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US09231619B2	LDPC decoder with a variable node updater which uses a scaling constant A first message, associated with going from one of a plurality of variable nodes to one of a plurality of check nodes is computed, wherein: (1) one or more connections between the plurality of variable nodes and the plurality of check nodes are specified by an LDPC parity check matrix and (2) a scaling constant is used to compute the first message. A second message, associated with going from one of the plurality of check nodes to one of a plurality of variable nodes, is computed, wherein the scaling constant is not used to compute the second message.
US09231618B2	Early data tag to allow data CRC bypass via a speculative memory data return protocol A bypass mechanism allows a memory controller to transmit requested data to an interconnect before the data's error code has been decoded, e.g., a cyclical redundancy check (CRC). The tag, tag CRC, data, and data CRC are pipelined from DRAM in four frames, each having multiple clock cycles. The tag includes a bypass bit indicating whether data transmission to the interconnect should begin before CRC decoding. After receiving the tag CRC, the controller decodes it and reserves a request machine which sends a transmit request signal to inform the interconnect that data is available. Once the transmit request is granted by the interconnect, the controller can immediately start sending the data, before decoding the data CRC. So long as no error is found, the controller completes transmission of the data to the interconnect, including providing an indication that the data as transmitted is error-free.
US09231617B2	Medical device with membrane keypad sealing element, and related manufacturing method A device for delivering fluid to a user includes a housing, a drive motor assembly in the housing, other internal components in the housing, and a keypad external to the housing. The device includes a number of features and elements that enhance its operation, manufacturability, reliability, and user-friendliness. These features and elements include a shock absorbing element for a battery of the device, a keypad actuator layer that overlies a keypad assembly and forms a water resistant seal with the housing, and an offset element for a piezoelectric speaker that is located inside the housing.
US09231610B2	SAR analog-to-digital converting apparatus and operating method thereof and CMOS image sensor including the same A Successive Approximation Register (SAR) analog-to-digital converting apparatus includes a reference voltage supply unit suitable for supplying different reference voltages depending on bits of a pixel output signal to be converted, an N bit SAR analog-to-digital conversion unit suitable for sequentially converting upper N−1 bits and lower N bits of the pixel output signal by selectively using the reference voltages supplied from the reference voltage supply unit, where N is a natural number, and an error correction unit suitable for calculating an error correction value based on a difference between conversion results of the lower N bits, and outputting a 2N−2 bit analog-to-digital conversion result by combining converted upper N−1 bits and converted lower N bits and correcting an error of the reference voltages using the error correction value in the combining.
US09231604B2	Multi-phase clock generator Embodiments provide a multi-phase clock generator. The clock generator includes a loop oscillator, a RC filter, a bias current source and a frequency injection source. The loop oscillator includes N levels of CMOS phase inverters which are connected in series and form a loop, N represents an odd number greater than 1. The N levels of CMOS phase inverters have the same structures, each of which includes a CMOS phase inverter main body and a tail current source which is a current mirror of the bias current source. As an effect of RC filter, a clock input signal inputted by the frequency injection source is applied to the first level tail current source, while other tail current sources are not influenced. Injection locking is induced, such that phase noise and frequency stray can be reduced.
US09231598B2	Multiplexed oscillators An integrated circuit device for use in an automobile. The integrated circuit device includes a first oscillator configured to generate a first clock signal, a second oscillator configured to generate a second clock signal, a comparator circuit configured to compare a frequency of the first clock signal with a frequency of the second clock signal, and configured to generate a selection signal for selecting either of the first clock signal or the second clock signal, and a selector configured to output an output clock signal that is selected from among a plurality of outputs including the first clock signal and the second clock signal in response to the select signal.
US09231577B2	Comparator A comparator includes a first comparison unit configured to compare an input signal with a first signal and a second comparison unit configured to compare the input signal with a second signal having a voltage value lower than a voltage value of the first signal in a case where a voltage value of the input signal is lower than the voltage value of the first signal and compare the input signal with a third signal having a voltage value higher than a voltage value of the first signal in a case where a voltage value of the input signal is higher than the voltage value of the first signal.
US09231576B1	Device and method for clock signal loss detection A device, comprises a first counter and a second counter, a control unit and a comparing unit. The first counter and the second counter are configured to alternately count a cycle number of a monitoring clock signal. The control unit is configured to generate, based on an input clock, both a first counter enable signal and a second counter enable signal that enable or disable the first and the second counters respective, and the first counter enable signal and the second counter enable signal are inverted. The comparing unit is coupled to both the first counter and the second counter and configured to detect a loss fault of the input clock if the cycle number of the monitoring signal counted by one of the first and the second counters exceed a predetermined threshold.
US09231574B2	Power converter, clock module and associated control method A power converter and a clock module employed for providing a clock signal to the power converter. The power converter converts an input voltage to an output voltage based on at least the switching on and off of a main switch. The clock module monitors a deviation of the output voltage from its desired value and compares the deviation with a predetermined threshold window to provide a clock control signal. The clock module further regulates the clock signal in response to the clock control signal.
US09231570B2	Fast voltage level shifter circuit A voltage level shifting circuit with an input terminal and an output terminal. The level shifting circuit has a field-effect transistor (FET) switch with a gate attached to the input terminal, a drain attached to the output terminal and a source attached to a current changing mechanism. The current changing mechanism includes a current mirror circuit having an output connected between the source and an electrical earth. The output of the current mirror circuit is preferably adapted to change a current flowing between the drain and the source based on an input voltage applied to the gate.
US09231549B2	Phase shifter and and related load device A phase shifter and related load device are provided. The phase shifter includes a phase shifter core and load devices. The phase shifter core has an input port for receiving an input signal, an output port for outputting an output signal, and connection ports. The load devices are coupled to the connection ports, respectively. At least one of the load devices includes first varactor units each having a first node and a second node, where first nodes of the first varactor units are coupled to a first voltage, second nodes of the first varactor units are respectively coupled to a plurality of second voltages, and the second voltages include at least two voltages different from each other. The phase shifter and related load device are capable of mitigating effects resulted from varactor's non-linear C-V curve.
US09231548B2	Package with printed filters Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit package. The circuit package includes a first signal terminal electrically coupled with a serializer/deserializer (SERDES), a second signal terminal electrically coupled with an external electronic component, and a trace disposed on an insulating layer. The trace is configured to transfer an electrical signal between the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. The trace is patterned to provide a specific filtering characteristic to filter the electrical signal.
US09231546B2	Multi-dimensional array of impedance elements Circuitry formed of a two-dimensional regular array of capacitive elements 2 is coupled to decoding circuitry in the form of column decoder 8 and a row decoder 6. The decoders 8, 6 are used to select a start point and an end point within a sequence of selected capacitive elements to be connected in parallel following a horizontal raster scan arrangement. The selected capacitive elements may be used to generate an output voltage with a magnitude corresponding to the number of selected capacitive elements.
US09231545B2	Volume enhancements in a multi-zone media playback system Embodiments are described herein that provide numerous volume enhancements to a media playback system, especially for use by a system that contains two or more zone players that are capable of being grouped to form a synchronous audio playback group.
US09231541B2	Analog circuits having improved transistors, and methods therefor Circuits are disclosed that may include a plurality of transistors having controllable current paths coupled between at least a first and second node, the transistors configured to generate an analog electrical output signal in response to an analog input value; wherein at least one of the transistors has a deeply depleted channel formed below its gate that includes a substantially undoped channel region formed over a relatively highly doped screen layer formed over a doped body region.
US09231536B2	Multi-mode multi-band self-realigning power amplifier A power amplifier (PA) system is provided for multi-mode multi-band operations. The PA system includes one or more amplifying modules, each amplifying module including one or more banks, each bank comprising one or more transistors; and a plurality of matching modules, each matching module being configured to be adjusted to provide impedances corresponding to frequency bands and conditions. A controller dynamically controls an input terminal of each bank and adjusts the matching modules to provide a signal path to meet specifications on properties associated with signals during each time interval.
US09231533B2	Apparatus and methods for power amplifiers Apparatus and methods for power amplifiers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a power amplifier circuit assembly includes a power amplifier and an impedance matching network. The impedance matching network is operatively associated with the power amplifier and is configured to provide a load line impedance to the power amplifier between about 6Ω and about 10Ω. The impedance matching network includes a fundamental matching circuit and one or more termination circuits, and the fundamental matching circuit and each of the of the one or more termination circuits include separate input terminals for coupling to an output of the power amplifier so as to allow the fundamental matching circuit and each of the one or more termination circuits to be separately tuned.
US09231520B2	Wien-bridge oscillator and circuit arrangement for regulating a detuning An oscillator circuit includes a Wien-bridge oscillator. A non-detuned oscillating signal and a detuned oscillating signal are tapped from the Wien-bridge oscillator. A sum of a weighted detuned signal and a weighted non-detuned signal is coupled as feedback signal to the Wien-bridge to control the oscillation amplitude.
US09231512B2	Systems, methods, and devices for demodulating induction motor instantaneous rotor slot harmonic frequency A method and apparatus to dynamically and adaptively demodulate induction motor instantaneous rotor slot harmonic frequency for line-connected squirrel-cage polyphase induction motors. The instantaneous rotor slot harmonic frequency carries essential information on the instantaneous rotor speed. Based on a correlation between the motor's input power and its rotor slot harmonic frequency, a dynamically varying carrier frequency is computed and used in a rotor slot harmonic frequency detector. The rotor slot harmonic frequency detector is based on a superheterodyne principle. It contains a generalized linear-phase low-pass filter, whose bandwidth is estimated dynamically by a filter bandwidth estimator. The rotor slot harmonic frequency detector also includes a latency compensator, which receives the dynamically varying carrier frequency signal and synchronizes it with the output of a frequency demodulator.
US09231503B2	Methods and apparatuses for selectively controlling motor power boards Methods and systems for building arbitrary motor controllers are described. An example motor controller may include multiple motor power boards connected in a stacked configuration and coupled in parallel. Each motor power board may include one or more power transistors and one or more gate drivers having an input terminal coupled to a control signal connector and an output terminal coupled to a gate terminal of the one or more power transistors. The example motor controller may also include a power bus connector coupled, in parallel, to a respective output terminal of each of the multiple motor power boards. Further, the example motor controller may include a control system coupled to the control signal connector and configured to selectively enable a set that includes one or more of the multiple motor power boards based on an output power requirement.
US09231499B2	Control device for internal combustion engine There is provided a control device for an internal combustion engine. An electricity generator is configured to be driven by the internal combustion engine. A battery is configured to store electricity generated by the electricity generator. A discharge amount detection section is configured to detect a discharge amount of the battery. An automatic stop control section is configured to automatically stop the internal combustion engine when the discharge amount is a first setting value or less. A continuous discharge amount detection section is configured to detect a continuous discharge amount of the battery based on the discharge amount. An automatic stop prohibition section is configured to prohibit an automatic stop when the continuous discharge amount is a second setting value or more, which is lower than the first setting value.
US09231482B2	Apparatus for regulating an energy system and method for operating an energy system The present invention provides compensation of rapid fluctuations in voltage in a DC-to-DC converter. For this, the primary side of the DC-to-DC converter is monitored by means of capacitive voltage dividers. A voltage fluctuation occurring in the process can be identified early and thereupon the DC-to-DC converter can be controlled correspondingly to counteract this.
US09231481B2	Power converter apparatus A power converter having reduced switching transients includes a conversion inductance, a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller, a conversion inductance, and a switch transistor. A low pass filter is connected between the PWM controller and the switch transistor to filter a PWM signal produced by the PWM controller and produce a filtered PWM signal. The switching transistor switches current through the conversion inductance responsive to the filtered PWM signal. The low pass filter filters out harmonic content of the PWM signal that is above the fundamental frequency in a way that maintains most of the harmonic content of the PWM signal to substantially eliminate higher harmonic elements which are conventionally responsible for transients across the conversion inductance.
US09231462B2	Minimization of torque ripple An electric motor including: a first and second linear actuator, each linear actuator including a first and second coil respectively, a rotational shaft, a cam assembly mounted on the rotational shaft for translating linear movement of the two linear actuators to rotational movement of the rotational shaft, a controller programmed to generate during operation a first and second drive signal for first coil and second coil respectively, wherein the first drive signal causes the first linear actuator to generate a first torque on the rotational shaft that varies periodically over a complete rotation of the shaft and the second drive signal causes the second linear actuator to generate a second torque on the rotational shaft that varies periodically over a complete rotation of the shaft, and wherein the sum of the first and second torques produces a total torque that is substantially constant throughout the complete rotation of the shaft.
US09231451B2	Starter motor for a vehicle A dual earth starter motor for a vehicle. The starter motor includes a housing, an armature within the housing, a brush plate within the housing arranged to deliver electric current, by means of conductive brushes, to the armature, and two separate earth terminals electrically connected to the brush plate with each terminal extending through a wall of the housing. In a preferred form, the two earth terminals are electrically isolated from the housing, and at least one of the terminals is mechanically and electrically coupled to the brush plate my means of an interference fit between a portion of the terminal and a hole formed in the brush plate. A method of retrofitting a second earth terminal to an existing starter motor is also disclosed.
US09231449B2	Rotating electric machine and electric power steering device A rotating electric machine for driving a drive object is provided. The rotating electric machine includes a motor case, a stator, a winding, a rotor, a shaft, a base cap, an end cap, an output rod, base cap holes, end cap holes, and through bolts. The base cap has base cap flanges formed on a circumferential edge and extending radially-outward beyond an outer wall of the motor case. The end cap has end cap flanges formed on a circumferential edge and extending radially-outward beyond the outer wall of the motor case. Base cap holes are formed on the base cap flanges and end cap holes in axial alignment with the base cap holes are formed on the end cap flanges. Through bolts fasten the base cap flanges to the end cap flanges.
US09231445B2	Rotor for the electric machine A rotor (10) for a rotary electric machine has a plurality of magnetic poles (24) provided at intervals, in a circumferential direction, at the outer periphery of a rotor core (12). Each of the magnetic poles (24) has a first permanent magnet (26) buried in the center of the magnetic pole, and a pair of second permanent magnets (28) that are buried on both sides of the first permanent magnet (26) in the circumferential direction, and that are disposed such that a mutual spacing between the pair of the second permanent magnets (28) becomes narrower inward in the radial direction. A narrowest spacing between the pair of second permanent magnets (28) is set to be wider than a longitudinal-direction width of the first permanent magnet (26) in a magnetic path region (30) that is defined by the first permanent magnet (26) and the pair of second permanent magnets (28).
US09231443B2	Terminal device having meta-structure A terminal device includes a housing, a communication antenna installed in a first region in the housing and configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves, an agglomerative meta-structure installed in a second region spaced from the first region in the housing and configured to agglomerate the electromagnetic waves received from the communication antenna, and a recycling unit configured to convert the electromagnetic waves agglomerated by the agglomerative meta-structure to effective power.
US09231440B2	Power supply apparatus and controlling method of the same A power supply including: a power supply circuit for receiving an external power and a battery power, and for outputting a power including at least one of the external power or the battery power to a load; and a battery pack coupled to the power supply circuit, the battery pack including a plurality of batteries, which are arranged into a plurality of battery groups including a first battery group and a second battery group, and configured to provide the battery power. Where, the battery pack is configured to selectively supply a power of the first battery group or a power of the second battery group as the battery power to the power supply circuit according to at least one of a status of the external power, a status of the load, a status of the first battery group, or a status of the second battery group.
US09231438B2	Airborne power system disconnect system and method An system and method to automatically disconnect a retrofit electrical unit from an electrical system in the event of an emergency situation and maintain power to the retrofit electrical unit.
US09231437B2	AC-DC power supply device and switching mode power supply device Provided is an alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) power supply device in which normal power and power of a solar cell is used to supply not only AC power but also DC power, particularly, power of a solar cell is first supplied as DC power or is charged in a battery, and after battery charging, residual power is converted to AC power via an inverter so as to replace normal AC power or to transmit AC power to the outside. Accordingly, an SMPS power supply method in which AC and DC power are supplied at the same time may be provided, and moreover, power of a solar cell may be effectively used.
US09231434B2	Charging a battery using a multi-rate charge A method and system for applying a multi-rate charge to a battery are included herein. The method includes detecting a plurality of predetermined electrical measurements and a plurality of predetermined charge currents. The method also includes detecting an electrical measurement of the battery. Additionally, the method includes selecting a charge current from the plurality of predetermined charge currents to be applied to the battery based on the electrical measurement of the battery and the plurality of predetermined electrical measurements. Furthermore, the method includes applying the charge current to the battery. The method also includes detecting a plurality of subsequent electrical measurements of the battery. In addition, the method includes applying a plurality of subsequent charge currents to the battery based on the plurality of subsequent electrical measurements of the battery and the plurality of predetermined charge currents.
US09231430B2	Power supply system, charging system, and charging control device including a battery and a charging device with a shape of hexagonal cylinder There is provided a charging system including at least one battery device that includes a secondary cell therein, a charging device that performs contactless power transmission to transmit power to the battery device, and a charging control device that controls the contactless power transmission between the charging device and the battery device, wherein the battery device is a hexagonal cylinder having a bottom surface with a substantially regular hexagonal shape and having a predetermined height, wherein the charging device is a hexagonal cylinder having a bottom surface with a substantially regular hexagonal shape and having a predetermined height, and wherein the contactless power transmission is performed between the charging device and the battery device under control of the charging control device by stacking the battery device on the charging device.
US09231427B2	Electronic device with battery recharge notification while in a disabled state A delayed power-on function for an electronic device is disclosed. A charging unit charges a rechargeable battery with a pre-charge current when a voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than a voltage threshold value and with a current larger than the pre-charge current when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is greater than the voltage threshold value. A disabling unit can disable power-on when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than the voltage threshold value. A user may also be notified when power-on is disabled.
US09231422B2	Interconnecting solar rechargeable batteries Portable stackable solar batteries are disclosed, in which the solar batteries can be connected in a planar arrangement for solar recharging and connected in a vertically stacked arrangement for powering an electrically powered device and/or for charging another rechargeable battery.
US09231421B2	Electromagnetic induction device of coil type for charging and supplying power An electromagnetic induction device of coil type for charging and supplying power, the device comprises a split type electrical body (1) and a charging body (2); wherein the electrical body (1) comprises a first casing (11), a first charging circuit board (12) fixed inside the first casing (11), a chargeable battery (13), a load (14) and a first coil (15) connected with the first charging circuit board (12); the charging body (2) comprises a second casing (21), a second charging circuit board (22) fixed inside the second casing (21), a second coil (23) connected with the first charging circuit board (22), a charging plug (24) installed in the second casing (21); the said second casing (21) with a annular sleeve-joint portion (211) sleeved outside of the first casing (11), and the second coil (23) is arranged in the annular sleeve-joint portion (211), and when the electrical body (1) is connected with the charging body (2) in sleeve mode, the first coil (15) is arranged right inside the second coil (23). The device can supply power to a battery of an electrical apparatus by means of non-contact manner.
US09231420B2	Cell balance circuit and cell balance device To provide a cell balance circuit and a cell balance apparatus with a low cost and with a compact size, and configured to equalize the charge voltages of rechargeable batteries when the rechargeable batteries are charged or discharged, while suppressing deterioration of the rechargeable batteries. A cell balance circuit AA includes a transformer T, a switch SW1 arranged so as to form a set with a rechargeable battery BT1, and a switch SW2 arranged so as to form a set with a rechargeable battery BT2. The transformer T includes a primary winding Wa arranged so as to form a set with the rechargeable battery BT1, and a secondary winding Wb arranged so as to form a set with the rechargeable battery BT2. When the rechargeable batteries BT1 and BT2 are charged or discharged, the cell balance circuit AA synchronously controls the switches SW1 and SW2.
US09231419B2	Semiconductor device and battery pack In a battery monitoring system included in a secondary battery, high-accuracy charge control is enabled at low cost. A semiconductor device includes: a drive unit which drives a transistor for controlling the charge current of a secondary battery and which is configured to be capable of selecting one of plural different voltages as a drive voltage (VGC) for turning on the transistor; and a data processing control unit which performs program processing. The data processing control unit generates condition information including information about the battery level of the secondary battery based on measured values of the secondary battery voltage and current and adjusts the charge current of the secondary battery by changing the drive voltage selection.
US09231417B2	Rechargeable electrical device The charging current value in the first trickle charge after the rapid charge is differentiated from the charging current value in the second and subsequent trickle charge. Thus, for example, in the first trickle charge, charging can be performed with the charging current value required to simultaneously activate and charge an inactive battery. In the second and subsequent trickle charge, charging can be performed with the charging current value required to compensate for self-discharge of a rechargeable battery. By charging the battery with the charging current value required to compensate for self-discharge of the battery in the second and subsequent trickle charge, power consumption required to charge the battery can be reduced, compared to the case where the trickle charge is continued with a constant charging current value required to simultaneously activate and charge the inactive battery, as the conventional device.
US09231409B2	Sourcing and securing dual supply rails of tamper protected battery backed domain This invention is a System On a Chip (SOC) requiring two tamper resistant externally generated power supplies. A first, higher power supply powers I/O and analog circuits. A second, lower power supply powers digital circuits and memory. A first voltage monitor circuit powered by said first power supply generates a first output signal when the first power supply is below an operational limit high level. A second voltage monitor circuit powered by said first power supply indicates when the second power supply is above an operational high limit level. A power switch is controlled by the first voltage monitor circuit. This power switch connects the second power supply and second load when closed and isolates them when open. Thus the memory cannot be accessed when the I/O and analog power supply is out of specification.
US09231407B2	Battery system, method of controlling the same, and energy storage system including the battery system A battery management system used to monitor a number of batteries. This battery management system includes a number of isolation circuits electrically connected to the batteries. The battery management system includes a measuring unit electrically connected to the isolation circuits to turn on or off the isolation circuits and measure voltages simultaneously of the batteries when the isolation circuits are turned on by the measuring unit.
US09231401B2	Wireless communication base station with current limiting capability A wireless communication system base station (20) includes a base station transceiver (26) that has at least one operative component (32) for facilitating wireless communications. A current limiting device (36) includes at least one field effect transistor for selectively controlling current flow to a capacitive stability device (34) associated with at least one of the operative components (32). In the disclosed example, the current limiting device (36) is in series with the capacitive stability device (34) but in parallel with the operative component (32).
US09231399B2	Devices and methods for overvoltage protection A circuit protection device includes an overvoltage monitor circuit that is operable to monitor a power supply circuit to detect an overvoltage condition on the power supply circuit and to change a state of an overvoltage output responsive to the overvoltage condition on the power supply circuit. A bi-directional switch is operable to interrupt or limit current flow though the power supply circuit responsive to the change in the state of the overvoltage output. A bi-directional voltage limiter is connected across output terminals of the circuit protection device and is operable to limit an overvoltage to a predefined voltage limit.
US09231395B2	Subsea high voltage terminal assembly A system and method are provided for a terminal assembly of a subsea motor-compressor. The terminal assembly may include a plurality of terminal ports extending through a hollow spherical body to a cavity defined therein. The terminal assembly may also include a penetrator detachably coupled with the spherical body about each of the plurality of terminal ports. The terminal assembly may further include a mounting port extending through the spherical body to the cavity defined therein. The mounting port may be configured to couple the terminal assembly with a housing of the motor-compressor.
US09231393B2	Electrical assembly with organizer Electrical assemblies including various complementary electrical components and plurality of cables are provided. Components of the electrical assemblies are configured such that respective signal conductor ends of the plurality of electrical cables can be isolated from one another and placed in electrical communication with the complementary electrical components using a conductive material. In accordance with some embodiments, the electrical assemblies include organizers that define respective pluralities of cavities and are configured to be attached to the complementary electrical components. In accordance with another embodiment, a leadframe assembly can define a plurality of cavities. The cavities of each of the pluralities of cavities are isolated from each other such that respective signal conductor ends of the plurality of electrical cables can be inserted into respective ones of the pluralities of cavities and placed into electrical communication with the respective complementary electrical components by filling the cavities with conductive material.
US09231389B2	Electrical box, integrated flange and cover mechanisms A “no profile” electrical box, integrated flange/protective assembly and interchangeable cover that obscures standard electrical outlets such that a wall surface appears nearly continuous, uninterrupted by the outlet or cover when in use or not in use. The profile of the combined unit equals only the thickness of the material from which it is constructed; no hinges, screws or fasteners of any kind are visible and no part of the assembly requires detachment or storage when the outlet is in use, as the hinged cover is undetectably stored in the electrical box, or may be used to cover the electrical cords when engaged in the outlet. Exemplary embodiments of the cover obscure the electrical outlet. Together, the electrical box and flange assembly allow the electrical outlet to be flush mounted or recessed interchangeably, even after installation.
US09231384B2	Method for coating spark plug threads with a polytetrafluoroethylene mixutre The invention relates to a method for coating spark plug threads with a polytetrafluoroethylene mixture comprising the steps of (a) bringing the spark plug to room temperature of 21° C. to 26° C. (70° F. to 79° F.); (b) mixing the polytetrafluoroethylene mixture thoroughly and filtering the material through a 100-mesh stainless steel screen (0.146 mm openings); (c) applying a minimum dry film thickness of 20 microns to 30 microns (0.8 mil to 1.2 mil) to the spark plug thread; and (d) baking the spark plug for 15 minutes at a metal temperature of 232° C. to 260° C. (450° F. to 500° F.).
US09231382B2	Plasma ignition device and plasma ignition method A technique of improving the life of a spark plug which generates spark discharge and AC plasma. A plasma ignition device includes a power control section which reduces AC power P after generation of AC plasma in an AC power supply period Sa during which the AC power P is continuously supplied to a spark plug within a maintainable power range Rp within which the AC plasma can be maintained.
US09231374B2	Multi-beam semiconductor laser device Provided is a multi-beam semiconductor laser device in which deterioration of element characteristics is suppressed even when a beam pitch is reduced. The multi-beam semiconductor laser device includes: a first semiconductor multilayer in which a plurality of semiconductor layers are laminated; a plurality of light emitting ridge portions that are formed on the first semiconductor multilayer; a support electrode portion formed in a region between a pair of neighboring light emitting ridge portions; and a front ridge portion formed on the front side of the support electrode portion. The support electrode portion is electrically connected to one of the pair of neighboring light emitting ridge portions. The support electrode portion is higher than the one light emitting ridge portion. An end of the front ridge portion on the front end surface side is higher than the one light emitting ridge portion at the front end surface.
US09231368B2	Passive waveguide structure with alternating GaInAs/AlInAs layers for mid-infrared optoelectronic devices Disclosed is a semiconductor optical emitter having an optical mode and a gain section, the emitter comprising a low loss waveguide structure made of two alternating layers of semiconductor materials A and B, having refractive indexes of Na and Nb, respectively, with an effective index No of the optical mode in the low loss waveguide between Na and Nb, wherein No is within a 5% error margin of identical to a refractive index of the gain section and wherein the gain section is butt-jointed with the low loss waveguide, and wherein the size and shape of the optical mode(s) in the low loss waveguide and gain section are within a 10% error margin of equal. Desirably, at least one of the semiconductor materials A and B has a sufficiently large band gap that the passive waveguide structure blocks current under a voltage bias of 15 V.
US09231354B1	Interconnections for axial cables Cable interconnection terminated by a pin or socket includes a housing, an inner conductor arranged in the housing and having a first end adapted to couple to the pin or socket, and an outer sheath adapted to couple to an outer sheath of a cable including at least one conductor, e.g., a coaxial cable, twin-axial cable or tri-axial cable. The interconnection also includes first and second pins. The first pin is arranged at a second end of the inner conductor while the second pin is electrically connected to the outer sheath. The first and second pins each have a mating portion, and both mating portions terminate at a common plane a set distance from the housing. This termination in a common plane, substantially perpendicular to the axial direction of the pins, enables the cable to mate with a wide range of electronic componentry.
US09231347B2	Connector A connector includes: a housing; a plurality of terminal chambers formed in the housing along a longitudinal direction thereof to accommodate terminals therein; a spacer insertion hole formed in the housing along a height direction thereof perpendicular to the longitudinal direction to communicate with the terminal chambers through communication holes and allow an insertion of a spacer for engaging with the terminals, each of the communication holes formed so as to communicate each of the terminal chambers with an outside of the housing, and forming a depression on an underside of each terminal chamber; and a guide protrusion formed about an upstream-side edge of each of the communication holes in an inserting direction of the terminal to lead a front end of the terminal inserted into the terminal chamber toward an upside of a downstream-side edge of each communication hole in the inserting direction.
US09231332B2	Built-up plug A built-up plug includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first shell, a first metal foot and at least one fixing mass on the first shell. The second portion includes a second shell, a second metal foot and at least one fixing groove on the second shell. The first metal foot protrudes from a top portion of the first shell. The second metal foot protrudes from a top portion of the second shell. The fixing mass is placed in the fixing groove to combine the first portion and the second portion.
US09231328B2	Resilient conductive electrical interconnect An interconnect assembly including a resilient material with a plurality of through holes extending from a first surface to a second surface. A plurality of discrete, free-flowing conductive particles is located in the through holes. The conductive particles are preferably substantially free of non-conductive materials. A plurality of first contact tips are located in the through holes adjacent the first surface and a plurality of second contact tips are located in the through holes adjacent the second surface. The resilient material provides the required resilience, while the conductive particles provide a conductive path substantially free of non-conductive materials.
US09231314B2	Connector assembly and method for using A connector assembly for providing electrical connection to an insulated conductive wire, the connector assembly including: a housing defining a channel for receiving the insulated conductive wire; a cover hinged to the housing and configured to close over the channel to cover the insulated conductive wire; and an electrically conductive pin having a first end in the channel and a second end in the housing beneath the channel.
US09231308B2	Feeding apparatus and low noise block down-converter A feeding apparatus includes a substrate, an annular grounded metal sheet having a first opening and a second opening, a rectangular grounded metal sheet extending from the annular grounded metal sheet toward an interior according to a configuration of a septum polarizer of a waveguide, a first parasitic grounded metal sheet extending from a side of the rectangular grounded metal sheet along a first direction, a second parasitic grounded metal sheet extending from another side of the rectangular grounded metal sheet along a second direction, a first feeding metal sheet extending from the first opening toward the interior and including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion and a second feeding metal sheet extending from the second opening toward the interior and including a fourth portion, a fifth portion and a sixth portion.
US09231306B2	Patch antenna and wireless communications device A patch antenna includes a dielectric body, radiation element, earth conductor and feed member. The dielectric body increases in cross-sectional area from a first end toward a second end thereof. The radiation element is disposed on a surface of the dielectric body, and each side of the radiation element has a length adjusted based on the frequency of a radio wave to be received and the effective permittivity of the dielectric body. The earth conductor is disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric body. The feed member is electrically connected to the radiation element.
US09231302B2	Devices, methods, and systems for antenna switching based on look-back This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for antenna switching for simultaneous communication. An can include a plurality of antennas including a first antenna and a second antenna. The apparatus can further includes a plurality of receive circuits including a first receive circuit. The apparatus can further include a controller configured to determine one or more performance characteristics of the first antenna at a first time. The controller is further configured to determine a difference between the one or more performance characteristics of the first antenna at the first time and one or more performance characteristics of the first antenna at an earlier time. The controller is further configured to selectively switch the first receive circuit from receiving wireless communications via the first antenna to receive wireless communications via the second antenna if the difference is larger than a threshold. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09231292B2	Multi-antenna signaling scheme for low-powered or passive radio communications A multi-antenna signaling scheme, system and method for passive or low-powered RF devices, such as a radio frequency identification tag, are herein described. In one embodiment, the presently disclosed subject matter discloses a Retrodirective Array Phase Modulator which is configured to allow RFID tags to return higher-powered signals with higher data rates back to an RFID interrogator or reader unit. In some configurations, pattern strobing is used which is an array-based transmission technique for stepping or sweeping an RF waveform through space so that passive radio devices may more efficiently harvest energy without increasing transmit power. In some configurations, the presently disclosed subject matter may also use a Staggered Pattern Charge Collector to boost the collection of microwave power.
