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US09220185B2	Set-top box having dissipating thermal loads A set-top box is provided that comprises a housing having a first vertical outer wall with a first vent and a second vertical outer wall with a second vent; a circuit board having a first heat source element and a second heat source element; a contoured heatsink in thermal engagement with the first heat source element, wherein the contoured heatsink overlies at least one-third of the circuit board and extends along the first vertical side wall; and a second heatsink contacting the second heat source element, wherein the second heatsink is located in only one half of the device and is aligned with the second vent. The multiple heatsinks and associated vents work in concert to improve heat dissipation.
US09220184B2	Advanced cooling for power module switches A system includes an electronic device, a heat spreader with a vapor chamber attached to a bottom end of the electronic device, so that heat flows from the electronic device to the heat spreader, and a heat sink with microchannels running through it attached to a bottom end of the heat spreader, so that heat from the heat spreader flows through the heat sink and to an ambient. A method for cooling a device includes transferring heat generated by a device through a conductivity layer, spreading the heat through a heat spreader, transferring the heat from the heat spreader to a heat sink that contains microchannels, and releasing the heat from the heat sink into an ambient.
US09220177B2	Display system A display system includes a display panel that displays information and a movement apparatus that moves the display panel. The movement apparatus includes: a slide mechanism configured to move the display panel linearly relative to a base chassis; a right-and-left tilt mechanism configured to change an angle of a display surface of the display panel in a right-and-left direction; an up-and-down tilt mechanism configured to change an angle of the display surface of the display panel in an up-and-down direction; and a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the display panel on a rotation axis orthogonal to the display surface of the display panel.
US09220161B2	Array substrate and panel An array substrate includes a common electrode line located in a surrounding region, a protected structure located inside the common electrode line, and a first electrostatic protection circuit having a shorting bar electrically connected between the protected structure and the common electrode line for releasing static electricity on the protected structure. A second electrostatic protection circuit is also electrically connected between the protected structure and the common electrode line, and the second electrostatic protection circuit releases static electricity through the common electrode line after the shorting bar is cut off. The invention can make the conduction of the static electricity accumulated at the shorting bar that has been cut off change from unidirectional conduction toward inside of the array substrate to bidirectional conduction toward inside of the array substrate and edges of the array substrate, thus reducing the probability of electrostatic damage to internal devices of the array substrate.
US09220159B2	Electronic ballast An electronic ballast for lighting applications is disclosed. The electronic ballast comprises a first charge pump having an input capacitor (13) charged with a supply current drawn from a power source by application of a charging voltage to the input capacitor (13), the magnitude of the supply current being proportional to the magnitude of the charging voltage; and a voltage booster (16, 17) for generating a boost voltage, which is used to augment the charging voltage, thereby increasing the current drawn from the power source.
US09220153B2	Illuminating apparatus and control method for keeping a constant total brightness of ambient light and light produced by the illuminating apparatus An illuminating apparatus and control method is adapted to keep a constant total brightness of the ambient light and light produced by the illuminating apparatus. The illuminating apparatus has a control module storing an objective brightness and detect the ambient brightness through an optical sensor. The control module turns on a lamp according to a comparison result of the objective brightness and the ambient brightness. Hence, a total brightness of the lamp's brightness and the ambient brightness is adjustable to be equally bright as the objective brightness. The illuminating apparatus of the invention does not provide excessive brightness and accordingly conserves electric power energy.
US09220152B2	Methods and apparatus for communication over a three-phase power system utilizing a communication protocol Methods and apparatus related to controlling an apparatus such as a lighting fixture utilizing a communication protocol transmitted over the power line that feeds the lighting fixture. For example, in some embodiments data is transmitted over a three-phase power system via switching of a transformer electrically coupled to the three-phase power system. Optionally, a single transformer may be utilized to transmit data to at least on apparatus coupled to a first phase line of a three-phase power system and to at least one apparatus coupled to a second phase line of the three-phase power system.
US09220148B2	Methods and apparatus for compensating a removal of LEDs from an LED array Methods and apparatus related to compensating for electrical changes resulting from cut-out of a portion of a grid of a plurality of LEDs (20A-T; 120; 220; 320). A compensating unit (40; 140; 240; 340) may be coupled to free wire segments of the grid that are created by the cut-out and the compensating unit (40; 140; 240; 340) may be configured to alter current supplied to remaining LEDs of the grid of LEDs. The compensating unit is configured to and/or may be configured to lessen current supplied to one or more LEDs of an LED-based lighting unit.
US09220144B2	High-stability dimmer A time-division control circuit individually controls an effective voltage supplied to each lighting load by adjusting the periods during which switching circuits connected to N sets of lighting loads are kept on. A zero-cross signal having a value that changes at the zero-cross point of the AC voltage is generated. An oscillation signal is generated with a frequency equal to, or an integer multiple of the AC frequency. The phase difference between the zero-cross signal and the oscillation signal is measured and a common reference point that defines the timing for turning the switching circuits ON or OFF is determined on the basis of the measured phase difference. An ON/OFF signal for each switching circuit is transmitted at a timing for each of the N sets of switching circuits on the basis of the reference point and the effective voltage to be supplied to the lighting load.
US09220135B2	Light emitting component and light emitting device using same A light emitting device including a light emitting component is provided, wherein said light emitting comprising an integrated light emitting diode and a semiconductor field effect transistor. The semiconductor field effect transistor may prevent situations such as overheating and voltage instability by controlling a current passing through the light emitting diode as well as enhancing the ability to withstand electrostatic discharge and reducing cost of the light emitting device in multiple aspects.
US09220131B1	Ingot solidification controller for vacuum arc remelting A method of model-based ingot solidification control for the vacuum arc remelting process is presented. Specifically, the model predicts the pool depth as a function of radial position from ingot centerline and time, given melting current, and electrode melting efficiency. The analysis leading to the model assumes that the electrode gap is being accurately controlled during the melting process. The controller has both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional embodiments.
US09220130B1	Method and apparatus for controlling operation of range top heating elements for cooking A range has burner elements which are connected in series with a temperature switch. Upon reaching a predetermined temperatures, the switch opens and power to the burner element is secured. The burner elements are preferably open coil units, but radiant burner elements may employ similar technology with a lower upper threshold than prior art units have used. Lowering the temperature in a cooking utensil below common ignition temperatures while still allowing boiling is an objective of many embodiments.
US09220117B2	IMS cross carrier supportability A system may include a first Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network comprising one or more devices configured to receive a first registration request for a first mobile directory number (MDN), associated with a subscriber, wherein the first MDN corresponds to a home mobile directory number with respect to the first IMS network; and register the first MDN with the first IMS network. The one or more device may be further configured to detect a service point trigger, associated with the subscriber, to register a second MDN, foreign to the first IMS network, with a second IMS network, in response to the first MDN being registered; and send a second registration request to the second IMS network, to register the second MDN with the second IMS network.
US09220115B2	Techniques for channel access in asynchronous unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band deployments Techniques are described for channel access in a radio frequency spectrum band shared by a number of asynchronous operators. One or more clear channel assessment (CCA) procedures may be used to contend for one or more transmission periods in the radio frequency spectrum band. When the contention is won for one or more transmission periods, a determination may be made as to whether the a number of transmission periods for which contention has been won is equal to or greater than a threshold number of consecutive transmission periods. If the number of transmission periods for which contention has been won is at or above the threshold number, occupancy of the radio frequency spectrum band may be relinquished for a period of time, in order to allow another operator to access the radio frequency spectrum band.
US09220112B2	Method, device, and system for multiplexing data with selected modulation and coding schemes The present invention provides a signal sending method, device, and system. The method includes: A sender performs signal multiplexing processing on a first service data block in service data blocks to be sent and uplink control information, and performs channel interleaving processing on mixed data generated after the signal multiplexing processing, to generate a mixed data block; the sender performs signal spatial multiplexing processing on the mixed data block and remaining service data blocks in the service data blocks to be sent except the first service data block to generate a spatially multiplexed signal, and then sends the spatially multiplexed signal to a receiver through a PUSCH channel. The present invention solves the problem of signal transmission over the PUSCH channel after a MIMO technique is introduced in an LTE-A system.
US09220111B2	Communication scheduling A method and device for network communication request scheduling is presented. Example embodiments are directed towards the dynamic scheduling of communications based on real time network resource utilization and associated stored statistics.
US09220108B2	Scheduling method and control station apparatus A communication terminal performing Fourier transform to convert a first time-domain signal into frequency-domain signals, allocating the frequency-domain signals to one or more first block is composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a first allocation unit, performing inverse Fourier transform to convert the allocated frequency-domain signals into a second time-domain signal, and transmitting, to a BS, the second time-domain signal simultaneously with another communication terminal, in case that the other communication apparatus performs communication with the BS using one or more second block composed of two or more contiguous subcarriers as a second allocation unit wherein the second block, wherein the number of subcarriers of the second block is equal to a value of x multiplied by the number of subcarriers of the first block, and x is equal to a value of 2 or a value greater than 2.
US09220102B2	Low power base station and communication control method In the case where the disclosed low-power base station (300) detects a macro terminal (200), which is a wireless terminal that is not subordinate to said low-power base station (300), when the macro terminal (200) is present in the vicinity of the low-power base station (300) and the low-power base station (300) allocates femto downlink bands as-is to a femto terminal (400), which is a subordinate wireless terminal, the low-power base station (300) considers that interference is applied to the macro terminal (200), and limits the femto downlink bands that are allocated.
US09220079B2	Signal analysis device, synchronization system, and synchronization method A signal analysis device includes a synchronization data generation unit, a synchronization correction value calculation unit, and a correction unit. The synchronization unit outputs an A/D-converted correction signal as first synchronization data. The first synchronization data is associated with time based on the timing of a trigger signal input from the outside. The synchronization correction value calculation unit calculates, as a first synchronization correction value, an amplitude ratio, a phase difference, and a time difference between the first synchronization data and second synchronization data input from the outside on the basis of the first synchronization data and the second synchronization data. The correction unit corrects the amplitude, phase, and timing of the RF signal output from the object to be measured, on the basis of the first synchronization correction value or a second synchronization correction value input from the outside.
US09220073B2	Method, device and system for controlling uplink channel power A sending parameter of a preamble is compared with at least one preset parameter threshold to obtain a comparison result. A channel priority is determined in accordance with the comparison result. When a plurality of uplink channels are required for simultaneous transmission, the transmitting powers of the plurality of uplink channels is determined in accordance with the channel priority; and the plurality of uplink channels comprising a PRACH. This scheme adopts an unfixed strategy for the ranking of the PRACH in the channel priority, and determines the ranking of the PRACH in the channel priority by comparing the sending parameter of the preamble with a preset parameter threshold or receiving a signaling from a base station.
US09220071B2	Slow congestion control A method for power control stabilization in the uplink of a cellular CDMA communication system applying a fast inner loop power control comprises determining (210) of a radio frame based RoT value for a cell. A radio frame based SINR is determined (212) for individual UEs in the cell. The RoT value is compared (214) with a first threshold. Each frame based SINRs is compared (218) with a second threshold. The fast inner loop power control for a UE is broken (220) in dependence of the comparisons. The breaking comprises commanding (222) of a first number of consecutive power down commands to UEs having the frame based SINR above the second threshold for a RoT value above the first threshold and toggling (224) of power control commands for the subset of UEs during a second number of radio frames for a RoT value above the first threshold.
US09220067B2	Front end radio architecture (FERA) with power management A front end radio architecture (FERA) with power management is disclosed. The FERA includes a first power amplifier (PA) block having a first-first PA for amplifying first-first signals and a first-second PA for amplifying first-second signals. Also included is a second PA block having a second-first PA for amplifying second-first signals and a second-second PA for amplifying second-second signals. At least one power supply is adapted to selectively supply power to the first-first PA and the second-second PA through a first path. The power supply is also adapted to selectively supply power to the first-second PA and the second-first PA through a second path. A control system is adapted to selectively enable and disable the first-first PA, the first-second PA, the second-first PA, and the second-second PA.
US09220066B2	Bundling data transfers and employing tail optimization protocol to manage cellular radio resource utilization Techniques for increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device are presented herein. In the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.
US09220060B2	Method, apparatus, and system for energy saving management in network management system A method, an apparatus, and a system for energy saving management in a network management system are disclosed. The method for energy saving management includes: configuring, by an integrated reference point manager IRPManager, an energy saving policy, where the energy saving policy includes an identifier of a coverage backup entity for energy saving and further includes policy information of energy saving activation and/or policy information of energy saving deactivation; and sending, by the IRPManager, the energy saving policy to an integrated reference point agent IRPAgent, where the energy saving policy is used to perform energy saving management on a base station.
US09220050B2	Mesh network defragmentation Methods of reassembling a mesh network which has been disrupted by the unavailability of a node or a link are disclosed. Nodes continuously receive beacon messages originating from a leader node. These beacon messages may be transmitted directly by the leader node, or may have been retransmitted by an intermediate node. When a node determines that it has not received a beacon message in a certain time period, it concludes that it is now disconnected from that leader node. At this point, it may choose to act as a leader node and form a new network, or may join with another network. The determination of which network to join may be based on some indicia associated with the leader node of that network.
US09220047B2	Network system, node, packet forwarding method, program, and recording medium There are proposed: a network system capable of realizing packet forwarding higher in packet forwarding efficiency than in conventional Intermittent Periodic Transmit (IPT) using omni-directional antennas; and the like. Directional antennas are applied to the IPT, and each of slave nodes waits for reception of downlink packets by a directional antenna for receiving the downlink packets in a reception waiting state therefor. Moreover, the downlink packets are treated like polling control signals, and uplink packets are transmitted at a reception time of the downlink packets, whereby a hidden node problem and a carrier sensing problem can be avoided. Furthermore, in accordance with routing protocol in which each of nodes changes directivity randomly by a route formation process, it becomes possible to form a more suitable route.
US09220044B2	Methods and apparatus for quickly exploiting a new link during hand-off in a wireless network A way to deliver traffic to a mobile node that is undergoing a hand off between two Access Routers (AR) is described. The method of the present invention operates to perform some or all of the following: decrease, e.g., minimize, delays between the time the old link breaks and the first packet is sent from the new link; reduce and/or eliminate packet bursts from old to new AR when an old (existing) link breaks; ensure that packets are neither lost nor duplicated during hand off; maintain QoS control of delivery order to the MN; make good or best use of multiple links during make-before-break hand-off; and support both uplink and downlink traffic.
US09220043B2	Dynamic internetwork load balancing Examples are disclosed for executing vertical handovers of wireless devices configured to couple with heterogeneous wireless networks. In some examples, wireless devices on separate heterogeneous networks may be swapped between the heterogeneous networks.
US09220042B2	Wireless communication apparatus and method A transmission node in a wireless communication network includes a buffer, a transmitting section, a data processing section, a re-transmit queue, and a control section. To avoid duplication of SDUs for re-transmission, PDUs transformed from SDUs by the data processing section are maintained in the buffer by the control section after being transmitted to a mobile node in the network by the transmitting section. Addresses of the SDUs and associated sequence numbers are stored in the re-transmit queue. When handover of the mobile node from the transmission node to another transmission node occurs, PDUs of which the addresses are stored in the re-transmit queue are reverse transformed to SDUs with the associated sequence numbers so that the SDUs can be handed over to another transmission node.
US09220029B2	Method of handling minimization of drive tests measurement and related communication device A method of handling minimization of drive tests, hereafter called MDT, measurement for a mobile device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes registering to a first public land mobile network, and maintaining MDT measurement configuration when the UE registers to a second public land mobile network belonging to an operator as the first public land mobile network is, or the UE is in coverage of the first public land mobile network but registering to no public land mobile network.
US09220024B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting a cell size in a wireless communication system Method in a network node (110) comprised in a wireless communication system (100), for adjusting size of a cell (115) served by the network node (110). The method comprises estimating (304) a parameter value, related to a number of unsuccessful network connection attempts made by one or more user equipment (120) during a measurement period, and/or a number of dropped user equipment connections to the network node (110) during the measurement period. Further, the method comprises comparing (305) the estimated (304) parameter value with a threshold value, and adjusting (306) the size of the cell (115), based on the result of the comparison (305) of the estimated (304) parameter value with the threshold value.
US09220011B1	Electronic device theft self-detection and locking A mobile communication device that detects and responds to theft is disclosed. The mobile communication device comprises at least a cellular radio transceiver, a processor, a memory, wherein the memory comprises a user partition and a system partition, and an operating system kernel stored in the system partition of the memory. When executed by the processor, the operating system kernel prevents unprivileged users from accessing the system partition and determines a theft status of the mobile communication device or of at least one hardware component of the mobile communication device. When a theft status is determined, the operating system kernel performs at least one theft response selected from preventing boot-up of the mobile communication device, sending a message via the cellular radio transceiver, commanding presentation of a theft alert message on a display of the mobile communication device.
US09220001B2	Methods and systems for group calls in a wireless communication network Methods and systems are disclosed for forcing at least some members of a communication group to join a new group call when they are participating in an another group call to a different communication group. A wireless communication device that seeks to initiate the new group call transmits a request-to-transmit (RTT) on a reverse channel to initiate the new group call. This way, at least some of group members participating in the other group call can be allowed to join the new group call. The recipients of the RTT can then switch from a primary channel on which the other group call is taking place to an alternative channel to join the new group call. In one implemenation, the disclosed embodiments can be applied to a two-way wireless communication system that employs a TDMA channel access scheme.
US09219999B2	Information push method, apparatus, and system The present invention provides a new Push method, apparatus, and system. The Push method includes: receiving a Push message delivered by an application server; obtaining a private IP address of a UE according to a user identifier, where the user identifier is obtained from the Push message; and obtaining, according to the private IP address of the UE, a PS domain node currently connected to the UE, sending the Push message to the PS domain node, and sending the Push message to the UE through the PS domain node.
US09219997B2	Managing service subscriptions over a unidirectional transmission channel Methods, apparatus, and products for managing service subscriptions of a plurality of devices over a unidirectional transmission channel, including: assigning, by a subscription management module, one or more group identifiers to a device to be activated for a service subscription, each group identifier being an identification of a group of devices having an activated subscription to the service; activating, by the subscription management module, the device's service subscription including broadcasting an activation message that includes a unique identifier of the device, the assigned group identifiers, and an active subscription period being a period of time during which the device's subscription to the service is to be active; and prior to expiration of the active subscription period, broadcasting a reactivation message including at least one of the group identifiers to which the device is assigned.
US09219990B2	Real time data feeds in a close proximity notification system An aspect includes a method for providing real time data feeds to a user of a mobile device. A signal that includes an identification code is received by a mobile device from a short-range wireless communication transmitter. The signal is processed on the mobile device. The processing includes determining whether information associated with the signal is stored on the mobile device, and identifying a retrieval location of the information based on the determining and on the signal. The processing the signal is performed exclusively by a software application located on the mobile device and independently of any networks. Based on the processing, information from the retrieval location is retrieved using the mobile device. A real time data feed associated with the identification code is located. The information is displayed on the mobile device and the real time data feed is streamed on the mobile device.
US09219983B2	Mechanism to reduce missing breach detection in geofencing solution A system and method for a mobile device to efficiently use a geofence capability without draining its battery, and to allow flexibility in specifying various parameters related to geofencing, such as the latency and confidence in determining when or where a geofence breach occurs, and reducing the probability of not detecting a geofence breach.
US09219979B2	Beacon for close proximity notification system According to an aspect, a transceiver includes an antenna, a processing device, and a memory device. The memory device is in communication with the processing device. The memory device stores instructions that when executed by the processing device result in discovering wireless mobile devices within a proximity range of the transceiver; initiating communication between the transceiver and one or more of the wireless mobile devices; and exchanging data with the one or more of the wireless mobile devices.
US09219978B2	System and method for communication with a tracking device A system and method for providing communication with a tracking device are disclosed. An example tracking device includes a location detector, a communication device, memory, a processor, and a configuration routine. The location detector is operative to determine locations of the tracking device. The communication device is operative to communicate with a remote system. The memory stores data and code, the data including location data determined by the location detector and configuration data. The processor is operative to execute the code to impart functionality to the tracking device. The functionality of the tracking device depends at least in part on the configuration data. The configuration routine is operative to modify the configuration data responsive to communications from the remote system. Thus, functional access to the tracking device is provided to the remote system.
US09219969B2	Methods and systems for reducing spillover by analyzing sound pressure levels Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for reducing spillover in a media monitoring system are disclosed. An example method includes identifying media associated with media monitoring data. The media monitoring data is received from a first meter associated with a first media presentation device. The example method includes identifying an expected sound pressure level associated with the first meter. The example method includes comparing the expected sound pressure level to an actual sound pressure level collected from the media by the first meter to determine if spillover occurred. The example method includes crediting the media as a media exposure if spillover did not occur.
US09219966B2	Location based assistance using hearing instruments Disclosed in some examples is a method of authentication, the method comprising monitoring for the presence of a hearing instrument; responsive to detecting the hearing instrument: establishing a short-range wireless communication session with the hearing instrument; determining an identity of the hearing instrument wearer; and responsive to determining the identity of the wearer, setting a value indicating that the hearing instrument wearer is authenticated with and within the wireless range of the presence device.
US09219964B2	Hearing assistance system with own voice detection A hearing assistance system includes a pair of left and right hearing assistance devices to be worn by a wearer and uses both of the left and right hearing assistance devices to detect the voice of the wearer. The left and right hearing assistance devices each include first and second microphones at different locations. Various embodiments detect the voice of the wearer using signals produced by the first and second microphones of the left hearing assistance device and the first and second microphones of the right hearing assistance device. Various embodiments use outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed by the left hearing assistance device and the outcome of detection of the voice of the wearer performed the right hearing assistance device to determine whether to declare a detection of the voice of the wearer.
US09219963B2	Dual single-crystal backplate microphone system and method of fabricating same A dual backplate MEMS microphone system includes a flexible diaphragm sandwiched between two single-crystal silicon backplates. Such a MEMS microphone system may be formed by fabricating each backplate in a separate wafer, and then transferring one backplate from its wafer to the other wafer, to form two separate capacitors with the diaphragm.
US09219962B2	Transducer and method of operation In one embodiment, there is described a new transducer, and in particular an improved system and method for producing linear motion for a transducer such as used in voice coils converting from an electrical input to a mechanical linear motion input.
US09219960B2	Acoustic playback system An acoustic playback system including a digital filter; and a plurality of digital modulators each of which output a digital signal to one of a plurality of speakers configured with speakers driven by digital signals having different play back bandwidths; wherein the digital filter converts a digital audio signal which is input into a plurality of digital audio signals of a plurality of frequency bandwidths corresponding to play back bandwidths of the plurality of speakers, and outputs each of the digital audio signals of the plurality of frequency bandwidths to one of the plurality of digital modulators; each of the plurality of digital modulators outputs the modulated digital signal to the speaker of a play back bandwidth corresponding to a frequency bandwidth of the digital audio signal which is input by performing miss match shaping after noise shaping to a digital audio signal which is input; and each number of bits of a digital signal which is output by each of the digital modulators is different is provided.
US09219945B1	Embedding content of personal media in a portion of a frame of streaming media indicated by a frame identifier Disclosed are various embodiments for generating personalized streaming media based on a streaming media received from a broadcast source. In one embodiment, a media service receives a request to generate the personalized streaming media from a client. In response to the request, the media service application determines the content of the streaming media and identifies files in a file system of a user that include content related to the streaming media. Upon identifying the related files, the media service application embeds the content of the related files in a relevant portion of the streaming media to generate the personalized streaming media. The media service application then transmits the personalized streaming media to the client.
US09219944B2	Systems and methods for determining user output preferences A method is disclosed for determining audiovisual output preference. The method comprises providing first and second stimuli having respective sets of audio and visual characteristics. The method receives a user selection between the first and second stimuli, and includes the set of audio and visual characteristics corresponding to the selected stimuli in the audiovisual output preference.
US09219940B2	Fast channel change for hybrid device There is provided according to embodiments of the invention a method of changing channels in a hybrid multicast video distribution environment, which is carried out by receiving a plurality of multicast video streams concurrently in a server, buffering first segments of the video streams respectively, wherein the first segments comprise an independently decodable frame and zero or more predicted frames, encoding the first segments to form new segments having new frame quality parameters that are less than the frame quality parameters of the first segments, assembling the first segments and the new segments into respective channel packs of the video streams, and responsively to a request, identifying one of the video streams and transmitting at least a portion of the oldest stored channel pack of the one video stream from the server to a receiving device. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09219935B2	Display apparatus, external peripheral device connectable thereto and image displaying method A display apparatus, an external peripheral device connectable thereto and an image displaying method. The display apparatus includes a video receiver which receives a video signal; a display unit which displays an image; and a peripheral device connector which includes a first port to transmit and receive a video signal and a second port to receive a video signal, both of which are connected to the external peripheral device.
US09219923B2	Tiling in video encoding and decoding Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture (826), accessing information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined (806, 808, 822), decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures (824, 826), and providing the accessed information and the decoded video picture as output (824, 826). Some other implementations format or process the information that indicates how multiple pictures included in a single video picture are combined into the single video picture, and format or process an encoded representation of the combined multiple pictures.
US09219919B2	Electronic device for signaling a sub-picture buffer parameter An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level. If the picture is allowed to be decoded on a sub-picture level, the electronic device generates at least one of a buffer size parameter and a buffer scale parameter. The electronic device sends at least one of the buffer size parameter and the buffer scale parameter.
US09219914B2	Method and an apparatus for decoding a video signal A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining a current macroblock type, obtaining skip or direct mode indication information on a partition of the current macroblock according to the current macroblock type, deriving a motion vector of the partition according to the skip or direct mode indication information, and predicting a pixel value of the partition using the motion vector. Accordingly, the present invention obtains a pixel value of a reference block close to an original video using a motion vector, thereby enhancing a reconstruction ratio of the macroblock. As a macroblock uses skip or direct prediction indication information, it is unnecessary to separately code skip mode indication information and direct mode indication information on the macroblock, whereby an information size to be coded can be reduced.
US09219906B2	Image display device and method as well as program Three-dimensional processing is applied to more than one images taken from different points of view to generate a stereoscopic image, and the stereoscopic image is stereoscopically displayed. An instruction to control a stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopically displayed stereoscopic image is received, and the three-dimensional processing is applied to the more than one images to achieve a stereoscopic effect according to the instruction. Then, control values of the stereoscopic effect according to the instruction are recorded in a recording unit with the control values being associated with the more than one images. At this time, if there are the control values of the stereoscopic effect recorded in the recording unit, difference values between the control values of the stereoscopic effect according to the instruction and the recorded control values of the stereoscopic effect are recorded in the recording unit.
US09219902B2	3D to stereoscopic 3D conversion This disclosure describes techniques for modifying application program interface (API) calls in a manner that can cause a device to render native three dimensional (3D) graphics content in stereoscopic 3D. The techniques of this disclosure can be implemented in a manner where API calls themselves are modified, but the API itself and the GPU hardware are not modified. The techniques of the present disclosure include using the same viewing frustum defined by the original content to generate a left-eye image and a right-eye image and shifting the viewport offset of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.
US09219900B2	Determine video to play with audio Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to determining video to play based on audio. Videos associated with the audio are determined. One of the videos to play with the audio is determined based on analysis.
US09219896B1	Method of color processing using a color and white filter array A method of color processing includes providing a color and white filter array placed over an image sensor, thereby generating converted color and white signals; interpolating the converted white signals to generate interpolated white signals; interpolating white-chroma differences between the converted color signals and the converted white signals to generate interpolated white-chroma difference signals; and transforming the interpolated white signal and the interpolated white-chroma difference signals into a color space, thereby generating transformed color signals.
US09219888B2	Image pickup unit and endoscope An image pickup unit includes an image pickup device, an objective lens, and a prism that has a reflective surface. The image pickup unit includes: a projecting portion that is an area at which the image pickup device projects to the rear from the prism; a terminal portion provided on the projecting portion; a flexible printed wiring board that extends along the prism and the projecting portion; an image pickup device connection terminal portion formed on a face that faces the projecting portion of the flexible printed wiring board; and a cable connection terminal portion formed at an area that extends over the projecting portion of the flexible printed wiring board. The terminal portion and the image pickup device connection terminal portion are joined in an opposed state. An electronic component is mounted on a face on an opposite side to the reflective surface of the flexible printed wiring board.
US09219887B2	Drive assist device A drive assist device includes: a overhead image generating unit that generates a vehicle periphery overhead image; a forward trajectory setting unit that sets a forward trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when the turning based on a calculated steering angle; a reverse trajectory setting unit that sets a reverse trajectory serving as an expected trajectory in the travel direction of the vehicle or in the opposite direction as the travel direction of the vehicle occurring when turning based on a steering angle in the opposite direction as the calculated steering angle; and a image synthesizing unit that generates a drive assist overhead image for display in a monitor by synthesizing the forward trajectory and the reverse trajectory with the vehicle periphery overhead image.
US09219885B2	Imaging system with defocused and aperture-cropped light sources for detecting surface characteristics A system for detecting characteristics of a surface includes multiple sources of lights, a platform structure configured to support the surface, a lens aligned with the platform structure, a cropping aperture, and an image receiver. The platform structure is configured to receive light from the source of light and the lens is positioned such that the source of light is not in focus, but the detected surface is in focus. The cropping aperture is configured to crop light reflected from the surface, and the image receiver is configured to receive the light conditioned by the cropping aperture.
US09219883B2	Controlling placeshifted content Media content to be place shifted is received at the local user device along with a place shift enabled parameter that contains data associated with the received media content and that indicates whether the received media content is authorized to be place shifted. A user command to place shift the received media content to the remote user device is also received. It is then determined, by analyzing the place shift enabled parameter, whether the received media content is authorized to be place shifted and based on this determination the place shifting of the received content to a remote device is allowed or impaired.
US09219873B2	Mulitple gated pixel per readout A system for providing an improved image of daytime and nighttime scene for a viewer within a vehicle is provided herein. The system includes: a pixel array sensor having a fully masked gate-off capability at a single pixel level, wherein the pixel array sensor is provided with an inherent anti-blooming capability at the single pixel level; wherein each pixel is gated by a corresponding transfer gate transistor having high transfer gate efficiency. The system further includes a gating unit configured to control the transfer gate transistors with pulsed or continuous wave modulated active and passive light sources, to yield a synchronized sensing signal from the sensor, wherein a single pulse is sufficient to cover the entire field of view of the sensor and the entire depth of field of the illuminated scene; and a processing unit configured to receive the synchronized sensing signal and process it.
US09219867B2	Method and apparatus for compressive imaging of a scene using a single pixel camera A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for compressive imaging of a scene in a single pixel camera are disclosed. For example, the method moves a pseudo-random pattern media behind an aperture until a pseudo-random sampling function of a plurality of pseudo-random sampling functions is viewable through the aperture, records a value of an intensity of a modulated light from the scene with a detector, wherein the intensity of the modulated light is representative of an inner product between the pseudo-random sampling function and an image of the scene and repeats the moving and the recording until a necessary number of a plurality of inner products are processed.
US09219863B2	Image capture apparatus An image capture apparatus comprises a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake, a translational motion correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a first correction amount for correcting a translational motion component, a perspective component correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a second correction amount for correcting a perspective component, an image stabilization unit configured to correct the image blurring of the captured image based on the first and second correction amount, and a control unit configured to restrict, if a panning state of the image capture apparatus is determined, the translational motion correction amount calculation unit and the perspective component correction amount calculation unit so as to decrease correction capability for the translational motion component and the perspective component.
US09219862B2	Imaging device An imaging device includes: an imaging portion; a memory capable of storing images imaged by the imaging portion; a display portion; and a touch panel arranged to overlap with the display portion and capable of detecting a distance to an indicator. When the distance is equal to or less than a first distance and more than a second distance less than the first distance, the memory stores the images at predetermined time intervals. Then, when the distance becomes equal to or less than the second distance and equal to or more than 0, the display portion displays the image that is stored in the memory before the distance becomes equal to or less than the second distance and equal to or more than 0.
