US10667295B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for Internet of Vehicles (IoV) electronic traffic sign information broadcast with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranteed mechanism based on conflict detection. Compared with the traditional WLAN applied in electronic traffic sign information broadcast, the present disclosure significantly reduces the information broadcast delay, and at the same time provide QoS guaranteed service for the information broadcast. It allows IoV, through distributed algorithm, to achieve the electronic traffic sign information broadcast with self-organization framework, short transmission delay and high efficiency.
US10667287B2
In order to perform UL transmission in a future radio communication system, a user terminal comprising: a generating section that generates an uplink (UL) signal to transmit to a radio base station; and a control section that controls transmission of the UL signal. The control section switches between OFDMA based transmission and SC-FDMA based transmission to apply to the UL signal. In addition, the user terminal controls the OFDMA based transmission and the SC-FDMA based transmission autonomously or based on information transmitted from the radio base station.
US10667286B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for selecting prose destinations or SL grants in a D2D communication system, the method comprising: receiving or selecting N numbers of SL grants used for a next SC period; selecting ProSe destinations in decreasing order of priority of ProSe destination so that selected numbers of ProSe destinations are equal to N, wherein a priority of ProSe destination is set to priority of a SL logical channel with a highest priority among all SL logical channels associated with the ProSe destination; and transmitting SL data of the selected ProSe destinations using the N numbers of SL grants in the next SC period, wherein SL data of each of the selected ProSe destinations is transmitted using a corresponding SL grant among the N numbers of SL grants.
US10667282B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a mechanism for utilizing uplink hopping patterns for HARQ transmissions. Each hopping pattern may include a sequence of different frequency resources or a sequence of different scrambling sequences for a user equipment (UE) to utilize over time for HARQ transmissions. Each of the hopping patterns may further be associated with a time index mode in which the hopping pattern is applied to time resources such that each time resource within a consecutive sequence of time resources is mapped to a different frequency resource or scrambling sequence. The base station may select a hopping pattern for a particular UE and transmit an indication of the selected hopping pattern to the UE.
US10667281B2
A method for a WLAN system including transmitting, by a first station (STA), a trigger frame triggering uplink multi-user (UL MU) transmission from a second STA, in which the trigger frame includes preference information related to an access category (AC) type for an aggregation frame to be generated by the second STA and limit information related to a maximum number of traffic identifiers (TIDs) for the aggregation frame. In response to the trigger frame, the first STA may receive a UL frame configured based on the aggregation frame and a Quality of Service (QoS) null frame which has an acknowledgement (ACK) policy field being set to no ACK. When the QoS null frame is aggregated, the preference information and the limit information may be disregarded.
US10667278B2
Various embodiments provide for the management of wireless resources, which can reduce call blocking by allowing high priority services, under suitable conditions, to use resources allocated to low priority services. Thus high priority services can pre-empt the usage of wireless resources by low priority services. This has the advantage of reducing call blocking for high priority calls, while permitting low priority calls to have more access to radio resources than conventional systems with the same call blocking rate. Thus a base station can implement a preemption mechanism that would reclaim Walsh Code and Forward Power resources from an active Supplemental Channel (SCH) burst in order to accommodate incoming Fundamental Channel (FCH) requests.
US10667275B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting an interferer having a periodic time of recurrence and a periodic spectral frequency range, identifying a spectral segment of a plurality of spectral segments of a wideband radio system having a time of occurrence and an operating frequency range that overlaps with the periodic time of recurrence and the periodic spectral frequency range of the interferer, identifying a communication device utilizing the spectral segment for transmitting data in accordance with a segment schedule assigned to the communication device, and generating an updated segment schedule by modifying the segment schedule of the communication device to avoid utilizing an affected portion of the spectral segment during the periodic time of recurrence and the periodic spectral frequency range of the interferer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10667265B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to tone mapping for a high-efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) null data packet (NDP) feedback physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). A device may identify a frame received from a second device. The device may determine, based on the frame, a resource unit allocated to the device, wherein the resource unit is associated with a 20 MHz sub-channel of a bandwidth. The device may determine, based on the resource unit and the bandwidth, tones associated with a HE short training field (HE-STF) of a HE TB NDP feedback PPDU. The device may send the HE TB NDP feedback PPDU to the second device in the 20 MHz sub-channel, wherein the HE TB NDP feedback PPDU includes the tones.
US10667264B2
A shared bandwidth network system to communicate network traffic between terminals and an external network is disclosed. The system includes: a point of presence (POP) for the external network; Radio Frequency Gateways (RFGWs) wherein each RFGW of the RFGWs provides one or more Radio Frequency (RF) paths, and each of the RF paths links a respective RFGW of the RFGWs with one or more terminals of the terminals; an RF path state manager to manage a RF path state for each of the RF paths; a Satellite Network Core (SNC); a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller to maintain a topology based on the RF path states, wherein the topology includes the POP, the RFGWs and the SNC; and a network layer to route network traffic between the POP, the RFGWs and the SNC based on the topology. The SNC includes a bandwidth manager to allocate bandwidth, to provide flow control to the terminals, and to provide a key state including a bandwidth allocation for each of the terminals, a key state manager to maintain the key states, and a link layer control (LLC) to transport network traffic over each of the RF paths.
US10667262B2
Systems, methods, and devices for conducting wireless communication are provided. One method includes identifying a location of the apparatus. The method further includes obtaining spectrum usage data from a database. The spectrum usage data indicates a licensed entity licensed within an area including the location of the apparatus to communicate across a first sub-band of frequencies within a frequency band. The frequency band includes a plurality of channels each having a fixed width. The method further include determining a first set of one or more of the plurality of channels containing the first sub-band of frequencies over which the licensed entity is licensed to communicate. The method further includes conducting wireless transmissions on a second set of one or more of the plurality of channels that do not contain the first sub-band of frequencies while disabling wireless transmissions on the first set of channels.
US10667261B2
The purpose of the present invention is to inhibit an increase in the amount of A/N resources, without changing the timing at which the error detection result of an SCell is notified when UL-DL configurations to be configured for each of the unit bands are different, from the timing at which the error detection result is notified when just a single unit band is configured. A control unit transmits, using a first unit band, a response signal including error detection results about data received with both the first unit band and a second unit band. In a first composition pattern set for the first unit band, an uplink communication subframe is set to be the same timing as at least an uplink communication subframe of a second composition pattern set for the second unit band.
US10667257B2
In various embodiments, a wireless computing device (102, 202, 302) for monitoring a person (100) may include: a processor (230); one or more sensors (236) operably coupled with the processor; and one or more radio antennas (232) operably coupled with the processor. The processor may be configured to transition the wireless computing device between at least an idle state and an active state, and to receive, from a remote computing device (112, 212, 312) via the one or more radio antennas while the wireless computing device is in the idle state, via control plane signaling, a request for one or more data points pertaining to a context of the person. One or more sensor signals may then be obtained from the one or more sensors. The requested one or more data points may be generated based on the one or more sensor signals and provided to the remote computing device via the one or more radio antennas.
US10667252B2
A radio terminal according to an embodiment is used in a mobile telecommunication system which provides a plurality of communication services. The radio terminal includes a controller which uses any of a plurality of resource pools provided for each communication service on the basis of resource map information. The plurality of resource pools is provided in one radio frame and in one system bandwidth. The resource map information indicates the layout pattern of the plurality of resource pools.
US10667249B2
The present specification relates to: a method for efficiently indicating, by a base station, a resource region in which control information and data are to be transmitted to a transmission terminal, in a wireless communication system supporting device to device (D2D) communication; and an apparatus therefor. To this end, the transmission terminal receives resource allocation information relating to D2D communication from the base station, and transmits, to the receiving terminal, control information (SA) for D2D communication and data corresponding to the control information on the basis of the resource allocation information received from the base station, wherein the resource allocation information includes information indicating a plurality of frequency resource points, and the transmission terminal defines the SA transmission resource region and the data transmission resource region according to a predetermined rule by using the plurality of frequency resource points.
US10667248B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal by a user equipment (UE). The method includes receiving an uplink grant including a new data indicator (NDI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a network, determining whether the PDCCH is not addressed to a temporary cell identifier, determining whether the NDI has been toggled when the PDCCH is not addressed to the temporary cell identifier, and transmitting a new data to the network when the NDI has been toggled.
US10667247B2
Method for performing physical uplink control channel transmission and user equipment using the same
The present invention provides a method for performing physical uplink control channel transmission of a user equipment in a wireless communication system. The method may include the steps of receiving system information from a base station, wherein the system information includes information on one PUCCH resource set among a plurality of PUCCH resource sets, and performing PUCCH transmission through one PUCCH resource included in the one PUCCH resource set, wherein each of the plurality of PUCCH resource sets is related to one starting symbol, one number of symbols, and one PUCCH format.
US10667238B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for allowing multiple P-RNTIs to be supported using communications systems operating according to new radio (NR) technologies. For example, a method for wireless communication by a base station (BS) generally includes receiving, from a core network, a paging message for a user equipment (UE) comprising a paging identifier and a paging offset; determining a plurality of available paging identifiers for the UE associated with the paging offset; selecting, from the plurality of available paging identifiers, at least a first paging identifier to associate with a first UE based on the paging identifier; and paging the first UE using the first paging identifier.
US10667230B2
In some implementations, a telecommunications network can include a core network device communicatively connectable with user equipment (UE). The UE can generate a registration request including a subsidiary request and transmit the registration request. The core network device can receive the registration request, determine the subsidiary request based on content of the registration request, and transmit an indication of the subsidiary request on behalf of the UE via the telecommunications network. A core network device can receive a registration request associated with a user equipment (UE), determine a subsidiary request based on content of the registration request, and transmit toward the UE an acknowledgement associated with both the registration request and the subsidiary request.
US10667226B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of mobile communication, and in particular, to frequency determining technologies in the field of wireless communication. In a frequency determining method, a base station determines a frequency according to different modes, so that an interval between the frequency and a channel raster is not greater than a particular threshold. Corresponding frequencies are determined by setting different thresholds. According to the technical solutions provided in this application, user equipment may determine, in different modes, a corresponding frequency resource to communicate with a base station.
US10667221B2
Provided is a communication control device including an obtaining unit, in a radio communication system including a primary base station to which a primary terminal is connected, and a secondary base station to which a secondary terminal is connected by secondarily using a frequency channel for the primary base station, obtains at least one of a quality report containing a communication quality indicator measured by the primary terminal and a quality report containing a communication quality indicator measured by the secondary terminal, and an interference control unit that instructs the secondary base station to reduce transmission power, when it is determined that adverse interference is present in the radio communication system, based on the communication quality indicator contained in the quality report obtained by the obtaining unit.
US10667212B2
A power management system for a personal area fabric having a plurality of nodes is presented. The system implements power management functions at the fabric-level via fabric-level power profiles reflecting the aggregated power profiles from some or all of the nodes in the fabric. The fabric-level power profiles are used to trigger the implementation of fabric power configurations that cause the individual nodes to modify their operations in the interest of a fabric-level power management plan.
US10667197B2
A network node of a terrestrial cellular system provides telecommunications service to a user equipment (UE) in an airborne aircraft. Navigation information transmitted from the aircraft is periodically acquired, including aircraft identity, position, altitude, and a time of determining aircraft position. A link is maintained between the network node and the UE by transmitting beam steered, Doppler shift compensated downlink signals, and by performing beam steered reception of uplink signals. Beam steering is directed toward the aircraft based on the navigation information. Doppler shift compensation is adapted to compensate for a Doppler shift such that the UE experiences a nominal carrier frequency when receiving transmissions from the antenna nodes. Handover from a first to a second coverage area includes using a same cell identifier and a same frequency allocation in the second coverage area as are used in the first.
US10667194B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit a request for system information based at least in part on a threshold; and receive the system information based at least in part on the request. A base station may receive a request for system information, wherein the request is based at least in part on a threshold; and transmit the system information to a user equipment (UE) associated with the request based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10667187B2
Method and an apparatus for determining a bearer for mobile edge computing are disclosed. A Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) can obtain a data packet that includes an end marker. The MEC can obtain a bearer identifier and an identifier of UE in a handover procedure according to the data packet that includes the end maker, and requests information about the second bearer from a node of a second bearer. The request can include the bearer identifier of the UE and the identifier of the UE. The node of the second bearer can return a response message and information regarding the second bearer according to the request. The MEC can receive the response message and store the information regarding the second bearer according to the identifier of the UE and the bearer identifier of the UE.
US10667184B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to selection of a wireless network for use by a target computing device. Examples include a determination that a client computing device is connected to a first wireless network of a first frequency band and having a first service set identifier (SSID). Examples further include selection of a second wireless network of a second frequency band for use by the target computing device without user intervention, the second wireless network having an SSID including at least a base substring of the first SSID.
US10667183B2
A resource configuration method for switching, comprising: a first network access point determining configuration information for a switching resource pool with a second network access point; the first network access point sending the configuration information for the switching resource pool to a mobile station; the first network access point sending first instruction information to the mobile station, the first instruction information instructing the mobile station to communicate, using a switching resource from the switching resource pool, with at least one of the first network access point, the second network access point, and another mobile station.
US10667152B2
Method and device for terminal performing channel state measurement in wireless communication system
Provided are a method for a terminal performing channel state measurement in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same. A terminal may measure the reference symbol received quality (RSRQ) of a neighboring cell, compare the measured RSRQ of the neighboring cell with a RSRQ critical value, and if the measured RSRQ of the neighboring cell exceeds the RSRQ critical value, perform the measurement of the reference signal signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (RS-SINR) of the neighboring cell.
US10667141B2
A method, system and computer for determining placement of at least one antenna of customer premises equipment in a fixed wireless access network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method includes generating a map of signal strength for each of a plurality of possible antenna locations among one or more buildings. The method further includes identifying a percentage of a building having a level of wireless network coverage. The method also includes identifying a location of an antenna based on the map of signal strength and the identified percentage.
US10667139B2
A frequency spectrum management device includes a processing circuit and is configured so that: a first subsystem manages the frequency spectrum management device, an allocation coefficient between other subsystems and the first subsystem is determined on the basis of the distances from the first subsystem and the other subsystems to a main system, the allocation coefficient expresses the degree of interference of aggregated interference that the other subsystems and the first subsystem produce with respect to the main system; and a frequency spectrum resource is allocated to the first subsystem on the basis of the allocation coefficient. The use of the frequency spectrum management device, the electronic device, and the method executed thereby of the present disclosure increases the degree of rationality of frequency spectrum resource allocation for the subsystems.
US10667138B2
A resource configuration method and apparatus, applied to a non-cellular system NCS that includes a plurality of transmission points TPs is described herein. The method may include determining a tracking resource in a time-frequency resource of each TP, where time-frequency resources of all the TPs are the same, and tracking resources determined for all the TPs are the same. The method may also include generating tracking resource configuration information based on a time-frequency resource occupied by the tracking resource. Furthermore, the method may include sending the tracking resource configuration information to each TP, so that each TP detects, on the tracking resource, a sounding reference signal SRS sent by a terminal, so as to improve NCS service performance.
US10667136B2
Systems and methods for disabling applications on a client device remotely are disclosed. An example method may comprise establishing, via a network interface device, a communication connection with a client computing device, receiving, via the communication connection, a list of applications installed on the client computing device, comparing the received list of applications to a blacklist of applications, identifying, in view of the comparing, an installed application on the received list of applications, the installed application comprised in the blacklist of applications, identifying a severity score corresponding to the installed application and an action corresponding to the severity score, and responsive to the identifying the severity score and the corresponding action, causing, by the processing device, the corresponding action to be performed with respect to the client computing device, the corresponding action pertaining to the installed application.
US10667133B2
The invention relates to a method for detecting an attempt to reroute a communication channel between a port of a security module and a port of a near-field communication router, which are in a telecommunication device, wherein, upon receiving a message in a near-field communication format, the security module verifies from which port of the communication router said message originates.
US10667122B2
Methods to allow the interworking of cellular and WLAN networks, and in particular the offloading of data from a cellular network to a WLAN network. User preferences for non-operator controlled WLAN access points are communicated between mobile devices, the core network, and radio access network to allow offloading to respect those preferences.
US10667115B2
A method and system for communicating via peer to peer messages is disclosed. A method includes advertising availability of the peripheral via wireless messaging for a first period of time; triggering a message send event; determining a destination node; connecting to the destination node via wireless messaging; sending the message to the destination node; and entering a low power state for a second period of time, wherein the second period of time is longer than the first period of time.
US10667112B2
A method of transmitting contents in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes allowing a portable terminal of a transmitter to be connected to a portable terminal of a receiver by a control communication, allowing the portable terminal of the transmitter to select a type of the data transmission communication with the portable terminal of the receiver through the control communication, allowing the portable terminal of the transmitter to transmit setting data corresponding to the selected type of data transmission communication to the portable terminal of the receiver through the control communication, and allowing the portable terminal of the transmitter to be connected to the portable terminal of the receiver by the control communication and to transmit the content which are requested to be transmitted, to the portable terminal of the receiver.
US10667111B2
In embodiments of virtual addressing for mesh networks, a node in a mesh network publishes packets and/or subscribes to packets using a virtual address that is derived from a unique identifier. The unique identifier has a larger address space than the destination address field of the packet. The unique identifier and an application key are hashed to elide the unique identifier from the destination address that is transmitted in the packet over the mesh network. A node receiving the packet can determine that the address is a virtual address, and disambiguate the destination address to determine that the virtual address corresponds to a unique identifier known to the receiving node.
US10667110B2
A method, system or apparatus including a server that may receive information from a computer, store the information in a database at the server, determine a reader device to receive the information based on an analysis of a reader device identifier, and transmit viral data to a mobile device where the viral data includes at least a portion of the information.
US10667105B2
A snake cam is provided with a camera mounted to a housing via a shaft. The shaft may be flexible or rigid. The housing includes components needed for operation of the camera but that need not be in close physical proximity to the camera, thus allowing the camera itself to have a relatively small size, which facilitates placement thereof in small places. The housing may include a wireless communication module, through which a mobile device may be connected to the snake cam. The mobile device may then be used to access or control one or more features of the snake cam.
US10667104B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure relates to control a client device using a server device based on context data indicating a circumstance of a user.
US10667100B2
Provided are a communication system for an in-vehicle communication apparatus mounted in a vehicle, and the in-vehicle communication apparatus included in said communication system. The in-vehicle communication apparatus communicates with a certificate information issuing system which creates electronic certificate information, and acquires certificate information from a sub-server apparatus. The in-vehicle communication apparatus makes a request to the sub-server apparatus to create the certificate information, and the sub-server apparatus creates the certificate information in response to the request. The in-vehicle communication apparatus then makes an inquiry to the sub-server apparatus regarding the creation status of the certificate information. Upon receipt of the inquiry, the sub-server apparatus makes a response indicating whether or not creation of the requested certificate information has been completed, and if the creation of the certificate information has been completed, the sub-server apparatus transmits the created certificate information to the in-vehicle communication apparatus together with the response.
US10667096B2
A system for distributing targeted alerts to building occupants includes building equipment and a targeted alert system. The building equipment are configured to detect an event within a building and generate an alert identifying the event. The targeted alert system is configured to receive the alert from the building equipment, identify a location within the building of each of a plurality of building occupants, identify a role performed by each of the plurality of building occupants, select one or more of the building occupants to receive the alert based on at least one of the location of each building occupant and the role performed by each building occupant, and distribute the alert to the selected building occupants.
US10667095B2
An apparatus and a method manage a telephone number in a terminal, which can separately manage telephone numbers, a call to each of which an attempt to originate has been made and to each of which the call has failed to be connected, and then enable a convenient attempt to re-originate a call to the telephone number. The apparatus includes: a memory including a temporary list which stores a non-connecting telephone number, to which a call has been originated and has failed to be connected; and a controller for performing a control operation so as to store a particular telephone number in the temporary list as the non-connecting telephone number, when an attempt to originate a call to the particular telephone number is made and the call fails to be connected to the particular telephone number.
US10667084B2
Embodiments of the present invention discloses a network positioning method and related equipment, the method includes: determining an end-to-end communication range of the first device is smaller than a preset range, wherein the end-to-end communication range of the first device is a device-to-device (D2D) communication range of the first device, and the preset range is a threshold value sent by a network side; acquiring positioning signals of at least three positioning nodes, wherein the at least three positioning nodes comprise an second device, wherein the second device is located within the end-to-end communication range of the first device, and the second device is determined by the first device to have valid position information; and determining a current position of the first device based on the valid position information of the second device. The technical solution provided by the present invention can effectively enhance the network positioning precision.
US10667082B2
A method for determining index grids of a geo-fence, includes: determining a circumscribed grid of the geo-fence, the circumscribed grid being a smallest single grid in a pre-defined granularity system that can contain the geo-fence; with the circumscribed grid as a starting point, subdividing one or more grids containing a boundary of the geo-fence into finer-grained grids level by level until an index accuracy of a subdivided grid set is not lower than a predetermined precision threshold, wherein the grid set is composed of grids within the geo-fence and grids containing the boundary of the geo-fence, and the index accuracy is a ratio of an area of the geo-fence to a sum of areas of all the grids in the grid set; and taking the grids in the grid set as index grids of the geo-fence.
US10667070B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for demonstrating spatial performance of a demonstration speaker model to consumers in order to evaluate different speakers. The system and method comprise a microphone array for recording the output of the demonstration speaker model. The system and method comprise acoustic input samples for processing to an acoustic output and a processor for determining characteristics of each microphone recording, and processing an acoustic input sample and characteristics of each microphone recording corresponding to a selected demonstration speaker model. The system and method further comprise a reference speaker model for outputting an acoustic signal based on the result of the processing. The processing compensates for the performance characteristic of the reference speaker and the performance characteristic of the selected demonstration speaker so as to mimic the spatial characteristics of the demonstration speaker while avoiding bias from the reference speaker.
US10667068B2
A method for joining sides of a speaker enclosure includes affixing a speaker grill element to a substructure element, where the speaker grill element has a depth that is shorter than its length and width, includes a first surface and a second surface parallel to each other, and includes hole openings, where the substructure element has a depth that is shorter than its length and width, includes protrusions above its front surface, and includes openings larger than the openings in the speaker grill element, and where the speaker grill element is aligned lengthwise to a first plane, inserting the joined speaker grill element and substructure element into a mould, where in combination with portions of the speaker grill element and the substructure element, a surface of the mould forms a mould cavity, and injecting molten plastic into the mould cavity to form an injection moulded side element.
US10667056B2
A low power, digital audio interface includes support for variable length coding depending on content of the audio data sent from the interface. A particularized coding system is implemented that uses techniques of silence detection, dynamic scaling, and periodic encoding to reduce sent data to a minimum. Other techniques include variable packet scaling based on an audio sample rate. Differential signaling techniques are also used. The digital audio interface may be used in a headphone interface to drive digital headphones. A detector in the interface may detect whether digital or analog headphones are coupled to a headphone jack and drive the headphone jack accordingly.
US10667050B2
An audio circuit drives a speaker. A DSP corrects an audio signal S1 according to the state of the speaker. An amplifier drives the speaker according to a corrected audio signal S3.
US10667044B2
A diffuser includes a cone body including an apex portion, a bottom portion, and a side edge portion. The apex portion forms a partial spherical surface, and the side edge portion is aspherical and is connected between the apex portion and the bottom portion. The apex portion satisfies: 2R/3≤r≤R, where r is a radius of curvature of the apex portion, and R is a radius of curvature of a spherical diaphragm of a tweeter speaker. A loudspeaker including a tweeter speaker and a diffuser is also provided.
US10667033B2
A system, method and one or more wireless earpieces for authenticating functionality of one or more wireless earpieces. A request that requires authentication is received through the one or more wireless earpieces. Biometric readings are performed for a user utilizing sensors of the one or more wireless earpieces. The biometric readings are analyzed to determine whether the user is authorized for the one or more wireless earpieces to fulfill the request. The request is authenticated in response to determining the biometric readings performed by the one or more wireless earpieces authorize fulfillment of the request.
US10667029B2
A method and system for a headset with internal gimbal, where the headset comprises a headband, a headband, and ear cups coupled to the headband, wherein each ear cup may be coupled to the headband utilizing an internal gimbal, which may comprise a gimbal post in an aperture. The gimbal post may comprise a tip that is wider than its base. The tip may be rounded. The headband may comprise headband endcaps at each end of the headband. A headband slide may be coupled to each headband endcap. The headband ear cups may be coupled to the headband via the headband slides. Each headband slide may be coupled to a headband endcap via a headband pivot. The headband pivot may provide rotational motion of the ear cups with respect to the headband. The force on ears of a user of the headset may be spread evenly by the internal gimbals.
US10667025B2
A framing method and apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) and a system, where the method includes generating a first transmission convergence (TC) frame and a second TC frame separately, wherein a sum of frame lengths of the first and the second TC frame is 125 microseconds (μs), performing bit mapping on the second TC frame to generate a third TC frame, where the bit mapping refers to identifying each bit of the second TC frame using N bits, and sending the first and the second TC frame to an optical network unit (ONU). A line rate corresponding to the second TC frame is lower than 2.488 giga bits per second (Gbps) such that a rate of a receiver on a receiving side is decreased and a bandwidth of the receiver is narrowed, thereby decreasing an optical link loss and increasing an optical power budget.
US10667015B2
A method of operating a video services receiver is provided. The video services receiver can record program content and present recorded program content to a user. The method provides first program content to a presentation device, and obtains a request for program content recorded from the particular programming service (channel) that is providing the first program content. In response to the request, the method searches for recorded program content associated with the particular programming service, and then controls a display of search results obtained from the searching. The display is rendered as an interactive channel-specific listing of recorded content.
US10667010B2
Systems and methods are described herein for determining a level of user engagement based on user interactions. A media guidance application is configured to retrieve a first record of a first plurality of user inputs, including input type, received during consumption of a media asset. A second time interval, prior to the first time interval, is selected by shifting the first start time and the first end time. A second record of a second plurality of user inputs received during the second time interval, including input type, is retrieved. A first media asset consumed during the first time interval and a second media asset consumed during the second time interval are determined, and the level of user engagement for the first media asset is determined based on the first record and the second record.
US10667009B1
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes starting a first viewing session; receiving one or more programming streams including one or more video programs; storing (e.g., at regular time intervals) program data including identification data describing the one or more video programs and a corresponding time interval; monitoring and/or storing a plurality of interactions with video controls of the particular viewer during the first viewing session; ending the first viewing session; aggregating at least a portion of the plurality of the interactions and the program data in a new session profile that represents the particular viewer's short-term viewing habits; accessing one or more existing signature profiles having signature categories that may represent the long-term viewing habits of a respective viewer; and matching the new session profile with one of the one or more existing signature profiles to deliver a particular viewer a targeted advertisement.
US10667007B2
An embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, with an image sensor, an image of a user; detecting, using a processor, at least one open eye of the user within the image; and responsive to said detecting, maintaining display of video content for a predetermined time. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10667004B2
A broadcasting signal reception device according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a reception unit for receiving, through the broadcasting network, a broadcasting signal including a first component of a DASH content which can be received through a broadcasting network and a broadband network; a delivery module for de-capsulating the received broadcasting signal, outputting LCT packets transmitted through one or more LCT channels, and parsing signaling information used for acquiring segments corresponding to the first component of the DASH content included in the LCT packets; and a decoder for decoding the acquired segments.
US10666997B2
There is provided a method for use by a cloud based content assembly system having a memory and a processor for assembling multiple customized linear channel streams from an assembly template. The method comprises selecting, using the processor, the assembly template from the memory, identifying the customized linear channel streams to be produced using the assembly template, and generating a virtualized assembly environment for each of the customized linear channel streams. The method further comprises provisioning each virtualized assembly environment with content assets corresponding respectively to its customized linear channel stream, and assembling the customized linear channel streams using the respective virtualized assembly environments. The cloud based content assembly system is configured to enable substantially concurrent use of shared infrastructure resources by the virtualized assembly environments.
US10666980B2
An image coding method is provided for coding an image on a block-by-block basis. The method includes determining transform unit sizes in a block to be equal to or greater than a preset minimum transform unit size, setting prediction unit sizes in the block to be equal to the determined transform unit sizes, respectively, and predicting the block, on each prediction unit determined by using the prediction unit sizes to generate a prediction block. The method also includes transforming a difference between the block and the prediction block to residual data, on each transform unit determined by using the transform unit sizes, setting coding unit sizes in the block to be equal to the determined transform unit sizes, respectively, and coding the residual data on each coding unit determined by using the coding unit sizes to generate a bitstream.
US10666966B2
An image decoding method includes: dividing a current block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, one or more prediction information candidates; obtaining an index; and decoding the current block using the prediction information candidate selected by the index. The deriving includes: determining whether a neighboring block neighboring each sub-block is included in the current block, and when not included in the current block, determining the neighboring block to be a reference block available to the sub-block, and when included in the current block, determining the neighboring block not to be the reference block; and deriving a prediction information candidate of the sub-block from prediction information of the reference block; and when the number of prediction information candidates is smaller than a predetermined number, generating one or more new candidates without using the prediction information of the reference block till the number of prediction information candidates reaches the predetermined number.
US10666963B2
The present invention is made to enable switching between lossless coding which prioritizes compatibility with a lossy coding process and lossless coding which prioritizes compression performance. An image coding apparatus of the present invention includes the following configuration. The image coding apparatus which encodes an image on a block-by-block basis includes a first coding unit and a second coding unit. The first coding unit performs irreversible compression coding on a received first block. The second coding unit performs reversible compression coding on a received second block. The second coding unit encodes the second block by using either of a first intra prediction mode for performing intra prediction on a block-by-block basis and a second intra prediction mode for performing intra prediction on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
US10666962B2
Disclosed is method for training a plurality of visual processing algorithms for processing visual data. The method includes using a pre-processing hierarchical algorithm to process the visual data prior to encoding the visual data in visual data processing, and using a post-processing hierarchical algorithm to further process the visual data following decoding visual data in visual data processing. The encoding and decoding are performed with respect to a predetermined visual data codec and may be content specific.
US10666960B2
The present invention provides a method for decoding a video signal using a graph-based transform including receiving a generalized graph signal including a graph parameter set; obtaining a graph-based transform kernel of a transform unit based on the graph parameter set and a predetermined penalty function; and decoding the transform unit using the graph-based transform kernel.
US10666954B2
A method and system for improving audio and video multimedia modification and presentation is provided. The method includes receiving an audio/video stream and analyzing objects of the audio/video stream for generating predictions with respect to the objects. Component analysis code is executed with respect to the audio/video stream and an object is removed from the audio/video stream resulting in a modified audio/video stream being generated thereby reducing hardware storage and transfer size requirements of the audio/video stream. The modified audio/video stream is presented to a user via a graphical user interface.
