a bonding interface through covalent bonding, and a surface acoustic wave element having a higher phase velocity and a higher electromechanical coupling factor than conventional one is obtained by disposing an interdigital electrode on a principal surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
US10340880B2
The present invention discloses structures of a planar transformer and a balanced-to-unbalanced transformer. The structure of the planar transformer includes a first planar coil, a second planar coil and a third planar coil. The first planar coil has a first ring structure, a second ring structure, and a connecting section. The first ring structure and the second ring structure are connected by the connecting section. A range of the second planar coil and a range of the first ring structure at least partially overlap. A range of the third planar coil and a range of the second ring structure at least partially overlap. A transformer is constituted by the first planar coil and the second planar coil or by the first planar coil and the third planar coil.
US10340878B2
A carrier aggregation circuit includes a signal input terminal, a signal output terminal, a first filter, a first output transform circuit, a second filter, and a second output transform circuit. The signal input terminal receives a radio frequency signal with carrier waves with first and second carrier wave frequencies. The first filter and the second filter are coupled between the signal input terminal and the signal output terminal respectively, and can respectively filter out signals with frequencies other than the first and the second carrier wave frequencies. The first output transform circuit is coupled between the first filter and the signal output terminal, and has an output impedance equivalent to an open circuit at the second carrier frequency. The second output transform circuit is coupled between the second filter and the signal output terminal, and has an output impedance equivalent to an open circuit at the first carrier frequency.
US10340874B2
A filter circuit is provided which allows the pass band to be tuned to a desired communication signal while achieving increased attenuation in a given frequency band that lies outside the pass band. A filter circuit includes a fixed filter and a tunable filter. The fixed filter has a pass band wider than a frequency band corresponding to a predetermined communication signal and overlapping with the frequency band corresponding to the communication signal. The tunable filter has a stop band narrower than the pass band of the fixed filter and having tunable frequency. The fixed filter and the tunable filter are connected in series.
US10340867B2
An ultrasound circuit comprising a trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) with built-in time gain compensation functionality is described. The TIA is coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an electrical signal generated by the ultrasonic transducer in response to receiving an ultrasound signal. The TIA is, in some cases, followed by further analog and digital processing circuitry.
US10340865B2
An amplifier of an embodiment includes: a plurality of input transistors of a plurality of differential pairs; a plurality of first resistance circuits mutually connecting respective sources of the input transistors corresponding to the differential pairs and mutually connecting the respective sources and reference potential points; a plurality of second resistance circuits being connected between the respective sources of the plurality of input transistors and the reference potential points, respectively; and a control circuit configured to generate a control signal controlling whether or not to electrically connect the plurality of first resistance circuits and the plurality of second resistance circuits to the respective sources of the input transistors.
US10340851B2
An apparatus includes a differential cascode amplifier including a first transistor and a second transistor. The apparatus further includes a transistor including a source terminal coupled to a gate terminal of the first transistor of the differential cascode amplifier. The transistor also includes a drain terminal coupled to a gate terminal of the second transistor of the differential amplifier.
US10340845B2
A voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power input to an input part. A first input and output part outputs the transformed direct-current power to a battery unit and to which direct-current power is input from the battery unit. A conversion part converts the direct-current power input to the input part into alternating-current power. A second input and output part outputs the alternating-current power to a power system or a load and to which an alternating-current power is input from the power system. The conversion part converts the alternating-current power input to the second input and output part into direct-current power. The second voltage transform part transforms the direct-current power converted by the conversion part and transforms the direct-current power input to the first input and output part. The conversion part converts the direct-current power transformed by the second voltage transform part into alternating-current power.
US10340840B2
A solar-tracking photovoltaic array is described. The photovoltaic array includes mounting hardware configured to rotate photovoltaic modules associated with the photovoltaic array about one or more axes. In some embodiments, the photovoltaic modules can be coupled to a torque tube oriented in a substantially North-South direction. An orientation motor can then rotate one end of the torque tube in a manner that causes the photovoltaic modules to track the sun. The photovoltaic array can also include a locking mechanism that secures another end of the torque tube during times in which the orientation motor is not rotating the torque tube.
US10340833B2
To achieve, in a load drive device including an H-bridge circuit, miniaturization of a capacitor or/and the constituent elements of the H-bridge circuit (e.g., reduction in volume) with circuit elements, for example, switching elements included in the H-bridge circuit, being inhibited from breaking down or destroying even in a case where a load is overloaded. The invention is disclosed in which, as a solution to the achievement, first and second modes are provided as a switching mode for the switching elements 11, 12, 13, and 14 and switching is appropriately performed between the first and second modes.
US10340831B2
A vibration suppression method and device of a wind power generator is provided. The method includes: calculating a specified value of a flux-weakening control parameter of the generator according to a preset value of an electromagnetic active power of the generator and a frequency of the generator; and controlling the generator according to the specified value of the flux-weakening control parameter of the generator. The method and device reduce the magnetic load of the generator by the flux-weakening control, thereby suppress vibration and noise of the generator.
US10340828B2
Technical solutions are described for a motor control system of a motor to compute a disturbance estimate and use the disturbance estimate to improve the performance of the motor control system. For example, the motor control system includes an observer module that receives an input voltage signal of the motor. The motor control system also receives an output current signal from the motor. The motor control system further computes the disturbance estimate of the motor control system based on a plant model of an electrical subsystem of the motor control system.
US10340823B2
A method of determining the position of a rotor of a brushless permanent-magnet motor is provided. The phase winding is freewheeled when a phase current exceeds an upper threshold. The method further includes measuring a parameter that corresponds to either: (i) the magnitude of the phase current during or at the end of freewheeling when the phase winding is freewheeled for the fixed period of time, or (ii) the time interval between the start and end of freewheeling or the start and end of excitation when the phase winding is freewheeled until the phase current falls below the lower threshold. The measured parameter is then used to define a saturation threshold. The phase winding is subsequently excited and freewheeled in the same manner, and the parameter is measured again. The method then compares the measured parameter against the saturation threshold, and determines that the rotor is at a predetermined position.
US10340818B2
An actuator includes: an electrostatic actuation mechanism including a stationary electrode and a movable electrode; a first movable part driven by the electrostatic actuation mechanism; a first elastic support part that elastically supports the first movable part; an electret formed in at least one of the stationary electrode and the movable electrode; and a drive control unit that controls application of voltage to the electrostatic actuation mechanism. In the actuator a plurality of stable states are set in which the first movable part is positioned at a stable position at which an electrostatic force generated by the electret matches with an elastic force exerted by the first elastic support part or at a stable position near such stable position. By applying a voltage to the electrostatic actuation mechanism, the first movable part may be displaced from any stable position to another stable position.
US10340816B2
In the present invention, a lower arm control substrate, an insulation material and an upper arm control substrate are layered to be arranged in this order on a top surface of a small-sized power module. An upper arm main region and a lower arm main region are arranged to overlap the insulation material in plan view, and large parts of the upper arm main region and the lower arm main region overlap each other in plan view. The upper arm control substrate and the upper arm control substrate are configured with substrates of the same structure and the lower arm control substrate has a positional relation with the upper arm control substrate so as to be rotated by 180° from the upper arm control substrate in a horizontal direction.
US10340811B2
A selectable increase in the common source inductance is obtained by a layout for a power module used for a half-bridge phase leg in an inverter for an electrically-driven vehicle. The power module comprises a pair of transistor dies connected to positive, negative, and AC conductive tracks for carrying bridge currents. The module includes a pair of gate drive pins and a pair of gate drive coils connecting a respective pin and die. The gate drive coils are disposed in a region between the positive and negative tracks containing a flux generated by the currents having a locally greatest rate of change. The coils may preferably be comprised of traces on an auxiliary printed circuit board incorporated in the module. The gate drive pins can be on the gate side or the emitter side of the transistor dies.
US10340805B2
The present invention relates to a resonant step-down DC-DC power converter which comprises a primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit coupled through a galvanic isolation barrier. The primary side circuit comprises a positive and a negative input terminal for receipt of an input voltage and an input capacitor coupled between the positive and negative input terminals and the secondary side circuit comprises an output capacitor chargeable to a converter output voltage between a first positive electrode and a second negative electrode. A resonant network is con-figured for alternatingly being charged from the input voltage and discharged to the output capacitor through the galvanic isolation barrier by a semiconductor switch arrangement in accordance with a switch control signal to produce the converter output voltage. The resonant step-down DC-DC power converter comprises an electrical short-circuit connection across the galvanic isolation barrier connecting, in a first case, the second negative electrode of the output capacitor to the positive input terminal of the primary side circuit or, in a second case, connecting the second positive electrode of the output capacitor to the negative input terminal of the primary side circuit thereby establishing in both the first and second cases a series coupling of the output capacitor and the input capacitor. A load connection is established, in the first case, between the first positive electrode of the output capacitor and the positive input terminal or, in the second case, between the second negative electrode of the output capacitor and the negative input terminal.
US10340799B2
A step-up/down power supply, in which a circuit area is small, includes a step-down unit that generates an output voltage lower than an input voltage by turning on or off a step-down switch in which the input voltage of the step-up/down power supply is applied, and a step-up unit that generates an output voltage higher than the input voltage by turning on or off a step-up switch in which a ground is applied. A step-down gate voltage control circuit controls a gate voltage of the step-down switch and includes a gate voltage generating circuit that generates a first voltage and a second voltage for turning on the step-down switch. A gate voltage switching circuit switches between the first voltage and the second voltage, and the gate voltage generating circuit includes a first voltage source that generates the first voltage and a second voltage source that generates the second voltage.
US10340793B1
A charge pump system includes: a differential amplifier, for receiving a feedback voltage and a reference voltage and generating an output signal; an oscillating circuit for generating clock pulses; a charge pump for receiving the clock pulses and generating an output voltage; a current sink coupled to the output of the charge pump; a first pair of cascode transistors for generating a digital signal; and an inverter for inverting the digital signal to generate a first digital signal according to the output signal, wherein the first digital signal is input to the current sink. When the feedback voltage is higher than the reference voltage, the first digital signal will be generated and the current sink will be turned on, and when the feedback voltage is lower than the reference voltage, the first digital signal will not be generated and the current sink will be turned off.
US10340792B1
The present disclosure provides a PMIC boot timing circuit and a PMIC boot timing determination method. The circuit includes a PMIC, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a triode, wherein the PMIC includes a first buck module, a second buck module, a third buck module and a direct current source; one end of the first capacitor is connected to the direct current source, and the other end of the first capacitor is grounded; one end of the second capacitor is connected to one end of the direct current source, and the other end of the second capacitor is connected to the drain of the triode; the source of the triode is grounded, and the gate of the triode is connected to the PMIC. Compared with the related art, the circuit and the method provided by the present disclosure can achieve different timing generation and normal boot timing.
US10340788B2
The invention is directed towards a power source interface module for electronic circuits supplied by power from a power source as well as a power supply arrangement for electronic circuits comprising such a power source interface module. The module comprises a first circuit board carrying components, the first circuit board comprising a number of stacked circuit board layers as well as at least two openings, at least a part of a filter comprising at least one pair of magnetically coupled inductive coils, a core with two core legs, each core leg stretching through a corresponding opening in the circuit board, wherein each coil is wound around a corresponding core leg, the turns of the coils stretch through the circuit board layers, and each layer between an upper outer layer and a lower outer layer comprises at least a part of one turn.
US10340784B2
The present disclosure relates to power systems. The teachings thereof may be embodied in power electronic systems. For example, a power electronic system for operating a load may comprise: a number of power modules connected to the load, each comprising at least one switching element and a local actuator; a superordinate controller for actuating the power modules; a device bus connected to the superordinate controller via which the control signals for actuating the power modules are transmitted; the superordinate controller transmitting the control signals in respective messages at predefined intervals of time; wherein all power modules scan a first communication edge of a received message and process it as a common time base of the system.
US10340782B2
A light fixture including a stepper motor comprising a stepper motor stator and a stepper motor rotor. The stepper motor rotor includes a stepper motor axle and is rotatable around a stepper motor axis. The stepper motor is connected to a movable object and is configured to move the movable object in relation to a reference point. A damping mass is attached to the stepper motor axle. The damping mass has a rotational inertia in relation to the stepper motor axis which is at least as large as the rotational inertia of the stepper motor rotor in relation to the stepper motor axis. A method of damping the sound generated by a light fixture comprising a step of attaching a damping mass to a stepper motor axle.
US10340761B2
An electric device and a stator assembly for the electric device includes a stator core defining a plurality of slots spaced from each other. The stator assembly includes a plurality of bar conductors disposed in each of the slots and arranged to present a first winding path, a second winding path and a third winding path. A first set of the bar conductors of the first, second and third winding paths are configured to receive current in a parallel circuit arrangement. The stator assembly also includes a plurality of electrical jumpers electrically connected to a predetermined number of the bar conductors such that an amount of current flowing through the first winding path and the third winding path is substantially the same and an amount of current flowing through the second winding path is different from the amount of current flowing through the first and third winding paths.
US10340758B2
A permanent magnet motor has a number of permanent magnets forming permanent magnet poles. Each magnet has an outer surface that is an arc surface with a convex middle. An inner surface of the magnet is a curved surface with a concave middle. The curved surface has an arc surface section and two planar surface sections. The arc surface has a pole arc angle α of 0.7 to 0.96, and the ratio of an arc angle β of the arc surface section to the pole arc angle α is 0.15 to 0.35. The shape of the inner surface of the magnet creates uneven air gaps between the rotor poles and the stator core poles. This reduces cogging torque, increases the motor efficiency, and reduces the motor noise.
US10340742B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling wireless power transmission are provided. An apparatus for controlling wireless power transmission includes a controller configured to determine an output voltage of a power factor correction unit based on charging information of a battery, the power factor correction unit configured to correct an input voltage into the determined output voltage, and output a variable voltage, and a resonance unit configured to transmit power converted from the variable voltage to a wireless power reception apparatus.
US10340741B2
Disclosed is a refrigerator for uniformly illuminating an inner space thereof. The refrigerator includes a cabinet including a storage compartment having a predetermined size, a shelf installed in the storage compartment, the shelf including a light source unit for illuminating an inside of the storage compartment, a transmitter connected to an external power supply for wirelessly transmitting power, the transmitter having a primary resonance frequency within a predetermined range, and a receiver for wirelessly receiving the power from the transmitter so as to supply the power to the light source unit of the shelf, the transmitter transmitting the power to the receiver using a secondary resonance frequency generated when the receiver is located close to the transmitter.
US10340739B2
A novel power receiving device and a novel power transmission device are provided. Power feeding and communication are performed using a magnetic resonance method. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, power feeding is performed by generating a second high-frequency voltage based on a first high-frequency voltage induced in a resonant coil and communication is performed by modulating amplitude of the first high-frequency voltage induced in the resonant coil. Thus, it is possible to perform communication and power feeding based on data obtained by the communication in pseudo-parallel.
US10340734B2
A power generator system with anomaly detection and methods for detecting anomalies include a power generator that includes one or more physical components configured to provide electrical power. Sensors are configured to make measurements of a state of respective physical components, outputting respective time series of said measurements. A monitoring system includes a fitting module configured to determine a predictive model for each pair of a set of time series, an anomaly detection module configured to compare new values of each pair of time series to values predicted by the respective predictive model to determine if the respective predictive model is broken and to determine a number of broken predictive model, and an alert module configured to generate an anomaly alert if the number of broken predictive models exceeds a threshold.
US10340731B2
A battery management system comprising a main battery and a backup battery. A load is electrically connected to the main battery and the backup battery through one or more switches (e.g., FET switches). A voltage monitoring circuit is electrically connected to the main battery, the backup battery, and the load, wherein the voltage monitoring circuit monitors a voltage from the main battery and triggers a changeover to the backup battery based on a threshold and wherein a main battery interface path within the circuit is facilitated by a bypass diode for automatically switching the circuit to avoid power interruptions.
US10340729B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling electric currents. The apparatus for controlling electric currents according to the present invention includes: a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating unit configured to generate a PWM signal; a first switch unit connected with the PWM signal generating unit, and configured to receive the PWM signal and generate a switch control signal corresponding to the PWM signal; a second switch unit connected with the first switch unit, and configured to receive the switch control signal and connect or block a flow of a current from a rectifier to a battery according to the switch control signal; and a current decreasing unit connected with the second switch unit, and configured to decrease a current value of a current passing through the second switch unit and provide the battery with a current having the decreased current value.
US10340725B2
A wireless power reception device includes an inner coil, a mounting member having the inner coil mounted thereon and a slit formed in an edge of the inner coil, and a first shielding member and a second shielding member laminated on the first shielding member and provided in correspondence with the inner coil, the mounting member being mounted on the first shielding member and the second shielding member. Accordingly, it is possible to improve efficiency of the wireless power reception device.
US10340718B2
A charging system, a charging method, and a power adapter are provided. The power adapter includes a first rectification unit, a switch unit, a transformer, a second rectification unit, a first charging interface, a sampling unit, a control unit, a second charging interface, and a battery coupled to the second charging interface. The control unit is configured to output a control signal to the switch unit, and adjust a duty ratio of the control signal based on a voltage sampling value and/or current sampling value sampled by the sampling unit, in which a voltage of a third pulsating waveform meets charging requirements. When the second charging interface is coupled to the first charging interface, the second charging interface applies the voltage of the third pulsating waveform to the battery, in which the voltage of the pulsating waveform output from the power adapter can be directly applied to the battery.
US10340707B2
A method for the adjustment of states of charge of battery cells that are operated electrically in parallel connection, with the following steps: determination of the states of charge of the battery cells; selection of those battery cells whose states of charge are to be adjusted in accordance with a predeterminable selection rule; activation of those battery cells that are adjusted by means of a respective semiconductor switch of the battery cells, and deactivation of the remaining battery cells by means of the semiconductor switches of the respective remaining battery cells; carrying out the adjustment of the states of charge and monitoring of the states of charge; and termination of the adjustment of the states of charge when a predetermined state of charge has been attained by the activated battery cells.
US10340705B2
A receiver coil assembly for a wirelessly rechargeable battery including first and second transverse coils and a third coil encompassing the first and second coils. The receiver coil may be employed in a power receiver of a wirelessly rechargeable battery. Also disclosed is a wirelessly rechargeable battery having a power receiver demountable from an electrochemical cell.
US10340700B2
According to some aspects, a power regulation system for energy harvesters that lacks a battery is provided. In some embodiments, the power regulation system may receive power from multiple energy harvesters that generate energy from different sources, such as wind currents and ambient light. In these embodiments, the power regulation system may selectively provide power from one or more of the energy harvesters to a load as environmental conditions change and power itself with energy from the energy harvesters. Thereby, the power regulation system may start and operate without a battery and provide power to the load over a wider range of environmental conditions.
US10340699B2
[Problem] It is intended to provide a system, a related method and a minimum current detection and control system for, even when partial shading occurs in a string composed of a series connection of a plurality of solar cell modules, maintaining an output current of the whole.[Solution] By inputting an output voltage of the string into an inverter to convert the output voltage into an AC voltage and applying the AC voltage to the string via a multi-stage voltage multiplier rectification circuit, a compensation current is supplied to a shaded module on a priority basis to maintain an output current of the whole string while lowering an operating voltage of the shaded module by impedance generated on a pathway of the compensation current. Further provided are a system and the like constructed by multistage-connecting an output-side circuit section of one of various types of converters to the solar cell modules, and configured to supply a compensation current from the converter section to the shaded module on a priority basis.