US09219861B2	Adapted digital device and adapter for a digital device A digital device having an image-handling function, adapted to be held at a level between a user's shoulder level and the user's hip level and directed toward a scene, comprising: a display located on a first surface of the device; an image capture component comprising a lens locatable adjacent a second surface, the lens being adapted to capture a field of view having a center lying on an axis substantially parallel to the first surface; a spatial attitude detector for detecting a current attitude of the device relative to a baseline attitude; a selector for selecting a portion of the field of view according to the baseline attitude; a distortion corrector for correcting distortion of the view caused by an angular difference between the current attitude and the baseline attitude; and a renderer for rendering a corrected image by the distortion corrector on the display.
US09219857B2	Image capture An apparatus including a processor configured to change automatically which pixels are used to define a target captured image in response to relative movement of a sensor frame of reference defined by a camera sensor and an image frame of reference defined by the image.
US09219856B2	Imaging control device, imaging apparatus, and control method performed by imaging control device The present technology is provided to allow a user to easily recognize a subject to be given priority.A focusing target selection unit selects, from among a plurality of first focus detection areas in which a focus is detected by a first focus detection unit, an area to be focused as a focusing target area on the basis of a detected result of the focus in the first focus detection areas. A display area selection unit selects, from among a plurality of second focus detection areas in which a focus is detected by a second focus detection unit, an area to be displayed as a display area along with the focusing target area on the basis of a detected result of the focus in the plurality of second focus detection areas. A display control unit causes a display unit to display the display area.
US09219854B2	Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device, and information storage device An imaging device includes an objective lens that includes a movable lens that is configured so that an in-focus object plane position is changed along with a change in angle of view, an image sensor that acquire an image, a focus control section that implements an autofocus (AF) operation by controlling a position of the movable lens, a reference lens position setting section that sets a reference lens position based on a moving range of the movable lens during a wobbling operation, the wobbling operation being performed every given cycle during the AF operation, and a magnification correction section that performs a magnification correction process that reduces a change in the angle of view of the image due to a change in the position of the movable lens during the wobbling operation relative to the reference lens position.
US09219850B2	Monitoring camera A monitoring camera includes a camera lens, an image sensor, and a housing enclosing the image sensor. The housing encloses a volume of Phase Changing Material (PCM) having the characteristic of not beginning a phase change until its temperature rises above a predetermined phase changing temperature. The phase changing temperature is in the range of 20-80 degrees Celsius, and the PCM is arranged to enclose the camera lens.
US09219849B2	System for camera viewing and illumination alignment A system for aligning a camera view and the illumination of a lighting fixture is disclosed. The system includes a camera contained with a housing and a lighting fixture that is pivotedly attached to the housing. An angle adjuster attached to a proximate end of each of the housing and the lighting fixture converts a linear movement to the adjuster into an angular adjustment of the lighting fixture with regard to an optical axis of a camera contained with the housing. In another aspect of the invention, the system of aligning a camera view and light fixture may be attached to a magnification lens in order to align the magnified view with the camera view and the illumination of the lighting fixture.
US09219848B2	Ball with camera for reconnaissance or recreation A thrown or projected ball-shaped camera for capturing video and still images over the arc of its airborne trajectory is disclosed. Improvements include an orientation sensor for determining the camera's orientation in flight; an embedded processing unit for triggering an image capture in response to the camera's orientation; an embedded processing unit for rotating a captured image in response to the camera's orientation; and an embedded processing unit for stitching a plurality of captured images. Also disclosed is a ball-shaped camera having multiple embedded cameras for capturing a spherical panoramic image.
US09219842B1	System and method of providing sideband advertising A system and method of embedding a sideband content, including sideband advertising, in a main content is disclosed. The method includes the steps of preparing the main content, preparing the sideband content, and merging the sideband content in the main content such that the sideband content is embedded non-intrusively in the main content. The sideband content may include a watermark, mosaic image or text pattern. Sideband content may be embedded in media content including print media content, online content such as web pages, streaming media content such as radio, television, and video transmissions, and mobile media content.
US09219802B2	Gateway and in-vehicle network system An in-vehicle system comprising a gateway between multiple networks is disclosed. One of the networks specifies that when a source apparatus connected to the one of the networks sends a request message to a destination apparatus connected to another one of the networks, the source apparatus should time-out if the source apparatus does not receive a response message within a specified time after sending the request message. Upon receipt of the request message, the gateway relays the request message to the destination apparatus and sends a wait request code to the source apparatus to instruct the source apparatus to wait by extending the specified time.
US09219800B2	Method and system for a web server transmitting a response to an access request According to embodiments, method, systems, and computer program products are provided for a web server transmitting a response to an access request. An access request for a web application program deployed on a web server is received, where a response corresponding to the access request is composed with a script. A test script is transmitted. A response time of the test script is received. The response time includes a time that the test script is executed in a browser of a client and a time that the test script is transferred over a network. Different responses are transmitted to different types of scripts included in the response corresponding to the access request in accordance with the response time of the test script.
US09219797B2	Method and system for a hosted mobile management service architecture A hosted mobile management service is provided for enabling a user to access a centralized account through a user interface on a terminal in order to manage the user's media information, such as digital music and photos. Any modifications made by user through the user interface are transparently sent to the user's mobile device where a module receives such modification information and interacts with the mobile device to reconcile such modifications.
US09219791B2	Digital filling station for digital locker content A system and method for an all-inclusive, high speed and convenient delivery of digital content to a user is described. The system and method include software, firmware and communications technology for providing digital content to a user, monitoring and controlling an interface between the user and the system to provide for purchase or lease of digital content by the user as well as communicating and archiving all data necessary to accommodate accounting, billing and reporting functions. Also included is a system and method for controlling a point of transaction kiosk to function as either a licensed digital locker download service provider, or as a licensed digital locker retailer and download service provider.
US09219785B2	Method and unit for the reliable allocation of network elements to a wireless sensor network The reliable and controlled allocation of network elements particularly medical sensors (2) to a network (4) without prior configuration of the wireless sensors or of the network administration system can be carried out using an allocation unit (1) for allocating network elements (2) to a wireless network (4), which allocation unit (1) comprises a transmitter which transmits, in a user-controlled manner, a code to a first network element (2), which code causes the first network element (2) to transmit its ID together with the code (encoded ID) so that the latter can be received by a second network element (3) which allocates the first network element (2) to its network (4).
US09219783B2	Synchronizing machines in groups Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to support synchronizing machines in groups. In some embodiments, synchronization is implemented by receiving an indication to activate a selected machine of a group of sync-aware machines connected to a subnet of a network, where each member of the group has information identifying all members of the group. Further activities include transmitting an activation message from the selected machine to the remainder of the group to notify the remainder that the selected machine is active, capturing a record of activities conducted at the selected machine while the selected machine is active, and transmitting information, based on the record, to the remainder of the group from the selected machine to synchronize results of the activities with the remainder after the selected machine becomes inactive. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09219781B2	Systems and methods for GSLB preferred backup list The present application is directed towards systems and methods for a user to configure the backup locations to use by an intermediary device providing Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) services when a primary location is down. In some embodiments, when GSLB is based on static proximity of the location of the client to the GSLB sites and if the primary location is DOWN, then request may be load balanced among all the other locations. But this may not be desirable in many cases. So we need to provide option to the user to specify the preferred list of backup locations to service a client request. The present solution achieves this configurability by using a GSLB policy based on preferred location. One can configure preferred location(s) via a GSLB policy to redirect the client to preferred location(x). One can configure individual policies for different client locations. Based on implementation requirements, one can configure country level granularity, state level granularity and so on.
US09219774B2	Exchange of callback information In one embodiment, a method is provided for exchanging callback information. In this method, a first request-response based protocol request is transmitted to a computing device, and a first request-response based protocol response is received from the computing device. Here, the first request-response based protocol response is identified to encapsulate a callback request and this callback request is extracted from the first request-response based protocol response. The callback request is then processed to generate a callback response, and the callback response is encapsulated in a second request-response based protocol request. The second request-response based protocol request is transmitted to the computing device, and a second request-response based protocol response is received after the transmission of the second request-response based protocol request from the computing device. Here, the second request-response based protocol response is a response to the first request-response based protocol request.
US09219773B2	Method of measuring call delay time A method of measuring a call delay time by synchronizing times of a replaying part and a recording part in a call delay time measuring device using an interrupting hardware method. The method includes reading an original WAV file when a replaying CPU receives a command, waiting for writing to a DAC buffer of a replaying CODEC, transferring a signal of recording-ready to a recording CPU, generating a recording WAV file by the recording CPU, waiting for reading from an ADC buffer of a recording CODEC, transferring a signal of complete recording-ready to the replaying CPU, recording the original WAV file, replaying the original WAV file and simultaneously transferring a signal of recording-start to the recording CPU, and reading audio data from the ADC buffer of the recording part by the recording CPU and recording the audio data to the recording WAV file.
US09219770B2	Internet streaming and TCP service to dynamically reconfigure user displays Internet streaming from broadcast radio or television stations is described wherein triggers for dynamic content originated from a system having a TCP Channel to a TCP Distribution Service are received by an encoder system also having a TCP Channel, and cause the encoder system to generate command messages, and optionally to synchronize those command messages with any delays associated with the triggering events. Command messages are delivered through a streaming media distribution system to client media players which obtain or present the dynamic content, in association with any desired configuration changes to the appearance of the media player or the method or manner in which the dynamic content is presented.
US09219765B2	End user QoS selection A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a remote computer device, a response time goal selected by an end user. The response time goal includes an interval when a next payload is to be received at a local computer device from the remote computer device. The remote computer device dynamically adjusts content of the next payload to be delivered to the local computer device based on the response time goal selected by the end user to allow the content of the next payload to be received at the local computer device within the response time goal selected by the end user.
US09219761B2	Device, software module or system for global real-time telecommunication A telecommunication device for real-time communication at a border between a global transport network and a local area network may allow traffic using real-time communication protocols to traverse a firewall, classified real-time traffic over best effort traffic for prioritization over the global transport network, measure and collection information about an application, its usage and prioritization used over the global transport network, create call detail records that can be used by a service provider for billing purposes; and deliver the call detail records to the service provider.
US09219755B2	Malicious mobile code runtime monitoring system and methods Protection systems and methods provide for protecting one or more personal computers (“PCs”) and/or other intermittently or persistently network accessible devices or processes from undesirable or otherwise malicious operations of Java TN applets, ActiveX™ controls, JavaScript™ scripts, Visual Basic scripts, add-ins, downloaded/uploaded programs or other “Downloadables” or “mobile code” in whole or part. A protection engine embodiment provides for monitoring information received, determining whether received information does or is likely to include executable code, and if so, causes mobile protection code (MPC) to be transferred to and rendered operable within a destination device of the received information. An MPC embodiment further provides, within a Downloadable-destination, for initiating the Downloadable, enabling malicious Downloadable operation attempts to be received by the MPC, and causing (predetermined) corresponding operations to be executed in response to the attempts.
US09219750B2	Communication access control device, communication access control method, and computer readable recording medium A communication control apparatus that controls communication via a network between a first communication apparatus for communicating via a virtual communication channel and a second communication apparatus for transmitting a communication request with the first communication apparatus including a storage unit that stores access control policy defining allowance or denial of access to the first communication apparatus, an establishment unit that establishes the virtual communication channel with the first communication apparatus, an authentication unit that authenticates the second communication apparatus based on the communication request received from the second communication apparatus, an access control unit that refers to the access control policy and evaluates whether to allow or deny access from the authenticated second communication apparatus to the first communication apparatus, and a transfer unit that transfers the received communication request to the first communication apparatus when the access control unit evaluates that the access is allowed.
US09219749B2	Role-driven notification system including support for collapsing combinations Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of implementing role-driven notification. The method includes storing, by a cloud infrastructure system including computing devices, notification templates. Each of the notification templates are associated with a role. The method further includes determining that a user is associated with a first role and a second role, determining that the first role is associated with a first notification template and the second role is associated with a second notification template. Further, the method includes combining the first template and the second template to generate a third template, based on the third template, generating a notification. The method then, sends the notification to the user.
US09219745B2	Assessing the resistance of a security module against attacks by communication pipe diversion A method for assessing the resistance of a security module against an attempt to divert a communication pipe between a gate of this security module and a gate of a near-field communication router present in a telecommunication device to which the security module is intended to be connected, including the steps of: connecting the security module to a near-field communication router emulator; having the emulator send at least one command to the security module, this command simulating the fact that the pipe used is not connected to a near-field communication gate; and determining whether the security module accepts the commands.
US09219738B2	System for providing dynamic portal transaction authentication and authorization Systems and methods are disclosed herein for managing electronic access from remote devices to a plurality of computer platforms. The system includes a processor, a network interface, and a memory. The network interface is configured to receive a user identity provided by a device remote to the system and an access request from the device to access a selected computer platform from the plurality of computerized platforms. The memory stores computer executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to determine a set of access rights for the device based on the user identity and a role associated with the user identity, as related to the selected computerized platform. The computer executable instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the system to allow the user to access the selected platforms according to the access request only if the access requested is included in the determined set of access rights.
US09219737B2	Method and apparatus for delivery of scan jobs in disconnected network topologies A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for delivering a document obtained on a remote network that is disconnected from a protected network are disclosed. For example, the method receives the document at the remote network that is disconnected from the protected network, stores the document on the mobile endpoint device, detects a presence of the protected network, delivers the document to a repository on the protected network and deletes the document from the mobile endpoint device.
US09219731B2	Method of managing user log-in to cloud-based application and image forming apparatus performing the method An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit to perform communication with a cloud server that provides an application service; a user interface unit to display a screen and receive a user input; a storage unit to store a database that corresponds to an application that is installed in the image forming apparatus; an image forming operation performing unit to perform an image forming operation; and a control unit that stores user log-in information in the database that corresponds to the application, so as to match the user log-in information with a user account for the image forming apparatus, and manages a log-in to a user account for the application by using the stored user log-in information.
US09219728B1	Systems and methods for protecting services A computer-implemented method for protecting services may include (1) identifying a service control manager, the service control manager having access to modify a configuration of at least one service, (2) identifying a request from a process for permission to access the configuration of the service, and, in response to the request, (3) authenticating the process based on at least one attribute of the process, (4) providing an authentication token to the process, (5) intercepting an attempt by the process to access the configuration of the service via the service control manager, the attempt including the authentication token, and, in response to the attempt, (6) validating the authentication token, and, in response to validating the authentication token, (7) allowing the process to access the configuration of the service. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09219724B1	Facilitated information exchange to a service provider for a requested service A method, a computer program product and a computer system, for exchanging information to provide services, is provided. A computer processor creates an information repository associated with a service requestor, in response to receiving a request for service from the service requestor. The computer processor notifies a service provider of the request for service from the service requestor. The computer processor receives a request for information from the service provider, regarding information about the service requestor. The computer processor forwards the request for information to one or more information providers. The computer processor stores information in the information repository, in response to receiving the information from the one or more information providers, and notifies the service provider to retrieve the information from the information repository.
US09219714B2	ID-based encryption and signature method and terminal Provided are an identity (ID)-based encryption and signature method and a terminal that use an ID of a transmitter or a receiver as a part of the filename or the extension of a file transmitted to the receiver by the transmitter. Accordingly, it is possible to enable a user to visually recognize that the file has been provided with security. Also, it is possible to designate an associated program for the extension, and the user can easily decrypt or verify the file through the designated associated program.
US09219709B2	Multi-wrapped virtual private network The invention includes a system for transmitting multi-wrapped VPN enabled-data across a communication network from a device to another destination device within a remote protected network. The device comprises a software stack, hardware layer, application-layer VPN software, link-layer VPN software, and user-based application software. Next, the device is coupled to a communication network. Next, the system includes a link-layer VPN aggregator and an application-layer VPN aggregator. Finally, the system includes a protected network that includes the destination device. The invention includes embodiments for configuring a device to transmit multi-wrapped VPN enabled-data and processes for transmitting multi-wrapped VPN enabled-data across a communication network from a device to another destination device within a remote protected network. Finally, the invention includes inverse processes so the destination device can transmit data back through the communication network and to the device.
US09219702B2	System and method for generating intentional interruptions during gatherings Systems and methods for generating interruptions are provided. A method for generating interruptions, comprises generating a message for one or more recipients, detecting that a computing device is being used for a presentation, concluding, using a processor, that the one or more recipients are in an audience for the presentation, and after concluding that the one or more recipients are in the audience, interrupting the presentation with the message.
US09219694B2	Content addressable memory with reduced power consumption A ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) provides a pre-classifier section which analyzes a subset of received data values to forward the entire received data values only to selected portions of a TCAM likely holding that data value to substantially reduce power consumption required for classification.
US09219692B2	Reducing latencies through packet aggregation Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for reducing latencies through packet aggregation. A method includes computing an end-to-end latency for each of multiple data packets to reach a pre-determined destination, determining an aggregation scheme with a corresponding aggregation time for each of the multiple data packets, wherein the aggregation time encompasses the time needed to transmit each of the multiple data packets to an aggregation component and the time spent waiting to output the aggregation component to an output port, and wherein the aggregation time is less than the computed end-to-end latency for each of the multiple data packets, aggregating each of the multiple data packets in accordance with the aggregation scheme, and programming the aggregation component with the aggregation scheme.
US09219690B2	Method for introducing network congestion predictions in policy decision There is provided a Congestion Prediction Engine “CPE” of a Policy and Charging Control “PCX”’ architecture. The PCC architecture also has a congestion database, a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function “PCEF” device and a Policy and Charging Roles Function “PCRF” node. The CPE includes a processing unit of the CPE which defines a currently applicable congestion prediction. The CPE includes a network; interface unit of the CPE which defines from the congestion database actual congestion data for a latest time period. The processing unit of the CPE determines a subsequent congestion prediction for a subsequent time period by comparing the currently applicable congestion prediction with the actual congestion data and by applying machine learning techniques. The CPE includes a memory of the CPE in which the currently applicable congestion prediction is replaced with the subsequent congestion prediction. The network interface unit of the CPE sends to a network entity the currently applicable congestion prediction so the PCRF can make a policy decision with quality of service “QoS” based on the currently applicable congestion prediction, upon establishment or modification of an IP Connectivity Access Network “IP-CAN” session for a user. A Policy and Charging Rules Function “PCRF” node of a Policy and Charging Control “PCC” architecture for making policy decisions based on network congestion. There is provided a method of a Congestion Prediction Engine “CPE” of a Policy and Charging Control “PCC” architecture and a method of making policy decisions at a Policy and Charging Control “PCC” architecture based on network congestion.
US09219686B2	Network load balancing and overload control Load balancing and overload control techniques are disclosed for use in a SIP-based network or other type of network comprising a plurality of servers. In a load balancing technique, a first server receives feedback information from at least first and second downstream servers associated with respective first and second paths between the first server and a target server, the feedback information comprising congestion measures for the respective downstream servers. The first server dynamically adjusts a message routing process based on the received feedback information to compensate for imbalance among the congestion measures of the downstream servers. In an overload control technique, the first server utilizes feedback information received from at least one downstream server to generate a blocking message for delivery to a user agent.
US09219684B2	Methods and systems for packet delivery based upon embedded instructions New communication system with packet's retransmission elements that do not use and do not depend on any routing protocol provides definite mechanisms to deliver packets from sender to receiver. Packet's retransmission elements are no longer in charge for calculating and maintaining routing tables in order to make decision regarding packet forwarding from ingress port to egress port. Each packet besides data contains set of instructions that presents complete path description from sender to receiver and rules of packet's processing on its way depending on various network metrics. The set of instructions is devised to be executed or interpreted by each network element that packet passing through. The outcome of instructions execution provides decision regarding packet forwarding and transformation. In order to provide information for path calculation and rules of packet processing there are centralized services—Network map, Pathfinder, Name registrar and Network policy.
US09219677B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for centralized routing and call instance code management for bearer independent call control (BICC) signaling messages The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems and computer readable media for centralized routing and call instance code management for bearer independent call control (BICC) signaling messages. One aspect of the subject matter described herein includes a system for routing BICC signaling messages and managing call instance code assignments. The system includes a BICC signaling router. The BICC signaling router includes a routing module for centralized routing of BICC signaling messages between a plurality of BICC signaling nodes. The BICC signaling router further includes a call instance code management module for centralized assignment of call instance codes for BICC signaling sessions routed through the BICC signaling router.
US09219674B2	Packet detection in the presence of interferers Methods and apparatus for signal processing is disclosed. The methods and apparatus include a first autocorrelator configured to autocorrelate a received signal using a first time delay to produce a first correlation magnitude, a second autocorrelator configured to autocorrelate the received signal using a second time delay different from the first time delay to produce a second correlation magnitude, and a detector configured to determine whether the received signal comprises a packet preamble based on the first and second correlation magnitudes.
US09219673B2	Crisscross cancellation protocol Technologies, systems, and methods for ordered message delivery that avoid message races or crisscrosses between communicating nodes. For example, if Node A sends message 3 towards Node B and, shortly thereafter, Node B sends message X to Node A, Node A would like to know whether or not message X reflects Node B's state after receiving message 3. If Node B received message 3 prior to sending message X, then proper state may be maintained between the nodes. But if messages 3 and X crisscrossed, or if message 3 was never properly received by Node B, then the state between the nodes may be corrupt. Technologies, systems, and methods are provided to avoid such corruption.
US09219671B2	Pro-active MPIO based rate limiting to avoid iSCSI network congestion/incast for clustered storage systems In an embodiment, a method of managing inbound throughput for at least one storage read request can include analyzing, at a server, a given storage read request to determine required network throughput at network ports of the server. Each of the storage read requests can be directed to a storage device. The method can further include queuing, at the server, the given storage read request if the required throughput of the given storage read request combined with throughput of outstanding storage read requests previously sent to the storage device saturates the available bandwidth of the network ports of the server. The method can additionally include sending the given storage request from the server to the storage device if the required throughput of the storage read request along with throughput of the outstanding read requests is below the level of available bandwidth of the network ports of the server.
US09219670B2	Link-aware throughput acceleration profiles An arrangement is provided for exposing TCP/IP profiles to a client application operating in a mobile computing environment where each profile comprises a set of TCP/IP configuration parameters that are mapped to a specific network type. An application programming interface (“API”) enables the client application to propagate configuration parameters in a selected TCP/IP profile to a TCP/IP layer in a communication protocol stack that resides on a mobile device. The TCP/IP configuration parameters are applied to data communications with a remote terminal over a network that is comprised of several links and which typically includes a wireless link.
US09219667B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively processing packets using time to live (TTL) information Methods, systems, and computer readable media for selectively processing packets using time to live (TTL) information are disclosed. A method for selectively processing packets using TTL information includes receiving, at a test system, a test packet from a device under test (DUT), wherein the test packet includes a TTL parameter field containing a TTL value. The method further includes determining if the TTL value in the test packet is a magic TTL value and performing a processing task on the test packet if the test packet includes the magic TTL value.
US09219664B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for handling unexpected virtual station interface (VSI) discovery and configuration protocol (VDP) packets received by a VSI Methods, systems, and computer readable media for handling unexpected virtual station interface (VSI) discovery and configuration protocol (VDP) packets received by a VSI are disclosed. One method includes, at a network equipment test device, emulating an ER and VSIs behind the ER. The method further includes transmitting a keep-alive message for a session from one of the VSIs to a virtual Ethernet port aggregation (VEPA) bridge under test. The method further includes receiving a de-associate message from the bridge, tearing down the session, and attempting to re-establish the session with the bridge. The method further includes, while waiting to initiate the attempt to re-establish the session with the bridge, receiving an unexpected message from the bridge and intercepting and logging receipt of the at least one unexpected message.
US09219663B1	Managing the performance of an electronic device A performance management system and method for generating a plurality of forecasts for one or more electronic devices is presented. The forecasts are generated from stored performance data and analyzed to determine which devices are likely to experience performance degradation within a predetermined period of time. A single forecast is extracted for further analysis such that computer modeling may be performed upon the performance data to enable the user to predict when device performance will begin to degrade. In one embodiment, graphical displays are created for those devices forecasted to perform at an undesirable level such that suspect devices may be subjected to further analysis.
US09219662B2	Method for application extension and image display apparatus using same The present invention relates to a method for application extension and to an image display apparatus using same, and more particularly, to a method for application extension wherein an application is executed by using the application data after receiving the same in a device registered in an image display apparatus, and to an image display device using the method.
US09219660B2	Self-service terminal A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining a status of a Self-Service Terminal (SST) in a financial network. The method includes the steps of, from an SST comprising a node of a financial network, providing an instant message identifying a status of the terminal to a help desk terminal comprising a further node of the financial network.
US09219657B2	System and method to control heat dissipation through service level analysis The system and method generally relate to reducing heat dissipated within a data center, and more particularly, to a system and method for reducing heat dissipated within a data center through service level agreement analysis, and resultant reprioritization of jobs to maximize energy efficiency. A computer implemented method includes performing a service level agreement (SLA) analysis for one or more currently processing or scheduled processing jobs of a data center using a processor of a computer device. Additionally, the method includes identifying one or more candidate processing jobs for a schedule modification from amongst the one or more currently processing or scheduled processing jobs using the processor of the computer device. Further, the method includes performing the schedule modification for at least one of the one or more candidate processing jobs using the processor of the computer device.
US09219648B1	Best practice analysis, automatic remediation Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, providing resource allocation advice, configuration recommendations, and/or migration advice regarding data storage, access, placement, and/or related web services. In some examples, a web service may utilize or otherwise control a client instance to control, access, or otherwise manage resources of a distributed system. Based at least in part on one or more resource usage checks and/or configuration checks, resource usage information and/or configuration information of an account utilizing a web service, and/or user preferences and/or settings, resource allocation advice, system configuration recommendations, and/or migration advice may be provided to a user of an account. Additionally, in some examples, one or more remediation operations may be performed automatically.
US09219645B2	Systems and methods for sharing a single firmware image in a chassis configured to receive a plurality of modular information handling systems In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a chassis configured to receive a plurality of modular information handling systems, wherein each modular information handling system comprises a remote access controller and a management controller disposed in the chassis. The management controller may be configured to be communicatively coupled to one or more remote access controllers of the one or more modular information handling systems received in the chassis and further configured to share a single remote access controller firmware image such that each of the one or more remote access controllers loads and executes the single remote access controller firmware image.
US09219642B2	Method, apparatus and system for processing device faults The present invention relates to the communication field and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for processing device faults, which are used to recover the device fault in a timely manner and improve user's service experience. The processing method includes: receiving a connection deletion request message sent by a network device in the case of a fault, where the connection deletion request message includes a global packet data network connection identifier FQ-CSID; locally deleting a packet data network PDN connection related to the FQ-CSID, or retaining a PDN connection related to the FQ-CSID and receiving downlink data corresponding to the PDN connection; and performing a network-triggered service recovery procedure. The solutions provided in the present invention are applicable to device fault recovery scenarios.
US09219636B2	Data sharing system, terminal, and data sharing method A data sharing system includes communicable terminals and selects a server-client system in which a first terminal is designated as a server and other terminals are designated as clients, when a sum of estimated time for transferring data to the first terminal from the other terminals, estimated time for performing, by the first terminal, arithmetic processing of the data in the first terminal, and estimated time for transferring arithmetically processed data from the first terminal to the other terminals satisfies a real time restriction, and power estimated to be consumed at a time of performing, by the first terminal, the arithmetic processing of the data in the first terminal is less than power estimated to be consumed at a time of performing the arithmetic processing by the other terminals. The data sharing system selects a peer-to-peer system, when the sum does not satisfy the real time restriction in any terminal.
US09219635B2	Server apparatus and privilege receiving opportunity notification method A server apparatus includes a memory that stores location information that identifies a second website from which a privilege is granted when the second website is used after having been accessed through a first website; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes first determining whether the location information acquired includes information that is identical to location information that identifies the first website. The processor executes second determining, when it is determined that the information identical to the location information of the first website is not included therein, whether location information of the second website is stored in the memory, the location information being identical to the location information acquired. The processor executes when the identical location information is stored in the memory, generating appeal information with which to appeal for accessing the second website through the first website, and notifying the user of the appeal information.
US09219630B2	Apparatus and method for sending and receiving broadcast signals An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal includes an input formatting module configured to de-multiplex an input stream into at least one Data Pipe (DP); a BICM module configured to perform error correction processing on data of the at least one DP; a signal frame building module configured to map the data of the DP to symbols within a signal frame; and an OFDM generation module configured to generate a transmission broadcast signal by inserting a preamble into the signal frame and performing OFDM modulation. The OFDM generation module includes a pilot signal insertion module configured to insert a pilot signal including Continual Pilots (CP) and Scattered Pilots (SP) into the transmission broadcast signal, and the CPs are inserted into every symbol of the signal frame, and location and number of the CPs are determined based on a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size.
US09219628B2	Equalizer and operating method thereof An equalizer includes a sampler configured to sample an edge and data of an input signal or an induced signal obtained from the input signal, a clock generator configured to generate an edge clock used to decide sampling timing of the edge and a data clock used to decide sampling timing of the data based on the sampled edge and the sampled data, and a controller configured to control the sampling timing of the edge and the sampling timing of the data based on the sampled edge and the sampled data.
US09219626B2	Data transmission system and data transmission method In order to make it possible to suppress attenuation of a data signal waveform without extra power consumption in high-speed transmission by using a high-speed clock, a data transmission system of the present invention includes a sending unit that outputs a reference signal generated by delaying a clock signal and a modulation signal which is either a signal the phase of which is delayed with respect to the reference signal in accordance with a state of a data signal or the clock signal, a transmission unit that transmits the reference signal and modulation signal, a peaking unit that suppress a development of peaking by applying inductor peaking to a signal on a transmission path, and a receiving unit that demodulates the data signal by detecting a phase difference between the reference signal and the modulation signal and outputs information on the data signal.
US09219608B2	Apparatus and method for sharing contents of Social Network Service in communication system A system, apparatus, and method in a communication system allow sharing contents of users by acquiring an access right even if there is no connection relationship in a Social Network Service (SNS). The system includes an SNS provider and a middleware server. The SNS provider provides the SNS and generates an authorization key and an authorization token according to an open authorization protocol. The middleware server obtains contents of a second user from the SNS provider by using an authorization key of the second user when a first user requests sharing SNS contents of the second user, and transmits the contents of the second user to the first user.
US09219601B2	Synchronisation method and device for transmit and receive symbols of all-digital receiver A synchronization method and device for transmit and receive symbols of an all-digital receiver. The method comprises the steps of: after receiving a sampling signal sent by a baseband processing chip, the clock signal of which is provided by a second clock source, a digital signal processor (DSP), the clock signal of which is provided by a first clock source, measuring a phase shift between a local sampling symbol and an air interface symbol, and acquiring the phase shift amount; according to the phase shift amount, adjusting a sampling opportunity for the sampling of a digital-analogue/analogue-digital converter; and when the sampling opportunity for the sampling of the digital-analogue/analogue-digital converter has been adjusted, adjusting an interface clock for data transmitting and receiving of the DSP so as to enable the data transmitting and receiving of the DSP to be synchronized with the sampling.
US09219594B2	Dual antenna integrated carrier aggregation front end solution Radio frequency front end circuitry comprises a first antenna port, a second antenna port, antenna switching circuitry, a first diplexer, and a second diplexer. The antenna switching circuitry is coupled to each of the first antenna port and the second antenna port through the first diplexer and the second diplexer, respectively. The antenna switching circuitry is adapted to selectively couple one or more of a plurality of transmit and receive ports to the first antenna port and the second antenna port.
US09219586B2	Integrated circuit for controlling radio communication Provided is a radio communication device which can prevent interference between SRS and PUCCH when the PUCCH transmission bandwidth fluctuates and suppress degradation of CQI estimation accuracy by the band where no SRS is transmitted. The device includes: an SRS code generation unit (201) which generates an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal) for measuring uplink line data channel quality; an SRS arrangement unit (202) which frequency-multiplexes the SRS on the SR transmission band and arranges it; and an SRS arrangement control unit (208) which controls SRS frequency multiplex so as to be uniform in frequency without modifying the bandwidth of one SRS multiplex unit in accordance with the fluctuation of the reference signal transmission bandwidth according to the SRS arrangement information transmitted from the base station and furthermore controls the transmission interval of the frequency-multiplexed SRS.