US10666951B2
A method of encoding an image into a coded image, the method comprising: writing a quantization offset parameter into the coded image, determining a prediction mode type for coding a block of image samples of the image into a coding unit of the coded image, determining a quantization parameter for the block of image samples, and determining if the prediction mode type is of a predetermined type, wherein if the prediction mode type is of the predetermined type, the method further comprises: modifying the determined quantization parameter using the quantization offset parameter, and performing a quantization process for the block of image samples using the modified quantization parameter, and wherein if the prediction mode type is not of the predetermined type, the method further comprises: performing a quantization process for the block of image samples using the determined quantization parameter.
US10666948B2
A method of encoding a coding tree unit in a video bitstream. A plurality of candidate configurations are formed for the coding tree unit, each of the candidate configurations having a variation of at least one of a set of partitioning modes and encoding parameters. A candidate configuration is selected from the plurality of candidate configurations based on a predetermined maximum bit rate for the coding tree unit, the selected candidate configuration having a size within the predetermined maximum bit rate. The coding tree unit is encoded using the selected candidate configuration.
US10666941B1
An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive video streams each from a respective capture device, receive data from a playback device to determine a region of interest and output one or more upcoming video frames of an encoded panoramic video stream to a communication device. The processor may be configured to (a) generate the encoded panoramic video stream from the video streams, (b) select a target area for the upcoming frames of the encoded panoramic video corresponding to the region of interest, (c) encode the target area using first parameters, (d) encode a remaining area of the panoramic video outside of the target area using second parameters and (e) present the upcoming frames to the interface. Encoding using the first parameters generates a different bitrate than using the second parameters.
US10666920B2
A method of altering audio output from an electronic device based on image data is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes acquiring image data and determining one or more characteristics of the image data. Such characteristics may include sharpness, brightness, motion, magnification, zoom setting, and so forth, as well as variation in any of the preceding characteristics. The method may also include producing audio output, wherein at least one characteristic of the audio output is determined based on one or more of the image data characteristics. Various audio output characteristics that may be varied based on the video data characteristics may include, for instance, pitch, reverberation, tempo, volume, filter frequency response, added sound effects, or the like. Additional methods, devices, and manufactures are also disclosed.
US10666915B2
A projection video display apparatus includes a video input unit, a light source, a display element, a projection optical system, and a variable light adjusting function which changes the amount of light incident on the display element. Display modes using the variable light adjusting function are prepared, and one display mode of the display modes can be selected from a menu screen. Further, the display modes of the display video using the variable light adjusting function includes: a first display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with light adjusting control information, which is input from external equipment and is capable of controlling the variable light adjusting function in unit of frame of a projected video; and a second display mode where the input video is displayed while changing a light adjusting amount in accordance with the input video.
US10666911B2
Audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices for flush mounting within a junction box in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, an A/V recording and communication device is provided, comprising a housing defining an enclosure having a front opening, the housing having a rearward portion configured to fit within a single-gang junction box, a camera located at least partially within the enclosure, the camera having a field of view extending outwardly of the front opening of the enclosure, a speaker located at least partially within the enclosure adjacent the front opening, a microphone located at least partially within the enclosure adjacent the front opening, and a front button located at least partially within the enclosure and protruding outwardly from the front opening.
US10666909B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform remote monitoring are disclosed. Some example methods include adjusting an image capture rate at which an image sensor captures images based on a difference image containing differences between a first image of a first set of objects and a second image of a second set of objects. Example methods also include reducing a file size of the difference image using an edge detection technique and prioritizing one or more of a set of frames based on an amount of information contained in the frames. The frames are subdivisions of the image. In further example methods, the first image is taken at a first time and the second image is taken at a second, later time, and the method includes subtracting the first image from the second image to generate the difference image.
US10666906B1
The present disclosure describes roof inspection devices, methods, and systems. One roof inspection device includes a pole, a camera coupled to an end of the pole and configured to capture an image of a roof, and a number of attachments coupled to the pole and configured to stabilize the pole on the roof or other elevated surface.
US10666902B1
A device is disclosed, which includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of receiving user interaction data from a remote device via a communication network, the user interaction data indicating user interaction with a graphical user interface of the remote device; determining, based on the user interaction data, that the user interaction causes a display conflict between the graphical user interface of the remote device and visual information displayed on the graphical user interface of the remote device; and resolving the display conflict by causing the remote device to display modified visual information. The device thus allows a user to see and interact with the graphical user interface without needing to stop or pause displaying the visual information or to wait for the visual information display to be over.
US10666898B2
A communication management system relays communication between a first communication terminal that transmits data of a spherical image and a plurality of second communication terminals. The communication management system includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores session identification information in association with addresses of communication terminals participating in the video communication session. The circuitry receives, from the first communication terminal, particular session identification information identifying a particular video communication session, and a display control parameter for limiting a display area of the spherical image to be displayed by each of the plurality of second communication terminals in the particular video communication session to a part of an entire area of the spherical image. The circuitry transmits the display control parameter to each of the addresses stored in the memory in association with the particular session identification information other than an address of the first communication terminal.
US10666888B2
An endoscope device includes a main body part; a first insertion part having a tubular shape and including a first image sensor, and a first video signal transmission device converting a video output signal into an optical signal, optically transmitting the optical signal to a first proximal end part, and outputting a first video signal to the main body part; and a connector part configured to electrically couple the main body part with the first insertion part, including a main body part connector, and a first insertion part connector, wherein the first video signal is transmitted from the first insertion part to the main body part when the main body part connector is electrically coupled with the first insertion part connector, the first video signal transmission device includes a first photoelectrical converter at the first proximal end part, and the connector part is configured by an electrical connector.
US10666872B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein include an imaging system that may include a laser diode source; an objective lens positioned to direct a focus tracking beam from the light source onto a location in a sample container and to receive the focus tracking beam reflected from the sample; and an image sensor that may include a plurality of pixel locations to receive focus tracking beam that is reflected off of the location in the sample container, where the reflected focus tracking beam may create a spot on the image sensor. Some examples may further include a laser diode light source that may be operated at a power level that is above a power level for operation at an Amplified Spontaneous Emission (“ASE”) mode, but below a power level for single mode operation.
US10666867B2
A lens barrel of the present invention includes an image stabilizer configured to correct image shake by driving optical devices, a ring-shaped electronic circuit board on which a pair of the acceleration sensors is arranged at each of positions facing each other with an optical axis of the image pickup optical system in between, and a lens barrel body in which at least the image pickup optical system, the image stabilizer, and the ring-shaped electronic circuit board are accommodated, and the ring-shaped electronic circuit board is fixed to the lens barrel body so as to be perpendicular to the optical axis of the image pickup optical system, and each of the positions where each of the pair of acceleration sensors is fixed is a position where each of the pair of acceleration sensors outputs a same signal when vibration other than camera shake is generated.
US10666866B1
An apparatus includes an interface and a circuit. The interface may be connectable to (i) a plurality of counters and (ii) multiple pipelines. The circuit may be configured to (i) increment two or more given counters of the counters associated with a plurality of first data units in response to the first data units being available in a buffer, where two or more of the pipelines each (a) reads a plurality of current units from the first data units and (b) decrements a respective one of the given counters in response to each read of one of the current units, (ii) monitor the decrements of the given counters and (iii) block a second data unit from being copied into the buffer until all of the given counters indicate that the buffer has room to hold the second data unit.
US10666861B2
A method and system for generating a video production of an event that can be implemented automatically in real-time and with minimal operator intervention. The method includes receiving a plurality of video signals of an event. Each video signal includes a plurality of image frames. Each image frame corresponds to a view of the event. In addition, the method includes receiving at least one predefined condition associated with the event. Further, the method includes selecting a section of at least one of the plurality of image frames based on the at least one predefined condition to generate at least one output image frame. The method also includes generating a video production from the at least one output image frame.
US10666858B2
To overcome several issues of autofocusing, a deep-learning-based autofocus system utilizes a subject's body to autofocus on the subject's face. The subject, including the subject's body and face/head, are determined utilizing image processing methods, and based on the detection, the subject's face/head is automatically focused on.
US10666850B2
An imaging control apparatus includes: an imaging control unit configured to perform control so that continuous shooting in which a plurality of images are continuously shot is performed; a temporary storage unit configured to temporarily store image data acquired by the continuous shooting into a first memory; a recording unit configured to record the image data stored in the first memory into a second memory; a setting unit configured to set a predetermined shooting setting relating to the continuous shooting; and a display control unit configured to perform control so that information indicating a storage state of data in the first memory is displayed in the continuous shooting, wherein the display control unit performs control so that an indication relating to the storage state of the data in the first memory in accordance with the predetermined shooting setting is displayed together with the information.
US10666846B2
An imaging device includes a light source, a plurality of lenses disposed adjacent to one another on a predetermined plane, a diffuser plate that diffuses light to be emitted from the light source, and an imaging element that includes a plurality of pixels, the imaging element being configured to receive reflection light generated by causing the light diffused by the diffuser plate to be reflected from a subject. The plurality of lenses are disposed so that a period of interference fringes in the diffused light is less than or equal to three pixels of the imaging element. This configuration can provide the imaging device in which an influence of the interference fringes of the diffused light can be suppressed in an image that is obtained when an image of the subject is captured by irradiating the subject with the light diffused by the diffuser plate having the plurality of lenses.
US10666844B2
The present invention discloses a 3D panoramic camera with a built-in stabilizer, and relates to a panoramic camera. At present, a VR panoramic camera has the disadvantages of great difficulty in later-stage quilting, huge volume and unstable image. The present invention comprises an optical information acquisition sensing module and a stabilizer module, wherein the optical information acquisition sensing module comprises a lens mounting base and a plurality of lenses, the lens mounting base is cylindrical, the lenses are circumferentially and uniformly provided on an outer side of the lens mounting base, an inner chamber of the lens mounting base is a motor holding chamber, and the stabilizer module comprises a first motor, a second motor, a third motor and a stabilizer frame body, the second motor and the third motor are provided in the motor holding chamber within the lens mounting base, the first motor is located below the lens mounting base, and the first motor, the second motor and the third motor are connected with the lens mounting base through the stabilizer frame body to realize motion transmission. In this technical solution, the stabilizer is built-in, the volume is small, the workload of post-production is decreased and the difficulty in post-production is reduced.
US10666843B2
An imaging chip packaging structure includes a circuit substrate, an imaging chip, and a pedestal. The circuit substrate has a first through hole extending through the circuit substrate. The imaging chip comprises a photosensitive area, and the first through hole through the substrate exposes the photosensitive area. The pedestal is integrated with the circuit substrate. The pedestal is formed on a first surface of the circuit substrate and comprises a second through hole on an optical path of the light reaching the imaging chip.
US10666835B2
A high-definition (HD) fax system routes outbound fax job requests including a high-resolution component to appropriate destinations, including among HD-enabled receiving devices and conventional fax devices. If it is determined that a fax destination is not HD-enabled, such as a conventional fax device, the high-resolution component of the outbound fax job request may be rendered as a low-resolution fax. The low resolution fax may be transmitted via a public switched telephone network (PSTN). On the other hand, if it is determined that a fax destination is HD-enabled, a determination may be made whether the HD-enabled fax destination is color enabled, and the high-resolution component may be rendered as either a high-resolution monochrome fax or a high-resolution color fax.
US10666833B2
An information processing apparatus comprises a first interface that performs wireless communication relayed through a base station and a second interface that performs wireless communication not relayed through a base station, and the information processing apparatus allows the wireless communication by the second interface to start under a condition that the wireless communication by the first interface has been started so that it is possible to set the same frequency channel used in the two types of wireless communication.
US10666831B2
Example implementations relate to substrate permeability assessment. Some examples may determine whether voids are shown in an image of a substrate and whether there is a repeating pattern in the image. Some examples may also determine whether printing fluid would pass through the substrate during printing based on the determinations of whether voids are shown in the image and whether there is a repeating pattern in the image.
US10666830B2
A portable terminal has a memory having a program stored thereon and readably by a computer. The program causes the portable terminal to perform searching an image processing apparatus capable of executing an image processing operation by a first method, determining whether the image processing apparatus is detected in the searching by the first method, searching the image processing apparatus by a second method in a case where it is determined that the image processing apparatus is not detected as a result of the searching by the first method, storing apparatus information for identifying the image processing apparatus detected in the searching by the first method or the searching by the second method, and transmitting operation instruction information for instructing execution of the image processing operation to the image processing apparatus identified with the designated apparatus information stored.
US10666828B2
An image forming apparatus includes a display section, a display controller, a reading section, an image detector, and a determining section. The display controller controls the display section. The reading section reads multiple documents placed on a specific surface of the image forming apparatus in a batch and generates whole image data indicating a whole image as a result of reading. The image detector detects document images corresponding to the documents based on the whole image data. The determining section determines whether or not batch reading of the documents has succeeded based on a result of detection of the document images. The display controller controls the display section such that the display section displays the document images in a first display format when the determining section determines that the reading has not succeeded, or in a second display format when the determining section determines that the reading has succeeded.
US10666825B2
An image forming method includes operating, receiving, and setting. The operating includes operating in an operation mode of a plurality of operation modes. The operation modes includes a first electric power mode configured to perform an image formation process and a second electric power mode configured to consume a power less than a power of the first electric power mode and not to perform the image formation process. The receiving includes receiving a print job. The setting includes switching the operation mode to the second electric power mode after a lapse of a preset first standby period after a completion of the print job. When the print job including a sleep transition command is received in the second time slot, the switching includes switching the operation mode to the second electric power mode before the lapse of the first standby period.
US10666818B2
A host apparatus connected with an image forming apparatus and a web page printing method thereof. The method of printing a displayed web page includes capturing at least one area on the displayed web page, displaying the at least one captured area in a first area disposed adjacent to the displayed web page, editing the at least one captured area displayed in the first area, and executing the at least one captured and edited area. With this, it is convenient for a user to select, edit and print a desired area from a web page.
US10666812B2
A charging control apparatus, a method, and a system are disclosed. When a user equipment (UE) accesses a service that charges an over the top (OTT) service (SP), the charging control apparatus receives flow description information from a policy charging enforcement function (PCEF), determines a service identifier corresponding to the data flow; and sends the service identifier to the PCEF, so that the PCEF charges for the service according to the service identifier. When the UE accesses the service, the PCEF may obtain the service identifier from the charging control apparatus. In this way, the PCEF can obtain the service identifier and the charging identifier that are corresponding to the data flow. Therefore, a configuration workload can be decreased.
US10666809B2
A conference system, capable of reliably managing a connection state of a discussion unit and a control unit and continuously acquiring information from the discussion unit when a connection abnormality occurs, is provided.A conference system S includes a control unit 1 and a discussion unit 2, a running packet is repeatedly transmitted and received between both units, the running packet includes a counter flag, the control unit includes a CU communication portion 11, a CU storage portion 13, and a CU control portion 16, the discussion unit includes a DU control portion 26, the DU control portion increments the count value of the counter flag, and each time the running packet is received from the discussion unit, the CU control portion compares a count value stored in the CU storage portion and the count value of the counter flag included in the running packet received from the discussion unit.
US10666805B2
Method, system and program product, comprising obtaining agent performance data; ranking, agents based the agent performance data; dividing agents into agent performance ranges; partitioning callers based on criteria into a set of partitions; determining for each partition an outcome value for a first agent performance range and a second agent performance range; calculating for the partitions a respective outcome value difference indicator based on the outcome value for the first agent performance range and the outcome value for the second agent performance range for the partition; matching a respective agent to a respective caller in one of the partitions, based on the outcome value difference indicators for the partitions.
US10666802B2
Technologies for scaling call center support staff include one or more local agent computing devices of a call center that includes an interaction management computing device communicatively coupled to one or more customer computing devices and one or more remote agent computing devices. The interaction management computing device is configured to receive inbound service calls and insert them into a respective service queue. The interaction management computing device is additionally configured to determine whether a service queue response threshold associated with the service queue has been violated as a function of each service call having been inserted into the service queue, identify, in response to a determination that the service queue response threshold associated with the service queue has been violated, one or more remote agents from a queue of available remote agents, and add the identified one or more remote agents to an agent pool associated with the service queue. Additional embodiments are described herein.
US10666795B2
An example method of assigning a telephone number to a user account in a communications system is provided. The method includes obtaining a mnemonic seed and obtaining a subset of telephone numbers filtered from a global telephone number pool based on the mnemonic seed. The alphanumeric representation of each telephone number in the subset is within a threshold Hamming distance of the mnemonic seed. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected telephone number from the subset and assigning the selected telephone number to the user account.
US10666793B1
This disclosure describes techniques for authenticating a person that seeks to engage in a voice call session with a call center agent, an interactive voice response system, or other system. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes storing information associating an authorized device with an account; receiving, over a network and from a device operated by a user, authentication credentials for the user; determining, based on the authentication credentials, that the user is authorized to access the account; receiving, over the network and from the device operated by the user, a request to engage in a voice conversation; responsive to receiving the request, accessing the phone number associated with the authorized device; and initiating a voice call session by placing a call, over the network, to the phone number associated with the authorized device.
US10666787B2
The electronic device includes a display configured to display at least one of a call screen, a screen of an application, or a transmission application screen, an input unit configured to detect a touch input, a controller configured to execute the application during a call, to detect a touch input for moving an object to be transmitted within the screen of the application, to the call screen, to execute a transmission application based on information on the moved object when the touch input is detected, to generate a transmission message, to which the moved object is attached, through the transmission application based on information on a call counterpart, and a communication unit configured to transmit the transmission message to the call counterpart.
US10666751B1
A system includes at least one hardware processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed, cause the hardware processor to perform operations including identifying a notification trigger configured by a user of a target computing device, the notification trigger including at least one trigger condition and notification content, the trigger condition references a value from a trigger data source and includes a condition based on the value, the notification content includes content provided by the user, receiving the value from the trigger data source, determining, based on the value, that the at least one trigger condition is satisfied, and presenting the notification content to the user on a target computing device associated with the user, the notification content is presented in a target content venue configured to present third-party advertisements to the user.
US10666748B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to an analytics tool for detecting real-time user or “visitor” events based on real-time data. More specifically, events are detected based on actions not taken by a user. In this regard, events can be defined and, thereafter, detected based on inactions of a user. In some cases, events are inferred or predicted based on a calculated likelihood of a user not performing an action. Upon determining an event based on an action not being performed by a user, an interested party may be notified thereof such that the interested party can influence, in real-time, visitor conversion.
US10666747B2
Users of social networking computer systems provide location information that is transformed into geo-coded coordinates specifying user locations. Providers of content, such as messages or documents, also participate in the social networking system and use drawing tools or provide data files that define one or more geographical areas or regions of a map, which may define a larger geographical area that encompasses the users of the social networking system. Data specifying the areas is stored. The content providers create one or more messages and associate each of the one or more messages with one or more of the areas. The users communicate requests for messages to the social networking system; in response, the system associates the user location data with the stored areas and messages and returns only those messages that have been associated with the particular areas in which the users are located. As a result, users receive only messages for their areas, and only messages that the content providers have designated as intended for or relevant to their areas.
US10666746B1
A system for discovering services includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is configured to store a catalog of software installed packages. A processor is configured to scan a file system to identify configuration files associated with one or more packages found in the catalog of software installed packages; identify a subset of configuration files associated with executing processes by finding references to a configuration file in active processor memory and placing the configuration file in the subset of configuration files; and verify that a network port associated with an executing process corresponds to a designated network port as indicated in the configuration file associated with the executing process.
US10666741B1
The systems and methods described herein can enable the indirect transmission of session data between different domains. The system can pass the session data through a hashing function so that the data from a given domain remains private and secure to the specific domain. The system can generate clusters of associated domains for a given client device that the system can use to maintain a session between the client device and the domain.
US10666739B1
In order to enable a dynamic handshake procedure, a client device is configured with a list of handshake contributors. The client device initiates a handshake by determining the handshake contributors and writing properties of the handshake contributors in a client handshake, which is then sent to a server device. The client handshake is processed at the server device by invoking an appropriate handler, which handles the handshake result. The server can also send its contributors and their properties to the client. Once the client receives the properties, the client can call an appropriate handler to handle the properties. Connections may be created based on the exchanged properties. New contributors and contributor handlers may be added to both the client and server devices.
US10666738B2
To represent the indirect lifecycle binding between the validity of data for a given topic, and the presence of sessions responsible for updating the data associated with that topic, sessions may register a policy referred to herein as a “session will” against specific nodes in the topic tree maintained by a data distribution system server. A session will binds the lifecycle of the topic node to that of the registering session. When a session that is responsible for updating a particular topic is disconnected, the data distribution system server initiates actions in accordance with the session will to determine how to manage updating the topic and the sub-topics in the topic path.
US10666736B2
A computer-implemented method of managing tenants on a multi-tenant SIP server system has at least two multi-tenant enabled SIP server instances in an SIP server cloud or private datacenter environment. Each SIP server instance of the plurality of SIP server instances is configured as a virtual application. The method contains the steps of initially configuring a first tenant on a first SIP server instance, monitoring the capacity of the first SIP server instance, and monitoring the capacity of a second SIP server instance. The monitoring of the first and second SIP server instances is carried out by monitoring at least one predetermined capacity-relevant value. When the at least one predetermined capacity-relevant value exceeds a predetermined threshold value indicating that capacity resources are low on the first SIP server instance, then the first tenant is moved from the first SIP server instance to the second SIP server instance.
US10666731B2
An object-oriented data management method and system comprising nested structural-elements that form inter-related containers of IRC-Infoids that include information, processing-rules, and an atomic-action layer, enabling functions to operate across disparate-systems using self-normalizing data-definitions is disclosed. The creation and management of the IRC-Infoid objects, rules and actions are handled by an IRC-Infoid Engine. The IRC-Infoid is an object with its own definitions, properties, and rules, related to a single parent element. Six properties define the IRC-Infoid: event, user, file, message, data and relationship. These properties follow inter-relationship rules, which force internal consistency, data optimization, and maintain data integrity. The IRC-Infoid data structure includes documentation, thought leadership and chatter, which when parsed through the rule sets, gets attached to standard or triggered actions, including periodic updates and called actions for use across disparate systems.
US10666724B1
Multiple geo-replicated and independent IoT (Internet of Things) hubs configured as servers with storage capacities are utilized and span across various regions in the world, to each of which IoT devices can connect and transmit telemetry data. The IoT devices, configured with sensors to generate telemetry data (e.g., temperature, pressure, etc.), can fail over to another geo-replicated IoT hub (the “target geo-replicated IoT hub”) when one IoT hub experiences technical failures or the IoT device changes location to a region which is covered by the target IoT hub. Upon receiving a connection request from the IoT device, the target geo-replicated IoT hub submits a proposal to available geo-replicated IoT hubs for ownership over the IoT device, that is, receive data from and transmit messages to the IoT device. A quorum is sought so that all IoT hubs are in agreement as to a current owner of the IoT device.
US10666719B2
A system for directing reads includes an input interface and a processor. The input interface is to receive a request to read from a plurality of servers. The processor is to determine a set of weights for a set of healthy servers of the plurality of servers and determine a server to receive the request based at least in part on the set of weights.
US10666703B2
Implementations are provided herein for managing streaming data that appended and multiplexed into a durable write ahead replicated log. By writing data in the durable log, large amounts of small writes can be processed quickly. Data in the durable log can be de-multiplexed and packaged into segment containers. Segment containers can serialize stream segment specific data and can be stored in long term storage. Data that has been stored in long term storage can be truncated from the durable write ahead log making room for new data.
US10666702B1
Quality parameters, such as encoding bitrate, can be determined for the providing of media content based at least in part upon aggregate consumption data. An unknown number of media players can obtain content at a bitrate that depends upon network conditions, and encoders can use variable bitrate encoding, such that egress bandwidth usage can vary widely over time. Aggregate consumption data can be obtained for the various client devices to project the egress costs for a particular period. If the projected resources deviate unacceptably from the target for the period, new quality setting values can be determined, such as new maximum, minimum, target bitrate, or target quality values for the various quality levels. These settings can be automatically applied or suggested to customers, who can then accept any or all of the suggestions, or choose to adjust at least some of the settings based on the suggestions or cost projections.
US10666694B1
A social networking system contains information describing information about users of the social networking system and about various connections among the users. When a user of the social networking system accesses an external website, the external website may send the user a web page containing markup language with instructions to retrieve information associated with a user from a social networking system. The client device processes the annotations and sends a request for social information related to the user to a social networking system, subject perhaps to privacy settings in the social networking system. The user's browser uses the information obtained from the social networking system in response to the request to render the markup language document for display on the user's computer system. This process allows the external website to use information from the social networking system to enhance the user's experience on the external website.
US10666688B2
A system may include a traffic interception module configured to intercept network traffic of a host device. A traffic virtualization module may be configured to generate a virtual file on the host device containing the intercepted network traffic. A security system interface module may be configured to provide the virtual file to a secure digital security system over a virtualized file interface coupling the host device to the secure digital security system, and to receive instructions to allow or to deny the network traffic from the secure digital security system over the virtualized file interface. A traffic access management module may be configured to allow or to deny the network traffic based on the instructions.
US10666687B2
Converged network management application and system is provided that delivers a management platform as a service that can view and/or manage all managed networks in the aggregate, or any one of them individually (including individual devices within the managed networks), in a secure and efficient manner, providing continuously available intelligence in real time on the managed networks and systems, and overcoming integration issues including conflicting address schemas, the need to avoid unnecessary infrastructure, and the need acquire all necessary information in real time within applicable memory and bandwidth constraints.
US10666685B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for service oriented software-defined security framework are disclosed. In one aspect, a system includes a security control device, one or more assets, and a security controller that communicates with the security control device and the one or more assets. The security controller includes a processing engine configured to register the security control device by creating a physical-logical attribute mapping for the security control device, and generating a security service description associated with the security control device. The processing engine is further configured to register the one or more assets by creating a physical-logical attribute mapping for each of the one or more assets, and generating security service requirements for each of the one or more assets. The processing engine is further configured to generate a security service binding based on a request for service.
US10666670B2
Approaches for managing security breaches in a networked computing environment are provided. A method includes detecting, by at least one computer device, a breach of a production system in the networked computing environment, wherein the networked computing environment includes a decoy system interweaved with the production system. The method also includes receiving, by the at least one computer device, a communication after the detecting the breach. The method further includes determining, by the at least one computer device, the communication is associated with one of a valid user and a malicious user. The method additionally includes, based on the determining, routing the valid user to an element of the production system when the communication is associated with the valid user and routing the malicious user to a corresponding element of the decoy system when the communication is associated with the malicious user.
US10666666B1
A system for security intelligence automation using flows is disclosed. In various embodiments, a system includes a communications interface configured to receive events. The system includes a processor configured to select event data associated with the events, where the event data is associated with a computer network environment. The processor may be further configured to segment the event data along a plurality of dimensions, score the event data along the plurality of dimensions, and generate a ranking of each of the events based at least in part on the scoring of the event data.
US10666652B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating signed addresses. One of the methods includes receiving, by a component from a device, a plurality of first requests, each first request for a physical address and including a virtual address, determining, by the component, a first physical address using the virtual address, generating a first signature for the first physical address, and providing, to the device, a response that includes the first signature, receiving, from the device, a plurality of second requests, each second request for access to a second physical address and including a second signature, determining, by the component for each of the plurality of second requests, whether the second physical address is valid using the second signature, and for each second request for which the second physical address is determined to be valid, servicing the corresponding second request.
US10666647B2
Digital rights management is extended such that control over the access to data stored in a cloud remains with the originator of the data. The access information is coordinated between a rights application in the cloud and a rights server outside the cloud. A rights policy is used for fine-grained regulation of the access for users (user groups), computers (client, server) and validity periods. The access limits actions that can be performed with the data, such as a server application being provided with access to index said data without being able to access the complete contents of the data in the process. The access extension may be used for any type of distributed data processing in which the data are intended to be protected against unauthorized access operations.
US10666643B2
Techniques are disclosed for enabling a user to validate the authenticity of a computing system (e.g., an access management system) such as one which controls access to one or more resources. A user can determine the authenticity of an access management system before the user provides credential information to the access management system. A user can be presented at a client system with an interface to request authentication of an access management system. The access management system may provide the user at the client system with temporary access information to submit back to the access management system. The access management system may provide recent personal information to the user at the client system to verify the access management system. Upon verification of the personal information, the access management system may prompt the user for credential information to establish a session.
US10666641B2
A mechanism for providing secure feature and key management in integrated circuits is described. An example method includes receiving, by a root authority system, data identifying a command that affects operation of an integrated circuit, singing, by the root authority system, the command using a root authority key to create a root signed block (RSB), and providing the RSB to a security manager of the integrated circuit.
US10666626B2
A computing device receives one or more messages in a secure communication session with a peer device. Security information for the secure communication session includes a first network address associated with the peer device. The computing device detects that a new message in the secure communication session includes a second network address different from the first network address. The computing device validates the new message as part of the secure communication session and sends an informational request to the peer device. The informational request is sent to the peer device at a destination address of the second network address. The computing device receives an update message from the peer device.
US10666603B2
A wireless communication network includes a Domain Name System (DNS) caching server. The DNS caching server receives a request from a client device to access a network site and queries one or more DNS servers for potential Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for accessing the network site. The DNS caching server receives, from the one or more DNS servers, a plurality of IP addresses for accessing the network site and evaluates the plurality of IP addresses. Based at least in part upon the evaluating, the DNS caching server selects an IP address from the plurality of IP addresses and provides the IP address to the client. The DNS caching server may be located some place other than the wireless communication network and perform the same functions for client devices not accessing the wireless communication network.
US10666599B2
A computer based system for social network assistance is disclosed. Via use of the system and related methods, a high-volume social media account (for example, an airline Twitter account) may be managed to enable prompt and thorough responses to incoming social media messages. In this manner, customer issues and feedback may be more effectively addressed, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and goodwill associated with the owner of the high-volume social media account.
US10666597B2
A group of post data items may be identified at a first location. Presentation of the group of post data items may be provided at a second location. A post data item in the group of post data items at the second location may be identified where the post data item is in reply to another post data item in the group of post data item. A user may be identified for notification of the post data item. A determination of whether the user interacted with the group of post data items at the first location or the second location is made and a notification for the user that includes a reference to the group of post data items at the first location or the second location is provided.
US10666583B2
Embodiments of the inventive system and methods are directed to a computer program that employs a drag-and-drop user interface for managing dialogue states, tracking dialogue context, understanding dialogue utterances, and managing dialogue sessions. Each dialogue element is defined in a “node” that can be dragged and dropped into a canvas of the user interface. An embodiment provides wiring mechanisms to freely link nodes. Dialogue utterances are contained in messages that flow through the wires linking different nodes until exiting the canvas to an end user. An executable image of a conversational agent is then generated by compiling the source code associated with the nodes based on their connections. A conversational agent can be deployed in an electronic device such as a home device, which configured to perform an action in response to a user verbal command or request using the conversational agent deployed therein.