US10340698B2
A space-based solar power station, a power generating satellite module and/or a method for collecting solar radiation and transmitting power generated using electrical current produced therefrom, and/or compactible structures and deployment mechanisms used to form and deploy such satellite modules and power generation tiles associated therewith are provided. Each satellite module and/or power generation tile may be formed of a compactable structure and deployment mechanism capable of reducing the payload area required to deliver the satellite module to an orbital formation within the space-based solar power station and reliably deploy it once in orbit.
US10340697B2
Systems, methods, and building block modules for modular power generation facilities are disclosed. A multi-stack modular power generation facility includes first and second pluralities of primary modules and first and second control systems. The first modules are positioned in a first stack to form a first vertical enclosure; the second modules are positioned in a second stack to form a second vertical enclosure; and the first and second modules each include gen-set modules, each with an engine-generator, and a switchgear module ganged to the gen-set modules. Each control system communicates with the respective gen-set modules to coordinate the engine-generators as a unit and to control the loading of each of the generators in response to a power load demand. The second plurality of primary modules are disposed immediately adjacent the first plurality of primary modules such that the second vertical enclosure abuts the first vertical enclosure.
US10340691B2
A rack-based information handling system (IHS) includes a rack having a modular structure that supports insertion from a front of the rack of different numbers and sizes of information technology (IT) gear to create one or more IT nodes. Power bay chassis is received in the rack with a power distribution unit directed towards a rear of the rack. A modular busbar assembly is attached to the rear of the rack. A first vertical busbar segment is in direct electrical connection with the power distribution unit and spans one or more nodes to provide hot pluggable electrical power to an aft-directed connection of an IT node inserted into the rack. A second busbar segment can be attached to the first vertical busbar to electrically communicate with the power distribution unit and span an additional node adjacent to the one or more nodes to provide electrical power to the adjacent node.
US10340688B2
A modular overvoltage protection unit for electrically connecting a first power line and/or a second power line to a protected earth (PE) line in the case of an overvoltage event on the first or second power line includes a unit enclosure defining an enclosure cavity, and first and second surge protection devices (SPDs) each disposed in the enclosure cavity. Each of the first and second SPDs includes: a first electrode in the form of a metal housing defining a housing cavity; a second electrode disposed within the housing cavity; and a varistor member captured between and electrically connected with each of the first and second electrodes, wherein the varistor member is formed of a varistor material. The overvoltage protection unit further includes: a first line terminal to connect the first power line to the overvoltage protection unit, wherein the first line terminal is electrically connected to the second electrode of the first SPD; a second line terminal to connect the second power line to the overvoltage protection unit, wherein the second line terminal is electrically connected to the second electrode of the second SPD; and a PE terminal to connect the PE line to the overvoltage protection unit, wherein the PE terminal is electrically connected to the metal housing of the second SPD. The metal housing of the first SPD is electrically connected to the PE terminal through the metal housing of the second SPD.
US10340682B2
An electronic-device having an intermediate connection layer interposed between a wiring substrate and an electronic component. The intermediate connection layer has a laminated structure including a rigid substrate and a flexible substrate. A first conductor part is formed on one principal surface of the flexible substrate, and second and third conductor parts are formed on both principal surfaces of the rigid substrate, respectively. The rigid substrate includes an opening, and the first conductor part of the flexible substrate includes a narrowed fuse part at a position opposite the opening. Windows are formed near the fuse part. The flexible substrate and the rigid substrate are electrically connected with each other via solder.
US10340660B2
A tunable laser configured in a small package subassembly including a gain chip positioned in the interior space between first and second tunable filter subassemblies. The tunable laser is packaged in either a rectangular or cylindrical housing, with an electrical input interface positioned at one end of the housing.
US10340648B1
A cable connector clocking assembly for clocking and torqueing a cable connector. In one example, the clocking assembly has a socket adapter sub-assembly configured to be mounted in an adapter holder sub-assembly. The socket adapter sub-assembly includes a socket portion and an adapter portion having a generally cylindrical body portion secured to the socket portion with a fastener. The adapter portion also has at least one indicium configured to indicate a clock angle of a cable connector when the cable connector is connected to the socket portion. The clocking assembly also includes an adapter holder sub-assembly comprising a clamp portion and a face portion having indicia representative of different clock angles. The clamp portion has an unclamped configuration, wherein the socket sub-assembly can be rotated to a desired clock angle, and a clamped configuration, wherein the socket sub-assembly is securely retained in the clamp portion at the desired clock angle.
US10340646B2
An Edison lamp holder adapter for adapting an electrical quick connect for connection to the lamp holder. The adapter includes an external housing and a ball shaped internal housing translating within the external housing. The external housing has lateral conductors formed with a resilient upper detent and a resilient lower detent, wherein the ball shaped internal housing selectively snaps into one of the detents. When the ball shaped internal housing resides within the upper detent, the electrical conductors of the adapter contact the internal conductors of the lamp holder to complete the circuit.
US10340644B1
An electric vehicle charging connector device comprises a plug connector and a receptacle connector docking with the plug connector. The plug connector includes a first insulating body, a first circuit board, a plurality of contact terminals, a first electrode unit and a first jumper unit. The receptacle connector includes a second insulating body, a second circuit board, a plurality of docking terminals, a second electrode unit, a second jumper unit and a waterproof ring. The first jumper unit of the plug connector and the second jumper unit of the receptacle connector are respectively secured on the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit by a riveting way which allows a firm electrode connection and low probability of looseness between the plug connector and the receptacle connector so as to ensure a stability and accuracy of electricity transmission and a battery charge integrity.
US10340640B2
A method and apparatus for determining the current condition of power contacts and providing an indication to a preventive maintenance system and/or a user of required power contact replacement. The method includes auxiliary contacts providing a low power binary signal to a processor in response to movements of a contact carrier supporting the movable auxiliary contacts and movable power contacts. The low power binary signals, in combination with physical features of the contact carrier and a signal indicating the state of the power contact, provide information to the processor for determining the current condition of the power contacts, and if the current condition exceeds a predetermined limit, notifying the preventive maintenance system and/or the user.
US10340639B2
A shielded connector includes a shield shell and a shield member. The shield shell includes a shield member mounting portion on which the shield member is mounted by fastening of a binding member. The shield member mounting portion includes a fastening position aligning unit on an outer surface thereof. The fastening position aligning unit includes an inclined portion and a binding member movement restricting portion. The inclined portion is inclined in a tapered shape from a base end side of the shield member mounting portion toward an open end side. The binding member movement restricting portion restricts the binding member from moving toward the open end side of the shield member mounting portion.
US10340634B2
An apparatus is described. In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises a housing; a tray; an ejector; a push member having two positions, the push member is configured to receive an external force for moving the push member and to operate the ejector to eject the tray to an ejected open position when the push member is moved to a second position and to maintain in the second position; and a switch comprising two electric position; the switch is configured to switch to a first electric position when receiving the external force, and the push member is configured to maintain the switch in the first electric position when the push member is moved to the second position causing the tray to eject; when the tray is returned to a retracted closed position, the push member is moved to a first position causing the switch to switch to a second electric position.
US10340626B2
A connector mounting structure for mounting a connector (10) including a connector housing (20) made of synthetic resin on a case (50) made of metal by a bolt (80) includes a tubular metal member (55), the bolt (80) being inserted through the metal member, the metal member being configured to contact a seating surface (83) of a head portion (81) of the bolt (80) with the bolt (80) tightened. The connector housing (20) is integrally provided with a mounting piece (30) with an insertion hole (37) through which the bolt (80) and the metal member (55) are to be inserted.
US10340624B2
Disclosed is a retaining frame for retaining plug connector modules and for installation in plug connector housings or for screwing onto wall surfaces, wherein the plug connector modules are inserted in the retaining frame, and retaining means on the plug connector modules interact with cut-outs or recesses provided on opposite wall parts (lateral parts) of the retaining frame. According to the disclosure, the retaining frame is designed in two halves connected to one another in an articulated manner and the cut-outs or recesses for retaining the plug connector modules are designed as openings in the lateral parts of the retaining frame. The retaining frame for inserting the plug connector modules is opened and subsequently closed, wherein the plug connector modules are held form-fittingly in the retaining frame via the retaining means on the plug connector modules.
US10340619B2
A terminal fitting (10) includes a body (11) in the form of a rectangular tube, a tab (41) of a mating terminal (40) being inserted into the body (11) from the front. A resilient contact piece (22) is accommodated in the body (11). The tab (41) is sandwiched resiliently in a plate thickness direction thereof between the resilient contact piece (22) and a receiving plate (15) of the body (11). Holding portions (30) are formed integrally to the resilient contact piece (22) and capable of holding the tab (41) with a relative displacement of the tab (41) in a width direction with respect to the resilient contact piece (22) restricted by coming into contact with side edges (41S) of the tab (41).
US10340609B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a multiband antenna, an antenna array, and a wireless communications device that can achieve miniaturization while preventing deterioration in radiation efficiency. To this end, an antenna according to the present invention includes: a conductor reflection plate; a first antenna that includes a first antenna element and is provided on the conductor reflection plate; and a second antenna that includes a second antenna element having an electromagnetic resonance frequency that is a frequency different from an electromagnetic resonance frequency of the first antenna element included in the first antenna, and that is provided on the conductor reflection plate, wherein each of the first antenna element and the second antenna element includes: a C-shaped conductor that is a substantially C-shaped conductor having a split section formed in such a way that an annular conductor becomes partially discontinuous; and a conductor feed line that is electrically connected with one part out of both parts of the C-shaped conductor facing each other across the split section, and that constitutes an electric circuit for feeding power to the C-shaped conductor.
US10340606B2
An antenna element that includes a base plate, a first ground clustered pillar projecting from the base plate, a second ground clustered pillar projecting from the base plate and spaced apart from a first side of the first ground clustered pillar, a first ground member projecting from the base plate between the first ground clustered pillar and the second ground clustered pillar, wherein a distal end of the first ground member is configured to capacitively couple to the second ground clustered pillar, and a first signal member projecting from the base plate between the first ground clustered pillar and the first ground member, wherein the first signal member is electrically insulated from the base plate, the first ground clustered pillar, and the first ground member, and a distal end of the first signal member is configured to capacitively couple to the first ground clustered pillar.
US10340601B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an antenna structure that includes first and second dielectric antennas that each redirect a beam pattern generated by the first and second dielectric antennas away from a center axis of the of the first and second dielectric antennas. Each of the first and second dielectric antennas can be coupled to at least one dielectric core via a feed point of each dielectric antenna. The at least one dielectric core can be configured to supply electromagnetic waves that are converted by the first and second dielectric antennas to first and second beam patterns redirected away from the center axis. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10340596B2
A method for resonating a conductive structure as an antenna comprising: connecting a radio frequency (RF) resonator to a transceiver, wherein the RF resonator has a conductive layer; attaching the conductive layer of the resonator to the conductive structure at a given location; balancing the impedance of the transceiver with the impedance of the conductive structure at the given location; and receiving and radiating electromagnetic waves through the conductive structure at an operating frequency of the transceiver, wherein the conductive structure has a dimension of at least one-half wavelength of the operating frequency of the transceiver.
US10340583B2
In one example, the present disclosure provides a phased array antenna system with a first array of antenna elements and a first radio frequency beamforming network configured to split the power of a radio frequency signal for transmission into a first plurality of component signals comprising drive signals for the first array of antenna elements, the first radio frequency beamforming network further configured to combine a radio frequency signal for reception by the phased array antenna system from a second plurality of component signals from the first array of antenna elements, where a radio frequency power distribution of the first radio frequency beamforming network is arranged to provide a weighting of the first plurality and the second plurality of component signals processed via antenna elements towards one end of the first array.
US10340574B2
A spatial power-combining device and an antenna structure designed for high efficiency, high frequency, and ultra-wide bandwidth operation. The antenna structure may include a signal conductor and a ground conductor that are entirely separated by air. A spatial power-combining device may include a plurality of amplifier assemblies including multiple output antenna structures and an output coaxial waveguide section configured to concurrently combine signals received from each output antenna structure of the plurality of amplifier assemblies. The plurality of amplifier assemblies may also include multiple input antenna structures and an input coaxial waveguide configured to provide an input signal concurrently to each input antenna structure of the plurality of amplifier assemblies.
US10340571B2
A coaxial guided wave radar apparatus includes a central conductor configured as a wire rope. One or more spacers can be positioned and held in place about the central conductor at predetermined lengths along the central conductor, wherein each spacer is positioned and held in place along the central conductor by one or more respective retainers that are crimped to the central conductor. A tensioner can be attached to the end of the wire rope of the central conductor. The tensioner allows for a proper tension to be applied to maintain a spacing of the wire rope from an outer conductor.
US10340569B2
A multiplexer through which different frequency bands pass, including: a housing that includes an I/O terminal and a channel group which inputs and/or outputs frequencies of different ranges, includes a plurality of connectors, and is separated from the I/O terminal; a low-pass filter provided inside the housing, electrically connected to the I/O terminal, and formed of a distributed constant type; a common capacitor provided in parallel to the low-pass filter and electrically connected to a contact point between the I/O terminal and the low-pass filter; and a cavity filter which includes a plurality of cavities which are formed in the housing and a resonator which is respectively installed in the cavities.
US10340564B2
According to one embodiment, a vehicular storage battery device includes a housing, battery boxes, and a common cooling passage. The battery boxes are disposed in the housing. Each of the battery boxes houses an electric cell as a vehicle power source and includes a heat transporting part transporting heat generated in the battery box to outside of the battery box. The common cooling passage is disposed in the housing. The common cooling passage is provided with an inlet for taking in a fluid and an outlet for discharging the fluid having passed through the passage. The inlet and the outlet are open in a direction different from a traveling direction of the vehicle. The heat transporting part of each of the battery boxes is exposed to inside of the passage.
US10340560B2
A method for displaying battery information of an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining an operating history about one or more operations performed by the electronic device; determining a power usage about each of the one or more operations, based on the operating history; and determining an available time period for which a battery supplying power to the electronic device is capable to supply power to the electronic device, based on the power usage and a remaining capacity of the battery.
US10340558B2
A battery cell with a monitoring device including a data processing unit for processing state data of the battery cell as a function of a trigger pulse and a triggering unit, which is connected to the data processing unit, to generate the trigger pulse and to provide the trigger pulse to the data processing unit. The triggering unit is designed to evaluate a measurement signal, which correlates with an electrical energy of the battery cell in order to generate the trigger pulse as a function of the measurement signal. The invention further relates to a battery having such a battery cell as well as to a motor vehicle having such a battery. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for monitoring at least one such battery cell.
US10340556B2
A battery cell includes a first resistance change member having first and second terminals, a first power generation element including a first positive electrode, a first negative electrode, and a first electrolyte interposed between the first positive electrode and the first negative electrode, a first case enclosing the first power generation element and the first resistance change member, and first positive and negative electrode terminals. At least one of the first positive electrode, the first negative electrode, and the first electrolyte contains a first sulfur-based material. The first resistance change member contains a first resistance change material of which electrical resistance is changed by a chemical reaction with hydrogen sulfide. The first and second terminals of the first resistance change member are exposed to the outside of the first case, and the first resistance change member is not electrically connected to any of the first positive and negative electrode terminals.
US10340552B1
An electrolyte composition and a metal-ion battery employing the same are provided. The electrolyte composition includes a metal halide, an organic compound, and a halogen-containing salt, wherein the halogen-containing salt has a structure represented by Formula (I) [Ca+]i[X−]j Formula (I) , wherein M can be IA element, IIA element, IIIA element, IVA element, VA element, VIA element, transition metal, pyrrolium, pyrrolinium, pyrrolidinium, pyridinium, ammonium, imidazolium, indazolium, pyrimidinium, etc.; wherein A can be F, Cl, Br, or I; a=j/i; i is 1, 2, 3, or 4; j is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. The molar ratio of the metal halide to the organic compound is higher than 2, and the molar ratio of metal halide to the halogen-containing salt is higher than 2. The metal halide is different from the halogen-containing salt.
US10340549B2
A electrolyte is an electrolyte represented by the following formula (1): (Li7−3x+yGax)(La3−yCay)Zr2O12 (1) wherein 0.1≤x≤1, and 0.01≤y≤0.5.
US10340547B2
A fabrication method of a battery includes the steps of providing an electrode group, a first sealing film and a second sealing film; bonding a part of a first surface of the first sealing film and a part of a first surface of the second sealing film by thermo-compression to form a sealed chamber, wherein at least one of the first sealing film and the second sealing film has a redundant part located outside the sealed chamber and without being bound by thermo-compression, and a part of the electrode group is disposed in the sealed chamber; and injecting an electrolyte into the sealed chamber.
US10340536B2
A modular fuel cell structure includes an anode conductive sheet, an air electrode sheet, a separating membrane, and a cathode conductive sheet stacked on a casing. The casing has a reaction vessel, and also has a first, a second, and a third flow passages, which all communicates with the reaction vessel, and are all independent. Said modular structure forms a fuel cell system with a first storage tank, a second storage tank, a retrieval device, and a feeding device which controls the first and the second storage tanks to deliver a first and a second materials to the casing. The first and the second materials are respectively injected into the reaction vessel for reaction through the first and the second flow passages, and then exhausted to the retrieval device through the third flow passage after the reaction. With the independent flow passages, the efficiency of power generation could be improved.
US10340534B2
A fuel cell system having at least one fuel cell and a cathode loop for recycling a portion of an unused oxidant from the fuel cell for reuse in the same fuel cell is presented. The cathode loop may comprise an oxidant inlet manifold in the fuel cell configured to supply oxidant to the fuel cell, an oxidant exhaust manifold in the fuel cell configured to receive unused oxidant from said fuel cells, and a cathode ejector configured to receive oxidant from an oxidant source and the oxidant exhaust manifold and to supply oxidant to the oxidant inlet manifold, wherein a portion of said unused oxidant is supplied directly to said oxidant inlet manifold from said oxidant exhaust manifold via said cathode ejector.
US10340533B2
A fuel cell in a fuel cell stack is provided with a gas seal projection and a coolant seal projection projecting from at least one of two separators toward a membrane electrode assembly. The gas seal projection and the coolant seal projection are provided with recesses serving as coolant passages on the side opposite to the membrane electrode assembly. At least one of the gas seal projection and the coolant seal projection is provided with a resistance portion for suppressing a flow of a coolant out of a power generation portion cooling portion.
US10340531B2
An alloy includes lithium, silicon and tin. An anode may be formed of an anode material containing the alloy of lithium, silicon and tin. The anode material may include an electrolyte. The anode material may be a pressed powder pellet that is solid at ambient temperature. A battery, for example, a thermal battery, can contain an electrolyte-separator, a cathode, and/or an anode with the alloy of lithium, tin and silicon. The anode formed of the alloy consisting of lithium, tin and silicon can have a melting point from about 500° C. to about 600° C. or higher making it suitable for use in a thermal battery.
US10340524B2
A negative electrode for a lithium battery, including a lithium metal; and a protective layer disposed on at least a part of the lithium metal, wherein the protective layer includes a block copolymer including a structural domain and a hard domain covalently linked to the structural domain, wherein the structural domain includes a structural block of the block copolymer, wherein the hard domain includes a hard block of the block polymer, wherein the structural block includes a plurality of structural repeating units, and wherein the hard block includes a plurality of olefin repeating units.
US10340515B2
Process for producing an active material for batteries from lithium sulfide and ionic liquids, corresponding active materials, cathode materials, batteries and corresponding uses.
US10340511B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector and an active material-containing layer. The active material-containing layer is provided on the current collector. The active material-containing layer includes active material particles and insulator particles. The active material-containing layer has a first surface facing the current collector and a second face as a surface of the active material-containing layer. The second face includes a surface of a part of the insulator particles. A volume ratio of the insulator particles decreases from the second face toward the first surface in the active material-containing layer.