US09219583B2	Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.
US09219580B2	Method and apparatus for allocating resources and processing confirmation information A method and an apparatus for allocating ACKnowledgement (ACK)/Non-ACKnowledgement (NACK) channel resources and processing confirmation information are disclosed. The method includes: The network side determines one physical channel area among multiple physical channel areas to be used by an ACK/NACK channel, and notifies the determined physical channel area to a User Equipment (UE) so as to enable the UE to determine a channel for receiving or sending ACK/NACK information in the determined physical channel area according to a mapping rule. Moreover, the network side may send or receive ACK/NACK information on the physical channel area that includes the ACK/NACK channel. The method and apparatus improve the utilization ratio and flexibility of the ACK/NACK channel, and reduce the probability of conflict generated by the ACK/NACK channel.
US09219577B2	Method for transmission of data in a radio communication system, first network node and second network node thereof The invention relates to a method (MET1) for transmitting data from a first network node (BS) of a radio access network of a radio communication system to a second network node (MS) of the radio access network, and wherein the method (MET1) comprises the steps of transmitting (M1/6) a first negative acknowledgement (N1) from the second network node (MS), if the second network node (MS) cannot recover error free first data (D1), the first data (D1) being data from a single data source of the radio access network or for a single data sink of the radio access network, determining (M1/11) a combination (COMB1) of the first data (D1) and of at least second data (D2) by applying a superposition of the first data (D1) and the at least second data (D2), the at least second data (D2) being further data from the single data source or for the single data sink, and transmitting (M1/18) the combination (COMB1) to the second network node (MS). The method further relates to the first network node (BS) for use in the radio communication system and to the second network node (MS) for use in the radio communication system.
US09219576B2	Short packet for use in beamforming A method for generating a beamforming training (BFT) unit includes generating a physical layer (PHY) preamble of the BFT unit and generating a first encoding block and a second encoding block using PHY data and MAC data, including at least one of i) using a number of padding bits in a PHY layer of the BFT unit such that the BFT unit consists of the PHY preamble, the first encoding block, and the second encoding block, and ii) generating a MAC protocol data unit (MPDU) having a length such that the BFT unit consists of the PHY preamble, the first encoding block, and the second encoding block.
US09219574B2	Apparatus and method for data transmission Provided are a data transmission apparatus and a method for the data transmission apparatus to transmit a plurality of packets constituting transmission data to a receiving end. The data transmission apparatus for transmitting a plurality of packets constituting transmission data to a receiving end includes a packet-specific weight calculator configured to calculate packet-specific weights of respective transmission-scheduled original packets at a current time point among the plurality of packets, a packet converter configured to generate one or more error recovery packets from the original packets according to the calculated packet-specific weights, and a transmitter configured to transmit the error recovery packets to the receiving end using a plurality of sessions capable of transmission.
US09219566B2	Wavelength management in multiple-wavelength passive optical networks A system for supporting wavelength management in a passive optical network (PON), comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to send an wavelength assignment for optical network unit (ONU) communications based on a wavelength tunability capability, and an ONU coupled to the OLT and configured to send the wavelength tunability capability to the OLT, wherein the wavelength assignment and the wavelength tunability capability are sent in media access control (MAC) messages. Also disclosed is an apparatus of an OLT for supporting wavelength management, comprising one or more component configured to couple to an ONU and exchange a wavelength assignment for transmission with the ONU based on a wavelength tunability of the ONU, wherein the wavelength indication and the wavelength tunability are exchanged via MAC layer frames.
US09219545B2	Method, system and device for transmitting lighting device data It is presented a method for transmitting lighting device data. The method comprises the steps of obtaining, in a lighting device, a subset of lighting device data, the lighting device data containing information of the lighting device, transmitting, from the lighting device, using light, the subset of lighting device data, and repeating the above steps until all subsets jointly corresponding to the complete lighting device data have been transmitted. A corresponding lighting device and lighting system are also presented.
US09219544B2	LED based identification and communication systems In one aspect, identification and communication systems are described herein. In some embodiments, an identification and communication system comprises one or more query units and one or more response units, wherein at least one query unit comprises a query beam source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) operable to emit a query beam. In some embodiments, the query beam is substantially collimated. In some embodiments, an identification and communication system comprises one or more query units and one or more response units, wherein at least one query unit comprises a first query beam source operable to emit a first component beam and a second query beam source operable to emit a second component beam. In some embodiments, the first query beam source comprises an LED and the second query beam source comprises a laser. In some embodiments, the first component beam and the second component beam are substantially concentric.
US09219541B2	Baseband data transmission and reception in an LTE wireless base station employing periodically scanning RF beam forming techniques The present disclosure is related to a large-scale broadband wireless network capable of providing a very high wireless data capacity, wherein one aspect of the system utilizes a periodic beam forming system. When a wireless base station cell operates a periodic beam forming system, it is necessary to locate each user served by the cell within a sub-area covered by one of the m times N RF beams generated by the system. Methods for locating users within RF beam sub-areas are disclosed herein, where a user may be scheduled for transmission or reception only when an RF beam is focused on the sub-area that covers the user location. The present disclosure pertains to the systems and methods that may be used to process transmissions of and receptions by the baseband system of an LTE wireless base station that employs a periodic beam forming RF and antenna system.
US09219539B2	Communication system, transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, and communication method A communication system includes transmission apparatuses and a reception apparatus. Each transmission apparatus includes a data input processing unit to which data is input, a first controller that performs a control process for transmitting the data, and a first wireless communication processing unit that transmits the data to the reception apparatus according to the control process performed by the first controller. The first controller performs a control process for causing another transmission apparatus to transmit data input to the other transmission apparatus to the reception apparatus. The reception apparatus includes a second wireless communication processing unit that receives data from one of the transmission apparatuses, a second controller that performs a control process for outputting the received data, and a data output processing unit that outputs the received data according to the control process performed by the second controller.
US09219536B2	Radio communication system and radio communication method In a radio communication system, a plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of reception antennas are arranged such that a channel matrix having channel responses between the plurality of transmission antennas and the plurality of reception antennas as elements is a circulant matrix.
US09219531B2	Device, system and method of wireless communication via one or more antenna assemblies Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication via multiple antenna assemblies. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to transmit and receive signals via one or more quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, wherein the wireless communication unit is to transmit, via each quasi-omnidirectional antenna assembly, a plurality of first transmissions, to receive, in response to the first transmissions, a plurality of second transmissions from another device via one or more of the quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, and, based on the second transmissions, to select at least one selected transmit antenna assembly for transmitting to the other device and a selected receive antenna assembly for receiving transmissions from the other device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09219530B2	Method and apparatus for signal transmission in comp scheme The present system relates to a method for signal transmission in a CoMP scheme. Each cell that performs a CoMP operation in capable of setting and allocating a particular carrier and a particular CoMP zone in order to execute a particular CoMP scheme. Using the particular CoMP zone and the allocated carrier, a terminal can transmit and receive a CoMP signal corresponding to the particular CoMP zone and the allocated carrier. The terminal can perform measurement of a carrier or a particular zone within the carrier and select a carrier or a particular zone, on the basis of the measurement value. On the other hand, a serving base station can select a carrier or a particular zone, on the basis of the measurement value that is received from the terminal.
US09219528B2	Information exchange device An information exchange device includes a human body communication unit which applies information flowing via a human body to a human body and detects information flowing via the human body, an information transmission unit which transmits information via the human body communication unit, an identification unit which identifies other device which can transmit information from the information transmission unit, a detection unit which detects a contact state with other human body, and a transmission control unit which starts transmission of information according to identification by the identification unit and a detection by the detection unit.
US09219520B2	Distributed antenna system using time division duplexing scheme A communication system includes a master host unit that communicates wireless spectrum with a service provider interface using analog spectrum. Master host unit communicates digitized spectrum in N-bit words over a digital communication link. Master host unit converts between analog spectrum and N-bit words of digitized spectrum. Communication system includes hybrid expansion unit coupled to master host unit by digital communication link. Hybrid expansion unit communicates N-bit words of digitized spectrum with master host unit across digital communication link. Hybrid expansion unit converts between N-bit words of digitized spectrum and analog spectrum. Hybrid expansion unit communicates analog spectrum across analog communication link to analog remote antenna unit. Analog remote antenna unit communicates wireless signals using first antenna. Communication system further includes a switch in a data path between service provider interface and antenna. The switch selects between transmit path and receive path in response to switching control signal.
US09219517B2	Temperature compensated bulk acoustic wave devices using over-moded acoustic reflector layers Embodiments of apparatuses, systems and methods relating to temperature compensated bulk acoustic wave devices. In some embodiments, temperature compensated bulk acoustic wave devices are described with an over-moded reflector layer.
US09219513B2	Wireless communication system Disclosed is a wireless communication system. The wireless communication system includes an embedded-type antenna embedded in a base, and a wireless communication unit including a communication unit that is connected to the embedded-type antenna and exchanges information with an external device, and a housing that is arranged to surround the communication unit, wherein at least one of the communication unit and the housing performs transmission and reception of electric waves as a substitute of the embedded-type antenna.
US09219510B2	Signal receiving system, semiconductor device, and signal receiving method A signal receiving device obtains information data based on a plurality of signals received at a plurality of antennas. The signal receiving device is divided into a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit. The first receiving unit carries out certain part of an entire receiving process, and the second receiving unit carries out the remaining part of the receiving process. The first receiving unit demodulates and synthesizes the received signals and decodes the synthesized signal to recover received information data. The first receiving unit modulates the received information data to obtain a modulation signal and transmits the modulation signal to the second receiving unit via a transmission cable. The second receiving unit recovers the received information data by demodulating the modulation signal received via the transmission cable, and obtains the information data by decoding the recovered information data.
US09219509B1	System performance improvement using data reordering and/or inversion A system and method for reordering transmitted bits to minimize the number of bit transitions per bit time, reducing system power consumption and signaling noise. Bit reordering is accomplished by performing skip operations, where to-be-transmitted bits are replaced by one or more bits in the bit stream at given bit times. DBI may be used in addition, or as an alternative, to bit reordering to further minimize the number of bit transitions per bit time. A receiver performs operations necessary to restore bits to their original sequence and/or recover the bits in their non-inverted form.
US09219502B2	Computationally efficient convolutional coding with rate-matching An error coding circuit comprises a non-systematic convolutional encoder for coding an input bit stream to produce two or more groups of parity bits, an interleaver circuit for interleaving parity bits within each group of parity bits, and a rate-matching circuit for outputting a selected number of the interleaved parity bits ordered by group to obtain a desired code rate.
US09219501B2	LDPC encoding/decoding method and device using same Disclosed are an LDPC encoding/decoding method and a device using same. The method includes the steps of: (a) generating an information bit sequence by determining information bits to be encoded from among a group of information bits; (b) generating a modified information bit sequence by inserting a preset error floor prevention bit into at least one preset position in the information bit sequence; (c) generating a parity check bit on the basis of the modified information bit sequence; and (d) performing encoding by using the modified information bit sequence and the parity check bit. According to the disclosed method, performance degradation of LDPC encoding and decoding due to an error floor phenomenon can be prevented.
US09219498B2	Method and device for arithmetic encoding or arithmetic decoding The invention proposes a method and a device for arithmetic encoding of a current spectral coefficient using preceding spectral coefficients. Said preceding spectral coefficients are already encoded and both, said preceding and current spectral coefficients, are comprised in one or more quantized spectra resulting from quantizing time-frequency—transform of video, audio or speech signal sample values. Said method comprises processing the preceding spectral coefficients, using the processed preceding spectral coefficients for determining a context class being one of at least two different context classes, using the determined context class and a mapping from the at least two different context classes to at least two different probability density functions for determining the probability density function, and arithmetic encoding the current spectral coefficient based on the determined probability density function wherein processing the preceding spectral coefficients comprises non-uniformly quantizing absolutes of the preceding spectral coefficients for use in determining of the context class.
US09219492B1	Loading-free multi-stage SAR-assisted pipeline ADC that eliminates amplifier load by re-using second-stage switched capacitors as amplifier feedback capacitor A multi-stage Successive-Approximation Register (SAR) pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) has an amplifier between two switched capacitor networks, each controlled by a SAR. The load capacitance of the amplifier is magnified due to the amplifier's gain. This magnified load capacitance can disproportionately increase power consumption. The back plates of the second-stage switched capacitors are connected to the amplifier input using a feedback switch during an amplification phase, so that the second-stage switched capacitors are connected between the input and output of the amplifier as a feedback capacitor, rather than a load capacitor. Reset switches are added to drive both plates of the second-stage switched capacitors to ground during a reset phase before the amplification phase. Thus the second-stage switched capacitors function as both the feedback capacitor and as the switched capacitors controlled by the second SAR. Amplifier power is reduced since there is no separate load capacitor during the amplification phase.
US09219488B2	AD conversion circuit An analog-to-digital (AD) conversion circuit includes an analog filter configured to remove a high frequency component of an analog signal to generate a first signal, an AD converter (ADC) configured to AD-convert the first signal to generate a second signal, and a digital filter configured to remove a high frequency component of the second signal to generate a digital signal.
US09219487B1	Frequency ramp generation in PLL based RF frontend An RF transceiver circuit is disclosed herein. In accordance with one example of the disclosure the RF transceiver circuit includes a phase-locked-loop (PLL) with a fractional-N multi-modulus divider. The PLL operates in accordance with a PLL clock frequency and generates a frequency modulated RF output signal. The RF transceiver circuit further includes a modulator unit, which is configured to generate a sequence of division values dependent on a set of modulation parameters. The modulator operates in accordance with a system clock frequency, which is lower than the PLL clock frequency. A sample rate conversion unit is coupled between the modulator unit and a fractional-N multi-modulus divider. The sample rate conversion unit is configured to interpolate the sequence of division ratios to provide an interpolated sequence of division ratios at a rate corresponding to the PLL clock frequency.
US09219486B2	Quadrature-based injection locking of ring oscillators Technologies are generally described for quadrature-based injection-locking of ring oscillators. In some examples, an external signal may be injected into a ring oscillator. Phase signals may be measured from within the ring oscillator and used to determine a mean quadrature error (MQE) that characterizes the difference in frequency between the external signal and the ring oscillator's natural frequency. A control signal may then be generated from the MQE and used to adjust the ring oscillator natural frequency to reduce the difference between the ring oscillator natural frequency and the external signal.
US09219471B2	Circuitry for phase detector A circuit for a phase detector is provided. A first buffer of the circuit receives a data signal and generates a first modified data signal using the data signal. A notifier receives the data signal and determines whether a violation exists. A first multiplexer receives the first modified data signal and transmits a first multiplexer signal to a second multiplexer. The second multiplexer receives the first multiplexer data signal and the first modified data signal, and transmits a second multiplexer data signal to a flip-flop of the phase detector.
US09219470B1	Systems and methods for clock path single-ended DCD and skew correction A circuit and method for improving signal integrity characteristics of a non-full rate transmitter are disclosed herein. The circuit comprises an actuator block having an input for receiving a differential clock signal, the differential clock signal comprising a positive clock signal and a negative clock signal, the actuator configured to adjust a difference between the positive and negative clock signals; a sensing block, for sensing a difference between positive and negative signals of a differential signal, the differential signal being related to the clock signal; and a calibration block for providing a control signal to the actuator based on the sensed difference between the positive and negative signals.
US09219454B2	Method and device for controlling power amplification A method and network equipment for controlling power amplification are disclosed. The method for controlling power amplification includes outputting a voltage signal according to the state of an NE. The voltage signal is applied to a grid electrode or a base electrode of at least one power amplifier transistor in a power amplifier.
US09219452B2	Dual mode receiver with RF splitter using programmable passive components One embodiment of the present invention relates to a dual mode receiver that includes an RF splitter configured to operate in two modes, wherein in a first mode a single low noise amplifier is active to receive an RF input signal, and in a second mode two low noise amplifiers are active to receive the RF input signal. The receiver further includes a programmable degeneration component operably coupled to the RF splitter, and configured to provide a first performance characteristic in the first mode, and a second, different performance characteristic in the second mode, wherein the first and second performance characteristics influence an input impedance of the RF splitter to be substantially the same in the first and second modes.
US09219449B2	CTIA for IR readout integrated circuits using single ended OPAMP with in-pixel voltage regulator A circuit for an image sensor pixel receives photogenerated information from an image sensor, such as infrared sensor. The circuit includes a single ended operational amplifier, they can have a simple circuit such as for example 4 transistors. An additional transistor is used in the pixel to regulate the voltage that is used to drive the operational amplifier, to maintain that voltage relative to a bias level. This prevents voltage fluctuations, which would otherwise be passed to the pixel output.
US09219447B2	Wideband bias circuits and methods The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for wideband biasing. In one embodiment, an amplifiers includes a cascode transistor between an input and an output of the amplifier. The cascode transistor receives a bias from a bias circuit comprising a resistor between the power supply and a first node, a resistor between the first node and a reference voltage, and a capacitor between the power supply and the first node. The power supply may be a modulated power supply, which is coupled through the bias circuit to a capacitance at the control terminal of the cascode transistor. An inductor is configured between a terminal of the cascode transistor and the power supply. The inductor may isolate the output from the modulated supply signal.
US09219443B2	Mounting for solar cell panel A solar panel mounting for installing a solar cell panel on a folded-plate roof. The mounting includes a metal foundation fixedly attachable to a ridge of the folded-plate roof, a plurality of first brackets including a foundation-side-bracket and a panel-side-bracket, a base of elongated shape, and a mounting bracket to mount the foundation-side-bracket and the panel-side-bracket on the base. The first brackets each include a first coupling portion and a first triangular portion. The first triangular portion is of generally triangular shape including a hypotenuse portion and extends perpendicularly from the first coupling portion. The first coupling portion of the foundation-side-bracket is coupled to the metal foundation. The first coupling portion of the panel-side-bracket is configured to support a solar cell panel. The foundation-side-brackets and the panel-side-brackets are located on top of the metal foundation such that the hypotenuse portions are in contact with each other.
US09219442B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring motor current for an electric valve positioner A system and method for monitoring and controlling the amount of electrical current provided to a motor used to actuate a field device within a control system.
US09219440B2	Apparatus for estimating parameter in induction motor An apparatus for estimating a parameter of an induction motor is provided. The estimating apparatus receives an output from a current controller and d and q-axis currents in a synchronous reference frame applied to an induction motor, calculates an error of rotor resistance, and obtains a difference between the rotor resistance and nominal rotor resistance.
US09219424B2	Matrix converter A matrix converter according to an embodiment includes a voltage command corrector and a drive signal generator. The voltage command corrector corrects the magnitude of an output voltage command on the basis of amplitude variations of an input current from an AC power supply to a power converter, the amplitude variations being caused by a ripple component of the input current. The drive signal generator generates drive signals that turn ON/OFF a plurality of bidirectional switches on the basis of the output voltage command corrected by the voltage command corrector.
US09219421B2	Forward boost power converters and methods Forward boost power converters, and related methods, are disclosed. In a switching mode power converter coupled between a first terminal pair and a second terminal pair, a first inductance is coupled to a first switch in a first circuit path across the first terminal pair. A capacitance is coupled to a second inductance in a second circuit path, and to the first inductance in a third circuit path. During their respective conduction periods, the first switch couples the first inductance across the first terminal pair, a second switch completes a circuit between the second terminal pair and one of: the second circuit path or the third circuit path, and a third switch completes the other of: the second circuit path and the third circuit path. Energy transfer involves both substantially linearly varying currents and substantially half sinusoidal current pulses.
US09219418B2	Method and apparatus to reduce audio frequencies in a switching power supply An example power supply regulator includes an energy transfer element, a switch, and a controller. The controller includes a switch signal generator, a modulation circuit, and a multi-cycle modulator circuit. The modulation circuit modulates the period of a modulation switching signal when an equivalent switching frequency is greater than a reference frequency and fixes the switching period when the equivalent switching frequency is less than the reference frequency. The multi-cycle modulator circuit enables the switch signal generator to provide a switch signal uninterrupted if the equivalent switching frequency is greater than the reference frequency and disables the switch signal generator for a first time period and then enables the switch signal generator for a second time period when the equivalent frequency is less than the reference frequency. The multi-cycle modulator circuit varies the first time period to regulate the output.
US09219395B2	Large magnetically geared machines An electrical machine is provided comprising a first rotor (121), wherein the first rotor includes a support structure (163), a second rotor (131), a stator (141) and, wherein the first rotor, second rotor and stator are arranged concentrically about a shaft (50), and at least one of the second rotor and the stator is adapted to accommodate the support structure. An electrical machine is also provided comprising a shaft (50) having an axis, at least one first rotor (321), at least one second rotor (331), at least two stators (341a), (341b) and, wherein the first rotor, second rotor and stators are arranged axially along the shaft and extend from the axis.
US09219385B2	Cooperative wireless power signal transmission method and device Disclosed are a method and device for cooperatively sending and receiving power wirelessly. Wireless power charging coverage at the level of data signal transmission can be ensured by establishing one or more modes for transmitting, to a specific terminal, a power transmission signal from any of a plurality of nodes which is (are) not engaged in data transmission, and by matching the phase synchronization of the power transmission signal between the one or more nodes and then transmitting, to the specific terminal, a power transmission signal of which the phase synchronization has been matched by means of the one or more modes.
US09219366B2	Energy storage device and method for decreasing rush current An energy storage device and method for decreasing a rush current to protect battery cells and battery management systems (BMSs) from a rush current by sequentially coupling battery packs to each other in parallel to a grid. To this end, the BMS measures voltages of at least three battery packs and then sequentially in parallel couples battery packs in order from a smallest to a largest voltage to thereby reduce the rush current.
US09219359B2	Sliding power supply device Provided is a sliding power supply device which can reduce entire length of a case extendably housing a wiring harness, for a large slide stroke of a sliding seat and such. The sliding power supply device includes a long case extendably housing a wiring harness, a slider arranged slidable in a longitudinal direction of the case and arranged to lead out the wiring harness to outside of the case, and an extra length absorption portion arranged to support a wiring harness portion lead outside of the case such that the wiring harness portion is lead out at location further away from a movement end of the slider in the longitudinal direction of the case. The extra length absorption portion is a subcase having at least a bottom plate portion. Both ends of the wiring harness portion in a movement direction of the slider are positioned at the same height.
US09219354B2	Main circuit switchgear There is provided a main circuit switchgear that includes a breaker; a leg part that supports the breaker; a disconnector that is connected to the breaker; a leg part that supports the disconnector; a metal container that accommodates therein the breaker and the disconnector and includes a bottom plate in which an opening is provided at a position corresponding to a position of the leg part, where the leg part is fixed onto the bottom plate, and a support frame that includes a top panel on which the bottom plate is placed and a leg part that supports the top panel, where the leg part is fixed onto the top panel via the opening.
US09219348B2	Edge-emitting semiconductor laser element The present edge-emitting semiconductor layer element includes two-dimensional photonic crystals 4 formed in a semiconductor layer, and when one direction of a contact region of an electrode 8 is provided as a length direction (X-direction) and a direction perpendicular to both of the length direction and a thickness direction of a substrate is provided as a width direction (Y-direction), the two-dimensional photonic crystals 4 are, when viewed from a direction (Z-axis) perpendicular to the substrate, located in a region containing the electrode contact region and wider in the width direction than the contact region, and have a refractive index periodic structure in which the refractive index satisfies a Bragg's diffraction condition while periodically changing at every interval along the one direction (X-axis).
US09219339B2	Computer host power management system having extension cord sockets A computer host power management system having extension cord sockets is disclosed, comprising a socket body providing alternative current (AC) power to a computer host, in which the socket body includes AC power output plugholes, an AC power input plug, a control device and a power supply device. Herein the control device is configured with Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports and capable of determining whether the computer host signal transferred from the USB port is normal. In case of abnormal conditions, a second microprocessor in the power supply device is driven to cause a power automatic switch to turn off the AC power such that the computer host enters into the shutdown status. Later, after a lapse of preset time, the second microprocessor drives once again the power automatic switch to turn on AC power thereby rebooting the computer host.
US09219338B2	Low profile connector A connector characterized in that it: is a connector that has a plurality of plate-shaped terminals that include openings able to enclose protruding terminals of the other half of the connector, and that mates with the other half of the connector. The openings comprise a wide portion, a narrow portion and a transitional portion that transitions from the wide portion to the narrow portion, and, in a top view, are provided with a first shape that is left-right asymmetric with respect to the centerline of the plate-shaped terminals, or a second shape whereby the first shape is inverted about the centerline. The plate-shaped terminals are arrayed lined up in the width direction of the connector, and arrayed such that the plate-shaped terminals comprising an opening having the first shape and the plate-shaped terminals comprising an opening having the second shape alternate.
US09219331B1	Cable connector A cable connector includes an insulating housing, at least one conductive terminal disposed in the insulating housing, and a locking mechanism. The insulating housing includes a rear housing and a substantially barrel-shaped front housing. A periphery of a rear end of the front housing and the periphery of a front surface of the rear housing are connected with a connecting wall. The connecting wall defines at least one insertion groove. The locking mechanism includes a sleeve element and a feed assembly. The sleeve element is capable of moving forward and rearward along the rear housing. The feed assembly is disposed to a rear end of the rear housing. The feed assembly is connected to the sleeve element for controlling the sleeve element to move forward and rearward along the rear housing.
US09219321B2	Anti-deformation low profile card edge connector An anti-deformation low profile card edge connector includes an insulation body having a transverse elongated shape and a plurality of terminals. The insulation body has a top portion and a bottom portion forming along a transverse direction of the insulation body. An insertion slot is indentedly formed between the top portion and the bottom portion. The bottom portion is connected to a terminal base protruding further out than the top portion. Each terminal is respectively arranged on the terminal base to insert into the insertion slot. The insulation body and the terminal base are connected in such a manner that a space is reserved between them, and thereby the even contact between each terminal and the circuit board is not affected by deformation during a process of welding the card edge connector and a circuit board together.
US09219317B1	Delivering both sum and difference beam distributions to a planar monopulse antenna array A planar monopulse radar apparatus includes a planar distribution matrix coupled to a planar antenna array having a linear configuration of antenna elements. The planar distribution matrix is responsive to first and second pluralities of weights applied thereto for providing both sum and difference beam distributions across the antenna array.
US09219316B2	Broadband in-line antenna systems and related methods An antenna structure includes an in-line portion for radiating electromagnetic energy signals in low and high frequency ranges. The in-line portion may be constructed to provide improved control beam width stability of a high-frequency, antenna radiating element. The antenna structure includes one or more shaped structure configured to improve the beam width stability and cross-polarization of one or more high-frequency elements, and to shift resonance from the high-frequency elements to a range that is below the range of a low-frequency, antenna radiating element.
US09219315B2	Combination antenna Combination antenna, which comprises two different antenna parts, of which the first antenna part is fitted to operate at a lower frequency range and the second antenna part is fitted to operate at a higher frequency range. The second antenna part of the combination antenna is arranged above the first antenna part. The supply cable of the second antenna part (102) of the combination antenna is arranged to travel in connection with the first antenna part. The first antenna part comprises two or more radiator parts (104, 106, 108) and also coils (112) between them, wherein the coil or coils (112) are formed from the supply cable of the second antenna part (102).
US09219314B2	Artificial electromagnetic material An artificial electromagnetic material includes at least one material sheet. Each material sheet includes a substrate and a plurality of artificial microstructures attached to the substrate. Each substrate is virtually divided into multiple of substrate units arranged into an array. A pair of artificial microstructures is attached to each substrate. The pair of artificial microstructures includes a first artificial microstructure and a second artificial microstructure with different shapes. The dielectric constant of artificial electromagnetic materials gradually increases from zero in a certain frequency range, therefore the material has a low dielectric constant in the certain frequency range and can meet some needs of special situation.
US09219312B2	Feed horn sealing structure and method of sealing the feed horn A feed horn assembly includes a tubular horn body, a film and a sealing structure. The tubular horn body has a first end and an opposite, second end. The first end includes a peripheral groove defined by an inner peripheral portion and an outer peripheral portion. The film covers the first end. A peripheral bending portion and a periphery portion of the film are disposed inside the groove. The sealing structure is disposed in the groove, and includes a first sealing component urging against the peripheral bending portion and the periphery portion of the film, and a second sealing component urging against the peripheral bending portion and the first sealing component. The outer peripheral portion has a peripheral chamfer portion formed by crimping. The peripheral chamfer portion urges against the sealing structure, such that a sealed condition is formed between the film and the inner peripheral wall.
US09219309B2	Geodesic lens antenna with azimuth and elevation beamforming An array of geodesic lens antennas (GLAs) comprises multiple vertical radiating slots, each formed into an annulus, which are individually controlled by feeding rings. One feeding ring is provided for each of the GLA elevation elements, resulting in multiple, parallel waveguide channels that together enable elevation beam steering, thus forming a concentric stack of geodesic lenses. Accordingly, exemplary embodiments of the invention are capable of RF beam formation in azimuth and elevation by using these lenses to form, shape, and steer one or more RF beams. Each GLA in the stack forms an element in the elevation plane with separate amplitude and phase control, providing the degrees of freedom required to independently and simultaneously control azimuth and elevation beam forming and steering.
US09219308B2	Adaptively optimized method and system of parasitic element selection for smart beam steering A method at a device having an antenna and a plurality of parasitic elements, and the device, the method sensing a change in impedance of the antenna; selecting a subset of parasitic element options from a set of parasitic element options based on a stored table of impedances; if the subset of parasitic element options is greater than one, determining a channel quality measure for each parasitic element option within the subset of parasitic element options; and performing a beam steering action based on the change in antenna impedance and channel quality measure if determined, the beam steering action comprising selecting one or more of the plurality of parasitic elements to activate.
US09219299B2	Resonator, multilayer board and electronic device A resonator is connected to a first plane which is one of a power plane and a ground plane, wherein the power plane and the ground plane are apart from each other in an up-down direction. The resonator comprises a connecting portion and a body portion. The connecting portion is connected to the first plane. The connecting portion extends in the up-down direction beyond a second plane, which is a remaining one of the power plane and the ground plane, while not being in electrical contact with the second plane. The body portion is connected to the connecting portion while not being in contact with the second plane. The body portion is arranged so that the second plane is located between the body portion and the first plane in the up-down direction.
US09219298B2	Removal of spurious microwave modes via flip-chip crossover A coplanar waveguide device includes a coplanar waveguide structure disposed on a substrate, at least one qubit coupled to the coplanar waveguide structure and an add-on chip having a metallized trench, and disposed over the substrate.
US09219295B2	Thermostatic assembly for power members of an electric vehicle and the operating process thereof A thermostatic assembly for power members of an electric vehicle includes a pipe set having a main pipe and a recycle pipe, one end of the main pipe connected to one side of the pump, a plurality of temperature-adjusting pipes connected between another end of the main pipe and one end of the recycle pipe, another end of the recycle pipe connected to another side of the pump, a plurality of power members respectively set on the temperature-adjusting pipes, a input change valve set between the main pipe and each temperature-adjusting pipe, a output change valve set between the recycle pipe and each temperature-adjusting pipe, a controller electrically connected to the input change valve, the output change valve and each power member. Under this arrangement, the controller ranks a sequence of the temperature information and defines a sequence of the flow direction of the temperature-adjusting water.
US09219293B2	Controlling lithium deposition during manufacture of a battery The present subject matter provides apparatus and methods for controlling lithium deposition during manufacture of implantable medical device batteries. A method includes processing materials to form the battery and performing a discharge conditioning process step. The discharge conditioning process step includes using a reduced discharge load and applying a discharge load intermittently to decrease formation of lithium deposits on negatively charged surfaces within the battery.
US09219292B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 100 according to the present invention is provided with a wound electrode assembly in which a positive electrode sheet and a negative electrode sheet are wound, with a porous separator sheet 30 interposed therebetween. A filler layer 40 comprising an inorganic filler and a binder is formed on one side of the separator sheet 30. The filler layer 40 is continuously provided from the winding start end 38A to the winding finish end 38B of the separator sheet 30 in the winding direction of this sheet. The separator sheet 30 has low porosity regions 36A, 36B, which have a lower porosity than a location 35 outside these regions, in regions having prescribed width WA, WB from the winding start end 38A and/or the winding finish end 38B of the sheet toward the center of the sheet.