US09231289B2	Methods and devices for providing a compact resonator A compact resonator is provided which includes a coupling that is connected to the resonator in between a resonator body and pedestal. The coupling may be keyed or otherwise fixed to prevent it from moving. Both deep drawn and solid resonator designs are provided.
US09231288B2	High frequency signal combiner A high-frequency signal combiner comprises at least one first bridge coupler for the transformation of two input-end, first high-frequency signals into at least two output-end, first high-frequency signals in each case with identical power, and a second bridge coupler for the transformation of four input-end, second high-frequency signals, in each case with identical power, into an output-end, second high-frequency signal, of which the power corresponds to the summated power of the four input-end, second high-frequency signals. In this context, the four input-end, second high-frequency signals are each supplied from one output-end, first high-frequency signal. In order to add an integer multiple of four high-frequency signals, a cascade of second bridge couplers is realized with a number of cascade stages corresponding to the integer multiple. In every cascade stage, every second bridge coupler of the preceding cascade stage is replaced respectively by four second bridge couplers.
US09231286B2	Package substrate with band stop filter and semiconductor package including the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a band stop filter, which includes: a transmission line pattern arranged on a package substrate; and a conductive stub pattern arranged along the transmission line pattern in a state of being separated from the transmission line pattern.
US09231283B2	Protection monitoring circuit, battery pack, secondary battery monitoring circuit, and protection circuit A protection monitoring circuit 101 includes a secondary battery monitoring circuit 120 which detects a state of a chargeable and dischargeable secondary battery 110, and a protection circuit 130 which performs an ON/OFF control of a charge control transistor or a discharge control transistor disposed between the secondary battery 110 and a load or a charger device, and protects the secondary battery 110. The secondary battery monitoring circuit outputs a control signal that compulsively turns on/off the charge control transistor or the discharge control transistor, to the protection circuit. The protection circuit 130 performs the ON/OFF control of the charge control transistor or the discharge control transistor upon receipt of the control signal.
US09231274B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte solution and lithium secondary battery using same A non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt, a non-aqueous solvent, a cyclic carbonate compound having an unsaturated bond and a compound of the following formula (Ic): CFnH(3-n)CH2X3 (Ic) where n represents an integer of 1-3 and X3 represents a group selected from the group consisting of formulas (Ic-1), (Ic-2) and (Ic-4): —O—R31 (Ic-1) —O—Y3—O—R32 (Ic-2) and wherein R31, R32 and R34 represent, independently of each other, an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms that may be substituted by a halogen atom, and Y3 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms that may be substituted by a halogen atom.
US09231270B2	Lithium-ion battery The present invention provides a cylindrical lithium-ion secondary battery. The lithium-ion battery of the present invention has a structure in which the value of B/A is optimized, where the distance between an electrode pole to which strip-form lead pieces are welded, the lead pieces being formed intermittently in the winding direction, which is the longitudinal direction of the belt-like electrodes, and the inner wall of the battery can is represented by A, and the distance between the electrode pole and the wound electrode group is represented by B, in order to secure an exhaust passage for the gas generated upon occurrence of an abnormality in the battery.
US09231267B2	Systems and methods for sustainable economic development through integrated full spectrum production of renewable energy In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing an energy supply using a renewable energy source is provided comprising: providing a first source of renewable energy, wherein the first source of renewable energy is intermittent or does not provide a sufficient amount of energy; providing energy from the first source of renewable energy to an electrolyzer to produce an energy carrier through electrolysis; selectably reversing the electrolyzer for use as a fuel cell; and providing the energy carrier to the electrolyzer for the production of energy.
US09231264B2	Hydrogen generator A hydrogen generator and a fuel cell system including a fuel cell battery and the hydrogen generator. The hydrogen generator includes a cartridge, a housing with a cavity to removably contain the cartridge, and an initiation system. The cartridge includes a casing; a plurality of pellets including a hydrogen containing material; a plurality of solid heat transfer members in contact with but not penetrating the casing; a hydrogen outlet in the casing; and a hydrogen flow path from each pellet to the hydrogen outlet. A plurality of heating elements is disposed inside the housing. When the cartridge is in the cavity, each heating element is disposed so heat can be conducted from the heating element and through the casing and corresponding heat transfer member to initiate the release of hydrogen gas. The initiation system can selectively heat one or more pellets to release hydrogen gas as needed.
US09231257B2	Bipolar plate for fuel cell including non-electrochemical reaction region comprising a non-conductive material A bipolar plate for fuel cell has an electrochemical reaction region and a non-electrochemical reaction region connected together. The electrochemical reaction region is at the center position of the bipolar plate. The non-electrochemical reaction region is made of non-conductive material and is located around the electrochemical reaction region. The bipolar plate reduces loss, raises work efficiency, and is easy to produce. The material cost of the bipolar plate is effectively reduced.
US09231253B2	Binder for electrode of lithium battery, binder composition including the binder, and lithium battery containing the binder In an aspect, a binder for a lithium battery electrode, a binder composition including the binder, and a lithium battery including the binder are provided. The binder may include a water-soluble electroconductive polymer having a carboxylate functional group.
US09231244B2	Positive electrode active material for lithium ion battery, method of producing the same, electrode for lithium ion battery, and lithium ion battery Provided is a positive electrode active material for lithium ion batteries, which is capable of realizing stability and safety at a high voltage, a high energy density, high load characteristics, and long-term cycle characteristics by controlling a crystal shape of LiMnPO4 particles having a crystal structure very suitable for Li diffusion or controlling an average primary particle size, a production method thereof, an electrode for lithium ion batteries, and a lithium ion battery. The positive electrode active material for lithium ion batteries of the invention is a positive electrode active material for lithium ion batteries, which is formed from LiMnPO4. Values of lattice constants a, b, and c, which are calculated from an X-ray diffraction pattern, satisfy 10.41 Å
US09231243B2	Interconnected hollow nanostructures containing high capacity active materials for use in rechargeable batteries Provided are electrode layers for use in rechargeable batteries, such as lithium ion batteries, and related fabrication techniques. These electrode layers have interconnected hollow nanostructures that contain high capacity electrochemically active materials, such as silicon, tin, and germanium. In certain embodiments, a fabrication technique involves forming a nanoscale coating around multiple template structures and at least partially removing and/or shrinking these structures to form hollow cavities. These cavities provide space for the active materials of the nanostructures to swell into during battery cycling. This design helps to reduce the risk of pulverization and to maintain electrical contacts among the nanostructures. It also provides a very high surface area available ionic communication with the electrolyte. The nanostructures have nanoscale shells but may be substantially larger in other dimensions. Nanostructures can be interconnected during forming the nanoscale coating, when the coating formed around two nearby template structures overlap.
US09231230B2	Organic light emitting diode display and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting diode display includes a display substrate including a display region having an organic light emitting diode; an encapsulation substrate facing the display substrate and covering the display region; a first sealing material between the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate, the first sealing material sealing the display region; a second sealing material in contact with an external exposed surface of the first sealing material and sealing the first sealing material; and a molding portion surrounding a lateral surface and an external corner of each of the display substrate and the encapsulation substrate and surrounding an external exposed surface of the second sealing material.
US09231221B2	Organic light emitting diode display including bent flexible substrate and method of forming the same An organic light emitting diode display includes: a flexible substrate configured to be bent at least once; a first display part on the flexible substrate and including a plurality of first light emitting elements; and a second display part on the flexible substrate and including a plurality of second light emitting elements. Each of a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element among the plurality of first and second light emitting elements includes a first electrode, an emission layer and a second electrode, the first electrode of the first light emitting element includes a transparent layer or a semi-transparent layer, the first electrode of the second light emitting element includes a reflective layer, and the second electrode of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, includes the transparent layer or the semi-transparent layer.
US09231218B2	Phosphorescent emitters containing dibenzo[1,4]azaborinine structure A dibenzo[1,4]azaborine comprising compound, and devices and formulations including the same are described. The compound includes a ligand L1 including wherein E1 is N; E2 is B; and R3 and R4 represent mono, di, tri, tetra substitutions or no substitution; wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, halide, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carbonyl, carboxylic acids, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof; wherein any two adjacent R1, R2, R3, and R4 are optionally joined to form a ring, which may be further substituted; wherein L1 is coordinated to a metal M, provided that the metal M does not form bond with E1 and E2; and wherein L1 may be linked with other ligands to comprise a bidentate, tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate ligand.
US09231203B1	Doped narrow band gap nitrides for embedded resistors of resistive random access memory cells Provided are memory cells, such as resistive random access memory (ReRAM) cells, and methods of fabricating such cells. A cell includes an embedded resistor and resistive switching layer connected in series within the embedded resistor. The embedded resistor prevents excessive electrical currents through the resistive switching layer, especially when the resistive switching layer is switched into its low resistive state. The embedded resistor includes a stoichiometric nitride that has a bandgap of less than 2 eV. The embedded resistor is configured to maintain a substantially constant resistance throughout fabrication and operation of the cell, such as annealing the cell and subjecting the cell to forming and switching signals. The stoichiometric nitride may be one of hafnium nitride, zirconium nitride, or titanium nitride. The embedded resistor may also include a dopant, such as tantalum, niobium, vanadium, tungsten, molybdenum, or chromium.
US09231200B2	Memory element and memory device A memory element includes: a memory layer disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. The memory layer includes: an ion source layer containing one or more metallic elements, and one or more chalcogen elements of tellurium (Te), sulfur (S), and selenium (Se); and a resistance change layer disposed between the ion source layer and the first electrode, the resistance change layer including a layer which includes tellurium and nitrogen (N) and is in contact with the ion source layer.
US09231198B2	Resistance-variable memory device including carbide-based solid electrolyte membrane and manufacturing method thereof Disclosed are a resistance-variable memory device including a carbide-based solid electrolyte membrane that has stable memory at a high temperature and a manufacturing method thereof. The resistance-variable memory device includes: a lower electrode, the carbide-based solid electrolyte membrane arranged on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode arranged on the solid electrolyte membrane. In addition, the method for manufacturing the resistance-variable memory device comprises: a step for forming the lower electrode on a substrate, a step for forming the carbide-based solid electrolyte membrane on the lower electrode, and a step for forming the upper electrode on the solid electrolyte membrane.
US09231196B2	Magnetoresistive element and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive element is disclosed. The element includes a lower electrode, a stacked body provided on the lower electrode and including a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer and a second magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer is under the tunnel barrier layer, the second magnetic layer is on the tunnel barrier layer. The first magnetic layer includes a first region and a second region outside the first region to surround the first region. The second region includes an element in the first region and other element being different from the element.
US09231195B2	Magnetic memory and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory comprises an electrode, a memory layer which is formed on the electrode and has magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to a film plane, and in which a magnetization direction is variable, a tunnel barrier layer formed on the memory layer, and a reference layer which is formed on the tunnel barrier layer and has magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to the film plane, and in which a magnetization direction is invariable. The memory layer has a positive magnetostriction constant on a side of the electrode, and a negative magnetostriction constant on a side of the tunnel barrier layer.
US09231182B2	Angular velocity sensor In a piezoelectric element, a piezoelectric film, a first electrode film provided on one surface of the piezoelectric film, and a second electrode film provided on the other surface of the piezoelectric film form a layered structure, an outer contour of the first electrode film and an outer contour of the second electrode film are positioned outside an outer contour of the piezoelectric film as viewed in a layering direction, an organic resin film is in contact with the piezoelectric film, and generation of noise is suppressed.
US09231181B2	Input/output systems and devices for use with superconducting devices Systems and devices for providing differential input/output communication with a superconducting device are described. Each differential I/O communication is electrically filtered using a respective tubular filter structure incorporating superconducting lumped element devices and high frequency dissipation by metal powder epoxy. A plurality of such tubular filter structures is arranged in a cryogenic, multi-tiered assembly further including structural/thermalization supports and a device sample holder assembly for securing a device sample, for example a superconducting quantum processor. The interface between the cryogenic tubular filter assembly and room temperature electronics is achieved using hermetically sealed vacuum feed-through structures designed to receive flexible printed circuit board cable.
US09231174B2	LED module An light emitting diode (LED) module includes a circuit board, a set of LED chips formed on and electrically connected to the circuit board, and an encapsulant arranged on the circuit board and covering the LED chips, a set of first recesses defined in a top surface of the encapsulant.
US09231168B2	Light emitting diode package structure A light-emitting diode package structure including a chip carrier portion, a light-emitting diode chip, and a package material is provided. The light-emitting diode chip is disposed on the chip carrier portion of the package. The package material is filled in the chip carrier portion and covers the light-emitting diode chip. The package material includes a matrix material, a plurality of first powder particles, and a plurality of second powder particles. The first powder particles and the second powder particles are distributed in the matrix material. Each first powder particle is a wavelength conversion material. Each second powder particle has a shell-like structure.
US09231152B2	Light emitting diode The present invention provides a light emitting diode, which comprises a first LED die, a second LED die, and a dummy LED die, wherein the second LED die is disposed between the first LED die and the dummy LED die, and each die comprises a first semi-conductive layer, a second semi-conductive layer, and a multiple quantum well layer disposed between the first and the second semi-conductive layers. The first semi-conductive layer of the first LED die is coupled to the second semi-conductive layer of the second LED die, and the first semi-conductive layer of the second LED die is coupled to the first and second semi-conductive layers of the dummy LED die.
US09231149B2	Photovoltaic cell electrode and method for electrically connecting a photovoltaic cell An electrode for electrically connecting two photovoltaic cells is provided. Each photovoltaic cell may include a plurality of lamellar electrically conductive surface regions. The electrode may include a plurality of electrically conductive wires extending adjacent to one other; and a stabilizing structure coupled to the plurality of electrically conductive wires such that the space between the electrically conductive wires to one another is defined until the plurality of electrically conductive wires has been fixed on the plurality of lamellar electrically conductive surface regions of a photovoltaic cell.
US09231148B2	Method for cleaning and passivating chalcogenide layers A method for chemically cleaning and passivating a chalcogenide layer is provided, wherein the method comprises bringing the chalcogenide layer into contact with an ammonium sulfide containing ambient, such as an ammonium sulfide liquid solution or an ammonium sulfide containing vapor. Further, a method for fabricating photovoltaic cells with a chalcogenide absorber layer is provided, wherein the method comprises: providing a chalcogenide semiconductor layer on a substrate; bringing the chalcogenide semiconductor layer into contact with an ammonium sulfide containing ambient, thereby removing impurities and passivating the chalcogenide semiconductor layer; and afterwards providing a buffer layer on the chalcogenide semiconductor layer.
US09231142B2	Non-parabolic solar concentration to an area of controlled flux density conversion system and method A solar conversion system with a solar collector that is shaped to focus reflected sunlight along an area with a substantially constant flux density. The area shape can be resemble a rectangular, square, circular, or other shape. Included with the system is a solar conversion module having a photovoltaic cell that is alignable with the area. The cell converts the focused reflected sunlight into electrical energy when aligned with the area.
US09231139B2	Structure and design of concentrator solar cell assembly receiver substrate A substrate has a top side and a bottom side. A solar cell is secured to the top side of the substrate and has an anode and a cathode. A heat transfer element is secured to the bottom side of the substrate. An anode pad is formed on the top side of the substrate and is coupled to the anode of the solar cell; similarly, a cathode pad is formed on the top side of the substrate and is coupled to the cathode of the solar cell. The substrate coefficient of thermal expansion and the solar cell coefficient of thermal expansion match within plus or minus ten parts per million per degree C.
US09231128B2	Solar cell module A solar cell module is discussed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells, each solar cell including a substrate and an electrode part positioned at a surface of the substrate, an interconnector electrically connecting at least one of the solar cells to another of the solar cells; and a first conductive adhesive film including a first resin and a plurality of first conductive particles dispersed in the first resin. The first conductive adhesive film is positioned between the electrode part of the at least one solar cell and the interconnector to electrically connect the electrode part of the at least one solar cell to the interconnector. A contact surface between the first conductive particles and the interconnector is an uneven surface.
US09231123B1	Flexible connectors for building integrable photovoltaic modules Provided are novel building integrable photovoltaic (BIP) modules having flexible connectors and methods of fabricating thereof. According to various embodiments, a BIP module includes a photovoltaic insert having one or more photovoltaic cells and a flexible connector having a flexible member and a connector member. The flexible member provides flexible mechanical support to the connector member with respect to the insert. The flexible member may include a flat conductive strip, a portion of which is shaped to provide additional flexibility to the flexible member along its width. The connector member encloses one or more conductive elements, such as louvered sockets, which are electrically connected to the photovoltaic insert by the flexible member. In certain embodiments, the same flat conductive strip is used to form a shaped portion as well as conductive element and/or a portion of a bus bar extending into the photovoltaic insert.
US09231105B2	Semiconductor device with group-III nitride compound semiconductor layer on substrate for transistor To realize a transistor of normally-off type having a high mobility and a high breakdown voltage. A compound semiconductor layer is formed over a substrate, has both a concentration of p-type impurities and a concentration of n-type impurities less than 1×1016/cm3, and includes a group III nitride compound. A well is a p-type impurity layer and formed in the compound semiconductor layer. A source region is formed within the well and is an n-type impurity layer. A low-concentration n-type region is formed in the compound semiconductor layer and is linked to the well. A drain region is formed in the compound semiconductor layer and is located on a side opposite to the well via the low-concentration n-type region. The drain region is an n-type impurity layer.
US09231099B2	Semiconductor power MOSFET device having a super-junction drift region A semiconductor device includes: a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of second conductivity type semiconductor regions, the respective second conductivity type semiconductor regions being embedded in a plurality of stripe shaped trenches formed in the semiconductor substrate so that the respective second conductivity type semiconductor regions are extended in the row direction or the column direction in parallel with a first principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and are spaced in a fixed gap mutually. The semiconductor substrate and the plurality of the semiconductor regions are depleted by a depletion layer extended in the direction in parallel to the first principal surface from a plurality of pn junction interfaces, and the respective pn junction interfaces are formed between the semiconductor substrate and the plurality of the semiconductor regions.
US09231097B2	HVMOS transistor structure having offset distance and method for fabricating the same An HVMOS transistor structure includes: a first ion well of a first conductivity type and a second ion well of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type formed over a substrate, wherein the first ion well and the second ion well have a junction at their interface; a gate overlying the first ion well and the second ion well; a drain region of the first conductivity type, in the first ion well, spaced apart from a first sidewall of the gate by an offset distance; and a source region of the first conductivity type in the second ion well. In addition, a method for fabricating the HVMOS transistor structure described above is also provided.
US09231096B2	Semiconductor device and field effect transistor with controllable threshold voltage A field effect transistor includes a substrate and a semiconductor layer provided on the substrate, wherein the semiconductor layer includes a lower barrier layer provided on the substrate, Ga-face grown, lattice relaxed, and having a composition In1−zAlzN (0≦z≦1), a channel layer having a composition of: AlxGa1−xN (0≦x≦1) or InyGa1−yN (0≦y≦1). Or GaN provided on and lattice-matched to the lower barrier layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode having ohmic contact to an upper part of the semiconductor layers, disposed spaced to each other, and a gate electrode arranged via a gate insulating film in a region lying between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09231091B2	Semiconductor device and reverse conducting insulated gate bipolar transistor with isolated source zones A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor mesa with at least one body zone forming first pn junctions with source zones and a second pn junction with a drift zone. A pedestal layer at a side of the drift zone opposite to the at least one body zone includes first zones of a conductivity type of the at least one body zone and second zones of the conductivity type of the drift zone. Electrode structures are on opposite sides of the semiconductor mesa. At least one of the electrode structures includes a gate electrode controlling a charge carrier flow through the at least one body zone. In a separation region between two of the source zones (i) a capacitive coupling between the gate electrode and the semiconductor mesa or (ii) a conductivity of majority charge carriers of the drift zone is lower than outside of the separation region.
US09231083B2	High breakdown voltage LDMOS device A multi-region (81, 83) lateral-diffused-metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device (40) has a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) support structure (21) on or over which are formed a substantially symmetrical, laterally internal, first LDMOS region (81) and a substantially asymmetric, laterally edge-proximate, second LDMOS region (83). A deep-trench isolation (DTI) wall (60) substantially laterally terminates the laterally edge-proximate second LDMOS region (83). Electric field enhancement and lower source-drain breakdown voltages (BVDSS) exhibited by the laterally edge-proximate second LDMOS region (83) associated with the DTI wall (60) are avoided by providing a doped SC buried layer region (86) in the SOI support structure (21) proximate the DTI wall (60), underlying a portion of the laterally edge-proximate second LDMOS region (83) and of opposite conductivity type than a drain region (31) of the laterally edge-proximate second LDMOS region (83).
US09231081B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a body region is formed in an epitaxial layer provided on a semiconductor substrate. A part of a semiconductor material forming the body region surface is removed to form a convex-type contact region protruding from the body region surface and to form a shallow trench surrounding the convex-type contact region. A deep trench region is formed so as to extend from the shallow trench surface to inside of the epitaxial layer. A gate insulating film is formed on an inner wall of the deep trench region which is filled with polycrystalline silicon that is held in contact with the gate insulating film. A source region and a body contact region are formed in the shallow trench and the convex-type contact region, respectively, and a silicide layer is formed to connect the source region and the body contact region to each other.
US09231078B2	Semiconductor and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor element and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor element includes a base, an epitaxy layer, a first well, a second well, a third well, a first heavily doping region, a second heavily doping region, a implanting region and a conductive layer. The epitaxy layer is disposed on the base. The first well, the second well and the third well are disposed in the epitaxy layer. The third well is located between the first well and the second well. A surface channel is formed between the first heavily doping region and the second heavily doping region. The implanting region is fully disposed between the surface channel and the base and disposed at a projection region of the first well, the second well and the third well.
US09231075B2	Semiconductor device including gate electrode provided over active region in p-type nitride semiconductor layer and method of manufacturing the same, and power supply apparatus A semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor stacked structure including a carrier transit layer and a carrier supply layer; a p-type nitride semiconductor layer provided over the nitride semiconductor stacked structure and including an active region and an inactive region; an n-type nitride semiconductor layer provided on the inactive region in the p-type nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode provided over the active region in the p-type nitride semiconductor layer.
US09231061B2	Fabrication of surface textures by ion implantation for antireflection of silicon crystals The invention relates to a new method of texturing silicon surfaces suited for antireflection based on ion implantation of hydrogen and heavy ions or heavy elements combined with thermal annealing or thermal annealing and oxidation. The addition of the heavy ions or heavy elements allows for a more effective anti-reflective surface than is found when only hydrogen implantation is utilized. The methods used are also time- and cost-effective, as they can utilize already existing semiconductor ion implantation fabrication equipment and reduce the number of necessary steps. The antireflective surfaces are useful for silicon-based solar cells.
US09231053B2	Light emitting diodes having zinc oxide fibers over silicon substrates Semiconductor devices useful as light emitting diodes or power transistors are provided. The devices produced by depositing a Zn—O-based layer comprising nanostructures on a Si-based substrate, with or without a metal catalyst layer deposited therebetween. Furthermore, a pair of adjacent p-n junction forming layers is deposited on the ZnO-based layer, where one of the pair is an n-type epitaxial layer, and the other is a p-type epitaxial layer. One or more epitaxial layers may, optionally, be deposited between the ZnO-based layer and the pair of adjacent p-n junction forming layers.
US09231051B2	Methods of forming spacers on FinFETs and other semiconductor devices Disclosed herein are various methods of forming spacers on FinFETs and other semiconductor devices. In one example, the method includes forming a plurality of spaced-apart trenches in a semiconducting substrate that defines a fin, forming a first layer of insulating material in the trenches that covers a lower portion of the fin but exposes an upper portion of the fin, and forming a second layer of insulating material on the exposed upper portion of the fin. The method further comprises selectively forming a dielectric material above an upper surface of the fin and in a bottom of the trench, depositing a layer of spacer material above a gate structure of the device and above the dielectric material above the fin and in the trench, and performing an etching process on the layer of spacer material to define sidewall spacers positioned adjacent the gate structure.
US09231036B2	Organic electroluminescence display device Provided is an organic electroluminescence display device. The organic electroluminescence display device includes a bank that is provided so as to surround a central portion of a pixel electrode, an organic electroluminescence layer that is provided on the pixel electrode, a common electrode that is formed so as to extend from the organic electroluminescence layer to the bank, a color filter layer that overlaps the organic electroluminescence layer, a black matrix layer that overlaps the bank, a spacer that is provided on the black matrix layer, and a wiring that is provided on the black matrix layer so as to be placed on the spacer. The black matrix layer is disposed on the bank through the spacer. A convex portion is formed by the wiring being placed on the spacer, and the convex portion is electrically connected to the common electrode above the bank.
US09231011B2	Stacked-chip imaging systems Imaging systems may be provided with stacked-chip image sensors. A stacked-chip image sensor may include a vertical chip stack that includes an array of image pixels, analog control circuitry and storage and processing circuitry. The array of image pixels, the analog control circuitry, and the storage and processing circuitry may be formed on separate, stacked semiconductor substrates or may be formed in a vertical stack on a common semiconductor substrate. The image pixel array may be coupled to the control circuitry using vertical metal interconnects. The control circuitry may route pixel control signals and readout image data signals over the vertical metal interconnects. The control circuitry may provide digital image data to the storage and processing circuitry over additional vertical conductive interconnects coupled between the control circuitry and the storage and processing circuitry. The storage and processing circuitry may be configured to store and/or process the digital image data.
US09231000B2	Thin film transistor array substrate and organic light-emitting display apparatus including the same A thin film transistor array substrate includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a capacitor comprising a first electrode, and a second electrode located above the first electrode, a data line extending in a first direction, configured to provide a data signal, located above the capacitor, and overlapping a part of the capacitor, and a driving voltage line configured to supply a driving voltage, located between the capacitor and the data line, and comprising a first line extending in the first direction, and a second line extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
US09230997B2	Display panel The present invention provides a display panel including a novel structure that is suitable for preventing a short circuit between terminals. The present invention relates to a display panel including: an active matrix substrate; a counter substrate; and a sealing material, the active matrix substrate including a plurality of terminals outside the display region; and a plurality of insulating films respectively formed from inside to outside the display region, wherein lower portions of the plurality of terminals are formed of a same material as the gate wiring or the source wiring, upper portions of the plurality of terminals are formed of a same material as the pixel electrode, and the plurality of insulating films includes an inorganic insulating film and an organic insulating film thicker than the inorganic insulating film, the inorganic insulating film and the organic insulating film being arranged between the gate wiring or the source wiring and the pixel electrode, the organic insulating film including an end portion arranged on an outer side of a region where the sealing material is provided and at a position distant from a region where the terminals are provided, the inorganic insulating film including an end portion arranged on a boundary between the plurality of wirings and the plurality of terminals.
US09230986B2	3D memory Three-dimensional memory cells and methods of making and using the memory cells are discussed generally herein. In one or more embodiments, a three-dimensional vertical memory can include a memory stack. Such a memory stack can include memory cells and a dielectric between adjacent memory cells, each memory cell including a control gate and a charge storage structure. The memory cell can further include a barrier material between the charge storage structure and the control gate, the charge storage structure and the barrier material having a substantially equal dimension.
US09230983B1	Metal word lines for three dimensional memory devices A method of making a monolithic three dimensional NAND string includes forming a stack of alternating layers of a first material and a second material different from the first material over a substrate, etching the stack to form at least one opening in the stack and forming at least one charge storage region over a sidewall of the at least one opening. The method also includes forming a tunnel dielectric layer over the at least one charge storage region in the at least one opening, forming a semiconductor channel material over the tunnel dielectric layer in the at least one opening, selectively removing at least portions of the second material layers to form recesses between adjacent first material layers and forming ruthenium control gate electrodes in the recesses.
US09230976B2	Method of making ultrahigh density vertical NAND memory device Monolithic, three dimensional NAND strings include a semiconductor channel, at least one end portion of the semiconductor channel extending substantially perpendicular to a major surface of a substrate, a plurality of control gate electrodes having a strip shape extending substantially parallel to the major surface of the substrate, the blocking dielectric comprising a plurality of blocking dielectric segments, a plurality of discrete charge storage segments, and a tunnel dielectric located between each one of the plurality of the discrete charge storage segments and the semiconductor channel.
US09230967B2	Method for forming self-aligned isolation trenches in semiconductor substrate and semiconductor device The instant disclosure relates to a method for forming self-aligned isolation trenches in semiconductor substrate, comprising the following steps. The first step is providing a semiconductor substrate defined a plurality of active areas thereon. The next step is forming at least two buried bit lines in each of the active areas and an insulating structure disposed above and opposite to the at least two buried bit lines. The next step is forming a self-aligned spacer on the sidewalls of each of the insulating structures. The last step is selectively removing the semiconductor substrate with the self-aligned spacers as masks to form a plurality of isolation trenches.
US09230957B2	Integrated snubber in a single poly MOSFET Aspects of the present disclosure describe MOSFET devices that have snubber circuits. The snubber circuits comprise one or more resistors with a dynamically controllable resistance that is controlled by changes to a gate and/or drain potentials of the one or more MOSFET structures during switching events.
US09230955B2	Integrated circuit and wireless communication apparatus An element can be prevented from being damaged even when a high level signal is input to an integrated circuit having a variable capacitance element whose capacitance is variable by digital signal control. There is provided an integrated circuit including b sub-circuits (b is an integer equal to or greater than 1) that are connected in series between a first terminal and a second terminal and have capacitance 2b-1 times larger than predetermined unit capacitance. The b-th sub-circuit includes 2b-1 configurations, which are connected in parallel, each including at least two capacitors connected in series and at least two stacked switch elements. At least the two stacked switch elements are operated to all switched for each sub-circuit, and at least one switch element of at least the two stacked switch elements is provided between at least the two capacitors.
US09230943B2	Solid state illumination device A solid state illumination device includes a semiconductor light emitter mounted on a base and surrounded by sidewalls, e.g., in a circular, elliptical, triangular, rectangular or other appropriate arrangement, to define a chamber. A top element, which may be reflective, may be coupled to the sidewalls to further define the chamber. The light produced by the semiconductor light emitter is emitted through the sidewalls of the chamber. The sidewalls and/or top element may include wavelength converting material, for example, as a plurality of dots on the surfaces. An adjustable wavelength converting element may be used within the chamber, with the adjustable wavelength converting element being configured to adjust the surface area that is exposed to the light emitted by the semiconductor light emitter in the chamber to alter an optical property of the chamber.
US09230942B2	Semiconductor device including alternating stepped semiconductor die stacks A semiconductor device including alternating stepped semiconductor die stacks to allow for large numbers of semiconductor die to be provided within a semiconductor device using short wire bonds.
US09230933B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming conductive protrusion over conductive pillars or bond pads as fixed offset vertical interconnect structure A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die mounted to a substrate. A plurality of conductive pillars is formed over a semiconductor die. A plurality of conductive protrusions is formed over the conductive pillars. Bumps are formed over the conductive protrusions and conductive pillars. Alternatively, the conductive protrusions are formed over the substrate. A conductive layer is formed over the substrate. The semiconductor die is mounted to the substrate by reflowing the bumps at a temperature that is less than a melting point of the conductive pillars and conductive protrusions to metallurgically and electrically connect the bumps to the conductive layer while maintaining a fixed offset between the semiconductor die and substrate. The fixed offset between the semiconductor die and substrate is determined by a height of the conductive pillars and a height of the conductive protrusions. A mold underfill material is deposited between the semiconductor die and substrate.
US09230930B2	Semiconductor device Technique capable of achieving reliability improvement of a semiconductor device even if temperature rising of an operation guarantee temperature of the semiconductor device is performed is provided. Gap portions are provided among a plurality of pads, and a glass coat composed of, for example, a silicon oxide film or a silicon nitride film is embedded in the gap portions. The glass coat is provided in order to secure electrical insulation among the pads, and coats outer edge portions of the pads. Trenches are formed so as to be adjacent to regions, which are coated with the glass coat, of the outer edge portions of the pads.