US10340503B2
Disclosed herein is a pouch-shaped secondary battery including an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked with a separator interposed, an electrode lead electrically connected to electrode tabs of the electrode assembly, a pouch-shaped battery case made of a laminate sheet including an outer coating layer, a metal layer, and an inner sealant layer, and a lead box disposed on a sealed portion of the battery case for receiving the electrode lead. In particular, the electrode lead includes a lower electrode lead, which is electrically connected to the electrode tabs, and an upper electrode lead, a portion of which is coupled to the lower electrode lead.
US10340501B2
A current interruption device includes a first conductive member, a second conductive member, a first deformable member, a second deformable member, and a first seal member. The second conductive member is disposed at a position opposed to the first conductive member. A center portion of the first deformable member is fixed to the second conductive member. The second deformable member is disposed on a side opposite to the first deformable member relative to the second conductive member. The first seal member is disposed between the first conductive member and the second conductive member. A second seal member is disposed between the first conductive member and the casing. A gas permeability between the casing and the first conductive member is equal to or less than a gas permeability between the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
US10340498B2
Disclosed is a battery cell, including an electrode assembly including electrode plates respectively having an electrode tab protruding therefrom and separators, which are alternately stacked, the electrode tabs being bent in an upper direction of the electrode assembly, the electrode assembly including an electrode lead coupled with an end of the bent electrode tabs to form a tab-lead coupler; and a battery case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly so that the electrode lead is partially exposed outwards. The tab-lead coupler is located on an extension line of an outermost electrode plate of the electrode assembly, which is located at a side where the electrode tabs are bent, and the tab-lead coupler is opposite to one side of the electrode assembly having the protruded electrode tab to come into contact with one side of the electrode assembly or be spaced apart therefrom.
US10340487B2
Contacting apparatus for contacting an energy storage cell (1) comprising at least one printed circuit board (5) which is provided for discharging the electrical energy stored in the energy storage cell (1), wherein at least one electric pole of the energy storage cell (1) is pressed by a releasable mechanical connection (7) with a specific contact pressing force against an electrically conductive layer (5c) of the at least one printed circuit board (5) which is located on a front side of the at least one printed circuit board (5) facing the energy storage cell (1).
US10340478B2
An organic EL display device includes a thin film transistor substrate that has a circuit layer, a passivation layer, a lower electrode formed in each pixel in a display region, an organic material layer that is in contact with the lower electrode, an upper electrode that covers the organic material layer, and a sealing layer that entirely covers the base material. The thin film transistor substrate has the display region, and a moisture blocking region that surrounds the display region. On the moisture blocking region, the circuit layer, the passivation layer, the moisture blocking layer, and the sealing layer are laminated in this order. A composition of the moisture blocking layer is different from a composition of the sealing layer.
US10340475B2
The present invention provides an OLED panel fabrication method and an OLED panel. The OLED panel fabrication method of the present invention is such that at least two loops of spaced barrier walls are provided on an outer circumference of the OLED device and inkjet printing is applied to form, in sequence, an organic buffer layer between a first inorganic blocking layer and a second inorganic blocking layer at a location above a light emission area defined and delimited by the barrier walls and a loop of densification layer between the first inorganic blocking layer and the second inorganic blocking layer at a location above an area between two adjacent ones of the barrier walls so as to form a complicated path that retards invasion of water vapor and oxygen in a lateral side encapsulation structure to improve a lateral side film encapsulation effect thereby providing a film encapsulation structure having an increased gas blocking capability to effectively protect the OLED device, increase the life span of the OLED device, and suit the need of encapsulation of a flexible OLED panel. In addition, the fabrication method is easy to carry out.
US10340463B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the first electrode and including an emission layer (EML); a hole transport region between including an electron blocking layer (EBL) and at least one selected from a hole injection layer (HIL), a hole transport layer (HTL), and a buffer layer; and an electron transport region and including a hole blocking layer (HBL) and at least one selected from an electron transport layer and electron injection layer (EIL). A triplet energy of a material for the electron blocking layer (EBL T1), a triplet energy of a material for the hole blocking layer (HBL T1), and a triplet energy of a host in the emission layer (Host T1) satisfy Equation (1) and Equation (2): EBL T1≥HBL T1≥Host T1 (1) EBL T1−HBL T1≥0.2 eV (2).
US10340457B2
The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds, which are small molecules or conjugated polymers, containing one or more fluorinated polycyclic units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.
US10340454B2
A display device includes a display panel and a first protective substrate positioned under the display panel and including a first sub-region and a second sub-region positioned at a side of the first sub-region. A thickness of the first protective substrate in the first sub-region is greater than a thickness of the first protective substrate in the second sub-region.
US10340451B2
In switching elements each using a two-terminal-type variable resistance element, improper writing or any improper operation is often caused and the reliability of the switching elements cannot be improved easily. A switching element according to the present invention is equipped with a first variable resistance element equipped with a first input/output terminal and a first connection terminal, a second variable resistance element equipped with a second input/output terminal and a second connection terminal, and a rectifying element equipped with a control terminal and a third connection terminal, wherein the first connection terminal, the second connection terminal and the third connection terminal are connected to one another.
US10340441B2
A lead-free piezoelectric ceramic composition including an alkali niobate/tantalate perovskite oxide main phase having piezoelectric properties and a different metal oxide subphase. The mole ratio (Na/K) between Na (sodium) and K (potassium) in the main phase assumes a value in a range represented by 0.40<(Na/K)<3.0. The main phase has a crystal structure in which (i) first spots corresponding to a primitive lattice period and (ii) second spots corresponding to the lattice period two times the primitive lattice period and being weaker than the first spots appear in an electron beam diffraction image entering from the <100> direction with the main phase represented as a pseudo-cubic crystal system.
US10340439B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator is disclosed that includes forming a vibration plate, forming a plurality of electrodes on the vibration plate, forming a piezoelectric layer on the electrodes, and forming a common electrode on the piezoelectric layer.
US10340432B2
A light emitting device is provided that includes an integral heat dissipation element. This heat dissipation element is included in the leadframe that is used to facilitate fabrication of the light emitting device, to provide a single common substrate that forms both the heat dissipation element and the conductive elements for coupling the light emitting device to external sources of power. The heat dissipation element may extend beyond the protective structure that surrounds the light emitting element to facilitate heat dissipation to the surrounding medium.
US10340423B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor structure comprising a surface and a side wall inclined to the surface, wherein the semiconductor structure comprises a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer comprises a first edge and a first area; and a reflective layer located on the semiconductor structure and comprising an outer edge and a second area; wherein a distance between the first edge and the outer edge is between 0 μm and 10 μm, and the second area of the reflective layer is not less than 80% of the first area of the second semiconductor layer.
US10340419B2
A light emitting device includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other on a substrate, at least one bar-type LED having a first end on the first electrode and a second end on the second electrode, and an insulative support body between the substrate and the bar-type LED. The at least one bar-type LED has a length greater than a width.
US10340418B2
Described herein is a highly efficient light emitting device. The light emitting device includes: a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer; an active layer interposed between the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a current blocking layer disposed on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a transparent electrode layer covering the current blocking layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer; a second electrode disposed on the transparent electrode layer and electrically connected to the transparent electrode layer, the second electrode including a second electrode pad and a second electrode extension extending from the second electrode pad; and a second reflective layer interposed between the second electrode and the transparent electrode layer, wherein each of the second electrode pad and the second electrode extension covers at least part of the current blocking layer.
US10340399B2
Provided is an optical device in which an Si cap layer is provided on a Ge layer, and which is capable of effectively reducing dark current, while having a good effect on prevention of production line contamination by Ge. One embodiment of the optical device according to the present invention is provided with: a semiconductor layer which contains Ge and has a (001) surface and a facet surface between the (001) surface and a (110) surface; and a cap layer which is formed from Si, and which is formed on the (001) surface and the facet surface of the semiconductor layer. The ratio of the film thickness of the cap layer on the facet surface to the film thickness of the cap layer on the (001) surface is 0.4 or more; and the film thickness of the cap layer on the (001) surface is from 9 nm to 30 nm (inclusive).
US10340389B2
The present disclosure discloses in embodiments a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate. The thin film transistor comprises: a base substrate, an active layer, a source, a gate, and a drain. Two ends of the active layer are connected to the source and the drain, respectively. The gate comprises a top gate and a bottom gate arranged opposite to each other in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the top gate comprising a top gate top portion and a top gate side portion connected to the top gate top portion, the top gate side portion extending from the top gate top portion towards the base substrate. The active layer is sandwiched between the top gate top portion and the bottom gate. A sidewall of the active layer is at least partially surrounded by the top gate side portion.
US10340383B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin extending along a first direction over a substrate, and a gate structure extending in a second direction overlying the fin. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer overlying the fin, a gate electrode overlying the gate dielectric layer, and insulating gate sidewalls on opposing lateral surfaces of the gate electrode extending along the second direction. A source/drain region is formed in the fin in a region adjacent the gate electrode structure, and a stressor layer is between the source/drain region and the semiconductor substrate. The stressor layer includes GeSn or SiGeSn containing 1019 atoms cm−3 or less of a dopant, and a portion of the fin under the gate structure is a channel region.
US10340380B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of spaced apart fins, a dielectric material layer positioned between each of the plurality of spaced apart fins, and a common gate structure positioned above the dielectric material layer and extending across the fins. A continuous merged semiconductor material region is positioned on each of the fins and above the dielectric material layer, is laterally spaced apart from the common gate structure, extends between and physically contacts the fins, has a first sidewall surface that faces toward the common gate structure, and has a second sidewall surface that is opposite of the first sidewall surface and faces away from the common gate structure. A stress-inducing material is positioned in a space defined by at least the first sidewall surface, opposing sidewall surfaces of an adjacent pair of fins, and an upper surface of the dielectric material layer.
US10340377B2
Edge termination for MOSFETs. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a core region including a plurality of parallel core plates coupled to a source terminal of the MOSFET. The MOSFET also includes a termination region surrounding the core region comprising a plurality of separated floating termination segments configured to force breakdown into the core region and not in the termination region. Each termination segment has a length dimension less than a length dimension of the core plates.
US10340376B2
A process for fabricating a heterojunction field-effect transistor including a semiconductor structure made up of superposed layers, including: providing on a substrate layer (1) a buffer layer (2), a channel layer (3) and a barrier layer (4), the layers being made of materials having hexagonal crystal structures of the Ga(1-p-q)Al(p)In(q)N type; forming an opening in a dielectric masking layer (5) deposited on the barrier layer; growing by high-temperature epitaxy a semiconductor material (6, 6′) having a hexagonal crystal structure, namely Ga(1-x′-y′)Al(x′)In(y′)N, doped with germanium, on a growth zone defined by the opening formed in the masking layer; and depositing a source or drain contact electrode (15, 16) on the material thus deposited by epitaxy, and a gate electrode (13) in a location outside of the growth zone.
US10340375B2
The present invention provides an epitaxial substrate for field effect transistor. In the epitaxial substrate for field effect transistor, a nitride-based Group III-V semiconductor epitaxial crystal containing Ga is interposed between the ground layer and the operating layer, and the nitride-based Group III-V semiconductor epitaxial crystal includes the following (i), (ii) and (iii). (i) a first buffer layer containing Ga or Al and containing a high resistivity crystal layer having added thereto compensation impurity element present in the same period as Ga in the periodic table and having small atomic number; (ii) a second buffer layer containing Ga or Al, laminated on the operating layer side of the first buffer layer; and (iii) a high purity epitaxial crystal layer containing acceptor impurities in a slight amount such that non-addition or depletion state can be maintained, provided between the high resistivity layer and the operating layer.
US10340373B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of the power semiconductor device relates to a reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor (RC-IGBT). The RC-IGBT comprises a P-type region, an N-type emitter region, a P-type body contact region, a dielectric trench, a collector region, and an electrical filed cutting-off region. The beneficial effect of the present invention is that, when compared with traditional RC-IGBT, the IGBT of the present invention can eliminate negative resistance effect and effectively improve the performance of forward and reverse conduction.
US10340369B2
A tunneling field effect transistor device disclosed herein includes a substrate, a body comprised of a first semiconductor material being doped with a first type of dopant material positioned above the substrate, and a second semiconductor material positioned above at least a portion of the gate region and above the source region. The first semiconductor material is part of the drain region, and the second semiconductor material defines the channel region. The device also includes a third semiconductor material positioned above the second semiconductor material and above at least a portion of the gate region and above the source region. The third semiconductor material is part of the source region, and is doped with a second type of dopant material that is opposite to the first type of dopant material. A gate structure is positioned above the first, second and third semiconductor materials in the gate region.
US10340365B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor is provided, and includes: providing a substrate; depositing a buffer layer and patterning the buffer layer; sequentially depositing an insulation layer and a first metal layer, coating a photoresist on the first metal layer; metal etching the first metal layer; ashing the photoresist; metal etching the first metal layer of the lightly doped region; implanting ions to an active area; and removing the photoresist.
US10340348B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin structure, first and second gate structures, a source/drain region, a source/drain contact layer and a separation layer. The fin structure protrudes from an isolation insulating layer disposed over a substrate and extends in a first direction. The first and second gate structures are formed over the fin structure and extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. The source/drain region is disposed between the first and second gate structures. The interlayer insulating layer is disposed over the fin structure, the first and second gate structures and the source/drain region. The first source/drain contact layer is disposed on the first source/drain region. The separation layer is disposed adjacent to the first source/drain contact layer. Ends of the first and second gate structures and an end of the source drain contact layer are in contact with a same face of the separation layer.
US10340343B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode, a pair of source/drain regions and a a threshold voltage adjusting region. The gate electrode is over the semiconductor substrate. The channel region is between the semiconductor substrate and the gate electrode. The source/drain regions are adjacent to two opposing sides of the channel region in a channel length direction. The threshold voltage adjusting region is adjacent to two opposing sides of the channel region in a channel width direction, wherein the threshold voltage adjusting region and the channel region have the same doping type.
US10340329B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a substrate, a power supply line layer and a power supply compensation film, wherein the power supply compensation film is arranged on the back surface of the substrate, the power supply line layer is arranged on the front surface of the substrate and comprises a first power supply line arranged in a first frame area and a second frame area, the power supply compensation film is electrically connected with the first power supply line, the sheet resistance of the power supply compensation film is smaller than that of the power supply line layer, and the first frame area and the second frame area are positioned in non-display areas on two opposite sides of a display area respectively.
US10340327B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base material containing resin and including a display region and a bent region, the display region including a plurality of pixels; and a resin layer disposed on one side of the base material. An exposed section where a surface of the resin layer on a side opposite to a side on which the base material is disposed is exposed is formed in at least the bent region, and the resin layer includes, in the exposed section, a first resin layer and a second resin layer whose hydrophilicity is lower than that of the first resin layer, in this order from the base material side.
US10340323B2
The present invention provides a double-sided OLED display device, in which two adjacent ones of displaying sections (A) are arranged such that OLEDs of all the pixels (P) located in one of the displaying sections (A) are top-emission OLEDs (D), while the OLEDs of all the pixels (P) located in another one of the displaying sections (A) are bottom-emission OLEDs (D′). A user is allowed to observe normal displaying of images in two opposite directions associated with the front and rear sides of one OLED display device and there is no need to combine two display devices in a back-to-back manner to provide double-sided displaying so that the application range of the OLED display device can be widened, the amount of space occupied by the double-sided display device can be reduced, and aesthetics of the double-sided display devices can be greatly improved.
US10340322B2
This application provides a display device and an OLED display panel. The display device comprises a storage capacitor. A part of a source and drain metal layer is a first electrode of a storage capacitor. A cathode layer is a second electrode of the storage capacitor. An electron transmitting functional layer, a passivation layer, and an inorganic pixel defining layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode are the dielectric materials of the storage capacitor.
US10340316B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate comprising a pixel portion configured to display an image, and a dummy portion spaced from the pixel portion, a side of the dummy portion being exposed to the outside, and an interlayer between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the pixel portion and the dummy portion each include multiple layers, and at least one layer of the pixel portion and at least one layer of the dummy portion include a same material.
US10340312B2
A re-writeable non-volatile memory device including a re-writeable non-volatile two-terminal memory element (ME) having tantalum. The ME including a first terminal, a second terminal, a first layer of a conductive metal oxide (CMO), and a second layer in direct contact with the first layer. The second layer and the first layer being operative to store at least one-bit of data as a plurality of resistive states, and the first and second layer are electrically in series with each other and with the first and second terminals.
US10340309B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate and a plurality of light emitting cells disposed on the substrate. Each light emitting cell includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, an active layer between the first and the second semiconductors, a conductive material on the second semiconductor layer, an inclined surface, a first insulation layer overlaps each light emitting cell, an electrically conductive material overlaps the first insulation layer to couple two of the plurality of light emitting cells, and a second insulation layer overlaps the electrically conductive material. A light-transmitting material is used in both the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer. The inclined surface is continuous and has a slope of approximately 20° to approximately 80° from a horizontal plane based on the substrate.
US10340307B1
A light-emitting diode includes semiconductor layers and electrodes. A first type semiconductor layer includes first and second low resistance portions and a high resistance portion therebetween. The high resistance portion encloses the first low resistance portion and is configured to confine charge carriers substantially within the first low resistance portion. A resistivity of the first type semiconductor layer increases from the first low resistance portion toward the high resistance portion and decreases from the high resistance portion toward the second low resistance portion. A first electrode is electrically connected to the first low resistance portion and substantially no current flows between the first electrode and the second low resistance portion. A portion of the first type semiconductor layer is between the first electrode and a second type semiconductor layer. A second electrode is electrically connected to the second type semiconductor layer.
US10340298B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and an electronic apparatus capable of reducing a leak current of a PN junction region. In a Si substrate, an N+ region is formed in a P-type Well (P_Well region). A depletion layer is formed in the circumference of a boundary (metallurgic boundary of a PN junction) between the P_Well region and the N+ region. On the surface of the Si substrate, a fixed charge layer having positive fixed charge is formed on the N+ region to be spanned to the depletion layer. The present disclosure is applicable to a CMOS solid-state imaging device used in an imaging apparatus such as a camera.
US10340297B2
Deterioration of image quality in a display device due to kickback voltages may be reduced or prevented by varying parasite capacitance, the size of the semiconductor layer, and/or storage capacitance in each of thin film transistors for the pixels in the display. Various embodiments of display devices capable of reducing or preventing kickback voltages are disclosed.
US10340293B2
A transistor display panel includes a substrate, a gate line disposed on the substrate, a data line disposed on the substrate, and a transistor disposed on the substrate. The transistor includes a first electrode, a second electrode overlapping the first electrode, a semiconductor layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a gate electrode. The semiconductor layer is disposed in an overlapping region where the gate line and the data line overlap each other.
US10340288B2
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed involves an integrated circuit comprising a unidirectional metal layout. A first set of metal features are formed in a vertical configuration in a first metal layer of a memory cell. A second set of metal features are formed in a unidirectional horizontal configuration in a second metal layer of the memory cell. A third set of metal features are formed in the unidirectional horizontal configuration in a second metal layer of a functional cell for providing routing compatibility between the memory cell and the functional cell. The memory cell is placed adjacent to the functional cell for forming an integrated circuit device.
US10340286B2
Some embodiments include a NAND memory array which has a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels. The wordline levels have terminal ends corresponding to control gate regions. Charge-trapping material is along the control gate regions of the wordline levels, and is spaced form the control gate regions by charge-blocking material. The charge-trapping material along vertically adjacent wordline levels is spaced by intervening regions through which charge migration is impeded. Channel material extends vertically along the stack and is spaced from the charge-trapping material by charge-tunneling material. Some embodiments include methods of forming NAND memory arrays.