US09219283B2	Method for controlling fuel cell device during power generation start by controlling power conditioner Provided is a fuel cell module and a fuel cell device of which power generation efficiency is improved.A fuel cell device includes a fuel cell module including a housing and a fuel cell stack which is composed of a plurality of fuel cells and is inside the housing, a power conditioner configured to supply electric current generated by the fuel cell stack to an external load, and a controller configured to control the power conditioner such that, at a time of starting power generation, a voltage value of the fuel cells is greater than a voltage value for generating a maximum output in power generation of the fuel cells, and the fuel cell module, the power conditioner and the controller are accommodated in an external case. Accordingly, deterioration of the fuel cells can be suppressed, and the fuel cell device having improved reliability can be obtained.
US09219278B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and use thereof The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided by this invention comprises a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode has a positive electrode active material layer comprising a positive electrode active material as a primary component, and the negative electrode has a negative electrode active material layer comprising a negative electrode active material as a primary component, having a negative electrode active material's linseed oil absorption number B (mL/100 g) to positive electrode active material's DBP absorption number A (mL/100 g) ratio B/A of 1.27 to 1.79.
US09219267B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery including: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate that includes an uncoated portion, a second electrode plate that includes an uncoated portion, and a separator that is interposed therebetween, wherein the first and second electrode plates and the separator are wound so that the uncoated portion of the first electrode plate and the uncoated portion of the second electrode plate are arranged in different directions; a groove formed in at least one of the uncoated portions of the first and second electrode plates; and a current collector including a lead tab that is bent passing the groove in such a way that a portion of the lead tab contacts a side surface of at least one first uncoated portions and another portion of the lead tab contacts another side surface of the at least one uncoated portion.
US09219265B2	Electrical connecting member for secondary battery Disclosed herein is a connection member for secondary batteries to achieve the electrical connection in a battery pack including two or more cylindrical secondary batteries in a physical contact manner, the connection member including an outer circumferential contact part contacting an electrode terminal of a lower battery cell along the outer circumferential region of the electrode terminal of the lower battery cell, such that the outer circumferential contact part can be electrically connected to the electrode terminal of the lower battery cell in a surface contact manner and a central contact part contacting an electrode terminal of an upper battery cell or the central region of a sidewall of the battery pack for providing an elastic contact force to the entire connection member mounted between the electrode terminals of the respective battery cells or between the electrode terminals of the battery cells and the sidewall of the battery pack.
US09219256B2	Handling device and handling method thereof A handling device is used for handling a substrate. The handling device includes a holder, a moving element, at least one first adhesive chuck, and at least one second adhesive chuck. The moving element is located adjacent to the holder for moving relative to the holder along a first axial direction. The first adhesive chuck is located on a first surface of the holder and the second adhesive chuck is located on a first surface of the moving element, in which the first adhesive chuck and the second adhesive chuck are used to be respectively separated from the substrate adhered thereon. In addition, another embodiment of the invention discloses a handing method of the handing device.
US09219248B2	Organic electroluminescence display device An organic EL display device includes: a transparent substrate; a circularly-polarizing plate disposed on a first surface of the transparent substrate; a wiring layer disposed on a second surface of the transparent substrate; a selectively-reflecting layer disposed on the wiring layer, where the selectively-reflecting layer reflects only a circularly polarized component, which has a predetermined wavelength and rotates in a predetermined direction, in incident light, and the selectively-reflecting layer transmits light of a wavelength different from the predetermined wavelength in the incident light and a circularly polarized component, which has the predetermined wavelength and rotates in a direction different from the predetermined direction; a transparent electrode disposed on the selectively-reflecting layer; an emission layer disposed on the transparent electrode in a position corresponding to the selectively-reflecting layer, where the emission layer emits light of a predetermined color; and a reflective electrode disposed on the emission layer.
US09219246B2	Organic electronic device with encapsulation The invention relates to an organic electronic device, particularly an OLED device (100), and to a method for its manufacturing. The device (100) comprises at least one functional unit (LU1, LU2, LU3) with an organic layer (120). On top of this functional unit (LU1, LU2, LU3), at least one inorganic encapsulation layer (140, 141) and at least one organic encapsulation layer (150, 151) are disposed in which at least one conductive line (161, 162) is embedded. In this way an OLED with a thin film encapsulation can be provided that can electrically be contacted at contact points (CL) on its back side.
US09219236B2	Organometal complex and light-emitting element using the same An organometallic complex according to the present invention comprises a structure represented by the following general formula (1). In the formula, R1 to R5 are any one selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a halogen element, an acyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a cyano group, and a heterocyclic group, Ar is an aryl group having an electron-withdrawing group or a heterocyclic group having electron-drawing group, and M is an element of Group 9 or an element of Group 10.
US09219234B2	Light-emitting material for organic electroluminescent device, organic electroluminescent device using same, and material for organic electroluminescent device Disclosed is a light-emitting material for organic electroluminescent (EL) devices which is composed of an asymmetric anthracene derivative of a specific structure. Also disclosed are a material for organic EL devices and an organic EL device wherein an organic thin film layer composed of one or more layers including at least a light-emitting layer is interposed between a cathode and an anode. At least one layer composed of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic EL devices by itself or as a component of a mixture. Consequently, the organic EL device has a high efficiency and a long life. Also disclosed are a light-emitting material for organic EL devices and material for organic devices which enable to realize such an organic EL device.
US09219229B2	Resistance change device and memory cell array According to one embodiment, a resistance change device includes a first electrode including a metal, a second electrode, and an amorphous oxide layer including Si and O between the first and second electrode, the layer having a concentration gradient of O and a first peak thereof in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode.
US09219228B2	Semiconductor device and method for producing semiconductor device The present invention provides a memory structure including a resistance-changing storage element, which enables a reset operation with a reset gate and in which cross-sectional areas of a resistance-changing film and a lower electrode in a current-flowing direction can be decreased. The semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film formed around the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate electrode made of a metal and formed around the gate insulating film, a gate line made of a metal and connected to the gate electrode, a second gate insulating film formed around an upper portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first contact made of a second metal and formed around the second gate insulating film, a second contact which is made of a third metal and which connects an upper portion of the first contact to an upper portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a second diffusion layer formed in a lower portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a pillar-shaped insulating layer formed on the second contact, a resistance-changing film formed around an upper portion of the pillar-shaped insulating layer, a lower electrode formed around a lower portion of the pillar-shaped insulating layer and connected to the resistance-changing film, a reset gate insulating film that surrounds the resistance-changing film, and a reset gate that surrounds the reset gate insulating film.
US09219225B2	Multi-bit ferroelectric memory device and methods of forming the same Multi-bit ferroelectric memory devices and methods of forming the same are provided. One example method of forming a multi-bit ferroelectric memory device can include forming a first ferroelectric material on a first side of a via, removing a material to expose a second side of the via, and forming second ferroelectric material on the second side of the via at a different thickness compared to the first side of the via.
US09219221B2	Piezoelectric actuator having prismatic piezoelectric element A piezoelectric actuator includes a prismatic piezoelectric element body having side surfaces, and external surface electrodes provided on at least three of the side surfaces of the piezoelectric element body.
US09219213B2	Cooking stoves A solid fuel, portable stove reduces smoke emissions and provides for a high temperature of combustion in a compact and easily manufacturable design. A main housing (11) comprises a combustion chamber (12) for containing fuel for combustion and a fan (50) configured to force air into the combustion chamber. A rechargeable electrical power source (40) is used for driving the fan (50) and a thermoelectric element (31) provides power to the fan and to the rechargeable power source. In one embodiment, the thermoelectric element also provides excess output power to a connected device (D) such as a low voltage white light emitting diode, thereby providing a self illuminating, rechargeable stove which is suitable for sunset or early evening cooking.
US09219212B2	Display apparatus and television receiving apparatus Disclosed is a display apparatus, wherein a holding frame includes a placing portion which protrudes in a direction substantially perpendicular to a back surface of a display panel (a liquid crystal panel 1), and is long in a direction along a side face of the display panel (the liquid crystal panel 1), such that a heat dissipater (a heat spreader) is placed on the placing portion in a longitudinal direction thereof, the substrate (a base substrate) has information (rank information) regarding the light emitting element (a white LED) described on the other surface thereof, and the heat dissipater (the heat spreader) has an opening portion (a window portion 46) formed in a surface thereof to which the substrate (the base substrate) is fixed at a position corresponding to a position in which the information (the rank information) is described.
US09219206B2	Package and manufacturing method of the same Provided are a package including a first conductive layer on a patterned layer, an insulating layer on the patterned layer burying the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer on an outer surface of the insulating layer, and a third conductive layer in the insulating layer electrically connecting the first conductive layer with the second conductive layer. A substrate is formed by printing or coating a paste- or ink-type insulator and conductor on a patterned layer formed on a sapphire wafer. No void is created between the substrate and LED chip, thus enhancing attachment strength. The ceramic-containing insulator is cured at a low temperature, thereby minimizing contraction of and damage to the wafer when the ceramic is fired. Printing methods utilizing viscous paste or ink solves problems with co-planarity of substrate that occur in existing wafer-to-wafer bonding processes and renders several steps of the existing substrate manufacturing process unnecessary.
US09219200B2	Large emission area light-emitting devices Light-emitting devices, and related components, systems and methods are disclosed.
US09219195B2	Columnar light emitting device, liquid crystal display device including the same, and method of manufacturing the same A columnar light emitting device is provided. The columnar light emitting device includes an upper transparent electrode layer, a lower transparent electrode layer disposed to be separated from the upper transparent electrode layer, a columnar light emitting structure pattern-formed between the upper transparent electrode layer and the lower transparent electrode layer, a fluorescent part formed between a plurality of the columnar light emitting structures, a P-type electrode pad formed on the upper transparent electrode layer, and an N-type electrode pad formed under the lower transparent electrode layer. The columnar light emitting structure includes a U-GaN layer, an N-type semiconductor layer, an emission layer, and a P-type semiconductor layer.
US09219193B2	Method for making epitaxial structure A method for making an epitaxial structure is provided. The method includes the following steps. A substrate having an epitaxial growth surface is provided. A buffer layer is formed on the epitaxial growth surface. A carbon nanotube layer is placed on the buffer layer. An epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown on the buffer layer. The substrate and the carbon nanotube layer are removed.
US09219190B2	Single photon source die and method of manufacturing the same A single photon source die includes a first semiconductor layer, a plurality of columnar structures formed on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer formed on the columnar structures. Each columnar structure includes a bottom layer, a single photon point layer and a connecting layer. The single photon point layer includes a plurality of single photon points.
US09219185B2	CMOS integrated method for the fabrication of thermopile pixel with umbrella absorber on semiconductor substrate A method of manufacturing a pixel structure having an umbrella absorber is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate with a membrane on a first surface of the substrate. The membrane has one or more openings that expose one or more portions of the first surface, and includes a thermopile. A sacrificial layer is deposited on the membrane and in the one or more openings. The sacrificial layer is patterned to expose a portion of the membrane associated with one or more hot junctions of the thermopile. A rigid, thermally-conductive layer is formed on the sacrificial layer and on the exposed portion of the membrane associated with the one or more hot junctions of the thermopile. An absorber is deposited on the rigid, thermally-conductive layer. A cavity is formed in the substrate from a second surface of the substrate to the membrane and the sacrificial layer is removed.
US09219176B2	Radial ray detector and method for manufacturing the same A light receiving section and a substrate-side electrode pad of a photoelectric conversion substrate, a base-side electrode pad and an interconnect arranged on a surface side of a base are integrally coated with a protective layer. A scintillation layer is formed on a surface side of the protective layer. Corrosion of a photoelectric conversion element of the light receiving section, the electrode pads and the interconnect is prevented by the protective layer. When they are integrally coated with the protective layer, the light receiving section and the substrate-side electrode pad of the photoelectric conversion substrate can be arranged with a distance therebetween shortened, thereby realizing miniaturization of a detector and enlargement of the light receiving section.
US09219175B2	Imaging device and method for manufacturing same According to one embodiment, an imaging device includes a semiconductor layer, an electrode, first and second insulating films, and a light blocking film. The semiconductor layer has a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, and includes pixels configured to detect light. The electrode is provided on the first surface and is configured to control an output of the pixels. The first insulating film is provided on the second surface. The second insulating film is provided on the first insulating film and has a smaller refractive index in a visible light range than the first insulating film. One end of the light blocking film is located in the second insulating film or at a same level as a surface of the second insulating film. Another end of the light blocking film is located in the semiconductor layer.
US09219174B2	Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar module. The solar module includes a front-side cover, a back-side cover, and a plurality of solar cells situated between the front- and back-side covers. A respective solar cell includes a multi-layer semiconductor structure, a front-side electrode situated above the multi-layer semiconductor structure, and a back-side electrode situated below the multi-layer semiconductor structure. Each of the front-side and the back-side electrodes comprises a metal grid. A respective metal grid comprises a plurality of finger lines and a single busbar coupled to the finger lines. The single busbar is configured to collect current from the finger lines.
US09219168B2	Non-volatile memory device and method of manufacturing the same A multi-layered non-volatile memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The non-volatile memory device may include a plurality of first semiconductor layers having a stack structure. A plurality of control gate electrodes may extend across the first semiconductor layers. A first body contact layer may extend across the first semiconductor layers. A plurality of charge storage layers may be interposed between the control gate electrodes and the first semiconductor layers.
US09219161B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a structure which can prevent a decrease in electrical characteristics, which becomes more significant with miniaturization of a transistor, is provided. In addition, a highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode layer, a second gate electrode layer, and a third gate electrode layer, which are each provided separately. The first gate electrode layer overlaps with an oxide semiconductor layer. The second gate electrode layer partly covers one end portion of the oxide semiconductor layer in the channel width direction. The third gate electrode layer partly covers the other end portion of the oxide semiconductor layer in the channel width direction.
US09219157B2	Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, and display device A multi-gate structure is used and a width (d1) of a high concentration impurity region sandwiched by two channel forming regions in a channel length direction is set to be shorter than a width (d2) of low concentration impurity regions in the channel length direction. Thus, a resistance of the entire semiconductor layer of a TFT which is in an on state is reduced to increase an on current. In addition, a carrier life time due to photoexcitation produced in the high concentration impurity region can be shortened to reduce light sensitivity.
US09219155B2	Multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations Embodiments of the present disclosure describe multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a channel body disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode having a first thickness coupled with the channel body and a second gate electrode having a second thickness coupled with the channel body, wherein the first thickness is greater than the second thickness. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09219151B1	Method for manufacturing silicon nitride layer and method for manufacturing semiconductor structure applying the same A method for manufacturing a silicon nitride layer and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure applying the same are provided. The method for manufacturing a silicon nitride layer includes forming the silicon nitride layer and stressing the silicon nitride layer by a high density plasma chemical vapor deposition (HDPCVD) treatment.
US09219147B2	LDMOS with improved breakdown voltage An LDMOS is formed with a field plate over the n− drift region, coplanar with the gate stack, and having a higher work function than the gate stack. Embodiments include forming a first conductivity type well, having a source, surrounded by a second conductivity type well, having a drain, in a substrate, forming first and second coplanar gate stacks on the substrate over a portion of the first well and a portion of the second well, respectively, and tuning the work functions of the first and second gate stacks to obtain a higher work function for the second gate stack. Other embodiments include forming the first gate stack of a high-k metal gate and the second gate stack of a field plate on a gate oxide layer, forming the first and second gate stacks with different gate electrode materials on a common gate oxide, and forming the gate stacks separated from each other and with different gate dielectric materials.
US09219137B2	Vertical gallium nitride transistors and methods of fabricating the same A vertical gallium nitride transistor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity-type having a first surface and sidewalls, a second semiconductor layer of the first conductivity-type surrounding the first surface and the sidewalls of the first semiconductor layer, and a third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity-type disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer separating the first and second semiconductor layers from each other.
US09219135B2	Germanium-based quantum well devices A quantum well transistor has a germanium quantum well channel region. A silicon-containing etch stop layer provides easy placement of a gate dielectric close to the channel. A group III-V barrier layer adds strain to the channel. Graded silicon germanium layers above and below the channel region improve performance. Multiple gate dielectric materials allow use of a high-k value gate dielectric.
US09219115B2	Forming conductive STI liners for FinFETS An integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate, isolation regions extending into the semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor strip, and a semiconductor fin overlapping and joined to the semiconductor strip. A first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer are disposed on opposite sidewalls of the semiconductor strip. The integrated circuit device further includes a first conductive liner and a second conductive liner, wherein the semiconductor strip, the first dielectric layer, and the second dielectric layer are between the first conductive liner and the second conductive line. The first conductive liner and the second conductive liner are between, and in contact with, sidewalls of a first portion and a second portion of the isolation regions.
US09219109B2	Inductor structure with magnetic material The mechanisms for forming an inductor structure are provided. The inductor structure includes a substrate and a first dielectric layer formed over the substrate. The inductor structure also includes a first metal layer formed in the first dielectric layer and a magnetic layer formed over the first dielectric layer, and the magnetic layer has edges more than four in a cross section view.
US09219105B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate including a display area configured to display an image and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a semiconductor layer at the display area on the substrate; a first gate insulating layer covering the semiconductor layer; a first gate wire on the first gate insulating layer; a second gate insulating layer covering the gate wire; a second gate wire on the second gate insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer covering the second gate wire and having a contact hole, and a plurality of first dummy contact holes; a data wire on the interlayer insulating layer; a passivation layer covering the data wire; and an organic light emitting diode on the passivation layer and coupled to the data wire, wherein the data wire is coupled with the second gate wire through the contact hole in the interlayer insulating layer.
US09219101B2	Organic EL device and method for manufacturing organic EL device The present invention aims at developing an organic EL device having a structure for power supply to a new organic EL element. The device is formed of unit organic EL elements planarly distributed on a substrate having a planar expanse and includes organic EL element columns and organic EL element rows. The organic EL element columns and the organic EL element rows each have a conductive path in which electric current passes in its longitudinal direction. The organic EL element columns and the organic EL element rows have different longitudinal directions so that their conductive paths cross with each other at a part where the organic EL element columns and the organic EL element rows cross with each other.
US09219095B2	Method for producing an optical filter in an integrated circuit, and corresponding integrated circuit An integrated circuit includes a substrate and an interconnect part above the substrate, and further includes a photosensitive region in the substrate. A filter is provided aligned with the photosensitive region. The filter is formed by at least one layer of filter material. In one implementation for front side illumination, the layer of filter material is positioned above the photosensitive region between the interconnect part and the substrate. In another implementation for back side illumination, the layer of filter material is positioned below the photosensitive region opposite the interconnect part. The layer of filter material is configured such that a product of the thickness of the layer of filter material and the imaginary part of the refractive index of the layer of filter material is above 1 nm.
US09219093B1	3D high resolution X-ray sensor with integrated scintillator grid Various embodiments of a 3D high resolution X-ray sensor are described. In one aspect, an indirect X-ray sensor includes a silicon wafer that includes an array of photodiodes thereon with each of the photodiodes having a contact on a front side of the silicon wafer and self-aligned with a respective grid hole of an array of grid holes that are on a back side of the silicon wafer. Each of the grid holes is filled with a scintillator configured to convert beams of X-ray into light. The indirect X-ray sensor also includes one or more silicon dies with an array of photo-sensing circuits each of which including a contact at a top surface of the one or more silicon dies. Contact on each of the photodiodes is aligned and bonded to contact of a respective photo-sensing circuit of the array of photo-sensing circuits of the one or more silicon dies.
US09219086B2	In-cell touch panel An embodiment of the disclosure discloses an in-cell touch panel having advantages such as a simple structure and a low cost. The in-cell touch panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged oppositely, wherein a plurality of gate lines arranged horizontally are formed on the first substrate; the in-cell touch panel further comprises: a plurality of touch driving lines arranged horizontally; a plurality of touch sensing lines arranged vertically; and a plurality of touch scanning TFTs, wherein each touch scanning TFT has a gate connected to one gate line, a source connected to a touch driving circuit, and a drain connected to one touch driving line, the one gate line is only connected to the gate of one touch scanning TFT; wherein, the number of the gate lines≧the number of the touch scanning TFTs≧the number of the touch driving lines.
US09219084B2	Display device including a thin film transistor having wiring and electrodes with different ionization tendencies A display device includes a thin film transistor and a wiring layer. The thin film transistor including a control electrode, a semiconductor layer facing the control electrode, a first electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, and a second electrode including a metal film having resistance lower than that of the light transmissive material. The second electrode is electrically connected to each of the semiconductor layer and the wiring layer. A difference in ionization tendency between a material configuring the metal film and a conductive material configuring a part or whole of the wiring layer is smaller than a difference in ionization tendency between the light transmissive material and the conductive material.
US09219083B1	Array substrate and liquid crystal display panel The present invention provides an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. In the array substrate, as to thin film transistors connected with one scan line, a width-to-length ratio of the thin film transistor(s) corresponding to the middle of the scan line is larger than the width-to-length ratio of the thin film transistors corresponding to two ends of the scan line, and thereby when data lines input voltage signals, a voltage difference between a pixel electrode(s) connected with the thin film transistor(s) corresponding to the middle of the scan line and the pixel electrodes connected with the thin film transistors corresponding to the two ends of the scan line is smaller than a threshold value. By the above described manner, the present invention can improve the uniformity of image brightness.
US09219070B2	3-D memory arrays A 3-D memory array comprises a plurality of elevationally extending strings of memory cells. An array of select devices is elevationally over and individually coupling with individual of the strings. The select devices individually comprise a channel, gate dielectric proximate the channel, and gate material proximate the gate dielectric. The individual channels are spaced from one another. The gate material comprises a plurality of gate lines running along columns of the spaced channels elevationally over the strings. Dielectric material is laterally between immediately adjacent of the gate lines. The dielectric material and the gate lines have longitudinally non-linear edges at an interface relative one another. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09219064B2	Semiconductor devices having a nanowire channel structure A semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first nanowire extending through a first gate electrode and between first source and drain regions. The second transistor includes a second nanowire extending through a second gate electrode and between a second source and drain regions. The first nanowire has a first size in a first direction and a second size in a second direction, and the second nanowire has a second size in the first direction and substantially the second size in the second direction. The first nanowire has a first on current and the second nanowire has a second on current. The on current of the first nanowire may be substantially equal to the on current of the second nanowire based on a difference between the sizes of the first and second nanowires. In another arrangement, the on currents may be different.
US09219063B2	Integrated circuit arrangement comprising a field effect transistor, especially a tunnel field effect transistor Integrated circuit arrangement comprising a field effect transistor, especially a tunnel field effect transistor. An explanation is given of, inter alia, tunnel field effect transistors having a thicker gate dielectric in comparison with other transistors on the same integrated circuit arrangement. As an alternative or in addition, said tunnel field effect transistors have gate regions at mutually remote sides of a channel forming region or an interface between the connection regions of the tunnel field effect transistor.
US09219052B2	Making a flip-chip assembly with bond fingers A method of making a flip chip assembly includes a substrate having a top surface and forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending, laterally spaced apart bond fingers are formed on the top surface. Each of the plurality of bond fingers has a first longitudinal end portion and a second longitudinal end portion. Applying a transversely extending solder resist strip over the first longitudinal end portions of the bond fingers. The strip has an edge wall with a plurality of longitudinally projecting tooth portions separated by gaps. Each tooth portion and each gap aligned with a different one of the bond fingers in each adjacent pair of bond fingers.
US09219051B2	Laminate peripheral clamping to control microelectronic module BSM warpage A clamping apparatus and method for applying a force to a workpiece during processing includes a base defining a work area. The work area is configured to receive a joined structure including a substrate and a die. A component is positionable in the work area and over the joined structure. An adjustable releasable structure is positionable over the component and the joined structure and includes a resilient mechanism having an inner member for contacting the component to apply an inner downward force to the component. The resilient mechanism also includes outer members for applying an outer downward force to opposing distal edge areas of the substrate. An external downward force is applied to the adjustable releasable structure, such that the inner and outer members apply the inner and outer downward forces to the component and the opposing distal edge areas of the substrate, respectively, during processing of the joined structure.
US09219045B2	Semiconductor device and method of self-confinement of conductive bump material during reflow without solder mask A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a die bump pad and substrate with a trace line and integrated bump pad. Conductive bump material is deposited on the substrate bump pad or die bump pad. The semiconductor die is mounted over the substrate so that the bump material is disposed between the die bump pad and substrate bump pad. The bump material is reflowed without a solder mask around the die bump pad or substrate bump pad to form an interconnect. The bump material is self-confined within a footprint of the die bump pad or substrate bump pad. The bump material can be immersed in a flux solution prior to reflow to increase wettability. Alternatively, the interconnect includes a non-fusible base and fusible cap. The volume of bump material is selected so that a surface tension maintains self-confinement of the bump material within the bump pads during reflow.
US09219044B2	Patterned photoresist to attach a carrier wafer to a silicon device wafer Patterned photoresist is used to attach a carrier wafer to a silicon device wafer. In one example, a silicon wafer is patterned for contact bumps by applying a photoresist over a surface of the wafer and removing the photoresist in locations at which the contact bumps are to be formed. The contact bumps are formed in the locations at which the photoresist is removed. A temporary carrier is attached to the photoresist over the wafer. The back side of the wafer opposite the contact bumps is processed while handling the wafer using the temporary carrier. The temporary carrier is removed. The photoresist on the front side of the wafer with the contact bumps is removed after removing the temporary carrier.
US09219042B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. A carrier is removed after a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die are stacked on each other, and then a first encapsulant is formed, so that the carrier may be easily removed when compared to approaches in which a carrier is removed from a wafer having a thin thickness.
US09219041B2	Electronic package for millimeter wave semiconductor dies A mmWave electronics package constructed from common Printed Circuit Board (PCB) technology and a metal cover. Assembly of the package uses standard pick and place technology and heat is dissipated directly to a pad on the package. Input/output of mmWave signal(s) is achieved through a rectangular waveguide. Mounting of the electronic package to an electrical printed circuit board (PCB) is performed using conventional reflow soldering processes and includes a waveguide I/O connected to an mmWave antenna. The electronic package provides for transmission of low frequency, dc and ground signals from the semiconductor chip inside the package to the PCB it is mounted on. An impedance matching scheme matches the chip to high frequency board transition by altering the ground plane within the chip. A ground plane on the high frequency board encircles the high frequency signal bump to confine the electromagnetic fields to the bump region reducing radiation loss.
US09219040B2	Integrated circuit with semiconductor fin fuse Methods of fabricating an integrated circuit with a fin-based fuse, and the resulting integrated circuit with a fin-based fuse are provided. In the method, a fin is created from a layer of semiconductor material and has a first end and a second end. The method provides for forming a conductive path on the fin from its first end to its second end. The conductive path is electrically connected to a programming device that is capable of selectively directing a programming current through the conductive path to cause a structural change in the conductive path to increase resistance across the conductive path.
US09219034B2	Semiconductor module having deflecting conductive layer over a spacer structure A module includes a semiconductor chip and a conductive layer arranged over the semiconductor chip. The module also includes a spacer structure arranged to deflect the conductive layer away from the semiconductor chip.
US09219032B2	Integrating through substrate vias from wafer backside layers of integrated circuits A semiconductor wafer has an integrated through substrate via created from a backside of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer includes a semiconductor substrate and a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer pad on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor wafer also includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer formed on a contact etch stop layer, separating the ILD layer from the STI layer pad on the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor wafer further includes a through substrate via that extends through the STI layer pad and the semiconductor substrate to couple with at least one contact within the ILD layer. The through substrate via includes a conductive filler material and a sidewall isolation liner layer. The sidewall isolation liner layer has a portion that possibly extends into, but not through, the STI layer pad.
US09219029B2	Integrated circuit packaging system with terminals and method of manufacture thereof A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: forming a lead having a lead top side; forming a lower interior conductive layer directly on the lead top side; forming an interior insulation layer directly on the lower interior conductive layer; forming an upper interior conductive layer directly on the interior insulation layer; and mounting an integrated circuit over the upper interior conductive layer.
US09219027B2	Semiconductor device carrier and semiconductor package using the same The semiconductor device carrier comprises a conductive carrier, a dielectric layer, a conductive trace layer, a conductive stud layer and the plating conductive layer. The conductive carrier comprises at least one cavity. The dielectric layer has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite the first dielectric surface. The conductive trace layer disposes in the dielectric layer and is exposed on the second dielectric surface. The conductive stud layer disposes in the dielectric layer and is exposed on the first dielectric surface, wherein the conductive stud layer is electrically connected to the conductive trace layer. The plating conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric surface and the exposed conductive stud layer. The cavity exposes the conductive trace layer and the dielectric layer.
US09219024B2	Air bridge structure having dielectric coating A substrate having an air bridge structure with end portions disposed and supported on the substrate and an elevated portion disposed between the end portions is coated with a protective layer. The protective layer is patterned to: leave portions of the protective layer over elevated portion and at least over the end portions of a region under the elevated portion of the air bridge structure; and remove portions over adjacent portions of the substrate. A dielectric material having a thickness greater than the height of the air bridge structure is deposited over the patterned protective layer portions remaining over elevated portion and over the adjacent portions of the substrate, the patterned temporary coating preventing the dielectric material from passing into the region under the elevated portion of the air bridge structure. The dielectric material is patterned to remove portions of the dielectric material over the patterned protective layer remaining over elevated portion while leaving the dielectric material over the adjacent portions of the substrate. The patterned protective layer portions remaining over elevated portion are removed while leaving the dielectric material over the adjacent portions of the substrate.
US09219017B2	Radio frequency semiconductor device package and method for manufacturing same, and radio frequency semiconductor device A radio frequency semiconductor device package includes a metal base plate, a first metal wall, a second metal wall, and feed-through parts. The first metal wall is provided with first and second openings and connected onto the metal base plate. The openings are set back from a lower surface side and do not reach an upper surface. The second metal wall is connected to the upper surface of the first metal wall. Thickness of the second metal wall is larger than thickness of the first metal wall. The feed-through parts include insulators and line patterns insulated from the first and second metal walls and are joined to inner walls of the openings and the metal base plate.
US09219010B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor component A method for manufacturing a semiconductor component that includes the use of multiple layers of photoresist. A first layer of electrically conductive material is formed over a substrate and a first layer of photoresist is formed over the first layer of electrically conductive material. A portion of the first layer of photoresist is removed leaving photoresist having sidewalls separated by a gap. A second layer of electrically conductive material having first and second sidewalls is formed in the gap. A second layer of photoresist is formed over the first layer of photoresist and over the second layer of electrically conductive material. Portions of the second layer of photoresist and the first layer of photoresist are removed to uncover the first and second edges of the second layer of electrically conductive material. A protective structure is formed over the first and second edges of the second electrically conductive material.
US09219003B2	Oxide terminated trench MOSFET with three or four masks An oxide termination semiconductor device may comprise a plurality of gate trenches, a gate runner, and an insulator termination trench. The gate trenches are located in an active region. Each gate trench includes a conductive gate electrode. The insulator termination trench is located in a termination region that surrounds the active region. The insulator termination trench is filled with an insulator material to form an insulator termination for the semiconductor device. Source and body regions inside the active region are at source potential and source and body regions outside the isolation trench are at drain potential. The device can be made using a three-mask or four-mask process.
US09219002B2	Overlay performance for a fin field effect transistor device Approaches for improving overlay performance for an integrated circuit (IC) device are provided. Specifically, the IC device (e.g., a fin field effect transistor (FinFET)) is provided with an oxide layer and a pad layer formed over a substrate, wherein the oxide layer comprises an alignment and overlay mark, an oxide deposited in a set of openings formed through the pad layer and into the substrate, a mandrel layer deposited over the oxide material and the pad layer, and a set of fins patterned in the IC device without etching the alignment and overlay mark. With this approach, the alignment and overlay mark is provided with the fin cut (FC) layer and, therefore, avoids finification.