US09230928B2	Spot plated leadframe and IC bond pad via array design for copper wire There is provided a system and method for a spot plated leadframe and an IC bond pad via array design for copper wire. There is provided a semiconductor package comprising a leadframe having a pre-plated finish and a spot plating on said pre-plated finish, a semiconductor die including a bond pad on a top surface thereof, and a copper wire bonded to said spot plating and to said bond pad. Optionally, a novel corner via array design may be provided under the bond pad for improved package performance while maintaining the integrity of the copper wire bond. The semiconductor package may provide several advantages including high MSL ratings, simplified assembly cycles, avoidance of tin whisker issues, and low cost compared to conventional packages using gold wire bonds.
US09230922B2	Precursor composition for deposition of silicon dioxide film and method for fabricating semiconductor device using the same A precursor composition for forming a silicon dioxide film on a substrate, the precursor composition including at least one precursor compound represented by the following chemical formulas (1), (2), and (3): HxSiAy(NR1R2)4-x-y (1) HxSi(NAR3)4-x (2) HxSi(R4)z(R5)4-x-z (3) wherein, independently in the chemical formulas (1), (2), and (3), H is hydrogen, x is 0 to 3, Si is silicon, A is a halogen, y is 1 to 4, N is nitrogen, and R1, R2, R3, and R5 are each independently selected from the group of H, aryl, perhaloaryl, C1-8 alkyl, and C1-8 perhaloalkyl, and R4 is aryl in which at least one hydrogen is replaced with a halogen or C1-8 alkyl in which at least one hydrogen is replaced with a halogen.
US09230913B1	Metallization layers configured for reduced parasitic capacitance Structures and methods to minimize parasitic capacitance in a circuit structure are provided. The structure may include a substrate supporting one or more circuits and one or more metallization layers above the substrate. The metallization layer includes a conductive pattern defined by an array of conductive fill elements, where the conductive fill elements of the array are discrete, electrically isolated elements sized to satisfy, at least in part, a pre-defined minimum area-occupation ratio for a chemical-mechanical polishing of the metallization layer, and to minimize parasitic capacitance within the metallization layer, as well as minimize parasitic capacitance between the metallization layer and the circuit, and if multiple metallization layers are present, between the layers.
US09230909B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof, and mounting method of semiconductor device Disclosed is a semiconductor device whose reliability can be improved. The semiconductor device includes: first wiring formed over a semiconductor substrate via a first insulating film; a second insulating film that includes an inorganic film covering the first wiring and that has a flat surface on which CMP processing has been performed; a third insulating film that is formed over the second insulating film and includes an inorganic film having moisture resistance higher than that of the second insulating film; and second wiring formed over the third insulating film. The thickness of the second wiring is 10 times or more larger than that of the first wiring, and the second wiring is located over the third insulating film without an organic insulating film being interposed between itself and the third insulating film.
US09230904B2	Methods of forming a stack of electrodes and three-dimensional semiconductor devices fabricated thereby Provided are methods of forming a stack of electrodes and three-dimensional semiconductor devices fabricated thereby. The device may include electrodes sequentially stacked on a substrate to constitute an electrode structure. each of the electrodes may include a connection portion protruding horizontally and outward from a sidewall of one of the electrodes located thereon and an aligned portion having a sidewall coplanar with that of one of the electrodes located thereon or thereunder. Here, at least two of the electrodes provided vertically adjacent to each other may be provided in such a way that the aligned portions thereof have sidewalls that are substantially aligned to be coplanar with each other.
US09230901B2	Semiconductor device having chip embedded in heat spreader and electrically connected to interposer and method of manufacturing the same A method of making a semiconductor device is characterized by the step of attaching a chip-on-interposer subassembly to a heat spreader with the chip inserted into a cavity of the heat spreader and the interposer laterally extending beyond the cavity. The interposer backside process is executed after the chip-on-interposer attachment and encapsulation to form the finished interposer. The heat spreader provides thermal dissipation, and the finished interposer provides primary fan-out routing for the chip. In the method, a buildup circuitry is electrically coupled to the interposer to provide further fan-out routing.
US09230900B1	Ground via clustering for crosstalk mitigation Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for ground via clustering for crosstalk mitigation in integrated circuit (IC) assemblies. In some embodiments, an IC package assembly may include a first package substrate configured to route input/output (I/O) signals and ground between a die and a second package substrate. The first package substrate may include a plurality of contacts disposed on one side of the first package substrate and at least two ground vias of a same layer of vias, and the at least two ground vias may form a cluster of ground vias electrically coupled with an individual contact. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09230892B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element that is mounted on a substrate, an electrode pad that contains aluminum as a main component and is provided in the semiconductor element, a copper wire that contains copper as a main component and connects a connection terminal provided on the substrate and the electrode pad, and an encapsulant resin that encapsulates the semiconductor element and the copper wire. When the semiconductor device is heated at 200° C. for 16 hours in the atmosphere, a barrier layer containing any metal selected from palladium and platinum is farmed at a junction between the copper wire and the electrode pad.
US09230887B2	Multiple depth vias in an integrated circuit An integrated circuit with vias with different depths stopping on etch stop layers with different thicknesses. A method of simultaneously etching vias with different depths without causing etch damage to the material being contacted by the vias.
US09230883B1	Trace stacking structure and method A substrate includes a stacked trace formed from a trace and a first buildup trace stacked on the trace. The first buildup trace contacts and is electrically connected to the trace along the entire length of the trace. The current carrying cross-sectional area of the stacked trace is greater than the current carrying cross-sectional area of the trace. Accordingly, a plurality of the stacked traces can be formed with a small width and thus small pitch yet with a large current carrying cross-sectional area.
US09230865B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device is provided which includes an N-type semiconductor layer and a P-type semiconductor layer coexisting in the same wiring layer without influences on the properties of a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device includes a first wiring layer with a first wiring, a second wiring layer with a second wiring, and first and second transistors provided in the first and second wiring layers. The first transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first gate insulating film, a first oxide semiconductor layer, a first hard mask layer, and first insulating sidewall films covering the sides of the first oxide semiconductor layer. The second transistor includes a second gate electrode, a second gate insulating film, a second oxide semiconductor layer, and a second hard mask layer.
US09230862B2	Wafer die separation A method of separating dice of a singulated wafer that is supported on a dicing tape sheet is disclosed. The method may include attaching the dicing tape sheet to a ring frame; relatively raising a portion of the dicing tape sheet supporting the wafer with respect to the ring frame; and attaching support tape to the ring frame and the dicing tape sheet.
US09230860B2	Semiconductor substrate, electronic device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor substrate includes a vertical conductor and an insulating layer. The vertical conductor includes a metal/alloy component of a nanocomposite crystal structure and is filled in a vertical hole formed in the semiconductor substrate along its thickness direction. The insulating layer is formed around the vertical conductor in a ring shape and includes nm-sized silica particles and a nanocrystal or nanoamorphous silica filling up a space between the silica particles to provide a nanocomposite structure along with the silica particles.
US09230859B2	Redistribution layers for microfeature workpieces, and associated systems and methods Redistribution layers for microfeature workpieces, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. One method for processing a microfeature workpiece system includes positioning a pre-formed redistribution layer as a unit proximate to and spaced apart from a microfeature workpiece having an operable microfeature device. The method can further include attaching the redistribution layer to the microfeature workpiece and electrically coupling the redistribution layer to the operable microfeature device.
US09230846B2	Multi-wafer rotating disc reactor with inertial planetary drive Wafer carriers and methods for moving wafers in a reactor. The wafer carrier may include a platen with a plurality of compartments and a plurality of wafer platforms. The platen is configured to rotate about a first axis. Each of the wafer platforms is associated with one of the compartments and is configured to rotate about a respective second axis relative to the respective compartment. The platen and the wafer platforms rotate with different angular velocities to create planetary motion therebetween. The method may include rotating a platen about a first axis of rotation. The method further includes rotating each of a plurality of wafer platforms carried on the platen and carrying the wafers about a respective second axis of rotation and with a different angular velocity than the platen to create planetary motion therebetween.
US09230845B2	Article storage facility and article storage method An article storage facility comprises a plurality of storage units for storing transporting containers for substrates and inactive gas feed passages for supplying inactive gas to each of the plurality of said storage units. The plurality of storage units are divided into a plurality of sections. The inactive gas feed passages include section feeding portions which supply the inactive gas to the sections, and storage unit feeding portions which divert and supply the inactive gas, that is supplied to a respective section by an associated one of the section feeding portions, to the plurality of storage units in the respective section. The article storage facility includes a bypass portion which allows communication between two or more storage unit feeding portions, and a bypass switching valve that can be switched between an open state in which the inactive gas can be communicated through the bypass portion and a closed state in which the inactive gas cannot be communicated through the bypass portion.
US09230842B2	Substrate processing apparatus Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus including: a housing section configured to house a substrate; a transfer chamber that includes a plurality of airtight chambers connected to the periphery thereof, and a transfer mechanism provided therewithin, each of the plurality of airtight chambers being configured to process the substrate under an airtight state, and the transfer mechanism being configured to transfer the substrate to and from the airtight chambers; a carry-in section configured to carry the substrate into the transfer chamber via a first opening provided in the transfer chamber; and a carry-out section configured to carry out the substrate discharged from a second opening provided at a different position from that of the first opening of the transfer chamber, to the housing section, without returning the substrate to the transfer chamber.
US09230841B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus including a frame, a first SCARA arm connected to the frame, including an end effector, configured to extend and retract along a first radial axis; a second SCARA arm connected to the frame, including an end effector, configured to extend and retract along a second radial axis, the SCARA arms having a common shoulder axis of rotation; and a drive section coupled to the SCARA arms is configured to independently extend each SCARA arm along a respective radial axis and rotate each SCARA arm about the common shoulder axis of rotation where the first radial axis is angled relative to the second radial axis and the end effector of a respective arm is aligned with a respective radial axis, wherein each end effector is configured to hold at least one substrate and the end effectors are located on a common transfer plane.
US09230836B2	Substrate treatment method A substrate treatment method that includes circulating a treatment liquid from a treatment vessel through a circulation path extending through a filter and a temperature controller, spouting the treatment liquid toward a substrate accommodated in the treatment vessel to recover the treatment liquid in the treatment vessel, and controlling the liquid surface level of the treatment liquid retained in the treatment vessel below the substrate held at a substrate treatment position.
US09230834B2	Substrate treating apparatus A substrate treating method for treating substrates with a substrate treating apparatus having an indexer section, a treating section and an interface section includes performing resist film forming treatment in parallel on a plurality of stories provided in the treating section and performing developing treatment in parallel on a plurality of stories provided in the treating section.
US09230831B2	Semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof There is provided a technology enabling the improvement of the reliability of a semiconductor device manufactured by physically fixing separately formed chip mounting portion and lead frame. A feature of an embodiment resides in that, a second junction portion formed in a suspension lead is fitted into a first junction portion formed in a chip mounting portion, thereby to physically fix the chip mounting portion and the suspension lead. Specifically, the first junction portion is formed of a concave part disposed in the surface of the chip mounting portion. The second junction portion forms a part of the suspension lead.
US09230829B2	Adhesive compound and method for encapsulating an electronic arrangement The invention relates to a method for encapsulating an electronic arrangement against permeants, wherein an electronic arrangement is made available on a substrate, wherein, in a vacuum, that area of the substrate which embraces that region of the electronic arrangement which is to be encapsulated, preferably said area and that region of the electronic arrangement which is to be encapsulated, is brought into contact with a sheet material comprising at least one adhesive compound and a composite is produced therefrom. The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing the method and to an encapsulated electronic arrangement produced thereby.
US09230824B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing an object to be processed including a multilayer film formed by alternately laminating a first film and a second film having different dielectric coefficients within a processing container of a plasma processing apparatus; and repeatedly performing a sequence including: supplying a first gas including O2 gas or N2 gas, and a rare gas into the processing container and exciting the first gas, supplying a second gas including a fluorocarbon gas or a fluorohydrocarbon gas into the processing container and exciting the second gas, and supplying a third gas including HBr gas, a fluorine-containing gas, and a fluorocarbon gas or a fluorohydrocarbon gas into the processing container and exciting the third gas, so that the multilayer film is etched through a mask.
US09230815B2	Methods for depositing fluorine/carbon-free conformal tungsten Provided are atomic layer deposition methods to deposit a tungsten film or tungsten-containing film using a tungsten-containing reactive gas comprising one or more of tungsten pentachloride, a compound with the empirical formula WCl5 or WCl6.
US09230803B2	Method for growing III-V epitaxial layers Disclosed are methods of growing III-V epitaxial layers on a substrate, semiconductor structures thus obtained, and devices comprising such semiconductor structures. An example semiconductor substrate includes a substrate and a buffer layer on top of the substrate, where a conductive path is present between the substrate and buffer layer. A conductive path may be present in the conductive interface, and the conductive path may be interrupted by one or more local electrical isolations. The local electrical isolation(s) may be positioned with the device such that at least one of the local electrical isolation(s) is located between a high voltage terminal and a low voltage terminal of the device.
US09230802B2	Transistor(s) with different source/drain channel junction characteristics, and methods of fabrication Field-effect transistors (FETs) and methods of fabricating field-effect transistors are provided, with one or both of a source cavity or a drain cavity having different channel junction characteristics. The methods include, for instance, recessing a semiconductor material to form a cavity adjacent to a channel region of the transistor, the recessing defining a bottom channel interface surface and a sidewall channel interface surface within the cavity; providing a protective liner over the sidewall channel interface surface, with the bottom channel interface surface being exposed within the cavity; processing the bottom channel interface surface to facilitate forming a first channel junction of the transistor; and removing the protective liner from over the sidewall channel interface surface, and subsequently processing the sidewall channel interface surface to form a second channel junction of the transistor, where the first and second channel junctions have different channel junction characteristics.
US09230801B2	Graphene structure and method of fabricating the same A graphene structure and a method of forming the same may include a graphene formed in a three-dimensional (3D) shape, e.g., a column shape, a stacking structure, and a three-dimensionally connected structure. The graphene structure can be formed by using Ge.
US09230800B2	Plasma activated conformal film deposition Methods of depositing a film on a substrate surface include surface mediated reactions in which a film is grown over one or more cycles of reactant adsorption and reaction. In one aspect, the method is characterized by the following operations: (a) exposing the substrate surface to a first reactant in vapor phase under conditions allowing the first reactant to adsorb onto the substrate surface; (b) exposing the substrate surface to a second reactant in vapor phase while the first reactant is adsorbed on the substrate surface; and (c) exposing the substrate surface to plasma to drive a reaction between the first and second reactants adsorbed on the substrate surface to form the film.
US09230797B2	Dielectric and/or capacitor formation Technologies are generally described for a component, a method to form a component and/or a system configured to form a component. In an example, the method to form a component may include placing a first layer including a conductive material on a support. The method may include placing a second layer, including the conductive material and oxygen, on the first layer. The method may include placing a third layer, including tellurium and oxygen, on the second layer. The method may include placing a fourth layer, including tin and tellurium, on the third layer. In an example, placing of the fourth layer on the third layer may include placing a fifth layer including tellurium on the fourth layer, placing a sixth layer including tin on the fifth layer, placing a seventh layer including tellurium on the sixth layer and annealing the fifth, sixth, and seventh layers to form the fourth layer.
US09230790B2	DC ion funnels Systems and related methods are disclosed herein that generally involve focusing dispersed ions using one or more DC ion funnels. In some embodiments, a DC ion funnel is provided that includes a plurality of ring-shaped electrodes, each having an aperture formed therein such that the funnel defines an interior volume extending between an ion inlet and an ion outlet. A controller applies a DC potential to each of the electrodes without applying an RF potential to any of the electrodes, such that ions entering the funnel are substantially confined within said volume. The interior volume can have any of a variety of shapes, such as cylindrical, frusto-conical, and curved frusto-conical. In addition, any of a variety of DC potentials can be applied to the plurality of electrodes.
US09230780B2	Hall effect enhanced capacitively coupled plasma source Embodiments disclosed herein include a plasma source for abating compounds produced in semiconductor processes. The plasma source has a first plate and a second plate parallel to the first plate. An electrode is disposed between the first and second plates and an outer wall is disposed between the first and second plates surrounding the cylindrical electrode. The plasma source has a first plurality of magnets disposed on the first plate and a second plurality of magnets disposed on the second plate. The magnetic field created by the first and second plurality of magnets is substantially perpendicular to the electric field created between the electrode and the outer wall. In this configuration, a dense plasma is created.
US09230779B2	Methods and apparatus for correcting for non-uniformity in a plasma processing system A plasma processing system having a plasma processing chamber comprising at least one of a chamber wall and a chamber liner is disclosed. The plasma processing system includes a plurality of ground straps disposed around a circumference of a chamber surface, the chamber surface being one of the chamber walls and the chamber liner of the plasma processing chamber. The plasma processing system further includes at least a first impedance device coupled to at least a first ground strap of the plurality of ground straps, wherein a second ground strap of the plurality of ground straps is not provided with a second impedance device having the same impedance value as the first impedance device.
US09230774B2	X-ray generating tube, X-ray generating apparatus and X-ray imaging system using the same Provided is an X-ray generating tube with improved withstand voltage property by a simple structure, the X-ray generating tube including a cathode connected to one opening of an insulating tube and an anode connected to the other opening, in which a resistive film having a lower sheet resistance value than that of the insulating tube is disposed on an outer periphery of the insulating tube, and the cathode and the anode are electrically connected to each other via the resistive film.
US09230770B2	Conductive nanostructure, method for molding same, and method for manufacturing a field emitter using same The present invention relates to a conductive nanostructure, a method for molding the same, and a method for manufacturing a field emitter using the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a field-emitting nanostructure comprising a conductive substrate, a conductive nanostructure arranged on the conductive substrate, and a conductive interfacial compound disposed in the interface between the conductive substrate and the conductive nanostructure, as well as to a method for molding the same, and a method for manufacturing a field emitter using the same.
US09230766B2	Breaker secondary terminal block isolation chamber The disclosed concept pertains generally to secondary terminal blocks and, more particularly, to apparatus and methods for isolating the secondary terminal blocks and associated wiring in electrical switching assembly enclosures. The apparatus includes a housing having an outer surface structured to form a cavity therein. The apparatus is positioned in an enclosure which includes an electrical switching apparatus and one or more secondary terminal blocks. The one or more secondary terminal blocks are positioned in the cavity such that the apparatus at least substantially isolates the one or more secondary terminal blocks from the electrical switching apparatus. Further, the apparatus is effective to substantially isolate the secondary terminal blocks from temperature and pressure effects resulting from an arcing fault occurring in the enclosure.
US09230761B2	Emergency stop system for a hybrid excavator An emergency stop system for a hybrid excavator is provided, which includes an emergency switch and an emergency stop unit. In a normal operation state, a power supply that is applied from a power supply unit is provided to a hybrid controller and an engine controller, while when the emergency switch is pressed, the input power supply is intercepted to effectively stop the operation of the hybrid system in the case where equipment abnormality or an emergency situation occurs. Also, when the emergency switch is pressed, the power supply is applied to an emergency alarm unit and an energy discharge unit to notify an operator and neighboring persons of the equipment abnormality and emergency situation occurrence, and a hybrid power source vanishes completely.
US09230760B2	Vacuum interrupter and switch pole A vacuum interrupter has a housing with at least a first metal flange through which a first connection pin extends into the vacuum interrupter in a vacuum-tight manner to a first contact. The housing has at least one insulating-material housing region formed by a disc-like insulator. A second connection pin extends into the vacuum interrupter in a vacuum-tight manner to a second contact. The vacuum interrupter can be produced in a cost-effective manner with a compact construction. There is also described a switch pole for a switching device having a vacuum interrupter.
US09230759B2	Gas circuit breaker A gas circuit breaker includes: a pair of electrodes provided so as to be able to come in contact with and separate from each other; and an insulating material that is placed so as to generate a decomposition gas in response to a direct or indirect action from an arc occurring between the pair of electrodes when a current is broken, wherein the decomposition gas generated from the insulating material when the current is broken is configured to be utilized for extinguishing the arc, and wherein an ablative material that does not include hydrogen atoms but has a carbon-oxygen bond in a main chain or ring part is used as the insulating material.
US09230746B2	Nonaqueous electrolytic solution and electrochemical device using the same The object of the present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution that can improve the electrochemical properties in a broad temperature range and an electrochemical device using the same. A nonaqueous electrolytic solution prepared by dissolving an electrolyte salt in a nonaqueous solvent, wherein the nonaqueous solvent includes 0.1 to 30% by volume of a fluorine atom-containing cyclic carbonate, and further the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes 0.001 to 5% by mass of a branched dinitrile compound in which the main chain of an alkylene chain linking the two nitrile groups has 2 or more and 4 or less of the carbon number.
US09230740B2	Multilayer ceramic electronic part to be embedded in board and printed circuit board having multilayer ceramic electronic part embedded therein There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic part to be embedded in a board, including: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces facing each other, first and second side surfaces facing each other, and first and second end surfaces facing each other; first and second internal electrodes; and first and second external electrodes formed on both end portions of the ceramic body, wherein the first external electrode includes a first base electrode and a first terminal electrode formed on a portion of the first base electrode formed on at least one of the first and second main surfaces of the ceramic body, the second external electrode includes a second base electrode and a second terminal electrode formed on a portion of the second base electrode formed on at least one of the first and second main surfaces of the ceramic body.
US09230733B2	Method for manufacturing rare-earth magnet Provided is a manufacturing method of a rare-earth magnet with high coercive force, including a first step of pressing-forming powder as a rare-earth magnet material to form a compact S, the powder including a RE-Fe—B main phase MP (RE: at least one type of Nd and Pr) and a RE-X alloy (X: metal element) grain boundary phase surrounding the main phase; and second step of bringing a modifier alloy M into contact with the compact S or a rare-earth magnet precursor C obtained by hot deformation processing of the compact S, followed by heat treatment to penetrant diffuse melt of the modifier alloy M into the compact S or the rare-earth magnet precursor C to manufacture the rare-earth magnet RM, the modifier alloy including a RE-Y (Y: metal element and not including a heavy rare-earth element) alloy having a eutectic or a RE-rich hyper-eutectic composition.
US09230732B2	Wireless power transfer A wireless power transmitter can include a transmitting coil configured to wirelessly transmit power to a receiving coil. The wireless power transmitter can include a shield residing on a given side of a substrate spaced apart from the transmitting coil. The shield can be configured to filter an electric field induced by the transmitting coil.
US09230720B2	Electrically trimmable resistor device and trimming method thereof An integrated circuit has a circuit part and a trimmable resistor, the resistance whereof may be modified by Joule effect. The trimmable resistor has first and second connection terminals coupled to the circuit part, and an intermediate terminal that divides the trimmable resistor into two portions. The first and the second connection terminals and the intermediate terminal are coupled to respective pads configured to receive electrical quantities designed to cause, in use, a respective trimming current flow in each portion. In this way, a substantially zero voltage drop is maintained between the first and second connection terminals while current is flowing in the resistor to change an electrical characteristic of the resistor, such as resistance or thermal coefficient.
US09230716B2	Coaxial cable A coaxial cable includes a central conductor, a fluororesin insulation, and outer conductor and a jacket covering the outer conductor. The central conductor has three single element twisted wires. The central conductor has an outer diameter and the three single element twisted wires having a predetermined twist pitch. The fluororesin insulation covers the central conductor such that all of the twisted single element wires of the central conductor contact the fluororesin insulation. The fluororesin insulation is a non-foam insulation material. A series of voids are defined between portions of the central conductor and an inner surface of the fluororesin insulation. The outer conductor is disposed on the external periphery of the insulation. The adhesive force between the central conductor and the insulation, and a breaking strength of the central conductor have the following relationship: adhesive force≦⅓ breaking strength.
US09230712B2	Flexible plastic hose and method for its manufacture Flexible plastic hose comprising a flexible wall made out of a plurality of laterally connected windings of a helically wound profile, wherein the windings of the profile are attached to each other by means of a weld, wherein the profile comprises a web part with predetermined properties for providing flexibility to the hose, and wherein the profile ends on both sides in an upright part. The weld is located between the upright part of the adjacent windings and together with these upright parts forms a helical reinforcement rib on the flexible wall of the hose with predetermined properties for providing hub strength to the hose.
US09230708B2	Self assembly of naphthalene diimide derivatives and process thereof The present disclosure is in relation to nanotechnology/nanobiotechnology, in particular to nano, meso and micro structures of Naphthalene diimide derivatives. The disclosure provides a method for supramolecular self-assembling of Naphthalene diimide derivatives, its characteristics and its applications. The present disclosure also relates to self assembled nano, meso or micro-structures of the Naphthalene diimide derivatives.
US09230705B2	Portable latent fingerprint developing apparatus Disclosed is a portable latent fingerprint developing apparatus capable of visibly checking out an external shape of a finger print by using an UV LED lamp, after a fine spray of a fingerprint developing liquid is conducted by using a vibrator and providing the corresponding fingerprint image to an external terminal, after it is photographed by a camera.
US09230703B2	Gratings for X-ray imaging, consisting of at least two materials Gratings for analyzing the interference image in interferometers for phase contrast X-ray tomography, comprising a carrier and grating webs produced from at least two different materials, method for producing the same and use thereof.
US09230698B2	Radiation stable shield There is disclosed a radiation stable shield for use in space or high altitude applications. The shield comprises a plurality of overlapping planar glass flakes which are held in a lamellar matrix of flexible polymeric material. The flakes are each formed of a radiation stable glass which is suitable for use in space or high altitude applications. The flakes are arranged in alignment with the lamellar direction of the matrix.
US09230696B2	Control rod for a nuclear power light water reactor The invention concerns a control rod configured for a nuclear power light water reactor of the BWR or PWR kind. The control rod contains absorber material. At least 50%, with respect to weight, of the absorber material that is in the control rod is in the form of hafnium hydride. The invention also concerns the use of such a control rod during operation in a nuclear power light water reactor of the BWR or PWR kind.
US09230695B2	Nuclear fission igniter Illustrative embodiments provide nuclear fission igniters for nuclear fission reactors and methods for their operation. Illustrative embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, a nuclear fission igniter configured to ignite a nuclear fission deflagration wave in nuclear fission fuel material, a nuclear fission deflagration wave reactor with a nuclear fission igniter, a method of igniting a nuclear fission deflagration wave, and the like.
US09230690B2	Register file write ring oscillator Embodiments of a register file test circuit are disclosed that may allow for determining write performance at low power supply voltages. The register file test circuit may include a decoder, a multiplexer, a frequency divider, and a control circuit. The decoder may be operable to select a register cell within a register file, and the control circuit may be operable to controllably activate the read and write paths through the selected register cell, allowing data read to be inverted and re-written back into the selected register cell.
US09230686B2	Semiconductor device having roll call circuit Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes: a plurality of memory banks each including a plurality of memory cells; a plurality of redundant circuits each allocated to an associated one of the plurality of memory banks to replace a defective memory cell among the plurality of memory cells included in the associated memory bank; a plurality of roll call circuits allocated to an associated one of the plurality of memory banks to generate a roll call data when an address corresponding to the defective memory cell is supplied; and a plurality of data buses commonly allocated to the plurality of memory banks. The roll call circuits output the roll call data to the plurality of data buses in parallel.
US09230684B2	Memory controller, storage device, and memory control method According to one embodiment, a memory controller controlling a NAND memory having D bits/cell, includes: a code encoder which generates a code word having correction capability of t symbols; a write control unit which controls writing of the code word to the NAND memory; and a code decoder which decodes the code word read from the NAND memory, wherein the write control unit dispersedly allocates 2×D pages stored in adjacent two word lines in a block of the NAND memory to 2×D/t or more code words.
US09230681B2	Selective activation of programming schemes in analog memory cell arrays A method for data storage includes defining a first programming scheme that programs a group of analog memory cells while reducing interference caused by at least one memory cell that neighbors the group, and a second programming scheme that programs the group of the analog memory cells and does not reduce all of the interference reduced by the first programming scheme. One of the first and second programming schemes is selected based on a criterion defined with respect to the analog memory cells. Data is stored in the group of the analog memory cells using the selected programming scheme.
US09230678B2	Integrated circuit having an enhanced fuseless fuse structure, a method of manufacturing the same and a data structure for use with the fuseless fuse structure An enhanced fuseless fuse structure is provided herein. Additionally, an IC with an enhanced fuseless fuse structure, a data structure that can be used with this structure and a method of manufacturing an IC are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the IC includes: (1) a fuse wrapper configured to decode fuseless fuse data for controlling the fuses, (2) JTAG registers configured to store fuse register values in designated blocks, wherein the fuse register values and the designated blocks are determined from the fuseless fuse data and (3) options registers configurable by software to store fuse override data for modifying the fuse register values.
US09230677B2	NAND array hiarchical BL structures for multiple-WL and all-BL simultaneous erase, erase-verify, program, program-verify, and read operations Several 2D and 3D HiNAND flash memory arrays with 1-level or 2-level broken BL-hierarchical structures are provided for Multiple Whole-WL and All-BL simultaneous operations in Dispersed Blocks. The global bit line (GBL) is divided to multiple 1(top)-level broken metal2 GBLs plus optional lower-level broken metal1 local bit lines (LBLs). A preferred Vinhibit supply higher than Vdd can be selectively supplied via horizontal metal0 power line LBLps to charge selected broken GBLs/LBLs which can also be selectively discharged via a String source line. Charge-sharing technique for precharging and discharging of broken GBL/LBL capacitors for NAND cell data sensing is used in Read and Verify operations with reduced power consumption and latency. Recall technique to restore the desired Program Data stored in the broken GBL/LBL capacitors is used for Multiple-WL and All-BL Program and Program-Verify operation with reduced program current for highest program yield superior P/E cycles.
US09230670B2	Semiconductor device, memory system and operating method thereof There are a semiconductor device including: a plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of pages; peripheral circuits configured to perform a least significant bit read operation and a most significant bit read operation of a selected page included in a selected block; and a control circuit including a least significant bit read-retry table and a most significant bit read-retry table which have a plurality of indexes, and configured to control the peripheral circuits to store an index used when error correction is possible among the least significant bit read-retry table in the least significant bit read operation and perform the most significant bit read operation by first selecting the stored index among the most significant bit read-retry table.
US09230664B2	Nonvolatile memory and data writing method According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells configured to store 3-bit data corresponding to first to third pages. Data coding, in which first page data values have one boundary, and second and three page data values each have three boundaries, is used to perform a first stage program based on data written into first page d, a second stage program based on data written into the first, second, and third pages, and a third stage program based on data written into the first, second, and third pages.
US09230654B2	Method and system for accessing a flash memory device An apparatus, system, and computer-implemented method for controlling data transfer between a plurality of serial data link interfaces and a plurality of memory banks in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. In one example, a flash memory device with multiple links and memory banks, where the links are independent of the banks, is disclosed. The flash memory devices may be cascaded in a daisy-chain configuration using echo signal lines to serially communicate between memory devices. In addition, a virtual multiple link configuration is described wherein a single link is used to emulate multiple links.
US09230651B2	Memory device having electrically floating body transitor A semiconductor memory cell includes a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell selected from at least first and second states. A first region of the memory cell is in electrical contact with the floating body region. A second region of the memory cell is spaced apart from the first region and is also in electrical contact with the floating body region. A gate is positioned between the first and second regions. A back-bias region is configured to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in one of the first and second states, and the back-bias region is configured so as not to generate impact ionization when the memory cell is in the other of the first and second states.
US09230636B2	Apparatus for dual purpose charge pump Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first power supply node to provide a first power supply, a second power supply node, and a third power supply node; a first transistor which is operable to couple the first and second power supply nodes; and a charge pump circuit to provide a boosted voltage to the third power supply node in one mode, and to recover charge from the second power node in another mode. Described is a memory unit which comprises: a DRAM which is operable to be refreshed; a gated power supply node coupled to the DRAM to provide a gated power supply to the DRAM; and a charge recycling circuit to recover charge from the gated power supply node after the DRAM is refreshed.
US09230632B1	Word line driver circuit A word line driver circuit allows for dynamic selection of different word line voltages for selection and deselection of memory cells included in a resistive memory array in a manner that reduces circuit complexity, device count, and leakage currents.