US10666582B2
Provided are methods, systems, and computer-program products for responding to a natural language communication, sending a response to request additional information from a user, and exposing an invocable method for accessing a virtual database. Some examples relate to a bot server that can respond to natural-language messages (e.g., questions or comments) through a messaging application using natural-language messages. Other examples relate to storage of event data associated with a web page or a mobile application. Event data can describe one or more actions performed in relation to the web page and/or the mobile application. Other examples relate to behavioral analytics of the event data.
US10666580B1
A network switch and system for detecting the capacity of available paths in a network and for modifying traffic distribution at each stage of the network, such that traffic is proportionally balanced across the unequal capacity paths. A centralized controller manipulates path weights on each switch such that a load is distributed proportionately to the capacity available to ensure that all available capacity is evenly utilized. A central view of the network is used to determine capacity information, calculate a minimal change set to optimize the traffic flows, and modify the existing multipath group objects. A centralized application can use the capacity information of each switch to build a capacity model of the network. Once the full model has been built up by the application, programming of the specific decisions is done via the controller through an API in communication with each network device's local agent.
US10666579B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing and using a distributed forwarding service. A service request can be received at a computing device and can relate to a distributed forwarding service. The computing device can configure the distributed forwarding service by determining a number of nodes that are to provide the distributed forwarding service and configuring a shared control function to control the nodes. The computing device can trigger instantiation of the distributed forwarding service. Instantiation of the distributed forwarding service can include dedicating a shared incoming switch for the distributed forwarding service, dedicating a shared outgoing switch for the distributed forwarding service, instantiating the nodes, and instantiating the shared control function. The distributed forwarding service can include the shared incoming switch, the shared control function, the nodes, and the shared outgoing switch.
US10666571B2
A method and apparatus for providing access to content resources are provided. The method comprises: in response to receiving a first request for accessing first content resources in a content server, obtaining from the content server metadata associated with a first Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the first content resources, the first request including the first URI, the metadata at least indicating a mapping between the first URI of the first content resources and a second URI of the first content resources, the first URI being a shortened version of the second URI; obtaining the second URI by parsing the metadata; and responding to the first request with the second URI of the first content resources.
US10666569B1
A journal service manages a journal that holds a number of journal entries. Journal entries are provided to the journal service by one or more producer services, and the journal service provides journal entries to one or more consumer services. Lead consumers retrieve journal entries from the journal service by specifying a named cursor which identifies a location within the journal from which the journal entries are retrieved. The journal service may select a lead producer and a lead consumer from a collection of candidate producers and consumers using a fitness score determined for each candidate producer and consumer. The fitness score may be based at least in part on the processing capability, predicted reliability, and cost of each candidate producer and consumer. The journal service may replace a lead consumer or producer with an alternate consumer or producer in response to a variety of events.
US10666563B2
A network includes a plurality of endpoint routers and intermediate routers. When a new data stream is detected at any endpoint router, the first packet is sent to a virtual routing server with knowledge of the entire network topology. Based on the topology, current usage, and historical usage, the virtual routing server determined a path for the data stream and begins to update the routing tables of the intermediate routers to reflect the determined path. Until the update is complete, all packets in the data stream are routed first to the virtual routing server and then to their destination. Once the update is complete, packets in the data stream are routed directly along the determined path.
US10666561B2
According to an example, virtual machine (VM) migration may include generating a redundant tunnel between a common edge device (ED) of a plurality of common EDs of a multi-site network (MSN) and a gateway ED of the MSN. A gateway media access control (MAC) address and a static route may be configured for forwarding an Internet protocol (IP) message between the common ED and the gateway ED using the redundant tunnel.
US10666560B2
Various innovations for servicing of a virtual switch in a virtual networking layer are presented. The innovations include new architectures for a virtual networking layer and new operations performed when servicing a virtual switch. In some example implementations, during virtual switch servicing, interruption to actual network connectivity is minimal—below a timeout threshold that signifies failure of a network connection. Connections for a host, VMs, and physical network adapter can be maintained while the virtual switch is serviced. Although some interruption to actual network connectivity happens, apparent connectivity (for a VM) over a connection between the VM and the virtual switch can be maintained during the servicing of the virtual switch. Similarly, apparent connectivity (for a host) over a connection between the host and the virtual switch can be maintained during the servicing of the virtual switch.
US10666559B2
A signalling protocol routing system comprising at least one routing service module and at least one rules processing module, the signalling protocol routing system being capable of accessing additional routing service modules and/or rules processing modules when required. The routing service modules convert protocol messages into deconstructed protocol messages, so that a rules processing module can apply routing rules to the deconstructed protocol messages and determine a route for a message.
US10666557B2
This invention aim to improves the flexibility of data flows management from sensor to cloud, datalake or other system, which can manage the overall data flows within the system and control them dynamically. As a result, it can reduce transmission cost and storage cost properly.
US10666553B2
A method for quick reconfiguration of routing in the event of a fault in a port of a switch including a plurality of ports, persistent memory for maintaining data corresponding to a routing table, and working memory for working on data corresponding to a routing table, includes: transmitting a first message to indicate a fault; independently updating the routing data only in the working memory by replacing an identifier of the port with the fault with an identifier of an operational port, the identifier of the operational port being selected locally; and transmitting a second message to indicate that the table was updated.
US10666550B2
A method for determining a termination point of at least one tunnel or segment in a packet switching network. The network includes a set of routers and links between them, the routers and links forming a previous network topology, a transit router receiving packets intended for an output router, an event modifying the previous topology into a subsequent network topology, and a backup path between the transit router and the output router being calculated for the subsequent topology. The method includes calculating, prior to the event, for each router, an initial tree based on the previous topology, which has as a root the router and has as branches paths of minimum cost between the root and the other routers. A termination point of a tunnel or segment is obtained to prevent packets transiting between the start router and the output router from entering into a micro-loop caused by the event.
US10666533B2
Embodiments are directed towards employing a plurality of tag states to control tag suspension based on an asynchronous process that proactively monitors tag performance, response times, privacy safeguards, and latency. Tags may be in one of multiple states. Tags in a NORMAL state or a FLAGGED state may be enabled for deployment, and tags in a SUSPENSION A state or a SUSPENSION B state may be blocked from deployment. A tag's state may change based on monitoring the tag's latency to determine if latent events occur. Tag latency may be asynchronously monitored independent of web page requests or requests to execute an application. For example, if latent events occur, then the tag's state may change from NORMAL to FLAGGED, and if non-latent events occur, then the tag's state may change from FLAGGED to NORMAL.
US10666526B2
In one embodiment, a method for estimating end-to-end accessibility in a voice over long term evolution network includes aggregating data, by a processor, from a plurality of sources in the network relating to calls originating from and terminating in the network, where the data indicates success rates for a plurality of procedures initiated by placement of the calls, and calculating, by the processor, a metric indicative of the end-to-end accessibility from the data.
US10666525B2
A performance management engine may be implemented to continuously detecting entity performance issues. The performance management engine may calculate one or more key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure performance of an entity. The performance management engine may further receive one or more additional sources of data regarding the entity via a data management platform that interfaces with multiple data sources. The performance management engine may aggregate the KPIs and the one or more additional sources of data into datasets according to one or more grouping parameters. The data in one or more datasets may be analyzed by the performance management engine to generate one or more comprehensive performance indicators. The comprehensive performance indicators are then provided for display on a user device. Each KPI or comprehensive performance indicator measures performance of a device, a component, a node, or a service of the entity.
US10666522B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for monitoring and quantifying the performance of a content delivery network (CDN) from a client side perspective based on server side events. In one particular embodiment, one or more content servers of the CDN may provide connectivity or other performance information to a collector device or site. This information may be reported by each of the content servers for each request for content received at the server. The collector site may then store the received performance information in a database for analysis by one or more systems.
US10666507B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to controlling reconfiguration of a dependency graph for coordinating reconfiguration of a computing device. An operation can be performed at the computing device to detect whether an error exists in the dependency graph for a desired configuration state. The dependency graph for the desired configuration state specifies interdependencies between configurations of a set of features. An error can be detected to exist in the dependency graph when the desired configuration state differs from an actual configuration state of the computing device that results from use of the dependency graph to coordinate configuring the set of features. Feedback concerning success or failure of the dependency graph on the computing device can be sent from the computing device to a configuration source. The dependency graph can be modified (by the computing device and/or the configuration source) based on whether an error is detected in the dependency graph.
US10666503B1
Various embodiments of a network connection and termination system that provides managed network connection functionality to clients are described. In some embodiments, a network connection and termination system can enable service or application developers to un-bind a live network session from a specific backend server and migrate the live network session to a different backend server, without interrupting the network session and without network client cooperation. This is accomplished by a network connection manager being the actual endpoint for the network connections, instead of any backend resources. The network connection manager can be fault-tolerant. In some embodiments, it contains multiple nodes replicating the state of the network connections so that if one node fails, another can resume the connection in its place.
US10666500B2
Techniques are described for avoiding traffic black-holing in a multi-homed Ethernet virtual private networks (EVPNs) in which a customer device (CE) is multi-homed to a plurality of multi-homing provider edge devices (PEs) via respective links of an Ethernet segment. An overlay network is created over the Ethernet segment, and the multi-homing PEs of the EVPN are configured with a common anycast IP address for respective virtual network interfaces. Upon election as active designated forwarder (DF) for the EVPN, the DF PE of the multi-homing PEs advertises toward the customer network an IGP metric for the anycast IP address that is lower than the IGP metric(s) advertised by any of the non-DF standby PE routers segment to direct the CE to forward network packets from the customer network to the DF PE over the respective link of the Ethernet segment.
US10666497B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a local platform including a hardware platform; a management interface to communicatively couple the local platform to a management controller; a virtualization infrastructure to operate on the hardware platform and to provide a local virtualized function; and a resiliency controller to operate on the hardware platform, and configured to: receive a resiliency policy from the management controller via the management interface, the resiliency policy including information to handle a fault in the virtualized function; detect a fault in the local virtualized function; and effect a resiliency action responsive to detecting the fault.
US10666495B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for a distributed transaction processing environment. The method includes in response to determining that a state of a first node acting as a first coordinating node is not performing properly, selecting a second node from a first plurality of participating nodes communicatively coupled to the first node. The method further includes activating the selected second node to be a second coordinating node while deactivating the first node to be a participating node. In addition, the method includes performing a transaction based on a cooperation between the first and second nodes.
US10666488B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by network node (110) in a wireless communications network (100). The network node (110) transmits a number of bits indicating an uplink duration and an offset for a burst of uplink subframes to a wireless device (121) in a downlink subframe on a downlink control channel. Embodiments herein also relate to a method performed by a wireless device (121) in a wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (121) receives a number of bits indicating an uplink duration and an offset for a burst of uplink subframes to a wireless device (121) in a downlink subframe on a downlink control channel. Embodiments of the network node (110) and the wireless device (121) are also described.
US10666486B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method for receiving a signal, comprising the estimation step for estimating time and frequency shifts that are embedded in the received signal, to cancel-out shifts, wherein the method refers to the non-commutative shift parameter space of co-dimension 2.
US10666482B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus of reducing a peak-to-average ratio of a multi-carrier signal to be transmitted in a wireless communication system. The apparatus comprises a multi-carrier processing circuitry, a storage and a peak cancellation circuitry. The multi-carrier processing circuitry is configured to process a plurality of signals on respective carriers and to combine the processed plurality of signals into a multi-carrier signal to be transmitted. The multi-carrier processing circuitry is further configured to process an injected impulse to obtain an impulse response of the multi-carrier processing circuitry. The storage is configured to store the impulse response as a clipping pulse. The peak cancellation circuitry is configured to apply the clipping pulse to the multi-carrier signal to cancel a peak of the multi-carrier signal whose amplitude is over a predetermined threshold.
US10666480B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters comprising a monitoring periodicity and a first parameter indicating symbol(s). A downlink control channel is monitored for a DCI indicating slot formats of bandwidth part(s) of a cell during monitoring symbol(s) determined based on the monitoring periodicity and the first parameter. The DCI may be received during the monitoring symbol(s). The DCI may comprise first fields identifying the bandwidth part(s) of the cell. The DCI may comprise second field(s) indicating slot formats of the bandwidth part(s). A first slot format of an active bandwidth part of the bandwidth part(s) may be determined based on the first field(s) and the second field(s). The wireless device may transmit transport block(s) in uplink symbol(s) of the active bandwidth part determined based on the first slot format.
US10666479B2
A wireless communication method includes generating a pilot signal that is represented using a complex exponential signal having a first linear phase in a time dimension and a second linear phase in a frequency dimension; and transmitting the pilot signal over a wireless communication channel using transmission resources that are designated for pilot signal transmission in a legacy transmission network such as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.
US10666476B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method of transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention provides a system capable of supporting future broadcast services in environments supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast using terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet. In addition, efficient signaling methods capable of covering both terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet in environments supporting future hybrid broadcast are provided.
US10666473B2
Techniques are provided for implementing a portable spectrum analyzer. An example system, according to an embodiment, includes a signal analyzer including an RF receiver to receive RF signals from an antenna, an analog-to-digital converter to generate a sampled signal based on the received RF signals, and a signal analysis co-processor to perform cognitive scanning analysis of the sampled signal. The cognitive scanning analysis includes detection, identification, and characterization of digital/analog signal(s) embedded in the sampled signal. The system may further include a communications interface circuit to provide communication between the signal analyzer and an associated mobile host platform (e.g., smartphone). The communication includes transmitting results of the cognitive scanning analysis to the mobile host and receiving parameters from the mobile host to control the operation of the cognitive scanning analysis. The signal analyzer and mobile host are coupled through a shared enclosure such as a hinged case, sleeve, or wallet.
US10666472B2
Methods and systems for split voltage domain transmitter circuits may include a two-branch output stage including a plurality of CMOS transistors, with each branch of the two-branch output stage comprising two stacked CMOS inverter pairs. The two stacked CMOS inverter pairs of a given branch are configured to drive a respective load, in phase opposition to the other branch. A pre-driver circuit is configured to receive a differential modulating signal and output, to respective inputs of the two stacked CMOS inverters, two synchronous differential voltage drive signals having a swing of half the supply voltage and being DC-shifted by half of the supply voltage with respect to each other. The load may include a series of diodes that are driven in differential mode via the drive signals. An optical signal may be modulated via the diodes.
US10666471B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for reducing and/or eliminating impact of inter-carrier interference on wireless signals transmitted and received via off-grid radio communications (e.g., Device-to-Device (D2D) communication). The method may include using circuitry to generate a plurality of subcarriers associated with a data signal, such that the plurality of subcarriers transmit the data signal along a narrowband transmission channel. The method may involve using the circuitry to remove a null subcarrier of the plurality of subcarriers that is located at a direct current (DC) frequency. The method may also involve generating an asymmetrical frequency spectrum for a portion of the plurality of subcarriers centered about the removed null subcarrier. The method may also include transmitting the plurality of subcarriers to another electronic device via D2D communication.
US10666467B2
A memory device includes memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells that store data, a first transmitter that transmits the data to an external device through a first data line, and a ZQ controller that performs a ZQ calibration operation to generate a first ZQ code for impedance matching of the first data line. The first transmitter encodes the first ZQ code and the first data based on a first clock and drives the first data line based on the encoded result based on a second clock.
US10666459B1
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving a frame at a Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) provider edge (PE) node via an attachment circuit link, wherein the frame is to be forwarded to a Virtual Private Local Area Network (LAN) Service (VPLS) PE node; determining whether the EVPN PE node is a designated forwarder for the attachment circuit link; forwarding the frame using at least one primary pseudowire label based on a determination that the EVPN PE node is the designated forwarder for the attachment circuit link; and forwarding the frame using at least one mirrored pseudowire label based on a determination that the EVPN PE node is not the designated forwarder for the attachment circuit link. The EVPN node can be in an all-active multi-homed configuration with at least one other EVPN PE node for a customer edge device.
US10666456B2
An arrangement that includes a bus subscriber with two power supply terminals, at least one bus line terminal and a bus interface circuit for controlling a data flow via the at least one bus line terminal, wherein a controllable switch is located between the bus interface circuit and the at least one bus line terminal and the bus subscriber contains a sensor circuit which records the voltage between the power supply terminals or a voltage derived therefrom and closes the controllable switch if the recorded voltage exceeds a threshold value and opens the same if the recorded voltage fails to reach the threshold value, where with an arrangement including at least two bus subscribers, these bus subscribers are connected with their bus line terminals to a bus having at least one bus line and with their power supply terminals via two current lines to a shared voltage source.
US10666448B2
A spoken communication system includes a plurality of domestic devices and a server. Each of the devices is responsive to spoken communication to communicate that spoken communication to other devices, and to receive spoken communications received by other communication devices. The server is in digital communication with domestic devices to communicate that spoken communication among the registered devices.
US10666437B2
Systems (100) and methods (700) for customizing a cryptographic algorithm. The methods comprise: providing an electronic device with the cryptographic algorithm implementing a permutation function ƒ configured to produce a first keystream using bits input thereto, the permutation function ƒ comprising a round function ƒround consisting of a mixing layer in which input bits are combined together; and customizing the mixing layer of the permutation function ƒ while the electronic device is in the field. The mixing layer is customized by: receiving, by the electronic device, a first user-software interaction for entering a first bit string comprising a plurality of first arbitrary bits; breaking the first bit string into a plurality of equal length segments each comprising only a portion of the plurality of first bits; and translating each of the equal length segments into irreducible polynomial coefficients and/or an irreducible polynomial identifier.
US10666432B2
The subject matter discloses a method and a system for securely distributing a credential and encryption keys for physical devices. The system comprises a security server and a physical device. the physical device comprises a memory module configured to store a share of the credential, a communication module configured to exchange signals, and a processing module configured to execute calculations upon request received on a wireless manner via the communication module from the security server, the calculations are transmitted to the security server to execute a multi-party computation process. The multi-party computation process outputs two shares of the credential, a first share is stored in the physical device. The physical device does not have access to the credential.
US10666425B2
A digital education record management method based on the blockchain token technology, the method includes: generating a fixed number of tokens on the blockchain of the entire network through a hash algorithm; generating an educational institution hash address and a management key matching the educational institution hash address for an educational institution; assigning a sufficient number of tokens to the educational institution according to the scale and requirement of the educational institution; generating a student hash address and a management key corresponding to the student hash address for the student through the hash algorithm; establishing a unified issuing rule of the token by educational institutions, issuing the token to the student when the student meets the rule; reading data on the blockchain node by using a blockchain scanning tool; generating a digital education record for the student according to the data; checking the digital education record through an authorization key.
US10666419B2
A semiconductor circuit including a clocked comparator and an offset application circuit. The clocked comparator is configured to receive a first input signal and a second input signal from a host and compare the first input signal and the second input signal. The offset application circuit is configured to apply an offset to the first input signal. The clocked comparator is configured to be driven based on a reference clock provided from the host.
US10666418B1
A smart phase switching method includes setting a first phase switching threshold, a convergence upper bound, and a convergence lower bound, sampling a received signal continuously for acquiring a phase offset accumulated value of the received signal during each period, updating the first phase switching threshold to generate a second phase switching upper bound threshold and a second phase switching lower bound threshold when a plurality of phase offset accumulated values of the received signal during a first predetermined time interval fall into a range from the convergence upper bound to the convergence lower bound, and sampling the received signal continuously for determining if a phase is switched to an opposite operating point according to a phase offset accumulated value of the received signal after the second phase switching upper bound threshold and the second phase switching lower bound threshold are generated.
US10666415B2
Techniques for determining the quality of a clock signal are provided. In one example, a method can comprise comparing, by a sensory circuitry of a system, a first output of a first sensor and a second output of a second sensor. The first output and the second output can be based on a parameter of a clock signal. Further, in some embodiments, the first sensor and the second sensor can be local clock buffers. The method can also comprise determining, by a controller of the system, a quality of the clock signal based on the comparing of the first output and the second output.
US10666411B2
A communication device receives a repetition index, a set indicator, and a downlink transmission. The downlink transmission spans a plurality of subframes. The communication device uses the repetition index as an index into one of a plurality of sets of subframe values specified by the set indicator to determine the number of subframes spanned by the downlink transmission, and decodes the downlink transmission according to the determined number of subframes.
US10666393B2
An error recovery method performed in an end node of an Ethernet-based vehicle network includes: detecting, by a physical (PHY) layer processor of a PHY layer of the end node, a physical error of a message, when the message is received at the PHY layer of the end node; detecting, by a controller processor of a controller included in the end node, a logical error of the message; and classifying, by the controller processor, types of the physical error and the logical error.
US10666390B2
A method of receiving a broadcast signal is disclosed. A method of receiving a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes synchronizing and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulating a received broadcast signal, parsing a signal frame of the received broadcast signal, time deinterleaving broadcast data of the signal frame, forward error correction (FEC) decoding the broadcast data, and output formatting the broadcast data and outputting a data stream.
US10666389B2
Embodiments of the application provide a method and device for polar code rate matching in a wireless communication network. A device of the network obtains K information bits. The device generates a to-be-encoded sequence having a length N bits. The to-be-encoded sequence includes the K information bits and L frozen bits. The L frozen bits are placed in L bit positions of the to-be-encoded sequence. The L bit positions are determined according to a rate match manner which is either puncturing or shortening. The device polar encodes the to-be-encoded sequence to obtain the encoded sequence. The device interleaves the encoded sequence to obtain an interleaved sequence and then stores the interleaved sequence into a cyclic cache. The device sequentially outputs M bits of the interleaved sequence from the cyclic cache according to the rate matching manner.
US10666387B2
A transmission device that performs multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission of transmit data using a plurality of fundamental bands. The transmission device includes an error correction coding unit, a mapping unit, and a MIMO coding unit. The error correction coding unit, for each data block of predefined length, performs error correction coding and thereby generates an error correction coded frame. The mapping unit maps each predefined number of bits in the error correction coded frame to a corresponding symbol and thereby generates an error correction coded block. The MIMO coding unit performs MIMO coding with respect to the error correction coded block. Components of data included in the error correction coded block are allocated to at least two of the fundamental bands and transmitted.
US10666384B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for RSRQ measurements. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a user equipment, measurement configuration information including at least one value for a first type of reference signal received quality measurement; detecting, at the user equipment, whether an offset is received from the network; adjusting the at least one value in accordance with the detected offset to enable a second type of reference signal received quality measurement at the user equipment; and activating the second type of reference signal received quality measurement configured with the adjusted at least one value. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US10666381B2
Systems, methods, and software technology for partitioning media streams is disclosed herein. In an implementation, an application partitions an encoded media stream into multiple sub-streams having different code rates relative to each other. The sub-streams may then be transmitted to different wireless access points. A change in a monitored performance of at least one of the wireless access points may drive a modification to the partitioning of the media stream such that the code rates change relative to each other.
US10666380B2
This patent document provides optical processing and switching of optical channels based on mode-division multiplexing (MDM) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). In one implementation, a method is provided for processing different optical signal channels to include receiving different input optical signal channels in different optical waveguide modes and in different wavelengths; converting input optical signal channels in multimodes into single-mode optical signal channels, respectively; subsequent to the conversion, processing single-mode optical signal channels obtained from the different input optical signal channels to re-group single-mode optical signal channels into different groups of processed single-mode optical signal channels; and converting different groups of the processed single-mode optical signal channels into different groups of output optical signal channels containing one or more optical signal channels in multimodes multimode signals to direct the groups as different optical outputs.
US10666370B2
An apparatus of a wireless device can include baseband processing circuitry configured to generate a digitized downconverted signal based on a received radio frequency (RF) signal. The apparatus can also include estimation circuitry configured to detect a blocker signal in the downconverted signal, the blocker signal having power that exceeds a pre-determined threshold, and map the detected blocker signal to a plurality of harmonic frequencies associated with two or more carrier frequencies. The apparatus can include reference signal generation circuitry configured to generate a reference signal based on the plurality of harmonic frequencies and the received RF signal. The apparatus can include cancellation circuitry configured to apply a pre-processed reference signal (based on the reference signal) to the digitized downconverted signal to remove distortion associated with the detected blocker signal. The digitized downconverted signal is a baseband signal or an intermediate frequency (IF) signal.
US10666368B2
Methods and apparatus for managing reuse of a wireless medium are provided. One method of managing reuse of a wireless medium includes determining, at an access point, whether to allow reuse of the wireless medium by one or more stations in a basic service set (BSS). The method further includes transmitting, upon determining to allow reuse, an indication that reuse of the wireless medium can be permitted for stations meeting a criteria. The method further includes determining one or more reuse parameters. The method further includes transmitting the one or more reuse parameters.
US10666357B2
Various embodiments may relate to a light emitting diode (LED) communication device including a communication interface configured to couple with an electronic device. The LED communication device may also include an electrical interface electrically coupled to the communication interface. The LED communication device may further include a light emitting diode electrically coupled to the electrical interface. The electrical interface may be configured to convert data signals received from the electronic device into driving signals transmitted to the light emitting diode during uplink, and to convert sensing signals received from the light emitting diode into data signals transmitted to the electronic device during downlink. The light emitting diode may be configured to convert the driving signals received from the electrical interface into a plurality of light pulses during uplink, and to convert a plurality of light pulses received by the light emitting diode into the sensing signals during downlink.
US10666356B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a visible light-based communication method, a related device, and a related system. A first VLC device is configured to send a reporting indication message to a coordinator when a VPAN ID conflict occurs on a VPAN. The reporting indication message includes VPAN ID information detected by the first VLC device. A coordinator device is configured to receive the reporting indication message sent by the first VLC device. A coordinator device is configured to select a new VPAN ID based on the VPAN ID information to resolve the VPAN ID conflict effectively.
US10666348B1
An apparatus, system, and method for a receive function in a phased array including an M by N array of antenna elements, where M and N are the number of rows and columns, respectively, in the array of antenna elements. Each antenna element is provided with a combiner. The phased array apparatus and system includes M row beam-formers plus N column beam-formers. The row beam-formers supply a progressively phase-shifted carrier signal to the combiners where the signal received by the corresponding antenna element is combined with a phase-shifted carrier signal. The outputs of the combiners in each column of antenna elements is sent to a corresponding column beam-former. The outputs of the column beam-formers are combined to recover the signal that is desired to be received.
US10666338B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for measuring channel quality by a base station having a two-dimensional active antenna system including multiple antennas. Particularly, the method comprises: receiving channel state information (CSI) generated on the basis of a first reference signal relating to a part of multiple antennas, from a terminal; selecting a precoding and a rank based on a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) and a rank indicator (RI) of the received CSI; generating a port by applying the selected precoding and the selected rank; through the generated port, transmitting, to the terminal, a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a demodulation-reference signal (DM-RS) configured for the terminal; and receiving, from the terminal, a channel quality indication (CQI) feedback for reducing a mismatch for the CQI of the CSI, wherein the CQI feedback may be generated based on the DM-RS.
US10666337B2
A radio apparatus in a radio communication system that includes the radio apparatus and a signal processing apparatus that function as a base station, includes a channel estimation unit that, on the basis of a radio signal transmitted from a terminal apparatus, measures a reception quality of the radio signal; and a transmission control unit that, on the basis of the reception quality measured by the channel estimation unit, controls transmission, to the signal processing apparatus, of bit data or a log likelihood ratio obtained from the radio signal.
US10666333B2
There is provided mechanisms for signal transmission diversity at an antenna array of a radio transceiver device. The antenna array has two physical antenna ports. A method is performed by the radio transceiver device. The method comprises creating two virtual antenna ports for each of the two physical antenna ports, resulting in four virtual antenna ports. The method comprises transmitting the signal from the four virtual antenna ports towards another radio transceiver device over four different radio propagation channels, one radio propagation channel per virtual antenna port.
US10666331B2
The terminal apparatus derives CSI, transmits the CSI, and determines content of the CSI based on a type of a downlink physical channel that is allocated to a CSI reference resource or allocated before and closest to the CSI reference resource.
US10666329B2
A method and a network system capable of enhanced transmission of data signals in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system using a double-layer coordinated beamforming are disclosed. A first layer precoding matrix is obtained from long-term channel state information between user equipment and network equipment, and a second layer precoding matrix obtained from the first layer precoding matrix and from real-time channel state information between the user equipment and the network equipment. The real-time channel state information for the second layer precoding matrix determination includes a predetermined signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), and/or a predetermined power value associated with a single antenna of the user equipment, which are used as optimization parameters. The first and second layer precoding matrices are combined for the double-layer coordinated beamforming. The present disclosure allows to enhance the coordinated beamforming of the prior art by adding some constraints during the optimization of the second layer precoding.
US10666325B2
A method for a near-field communication (NFC) tag to perform NFC and wireless power transfer (WPT) with an NFC reader, the NFC tag having an antenna resonant circuit, of which a quality factor (Q-factor) is no lower than 50 in a high-Q mode of the NFC tag, and no higher than 25 in a low-Q mode of the NFC tag. The method includes continuously preforming steps of detecting an NFC radio frequency (RF) field generated by the NFC reader, measuring strength of the NFC RF field, operating in the high-Q mode for the WPT upon determining that the strength of the NFC RF field is larger than a predetermined threshold, operating in the low-Q mode for the NFC upon determining that the strength of the NFC RF field is smaller than the predetermined threshold, and transmitting a response back to the NFC reader.
US10666318B2
Methods and systems are provided for sending and/or receiving communication information by a digital subscriber line access multiplexer to customer devices at one or more customer premises, via customer lines. In particular, the digital subscriber line access multiplexer may be configured to send a communication signal, for a particular customer device, concurrently via more than one customer line. The digital subscriber line access multiplexer may enhance a communication signal, received from a particular customer device, via a particular customer line, such as using a second communication signal received concurrently from the particular customer device via a second customer line.
US10666314B2
In a wireless communication network, pilot signals are transmitted over a wireless communication channel by determining a maximum delay spread for a transmission channel, determining a maximum Doppler frequency spread for the transmission channel, and allocating a set of transmission resources in a time-frequency domain to a number of pilot signals based on the maximum delay spread and the maximum Doppler frequency spread.
US10666313B2
Disclosed is radio frequency switch circuitry that includes a switch branch having a first branch terminal coupled to a first signal port and a second branch terminal coupled to a second signal port, and a branch control terminal, wherein the switch branch has both an on-state and an off-state to control passage of a radio frequency signal between the first signal port and the second signal port in response to a control signal applied to the control terminal. The radio frequency switch circuitry further includes an isolation inductor coupled between the first branch terminal and the second branch terminal such that the isolation inductor is in parallel with the switch branch, wherein the isolation inductor has a given inductance that provides resonance with a total off-state capacitance of the switch branch in the off-state at a center frequency of the radio frequency signal.
US10666298B2
A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation.
US10666294B2
An error injected error correction code (ECC) word generator generates a set of ECC code words injected with bit errors for being read by an ECC decoder and error reporting hardware. The set of the error injected ECC words has a binomial distribution with regard to a number of the bit errors in a given ECC word of the set. The set of error injected ECC words has a predetermined average ratio of bit errors.