US10340285B2
According to an embodiment, a non-volatile memory device includes first electrodes stacked on an underlying layer, a second electrode provided on the first electrodes, a semiconductor layer extending in a first direction from the underlying layer to the second electrode, and a memory film provided between each of the first electrodes and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first portion adjacent to the first electrodes and a second portion adjacent to the second electrode. The second portion has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the first portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10340278B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate and a patterned conductive structure. The patterned conductive structure is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The patterned conductive structure includes a first silicon conductive layer, a second silicon conductive layer, an interface layer, a barrier layer, and a metal conductive layer. The second silicon conductive layer is disposed on the first silicon conductive layer. The interface layer is disposed between the first silicon conductive layer and the second silicon conductive layer, and the interface layer includes oxygen. The barrier layer is disposed on the second silicon conductive layer. The metal conductive layer is disposed on the barrier layer.
US10340277B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of pillar structures on a semiconductor substrate, and a support pattern in contact with at least a part of each of the pillar structures, the support pattern connecting the pillar structures with one another, wherein the support pattern includes support holes exposing side surfaces of the pillar structures, the support holes including at least a first support hole and a second support hole that are spaced apart from each other, the first and second support holes having different shapes from each other.
US10340274B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, first and second fins on the semiconductor substrate and separated by a trench. The first fin includes a first portion having a first conductivity type and a second portion having a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, the first and second portions are adjacent to each other, and the second portion connected to the second fin through the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a gate structure on the first and second portions and including a gate insulator layer on the first and second portions, a gate on a portion of the gate insulator layer on the first portion, and a dummy gate on the second portion and including an insulating layer or an undoped semiconductor layer and adjacent to the gate.
US10340270B2
An integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit includes a substrate, a first FinFET device supported by the substrate, the first FinFET device having a first fin with a non-tiered fin profile, and a second FinFET supported by the substrate, the second FinFET having a second fin with a tiered fin profile.
US10340269B2
An embodiment is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including forming a first gate over a substrate, forming a recess in the substrate adjacent the first gate, epitaxially forming a strained material stack in the recess, the strained material stack comprising at least three layers, each of the at least three layers comprising a dopant. The method further includes co-implanting the strained material stack with dopants comprising boron, germanium, indium, tin, or a combination thereof, forming a metal layer on the strained material stack, and annealing the metal layer and the strained material stack forming a metal-silicide layer.
US10340261B1
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a first semiconductor chip including a plurality of memory cell arrays and a plurality of first bonding electrodes electrically connected to the memory cell arrays, and a second semiconductor chip including a logic circuits and a plurality of second bonding electrodes electrically connected to the logic circuits. The first and second semiconductor chips are stacked with each other so that each of the first bonding electrodes is electrically connected to an associated one of the second bonding electrodes.
US10340259B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor package is provided. Semiconductor dice are disposed on a top surface of a carrier. Each of the semiconductor dice has an active surface and a bottom surface that is opposite to the active surface. Input/output (I/O) pads are distributed on the active surface. Interconnect features are printed on the carrier and on the active surface of each of the semiconductor dice. The top surface of the carrier, the semiconductor dice and the interconnect features is encapsulated with an encapsulant. The carrier is then removed.
US10340258B2
Interconnect structures, packaged semiconductor devices, and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, an interconnect structure includes a polymer material and a post passivation interconnect (PPI) pad disposed over the polymer material. A PPI line is disposed within an opening in the polymer material, the PPI line being coupled to the PPI pad.
US10340246B1
A method of interconnecting components of a semiconductor device using wire bonding is presented. The method includes creating a free air ball at a first end of an aluminum wire that has a coating surrounding the aluminum wire, wherein the coating comprises palladium, and wherein the free air ball is substantially free of the coating. The method further includes the step of bonding the free air ball to a bond pad on a semiconductor chip, the bond pad having an aluminum surface layer, wherein the resultant ball bond and the bond pad form a substantially homogenous, aluminum-to-aluminum bond. The method may further include bonding a second, opposing end of the coated-aluminum wire to a bond site separate from the semiconductor chip, the bond site having a palladium surface layer, wherein the second end of the coated-aluminum wire and the bond site form a substantially homogenous, palladium-to-palladium bond.
US10340236B2
A semiconductor device has a top metal layer, a first passivation layer over the top metal layer, a first redistribution layer over the first passivation layer, a first polymer layer, and a first conductive via extending through the first polymer layer. The first polymer layer is in physical contact with the first passivation layer.
US10340233B1
An apparatus for connecting a millimeter wave signal to an integrated circuit includes a connector to receive the millimeter wave signal. The connector includes a signal pin. A pin landing pad is conductively coupled to the signal pin. The pin landing pad includes a transition portion. A transmission line is configured to couple the pin landing pad to an input/output (I/O) pad of an integrated circuit. The apparatus further includes an interposer including the pin landing pad, the transmission line, and the I/O pad of the integrated circuit.
US10340232B2
A wiring substrate includes a coil wiring and a magnetic layer that is in contact with a lower surface of the coil wiring and includes an opening extending through in a thickness-wise direction. The wiring substrate further includes a first insulation layer covering the coil wiring, an upper surface of the magnetic layer, and a wall surface of the opening and a signal wiring structure formed so that a signal of a semiconductor element, when mounted on the wiring substrate, travels through the opening of the magnetic layer. The signal wiring structure includes a first wiring portion located on an upper surface of the first insulation layer and a first via wiring located inward from the opening of the magnetic layer and connected to the first wiring portion. The magnetic layer is not in contact with the signal wiring structure.
US10340222B2
A stair contact structure, a manufacturing method of a stair contact structure, and a memory structure are provided. The stair contact structure includes several layers of stacking structures and a first etch stop layer. Each stacking structure includes a conductive layer and an insulating layer. The conductive layers and the insulating layers are interlaced. The first etch stop layer penetrates through the stacking structures and extends along a first horizontal direction. The conductive layers of the stacking structures located at a first sidewall of the first etch stop layer have a plurality of contact points, and the contact points are arranged along the first horizontal direction to form a stair structure having a plurality of stages.
US10340219B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a device isolation region defining an active region. An active fin is positioned in the active region. A gate structure overlaps the active fin along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A source/drain region is disposed on the active fin. A contact plug is connected to the source/drain region and overlaps the active fin. A metal via is positioned at a first level above the substrate higher than an upper surface of the contact plug and spaced apart from the active fin. A metal line is positioned at a second level above the substrate, higher than the first level and connected to the metal via. A via connection layer extends from an upper portion of the contact plug and is connected to the metal via.
US10340213B2
A thin semiconductor device with enhanced edge protection, and a method of manufacturing thereof. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide a thin semiconductor device comprising a substrate with an edge-protection region, and a method of manufacturing thereof.
US10340212B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a dielectric layer, a heat dissipation structure and a first patterned conductive layer. The dielectric layer has a surface. The heat dissipation structure is surrounded by the dielectric layer. The heat dissipation structure defines a space and includes a liquid in the space. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed adjacent to the surface of the dielectric layer and thermally connected with the heat dissipation structure.
US10340211B1
A sensor module, such as an acceleration sensor module, includes a leaded socket assembly covered by a housing. The leaded socket assembly includes a dual gauge lead frame, a sensor die, and various passive devices. The sensor die and the passive devices are mounted on the lead frame, and then the lead frame, sensor die, and passive devices are over-molded to form the leaded socket assembly. Neither the sensor module nor the socket assembly includes a printed circuit board, so many conventional sensor module assembly steps are bypassed.
US10340206B2
A method embodiment includes forming a patterned first photo resist over a seed layer. A first opening in the patterned first photo resist exposes the seed layer. The method further includes plating a first conductive material in the first opening on the seed layer, removing the patterned first photo resist, and after removing the patterned first photo resist, forming a patterned second photo resist over the first conductive material. A second opening in the patterned second photo resist exposes a portion of the first conductive material. The method further includes plating a second conductive material in the second opening on the first conductive material, removing the patterned second photo resist, and after removing the patterned second photo resist, depositing a dielectric layer around the first conductive material and the second conductive material.
US10340197B2
A die includes a plurality of dielectric landings and a conductive material distributed across one or more of the plurality of dielectric landings. Each one of the plurality of dielectric landings electrically separates two conductive landings associated with the one of the plurality of dielectric landings. The conductive material establishes an electrical connection between the two conductive landings associated with the one or more of the plurality of dielectric landings.
US10340193B2
A fin field-effect transistor is provided. The fin field-effect transistor includes a substrate, a fin structure, a gate-stacked structure, and an isolation structure. The fin structure is disposed on the substrate, and the gate-stacked structure covers the fin structure. The isolation structure disposed on the substrate to isolate the gate-stacked structure from the substrate has different thicknesses in different portions.
US10340190B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first fin structure and a second fin structure over a substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate structure over the first and second fin structure. The semiconductor device structure further includes a source/drain structure over the first and second fin structure. The source/drain structure includes a first semiconductor layer over the first fin structure and a second semiconductor layer over the second fin structure. The source/drain structure also includes a third semiconductor layer covering the first and second semiconductor layers. The third semiconductor layer has a surface with [110] plane orientation.
US10340183B1
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a cobalt plated via integration scheme and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a via structure composed of cobalt material; and a wiring structure above the via structure. The wiring structure is lined with a barrier liner and the cobalt material and filled with conductive material.
US10340171B2
A substrate support in a substrate processing system includes a baseplate, a ceramic layer, and a bond layer. The ceramic layer is arranged on the baseplate to support a substrate. The bond layer is arranged between the ceramic layer and the baseplate. A seal is arranged between the ceramic layer and the baseplate around an outer perimeter of the bond layer. The seal includes an inner layer formed adjacent to the bond layer and an outer layer formed adjacent to the inner layer such that the inner layer is between the outer layer and the bond layer. The inner layer comprises a first material and the outer layer comprises a second material.
US10340166B2
The present invention describe a substrate handling system that exerts no or controllable external forces to hold substrates, does not contact front or back of the substrates, has minimum contact with side edge area of the substrate, can hold one or two substrate to each position, can be positioned in any orientation, and can be easily handled by human or robots. In the case that no deposition materials is desirable on the edge or sides of substrate, a self-aligned mask that can be attached to the substrate carrier is presented.
US10340165B2
A semiconductor tool includes an illumination source to generate an illumination beam, one or more illumination optical elements to direct a portion of the illumination beam to a sample, a detector, one or more collection optical elements to direct radiation emanating from the sample to the detector, and a controller communicatively coupled to the detector. The controller is configured to measure alignment at a plurality of locations across the sample to generate alignment data, select an analysis area for alignment zone determination, divide the analysis area into two or more alignment zones having different alignment signatures; model the alignment data of at least a first alignment zone of the two or more alignment zones using a first alignment model, and model the alignment data of at least a second alignment zone of the two or more alignment zones using a second alignment model different than the first alignment model.
US10340161B2
A method and a device for prefixing substrates, whereby at least one substrate surface of the substrates is amorphized in at least one surface area, characterized in that the substrates are aligned and then make contact and are prefixed on the amorphized surface areas.
US10340154B2
Provided is a bonding joining structure in which a heat generating body and a support including a metal are joined to each other via a joint portion composed of a sintered body of copper powder. The support contains copper or gold, the copper or gold being present in at least an outermost surface of the support. An interdiffusion portion in which copper or gold contained in the support and copper contained in the sintered body is formed so as to straddle a bonding interface between the support and the sintered body. Preferably, a copper crystal structure having the same crystal orientation is formed in the interdiffusion portion so as to straddle the bonding interface.
US10340151B2
A ceiling heat insulator installed above a side wall heat insulator of a heating apparatus for a substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate is provided. The ceiling heat insulator includes a gas-flow path installed therein to allow a cooling gas to pass therethrough so that the ceiling heat insulator has a solid cross-sectional area in an outer edge side of the ceiling heat insulator that is smaller than that in a center side of the ceiling heat insulator.
US10340150B2
Compositions and methods for selectively removing unreacted metal material (e.g., unreacted nickel) relative to metal germanide (e.g., NiGe), metal-III-V materials, and germanium from microelectronic devices having same thereon. The compositions are substantially compatible with other materials present on the microelectronic device such as low-k dielectrics and silicon nitride.
US10340143B1
A seed layer of aluminum is deposited over a wafer. A layer of photoresist material is deposited over the seed layer of aluminum. The photoresist material is patterned and developed to expose portions of the seed layer of aluminum through openings in the photoresist material. An electrochemical transformation process is performed on the wafer to electrochemically transform the portions of the seed layer of aluminum that are exposed through openings in the photoresist material into anodic aluminum oxide (AAO). The AAO includes a pattern of holes that extend through the AAO to expose areas of the top surface of the wafer beneath the seed layer of aluminum. The photoresist material is removed from the wafer. The wafer is exposed to a plasma to etch holes into the wafer at the areas of the top surface of the wafer that are exposed by the pattern of holes in the AAO.
US10340134B2
A method includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle n times (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 1), the cycle including alternately performing: performing a set m times (where m is an integer equal to or greater than 1), the set including supplying a precursor to the substrate and supplying a borazine compound to the substrate; and supplying an oxidizing agent to the substrate.
US10340117B2
Since a diffraction phenomenon occurs in the electron beam passing through a differential evacuation hole, an electron beam whose probe diameter is narrowed cannot pass through a hole having an aspect ratio of a predetermined value or more, and accordingly, a degree in vacuum on the electron beam side cannot be improved. By providing a differential evacuation hole with a high aspect ratio in an ion beam device, it becomes possible to obtain an observed image on a sample surface, with the sample being placed under the atmospheric pressure or a pressure similar thereto, in a state where the degree of vacuum on the ion beam side is stabilized. Moreover, by processing the differential evacuation hole by using an ion beam each time it is applied, both a normal image observation with high resolution and an image observation under atmospheric pressure or a pressure similar thereto can be carried out.
US10340115B2
A charged particle beam device is provided that performs proper beam adjustment while suppressing a decrease in MAM time, with a simple configuration without adding a lens, a sensor, or the like. The charged particle beam device includes: an optical element which adjusts a charged particle beam emitted from a charged particle source; an adjustment element which adjusts an incidence condition of the charged particle beam with respect to the optical element; and a control device which controls the adjustment element, wherein the control device determines a difference between a first feature amount indicating a state of the optical element based on the condition setting of the optical element, and a second feature amount indicating a state where the optical element reaches based on the condition setting and executes adjustment by the adjustment element when the difference is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
US10340110B2
A surge protective device (SPD) module includes a module housing, first and second module electrical terminals mounted on the module housing, an overvoltage clamping element electrically connected between the first and second module electrical terminals, and a thermal disconnector mechanism. The thermal disconnector mechanism is positioned in a ready configuration, wherein the overvoltage clamping element is electrically connected with the second module electrical terminal. The thermal disconnector mechanism is repositionable to electrically disconnect the overvoltage clamping element from the second module electrical terminal. The thermal disconnector mechanism includes: an electrode electrically connected to the overvoltage clamping element; a disconnect spring elastically deflected and electrically connected to the electrode in the ready configuration; a solder securing the disconnect spring in electrical connection with the electrode in the ready configuration; and a heat sink member thermally interposed between the electrode and the solder, the heat sink member having a thermal capacity. The solder is meltable in response to overheating of the overvoltage clamping element. The disconnect spring is configured to electrically disconnect the overvoltage clamping element from the second module electrical terminal when the solder is melted. The thermal capacity of the heat sink member buffers and dissipates heat from the overvoltage clamping element to prevent the solder from melting in response to at least some surge currents through the SPD module.
US10340104B2
A permanent short-circuit device includes an enclosure with a first and second fixed electrically conducting body, each connected to a respective conductor leaving the enclosure, the first and second bodies body each having a first and a second surface on opposite sides of the respective body, where the first surface of the first body faces the first surface of the second body and is separated therefrom by a gap with width d and the second surface of the first body is provided with explosives connected to a detonator for deforming the first body towards the first surface of the second body such that the first surface of the first body crosses the gap and galvanically connects to the first surface of the second body.
US10340095B2
A safety-switch device for mounting on a movable device. An impact surface is mounted on or assembled in a bracket. The bracket, impact surface, and a mounting surface of the movable device form a protective enclosure around the switch. The switch is a switch strip or a switch mat. The impact surface is a separate, movable, rigid or stiff component that serves as an actuator for the switch and is provided as a component that is easily replaceable. A trigger mechanism is provided between the impact surface and the switch. When the impact surface moves from its resting position to its actuation position, the trigger mechanism trips the switch.
US10340082B2
A capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer of molecular material disposed between said first and second electrodes. The molecular material is described by the general formula: Dp-(Core)-Hq, where Core is a polarizable conductive anisometric core, having conjugated π-systems, and characterized by a longitudinal axis, D and H are insulating substituents, and p and q are numbers of the D and H substituents accordingly. And Core possesses at least one dopant group that enhances polarizability.
US10340081B2
A ceramic capacitor which is low in ESL and suitable for being built into a substrate includes a first external electrode, a second external electrode and a third external electrode. Each of the first, second and third external electrodes include a sputtering electrode film. Each of the outermost layers of the first, second and third external electrodes contains Cu.
US10340079B2
A current transformer includes a closed magnetic circuit and a secondary winding. A first part of the closed magnetic circuit completely surrounds a primary conductor, and a second part of the closed magnetic circuit forms the secondary winding. The second part of the closed magnetic circuit serves as a magnetic core of the secondary winding. The closed magnetic circuit forms a plurality of branch magnetic circuits at the second part, and a secondary winding is formed on each branch magnetic circuit. Each branch magnetic circuit serves as a magnetic core of a corresponding secondary winding. Each secondary winding is staggered with each other in at least one of the length, the height and the thickness.
US10340076B2
An integrated copper bar for a secondary power circuit of a power electronic converter, including a transformer primary winding copper bar, a transformer secondary winding copper bar, an inductor winding copper bar, a copper bar for connecting a detection resistor, a copper bar for connecting a drive circuit and a copper bar for connecting an output terminal; wherein, said transformer primary winding copper bar, said transformer secondary winding copper bar, said inductor winding copper bar, said copper bar for connecting a detection resistor, said copper bar for connecting a drive circuit and said copper bar for connecting an output ground terminal are fixed together via injection molding.
US10340072B2
An electronic component includes a body made of a material containing particles of a metallic magnetic material, and an outer electrode disposed on a surface of the body. The surface of the body has a contact portion with which the outer electrode is in contact, and the surface of the body includes particles of the metallic magnetic material which are exposed from the surface of the body.
US10340071B2
The invention relates to a magnetic circuit (2) for carrying at least one coil (3), the circuit (2) comprising: at least one inner leg (6) and at least two outer legs (4), and a connecting part (7) for guiding the magnetic flux of the inner leg (6) towards each outer leg (4), none of the outer legs (4) having a gap width and the inner leg (6) being at least partially formed from at least one material having a relative magnetic permeability lower than that of the material(s) forming the outer legs.
US10340069B2
A central actuator for a magnet valve of a cam phaser, the central actuator including a housing that envelops the central actuator; a pole tube and a pole core that are arranged within at least one coil that generates a magnetic field; an actuation plunger that is arranged at an armature that is axially movable in a direction in an armature cavity; a closure element that closes the armature cavity, wherein the closure element includes at least one pole core insert that includes a central bore hole and a support bushing that is arranged in the central bore hole of the pole core insert, wherein the actuation plunger is supported axially movable in the support bushing, and wherein the closure element includes a closure cover and is provided as a pre-assembled module.