US09230631B2	Differential current sensing scheme for magnetic random access memory A circuit includes a cell segment, first and second reference cells, and a current sense amplifier. The first and second reference cells are configured to store opposite logic values, respectively. The current sense amplifier is configured with a first node and a second node for currents therethrough to be compared with each other. The current sense amplifier includes a multiplexer configured to couple the first reference cell or the second reference cell to the first node of the current sense amplifier, and couple the second reference cell or the first reference cell to the second node of the current sense amplifier in a first mode, and couple a cell of the cell segment to the first node of the current sense amplifier, and couple the first and second reference cells to the second node of the current sense amplifier in a second mode.
US09230629B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device includes a first bit line and a second bit line. A nonvolatile memory element and a first cell transistor are connected in series between the first bit line and the second bit line. A sense transistor has a gate connected to a sense node which is provided between the first bit line and the memory element. A read bit line is connected to a source or a drain of the sense transistor. The read bit line is configured to transmit data of the memory element. A sense amplifier is configured to detect the logic of data transmitted from the read bit line.
US09230626B2	Electrically gated three-terminal circuits and devices based on spin hall torque effects in magnetic nanostructures apparatus, methods and applications 3-terminal magnetic circuits and devices based on the spin-transfer torque (STT) effect via a combination of injection of spin-polarized electrons or charged particles by using a charge current in a spin Hall effect metal layer coupled to a free magnetic layer and application of a gate voltage to the free magnetic layer to manipulate the magnetization of the free magnetic layer for various applications, including non-volatile memory functions, logic functions and others. The charge current is applied to the spin Hall effect metal layer via first and second electrical terminals and the gate voltage is applied between a third electrical terminal and either of the first and second electrical terminals. The spin Hall effect metal layer can be adjacent to the free magnetic layer or in direct contact with the free magnetic layer to allow a spin-polarized current generated via a spin Hall effect under the charge current to enter the free magnetic layer. The disclosed 3-terminal magnetic circuits can also be applied to signal oscillator circuits and other applications.
US09230625B2	Magnetic memory, spin element, and spin MOS transistor A magnetic memory according to an embodiment includes: a multilayer structure including a semiconductor layer and a first ferromagnetic layer; a first wiring line electrically connected to the semiconductor layer; a second wiring line electrically connected to the first ferromagnetic layer; and a voltage applying unit electrically connected between the first wiring line and the second wiring line to apply a first voltage between the semiconductor layer and the first ferromagnetic layer during a write operation, a magnetization direction of the first ferromagnetic layer being switchable by applying the first voltage.
US09230610B2	Semiconductor memory device for use in multi-chip package Provides is a multi-chip package including a plurality of semiconductor memory devices. Each of semiconductor memory devices includes a register and a control circuit. The register is configured to store start sequence information representing start of execution of a refresh operation in the multi-chip package. The control circuit is configured to control start of the execution of the refresh operation in response to the start sequence information stored in the register. Since the start of the execution of the refresh operation is performed in sequence of respective semiconductor memory devices according to the start sequence information stored in the register, consumption of peak current may be reduced in a power saving mode.
US09230609B2	Memory bandwidth aggregation using simultaneous access of stacked semiconductor memory die A packaged semiconductor device includes a data pin, a first memory die, and a second memory die stacked with the first memory die. The first memory die includes a first data interface coupled to the data pin and a first memory core having a plurality of banks. The second memory die includes a second memory core having a plurality of banks. A respective bank of the first memory core and a respective bank of the second memory core perform parallel row access operations in response to a first command signal and parallel column access operations in response to a second command signal. The first data interface of the first die provides aggregated data from the parallel column access operations in the first and second die to the data pin.
US09230608B2	Filter element for disc drive enclosure A recirculation filter element for a disc drive enclosure. The filter element has a body having a surface area to volume ratio of at least 100/m and a self-assembled monolayer. The self-assembled monolayer may adsorb volatile contaminants from the enclosure or may have a chemical affinity to particulates, to accumulate and sequester particles on the body.
US09230594B2	Resistance temperature sensors for head-media and asperity detection A temperature sensor of a head transducer measures temperature near or at the close point. The measured temperature varies in response to changes in spacing between the head transducer and a magnetic recording medium. A detector is coupled to the temperature sensor and is configured to detect a change in a DC component of the measured temperature indicative of onset of contact between the head transducer and the medium. Another head transducer configuration includes a sensor having a sensing element with a high temperature coefficient of resistance to interact with asperities of the medium. Electrically conductive leads are connected to the sensing element and have a low temperature coefficient of resistance relative to that of the sensing element, such thermally induced resistance changes in the leads have a negligible effect on a response of the sensing element to contact with the asperities.
US09230593B1	Data storage device optimizing spindle motor power when transitioning into a power failure mode A data storage device is disclosed comprising a spindle motor configured to rotate a disk, wherein the spindle motor comprises a plurality of windings. The windings are commutated based on a commutation sequence while applying a driving voltage to each winding, wherein the driving voltage comprises an operating amplitude during normal operation. When a supply voltage falls below a threshold, the spindle motor is configured into a power generator by at least reducing the amplitude of the driving voltage to substantially zero and then incrementally increasing the amplitude of the driving voltage by at least two steps toward the operating amplitude.
US09230587B1	Air bearing surface design with extreme particle trapping holes for improving HDD particle robustnes Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a head slider within disk drive data storage devices. A head slider comprises a head body having a leading portion on a leading edge and a trailing portion on a trailing edge. The leading portion includes a first leading pad disposed at the MFS and a second leading pad disposed between the first leading pad and the leading edge. The second leading pad is recessed a first vertical distance from the MFS. One or more particle trapping holes are disposed between the first leading pad and the second leading pad. The one or more particle trapping holes are recessed a second vertical distance from the MFS, the second vertical distance being greater than the first vertical distance. Particles encountered by the leading portion may be suctioned into the one or more particle trapping holes, preventing the particles from building-up onto the MFS.
US09230581B2	Method of positioning head attaching part of head suspension and method of manufacturing half-finished head suspension A positioning method positions a flexure whose front end side is joined to an outside frame with respect to a load beam, keeps the positioned state of the flexure and load beam, plastically deforms the outside frame to bend the front end side of the flexure so that the position of a tongue of the flexure is adjusted to the position of a dimple of the load beam, and joins the flexure and load beam to each other to keep the position adjusted state of the tongue.
US09230573B1	Magnetic recording head with non-magnetic bump structure formed on spin torque oscillator A magnetic write head having a write pole with a tapered trailing edge and a magnetic oscillator formed on the trailing edge of the write pole. The magnetic oscillator is sandwiched between the magnetic write pole and a trailing magnetic shield. The write head also includes a non-magnetic, electrically conductive bump structure located over a back portion of the magnetic oscillator between the magnetic oscillator and the trailing magnetic shield. The presence of the non-magnetic, electrically conductive bump structure causes electrons to properly flow through the magnetic oscillator in a direction that is generally perpendicular to the plane of the magnetic oscillator, even when the magnetic oscillator is formed on an inclined plane on the tapered trailing edge of the write pole. This thereby ensures optimal performance of the magnetic oscillator.
US09230572B2	Noble metal surrounded magnetic lip and heat sink for heat assisted magnetic recording head The embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a magnetic head having a magnetic lip. The vertical sides and the bottom of the magnetic lip are covered by one or more conductive layers. In one embodiment, the bottom of the magnetic lip is covered by a first conductive layer and the vertical sides of the magnetic lip are covered by a second conductive layer. The conductive layers are made of a material that would not react with oxygen, thus no oxide films are formed on the vertical sides and the bottom of the magnetic lip during the manufacturing of the magnetic head.
US09230568B1	Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording including a coil having an inclined front end face A magnetic head includes a coil, a main pole, a trailing shield, a gap section, a return path section, and a coil underlayer. The main pole has a top surface including a first inclined portion and a flat portion. The coil includes a specific coil element. The specific coil element has a bottom surface facing toward the top surface of the main pole, and a front end face inclined with respect to a medium facing surface. The coil underlayer lies under the specific coil element, and has a front end face. The trailing shield includes a portion interposed between the front end face of the coil underlayer and the medium facing surface. The bottom surface of the specific coil element includes a second inclined portion.
US09230556B2	Voice instructions during navigation A method of providing navigation on an electronic device when the display screen is locked. The method receives a verbal request to start navigation while the display is locked. The method identifies a route from a current location to a destination based on the received verbal request. While the display screen is locked, the method provides navigational directions on the electronic device from the current location of the electronic device to the destination. Some embodiments provide a method for processing a verbal search request. The method receives a navigation-related verbal search request and prepares a sequential list of the search results based on the received request. The method then provides audible information to present a search result from the sequential list. The method presents the search results in a batch form until the user selects a search result, the user terminates the search, or the search items are exhausted.
US09230548B2	Hybrid hashing scheme for active HMMS Embodiments of the present invention include a data storage device and a method for storing data in a hash table. The data storage device can include a first memory device, a second memory device, and a processing device. The first memory device is configured to store one or more data elements. The second memory device is configured to store one or more status bits at one or more respective table indices. In addition, each of the table indices is mapped to a corresponding table index in the first memory device. The processing device is configured to calculate one or more hash values based on the one or more data elements.
US09230541B2	Keyword detection for speech recognition This application discloses a method implemented of recognizing a keyword in a speech that includes a sequence of audio frames further including a current frame and a subsequent frame. A candidate keyword is determined for the current frame using a decoding network that includes keywords and filler words of multiple languages, and used to determine a confidence score for the audio frame sequence. A word option is also determined for the subsequent frame based on the decoding network, and when the candidate keyword and the word option are associated with two distinct types of languages, the confidence score of the audio frame sequence is updated at least based on a penalty factor associated with the two distinct types of languages. The audio frame sequence is then determined to include both the candidate keyword and the word option by evaluating the updated confidence score according to a keyword determination criterion.
US09230539B2	Automatic measurement of speech fluency Techniques are described for automatically measuring fluency of a patient's speech based on prosodic characteristics thereof. The prosodic characteristics may include statistics regarding silent pauses, filled pauses, repetitions, or fundamental frequency of the patient's speech. The statistics may include a count, average number of occurrences, duration, average duration, frequency of occurrence, standard deviation, or other statistics. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an audio sample that includes speech of a patient, analyzing the audio sample to identify prosodic characteristics of the speech of the patient, and automatically measuring fluency of the speech of the patient based on the prosodic characteristics. These techniques may present several advantages, such as objectively measuring fluency of a patient's speech without requiring a manual transcription or other manual intervention in the analysis process.
US09230531B2	Road noise masking in a vehicle Road noise masking for a vehicle includes determining, by a computer processor, an expected interior sound associated with the vehicle. The expected interior sound is defined by a design of the vehicle in conjunction with road conditions encountered by the vehicle. The road noise masking also includes monitoring, via the computer processor, information sources of the vehicle during a driving event. Upon determining a current road surface from the monitoring, the road noise masking includes calculating a masking noise shape commensurate with the expected interior sound, and transmitting instructions including the masking noise shape to an audio system in the vehicle. The audio system produces masking noise from a tuner of the audio system that approximates the masking noise shape.
US09230529B2	Music reproducing apparatus In a music reproducing apparatus for converting audio data into audio data of different data format so as to reproduce it, gapless reproduction and cross-fade reproduction are performed in a switching manner, and generation of a noise at time of the gapless reproduction is repressed. When a reproducing section performs the gapless reproduction, a converting section performs conversion into PCM data to be reproduced latterly using a buffer used for conversion into the PCM data to be reproduced formerly. Further, when the reproducing section performs the cross-fade reproduction, the converting section generates a buffer different from the buffer used for the conversion into the PCM data to be reproduced formerly in a storage section, and performs the conversion into the PCM data to be reproduced latterly using the generated buffer.
US09230527B2	Music synchronization arrangement The invention generally pertains to a hand-held computing device. More particularly, the invention pertains to a computing device that is capable of controlling the speed of the music so as to affect the mood and behavior of the user during an activity such as exercise. By way of example, the speed of the music can be controlled to match the pace of the activity (synching the speed of the music to the activity of the user) or alternatively it can be controlled to drive the pace of the activity (increasing or decreasing the speed of the music to encourage a greater or lower pace). One aspect of the invention relates to adjusting the tempo (or some other attribute) of the music being outputted from the computing device. By way of example, a songs tempo may be increased or decreased before or during playing.
US09230518B2	Fault-tolerant preemption mechanism at arbitrary control points for graphics processing This disclosure presents techniques and structures for preemption at arbitrary control points in graphics processing. A method of graphics processing may comprise executing commands in a command buffer, the commands operating on data in a read-modify-write memory resource, double buffering the data in the read-modify-write memory resource, such that a first buffer stores original data of the read-modify-write memory resource and a second buffer stores any modified data produced by executing the commands in the command buffer, receiving a request to preempt execution of the commands in the command buffer before completing all commands in the command buffer, and restarting execution of the commands at the start of the command buffer using the original data in the first buffer.
US09230515B2	Hand-held electronic device and display method A hand-held electronic device and a display method are described. The hand-held electronic device of the invention includes an image processing unit configured to provide a first image; a first display unit configured to display the first image; a first optical system configured to receive light emitted from the first display unit and conduct a light path conversion on it to form a first magnified virtual image, wherein a length of a light path between the first optical system and the first display unit is less than a focal distance of first optical system; and a first window disposed on a first external surface of the hand-held electronic device to allow a viewer to watch the first magnified virtual image through the first optical system when the viewer is close to the first external surface.
US09230504B2	Display apparatus indicating control authority in content views and controlling methods thereof A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a signal processor which processes a plurality of contents and forms image frames, a display unit which outputs a plurality of content views using the image frames, and a controller which controls the display to display an object which indicates a control authority in one of the plurality of content views.
US09230501B1	Device control utilizing optical flow A computing device includes an interface configured to receive image data that is indicative of a field-of-view (FOV) that is associated with a head-mountable display (HMD). The computing device also includes a computing system configured to determine optical flow from the image data and to determine, based on the optical flow, whether or not the HMD is associated with operation of a vehicle. Further, the computing device is configured to control the HMD to display information in a first mode, if the HMD is associated with the operation of the vehicle, and to control the HMD to display information in a second mode, if the HMD is not associated with the operation of the vehicle.
US09230497B2	Display device having each pixel divided into sub pixels for improved view angle characteristic In a liquid crystal display device having a configuration in which one pixel is divided into a plurality of sub pixels, low power consumption is realized by reducing an amplitude of a video signal. In each pixel formation portion, an amplification circuit unit including a second-capacitor is provided between a dark display pixel electrode and a bright display pixel electrode. A selection period consists of a precharge period and an amplification period. In the precharge period, a potential of a control wiring is applied to the dark display pixel electrode, and a potential of a video signal line is applied to the bright display pixel electrode. In the amplification period, a potential of the video signal line is applied to the dark display pixel electrode in the state where the bright display pixel electrode is placed in a floating state.
US09230494B2	Multi-primary color liquid crystal panel drive circuit, multi-primary color liquid crystal panel drive method, liquid crystal display device and overdrive setting method A multi-primary-color liquid crystal panel driver (100) according to the present invention includes: a multi-primary-color converter (110) which performs a multi-primary-color conversion to convert the grayscale levels of an input video signal in each of a plurality of vertical scanning periods into grayscale levels of four or more primary colors; and an overdrive circuit (120) which sets, based on the grayscale levels that have been subjected to the multi-primary-color conversion in one vertical scanning period and on the grayscale levels that have been subjected to the multi-primary-color conversion in another vertical scanning period that is earlier than the one vertical scanning period by at least one period, the grayscale levels of the four or more primary colors in that one vertical scanning period. The present invention provides a multi-primary-color liquid crystal panel that can improve the display quality even when the input video signal has varying grayscale levels.
US09230491B2	Image display apparatus and control method therefor A frame image is divided into a plurality of divided areas, and it is determined whether each of the divided areas is a first region including a predetermined object or a second region not including the object. A brightness of each light emitting block is decided based on a result of the determination of each divided area. In cases where a divided area determined as the second region in a target frame has been determined as the first region in frames, which satisfy a predetermined condition, among past frames, the brightness of a light emitting block corresponding to the divided area is decided to a brightness closer to the brightness of a light emitting block corresponding to a divided area determined as the first region as compared to the brightnesses of light emitting blocks corresponding to the other divided areas determined as the second region.
US09230488B2	Method of driving display device A method of driving a display device includes displaying an image corresponding to a left eye image signal during a first frame set including one or more frames and displaying an image corresponding to a right eye image signal during a second frame set including one or more successive frames, in which the first frame set and the second frame set include at least one frame displaying a first image according to a first gamma curve and at least one frame displaying a second image according to a second gamma curve, and the first frame set and the second frame set include two successive frames displaying the second image.
US09230483B2	Pixel circuit and driving method and display device thereof A pixel circuit includes an OLED, a driving transistor, first and second transistors, a storage capacitor and a coupling capacitor. The OLED includes an anode and a cathode connected to a first voltage source. The driving transistor includes a first node connected to a second voltage source, a second node, and a third node connected to the anode. The first transistor includes first, second and third terminals connected to a data driving line, a first control signal source, and the second node, respectively. The second transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal connected to a second control signal source, and a third terminal connected to the anode and the third node. The storage capacitor includes first and second terminals connected to a third voltage source and the second transistor, respectively. The coupling capacitor includes first and second terminals connected to the second transistor and the second node, respectively.
US09230482B2	Shift register and method of driving the same A shift register for flat panel display devices includes a start signal unit configured to control a start of an output signal, an end signal unit configured to control an end of the output signal, and a plurality of stages configured to increase the output signal to a high-level driving voltage according to a signal supplied from a first node connected to the start signal unit, and decrease the output signal to a low-level driving voltage according to a signal supplied from a second node connected to the end signal unit. Each of the plurality of stages generates multi signals for diving a pixel circuit of a display device.
US09230480B2	Organic emitting display device and driving method thereof An organic light emitting diode (“OLED) display comprises a plurality of pixels which receives a first data signal, which is a data signal of a frame, through a plurality of data lines connected thereto, and stores the first data signal during a frame period of the frame, where the pixels simultaneously emit light based on a driving current corresponding to a second data signal, which is a data signal of a previous frame, where the frame period includes a scan period, during which the first data signal is stored, and a light emission period, during which the light is emitted based on the second data signal, the scan period and the light emission period overlap each other in the frame period.
US09230479B2	Pixel driving circuit, display device and pixel driving method The present invention provides a pixel driving circuit, a display device and a pixel driving method. In the pixel driving circuit, the control unit is connected with the data line, a first control line, a second control line, a first gate line and a second gate line; the first charging unit and the second charging unit are both connected with the control unit; a first electrode of the light emitting device is connected with the control unit and the second charging unit, and a second electrode of the light emitting device is connected with the second power supply terminal. According to the present invention, by providing two storage capacitors and improving the pre-charging manner, the gate of the driving transistor is provided with the data voltage lower than the operating voltage. The threshold voltage is stored into the first capacitor, thus the threshold voltage compensation is implemented.
US09230475B2	Display device and electronic apparatus There is provided a display device including pixel circuits which are arranged and each of which includes a driving transistor to drive an electro-optical element and a capacitor connected between a gate electrode and one source/drain electrode of the driving transistor. The driving transistor is configured by stacking the gate electrode and the source/drain electrode and a peripheral portion of the gate electrode is covered by the source/drain electrode.
US09230469B2	Display device using plural gamma curves and driving method thereof A display device and a driving method is disclosed. The driving method includes receiving an image signal for one frame for one pixel, converting the image signal into at least two data voltages according to at least two gamma curves, applying a first gate signal and a second gate signal to a plurality of gate lines respectively connected to a plurality of subpixels included in one pixel during the frame. The method further includes applying the at least two data voltages to the plurality of subpixels during the frame. A gamma curve for the data voltage applied to one subpixel among the plurality of subpixels includes the at least two different gamma curves and is changed with a period of a first time.
US09230462B2	Image display device To provide an image display device in which reflection of an image on one display surface onto another display surface is suppressed. In an image display device where an image is displayed on a screen combining the display surfaces of two or more image display elements, a polarizing plate is arranged on the display surface on conditions that extinction takes place between the display surfaces of the image display elements. The extinction conditions are set such that the light entering from a display surface to which the polarizing plate is fixed is passed through and the light entering from other than the above display surface is absorbed by intersecting the polarization directions of the polarizing plates perpendicularly.
US09230455B2	Steganographic embedding of executable code A method for digital immunity includes identifying a call graph of an executable entity, and mapping nodes of the call graph to a cipher table of obscured information, such that each node based on invariants in the executable entity. A cipher table maintains associations between the invariants and the obscured information. Construction of an obscured information item, such as a executable set of instructions or a program, involves extracting, from the cipher table, ordered portions of the obscured information, in which the ordered portions have a sequence based on the ordering of the invariants, and ensuring that the obscured information matches a predetermined ordering corresponding to acceptable operation, such as by execution of the instructions represented by the obscured information, or steganographic target program (to distinguish from the executable entity being evaluated). The unmodified nature of the executable entity is assured by successful execution of the steganographic target program.
US09230448B2	Flight simulator device The invention concerns a flight simulator device (1, 51) for simulating the flight behavior of an aircraft. The flight simulator device (1, 51) comprises a passenger compartment (6) with an input means to accommodate at least one person (P), an omnidirectionally movable carrier vehicle (2) with several wheels (4) and with drive units for driving the wheels (4), and a control device (5) connected to the input means and the drive units of the carrier vehicle (2), which is designed to actuate the drive units of the carrier device (2) on the basis of signals coming from the input means.
US09230443B2	Method and system for predictive vehicle systems performance selection for enhanced maneuverability A predictive enhanced maneuverability system providing enhanced timely delivery of vehicle performance selection of chassis, and steering modes for potential predicted safety collisions is disclosed. The primary inputs of the disclosed invention include a determination of the proximity to a preceding vehicle, the density of the surrounding traffic, a forward collision warning alert, and the predictive enhanced maneuverability decision sub-system for vehicle mode selection. The system of the disclosed invention provides a customized vehicle dynamics chassis and steering dynamic mode output, based on a predicted decision about vehicle potential for collision, for improved driver maneuverability and safety. In addition, the disclosed invention provides an improved system and method for incorporating the time dependent headway, forward collision warning alert, and the traffic density for chassis collision-mode embedded decision-making. The predictive enhanced maneuverability decision-module allows vehicle dynamics mode selection to be tailored based on proximity to a potential collision.
US09230442B2	Systems and methods for adaptive vehicle sensing systems An adaptive sensing system is configured to acquire sensor data pertaining to objects in the vicinity of a land vehicle. The adaptive sensing system may be configured to identify objects that are at least partially obscured by other objects and, in response, the adaptive sensing system may be configured to modify the configuration of one or more sensors to obtain additional information pertaining to the obscured objects. The adaptive sensing system may comprise and/or be communicatively coupled to a collision detection module, which may use the sensor data acquired by the adaptive sensing system to detect potential collisions.
US09230440B1	Methods and systems for locating public parking and receiving security ratings for parking locations and generating notifications to vehicle user accounts regarding alerts and cloud access to security information Methods and systems are disclosed for providing access to safety ratings of parking locations and access alerts associated with vehicles, including processing of notifications to user accounts associated with monitored vehicles. One example method includes receiving at a server, over time, safety alerts from a plurality of vehicles. Each safety alert is associated with a geographic location. The method associates, by the server, one or more safety alerts to parking locations corresponding to geographic locations from where the safety alerts were received. The server then generates a safety grade for one or more of the parking locations, and the safety grade is based on a number of safety alerts associated to the parking location and a safety type of the safety alerts. The method receiving a request at a server, from a computing device, to access the safety grade for a parking location proximate to a current geo-location of the computing device or a destination location and sends data to a user interface of the computing device. The data includes identification of one or more parking locations proximate to the current geo-location of the computing device or the destination location and associated safety grades.
US09230437B2	Method and apparatus to encode fuel use data with GPS data and to analyze such data System and method for analyzing position data and fuel injector data from a vehicle equipped with a geographical position system (GPS) and fuel injector sensors to enable fuel use patterns of the vehicle to be analyzed. Data defining a flow of fuel through the vehicle's fuel injectors is combined with temporal data and GPS data to produce fuel use encoded GPS data that is transmitted to a remote computer. The fuel use encoded GPS data can be analyzed to determine how much fuel was used by the vehicle during off road use to enable proper fuel tax computations to be performed. The data can also be used to evaluate the mechanical condition of a vehicle. By monitoring fuel use for a trip repeated numerous times, a decrease in fuel efficiency may indicate a mechanical problem (dirty injectors, fouled spark plugs, etc).
US09230428B2	Field device of process automation A field device of process automation technology having an interface for output of an electrical current signal and a specifying unit, which provides a value, on which depends an electrical current signal to be output via the interface. A first controllable electrical current sink and a second controllable electrical current sink are provided. The first controllable electrical current sink and the second controllable electrical current sink are settable to predeterminable electrical current levels, and that the first controllable electrical current sink and the second controllable electrical current sink are connected with the interface in such a manner that the electrical current signal which at the interface essentially depends on the lower of the predeterminable electrical current levels, to which the first controllable electrical current sink and the second controllable electrical current sink are set.
US09230425B2	Vehicle controller A vehicle controller includes a communicator communicating with an information processor located outside the vehicle by transmitting and receiving information, a controller controlling the vehicle controller based on control information transmitted from the information processor, and a position-information-obtaining-part obtaining position information of the vehicle, wherein the position-information-obtaining-part obtains position information at a time of parking start upon parking start of the vehicle, and obtains position information at a time of reception of the control information when the controller receives the control information from the information processor while being in a sleep mode, and when the position-information-obtaining-part obtains the position information at the time of reception of the control information, the communicator transmits a more accurate one of the position information at the time of parking start and the position information at the time of reception of the control information.
US09230424B1	Doorbell communities Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells to take pictures of suspicious visitors and to send the pictures of the suspicious visitors to other members of the user group.
US09230413B1	Service messaging system and method for a transaction machine Identification information is received from a transaction card at a transaction machine. The transaction card is associated with an account holder using the transaction machine. Using the identification information, activity profile information is accessed for the account holder. A service-related message is generated based on the activity profile information. Screen content including the service-related message is displayed to the account holder via a display screen of the transaction machine.
US09230409B2	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.
US09230399B2	Location and age verification for mobile gaming A method for electronic gaming on a mobile device including a location determining module and a wireless data connection includes receiving coordinate data from the location determining module. Accuracy data is received from the location determining module. A region of confidence within which the mobile device is known to be within is determined based on the accuracy data received from the location determining module. An extent to which the region of confidence is within one or more pertinent jurisdictions is determined. Electronic gaming over the wireless data connection of the mobile device is permitted when it is determined that the region of confidence is entirely within the one or more pertinent jurisdictions.
US09230396B2	Gaming machine A gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display panel configured to display images of a game, the display panel including a screen facing downward; a partial mirror disposed under the display panel and inclined with respect to the screen to partially reflect the images from the display panel into a forward direction; and a controller configured to execute the game and to control the display panel.
US09230393B1	Method and system for advancing through a sequence of items using a touch-sensitive component An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive component and a display that presents a sequence of content item. A user may scroll through the sequence by applying a touch input that continuously moves across at least two thresholds. So long as the input stroke remains uninterrupted, the display will advance through the sequence each time the stroke crosses one of the two thresholds.
US09230387B2	Retail location robotic wall system A robotic retail wall is presented allowing for the dispensing of merchandise within a retail location. The robotic wall includes commodity products and robotics that pick and deliver products to consumers in response to input at a kiosk. The robotics and products are separated from a retail space by a transparent barrier, allowing consumers in the retail space to view the actions of the robotics in retrieving a product. Behind the robotic wall is a product stocking area, where commodity products can be added to the robotic wall with assistance from the robotics.
US09230383B2	Document image compression method and its application in document authentication A method for compressing a bi-level document image containing text is disclosed. The document image is segmented into symbol images each representing a letter, numeral, etc. in the document. The symbol images are classified into a plurality of classes, each class being associated with a template image and a class index. Classification is done by comparing each symbol to be classified with template of existing classes, using a number of image features including zoning profiles, side profiles, topology statistics, and low-order image moments. These image features are compared using a tolerance based method to determine whether the symbol matches the template. After classification, certain classes that have few symbols classified into them may be merged with other classes. In addition, the template images of the classes are down-sampled, where the final sizes of the template images are dependent on the likelihood of confusion of the template with other templates.
US09230381B2	Coin counting and sorting machines Systems, apparatuses, and associated methods for counting and sorting coins are described herein. In one embodiment, a coin processing machine can include a coin input region, a coin counting portion, and a coin sorting portion. The coin counting portion can include a first hopper that receives coins from the coin input region, and a coin discriminator that receives the coins from the first hopper and discriminates the coins to determine their value. The coin sorting portion can include a second coin hopper that receives the coins from the coin discriminator, and a coin sorter that receives the coins from the second hopper and sorts the coins into individual denominations.
US09230379B2	Communication of automatically generated shopping list to vehicles and associated devices Methods and systems for an improved navigation environment are provided. The navigation system can route users to preferred locations based on user profile data and past experience with the present driver and other drivers. The system provides more cost-effective and time-sensitive routing by incorporating other information about destinations. Further, the navigation system provides enhanced guidance in foreign or unfamiliar locations by incorporating experience from other drivers and other data.
US09230375B2	Physical access control A system and method are disclosed for controlling physical access through a digital certificate validation process that works with standard certificate formats and that enables a certifying authority (CA) to prove the validity status of each certificate C at any time interval (e.g., every day, hour, or minute) starting with C's issue date, D1. C's time granularity may be specified within the certificate itself, unless it is the same for all certificates. For example, all certificates may have a one-day granularity with each certificate expires 365 days after issuance. Given certain initial inputs provided by the CA, a one-way hash function is utilized to compute values of a specified byte size that are included on the digital certificate and to compute other values that are kept secret and used in the validation process.
US09230374B1	Access management and reporting technology An access management and reporting system includes a keysafe that is located outside of a building and a communication system that is located within the building. The communication system is configured to perform, over a short-range wireless communication protocol, two-way communication with a communication module of the keysafe. The system also includes a server that is located remote from the building and the keysafe. The server is configured to perform, over a long-range communication protocol, two-way communication with the communication system located within the building, is configured to manage access to the keysafe, and is configured to handle reporting related to access of the keysafe.
US09230368B2	Hologram anchoring and dynamic positioning A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual objects in a mixed reality environment in a way that is optimal and most comfortable for a user to interact with the virtual objects. When a user is moving through the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may remain world-locked, so that the user can move around and explore the virtual objects from different perspectives. When the user is motionless in the mixed reality environment, the virtual objects may rotate to face the user so that the user can easily view and interact with the virtual objects.
US09230366B1	Identification of dynamic objects based on depth data A system and method is provided that identifies dynamic objects within a set of photographic images. The objects may be identified as dynamic based on depth data associated with the images. The depth data may also be used to determine the potential states of the dynamic objects within the set of images. A three-dimensional model be created in which the dynamic objects are displayed in accordance with one of the potential states.
US09230359B2	Method for resizing an image A method for resizing an image is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the method projects the image onto a lateral surface of a three-dimensional cylinder to transform the image into a three-dimensional image. Then, the method applies perspective projection (with a chosen viewpoint) to transform the three-dimensional image back to a two-dimensional image, based on which a final resized image is generated. By carefully choosing the diameter of the three-dimensional cylinder and the coordinate of the viewpoint, a rectangular shaped image may be resized into a square-shaped image.
US09230340B2	Imaging systems with programmable fixed rate codecs An imaging system may be provided having an image sensor and a fixed-rate codec for encoding image data from the image sensor into a fixed-rate bitstream. The image sensor may include an array of image pixels with a corresponding Bayer pattern array of color filter elements. The codec may include circuits for partitioning the image data into fixed-size blocks of image data and compressing the image data in each fixed-size block based on the image content in that block using a logarithm-based quantization of selected transform coefficients. The available bits for each block may be allocated to various components such as color components of the data based on the complexity of the image content in each component. The bitstream may include header information with pointers to coefficient locations within each block. The header information may be compressed prior to insertion into the bitstream.