US10666290B2
A device for decoding input data including first candidate data and second candidate data by using a polar code, the device includes a first path metric processor configured to generate first candidate path metrics based on a first parent path metric by decoding the first candidate data, determine at least one first child path metric among the first candidate path metrics based on first reliability values of the first candidate path metrics; and a second path metric processor configured to generate second candidate path metrics based on a second parent path metric by decoding the second candidate data, and determine at least one second child path metric among the second candidate path metrics based on second reliability values of the second candidate path metrics, a quantity of the at least one first child path metric being different from a quantity of the at least one second child path metric.
US10666288B2
Detailed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for decompression using hardware and software. In hardware, an input buffer stores incoming input records from a compressed stream. A plurality of decoders decode at least one input record from the input buffer out output an intermediate record from the decoded data and a subset of the plurality of decoders to output a stream of literals. Finally, a reformat circuit formats an intermediate record into one of two types of tokens.
US10666277B2
A method for simulating and optimizing a digital to analog converter is disclosed. The method may include receiving a plurality of digital words. The method may also include determining an effective number of bits, a respective amplitude and a first amplitude correction amount for each digital word. Further, the first amplitude correction amount may be applied to each respective amplitude to generate respective first corrected amplitudes. A timing uncertainty may be determined which may be used to determine a second amplitude correction for each digital word. The second amplitude correction may be applied to each of the respective first corrected amplitudes to generate respective second corrected amplitudes. Next, a representation of an analog signal may be generated based in part on the second corrected amplitudes. Finally, a filter may be applied to the representation of the analog signal and then the representation of the analog signal is outputted.
US10666274B2
According to one embodiment, a dual voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit includes a first VCO and a second VCO. The first VCO includes: a first variable capacitor having an input node, a first output node, and a second output node, a second variable capacitor coupled in parallel with the first variable capacitor, a first transistor, and a second transistor, where the first transistor has a first drain coupled to the first output node, a first gate coupled to the second output node, and a first source coupled to a ground, where the second transistor has a second drain coupled to the second output node and a second gate coupled to the first output node, and a second source coupled to the ground. The dual VCO circuit includes a second VCO mirroring the first VCO, a first and a second inductors coupled to the first and the second VCO respectively.
US10666273B1
A system includes a very low frequency (VLF) antenna connected to a circuit that has a high pass filter and a low pass filter. The circuit is configured for noise reduction and frequency localization of detected VLF signals. A receiver is configured to receive filtered VLF signals output by the circuit and to separate desired signals for processing. A display is configured to provide a user with visual feedback based at least in part on an even signature extracted by a digital signal processor (DSP).
US10666268B2
Temperature-independent clock generation systems and methods are described that include a trained neural network coupled to a frequency correction circuit that corrects a crystal resonator output of a clock signal having a frequency that changes with changes in temperature. The neural network is trained with test temperatures and corresponding temperature based changes in frequency for test resonators of the same type as the resonator of the real time clock. The neutral network is trained to output frequency corrections based on a set of measured reference temperature-based changes in frequency for the crystal resonator and a current temperature of the resonator. The frequency correction circuit receives the frequency corrections from the neural network and corrects changes in the frequency caused by the changes in temperature of the resonator to provide a clock signal having an output frequency that is independent of the current temperature of the resonator.
US10666262B2
A programmable array logic includes a plurality of first signal lines, a plurality of second signal lines coupled to input terminals of a plurality of programmable AND gates, a plurality of first control units coupled to the first signal lines and second signal lines, a plurality of third signal lines coupled to output terminals of the programmable AND gates, a plurality of fourth signal lines coupled to input terminals of a plurality of programmable OR gates, and a plurality of second control units coupled to the third signal lines and the fourth signal lines. Each of the first control units has at least a first resistive memory for setting voltage level relationship between the first signal lines and the second signal lines. Each of second control units has a second resistive memory for setting voltage level relationship between the third signal lines and the fourth signal lines.
US10666254B2
Described are on-die termination (ODT) systems and methods that facilitate high-speed communication between a driver die and a receiver die interconnected via one or more signal transmission lines. An ODT control system in accordance with one embodiment calibrates and maintains termination resistances and drive currents to produce optimal output swing voltages. Comparison circuitry employed to calibrate the reference resistance is also used to calibrate the drive current. Termination elements in some embodiments are divided into two adjustable resistive portions, both of which are designed to minimize capacitive loading. One portion is optimized to produce a relatively high range of adjustment, while the other is optimized for fine-tuning and glitch-free switching.
US10666250B2
According to a drive control signal for controlling a semiconductor element to be turned on and off, a current output circuit supplies an output current for charging a gate when the semiconductor element is turned on. A Miller voltage detection circuit outputs a detection signal for a constant voltage period during which a temporal change rate of a gate voltage is lower than a threshold value. Based on a drive control signal and a detection signal, a signal generation circuit generates a capability change signal for controlling a current output capability of the current output circuit. The signal generation circuit generates the capability change signal such that the current output capability is increased upon detection of the constant voltage period by the Miller voltage detection circuit, after the semiconductor element is instructed to be turned on by a level change of the drive control signal.
US10666237B1
A clocked comparator includes an upper-side sampling latch configured to output a first decision in accordance with a detection of a sign of an input voltage signal plus an offset voltage at an edge of a clock signal; a lower-side sampling latch configured to output a second decision in accordance with a detection of a sign of the input voltage signal minus the offset voltage at the edge of the clock signal; and a decision-arbitrating latch configured to receive the first decision and the second decision and output a final decision in accordance with whichever one of the first decision and the second decision that is resolved earlier.
US10666223B2
An elastic wave device includes a substrate including a piezoelectric film, a first IDT electrode, a first external electrode, and a first through via electrode. The first IDT electrode is provided on a first main surface of the substrate and includes a first busbar and first electrode fingers extending from the first busbar. The first external electrode is provided on a second main surface of the substrate. The first through via electrode penetrates the substrate from the first main surface to the second main surface and electrically connects the first IDT electrode and the first external electrode to each other. At least a portion of the first through via electrode overlaps the first busbar in a plan view from the first main surface side and is disposed below the first busbar.
US10666211B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a bias circuit and an amplifier circuit. The bias circuit includes a first bias circuit to receive a reference voltage and an operation voltage and generate a first bias signal, a bias supply circuit to transmit the base bias signal to a base of a power amplifier, based on the first bias signal input from the first bias circuit, a switching control circuit to transmit a switching signal after a preset delay time based on a driving start signal, and a switching circuit connected between an output node of the first bias circuit and a ground, to operate in an ON state after the delay time in response to the switching signal to form a current path between the output node of the first bias circuit and the ground.
US10666210B2
A power tube driver of a class-D audio amplifier includes high-side and low-side fixed charge/discharge gate driving circuits, high-side and low-side power tubes, a dead time generation circuit based on gate voltage detection, high-side and low-side gate charge/discharge accelerating circuits, and high-side and low-side gate voltage detection circuits. The class-D audio amplifier with the features of low radiation interference, and high efficiency, linearity and robustness can be balanced easily.
US10666200B2
Apparatus and methods for bias switching of power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain configurations, a power amplifier system includes a power amplifier that provides amplification to a radio frequency (RF) signal, a power management circuit that controls a voltage level of a supply voltage of the power amplifier, and a bias control circuit that biases the power amplifier. The power management circuit is operable in multiple supply control modes, such as an average power tracking (APT) mode and an envelope tracking (ET) mode. The bias control circuit is configured to switch a bias of the power amplifier based on the supply control mode of the power management circuit.
US10666195B2
A resonator device includes first and second resonators and an integrated circuit device. The integrated circuit device includes a first oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the first resonator, a second oscillation circuit configured to oscillate the second resonator, and a processing circuit configured to perform processing by using frequency difference information or frequency comparison information between a first clock signal generated by oscillating the first resonator and a second clock signal generated by oscillating the second resonator. The first resonator is supported on the integrated circuit device by a first support portion. The second resonator is supported on the integrated circuit device by a second support portion.
US10666194B2
An oven-controlled crystal oscillator includes a base substrate, a power transistor, and a surface mount type crystal resonator. The base substrate has a bottom surface on which a mounting terminal for surface mounting is disposed. The power transistor is mounted on the base substrate. The surface mount type crystal resonator is mounted on the power transistor.
US10666187B2
A method of designing bifacial solar panels installations that does not rely on the use of all available space to maximize electrical output and return on investment. Instead, the design method relies on building a solar farm that provides the buyer with less than optimal electrical output but meets requirements to improve the return and breakeven over traditional installations. The method weighs financial variables against the design criteria to achieve a new less than maximum effectiveness of the system.
US10666186B2
A movable solar power apparatus may comprise at least a solar panel set electrically connected to a maximum power point tracking system (MPPT). A lithium battery set is electrically connected to a battery management system (BMS) which is adapted to monitor and protect the lithium battery set, and the BMS is electrically connected to the MPPT to enable power generated by the solar panel set to directly charge the lithium battery set. A low potential wake-up circuit has a double-contact relay and a single-contact relay, and the double-contact relay comprises a main contact, a first contact, and a second contact. The main contact is switchably electrically connected to the first contact or the second contact, and the main contact is electrically connected to the BMS while the first contact is electrically connected to the master control circuit, and the MPPT is electrically connected to the BMS under normal condition.
US10666178B2
A control device includes an estimation module configured to repeatedly calculate an angle estimation value correlated with a magnetic pole position of a rotating electric machine, and a storage module configured to store the angle estimation value. The estimation module includes a response information calculation module configured to calculate response information indicating a current change resulting from a change in an output voltage to the rotating electric machine or a voltage change resulting from a change in an output current to the rotating electric machine, a coefficient calculation module configured to calculate an interference coefficient correlated with electromagnetic mutual interference between coordinate axes of an orthogonal coordinate system of the rotating electric machine based on a past angle estimation value stored in the storage module, and an angle calculation module configured to calculate an angle estimation value based on the response information and the interference coefficient.
US10666175B2
A wind turbine system includes a wind turbine and switching devices. Each switching device is for stabilizing an electric output of a coil of the wind turbine, and includes a voltage converter circuit, a switch circuit electrically connected between the voltage converter circuit and an output interface, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to calculate an input electric power of input electricity into the voltage converter circuit, to calculate an output electric power of output electricity outputted by the voltage converter circuit, and to control the switch circuit to operate in one of a closed state and an open state according to the input electric power and the output electric power.
US10666171B2
A motor system includes a motor, and a multi-turn absolute encoder that detects a rotation number and an absolute angular position of a rotation shaft of the motor. The multi-turn absolute encoder includes: an absolute angular position detection device that detects the absolute angular position within one rotation period of the rotation shaft; and a storage element that stores the rotation number of the motor. Even if the driving of the multi-turn absolute encoder is stopped while the motor is stopped, the multi-turn absolute encoder detects the multi-turn position of the rotation shaft after startup. Further, the motor has a brake mechanism including: a gear-type brake wheel that rotates integrally with the rotation shaft; an engagement member capable of engaging with the teeth of the gear-type brake wheel; and an actuator which causes the teeth and the engagement member to engage with each other during braking.
US10666170B2
Failure determination device for angle detector of rotating machine and failure determination method
A failure determination device for an angle detector for a rotating machine, including: an angle detector, which includes n pole pairs (n>m), and outputs sine and cosine wave-signals in accordance with a rotational position of a rotating machine including a multi-phase winding and m pole pairs (m≥2); and a failure determiner for detecting failure of the detector based on signals from the detector. The detector outputs first and second sine-wave-signals having 180° phases different, and first and second cosine-wave-signals having 180° phases different. The failure determiner determines malfunction of the detector when the failure is determined with use of at least one of: failure determination using a sum of the first and second sine-wave-signals and a sum of the first and second cosine-wave-signals; or failure determination using a sum of squares or a square root of a sum of squares of the sine-wave-signal and the cosine-wave-signal.
US10666168B2
Provided is an easy-to-use electric tool with which braking force can be changed according to work conditions. When an operation switch 5 is turned off, a control unit 50 detects a rotation rate R1 of an electric motor 6. The control unit 50 stands by for a prescribed period, detects a rotation rate R2 of the electric motor 6, and calculates the difference between the rotation rates R1, R2 (R=R1−R2). Since the rotation rate difference R corresponds to the rate of change in rotation rate with time during deceleration of the electric motor 6 and is smaller the larger the moment of inertia of the attached rotary tool, the control unit 50 can determine the moment of inertia of the rotary tool on the basis of the rotation rate difference R. The control unit 50 sets the braking force according to the moment of inertia and performs braking.
US10666167B2
A piezoelectric unit includes a piezoelectric element that expands and contracts in a first direction, a drive shaft connected with a first end surface of the piezoelectric element, a weight connected with a second end surface of the piezoelectric element, a protection member covering at least a part of the piezoelectric element, the drive shaft, and the weight, and a movable member engaged with the drive shaft. An inner wall surface of the protection member includes a weight position regulating portion that regulates a position of the weight, an element position regulating portion that regulates a position of the piezoelectric element, and a shaft position regulating portion that regulates a position of the drive shaft. An outer wall surface of the protection member has a movable member regulating portion that prevents the movable member from approaching the piezoelectric element.
US10666165B2
A PCS performs a control of increasing an output of a solar cell to exceed the suppression power threshold, when there is a period, where the output of the solar cell falls below a suppression power threshold, in an accumulation period included in a suppression period in which the output of the solar cell is suppressed.
US10666163B2
Voltage commands of respective phases are substantially equally shifted in such a way that a maximum-phase voltage command coincides with the maximum value of a PWM carrier signal and are compared with the PWM carrier signal, so that a voltage is controlled; in addition to that, a current detection value corresponding to the phase where the lower-arm switching device is turned on is corrected based on a current detection value corresponding to the phase where the upper-arm switching device is turned on.
US10666162B2
A power supply system includes at least one inverter, at least one cell string, and a transformer, where an input end of the at least one inverter is connected to an output end of the at least one cell string, an output end of the at least one inverter is connected to an input end of the transformer, and an output end of the transformer is configured to output a power supply voltage. The output end of the at least one inverter is connected to an output end of an inverter unit.
US10666160B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, a power conversion device that includes a power converter, a direct current capacitor, a voltage sensor, a rectifying element, an electromagnetic contactor, and a control circuit is provided. The power converter includes a pair of direct current terminals connected to a direct current power supply, includes multiple alternating current terminals connected to an electric power system of alternating current, converts direct current power input from the direct current power supply into alternating current power, and supplies the alternating current power to the electric power system. The direct current capacitor is connected between the pair of direct current terminals. The voltage sensor detects a voltage value of the direct current capacitor. The rectifying element is provided between the direct current capacitor and the direct current power supply and suppresses a reverse flow of electrical power from the power converter and the direct current capacitor into the direct current power supply. The electromagnetic contactor is connected in parallel with the rectifying element. The control circuit controls operations of the power converter and the electromagnetic contactor. In the case where the voltage value of the direct current capacitor detected by the voltage sensor is a prescribed value or more, the control circuit engages the electromagnetic contactor and supplies active power from the power converter to the electric power system; and in the case where the voltage value of the direct current capacitor detected by the voltage sensor is less than the prescribed value, the control circuit opens the electromagnetic contactor and supplies a reactive power from the power converter to the electric power system.
US10666152B2
A switching power converter is provided with a phase-shifting RC network for phase-shifting a divided version of a drain voltage of a power switch transistor into a phase-shifted voltage. A comparator compares the phase-shifted voltage to a DC bias voltage to detect peaks and valleys during resonant oscillations of the drain voltage of the power switch transistor.
US10666150B1
An output current calibration is disclosed to increase the accuracy and precision of the constant-current mode for a flyback converter.
US10666145B2
A single die driver integrated circuit is coupled to an input portion having a single inductor receiving a low voltage source and configured to drive a capacitive load with an output voltage. The driver includes a bidirectional synchronous power converter stage configured to generate a switching voltage from the input portion at a switching node and to generate a high voltage waveform from the low-voltage source. An embedded controller is configured to control a switch of the power converter stage.
US10666142B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a switching converter includes a switching circuit configured to receive a switching signal and to alternatingly connect an output node of the switching circuit with a supply node and a reference node in accordance with the switching signal. An input voltage is operably applied between the supply node and the reference node. The switching converter further includes an inductor coupled between the output node of the switching circuit and an output node of the switching converter as well as an oscillator configured to generate a clock signal with an oscillator frequency depending on the input voltage. A switching controller is configured to receive the clock signal and to generate the switching signal using pulse-width modulation (PWM), wherein the frequency of the switching signal is set in accordance with the oscillator frequency and a duty cycle of the switching signal is deter-mined using current-mode control.
US10666140B2
In some examples, a device comprises an integrated circuit comprising a first transistor and a second transistor. The device further comprises an inductor comprising a first inductor terminal and a second inductor terminal, wherein the first inductor terminal is electrically connected to the first transistor and the second transistor. The device further comprises at least five electrical connections on a first side of the device.
US10666134B2
Transient or fault conditions for a switched capacitor power converter are detected by measuring one or more of internal voltages and/or currents associated with switching elements (e.g., transistors) or phase nodes, or voltages or currents at terminals of the converter, and based on these measurements detect that a condition has occurred when the measurements deviate from a predetermined range. Upon detection of the condition fault control circuitry alters operation of the converter, for example, by using a high voltage switch to electrically disconnect at least some of the switching elements from one or more terminals of the converter, or by altering timing characteristics of the phase signals.
US10666132B2
In some examples, an apparatus includes an inverter with a switching circuit. Furthermore, a first circuit has a first circuit ground and a second circuit has a second circuit ground. For example, the second circuit may be electrically connected to the switching circuit, and the second circuit ground may be electrically connected to the first circuit ground. A first capacitor may be electrically connected between the first circuit ground and a main ground. In addition, a second capacitor may be electrically connected between the second circuit ground and the main ground. Additionally, a first impedance of a first conductive path to the main ground may be greater than a second impedance of a second conductive path to the main ground. The first conductive path may include the first circuit ground and the first capacitor, and the second conductive path may include the second circuit ground and the second capacitor.
US10666127B2
A power system is presented. The power system includes a first converter including a first output terminal a first control unit coupled to the first converter, a second converter including a second output terminal, where the second converter is coupled in parallel to the first converter, and a second control unit coupled to the second converter. The second control unit is configured to measure a plurality of phase currents at the second output terminal, determine a harmonic current transmitted by the second converter based on single phase current of the plurality of measured phase currents, and change a time-period of at least one switching cycle of a carrier wave of the second converter based on the determined harmonic current to synchronize with a carrier wave of the first converter.
US10666116B2
The invention relates to an electric drive, in particular for a vehicle, comprising an electric motor (1) and a power supply (6), the power supply (6) being on the radial outer surface of the electric motor (1), and around the electric motor (1) angularly, in particular over an angle of 360°.
US10666115B2
An electric machine provided with a stator and with a rotor arranged on a coolable shaft which is rotatably mounted with respect to the stator. The rotor is connected to the shaft by a thermosiphon device which is non-rotatably connected to the rotor and arranged on the front side of the rotor.
US10666111B2
This invention is concerning a rotary electric machine 1, this electric motor 1 being provided with an inner cylinder 2, a rotor 3 provided so as to be rotatable inside the inner cylinder 2, a stator 4 fixed to the inner cylinder 2 and separated via a gap from an outer periphery of the rotor 3, and an outer cylinder 8 that covers an entire periphery of the inner cylinder 2 and forms a space 15, which serves as a coolant passage, in conjunction with the inner cylinder 2, wherein both ends of the inner cylinder 2 and the outer cylinder 8 in an axial direction are fixed to each other by cylinder welding portions 9 formed by welding. Accordingly, a rotary electric machine that is small and light can be obtained at low cost.
US10666109B2
The coil ends in a rotating electric machine are to be made smaller in size. A stator coil 60 inserted into a slot 420 in a stator of a rotating electric machine is formed with segment coils 28 connected to one another. In the stator coil 60, the segment coils 28 each include an insulating coated portion coated with an insulating coating, and a slit 900 or a recess is formed in the insulating coated portion of each of the segment coils 28 at a coil end 140. The slit 900 or the recess is preferably formed between a diagonal conductor portion 28D and a conductor-end straight portion 28E of each segment coil 28.
US10666100B2
A spindle motor according to an embodiment includes a base plate, a rotor magnet fixed to a rotor assembly positioned at one surface side of the base plate and a magnetic attraction plate fixed at the one surface side of the base plate so as to face the rotor magnet. An opposite area of the base plate facing the magnetic attraction plate includes a coated area covered by an epoxy electric discharge coating film, and the magnetic attraction plate is fixed to the opposite area via at least one of an epoxy adhesive and an acrylic adhesive.
US10666099B1
Presented are slotted permanent magnets (PM) for electric machines, motor generator units using slotted PMs, methods for making/using slotted PMs, and motor vehicles equipped with an electric traction motor using slotted PMs. An electric machine includes an annular stator with a hollow core and one or more internal stator slots. One or more electrically conductive windings is/are disposed in the stator slot(s). A cylindrical rotor is rotatably disposed inside the hollow core of the stator. One or more permanent magnets is/are mounted to the rotor. Each permanent magnet includes a rigid, single-piece PM body with opposing first and second faces. A first set of elongated grooves is recessed into the first face. An optional second set of elongated grooves is recessed into the second face. Each of the grooves has a depth that is substantially parallel to a direction of a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet.
US10666093B2
An object is to provide a power storage device provided with a battery that is a power storage means, for safe and accurate supply of electric power in a short period of time for drive power supply voltage without checking remaining capacity of the battery or changing batteries with deterioration over time of the battery for drive power supply voltage. The power storage device is provided with a battery that is a power storage means as a power supply for supplying electric power and a counter circuit for counting charging time of the power storage means. An electromagnetic wave with electric field intensity, magnetic field intensity, and power flux density per unit time which are transmitted from a power feeder are controlled, and the power storage means is efficiently charged using the electromagnetic wave in a short period of time.
US10666088B2
A protection arrangement for an uninterruptible power supply system including at least one vacuum circuit breaker connected in series with an inductive element, the protection arrangement including a first bypass branch and a first grounding branch, the first bypass branch being connected in parallel with the inductive element and including two series-connected protective components of a first type and a bypass branch midpoint between them, where the first grounding branch is connected between the bypass branch midpoint and ground and includes a first grounding surge arrester.
US10666075B2
Disclosed are a non-narrow voltage direct current (NON-NVDC) charger and a control method thereof. In the present disclosure, a proper target voltage, related to a turn-on voltage of a switch circuit, is determined according to an output voltage of a load, a storage voltage of an energy storage device and a turn-on resistance value of the switch circuit. Then, according to the determined target voltage, the NON-NVDC charger can enter a supplement mode at an appropriate time. The NON-NVDC charger can be operated stably and has excellent operation efficiency even when a current flowing through a transformer close to a maximum safe current.
US10666074B2
An electronic device includes a display and a controller. The controller obtains time series information regarding an output voltage of a battery; estimates a battery remaining amount which the battery is able to discharge based on the obtained time series information; and controls the display to perform a predetermined display when the estimated battery remaining amount is less than a predetermined reference remaining amount.
US10666073B2
The disclosure enclosed herein discloses a gamepad, the gamepad comprising: a thimble contact rechargeable battery package, a battery cover, and a charging dock, wherein the dock comprises an upper cover, a bottom shell, and a charging PCB arranged between them. The disclosure has a dual-charge dock charging for two gamepads simultaneously, with two thimbles. A battery groove is at a back of the gamepad, and a battery cover matching the battery groove is provided therein, and also has a charging window. The rechargeable battery package has a charging interface and a discharging interface. When in use, the rechargeable battery package is placed into the battery groove and covered. The discharging interface is electrically connected to the gamepad, supplying power thereto. When being charged, the gamepad is placed on the charging dock; the thimble arranged at the charging dock contacts with the charging interface through the charging window to realize charging.
US10666071B2
A portable power bank controllable via inertial input. Control includes: while in one or both of a charge mode and a providing charge mode, monitoring for an inertial input; upon detection of a first active mode inertial input, activating the user visual display; upon detection of a second active mode inertial input disabling one or both of the output mode and the charge mode; and upon detection of a third active mode inertial input, re-enabling one or both of the charge mode and the providing charge mode.
US10666067B2
First and second hearing assistance devices each comprise a rechargeable power source and power management circuitry configured to control charging of the power sources. A portable charging unit comprises an interface configured to receive a connector of a power cable or a power and data cable, a rechargeable power source coupled to the interface, first and second charge ports configured to receive the first and second hearing assistance devices, and charging circuitry coupled to the first and second charge ports and to the rechargeable power source of the charging unit. The power management circuitry and the charging circuitry cooperate to partially charge the power sources of the hearing assistance devices at an accelerated charge rate above 1.0C when a state of charge (SoC) of the power sources is within a predetermined SoC range.
US10666056B2
Disclosed are a photovoltaic air-conditioning system and a photovoltaic air conditioner having same. The photovoltaic air-conditioning system comprises a photovoltaic battery, a switch module, an inverter circuit, a rectification circuit and a compressor inverter; an input end of the switch module is electrically connected to a power grid; a first output end of the switch module is electrically connected to a first input/output end of the inverter circuit; a second output end of the switch module is electrically connected to an input end of the rectification circuit; an output end of the rectification circuit is electrically connected to an input end of the compressor inverter; the input end of the switch module is not simultaneously conducting with both of the first output end and the second output end of the switch module.
US10666050B2
An interface architecture for a cabin monument has an energy supply interface module; a data interface module; a first energy input connection coupled to a first input of the energy supply interface module, which connection is designed or configured to be connected to an external energy supply; a first data input connection coupled to the data interface module, which connection is designed or configured to obtain data from an external data source and forward the data to the data interface module; a first energy output connection coupled to a first output of the energy supply interface module, which connection is designed or configured to deliver electrical energy to a load that can be connected to the energy output connection; and a communication interface which couples the energy supply interface module to the data interface module.
US10666043B2
A description is given of an apparatus for disconnecting a connection between solar modules of a photovoltaic string. A circuit breaker, a band-stop filter and a supply circuit are arranged in a series circuit between a first and second terminal. The series circuit is configured to conduct a current that includes a DC string current flowing through the photovoltaic string and a high-frequency control signal modulated onto the DC string current. The supply circuit is configured to generate energy to power the apparatus from the DC string current. An AC bypass circuit bridges the circuit breaker in parallel and is configured to conduct the high-frequency control signal. A control unit is configured to operate the apparatus based on the high-frequency control signal. A reverse current diode oppositely polarized relative to an operating current flow is connected in parallel with the circuit breaker or the circuit breaker and the band-stop filter.
US10666039B2
A power stage in an electronic fuse circuit is driven by controller. The controller includes a first comparator set for output voltage control and a second comparator set for output current control. Each comparator set includes at least one comparator having a reference input, a feedback input, and one or more outputs. A driver circuit includes output terminals for driving the power stage. The driver circuit includes a switch that is selectively activated in response to outputs from the first and second comparator sets to clamp the voltage across the output terminals of the driver circuit. The clamp operation is made in response to feedback input to either of the first and second comparator sets having exceeded a certain reference.
US10666036B2
An arc fault detection system includes a high frequency detector module structured to detect first spectral content of power having a frequency in a first frequency range, a number of arc fault circuit interrupters each having separable contacts, a low frequency detector module structured to detect second spectral content of power having a frequency in a second frequency range, a control unit structured to control the separable contacts to trip open, and an arc fault detection unit structured to detect an arc fault based on the detected first and second spectral content of the power and to cause the control unit to control the separable contacts to trip open in response to detecting the arc fault. A communication bus provides communication between the high frequency detector and the arc fault circuit interrupters and the first frequency range includes frequencies that are higher than frequencies in the second frequency range.
US10666029B2
A cable management system includes first and second beams spaced-apart from one another and extending in generally parallel orientation relative to one another. A plurality of brackets are supported by and extend between the first and second beams in stacked orientation relative to one another. The plurality of brackets is configured to retain a row of cables between each adjacent pair of stacked brackets. Each bracket of the plurality of brackets includes a plurality of cable receptacles. Opposing cable receptacles of each adjacent pair of stacked brackets are configured for inter-fit engagement with one another in offset, overlapping orientation to retain a cable of the rows of cables therebetween.
US10666025B2
A motor control unit (MCU) and methods of operating and assembling the same are provided. The MCU includes a housing enclosing a retractable stab assembly (RSA) having stabs attached thereto. The MCU further includes a bracket assembly having a mount for securing the bracket assembly to the RSA, guiderails for slideably engaging the RSA to facilitate the extending and retracting motion, and a lead screw accessible via an opening in the front of the housing. Rotating the lead screw causes the RSA to extend and retract which engages and disengages the stabs. The MCU also includes a motor assembly having a drive motor coupled to a drive shaft. The motor rotates the shaft in response to control signals from a remote-device. The motor assembly attaches to the housing such that the rotation of the shaft in response to the signals rotates the lead screw to engage and disengage the stabs.
US10666024B2
A housing for an electrical device comprises a housing bottom, a fastening element, and an unlocking element and is closeable by a housing cover. The housing bottom includes an elastically deformable connecting section to connect the housing to a machine, a technical system, or a building wall. The fastening element is disposed on an outer face of the connecting section and is connectable in a form-fitting and/or friction-fitting manner to a corresponding retaining element of the machine, the technical system, or the building wall. The unlocking element is disposed on an inner face of the connecting section and is operatively connected to the fastening element. The unlocking element is user actuatable only from an inside of the housing when the housing is open in order to release the form-fitting and/or friction-fitting connection of the fastening element to the retaining element of the machine, the technical system, or the building wall.
US10666022B2
An ignition plug includes a main metal fitting; an earth electrode having one end fixed to the main metal fitting and including, in a part of the other end, an inclined portion inclined toward the center axis line of the main metal fitting; an earth electrode-side chip joined to the inclined portion; and a center electrode having one end exposed from the main metal fitting. The ignition plug includes: a pedestal which has an elliptic cylindrical shape, is disposed so as to have a minor axis directed toward the earth electrode-side chip, and has an end surface forming an inclined surface inclined along the minor axis with respect to the center axis line; and a center electrode-side chip laser-welded to the inclined surface. The earth electrode-side chip and the center electrode-side chip face each other.
US10666021B2
A spark plug electrode assembly and method of manufacturing a spark plug assembly having an inner and outer electrode component, one of which or both being formed using metal injection molding (MIM). Forming at least one of the inner or outer electrode components with MIM allows for the creation of a mechanical lock and a metallurgical bond at an interface between the components such that the components may be joined without a weld.
US10666011B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optical communications. In one aspect, an optical amplifier includes an input port, a wavelength division multiplexing fiber coupled to a pump source and to a bar-cross switch, a first gain stage optically coupled between a first port of the bar-cross switch and to an output port, the first gain stage including a first gain flattening filter, and a secondary gain stage optically coupled between a second port and a third port of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage including a second gain flattening filter. When in a bar-state of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage is bypassed. And when in a cross-state of the bar-cross switch, the secondary gain stage and the first gain stage are applied to an input light beam.