US10340063B2
A chip resistor includes a resistive element, first and second electrodes disposed on a lower surface the resistive element, a protective film disposed on the lower surface of the resistive element and between the first and second electrodes. The resistive element has first and second recesses therein. The first recess extends from the lower surface along a first edge surface and does not reach an upper surface of the resistive element. The second recess extends from the lower surface along a second edge surface and does not reach the upper surface of the resistive element. The first and second electrodes are disposed between the first and second recesses. The protective film is disposed between the first and second electrodes. A first plating layer disposed on the first electrode and an inner surface of the first recess. A second plating layer is disposed on the second electrode and an inner surface of the second recess. This chip resistor avoids mounting failures.
US10340060B1
Overcurrent circuits are disclosed for preventing overcurrent in shielded coaxial communication cables. A shield breaking element of an overcurrent circuit is adaptable to be coupled in series with a shield conductor of a shielded coaxial cable, and is also configured to open upon conducting a first electrical current that exceeds an overcurrent threshold, thereby preventing the first electrical current from flowing through the shield conductor of a shielded coaxial cable. A signal breaking element of the overcurrent circuit is adaptable to be coupled in series with a signal conductor of the shielded coaxial cable, and is configured to open when the shield breaking element opens thereby preventing a second electrical current from flowing through the signal conductor. Systems and devices that use the overcurrent circuits, for example, to provide alerts and status, are also disclosed.
US10340058B2
A cable with braided shield includes a conductor, an insulation layer arranged to cover a periphery of the conductor, a braided shield layer arranged to cover a periphery of the insulation layer, and a sheath arranged to cover a periphery of the braided shield layer. The braided shield layer includes an inner braided shield layer, and an outer braided shield layer provided on a periphery of the inner braided shield layer. The inner braided shield layer includes a braided shield braided to cross metal wires. The outer braided shield layer includes a braided shield braided to cross a copper tinsel wire and a metal wire.
US10340051B2
Radioisotope production system includes an electrical field system and a magnetic field system that are configured to direct a particle beam of charged particles along a beam path within an acceleration chamber. The magnetic field system is energized by a drive current to generate a magnetic flux into the acceleration chamber for controlling the particle beam. The radioisotope production system also includes a target system configured to hold a target material and receive the particle beam. The radioisotope production system also includes a monitoring system that is configured to: (a) determine an operating parameter of the radioisotope production system as the particle beam is directed toward the target material and (b) change the drive current, thereby changing the magnetic flux, based on the operating parameter.
US10340049B2
Alpha/beta radiation barrier materials and structures formed to include the barrier materials are described. Barrier materials include a matrix and particulate materials contained in the matrix. The particulates include alpha/beta radiation absorbers. Alpha/beta radiation absorbers of the barrier materials can be molecular, particulates, or defined nanostructures that are capable of absorbing incident alpha/beta particle energies. Matrix materials can include organic or inorganic materials including thermoplastic polymers, thermoset polymers, glasses, ceramics, etc.
US10340045B2
A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an autoimmune disorder in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the autoimmune condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the autoimmune condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10340036B2
A method distributes and manages medical information on a communication network over a wide area. Encrypted medical information is acquired from one of a plurality of first computers by a second computer connected to the communication network, the plurality of first computers being connected to the communication network, holding identical medical information, encrypting medical information, and sending and receiving encrypted medical information. The second computer decrypts the acquired encrypted medical information, browses and updates decrypted medical information, and then encrypts the browsed and updated medical information. The second computer then sends the encrypted browsed and updated medical information to the plurality of first computers.
US10340035B2
A server computer for storing an electronic medical record with an electronic signature in a database has a network interface circuit and a processing circuit. The network interface circuit is configured to provide communications over a network. The processing circuit is configured to receive an electronic medical record and store the electronic medical record in the database in compliance with at least one record storage criterion. After storing the electronic medical record in the database in compliance with the at least one record storage criterion, the processing circuit is configured to receive an electronic signature for the electronic medical record and store the electronic signature in association with the electronic medical record in the database.
US10340032B2
Point of care drug of abuse test system configured to allow a small number of general test kits to be used to analyze many different combinations of analytes, while preserving privacy and the chain of custody. The system uses disposable multiple-analyte test kits and allows the operator to select which subset of kit analytes to run. The computerized device images the test kits and transmits test results to a remote server along with a test specific ID code. The test kit is often obfuscated so that the local operator cannot interpret the results. Other donor information, such as driver's licenses and signatures, are also obtained and transmitted as well. The remote server uses the test specific ID code to retrieve an obfuscation code (answer key) from the server's database, allowing the server to interpret the results. The annotated results are transmitted to a recipient along with suitable donor verification information.
US10340031B2
Techniques for determining therapy scores for at least two of an anti-PD1 therapy, an anti-CTLA4 therapy, an IL-2 therapy, an IFN alpha therapy, an anti-cancer vaccine therapy, an anti-angiogenic therapy, and an anti-CD20 therapy. The techniques include determining, using sequencing data for the subject and information indicating distribution of biomarker values across one or more reference populations, a first set of normalized biomarker scores for a first set of biomarkers associated with a first therapy; and a second set of normalized biomarker scores for a second set of biomarkers associated with a second therapy; providing the first set of normalized biomarker scores as input to a statistical model to obtain a first therapy score for the first therapy; and providing the second set of normalized biomarker scores as input to the statistical model to obtain a second therapy score for the second therapy.
US10340029B2
The present teachings relate to embodiments of systems and methods for the analysis of melt curve data for a plurality of samples. According to various embodiments, a melting temperature (Tm) may be determined across a range of different types of protein melt curve data, having variability over a plurality of analytical attributes in order to accommodate the complexity of protein melt curve data. The combination of a plurality of samples, coupled with the complexity of the data gives rise for a need to process the data in a manner that readily facilitates end-user to analysis of the data. Various embodiments of an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) according to the present teachings provide for rapid and sequential changes that may be made by an end user to displayed protein melt curve data to allow such analysis.
US10340027B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying multi-modal associations between biomedical markers which allows for the determination of network nodes and/or high ranking network members or combinations thereof, indicative of having a diagnostic, prognostic or predictive value for a medical condition, in particular ovarian cancer. The present invention further relates to a biomedical marker or group of biomedical markers associated with a high likelihood of responsiveness of a subject to a cancer therapy, preferably a platinum based cancer therapy, wherein said biomedical marker or group of biomedical markers comprises at least 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 8, 19, 20 or all markers selected from PKMYT1, SKIL, RAB8A, HIRIP3, CTNNB1, NGFR, ZCCHC11, LSP1, CD200, PAX8, CYBRD1, HOXC11, TCEAL1, FZD10, FZD1, BBS4, IRS2, TLX3, TSPAN2, TXN, and CFLAR. Furthermore, an assay for detecting, diagnosing, graduating, monitoring or prognosticating a medical condition, or for detecting, 1 diagnosing, monitoring or prognosticating the responsiveness of a subject to a therapy against said medical condition, in particular ovarian cancer, is provided, as well as a corresponding method for classifying a subject comprising and a medical decision support system.
US10340011B2
Three-dimensional addressing for erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) can include a number of EPROM banks, a number of shift registers, a row select data signal, a column select data signal, and a bank select data signal.
US10340003B1
An input-pattern aware reference generation system for a memory cell array having a plurality of word lines crossing a plurality of bit lines includes an input counting circuit, a reference array, and a reference word line control circuit. The input counting circuit receives the input signal of the memory cell array, discovers input activated word lines according to the input signal and generates a number signal representing a number of the input activated word lines. The reference array includes a plurality of reference memory cells storing a predetermined set of weights. The reference word line control circuit is electrically connected between the input counting circuit and the reference array. Moreover, the reference word line control circuit controls the reference array to generate a plurality of reference signals being able to distinguish candidates of the computational result of the bit lines in the memory cell array.
US10340002B1
A resistive processing unit (RPU) device includes a weight storage device to store a weight voltage which corresponds to a weight value of the RPU device, and a read transistor having a gate connected to the weight storage device, and first and second source/drain terminals connected to first and second control ports, respectively. A current source connected to the second source/drain terminal generates a fixed reference current. The read transistor generates a weight current in response to the weight voltage. A read current output from the second control port represents a signed weight value of the RPU device. A magnitude of the read current is equal to a difference between the weight current and the fixed reference current. The sign of the read current is positive when the weight current is greater than the fixed reference current, and negative when the weight current is less than the fixed reference current.
US10339992B2
A semiconductor system may include a controller configured to provide a command clock and a control signal to a semiconductor memory device, and the semiconductor memory device configured to transmit/receive external data and a plurality of data clocks to/from the controller, wherein the plurality of data clocks comprise a first read data strobe signal and a second read data strobe signal, and the semiconductor memory device transmits both of the first read data strobe signal and the second read data strobe signal to the controller or transmits one of the first read data strobe signal and the second read data strobe signal to the controller, based on an operation select signal.
US10339985B2
A sense amplifier construction comprises a first n-type transistor and a second n-type transistor above the first n-type transistor. A third p-type transistor is included and a fourth p-type transistor is above the third p-type transistor. A lower voltage activation line is electrically coupled to n-type source/drain regions that are elevationally between respective gates of the first and second n-type transistors. A higher voltage activation line is electrically coupled to p-type source/drain regions that are elevationally between respective gates of the third and fourth p-type transistors.
US10339975B2
Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities.
US10339972B2
Methods and systems are provided for receiving information, from a sensor coupled to a user, descriptive of a pace at which the user is exercising; determining a playback speed for video content having an audio component, the playback speed determined with reference to the pace at which the user is exercising; presenting the video content at the playback speed; generating a plurality of audio frames from the audio component of the video content, the plurality of audio frames being generated with reference to the pace at which the user is exercising; and presenting the plurality of audio frames to the user.
US10339958B2
Detecting and monitoring legacy devices (such as appliances in a home) using audio sensing is disclosed. Methods and systems are provided for transforming audio data captured by the sensor to afford privacy when speech is overheard by the sensor. Because these transformations may negatively impact the ability to detect/monitor devices, an effective transformation is determined based on both privacy and detectability concerns.
US10339957B1
Methods and devices for causing a communications session between a first device and a second device to end based on lack of speech activity are described herein. In some embodiments, non-speech may be detected for both the first device and the second device. If the non-speech associated with the first device is determined to occur at a substantially same time as the non-speech associated with the second device, then this may indicate that no individuals are talking within earshot of their respective devices. Furthermore, the non-speech detected by the first device and the non-speech detected by the second device may both be of an amount of time that is greater than a predefined temporal threshold. If so, then the communications session may be caused to end because speech activity has not been detected by either device for more than the predefined temporal threshold.
US10339949B1
Speech enhancers suppress impairments in an acoustic signal. An audio appliance has a first microphone and a second microphone. The first microphone provides a first signal, and the second microphone provides a second signal. A voice-activity detector can determine a presence of user speech responsive to a combination of voice-activity cues, including a first level difference between the first signal and the second signal within a first frequency band, and a second level difference between the first signal and the second signal within a second frequency band. A noise suppressor suppresses impairments originating from a direction of, e.g., up to about 75-degrees from an axis extending from the second microphone to the first microphone. An output device can output a noise-suppressed output-signal corresponding to a determined presence or absence of speech by the voice-activity detector. The impairments can be suppressed by, e.g., between about 3 dB and about 20 dB.
US10339946B2
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information. The audio decoder has an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame, wherein the error concealment is configured to modify a time domain excitation signal obtained for one or more audio frames preceding a lost audio frame, in order to obtain the error concealment audio information.
US10339944B2
A method and an apparatus for predicting a high band excitation signal are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring, according to a received low band bitstream, a set of spectral frequency parameters that are arranged in an order of frequencies, calculating a spectral frequency parameter difference between every two spectral frequency parameters that have a same position interval; acquiring a minimum spectral frequency parameter difference from the calculated spectral frequency parameter differences; determining, according to a frequency bin that corresponds to the minimum spectral frequency parameter difference, a start frequency bin for predicting a high band excitation signal from a low band; and predicting the high band excitation signal from the low band according to the start frequency bin. By implementing embodiments of the present invention, a high band excitation signal can be better predicted, thereby improving performance of the high band excitation signal.
US10339942B2
The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
US10339935B2
Techniques are provided for training of a text independent (TI) speaker recognition (SR) model. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes measuring context data associated with collected TI speech utterances from a user and identifying the user based on received identity measurements. The method further includes performing a speech quality analysis and a speaker state analysis based on the utterances, and evaluating a training merit value of the utterances, based on the speech quality analysis and the speaker state analysis. If the training merit value exceeds a threshold value, the utterances are stored as training data in a training database. The database is indexed by the user identity and the context data. The method further includes determining whether the stored training data has achieved a sufficiency level for enrollment of a TI SR model, and training the TI SR model for the identified user and context.
US10339927B2
An infotainment system of a vehicle includes: a primary intent module configured to determine a primary intent included in voice input using automated speech recognition (ASR); and an execution module configured to, via a first hardware output device of the vehicle, execute the primary intent. A secondary intent module is configured to: based on the primary intent, determine a first domain of the primary intent; based on the first domain of the primary intent, determine a second domain; and based on the voice input and the second domain, determine a secondary intent included in the voice input using ASR. A display control module is configured to display a request for user input indicative of whether to execute the secondary intent. The execution module is further configured to, via a second hardware output device of the vehicle, execute the secondary intent in response to user input to execute the secondary intent.
US10339925B1
Systems, methods, and devices for computer-generating responses and sending responses to communications when the recipient of the communication is unavailable are disclosed. An individual may send a message (either audio or text) to a recipient. The recipient may be unavailable to contemporaneously respond to the message (e.g., the recipient may be performing an action that makes is difficult or impractical for the recipient to contemporaneously respond to the audio message). When the recipient is unavailable, a response to the message is generated and sent without receiving an instruction from the recipient to do so. The response may be sent to the message originating individual, and content of the response may thereafter be sent to the recipient to receive feedback regarding the correctness of the response. Alternatively, the response content may first be sent to the recipient to receive the feedback, and thereafter the response may be sent to the message originating individual.
US10339915B2
There are provided audio headsets including one or more vibration speakers. Each vibration speaker includes a haptic driver and a haptic actuator for generating physical vibrations based on an audio input to the vibration speaker. In addition, each vibration speaker includes a rigid output surface designed to make physical contact with a user of the audio headset. The haptic actuator is designed to transfer the physical vibrations generated by the vibration speaker to the user via the rigid output surface.
US10339910B2
A system for cancelling objectionable wind noise in a vehicle cabin includes a wind noise identification module that is configured to receive data from a microphone indicating a noise measured in a cabin of a vehicle and determine whether the noise is objectionable wind noise based on (i) a position of a moveable panel configured to cover an opening in a body of the vehicle and (ii) at least one of an amplitude of the noise and a frequency of the noise. The system also includes a first noise cancellation module that is configured to generate a noise cancellation waveform to mitigate the noise based on at least one of the amplitude of the noise and the frequency of the noise when the noise is objectionable wind noise.
US10339907B2
A signal processing apparatus has a first memory in which plural pieces of FIR coefficient data used for implementing an FIR filter algorithm are stored, a second memory which stores plural pieces of input data to be subjected to the FIR filter algorithm, and a processor implements the FIR filter algorithm using the plural pieces of FIR coefficient data stored in the first memory and the plural pieces of input data stored in the second memory as many times as the number corresponding to a designated filter order, in which filter algorithm each piece of coefficient data and each piece of input data are multiplied together and resultant products are summed up. The signal processing apparatus is provided, which can implement plural sorts of FIR filter algorithms of filter order which can be changed flexibly.
US10339905B2
The Illuminated Instrument Strap includes fasteners to removably secure it to an instrument. A light, including a plurality of LEDs capable of generating colors, are operably connected to a control box is disposed along the length of the instrument strap. The control box which could be embedded within the belt includes or attached to it includes a battery which is rechargeable, control switches, a controller that includes a logic that is at least partially stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium. When executed at least in part by the controller the logic causes the light to illuminate in a pre-programmed pattern generated from the logic. Alternatively, the controller is adapted to generate a pattern from an audio input information obtained from a microphone, or from a signal received from a musical instrument, such that illumination of the light is synchronized to the audio input or the musical instrument signal thereby creating a music visualization pattern.
US10339902B2
A string support for a musical instrument comprises a string support body and a plate set. The string support body has a length, a height, a top surface, and a cavity that recesses into the top surface of the string support body. The cavity extends in a primary direction and has a width and a depth. The plate set comprises at least one string-engaging plate (e.g., one per string) and at least one spacer plate per string-engaging plate that seat within the cavity, stacked in a direction of the width of the cavity. Moreover, each string-engaging plate can have a string-engaging edge (or passthrough) at a height greater than a height of each spacer plate. The order of the spacer plate(s) and associated string-engaging plate is adjustable to position the string-engaging plate forward or backward in the direction of the cavity width.
US10339894B2
In some examples, a computing device includes a first display device coupled to a second display device by hinges. After determining that the computing device has been moved from a first orientation to a second orientation, the computing device may receive ambient light data from ambient light sensors associated with the first and second display device, temperature data from temperature sensors associated with the first and second display device, and color data from color sensors associated with the first and second display device. After determining that power is being received from an external power source or that the user prefers the display devices may be color matched, the computing device may perform one or more color adjustments based on the ambient light data, the temperature data, and the color data, thereby reducing a difference in a perceived color between the first display device and the second display device.
US10339893B2
A display apparatus transmits a picture acquisition request for getting picture information to an external image apparatus connected through a predetermined interface to the display apparatus from the external image apparatus at predetermined intervals and gets a plurality of pieces of picture information from the external image apparatus to be displayed. The plurality of pictures may be switched at predetermined intervals, for example, to be displayed, so that the plurality of pictures may be displayed in a so-called slide show manner. A plurality of pictures for thumbnail may be produced from the plurality of pieces of picture information and be arranged together to be displayed in one picture screen of a display device.
US10339885B2
An array substrate, a display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a driver provided on the base substrate, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of gate line overlap parts, each of the gate line overlap parts has a portion which overlaps a corresponding gate line of the gate lines in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate; the driver is connected with the plurality of the gate line overlap parts and is configured to, at one or both of a time when a potential of the gate line is changed from a turn-on potential to a turn-off potential and a time from the turn-off potential to the turn-on potential, make the gate line overlap part in a floating state, or make the potential of the gate line overlap part equal to the changed potential.
US10339881B1
The disclosure provides a method of acquiring an overdrive look-up table of a liquid crystal display. By measuring a plurality of chromaticities in the central area and the edge area of each of the test pictures respectively, a plurality of compliance data is found, and a median of the compliance data is taken as an overdriving value, and then an overdrive look-up table is generated according to the overdriving values acquired from the test, the method can automatically acquire the overdrive look-up table of LCD, thereby improving test efficiency and reducing test costs.
US10339879B2
An image processing apparatus includes a corrector and a determinator. The corrector corrects a correspondence between display pixels of a display unit and data pixels on an image signal to be inputted to the display pixels so that at least one of the display pixels is defined as a mask pixel to which the image signal is no longer inputted. The determinator determines a gradation of the mask pixel in accordance with a gradation indicated by the image signal to be inputted to an edge pixel that is included in the display pixels and located at an edge of the display pixels.
US10339878B2
The present disclosure relates to a white balance adjustment method and system. The method includes: obtaining initial white balance components of each of grayscales respectively for red pixels, green pixels, and blue pixels; obtaining a first relationship curve by fitting the white balance component of the red pixel with the green pixel, and obtaining a second relationship curve by fitting the white balance component of the blue pixel with the green pixel; calculating the adjusted white balance component of the green pixel after the GAMMA voltage is adjusted; substituting the adjusted white balance component of the green pixel into the first relationship curve and the second relationship curve to respectively obtain the adjusted white balance components of the red pixel and the blue pixel; and creating a second white balance look-up table according to the adjusted white balance components of the red pixels, the green pixels, and blue pixels.