US09219000B2	Method for processing semiconductors using a combination of electron beam and optical lithography Forming an alignment mark on a semiconductor structure using an optical lithography to form a metal alignment mark on a substrate of the structure, using the formed metal alignment mark to form a first feature of a semiconductor device being formed on the substrate using optical lithography, and using the formed metal alignment mark to form a second, different feature for the semiconductor using electron beam lithography. In one embodiment, the first feature is an ohmic contact, the second feature is a Schottky contact, the metal alignment mark is a refractory metal or a refractory metal compound having an atomic weight greater than 60 such as TaN and the semiconductor device is a GaN semiconductor device. A semiconductor structure having a metal alignment mark on a zero layer of the structure, the metal alignment mark is a TaN and the semiconductor is GaN.
US09218997B2	Electrostatic chuck having reduced arcing Electrostatic chucks and methods of manufacturing the same are provided herein. In some embodiments, an electrostatic chuck comprises an electrically conductive body having one or more channels formed in an upper surface thereof; a plate positioned within the one or more channels to define one or more plenums between the body and the plate, wherein the surfaces of the plenum are anodized; one or more fluid passages disposed in the plate and fluidly coupling the one or more plenums to the upper surface of the body, wherein the surfaces of the fluid passages are electrically insulated; and a dielectric layer disposed over the upper surface of the body and the plate, wherein the dielectric layer forms a support surface for a substrate to be disposed thereon.
US09218994B2	Two-dimensional transfer station used as interface between a process tool and a transport system and a method of operating the same By providing a space-efficient transfer buffer system in a manufacturing environment, which may act as a local interface between an automated transport system and the load port assembly of a process tool under consideration, the I/O capability of the process tool may be significantly enhanced, while not unduly contributing to the overall width of the process tools. In particular embodiments, an array-like arrangement of respective buffer places is used, wherein each buffer place is accessible by the transport system and may also interact with each of the load ports of the process tool.
US09218991B2	Ion implantation at high temperature surface equilibrium conditions There are disclosed herein various implementations of a method and system for ion implantation at high temperature surface equilibrium conditions. The method may include situating a III-Nitride semiconductor body in a surface equilibrium chamber, establishing a gas pressure greater than or approximately equal to a surface equilibrium pressure of the III-Nitride semiconductor body, and heating the III-Nitride semiconductor body to an elevated implantation temperature in the surface equilibrium chamber while substantially maintaining the gas pressure. The method also includes implanting the III-Nitride semiconductor body in the surface equilibrium at the elevated implantation temperature chamber while substantially maintaining the gas pressure, the implanting being performed using an ion implanter interfacing with the surface equilibrium chamber.
US09218989B2	Aerogel dielectric layer A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board, a chip attached to the circuit board and a dielectric layer. The chip has a circuit facing the circuit board and spaced from it. The dielectric layer includes an aerogel. In one embodiment, the aerogel has a dielectric constant of approximately 2.0 or less and a compression strength of at least approximately 100 psi.
US09218987B2	Method for top-side cooled semiconductor package with stacked interconnection plates A top-side cooled semiconductor package with stacked interconnection plate is disclosed. The semiconductor package includes a circuit substrate with terminal leads, a semiconductor die atop the circuit substrate, a low thermal resistance intimate interconnection plate for bonding and interconnecting a top contact area of the semiconductor die with the circuit substrate, a low thermal resistance stacked interconnection plate atop the intimate interconnection plate for top-side cooling, a molding encapsulant for encapsulating the package except for exposing a top surface of the stacked interconnection plate to maintain effective top-side cooling. The top portion of the stacked interconnection plate can include a peripheral overhang above the intimate interconnection plate. The peripheral overhang allows for a maximized exposed top surface area for heat dissipation independent of otherwise areal constraints applicable to the intimate interconnection plate. The stacked interconnection plate can be partially etched or three dimensionally formed to create the peripheral overhang.
US09218978B1	Method of ONO stack formation A method of controlling the thickness of gate oxides in an integrated CMOS process which includes performing a two-step gate oxidation process to concurrently oxidize and therefore consume at least a first portion of the cap layer of the NV gate stack to form a blocking oxide and form a gate oxide of at least one metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor in the second region, wherein the gate oxide of the at least one MOS transistor is formed during both a first oxidation step and a second oxidation step of the gate oxidation process.
US09218976B2	Fully silicided gate formed according to the gate-first HKMG approach When forming field-effect transistors, a common problem is the formation of a Schottky barrier at the interface between a metal thin film in the gate electrode and a semiconductor material, typically polysilicon, formed thereupon. Fully silicided gates are known in the state of the art, which may overcome this problem. However, formation of a fully silicided gate is hindered by the fact that silicidation of the source and drain regions and of the gate electrode are normally performed simultaneously. The claimed method proposes two consecutive silicidation processes which are decoupled with respect to each other. During the first silicidation process, a metal silicide is formed forming an interface with the source and drain regions and without affecting the gate electrode. During the second silicidation, a metal silicide layer having an interface with the gate electrode is formed, without affecting the transistor source and drain regions.
US09218966B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device To suppress a decrease in on-state current in a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor. Provided is a semiconductor device including the following: an oxide semiconductor film which serves as a semiconductor layer; a gate insulating film including an oxide containing silicon, over the oxide semiconductor film; a gate electrode which overlaps with at least the oxide semiconductor film, over the gate insulating film; and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film. In the semiconductor device, the oxide semiconductor film overlapping with at least the gate electrode includes a region in which a concentration of silicon distributed from the interface with the gate insulating film toward the inside of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 1.1 at. %.
US09218961B2	Methods of forming a metal containing layer on a substrate with high uniformity and good profile control Methods for forming a metal containing layer onto a substrate with good deposition profile control and film uniformity across the substrate are provided. In one embodiment, a method of sputter depositing a metal containing layer on the substrate includes transferring a substrate in a processing chamber, supplying a gas mixture including at least Ne gas into the processing chamber, applying a RF power to form a plasma from the gas mixture, and depositing a metal containing layer onto the substrate in the presence of the plasma.
US09218959B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, method of processing substrate, substrate processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium An object of the present invention is to form a good thin film while suppressing generation of foreign substances in a low temperature region. Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) forming a thin film containing at least a predetermined element and carbon on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: supplying a source gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate in a process container; and supplying an amine-based gas to the substrate in the process container; and (b) modifying byproducts adhered to an inside of the process container by supplying a nitriding gas into the process container after forming the thin film.
US09218951B2	Plasma lighting system with light sensor for control based on intensity A plasma lighting system includes a magnetron configured to generate microwaves, and a bulb filled with a main dose and an additive dose. The main dose and the additive dose generate light under the influence of microwaves and have the maximum intensities of respective intrinsic wavelengths at different wavelengths. A waveguide is configured to guide the microwaves generated by the magnetron to the bulb. A motor is configured to rotate the bulb. A sensor is configured to sense the intensity of light having a specific wavelength emitted from the bulb. A controller is connected to the motor. The controller adjusts the Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) of the bulb based on the intensity of light having the specific wavelength sensed by the sensor. With this arrangement, a Color Rendering Index (CRI) of the plasma lighting system may be adjusted during operation.
US09218947B2	Nanomanipulation coupled nanospray mass spectrometry (NMS) A coupled nanomanipulation and nanospray mass spectrometry (NMS) system for single cell, single organelle, and ultra-trace molecular analysis is disclosed herein. The system primarily comprises a bio-workstation coupled to a NMS. The bio-workstation primarily comprises of a nanomanipulator stage with a plurality of nano-positioners attached to a cabinet with a piezo voltage source and a pressure injector. The present invention further describes a fingerprint lift method that when coupled with the system disclosed herein can be used for retrieval and analysis of trace amounts of drug and explosive residues. The system described herein has been used in the areas of trace and document analysis within the forensic field, trace fiber analysis, and electrostatic lifts for illicit drugs, as well as document and painting analysis.
US09218945B2	Magnetron with gradually increasing magnetic field out of turnarounds A magnetron include a center plurality of magnets and an outer plurality of magnets arranged around the center plurality of magnets in a shape of two long sections and two shorter turnaround sections. The outer plurality of magnets are configured with at least one region of weaker magnetic field strength in at least one of the two long sections and adjacent to one of the two turnaround sections.
US09218938B2	Beam monitoring device, method, and system A beam monitoring device, method, and system is disclosed. An exemplary beam monitoring device includes a one dimensional (1D) profiler. The 1D profiler includes a Faraday having an insulation material and a conductive material. The beam monitoring device further includes a two dimensional (2D) profiler. The 2D profiler includes a plurality of Faraday having an insulation material and a conductive material. The plurality of Faraday of the 2D profiler are arranged in a pattern that is offset in a direction. The 1D profiler is coupled to a first end of the 2D profiler and extends beyond two adjacent outer edges of the 2D profiler. The beam monitoring device further includes a control arm. The control arm is operable to facilitate movement of the beam monitoring device in the direction.
US09218934B2	Charged particle beam system and method of operating a charged particle beam system The disclosure relates to a method of operating a gas field ion beam system in which the gas field ion beam system comprises an external housing, an internal housing, arranged within the external housing, an electrically conductive tip arranged within the internal housing, a gas supply for supplying one or more gases to the internal housing, the gas supply having a tube terminating within the internal housing, and an extractor electrode having a hole to permit ions generated in the neighborhood of the tip to pass through the hole into the external housing. The method comprises the step of regularly heating the external housing, the internal housing, the electrically conductive tip, the tube and the extractor electrode to a temperature of above 100° C.
US09218930B2	Contact structure of low-voltage electrical apparatus The present invention discloses a contact structure of a low-voltage electrical apparatus. The contact structure is in a dual-breakpoint form, and comprises: two U-shaped static contacts, the U-shaped static contact enabling the current direction in the static contact to be opposite to the current direction in a movable contact; a contact bridge; two movable contacts, disposed on the contact bridge, and respectively corresponding to the two static contacts; a contact support member, disposed on the movable contacts and connected to the movable contacts; two main contact springs, symmetrically disposed under the movable contacts and forming an angle with the contact bridge; and a spring support member, disposed under the two movable contacts and connected to the two main contact springs. At a contact position of the static contact and the movable contact and at a repulsed open position of the static contact and the movable contact, the angle between the main contact spring and the contact bridge is between −β and +α.
US09218927B2	Touchsurface assembly with level and planar translational responsiveness via a buckling elastic component Methods and apparatus for a touchsurface assembly such as a key assembly are described. The touchsurface assembly includes a keycap, a base and an elastic component coupled to the keycap and the base. The elastic component supports the keycap away from the base in an unpressed position, and directionally buckles during movement of the keycap toward a pressed position responsive to a press force. The press force moves the keycap in a press direction toward the pressed position, and the directionally buckling of the elastic component allows the keycap to move in a second direction orthogonal to the press direction. Upon release of the press force, the elastic component moves the keycap toward the unpressed position after release of the press force.
US09218926B1	Normally-closed switch with positive stops A normally-closed switch comprises: a housing; a push button that is mounted for movement with respect to the housing; a stationary terminal; a moveable terminal that, when in contact with the stationary terminal, completes a circuit; and one or more positive stops that engage the stationary terminal. When a force is applied to the push button, the moveable terminal breaks contact with the stationary terminal, thus opening the circuit. The one or more positive stops apply pressure to and maintain a predetermined position of the stationary terminal, but do not interfere with or impede the moveable terminal.
US09218925B2	Key including secondary domes Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a key including a primary dome, a plurality of second domes, and a first layer. The primary dome is to compress a switch if the primary dome collapses. The first layer is over the primary and secondary domes. The first layer collapses the primary dome and does not engage the secondary domes, if the first layer is pressed substantially levelly or parallel to the rest position.
US09218912B2	Electrochemical capacitor An electrochemical capacitor includes electrolytic solution, a capacitor element, and a housing. The electrolytic solution contains cations, anions, solvent formed of materials other than lactones, and a lactone component. The capacitor element includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a separator. The negative electrode includes an electrode layer capable of storing the cations, and the positive electrode includes a polarizable electrode layer and confronts the negative electrode. The separator is disposed between the negative and positive electrodes, and they are layered or wound together. The capacitor element is impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The housing accommodates the capacitor element and the electrolytic solution that contains the lactone component in a quantity ranging from 0.001 wt % to 5 wt % (inclusive) relative to the solvent.
US09218910B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor, manufacturing method of the same, and circuit board with multilayer ceramic capacitor mounted thereon There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer; a first internal electrode having a first non-pattern portion and a first pattern portion having one end exposed to one or more of surfaces of the ceramic body; a second internal electrode having an overlap region with the first pattern portion with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween and having a second non-pattern portion and a second pattern portion having one end exposed to one or more of surfaces of the ceramic body; and first and second external electrodes electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, wherein the first and second pattern portions have a metal oxide region having a predetermined width from an exposed end portion of a region thereof not connected to the first or the second external electrode, among exposed end portions, toward a central portion thereof, respectively.
US09218905B2	AC/DC current transformer A method for processing output from a current transformer comprising deriving signal data from the output; converting the signal data from analog to digital format; removing a carrier signal from the signal data; squaring the signal data; and performing a recursive RMS algorithm on the signal data.
US09218904B2	Refrigerator with contactlessly powered movable member A refrigerator (1) includes a cabinet (2) provided with a primary electrical circuit (7) connected to a main alternate voltage power supply and at least one movable member (6) associable to the cabinet (2) and provided with a secondary electrical circuit (11). The secondary circuit (11) is powered contactlessly by the primary circuit (7) and the secondary circuit (11) supplies electrical energy to a power consuming device (14).
US09218897B1	Wastewater treatment and radioactive material disposal container A vessel for both treatment of radioactive wastewater and disposal of radioactive waste contained therein. The vessel comprises a main vessel structure including a shell formed of a metal material and a liner integrally coupled to the interior surface of the shell. The liner is preferably formed of a plastic material, such as high density polyethylene. Waste treatment equipment for treatment of the radioactive wastewater is provided within the shell. Ion exchange resin is typically located in the main vessel structure which, when spent, constitutes the radioactive waste which is subject to disposal. The vessel is preferably configured to function as a High Integrity Container (HIC).
US09218891B2	Data storage device and flash memory control method A data storage device using a FLASH memory with replay-protected blocks. The storage space of the FLASH memory is divided into blocks and each block is further divided into pages. A controller is provided in the data storage device to couple to the FLASH memory. The controller manages at least one replay-protected memory block of the FLASH memory. The controller programs a success flag and a write count into a system block of the FLASH memory after the controller programs two pages into the at least one replay-protected memory block of the FLASH memory. The controller may perform a power restoration process based on the success flag of the system block or/and based on the amount of programmed pages of the at least one replay-protected memory block.
US09218890B2	Adaptive operation of three dimensional memory When data from a portion of a three dimensional NAND memory array is determined to be uncorrectable by Error Correction Code (ECC), a determination is made as to whether data is uncorrectable by ECC throughout some unit that is larger than the portion. If modified read conditions provide ECC correctable data, the modified read conditions are recorded for subsequent reads of the larger unit.
US09218887B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device capable of improving retention/disturb characteristics of memory cells and method of operating the same A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array configured to store data; peripheral circuits configured to perform program verifying operation, read operation, and erase verifying operation on the memory cell array; and a control circuit configured to control the peripheral circuits, wherein the control circuit is configured to control the peripheral circuits to set a bit line voltage in the program verifying operation to have a higher level than a bit line voltage in the read operation, and a bit line voltage in the erase verifying operation to have a lower level than the bit line voltage in the read operation.
US09218884B2	Access line management in a memory device Memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as devices configured to store a number of access line biasing patterns to be applied during a memory device operation performed on a particular row of memory cells in the memory device. Memory devices are further configured to support modification of the stored bias patterns, providing flexibility in biasing access lines through changes to the bias patterns stored in the memory device. Methods and devices further facilitate performing memory device operations under multiple biasing conditions to evaluate and characterize the memory device by adjustment of the stored bias patterns without requiring an associated hardware change to the memory device.
US09218878B2	Semiconductor device and control method for semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided with the variable resistance element, and a control circuit that controls a resistance state of the variable resistance element by controlling current between a first end and a second end of the variable resistance element. The control circuit causes the variable resistance element to change from a first resistance state to a second resistance state by having a first current flow from the first end to the second end of the variable resistance element. In addition, after a second current smaller than the first current is made to flow from the first end to the second end of the variable resistance element, the control circuit causes the variable resistance element to change from the second resistance state to the first resistance state by having a third current flow from the second end to the first end thereof.
US09218877B2	Differential bit cell A differential bit cell includes two memory elements that are configured to have different states. Each of the two memory elements is connected to a respective switching element. Each of these switching elements may have process variances, which may result in a degradation of read and/or write margins. To mitigate the effect of such variances, another switching element is coupled to the two memory elements and their respective switching elements in a manner that couples the aforementioned switching elements in a parallel fashion. In this way, the mismatch effects between the switching elements can be negated during read operations. During programming operations, such a configuration allows for the programming of both memory elements to different states with a single current pulse and also reduces the effective resistance of the programming path.
US09218872B1	Memory chip and layout design for manufacturing same An embedded synchronous random access memory (SRAM) chip, includes a first single-port (SP) SRAM macro and a second SP macro. The first macro includes a first periphery circuit, and a plurality of first SRAM cells. The second macro includes a second periphery circuit, and a plurality of second SRAM cells. Further, each cell of the plurality of first SRAM cells is electrically connected to a write-assist circuitry, wherein the write assist circuitry is configured to assist the write cycle capability of each cell of the plurality of first SRAM cells. Further, each cell of the plurality of second SRAM cells do not include write assist circuitry.
US09218871B2	Semiconductor memory device, information processing system including the same, and controller To include first and second data input/output terminals allocated to first and second memory circuit units, respectively, and an address terminal allocated in common to these memory circuit units. When a first chip selection signal is activated, the first memory circuit unit performs a read operation or a write operation via the first data input/output terminal based on an address signal regardless of an operation of the second memory circuit unit. When a second chip selection signal is activated, the second memory circuit unit performs a read operation or a write operation via the second data input/output terminal based on the address signal regardless of an operation of the first memory circuit unit. With this configuration, a wasteful data transfer can be prevented, and the effective data transfer rate can be increased.
US09218865B2	Self-referenced sense amplifier for spin torque MRAM Circuitry and a method provide a plurality of timed control and bias voltages to sense amplifiers and write drivers of a spin-torque magnetoresistive random access memory array for improved power supply noise rejection, increased sensing speed with immunity for bank-to-bank noise coupling, and reduced leakage from off word line select devices in an active column.
US09218861B2	Apparatuses and methods including selectively providing a single or separate chip select signals Apparatus and methods are disclosed herein, including those that operate to initialize registers of a first memory device and a second memory device of a single-rank memory module by providing separate chip select signals to separately select a first memory device and a second memory device. A method may further include, subsequent to sensing that the initializing is completed, for example, providing a single chip select signal to simultaneously select the first memory device and the second memory device.
US09218858B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof An operating method of a data storage device may include performing a first write operation on a first memory region, and performing a second write operation on a second memory region to store position information on the first write operation.
US09218847B2	System and method for testing data storage systems utilizing micro-transitions A method of testing a one or more components of a data storage system introduces a first plurality of micro-transitions into a first data write pattern, which is then written to a magnetic media. A read-back signal is generated, and a frequency response of the read-back signal is analyzed to determine performance of the one or more components of the data storage system.
US09218840B2	Optical disc device having a protrusion for blocking its optical pickup unit An optical disc recording and/or reproducing device comprising a drive for rotating an optical disc around an axis of rotation, a movable optical pickup unit (5) and a frame (1) having at least one guiding rod (4) for guiding a displacement of the optical pickup unit (5) in a substantially radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation. The guiding rod (4) is provided with a protrusion (17) for restricting the movement of the optical pickup unit (5) when the guiding rod (4) is in a predetermined rotational position. The guiding rod (4) is rotationally drivable by an electric drive motor in order to move the protrusion (17) for either releasing or blocking the optical pickup unit (5).
US09218838B2	Quasi-statically tilted head having offset reader/writer transducer pairs Aspects of the present invention relates generally to apparatuses with transducer arrays having offset transducers. Various embodiments are particularly suited to tilting for tape dimensional instability compensation. Some embodiments include dual servo readers in a given array.
US09218835B1	Thermally-assisted magnetic recording head including a heat sink A thermally-assisted magnetic recording head includes a main pole and a heat sink. The heat sink includes two first portions and two second portions. The two first portions are located on opposite sides of the main pole in the track width direction and are each spaced from the main pole. The two second portions are located between the main pole and the two first portions. The main pole and the two first portions are each formed of a magnetic metal. The two second portions are formed of a nonmagnetic metal.
US09218828B1	Magnetic head and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a spin-torque oscillator which further includes a non-magnetic separation seed layer formed directly on a main magnetic pole and containing an element selected from W, Re, Os and Ir, an SIL, an IL and FGL formed one on another in this order.
US09218821B2	Measuring content coherence and measuring similarity Embodiments for measuring content coherence and embodiments for measuring content similarity are described. Content coherence between a first audio section and a second audio section is measured. For each audio segment in the first audio section, a predetermined number of audio segments in the second audio section are determined. Content similarity between the audio segment in the first audio section and the determined audio segments is higher than that between the audio segment and all the other audio segments in the second audio section. An average of the content similarity between the audio segment in the first audio section and the determined audio segments is calculated. The content coherence is calculated as an average, the maximum or the minimum of the averages calculated for the audio segments in the first audio section. The content similarity may be calculated based on Dirichlet distribution.
US09218818B2	Efficient and scalable parametric stereo coding for low bitrate audio coding applications The present invention provides improvements to prior art audio codecs that generate a stereo-illusion through post-processing of a received mono signal. These improvements are accomplished by extraction of stereo-image describing parameters at the encoder side, which are transmitted and subsequently used for control of a stereo generator at the decoder side. Furthermore, the invention bridges the gap between simple pseudo-stereo methods, and current methods of true stereo-coding, by using a new form of parametric stereo coding. A stereo-balance parameter is introduced, which enables more advanced stereo modes, and in addition forms the basis of a new method of stereo-coding of spectral envelopes, of particular use in systems where guided HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction) is employed. As a special case, the application of this stereo-coding scheme in scalable HFR-based codecs is described.
US09218799B2	Acoustic transducer for swath beams A swath beam acoustic transducer (100) for projecting and/or receiving acoustic swath beams (108). The transducer comprises an array of active acoustic elements (104) that are arranged to collectively provide an elongate concave radiation surface (106) with an associated acoustic aperture (110). The array of active acoustic elements (104) is operable to project and/or receive acoustic swath beams (108) via the radiation surface (106).
US09218789B1	Correcting image positioning data An image positioning system provides an interactive visualization that includes a representation of a geographic area and several camera pose indicators, each of which indicates a location within the geographic area at which a corresponding image was obtained. An operator may select one a pose indicators and adjust the position of the pose indicator relative to the representation of the geographic area. In response, the image positioning system may automatically generate a corrected location at which the image corresponding to the selected pose indicator was obtained. The corrected location then may be stored in a database and used for various applications that utilize image positioning data.
US09218786B2	Image display device A change in the white balance caused due to the temperature is reduced in an image display device using MEMS and a laser light source. An image processing unit of the device superposes a signal based on a first measured value of a light quantity at a first temperature on a image signal to be supplied to the laser light source. An amplification factor of the light source drive unit is changed so that a second measured value at a second temperature comes close to the first measured value at the first temperature as a target value based on the second measured value at which the light quantity of light generated at the laser light source is measured at the second temperature different from the first temperature on the signal based on the first measured value.
US09218785B2	Lighting correction filters A lighting correction filter for selectively correcting lighting in computer animation is disclosed. The lighting correction filter can select a computer-generated object having one or more lighting attributes. The selected object can be a portion of an object, an entire object, a portion of a computer-generated scene, or an entire scene. The filter can then set lighting correction values for the lighting attributes of the selected object. The lighting correction values can be color values, exposure values, or both. The filter can apply the lighting correction values to the selected object's lighting attributes to effect a lighting correction in the object prior to rendering.
US09218784B2	Adjusting the color output of a display device based on a color profile Disclosed embodiments relate to adjusting the color output of a display device. For example, a method for adjusting the color output of a display device based on a color profile may comprise receiving, by a display device, a color profile indicative of the native properties of a display device, generating, by the display device, a color mapping based on the received color profile, and storing, by the display device, the color mapping. The method may further comprise displaying, by the display device, an image based on the stored color mapping.
US09218777B2	Array substrate and the liquid crystal panel An array substrate and a liquid crystal panel area disclosed. Each pixel cell of the array substrate includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode and a third pixel electrode. In addition, the pixel cell further includes a control circuit for operating on the second pixel electrode to change the voltage of the second pixel electrode. The third pixel electrode connects to the second pixel electrode via a third transistor. In the 2D display mode, the three pixel electrodes are all in the displaying state of corresponding 2D images. In the 3D display mode, the third pixel electrode is in the displaying state of corresponding black images, and the first and the second pixel electrodes are in the displaying state of corresponding 3D images. In this way, the color distortion in the 2D and 3D display modes are enhanced.
US09218773B2	Method and driving apparatus for outputting driving signal to drive electro-phoretic display The present invention provides a driving apparatus, the driving apparatus is used for outputting a driving signal to drive an electro-phoretic display, and the driving apparatus includes a driving signal generator, a temperature sensor, and a selector. The driving signal generator generates a plurality of periodic alternative current signals and a plurality of direct current signals. The temperature sensor generates a temperature parameter by sensing an environment temperature. The selector is coupled to the driving signal generator and the temperature sensor. The selector selects one of the periodic alternative current signals or one of the direct current signals as the driving signal according to the temperature parameter.
US09218772B2	Backlight driver of liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A backlight driver and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The backlight driver includes a vertical synchronization signal filter for generating a second vertical synchronization signal based on an input first vertical synchronization signal, and selecting one of the first vertical synchronization signal and the second vertical synchronization signal as a third vertical synchronization signal according to whether a period difference between adjacent first vertical synchronization signals satisfies a preset threshold range, a duty ratio detector for detecting a duty ratio of an input pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, a PWM generator for generating an output PWM signal synchronized with the third vertical synchronization signal output from the vertical synchronization signal filter and having the duty ratio and outputting the output PWM signal to a backlight unit.
US09218760B2	Driving circuit for liquid crystal display device and method for driving the same A driving circuit for a liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel comprising a plurality of pixel areas to display an image; a data driver configured to drive data lines of the liquid crystal panel; a gate driver configured to drive gate lines of the liquid crystal panel; and a timing controller configured to generate an internal enable signal in an initial driving where an external power is applied, to control the gate and data drivers, and configured to control the gate and data drivers based on synchronization signals, after controlling the driving of the gate driver to be stopped for one frame period when at least one synchronization signals are input from outside.
US09218758B2	Display device and method of driving the same A display device is provided including a display unit including a plurality of color pixels; a scan driver that sequentially applies a gate-on voltage scan signal to a plurality of scan lines that are connected to the color pixels; a demux unit that is connected to a plurality of color data lines that are connected to the color pixels, and that sequentially selects the plurality color data lines at a predetermined time interval; and a data driver that applies a data signal to each of the plurality of color data lines that are sequentially selected in the demux unit, and that applies a previous data signal to at least one of the plurality of color data lines during the predetermined time interval, wherein the previous data signal has a same voltage as a voltage applied to one of the plurality of color data lines before the predetermined time interval.
US09218752B2	System, method, and computer program product for simulating epicardial electrophysiology procedures An aspect of various systems and methods provides, but not limited thereto, novel means for simulating physiological systems and processes in vitro in order to test surgical devices and train practitioners in the use of surgical devices. An aspect of various embodiments further provides in vitro anatomical components, such as a thorax, lungs, heart and pericardium, configured to contain at least one fluid having a pressure-frequency profile that may mimic typical pressure-frequency waveforms of in vivo anatomical fluids. A model communication system may be used to communicate the desired pressure-frequency profiles to the in vitro anatomical fluids. In a further aspect of various embodiments, an access device, e.g. a surgical instrument, configured to sense pressure, frequency, and/or a pressure-frequency profile may be inserted into one or more anatomical components of the in vitro model in order to test the instrument and/or train a practitioner in proper use of the instrument. An access device communication system may be used to communicate data to the practitioner. This data may include, for example, pressure-frequency data and/or the location of a portion of the access device with respect to the various in vitro anatomical components.
US09218748B2	System and method for providing exercise in playing a music instrument A system and method for providing exercise in playing a music instrument. With prior art solutions there is a common problem of inadequate motivation of the user to continue practicing, and inadequate learning of items which are difficult for a specific user. The present solution detects characteristics of the user's play detected and uses them to provide a suitable program of exercises and to provide feedback which enhances motivation of the user.
US09218746B2	Systems and methods for developing computer algorithm solutions by conducting competitions This invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a coding competition. In one embodiment, a method for providing a coding competition includes transmitting a coding problem to contestants, receiving computer code created by a contestant, determining a response of the computer code to test data, and evaluating the response of the computer code to the test data. In another embodiment, a method for evaluating a skill level of a contestant includes electronically communicating a coding problem to contestants, electronically receiving a software program in response to the coding problem from one of the contestants, evaluating the received software program, awarding points to the contestant based on the received software program, and determining a rating for the contestant for the competition based on the number of points awarded to the contestant.
US09218745B2	Virtual simulator method and system for neuromuscular training and certification via a communication network A system for neuromuscular training via a communication network, including a computer processor connectable to the communication network, the processor capable of performing operations including: retrieving data representative of a training scenario from a database in response to a user selection on an input device, generating test elements, parameters and controls based on the retrieved data, monitoring use of the input device by the user, performing calculations of a simulated environment in response to the use of the input device by the user and the test elements, parameters and controls, generating real time images replicating the simulated environment of management of the test elements by the user and recording results of the simulation in the database.
US09218733B2	Method for early detection of cooling-loss events A method of detecting cooling-loss event early is provided. The method includes defining a relative humidity limit and change threshold for a given space, measuring relative humidity in the given space, determining, with a processing unit, whether the measured relative humidity is within the defined relative humidity limit, generating a warning in an event the measured relative humidity is outside the defined relative humidity limit and determining whether a change in the measured relative humidity is less than the defined change threshold for the given space and generating an alarm in an event the change is greater than the defined change threshold.
US09218728B2	Methods and apparatus for acoustic event detection Methods and apparatus to identify a type of acoustic event Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs). In one embodiment, received sound is processed using the MFCCs to locate a peak for comparison with a stored event to determine if the peak corresponds to the acoustic event.
US09218724B2	Electronic gaming device with quasi-persistent synchronized reel games Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems and methods may initiate one or more quasi-persistent synchronized reel structures. The systems and methods may determine one or more replacement symbols for the one or more symbols of the plurality of primary game symbols. The systems and methods may determine one or more payouts based on the additional gaming functionality. The systems and methods may display one or more presentations based on the additional gaming functionality.
US09218714B2	User interface manager for a skill wagering interleaved game Systems and methods for operating a skill wagering interleaved game are disclosed. For example, a user interface manager for a skill wagering interleaved game operates to send a dialog to a player's end user device, receive the player's responses, and validate that the responses received match the dialog that was sent before providing the responses to the application. Additionally, the system enables pre-authorization of transactions in a game setting, by generating a transaction identifier associated with a game when it is determined that a player is authorized to play the game, and then performing wagers during the game when gaming information is associated with the transaction identifier.
US09218713B2	Gaming machine peripheral control method A request for authorization for use of one or more peripheral devices of a wager gaming machine may be transmitted to another device (e.g., a central server) via a network. The request may, for example, include a machine-specific identifier and a peripheral identifier. The request may be sent from the wager gaming machine or from another device. The request may be sent automatically in response to certain conditions, e.g., when a peripheral device has been replaced and/or when the wager gaming machine initializes. The central server may determine (inter alia) whether the peripheral is approved for use in the registered jurisdiction and then send the appropriate authorization (or denial). Software (e.g., driver software) may accompany an authorization.