US10666008B2
A gas supply system may include a first gas supply line, a second gas supply line, a circulation gas pipe, a gas purification unit, a first valve, and a second valve. The first gas supply line may include a first branching point at which the first gas supply line branches into a first branch connected to a first chamber and a second branch connected to a second chamber and the second gas supply line may include a second branching point at which the second gas supply line branches into a third branch connected to the first chamber and a fourth branch connected to the second chamber. A first portion of the first gas supply line upstream from the first branching point and a second portion of the second gas supply line upstream from the second branching point may be constituted by separate pipes from each other.
US10666004B2
A method for manufacture of a gold-plated slipring contact, comprising steps of galvanic deposition of a copper layer on the electrically-conductive substrate; of a nickel and/or nickel phosphor layer on the copper layer; and of a gold layer on the nickel and/or nickel phosphor layer. While galvanically applying the copper layer on the substrate, the used galvanic bath explicitly does not include at least one of 3-carboxy-1-(phenylmethyl)pyridinium chloride sodium salt, cationic polymers with urea groups, 1-(3-sulfopropyl)pyridinium betaine, 1-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfopropyl)-pyridinium betaine, propargyl(3-sulfopropyl)ether sodium salt, sodium saccharin, sodium allylsulfonate, N,N-dimethyl-N-(3-cocoamidopropyl)-N-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfopropyl)ammonium betaine, polyamines, 1H-imidazole-polymer with (chloromethyl)oxiran, 3-carboxy-1-(phenylmethyl)pyridinium chloride sodium salt, 1-benzyl-3-sodium carboxy-pyridinium chloride, arsenic trioxide, potassium antimony tartrate, potassium tellurate, alkali arsenite, potassium tellerite, potassium seleno cyanate, alkali antimonyl tartrate, sodium selenite, thallium sulfate, and carbon disulfide, to create the outer surface of the contact that is at least an order of magnitude rougher than a surface of a conventionally-fabricated contact.
US10666001B2
A charging plug includes a housing, two charging pins, and an elastic piece. The housing includes a main body portion having an arrangement surface and a protruding portion. The protruding portion is connected to the main body portion and located on the arrangement surface. The protrusion portion has an upper surface, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite each other and connecting to the upper surface. The charging pins are disposed in the housing and extend out of the protrusion portion. The elastic piece is disposed on the protruding portion of the housing and located between the charging pins. The elastic piece covers the first side surface, the upper surface and the second side surface and has at least one positioning portion, and the positioning portion is adapted to be engaged with at least one slot of a casing.
US10665999B2
A shielded coaxial termination device includes a center conductor having a front end and a barrel encircling the center conductor. The barrel includes a front end and an annular sidewall defining an interior configured to receive and electrically couple with a coaxial post. A shield, having a front end and an opposed rear end, is mounted to the barrel so as to deploy from a retracted position toward an advanced position to radially cover the center conductor when the barrel is not fully installed on a coaxial post.
US10665992B2
An actuator capable of enhancing versatility is provided. The actuator prevents a charging connector from coming off a power receiving connector, and includes: a hollow housing; and a driving mechanism that is housed in the housing. The driving mechanism includes: an electric motor; a cam member that is driven by the electric motor; and a lock pin that interlocks with the cam member and moves from an initial position to a restricting position where the charging connector is prevented from coming off. A rotation axis of the cam member is arranged substantially perpendicular to a reference plane defined by a line segment running in the direction of plugging the charging connector and a line segment extending from the housing toward the power receiving connector.
US10665987B2
A plug connector housing has a socket housing and a screw attachment. The socket housing has an outer surface of circular cross section with an encircling first groove formed therein. The screw attachment has an inner surface of circular cross section with an encircling second groove formed therein. The plug connector housing furthermore has a circlip which is arranged with its inner circumference in the first groove and with its outer circumference in the second groove in order to hold the screw attachment rotatably on the socket housing.
US10665986B1
A reinforcing add-on, method of use, and method of manufacture facilitates housing a portion of a mobile charging cord to prevent cord damage. The reinforcing add-on comprises mating top and bottom portions having a housing cavity, proximal end, central body, and distal end, with a cord channel extending therebetween. The central body has a proximal section and a distal section meeting at a bend angle θ, wherein θ is an obtuse angle. Side walls having side wall edges extend along the housing cavity, proximal end, central body and distal end, having attachment means for attaching the top and bottom portions to one another to form the reinforcing add-on and house the portion of the mobile charging cord. The reinforcing add-on is appointed to be attached to and house the portion of the mobile charging cord to prevent bend strain and increase the cord's service life.
US10665983B2
An in-line electrical connector includes a potting boot. The potting boot includes longitudinal ribs are spaced apart from one another about a longitudinal axis of a boot body. Internal thread members project radially inward from an interior surface of the boot body relative to the longitudinal axis. The thread members have arcuate lengths extending about the longitudinal axis of the boot body. Each longitudinal rib has an associated one of the internal thread members that radially overlaps an entirety of the width of the longitudinal rib relative to the longitudinal axis of the boot body. An electrical connector threadably mates to the internal thread members of the potting boot. The electrical connector electrically couples to another electrical connector.
US10665982B2
The disclosure relates to the field of holding frames for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules. To provide a way of populating a holding frame with modules even when the holding frame is already installed in a casing, and in a manner that is compatible with known modules, a holding frame arrangement for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules is proposed, comprising a base frame adapted to receive a module and a fixing element adapted for fixing to the base frame such that the base frame and the fixing element fixed to it together define a fixing window for engaging a fixing lug of a received in order to fix the module in place.
US10665976B2
A float connector for interconnecting printed circuit boards that has a contact assembly that includes one or more contacts and a holder therefor such that opposite ends of the contact are exposed outside of the holder. The holder supports each contact in a clearance fit inside thereof, thereby allowing each contact to radially tilt. One or more guide members has a one or more guide features corresponding to the ends of the contacts, respectively, for aligning the contact ends for electrical connection with a board. The contact assembly is axially moveable with respect to the one or more guide member.
US10665974B2
An inline communications connector is provided that includes a housing and tip and ring contacts that are mounted in the housing. The tip contact includes an input tip socket, an output tip socket and a tip socket connection section that physically and electrically connects the input and output tip sockets. The ring contact includes an input ring socket, an output ring socket and a ring socket connection section that physically and electrically connects the input and output ring sockets. The input tip socket is not collinear with the output tip socket and the input ring socket is not collinear with the output ring socket.
US10665972B2
The invention relates to a plug connector, in particular a direct plug connector, for contacting contact openings of a circuit board, the plug connector including a contact carrier which can include coding devices, in particular coding pins and a polarity reversal safety, in particular configured as polarity protrusions; conductor insertion channels formed by the contact carrier and configured to receive connection conductors, and contact recesses configured to receive plug contacts; a primary safety that supports the contact carrier at the circuit board and that is in particular configured as interlocking elements, characterized in that, the contact carrier is provided with a secondary safety which fixes the contact carrier at the circuit board in addition to the primary safety and which is operable independently from the primary safety.
US10665957B1
An antenna array and a method of making can use solder connections. The antenna system includes a back plane circuit board having a top surface, first radio frequency circuit boards arranged in rows on the back plane circuit board and perpendicular to the top surface, and second radio frequency circuit boards arranged in columns on the back plane circuit board and perpendicular to the top surface. Each of the first radio frequency circuit boards include at least one first antenna element, and each of the second radio frequency circuit boards include at least one second antenna. The first radio frequency circuit boards and second radio frequency circuit boards are connected to the back plane circuit board by solder connections.
US10665943B2
Mobile devices with integrated slot antennas are provided are provided. A representative mobile device includes: an exterior housing having a front and a back and defining an interior; a display, mounted to the housing, configured to display images at the front of the housing; and an antenna structure positioned within the interior; the housing having a first portion and a second portion, each of which is formed of metal, the first portion being located at the back of the housing and defining a first slot such that the antenna structure and the first slot form a first slot antenna, the second portion being located at the front of the housing and defining a second slot such that the antenna structure and the second slot form a second slot antenna.
US10665942B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for adjusting an operational parameter of electromagnetic waves supplied to a feed point of a dielectric antenna to modify a beamwidth of far-field wireless signals generated by the dielectric antenna, the electromagnetic waves propagating along the feed point without an electrical return path, detecting that the beamwidth of the far-field wireless signals needs to be adjusted to improve a reception of the far-field wireless signals by a remote system, and adjusting the operational parameter of the electromagnetic waves to adjust the beamwidth of the far-field wireless signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10665936B2
A wireless module, including: a substrate; an electronic circuit mounted in a first region on a one face of the substrate; a conductive pattern formed in a second region on another face of the substrate, the conductive pattern being connected to a radio communication section of the electronic circuit, and the conductive pattern serving as an antenna when transmitting/receiving radio wave, the second region being different from the first region; a resin layer sealing the electronic circuit in the first region; a shielding layer formed on a surface of the resin layer; and a shield disposed in either one of a top layer of the substrate and an inner layer of the substrate, the shield being for shielding noise radiated from the electronic circuit.
US10665931B2
An antenna array includes multiple array modules. Each array module includes at least on antenna element including a horn antenna coupled to a polarizer, and a two-piece waveguide filter. The two-piece waveguide filter includes a folded-back waveguide coupled to the horn antenna at one end and to a circuit layer at the other end. The horn antenna includes a multi-mode horn antenna. The two-piece waveguide filter includes a first piece and a second piece that are separately molded. A footprint of the two-piece waveguide filter is within a footprint of an aperture of the horn antenna.
US10665930B2
The present invention relates to a tile structure of a shape-adaptive phased array antenna, and more specifically to a tile structure of a shape-adaptive phased array antenna configured to improve drag and low-observable properties of an airplane, and minimize a structural interference between adjacent tiles of the phased array antenna.
US10665928B2
An antenna system including a retro-directive adaptive phased array antenna, comprised of a group of antenna modules. There is a phasing cell in each antenna module that adds a certain amount of phase shift to the wireless transmit and receive signals in order to generate a pair of retro-directive radiation beams, such that the wireless transmit and receive beams are aligned to each other. Each phasing cell synthesizes the phase shift values for the transmit and receive beams using only one phase shifter. Therefore, as a beam forming algorithm changes the receive beam forming coefficients (i.e. the phase shifters values) to steer the receiving beam, the transmit beam will be automatically aligned to that of receive beam for arbitrary transmit and receive frequencies.
US10665924B2
A portable electronic device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The portable electronic device includes a front cover that forms a front face of the electronic device, a rear cover that forms a rear face of the electronic device, a bezel that surrounds a space formed by the front cover and the rear cover, a display device that is embedded in the space and includes a screen region that is exposed through the front cover, a metal structure that is positioned within the space, and includes a first face facing the front cover and a second face facing the rear cover, a non-metal structure that is positioned within the space to partially overlap with the metal structure, and includes a first surface facing the front cover and a second surface facing the rear cover, and a metal filler extending from the first surface to the second surface of the non-metal structure through a portion of the non-metal structure. The metal filler is formed of a material that is equal in strength to that of the metal structure, and includes a first end portion adjacent to the first surface and a second end portion adjacent to the second surface, and at least one of the first end portion and the second end portion are aligned to be coplanar with a portion of the first surface and a portion of the second surface, respectively.
US10665919B2
An antenna pane is presented. The antenna pane has features that include an inner pane having an internal surface, an antenna structure made of an electrically conductive paste that is printed and fired into the internal surface of the inner pane, and a dielectric carrier element that is connected to the internal surface of the inner pane via an external surface of the dielectric carrier element. In one aspect, an internal surface of the dielectric carrier element has an electrically conductive base plate that is arranged in a region of an orthogonal projection of the antenna structure relative to the inner panel.
US10665916B2
A polarizer assembly including first and second components having respective first and second channel portions. The first and second components are configured to flex between a pre-fastened state and a fastened state. In the pre-fastened state, a first flange face of a flange of the first component contacts an opposite facing second flange face of a flange of the second component at contact regions along respective edges of the first and second channel portions to form a nonuniform thickness gap between the first and second flange faces outwardly from the contact regions toward outer edges of the first and second components. In the fastened state, the first flange face is engaged flush with the second flange face to close the nonuniform thickness gap.
US10665906B2
A probe supporting structure, configured to support probe for testing battery cell, includes a base and at least two supporting members. The supporting members are detachably disposed on the base with an adjustable distance between the supporting members. The supporting members are arranged in parallel manner.
US10665901B2
A battery includes a first current collector, first electrode layer, and first counter electrode layer. The first counter electrode layer is a counter electrode of the first electrode layer. The first current collector includes first front and rear face regions, second front and rear face regions, and a first fold portion. The first rear face region is a region situated on the rear face of the first front face region. The second rear face region is a region situated on the rear face of the second front face region. The first fold portion is situated between the first and second front face regions. The first current collector is folded at the first fold portion, whereby the first and second rear face regions face each other. The first electrode layer is in contact with the second front face region, and the first counter electrode layer with the first front face region.
US10665895B2
A polymer that can be used as a binder for sulfur-based cathodes in lithium batteries is disclosed. The polymer includes in its composition olefinic groups capable of reaction with and entrapment of polysulfide species. Beneficial effects include reductions in capacity loss and/or ionic resistance gain.
US10665885B2
Provided is a vehicle with a fuel cell unit, specifically, a vehicle with a configuration in which a fuel cell unit is arranged anterior to a dashboard as well as a toe board located below the dashboard, where the fuel cell unit is arranged to be prevented from colliding with the toe board upon occurrence of unforeseen impact on the fuel cell unit. The fuel cell unit includes at least a fuel cell group, a stack manifold provided on the fuel cell group on the vehicle rear side, and an air valve device fixed to the stack manifold. The stack manifold has a recess portion formed in a part thereof. The air valve device is fixed to the stack manifold with at least a part of the air valve device received within the recess portion.
US10665876B2
A control unit of a fuel cell system includes a valve control unit configured such that, when it is determined that an exhaust valve is stuck open in a quick warming-up operation, the valve control unit sets at least one of an operable opening area which is an opening area capable of being changed by control and a rate of opening change which is an opening changeable frequency at which an opening is changeable per unit time, for at least one of a pressure adjusting valve and a flow division valve, such that a flow rate of a cathode gas supplied to a fuel cell is in an allowable range of a requested supply flow rate required for the quick warming-up operation.
US10665872B2
A fuel cell stack including a plurality of electricity generation units fastened by means of a plurality of fastening members. Each electricity generation unit includes a single cell, and a sealing member sandwiched between two other members thereby sealing one of the anode chamber and the cathode chamber. The surface of the sealing member included in at least one electricity generation units, the surface facing either of the two other members, has a surface roughness Ra of 3.0 μm or less.
US10665864B2
The present disclosure is directed to preventing generation of side reactions at a negative electrode, inhibiting an increase in resistance, and improving productivity. An electrode assembly is provided including: a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector having a negative electrode tab at one end, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on a surface thereof; a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector having a positive electrode tab at one end, and a positive electrode active material layer formed on a surface thereof; and a separator interposed between the positive and negative electrodes, and including a coating layer containing a conductive material and a polymer binder on the top surface of the negative electrode active material layer, wherein the coating layer is spaced apart from the top end, where the negative electrode tab is formed, and the bottom end by a predetermined distance.
US10665856B2
A positive electrode active material includes secondary particles obtained by aggregation of a plurality of primary particles. The primary particles include, core particles including a lithium composite oxide, and a layer that is provided on surfaces of the core particles and includes a lithium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide included in the core particles and the lithium composite oxide included in the layer have the same composition or almost the same composition, and crystallinity of the lithium composite oxide included in the layer is lower than crystallinity of the lithium composite oxide included in the core particles.
US10665855B2
A secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode including an active material, and non-aqueous electrolytic solution. The active material includes a center portion and a covering portion provided on part or all of the center portion. The center portion includes silicon, tin, or both as constituent elements. The covering portion includes a plurality of fibrous carbon materials. Part or all of the fibrous carbon materials extend in a direction along a surface of the center portion and are closely attached to the center portion.
US10665839B2
The present invention relates to new, improved or modified polymer materials, membranes, substrates, and the like and to new, improved or modified methods for permanently modifying the physical and/or chemical nature of surfaces of the polymer substrate for a variety of end uses or applications. For example, one improved method uses a carbene and/or nitrene modifier to chemically modify a functionalized polymer to form a chemical species which can chemically react with the surface of a polymer substrate and alter its chemical reactivity. Such method may involve an insertion mechanism to modify the polymer substrate to increase or decrease its surface energy, polarity, hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity, oleophilicity or oleophobicity, and/or the like in order to improve the compatibility of the polymer substrate with, for example, coatings, materials, adjoining layers, and/or the like. Furthermore, this invention can be used to produce chemically modified membranes, fibers, hollow fibers, textiles, and the like, for example, to produce polyolefin microporous battery separators or membranes having improved hydrophilicity or wettability, having crosslinking in the polyolefin which can improve the high temperature stability, and/or the like.
US10665836B2
A pouch-type secondary battery includes an electrode assembly equipped with an electrode tab, an electrode lead connected to the tab, a pouch housing accommodating and sealing the electrode assembly such that the lead is exposed partly and equipped with a sealing zone at the edge thereof, a first sealant interposed between the top surface of the lead and the inner surface of the housing and a second sealant interposed between the lower surface of the lead and the inner surface of the housing. The lead includes a joint portion joined to the tab, a terminal portion exposed to the outside of the housing and a fuse portion therebetween. The fuse portion includes a separating groove separated from the sealing zone toward the joint portion and including at least a horizontal slit and a breaking portion connected to the separating groove for separating the terminal portion from the joint portion.
US10665833B2
The present disclosure relates to a stacked cell manufacturing scheme for battery modules. A disclosed method of manufacturing a battery module includes assembling a plurality of prismatic battery cells of the battery module into a cell stack. The method includes compressing the cell stack using an actuating clamping mechanism, inserting the cell stack into a housing of the battery module with the actuating clamping mechanism engaged with and compressing the cell stack, and removing the actuating clamping mechanism from the cell stack. The housing of battery module maintains a compression of the cell stack above a predetermined threshold in the battery module after removing the actuating clamping mechanism.
US10665823B2
A flexible display device includes: a display panel capable of being bent with respect to a folding line; and a metal plate disposed on the display panel and capable of being bent with respect to the folding line. The metal plate has a plurality of holes disposed on each side of the folding line, the plurality of holes being formed in a zigzag pattern with respect to the folding line.
US10665811B2
An electroluminescent display device which may improve display quality is discussed. The electroluminescent display device includes a substrate in which a plurality of pixel areas are defined, a first electrode arranged in each pixel area, a light emitting layer on the first electrode within the pixel area, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer. Particularly, a step difference portion is arranged at an edge of the pixel area, and is partially or fully be filled with the light emitting layer. Film uniformity of the light emitting layer within the pixel area may be improved by arrangement of the step difference portion.
US10665809B2
An organic light emitting diode, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode, the second electrode including magnesium; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron injection layer between the second electrode and the emission layer, the electron injection layer including a dipole material including a first component and a second component having different polarities, the dipole material including halide, and a content of the magnesium included in the second electrode being in a range of from 10 to 40 volume %.
US10665803B2
In one aspect, solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic devices are provided. A solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic device, in some embodiments, comprises an organic electron donor and an organic electron acceptor, wherein the organic electron donor comprises a singlet energy level separated from a triplet energy level by an energy gap. The device also comprises a triplet sensitizer comprising singlet and triplet energy levels falling within the singlet-triplet energy gap of the electron donor.
US10665799B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a carbon nanotube (CNT) layer on the first dielectric layer, forming a second dielectric layer on the carbon nanotube (CNT) layer, patterning a plurality of trenches in the second dielectric layer exposing corresponding portions of the carbon nanotube (CNT) layer, forming a plurality of contacts respectively in the plurality of trenches on the exposed portions of the carbon nanotube (CNT) layer, performing a thermal annealing process to create end-bonds between the plurality of the contacts and the carbon nanotube (CNT) layer, and depositing a passivation layer on the plurality of the contacts and the second dielectric layer.
US10665797B2
In one aspect, field effect transistors are described herein employing channels formed of hybrid halide perovskite materials. For example, a field effect transistor comprises a source terminal, a drain terminal and a gate terminal wherein a dielectric layer is positioned between the gate terminal and the source and drain terminals. A channel layer is in electrical communication with the source terminal and the drain terminal, the channel layer comprising an organic-inorganic perovskite in contact with a polymeric surface of the dielectric layer.
US10665795B2
A light emitting element includes a flexible plate-like portion having a glass substrate, and an organic functional layer formed on one surface side of the glass substrate. The organic functional layer includes a light emitting layer. When the plate-like portion is curved in a prescribed curving direction, and one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a surface which is positioned on the concave surface side among both surfaces of the glass substrate is referred to as a first surface. When the plate-like portion is curved in a curving direction, and the one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a compressive stress is applied to a portion whose distance from the first surface of the glass substrate is less than or equal to L (L>T/2).
US10665789B2
An organic light-emitting device having a low driving voltage, high efficiency, and a long lifespan is provided. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes an emission layer, a first compound, and a second compound. Various chemical structures for the first compound and the second compound are provided.
US10665787B2
The invention relates to arylamino compounds and to the use thereof in electronic devices, for example organic electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to electronic devices comprising one or more of the said compounds, for example as hole-transport materials in a corresponding functional layer of the device. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the said compounds, and to a formulation comprising one or more of the said compounds.
US10665786B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a treatment liquid which contains an ionic compound and a solvent, and is used for adhering the ionic compound to at least one surface selected from the group consisting of a surface on which a layer having hole transport properties is to be formed, and a surface of a layer having hole transport properties.
US10665780B2
A selector for a bipolar resistive random access memory and a method for fabricating the selector are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a lower electrode on the substrate, where the lower electrode is made of a metal, and the metal is made up of metal atoms which diffuse under an annealing condition of below 400° C.; forming a first metal oxide layer on the lower electrode; performing an annealing process on the first metal oxide layer to make the metal atoms in the lower electrode diffuse into the first metal oxide layer to form a first metal oxide layer doped with metal atoms; forming a second metal oxide layer on the first metal oxide layer doped with metal atoms; forming an upper electrode layer on the second metal oxide layer; and patterning the upper electrode layer to form an upper electrode.
US10665774B2
A magnetoresistive element including: a storage layer having a first storage magnetostriction; a sense layer having a first sense magnetostriction; and a barrier layer between and in contact with the storage and sense layer. The magnetoresistive element also includes a compensating ferromagnetic layer having a second magnetostriction different from the first storage magnetostriction and/or sense magnetostriction, and adapted to compensate the first storage magnetostriction and/or the first sense magnetostriction so that a net magnetostriction of the storage layer and/or sense layer is adjustable between −10 ppm and +10 ppm or more negative than −10 ppm by adjusting a thickness of the compensating ferromagnetic layer. The present disclosure also concerns a magnetic device comprising the magnetoresistive element.
US10665773B2
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is disclosed wherein first and second interfaces of a free layer (FL) with a first metal oxide (Hk enhancing layer) and second metal oxide (tunnel barrier), respectively, produce perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) to increase thermal stability. In some embodiments, a capping layer that is a conductive metal nitride such as MoN contacts an opposite surface of the Hk enhancing layer with respect to the first interface to reduce interdiffusion of oxygen and nitrogen compared with a TiN capping layer and maintain an acceptable resistance×area (RA) product. In other embodiments, the capping layer may comprise an insulating nitride such as AlN that is alloyed with a conductive metal to minimize RA. Furthermore, a metallic buffer layer may be inserted between the capping layer and Hk enhancing layer. As a result, electrical shorts are reduced and the magnetoresistive ratio is increased.
US10665763B2
An equipment system for bond-packaging an LED using a thermoplastic resin photoconverter by rolling includes: a cooperative roll-shaping and roll-cutting apparatus used for performing roll-shaping and roll-cutting on a photoconversion sheet, to form a photoconversion sheet array; and a roll-bonding apparatus used for performing roll-bonding on the photoconversion sheet array and a flip chip LED array. The cooperative roll-shaping and roll-cutting apparatus and the roll-bonding apparatus are arranged sequentially to form cooperatively linked process equipment, where the cooperative roll-shaping and roll-cutting apparatus includes a first rolling device with a protrusion array and a second rolling device with a recess array that are disposed face-to-face and aligned with each other, and the roll-bonding apparatus includes a fourth rolling device with a recess array and a third rolling device with a smooth rolling surface that are disposed face-to-face and aligned with each other.
US10665760B2
A method for producing at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component and an optoelectronic semiconductor component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes providing a semiconductor layer sequence comprising a first semiconductor material configured to emit a first radiation and applying a conversion element at least partially on the semiconductor layer sequence via a cold method, wherein the conversion element comprises a second semiconductor material, and wherein the second semiconductor material is configured to convert the first radiation into a second radiation.
US10665759B2
Described is a reflector for light emitting devices. A device includes a reflector in contact with a first n-type region and a second n-type region. The reflector includes multiple layers. One layer having an index of refraction different than the other layers. The device includes a light emitting region (LER) in contact with the second n-type region, a p-type region in contact with the LER and a light extraction region (LXR) in contact with the p-type region. A majority of light escapes the device through the LXR. The reflector reflects light emitted by the LER back towards the LXR. In another device, a reflector is embedded in a n-type region of the device. The device includes a LER, a p-type region, and a wavelength converter structure. The reflector reflects light emitted by the wavelength converting structure back towards the wavelength converting structure.
US10665742B2
This invention relates to a solar-cell module backing layer obtained by co-extruding obtained by melt co-extruding (i) a first polymer composition comprising (a) a polyamide, (b) an elastomer and (c) an elastomer that contains groups that bond chemically and/or interact physically with the polyamide, and wherein the first polymer composition comprises from 10 to 90 wt. % of the polyamide (a) and from 10 to 90 wt. % of the elastomer (b) and (c) (of the total weight of polyamide (a) and elastomer (b) and (c) present in the first polymer composition) and (ii) a second polymer composition comprising from 50-98 wt. % of elastomer and from 0.15-5 wt. % of groups (based on the total weight of the second polymer composition) that bond chemically and/or interact physically with the solar cell and optionally with the first polymer composition.
US10665739B2
A solar cell can include a built-in bypass diode. In one embodiment, the solar cell can include an active region disposed in or above a first portion of a substrate and a bypass diode disposed in or above a second portion of the substrate. The first and second portions of the substrate can be physically separated with a groove. A metallization structure can couple the active region to the bypass diode.
US10665735B2
A micro-fabricated atomic clock structure is thermally insulated so that the atomic clock structure can operate with very little power in an environment where the external temperature can drop to −40° C., while at the same time maintaining the temperature required for the proper operation of the VCSEL and the gas within the vapor cell.
US10665733B2
A composition for solar cell electrodes, an electrode formed of the same, and a method of forming an electrode, the composition including a conductive powder; a glass frit; at least one of a cyclosiloxane compound and a silsesquioxane compound; and an organic vehicle.
US10665731B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a composite passivation film disposed on a second surface of a semiconductor substrate that is opposite to a first surface on which light is incident. The composite passivation film includes a first passivation film having negative fixed charges and a protection film that protects the first passivation film. This allows the carrier collection efficiency of the photoelectric conversion element to be improved.
US10665730B2
A fabric comprising a plurality of photovoltaic filaments includes a conductive bus structure woven into the selvage edge of the fabric, providing a robust and flexible electrical connection from the positive and negative electrode leads of the photovoltaic filaments. The bus structure may be formed in segments which can include any combination of series and parallel configurations to accommodate loads requiring specified voltage and current.
US10665726B2
A memory device and an operation method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a semiconductor substrate and an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) gate structure located on the semiconductor substrate. The ONO gate structure includes a bottom oxide layer, a top oxide layer and a nitride layer. The nitride layer is located between the bottom oxide layer and the top oxide layer. The bottom oxide layer is located closer to the semiconductor substrate than the top oxide layer. The bottom oxide layer has a first thickness, and the top oxide layer has a second thickness smaller the first thickness. The operation method includes an erasing operation and a programming operation. Electrons are attracted into the ONO gate structure through the bottom oxide layer in the programming operation. Electrons trapped in the ONO gate structure escape from the ONO gate structure through the top oxide layer.
US10665724B2
A method and apparatus wherein the method comprises: providing at least one electrode within a semiconductor layer wherein the semiconductor layer is provided on a first side of a wafer; thinning the wafer to produce a thinned wafer; providing graphene on a second side of the thinned wafer; attaching the semiconductor layer to an electrical interface on the first side of the thinned wafer; and providing at least one electrical connection from the graphene to the electrical interface so as to form a transistor comprising the at least one electrode and the graphene.
US10665723B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; protruding portions extending in parallel to each other on the substrate; nanowires provided on the protruding portions and separated from each other; gate electrodes provided on the substrate and surrounding the nanowires; source/drain regions provided on the protruding portions and sides of each of the gate electrodes, the source/drain regions being in contact with the nanowires; and first voids provided between the source/drain regions and the protruding portions.
US10665713B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having an n-type drift layer, and a p-type well region formed in a surface portion of a part of the drift layer, an insulating film provided on the well region, a gate built-in resistor formed of polysilicon in contact with a surface of the insulating film, an interlayer insulating film formed on the gate built-in resistor, a gate contact wire that is connected to a gate pad and formed on the interlayer insulating film, a gate wire provided on the interlayer insulating layer so as to be apart from the gate contact wire, a first gate contact for electrically connecting the gate contact wire and the gate built-in resistor, and a second gate contact for electrically connecting the gate wire and the gate built-in resistor.
US10665711B2
A high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a substrate layer of silicon, a first contact disposed on a first surface of the substrate layer, and a number of layers disposed on a second surface of the substrate layer opposite the first surface. A second contact and a gate contact are disposed on those layers. A trench containing conducting material extends completely through the layers and into the substrate layer. In an embodiment of the HEMT, the first contact is a drain contact and the second contact is a source contact. In another embodiment of the HEMT, the first contact is a source contact and the second contact is a drain contact.
US10665710B2
A disclosed compound semiconductor device includes a channel layer configured to generate carriers; a spacer layer of Aly1Ga1-y1N (0.20
US10665709B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a power device, a protection circuit, a dielectric layer, a drain pad, a source pad, and a gate pad. The power device and the protection circuit are disposed on the substrate. The power device includes a drain electrode, a source electrode, and a gate electrode. The protection circuit has a first terminal electrically connected with the source pad and a second terminal electrically connected with the gate pad. The dielectric layer is disposed on the power device and the protection circuit. The drain pad, the source pad, and the gate pad are disposed on the dielectric layer and respectively electrically connected with the drain electrode, the source electrode, and the gate electrode. At least part of the protection circuit is disposed under the source pad, the gate pad, or the drain pad.