US09230338B2	Graphics blending for high dynamic range video A method for merging graphics and high dynamic range video data is disclosed. In a video receiver, a display management process uses metadata to map input video data from a first dynamic range into the dynamic range of available graphics data. The remapped video signal is blended with the graphics data to generate a video composite signal. An inverse display management process uses the metadata to map the video composite signal to an output video signal with the first dynamic range. To alleviate perceptual tone-mapping jumps during video scene changes, a metadata transformer transforms the metadata to transformed so that on a television (TV) receiver metadata values transition smoothly between consecutive scenes. The TV receiver receives the output video signal and the transformed metadata to generate video data mapped to the dynamic range of the TV's display.
US09230332B2	Method for processing multiple images of a same scene An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method comprises the steps of providing a sequence of image files depicting images of a same scene, in a computer memory, determining correspondence information relevant to the same scene across the sequence of images, and generating individual intrinsic images for each one of the sequence of images, as a function of the correspondence information.
US09230328B1	Providing image parameters Implementations generally relate to providing image parameters in a social network system. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a plurality of reference images associated with a target user in a social network system. The method also includes determining one or more image parameter values based on social activity of the target user. The method also includes modifying one or more target images based on the one or more determined image parameter values.
US09230327B2	Pop-up test reference image An apparatus for deploying test images for a preset period within the field of view of a camera, and having; a panel supporting the test image, and moveable transmission connected with the panel and operable to deploy, and retrieve, the panel.
US09230312B2	Methods and apparatus for performing tone mapping on high dynamic range images Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for tone mapping High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. The HDR image is separated into luminance and color. Luminance is processed according to the parameters to obtain a base layer and a detail layer. The base layer is compressed into a lower dynamic range and the detail layer is adjusted according to the parameters. The compressed base layer, the detail layer, and the color component may be output as separate layers, and various image processing tools and techniques may be applied to the component layers separately to modify the layer(s). One or more tone-mapped images may be generated by merging the modified layers. Thus, each layer of the tone-mapped image may be processed separately using various image processing tools or techniques to modify the output of the tone mapping technique in a wide variety of ways.
US09230310B2	Imaging systems and methods for location-specific image flare mitigation An imaging system may include a camera module with an image sensor having an array of image sensor pixels and one or more lenses that focus light onto the array. The system may include processing circuitry configured to mitigate flare artifacts in image data captured using the array based on at least one image flare map. The image flare map may identify a portion of the captured image data on which to perform image flare mitigation operations. The processing circuitry may perform image flare mitigation operations such as pixel value desaturation on the identified portion of the captured image data without desaturating portions of the image data that do not include flare artifacts. The flare map may be generated using a calibration system that characterizes the location, intensity, and color of all possible image flare artifacts that may be generated by the imaging system during normal imaging operations.
US09230307B2	Image processing apparatus and method for generating a high resolution image To generate a high resolution image of higher quality depending on a target area. An image processing apparatus includes a blur amount estimating unit configured to estimate a blur amount in a set target area in each of images indicated by a plurality of low resolution image data, and a reference image selecting unit configured to select a low resolution image to be a reference for generating the high resolution image depending on the estimated blur amount.
US09230305B2	Summed area computation using ripmap of partial sums Methods are provided to perform area summation of various subsections of data values in a regular input array of one or several dimensions and varying sizes. The summation is achieved by adding up values from a ripmap of partial sums, where the partial sums are computed from the input array using a binary reduction method. According to such embodiments, the generation of the ripmap of partial sums will employ several binary reduction stages. Within each stage, a reduction operator is used that adds two elements along the respective direction. This is repeated until the output is only one element wide in the respective direction. The addresses of partial sums in the ripmap may subsequently be computed using a binary analysis of the target subsections in order to choose those partial sum values for a desired area that results in the desired area sum using an optimal number of data fetches.
US09230297B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for compound image demosaicing and warping Methods, systems, and computer program products to obtain a color image from a color filter array, such as, for example, a color filter array comprising a Bayer pattern. A method of image processing includes, for each pixel location (i,j) and for each color channel in a color image, determining a warped location (i′,j′) in a color filter array, and determining a color value of the color channel at location (i′,j′) in the color filter array. The method may further include storing the determined color value. The determining of the color value may include interpolating the color value of the color channel at location (i′,j′) in the color filter array. In this manner, a single interpolation operation set may be needed and an intermediate image may be avoided, saving memory, reducing processing time, minimizing artifacts, and reducing cost.
US09230295B2	System, method, and computer program product for remote graphics processing A system, method, and computer program product are provided for remote rendering of computer graphics. The system includes a graphics application program resident at a remote server. The graphics application is invoked by a user or process located at a client. The invoked graphics application proceeds to issue graphics instructions. The graphics instructions are received by a remote rendering control system. Given that the client and server differ with respect to graphics context and image processing capability, the remote rendering control system modifies the graphics instructions in order to accommodate these differences. The modified graphics instructions are sent to graphics rendering resources, which produce one or more rendered images. Data representing the rendered images is written to one or more frame buffers. The remote rendering control system then reads this image data from the frame buffers. The image data is transmitted to the client for display or processing. In an embodiment of the system, the image data is compressed before being transmitted to the client. In such an embodiment, the steps of rendering, compression, and transmission can be performed asynchronously in a pipelined manner.
US09230292B2	Providing on-demand services through use of portable computing devices A method for requesting an on-demand service on a computing device is provided. One or more processors determine the current location of the computing device. A multistate selection feature of a plurality of service options for providing the on-demand service is presented on the display of the computing device. The multistate selection feature enables a user to select a service option that is available within a region that includes the current location to provide the on-demand service. In response to the user selecting one of the plurality of service options, a summary user interface is presented on the display to provide region-specific information about the on-demand service based on the selected service option.
US09230291B2	Load reduction based on percentage change in energy price A thermostatic controller generally includes a transceiver configured to receive a signal that includes an energy price rate for a given time period, and an electronic memory device in which one or more energy price rates received by the transceiver are stored. A microprocessor is configured to select the lowest energy price rate received within a given time period for establishing a base energy price rate; determine if the energy price rate for a present time period exceeds the base energy price rate by more than a first percentage or multiplier factor of the base energy price rate; and respond to an energy price rate that exceeds the base energy price rate by more than the first percentage or multiplier factor by transmitting a signal via the transceiver to an energy consuming appliance indicating that the energy consuming appliance should be in an off state and/or to one or more ceiling fans to activate, deactivate and/or change speed of the one or more ceiling fans.
US09230285B2	Method and apparatus for providing a social event opportunity notification Methods and apparatus for arranging event opportunities are disclosed. For example, the method detects the event opportunity that matches user profiles of at least two users who are unassociated with one another, verifies a safety parameter for one of the at least two users, wherein the safety parameter is defined by the one of the at least two users, and if the safety parameter is satisfied, sending an invitation to the event opportunity to each of the at least two users.
US09230278B2	Presentation of product recommendations based on social informatics A method, system, and/or computer program product presents product recommendations based on input derived from a user's social network. A description of a product selected for purchase by a user is received. A social networking site is searched for information relevant to a characterization the product. The relevant information is characterized according to a social relationship between the user and an other member of the social networking site, a product family of the product, and a product expertise of the other member about the product. Characterized information about the product is then presented to the user.
US09230276B2	Context-influenced application recommendations Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for recommending content based on context such as location. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that references a location of a mobile device, selecting, from among multiple, different applications that are available in an online application marketplace, one or more of the applications that are relevant to the location, and providing, by a recommendation server, a recommendation to the mobile device, where the recommendation identifies the one or more applications as applications that the user is likely to be interested in purchasing or downloading.
US09230273B2	Creation and use of constraint templates The new creation and use of entitlement constraint templates methods and systems can be linked to software offerings in a software catalog. Allowing software catalog experts to link contractual entitlement data with software product offerings via constraint templates on such a varying list of constraint types, establishes a highly robust software catalog knowledge base. The result is significant cost savings in terms of time spent inputting entitlement constraint data by contract analysts as well as minimizing errors by those analysts who would otherwise be required to have a very high level of expertise in the software offerings while potentially inputting the same constraint data repeated times.
US09230262B2	Smoothed visualization having rings containing pixels representing unevenly spaced data Unevenly spaced data records are received over time. A smoothed graphical visualization has a plurality of discrete rings to allow for detection of periodical patterns in the data records, where the discrete rings correspond to plural time periods and contain pixels representing values of an attribute of the data records. Visual indicators are assigned to the corresponding pixels, where a first of a visual indicators for a first time interval that is missing a data record is based on aggregating values of the attribute of neighboring data records, and where a second of the visual indicators for a second time interval having multiple data records is based on aggregating values of the attribute of the multiple data records.
US09230260B2	System and method for instant deals in a mobile communication network Systems and methods are provided to transmit deals, promotions and other manner of advertisements and offers to users of mobile devices that are relevant to the users' current location and intent. Users' current intent includes actions the user is likely to take in the near future, such as, for example, purchase a specific product or service. Users' probable intent is inferred from activities performed by users on their mobile devices such as, for example, user queries relating to products and services. Businesses set up offers that are directed to specific geospatial locations and specific user intent. When a user enters a geospatial location associated with an offer and manifests intent associated with the offer, the offer is transmitted to the user's mobile device.
US09230259B1	Systems and methods for mobile ordering and payment Computer implemented methods and systems for fulfilling a customer request for a requested item purchased from a merchant is provided. The method may be performed by a tangibly embodied processing machine disposed in a customer device. The method may include (1) observing, through the input of information, an observed event that is associated with a customer; (2) associating the observed event with a corresponding order record; (3) retrieving order information from the corresponding order record, the order information including at least customer financial entity account information; (4) generating a merchant request based at least in part on the order information in the corresponding order record, the merchant request including at least customer identification information and customer financial entity account information; and (5) outputting the merchant request to the designated merchant, so as to provide the designated merchant with information to fulfill the customer request.
US09230253B2	Methods and systems for managing transaction card accounts enabled for use with particular categories of providers and/or goods/services A computer-implemented method and system for managing transaction card accounts involves enabling a transaction card account by a card issuer for use with pre-defined categories of providers of goods/services and goods/services sold and issuing a transaction card and establishing an associated pre-qualified category card account. Upon receiving data for a transaction with the transaction card at a transaction terminal by a processing platform of the card issuer via a card association processing network, the category of the provider and goods/services is interrogated to determine whether or not the transaction can be posted on the pre-qualified category card account of the cardholder, and the transaction is approved and posted to the pre-qualified category card account if the transaction falls within the pre-qualified category of the cardholder.
US09230246B1	Systems and methods for electronic document delivery, execution, and return To expedite electronic delivery and return of a document, the document is sent to an electronic mail system and stored in an electronic form thereat. The recipient is informed that the document is available thereto at any of a plurality of merchants where the document may be retrieved. The recipient visits one of the plurality of merchants and at the visited merchant retrieves the document in the electronic form from the mail system to a computing device at the visited merchant. The recipient then reviews and executes the document at the visited merchant, and sends the executed document in an electronic form to the organization by way of the visited merchant and the computing device thereat.
US09230245B1	Deliverability-based e-mail sending Methods and systems for deliverability-based e-mail sending are disclosed. A plurality of e-mail addresses for a user are acquired. For each of the e-mail addresses, a connection between a sending computer system and a receiving computer system is opened. A likelihood of successful e-mail delivery is determined for each of the connections. The connection having the highest likelihood of delivery is automatically selected. An e-mail is sent using the selected connection, and the other connections are closed without sending an e-mail.
US09230244B2	Recipient changes in email threads A tool for notifying a recipient of an email message, belonging to an email thread, that a recipient address has been added to or dropped from the thread. Address fields of the email message received are compared to the address fields of the most recent prior email message in the thread. Addressed that are determined to be added or dropped are stored in the metadata of the email message received so the added or dropped recipient addresses can be accessed to notify recipients of subsequent emails in the email thread. The metadata of previous email messages in the email thread are accessed to notify the recipient of recipient addresses added or dropped between any two consecutive email messages in the thread.
US09230241B1	Initiating a communication session based on an associated content item This disclosure describes techniques in which one or more computing devices receive a signal from a first client computing device. The signal indicates that the first client computing device is available for participation in a communication session that enables communication between the first client computing device and one or more other client computing devices. The one or more computing devices determine a context for a topic of discussion associated with the communication session. The context is associated with a content item capable of being outputted by the first client computing device. Responsive to receiving the signal, the one or more computing devices initiate the communication session and send an invitation to at least one of the one or more other client computing devices to join the communication session. The invitation indicates the context of the communication session to at least one of the one or more other client computing devices.
US09230225B2	Product quality tracing to locate unsafe product material A method and apparatus of tracing product quality to improve product safety. The method and apparatus can rapidly locate sources of product raw materials causing product quality safety incidents, which prevent further development of incidents and additional losses. The method is based on using a product production plan, and creating product raw material combinations corresponding to product batches and decision rules for determining sources of unqualified product raw materials. In response to when a product quality issue arises using the decision rules when producing products according to the product raw material combinations helps to quickly determine the sources of unqualified product raw materials and improves product quality safety.
US09230219B2	Wind energy forecasting method with extreme wind speed prediction function A computer-executable method is executed by a CPU as the following steps of: obtaining an interested range in relation to a target typhoon and obtaining historical typhoons within the interested range from a wind and typhoon database; obtaining shortest distances from the respective historical typhoons to the target typhoon within the interested range; choosing a target ground grid point and obtaining normalized extreme wind speeds of the respective historical typhoons corresponding to the target ground grid point; obtaining extreme wind speeds probable for the target ground grid point by calculation according to the normalized extreme wind speeds and the highest wind speed of the center of the target typhoon; and arranging the extreme wind speeds in descending order, arranging the shortest distances corresponding to the respective extreme wind speeds, and obtaining the occurrence probability of the extreme wind speeds at the target ground grid point according to a formula.
US09230216B2	Scalable spatiotemporal clustering of heterogeneous events One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for clustering heterogeneous events. During operation, the system finds a partition of events into clusters such that each cluster includes a set of events. In addition, the system estimates probability distributions for various properties of events associated with each cluster. The system obtains heterogeneous event data, and analyzes the heterogeneous event data to determine the distribution of event properties associated with clusters and to assign events to clusters.
US09230210B2	Information processing apparatus and method for obtaining a knowledge item based on relation information and an attribute of the relation There is provided an information processing apparatus for presenting knowledge information that is similar to inputted knowledge information, by using a knowledge system including relation information between a plurality of knowledge information items, the apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to receive first knowledge information, and second knowledge information that is associated with the first knowledge information; a relation acquisition unit configured to acquire first relation information indicating a relation that the first knowledge information has with respect to the second knowledge information, from the knowledge system; a knowledge acquisition unit configured to acquire knowledge information that has the relation indicated by the first relation information with respect to the second knowledge information, from the knowledge system; and an output unit configured to output the knowledge information acquired by the knowledge acquisition unit as knowledge information similar to the first knowledge information.
US09230205B2	Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an image forming program, and image forming method An image forming device includes a residual paper amount detecting unit, a first execution unit and a second execution unit. The residual paper amount detecting unit is configured to detect a residual paper amount of a paper feeding cassette which retains papers. The first execution unit is configured to, if the number of papers required in executing an initially-inputted earliest job among a plurality of print jobs is more than the residual paper amount detected by the residual paper amount detecting unit, execute printing of a predetermined minimum number of printing papers in the earliest job. The second execution unit is configured to, after the printing of the minimum number of printing papers is executed by the first execution unit, execute one of the print jobs satisfying a predetermined priority condition.
US09230197B2	Recording medium and label production processing method A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a label production processing program for executing steps on an arithmetic device of an operation terminal, to operate a label producing apparatus is disclosed. The steps include an identification information acquiring step that acquires identification information of the label producing apparatus from at least one of a plurality of label producing apparatuses configured to transmit and receive information, a medium information acquiring step that acquires medium information on the attached print-receiving medium from the label producing apparatus from which the identification information has been acquired, and a displaying step that displays on the display device menu screens in which the identification information and the medium information corresponding to the identification information are displayed as a list, to set alternatively the label producing apparatus which is a print output destination from among the at least one of the label producing apparatuses.
US09230183B2	Automatic vehicle equipment monitoring, warning, and control system An automatic vehicle equipment control system and methods thereof are provided, the system includes at least one imager configured to acquire a continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, a processor, a color spectral filter array including a plurality of color filters, at least a portion of which are different colors, and pixels of an imager pixel array being in optical communication with substantially one spectral color filter, and a lens, wherein the imager is configured to capture a non-saturated image of nearby oncoming headlamps and at least one of a diffuse lane marking and a distant tail lamp in one image frame of the continuous sequence of high dynamic range single frame images, and the system configured to detect at least one of said highway markings and said tail lamps, and quantify light from the oncoming headlamp from data in the one image frame.
US09230166B2	Apparatus and method for detecting camera tampering using edge image An apparatus for detecting a camera tampering, includes: an image capturing unit to capture at least one image; an input-edge-image generating unit to extract an edge image from an object displayed in the captured image and generate an input edge image by using the extracted edge image; a reference-edge-image generating unit to generate a reference edge image from the input edge image; a stolen-edge-image generating unit configured to generate a stolen edge image by substracting the input edge image from the reference edge image; and a tampering determining unit to compare the input edge image with the reference edge image, compare the reference edge image with the stolen edge image, and determine whether or not a camera tampering has occurred, based on a first similarity and a second similarity.
US09230164B2	Commodity recognition apparatus and control method thereof A commodity recognition apparatus comprises an image capturing unit for capturing image of a commodity in an image capturing area, a first unit for illuminating a first illumination area closer to the image capturing unit within the image capturing area according to an exposure period of the image capturing unit, a second unit for illuminating a second illumination area including part of the first illumination area and an area further than the first illumination area from the image capturing unit within the image capturing area for an illumination period according to the exposure period, and a control module for controlling, if overexposure of the image is detected, an execution timing of the second unit so that a shifting amount of the illumination period of the second unit to an exposure period next to the exposure period in which the overexposure is detected is different from a predetermined reference value.
US09230163B2	Cascade analysis for intestinal contraction detection A method and system cascade analysis for intestinal contraction detection is provided by extracting from image frames captured in-vivo. The method and system also relate to the detection of turbid liquids in intestinal tracts, to automatic detection of video image frames taken in the gastrointestinal tract including a field of view obstructed by turbid media, and more particularly to extraction of image data obstructed by turbid media.
US09230162B2	Identification control method and system for valuable document An identification control method and system for a valuable document. The system comprises a collection part, an identification part, a control part, a transmission part and an upper computer. In the identification part, complete identification information about a valuable document is split into basic identification information and high-grade identification information. Only the basic identification information which is required by the control part is sent to the control part, and the information which is not required by the control part is directly sent to the upper computer by the identification part. The identification part only transmits the basic identification information to the control part, the data transmission amount is one-tenth of the original data transmission amount, and the transmission speed can be increased by 10 times, thereby solving the problem that a valuable document cannot be quickly processed continuously because the serial transmission speed between the control part and the identification part is slow.
US09230157B2	System and method for face capture and matching According to an example, a face capture and matching system may include a memory storing machine readable instructions to receive captured images of an area monitored by an image capture device, and detect one or more faces in the captured images. The memory may further store machine readable instructions to track movement of the one or more detected faces in the area monitored by the image capture device, and based on the one or more tracked detected faces, select one or more images from the captured images to be used for identifying the one or more tracked detected faces. The memory may further store machine readable instructions to select one or more fusion techniques to identify the one or more tracked detected faces using the one or more selected images. The face capture and matching system may further include a processor to implement the machine readable instructions.
US09230154B2	Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for assisting with a diagnosis based on a tissue sample This invention relates to an information processing apparatus which assists diagnosis based on a tissue sample image obtained by staining and capturing a tissue. The information processing apparatus receives and analyzes lower magnification image data among a plurality of image data obtained at different magnifications for an area image selected in the tissue sample image. Based on the analysis result, the information processing apparatus determines whether analysis based on higher magnification image data is necessary. When analysis based on the higher magnification image data is necessary, the information processing apparatus notifies a request of transmitting the higher magnification image data for the area image, receives and analyzes the higher magnification image data transmitted in response to the transmission request, and transmits the analysis result. This arrangement can quickly provide high-accuracy diagnosis assistance for a tissue sample image from a pathologist regardless of the restriction of the transmission capacity.
US09230148B2	Method and system for binarization of two dimensional code image Binarization method and system for two dimensional code images is provided. Each block region has a different grayscale threshold. Thus, for each block region, whether a pixel in the block region is determined as black or white restoring process is not solely based on the grayscale value of the pixel itself, but also an average grayscale value of a predetermined area specified for a block region where the pixel locates. That is to say, when the predetermined area in which the block region locates has generally a larger grayscale value, the grayscale threshold corresponding to the block region may become larger, and vice versa. Because the grayscale threshold of a block region is closely related to grayscale values in a background of this block region, external circumstance interference may be prevented from an obtained binary result, producing a clear binary image accordingly.
US09230142B2	Dimensioning and barcode reading system A system and method for auto-calibrating a barcode scanning tunnel to determine the orientation of one or more cameras with respect to a range finder and a conveyor belt comprises providing a scanning tunnel having a moveable surface, at least one range finder having an orientation, at least one camera having an orientation and at least one calibration object having at least one indicia disposed in a predetermined relationship to one or more features of the at least one calibration object, capturing at least one image of the at least one calibration object by the at least one camera, electronically detecting the at least one calibration object at least one indicia and the one or more object features and electronically calculating at least one component of the at least one camera orientation with respect to the moveable surface in response to information obtained from the image and the at least one calibration object at least one indicia.
US09230139B2	Selective content sharing on computing devices Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for selective content sharing feature between computing devices, and particularly, a system that supports user configurable application-level privacy for selective content sharing between computing devices.
US09230132B2	Anonymization for data having a relational part and sequential part A system, method and computer program product for anonymizing data. Datasets anonymized according to the method have a relational part having multiple tables of relational data, and a sequential part having tables of time-ordered data. The sequential part may include data representing a “sequences-of-sequences”. A “sequence-of-sequences” is a sequence which, itself, consists of a number of sequences. Each of these kinds of data may be anonymized using k-anonymization techniques and offers privacy protection to individuals or entities from attackers whose knowledge spans the two (or more) kinds of attribute data.
US09230131B2	Rule-based Access Control List management Access control list entries are managed as a function of access control list entry metadata for the object and the requesting user, and of an access control list rule applicable to the requesting user and the requested object. The access control list entry metadata for the object and the user is updated in response to request authorizations and denials. The access control list entry metadata for the object and the user is linked to the object and the user. Updating of the access control list entry metadata for the object and the user does not overwrite metadata for another access control list entry that is associated with the object and with another user that is different from the user.
US09230127B2	Methods and systems for increasing the security of electronic messages A method for accessing e-mail messages from a control system includes requesting access to e-mail message contents of a user stored in the control system, determining whether the user is enrolled in and activated by the control system, and authenticating the user when the user is enrolled in and activated by the control system. Moreover, the method includes permitting the user to view a list of e-mail messages when the user is successfully authenticated. The e-mail messages included in the list are associated with the user. Furthermore, the method includes permitting the user to access the contents of e-mail messages in the list having a security level equal to or less than a security level associated with the successful authentication.
US09230119B2	Methods and devices for optimizing rendering of an encrypted 3D graphical object The graphical characteristics of 3D graphical objects encrypted using format-preserving encryption makes rendering of such objects quite inefficient by non-authorized devices. To optimize the rendering of a three-dimensional graphical object represented by a list of points and a list of surfaces defined by points in the list of points, a device receives the graphical object; encrypts the graphical object using a format-preserving encryption method to obtain an encrypted graphical object; encapsulates the encrypted graphical object to obtain an encapsulated graphical object by adding at least one encapsulation by adding for each encapsulation, to the list of surfaces, a plurality of surfaces that together enclose the encrypted graphical object and, in an embodiment, at least one point to the list of points; and outputs the encapsulated graphical object. Decryption is performed by essentially reversing the encryption.
US09230106B2	System and method for detecting malicious software using malware trigger scenarios in a modified computer environment Disclosed system and methods for malware testing of software programs. An example method includes storing a plurality of malware trigger scenarios specifying different sets of malware trigger events known to trigger malicious behavior in software programs; in response to obtaining a software program, modifying a computer environment for operating the software program by creating malware trigger events associated with a selected one of the plurality of malware trigger scenarios; analyzing an execution of the software program in the modified computer environment in response to the malware trigger events; upon detecting that the software program exhibits malicious behavior, performing remedial actions on the software program; and upon detecting that the software program exhibits no malicious behavior, selecting a different malware trigger scenario from the plurality of malware trigger scenarios for malware testing of the software program.
US09230103B2	System and method for registering users for communicating information on a web site A system and method blocks or removes user accounts or complex information of user accounts that has or have a correspondence with complex information of other accounts or complex information on a blacklist.
US09230089B2	User device security manager Systems and methods are disclosed to authenticate and authorize a user for web services using user devices. In various embodiments, a method may comprise: identifying, by a user device security manager executing at a user device corresponding to a user of a web service, a first request issued from an application to access remote resources associated with the web service, the application executing at the user device and separate from the user device security manager; acquiring, by the user device security manager, security information of the application in response to the identifying of the first request, the security information including at least one of an application identification, an access scope or a nonce of the application; and transmitting a second request from the user device security manager to the web service to authenticate the application by the web service based, at least in part, on the application identification.
US09230087B2	Optical filter security An Optical Filter Security Invention incorporating an interactive system into a user authentication process (user name and password) and adding an additional simple layer of security that makes it much safer to perform online communications and transactions. It relates to the capability of the human eye to process information using a unique filter, such as a hand held card or a smart phone application, and the user's feedback of a security code into the computer for certification and protection of information.
US09230076B2	Mobile device child share In embodiments of mobile device child share, a mobile device can display a default device lock screen on an integrated display device, and receive an input effective to transition from the default device lock screen to display a child lock screen without receiving a PIN code entered on the default device lock screen. The mobile device can receive a second input effective to transition from the child lock screen to display a child space. The mobile device implements a device share service that activates a child share mode of the mobile device, and restricts functionality of device applications and access to device content based on designated restriction limits.
US09230070B2	System for providing multiple levels of authentication before delivering private content to client devices A system for providing multiple levels of authentication before delivering private content to the client devices over the communications network. A product identifier on the physical product is scanned using a code reader/decoder in the client device to access or request private content from the server. The server receives the device identifier associated with the client device and the product identifier associated with the physical product from the client device over the communications network for authentication. The server processor transmits the requested content, preferably a webpage, to the client device if both the device identifier and the product identifier are authenticated by the server processor.
US09230068B2	Method and system for managing license objects to applications in an application platform Systems and methods are provided for managing license objects to applications in an application platform database system. The method includes associating an LMA with an application installed to the application platform by a developer, notifying a license manager to which the license manager application is installed of the installation of the application to the application platform, and managing subscriber access to the application using the license manager application.
US09230066B1	Assessing risk for third-party data collectors An improved technique authenticates a user based on an ability to corroborate previous transaction data sent by a user device. Along these lines, the improved technique makes use of an independent information source for verifying the accuracy of previous transaction data obtained by a given collector. For example, when a collector of location data is a GPS unit of a cell phone, an independent information source may be a cell tower closest to the cell phone at the time of the transaction. While location data provided by the cell tower may not be as precise as that provided by the GPS unit, such data is useful for corroborating the location data from the GPS unit. In this scenario, if the data provided by the cell tower fails to corroborate that provided by the GPS unit, then the GPS unit adds significant risk to authenticating the user.
US09230060B2	Associating records in healthcare databases with individuals At least one attribute type associated with an individual in a first record of a first database and one or more similar attribute types in record(s) of other second database(s) are located. The attribute types compared. Based on the comparison, a first weighted score for the first record and another weighted score for each other records are computed. The weighted score indicates a likelihood the particular attribute type is associated with a same individual as other attribute type(s) located in other record(s) and further accounts for a time delta between measurements of the attribute types. Confidence score outputs for the records are also computed. The confidence score output of a record is based on all weighted scores of that record and indicates a likelihood that record is associated with the same individual. At least one database is updated based on at least one of the confidence score outputs.
US09230057B2	Remote monitoring of a patient Orthoses with microprocessor control placed around the joint of a patient are used to perform and to monitor isometric, range-of-motion, proprioception and isotonic exercises of the joint. A variety of improved hardware elements result in an orthosis that is easier to use and interacts more efficiently with the controller to allow the monitoring of a greater range of motions while holding down cost and provide suitable accurate evaluation of the exercises. Efficient ways of programming the exercises, monitoring the exercises and evaluating the exercise provide a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation of an injured or weakened joint.
US09230054B2	High-frequency VLSI interconnect and intentional inductor impedance extraction in the presence of a multi-layer conductive substrate Embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for extracting impedance for a circuit design are disclosed herein. Some of the disclosed embodiments are computationally efficient and can accurately compute the frequency-dependent impedance of VLSI interconnects and/or intentional inductors in the presence of multi-layer conductive substrates. In certain embodiments, the resulting accuracy and CPU time reduction are a result of a Green's function approach with the correct quasi-static limit, a modified discrete complex image approximation to the Green's function, and a continuous dipole expansion to evaluate the magnetic vector potential at the distances relevant to VLSI interconnects and intentional inductors.
US09230046B2	Generating clock signals for a cycle accurate, cycle reproducible FPGA based hardware accelerator A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for generating clock signals for a cycle accurate FPGA based hardware accelerator used to simulate operations of a device-under-test (DUT). In one embodiment, the DUT includes multiple device clocks generating multiple device clock signals at multiple frequencies and at a defined frequency ratio; and the FPG hardware accelerator includes multiple accelerator clocks generating multiple accelerator clock signals to operate the FPGA hardware accelerator to simulate the operations of the DUT. In one embodiment, operations of the DUT are mapped to the FPGA hardware accelerator, and the accelerator clock signals are generated at multiple frequencies and at the defined frequency ratio of the frequencies of the multiple device clocks, to maintain cycle accuracy between the DUT and the FPGA hardware accelerator. In an embodiment, the FPGA hardware accelerator may be used to control the frequencies of the multiple device clocks.
US09230029B2	System and method for modifying media content playback based on an intelligent random selection A playlist containing a plurality of tracks is filtered to generate a customized subset or window of tracks for playback. The method includes automatically determining user preference data for each of the plurality of tracks based on the user's conduct when each of the plurality is accessed for playback. The tracks in the playlist are reordered after each track is accessed based on the user preference data. A subset of the playlist is selected for playback based on the reordered track arrangement.
US09230028B1	Dynamic search service A platform independent system for performing a search request provided by a user. The platform independent system includes a consuming application executing on a first computer that handles the search request provided by a user. The search request includes instructions to retrieve selected data from a second application. A web interface module executing on a second computer receives the search request and formulates search routines regardless of the search engine logic or infrastructure of the consuming application to connect to a data model that contains the selected data for retrieval. The web interface module structures data associated with the search request to be compatible for searching with the data model.
US09230023B2	Search suggestion and display environment Methods, systems, and apparatus for processing image content items. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of search query suggestions for a query, each search query suggestion being based on the search query; for each search query suggestion, receiving data identifying a respective set of resources determined to be responsive to the search query suggestion; for each respective set of resources, generating a representative resource set depicting a subset of the respective set of resources; providing to the user device, in response the search query, a search results page resource including instructions that cause the user device to render a search results page that includes: a set of search results that identify resources that are determined to be responsive to the search query; for each search query suggestion, a search query suggestion grouping including: data describing the search query suggestion, and data depicting the representative resource set.
US09230021B2	Image diagnostic apparatus, image diagnostic method, medical image server and medical image storage method An image diagnostic apparatus includes an examination information acquisition unit and an imaging unit. The examination information acquisition unit searches a medical image server based on patient information to acquire past examination information corresponding to the patient information automatically from the medical image server. The imaging unit performs imaging according to an imaging condition set by referring to the examination information. Alternatively, an image diagnostic apparatus includes an imaging condition setting unit and an imaging unit. The imaging condition setting unit automatically sets or indicates an imaging condition closest to information designating an imaging condition included in examination order information directed to an image diagnostic apparatus made by another maker or a different type of an image diagnostic apparatus made by a same maker. The imaging unit performs imaging according to the set or indicated imaging condition.