US09218706B2	Video game processing apparatus and video game processing program A video game processing apparatus is provided. Game information on first and second game modes for a video game is stored in a game information memory. In a case where a video game start request is received, progress of the video game in a first game mode is controlled in accordance with an instruction inputted using a first controller. A player is induced to carry out a game mode shifting operation in a case where it is determined that predetermined conditions are satisfied. A second controller is caused to move from a storage state to an exposed state in a case where the game mode shifting operation is received. Progress of the video game in the second game mode is controlled in accordance with an instruction inputted using the second controller in a case where the second controller is caused to move to the exposed state.
US09218701B2	Image overlay for duplicate image detection Embodiment for detecting duplicate images include systems for determining that two or more of the images have similar key attributes such as attributes related to certain data in the images or image quality. Further, the embodiments include superimposing at least a portion of a first image of the two or more images over at least a portion of the second image of the two or more images, comparing the first image and second image; and determining whether the first image and the second image are identical.
US09218697B2	Systems and methods for authenticating objects using IR Systems and methods authenticate an object using IR. IR is projected at a first wavelength onto the object and a first image of the object is captured during the projection of the IR. The object is authenticated by processing the first image to detect IR fluorescence from an IR fluorescing material incorporated into the object in response to the projected IR, where presence of the IR fluorescence within the first image indicates authentication of the object.
US09218696B2	Wireless access control system and related methods A wireless access control system includes a remote access device and an electronic lock. The electronic lock communicates with the remote access device. The electronic lock controls the ability to lock and unlock a door in which the electronic lock is disposed. The electronic lock determines when the remote access device is at a distance less than or equal to a predetermined distance from the lock to enable the lock to be unlocked.
US09218694B1	Recommendations for time to replace parts on machines Systems and methods of recommending replacement of parts on machines. In one embodiment, a method of recommending replacement includes receiving data for a part type, determining a cumulative probability function for an infant mortality of the part type, and determining a cumulative probability function for a natural life of the part type. The method includes defining a lower time boundary and an upper time boundary between which the part type is considered operative. The lower time boundary is defined at a time point at an intersection between the cumulative probability function for the infant mortality and the cumulative probability function for the natural life of the part type. The upper time boundary is defined at a time point representing an estimated end of an operative life of the part type. Recommending replacement of a part on a machine may then be determined based on the upper and lower time boundaries.
US09218682B2	Method and apparatus for generating an image In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a processor configured to determine a position information related to a first media object, determine a position information related to a second media object, and automatically generate at least one image based at least in part on the position information related to the first media object and based at least in part on the position information related to said second media object is disclosed.
US09218680B2	Systems and methods for rendering graphical content and glyphs Disclosed are techniques and systems for rendering pages or documents with both graphical and textual content.
US09218679B2	Reduced bitcount polygon rasterization Techniques are disclosed for carrying out rasterization of a given graphics workload, wherein portions of the workload associated with relatively high bit count operations are processed via a first process path, and portions of the workload associated with relatively lower bit count operations are processed via a second, relatively faster process path, in accordance with an embodiment. In a more general sense, maximal bit count associated with a given primitive can be identified and compared to a threshold to determine which one of multiple available processing paths can be used.
US09218678B2	Multi-view rasterization using an analyticl visibility function Multi-view rasterization may be performed by calculating visibility over a camera line. Edge equations may be evaluated iteratively along a scanline. The edge equations may be evaluated using single instruction multiple data instruction sets.
US09218677B2	Presenting data records based on binning and randomization In one embodiment, data records associated with attributes are received. A check is made to determine whether the data records are greater than a maximum data record limit of a graph. Further, when the maximum number of data records in the bin is less than or equal to the maximum data record limit of the graph, the data records are retrieved and presented in the graph. When the data records are greater than the maximum data record limit of the graph, the data records are grouped into bins based on initial bin sizes corresponding to the plurality of attributes. Furthermore, weighted densities of the bins are determined using a maximum number of data records associated with a bin and a maximum data record limit of the bin. Further, the graph is rendered to present the weighted densities of the bins using a randomization technique to analyze the data records.
US09218674B2	Bayesian approach for gas concentration reconstruction based on tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy Systems and methods construct a 2 dimensional (2D) gas concentration map (image) from data from one or more laser based absorption projection paths. Embodiments use a Bayesian approach to construct a 2D gas concentration map of a combustion region cross section plane by modeling the 2D map as a Gaussian Process (GP). The GP models the global correlation among all pixels in the 2D map. Data from one or more projection paths is propagated to all pixels in the map instead of just local pixels. The correlation among map pixels is used to propagate projection path data from map pixels traversed by a projection path to other map pixels.
US09218668B2	Differentiating among a plurality of subjects in a field-of-view based on vital signs An apparatus for detecting different subjects on the basis of vital signs includes an image detection unit for detecting radiation from a field of view and for providing image data from the field of view. A detection unit defines image sections in the image data and detects movement patterns in each of the different image sections. An identification unit identifies vital signs in the different image section on the basis of the movement pattern. An analysis unit analyzes the image data and detects the different subjects in the field of view on the basis of a spatial separation of the image sections or of groups of image sections in which the vital signs are identified.
US09218667B2	Spherical lighting device with backlighting coronal ring A method for capturing three-dimensional photographic lighting of a spherical lighting device is described. Calculation of boundaries of the spherical lighting device based on lighting properties of at least one light source in a set location of the spherical lighting device is performed. A mapping of multitude points of the spherical lighting device to three-dimensional vectors of at least one camera device using a logical grid is performed. A measurement of brightness of the logical grid of the spherical lighting device is performed. The method further comprises determining brightest grid point of the logical grid of the spherical lighting device, wherein the brightest grid point of the logical grid is measured within a region brightness of the spherical lighting device. The method further comprises calculating the region of brightness of the spherical lighting device based on the determined brightest grid point of the logical grid.
US09218664B2	Apparatus and method for image guided accuracy verification A method includes receiving during a first time interval image data associated with an image of a dynamic body. The image data includes an indication of the positions of a first marker and a second marker on a garment coupled to the dynamic body. The first marker and second marker are each coupled to the garment at a first and second locations, respectively. A distance is determined between the position of the first marker and the second marker. During a second time interval after the first time interval, data associated with a position of a first and second localization element that are each coupled to the garment is received. A distance between the first and second localization elements is determined. A difference is calculated between the distance between the first marker and the second marker and the distance between the first localization element and the second localization element.
US09218656B2	Method and system for automatic classification of lesions in breast MRI A method for classifying a lesion in an MRI includes acquiring a pre-contrast MR image. A magnetic contrast agent is administered. A set of post-contrast MR images are acquired. The acquired pre-contrast and post-contrast MR images are displayed. A manually entered value is received for a size of a lesion manually identified within the pre-contrast and post-contrast MR images. A manually entered value for an absorption/washout profile is received of the manually identified lesion. A risk of malignancy for the manually identified lesion is automatically determined based on the received size value and absorption/washout profile.
US09218653B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic range enhancement of an image A method and apparatus are provided for enhancing the local dynamic range of an image using the contents of exposure bracketed image set without affecting overall dynamic range of the image. The method allows a user to select at least one region of a reference image for enhancement after receiving the reference image from the user. Further the method comprises segmenting the reference image by using exposure weights, and selects an enhancement support image from an exposure bracketed image set. Furthermore the method determines weight maps of reference and enhancement support images and generates dynamic range enhanced reference image using determined weight maps.
US09218652B2	Systems and methods for setting initial display settings A method for applying a filter to data to improve data quality and/or reduce file size. In one example, a region of interest of an image is identified. A histogram is generated of pixel intensity values in the region of interest. The histogram is iteratively updated to focus (zoom) in on the highest peak in the histogram. A Gaussian curve is fitted to the updated histogram. A bilateral filter is applied to the images, where parameters of the bilateral filter are based on the parameters of the Gaussian curve.
US09218649B2	Image projection apparatus, control method, and program An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a specifying unit, a controlling unit, and an outputting unit. The receiving unit receives image data. The specifying unit specifies a correction amount of the image data for keystone correction processing. The controlling unit controls, based on the correction amount specified by the specifying unit, the keystone correction processing, filter processing for reducing a predetermined high frequency component, and edge enhancement processing. The outputting unit outputs processed image data which is processed based on the controlling by the controlling unit.
US09218648B2	Fourier domain blur estimation method and system A method and system for estimating motion blur of an image associated with a moving object. The direction of one-dimensional motion blur may be estimated by inspecting a power spectrum associated with the image. A radon transform with respect to the image power spectrum is computed in the direction of the motion blur. A family of kernels with respect to the one-dimensional motion blur may then be defined utilizing a shutter triggering sequence associated with an image capturing device. The family of kernels may be modeled utilizing a modulation transfer function (MTF). Each modulation transfer function may be compared with the radon transform of the power spectrum associated with the image via a correlation function. The kernel with highest correlation with respect to the radon transform of the image power spectrum may be employed for de-blurring the image.
US09218641B1	Algorithm for calculating high accuracy image slopes A method of determining slope of pixel intensities in an image includes the following steps: (a) receiving, from an imaging device, input pixel samples of a region of interest; (b) forming an impulse response function (IPR) for use in resampling the input pixel samples into output pixel intensities; and (c) calculating a derivative of the IPR. Also included is the step of convolving the derivative of the IPR with the input pixel samples to determine the slope of the output pixel intensities in the region of interest. In addition, the input pixel samples are generated in a first coordinate system by the imaging device, and the output pixel intensities are generated in a second coordinate system.
US09218632B2	Energy smart system Apparatus and method for managing energy of a home or other structure are disclosed. An energy management system for a home network comprises a central device controller configured to communicate with energy consuming devices, energy generation devices and storage devices at a home. Power/energy measuring devices provide consumption measurements for the home and each device to the controller. A user interface has a client application configured to provide information to a user/consumer and to an energy provider/utility about energy consumption, energy generation and storage. An energy profile and a carbon footprint of an individual's home are generated along with recommendations for energy savings and/or possible addition of on site generation or energy storage.
US09218627B2	Call-termination-triggered social interface Methods and systems directed to a call-termination triggered social interface that leverages information associated with an incoming phone number for display to a user of a mobile device post-call and permits the user to conveniently issue commands to the mobile device or social networking system to take specific actions for the number or entity associated with the number on the social network.
US09218625B2	Method and interface for historical display of market information Trading software may receive information from an exchange. The trading software may track historical bid and ask information for a tradeable object. The trading software may display historical market depth information for the tradeable object on a trading screen.
US09218623B2	System and method for providing private stable matchings A system and method for providing private stable matchings is presented. At least one set of matcher preferences for an active participant and at least one set of matchee preferences for a passive participant are accumulated. Private stable matched bids from the at least one matcher preferences set and the at least one matchee preferences set are privately generated. At least one of the private matched bids is decrypted as a stable matching, which is presented to one of the passive participant and the active participant identified in the decrypted stable matching.
US09218622B2	System and method of decoupling and exposing computing device originated location information A system and method is provided to determine location information of a portable computing device and, in particular, to a secure and scalable system and method of decoupling and exposing handset originated location information to third parties. The system includes a location platform to determine location information of a remote user, and an encryption service configured to secure the location information of the remote user and send the secure location information to a content provider.
US09218621B2	Dynamic bandwidth allocation According to the invention, a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content objects from a content provider to a recipient is disclosed. The CDN includes a dynamic pricing engine and a second web location. The dynamic pricing engine is coupled to a first web location. The first web location, which is associated with a content provider, allows the recipient to order a content object. The delivery quote is solicited by the first web location for delivering a content object one or more times. The second web location delivers the content object to a recipient system of the recipient. The second web location is associated with the dynamic pricing engine. The dynamic pricing engine automatically produces the delivery quote, which is affected by at least one of the content object or a web location of the recipient system.
US09218611B1	System and method for determining bid amount for advertisement to reach certain number of online users Methods, systems, and computer programs include receiving, from an advertiser, advertisement criteria associated with an advertisement; and receiving, from a database, information regarding advertisement auctions in which the advertisement participated during a predetermined time period. A simulation is run of a first of the advertisement auctions a plurality of times, wherein the bid amount for the advertisement is changed for each simulation run An identification is made of a number of users to whom the advertisement would have been presented had the bid amount of the advertisement in the first of the advertisement auction been equal to the bid amount of the advertisement in the one of the times the simulation is run. Information related to the number of users identified for each one of the plurality of times the simulation is run is provided in a report.
US09218607B1	Identification of product categories Disclosed are various embodiments for identifying product categories to which products are assigned. At least one attribute associated with a product is received. A determination regarding whether the attribute is associated with a product category is made. An assignment to the product category is made if the attribute is associated with the product category.
US09218604B2	Method for expert Advisors to provide one on one phone call or chat advice services through unique empowered independent agents to consumers using mobile devices The present invention provides techniques for managing, supporting and empowering Independent Agents to offer a method for enabling expert Advisors to deliver, and charge for, advice to consumers, by connecting two parties in real time in an online chat using mobile devices. The present invention also provides the method and techniques for expert Advisors, in turn, to provide their service through a multiplicity of Independent Agent channels without the potential for communication device conflict; thereby ensuring successful connections for consumers.
US09218585B2	Supply chain management system A method of transporting commodities in a supply chain management system including a supply chain. The method includes providing a database and a network in communication with the database, which is accessible by at least one member of the supply chain via the network. The method also includes providing a container and supporting one or more commodities using the container, assigning at least one sensor to the commodities, sensing a condition of the commodities and generating a signal indicative of the commodity condition, identifying information related to the commodities, acquiring data related to identifying the commodity information, distributing the signal and the acquired data over the network, storing the signal and the acquired data in the database, monitoring the commodities via the network, and managing at least one of storage and transport of the commodities through the supply chain based on the signal and the acquired data.
US09218582B2	Quantifying the quality of trend lines Techniques for quantifying the quality of trend lines. A method includes defining a collection of reference data sets derived from multiple historical projects in a similar subject area as the target project, defining one or more indicators of data set applicability to a target project estimation, said defining based on multiple characteristics of the target project, evaluating applicability of each of the reference data sets based on the one or more indicators, and identifying one or more of the reference data sets as applicable for use in the target project estimation.
US09218572B2	Technique for classifying data Provided is a system that generates models for classifying input data into a plurality of classes on the basis of training data previously classified into the plurality of classes. The system includes a sampling unit and a learning unit. The sampling unit samples, from the training data, a plurality of datasets each including a predetermined number of elements classified into a minority class and a corresponding number of elements classified into a majority class, the corresponding number being determined in accordance with the predetermined number. The learning unit learns each of a plurality of models for classifying the input data into the plurality of classes, by using a machine learning technique on the basis of each of the plurality of sampled datasets.
US09218571B2	Frequency separation between qubit and chip mode to reduce purcell loss A system, method, and chip to control Purcell loss are described. The chip includes qubits formed on a first surface of a substrate. The method includes determining frequencies of the qubits, and controlling a separation between the frequencies of the qubits and chip mode frequencies of the chip.
US09218564B2	Providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout Embodiments of the invention relate to providing transposable access to a synapse array using a recursive array layout. One embodiment comprises maintaining synaptic weights for multiple synapses connecting multiple axons and multiple neurons, wherein the synaptic weights are maintained based on a recursive array layout. The recursive array layout facilitates transposable access to the synaptic weights. A neuronal spike event between an axon and a neuron is communicated via a corresponding connecting synapse by accessing the synaptic weight of the corresponding connecting synapse in the recursive array layout.
US09218559B2	Composite RF tag, and tool mounted with the composite RF tag The present invention relates to a composite RF tag for transmitting and receiving information using an electromagnetic induction method, comprising a magnetic antenna mounted with an IC, and a resin layer formed around the magnetic antenna, wherein the magnetic antenna comprises a central core formed of a magnetic material and a coil-shaped electrode material disposed around the core. The RF tag according to the present invention comprises the magnetic antenna surrounded by the resin, and therefore can provide a composite magnetic RF tag which can minimize adverse influence by surrounding water or metals in view of maintenance of tools or parts to which the composite RF tag is mounted, and is free from occurrence of any failure or cracking.
US09218558B2	High-frequency fragile RFID electronic tag with anti-transfer function and preparation method therefor The tag comprises a bearing substrate, a first adhesive layer, a resin film, an etching antenna layer, a chip, a first insulating layer, a conductive circuit layer, a second adhesive layer, and a pattern-bearing layer. The resin film is disposed between the bearing substrate and the etching antenna layer. The etching antenna layer is etched by copper foil or aluminum foil. The conductive circuit layer and the etching antenna layer are combined to construct a compound high-frequency antenna of the fragile RFID electronic tag. The conductive circuit layer fulfills a communication of a jumper wire on the etching antenna layer. The first insulating layer is disposed between the conductive circuit layer and the etching antenna layer. The chip is connected to the etching antenna layer. The etching antenna layer, the conductive circuit layer, the first insulating layer and the chip are combined to construct a core assembly. The pattern-bearing layer is adhered to the other side of the core assembly via the second adhesive layer.
US09218557B2	Portable e-wallet and universal card Universal cards are used in place of all the other traditional cards which a person may want to carry. The universal card can include a short range communications transceiver to communicate with a mobile device. The mobile device can include a user interface and an e-wallet application so that the user can interface with the e-wallet application for programming the universal card via the short range communication link. Once programmed, the universal card emulates a function of a traditional card.
US09218548B2	Card reader and control method therefor A card reader for use with a card having magnetic data recorded thereon may include a magnetic head for carrying out at least one of reading the magnetic data recorded in the card and recording the magnetic data into the card; a card insertion part where an insertion slot for inserting the card is formed; a metal sensor structured to detect a foreign object, which contains a metallic material, having been installed around the card insertion part; and a control unit. The control unit may be structured to calculate the amount of change in an output value of the metal sensor, whenever a predetermined reference time period has passed, and judge that the foreign object has been installed around the card insertion part if the amount of change exceeds a predetermined reference value.
US09218543B2	Selecting classifier engines Methods, and apparatus for performing methods, for selecting a classifier engine. Methods include, for two or more portions of a set of items of known classification, classifying members of each portion using a particular classifier engine; selecting a portion of the set of items whose classifications satisfy a first criteria; classifying members of the selected portion of the set of items using two or more classifier engines; and selecting a classifier engine whose classification of the selected portion of the set of items satisfies a second criteria.
US09218542B2	Localization of anatomical structures using learning-based regression and efficient searching or deformation strategy Disclosed herein is a framework for localizing anatomical structures. In accordance with one aspect, the framework receives a learned regressor and image data of a subject. The learned regressor may be invoked to predict a first spatial metric from a seed voxel to a target anatomical structure in the image data. The learned regressor may further be invoked to predict second spatial metrics from candidate voxels to the target anatomical structure. The candidate voxels may be located around a search region defined by the first spatial metric. The candidate voxel associated with the smallest second spatial metric may then be output as a localized voxel.
US09218535B2	Arrangement and method for recognizing road signs Various embodiments include a system and a method for recognizing road signs. An image of a road sign may be captured by least one image sensor. A vehicle computer may receive the image data representing one or more road signs along a route and display one or more images of the road sign based on the image data. The display may be capable of presenting one or more status of the road sign based on one or more travel states for the vehicle. These travel states may include at least one of an amount of elapsed travel time, distance travelled, or speed.
US09218533B2	Method and device for assigning sources and sinks to routes of individuals A method for assigning a source or a sink to a route of an individual has the steps: defining source/sink location data indicating possible sources and/or sinks in a monitored compound, monitoring a route of a moving individual in the monitored compound, generating routing data from the monitored route with initial and terminal location data. After determining an initial and/or a terminal movement vector from the initial and/or the terminal location data, a plurality of initial distance vectors between each of the source location data and the initial location data and/or a plurality of terminal distance vectors between each of the sink location data and the terminal location data are determined, which are correlated with each of the initial distance vectors and/or terminal distance vectors in order to assign respective source location data and/or sink location data to the monitored route on the basis of the correlation results.
US09218528B1	VIVID: image-based technique for validation/verification of ID strings A software system which employs a special set of simulated electrical circuits to generate user-specific textured and signature color images based on alphanumeric strings provided by the user. The output of the system is a unique set of textured and solid color images which can be used as validation and verification components in creating secure identification documents, financial documents and credit/debit cards.
US09218523B2	System and method for determining authorship of a document Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for determining authorship of a handwritten document for which the authorship is not known. A method includes scanning a document to produce a high-quality scanned image of the document, and identifying stylus information corresponding to the document. The method includes identifying authorship information corresponding to the document, and determining an authorship of the document based on the stylus information and the authorship information. In some cases, content analysis of the document is also performed and used to determine authorship.
US09218518B2	Method of operating contactless IC card reader, detection circuit of contactless IC card reader, contactless IC card reader and card system including the same A method of operating a contactless integrated circuit (IC) card reader includes calculating a first transition time of at least one first magnetic pulse during a first transition interval and calculating a second transition time of a second magnetic pulse during a second transition interval. The first transition time is calculated in a calibration phase, and the second transition time is calculated in a detection phase. A contactless IC card is determined to be within a communication rage of the reader based on a comparison of the first and second transition times.
US09218512B2	Portable computer and operating method thereof A portable computer and an operating method thereof are provided. The portable computer comprises an input device, a power button, a non-volatile memory, a central processing unit (CPU), an embedded controller (EC), and a chipset. The input device inputs a user password, and the non-volatile memory stores a default password. The EC, in a soft off status, determines whether the power button protection item is enabled. The EC locks the power button if the power button protection item is enabled. The EC determines whether the user password is the same as the default password. The EC unlocks the power button if the user password is the same as the default password. The chipset is coupled to the non-volatile memory, the CPU and the EC.
US09218506B2	Methods and systems for preventing hardware trojan insertion Provided are methods and systems for preventing hardware Trojan insertion. An example method can comprise determining unused space in an integrated circuit (IC), selecting a plurality of built-in self-authentication (BISA) filler cells based on the determined unused space, and placing the selected plurality of BISA filler cells onto the unused space. The plurality of BISA filler cells can be connected to form a plurality of BISA blocks. The plurality of BISA blocks can correspond to a plurality of signatures. A modification of one or more BISA filler cell can lead to an alteration of one or more signatures.
US09218505B1	Programmable integrated circuit with DPA-resistant decryption Approaches for configuring a programmable integrated circuit (IC) are disclosed. Encrypted configuration data is input to the programmable IC, and the encrypted configuration data is stored in configuration memory of the programmable IC. As the encrypted configuration data is input, a determination is made as to whether or not the encrypted configuration data is authentic. In response to the encrypted configuration data being authentic, the encrypted configuration data is read from the configuration memory and decrypted, and the decrypted configuration data is stored back in the configuration memory.
US09218500B2	System and method for automatic data protection in a computer network A method of protecting data items in an organizational computer network, including, defining multiple information profiles for classifying the data item, defining rules for protecting the data item belonging to a specific information profile, classifying the data item according to the defined information profiles, applying a protection method to the data item responsive to the classification and the defined rules, automatically updating the classification of the data item responsive to a change in the content or location of the data item; and automatically transforming the applied protection method, throughout the lifecycle of the data item, responsive to a change in classification or location of the data item, according to the defined rules.
US09218499B2	Data duplication using a shared storage area with improved access control An enhanced security protection in data duplication using a shared storage area is provided. Specifically, an information processing apparatus, in which one or more applications operate, includes a copy-operation monitoring portion that acquires copy data that the copy source application issues an instruction to copy to a general-purpose shared memory, sets a lifetime interpreted from an operation pattern via an input device for the copy data, and then stores the copy data in a storage area; a display portion that displays, on a display, a paste candidate selected from one or more items of copy data stored in the storage area; a paste-operation monitoring portion that transfers the paste candidate read from the storage area to the paste destination application in response to a confirmation operation via the input device; and an erasing portion that erases, from the storage area, copy data that has become unpermitted to remain because the lifetime has expired.
US09218483B2	Synthetic processing diversity with multiple architectures within a homogeneous processing environment A method of increasing processing diversity on a computer system includes: loading a plurality of instruction streams, each of the plurality of instruction streams being equivalent; executing, in a context, a first stream of the plurality of instruction streams; stopping execution of the first stream at a first location of the first stream; and executing, in the context, a second stream of the plurality of instruction streams at a second location of the second stream, the second location corresponding to the first location of the first stream.
US09218482B2	Method and device for detecting phishing web page The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for detecting a phishing web page. The method includes: judging whether a unique domain name corresponding to a to-be-detected web page exists in a trusted domain name database; if the unique domain name does not exist in the trusted domain name database, determining a similarity between a content characteristic extracted from the to-be-detected web page and a content characteristic of each template file in a template file database; and determining that the to-be-detected web page is a phishing web page if the similarity between the content characteristic extracted from the to-be-detected web page and a content characteristic of at least one template file is greater than a preset similarity threshold. In the embodiments of the present invention, accuracy of a result of detecting a phishing web page is improved.
US09218474B1	Enhanced biometric security measures Functionality is disclosed for enhancing the security of a computing device equipped with a fingerprint input device. A pre-unlock operation is performed when a duress fingerprint is used to access a locked device. The pre-unlock operation may include one or more computer-implemented mechanisms to secure, hide, remove, move, encrypt, disassociate, communicate or modify data stored on the device and/or remote locations. In some embodiments, the pre-unlock operation may direct a device to capture information and communicate such information to remote computers contemporaneously with the receipt of a duress fingerprint.
US09218464B2	Interception of controlled functions Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a plug-in type application may intercept called functions in order to implement one or more security or digital rights management type settings, and/or one or more policies for a given document where such functions may be restricted, prohibited, and/or otherwise controlled. Patch code may be integrated with such controlled functions to modify the behavior of the function when executed in order to comply with the security or digital rights management setting, and/or one or more policies.
US09218441B1	Partitioning electronic circuits for simulation on multicore processors A circuit is simulated by using distributed computing to obtain a real solution. The circuit may be an entire integrated circuit, portion of an integrated circuit, or a circuit block. A circuit simulation technique of the invention generates a system graph, finds a tree, and partitions the tree into two or more subtrees. The technique identifies global links and local links in the graph. Each subtree may be solved individually using distributed, parallel computing (e.g., using multiple processor cores or multiple processors). Using the results for the subtrees, the technique obtains a real solution, branch voltages and currents, for the circuit.
US09218436B2	Data synchronization system While a server (110) that executes a first web application program that accomplishes a web application that provides a service over the Internet so as to provide the service is not connected to a client (100) that receives the service, the client (100) executes a second web application program that accomplishes a web application, records a procedure in which the client (100) has executed the second application program, and transmits the recorded procedure to the server (110) just after the client (100) and the server (110) are connected and then the server (110) executes the first web application based on the procedure transmitted from the client (100).
US09218433B2	Online logo tool An online tool allows a user, such as an online merchant, to access a page of a service provider, select a format, customize funding sources and designs, and copy and paste the code to the merchant page to quickly and easily create a customized funding source graphic.
US09218431B2	System for linked and networked document objects Systems and methods for searching relationships between and among documents are disclosed. A user interface for presenting document objects and relationships between document objects located on a network is also disclosed. The document objects provided to the user may be determined based on document object references corresponding to the document objects. Document object information, relationship information, and contextual relationship information may also be provided to the user.
US09218422B2	Personalized deeplinks for search results Search results are provided with personalized deeplinks for an end user. User behavior information is gathered regarding web pages visited by the end user. When the end user submits a search query, the website category of a search result is identified and user behavior information regarding web pages visited at other websites within the website category is identified. At least one deeplink is selected for the search result based on that user behavior information. In some instances, user behavior information may be tracked for a group of end users. The user behavior information for the group of end users may be used in conjunction with the user behavior information for the end user to facilitate deeplink selections for search results returned in response to search queries from the end user.
US09218421B2	Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to rank web site influence Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to rank a web site are disclosed herein. An example method to rank the influence of a web site includes accessing a query based on a topic term, determining topic specific posts by applying the query to a first plurality of posts to a web site, comparing the topic specific posts to a list of web sites to determine a topic volume per site, determining a plurality of inbound links to the first plurality of posts, determining a number of inbound links to the posts that are relevant to the topic term by comparing the topic volume per site and the inbound links, and generating a rank of the web site based on the number of inbound links to the posts that are relevant to the topic term and times between the inbound links.
US09218419B2	Snapshot generation for search results page preview Methods, systems, and programming for providing web page snapshots are disclosed. A URL is received. A snapshot of the web page associated with the URL is generated. A plurality of features is extracted from the snapshot. A determination is made regarding whether the snapshot is high quality based on the plurality of extracted features of the snapshot. The generated snapshot is provided as a viewable and actionable link to the URL.
US09218418B2	Search expression generation system A search expression is automatically generated for designating a target element for a Web page whose contents change according to a system state or the number of elements to be displayed. The search expression generation device comprises the model sentence accumulation unit which accumulates a plurality of model sentences of structured documents, the element designation unit which designates an element to be searched in a model sentence, the structured document analysis unit which analyzes a structure of a model sentence, and the search expression structuring unit which adds or deletes the element selected to or from a search expression, wherein the structured document analysis unit analyzes a structure of a model sentence to generate a search expression with a condition added which is common to a plurality of model sentences of the same kind.
US09218417B2	Ad-hoc queries integrating usage analytics with search results Search results returned by ad hoc queries integrate search results with usage analytics calculated from collected usage information for a system, such as a content management system. In response to receiving a query, the query is submitted to the system to obtain search results. Information from the usage analytics is integrated with the obtained search results. A search index of the system may include all/portion of the usage analytics such that the obtained results from the system may already be integrated with the usage analytics. The system is configurable such that users of the system may configure the usage events that are used to collect the usage information. The users may also configure parameters relating to the usage events and when/how the collected information is stored. The usage analytics may also be used to filter, collapse and boost different items in the search results.
US09218412B2	Searching a database of listings A database having listings rather than long documents is searched using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (Tf/Idf) algorithm.
US09218410B2	Systems, apparatuses and methods for communication flow modification An apparatus includes a user interface module configured to receive user information associated with a user. The apparatus also includes a classification module configured to apply a classifier defined within a classification tree to the user information, and to calculate a classification score representing an estimated likelihood that the user is associated with at least one user type. The classification module is also configured to classify the user to an identified user type based on the classification score. The apparatus also includes a database configured to store at least one of user account information associated with the user, historical information associated with the user, or historical information associated with a group of users including the user. The apparatus also includes an interface generation module configured to generate a signal based on the information in the database, the signal specifying a user interface to be presented to the user.
US09218379B2	Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for efficiently performing operations on distinct data values An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for efficiently performing operations on distinct data values, including storing a tokenized column of data in a table by mapping each unique data value in a corresponding domain to a unique entity ID, and replacing each of the data values in the column with the corresponding entity ID to generate a column of tokenized data containing one or more entity IDs, receiving a query directed to the column of data, the query defining one or more group sets for grouping the data retrieved in response to the query, and generating an entity map vector for each group set, the length of each entity map vector equal to the number of unique entity IDs for the domain, and the value of each bit in the entity map vector indicating the presence or absence of a different unique entity ID in the group set.
US09218359B2	Method and system for profiling virtual application resource utilization patterns by executing virtualized application A method and system for profiling execution of an application implemented by an application file comprising a plurality of data blocks. The application is executed in response to an execute command from a management process. Read messages are sent to the management process each time the application reads one or more of the plurality of data blocks of the application file. The management process records information about the read operations in one or more transcripts which may be used to create a streaming model for the application allowing the application to be downloaded using a conventional download protocol without using a specialized streaming protocol.
US09218349B2	Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage There are provided a method of transforming a non-transformed stored logical data object (LO) device into a transformed LO and system thereof. The method includes: a) in response to a respective transformation request, logically dividing the non-transformed LO in a first segment and one or more non-transformed subsequent segments, the segments having predefined size; b) generating a header for the respective transformed LO; c) processing the first segment; d) overwriting the first segment by said generated header and the transformed first segment; e) indexing the first transformed segment and the one or more non-transformed subsequent segments as constituting a part of the transformed LO; f) generating at least one index section; and g) updating the indication in the header to point that the non-transformed LO has been transformed in the transformed LO including the generated header, the first transformed segment, the one or more subsequent segments including data in non-transformed form and the at least one index section.