US10665676B2
Body contact layouts for semiconductor structures are disclosed. In at least one exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor structure comprises: a plurality of gates disposed on a semiconductor layer, each gate extending parallel to a y-axis in a coordinate space; a source region disposed between two of the plurality of gates; a plurality of body contacts disposed in each source region; and wherein a portion of each source region, adjacent to the gate, has a width extending parallel to the y-axis that is greater than the width of the source region parallel to the y-axis at a distance on an x-axis from the gate.
US10665673B2
The present disclosure provides a method that includes receiving a semiconductor substrate that includes an integrated circuit (IC) cell and a well tape cell surrounding the IC cell; forming first fin active regions in the well tape cell and second fin active regions in the IC cell; forming a hard mask within the well tape cell, wherein the hard mask includes openings that define first source/drain (S/D) regions on the first fin active region of the well tape cell; forming gate stacks on the second fin active regions within the IC cell and absent from the well tape cell, wherein the gate stacks define second S/D regions on the second fin active regions; epitaxially growing first S/D features in the first S/D regions using the hard mask to constrain the epitaxially growing; and forming contacts landing on the first S/D features within the well tape cell.
US10665670B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a substrate having a cell portion and a terminal portion surrounding the cell portion, a surface structure provided on the substrate, and a back surface electrode provided on the back surface of the substrate, the surface structure includes a convex portion protruding upward above the cell portion, and at least a part of the cell portion is thinner than the terminal portion.
US10665667B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device, and more particularly, to a junctionless/accumulation mode transistor with dynamic control and method of manufacturing. The circuit includes a channel region and a threshold voltage control on at least one side of the channel region, the threshold voltage control being configured to provide dynamic control of a voltage threshold, leakage current, and breakdown voltage of the circuit, wherein the threshold voltage control is a different dopant or material of a source region and a drain region of the circuit.
US10665664B2
A capacitor structure includes a plurality of bottom electrodes horizontally spaced apart from each other, a support structure covering sidewalls of the bottom electrodes, a top electrode surrounding the support structure and the bottom electrodes, and a dielectric layer interposed between the support structure and the top electrode, and between the top electrode and each of the bottom electrodes. An uppermost surface of the support structure is positioned at a higher level than an uppermost surface of each of the bottom electrodes.
US10665662B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer. A semiconductor component is disposed over the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer lies in a plane between a top surface of the semiconductor component and a bottom surface of the semiconductor component. A third conductive layer is formed over the semiconductor component opposite the first conductive layer. The semiconductor device includes a symmetrical structure. A first insulating layer is formed between the first conductive layer and semiconductor component. A second insulating layer is formed between the semiconductor component and third conductive layer. A height of the first insulating layer between the first conductive layer and semiconductor component is between 90% and 110% of a height of the second insulating layer between the semiconductor component and third conductive layer. The semiconductor component includes a passive device.
US10665660B2
A single-side light-emitting source, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device are provided. The single-side light-emitting source includes a base substrate; a plurality of light-shielding patterns on the base substrate; a signal transmission pattern covering the plurality of light-shielding patterns; a plurality of first electrodes; an electroluminescent layer on the first electrodes; and a transparent second electrode layer on the electroluminescent layer. In the above single-side light-emitting source, the first electrodes are on the signal transmission pattern, and an orthographic projection of each first electrode onto the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of a corresponding light-shielding pattern onto the base substrate.
US10665659B2
The double-sided display panel according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a first organic light-emitting layer for front-side display; a second organic light-emitting layer for back-side display; a first switch TFT configured to enable the first organic light-emitting layer to emit light; and a second switch TFT configured to enable the second organic light-emitting layer to emit light. A gate electrode of the first switch TFT is multiplexed as, or connected to, a gate electrode of the second switch TFT.
US10665654B2
A display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a display region above a first substrate, the display region includes, a plurality of a pixels, a transistor arranged to each of the plurality of the pixels, a light emitting element arranged to each of plurality of the pixels, an interlayer insulating layer above the transistor, and a planarization film above the inter layer insulating layer, a terminal region above the first substrate in a periphery region of the display region, the terminal region including, a plurality of terminals, each of which includes a first conductive layer above the interlayer insulating layer, the planarization film is arranged in a side part of the first conductive layer, and an inorganic insulating layer covering an upper surface of planarization film and an end part of the first conductive layer.
US10665644B2
An organic light emitting display panel, a fabricating method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The organic light emitting display panel comprises a base substrate, a TFT array which is arranged on the base substrate, and a touch structure which is arranged between the base substrate and the TFT array. Since the touch structure is arranged between the base substrate and the TFT array, the organic light emitting display panel has a decreased thickness.
US10665643B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit, a first wire unit, and a dummy unit. The substrate includes a first area, a second area, and a bending area. The bending area is disposed between a first area and a second area. The display unit is disposed in the first area. The first wire unit is electrically connected to the display unit and includes a plurality of first wires disposed on the substrate over the first area, the bending area, and the second area. The plurality of first wires include a plurality of holes disposed in the bending area and spaced apart from each other by a first pitch. The dummy wire unit includes a plurality of dummy wires disposed in the bending area.
US10665636B2
A method of forming a device that includes encapsulating a magnetic resistive access memory (MRAM) stack with a first patternable low-k dielectric material that is patterned by an exposure to produce a via pattern that extends to circuitry to logic devices. The via pattern is developed forming a via opening. The method further includes forming a second patternable low-k dielectric material over first patternable low-k dielectric material and filling the via opening. The second patternable low-k dielectric material is patterned by a light exposure to produce a first line pattern to the MRAM stack and a second line pattern to the via opening. The first line pattern and the second line pattern are developed to form trench openings. Thereafter, electrically conductive material is formed in the trench openings and the via opening.
US10665627B2
A method for forming an image sensor device is provided. The method includes forming an isolation structure in a substrate. The method includes forming a light-sensing region in the substrate. The isolation structure surrounds the light-sensing region. The method includes forming a grid layer over the substrate. The grid layer is over the isolation structure and has an opening over the light-sensing region. The method includes forming a first lens in or over the opening. The method includes forming a second lens over the first lens and the grid layer.
US10665605B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first interconnect layer provided above a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of second interconnect layers provided above the first interconnect layer; a semiconductor layer electrically coupled to the first interconnect layer; a first insulating layer provided between the semiconductor layer and the plurality of second interconnect layers; and a plurality of first oxide layers in which one side of the first oxide layers is in contact with the plurality of second interconnect layers while the other side of the first oxide layers is in contact with the first insulating layer, and a voltage is applied to the plurality of second interconnect layers to vary a resistance value.
US10665603B2
Some embodiments include an assembly having a channel to conduct current. The channel includes a first channel portion and a second channel portion. A first memory cell structure is between a first gate and the first channel portion. The first memory cell structure includes a first charge-storage region and a first charge-blocking region. A second memory cell structure is between a second gate and the second channel portion. The second memory cell structure includes a second charge-storage region and a second charge-blocking region. The first and second charge-blocking regions include silicon oxynitride. A void is located between the first and second gates, and between the first and second memory cell structures. Some embodiments include memory arrays (e.g., NAND memory arrays), and some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US10665601B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include first and second vertical conductive patterns isolated from each other by a first slit. The semiconductor device may include at least one first half conductive pattern extending toward a first region disposed at one side of the first slit from the first vertical conductive pattern. The semiconductor device may include at least one second half conductive pattern extending toward a second region disposed at the other side of the first slit from the second vertical conductive pattern.
US10665595B2
In the present disclosure, it has been appreciated that memory structures, such as static random access memory (SRAM) structures, have feature densities that are extremely high. While this is beneficial in allowing the memory structures to store large amounts of data in a small chip footprint, it is potentially detrimental in that it makes the memory structures more susceptible to leakage current than the other areas of the chip. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides pseudo memory structures which are similar in terms of layout spacing to actual memory structures. However, rather than being used as actual memory structures that store data during operation, these pseudo memory structures are used to characterize leakage current in the design of the IC and/or to characterize the fabrication process used to manufacture the IC.
US10665586B2
A method of concurrently forming source/drain contacts (CAs) and gate contacts (CBs) and device are provided. Embodiments include forming metal gates (PC) and source/drain (S/D) regions over a substrate; forming an ILD over the PCs and S/D regions; forming a mask over the ILD; concurrently patterning the mask for formation of CAs adjacent a first portion of each PC and CBs over a second portion of the PCs; etching through the mask, forming trenches extending through the ILD down to a nitride capping layer formed over each PC and a trench silicide (TS) contact formed over each S/D region; selectively growing a metal capping layer over the TS contacts formed over the S/D regions; removing the nitride capping layer from the second portion of each PC; and metal filling the trenches, forming the CAs and CBs.
US10665581B1
A support die includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices, front support-die bonding pads electrically connected to a first subset of the peripheral circuitry, and backside bonding structures electrically connected to a second subset of the peripheral circuitry. A first memory die including a first three-dimensional array of memory elements is bonded to the support die. First memory-die bonding pads of the first memory die are bonded to the front support-die bonding pads. A second memory die including a second three-dimensional array of memory elements is bonded to the support die. Second memory-die bonding pads of the second memory die are bonded to the backside bonding structures.
US10665578B2
Embodiments describe a display integration scheme in which an array of pixel driver chips embedded front side up in an insulator layer. A front side redistribution layer (RDL) spans across and is in electrical connection with the front sides of the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) is bonded to the front side RDL. The pixel driver chips may be located directly beneath the display area of the display panel.
US10665577B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming monolithic integrated circuit semiconductor structures that include a III-V portion implemented with III-N semiconductor materials, such as gallium nitride, indium nitride, aluminum nitride, and mixtures thereof. The disclosed semiconductor structures may further include a CMOS portion implemented with semiconductor materials selected from group IV of the periodic table, such as silicon, germanium, and/or silicon germanium (SiGe). The disclosed techniques can be used to form highly-efficient envelope tracking devices that include a voltage regulator and a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier that may both be located on the III-N portion of the semiconductor structure. Either of the CMOS or III-N portions can be native to the underlying substrate to some degree. The techniques can be used, for example, for system-on-chip integration of a III-N voltage regulator and RF power amplifier along with column IV CMOS devices on a single substrate.
US10665572B2
A semiconductor package includes a first chip package including a plurality of first semiconductor dies and a first insulating encapsulant, a second semiconductor die, a third semiconductor die, and a second insulating encapsulant. The plurality of first semiconductor dies are electrically connected to each other, and the first insulating encapsulant encapsulates the plurality of first semiconductor dies. The second semiconductor die and the third semiconductor die are electrically communicated to each other by connecting to the first chip package, wherein the first chip package is stacked on the second semiconductor die and the third semiconductor die. The second insulating encapsulant encapsulates the first chip package, the second semiconductor die, and the third semiconductor die.
US10665563B2
A semiconductor chip packaging structure without soldering wire and a packaging method thereof are disclosed. The semiconductor chip packaging structure comprises at least one packaging structure, and each packaging structure comprises a substrate, and a semiconductor chip is arranged on the substrate. Pins of the semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the conductive circuit formed by engraving or etching metal film or alloy film. The semiconductor chip packaging structure also comprises a packaging glue layer covering the semiconductor chip and the conductive circuit. The semiconductor chip packaging method includes steps of arranging a semiconductor chip on the substrate; forming a metal film or an alloy film around the semiconductor chip; etching the metal film or alloy film, to form the conductive circuit; and covering a packaging glue layer on the semiconductor chip and the conductive circuit. As a result, the production efficiency can be improved greatly.
US10665560B2
A semiconductor package includes an interconnect structure having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, at least one optical chip over the first surface of the interconnect structure and electrically coupled to the interconnect structure, an insulating layer contacting the second surface of the interconnect structure, and a molding compound over the first surface of the interconnect structure. The insulating layer includes a third surface facing the second surface of the interconnect structure and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface. At least an edge of the optical chip is covered by the molding compound.
US10665558B2
A semiconductor memory includes a plurality of first pads arranged in a first direction, a plurality of second pads arranged parallel to the plurality of first pads and in the first direction, a plurality of third pads arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a plurality of fourth pads arranged in the second direction. The semiconductor memory further includes first interconnection wires extending from the plurality of first pads in the second direction, the first interconnection wires being connected to the plurality of third pads, and second interconnection wires extending from the plurality of second pads in an opposite direction to the second direction, the second interconnection wires being connected to the plurality of fourth pads.
US10665556B2
A mechanism of a semiconductor structure with composite barrier layer under redistribution layer is provided. A semiconductor structure includes a substrate comprising a top metal layer on the substrate; a passivation layer over the top metal layer having an opening therein exposing the top metal layer; a composite barrier layer over the passivation layer and the opening, the composite barrier layer includes a center layer, a bottom layer, and an upper layer, wherein the bottom layer and the upper layer sandwich the center layer; and a redistribution layer (RDL) over the composite barrier layer and electrically connecting the underlying top metal layer.
US10665549B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a frame, including a wiring layer, and having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole, and including a connection pad; an encapsulant covering at least a portion of each of the frame and an inactive surface of the semiconductor chip, and having a first opening exposing at least a portion of the wiring layer; an insulating layer disposed on the encapsulant, and having a second opening formed in the first opening to expose at least a portion of the wiring layer; a conductive pattern layer disposed on the insulating layer; a conductive via disposed in the second opening; and a connection structure disposed on the frame and an active surface of the semiconductor chip, and including one or more redistribution layers. The conductive pattern layer and the redistribution layer are electrically connected to the connection pad.
US10665547B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing thereof capable of relaxing a level difference thereon. A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a first interlayer insulating film having a first opening, and a second interlayer insulating film having a second opening wherein a following expression is satisfied: (H2−H1)/((W2−W1)/2)≤3.6 where, in sectional view, W1 represents a width of the first opening, W2 represents a width of the second opening, H1 represents a minimum value of a height from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to a surface of the third interlayer insulating film in the second opening, and H2 represents a height from the surface of the semiconductor substrate to the surface of the third interlayer insulating film in an end of the second opening.
US10665536B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a polymer base layer; a backside redistribution layer (RDL) over the polymer base layer; a molding layer over the backside RDL; a polymer layer over the molding layer; a front side RDL over the polymer layer; and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor vertically passing through the molding layer, the MIM capacitor including a first electrode, an insulation layer and a second electrode, wherein the insulation layer surrounds the first electrode, and the second electrode surrounds the insulation layer, and the molding layer surrounds the second electrode. An associated method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US10665533B2
A lead frame includes a conductive member, a plating layer, and an oxide film. The conductive member includes a rough surface. The plating layer is formed on the rough surface and configured to be connected to a semiconductor element. The oxide film covers the rough surface at least around the plating layer.
US10665531B2
In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a front surface, a lateral transistor arranged in the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and having an intrinsic source, and a through substrate via. A first conductive layer lines side walls of the through substrate via and extends from the through substrate via onto the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is electrically coupled with the intrinsic source of the lateral transistor.
US10665524B2
An electronic package lid which includes one or more underside ribs. The ribs have a major length and a minor width and are generally aligned to be parallel with a diagonal or normal bisector of the processing device. The underside rib generally stiffens the cover such that an upper surface of the cover is more apt to stay flat. As such, cover warpage and, therefore, the peeling of the TIM1 and delamination of underfill due to the physical or dimensional expansion of the processing device and/or a carrier may be reduced. As a result, the surface area dedicated for the seal material upon the carrier surface may be reduced, thereby increasing the available surface area upon the carrier for additional electronic components to be placed in close proximity to the processing device.
US10665521B2
A semiconductor device includes: a protruding conductive structure that protrudes to a height from a first surface of the semiconductor device; and a first passivation layer, the first passivation layer overlaying the protruding conductive structure by a first thickness, the first passivation layer overlaying the first surface by a second thickness greater than the first thickness, wherein the first passivation layer is planar at a top surface over the first thickness and the second thickness.
US10665520B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first integrated circuit die having a first contact region and a first non-contact region; an encapsulant contacting sides of the first integrated circuit die; a dielectric layer contacting the encapsulant and the first integrated circuit die, the dielectric layer having a first portion over the first contact region, a second portion over the first non-contact region, and a third portion over a portion of the encapsulant; and a metallization pattern including: a first conductive via extending through the first portion of the dielectric layer to contact the first integrated circuit die; and a conductive line extending along the second portion and third portion of the dielectric layer, the conductive line having a straight portion along the second portion of the dielectric layer and a first meandering portion along the third portion of the dielectric layer.
US10665519B2
A semiconductor chip includes a single-crystal substrate and a metal electrode on the bottom surface of the substrate. The metal electrode has a region in which a first metal is exposed and a region in which a second metal is exposed, the second metal having a standard electrode potential different from that of the first metal.
US10665488B2
A load port apparatus connects a main opening of a wafer transportation container with a frame opening. The load port apparatus includes an installation part, a frame, and a flange clamp. The installation part has an installation table configured to install the wafer transportation container and move to and from the frame opening. The frame is upright from the installation part and has the frame opening. The flange clamp includes an engagement portion and a drive portion. The engagement portion is configured to be engaged with a flange surrounding an outer circumference of the main opening. The drive portion is configured to drive the engagement portion. The engagement portion is engaged from above or the side with a flange groove formed in the flange and opening radially outwardly.
US10665486B2
Substrate carrier can have drainage area leading the liquid away from the substrates, so that liquid droplet can be channeled away from the substrate area. The drainage area can include tilted lines and surfaces toward the ground away from the substrates. The carrier can further have drainage area leading the liquid to an end of the carrier, which then can be channeled to the ground without being free fall to the ground.
US10665482B2
A method for processing a plate-shaped workpiece having a division line and a metal member formed on the division line or in an area corresponding to the division line includes a holding step of holding the workpiece on a chuck table with the metal member oriented downward, a first cutting step of cutting the workpiece along the division line by using a first cutting blade, thereby forming a first cut groove having a bottom not reaching the metal member, and a second cutting step of cutting the workpiece along the first cut groove by using a second cutting blade, thereby forming a second cut groove fully cutting the workpiece along the division line so as to divide the metal member. The second cutting step includes supplying a cutting fluid containing an organic acid and an oxidizing agent to the workpiece.
US10665478B2
A liquid residue on a bottom surface of a substrate can be reduced while placing the substrate accurately. A liquid processing apparatus includes an inclined portion, a plurality of supporting members, a processing liquid supply unit and a rotation unit. The inclined portion is provided under the substrate, and has an inclined surface which is inclined downwards from an outer side of the substrate toward an inner side thereof and is extended along a circumferential direction of the substrate. The supporting members are protruded from the inclined surface and configured to support the substrate from below. The processing liquid supply unit is configured to supply a processing liquid onto a top surface of the substrate. The rotation unit is configured to rotate the inclined portion. Further, each of the supporting members has a long narrow shape extended from the outer side of the substrate toward the inner side thereof.
US10665477B2
A substrate cleaning apparatus includes a porous suction part having a polygonal pillar shape with a plurality of cleaning surfaces, a transfer unit to transfer a substrate with a plurality of semiconductor devices toward the porous suction part, and to contact the semiconductor devices with one of the plurality of cleaning surfaces, and a rotation driving part to rotate the porous suction part.
US10665471B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The manufacturing method includes the following steps. A core structure and a first material layer are formed on a substrate in order. A top surface of the first material layer is lower than a top surface of the core structure. A second pattern is formed on an exposed surface of the core structure. The method of forming the second pattern includes forming a second material layer on the exposed surface of the core structure and the top surface of the first material layer and performing an anisotropic etching on the second material layer. The first material layer is patterned by using the second pattern as a mask to form a first pattern. The step of forming the second material layer and the step of performing an anisotropic etching on the second material layer are performed in the same etching chamber.
US10665467B2
A method includes forming a first layer on a substrate; forming a first plurality of trenches in the first layer by a first patterning process; and forming a second plurality of trenches in the first layer by second patterning process, wherein a first trench of the second plurality merges with two trenches of the first plurality to form a continuous trench. The method further includes forming spacer features on sidewalls of the first and second pluralities of trenches. The spacer features have a thickness. A width of the first trench is equal to or less than twice the thickness of the spacer features thereby the spacer features merge inside the first trench.
US10665464B2
A process of forming a field effect transistor is disclosed. The process includes steps of depositing a first silicon nitride (SiN) film on a semiconductor layer by a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) technique; depositing a second SiN film on the first SiN film by plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (p-CVD) technique; preparing a photoresist mask on the second SiN film, the photoresist mask having an opening in a position corresponding to the gate electrode; dry-etching the second SiN film and the first SiN film continuously in a portion of the opening in the photoresist mask to form an opening in the first SiN film and an opening in the second SiN film, the openings in the first and second SiN films exposing the semiconductor layer; and filling at least the opening in the first SiN film by the gate electrode. A feature of the process is that the opening in the first SiN film has an inclined side against the semiconductor layer and gradually widens from the semiconductor layer.
US10665458B2
Semiconductor substrate thinning systems and methods. Implementations of a method of thinning a semiconductor substrate may include: providing a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface and inducing damage into a portion of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the second surface forming a damage layer. The method may also include backgrinding the second surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US10665452B2
A method for improving source/drain performance through conformal solid state doping and its resulting device are disclosed. Specifically, the doping takes place through an atomic layer deposition of a dopant layer. Embodiments of the invention may allow for an increased doping layer, improved conformality, and reduced defect formation, in comparison to alternate doping methods, such as ion implantation or epitaxial doping.
US10665451B2
Elemental or compound semiconductors on metal substrates and methods of growing them are provided. The methods can include the steps of: (i) providing a metal substrate; (ii) adding an interlayer on a surface of the metal substrate, and (iii) growing semiconductor nanowires on the interlayer using a semiconductor epitaxy growth system to form the elemental or compound semiconductor. The method can include direct growth of high quality group III-V and group III-N based materials in the form of nanowires and nanowires-based devices on metal substrates. The nanowires on all-metal scheme greatly simplifies the fabrication process of nanowires based high power light emitters.
US10665442B2
A mass spectrometer is provided that includes a precursor ion candidate selector, a product ion scan measurement condition setter, a product ion spectral data obtainer, a compound database file generator, and an MRM measurement condition candidate generator. The precursor ion candidate selector selects precursor ion candidates from mass spectrometric data. The product ion scan measurement condition setter combines the precursor ion candidates with a plurality of candidate values of cleavage energy to set a product ion scan measurement condition. The product ion spectral data obtainer carries out MS/MS measurement to obtain product ion spectral data. The compound database file generator generates a compound database file in which the product ion scan measurement condition and the product ion spectral data are associated with each other.
US10665436B2
A plasma processing apparatus has a vacuum container having a processing chamber in which a wafer is processed by plasma and at least one member constituting the vacuum container movable and detachable in a horizontal direction with respect to a base plate. The plasma processing apparatus includes a lifter arranged at a side of the vacuum container across the vacuum container on the base plate, coupled to an end portion on the opposite side of a vacuum transfer chamber on which the wafer is transferred in a decompressed interior, and having a vertical shaft to move the detachable member vertically. The lifter includes: a coupling portion coupled to the vertical shaft and the detachable member and moved along the vertical shaft; and a turning shaft being a joint portion arranged at the coupling portion and having a vertical rotational shaft, the detachable member being horizontally turned around the turning shaft.
US10665430B2
A gas supply system includes: a first flow channel connecting a first gas source and a chamber; a second flow channel connecting a second gas source and the first flow channel; a control valve, provided in the second flow channel, configured to control a flow rate of the second gas; an orifice provided downstream of the control valve and at a terminus of the second flow channel; a switching valve, provided at a connection point between the first flow channel and the terminus of the second flow channel, configured to control a supply timing of the second gas; an exhaust mechanism, connected to a flow channel between the control valve and the orifice in the second flow channel, configured to exhaust the second gas; and a controller configured to bring the control valve, the switching valve and the exhaust mechanism into operation.
US10665424B2
A pattern measuring method and a pattern measuring apparatus that efficiently prevent a measurement error inherent to a device that performs beam scanning in a specific direction such as a scanning electron microscope are provided. The invention is directed to a pattern measuring method and a pattern measuring apparatus in which a first curve with respect to an edge of one side and a second curve with respect to an edge of the other side are obtained by calculating a first power spectral density with respect to the edge of one side of a pattern and a second power spectral density with respect to the edge of the other side of the pattern based upon a signal that is obtained when a charged particle beam is scanned in a direction intersecting the edge of the pattern; a difference value between the first curve and the second curve is calculated; and one of the first curve and the second curve is corrected by using the difference value.
US10665419B2
A method of imaging a specimen in a Scanning Transmission Charged Particle Microscope, comprising the following steps: Providing the specimen on a specimen holder; Providing a beam of charged particles that is directed from a source through an illuminator so as to irradiate the specimen; Providing a segmented detector for detecting a flux of charged particles traversing the specimen; Causing said beam to scan across a surface of the specimen, and combining signals from different segments of the detector so as to produce a vector output from the detector at each scan position, said vector output having components Dx, Dy along respective X, Y coordinate axes, specifically comprising: Performing a relatively coarse pre-scan of the specimen, along a pre-scan trajectory; At selected positions pi on said pre-scan trajectory, analyzing said components Dx, Dy and also a scalar intensity sensor value Ds; Using said analysis of Dx, Dy and Ds to classify a specimen composition at each position pi into one of a group of composition classes; For a selected composition class, performing a relatively fine scan at positions pi assigned to that class.
US10665415B1
An apparatus and method are provided. In one embodiment. an apparatus may include a main chamber, where the main chamber includes an electrode assembly. The electrode assembly may include a plurality of electrodes arranged between a chamber entrance and a chamber exit of the main chamber. The apparatus may include a beam tunnel, connected to the chamber entrance, configured to conduct an ion beam to the main chamber; and an electrostatic tuner, disposed in the beam tunnel, the electrostatic tuner comprising at least one tuner electrode, independently coupled to a tuner voltage assembly.
US10665408B2
A maintaining system is for an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes an electrical switching apparatus cover having an edge portion defining a thru hole. The maintaining system includes a test port cover member and an insert. The test port cover member is structured to be coupled to the edge portion. The test port cover member has a plate portion and a pair of opposing leg portions extending from the plate portion. The leg portions are structured to extend into an interior of the electrical switching apparatus and engage the electrical switching apparatus cover. The insert extends through the plate portion. The insert is structured to engage each of the leg portions in order to prevent the leg portions from deflecting toward each other, thereby maintaining the test port cover member on the electrical switching apparatus cover.
US10665405B2
A protective circuit for an apparatus includes an accelerometer having an output and a microcontroller coupled to the output of the accelerometer. The protective circuit also includes a switch for controlling the apparatus coupled to an output of the microcontroller and a load coupled to the switch. A power source is coupled to the load and the switch. In operation the microcontroller is cable of sending a signal to the switch to turn of power to the load when a dangerous condition as detected from the accelerometer data has occurred.
US10665395B2
An electrode laminate is located in a case. The electrode laminate has opposed first and second principal surfaces and opposed first and second lateral side surfaces. The electrode laminate includes a positive electrode having a planar main surface and first and second opposed lateral ends located on opposite lateral sides of its main surface, a negative electrode having a planar main surface and first and second opposed lateral ends located on opposite lateral sides of its main surface, the main surface of the positive electrode opposing the main surface of the negative electrode. A separator is located between the opposed main surfaces of the positive and negative electrodes and has first and second lateral ends extending laterally outward from the first and second lateral ends of the positive and negative electrodes, respectively. At least a tip of the first and second lateral ends of the separator are bent in a direction towards the first principal surface of the electrode laminate. An electrolyte is impregnated in the separator.
US10665393B2
A capacitor includes a support member included in a body, a plurality of pillars disposed in an upper portion of the support member and each having a lower portion wider than an upper portion, and a capacitor layer disposed on a side surface and an upper surface of each pillar and including a dielectric layer and first and second electrodes alternately disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween. Lower end portions of adjacent pillars are in contact with each other.
US10665392B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers, inner electrodes and outer electrodes that are connected to the inner electrodes and disposed on a first end surface and a second end surface of the multilayer body. The outer electrodes each include a resin electrode layer containing a thermosetting resin and a metal component and a plating layer in contact with the resin electrode layer. The metal component of the resin electrode layer contains Ni. The plating layer is a Sn plating layer.
US10665388B2
A method of manufacturing a laminated coil component is a method of manufacturing a laminated coil component provided with a laminate obtained by laminating a coil conductor forming a spiral coil and an insulator layer. The method of manufacturing a laminated coil component includes a step of providing a conductor pattern configured to become a coil conductor on a green sheet configured to become an insulator layer, and a step of laminating a plurality of green sheets provided with the conductor pattern. The conductor pattern includes a pair of first side surfaces opposed to each other in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a laminating direction of the green sheet. At the step of laminating a plurality of green sheets, a depression is formed on at least one of the pair of first side surfaces.
US10665385B2
Embodiments are generally directed to an integrated inductor with adjustable coupling. In some embodiments, an integrated inductor includes a first conductor and a second conductor; a first strip of magnetic material film below the first conductor and the second conductor; and a second strip of magnetic material film above the first conductor and the second conductor, wherein at least one of the first strip of magnetic material and the second strip of magnetic material includes a partial slot to partially separate a first section of the strip of magnetic material and a second section of the strip of magnetic material.
US10665382B2
A stationary induction apparatus includes a main body tank and a stationary induction apparatus main body. The main body is accommodated in the tank. An electrostatic shield ring is placed on the upper and lower end parts of a winding. An electrostatic shield ring has a magnetic ring and two insulating rings vertically fixing the magnetic ring for a spool. A conductive tape is laid on an insulating tape. These tapes are wound around the spool. An insulating tape is wound around the wound tapes. The width of the insulating tape is equal to or greater than the width of the conductive tape. One end of the conductive tape is connected to one end part of the winding and to the magnetic ring. A gap is provided at at least one place on the magnetic ring. The winding direction of the conductive tape is inverted at at least one place.
US10665378B1
Embodiments described herein provide circuitry employing an inductor having enhanced circuit area usage. The circuitry includes an inductor having a first loop and a second loop adjoining the first loop to form a figure-eight configuration. The circuitry further includes a circuit component disposed at least partially inside an area defined by at least one of the first loop and the second loop. The inductor has an intersection portion between the first loop and the second loop. An input node is located proximate to the intersection portion, the input node having a first extension disposed inside the first loop. An output node is located proximate to the intersection portion. The output node has a second extension disposed inside the second loop. At least a first capacitor is coupled to the input node and the second extension, and at least a second capacitor coupled to the output node and the first extension.
US10665370B2
A co-wound resistor with a low parasitic inductance includes a first resistive strip having an input and a second resistive strip having an output. The second resistive strip has a similar shape as the first resistive strip. The second resistive strip is co-wound in a same direction as the first resistive strip. The second resistive strip and the first resistive strip are configured to generate a mutual inductance that cancels an inductance of the first resistive strip and the second resistive strip. The first interconnect coupling the first resistive strip to the second resistive strip. The first resistive strip, the second resistive strip and the first interconnect are on a same level.