US09230017B2	Systems and methods for automated media commentary Techniques for providing automated media commentary are provided. A user agent requests audio commentary for media. In response, a service searches data sources to identify the specified media, finds information related to those entities, generates text that represents those information, combines the text into a textual monologue, and synthesizes speech audio from that textual monologue. The service selects relevant information to be likely unknown to the user while also being desired by the user.
US09230005B2	Spatiotemporal encounters detection in historical movement datasets Methods, system and computer program products for spatiotemporal encounters detection of a plurality of moving objects are disclosed. The method includes receiving a dataset of a plurality of objects moving in a domain, structuring the dataset in a data structure to detect a plurality of spatiotemporal encounters among the plurality of objects, outputting a list of the detected spatiotemporal encounters. The plurality of spatiotemporal encounters may be detected in a single sweep over the received dataset.
US09230004B2	Data processing method, system, and computer program product The present description refers in particular to a data processing method, a computer program product, and a data processing system for obtaining and storing data in an outsourcing environment, the method including providing a user interface on a user computer; determining an indicator which indicates whether there is synchronization data in a user database, wherein the synchronization data is for synchronization with a remote database which is located on a remote computer; obtaining user data with the user interface; and storing the user data in the user database if the indicator indicates that there is synchronization data in the user database.
US09229994B2	Server-side tracing of requests One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for selective server-side tracing of user requests that match tracing criteria. For example, internal server processing data and/or a server-side perspective of web traffic data associated with a server processing a user request may be generated server-side as tracing data. The tracing data may be utilized in troubleshooting issues that may arise between a client machine and the server (e.g., error in uploading a photo to a website hosted by the server). Because a web-based resource (e.g., website) may be hosted by a large number of servers configured to process numerous user requests over time, an overwhelming amount of tracing data may be produced in the absence of weeding out requests for which tracing data is not needed. Thus, utilizing tracing criteria to selectively trace particular user requests promotes efficient troubleshooting.
US09229987B2	Mapping between tokenization domains A tokenization environment includes a first tokenization system in a first token domain and a second tokenization system in a second token domain. A token mapper accesses a first token from the first tokenization system and maps it to a second token from the second tokenization system. The first token can be a single-use or SLT token mapped to a clear text value within a single-use token table in the first tokenization system. The token mapper can identify the clear text value, and can query a multi-use token table in the second tokenization system with the clear text value to identify a multi-use token (the second token) mapped to the same clear text value. The token mapper can store the association between the first token and the second token in a token map.
US09229985B2	Central registry for binding features using dynamic pointers A first feature (e.g., chart or table) includes a reference to a dynamic pointer. Independently, the pointer is defined to point to a second feature (e.g., a query). The first feature is automatically updated to reflect a current value of the second feature. The reference to the pointer and pointer definition are recorded in a central registry, and changes to the pointer or second feature automatically cause the first feature to be updated to reflect the change. A mapping between features can be generated using the registry and can identify interrelationships to a developer. Further, changes in the registry can be tracked, such that a developer can view changes pertaining to a particular time period and/or feature of interest (e.g., corresponding to an operation problem).
US09229984B2	Parameter expressions for modeling user defined function execution in analytical data processing systems Systems and apparatuses are provided for analytical data processing. A system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising machine readable instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include a query compiler to identify a call to a user defined function within a query. The call to a user defined function includes an input argument and a parameter expression defining a parameter value for the user defined function. A processing engine executes the user defined function to provide a function output according to the input argument and the defined parameter value.
US09229982B2	Processing queries using oriented query paths A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to specify a set of database tables defining vertices and database joins defining oriented edges to form a graph. The oriented edges specify directionality characterizing dependent relationships between database tables. A query path in the graph is identified. The graph is split into a set of directed acyclic graphs. Each directed acyclic graph has a single root vertex that does not form a path to itself through oriented edges. Selected oriented edges are removed from each directed acyclic graph to form a tree corresponding to each directed acyclic graph. The tree is a sub-graph of a directed acyclic graph without loops and one list of joins relates any two database tables in the tree. A database query is generated for each tree. The database query is applied to database tables to form query results. The query results are displayed.
US09229980B2	Composition model for cloud-hosted serving applications Methods and apparatus for executing an application are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a request is received. One or more of a plurality of module types are instantiated such that a plurality of module objects are generated. A query plan linking the plurality of module objects is executed such that a response to the request is generated. The response is then returned.
US09229975B2	Apparatus and method for integrating applications into a computerized environment A method and apparatus for automatically suggesting further applications to a user using an executed application in a computerized environment, comprising receiving metadata provided by the executed application; searching an index for suggested applications which receive as input the data provided by the executed application; assigning a priority for each of the suggested applications; sorting the suggested applications according to the priority; and displaying to the user a list comprising the applications that received the highest priorities.
US09229974B1	Classifying queries Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for classifying queries. A query that includes one or more query terms is received. One or more entity identifiers are extracted from one or more search results that are responsive to the query. One or more of the query terms are compared with the extracted entity identifiers. Based on comparing the query terms with the extracted entity identifiers, the query is classified as an entity-triggering query or as a description-triggering query.
US09229972B2	Systems and methods for content collection validation Electronic data file and content capturing systems and methods enable enhanced accessibility and reduced complexity for clients managing large volumes of digital data files. According to one aspect, a system and method provided for validation and tracking of content collection tasks. According to another aspect, systems and methods are disclosed for error management through integrated interfaces that are capable of interacting with and correcting the results of content collection tasks.
US09229970B2	Methods to minimize communication in a cluster database system An ordering of operations in log records includes: performing update operations on a database object by a node; writing log records for the update operations into a local buffer by the node, the log records each including a local virtual timestamp; determining that a log flush to write the log records in the local buffer to a persistent storage is to be performed; in response, sending a request from the node to a log flush sequence server for a log flush sequence number; receiving the log flush sequence number by the node; inserting the log flush sequence number into the log records in the local buffer; and performing the log flush to write the log records in the local buffer to the persistent storage, where the log records written to the persistent storage comprises the local virtual timestamps and the log flush sequence number.
US09229967B2	Efficient processing of path related operations on data organized hierarchically in an RDBMS A mechanism is used to improve the efficiency of performing resource-to-path resolution. A hierarchical link structure contains entries and/or records (“link entries”) that each defines a parent-child link within an information hierarchy. A certain linking entry may have data that refers to another link entry representing a link to the parent—a link in which the parent is a child. This data allows resource-to-path resolutions to be performed more efficiently.
US09229964B2	Database cloning and migration for quality assurance Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for cloning a production database for quality assurance (QA) by the merchant users. A QA user may request tokens, card types and other data associated with a payment device for quality assurance purposes. The payment network redirects the QA request to a go-between database that is present between the QA user and the production environment of the payment network rather than pull the information directly from the production environment. As a result, the merchant is able to use tokens for testing, without violating consumer privacy and security rules and regulations (e.g., PCI rules). The QA user does not have to create a customized testing solution.
US09229963B2	Data conversion system and method for converting data that is distributed in a vehicle A data conversion system for a vehicle includes an interface gateway device that is configured to be communicatively coupled with a data acquisition module and a client module. The data acquisition module obtains a value of a data parameter related to operation of the vehicle and communicates the value to the interface gateway device in a first message provided in a first format. The interface gateway device is configured to convert the first format of the first message into a different, second format to form a second message and to communicate the second message to the client module. The client module uses the second message to perform a function for the vehicle.
US09229959B2	Object graph partial immutability and isolation enforcement The type definition of particular types such that different portions of the corresponding object graph may have different permissions assigned to those portions during instantiation. This allows structured permissions to be applied to instantiations of the object graphs of those defined types, allowing fine grained control over what access permissions are enforced against which portions of the object graph. In some embodiments, different instantiations of the object graph may apply permissions differently.
US09229951B1	Key value databases for virtual backups A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. This includes identifying files from a master file table, generate a key/value database based on the identified files, wherein the key includes directory information and the value includes file metadata, and storing the key/value database in a storage device. Identifying files from a master file table includes parsing a VMDK to isolate a master file table region.
US09229941B2	Method and system for transformation of logical data objects for storage Methods for transforming a non-transformed stored logical data object (LO) into a transformed LO are provided. One method includes: a) in response to a respective transformation request, logically dividing the non-transformed LO into a segment and one or more non-transformed subsequent segments, each segment having a predefined size; b) generating a header for the respective transformed LO; c) processing said segment; d) overwriting said segment by said generated header and said transformed segment; e) indexing said transformed segment and said one or more non-transformed subsequent segments as constituting a part of said 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 said generated header, said transformed segment, said one or more subsequent segments including data in non-transformed form and said at least one index section.
US09229940B2	Method and apparatus for improving the integration between a search engine and one or more file servers In one aspect of the invention, a search engine parses files stored among one or more file servers in order to create and maintain index information used by the search engine to perform searches. For a given file server, the population of files presented to the search engine is reduced in size to facilitate the process of updating the index. In another aspect of the invention, the file server limits the files presented in a directory list request made by a search engine. This reduces the number of file s that need to be considered when performing an index update.
US09229933B2	System, method and program for managing file downloads System, method and program for managing download of a file. A current request to establish a session is received. In the session, there is a request to download the file beginning at a specified location after a start of the file. The current request does not specify a fixed length of the requested download. A length of the file to be downloaded is estimated based on prior requests to download the file beginning at other respective locations. In response to the current request, the estimated length of the file is downloaded beginning at the specified location. In response to downloading the estimated length of the file beginning at the specified location, the download of the file is suspended for a time window. If the session corresponding to the current request is not terminated within the time window, then download of the file is automatically resumed following the length in further response to the current request. If the session corresponding to the current request is terminated within the time window, then download of the file is not automatically resumed following the length in further response to the current request.
US09229931B2	Systems and methods for medical image viewer compatibility determination Certain examples provide systems and methods to determine client compatibility. An example method includes receiving a request at an image viewer from a client browser for display of medical image data. The example method includes providing a temporary view to the client browser in response to the request. The example method includes determining client compatibility with the viewer and an associated server in the background at a client device executing the client browser while the temporary view is displayed at the client browser. The example method includes requesting the image data from the server based on the client compatibility determination. The example method includes rendering the image data and providing to the client browser based on the client compatibility determination, the rendering and presentation of the image data modified to enable or disable capability of at least one of the viewer and the server based on the client compatibility determination.
US09229929B2	Modular translation of learning applications in a modular learning system A modular learning system is provided that incorporates translation of language and media metadata associated with learning applications. The author of a learning application may provide a description of a desired translating user to perform translation of the author's learning application. The modular learning system provides a set of translating users meeting the description. The author selects a translating user and the selected translating user is provided on a translation request being made. After translation by the translating user, the language and media are updated to provide the translation to users. A badge is created for display to users to indicate the translation and data about the translation.
US09229925B2	Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for a multifunctional interactive dictionary database for referencing polysemous symbol An embodiment of the present application is directed to an apparatus, method, and or computer readable medium for effectively storing an interactive dictionary database in a memory. The interactive dictionary database includes a plurality of symbol sequences, each of the plurality of symbol sequences including at least one polysemous symbol and each of the plurality of symbol sequences being stored in association with at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase. The method includes providing, in the interactive dictionary database, information useable to assign at least a subset of the plurality of symbol sequences at least one of an active and an inactive status.
US09229923B2	Method and system for producing documents A method and system for producing documents with which the quality of a template conversion is increased by presenting to an operator associations of template elements between a source document template and a destination document template and allowing the operator to correct any erroneous association during the conversion. This includes providing a source document template, parsing the source document template into source parsed elements, converting at least some of the source parsed elements that require conversion for a destination document template and thereby providing destination template elements. This further includes presenting to an operator the source parsed elements and the destination template elements with their association and accepting operator input to correct at least some of the destination template elements. Then generating a destination document template from the destination template elements that include operation corrections and generating documents from the destination document template and a data source containing field data.
US09229919B1	Reconciling smart fields Managing a plurality of document versions saved in a cloud-based structured database management system. Allowing the user of a document creation application to add intelligence to objects within a document, thereby allowing the user to reconcile changes made to the document during a negotiation lifecycle.
US09229910B2	Predicting three dimensional distribution of reservoir production capacity A method for evaluating portions of a reservoir includes classifying producing reservoir portions in the reservoir into multiple classifications based on production data associated with the producing reservoir portions. Each classification corresponds to a range of the production data. The method further includes generating a correlation between the classifications of the producing reservoir portions to a petrophysical property and elastic property of the subterranean formation, generating, based on the correlation, a spatial distribution function of reservoir quality to represent predicted classifications as a function of physical locations in the reservoir, and evaluating, using the spatial distribution function, a physical location in the reservoir for reservoir quality.
US09229905B1	Methods and systems for defining vehicle user profiles and managing user profiles via cloud systems and applying learned settings to user profiles Methods and systems are provide access to cloud services over the Internet for managing a user profile of a vehicle on a cloud processing system connected to the Internet. One example method includes receiving requests to access the user profile to define settings for one or more vehicles. The method includes receiving input to user settings at the vehicle at the cloud processing system. The method includes processing the input over time to learn behavior associated with the input to the use settings. The method includes transmitting settings to the vehicle to be automatically implemented based on the learned behavior. The method being executed by a processor. The profile can be transferred to one or more vehicles, can be set for a temporary period of time, can be set with wireless payment systems, and is accessible over the Internet to accept changes or updates.
US09229902B1	Managing update deployment Systems and methods for managing deployment of an update to computing devices, and for diagnosing issues with such deployment, are provided. An update deployment manager determines one or more initial computing devices to receive and execute an update. The update deployment manager further monitors a set of performance metrics with respect to the initial computing devices or a collection of computing devices. If a deployment issue is detected based on the monitored metrics, the update deployment manager may attempt to diagnosis the deployment issue. For example, the update deployment manager may determine that a specific characteristic of computing devices is associated with the deployment issue. Thereafter, the update deployment manager may modify future deployment based on the diagnosis (e.g., to exclude computing devices likely to experience the deployment issue).
US09229900B2	Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content items and for selecting content to display in a content feed are described. According to various embodiments, accessing one or more content items accessible via a network are accessed, each of the content items having received one or more social activity signals. Thereafter, members of an online social network service that submitted the social activity signals may be identified. Member profile data identifying member profile attributes of the members cemented the social activity signals may then be accessed. Thereafter, social attribute information may be generated and associated with each of the content items, the social attribute information identifying the member profile attributes of the members that submitted the social activity signals associated with each of the content items.
US09229899B1	Information technology system collaboration A computer implemented method includes detecting an event in a multi-component information technology system. Multiple parties having an interest in the event are identifies. An interactive collaboration mechanism is created and access to the collaboration mechanism is provided to the identified multiple parties having an interest in the event.
US09229895B2	Multi-core integrated circuit configurable to provide multiple logical domains Apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with integrated circuits (IC) or system-on-chips (SOC) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-core IC may include a number of central processing units (CPUs), and a number of input/output (I/O) resources. The IC may further include a switch fabric configured to couple the CPUs with the I/O resources, and a register to be selectively configured to exclusively couple one of the CPUs with one of the I/O resources to form a logical domain that computationally isolates the one CPU and the one I/O resource from other CPUs and other I/O. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09229885B2	Adaptive scheduling queue control for memory controllers based upon page hit distance determinations Methods and systems are disclosed for adaptive scheduling queue control based upon page hit distance determinations. A threshold occupancy value is determined for a window of previous access requests to a memory and used to adaptively control a number of access requests stored in a scheduling queue buffer. For certain embodiments, a page hit distance (PHD) determination for each access request and historical page hit distance data is used to adjust the threshold occupancy value that determines the number (N) of access requests stored in the buffer prior to removing an access request and using it to access the memory. For each access request, the page hit distance represents the number of previously received access requests since the last access request to access the same page of memory. An average PHD can be determined over a number (M) of previous access requests and used to control the threshold occupancy value.
US09229884B2	Virtualized instruction extensions for system partitioning A method and circuit for a data processing system provide virtualized instructions for accessing a partitioned device (e.g., 14, 61) by executing a control instruction (47, 48) to encode and store an access command (CMD) in a data payload with a hardware-inserted partition attribute (LPID) for storage to a command register (25) at a physical address (PA) retrieved from a special purpose register (46) so that the partitioned device (14, 61) can determine if the access command can be performed based on local access control information.
US09229863B2	Semiconductor storage device According to the embodiments, a first storage area and a second storage area specified by a trim request is managed by a first management unit, and the second storage area specified by the trim request is managed by a second management unit. A block in which data of the first management unit are all specified by the trim request from the first or second storage areas and a block in which data of the second management unit are all specified by the trim request from the second storage area are released.
US09229859B2	Mapping non-prefetchable storage locations into memory mapped input/output space A system including a host and a device. The device has at least one non-prefetchable storage location. The host and the device are configured to map the at least one non-prefetchable storage location into memory mapped input/output space that is addressed via greater than 32 address bits.
US09229856B2	Optimized configurable NAND parameters Configurable parameters may be used to access NAND flash memory according to schemes that optimize such parameters according to predicted characteristics of memory cells, for example, as a function of certain memory cell device geometry, which may be predicted based on the location of a particular device within a memory array.
US09229849B2	Dynamic reconfiguration of storage system A storage system is dynamically reconfigured. The storage system includes storage pools that each include one or more storage disks. Storage pools to be expanded are determined as target storage pools. For the target storage pools, source storage disks to be moved into the target storage pools are determined from other storage pools than the target storage pools in the storage system. The source storage disks are migrated to the respective target storage pools.
US09229838B2	Modeling and evaluating application performance in a new environment A method for evaluating the performance of an application when migrated from a first environment in which the application is currently executing to a second, different environment includes generating a virtual application that mimics the resource consuming behavior of the application, executing the virtual application in the second environment, and evaluating the performance of the virtual application in the second environment.
US09229831B2	Test device and method A test device is provided for testing a device under test (DUT) having a control interface compliant with a standard selected from a plurality of standards each supporting a common set of management data input/output (MDIO) and non-MDIO control signals. The test device includes a test interface and an integrated control interface. The integrated control interface adapts to the standard with which the control interface of the DUT complies, so that the integrated control interface directly and fully controls the DUT via at least the common set of MDIO and non-MDIO control signals. The integrated control interface exchanges control signals selected from the common set of MDIO and non-MDIO control signals with the control interface of the DUT to monitor the DUT and thereby obtain status information about the DUT.
US09229829B2	Synchronous mode replication to multiple clusters Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for synchronous mode replication to multiple clusters receiving a write to a volume from a host. A received write is cached in a memory. A determination is made of a replication rule indicating one of a plurality of replication modes for a first cluster and a second cluster used for replication for the write, wherein one of the replication modes comprises a synchronous mode. A determination is made that the replication rule indicates a synchronous mode for the first and the second clusters. The write is transmitted from the memory to the first cluster to store in a first non-volatile storage of the first cluster and to the second cluster to store in a second non-volatile storage in response to determining that the replication rule indicates the synchronous mode.
US09229826B2	Volatile memory representation of nonvolatile storage device set The storage devices of a storage device set (e.g., a RAID array) may generate a nonvolatile representation of the configuration of the storage device set, including logical disks, spaces, storage pools, and layout and provisioning plans, on the physical media of the storage devices. A computer accessing the storage device set may also generate a volatile memory representation of the storage device set to use while accessing the storage devices; however, the nonvolatile representation may not be performant due to its different usage and characteristics. Presented herein are techniques for accessing the storage device set according to a volatile memory representation comprising a hierarchy of logical disks, slabs, and extents, and an accessory comprising a provisioning component that handles slab accesses while applying provisioning plans, and that interfaces with a lower-level layout component that translates slab accesses into storage device accesses while applying layout plans to the storage device set.
US09229820B2	Information processing device with memory dump function, memory dump method, and recording medium An information processing device, including: a memory; a processing unit which operates a virtual machine, an operating system which is executed on the virtual machine, and a hypervisor which controls the virtual machine; and a control unit which controls a system including the memory and the processor. The processing unit stops the operating system when detecting an error of the hypervisor, notifies the control unit of a first memory area used by the hypervisor, stops the hypervisor, changes a memory area used by the hypervisor into a second memory area different from the first memory area notified by the control unit, starts the hypervisor using the second memory area as an available area, starts the operating system, and reads data in the first memory area, and writes the data to a file as a dump file of the hypervisor.
US09229814B2	Data error recovery for a storage device A storage device is described that detects a data error and then notifies a distributed file system, for example, of such error. A data recovery can then be initiated in many ways, one way by the storage device.
US09229806B2	Block closure techniques for a data storage device A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. A method includes initiating a write operation to write first data to a first word line of a multi-level cell (MLC) block of the non-volatile memory. The method further includes compensating, in response to an event that interrupts programming at the first word line, for incompletion of a write disturb effect at the MLC block due to the event by copying second data from a second word line of the MLC block to a second block of the non-volatile memory or by writing dummy data to the second word line.
US09229803B2	Dirty cacheline duplication A method of managing memory includes installing a first cacheline at a first location in a cache memory and receiving a write request. In response to the write request, the first cacheline is modified in accordance with the write request and marked as dirty. Also in response to the write request, a second cacheline is installed that duplicates the first cacheline, as modified in accordance with the write request, at a second location in the cache memory.
US09229796B1	System and method for determining disk failure indicator to predict future disk failures Techniques for determining a disk failure indicator for predicting disk failures are described herein. According to one embodiment, diagnostic parameters are received which are collected from a set of known working disks and a set of known failed disks of a storage system. For each of the diagnostic parameters, a first quantile distribution representation is generated for the set of known working disks, and a second quantile distribution representation is generated for the set of known failed disks. The first quantile distribution representation and the second quantile distribution representation of each of the diagnostic parameters are then compared to select one or more of the diagnostic parameters as one or more disk failure indicators for predicting future disk failures.
US09229793B2	System, method and computer program product for routing messages to a server In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for routing messages to a server. These mechanisms and methods for routing messages to a server can enable dynamic data migration within a system, increased efficiency, improved user experience, avoidance of data loss, etc.
US09229792B1	Method and apparatus for weighted message passing A method and system for message passing which weights messages in a queue by urgency of consumption. A timestamp indicating the urgency of consumption may be assigned to a message, and messages may be automatically re-ordered based on their timestamps, following a first-in-weighted-out (FIWO) logic. Such a schedule-driven auto-reordered message passing system may provide increased efficiency, lower latency and is independent of the configuration of memory types.
US09229789B2	Transparent user mode scheduling on traditional threading systems Embodiments for performing cooperative user mode scheduling between user mode schedulable (UMS) threads and primary threads are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, an asynchronous procedure call (APC) is received on a kernel portion of a user mode schedulable (UMS) thread. The status of the UMS thread as it is being processed in a multi-processor environment is determined. Based on the determined status, the APC is processed on the UMS thread.
US09229781B2	System and method for allocating spare system resources A system and method for allocating and/or utilizing spare computing system (e.g., personal computing system) resources. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example and without limitation, provide a system and/or method that communicates incentive information with computing systems, and/or representatives thereof, regarding the allocation of computing resources for utilization by other computing systems and/or incentives that may be associated with such utilization. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example, allocate one or more resources of a computing system for utilization by another computing system based, at least in part, on such communicated incentive information.
US09229778B2	Method and system for dynamic scaling in a cloud environment Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: determining first server dynamics associated with a first server instance, wherein the first server dynamics are indicative of a current performance of the first server instance; determining second server dynamics associated with a second server instance, wherein the second server dynamics are indicative of a current performance of the second server instance; determining, based on the first server dynamics, a current operating mode of the first server instance; determining, based on the second server dynamics, a current operating mode of the second server instance; scaling up with respect to the first server instance based on the first current operating mode indicating that the server instance is oversaturated; and scaling down with respect to the second server instance based on the second current operating mode indicating that the server instance is undersaturated.
US09229774B1	Systems and methods for performing scheduling for a cluster Multiple scheduler verticals can allocate tasks to resources that are shared by the scheduler verticals. Information regarding a state of each resource may be stored in memory accessible by the multiple scheduler verticals, and a processor updates the information. The scheduler verticals schedule events to be performed by any of the resources, and submit updates to reflect the scheduled events in the information. In the event of conflicting events, an update corresponding to only one of the conflicting events is committed. Moreover, disruptions may be preplanned and scheduled so as to minimize impact on scheduled tasks.
US09229773B1	Determining when to perform a maintenance operation on a computing device based on status of a currently running process or application on the computing device A method for determining when to perform an operation on a computing device is described. The computing device receives a direction to perform an operation. A deferral configuration including at least one criterion is also received. The computing device determines whether a criterion is met and defers performance of the operation if it is met. The computing device performs the operation if a criterion is not met.
US09229765B2	Guarantee real time processing of soft real-time operating system by instructing core to enter a waiting period prior to transferring a high priority task A method to guarantee real time processing of a soft real time operating system in a multicore platform by executing a thread while varying a core in which the thread is executed and apparatus are provided. The method includes assigning priority to a task thread, executing the task thread, determining a core in which the task thread is to be executed, and if the core is determined, transferring the task thread to the determined core.
US09229761B2	Generating, at least in part, at least one packet indicating, at least in part, at least one command and/or issuing, at least in part, at least one result of execution, at least in part, of the at least one command An embodiment may include circuitry to be included, at least in part, in a node in a network. The circuitry may expose, at least in part, a virtual function (VF) via which a subset of a physical function (PF) of the circuitry may be accessible. The circuitry may generate, at least in part, a packet that may indicate, at least in part, a command, and/or may issue, at least in part, a result of execution of the command by another (external) node in the network. The packet may be received, at least in part, by the other node. The command may be issued to the VF from a virtual machine (VM) resident, at least in part, in the node. The result may be issued, at least in part, to the VM, via the VF. Many modifications, variations, and alternatives are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US09229756B2	User datagram protocol (UDP) packet migration in a virtual machine (VM) migration Embodiments of the invention relate to receiving, by a first processor comprising a processing device, an indication that a migration of a virtual machine from the first processor to a second processor is to occur. The first processor transmits user datagram protocol (UDP) packets intended for the virtual machine to the second processor based on the indication. A signal is transmitted to the virtual machine to enter an offline state, wherein the offline states comprises a transfer of at least one of a central processing unit (CPU) state and a memory state, and wherein the virtual machine is configured to halt a processing of the UDP packets in response to receiving the signal. The virtual machine is reactivated once the migration of the virtual machine from the first processor to the second processor is complete. The virtual machine is instructed to resume the processing of the UDP packets.
US09229753B2	Autonomic customization of properties of a virtual appliance in a computer system A customizer autonomically customizes a virtual appliance by retrieving customization values for various customizable properties of a virtual machine from various providers to customize the virtual appliance in order to simplify deployment of the virtual appliance. The customization properties may include CPU properties, memory properties, storage properties, network properties and properties specific to the software in the virtual appliance. The customizer allows an end user to initiate autonomic customization of the virtual appliance at various times prior to deployment of the virtual appliance. The customizer also allows the user to provide additional customization upon execution.
US09229751B2	Apparatus and method for managing virtual memory A virtual memory management apparatus and method to execute virtual machines in a multi-processor and multi-memory environment are provided. The virtual memory management apparatus includes a virtual system memory manager configured to allocate a virtual system memory to a virtual machine. The virtual memory management apparatus further includes a virtual swap device map storage configured to store location information of virtual swap devices that are able to be allocated to the virtual machine. The virtual memory management apparatus further includes a virtual swap device manager configured to allocate a virtual swap device to the virtual machine with reference to a virtual swap device map.
US09229739B2	Creation and management of electronic files for a localization project Electronic files for a localization project may be created and/or managed. The electronic files may be based on a data structure that defines the format and content of the electronic files and may include a first data structure portion that may contain data representing a plurality of references to localization project files. The data structure may includes a second data structure portion that may be associated with the first data structure portion that may contain data that may represent a plurality of references to standard files.
US09229737B2	Method and system of emulating devices across selected communication pathways through a terminal session Emulating devices across selected communication pathways by way of a terminal session. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including establishing a terminal session between a first computer system and a second computer system (the second computer system distinct from the first computer system, and the second computer system having a management processor with a plurality of communication pathways to a main processor of the second computer system), configuring the management processor to send data regarding emulation of a first mass storage device across a first selected pathway of the plurality of communication pathways to the main processor (the configuring by way of the terminal session), and emulating (by the management processor) the first mass storage device across the first selected pathway.
US09229730B2	Multi-chip initialization using a parallel firmware boot process Mechanisms, in a multi-chip data processing system, for performing a boot process for booting each of a plurality of processor chips of the multi-chip data processing system are provided. With these mechanisms, a multi-chip agnostic isolated boot phase operation is performed, in parallel, to perform an initial boot of each of the plurality of processor chips as if each of the processor chips were an only processor chip in the multi-chip data processing system. A multi-chip aware isolated boot phase operation of each of the processor chips is performed in parallel, where each of the processor chips has its own separately configured address space. In addition, a unified configuration phase operation is performed to select a master processor chip from the plurality of processor chips and configure other processor chips in the plurality of processor chips to operate as slave processor chips that are controlled by the master processor chip.
US09229728B2	Processing system of electronic device and operating method thereof with connected computer device A processing system capable of connecting to a computer device comprising a second processing unit is provided. The processing system comprises a first processing unit and a first storage unit. The first storage unit is coupled to the first processing unit for storing at least a first programming code and a second programming code. At a first time point, the first processing unit accesses the first programming code from the first storage unit to set the processing system. At a second time point after the first time point, the first processing unit receives an instruction from the second processing unit and transfers the second programming code to the second processing unit in response to the instruction. The second processing unit controls the processing system with the second programming code.
US09229723B2	Global weak pattern history table filtering Embodiments relate to global weak pattern history table (PHT) filtering. An aspect includes receiving a search address associated with a branch prediction, and receiving a prediction strength indicator and a tag from a PHT. Based on determining that the tag matches the search address and the prediction strength indicator is weak, an accuracy counter is compared to a comparison threshold to determine whether a PHT direction prediction from the PHT is more likely accurate than a branch history table (BHT) direction prediction from a BHT. The PHT direction prediction is selected as a direction prediction based on determining that the accuracy counter indicates that the PHT direction prediction is more likely accurate than the BHT direction prediction. The BHT direction prediction is selected as the direction prediction based on determining that the accuracy counter indicates that the BHT direction prediction is more likely accurate than the PHT direction prediction.
US09229720B2	Circuit marginality validation test for an integrated circuit A high volume manufacturing (HVM) and circuit marginality validation (CMV) test for an integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. The IC comprises a port binding and bubble logic in the front end to provide flexibility in binding a port to the uop and to create empty spaces (bubbles) in the uop flow. The out-of-order (OOO) cluster of the IC comprises reservation disable logic to control the flow sequence of the uops and stop schedule logic to temporarily stop dispatching the uops from the OOO cluster to the execution (EXE) cluster. The EXE cluster of the IC comprises signal event uops to generate fault information and fused uJump uops to specify combination of branch prediction, direction, and resolution in any portion of the test. Such features provide a tester the flexibility to perform HVM and CMV testing of the OOO and EXE clusters of the IC.
US09229719B2	Method and apparatus for shuffling data Method, apparatus, and program means for shuffling data. The method of one embodiment comprises receiving a first operand having a set of L data elements and a second operand having a set of L control elements. For each control element, data from a first operand data element designated by the individual control element is shuffled to an associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set and a zero is placed into the associated resultant data element position if its flush to zero field is not set.
US09229715B2	Method and apparatus for efficient inter-thread synchronization for helper threads A monitor bit per hardware thread in a memory location may be allocated, in a multiprocessing computer system having a plurality of hardware threads, the plurality of hardware threads sharing the memory location, and each of the allocated monitor bit corresponding to one of the plurality of hardware threads. A condition bit may be allocated for each of the plurality of hardware threads, the condition bit being allocated in each context of the plurality of hardware threads. In response to detecting the memory location being accessed, it is determined whether a monitor bit corresponding to a hardware thread in the memory location is set. In response to determining that the monitor bit corresponding to a hardware thread is set in the memory location, a condition bit corresponding to a thread accessing the memory location is set in the hardware thread's context.