US10339877B2
The present invention provides a clock signal output circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The clock signal output circuit comprises a clock signal conversion unit, a voltage dividing unit, a protection signal generation unit, an over-current protection unit, and a switching unit. The protection signal generating unit comprises a subtractor, a comparator, a switch, a current source, and a capacitor. When the clock signal outputted from the clock signal output circuit is used to output the clock signal to the display panel, the peak current generated after the second ON of the quickly switching the machine on/off is flown through the voltage dividing unit so that the current source could not charge the voltage at the first terminal of the capacitor to a preset protection value, and when the peak current disappears, the current source can quickly charge the voltage at the first terminal of the capacitor to the preset protection value and input to the over-current protection unit to activate the overcurrent protection function, which is capable of preventing an over-current protection falsely triggered by a peak current generated when a liquid crystal display device is quickly switched on/off.
US10339876B2
The present invention is directed to driving methods for a color display device which can display high quality color states. The display device utilizes an electrophoretic fluid which comprises three types of pigment particles having different optical characteristics.
US10339859B2
The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit comprises: a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth thin film transistors (M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6), a first, a second capacitors (C1, C2) and an organic light emitting diode (D1); wherein the third thin film transistor (M3) is a mirror thin film transistor, and the fourth thin film transistor (M4) is a drive thin film transistor, and the second thin film transistor (M2) is located between the third and the fourth thin film transistors (M3, M4). By controlling activation and deactivation of the second thin film transistor (M2) according to time sequence with the restore signal (Restore), the source voltage of the third thin film transistor (M3) is controlled to be pulled down to the earth voltage level (GND) in the restore stage to ensure that ensure that the gate-source voltages of the third, the fourth thin film transistors (M3, M4) are equal. Meanwhile, the data signal can be efficiently simplified to increase the charge time of the data signal.
US10339857B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels including: a first sub-pixel configured to emit light of a first color; a second sub-pixel configured to emit light of a second color that is different from the first color; a third sub-pixel configured to emit light of a third color that is different from the first and second colors; and a transmission sub-pixel configured to selectively transmit external light in response to an electrical signal.
US10339850B2
A method, computer readable medium, and system generate a low-latency image for display. The method includes the steps of receiving a portion of an image for display, selecting a pulse-width value for displaying the portion of the image, and driving a display device to present the portion of the image using a pulse-width value and pulse density modulation value. Logic circuits for implementing the method may be included in a graphics processing unit or within a display device. The portion of the image for display may be rendered based on real-time position information associated with a head-mounted display.
US10339848B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a timing controller. The timing controller generates first output image data based on input image data and sets a driving frequency of the display panel as a first frequency in a first operation mode. The timing controller converts the input image data into second output image data and sets the driving frequency of the display panel as a second frequency lower than the first frequency in a second operation mode. The display panel displays a first image based on the first frequency and the first output image data in the first operation mode. The first image is represented by X grayscales. The display panel displays a second image based on the second frequency and the second output image data in the second operation mode. The second image is represented by Y grayscales, where Y is less than X.
US10339841B2
A method can be used to illuminate a surface that includes a number of non-overlapping portions. The method includes simultaneously illuminating each of the portions so that the surface is substantially uniformly lit. Each portion is illuminated by a respective lighting assembly. Each lighting assembly includes a plurality of LEDs and a plurality of optical elements proximate the plurality of LEDs. For each lighting assembly, when all LEDs of the lighting assembly are operating, the entire portion of the surface is illuminated with an illumination level and a uniformity. Failure of one or more LEDs of the lighting assembly will cause the illumination level of light impinging the portion of the surface to decrease while the uniformity of light impinging the portion of the surface remains substantially the same.
US10339836B2
A demonstrator (1) of qualities of a spectacle lens material, includes a hollow base (10) which is open through an observation window (13), and a lens (20) which closes the observation window and includes at least one part (21) made of the spectacle lens material. The demonstrator includes at least two separate demonstration elements selected from the following list: an electrostatic element (50) that can move under the action of an electrostatic attraction; an ultraviolet mark (43) which allows the ultraviolet light to be viewed with the naked eye; and an abrasive element (30) suitable for scratching the demonstrator lens (20).
US10339824B2
This disclosure describes a system that delivers content (e.g. multimedia video), and analyzes and aggregates feedback of a user viewing the content. The user may interact with the multimedia video in the form of answering questions which are dynamically placed between video segments. The system may determine the response type of the user for a given question. The system may handle both positive and negative responses (e.g. correct and incorrect responses to questions). The system may help the user navigate the segments of the video.
US10339820B2
A system for displaying information related to a flight of an aircraft and an associated method are provided. The display system comprises a display device, a man-machine interface, a module for dynamically generating synthesis images, each comprising a synthetic depiction of the environment and a curve representative of a trajectory, said module being configured to generate a first synthesis image centered around a first central point of interest, to command the display thereof, and to detect an action to modify the central point of interest by an operator via said man-machine interface. The generating module is also configured to determine, as a function of said modification action, a second central point of interest, situated along said curve whatever said modification action is, to generate a second synthesis image centered around said second central point of interest, and to command the display thereof.
US10339819B1
Beacon pods that provide location information to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The beacon pods may emit location information, which may replicate global positioning system (GPS) satellite information, provide a homing signal, provide access to a mobile telephone network as a signal repeater or booster, and/or provide other information and/or connectivity to a UAV, which may aid navigation and/or other operations of UAVs. The beacon pods may be configured for use in a residential location, which may enable a beacon pod to connect to residential power and computing networks. The beacon pods may establish secure data communication with UAVs and may log events related to UAVs, which may be used for various purposes.
US10339815B1
An apparatus configured for controlling lamps of platooning vehicles including a leading vehicle and a plurality of following vehicles, may include a memory configured to store information related to the following vehicles; and a controller configured to collectively control lamps of the leading vehicle and following vehicles in a response to events occurring in the leading vehicle and following vehicles.
US10339814B2
This invention describes a method, the information processing system and the autonomous vehicles that enable in-person socializing of passengers in multiple traveling autonomous vehicles. Under the collaborative control of one or more information processing system and on-bard controllers, multiple traveling autonomous vehicles carrying passengers who have matching interests or requests, overlapping travel routes and times are connected together mechanically while traveling at normal operating speed to establish a connected space to allow in-person interactions and socializing. A cluster of connected autonomous vehicles moves as one integrated vehicle.
US10339811B2
A technology for displaying images on a displaying apparatus mounted on a vehicle is provided. In response to a predetermined instruction signal, synthetic images viewed from a virtual viewpoint around and above the periphery of the vehicle are generated based on a plurality of images acquired from a plurality of cameras for capturing the periphery of the vehicle. The plurality of synthetic images, in which a position of a viewpoint moves sequentially varies such that the synthetic images move in a circle around the vehicle, are sequentially output to the displaying apparatus. Accordingly, the user monitors the entire circumference of the vehicle from the viewpoint where the user sees the vehicle in front of user's eyes, so that the user can intuitively recognize the positional relation between the vehicle and an obstacle from one screen.
US10339807B2
A vehicle equipped with a wireless communication interface is configured to communicate with other similarly equipped vehicles within an intersection area. By including the wireless communication equipment to communicate with other vehicles within the intersection area, a traffic optimization tool running on one or more of the vehicles is enabled to direct traffic through the intersection area even in the case where one or more traffic signals are malfunctioning.
US10339805B2
A traffic light recognition device includes: an imaging attitude setting unit configured to set an imaging direction of the camera on the basis of a position on the image of the traffic light and of a moving direction in the future on the image of the traffic light; a camera attitude controller configured to change the imaging direction of the camera to an imaging direction set by an imaging direction setting unit; and a traffic light recognition unit configured to recognize the traffic light from an image captured in the imaging direction by the camera. The traffic light recognition device is capable of accurately detecting the lighting state of a traffic light without being affected by the attitude of a camera.
US10339799B2
A system and method that analyzes root cause of congestion at specific road sections.A system and method that differentiates between travelers using different modes of transportation.A system and method that analyzes root cause of parking overload.A system and method that performs demographic analysis of people travelling at specific road sections.Certain embodiments of the above systems and methods use data derived from cellular networks.Certain embodiments of the above systems and methods teach real time analysis while others teach non real-time analysis.
US10339798B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an infrared remote control apparatus and a terminal. The infrared remote control apparatus includes an audio codec chip, a transfer switch, and an infrared transmitter. The audio codec chip includes a pair of differential output pins. The infrared transmitter is connected to the differential output pins by using the transfer switch. The audio codec chip is configured to obtain an infrared remote control parameter that includes an envelope length and a carrier frequency of an infrared remote control signal. An infrared remote control signal is generated according to the envelope length and the carrier frequency. When the transfer switch sets up a connection between the infrared transmitter and the differential output pins, the audio code chip is configured to drive, by using the differential output pins, the infrared transmitter to transmit the infrared remote control signal.
US10339794B2
A smoke detector includes an illuminator, a light sensor, a memory, and a microprocessor. The illuminator is configured to emit a first electromagnetic signal having a first center wavelength and a second electromagnetic signal having a second center wavelength. The light sensor is configured to generate (a) a first clean-air voltage in response to receiving the first electromagnetic signal and (b) a second clean-air voltage in response to receiving the second electromagnetic signal. The memory stores non-transitory computer-readable instructions. The microprocessor is adapted to execute the instructions to: (i) determine a first signal drift value from the first clean-air voltage and a first reference voltage, (ii) determine a second signal drift value from the second clean-air voltage and a second reference voltage, and (iii) determine the operational state from both the first signal drift value and the second signal drift value.
US10339793B2
A system for facilitating smoke detector performance analysis including a server configured to receive operational data from an alarm panel and to perform analytics using the operational data, wherein the operational data is associated with at least one smoke detector that is operatively connected to the alarm panel.
US10339791B2
An integrated security system is described that integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network (broadband, cellular/GSM, POTS access) that enables users to remotely stay connected to their premises. The integrated security system, while delivering remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection, complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices (cameras, lamp modules, thermostats, etc.) can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video and/or pictures and control home devices via their personal web portal or webpage, mobile phone, and/or other remote client device. Users can also receive notifications via email or text message when happenings occur, or do not occur, in their home.
US10339788B2
Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing internet access through a control panel of an alarm system, the method including establishing, by a control panel of an alarm system in a property, a first connection to an alarm system monitoring server across a cellular network, determining that a known source of internet within the property is not available, in response to determining that the known source of internet within the property is not available, establishing, by the control panel, a second connection to the internet across the cellular network, providing internet access to one or more devices in the property through the second connection, determining that the known source of internet within the property is available, and in response to determining that the known source of internet within the property is available, terminating, by the control panel, the second connection.
US10339785B2
A failure diagnosis system includes: a sensor; an abnormality determination unit that determines whether an abnormality occurs in a diagnosis target device corresponding to the sensor on the basis of diagnosis target information detected by the sensor; a screen display controller that identifiably notifies a diagnosis target device for which it is determined by the abnormality determination unit that the abnormality occurs; a layout setting unit that sets a facility layout of a facility; and a disposition setting unit that sets a disposition of each diagnosis target device in the facility layout. The screen display controller identifiably notifies a diagnosis target device associated with a sensor that detects diagnosis target information that is a basis of the determination that the abnormality occurs, in a disposition screen display region 521 in which diagnosis information acquisition units are disposed on the facility layout.
US10339784B2
A sensor data stream is provided consisting of feature vectors acquired by sensors of rotating equipment, similar feature vectors are aggregated in microclusters. For newly arriving feature vectors, a correlation distance measure between the new feature vector and each microcluster is calculated. If there is no microcluster in range, then a new microcluster is created. Otherwise, the feature vector is assigned to the best fitting microcluster, and the necessary statistical information is incorporated into the aggregation contained in the microcluster. In other words, similar feature vectors are aggregated in the same microclusters. The microclusters thus provide a generic summary structure that captures the necessary statistical information of the incorporated feature vectors. At the same time, the loss of accuracy is quite small. Clustering the sensor data stream with microclusters has the benefit that the computational complexity can be reduced significantly.
US10339781B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring fatigue and notifying an individual are described. The individual may be an operator of a vehicle, equipment, or machine, a student, or other person that may experience fatigue. Motion of the individual is monitored to detect a predescribed motion in response to a stimulus to first determine a base responsiveness profile. Afterwards, a current responsiveness profile is determined based on a prescribed motion in response to a stimulus, and if the current responsiveness profile exceeds a predetermined threshold of the base responsiveness profile, a notification is issued to the individual and, optionally, another person such as an employer, teacher, or parent.
US10339772B2
A system generates a haptic signal. The system receives an audio signal, pre-processes the audio signal by modifying the audio signal to create a modified audio signal, and maps the modified audio signal to a haptic signal. The system then sends the haptic signal to an actuator to generate one or more haptic effects.
US10339769B2
A method at an electronic device with an array of indicator lights includes: obtaining first visual output instructions stored at the electronic device, where the first visual output instructions control operation of the array of indicator lights based on operating state of the electronic device; receiving a voice input; obtaining from a remote system a response to the voice input and second visual output instructions, where the second visual output instructions are provided by the remote system along with the response in accordance with a determination that the voice input satisfies one or more criteria; executing the response; and displaying visual output on the array of indicator lights in accordance with the second visual output instructions, where otherwise in absence of the second visual output instructions the electronic device displays visual output on the array of indicator lights in accordance with the first visual output instructions.
US10339764B2
The present invention combines aspects of social media with traditional lottery games. In one aspect, the present invention provides a lottery game for drawing-based and instant-based games, where the numbers or icons that are traditionally used are replaced by player profiles.
US10339763B1
A computer game of chance is described. A system displays, via a user interface, at least a part of a field of play associated with a game of chance. The system receives, via the user interface, a user selection of a region within the field of play. The system evaluates a probability that an object will traverse the user-selected region during any of the random movements by the object from a beginning area to an ending area during a round of play. The system displays, via the user interface, the object moving in the field of play during at least some of the random movements. The system credits a success value, based on the probability, to a player of the game of chance if the object traversed the user-selected region during any of the random movements during the round of play.
US10339751B2
A display control system for a gaming machine is described. The display control system allows a gaming machine controller to directly control attributes of one or more video displays coupled to a gaming machine. Display attributes can be adjusted to account for different machine states which can occur when the gaming machine is operating in an attract mode, game play mode and tilt mode. A few examples of display attributes which can be controlled include but are not limited to power on or off, input source selection, contrast control, brightness control and color temp control.
US10339742B2
An input device includes a touch pad may include a transmissive material, a touch detector disposed at a rear portion of the touch pad, a printed circuit board connected to the touch detector, and a plurality of light emitting devices mounted on the printed circuit board, wherein a plurality of input elements is provided on a back surface of the touch detector. Each input element has at least two symbols that are formed in overlap with each other and in mutually different colors.
US10339737B1
A method for monitoring a location of a group of individuals includes receiving a first signal and at least one beacon ID corresponding to a unique beacon from a set of beacons at a server. The first signal includes an individual identification (ID) corresponding to a specific individual. The method then Cross-checks the individual ID and the at least one beacon ID with an allowed individuals list, and unlocks an entry-way corresponding to a unique beacon ID in the at least one beacon ID in response to the unique beacon ID corresponding to an entry-way beacon at a room which the individual ID is authorized to access, and cross-checks the individual ID and the at least one beacon ID with an attendance list, and updates an attendance monitoring file on said server in response to the unique beacon ID in the at least one beacon ID corresponding to an interior room beacon.
US10339730B2
An article of manufacture including a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for detecting a fault in a gas turbine engine that, in response to execution by a controller, cause the controller to perform operations comprising receiving, by the controller, a first data output from a first flight data source; receiving, by the controller, a second data output from a second flight data source; determining, by the controller, a first flight realm of the first data output based on the second data output; identifying, by the controller, a fault threshold using a first parameter of the first flight realm; and comparing, by the controller, the first data output to the fault threshold.
US10339727B2
A wireless communication device for collecting vehicle on-board diagnostics (OBD) data is disclosed, together with associated methods of handling OBD data in such wireless communication devices. In embodiments, the wireless communication device is arranged to determine when it has been disconnected from the vehicle OBD port and to correct previously stored time-stamped OBD data by synchronising with an external reference clock signal provided by an external mobile telecommunications device before the corrected OBD data is transmitted to the external device. In other embodiments, the wireless communication device comprises a processor configured to aggregate collected OBD data into risk profile data comprising one or more scalar indicators and/or histogram indicators, and the device is further arranged to store the risk profile data in memory until the device is paired with an external mobile telecommunications device and a data transmission instruction is received. In yet other embodiments, the wireless communication device comprises an accelerometer and a processor configured to determine an orientation of the accelerometer relative to the vehicle based on the OBD data.
US10339726B2
A car wash with integrated diagnostic functions is provided that includes the ability to wash and dry a connected vehicle and perform various diagnostic functions. The various diagnostic functions such as tread depth measurement, measuring tire pressures, performing safety inspection, emissions testing and performing vehicle diagnostics and the like may be performed while the connected vehicle is at the car wash. The results of the diagnostic tests may be provided to the driver at the end of the car wash via the driver's wireless computing device.
US10339724B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for estimating taxes. In one embodiment, the location of a vehicle can be monitored by a variety of computing entities. By using the vehicle's location, it can be determined when the vehicle enters and/or exits defined geofences. After a determination that the vehicle has entered or exited a defined geofenced area, telematics data can be collected and used to estimate taxes, such as road use taxes and fuel use taxes.
US10339720B2
The disclosure includes implementations for providing ground adjustment for an in-vehicle augmented reality system. A system may include a three-dimensional heads-up display unit (“3D HUD”) installed in a vehicle. The system may include a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: determine a plurality of elevation values for a plurality of points on a road surface, where each elevation value is associated with a point from the plurality of points and describes the elevation of that point; identify a graphic for display on the 3D HUD, where the graphic is associated with at least one point from the plurality of points; determine which location of the 3D HUD is associated with the at least one point associated with the graphic; and display the graphic at the location of the 3D HUD so that the graphic superposes the point when viewed by a driver.
US10339719B2
The present disclosure teaches a system and method for communicating the spatial position and orientation of surgical instruments with respect to a surgical area of interest. Using a visual display of a surgical site generated by a camera feed, a computer generates a virtual overlay of the location and projected trajectory of a surgical instrument based on its current position and orientation. Position and orientation information is generated and stored using tracking markers and a tracking sensor in information communication with the computer.
US10339713B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for nesting augmented reality markers within augmented reality overlays to create nested menu options in augmented reality applications are provided. An input image is received from an augmented reality input buffer. The input buffer is a digital representation of information taken from a camera. An output image including an overlay is received from an augmented reality output buffer. The output buffer is scanned for one or more markers, where the markers are associated with the overlay. A first user input is received, indicating a user selection of a first marker. A first marker overlay is displayed. The first marker overlay corresponds to the first marker.
US10339710B2
A medical image system (100)for enables a user to navigate through three-dimensional 3D image data showing an anatomical structure by simultaneously displaying a set of views of the 3D image data showing the anatomical structure. The system includes a data input (140) for receiving orientation data (142), a user input (120) for receiving a navigation command (122)from the user, a plane processor (160) for, in dependence on the navigation command, adjusting a spatial configuration of a set of planes (102) for obtaining a further set of planes (162) intersecting the 3D image data, and a view processor (180) for, in dependence on the further set of planes and the orientation data, establishing a further set of views (182) of the 3D image data for displaying the further set of views as an update of the set of views.