US09218338B1	Text suggestion Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatic text suggestion are described. One of the methods includes receiving a text item including one or more terms; determining a plurality of text strings, each text string including a matching portion and one or more suffixes, wherein the matching portion matches the text item, and the one or more suffixes are located after the matching portion; ranking the one or more suffixes based on a credibility score and a frequency score of each suffix, the credibility score indicating an estimated credibility of a source of the text string including the suffix, the frequency score indicating an estimated frequency of appearance of the suffix; and providing a group of the one or more suffixes that includes a highest ranking suffix for display as a suggestion for completing a sentence starting from the text item.
US09218335B2	Automated language detection for domain names Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analysis for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
US09218334B2	Pronounceable domain names Embodiments of the present teachings relate to systems and methods for generating pronounceable domain names. The method includes proving a list of character strings; filtering the list of character strings through a first filter based on a phonetic model to produce a first filtered list of character strings; filtering the list of character strings through a second filter based on a character order mode to produce a second filtered list of character strings; and generating, by a processor, a list of pronounceable domain names based on the first filtered list of character strings and the second filtered list of character strings.
US09218327B2	Optimizing the layout of electronic documents by reducing presentation size of content within document sections so that when combined a plurality of document sections fit within a page A method of optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease.
US09218314B2	Boosting remote direct memory access performance using cryptographic hash based approach A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for performing a remote direct memory access operation. Responsive to receiving in a network interface controller a hash value of data to be copied from a source address in a source node to a destination address in a destination node in the remote direct memory access operation, the network interface controller performs a lookup operation in a translation protection table in the network interface controller to match the hash value to a hash value for data existing in memory of the destination node. Responsive to the network interface controller finding a match in the translation protection table, the network interface controller completes the remote direct memory access operation without transferring the data from the source node to the destination node.
US09218299B2	Recovering data segment contents in a distributed shared memory Systems and methods for implementing a distributed shared memory (DSM) in a computer cluster in which an unreliable underlying message passing technology is used, such that the DSM efficiently maintains coherency and reliability. DSM agents residing on different nodes of the cluster process access permission requests of local and remote users on specified data segments via handling procedures, which provide for recovering of lost ownership of a data segment while ensuring exclusive ownership of a data segment among the DSM agents detecting and resolving a no-owner messaging deadlock, pruning of obsolete messages, and recovery of the latest contents of a data segment whose ownership has been lost.
US09218291B2	Implementing selective cache injection A method, system and memory controller for implementing memory hierarchy placement decisions in a memory system including direct routing of arriving data into a main memory system and selective injection of the data or computed results into a processor cache in a computer system. A memory controller, or a processing element in a memory system, selectively drives placement of data into other levels of the memory hierarchy. The decision to inject into the hierarchy can be triggered by the arrival of data from an input output (IO) device, from computation, or from a directive of an in-memory processing element.
US09218288B2	Monitoring a value in storage without repeated storage access A technique is provided for monitoring a value without repeated storage access. A processing circuit processes an instruction of a program that specifies a memory address of a memory location to be monitored. The processing circuit configures a monitor station for monitoring the memory location. The memory location includes a state descriptor for the program. The processing circuit receives a cross-invalidate request from a memory controller. The cross-invalidate request indicates to the monitor station that content of the memory location has been changed by another processing circuit.
US09218282B2	Memory system data management The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for memory system data management. A number of embodiments include writing data from a host to a buffer in the memory system, receiving, at the buffer, a notification from a memory device in the memory system that the memory device is ready to receive data, sending at least a portion of the data from the buffer to the memory device, and writing the portion of the data to the memory device.
US09218280B2	Non-volatile memory apparatus and operating method thereof A non-volatile memory (NVM) apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. A mapping table in a main memory is divided into a plurality of sub-mapping tables according to logical address groups. When an access command of a host is processed by the NVM apparatus, at least one corresponding sub-mapping table is selected from the sub-mapping tables according to a logical address of the access command. If the at least one corresponding sub-mapping table is required to be rebuilt, then the at least one corresponding sub-mapping table is rebuilt, and the logical address of the access command is converter for accessing the NVM apparatus according to the at least one corresponding sub-mapping table which has been rebuilt.
US09218270B2	Functional software testing framework for determinate level testing A method and system of testing coded features is provided that provides deterministic test results. The method includes building an instance of the hosted application using a minimum set of information required for the instance of the hosted application. A coded feature to be tested is deployed to the created instance of the hosted application and tests are run against the deployed coded feature.
US09218267B1	Page rendering feedback A page rendering feedback technology is described. A page component and a script are sent to a rendering device as elements of a page. Feedback is received from the script regarding positional rendering information for the page component within the page. The component position may also be compared with a model component layout position to determine whether the component position was correctly rendered.
US09218266B2	Systems and methods for replication of test results in a network environment Systems and methods for replication of test results in a network environment are disclosed. Methods described may include recording network traffic in a first instance of a test case by a network emulator node emplaced in the network environment, recording a time at which a connection open at the network emulator node completes a communication task, and deriving an order of task completion for each extant open connection thereby, and detecting the occurrence of one or more events, such as a packet drop, a packet retransmission, or a packet delay, among other events. Replication, as described, additionally involves recording the nature of the event and identification information associated with the packet to which the event is detected to have occurred; and associating the one or more events with each of the packets recorded, on the basis of the identification information and event recording.
US09218263B2	Trace controller for processor, periphery, address, control, and data lines An address and command port interface selectively enables JTAG TAP domain operations and Trace domain operations within an IC. The port carries TMS and TDI input and TDO output on a single pin and receives a clock signal on a separate pin. The addressable two pin interface loads and updates instructions and data to the TAP domain within the IC. The instruction or data update operations in multiple ICs occur simultaneously. A process transmits data from an addressed target device to a controller using data frames, each data frame comprising a header bit and data bits. The logic level of the header bit is used to start, continue, and stop the data transmission to the controller. A data and clock signal interface between a controller and multiple target devices provides for each target device to be individually addressed and commanded to perform a JTAG or Trace operation.
US09218262B2	Dynamic memory cell replacement using column redundancy A memory chip comprises a main memory array having a plurality of memory columns, a redundancy memory column associated with the main memory array, and a hit logic circuitry configured to generate a plurality of hit logic signals by a plurality of hit logic units in the hit logic circuitry to enable dynamic replacement of a defective memory cell in one of the memory columns for dynamic replacement by the redundancy memory column when the memory array is in operation.
US09218255B2	Multi-volume instant virtual copy freeze Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for creating a consistency group. For each source volume that has an instant virtual copy relationship with a target volume, an indicator for the source volume is set to true in a Fast Incremental with Freeze (FIF) map. The consistency group for each source volume whose indicator is set to true in the FIF map and each associated target volume is created by: performing a quick Instant Virtual Copy (IVC) freeze command to freeze each source volume whose indicator is set to true in the FIF map and performing a consistency group created command to thaw each source volume whose indicator is set to true in the FIF map.
US09218248B2	Recovering from a defective boot image Apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include detecting, by a first computer having a first memory, a software stack in a second memory of a second computer coupled to the first computer via a network. The software stack is copied from the second memory to the first memory, and the copied software stack is executed by the first computer.
US09218244B1	Rebuilding data across storage nodes A method for proactively rebuilding user data in a plurality of storage nodes of a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data and metadata throughout the plurality of storage nodes such that the plurality of storage nodes can read the user data, using erasure coding, despite loss of two of the storage nodes. The method includes determining that one of the storage nodes is unreachable and determining to rebuild the user data for the one of the storage nodes that is unreachable. The method includes reading the user data across a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding and writing the user data across the remainder of the plurality of storage nodes, using the erasure coding. A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis that can proactively rebuild the user data stored within the storage nodes is also provided.
US09218243B2	Memory system for error detection and correction coverage A memory system supporting error detection and correction (EDC) coverage. The system includes a memory controller and a memory buffer. The memory buffer includes an interface to a first group of memory devices and an interface to a second group of memory devices. The memory buffer accesses data from the first group of memory devices and accesses first error information corresponding to the data from the second group of devices. The memory buffer also accesses additional data from the second group of memory devices and accesses second error information corresponding to the additional data from a device in the first group of memory devices. EDC coverage may also be configured by the memory controller so that some data accesses have EDC coverage and other data accesses do not have EDC coverage.
US09218237B1	Network of interconnected circuit protection devices A network of interconnected circuit protection devices in a datacenter that can communicate over a network. Each circuit protection device can have a management component such that each device could know the state of every other device or a centralized management component could know the state of all devices. The states of the protection devices could include, fault or non-fault (e.g., high-current, current-imbalance and high temperature). Using this information, the management component(s) can prevent a single-device failure from triggering circuit-protection devices in other sections of the data center to open. The breaker logic can operate such that if a single device short-circuited and all devices upstream in the power delivery system sensed the short-circuit, then the lowest-level device would open and if the fault was still detected upstream, then the next level device would open.
US09218233B2	Systems and methods for control reliability operations In one embodiment, a system includes a data collection system configured to collect a data from a control system. The system further includes a configuration management system configured to manage a hardware configuration and a software configuration for the control system based on the data. The system additionally includes a rule engine configured to use the data as input and to output a health assessment by using a rule database, and a report generator configured to provide a health assessment for the control system.
US09218225B2	Discovering object definition information in an integrated application environment Provided is a method, system, and program for providing an object discovery agent (ODA) client. There is one object discovery agent (ODA) client and at least one ODA, wherein each ODA is associated with one application and includes: (i) application programming interfaces (APIs) to communicate with the associated application to discover definition information on objects maintained by the application and (ii) code to communicate with the ODA client. The ODA client communicates with one of the at least one ODA to cause the ODA to gather definition information on at least one object used by one application. The gathered object definition information is provided to an integration server to integrate the object in an environment including heterogeneous objects from different applications.
US09218206B2	Memory management model and interface for new applications A memory management system is described herein that receives information from applications describing how memory is being used and that allows an application host to exert more control over application requests for using memory. The system provides an application memory management application-programming interface (API) that allows the application to specify more information about memory allocations that is helpful for managing memory later. The system also provides an ability to statically and/or dynamically analyze legacy applications to give applications that are not modified to work with the system some ability to participate in more effective memory management. The system provides application host changes to leverage the information provided by applications and to manage memory more effectively using the information and hooks into the application's use of memory. Thus, the system provides a new model for managing memory that improves application host behavior and allows applications to use computing resources more efficiently.
US09218205B2	Resource management in ephemeral environments A system executes a method that includes monitoring the systems that provide the provisioning of computing infrastructure resources to provide services for services executing on the resources, to monitor provisioning changes on the infrastructure resources. It further uses the information gathered by the monitoring of the provisioning resource(s) to provide a tag, which denotes the current assignment of each resource with a service name and an instance of the service associated with the resource identifier and a time stamp, and storing this a relational database, as a part of the record of the state, or performance data for that resource during that time interval.
US09218203B2	Packet scheduling in a multiprocessor system using inter-core switchover policy The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for scheduling a processor core in a multiprocessor core system, which relate to the field of multiprocessor core systems, and can meet the demand for real-time network I/O processing, thereby improving the efficiency of the multiprocessor core system. The method for scheduling a processor core in a multiprocessor core system includes: obtaining, in the running process of the multiprocessor core system, a first control parameter, a second control parameter, a third control parameter, and a fourth control parameter; transferring a packet of a data flow that enters the multiprocessor core system to an idle processor core for processing based on the first control parameter, the second control parameter, and the third control parameter; and switching over the processor core in the multiprocessor core system between an interruption mode and a polling mode based on the fourth control parameter.
US09218201B2	Multicore system and activating method A multicore system includes multiple processor cores; a scheduler in each of the processor cores and allocating a process to the processor cores when having a master authority that is an authority to assign processes; and a master controller performing control to repeat until a process to be executed no longer exists, a cycle in which the schedulers transfer the master authority to another processor core after receiving the master authority and before assigning a process to the processor cores, discards the master authority after assigning the process to the processor cores, and enters a state of waiting to receive the master authority.
US09218198B2	Method and system for specifying the layout of computer system resources A method for specifying the layout of computing system resources includes receiving a request for a virtual machine, the request comprising a processor requirement and a memory requirement, gathering resource groupings, each resource grouping comprising a latency penalty between a processor and at least a memory. The method further includes calculating a proportionality for each resource grouping, wherein the proportionality comprises a minimum of: an amount of the processor requirement the resource grouping can satisfy and an amount of the memory requirement the resource grouping can satisfy, sorting the resource groupings based on at least the proportionality for each resource grouping to create an ordered list and binding, based on the ordered list, at least one resource group to the virtual machine, wherein the at least one resource group satisfies the processor requirement and the memory requirement.
US09218197B2	Virtual machine image migration Methods and systems for image migration. There are received, at an image reader, files of at least one image of at least one virtual machine from a first environment. Points of variability are identified within the files, with respect to preparation for functioning in a second environment. Each point of variability is associated with corresponding metadata, and each point of variability is stored with its corresponding metadata. The at least one image is reconfigured to function in the second environment, such reconfiguring comprising adjusting the points of variability via using the metadata. The reconfigured image is deployed to the second environment.
US09218194B2	Distributed virtual machine image management for cloud computing Embodiments of the present invention and provide a method for distributed virtual machine (VM) image management in a cloud computing management includes receiving in a hypervisor executing in memory of a host computer, a request for VM image data from a VM and determining whether or not the requested VM image data is present in a local cache of either the hypervisor of the host computer or in a cache of a hypervisor of a peer host. The method additionally includes retrieving the requested VM image data from a seed image in a remote data store in the cloud computing environment only when it is determined that the VM image data neither is present in the local cache of the hypervisor of the host computer nor is present in the cache of the hypervisor of the peer host.
US09218175B2	Cross-platform application framework One set of instructions is generated in part by compiling application-specific source code. When natively executed on a platform provided by a device, the set of instructions provides an application. Another set of instructions is generated in part by compiling the same business logic source code. When natively executed on another platform provided by another device, the other set of instructions provides the same application. The business logic source code is substantially free of code specific to any platform. Moreover, the business logic source code defines substantially all application-specific functionality of the application.
US09218174B2	OSGi program, OSGi system The invention automatically installs an OSGi bundle needed to use an external device connected to an electronic device having an OSGi framework mounted. The OSGi bundle is installed into the electronic device without imposing a load on a distribution system. The OSGi program related to the invention detects the external device connected to the electronic device having the OSGi framework mounted, downloads an OSGi bundle corresponding to said external device from a distribution server, and installs the OSGi bundle in the electronic device.
US09218173B2	System, method, and computer program product for collaboratively installing a computer application According to one embodiment, a computer program product for collaboratively installing a computer application includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code including computer readable program code configured to: monitor an installation process of an application, send a remote assistance request in response to a determination that the installation process requires remote assistance, receive a response to the remote assistance request, and continue the installation process of the application using the remote assistance information. The response includes remote assistance information required for installing the application, and the remote assistance information is invisible to an installer of the application. In other embodiments, and a method for collaboratively installing a computer application includes operations for performing the above described processes, and a system includes modules for performing the above described processes.
US09218170B1	Managing table of contents pointer value saves A compiler identifies a function call in computer code. A linker directive associates the function call with a single table of contents (TOC) pointer value save placeholder. This single placeholder is the only TOC pointer value save placeholder associated with the function call. When a TOC pointer value save instruction occupies the placeholder, it ensures that the TOC pointer value is saved before the function call. The linker directive is then modified to associate the function call with two or more TOC pointer value save placeholders. When a TOC pointer value save instruction occupies at least one of the placeholders, it ensures that the TOC pointer value is saved before the function call. Under some circumstances, two or more of the placeholders must be occupied by a TOC pointer value save instruction to ensure that the TOC pointer value is saved before the function call.
US09218164B2	System and method for mobile application development using mobile devices The present invention is a system to develop mobile applications from a mobile device that includes a database with a memory, a hosting space, an app-creation application with a plurality of options stored on a mobile application repository on said memory over a communications network or within the mobile device. A client device downloads and installs the app-creation application from the mobile applications repository over a communications network to create said mobile applications. There are four methods for mobile application development created by the mobile device that utilize this system.
US09218159B2	Memory system generating random number and method generating random number In a memory of non-volatile memory cells, a random number is generated by programming non-volatile memory cells, reading the programmed non-volatile memory cells using a random number read voltage selected in accordance with a characteristic of the non-volatile memory cells to generate random read data, and generating the random number from the random read data.
US09218158B2	N-valued shift registers with inverter reduced feedback logic functions Shift register based circuits include non-binary polynomial calculation circuits, coder circuits, scramblers, descramblers and sequence generators that apply non-binary two-input/single output switching functions wherein at least one input contains a non-binary inverter or multiplier. A combination of a two-input/single output non-binary switching device with at least one non-binary inverter at an input is advantageously reduced to a single device that implements a single non-binary switching function. The reduced single device may be an electronic memory that stores the truth table of the single non-binary switching function.
US09218156B2	Processing with compact arithmetic processing element A processor or other device, such as a programmable and/or massively parallel processor or other device, includes processing elements designed to perform arithmetic operations (possibly but not necessarily including, for example, one or more of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) on numerical values of low precision but high dynamic range (“LPHDR arithmetic”). Such a processor or other device may, for example, be implemented on a single chip. Whether or not implemented on a single chip, the number of LPHDR arithmetic elements in the processor or other device in certain embodiments of the present invention significantly exceeds (e.g., by at least 20 more than three times) the number of arithmetic elements, if any, in the processor or other device which are designed to perform high dynamic range arithmetic of traditional precision (such as 32 bit or 64 bit floating point arithmetic).
US09218151B2	Information processing device, image processing device, image processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium to control execution of image processing based on resource information An information processing device includes a resource information acquisition unit and a controller unit. The resource information acquisition unit acquires first resource information and second resource information. The first resource information indicates resources used to execute predetermined image processing. The second resource information indicates resources held by an image processing device selected as a device that executes the image processing. The controller unit performs control to generate a screen on which an operation to execute the image processing is accepted in accordance with a resource corresponding to the second resource information among the resources included in the first resource information.
US09218150B2	Image forming apparatus and method thereof A system is provided in which printer driver update work is not required, and in addition, print queue creation work can be hidden. When a virtual printer driver is installed, a generic printer driver is installed in the system without creating a print queue. Then, for execution of printing, the installed generic printer driver is used to create the print queue, and a print job is input to the print queue.
US09218149B2	Output system, terminal apparatus, and method of outputting data An output system includes a selection receipt unit that displays a function selection screen enabling a user to select a function based on an output request of data to be output received from the user and causes the user to select the function; a determination unit that determines, in response to the function selected by the user, an accumulation method and an accumulation destination of output data converted from the data to be output; an accumulation control unit that sends the output data converted from the data to be output based on the determined accumulation method of the output data and the output request to the determined accumulation destination and causes the determined accumulation destination to store the output data and the output request; and an output control unit that acquires the output data and the output request from the accumulation destination and outputs the output data.
US09218147B2	Conditionally displaying errors in a printing apparatus An information processing apparatus that processes a job includes a determination unit configured to determine whether the job is a job in which print output is not performed by a printing apparatus, and a display unit configured to perform such control that information of occurrence of a first error in the printing apparatus is not displayed, if it is determined that the job is a job in which print output is not performed by the printing apparatus.
US09218136B2	Cloud scale directory services Embodiments described herein are directed to providing scalability to software applications. A computer system partitions a portion of data stored in a directory services system into multiple different data partitions. Each data partition includes a primary writable copy and at least one secondary read-only copy of the data. The computer system receives a client request for a portion of the data that is stored in the directory services system and accesses various stored partition mappings to determine which of the different data partitions includes the requested data. The computer system also accesses a dynamic copy locator to determine which of the read-only copies of the indicated partition to access and provide the accessed primary writeable copy of the indicated partition and the determined read-only copy to the client in a virtualized manner so that the client is not aware of the data partitions.
US09218135B2	Hierarchical allocation for file system storage device Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to storage allocation. In aspects, a hierarchical data structure is used to track allocation data for storage managed by a file system. The hierarchical data structure may have multiple levels with each level having data regarding a different granularity of storage. Portions of the hierarchical data structure may be locked independently of other portions of the hierarchical data structure. The hierarchical data structure may indicate that one or more portions of storage are for exclusive use by a directory. Extra space may be reserved in allocated space in anticipation of subsequent operations. Allocation requestors may obtain storage allocation from regions associated with different levels of the hierarchical data structure.
US09218133B2	Data deduplication in a removable storage device An apparatus and associated methodology contemplate a data storage system having a removable storage device operably transferring data between the data storage system and another device via execution of a plurality of input/output (I/O) commands. A commonality factoring (CF) module executing computer instructions stored in memory assigns a CF tag to a data pattern in the transferred data. A deduplication module executing computer instructions stored in memory determines if the data pattern corresponding to the CF tag is previously stored in the removable storage device.
US09218129B2	User interface A user interface comprising: (i) a physical keypad comprising a plurality of keys, and (ii) a touch-sensitive display for presenting a screen. The screen comprises: (a) an image illustrating the physical keypad; and (b) a transaction option depicted on one of the keys of the physical keypad. A user is able to select the transaction option either by pressing the transaction option on the touch-sensitive display or by pressing a physical key corresponding to the key on which the transaction option is depicted.
US09218128B1	Method and system for training users to utilize multimodal user interfaces Training for a multimodal user interface may be organized into a plurality of modules. In embodiment, modules may include data corresponding to a “Push to Talk” tool, a set of data corresponding to navigation through a graphic user interface via voice input, and a set of data corresponding to entering data into a graphic user interface via voice input. Such training may be implemented in a variety of manners, including those which utilize data stored on a computer readable medium. Also, the structure and content of training may be streamlined and directed towards teaching a user to operate a multimodal user interface in an adequate manner. The structure and content of training may be configured to work in conjunction with the operation of a multimodal user interface being used in a real-time setting.
US09218120B2	Content manipulation using swipe gesture recognition technology A method of manipulation of content provided by a hosting server using swipe gesture recognition on a user device having a touch input display. The method includes storing the content, combined with a swipe gesture recognition module to form a content package, on the hosting server. The swipe gesture recognition module is associated with at least one displayable content element of the content. The method further includes receiving, at the hosting server, a request for the content package from the user device and transmitting the content package from the hosting server to the user device for display by an application running on the user device. A defined action is applied to the at least one displayable content element if it is determined that a swipe gesture has occurred on the at least one displayable content element.
US09218114B1	Providing time-dependent items This application describes, in part, systems and methods for rotating a graphical representation of a three-dimensional object, such as a clock, to expose a side surface area and display time dependent information on the side surface area. For example, a displayed clock may be graphically rotated such that a side surface area adjacent to the times between 6:00 and 12:00 are exposed. If the current time is between 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. time-dependent items between 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. are obtained and displayed at positions on the side surface area to correspond with the scheduled time for those time-dependent items. If the current time is between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. time-dependent items for the upcoming hours between 6:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. are obtained and displayed.
US09218113B2	Information processing device, information processing method and program An information processing device is provided that includes: an image generation portion that generates a composite image by synthesizing a stereoscopic image with a two-dimensional image that is associated with the stereoscopic image, the stereoscopic image being generated from a right eye image and a left eye image which have parallax therebetween and on which perspective correction is performed; and an identification portion that, when a user operation on the two-dimensional image is detected, identifies the stereoscopic image with which the two-dimensional image is associated, as a selected target.
US09218109B2	Recording medium, playback device, recording device, playback method and recording method for editing recorded content while maintaining compatibility with old format A rewritable recording medium on which Index.bdmv is recorded in the BDMV directory. The Index.bdmv includes editability_flag and extended_editability_flag. When the editability_flag is set ON, it indicates that the recording medium is treated as an editable medium by a legacy device which does not support recording and editing of stereoscopic video. When the editability_flag is set OFF, it indicates that the recording medium is treated as a non-editable medium by the legacy device. When the extended_editability_flag is set ON, it indicates that the recording medium is treated as an editable medium by a non-legacy device even when the editability flag is set OFF, where the non-legacy device supports recording and editing of stereoscopic video.
US09218101B2	Displaying estimated social interest in time-based media Social media content items are mapped to relevant time-based media events. These mappings may be used as the basis for multiple applications, such as ranking of search results for time-based media, automatic recommendations for time-based media, prediction of audience interest for media purchasing/planning, and estimating social interest in the time-based media. Social interest in time-based media (e.g., video and audio streams and recordings) segments is estimated through a process of data ingestion and integration. The estimation process determines social interest in specific events represented as segments in time-based media, such as particular plays in a sporting event, scenes in a television show, or advertisements in an advertising block. The resulting estimates of social interest also can be graphically displayed.
US09218100B2	Method and system for partitioning asset management plugins An embodiment of the invention includes a system for partitioning asset management plugins. The system includes an application program interface for performing basic CRUD functions on assets having multiple asset types. At least one plugin having plugin components is provided, wherein the plugin manages at least one asset having a specific asset type (of the multiple asset types). The plugin components include a CRUD component, a state component, an actions component, and/or a view component. The system further includes plugin containers for hosting the plugin components, the plugin containers include at least one client-side plugin container and at least one server-side plugin container. The plugin components are partitioned and distributed from the plugin components to the plugin containers by a plugin server based on capabilities of the client.
US09218096B2	Sensing methods for touch sensing devices A sensing method for a touch sensing device is provided. In one embodiment, for one set of interlaced receiving electrode and transmitting electrodes of the touch sensing device, an integrator coupled to the receiving electrode is reset only one time. In another embodiment, for each group of sensing electrodes, an integrator coupled to the sensing electrodes is reset only one time. Accordingly, the rate at which the touch sensing array is sensed may be increased. Noise reduced by the process of resetting the integrator due to charge injection effects may be decreased.
US09218090B2	System and method for controlling a projector via a passive control strip A projector includes an infrared generator, an infrared camera, an infrared control module, and a controller. The infrared generator provides an infrared curtain on a screen that the projector projects an image. The infrared camera detects a selection of an icon on a control strip located within the infrared curtain. The infrared control module is in communication with the infrared generator and the infrared camera, and determines a coordinate position within the infrared curtain associated with the selection of the icon on the control strip. The controller is in communication with the infrared control module, and determines a command for the projector based on the coordinate position of the selection of the icon, and executes the command.
US09218088B2	Touch screen display apparatus The present invention provides a touch screen display apparatus including a touch structure. The touch structure includes multiple driving lines arranged in a column direction, multiple sensing lines arranged in a row direction, a preamplifier, a frequency outputter, a first shift register, and a second shift register. The first shift register is arranged between the driving lines and the frequency outputter, and the second shift register is arranged at output ends of the sensing lines. Each driving line outputs a driving signal and each sensing line outputs a sensing signal for the preamplifier. Accordingly, a single preamplifier may be used.
US09218087B2	Self-capacitive touch panel A self-capacitive touch panel including a border electrode and a central electrode is provided. The border electrode has a first centroid. The central electrode has a second centroid A first average distance from the first centroid to all possible touch points in the border electrode is smaller than a second average distance from the second centroid to all possible touch points in the central electrode.
US09218080B2	Touch sensing type liquid crystal display device including anti-static outer layer and method of fabricating the same A touch sensing type liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate includes an array substrate including a first substrate, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a touch sensing unit; a color filter substrate including a second substrate and facing the array substrate; an anti-static layer on an outer side of the second substrate and including an inorganic material and conductive particles; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and an inner side of the second substrate.
US09218072B2	Multi-tip stylus A multi-tip stylus has a penholder and multiple tips longitudinally mounted on the penholder and mutually spaced apart. Any adjacent two of the tips form a tip-combined stroke set. When the multi-tip stylus is operated, the penholder is held horizontally for adjacent two of the tips on the penholder to contact the touch panel. A continuous stroke can be formed by using the two adjacent tips to contact a touch panel and collaborating corresponding charcoal sketching software. Accordingly, the multi-tip stylus can be operated in a similar way of holding a charcoal crayon and drawing with the charcoal crayon as in a traditional charcoal sketch so as to do the traditional charcoal sketching techniques, such as shading, blending, toning, and the like.
US09218055B2	Devices, systems, and methods for empathetic computing Devices, systems, and methods for empathetic computing are described herein. An example empathetic computing device includes an enclosure configured to fit into the palm of a user. The enclosure may have an upper portion and a lower portion and comprise an interface board, a processor, and a touch sensor. The interface board may have a plurality of light emitting devices configured to provide a light pattern of a visual response. The processor may be coupled to a memory device. The touch sensor may be configured to detect the touch of the user. The touch sensor may comprise a touch belt disposed along the enclosure circumferentially and a touch pad.
US09218046B2	Methods and apparatuses for controlling thread contention An apparatus comprises a plurality of cores and a controller coupled to the cores. The controller is to lower an operating point of a first core if a first number based on processor clock cycles per instruction (CPI) associated with a second core is higher than a first threshold. The controller is operable to increase the operating point of the first core if the first number is lower than a second threshold.
US09218033B1	Active phase balancing at facility level A method and apparatus are provided for balancing the load placed by a data center on different phases of a power input. According to the method and apparatus, the load on the power is monitored and a load imbalance detected. Once the load imbalance is detected, a server rack from the data center is selected and a power supply in the selected server rack is reconfigured to output an increased or decreased voltage.
US09218031B2	System and method for providing wireless power feedback in a wireless power delivery system A wireless power delivery system includes a wireless power source and a control module. The wireless power source provides power to an information handling system. The control module is in communication with the wireless power source, and is configured to detect a presence signal from the information handling system, to set an output power level for the information handling system based on the presence signal, to receive a signal from the information handling system, and to adjust the output power level based on the signal.
US09218025B2	Protective cover for a tablet computer In certain embodiments, a protective cover includes a housing having a surface, and a latch mechanism hingeably coupled to the housing. The latch can include a top side and a bottom side, the bottom side configured to couple to and secure an input device to the surface of the housing. The latch can be configured to rotate, via the hinge coupling, between a first configuration and second configuration. In the first configuration, the top side of the latch can be flush with the surface of the housing and the bottom side embedded within the housing such that the latch does not protrude from the housing. In the second configuration, the latch can be rotated relative to the first configuration and protrude from the housing. The latch can be operable to be rotated open from the first configuration to the second configuration via the hinge coupling.
US09218020B1	Computing device assembly A computing device is assembled to withstand drops, to be re-workable, and to reduce unaesthetic variances between the components. A computing device has a display module that is removably hinged on the bottom, held in place by snap fits on the top before being screwed in place, and held in place by replaceable snap fits on the sides. A battery module and a battery connector can be secured in place with stretch removable tape. A peripheral port component may be biased towards an interior of the housing opening when installed. A laser direct structuring antenna module located in a recess of a plastic molding can be grounded to a metal alloy housing. A plastic molding can be mechanically interlocked to a housing.
US09218013B2	Method and system for connecting solar cells or slices in a panel system A method and system include a plurality of solar cells and a plurality of voltage controllers. Each of the plurality of solar cells is directly coupled to a dedicated one of the plurality of voltage controllers to form unique pairs of solar cells and voltage controllers. Each of a plurality of panels contain a plurality of unique pairs.
US09218009B2	Power supply of a load at a floating-potential A circuit includes a current source intended to be series-connected with a load between two terminals of application of a first D.C. voltage. An element limits the voltage across the load and a circuit controls the value of the current in the current source with the current flowing in the element.
US09218006B2	Thermostatic mixing valve A thermostatic mixing valve for the mixing of a first fluid and second fluid is disclosed. The thermostatic mixing valve includes a valve body having a first fluid inlet, a second fluid inlet, and a mixed fluid outlet. The thermostatic mixing valve also includes a valve member configured to control the rate of flow of at least the first fluid. The valve member includes a thermostatic control device in communication with the mixed fluid and a shuttle coupled to the thermostatic control device, configured for movement within a liner, and oriented to adjustably engage the flow of at least the first fluid through at least one opening within a wall of the liner, the direction of flow of the first fluid being at least partially transverse with respect to the shuttle. At least one fluid inlet may include a check valve configured to prevent fluid from flowing out of the valve through the inlet.