US09229714B2	Memory control apparatus, memory apparatus, information processing system, and processing method for use therewith There is provided a memory control apparatus including: a pre-read processing section reading pre-read data from a data area to be written to before a write process in a predetermined data area of a memory cell array; a conversion determination section which, upon selectively allowing the pre-read data to transition to either a first conversion candidate or a second conversion candidate of the write data to be written in the write process, generates a determination result for selecting either of the candidates based on the larger of two values of which one is the number of bits transitioning from the first value to the second value and of which the other is the number of bits transitioning from the second value to the first value; and a conversion control section selecting either of the candidates in accordance with the determination result.
US09229701B2	Local store data versioning Embodiments are directed to maintaining coherence between web application versions, to maintaining proper versions between web application clients and servers and to determining whether to apply a web application update. In one scenario, a computer system receives a data request from a web application client for certain specified data. The data is indexed according to a web application schema, and the data request includes a web application client version identifier. The computer system determines that the requested data is not accessible using the web application schema, updates the web application schema to a current version of the web application schema and processes the received data request using the updated web application schema.
US09229699B2	Method, system and device for execution of a software application A method of executing a software application. A storage device stores connection data, an identifier of the software application, a context selector, and an application launcher. An execution device connects, using the connection data, to a server. The storage device transfers the context selector to the execution device, which executes it to generate a first context for the execution device. The identifier and the first context are sent to the server from which the storage device receives the software application, which is stored with the first context. The application launcher is transferred to the execution device for execution. A second context of the execution device is generated and the storage device checks if it matches the first context. If so, the storage device transfers the software application to the execution device where it is executed.
US09229697B2	Speculative object shapes A method for speculative object shapes comprises obtaining values for objects of a first and second shape, determining, by a processor and during runtime, a first speculative type for the first value and a second speculative type for the second value, generating, based on the first speculative type and the second speculative type, a shape tree comprising a first subtree for the first shape and a second subtree for the second shape, marking, by the processor, the first subtree as obsolete based on a determination that the first speculative type is incorrect and that the second shape is a super shape of the first shape, and transforming, in response to marking, the first object from the first shape to the second shape by: merging the first subtree into the second subtree.
US09229694B2	Systems and methods for facilitating application development utilizing plugins Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for determining at least one criterion for establishing an offer campaign based on a player's experience on gaming platform (e.g., via a gaming website) and/or determining whether a player qualifies for one or more offers based on the player's experience.
US09229687B2	Private two-party computation using partially homomorphic encryption A product of prime numbers and a quadratic non-residue of one of the prime numbers are received as a public key from a first party. The product of prime numbers comprises a first group and the prime numbers respectively comprise a first sub-group and a second sub-group of the first group. Data of the first party is automatically encrypted bit-wise using a computerized device by encrypting first bit values of the data of the first party as quadratic residue and encrypting second bit values of the data of the first party as quadratic non-residue to produce a first intermediate number. The first intermediate number is automatically multiplied by the quadratic non-residue of the public key using the computerized device to complete encryption of the data of the first party. A square root of a value is received from a second party. The second party does not have the quadratic residue and the quadratic non-residue. A single bit of the data of the first party is automatically decrypted for the second party by factoring the product of prime numbers to evaluate whether the single bit has a square root in the first sub-group or the second sub-group based on the square root of the value from the second party.
US09229685B2	Automated corruption analysis of service designs Methods and arrangements for conducting corruption analysis of service designs. A service design is accepted. Corrupting factors within the service design are assessed, and a corruption susceptibility score is generated. An alternative service design is generated responsive to a corruption susceptibility score fulfilling predetermined criteria.
US09229672B2	Auditing system and method for controlling the same An auditing system that stores job history information of a job to be executed by an image forming apparatus may include a setting unit and an acquisition unit. The setting unit sets page filtering conditions. In response to the page filtering conditions including a setting of a ratio of pages containing image data to be acquired to all pages included in the job to be executed by the image forming apparatus, the acquisition unit randomly acquires image data of a number of pages corresponding to the ratio, from the pages included in the job, as the job history information.
US09229670B1	Flexible attribute tracking and report generation for a workflow System and methods for flexible attribute tracking and report generation for a workflow. One embodiment is a workflow server that receives a selection of attributes to track for print jobs as the print jobs are processed in a print system, and generates print reports based on the attributes being tracked. The workflow server receives an indication to remove a first attribute from tracking, receives an instruction to include data for the first attribute in a print report, retrieves the data for the first attribute that was recorded before removal of the first attribute from tracking, and includes the data for the first attribute in the print report while the first attribute remains removed from tracking.
US09229668B2	Process enablement in network downtime condition It is a first aspect of the present disclosure to provide a computer implemented method of enabling, by a mobile device, a peripheral device connected to a network that includes establishing a connection with the peripheral device when the peripheral device fails to communicate with the network; querying the peripheral device for a document; receiving a document from the peripheral device; processing the document; and sending the processed document to the peripheral device.
US09229666B2	Device registration system and method A device registration system includes a network, an image forming apparatus, a mobile terminal communicatively connected to the network via an access point, and a server. The image forming apparatus comprises an image forming apparatus near field communication (NFC) unit configured to perform wireless communication with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a mobile terminal NFC unit configured to perform wireless communication with the image forming apparatus. The server is configured to register setting information associated with the image forming apparatus in a search list, wherein the setting information includes (i) position information indicative of a location of the image forming apparatus and (ii) tag information representative of a text label that describes the image forming apparatus.
US09229660B2	Storage system and method for controlling storage system According to an aspect of the present invention, provided is a storage system including a plurality of storage devices, a plurality of access control devices, a relay device, and a connection control device. The plurality of access control devices control access to each of the plurality of storage devices. The relay device connects each of the plurality of storage devices to one of the plurality of access control devices. The connection control device instructs, in response to load states of the plurality of access control devices, the relay device to switch an access control device connected to one of the plurality of storage devices so that deviation of loads among the plurality of access control devices is improved.
US09229647B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for spoofing a port of a host entity to identify data that is stored in a storage system and may be accessed by the port of the host entity A first device in a network, having a first port, receives an identifier of a second port of a second device in the network, the network comprising a host entity, a switch, and a storage system. The first port of the first device spoofs the second port of the second device, during a communication with the switch. The first device receives information identifying a third port of a third device in the network that is zoned to the second port of the second device. The device identifies data stored in the storage system that may be accessed by the host entity, based at least on the information.
US09229643B2	Compatible virtual machine joiner A method, system and computer readable medium for joining multiple virtual machines (VMs). The method includes identifying a first virtual machine (VM) executing a first operating system (OS) for joining with a second VM executing a second OS, wherein the first OS and the second OS are compatible. A new VM having a new disk is created, wherein the new disk includes the contents of a first existing disk of the first VM and a second existing disk of the second VM.
US09229641B2	Identifying redundant data for disk image streaming Redundant data in a streaming disk image is identified using commands to indicate unused disk blocks, such as TRIM/UNMAP commands. A TRIM/UNMAP layer is added between an operating system and a disk driver to support the use of TRIM/UNMAP commands. Using the TRIM/UNMAP layer, blocks of a streamed disk image that are unallocated by the operating system are identified. The identified unallocated blocks are streamed to a server for analysis and storage.
US09229639B2	Method and non-volatile memory device for improving latency together with write protection A data storage device includes a write protection data structure that includes a first set of entries corresponding to a first set of ranges of memory addresses. A first indication stored in an entry, in the first set of entries, corresponds to an absence of write-protected data between a lowest address of the range of addresses corresponding to the entry and a highest address of a memory. A second indication stored in the entry corresponds to write-protected data within the range of addresses. The data storage device also includes a write protection map that includes a second set of entries corresponding to a second set of ranges of the memory addresses. The device is configured to locate, in the write protection data structure, an entry corresponding to a range of memory addresses.
US09229636B2	Drawing support tool A graphical user interface displays a shape. Further, a buffer region that is adjacent to an edge of the shape is displayed at the graphical user interface. In addition, a set of drawing data located within the buffer region is received from a user input device. A first subset of the drawing data that is located in the buffer region at a predetermined distance from the edge and a second subset of the drawing data in the buffer region that is located at a distance from the edge that exceeds the predetermined distance are determined with a processor. Further, the first subset of drawing data is displayed. In addition, the second subset of drawing data is prevented from being displayed at the distance. The process also displays the second subset of drawing data at the predetermined distance.
US09229628B2	Method and apparatus for remote control distance-measuring to generate an engineering blueprint The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for remote control distance-measuring to generate an engineering blueprint. The method includes the steps of: building a wireless communication connection between a laser distance-measuring device and a touch sensitive control device; the touch sensitive control device automatically starting an engineering distance-measuring application program; the laser distance-measuring device selecting a required measured element of a measured object; the touch sensitive control device sending a distance-measuring instruction to the laser distance-measuring device, the laser distance-measuring device finishing a distance measurement and synchronously transmitting the measured data to the touch sensitive control device; under a blueprint labeling interface of the touch sensitive control device, finishing blueprint labeling. The apparatus includes a laser distance-measuring device and a touch sensitive control device which builds a wireless communication connection with the laser distance-measuring device. The present invention can reduce labor cost and increase efficiency and quality.
US09229623B1	Methods for sharing mobile device applications with a vehicle computer and accessing mobile device applications via controls of a vehicle when the mobile device is connected to the vehicle computer Methods and systems are provided, for sharing mobile device applications with a vehicle computer. One example method includes detecting a mobile device present in a vehicle, by a vehicle computer of the vehicle and generating a user interface on a display screen of the vehicle, as instructed by the vehicle computer. The method further includes identifying by the vehicle computer, a plurality of native applications of the vehicle for the user interface and identifying a plurality of mobile device applications from the mobile device for the user interface, while the mobile devices is present in the vehicle. The method enables system controls, using the vehicle computer, to enable access to the plurality of native applications and the plurality of mobile device applications, the system controls including one or more of button inputs of the vehicle, touch screen inputs via the user interface of the display screen of the vehicle, and voice input via microphones of the vehicle.
US09229622B2	Visual treatment for a tile-based user interface in a content integration framework In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for a visual treatment for a user interface in a content integration framework, information is received on a tile size for a matrix of tiles and the matrix has one or more tiles with the tile size displayed on a user interface, one or more content images is received for display on the user interface, a position is determined within a first tile of the matrix for rendering a first content image from the one or more content images, a first area of excess space is determined within the tile after positioning the first content image within the first tile and the first area of excess space is dependent on at least one of an aspect ratio of the first content image and a size of the first content image, a reflection of the first content image is rendered within at least a portion of the first area of excess space within the first tile, the first content image is rendered within the first tile of the matrix, and descriptive text associated with the first content image is displayed so that the descriptive text overlays the reflection and not the first content image.
US09229610B2	Methods and systems for visually forming relationships between electronic content Methods and systems are discussed for visually forming relationships between electronic content. Electronic content from a computing device may be received. The electronic content may be displayed on a graphical user interface. The received electronic content may be analyzed to identify characteristics of the electronic content. The received electronic content may be visually related to previously received electronic content on a graphical user interface. The received and the previously received electronic content may be visually related by applying a relationship hierarchy to the identified characteristics.
US09229605B2	Geometric assembly A drawing system has software (SW) providing tools to enable a user to create geometric objects in a display, and to select and drag the objects in the display. An assembly engine is a part of the SW, and monitors properties of objects and movement of objects in the display. The assembly engine monitors features and properties of a first object selected and dragged, and features and properties of second objects in the display, determines compatible geometric features that might be joined in assembly between the first and second objects, and upon compatible features for join being moved within a preprogrammed threshold distance (TD) in the display, affects a join operation, bringing the compatible features of the first and the second object together in an assembly and redrawing the assembly.
US09229604B2	User interface element Methods and apparatus for providing a user interface for an electronic device are described. Described embodiments include methods and apparatus for generating a user interface element, expanding a user interface element, transitioning subject information in a user interface element, and removing a user interface element.
US09229600B2	Multi-touch active display keyboard A touch sensitive display device includes a display fabricated on a flexible substrate, the display having a viewing surface; and a plurality of touch sensitive elements under the display, each of the plurality of touch sensitive elements including a touch sensitive sensor, the sensors being operable by touching the viewing surface of the display, and each of the plurality of touch sensitive elements having an output for outputting a signal responsive to the viewing surface being touched, wherein each of the plurality of touch sensitive elements defines a region of the viewing surface in which the touch sensitive element produces an output in response to a touch, and wherein the plurality of touch sensitive elements are arranged such that two or more substantially simultaneous touches of different regions of the viewing surface produces output signals corresponding to the two or more touches of the viewing surface.
US09229599B2	Display device with integrated touch screen and method for driving the same A display device with an integrated touch screen including a display panel including electrodes divided into a plurality of block type groups and a plurality of data lines; a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the electrodes when a driving mode of the panel is a display driving mode, sequentially apply a touch scan signal to each block type group when the driving mode of the panel is a touch driving mode, and apply a data signal to the data lines associated with a corresponding block type group when the touch scan signal is applied to the corresponding block type group; and a touch IC configured to generate the touch scan signal and apply the touch scan signal to the display driver IC.
US09229596B2	Touch screen panel having sensing cells and coupling patterns There is provided a touch screen panel in which sensing cells as touch sensors are formed on one surface of a substrate. The sensing cells are realized by laminating transparent conductive layers and mesh-shaped opaque metal layers. Therefore, uniform distribution of an electric field may be secured when a large area touch screen panel is realized and an operation may be performed although short is partially generated in the mesh-shaped opaque metal layers.
US09229587B2	Capacitive touchscreen sensor apparatus and display apparatus A sensor apparatus includes a first member, a second member, and a detection mechanism. The second member is relatively movable in a first direction with respect to the first member. The detection mechanism includes an elastic member arranged between the first member and the second member, a support that is provided between the first member and the elastic member and forms an air layer between the first member and the elastic member, the air layer having a thickness changed by an elastic deformation of the elastic member, and an electrode pair that forms a plurality of capacitances including a capacitance component changed in accordance with a change of the thickness of the air layer. The detection mechanism outputs a detection signal on a movement amount of the second member in the first direction based on a change of a combined capacitance of the electrode pair.
US09229586B2	Touch system and method for determining the distance between a pointer and a surface A method for determining the distance from a tip of a pointer to a surface using a light source and a single camera, the method comprising detecting in an image captured by the camera a tip of the pointer, determining in the image captured by the camera the intensity of a set of pixels below the tip of the pointer, the intensity defining a reflection by the surface of the tip of the pointer illuminated by the light source, and determining the distance from the tip of the pointer to the surface depending upon the intensity of the set of pixels below the tip of the pointer and an intensity of pixels of the tip of the pointer in the image.
US09229575B2	Adaptive touchscreen system A touchscreen system for adapting a user interface broadly comprises a controller and a display screen, the display screen comprising a touchscreen. The display screen is operable to present the user interface. The controller may be configured to detect a defect in an area of the touchscreen, determine a location on the display screen related to the defect, and adapting the user interface on the display screen to compensate for the defect.
US09229558B2	Method of manufacturing touch panel and touch panel A method of manufacturing a touch panel, includes forming a print layer on a peripheral portion of a surface of a touch panel body portion; coating resin on the surface of the touch panel body portion on which the print layer is formed and, after coating, curing the resin to form a resin layer; and adhering an optical clear adhesive sheet on a surface of a cover film and further adhering the surface of the cover film, at which the optical clear adhesive sheet is adhered to, to the surface of the touch panel body portion at which the resin layer is adhered to.
US09229547B2	Expandable electronic stylus An extendable electronic stylus is described. The extendable electronic stylus has a distal end that provides an electronic input to an electronic device and a first cam with an elongated member that extends between a proximal end of the stylus and its distal end. The stylus also includes a second cam that rotates relative to the first cam when the proximal end of the stylus is pushed in a distal direction. The pushing of the proximal end of the stylus causes a surface of the second cam to contact the first cam surface. The stylus also includes a cover with a first look surface. The rotation of the second cam relative to the first cam cause a second lock surface of the second cam to abut the first lock surface, thereby locking the second cam in a fixed position relative to the first cam.
US09229530B1	Wireless haptic feedback apparatus configured to be mounted on a human arm A virtual interaction system includes a haptic feedback apparatus, a depth camera and a processing circuit. The haptic feedback apparatus includes an solenoid mount supporting a plurality of solenoids, a plurality of hand mounts, and a controller. The solenoid mount is configured to be mounted onto a human arm. The plurality of hand mounts are configured to be mounted onto a plurality of positions on a human hand. Each of the plurality the hand mounts includes at least one contact element. Each contact element is controllably moveable by a corresponding solenoid. The controller is configured to receive an input signal, and generate, based on the input signal, a plurality of solenoid control signals.
US09229526B1	Dedicated image processor A dedicated application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is described that can be integrated into a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone, tablet computer). The dedicated ASIC can provide an embedded low-power micro-controller to offload machine vision processing and other image processing from an application processor (AP) of the mobile device. Effectively, the offloading of image processing can enable the mobile device to save battery life and improve performance by utilizing lower speed buses and lower power consumption than would otherwise be consumed if the AP were to be utilized. In various embodiments, the ASIC can be used to either connect a single camera or multiple synchronized cameras depending on the application.
US09229523B2	Memory controller with transaction-queue-dependent power modes A memory controller component of a memory system stores memory access requests within a transaction queue until serviced so that, over time, the transaction queue alternates between occupied and empty states. The memory controller transitions the memory system to a low power mode in response to detecting the transaction queue is has remained in the empty state for a predetermined time. In the transition to the low power mode, the memory controller disables oscillation of one or more timing signals required to time data signaling operations within synchronous communication circuits of one or more attached memory devices and also disables one or more power consuming circuits within the synchronous communication circuits of the one or more memory devices.
US09229514B2	Managing electric energy distribution to multiple loads using selective capping An electric energy distribution system may include plural loads configured to receive electric energy from a common feed or branch. Each of the loads may be configured to operate in at least first and second modes such that it may consume current, VA or power up to a first cap when running in its first mode and up to a second cap when running in its second mode. The first cap may be higher than the second cap. A sensor component may monitor a parameter that corresponds to an aggregate amount of electric energy being consumed by all of the plural loads from the common feed or branch. A manager component may be configured, when the parameter meets or exceeds the threshold, to select one of the loads currently running in its first mode and to cause the selected load to run in its second mode.
US09229512B2	Host device and terminal device, and communication system A host-side control unit 120 receives a terminal-device-side notification value INFD indicating a second voltage V2 that is a voltage at a reference point P2 on a terminal-device-side power supply line 134 from a terminal device 130, calculates a first resistance value R1 indicating a resistance from a power supply unit 112 to the reference point P2 based on the terminal-device-side notification value INFD, a first voltage V1 output by the power supply unit 112, and a first current A1 measured by a first current measurement unit 116, and supplies the calculated first resistance value R1 to the power supply unit 112. The power supply unit 112 adjusts the first voltage V1 according to the first resistance value R1 and the first current value A1 measured by the first current measurement unit 116 at that moment so that the second voltage V2 falls within a predetermined first reference range.
US09229509B2	Control device A programmable controller is of a building block type provided with a plurality of modules including a power supply module and a CPU module. The CPU module includes a microprocessor having a determination control function for determining the adaptability of a power supply capacity of the power supply module by comparing the power supply capacity of the power supply module with a sum total value of current consumptions of the respective modules other than the power supply module. The power supply module supplies a first power used for the determination of the adaptability of the power supply capacity of the power supply module including power supplied to the microprocessor and a second power used for others as at least two independent power supply systems.
US09229502B2	Fast wake-up of differential receivers using common mode decoupling capacitors Embodiments of an AC coupled bus charging system are disclosed that may allow for different charging currents. The charging system may include a charging circuit and a control circuit. The charging circuit may be operable to controllably select different charging currents dependent upon the output of the control circuit.
US09229497B2	On-blade cold sink for high-density clustered computer system A high performance computing system includes one or more blade enclosures having a cooling manifold and configured to hold a plurality of computing blades, and a plurality of computing blades in each blade enclosure with at least one computing blade including two computing boards. The system further includes two or more cooling plates with each cooling plate between two corresponding computing boards within the computing blade, and a fluid connection coupled to the cooling plate(s) and in fluid communication with the fluid cooling manifold.
US09229491B2	Tablet computer A tablet computer includes a mobile phone mounting portion which has determined width and length and is formed in the rear of the tablet computer in a recessed manner, guide grooves which are longitudinally formed on both lateral walls of the mounting portion, and a separation prevention member which is fixedly inserted into the guide grooves and has width and length corresponding to those of the mounting portion. The separation prevention member includes wing fixing portions which are fixedly inserted into the guide grooves of the lateral walls, determined width of wings which are extended upwards from the wing fixing portions and formed to bend toward the center of the mounting portion, respectively, and a determined width of cover which is provided in the range between one end of the separation prevention member and the wings.
US09229489B2	Adjusting mobile device state based on user intentions and/or identity In one embodiment, while a mobile electronic device is in a first operation state, it receives sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device analyzes the sensor data to estimate a current intention of a user with respect to the mobile electronic device; and transition from the first operation state to a second operation state based on the current intention of the user with respect to the mobile electronic device.
US09229471B2	Method and a device for controlling a clock signal generator A device (104) for controlling a clock signal generator includes a processing system configured to form a control quantity at least partly on the basis of reception moments of data frames belonging to a given flow, the reception moments being time values based on a clock signal prevailing at a receiver. The processing system controls the clock signal generator with the control quantity so as to achieve synchronization between the clock signal and another clock signal in accordance of which the data frames have been transmitted. In order to identify data frames belonging to the relevant flow, the processing system checks whether pre-determined bits of a received data frame constitute a bit pattern that occurs when the data frame belongs to the relevant flow. Therefore, the reception moments of data frames belonging to the relevant flow are obtainable without deep inspection of the received data frames.
US09229469B2	Reactive force pedal device In a reactive force pedal device, between a motor-side output shaft and a pedal member, a one-way clutch is provided which allows transmittance of rotational force when performing a depressing operation of the pedal member and disables transmittance of the rotational force when performing a revert operation of the pedal member.
US09229465B2	Current-starved inverter circuit A current-starved inverter circuit includes first and second current-mirror circuits, first and second transistors, a detector, and a current-booster. The first and second transistors receive a first source current and a first sink current from the first and second current-mirror circuits, respectively, and an input voltage signal, and generate an inverted input voltage signal (an output voltage signal). The detector generates a first detection signal when the output voltage signal exceeds a first threshold value and a second detection signal when the output voltage signal is less than a second threshold value. The current-booster, which is connected to the detector, receives the first and second detection signals and provides a second source current and a second sink current to the first and second transistors to pull-up and pull-down a voltage level of the output voltage signal, respectively.
US09229464B2	Low drop-out voltage regulator The voltage regulator comprises a regulation loop (2), which comprises at least a pass transistor (18), a source transistor (28), a sensing transistor (22) and a retention transistor (24), and a stability compensation circuit (10), which comprises a first MOS resistor (12) and a second MOS resistor (14) coupled with the first MOS resistor (12). The gate of the second MOS resistor (14) is coupled to the gate of the pass transistor (18).
US09229462B2	Capless on chip voltage regulator using adaptive bulk bias An FDSOI integrated circuit die supplies on an output node a regulated output voltage based on a reference voltage. A pass transistor that passes a first current to the output node. A feedback loop regulates the output voltage by generating a second current based on the first current and applying a control signal to the pass transistor based on the second current. A loop current adaptor adapts a ratio of the first and second currents by adjusting a back gate bias voltage applied to a back gate of loop transistor of the feedback loop.
US09229457B2	Determining a driving strategy for a vehicle A method and driver assistance system for determining a longitudinal dynamics driving strategy for a vehicle based on a driving condition specification, includes a processor selecting a driving strategy in consideration of the power consumption and in consideration of a detection, by a rear traffic detection unit, of a following vehicle.
US09229456B2	Method of and system for calibrating gas flow dilutors The preferred embodiments described herein make possible to use lower cost, fixed flow components, such as critical orifices, which are fast to stabilize to a steady flow. These cannot be adjusted to achieve equal flows but are selected to be sensibly close to their desired flow values. This embodiment determines the true ratios of the flows of all of the flow controlling components. Actual flows are not measured but near equal flows are each fed to a common flow meter and the ratio of the indicated flow meter readings is taken to be the same as the ratio of the flows. Two, near equal flows are then combined and compared to a single flow of approximately the same value, and so on. The flow meter is used only to compare near equal flows so does not need to be calibrated nor linear over a wide range.
US09229454B1	Autonomous mobile robot system A navigational control system for an autonomous robot includes a transmitter subsystem having a stationary emitter for emitting at least one signal. An autonomous robot operating within a working area utilizes a receiving subsystem to detect the emitted signal. The receiver subsystem has a receiver for detecting the emitted signal emitted by the emitter and a processor for determining a relative location of the robot within the working area upon the receiver detecting the signal.
US09229443B2	Numerical control machine tool An NC control unit 100 includes a touch panel display device 155 through which a barrier canceling command is input and a machining control section 160 that performs an interference check for interference between a milling tool 70 and a chuck 58 and jaws 60. When the machining control section 160 determines that interference occurs and stops movement of a tool rest 54, the machining control section 160 writes the barrier canceling command that commands cancelation of the interference check for a process of a machining program where the interference has been determined based on manipulation of the display device 155. When the machining program including the barrier canceling command is carried out to machine subsequent workpieces, the machining control section 160 omits the interference check for the process corresponding to the barrier canceling command.
US09229439B2	Method and device for operating a driven axle in a machine tool In a device and a method for operating a driven axle in a machine tool, in particular in an injection-molding machine, at least two different drives are coupled to form a common effective drive, wherein the performance and energy consumption data for each drive are stored in the form of characteristic values or characteristic curves. To use the effective drive as optimally as possible in terms of energy, it is proposed to determine the performance requirement for the driven axle, to determine the particular operational combination of the different drives that requires the least expenditure of energy based on the determined performance requirement and to drive the drives with the determined particular operational combination.
US09229434B2	Radio-controlled timepiece A radio-controlled timepiece is shown including the following. A receiving unit receives a transmitting radio wave including date/time information from a positioning satellite. A date/time information obtaining unit obtains a week number and elapsed time within a week as the date/time information. An operating unit receives operation. A term obtaining unit obtains a value of a 10 year digit of a present date and time. A first term setting unit sets a first date/time specified range including 10 years corresponding to the obtained value of the 10 year digit and a term adjacent to the 10 years with a predetermined length. A first date/time calculating unit calculates the present date and time within the set first date/time specified range. A date/time correcting unit corrects the date and time of a timekeeping unit based on the present date and time.
US09229424B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive body unit including a photosensitive body, at least one developing unit including a developing roller that is configured to contact the photosensitive body or to be separated from the photosensitive body, and a press device to press the developing unit in order to contact or separate the photosensitive body and the developing roller to/from each other. The press device includes at least one lever configured to rotate about an end portion thereof and press the developing unit by rotation, and at least one cam configured to allow the lever to rotate by rotation thereof. Since the lever gradually rotates by rotation of the cam, force applied to the developing unit through the lever is also gradually and smoothly increased or decreased. Accordingly, shock, which may occur by rough movement of the developing unit, is remarkably reduced.
US09229419B2	Image forming apparatus having resin frame and image forming unit An image forming apparatus, including an image forming unit, a first frame, and a first beam, is provided. The image forming unit includes a photosensitive drum. The first frame is made of resin and is arranged on one end, along an axial direction of a rotation axis of the photosensitive drum, of the image forming unit. The first beam is formed in an elongated shape. The first beam is arranged along a planar face of the first frame. The first beam is fixed to the first frame by a fixing member at a first portion, which is in a position closer to a first longitudinal end of the first beam, and is loose from the first frame to be movable at least along the axial direction at a loose part, which is in a position closer to a second longitudinal end of the first beam than the first portion.
US09229417B2	Image forming apparatus including waste toner container with guide unit An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer; a cleaning unit configured to remove waste toner on the image bearer; a waste toner container configured to be detachably attached to the image forming apparatus and to store the waste toner removed by the cleaning device; and a support member configured to support the waste toner container. The support member is provided with a guide unit thereon that guides the waste toner container in attachment and detachment directions, the guide unit includes a side guide plate that guides each of sides of the waste toner container in the attachment and detachment directions, a guide plate arranged on entrance side of the side guide plate in the attachment direction of the waste toner container, and the guide plate includes an inclined guide surface that guides the waste toner container onto the support member.
US09229414B2	Image forming apparatus and method of controlling motor An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to perform a printing operation by using a plurality of photosensitive media, a plurality of motors configured to drive the plurality of photosensitive media, and a motor controller configured to control a phase and a velocity of the other motor based on a periodic velocity of one motor from among the plurality of motors.
US09229397B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive member; an exposing unit which is opposed to the photosensitive member, and which includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in an arrangement direction to expose the photosensitive member; and a body frame which is provided at both sides of the exposing unit in the arrangement direction. The body frame is made of a conductive member. The exposing unit includes an exposing unit body having an exterior made of a resin; and an electrically conductive holding member which is longer than the exposing unit body in the arrangement direction, and which holds the exposing unit body, wherein the holding member is electrically connected to the body frame to be grounded.
US09229395B2	Metal substrate, fixing member, and heat-fixing device Provided is an endless belt-shaped metal substrate, which can be used for a fixing member. The metal substrate includes an austenitic stainless alloy that contains copper and unavoidable impurities, in which the austenitic stainless alloy has a martensite ratio of less than 20%, and includes an austenitic phase as a matrix and a Cu-rich phase dispersed in the matrix, the Cu-rich phase extending in a direction perpendicular to a circumferential direction of the metal substrate.
US09229393B2	Fixing device configured to fix a toner image onto a recording medium and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a pressing member and a sheet member. The fixing belt is arranged rotatably and configured to extend along an axis direction. The pressuring member is arranged rotatably and configured to come into pressure contact with the fixing belt so as to form a fixing nip. The pressing member is configured to press the fixing belt to a side of the pressuring member and configured such that the fixing belt is interposed between the pressing member and the pressuring member. The sheet member is formed in a tubular shape and provided around the pressing member and configured to rotate with rotation of the fixing belt.
US09229391B2	Belt drive device, anchoring device provided with same, and image forming device The roller members (40) are provided with: a bearing part (41) affixed to a device main body (5a); an elastic roller part (42) that is disposed having a gap (D) with the outside peripheral surface of the hot roller (27) and with which an end part (26a) of the anchoring belt (26) comes into contact because of the meandering of the anchoring belt (26); and a powder (43) that is disposed between the bearing part (41) and the elastic roller part (42) and restricts the rotation of the elastic roller part (42). The gap (D) is constituted smaller than the thickness (T) of the anchoring belt (26) and the end part (26a) of the anchoring belt (26) enters the gap in opposition to the elastic force of the elastic roller part (42) because of the meandering of the anchoring belt (26).
US09229385B2	Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part which picks up a recording medium at a predetermined pickup timing and forms an image at a predetermined printing speed; and a controller which accelerates the timing for picking up the recording medium in advance of the predetermined pickup timing, and which lowers the printing speed so as to allow the printing operation to take place at a lower fusing temperature during warming up from a cold start in order to shorten the first print output time (FPOT).
US09229383B2	Image forming apparatus, control apparatus, and control methods thereof An image forming apparatus composes an input image and a form image and generates a composite image, determines whether the image composition processing is designated, and determines whether the maximum amount of applied toner of the form image is not less than a predetermined threshold. Then, the apparatus sets an amount of applied toner of the form image as the amount of applied toner of the composite image if the image composition processing is designated and the maximum amount of applied toner of the form image is not less than the predetermined threshold, and controls, based on a fixing temperature that is determined based on the amount of applied toner, the fixing temperature when performing fixing processing for a printing medium with a toner image that is formed based on the composite image.
US09229379B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member; a heating source configured to heat the fixing member; an opposing member configured to come into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member to form a nip portion; and a shielding member configured to block heat from the heating source. The shielding member is configured to rotate about a position different from the center of the heating source so as to be movable between a shielding position and a retraction position. The shielding position is a position where the shielding member comes close to the heating source to block heat from the heating source to the fixing member. The retraction position being a position where the shielding member is retracted away from the shielding position.