US10339709B1
A system and method may model physical geological structures. Seismic and geologic data may be accepted. A three-dimensional (3D) transformation may be generated between a 3D present day model having points representing present locations of the physical geological structures and a 3D past depositional model having points representing locations where the physical geological structures were originally deposited. An indication may be accepted to locally change the 3D transformation for a subset of sampling points in a first model of the models. The 3D transformation may be locally changed to fit the updated subset of sampling points. A locally altered or updated version of the first model and, e.g., second model, may be displayed where local changes to the first model are defined by the locally changed 3D transformation. The transformation may also be used to extract geobodies in the past depositional model.
US10339705B2
Architecture that enables the preservation of label readability in a scene (e.g., map, map tiles, graphical background, etc.) by way of label orientation relative to a fixed heading on a plane or curved surface. After identifying an initial fixed heading, movement of the camera (e.g., zoom-in, zoom-out, position change, etc.) in the scene along that heading without changing the camera heading as measured relative to a fixed point does not alter label orientation. In a mapping implementation, after identifying an initial fixed camera heading over terrain of the Earth, movement of the camera (e.g., zoom-in, zoom-out, position change, etc.) in the scene without changing the camera heading as measured relative to some fixed point does not change label orientation. The orientation of labels may be changed if the heading of the camera is altered, but this change is delayed until camera movement quiesces.
US10339703B2
Shadow is computed in a lighted 3D scene, based on a depth map. For each depth map element, following geometric information is stored: depth value, coordinates of vertices and local depth variation of a surface element. Also, ray intersection is tested for a pixel with the surface element having depth computed from the depth and local depth variation, taking into account the coordinates of vertices. A minimum depth associated with the surface element is further computed from the geometric information, with which the depth of a pixel is compared. The pixel is classified as lit if the depth is lower than the minimum depth, and as shadowed if the depth is greater and if a ray intersection is found for the pixel with the surface element from the ray intersection testing. The invention can provide a fast solution for high-quality shadow.
US10339696B2
Systems and methods of geometry processing, for rasterization and ray tracing processes provide for pre-processing of source geometry, such as by tessellating or other procedural modification of source geometry, to produce final geometry on which a rendering will be based. An acceleration structure (or portion thereof) for use during ray tracing is defined based on the final geometry. Only coarse-grained elements of the acceleration structure may be produced or retained, and a fine-grained structure within a particular coarse-grained element may be Produced in response to a collection of rays being ready for traversal within the coarse grained element. Final geometry can be recreated in response to demand from a rasterization engine, and from ray intersection units that require such geometry for intersection testing with primitives. Geometry at different resolutions can be generated to respond to demands from different rendering components.
US10339683B2
A method for a processor to provide a chart of a performance metric in a collection interval includes creating regions by dividing the collection interval into regions of increasingly smaller time intervals and determining a mean and a variance for each region based on data points in that region, sorting the regions by their variances and means, and processing the sorted regions. Processing the sorted regions includes removing any child region when its parent region has a variance that substantially represents the child region, and replacing any two neighboring or intersecting regions with a merged region comprising the two neighboring or intersecting regions when the merged region has a variance that substantially represents the two neighboring or intersecting regions. The method further includes generating the chart by visually indicating highest ranking regions by variance in the chart and displaying the chart or transmitting the chart over a computer network.
US10339681B2
According to an aspect a method for building an interactive multimedia process flow chart is provided. The method includes displaying a process flow chart in an interactive graphically editable format on a user interface. The process flow chart includes a plurality of nodes each located entirely in a single node cell of a node grid. A pair of output hubs on a decision node of the process flow chart is linked to a pair of nodes defining a yes-path and a no-path. An output hub of a process step node of the process flow chart is linked to a single node defining a next process step. A link is established to an end node of the process flow chart absent any output links from the end node. The decision node, process step node, and end node each have a common shape including a display region and an editing command region.
US10339674B2
A signal processing apparatus and a related method. In particular, the apparatus includes a novel image reconstructor to reconstruct cross sectional images of a specimen from interferometric projection data (m). The reconstructor (RECON) is based on a new forward model that accounts for cross-talk of a phase contrast signal into a dark field signal.
US10339669B2
An approach is provided for a vertex-based evaluation of polygon similarity. The approach, for instance, involves processing, by a computer vision system, an image to generate a first set of vertices of a first polygon representing an object depicted in the image. The approach also involves for each vertex in the first set of vertices, determining a closest vertex in a second set of vertices of a second polygon, and determining a distance between said each vertex in the first set of vertices and the closest vertex in the second set of vertices. The approach further involves calculating a polygon similarity of the first polygon with respect to the second polygon based on a total of the distance determined for said each vertex in the first set of vertices normalized to a number of vertices in the first set of vertices.
US10339660B2
A system used for generating a transformed representation of a quantity of video data structured as a plurality of frames including arrays of rows and columns of pixels having pixel properties. The system may generate first representations of the video data based on a plurality of the rows; generate second representations of the video data based on a plurality of the columns; generate frame representations corresponding to the frames and based on the first and second representations; and combine the frame representations to form the transformed representation of the video data. The system may also generate frame representations respectively corresponding to the frames; combine the frame representations to form a transformed representation of the video data; analyze the transformed representation; and identify frames of interest based on the analysis.
US10339655B2
A method automatically evaluates x-ray image data from an examination region of a patient. X-ray image data is received from the examination region. Furthermore x-ray image data is segmented and anatomical structures are detected in the individual segments. In addition reference image data that comes closest to the segmented x-ray image data is determined. This process is undertaken on the basis of a comparison of the segmented x-ray image data with reference image data from a reference database. The reference image data of the reference database has quality information relating to the image quality of the reference image data in each case. Finally a decision is made on the basis of the quality information of the established reference image data as to whether the received x-ray image data is to be retained or rejected.
US10339652B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for image reconstruction are provided. An example of the methods includes obtaining an auxiliary scanning condition, performing an auxiliary scanning using the auxiliary scanning condition to generate an auxiliary image, and in response to a determination to perform a primary scanning based on the auxiliary image, determining a first primary scanning condition using the auxiliary scanning condition and performing the primary scanning using the first primary scanning condition to generate a primary image.
US10339649B2
A computer-implemented method for generating a digital model of an individual intraoral component from a digital model of a patient's dentition obtains a 3-D digital mesh model of the patient's dentition and performs automatic tooth component segmentation operation on the obtained mesh model. Automated segmentation results display. Interactive segmentation of the automated segmentation results is performed according to an operator instruction. Segmentation results are displayed and stored.
US10339647B2
Systems and methods for qualitative and/or quantitative indentation detection are provided. A method includes receiving imaging data comprising a plurality of indentations within a region on a surface. The method further includes obtaining a size measurement for each indentation. The method further includes calculating a number of indentations within the region are equal to or above a minimum size.
US10339640B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, first and second correction units, first and second calculation units, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires image data pieces obtained by temporally successively capturing images of an object. The first correction unit acquires first correction data by performing fluctuation correction on processing target image data using temporally neighboring image data pieces among the acquired image data pieces. The first calculation unit calculates, as first displacement data, an amount of displacement between reference and the processing target image data or the first correction data. The determination unit determines a moving object region. The second calculation unit calculates second displacement data by interpolating the first displacement data in the determined moving object region based on the first displacement data or the first correction data. The second correction unit corrects based on the second displacement data to obtain second correction data.
US10339634B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, method and storage medium for generating an image. At least one processor, when executing instructions, may perform one or more of the following operations. When raw data is received, a plurality of iterations may be implemented. During each iteration, a first voxel value relating to a first voxel in an image is calculated; at least a portion of a second voxel may be continuously changed with respect to at least a portion of the first voxel value; the image may be transformed to a projection domain to generate an estimated projection based on the first voxel value and the second voxel value; a projection error may be obtained based on the estimated projection and the raw data; and the image may be corrected or updated based on the projection error.
US10339629B2
An electronic device and a method for automatically displaying an indication in a multi-dimensional media in the electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving the multi-dimensional media at the electronic device, displaying a first view port of the multi-dimensional media on a screen of the electronic device, detecting at least one region of interest (ROI) in the multi-dimensional media based on plurality of parameters, and displaying an indication indicating at least one second view port of the multi-dimensional media on the screen. The second view port includes at least one ROI.
US10339618B1
A computer-implemented trading platform, system, and method are provided for facilitating the trading and accounting for health quality offsets. So-called “health quality credits” related to emissions of ‘potentially avoidable complications’ (PACs) or ‘potentially avoidable mortality’ (PAMs). Emissions trading or “cap-and-trade” is an administrative approach used to control emissions that degrade public-goods assets by providing economic incentives for achieving and sustaining economically significant reductions in the emissions of pollutants that impair public goods such as clean air or health. In one embodiment, a method of accounting for health quality offsets established in one or more offset markets includes registering a health quality offset to an owner thereof; assigning a unique identifier to the health quality offset; crediting a client account with the health quality offset; receiving notification of a trade between a buyer and a seller; if the seller has an amount of health quality offsets sufficient for the trade, adjusting buyer and seller accounts with corresponding credits and debits; otherwise, providing a notification of insufficient health quality offsets to carry out the trade.
US10339610B2
A system and method for making a targeted offer to an audience of a population of entities involves: retrieving a first set of information attributable to a first plurality of entities; generating a plurality of interaction associations from the first set of information; and conveying to a third party one or more interaction associations to enable the third party to identify a second set of information attributable to a second plurality of entities. The second set of information has matching activities and characteristics to the activities and characteristics of the interaction associations. The second plurality of entities has a propensity to carry out certain activities based on the activities criteria and/or characteristics criteria used in forming the interaction associations, to enable a targeted offer to be made to an audience of the second plurality of entities.
US10339606B2
The systems and methods herein may include receiving a plurality of transactions for a plurality of consumers, wherein each respective transaction of the plurality of transactions is between a consumer of the plurality of consumers and a merchant of a plurality of merchants; automatically inputting the plurality of transactions into a neural network; automatically analyzing the plurality of transactions over a plurality of iterations, wherein an iteration of the plurality of iterations comprises cycling through a consumer transaction history associated with the consumer, wherein the consumer transaction history has a consumer transaction sequence associated with the consumer; and automatically updating over the plurality of iterations, a previous fraud detection variable associated with the consumer and/or the merchant to generate updated fraud detection variables, in response to the analyzing the plurality of transactions.
US10339602B2
A first estimator estimates first power to be generated by a photovoltaic power generation apparatus during an interested period. A second estimator estimates second power to be consumed by an electric load during the interested period. A power purchasing cost calculator calculates, when there is a shortfall in the first power compared to the second power, a cost to be paid for receiving, from a power grid, power for compensating for the shortfall. A determiner compares an amount of money to be paid to a customer facility in accordance with a trading term when power is supplied from the power storage apparatus to the power grid, with the cost calculated by the power purchasing cost calculator. A controller causes the power storage apparatus to the electric load when the cost to be paid to the customer facility is equal to or less than the cost.
US10339600B1
A method for software application management includes receiving, from a client device, a software application, obtaining a software application manifest for the software application, and transmitting the software application manifest to multiple vendors. Each of the vendors includes computing system resources for hosting the software application. The method further includes receiving bids from the vendors, selecting, from the bids, a winning bid, and transmitting the software application and payment information to the vendor of the winning bid.
US10339597B1
Systems and methods for virtually measuring one or more aspects of a subject, e.g., human subject are provided. Based on a plurality of images, e.g., two images, body measurements of a subject may be derived and used to generate a virtual model. The virtual model can be used as a mechanism for modeling virtual clothing for presentation to a user. Characteristics of the clothing, e.g., sizing, colors, etc., can be rendered on the virtual model providing the user with an accurate virtual reality fitting room experience.
US10339588B1
Price searching and intelligent shopping lists on a mobile device is provided. A system for providing a shopping list comprises at least one subsystem that receives input data containing product identification information, at least one subsystem that determines location information of a product identified by the product identification information, and at least one subsystem that determines a proposed route from a particular location to a location of the product identified by the location information.
US10339586B1
Methods and apparatus are described for identifying similar products or services for the purpose of making relevant recommendations to an online consumer. Products and services are represented by associated vectors which include values for each of a plurality of attributes of the corresponding product or service. One or more similar products or services are identified relative to a reference product or service set with reference to the distance between the end points of the respective vectors in the associated vector space.
US10339583B2
An augmented reality system that includes an augmented reality user device. The augmented reality user device includes a display for overlaying virtual objects onto objects in a real scene, a camera, and a global position system sensor. The augmented reality user device includes a processor implementing an object recognition engine, a virtual assessment engine, and a virtual overlay engine. The object recognition engine identifies tangible products from an image. The virtual assessment engine authenticates the user, identifies a user identifier for the user, and identifies a vendor based on the geographic location of the user. The virtual assessment engine captures an image and performs object recognition on the image to identify products in a cart. The virtual assessment engine sends a token to a remote server, receives new account offers for the user from the server, and presents the offers as virtual objects overlaid with the products in the cart.
US10339576B2
In a process for creating media content, media submissions are requested and electronically received from end users and stored in a computer database. The submissions are searched for material to be included in the media content, and cross-checked against the other submissions for originality and timeliness. After the material is selected from one or more submissions, the content is developed and released to an audience for review. The end users whose submission material was included in the released content are rewarded. In one embodiment, third parties are permitted to access and search the submissions on an open exchange. The third parties can bid for rights in submissions on the open exchange. After receiving these bids, they are forwarded to the particular submission's end user for acceptance or rejection. Appropriate billing and payment processes are used to bill and pay the parties involved.
US10339575B2
A system and method for tracking provenance for software use and development includes a developer toolkit program stored in memory media and accessible by a software market place wherein the software marketplace provides a library of software bundles that can be used for software development and modification of the software bundles. The developer toolkit includes a user interface configured to enable software creation of original works and derivative works. The development toolkit further includes a provenance tracker configured to track provenance of the derivative works and original works wherein the provenance tracker makes the derivative work and the provenance of the derivative work available in the software market place. The provenance tracker includes a software bundle identification module configured to identify and verify ownership of the original works and derivative works by associating an owner of the derivative works and original works with features included in portions of the derivative works and original works.
US10339560B2
Disclosed is a method that includes: profiling a set of mobile applications according to revenue-related parameters; tracking a user's interaction with a mobile application; scoring the user's interaction levels, and based on the score, grouping users into mobile analytics groups associated with the targeting profiles; facilitating the transmission of user information, user interaction data, and specific mobile analytics groups to advertising campaigns. The method may be executed on a digital device. A related system is disclosed.
US10339547B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify local trade areas are disclosed. An example method includes selecting, with a processor, census block groups (CBGs) associated with a retailer location, identifying, with the processor, a plurality of stores within the selected CBGs and associated all commodities volume (ACV) values for respective ones of the plurality of stores, calculating, with the processor, similarity index values associated with respective pairs of the plurality of stores, generating, with the processor, local trade areas (LTAs) of subgroups of the plurality of stores based on a comparison of the similarity index values to a similarity threshold value, and when a respective one of the LTAs includes a violation of a releasability criterion, preventing, with the processor, erroneous disclosure of market share information by re-distributing the stores within the respective one of the LTAs to a geographically adjacent LTA.
US10339544B2
A computer-implemented technique can process overhead images of users in a line at a venue to obtain a user wait time for the line. The processing can include (a) identifying a user of the group of users that is second in the line to obtain a target user, (b) detecting when the target user becomes first in the line to obtain a start time, (c) after the target user becomes first in the line, detecting when the target user leaves the line to obtain an end time, (d) determining a period from the start time to the end time, and (e) calculating the user wait time by calculating a product of (i) the determined period and (ii) a quantity of the group of users in the line after the target user leaves the line. The calculated user wait time can then be output.
US10339542B2
Store intelligence—in-store analytics (“in-store analytics”) techniques are provided that, by combining analytics with experience, improve the shopping, managing, monitoring, etc., experience of an end user. In-store analytics can be integrated with workflow for optimizing and assisting prioritizing operations.
US10339527B1
Embodiments of an electronic fraud analysis platform system are disclosed which may be used to analyze tax returns for potential fraud. Analysis of tax return data using the tax return analysis platform computing systems and methods discussed herein may provide insight into whether a tax return may be fraudulent based on, for example, an initial screening component configured to filter tax returns which appear fraudulent due to missing or inaccurate information provided with the return; a device activity analysis component configured to identify whether a device used to submit a tax return or to provide further authentication information needed to complete processing of the return may have been used in other fraudulent activities; and a knowledge-based authentication component configured to identify potential fraudsters using dynamically generated questions for which fraudsters typically do not know the answers.
US10339526B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for facilitating risk assessment for an EFT transaction. The transaction occurs between at least an originating participant and a destination participant. The method includes maintaining an alias table stored in a computer memory, the alias table containing country information for facilitating identification of a corresponding country associated with at least one EFT participant. The method additionally includes making a country identification implementing a computer processor through consultation with the alias table and execution of a matching process, the matching process incorporating the EFT data and alias table country information to identify the corresponding country. The method further includes passing the country identification to risk analysis components for evaluating risk associated with the transaction.
US10339522B2
A smart card transaction allows a consumer to load value onto a smart card and to make purchases using a smart card with a mobile telephone handset over the telecommunications network. For loading, the system includes: a mobile telephone handset including a card reader; a gateway computer; a funds issuer computer; and an authentication computer. The mobile telephone handset receives a request from a user to load a value onto the smart card. The handset generates a funds request message which includes the value and sends the funds request message to a funds issuer computer. The funds issuer computer debits an account associated with the user. Next, the handset generates a load request message with a cryptographic signature and sends the load request message to an authentication computer which authenticates the smart card. The handset receives a response message which includes a cryptographic signature and an approval to load. Finally, the handset validates the second cryptographic signature and loads the value onto the smart card. For payment, the system includes a merchant server and a payment server. First, the handset sends an order request message to the merchant server computer, and in return receives a purchase instruction message. The handset processes the purchase instruction message locally, and then sends a draw request message to a payment server computer. The payment server computer sends a debit message which includes a cryptographic signature and an approval to debit the smart card. Finally, the handset validates the cryptographic signature and debits the smart card.
US10339515B1
A shopping cart has integrated scale and point-of-sale device. The scale and credit card processing device are secured within a common housing. The bar code reader is secured within a hand wand which is detachably secured to the exterior of the scale and credit card processing device's housing. The scale and credit card processing device are secured to top center of the shopping cart's handle.
US10339514B2
In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided to enhance customer service through the distribution of mobile sales vehicles comprising: an engine and a drivetrain; a point of sales system; product storage storing pre-selected products selected in response to an evaluation of location demographic information, and in response to an evaluation of population demographic information, wherein the pre-selected products comprise a sub-set of potential products available from a retail entity operating the sales vehicle; and a product distribution system coupled with the point of sales system and comprising a control circuit configured to authorize access by a customer to one or more products stored in the product storage and purchased by the customer.
US10339511B2
Methods and systems for adjusting a security level of a transaction system based on biometric characteristics of a customer are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes interacting with a customer at a transaction terminal. The method also includes determining a biometric characteristic of the customer based on the interaction with the customer. Further, the method may include adjusting a security level of a transaction system based on the biometric characteristic.
US10339508B1
Computer implemented system and methods are provided for evaluating the effectiveness of personalized automated teller machines. In some embodiments, the system may include a camera, an automated teller machine comprising a user interface based on a user profile and at least one server geographically remote from the automated teller machine. The server may be configured to receive a recorded user interaction, receive transaction data, determine an emotion state, extract environmental data, determine a quality indicator for the recorded user interaction, update a user profile, and transmit to the automated teller machine the updated user profile.