US10665368B2
A cable support for receiving and supporting a cable that includes a plurality of conductors extending along the length of the cable and arranged along the width of the cable, includes: a cane-shaped base having a substantially straight base portion and a curved base portion. The cane-shaped base includes a cable-side major surface and an opposing back-side major surface. At least a first portion of the back-side major surface in the curved base portion faces a second portion of the back-side major surface in the straight base portion. A plurality of discrete spaced apart side walls are disposed on the cable-side major surface along each longitudinal edge of the cane-shaped base. At least one side wall is disposed on the straight base portion and at least one side wall is disposed on the curved base portion.
US10665367B2
An oxide superconducting wire includes an oriented metal substrate, an intermediate layer formed on the oriented metal substrate, and an oxide superconducting layer formed on the intermediate layer. The oriented metal substrate has an in-plane orientation Δϕ of 7° or less. The intermediate layer is formed of a single layer.
US10665362B2
An insulating coating material including an insulating film, and an adhesion layer on at least one side of an insulating film. The insulating film satisfies Formula (1) a=k×b3 . . . Formula (1) where a is a loop stiffness value in g/cm of the insulating film, b is a thickness in μm of the insulating film, and k is 0.000105 or more.
US10665357B2
A nuclear steam supply system includes an elongated reactor vessel having an internal cavity with a central axis, a reactor core having nuclear fuel disposed within the internal cavity, and a steam generating vessel having at least one heat exchanger section, the steam generating vessel being fluidicly coupled to the reactor vessel. The reactor vessel includes a shell having an upper flange portion and a head having a head flange portion. The upper flange portion is coupled to the head flange portion, wherein the upper flange portion extends into the internal cavity, and the head flange portion extends outward from the internal cavity. The flanges have a space saving design which are configured to minimize outward extension from the cavity while still providing desired leak protection at the interface between the shell and the head.
US10665355B2
Disclosed is a nuclear power plant which drives a Stirling engine by means of heat generated in nuclear power plant safety systems during an accident, uses the resulting power directly or generates electric power so as to supply the power to the safety systems, and thus can improve economic efficiency as well as the reliability of safety systems, such as a passive safety system, by operating the safety systems without an emergency diesel generator or external electric power.
US10665347B2
Methods and systems for predicting prognosis of a patient are provided. An example method can comprise determining a target set, wherein the target set comprises patient data from a target patient, determining a reference set, wherein the reference set comprises patient data from a plurality of patients, and the plurality of patients have one or more features in common with the target patient, determining common comparison features, normalizing common comparison feature data by a normalization method, weighting the normalized common comparison feature data, and determining one or more best matches by applying a classification method to the weighted normalized common comparison feature data. Finally, the prognosis of the patient in the target set is predicted.
US10665345B2
Systems and methods are provided for eye health and vision examinations. A customer diagnostic center is configured to generate customer examination data pertaining to an examination of a customer's eye. The customer diagnostic center provides a user interface for communicating with a customer and ophthalmic equipment for administering tests to the customer. A diagnostic center server is configured to receive the customer examination data from the customer diagnostic center over a network and allow the customer examination data to be accessed by an eye-care practitioner. A practitioner device associated with the eye-care practitioner is configured to receive the customer examination data from the diagnostic center server and display at least a portion of the customer examination data to the eye-care practitioner. Customer evaluation data is generated pertaining to the eye-care practitioner's evaluation of the customer examination data. An eye health report is provided to the customer via the network.
US10665344B2
The invention can be directed toward a method for personalized management and comparison of medical condition and outcome based on patient profiles of a community of patients. The method can include the steps of providing a database of patient profiles, providing a user interface for inputting a query of the database from a user, generating a query result including one or more matching patient profiles from the database, and displaying the query result as a correlation medical condition parameters of the user with a medical outcome.
US10665343B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to suggest a medical course of action for a patient. Based on a diagnosis, a medical treatment decision tree is identified and integrated into an electronic medical record (EMR) of the patient. A series of branching nodes in the medical treatment decision tree are processed until a node with a suggested medical course of action for the patient is satisfied. The suggested course of action is exported. A medical procedure based on the suggested course of action is ordered and integrated into the medical treatment decision tree located in the EMR of the patient. It is then documented that the medical procedure was ordered in the treatment decision tree located in the EMR of the patient.
US10665334B2
A system and method configured for coordinating healthcare services is disclosed. The method can comprise selecting a patient for care coordination based in part on a patient diagnosis and data analytics, assigning a predetermined patient care flow plan to a patient based in part on the patient diagnosis, modifying the predetermined patient care flow plan in response to input from at least one of a healthcare provider and the patient, and generating a customized patient care flow plan for the patient, executing the customized care flow, and engaging the patient by providing to the patient at least one of patient scheduling, notifications, a personal health record, patient home monitoring, and patient education and medication information materials. The present disclosure further includes computer program product of a computer-readable medium usable with a programmable computer and having computer-readable code embodied therein for coordinating healthcare services.
US10665330B2
Predicting human olfactory perception based on molecular structure is described. Molecular descriptor data indicative of molecular descriptors associated with a group of molecular samples can be obtained. Olfactory perception indicator (OPI) data for a set of OPIs can also be obtained with respect to the molecular samples. A training model can be executed on the molecular descriptor data and the OPI data to yield an output model that correlates molecular attributes with OPIs for a single individual or across an aggregate of individuals. The output model can be used to predict olfactory perception for a particular compound or mixture based on which OPIs are correlated with molecular descriptors of the compound or mixture in the output model. The output model can also be inverted and used to identify molecular descriptors that are correlated with a desired set of OPIs. A molecular construct having the molecular descriptors can then be generated.
US10665316B2
A memory device is provided, including a built-in self-test circuit and a redundancy address replacement circuit. The built-in self-test circuit coupled to a main memory cell array is configured to performing a built-in self-test process on the main memory cell array so as to provide a built-in self-test signal. The redundancy address replacement circuit includes a first redundancy circuit and a second redundancy circuit. The first redundancy circuit replaces portion of word line addresses of the main memory cell array with that of a redundancy memory block according to first redundancy data signals generated by a first test process. The second redundancy circuit, coupled to the first redundancy circuit, replaces the failure word line addresses detected in the main memory cell array with another portion of word line addresses of the redundancy memory block according to the built-in self-test signal.
US10665315B2
A memory system includes: a memory device that includes a plurality of memory blocks each of which includes a plurality of pages that store data; and a controller suitable for performing command operations corresponding to a plurality of commands received from a host on the memory blocks, detecting performance results of the command operations performed on the memory blocks, detecting, among the memory blocks, first memory blocks where performance of the command operations failed as bad blocks, and copying and storing valid data in the first memory blocks in second memory blocks of the memory blocks.
US10665314B1
Methods and apparatuses are provided for self-trimming of a semiconductor device. An example self-trimming circuit includes a control circuit configured to, during a self-trimming operation, decode a test command signal to set a target voltage and set a voltage trim code to an initial value, and to adjust a value of the voltage trim code based on a stop signal. The example self-trimming circuit further includes a reference voltage regulator configured to receive the voltage trim code and to convert a band-gap reference voltage to an output voltage based on the voltage trim code, and a comparator configured to compare the target voltage with the output voltage and to provide the stop signal having a value based on the comparison.
US10665294B2
A method of operating a semiconductor device powered by a first power supply potential can include generating a first voltage signal having a first logic level in response to a voltage detector circuit detecting that the first power supply potential is essentially lower than a predetermined voltage; latching the first voltage signal to provide a first latched voltage signal; generating at least one read or write assist signal having a read or write assist enable logic level in response to the first latched voltage signal; and altering a read or write operation to a static random access memory (SRAM) cell in response to the at least one read or write assist signal having the read or write assist enable logic level as compared to when the at least one read or write assist signal has a read or write assist disable logic level.
US10665293B2
An apparatus includes a continuous-time linear equalizer circuit, a buffer and at least one slicer. The continuous-time linear equalizer circuit may be configured to generate a first intermediate signal by equalizing an input signal relative to a reference voltage. The input signal may be single-ended. The first intermediate signal may be differential. The buffer may be configured to generate a second intermediate signal by delaying the first intermediate signal. The second intermediate signal may be differential. The slicer may be configured to generate an output signal by slicing the second intermediate signal. The output signal may be single-ended.
US10665292B1
Devices and methods for sensing a memory cell using a charge transfer device are described. In some examples, the charge transfer device may be coupled with an input transistor of a differential transistor pair that may be coupled with a sense component. The differential transistor pair may be configured to isolate the sense component from the charge transfer device during a read operation. To read the memory cell, a gate of the charge transfer device may be charged to a first voltage. Subsequently, a digit line may be biased to a second voltage by discharging the memory cell onto the digit line. A charge may be transferred, using the charge transfer device, between the digit line and a gate of the input transistor such that the sense component may determine a logic state stored on the memory cell based on the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10665289B2
An integrated circuit includes a physical layer interface having a control timing domain and a data timing domain, and circuits that enable the control timing domain during a change in power conservation mode in response to a first event, and that enable the data timing domain in response to a second event. The control timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a command and address path, and the data timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a data path.
US10665284B2
Systems and methods for detecting the presence of a body in a network without fiducial elements, using signal absorption, and signal forward and reflected backscatter of radio frequency (RF) waves caused by the presence of a biological mass in a communications network.
US10665277B2
A timing calibration system is applicable to a memory read system which includes a memory, a delay unit and a data read circuit. The memory outputs a data signal and a data latch signal. The delay unit delays the data latch signal by a delay value, to generate a read signal. The data read circuit reads the data signal according to the read signal. In the timing calibration system, a logic computation unit generates first and second charging signals according to the data signal and the read signal, and a capacitor-resistor charging unit performs charging operations according to the first and second charging signals, so as to generate first and second capacitor voltages, and a comparing unit can compare the first and second capacitor voltages, to generate a comparison result, thereby adjusting the delay value of the delay unit according to the comparison result.
US10665271B2
According to an embodiment, a word line driver includes: a first inverter that is driven by a first power supply voltage and inverts and outputs a decode signal; a second inverter that is driven by a second power supply voltage and inverts and outputs the decode signal; a first PMOS transistor that is controlled to be turned on or off on the basis of an output signal of the second inverter; a first NMOS transistor that is controlled to be turned on or off on the basis of an output signal of the first inverter; and a second PMOS transistor that is provided between a power supply voltage terminal to which the second power supply voltage is supplied and the gate of the first PMOS transistor and is temporarily turned on in synchronization with falling of the decode signal.
US10665270B2
An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to propose a memory device in which a period in which data is held is ensured and memory capacity per unit area can be increased. In the memory device of one embodiment of the present invention, bit lines are divided into groups, and word lines are also divided into groups. The word lines assigned to one group are connected to the memory cell connected to the bit lines assigned to the one group. Further, the driving of each group of bit lines is controlled by a dedicated bit line driver circuit of a plurality of bit line driver circuits. In addition, cell arrays are formed on a driver circuit including the above plurality of bit line driver circuits and a word line driver circuit. The driver circuit and the cell arrays overlap each other.
US10665269B1
A hard drive module includes a hard drive and a hard drive removable enclosure. The hard drive includes a bottom surface having a first securement hole formed to indent inward thereon and a lateral surface having a second securement hole formed to indent inward thereon. The second securement hole is fluidly connected to the first securement hole. The bottom surface of the hard drive is received on a carrier plate. A primary positioning pin penetrates into the first securement hole from the bottom surface of the hard drive. A hook penetrates into the second securement hole from the internal of the first securement hole. Accordingly, by using the primary positioning pin with its rear end formed of the hook thereon for securing the hard drive, the hard drive can be installed and secured inside the hard drive removable enclosure without the use of any tools.
US10665266B2
In a device and method for integrating a prerecorded video file into a video, a video of a scene is displayed on a display device of a mobile electronic device. A prerecorded video file to render on the display device is received. A modified prerecorded video file is generated by modifying a visual appearance of the prerecorded video file, where the modifying is for integrating the modified prerecorded video file into the scene. The modified prerecorded video file is superimposed over the video, such that the video is partially obscured by the modified prerecorded video file. The modified prerecorded video file is played while displaying the video, such that the modified prerecorded video file and a non-obscured portion of the video are rendered simultaneously.
US10665265B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating an event reel based on spectator reaction data, the event reel is temporally synchronized to a music track. A method includes receiving a video file for video content and receiving spectator reaction data related to reactions generated by spectators while viewing the video content. The method includes processing the spectator reaction data to identify video time slices from the video content that correspond to segments of interest of the video content. The method includes processing a music track to identify markers for the music track that correspond to beats of the music track and generating an event reel having a video component defined by a sequence of the video time slices that is temporally synchronized to the markers of the music track.
US10665260B2
An optical disc recording device includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire bitmap data corresponding to image information, an address information acquisition unit configured to acquire address information set in wobbles of an optical disc by wobble synchronization from the optical disc, a recording position determining unit configured to determine a recording position on the optical disc for recording the bitmap data using the address information, and a mark recording unit configured to form a recording mark corresponding to the bitmap data on the information recording track of the optical disc by applying a light beam having recording power to the recording position on the optical disc.
US10665259B1
A tape-type magnetic recording medium, includes a substrate; and a magnetic layer provided on the substrate. In a case where wmax and wmin are respectively maximum and minimum of average values of width of the magnetic recording medium measured under four environments whose temperature and relative humidity are (10° C., 10%), (10° C., 80%), (29° C., 80%), and (45° C., 10%), respectively, wmax and wmin satisfy a relation of (wmax−wmin)/wmin≤400 [ppm]. The substrate contains polyester, and the magnetic layer has a squareness ratio of 65% or more in the vertical direction.
US10665258B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a slider with an air bearing surface, and a head element in the slider. The slider includes a leading step at a leading side end of the air bearing surface, a trailing step at a trailing side end of the air bearing surface and including the head element, a deep groove formed between the leading step and the trailing step and opening to the air bearing surface, a center rail extending from a center portion of the air bearing surface to the trailing step, and a pair of pressure generators disposed between the center rail and each side edge.
US10665248B2
A device having an input that is configured to receive a sound signal captured from an acoustic environment where the device is located, is provided. The device also includes a signal processor that is configured to obtain a reverberation signature from the sound signal and classify the acoustic environment as being of a particular type in dependence on that reverberation signature. It also includes a controller configured to control an operation of the device in dependence on the classification of the acoustic environment. By using the reverberation signature to classify the environment, the device it is not dependent on a particular type of signal having to be present in the environment at the time when the sound signal is captured. The reverberation properties of the environment will be embodied by any sound signal captured from that environment.
US10665246B2
A downmixer for downmixing at least two channels of a multichannel signal having the two or more channels includes: a processor for calculating a partial downmix signal from the at least two channels; a complementary signal calculator for calculating a complementary signal from the multichannel signal, the complementary signal being different from the partial downmix signal; and an adder for adding the partial downmix signal and the complementary signal to obtain a downmix signal of the multichannel signal.
US10665245B2
Features are disclosed for automatically identifying a speaker. Artifacts of automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) and/or other automatically determined information may be processed against individual user profiles or models. Scores may be determined reflecting the likelihood that individual users made an utterance. The scores can be based on, e.g., individual components of Gaussian mixture models (“GMMs”) that score best for frames of audio data of an utterance. A user associated with the highest likelihood score for a particular utterance can be identified as the speaker of the utterance. Information regarding the identified user can be provided to components of a spoken language processing system, separate applications, etc.
US10665242B2
A computer implemented method of routing a verbal input to one of a plurality of handlers, comprising using one or more processors adapted to execute a code, the code is adapted for receiving a verbal input from a user, applying a plurality of verbal content identifiers to the verbal input, each of the verbal content identifiers is adapted to evaluate an association of the verbal input with a respective one of a plurality of handlers by computing a match confidence value for one or more features, such as an intent expressed by the user and/or an entity indicated by the user, extracted from the verbal input and routing the verbal input to a selected one of the handlers based on the matching confidence value computed by the plurality of verbal content identifiers. The selected handler is adapted to initiate one or more actions in response to the verbal input.
US10665237B2
Embodiments of the invention include a context sensitive adaptive digital assistant for personalized interaction. Embodiments of the invention also include a spoken genome for characterization and analysis of human voice. Aspects of the invention include selecting a starter vocabulary, receiving voice communications from a user, and modifying the starter vocabulary to generate a personalized lexicon. Aspects of the invention also include analyzing and categorizing human voice according to a plurality of characteristics, and creating a spoken genome database.
US10665217B2
A pivot mechanism includes: a shaft portion; a bearing configured to contact the shaft portion at a first contact and a second contact and configured to pivot about a pivot axis relative to the shaft portion; and a supporter secured to the bearing, configured to contact the shaft portion at a third contact, and bendable in a direction different from a direction from the pivot axis toward the third contact.
US10665214B2
An instrument case with one or more rack instrument stands with or without an instrument maintenance station combined into a hard-shell instrument transport case. The one or more rack instrument stands are attached to the inner top lid of the instrument case and has a comb shaped structure which can be locked into place when in use. The one or more rack instrument stands can store one or more different types of instruments at the same time when the case is open.
US10665207B2
A back-and-forth displacement detecting device includes: a sensor that detects an amount of displacement of an information processing device and outputs a detection signal indicating the amount of displacement; and a determination section that determines that, if the amount of displacement indicated by the detection signal exceeds a positive threshold value in one of a former period and a latter period which are time periods of predetermined length before and after a point in time when the detection signal indicates an amount of displacement of zero, the amount of displacement indicated by the detection signal in the other period falls below a negative threshold value, and a sum of the amounts of displacement over both the former and latter periods falls within a predetermined range, the information processing device has performed a displacement of back-and-forth movement from an initial state and has returned to the initial state.
US10665203B2
A user interface apparatus and a method of improving user interface are provided. The user interface apparatus may detect a change in an incident light and may control a display to represent the detected change in the light to be overlaid on image content. Provided is a user interface apparatus including: a display configured to display image content; a detector configured to detect a change in an incident light; and a controller configured to control the display to overlay the detected change in the light on the image content.
US10665198B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a gate driver generating a plurality of gate signals using a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage and providing the gate signals to the pixels, a data driver providing data voltages to the pixels, a timing controller controlling an operation timing of the gate driver and the data driver, a voltage generator providing the gate-on voltage and the gate-off voltage to the gate driver, and a timer measuring an operation time and providing the measured operation time to the timing controller. The timing controller controls the voltage generator such that a level of the gate-on voltage is controlled depending on the operation time and the level of the gate-on voltage is controlled depending on a magnitude of the gate-on voltage in a different way from a way to control depending on the operation time and the temperature.
US10665195B2
To suppress malfunctions in a shift register circuit. A shift register having a plurality of flip-flop circuits is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes a transistor 11, a transistor 12, a transistor 13, a transistor 14, and a transistor 15. When the transistor 13 or the transistor 14 is turned on in a non-selection period, the potential of a node A is set, so that the node A is prevented from entering into a floating state.
US10665191B2
A shift register and driving method therefore, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes: an input circuit; an output circuit; a reset circuit; a pull-down circuit; a pull-down control circuit; and a first noise reduction circuit. The first noise reduction circuit is coupled to a second input terminal of the shift register, a first input terminal, an output terminal and a first supply voltage terminal. The shift register can effectively reduce noise at the output terminal.
US10665190B2
A power supply device includes a power circuit, feedback circuit, compensation circuit, and PWM controller. The power circuit generates an output voltage based on a PWM signal. The feedback circuit outputs a feedback voltage. The compensation circuit compares a reference voltage with the feedback voltage and outputs a compensation signal based on a comparison result. The PWM controller adjusts the duty ratio of the PWM signal based on the compensation signal. The compensation circuit includes a comparator to compare the feedback voltage with the reference voltage, a first voltage adjuster to adjust a voltage level of a compensation voltage based on the comparison result, and a compensator output the compensation signal based on the voltage level of the compensation voltage. The compensation signal has a width in a high section that varies. The booster boosts the response speed of the compensator in a predetermined section based on a control signal.
US10665187B2
A GOA circuit is GOA circuits of multiple levels. The GOA circuit of each level includes a signal downward transmission unit, a pull-down unit and a pull-down maintaining unit, and the pull-down maintaining unit includes a pull-down maintaining transistor, a pull-down maintaining capacitor and a second pull-down maintaining transistor. A gate of the pull-down maintaining transistor is connected to an output end of a lower-level signal downward transmission unit, a source and a drain are respectively connected to a lower-level scan signal output end and a pull-down maintaining signal output end, the pull-down maintaining capacitor is connected between the drain of the first pull-down maintaining transistor and a first voltage input end, a gate of the second pull-down maintaining transistor is connected to an upper-level first node, and a source and a drain are respectively connected to the pull-down maintaining signal output end and the first voltage input end.
US10665186B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus including a gate driving circuit, which stably holds an output signal during a touch sensing period. The display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of touch sensors, a gate driving circuit dividing the display area into a plurality of horizontal blocks and driving gate lines of a horizontal block by units of horizontal blocks at every display period in one frame, and a touch driving circuit sensing a touch through touch sensors of the horizontal block by units of horizontal blocks at every touch sensing period in the one frame. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of driving stage groups each including a plurality of driving stages supplying a scan pulse to gate lines included in a corresponding horizontal block at every display period and a plurality of holding stage groups each including at least one holding stage supplying a carry signal to a rear driving stage group according to a voltage of a first control node and a voltage of a second control node based on first and second node control powers and an output signal supplied from a front driving stage group, the plurality of holding stages being disposed between the plurality of driving stage groups. Each of the first and second node control powers includes an alternating current (AC) voltage.
US10665185B2
A drive circuit for driving a display panel includes a dynamic refresh unit, a timer, and a black insertion drive unit. The dynamic refresh unit is configured to output a dynamic refresh signal, so as to control the display panel to display a plurality of frames in sequence. A frame time of each of the frames is adjusted according to the dynamic refresh signal. The timer is configured to compute a black insertion time signal. The black insertion drive unit is configured to output a black insertion drive signal according to the black insertion time signal, so as to perform black insertion on the frames.
US10665181B2
An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may include a backlight having an array of locally dimmable light sources. Control circuitry may provide control signals to the backlight to produce light at different brightness levels. When the brightness level is below a threshold, the control circuitry may use pulse-width-modulation control signals to control the light sources in the backlight. When the brightness level is above the brightness threshold, the control circuitry may use analog control signals to control the light sources in the backlight. The control circuitry may adjust the threshold to achieve different dimming ranges for different brightness settings. A low brightness setting, for example, may have a lower threshold and lower dimming range than a high brightness setting, which may help produce darker darks when the display operates in a low brightness setting.
US10665178B2
A method for driving an LCD device includes displaying each picture with two frame images sequentially; the two frame images includes a first frame image and a second frame image; driving voltages for two adjacent sub-pixels in each of the frame images are different, and driving voltages in the first frame image and the second frame image for each of the sub-pixels are different; determining backlight brightness regulation signals for each of the backlight subareas; the backlight regulation signals are grouped signals, the number of the groups is identical to the number of types of the color sub-pixels; calculating an average color purity of a current picture area corresponding to each backlight subarea; determining whether the average color purity of each of the backlight subareas is within a preset range; if yes, performing a brightness regulation to a backlight source of the backlight subarea in each of the frame images of a next picture according to the backlight brightness regulation signal of the backlight subarea.
US10665173B2
An organic light emitting display device includes pixels, a sensor configured to extract at least one of deviation information of first transistors of the pixels and deterioration information of OLEDs of the pixels in a sensing period, and a converter configured to change a bit of first data input from the outside by using at least one of the deviation information and the deterioration information, and to generate second data, wherein a pixel at an ith horizontal line includes an OLED, a first transistor configured to control an amount of a current that flows from a first power source via the OLED in response to a voltage of a first node, second and third transistors configured to turn on when a scan signal is supplied to an ith scan line, and a fourth transistor configured to turn on when a control signal is supplied to an ith control line.
US10665162B2
A pixel of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device may include an organic light-emitting diode; a first transistor configured to control, in response to a voltage of a first node, current flowing from a first driving power source to a second driving power source that is coupled to a second node via the organic light-emitting diode; a second transistor coupled between a data line and the first node, and configured to be turned on when a first scan signal is supplied to a first scan line; a storage capacitor coupled between the first node and the first driving power source; and an auxiliary capacitor coupled between the first driving power source and the second node.
US10665160B2
An electrooptical device includes a plurality of pixels that are disposed corresponding to each of intersection positions at which a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines intersect with each other, and each of which includes a light emitting element which emits light by a driving current; and a control circuit that performs a control such that the light emitting element emits light or does not emit light. The control circuit causes the light emitting element to transition between a light-emitting state and a non-light-emitting state, in a transition period, in a case where the light emitting element of each pixel corresponding to the unselected scanning line is to transition between a light-emitting state and a non-light-emitting state.
US10665157B2
Systems and methods reduce likelihood of hysteresis that reduces perceived image quality of a subsequent image frame by toggling the display pixels to relax the display pixels by overwriting previous image frame data. During non-emission periods of the pixels, the pixels may be pre-toggled or exercised to improve response time and accuracy of the pixel. Data for pixels being programmed may also be used to pre-toggle other pixels reducing overhead but increasing cross-talk. Since the amount of cross-talk is related to content of the pixels being pre-toggled, a line buffer may be used to store image data for the pixels being pre-toggled. This stored image data may be used to determine how much pre-compensation is to be applied to data for the pixels being programmed. In other words, an amount of compensation applied is based at least in part on the content (e.g., greyscale levels) of the image data.
US10665155B1
Windows including sunroofs of a car may be enabled to display cinematic video, still pictures, opaque content, or picturesque content such as the countryside to simulate various environments while driving. On the outside of the autonomous vehicle advertising content may be shown on digital displays to pedestrians, bystanders, and other vehicle, autonomous vehicle or semi-autonomous vehicle passengers. Advertising revenue may offset vehicle leasing, maintenance, fuel, and ridesharing costs. Ad networks may send local offers content for presentation on the vehicle, autonomous vehicle or semi-autonomous vehicle's windows. Passengers may order food and interact with ads on the car window. The car windows may be multi-touch enabled to allow for various gestures and interactivity with the vehicle, autonomous vehicle or semi-autonomous vehicle. Chairs in the car may be rotated to allow for better positioning of the passenger to window screens.
US10665140B1
Because of the nature of autonomous vehicles, and in particular that they do not require manual inputs from a driver or passenger to control braking and steering, autonomous vehicle can include features that may not necessarily be useful or practical in a typical non-autonomous (or semi-autonomous vehicle) that would require such manual input.
US10665139B2
One embodiment of a light emitting diode (LED) lighting device comprises multiple LED light sources disposed on multiple elongated circuit boards, with each LED light source being electrically connected to one of the circuit boards. The elongated circuit boards are electrically coupled using electrical passageways to provide power to the circuit boards at intervals along the length of the elongated circuit boards, and the light sources disposed on the circuit boards emit light in the same direction perpendicular to the elongated circuit boards. The electrical passageways can be wires or groups of wires.
US10665133B2
A system and method for simulating an ultrasound scanning session is provided. The method includes acquiring an image of at least a portion of a simulated scan surface by a camera. A probe simulator having a visually coded pattern is maneuvered on the simulated scan surface. The method includes analyzing the acquired image to identify the visually coded pattern of the probe simulator maneuvered on the simulated scan surface. The method includes determining a position and orientation of the probe simulator based on the visually coded pattern identified in the acquired image. The method includes estimating a scan plane based at least in part on the determined position and orientation of the probe simulator. The method includes retrieving an ultrasound image from storage. The ultrasound image corresponds with the estimated scan plane. The method includes presenting the retrieved ultrasound image at a display system.
US10665129B2
A haptic communication system includes a broadband signal generator to extract parameters from sensor signals describing a message for transmission to a user. Broadband carrier signals are generated by aggregating a plurality of frequency components. Actuator signals are generated by encoding the parameters from the sensor signals into the broadband carrier signals. One or more cutaneous actuators are communicatively coupled to the broadband signal generator to receive the actuator signals. Haptic vibrations are generated corresponding to the actuator signals on a body of the user to communicate the message to the user.
US10665127B2
Systems and methods of sharing driver coaching data are provided. Driver coaching systems learn the characteristics of a deceleration event. With the goal of increasing recouped energy while operating a vehicle that can recapture energy in a battery, driver coaching systems predict when the vehicle can begin coasting at the start of the deceleration event. In this way, the amount of time during which regenerative braking can be applied may be increased. Coaching cues are provided to the driver so that the vehicle can be operated in a way that achieves the goal of increasing recouped energy. By sharing driver coaching data, the amount of learning time/resources spent by other vehicles can be reduced.
US10665126B2
An apparatus and method for assisting and educating patient mobility and recovery are disclosed. In one embodiment, wearable garments, such as socks, include at least one visual indicator to instruct and educate patients to ensure that the proper foot is used for mobility and recovery. The wearable garments includes a number of visual indicators to aid with instruction and education even for patients with visual impairments. The wearable garments additionally includes a non-skid bottom surface for preventing slips.
US10665125B2
A police scene simulation kit is provided. The kit includes a container. The container includes a planar inner surface and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the planar inner surface. The planar inner surface includes a printed design. The printed design resembles a police scene. The kit further includes a plurality of pieces. The plurality of pieces releasably attach to the planar inner surface. The plurality of pieces each resemble an object at a police scene.
US10665121B2
A system and method for an online educational game to improve skills without spending money are disclosed. It further provides a system and method for the players to increase their winnings by providing gift certificates from companies who want to attract these winners. This game provides players an opportunity to win a prize without having to spend money to buy a ticket and an opportunity to improve vital skills. This invention provides a way of experiencing the thrill of gaming without betting any money. The games could be drawn instantly or periodically. The winnings could be a preset amount or a progressive jackpot.
US10665115B2
A method, device, framework, and system provide the ability to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to avoid obstacle collision. Range data of a real-world scene is acquired using range sensors (that provide depth data to visible objects). The range data is combined into an egospace representation (consisting of pixels in egospace). An apparent size of each of the visible objects is expanded based on a dimension of the UAV. An assigned destination in the real world scene based on world space is received and transformed into egospace coordinates in egospace. A trackable path from the UAV to the assigned destination through egospace that avoids collision with the visible objects (based on the expanded apparent sizes of each of the visible objects) is generated. Inputs that control the UAV to follow the trackable path are identified.
US10665111B2
A system for overhearing data or voice communications is provided. The system comprises at least one antenna operative to receive messages comprising data messages or voice messages, or both data and voice messages. A radio unit is in communication with the at least one antenna, with the radio unit operative to receive signals corresponding to the messages from the at least one antenna. A processor unit is in communication with the radio unit, with the processor unit operative to process the signals corresponding to the messages. A display unit is in communication with the processor unit, with the display unit operatively enabled in response to the signals corresponding to the messages. The display unit is operative to show the messages in a text format or a graphics format.