US09218000B2	System and method for cloud computing A system includes a computing cloud having at least one data storage unit and at least one processing unit. The computing cloud is configured to receive information associated with at least one process collected by an industrial tool, archive the process-related information, analyze the process-related information, and instruct a client device on a type of data to be cached by the client device. §The industrial tool could include a sensor configured to collect data associated with industrial equipment. Also, the client device may be associated with a local environment, the sensor may be configured to capture sensor readings at a specified interval, and the local environment may be configured to use a subset of the sensor readings. The client device can be configured to provide all of the sensor readings to the computing cloud.
US09217999B2	Systems and methods for analyzing data in a non-destructive testing system A collaboration system may include a non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection device that may communicate with at least one other computing device via a computing network. The computing network may communicatively couple a plurality of computing devices and the NDT inspection device may acquire inspection data, establish a communication connection to the at least one other computing device, and send the data to the at least one other computing device. There, the at least one other computing device may analyze the data. After the data is analyzed, the NDT inspection device may receive the analyzed data from the at least one other computing device.
US09217998B2	Management and development of an industrial environment System(s), apparatus(es) and method(s) are provided for to managing and developing an industrial system included in the industrial environment. Intelligence related to a configuration of the industrial system is collected and processed to generate information related to operational condition(s) of the industrial system. Intelligence can be collected actively or passively: In active collection, a platform that collects the intelligence retrieves configuration record(s) from the industrial system, whereas in passive collection, the platform received one or more configuration records from the industrial automation system. Collected intelligence is cast into a set of configuration units that defines industrial system and functionality thereof. In addition, a set of services configured to convey specific functionality associated with at least one configuration unit is composed. At least a portion of the generated information can be supplied to the industrial system or one or more components thereof in accordance with a policy configured by the industrial automation system.
US09217994B2	System and method for managing energy A method of managing energy consumption in an enclosed spaced includes the step of providing temperature and foot traffic data to a plan generator. The method further includes the steps of generating an energy plan based on the temperature and foot traffic data and controlling one or more energy consuming devices based on the energy plan.
US09217991B2	Image forming apparatus A multifunction peripheral includes: an apparatus body including an intake opening through which external air is taken in; an axial flow fan configured to send air through the intake opening to an interior of the apparatus body; and a substrate including a temperature sensor placed on one surface thereof facing a first air flow path formed by activation of the blower and a humidity sensor placed on the other surface thereof facing a second air flow path along which a smaller amount of air flow flows than along the first air flow path.
US09217989B2	Process unit and image forming apparatus incorporating same A process unit includes a rotatable image bearer to bear a toner image on a surface thereof; a developer bearer to supply developer to the image bearer and including a first range, a second range different in property from the first range and adjacent to the first range on an outer side in an axial direction via a first boundary, and a second boundary on an outer side of the first boundary in the axial direction; a cleaning member to remove residual developer from the image bearer; and an abutment part disposed to contact the surface of the image bearer to remove a foreign substance from the image bearer. The abutment part is disposed astride at least one of a first position on the image bearer corresponding to the first boundary, and a second position on the image bearer corresponding to the second boundary.
US09217986B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image, a transfer member for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a sheet in contact with the image bearing member, and an openable unit including an openable member and a rotational shaft. In addition, a lock member locks the openable unit in a closed state by movement of the openable member, and a cam member, provided in the main assembly, rotatably moves the transfer member toward and away from the image bearing member. A force receiving portion, provided on the openable unit, receives a reaction force in contact with the cam member. The openable member includes the transfer member, and the cam member urges the force receiving portion when rotated to impart a force, for attracting the openable unit toward a locking direction by the lock member, to the openable member.
US09217984B1	Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus including same An image carrier unit includes: an image carrier; a cleaning roller collecting a residual toner remaining on a circumferential surface of the image carrier; a conveyance member receiving the residual toner and conveying the residual toner towards a one-end part side in a rotation-axis direction of the cleaning roller; and an operating mechanism making the cleaning roller perform thrust operation in the rotation-axis direction. The cleaning roller is obtained by spirally winding, around a roller circumferential surface a plurality of times, a base cloth of a long shape in which a plurality of brush bristles are implanted, and a plurality of wound areas formed on the roller circumferential surface by the winding have a downstream side of the roller circumferential surface in a side view from a direction orthogonal to a rotating shaft is directed towards the one-end part side in the rotation-axis direction.
US09217982B2	Image forming apparatus with synchronized gear transmission mechanism An image forming apparatus includes gears for driving a first photosensitive drum and a second photosensitive drum. The gears includes a first drum gear, a second drum gear, and a first drive gear configured to apply a rotational force to the first drum gear and the second drum gear by meshing with the first drum gear and the second drum gear. Specific positional relations among the first photosensitive drum, the second photosensitive drum, the first drum gear, the second drum gear, and the first drive gear are configured based on exposure positions and transfer position. Such an image forming apparatus may reduce an occurrence of an image formation failure even when the dimensional unevenness of the gears occurs.
US09217980B2	Jam sensing at document feeding station A method for preventing damage to a document by a document transport apparatus provides a member for receiving the document as a stack of sheets to be serial fed to a feeding station. At least two spaced-apart microphones are disposed at the feeding station and responsive to audio to produce signals representing audio energy received by each microphone respectively. The energy received from each microphone is compared to determine if it is ambient noise or if it indicates that two attached sheets are being fed or a single sheet is being damaged. The document transport apparatus is shut off to prevent damage to documents when it has been determined that two attached sheets are being fed or that a single sheet is being damaged.
US09217978B2	Image forming apparatus configured to control a conveyance speed of the sheet to accelerate and/or decelerate without stopping the sheet in a section between a paper feed unit and a transfer unit An image forming apparatus capable of setting a plurality of image forming speeds includes a transfer unit configured to transfer an image formed on an image carrier onto a sheet, a paper feed unit configured to feed the sheet, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance speed of the sheet to accelerate and decelerate without stopping the sheet in a section between the paper feed unit and the transfer unit to synchronize the sheet with the image formed on the image carrier. The control unit changes paper feed timing from the paper feed unit according to the image forming speed if the image forming speed is predetermined.
US09217977B2	Finisher, bookbinder, and imaging system Single perforating unit is enabled to perforate for file binders and to cut milling grooves, while with a simple structure file-binder storage and booklet-binding can be carried out reliably. Configurations include: a convey-in path for sequentially transferring sheets; a stacker for collating into bundles sheets from the convey-in path; and an adhesive-layer applicator for adding an adhesive layer to the spine-closure edge of sheet bundles from the stacker. A perforating unit is provided in along the convey-in path, and a control unit for controlling position and/or number of perforations made by the perforating unit is provided with (1) a first operation mode in which it effects the punching of a predetermined number of holes in the edge of sheets, and (2) a second operation mode in which it effects the formation of a predetermined number of crenulated grooves in the edge of sheets.
US09217972B2	Fixing device of an image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a tubular film; a heater including a substrate and a heat generating resistor, the heater having a first region on which the heat generating resistor is formed and a second region, located outside of the first region in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, on which the heat generating resistor is not formed; and a heat conductive member configured to contact a surface of the heater opposite to a surface of the heater that contacts the film, the heat conductive member having a higher heat conductivity than the substrate. The heat conductive member contacts the heater in a region extending across the first region and the second region, and an amount of heat generated by the heat generating resistor at its end portion is greater than that at its middle portion in the longitudinal direction.
US09217969B2	Fuser member coating compositions A xerographic fuser member that contains a composition of a polyimide and a perfluoropolyether phosphate.
US09217956B1	Dispense-end seal for toner containers A toner container assembly including a seal assembly. The seal assembly can include an outer retainer ring having a non-adhesive carrier, a first adhesive layer on a surface of the non-adhesive carrier, and a first opening through the outer retainer ring. The seal assembly can further include a foam ring having a second opening therethrough, wherein the foam ring is attached to the outer retainer ring with the first adhesive, and a double-sided adhesive attached to the foam ring. The seal assembly may further include a solid foam disc having a first slit therethrough and a second slit therethrough, wherein the first slit is perpendicular to the second slit and the solid foam disc is attached to the foam ring by the double-sided adhesive layer.
US09217954B2	Systems and methods for implementing advanced toner dispensing and emptying of toner cartridge components in image forming devices A system and method are provided for operating an image forming device in a first processor-controlled toner control operating mode to maintain a substantially constant dispense rate of toner material from a toner source or bottle. The disclosed systems and methods improve toner material dispensing from the toner source or bottle in the image forming device by transitioning to a second processor-controlled toner control operating mode as an amount of toner material in the toner source or bottle is determined to be in a depleted, or nearly-exhausted, state. The disclosed systems and methods compensate for a determined decrease in a toner dispense rate occurring as an amount of toner material remaining in the toner source or bottle is nearly depleted. One or more toner control parameters, including a pixel count gain, are modified in the second processor-controlled toner control operating mode.
US09217938B2	Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus and phthalocyanine crystal An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a charge generating layer and a charge transporting layer formed on the support. The charge generating layer contains an amine compound represented by the following formula (1); where R1 to R5 represent a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, hydroxy group, carboxyl group, alkoxycarbonyl group, aryloxycarbonyl group, alkyl group, alkoxy group, aryloxy group, amino group having a substituent group, or cyclic amino group; and at least one of R1 to R5 is an amino group substituted with an aryl group, amino group substituted with an alkyl group, or cyclic amino group.
US09217937B2	Interferometric measurement of rotation of stage apparatus and adjustment method thereof, exposure apparatus and method of manufacturing device A stage apparatus includes a stage, an interferometric measurement device which is arranged to be able to measure a position of a surface of a mirror arranged on a side surface of the stage, and a driving unit configured to position the stage based on a measurement result of the interferometric measurement device. The interferometric measurement device includes: a varying unit configured to periodically vary an incident position where measurement light is incident on the mirror; and a detecting unit configured to detect rotation of the mirror based on a variation amount of the measurement result of the interferometric measurement device, which is generated upon a periodic variation of the incident position.
US09217935B2	Method for fabricating a porous carbon structure using optical interference lithography, and porous carbon structure fabricated by same Provided are a method for fabricating a porous carbon structure using optical interference lithography, and a porous carbon structure fabricated by same, wherein the method for fabricating a porous carbon structure using optical light interference lithography includes: forming a photoresist layer on a substrate; irradiating a three-dimensional optical interference pattern onto the photoresist formed using three-dimensional optical interference lithography to form a three-dimensional porous photoresist pattern; coating the formed three-dimensional porous photoresist pattern with an inorganic material; heating the photoresist pattern on which the inorganic material is coated to carbonize the pattern; and removing the coated inorganic material.
US09217925B2	Method for producing pattern phase difference film, pattern phase difference film, and image display device A pattern phase difference film, which is used to display 3D images using a passive system, and provides a method for producing a pattern phase difference film that can be manufactured with high precision, easily and in large quantities. A mask, which has slits that are made narrow compared to the width of a region that is to undergo exposure treatment and are provided for exposure treatment, is manufactured.
US09217923B2	Method of using an EUV mask during EUV photolithography processes The present disclosure is directed to various masks for use during EUV photolithography processes. In one example, an EUV mask is disclosed that includes, among other things, a substrate, a multilayer stack comprised of a plurality of multilayer pairs of ruthenium and silicon formed above the substrate, wherein the mask is adapted to, when irradiated with EUV light, have an effective reflective plane that is positioned 32 nm or less below an uppermost surface of the multilayer stack and a capping layer positioned above the uppermost surface of the multilayer stack.
US09217917B2	Three-direction alignment mark A semiconductor device includes a first material formed on a substrate. The first material includes a first alignment mark. The first alignment mark includes alignment lines in at least three directions. The semiconductor device further includes a second material comprising a second alignment mark. The second alignment mark corresponds to the first alignment mark such that when the second alignment mark is aligned with the first alignment mark, the second material is aligned with the first material.
US09217910B2	Inorganic optical filter, optical element, and light source The inorganic optical filter of the invention consists of a NdF3 single crystal. The optical element of the invention comprises a wavelength conversion element wherein incident light is subjected to wavelength conversion to twice the frequency by quasi-phase-matching using primary matching or tertiary matching, and emitted, and an inorganic optical filter situated in the optical path of light emitted from the wavelength conversion element, wherein the wavelength conversion element consists of a ferroelectric fluoride single crystal represented by Ba1−y(Mg1−xZnx)1+yF4 (where 0≦x≦1, and −0.2≦y≦0.2), and the inorganic optical filter consists of a NdF3 single crystal.
US09217902B1	Array substrate and liquid crystal display panel The present invention provides an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. In the array substrate, with regard to storage capacitors corresponding to one scan line, a capacitance value of the storage capacitor(s) corresponding to the middle of the scan line is smaller than the capacitance value of each of the storage capacitors corresponding to two ends of the scan line, and thereby when data lines input voltage signals, a voltage difference between a pixel electrode(s) of the storage capacitor(s) corresponding to the middle of the scan line and the pixel electrodes of the storage capacitors corresponding to the two ends of the scan line is smaller than a threshold value. By the above described manner, the present invention can improve the uniformity of image brightness.
US09217899B2	Nanocrystal display A nanocrystal display includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels; and a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas corresponding to the plurality of pixels, and a boundary area between the pixel areas. Each pixel includes a first electrode on an upper surface of the substrate and in a corresponding pixel area; a second electrode on the upper surface of the substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode in a cross-section direction, a tunnel-shaped cavity defined in the plurality of pixel areas and spaced apart from the substrate by a predetermined distance; and an image display layer in the tunnel-shaped cavity; and a backlight unit which provides a light to the display panel and faces the upper surface of the substrate.
US09217898B2	Vertical alignment liquid crystal display device and method for driving same A vertical alignment liquid crystal display device (VA-LCD) includes a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel unit includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), a second TFT, and a liquid crystal capacitor having a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The common electrode is applied with a common voltage, a first gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a first TFT, and a second gray voltage is applied to the pixel electrode through a second TFT different from the first gray voltage, such that liquid crystal capacitor maintains two different gray voltages in a display frame time of the VA-LCD.
US09217896B2	Liquid crystal displays A liquid crystal display comprises two parallel spaced substrates and a liquid crystal layer with negative dielectric anisotropy interposed between the substrates. The ratio d/p, the cell gap d between the substrates to the pitch p of the liquid crystal layer, is equal to or less than 0.3, and the retardation value Δn*d may be in the range of 0.25-0.4. In absence of electric field, the liquid crystal molecules are arranged vertically to the substrates, and when the sufficient electric field is applied, the liquid crystal molecules are parallel to the substrates and twisted by 90° from one substrate to the other.
US09217886B2	Repairing line system and repair method thereof The present invention discloses a repairing line system, which includes a plurality of packages, a substrate having a plurality of data lines awaiting for repair, two repairing lines, and two connecting lines. The repairing line includes outgoing lines led from the packages and a wire disposed on three sides of the substrate without the packages disposed and coupled to the outgoing lines. The wires insulatively intersect second terminals of the data lines awaiting for repair. The connecting line insulatively intersects the outgoing lines and first terminals of the data lines. The present invention further discloses a repair method of the repairing line system. The repairing line system and the repair method of the present invention utilize the same repairing lines led from different packages to connect with each other for forming whole connected wires, thereby increasing flexibility of the repairing line system in repairing data lines.
US09217880B2	Energizable ophthalmic lens device with a programmaable media insert The present invention discloses an Ophthalmic Lens device with a programmable Media Insert. In some embodiments, a Media Insert may be programmable to allow for further customization of the energized Ophthalmic Lens. The programming may occur after the electrical components have been encapsulated in the programmable Media Insert. In some embodiments, the Media Insert may be programmed prior to or during the manufacturing process. Alternatively, the Media Insert may be programmable after manufacturing process, such as, for example, through use of a wireless programming apparatus or device. In some such embodiments, the programming device may comprise an overlay, wherein the overlay may program the Media Insert when placed in proximity to the Media Insert.
US09217879B2	Projection device and projection-type video display device Provided are a projection device and a projection-type video display device capable of displaying a plurality of videos, allowing speckles to be inconspicuous, and miniaturizing an optical system. A projection device includes an optical element including light diffusion elements capable of diffusing light, an irradiation device configured to irradiate the optical element with illumination light beams, each illumination light beam scanning the corresponding light diffusion element, spatial light modulators, each spatial light modulator being illuminated with illumination light beam which is incident from the irradiation device to each light diffusion element to be diffused, and projection optical systems, each projection optical system projecting modulation image obtained on each spatial light modulator on corresponding screen. The illumination light beam, which is incident to each position of each light diffusion element to be diffused, overlappedly illuminates on corresponding spatial light modulator.
US09217877B2	Stereoscopic image display apparatus having film-type patterned retarder A stereoscopic image display apparatus having patterned retarder is described. The stereoscopic image display apparatus having patterned retarder includes an array substrate, a polarized plate and a film-type patterned retarder (FPR). The array substrate includes a gate driver, a source driver, a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of transistor control modules. Each pixel unit corresponds to first scan line, second scan line and third scan line respectively. Each of the pixel units includes at least two data lines wherein the first scan line, the second scan line and the third scan line are insulatedly interlaced with the at least two data lines. A polarized plate receives a light beam passing through the array substrate to generate a linear polarized light beam. A film-type patterned retarder disposed on the polarized plate receives the light beam passing through the array substrate for generating the three-dimensional image on the polarized glasses.
US09217873B2	Liquid crystal display with shifted pixels A liquid-crystal display (LCD) includes a backlight unit, a display module and a barrier. The display module is disposed above the backlight unit and has plural pixels. Each of the pixels includes at least three differently-colored sub-pixels, and the differently-colored sub-pixels at adjacent columns are in a shifting arrangement. The barrier is disposed correspondingly to the display module, and has several slanted transparent slits. The transparent slits substantially expose at least parts of regions of the sub-pixels corresponding to the same viewing position. The sub-pixels are rectangular, rhombus or hexagonal in shape.
US09217868B2	Monocular display device An apparatus includes a monocular display with a wireless communications interface, a user input device, a transmitter, receiver and a controller. The controller is configured to control the transmitter for sending and receiving control signals to and from an external device via the wireless interface. The monocular display is positioned relative to the user's dominant eye to display images to the user while occluding less than half of the user's maximum viewing space, while enabling the user to send and receive audible information or music.
US09217867B2	Head-mounted display device and control method for the head-mounted display device A head-mounted display device includes: an image display unit including an image-light generating unit that generates image light representing an image and emits the image light and a light guide unit that guides the emitted image light to the eye of a user, the image display unit being for causing the user to visually recognize a virtual image; and a control unit that includes an operation surface, is connected to the image display unit, and controls image display by the image display unit. When it is assumed that the user shifts the user's attention from the virtual image, the control unit adjusts the luminance of the image-light generating unit or adjusts the image light generated by the image-light generating unit to reduce the visibility of the virtual image.
US09217866B2	Computer control with heads-up display A method, computer-readable medium and apparatus are described for providing a user interface control for use with a manipulable object, such as a weapon. As the object is moved, images from a video camera are projected into a heads-up display. A user of the object may activate a user interface control by pressing a button on the object, causing an image of a user interface control to be projected into the heads-up display. Movement of the object may cause a cursor to be moved across the heads-up display, allowing the user to select user interface features without removing hands from the object. Pressing a button may cause a mouse click command to be generated, allowing the user to type or perform other functions.
US09217857B2	Multi-state shutter assemblies having segmented drive electrode sets This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus incorporating display elements having light modulators that can operate in more than two states. In some implementations, the light modulator assembly includes an electrostatic actuator that includes a load electrode coupled to a shutter and a drive electrode set positioned proximate to the load electrode. The drive electrode set includes a plurality of discrete portions that are configured to drive the light modulator assembly to a plurality of different light modulator states. In some such implementations, the portions of the drive electrode set are positioned opposite to corresponding regions of the load electrode. In some implementations, the portions are arranged such that the portions are configured to electrostatically engage with adjacent regions of the load electrode.
US09217852B2	System and method for online inspection of turbines using an optical tube with broadspectrum mirrors An optical inspection system for nondestructive internal visual inspection and non-contact infra-red (IR) temperature monitoring of an online, operating power generation turbine. The optical inspection system includes an optical tube having a viewing port, at least one reflective mirror or a mirror array having a reflectivity spectral range from 550 nm to 20 μm, and capable of continuous operation at temperatures greater than 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Celsius), and a transparent window with high transmission within the same spectral range mounted distal the viewing port. The same optical mirror array may be used to measure selectively surface temperature of metal turbine blades in the near IR range (approximately 1 μm wavelength) and of thermal barrier coated turbine blades in the long IR range (approximately 10 μm wavelength).
US09217846B2	Imaging lens, and electronic apparatus including the same An imaging lens includes first to fourth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens maybe achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09217839B2	Interposer structure having optical fiber connection and related fiber optic connector for the same Disclosed are interposer structures having an optical fiber connection and a related fiber optic ferrule that can form a portion of an optical assembly. The interposer structure is useful for transmitting optical signals to/from an integrated circuit that may be attached to the interposer. Specifically, the interposer structure and the related ferrule of the optical connector provide a passively aligned structure having a matched thermal response to maintain a suitable optical connection between the devices over a range of temperatures.
US09217836B2	Edge coupling of optical devices A system includes optical modules. Each module includes a different base and one or more module waveguides on the base. Module waveguides from different modules are aligned such that the aligned module waveguides exchange light signals. At least a portion of one of the aligned module waveguides is between the base of one of the modules and the base of another module. First electronics operate a transmitter on a first one of the optical modules so as to generate one of the light signals. Second electronics operate a receiver on a second one of the modules such that the electronics generate an electrical signal in response to the receiver receiving one of the light signals.
US09217834B2	Optical device, method of manufacturing optical device, and optical device assembly method An optical device includes an optical base, an electric board, a fiber tray, and the like, which are placed in an enclosure. In particular, the electric board is made smaller than the optical base, and the fiber tray is placed in a space defined between an outer peripheral surface of the electric board and an inner side surface of the enclosure. In other word, the optical device uses a gap between the electric board and the enclosure not as a dead space but as a space for routing a remaining portion of the optical fiber. Thus, the optical device can improve space efficiency and thereby can reduce its size.
US09217830B2	Electro-optic modulator structures, related methods and applications An electro-optic modulator structure, a method for fabricating the electro-optic modulator structure, a method for operating an electro-optic modulator device that derives from the electro-optic modulator structure and a related communications apparatus that includes the electro-optic modulator structure all are directed towards effecting a comparatively low voltage operation of the electro-optic modulator device predicated upon consideration of optimal charge carrier injection efficiency characteristics of a PIN diode charge carrier injection based micro-ring electro-optic modulator structure as a function of applied bias voltage. To realize the foregoing result, at least in part, the PIN diode charge carrier injection based electro-optic modulator structure includes at least one of a p-doped region and an n-doped region that has a relatively high volume dopant concentration at a surface thereof.
US09217828B2	Optical fiber protective tubing assembly An apparatus for use in a fiber optic network includes a furcation tube having a first end and a second end. An optical fiber passes through the furcation tube, the optical fiber having an end portion that extends outwardly beyond the second end of the furcation tube. A heat-recoverable tube fixes the optical fiber relative to the furcation tube adjacent the second end of the furcation tube, the heat-recoverable tube having a first portion affixed to the furcation tube and a second portion affixed to the end portion of the optical fiber.
US09217826B2	Multi-wavelength light source using light diffusing fibers At least one flexible light diffusing waveguide is arranged to define a plurality of light diffusing waveguide segments arranged substantially parallel to one another, and is coupled to at least one light source to provide a flexible light panel suitable for general lighting purposes or for use as a backlight in a display, such as a video display. Multiple waveguides can be coupled to different color light sources to provide a multi-colored flexible backlight that is usable in combination with a flexible matrix-addressable panel to provide a flexible video display.
US09217821B2	Light guide plate, surface light source device, and display device A light guide plate includes a body portion, and a plurality of unit shaped elements defining a light exit surface and arranged on one-side surface of the body portion side by side in an arrangement direction intersecting a light guide direction. Each unit shaped element extends in a direction intersecting the arrangement direction. A light exit surface angle θa, which is the angle of the contour of each unit shaped element with respect to the one-side surface, is more than 10° and not more than 30° in a zone of the contour of each unit shaped element, the width of the zone along the arrangement direction being not less than 35% and not more than 70% of the full width of the unit shaped element.
US09217817B2	Retroreflective appliques and articles Retroreflective appliqués and articles include a first binder layer with a first major surface and a second major surface, a retroreflective layer including a plurality of retroreflective elements at least partially embedded in the first major surface of the first binder layer, a second binder layer adhered to the second major surface of the first binder layer, and a substrate layer attached to the second binder layer. The first binder layer is a non-thermoplastic crosslinked copolymer with a Tg of less than 30° C. The second binder layer is an adhesive polymer. The first binder layer and the second binder layer include functional groups capable of co-reacting to form a chemical bond. The retroreflective appliqués can be attached to clothing articles.
US09217814B2	Cellulose acylate film, a polarizing plate using the same and a liquid crystal display using the same A cellulose acylate film containing at least one compound represented by the following Formula (I) or (II), and cellulose acylate, a polarizing plate using the same and a liquid crystal display device using the same, wherein in Formula (I), R1 represents an alkyl group; R2 and R3 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or an aryl group; R4 represents an alkyl group; Ar1 represents an aromatic group; m and n are integers; provided that when n is 1, Ar1 represents an aromatic group; and in Formula (II), R11 to R14 each represent a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group; R11 and R12, and/or, R13 and R14 may form a ring; R15 and R17 each represent an alkyl group; and R16 and R18 each represent a hydrogen atom or alkyl group; Ar represents an arylene group; and 1, m1 and n1 are integers.
US09217806B2	Towing methods and systems for geophysical surveys Disclosed are methods and systems for towing one or more electromagnetic sensor streamers from deflectors in an additional geophysical sensor streamer spread. An embodiment discloses a marine geophysical survey system, comprising: a survey vessel; an electromagnetic sensor streamer; and a geophysical sensor streamer spread configured to be towed by the survey vessel, wherein the geophysical sensor streamer spread comprises: sensor streamers configured to be laterally spaced apart from one another; and deflectors adapted to spread the sensor streamers substantially transversely in relation to a direction of motion of the survey vessel, wherein the electromagnetic sensor streamer is configured to be towed from at least one of the deflectors.
US09217801B2	Fiber optic acoustic sensor arrays and systems, and methods of fabricating the same A fiber optic acoustic sensor system. The fiber optic acoustic sensor system includes an optical source, and a fiber optic acoustic sensor array configured to receive an optical signal from the optical source. The fiber optic acoustic sensor array includes a core, a first polymer layer disposed on the core, an optical fiber wound around the first polymer layer, and a second polymer layer disposed on the first polymer layer such that the optical fiber is between the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer.
US09217799B2	Distinctive land seismic sweep The invention is an electric sweep type seismic vibrator source of the type used in seismic prospecting for hydrocarbons. The source uses an engine and generator combination to create electric power for all systems on the source such as driving a frame of linear electric motors that direct a rod or piston to contact the ground in a recurring fashion along with driving the source from location to location through a survey area. Preferably a foot is arranged on the bottom end of the rod or piston for contact with the ground and by engaging the grid of motors to push down against the ground in a rapid progression, acoustic energy is created and delivered into the ground for geophones to sense and record. However, the rapid progression of pulses or sweep of seismic energy is delivered in a distinctive fashion as compared to a conventional upsweep or downsweep and the distinctiveness is also achieved by creating a designed cadence or timing such that each pulse in a series of pulses is not delivered in a regular timing. Several similar seismic sources may be employed where each is provided with its own distinctive series of pulses such that each may be identified within the data record and source separation from a number of seismic sources may be accomplished.
US09217795B2	Integrated digital discriminator for a silicon photomultiplier Apparatuses and methods are provided that minimize the effects of dark-current pulses. For example, in one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided where a first pixel is struck (i.e., a primary pixel). Pixels struck within a fixed time frame after the primary pixel is struck are referred to as secondary pixels. After a short fixed time frame has expired, the number of primary and secondary pixels is added. If the count exceeds a threshold, the primary pixel was activated by the first (or early) photon from a true gamma event. If the threshold is not met then it is likely the primary pixel generated a dark pulse that should be ignored.
US09217789B2	Methods, systems, and apparatus to calculate distance from audio sources Systems, methods, articles of manufacture and apparatus are disclosed to calculate distance from audio sources. An example method disclosed herein includes transmitting a first radio frequency (RF) signal to prompt a reference audio collecting device to begin collecting audio samples at a first time, initiating a dwell period in response to the first RF signal to reduce battery consumption of a portable audio collecting device by preventing the portable audio collecting device from collecting the audio samples at the first time, and when the dwell period expires, prompting the portable audio collecting device to collect the audio samples at a second time.
US09217784B2	Control apparatus with differential control in a magnetically coupled coil system for a current-regulated amplifier powering field coils of a magnetic resonance tomograph A control apparatus for a gradient amplifier includes a differentiation unit. The differentiation unit forms a differentiation signal by differential processing from a current desired value signal of the gradient amplifier. At least one electrical low pass filter unit is connected in series with the differentiation unit, and/or at least one electrical high pass filter unit is connected in parallel with the differentiation unit.
US09217782B2	Method for measuring current in an electric network A method for measuring current in an electric network comprising at least one first electric line. The method includes fitting the first line with a circuit breaker having a protection coil and having a wall traversed by a magnetic field emitted by the protection coil; arranging on the wall of the circuit breaker a synchronous three-axis digital magnetometer on a semiconductor chip; by way of the digital magnetometer, measuring at least one component of a magnetic field emitted by the coil; and determining the value of a current traversing the electric line from the measured component.
US09217781B2	Time synchronization between battery controller modules for parameter measurements A multi-cell battery pack in an electric vehicle is monitored by multiple sensing modules. A primary controller is coupled to a first plurality of cells to measure a predetermined parameter of each cell. The primary controller determines a sampling moment recurring at a fixed frequency for sampling the predetermined parameter of each of the first plurality of cells. The primary controller generates a sync pulse at each sample moment. A secondary controller is coupled to a second plurality of cells to measure the predetermined parameter of each cell. The secondary controller receives the sync pulse to start a pulse generator operating at a frequency which is a predetermined multiple of the primary controller fixed frequency. The secondary controller counts pulses generated by the pulse generator and schedules a synchronized secondary sampling moment according to a predetermined pulse count.
US09217774B2	Cycle-accurate replay and debugging of running FPGA systems As described herein, a tool records a log (or trace) of all sources of non-determinism in the system. In most of the cases, it's enough to log all transitions and the exact timestamps at all the entry and exit points of the system. By using this information it is possible to recreate a cycle accurate execution of the hardware system in simulation. Unlike CHIPSCOPE and SIGNALTAP which let you monitor a small number of signals in the design, the tool provides visibility into the whole system.
US09217772B2	Systems and methods for characterizing devices A device characterization system includes a characterization tool and a test flow development generator. The characterization tool is configured to perform testing on a product device according to a test flow and generate test data. The characterization tool includes a list of available test instances that can be performed. The test flow development generator is configured to automatically generate the test flow according to device specifications for the product device and selected test instances of the list of available test instances.
US09217769B2	Ring oscillator testing with power sensing resistor A test circuit for a ring oscillator comprising a plurality of inverting stages includes a power supply, the power supply configured to provide a voltage to the plurality of inverting stages of the ring oscillator at a power output; and a power sensing resistor located between the power output of the power supply and direct current (DC) bias inputs of the inverting stages of the ring oscillator, wherein a signal from the power sensing resistor is configured to be monitored to determine a characteristic of the ring oscillator.
US09217765B2	Method and system for isolating voltage sensor and contactor faults in an electrical system A method for isolating voltage sensor errors from contactor errors in an electrical system includes measuring a voltage between ground and a voltage bus rail when a contactor is open, and comparing the measured voltage to a first threshold voltage corresponding to a calibrated voltage reading that is expected when the contactor is closed. A first diagnostic code is recorded with a stuck-in-range status for the sensor when the measured voltage is greater than 0 and less than the first threshold voltage. A second diagnostic code is recorded with a stuck-closed status for the contactor when the measured voltage is equal to the first threshold voltage. The measured voltage may be compared to a second threshold voltage that exceeds the first threshold voltage, with a third diagnostic code recorded with a shorted value for the sensor when the measured voltage exceeds the first threshold voltage or is less than 0.

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