US10339499B2
To propagate compliance and governance (C&G) policies, a parser including natural language processing is used to deconstruct a set of organization C&G policies from a set of C&G documents to identify and record a parsed set of categorized C&G policies. A configuration parameter analyzer deconstructs and parses a plurality of C&G configuration parameters of an application program to identify and record a set of application C&G configuration parameters each comprising a purpose and a unit of measure. A reconciliation arranger receives the set of categorized C&G policies and the set of application C&G configuration parameters and maps the categorized C&G policies for the correct purpose and the unit of measure to the respective application C&G configuration parameters. The reconciliation arranger propagates and secures the application program with the respective set of mapped application C&G configuration parameters from mapped C&G policies.
US10339494B2
In an embodiment, preference information, corresponding to a first invitee from an invitees list for an event and permission by the first invitee to obtain the preference information from a data source is received. The preference information is usable to determine a sentiment of the first invitee towards an aspect of the event. The information about the first invitee is collected from the data source. A sentiment analysis is performed using Natural Language Processing (NLP), on the information, producing the preference information of the first invitee. the preference information of the first invitee is aggregated with preference information of a second invitee in the invitee list to form an aggregated preference. A list of items needed to satisfy the aggregated preference is created.
US10339492B2
Systems and methods for re-routing parcels being delivered to attended delivery/pickup locations that have no capacity and/or ability to take delivery of the parcels. In various embodiments, in response to determining that the attended delivery/pickup location doesn't have sufficient capacity and/or ability to accept delivery of the parcel, the system is configured to: (1) re-route the parcel to a different location; or (2) hold the parcel for later delivery. In some embodiments, the system is configured to determine an appropriate response to determining that the attended delivery/pickup location cannot accept delivery of the parcel substantially automatically. In other embodiments, the system is configured to provide the parcel recipient with one or more re-routing options.
US10339491B2
A mobile pickup unit is provided that includes storage compartments (e.g., for containing items) and is configured to travel to a user pickup area and park as close as possible to an optimal location that is determined based on the locations of users who are scheduled to utilize the mobile pickup unit. The mobile pickup unit may include or otherwise be transported by any type of mobile machine (e.g., automobile, etc.), and control of the mobile machine may be manual (e.g., a driver) or automated (e.g., directly or remotely controlled by an automated system, robotic, etc.) A parking location that is selected may be along a public street or any other available parking space, such that parking locations may be selected on a daily basis that are convenient for the users who will be utilizing the mobile pickup unit (e.g., for retrieving ordered items, dropping off returned items, etc.).
US10339490B1
Where a particular item has certain restrictions or requirements which should be followed when the item is stored or transported, a transit plan or storage plan for the item may be developed using the systems and methods of the present disclosure. In particular, where the restrictions or requirements may change over time (i.e., during the period in which the item is stored or transported), the transit plan or storage plan may include accommodations for changing the conditions of the item in order to comply with the restrictions or requirements. In particular, the transit plan or storage plan may call for the reorientation of an item that has orientation-specific requirements as the item is in storage or in transit.
US10339488B2
The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems, including a method for defining and using models. A model definition language is provided for defining models. The model definition language includes elements of a meta-model. The elements define, for a model, a root element of the model and plural participant instances of the model. Each participant instance is linked with the root element. Each participant instance defines at least one of plural participants of the model. Each participant instance is an instance of a participant class. A relation port for the model defines plural relations and flows among the plural participants. Each relation is defined by a relation instance being of a relation class and defining a relationship between participants.
US10339486B1
Methods and apparatuses allow an insurance agency to track their current performance in managing existing customers and bringing in new customers. A tool may obtain information from a user regarding characteristics of the user's agency and/or agency goals. The tool may use this information to determine an agency's business efficiency. The tool may also provide advice regarding marketing spending and/or additional human resources needed. The tool may benchmark an insurance agency against other agencies in the market. The tool may also display how generated leads are converted to new business and/or income for an agency.
US10339482B1
A system and method for calculating loss data associated with a data privacy and security breach event occurring within an organization based on collected data. Data describing a number of individuals affected by the event; an estimated number of hours spent by the organization on managing the event; enrollment by individuals affected by the event in a credit monitoring service; an estimated amount spent on communications within the organization relating to the event; an estimated number of hours of loss of productivity by the organization; an estimated credit monitoring service call center volume; an estimated amount spent on computer forensics; and an estimated amount spent on legal counsel is received. Data describing (i) an amount spent by the organization in managing the event; (ii) an amount spent by the organization in notifying individuals affected by the event; (iii) an amount spent by the organization on the credit monitoring service; (iv) an amount spent on loss of productivity; (v) an amount spent on loss of assets; and (vi) an amount spent on credit monitoring service call center activities is calculated. Data describing a total loss amount associated with the event is calculated based on the received data received and the calculations.
US10339481B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism to directly interact and access with micro-services and/or services using natural-language and machine intelligence and algorithmic learning so that users may access desired micro-services and/or services with minimal interaction.
US10339479B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamically aggregating data from disparate sources. A computer implemented method involves initializing a scheduler application to create one or more intermediate tables. The intermediate tables are populated with automatically aggregated data from one or more disparate data sources. The data is governed by business rules in an enterprise system. The method further involves enabling access to a subset of the aggregated data in accordance with a user authorization credential.
US10339457B2
An application performance management system is provided, which is adapted to analyze the performance of one or more applications running on information technology (IT) infrastructure. The application performance management system includes a data collector, an anomaly detector, an anomaly correlator, an anomaly ranking unit, and a source problem detector. The data collector collects performance metrics for one or more applications running on the IT infrastructure. The anomaly detector analyzes the performance metrics and detects anomalies, which may include performance metrics whose values deviate from historic values with a deviation that exceeds a predefined threshold. The anomaly correlator detects dependencies between plural anomalies and generates anomaly clusters. Each anomaly cluster includes anomalies that are correlated through one or more of the dependencies. The anomaly ranking unit ranks anomalies within an anomaly cluster. The source problem detector pinpoints a problem source from the lowest ranked anomaly in an anomaly cluster.
US10339453B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for automatically generating question and answer pairs for training a question answering system for a given domain. The mechanism identifies a set of patterns of components in passages within a corpus of documents for the given domain. The mechanism identifies a set of rules that correspond to the set of patterns for generating question and answer pairs from the passages within the corpus of documents. The mechanism applies the set of rules to the passages to generate the question and answer pairs.
US10339450B2
An efficient technique of machine learning is provided for training a plurality of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with increased speed and accuracy using a genetic evolutionary model. A plurality of artificial chromosomes may be stored representing weights of artificial neuron connections of the plurality of respective CNNs. A plurality of pairs of the chromosomes may be recombined to generate, for each pair, a new chromosome (with a different set of weights than in either chromosome of the pair) by selecting entire filters as inseparable groups of a plurality of weights from each of the pair of chromosomes (e.g., “filter-by-filter” recombination). A plurality of weights of each of the new or original plurality of chromosomes may be mutated by propagating recursive error corrections incrementally throughout the CNN. A small random sampling of weights may optionally be further mutated to zero, random values, or a sum of current and random values.
US10339441B2
An example embodiment may involve a machine learning model representing relationships between a dependent variable and a plurality of n independent variables. The dependent variable may be a function of the n independent variables, where the n independent variables are measurable characteristics of computing devices, and where the dependent variable is a predicted behavior of the computing devices. The embodiment may also involve obtaining a target value of the dependent variable, and separating the n independent variables into n−1 independent variables with fixed values and a particular independent variable with an unfixed value. The embodiment may also involve performing a partial inversion of the function to produce a value of the particular independent variable such that, when the function is applied to the value of the particular independent variable and the n−1 independent variables with fixed values, the dependent variable is within a pre-defined range of the target value.
US10339438B2
A system and method for counting persons using passages entering or exiting an area by analyzing vibrations in the floor with sensors and a machine learning system. The machine learning system uses a model, usually implemented as a neural network on a processor. The network is trained in levels and implemented in layers. Different levels classify and analyze vibrations by timing and frequency, by movements of persons, and by identity of persons The same person is identified by patterns in the vibrations and the vibrations are correlated to determine when a person uses a combination of passages and is thereby counted. Location information for the person is used to identify persons in places and doing activities of interest. The model may be trained on one processor and then downloaded to another processor for evaluation. Additional sensors and levels of training may be implemented on the latter processor.
US10339429B2
Aspects of the invention relate to methods for automatically configuring a printer, such as a RFID printer with minimal effort from the user. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a user is able to automatically configure one or more of the following non-exhaustive list of printer settings by entering only an inlay designator and an inlay offset: a first TID position, an encode zone, a TID singulate, a read power, a write power, an encode while the web is moving flag, a stop to encode position and a maximum speed to encode while the web is moving.
US10339428B2
An intelligent scoring method and system for a text objective question, the method comprising: acquiring an answer image of a text objective question (101); segmenting the answer image to obtain one or more segmentation results of an answer string to be identified (102); determining whether any of the segmentation results has the same number of characters as the standard answer (103); if no, the answer is determined to be wrong (106); otherwise, calculating identification confidence of the segmentation result having the same number of words as the standard answer, and/or calculating the identification confidence of respective characters in the segmentation result having the same number of words as the standard answer (104); determining whether the answer is correct according to the calculated identification confidence (105). The method can automatically score text objective questions, thus reducing consumption of human resource, and improving scoring efficiency and accuracy.
US10339425B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for cell recognition. At least one embodiment relates to a method for recognizing cell. The method includes receiving an image of the cell. The method also includes performing edge detection on the image of the cell. Further, the method includes detecting ridges within the image of the cell. In addition, the method includes quantifying an internal complexity of the cell by gauging a contrast of the ridges with an average of a Laplacian on the detected ridges.
US10339422B2
Provided is an object detection device or the like which efficiently generates good-quality training data. This object detection device is provided with: a detection unit which uses a dictionary to detect objects from an input image; a reception unit which displays, on a display device, the input image accompanied by a display emphasizing partial areas of detected objects, and receives, from one operation of an input device, a selection of a partial area and an input of the class of the selected partial area; a generation unit which generates training data from the image of the selected partial area and the inputted class; and a learning unit which uses the training data to learn the dictionary.
US10339414B2
In the present disclosure, a plurality of frames of input images sequentially received for a predetermined time interval is obtained, and a face detecting operation is performed on a first frame if a full detecting mode is implemented. If a face is detected from a specific region of the first frame during the face detecting operation, a face tracking mode is implemented, a second frame is divided to produce the divided input image portions of the second frame, and the face tracking operation is performed on a surrounding region of the specific region of the divided input image portions of the second frame that corresponds to the specific region in the first frame. If the face is not detected in the face tracking mode, a partial detecting mode is implemented, and the face detecting operation is performed on image portions resized on divided input image portions of a third frame to which a specific region of the third frame corresponding to the specific region of the first frame belongs.
US10339413B2
A warning sign placing apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The warning sign placing apparatus includes at least two camera units, a control unit, and a vehicle. The camera unit captures a plurality of images in a preset direction. The vehicle carries at least two camera units and control unit. The control unit identifies a traveling direction of the road and distinguishes at least one object on the road based on the images, and plans a route along the road for the vehicle according to the at least one object, where the vehicle travels along the route. A warning sign is configured in the warning sign placing apparatus and is able to automatically move to a preset position with a preset distance in order to avoid the risk of dangers in a case of manually placing the warning sign.
US10339412B2
When searching for a registered image similar to a query image, an image processing apparatus estimates an area having a difference by comparing images determined to be similar if a plurality of similar images is found at the time of search of a similar image using an image feature amount in order to enhance search accuracy. Then, the image processing apparatus compares the query image with the plurality of images similar to the query image based on the difference area.
US10339409B2
A method and a device for extracting local features of a 3D point cloud are disclosed. Angle information and the concavo-convex information about a feature point to be extracted and a point of an adjacent body element are calculated based on a local reference system corresponding to the points of each body element. The feature relation between the two points can be calculated accurately. The property of invariance in translation and rotation is possessed. Since concavo-convex information about a local point cloud is contained during extraction, the inaccurate extraction caused by ignoring concavo-convex ambiguity in previous 3D local feature description is resolved. During normalization processing, exponential normalization processing and second-normal-form normalization are adopted, which solves the problem of inaccurate similarity calculation caused by a circumstance that a few elements in a vector are too large or too small during feature extraction, thus improving accuracy of extracted three-dimensional local features.
US10339406B2
Devices and a method are provided for providing feedback to a user. In one implementation, the method comprises obtaining a plurality of images from an image sensor. The image sensor is configured to be positioned for movement with the user's head. The method further comprises monitoring the images, and determining whether relative motion occurs between a first portion of a scene captured in the plurality of images and other portions of the scene captured in the plurality of images. If the first portion of the scene moves less than at least one other portion of the scene, the method comprises obtaining contextual information from the first portion of the scene. The method further comprises providing the feedback to the user based on at least part of the contextual information.
US10339403B2
Authentication methods for recognition of a candidate person. During authentication, a previously stored enrollment image is presented on a display to a candidate person. The candidate person is instructed to present a reproduced image of the same scene and/or object to a camera while holding the camera (mobile camera for example) unsupported in free space with respect to the viewed scene or object. Alternatively the candidate person can hold the object unsupported in free space with respect the camera. Using the camera, a candidate image of the viewed scene or object is captured and presented with the previously stored enrollment image. The candidate person aligns the candidate image with the previously stored enrollment image. Upon alignment, the candidate image is verified as an authentic image of the user and the candidate person is authenticated as the user previously enrolled.
US10339396B2
An image convertor converts an original image captured by a front camera. The original image includes a road surface around a vehicle. A three-dimensional object detector detects from a virtual image a three-dimensional object having a height from the road surface. A vehicle accessibility determiner determines whether the vehicle can access to the inside of the detected three-dimensional object or to a clearance among other three-dimensional objects.
US10339393B2
A demarcation line recognition apparatus is applied to a vehicle in which an imaging apparatus that captures an image of an area ahead of the vehicle is mounted. The demarcation line recognition apparatus includes: a demarcation line recognizing unit that recognizes a traveling demarcation line that demarcates a traveling lane of the vehicle based on an image acquired by the imaging apparatus; and a demarcation line estimating unit that estimates a shape of the traveling demarcation line in a range that cannot be recognized by the demarcation line recognizing unit, based on the traveling demarcation line recognized by the demarcation line recognizing unit. The demarcation line recognition apparatus determines a reliability level of the traveling demarcation line recognized by the demarcation line recognizing unit and invalidates the estimation of the shape of the traveling demarcation line by the demarcation line estimating unit based on the determination result.
US10339388B1
Virtual sensor technology, in which a camera is controlled to capture at least one configuration image of an area monitored by a monitoring system and input is received that defines one or more characteristics of the at least one configuration image that enable sensing of an event in the area. Based on the received input, configuration data used in sensing the event is generated and stored. After storage of the configuration data, the camera is controlled to capture one or more images of the area, the one or more images are analyzed based on the configuration data, and occurrence of the event is detected based on the analysis of the one or more images. Based on detecting occurrence of the event, a transmitting device is controlled to send, to a controller of the monitoring system, a signal that indicates the detection of the occurrence of the event.
US10339384B2
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of receiving, by an image processing device, one or more photos of building locations at a building, extracting position coordinates comprising X and Y values in a 2D floor plan from the one or more photos, converting the position coordinates into 3D model coordinates, extracting model viewpoints from a 3D model of the building at the 3D model coordinates, and comparing each of the one or more photos with a corresponding model viewpoint. Each of the model viewpoints provides a view of the 3D model at a same viewing position as one of the one or more photos.
US10339382B2
A method for feedback based maintenance wherein the method may include transmitting to an intermediate computerized system a first image that was acquired, at an acquisition point of time, by a head mounted display (HMD) mounted on a head of a first user; transmitting the first image from the intermediate computerized system and towards a computerized device of a second user; displaying on the computerized device of the second user the first image; receiving feedback, in response to the displaying and by the intermediate computerized system; generating, by the intermediate computerized system, an augmented image that comprises the first image and the feedback; transmitting to the HMD the augmented image; adjusting, by the HMD the augmented image to provide an amended augmented image that corresponds to visual information as viewed by the HMD at a display point in time; and displaying, by the HMD, the amended augmented image.
US10339377B2
Embodiment of the present disclosure discloses method and device for determining one or more characteristics of currency note. The currency evaluating device is configured to receive image of currency note and detect text from one or more predefined first regions of image. Further, language associated with detected text is identifies and one of single nationality and plurality of nationalities associated with language of currency note is obtained from data source associated with currency evaluating device. When single nationality is obtained, nationality of currency note is identified to be said single nationality. When plurality of nationalities is obtained, nationality of currency note is identified from plurality of nationalities using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Upon identifying nationality, one or more characteristics of currency note is identified by extracting object features on image based on identified nationality.
US10339371B2
The present disclosure provides a method for recognizing a human motion, a method for recognizing a user action and a smart terminal. The method for human motion recognition comprises: collecting human motion data to train to obtain a feature extraction parameter and a template data sequence; in one human motion recognition, collecting data for performing human motion recognition to obtain an original data sequence; using the feature extraction parameter to perform feature extraction on the original data sequence, reducing the number of data dimensions of the original data sequence, and obtaining a test data sequence after the dimension reduction; matching the test data sequence with the template data sequence, and confirming that a human motion corresponding to the template data sequence associated with the test data sequence occurs when a successfully-matched test data sequence exists. By performing dimension reduction on the test data sequence, the present disclosure lowers requirements for human motion postures and cancels noise, then matches the data after the dimension reduction with the template, realizes accurate recognition of human motions while reducing the computing complexity, and improves the user experience.
US10339370B2
A method of determining obstacle collision by using an object moving path includes: acquiring a topological skeleton corresponding to a path area on an image including a moving path of an object and an obstacle; determining, from among skeleton points forming the topological skeleton, branch points that are interconnecting points between branches of the topological skeleton; determining a target branch from among the branches by using the branch points; selecting, from among points forming the target branch, a plurality of target points to determine whether the moving path is a collision path of the object; and determining whether the moving path is the collision path by using the target points.
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The disclosure provides a palmprint recognition circuit based on a LTPS technology, a palmprint recognition method and a display screen. The palmprint recognition circuit comprises an optical signal collecting unit, configured to collect an optical signal indicating a palmprint information and convert the collected optical signal into a current signal; a current signal amplifying unit, configured to amplify the converted current signal; and a current signal detecting unit, and configured to detect an intensity of the amplified current signal which indicates a ridge line or a valley line of the palmprint in the palmprint information. Therefore, it can solve the problem of having no palmprint recognition circuit and method for a LTPS-TFT display panel. This can eliminate an influence of a change of parasitic capacitance on the recognition result, wherein the change of parasitic capacitance is caused by a change of a wiring manner in the circuit.
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The fingerprint sensing circuit includes sensing units and a sensing circuit. The sensing units are arranged as columns and rows. Each of the sensing units includes a sensing electrode. The sensing circuit is electrically connected to the sensing electrodes in at least two first sensing units of the sensing units in a first period to obtain a first fingerprint grey level.
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An apparatus is adapted to be coupled to a component of a system associated with a wellhead. The apparatus includes a band adapted to be coupled to the component; a holder coupled to the band; an electronic identifying device attached to the holder and adapted to identify the component; and an identifying component coupled to the band. The identifying component visually conveys information about at least one of: the electronic identifying device, and the component to which the band is adapted to be coupled. The system associated with the wellhead is a system for pumping fluid to the wellhead. In one embodiment, the electronic identifying device is, or includes, an RFID chip.