US10665108B2
An information processing apparatus mounted on a first vehicle includes a recognizer that recognizes a second vehicle that is present in a travelling direction of the first vehicle on a basis of sensing information obtained from a sensor attached to an outside of the first vehicle, and a determiner that determines whether or not control for overtaking the recognized second vehicle is executed. The apparatus also includes a generator that generates first information for moving the first vehicle in a second direction toward a second road end in a case where the determiner determines that the control for overtaking is executed, the second road end being opposite to a first road end toward which a first direction is directed, and the first direction being a direction in which the first vehicle moves in order to overtake the second vehicle. The apparatus further includes an outputter that outputs the generated first information.
US10665105B2
A roadside device transmits first detection data obtained by a first sensor to a server. The server extracts an unobservable area that is a blind spot of the first sensor, based on the first detection data, and transmits unobservable-area information indicating the unobservable area to a moving terminal. The moving terminal extracts, based on second detection data obtained by a second sensor, second dynamic information indicating an object that exists in a sensing range of the second sensor, and determines whether or not an overlapping area where the unobservable area indicated by the unobservable-area information and the sensing range of the second sensor overlap each other exists. Upon determining that the overlapping area exists, the moving terminal transmits, to the server, third dynamic information that is included in the second dynamic information and that indicates an object that exists in the overlapping area.
US10665098B2
Dynamically configurable traffic controllers and methods of using the same are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first sensor to monitor traffic in a first area. The example apparatus further includes a second sensor to monitor traffic in a second area. The example apparatus also includes a projector to project light toward a floor when traffic is detected in both the first and second areas, the light to be visible from the first and second areas.
US10665085B2
Systems and methods are directed to recording data at a plurality of in-service vehicles operating within a plurality of predetermined regions for which users of a plurality of mobile devices are responsible, analyzing, at the vehicles, the recorded data for violation of one of a plurality of predetermined safety parameters by the vehicles, and transmitting, to a central server, data associated with a safety parameter violation by a vehicle in violation of one of the predetermined safety parameters. A safety event alert is generated at the central server for the vehicle in violation in response to receiving the transmitted data, and the safety event alert is communicated from the central office to a mobile device authorized by the central office to receive the safety event alert for the predetermined region within which the violation occurred.
US10665084B1
Embodiments of the present inventive concept include retrofit compliance apparatus, which can include a catch basin or drip tray. The retrofit compliance apparatus can be used in conjunction with a hand hygiene dispenser, and monitor for compliant usage of the dispenser. The retrofit compliance apparatus can include one or more microcontrollers and one or more sensors. The retrofit compliance apparatus can detect whether the dispenser has been properly used. The retrofit compliance apparatus can collect data allowing the determination of the identity of who used the dispenser. Historical information about valid dispense counts and invalid dispense counts for each individual user can be maintained by a remote server.
US10665083B1
A keyway illumination and key-loss prevention system and method provides a smart key having a master module, and a keyway having an integral slave module. The modules are in operational communication with a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device is operable with a positional detection software application that identifies relative positions of the master and slave module. The slave module generates a geofence near keyway. The master module transmits a signal defining positional information. The positional information includes the position of master module, relative to the slave module. The positional detection software processes the positional information from the emitted signal. The positional detection software triggers the communication device to actuate an alert when the positional information indicates the master module has exited the geofence of the keyway. An illumination device is operable to illuminate when the positional information indicates the master module has entered the geofence of the keyway.
US10665080B2
A method for transmitting an alarm for a circulatory support system includes receiving an inaudible signal with a signal processor coupled to a hearing implant anchored in a bone behind a patient's ear. The inaudible signal is associated with an alarm of the system. A second alarm signal is transmitted along the bone to an inner ear of the patient based on the inaudible signal such that it is audibly perceived. A method for transmitting an alarm for a circulatory support system to a hearing implant anchored behind an ear of a patient includes receiving an inaudible signal with a signal processor that is coupled to the hearing implant. The inaudible signal is associated with an alarm of the system. A second alarm signal is transmitted to an inner ear of the patient based on the inaudible signal such that the second alarm signal is audibly perceived by the patient.
US10665076B2
A mobile electronic device comprises at least one processor. The at least one processor specifies a position of a user based on the first information. Upon determining that the user is located in a region through which the user is prohibited from passing based on the position of the user and signal information which a roadside unit transmits using short-range wireless communication, the at least one processor executes setting processing for transmitting a notification of a state of the user.
US10665073B1
A floating pool monitor and alarm device is disclosed with a 360 degree HD camera that captures live pool video and wirelessly transmits it to a mobile device of a pool owner. The device allows for remote monitoring of the pool. The HD camera is enclosed by a transparent dome that is disposed at the bottom of the device, thereby capturing the pool video from an underwater perspective, which allows visibility below the surface of the water down to the bottom of the pool. The mobile device includes a mobile app that displays the live video feed and enables the pool owner to hear audio from the poolside, speak to anyone in or around the pool via a speaker, arm or disarm an alarm, receive alarm notifications, make emergency calls, and view video with night vision to show the pool when light is low.
US10665068B2
An apparatus may include a base configured to be connected to a light socket, a projector supported by the base to project a projection field and a three-dimensional sensor supported by the base to output a three-dimensional field measurement of the projection field.
US10665066B2
A system includes, but is not limited to, a hardware controller for adjusting a dynamically modifiable display on a garment; and an environmental dominant hue sensor that detects a real-time dominant hue of an environment in which the garment is located, where the hardware controller adjusts the dynamically modifiable display based on a real-time detected dominant hue of the environment in which the garment is located in order to increase a color contrast between the dynamically modifiable display and the real-time detected dominant hue of the environment in which the garment is located.
US10665060B2
A method of providing or receiving value from or to a participant value in a game tournament wherein a plurality of participants play a casino-style game, includes calculating an expected value for the position of each participant in the tournament, the expected value based upon the number of wagering units held by the participant at the point in time, the number of wagering units held by each other participant in the tournament at the point in time and a payout table for the tournament.
US10665043B2
A system, apparatus and method utilize a micro electronic device implanted in a person or group of persons, or wearable thereby, to manage a variety of activities, including checking out a product or service from a market, such as a micro-market. The method includes the steps of providing a RF microdevice having an electronic identification code and attaching the microdevice to the user. A checkout system is provided including an RF reader and a processor. The user brings the microdevice near the reader, whereby the reader communicates with the microdevice via RF signals, and the RF reader signals the processor to corroborate the identification code. If the processor corroborates the identification code, the processor signals that a successful product or service checkout has occurred. If the processor does not corroborate the identification code, a checkout is not confirmed.
US10665037B1
A system for providing augmented reality (AR) content can include a user interface, a generator for creating AR models or scene files from a 3D image file that are each formatted for a different, particular AR rendering platform, and a computer system operably connected to the user interface and to the generator. The computer can include computer-executable instructions that cause the computer system to receive an image file, render a 3D image from the image file, create a plurality of AR models or scene files from the 3D image with the generator, provide a universal link associated with the plurality of AR models or scene files at the user interface, receive a request for an AR model or scene file, as a result of the universal link being selected, and identify a particular AR model or scene file based on the AR rendering platform associated with the request.
US10665033B2
An optical see-through head-mounted display device includes a see-through lens which combines an augmented reality image with light from a real-world scene, while an opacity filter is used to selectively block portions of the real-world scene so that the augmented reality image appears more distinctly. The opacity filter can be a see-through LCD panel, for instance, where each pixel of the LCD panel can be selectively controlled to be transmissive or opaque, based on a size, shape and position of the augmented reality image. Eye tracking can be used to adjust the position of the augmented reality image and the opaque pixels. Peripheral regions of the opacity filter, which are not behind the augmented reality image, can be activated to provide a peripheral cue or a representation of the augmented reality image. In another aspect, opaque pixels are provided at a time when an augmented reality image is not present.
US10665024B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for collecting, analyzing, and manipulating images and video. According to particular embodiments, live images captured by a camera on a mobile device may be analyzed as the mobile device moves along a path. The live images may be compared with a target view. A visual indicator may be provided to guide the alteration of the positioning of the mobile device to more closely align with the target view.
US10665021B2
An augmented reality apparatus and system, an image processing method, and device are presented. The augmented reality system includes an augmented reality server and at least two augmented reality apparatuses. The augmented reality apparatuses includes first and second augmented reality apparatuses. The first augmented reality apparatus can acquire a facial image of a first user. The augmented reality server can receive the facial image of the first user, and conduct augmented reality processing on an image of a second user's surroundings sent by a second augmented reality apparatus, according to the facial image of the first user, thereby enriching the functions of the first augmented reality apparatus and enhancing the flexibility in augmented reality processing of images by the augmented reality server.
US10665018B2
An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
US10665017B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include registering one or more first augmentations that were shown to a user through a first augmented view of a first actual scene, the one or more first augmentations having been shown at least at end of a segment of time, detecting, following the showing of the one or more first augmentations up to the end of the segment of time, one or more user behaviors of the user that when detected as occurring infers user's interest in seeing the one or more first augmentations; and displaying, in response at least in part to said detecting, one or more second augmentations through a second augmented view of the first actual scene or of a second actual scene, the one or more second augmentations to be displayed being based, at least in part, on the registering of the one or more first augmentations. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US10665014B2
A system and method for tap event location includes a device using a selection apparatus that provides accurate point locations. The device determines a 3-dimensional map of a scene in the view frustum of the device relative to a coordinate frame. The device receives an indication of the occurrence of a tap event comprising a contact of the selection apparatus with a subject, and determines the location of the tap event relative to the coordinate frame from the location of the selection apparatus. The location of the tap event may be used to determine a subject. Data associated with the subject may then be processed to provide effects in, or data about, the scene in the view frustum of the device. Embodiments include a selection apparatus that communicates occurrences of tap events to the device and includes features that allow the device to determine the location of the selection apparatus.
US10665012B2
A method uses a two-dimensional (2D) camera in two different positions to provide first and second 2D images having three common cardinal points. It further uses a three-dimensional (3D) measuring device to measure two 3D coordinates. The first and second 2D images and the two 3D coordinates are combined to obtain a scaled 3D image.
US10665009B2
A method and system is provided for culling hidden objects in a tile-based graphics system before they are indicated in a display list for a tile. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of regions which may for example be a plurality of tiles or a plurality of areas into which one or more tiles are divided. Depth thresholds for the regions, which are used to identify hidden objects for culling, are updated when an object entirely covers a region and in dependence on a comparison between a depth value for the object and the depth threshold for the region. For example, if the depth threshold is a maximum depth threshold, the depth threshold may be updated if an object entirely covers the tile and the maximum depth value of the object is less than the maximum depth threshold.
US10664999B2
A content saliency network is a machine-learned neural network that predicts the saliency of elements of a content item. The content saliency network may be used in a method that includes determining a set of elements in a UI and computing a first context vector for the content. The method may also include, for each element in the set of elements, computing a vector of simple features for the element, the simple features being computed from attributes of the element, computing a second context vector for the element, computing a third context vector for an intermediate context of the element, and providing the vectors to the content saliency network. The content saliency network provides a saliency score for the element. The method further includes generating an element-level saliency map of the content using the respective saliency scores for the set of elements and providing the saliency map to a requestor.
US10664997B1
The invention is a method for camera misalignment detection by means of processing images of a camera fixed to a vehicle and having a field of view containing a vehicle image area (11) imaging a portion of the vehicle and a remaining area (12), wherein in said processing step a plurality of reference locations (21) within an input image are used, said reference locations (21) being determined as edge locations along a boundary of the vehicle image area (11) in a reference image, and said processing step comprises checking at the reference locations (21) within the input image whether said reference locations (21) are edge locations by ascertaining at each reference location (21) whether a magnitude of an image gradient is above a gradient threshold limit, and alerting misalignment depending on an ascertained subset of the reference locations (21) where the gradient threshold limit is not reached. The invention also relates to a camera system, a computer program product and a computer-readable medium embodying the method.
US10664996B2
In a method for the start-up operation of a multi-axis system, with the multi-axis system including, as components, segments connected via respective joints and are movable in one or more axes, and a tool, connected to one of the segments and is movable to a specified position, optical markers are arranged in the environment. Position coordinates of the optical markers in a first, global coordinate system are ascertained and stored in the controller. The environment is captured as image data by a camera system. The image data are transmitted to an AR system and visualized in an output apparatus. The optical markers and virtual markers are represented during the visualization of the image data, wherein a respective virtual marker is assigned to an optical marker. A check is performed as to whether an optical marker and the virtual marker overlay one another in the visualized image data.
US10664982B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition part that acquires a plurality of different measured images, a modeling part that identifies, for each pixel, a modeled parameter approximating an approximation function of a data sequence where pixel values of pixels corresponding to the respective measured images are placed in an order of capturing, a reconstructed image generation part that generates reconstructed images which are images corresponding to the respective measured images and reconstructed with an approximation value of each pixel identified based on the modeled parameter of each pixel, and an image changing part that changes the pixel values of the measured images based on statistics of the pixel values of the measured images and that of the corresponding reconstructed images.
US10664972B2
An ultrasound processing system includes an ultrasound interface, processing electronics, and display electronics. The ultrasound interface receives imaging information. The processing electronics are coupled to the ultrasound interface and configured to utilize the ultrasound imaging information to process an ultrasound scene for display. The processing electronics parse the scene into segments based on a plurality of automatically detected image characteristics and dynamically assign different processing parameters to different segments. Display electronics are coupled to the processing electronics and the processing electronics are configured to cause the display electronics to output the processed ultrasound scene.
US10664959B2
A method of performing an image-adaptive tone-mapping for a display device including performing a first tone-mapping on an image frame by applying a first tone-mapping function to respective non-target display blocks, and performing a second tone-mapping on the image frame by applying a second tone-mapping function obtained by applying a local weighted value to the first tone-mapping function to respective target display blocks.
US10664958B2
A method of adjusting an output bitrate of an image by contrast adjustment includes: determining a maximum subtraction rate of a contrast of the image in response to a brightness of the image; comparing a current output bitrate of the image with a target bitrate while reducing the contrast of the image up to the determined maximum subtraction rate of the contrast of the image; and determining the contrast of the image to be the reduced contrast in response to determining that the reduced contrast of the image corresponds to the target bitrate.
US10664956B2
[Problem] Provided is an image processing apparatus and program that are able to suppress ringing caused in image data having increased image quality while considering the sharpness of the image data.[Solving Means] An image processing apparatus includes a ringing incidence estimation unit configured to estimate an incidence of ringing representing a probability that ringing will occur, on the basis of input image data, a sharpness estimation unit configured to estimate a sharpness emphasis level representing intensity of sharpness of an input image represented by the input image data, on the basis of the input image data, and an adjuster configured to perform an adjustment process to suppress a level of image conversion on each pixel in converted image data obtained by performing the image conversion on the input image data, on the basis of the incidence of ringing and/or the sharpness emphasis level.
US10664949B2
Techniques related to eye contact correction to provide a virtual user gaze aligned with a camera while the user views a display are discussed. Such techniques may include determining and reducing histogram of oriented gradient features for an eye region of a source image to provide a feature set, applying a pretrained classifier to the feature set to determine a motion vector field for the eye region, and warping and inserting the eye region into the source image to generate an eye contact corrected image.
US10664948B2
A method and apparatus are provided for processing information about an omni-directional image. The method includes generating a first two-dimensional (2D) image projected from a first omni-directional image, by setting points on the first omni-directional image, which intersect a straight line passing through a first position that is a center of the first omni-directional image and a second position that is a center of a second omni-directional image, to a first pole and a second pole, generating a second 2D image projected from the second omni-directional image, by setting points on the second omni-directional image, which intersect the straight line passing through the first position and the second position, to a third pole and a fourth pole, and generating a third 2D image corresponding to a 2D image projected from a third omni-directional image centered in a third position between the first position and the second position, based on the first 2D image and the second 2D image.
US10664946B2
A phase deviation method determines an offset between a reference and suspect signal by analyzing a phase deviation surface created by computing a deviation metric for phase shift and then analyzing a surface formed from the deviation metrics for an array of offsets. The phase deviation method analyzes the deviation surface to determine an offset that minimizes phase deviation. This method is applied at increasing levels of detail to refine the determination of the offset.
US10664937B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for flood-risk analysis and mapping. One method includes operations for presenting, in a graphical user interface (GUI), options for calculating a flood risk map, and receiving, via the GUI, input identifying a geographical region and a weather scenario. Further, the method includes operations for dividing the geographical region into cells; calculating, utilizing a hydrological model, an inflow and an outflow of water between cells in the geographical region based on the weather scenario; and calculating, utilizing a hydraulic model, water depth in each cell based on the weather scenario and the inflow and outflow of water between cells. The flood risk map, generated based on the calculated water depth in each cell, shows the probability that each cell in the geographical region will be inundated with water under the weather scenario. The flood risk map is presented in the GUI.
US10664936B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a requestor, a request for an on-demand identity product in relation to an identity of a consumer, the request comprising personally identifying information (PII) of the consumer. The method also includes executing, using the PII, a partial registration of the consumer for the on-demand identity product, the partial registration omitting satisfaction of at least one security requirement. The method additionally includes determining whether delayed authentication is enabled for the on-demand identity product. Moreover, the method includes, responsive to a determination that delayed authentication is enabled for the on-demand identity product: conditionally suspending the at least one security requirement; initiating provision of the on-demand identity product to the requestor; and restricting the requestor's access to determined sensitive data resulting from the initiated provision at least until the at least one security requirement is satisfied.
US10664932B1
A method and system is disclosed that enables purchasers to purchase gas online for future delivery. The invention requires the purchaser prepay for online purchases or have been extended credit accepted by an oil company. The prepayments are credited to the purchaser's account. For each retail gas delivery, the oil company handles the online gas purchase transaction and reimburses the retail gas station owner for the online purchase. Specifically, the oil company reimburses the retail gas station owner for the taxes and profit on the gas delivered to the purchaser and also replaces the amount of gas delivered. In this way, the retail gas station owner is made whole for each delivery. Oil company also benefits with increased gas sales, increased profit and increased cash flow.Various embodiments of the invention are contemplated. The invention may require a purchaser to select a location of a retail gas station, a selected grade of gas or a combination of both.
US10664931B2
Proposed is a data analyzing system and method capable of performing highly reliable analytical processing which matches the actual situation. In a data analyzing device and method in which load data is classified into a plurality of clusters in consumer units based on the load data representing the power usage of each consumer for each unit time and the attribute information of each consumer, a diagnostic decision tree is generated for classifying the consumer into one of the clusters based on the attribute information of that consumer.
US10664929B2
Provided are systems, methods, and media for building a dynamic digital profile of a user to generate a user grouping recommendation. An example method includes receiving, by a system comprising one or more processors, social media data pertaining to a user. The method includes building, by the system, a digital profile of the user based on extraction of a combination of one or more of image data, text data, and/or location data, in which the building of the digital profile includes generating, by the system, a keywords ranking. The method includes generating, by the system, a user grouping recommendation for the user based on the ranking of keywords, in which the user grouping recommendation includes event data and a list of one or more second users attending the event.
US10664927B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to automation of crowd-sourced polling. At least one query can be received. The at least one query includes a request. A poll can be automatically generated based upon the at least one query, where the poll corresponds to the request. The poll can be submitted to a crowdsourcing backend, where instances of the poll are administered on the crowdsourcing backend. Moreover, crowd-sourced responses to the instances of the poll can be retrieved from the crowdsourcing backend. The crowd-sourced responses to the instances of the poll can respectively include crowd-sourced responses to the request. The crowd-sourced responses to the request can be converted to a random variable. An operation can be performed upon the random variable. The operation can include one or more of a statistical analysis (e.g., hypothesis testing), bias correction, an arithmetic operation, expected value computation, standard deviation computation, etc.
US10664921B1
A system for validation of healthcare provider bills includes obtaining an image of the bill on a mobile device which uses optical character recognition to resolve the patient, provider and amount due as alphanumeric characters. This collection of data is cross-referenced against an explanation of benefits (EOB) generated by a third-party administrator which relays the portion of the healthcare provider bill covered by insurance versus what is the patient's responsibility. The EOB and provider bill are validated against each other so the patient can make payment in an accurate amount.
US10664917B1
Personalized insurance systems, including vehicle-based devices and modules, insurance system servers, personal mobile devices, and other computing devices, may operate individually or in combination to determine and implement personalized vehicle insurance policies. Such policies may be driver-specific, time-specific, vehicle-specific, and/or driving-trip specific. Various driver data, vehicle data, and driving trip data may be received and analyzed in order to determine usage-based insurance parameters for vehicle driving and non-driving activities. Personalized vehicle insurance policies may be presented to and accepted by drivers, after which the drivers and one or more associated vehicles may be monitored to detect and store vehicle usage data in accordance with the personalized insurance policy.
US10664912B2
Systems 100, 1000, methods, and machine-interpretable programming or other instruction products for the management of data transmission by multiple networked computing resources 106, 1106. In particular, the disclosure relates to the synchronization of related requests for transmitting data using distributed network resources.
US10664909B2
A tracking system is provided for tracking personal property, such as to track collateral which is used to secure a loan. Collateral belonging to a borrower, such as electronic devices or other items of personal property having a wireless communication interface, is placed in communication with a tracking system which receives information from those items of collateral and utilizes that information to verify the existence of the borrower's collateral.
US10664900B2
An Indoor location mapping and wayfinding system for mapping waypoints on an interactive mapping system that can function both indoors and outdoors based on user selections and location. It can include a shopping system that allows users to pre-select items for purchase, maps the items on an indoor map of the store, and provides a route to the user for the collection of the selected items.
US10664887B2
A search system specifies an image of a product according to a preference of a user conveniently and accurately using a sensibility word and displays the product image so that information of the product image is intuitively understood by the user. In a client terminal, sensibility word data is specified by a user and sent to a server system. In the server system, the sensibility word data is received, a physical amount of a product associated with the sensibility word data is acquired, image data of the product associated with the physical amount of the product is acquired, and display information data indicating a display aspect for the image is generated. The image data of the product and the display information data are transmitted from the server system to the client terminal, and the image data of the product is displayed based on the display information data in the client terminal.
US10664874B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for submitting a network proxy bid and replacing the network proxy bid with an actual bid associated with advertisement placement are described. In some implementations, instead of submitting a static bid, an advertiser can submit a network proxy bid to an advertising exchange. A network proxy bid can indicate to the advertising exchange that the advertiser wishes to receive a call back from the advertising exchange when an impression matching targeting criteria specified by the advertiser becomes available. The advertiser then can calculate and submit an actual static bid to replace the network proxy bid in response to the call back.
US10664873B1
A system and method for selecting advertisements is disclosed. In example embodiments, a method includes submitting an offer to display an advertisement at a remote device, receiving one or more advertising bids, each bid indicating an advertisement and comprising bid amount, selecting a bid from the one or more advertising bids that results in a highest product, the highest product calculated by multiplying an estimated conversion rate for the advertisement indicated by the bid with the bid amount of the bid, and transmitting the advertisement indicated by the bid to the remote device for display.
US10664870B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, by the one or more processors, user input, the user input indicating an assignment of a particular task by a first user to a second user, the first user being a user of a product that provides the particular task; determining, by the one or more processors, that the second user is a non-user of the product and, in response: appending product promotion data to an electronic document, the product promotion data providing a summary of task-based action data that is associated with the second user; and transmitting the electronic document to the second user.
US10664864B1
The present disclosure is directed generally to systems and methods for allowing a website publisher to integrate a website's paywall system with the website's supplemental content server system. The system and methods of the disclosure allow a publisher to offer subscriptions to customers that result in the display of fewer or no supplemental content items to paying customers while the supplemental content retrieving code remains in place for all website visitors. Additionally, the system allows website analytics to be calculated for all visitors to the website.
US10664863B1
Techniques for maintaining information that identifies an association of a virtual asset to an item, updating the association of the virtual asset to a user profile, and generating a recommendation for another item based on the updated association may be described herein. For example, data may be received in response to a user device interacting with a machine-readable identifier of an item. An association of a virtual asset may be updated to reflect that the virtual asset is associated with a user profile instead of the item in response to receiving the data. In some embodiments, a recommendation may be generated and provided to the user device that identifies other vendors or items based at least in part on the updated user profile.
US10664859B2
An unexpressed liking and an unexpressed dislike of a user, which are not specified in the user's preference are determined by cognitive analytics. The unexpressed liking and dislike correspond to a first and second characteristic of items, respectively. In a list, a first item having the first characteristic and available in an inventory is included, which is, and a second item having the second characteristic and also available in the inventory is excluded. Items included in the list are arranged according to the user's degrees of liking or the items. An item having the first characteristic is determined to be absent from the inventory. Using completed sales information received from a set of retailer systems, an estimated value of a lost sales opportunity produced when the absent item is purchased is computed. The prioritized list and an accommodation offer responsive to the cost of the lost opportunity are presented.
US10664851B1
A method and system are disclosed for behavioral analysis for profiling wireless subscribers. The method includes loading carrier reference data comprising a set of common categories and loading a plurality of behavior records of at least two types, wherein each behavior record is generated by a mobile device activity of a subscriber. The method proceeds by associating each behavior record with one or more of the categories, thereby generating categorized data records. Finally each category associated with a behavior record is added to a subscriber profile for the subscriber whose activity generated the behavior record.
US10664849B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses that may be utilized for the production of automation assisted elevation certificates are provided. One such method includes receiving, by an elevation certificate application, a plurality of elevation data points. Each of the elevation data points indicates an elevation at a particular location within an area defined between a structure boundary of a structure on a parcel of real property and a buffer boundary that surrounds the structure boundary. A first set of the elevation data points are determined that correspond to a first determined number of the plurality of elevation data points indicating highest elevations. A second set of the elevation data points are determined that correspond to a second determined number of the plurality of elevation data points indicating lowest elevations. A map of a region including the structure is displayed on a user computer device, and the first set and the second set of elevation data points are displayed on the map.
US10664847B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to implementing and using a data processing system to provide real-time data to improve event delivery timing. A computing platform may establish respective connections with and receive, via a communication interface, (i) from a subordinate user computing device, information defining a first event; (ii) from a supervisory user computing device, supervisory information associated with the first event; and (iii) from a first participant computing device, first participant information associated with delivery of the first event. The computing platform may execute an algorithm for comparing the information defining the first event, the supervisory information, and the first participant information, and generating a formatted alert based thereon. The formatted alert may be transmitted for display on the subordinate user computing device and/or the supervisory user computing device.
US10664844B2
A method for tokenizing credentials is disclosed. In addition to a token, a verification value can be provided for each interaction. The verification value can be generated based at least in part on a dynamic data element. The dynamic data element may be kept secret, while the verification value can be distributed for use during an interaction. When the verification value is used, it can be validated by re-creating the verification value based at least on the stored dynamic data element.
US10664842B1
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method providing biometric detection of coercion of a user. The system may detect a trigger event associated with a potential transfer of funds and may receive user biometric data. The system may determine, based on stored user biometric data and the detected user biometric data, a confidence level that the stored user biometric data is indicative of biological information representative of a user being in a stressed state. The system may initiate one or more precautionary safety measures.
US10664831B1
Disclosed are a system and methods enabling updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a reissue application associated with the payment card. The reissue application, when executed communicates with a service provider that manages the payment card. The payment card includes processing circuitry and a rewriteable visual display. Using cryptographic techniques, the reissue application and payment card are authenticated to the service provider. Upon verification, an updated card number is obtained and provided via near-field communication to the payment card. In response to the update payment card number received from the reissue application, the rewriteable visual display on the payment card is updated with the updated card number. Other information may also be presented on the rewriteable visual display of the payment card based on user preferences.
US10664829B1
User credit card data or smart chip data or Near Field Communication data is easily transferred from a card reader to a host device via a matrix bar code such as a Quick Response (QR) code. Data transfer is performed by converting the card data into matrix bar code and allowing the host device to take an image and process the image to obtain the card data. Card reader will convert magnetic signal/smart chip/NFC data into machine readable form and then convert it into matrix bar code to be consumed by a device that is capable of capturing the matrix bar code. The card reader has the ability to encrypt the data before converting it into a matrix bar code.
US10664822B2
Provided are systems and methods for facilitating bill payment functionality in mobile commerce. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving a transaction code at the mobile device, transmitting the transaction code to a merchant device for association with a transaction, receiving transaction information associated with a transaction based on the transaction code at the mobile device, displaying the transaction information at the mobile device; displaying at least one payment option at the mobile device, receiving a selection of one of the at least one payment option; transmitting the selected payment option and transaction information from the mobile device for approval of the payment of the transaction, receiving notification of approval of the payment at the mobile device, and receiving a payment completion code associated with the notification of approval, wherein the payment completion code is provided to the consumer on a bill associated with the transaction.
US10664818B2
According to an embodiment, a check-out system includes a plurality of the payment apparatuses in communication with each other and with a registration apparatus. A payment processor processes a payment in accordance with received payment information and a customer input. A storage unit stores received payment information when the payment apparatus is available to process payment. A transmission unit of a payment apparatus transmits received payment information to another payment apparatus of the plurality of payment apparatuses when the payment apparatus is unavailable to currently process the received payment information.
US10664815B2
Network systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining purchase history databases useful for targeted marketing while preventing users from obtaining access to customer financial accounts.
US10664812B2
There are provided systems and methods for software development kits for point-of-sale device and mobile device interactive frameworks. A service provider, such as a payment provider, that offers online and cloud based digital wallet services may configure flexible software frameworks for a merchant's point-of-sale device and a user's mobile device. A framework for a merchant's device may allow for user check-in with the merchant, and may utilize multiple different communication protocols to receive tenders and non-tenders from the user's mobile device. Thus, the user's mobile device may communicate with the merchant device to provide tokens that may be resolved by the merchant using the payment provider and/or a payment host to receive payment processing confirmation. Moreover, the frameworks may allow for a transaction to be synchronized to the user's mobile device so that the user may receive updates after processing of the tokens.
US10664809B2
A computer-implemented process of tracking events, is carried out by detecting that a first badge is within a personal-area network wireless communication range of a second badge, thus designating an encounter, and performing, by processor executing instructions read out from memory, an event logging transaction responsive to the encounter. The event logging transaction is performed by receiving, from the first badge, an electronic message characterizing an observation made by the user of the first badge relative to a user of the second badge, converting the electronic message received from the first badge into a pinpoint response, and generating an event record comprising an identification of an event type, and the pinpoint response.
US10664803B2
A computer system and method for managing access to a resume database. For each skill or experience-related phrase in a resume, the system computes a term of experience based on an experience range associated with a contextual use of the phrase in the resume. The term of experience for a phrase that occurs multiple times in the resume is the summation of the term of experience for each occurrence of the phrase associated with a different contextual use. The system stores each phrase and the term of experience in a parsed resume. The resume database also stores job descriptions that include required phrases and a required term of experience for each required phrase. The job descriptions also store a required level of education or field of specialization, and a required salary range. A recruiter searches the resume database to find matching resumes that satisfy a job description.