US09229369B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner case, an apparatus main body and a cover. The toner case includes a case main body, a shutter and a manipulation portion. The case main body has a discharge port configured to discharge a toner. The shutter opens/closes the discharge port. The manipulation portion is movable between a first position to make the shutter open the discharge port and a second position to make the shutter close the discharge port. To the apparatus main body, the toner case is detachably attached. The cover is openably/closably attached to the apparatus main body. The cover includes an interfering member. The interfering member is movable between an interfering position where the interfering member interferes with the manipulation portion being in the second position and an interference release position where the interfering member does not interfere with the manipulation portion being in the second position.
US09229366B2	Developer storage container and image forming apparatus provided with same A developer storage container includes a container main body, a developer discharge port, a moving shaft, a moving plate, a guide portion and an elastic member. The container main body includes a wall defining an internal storing space. The developer discharge port is arranged at a predetermined position of the container main body. The moving shaft is arranged to extend in a first direction in the internal space. The moving plate moves in the first direction along the moving shaft in the internal space and conveys the developer toward the developer discharge port. The guide portion guides a movement of the moving plate in the first direction while maintaining the posture of the moving plate. The elastic member is attached to the moving plate and slides in contact with an inner surface of the wall of the container main body when the moving plate moves in the first direction.
US09229364B2	Developer supply container and developer supplying system A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer, a discharge opening for permitting discharging of the developer from the developer accommodating portion, a drive inputting portion for receiving a driving force, and a pump portion. The pump portion is driven by the driving force received by the drive inputting portion to alternate an internal pressure of the developer accommodating portion between a pressure lower than an ambient pressure and a pressure higher than the ambient pressure. In addition, a regulating portion regulates a position of the pump portion at a start of operation of the pump portion so that in an initial operational period of the pump portion, air is taken into the developer accommodating portion through the discharge opening, and a nozzle portion connected to the pump portion and has an opening at an end that is disposed adjacent to the discharge opening.
US09229353B2	Image forming apparatus In test modes correcting at least one of an exposure timing of a first exposure portion and an exposure timing of a second exposure portion after transferring test toner images on an endless belt, a control portion is configured to be able to start the exposure of the first exposure portion after a position of an intermediate transfer belt, having been located at a developing position when a developing bias is started to be applied to the second developing portion, arrives at a transfer position.
US09229342B2	Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus A surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains (α) a particular siloxane-modified resin, (β) a particular compound, and a charge transporting substance. (β) is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of hexanol, heptanol, cyclohexanol, benzyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,5-pentanediol, diethylene glycol, diethylene glycol ethyl methyl ether, ethylene carbonate, propylene carbonate, nitrobenzene, pyrrolidone, N-methylpyrrolidone, methyl benzoate, ethyl benzoate, benzyl acetate, ethyl 3-ethoxypropionate, acetophenone, methyl salicylate, dimethyl phthalate, and sulfolane.
US09229341B2	Reticle support that reduces reticle slippage A system and method substantially eliminate reticle slip during the movement of a reticle stage. The system includes a mask holding system, a mask force device, and a support transport device. The mask holding system includes a support device and a holding device where the holding device releasably couples a mask, e.g., a patterning device such as a reticle having a pattern, to the support device. The mask force device is releasably connected to the mask in order to provide an accelerating force to the mask, such that a projection optic in a lithographic apparatus may accurately project a pattern imparted by the patterning device onto a target portion of the substrate by using a radiation beam. The support transport device is coupled to and moves the mask support device concurrently with the mask force device.
US09229338B2	Substrate, a method of measuring a property, an inspection apparatus and a lithographic apparatus Scatterometry for measuring overlay. A second set of superimposed gratings are superposed over a first set of superimposed gratings. The second set of gratings have a different periodicity from the first set of gratings or a different orientation. Consequently the first order diffraction pattern from the second set of superimposed gratings can be distinguished from the first order diffraction pattern from the first set of superimposed gratings.
US09229334B2	Lithographic apparatus and a device manufacturing method An immersion lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes a fluid handling system configured to confine immersion liquid to a localized space between a final element of a projection system and a substrate and/or table and a gas supplying device configured to supply gas with a solubility in immersion liquid of greater than 5×10−3 mol/kg at 20° C. and 1 atm total pressure to an area adjacent the space.
US09229333B2	Exposure apparatus, movable body drive system, pattern formation apparatus, exposure method, and device manufacturing method While a wafer stage moves linearly in a Y-axis direction, surface position information of a wafer surface at a plurality of detection points set at a predetermined interval in an X-axis direction is detected by a multipoint AF system, and by a plurality of alignment systems arranged in a line along the X-axis direction, marks at different positions on the wafer are each detected, and a part of a chipped shot of the wafer is exposed by a periphery edge exposure system. This allows throughput to be improved when compared with the case when detection operation of the marks, detection operation of the surface position information (focus information), and periphery edge exposure operation are performed independently.
US09229330B2	Method for writing nanoscale patterns A method of performing nanolithography is disclosed, comprising the use of a system having a plasmonic writing head that enables super-resolution exposures of a material. The super-resolution exposures are carried out using light directed onto a material using plasmonic structures, and in particular using plasmonic structures having specially designed super-resolution apertures, of which the “bow-tie” and “C-aperture” are examples. These specially designed apertures create small but bright images in the near-field transmission pattern. In one embodiment, a writing head comprising an array of these apertures is held in close proximity to a lithography material. A data processing system is provided to re-interpret the data to be patterned into a set of modulation signals used to drive the multiple individual channels and the multiple exposures. A detector system using light of a second wavelength to monitor the exposures is also provided.
US09229328B2	Methods of forming semiconductor device structures, and related semiconductor device structures A method of forming a semiconductor device structure comprises forming a template material over a substrate, the template material exhibiting preferential wetting to a polymer block of a block copolymer. A positive tone photoresist material is formed over the template material. The positive tone photoresist material is exposed to radiation to form photoexposed regions and non-photoexposed regions of the positive tone photoresist material. The non-photoexposed regions of the positive tone photoresist material are removed with a negative tone developer to form a pattern of photoresist features. The pattern of photoresist features and unprotected portions of the template material are exposed to an oxidizing plasma to form trimmed photoresist features and a pattern of template features. The trimmed photoresist features are removed with a positive tone developer. Other methods of forming a semiconductor device structure, and a semiconductor device structure are also described.
US09229323B2	Pattern-forming method A pattern-forming method includes providing a resist film on a substrate using a photoresist composition. The resist film is exposed. The exposed resist film is developed using a developer having an organic solvent content of 80 mass % or more. The photoresist composition includes a first polymer, a second polymer, and an acid generator. The first polymer is a base polymer and includes a first structural unit that includes an acid-labile group. The second polymer includes a second structural unit that includes an acid-labile group, and has a fluorine atom content higher than a fluorine atom content of the first polymer. The second structural unit is represented by a formula (1) or a formula (2).
US09229321B2	Salt and photoresist composition comprising the same A salt represented by formula (I): wherein Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a fluorine atom or a C1-C6 perfluoroalkyl group; Lb1 represents a C1-C24 divalent saturated hydrocarbon group or the like; R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently in each occurrence represent a C1-C12 aliphatic hydrocarbon group, or the like; and Z+ represents an organic counter ion.
US09229313B2	Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus includes an atmosphere maintaining unit which maintains an exposure chamber in an air atmosphere, a gas supply unit which supplies air or a mixed gas containing air and an inert gas to a local space, between a final surface of a projection optical system and a substrate, a detector which detects an alignment mark and a reference mark formed on the substrate stage, and a controller. The controller controls the gas supply unit not to supply the mixed gas to the local space when the detector detects the reference mark, and controls the gas supply unit to supply the mixed gas to the local space when an instruction to detect the alignment mark upon setting the local space in a mixed gas atmosphere, and expose the substrate based on the detection results of the reference mark and the alignment mark is issued from the recipe.
US09229308B2	Projection apparatus and light condensing module A projection apparatus and a light condensing module are provided. The light condensing module condenses and deflects an incident beam. The light condensing module includes a curving incident surface, a curving outgoing surface and a reflection surface. The curving incident surface receives the incident beam. The curving outgoing surface is disposed on a transmission path of the incident beam from the curving incident surface. The reflection surface is disposed on the transmission path of the incident beam, and located between the curving incident surface and the curving outgoing surface. A ray of the incident beam propagates through the curving incident surface along the optical axis of the curving incident surface, and emits out from the curving outgoing surface along a direction inclined to the optical axis of the curving outgoing surface.
US09229303B2	Projector light source having three cooling airflow delivery ports A light source includes an arc tube having a light emission portion for emitting light. A reflector reflects the light toward an illumination receiving area with the arc tube fixed to the reflector. A housing houses the reflector to form a space through which cooling air flows. The housing has three delivery ports disposed side by side as ports from each of which the cooling air is delivered toward the direction of the light emission portion. A first delivery port included in the three delivery ports is located such that the center of the first delivery port is disposed substantially at a position aligned and runs parallel to the optical axis of the arc tube. Second and third delivery ports included in the three delivery ports are disposed in the vicinity of one and the other sides of a first delivery port, respectively, with respect to the optical axis.
US09229301B2	Illumination system and projection device comprising the same An illumination system includes a light source module, a light splitting module, a light consolidating module and a waveband converting module. The light source module has a first light source, which provides a first light beam of first waveband. The light splitting module has a first light splitting element and a second light splitting element. The first light splitting element allows the light beam of first waveband to pass through and reflects the light beam of second waveband. The second light splitting element allows the light beam of second waveband to pass through and reflects the light beam of first waveband. The light consolidating module reflects the light beam having an incident angle greater than a predetermined angel and allows the light beam having an incident angle smaller than the predetermined angel to pass through. The waveband converting module has a first waveband converting zone.
US09229294B2	Apparatus and method for operating an acousto-optical component An apparatus for controlling an acousto-optical component influencing at least one of illumination light and detection light in a microscope is described. The apparatus comprises a radio-frequency generator for supplying the acousto-optical component with a radio frequency. The radio-frequency generator is configured to compensate deviations in the characteristics of the light due to temperature fluctuations in the acousto-optical component by adapting the radio frequency. The apparatus can be operated by generating a control signal for controlling the radio frequency of the radio-frequency generator; measuring the temperature of the acousto-optical component; adapting the control signal depending on the measured temperature; and sending the adapted control signal into the radio-frequency generator for compensating deviations in the characteristics of the light due to temperature fluctuations and can be used in optical coherence tomography, particularly white light interferometry, optical tweezers in lithography, and distance measurement.
US09229291B2	Defect-mitigation layers in electrochromic devices Electrochromic devices and methods may employ the addition of a defect-mitigating insulating layer which prevents electronically conducting layers and/or electrochromically active layers from contacting layers of the opposite polarity and creating a short circuit in regions where defects form. In some embodiments, an encapsulating layer is provided to encapsulate particles and prevent them from ejecting from the device stack and risking a short circuit when subsequent layers are deposited. The insulating layer may have an electronic resistivity of between about 1 and 108 Ohm-cm. In some embodiments, the insulating layer contains one or more of the following metal oxides: aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, silicon aluminum oxide, cerium oxide, tungsten oxide, nickel tungsten oxide, and oxidized indium tin oxide. Carbides, nitrides, oxynitrides, and oxycarbides may also be used.
US09229286B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method for the same and display device According to one aspect of the present invention, the provided is an array substrate. Specifically, the first conductive strip that is coupled to the first data shorting bar and the second conductive strip that is coupled to the second data shorting bar are formed on the array substrate. The width of the first conductive strip is greater than the width of the first data shorting bar. The width of the second conductive strip is greater than the width of the second data shorting bar. The first conductive strip is overlapped with the second conductive strip. Such a structure of the array substrate effectively increases the overlapped capacitance between the data metal layer and the gate metal layer.
US09229283B2	Display substrate including organic layer and method of manufacturing the same A display substrate includes a base substrate, a switching element, a protecting layer, an organic layer, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The switching element is on the base substrate, and includes a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode. The protecting layer is on the switching element, and includes a first hole exposing the drain electrode. The organic layer is on the protecting layer, and includes a second hole which exposes a side surface of the protecting layer which defines the first hole and exposes a top surface of the protecting layer which is adjacent to the side surface of the protecting layer. The first pixel electrode is on the organic layer. The second pixel electrode overlaps the first pixel electrode, and is electrically connected to the drain electrode via the first and second holes.
US09229267B2	Liquid crystal lens panel comprising a liquid crystal layer having a refractive index of 0.2 to 0.29 and a dielectric constant of 5.5 F/m to 10 F/m and display device having the same A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate including a first base substrate and a first electrode layer disposed on the first base substrate; a second substrate including a second base substrate facing the first base substrate and a second electrode layer disposed on a surface of the second base substrate, the second substrate facing the first base substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index of about 0.2 to about 0.29 and a dielectric constant of about 5.5 F/m to about 10 F/m.
US09229261B2	Electronically switchable privacy film and display device having same An electronically switchable privacy film suitable for use in display devices are described. The electronically switchable privacy film comprises a pair of mutually opposing transparent electrodes; an optically transparent microstructured layer disposed between the transparent electrodes, the microstructured layer comprising a plurality of microstructured ribs extending across a surface thereof such that the microstructured ribs form an alternating series of ribs and channels; and electronically switchable material disposed in the channels, the electronically switchable material being capable of modulation between high and low light scattering states upon application of an electric field across the transparent electrodes.
US09229252B2	Stereographic display apparatus and vehicle headlight A stereographic display apparatus and a vehicle headlight can include an optical modulator including a position sensor and a voltage supply. The position sensor can be configured to detect an inclined angle, and the voltage supply can be configured to apply a voltage to the optical modulator in accordance with the inclined angle output from the position sensor. The optical modulator can refract light at a refraction angle in accordance with the voltage output from the voltage supply. Therefore, when the optical modulator is incorporated into a stereographic display apparatus, the stereographic display apparatus can provide comfortable stereographic displays to viewers, even if it inclines due to hand movement and the like. A vehicle headlight incorporating the optical modulator can also form light distributions in a useful direction for drivers with a simple structure, even when it moves in various directions with reference to a road due to road conditions.
US09229247B2	Method for producing polarizing lenses, and polarizing lens obtained by said method The invention relates to a polarizing lens consisting, in order, of a polyamide mechanical substrate, a polyvinyl alcohol intermediate layer, and a cellulose triacetate outer layer. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a lens.
US09229242B2	3D display device, 3D display system and method for displaying 3D images 3D display device, 3D display system and method for displaying 3D images are disclosed in the present invention. The 3D display device comprises: a display screen; a backlight means including a pulse light source; and a drive means used to receive video signals which are based on a standard video transmission protocol, so as to control the display screen to display 3D images according to the video signals, and control the pulse light source to emit a backlight pulse in the form of pulse during a vertical blank of each frame period of the video signals, wherein the duration of the backlight pulse is shorter than that of the vertical blank. The degrading of light is avoided in the 3D display device and the efficiency of the backlight can achieve almost 100%.
US09229240B2	Lens grating and display device Disclosed is a lens grating comprising: a plurality of lens units arranged in a column, any two adjacent lens units having a transparent spacer therebetween, the transparent spacers in the column comprising odd-number spacers and even-number spacers, wherein the odd-number spacers only allow light emitted from first images to transmit through to a first viewing area, and the even-number spacers only allow light emitted from second images to transmit through to a second viewing area The lens units are adapted to refract the light emitted from the first images and the light emitted from the second images respectively to the first viewing area and the second viewing area. A display device is also disclosed, the display device comprising the above lens grating and a display module.
US09229231B2	Updating printed content with personalized virtual data The technology provides for updating printed content with personalized virtual data using a see-through, near-eye, mixed reality display device system. A printed content item, for example a book or magazine, is identified from image data captured by cameras on the display device, and user selection of a printed content selection within the printed content item is identified based on physical action user input, for example eye gaze or a gesture. Virtual data is selected from available virtual data for the printed content selection based on user profile data, and the display device system displays the selected virtual data in a position registered to the position of the printed content selection. In some examples, a task related to the printed content item is determined based on physical action user input, and personalized virtual data is displayed registered to the printed content item in accordance with the task.
US09229228B2	Conformal capable head-up display A system and method of displaying a conformal-capable head-up display image is provided. A pre-distorted right-eye image and a pre-distorted left-eye image are separately generated and projected toward a windscreen. The pre-distorted right-eye image is reflected off of the windscreen to supply a reflected right eye image to a right eyebox, and the pre-distorted left-eye image is reflected off of the windscreen to supply a reflected left eye image to a left eyebox. The reflected right-eye image and the reflected left-eye image are each non-distorted images.
US09229227B2	See-through near-eye display glasses with a light transmissive wedge shaped illumination system This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the optical assembly comprises a light transmissive wedge-shaped illumination system with an LED lighting system coupled to an edge of the wedge, and wherein an angled surface of the wedge directs light from the LED lighting system to uniformly irradiate a reflective image display to produce an image that is reflected through the illumination system to provide the displayed content to the user.
US09229219B2	Optical filter, optical filter module, spectrometric instrument, and optical instrument An Etalon filter includes a first substrate, a second substrate which faces the first substrate, a first optical film which is provided on the first substrate, and a second optical film which is provided on the second substrate to face the first optical film. The reflective characteristic of the first optical film determined by the reflectance of light of each wavelength in a reflective band is different from the reflective characteristic of the second optical film determined by the reflectance of light of each wavelength in the reflective band. The first optical film can have a reflective characteristic with a first wavelength λ1 as a center wavelength, and the second optical film can have a reflective characteristic with a second wavelength λ2 different from the first wavelength as a center wavelength.
US09229217B2	Optical measuring system An optical measurement system comprises a first housing body and a second housing body which can be rotated relative to the first housing body about a second axis of rotation, wherein the second housing body contains a measurement telescope, an inner roller bearing support fixed to the second housing body and protruding into the first housing body; an outer roller bearing support fixed to the first housing body; a drive disc fixed to the inner roller bearing support; wherein a motor having a motor shaft is attached to the first housing body in such a way that the motor shaft or a wheel fixed to the motor shaft is positioned on the drive disc and is pressed against said disc by a spring force orientated transversely to the second axis of rotation, and wherein the motor shaft or the wheel is coupled to the drive disc in a frictional fit.
US09229211B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging control program, and imaging method An imaging apparatus includes: a first imaging area setting unit configured to divide an imaging range that includes a sample into a plurality of areas and set each of the plurality of areas as a first imaging area; a first imaging unit configured to capture a first image at an in-focus position of the first imaging area; a second imaging area setting unit configured to set an area that extends over adjacent first imaging areas as a second imaging area in a case where in-focus positions of the adjacent first imaging areas are so different from each other that the difference exceeds a predetermined value; a second imaging unit configured to capture a second image at an in-focus position of the second imaging area; and an image combining unit configured to combine the first image with the second image.
US09229189B2	Lens barrel and digital camera having the same A lens barrel projects out of a main body of a camera during photographing and is accommodated in the main body of the camera during non-photographing and includes a plurality of lens assemblies including an escape lens assembly to be movable along a reference optical axis of the camera, and an escape unit to control the escape lens assembly to escape from the reference optical axis while the escape lens assembly moves from a photographing position to a non-photographing position, wherein lenses of the escape lens assembly have an optical axis that is in a skew position with respect to the reference optical axis in a position where the escape lens assembly has escaped.
US09229183B2	Multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly Disclosed is a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly. The a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly includes: a multi-channel PD array, in which a plurality of photodiodes (PDs) disposed on a first capacitor, and including receiving areas disposed at centers thereof and anode electrode pads arranged in an opposite direction at an angle of 180 degrees based on the receiving areas between the adjacent PDs is monolithically integrated; a plurality of transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) arranged on a plurality of second capacitors, respectively, and connected with the anode pads of the respective PDs through wire bonding; a submount on which the first capacitor.
US09229181B2	Optical receptacle and optical module comprising same An optical receptacle is capable of actualizing, at low cost, optical transmission accompanying monitoring in which light of a light-emitting element is extracted in a direction along a substrate at an optical transmission body. In an embodiment, light of a light-emitting element 7 that has been incident on a first surface 2a (11) is separated into coupling light and monitor light using total reflection at a coupling light total reflection surface 14 and a first monitor light total reflection surface 15. The coupling light is emitted towards an optical transmission body 5 from a third surface 2c (12), and the monitor light is emitted towards a light-receiving element 8 from the first surface 2a (13).
US09229180B2	Optical communication device An optical communication device includes a first fiber, a second fiber, a light-emitting unit, a light-receiving unit, and a lens unit. The lens unit includes a first portion and a second portion connecting with the first portion. The first portion includes a first entrance surface, a first exit surface, and a first reflecting surface. The first entrance surface is perpendicular to the first exit surface. The first optical fiber faces the first entrance surface and the light-receiving unit faces the first exit surface. The second portion includes a second entrance surface, a second exit surface, and a second reflecting surface. The second entrance surface is perpendicular to the second exit surface. The first entrance surface and the second exit surface are coplanar.
US09229174B2	Methods for forming connnectorized fiber optic cabling A connectorized fiber optic cabling assembly includes a loose tube fiber optic cable and a connector assembly. The cable has a termination end and includes: an optical fiber bundle including a plurality of optical fibers; at least one strength member; and a jacket surrounding the optical fiber bundle and the at least one strength member. The connector assembly includes a rigid portion and defines a fiber passage. The connector assembly is mounted on the termination end of the cable such that the optical fiber bundle extends through at least a portion of the fiber passage. The plurality of optical fibers of the optical fiber bundle have a ribbonized configuration in the rigid portion of the connector assembly and a loose, non-ribbonized configuration outside the rigid portion. The plurality of optical fibers undergo a transition from the ribbonized configuration to the loose, non-ribbonized configuration in the rigid portion of the connector assembly. According to some embodiments, the rigid portion of the connector assembly includes a rigid connector housing.
US09229170B1	Two-port optical devices using mini-collimators Designs of 2-port optical devices are disclosed. The optical devices so designed are amenable to small footprint, enhanced impact performance, lower cost, and easier manufacturing process. The optical device comprises at least two collimators, each of the collimators including: a single-mode fiber, and a multi-mode graded index fiber, aligned with the single-mode fiber in a way that the multi-mode graded index fiber and the single-mode fiber are spliced together, wherein the multi-mode graded index fiber is designed to have a predefined length.
US09229167B2	WDM multiplexing/de-multiplexing system and the manufacturing method thereof A WDM multiplexing/demultiplexing system includes a de-multiplexer configured to separate and guide light beams from an incident ray having a plurality of wavelengths to corresponding lenses on an optical device, a multiplexer configured to guide light beams from optical transmitters having various wavelengths through the corresponding lenses on the optical device and combine the light beams, a lens array including the corresponding lenses to receive and/or transmit the light beams from or to the de-multiplexer and multiplexer, and a light beam collimator configured to function with the multiplexer and de-multiplexer. The light beams received or transmitted by the light beam collimator and the light beams transmitted or received from or to the multiplexer and de-multiplexer are collinear. The light beam collimator and multiplexer/de-multiplexer can be easily positioned to predetermined or designed positions, thereby providing light beams output through the lenses in a plastic optical device. The WDM system advantageously reduces optical signal loss, while increasing the assembly yield.
US09229160B2	Optical fiber preform, method for producing optical fiber, and optical fiber An easily producible optical fiber preform which is drawn to an optical fiber having a core containing a sufficient concentration of alkali metal is provided. An optical fiber preform 10 is composed of silica-based glass and includes a core portion 20 and a cladding portion 30. The core portion 20 includes a first core portion 21 including a central axis and a second core portion 22 disposed on the perimeter of the first core portion 21. The cladding portion 30 includes a first cladding portion 31 disposed on the perimeter of the second core portion 22 and a second cladding portion 32 disposed on the perimeter of the first cladding portion 31. The core portion 20 contains an alkali metal at an average concentration of 5 atomic ppm or more. The concentration of the OH group in the perimeter portion of the first cladding portion 31 is 200 mol ppm or more.
US09229157B2	Sold photonic band gap fiber, fiber module using sold photonic band gap fiber, fiber amplifier, and fiber laser A solid photonic band gap fiber includes: a core area located at a central portion of a cross-section with respect to a longitudinal direction of the fiber, the core area being formed of a solid substance having a low refractive index; cladding areas having base portions formed of a solid substance having a low refractive index, the cladding areas surrounding the core area; and a plurality of fine high refractive index scatterers provided in the cladding areas, and disposed in a dispersed manner so as to surround the core area, the number of fine high refractive index scatterers being formed of a solid substance having a high refractive index, wherein in a state that the solid photonic band gap fiber is held at a predetermined bending radius, propagation in a high-order mode is suppressed by using a difference in a bending loss between a fundamental mode and the high-order mode, and only the fundamental mode is substantially propagated, the fundamental mode and the high-order mode being caused by bending.
US09229155B2	Side-edge backlight module The present invention provides a side-edge backlight module, which includes: a backplane (2), a backlight source (4) mounted in the backplane (2), and a light guide plate (6) mounted in the backplane (2). The backlight source (4) includes a circuit board (42), a plurality of LED lights (44) mounted to and electrically connected with the circuit board (42), a plurality of vertical heat dissipation boards (46) mounted to the circuit board (42) and arranged between the LED lights (44), and horizontal heat dissipation boards (48) perpendicularly connected to the vertical heat dissipation boards (46). The horizontal heat dissipation boards (48) are mounted to the backplane (2). By mounting the vertical heat dissipation boards to the circuit board of the backlight source and mounting the horizontal heat dissipation boards to the bottom board of the backplane, with the horizontal heat dissipation boards and the vertical heat dissipation boards being jointed to or engaging with each other, the side-edge backlight module of the present invention effectively enhances the heat dissipation performance. Further, the vertical heat dissipation boards are arranged between adjacent LED lights and are located on the same side of the circuit board as the LED lights so as to further enhance the heat dissipation performance and thereby improving the quality of the side-edge backlight module.
US09229150B2	Backlight module and LCD comprising the same A backlight module comprises a backplate having a baseplate and side plates, a direct-lit LED array, edge-lit LED arrays and a light guide panel. The light guide panel is located above the baseplate. The direct-lit LED array is disposed between the baseplate and the light guide panel. The edge-lit LED arrays are disposed at two sides of the light guide panel and facing light incident surfaces thereof respectively. Light scattering structures for scattering light rays are disposed on a light exiting surface or on a bottom surface of the light guide panels. With the LED arrays and the light scattering structures, the light guide panel is divided into three backlight regions. Displaying of the backlight module is controlled region by region by the light scattering structures and the LED drive circuit to improve the brightness of the backlight module and reduce the power consumption of the liquid crystal module.
US09229149B2	Optical constructions incorporating a light guide and low refractive index films Optical constructions use a low index of refraction layer disposed between a low absorption layer and a high absorption layer to increase confinement of light to the low absorption region of the optical constructions. Low index layers can be used in optical constructions that have multi-tiered light confinement. In these constructions, a first tier of reflection is provided when light is reflected at the surface of a low index optical film which is disposed directly or indirectly on a light guide. A second tier of reflection occurs at the surface of a light redirecting film having appropriately oriented refractive structures.
US09229143B2	Inorganic polarizing plate containing FeSi fine particles To provide an inorganic polarizing plate which, when used in structures having different used wavelength bands, can reduce reflectance by using a common structure, making it possible to achieve a predetermined light extinction ratio. The inorganic polarizing plate has a substrate that is transparent to light in a used bandwidth, a reflective layer that is composed of grids that are formed on one surface of the substrate with a pitch that is smaller than a wavelength of light in the used bandwidth, a dielectric layer that is stacked on the reflective layer, and an absorbing layer containing FeSi fine particles.
US09229131B2	Method and system for estimating evaporation representative of an area This invention related to a method of and a system for estimating evaporation representing an area at a particular location The method comprises receiving air temperature information, using the received air temperature information to determine at least average air temperature, standard deviation of the air temperature, and skewness of the air temperature at the particular location, receiving soil heat flux information and net irradiance information indicative of soil heat flux and net irradiance at the particular location respectively, determining, sensible heat flux at the particular location by using at least the determined average air temperature, standard deviation of the air temperature, and skewness of the air temperature associated with the particular location, and determining an estimate of the evaporation at the particular location by using the determined sensible heat flux, received soil heat flux and net irradiance information.
US09229121B2	Seismic imaging system for acoustic-elastic coupled media using accumulated Laplace gradient direction The description relates to a seismic imaging technology technique for modeling a subsurface structure through waveform inversion in the Laplace domain. The seismic imaging system comprises a scaled gradient calculating unit calculating a scaled gradient, a modeling parameter updating unit updating the model parameters using the scaled gradient direction, and an iteration control unit controlling the scaled gradient calculating unit and the modeling parameter updating unit to repeat processing iteratively until a stopping criteria is met.
US09229114B2	Radiation analyzer and method for analyzing radiation A radiation analyzer includes a transition edge sensor for detecting radiation and a cold head that cools the transition edge sensor. A current detecting mechanism detects a current flowing in the transition edge sensor, and a peak analyzing unit measures a peak value based on the current detected by the current detecting mechanism. A first heater is configured to heat the cold head to keep a temperature of the transition edge sensor constant. A sensitivity correction operating unit is configured to correct a sensitivity of the transition edge sensor based on a relation obtained in advance between an output of the first heater and the peak value measured by the peak analyzing unit.
US09229113B2	Receiving device and correlation integrating method In a baseband processing circuit unit, a sample memory stores a received data sequence obtained by sampling a signal received by an RF receiving circuit unit at a given sampling time interval. A data sequence estimating unit estimates an estimated data sequence, which is obtained when the received signal is sampled at a sampling time shifted by a given shift time from the sampling time of the received data sequence, on the basis of the received data sequence stored in the sample memory. A correlation operation unit performs a correlation operation on the estimated data sequence estimated by the data sequence estimating unit 22 and a replica code. An integration unit integrates the correlation operation result from the correlation operation unit at a given integration time interval.
US09229108B2	Underwater platform with LIDAR and related methods Systems and methods for conducting autonomous underwater inspections of subsea and other underwater structures using a 3D laser mounted on an underwater platform such as AUV, an ROV or a tripod. The systems and methods described herein can be used for scanning underwater structures to gain a better understanding of the underwater structures, such as for example, for the purpose of generating a 3D virtual model of the underwater structure. The 3D virtual model can be used for many purposes including, but not limited to, directing inspection, repair, and manipulation of the underwater structure, navigating around the underwater structure, and other purposes.
US09229106B2	Enhancement of range measurement resolution using imagery This invention provides a method for computing hybrid range measurements wherein range measurements of a target are obtained along with at least two images of the target and the location and the orientation of the images. Hybrid range measurements are computed based on the range measurements and the images.
US09229102B1	Detection of movable objects Systems and methods for sensing targets on an opposite side of a wall are disclosed. In some aspects, the techniques include providing an indication to a user that portions of reflected radar signals were blocked by radiofrequency-blocking material at the wall. In some aspects, the techniques include identifying candidate targets as multipath echoes or motion-induced errors based on a correlation map.
US09229095B2	Adaptive dynamic cluster deinterleaving Described herein are methods and systems capable of dynamically adapting weights in response to a received stream of pulses by deinterleaving a stream of pulses according to an initial weighted distance, adjusting the weighted distance, and deinterleaving the stream of pulses according to the adjusted weighted distance.
US09229089B2	Acquisition of navigation assistance information for a mobile station Navigation assistance information for a mobile station is acquired based on a feature descriptor of an image of a visual beacon captured by the mobile station. The navigation assistance information includes locations of neighboring visual beacons, locations of wireless positioning resources; user environmental context information. The navigation assistance information may then be used to assist in navigating within the local environment. The visual beacon may be an artificial feature, such as a QR code or other type of matrix or bar code or a natural feature, such as a statute or architectural detail. The mobile station may request navigation assistance by transmitting the feature descriptor to a server. The server retrieves the navigation assistance information from a database based on the feature descriptor and optionally location information, which may also be provided in the navigation assistance request, and transmits the navigation assistance information to the mobile station.
US09229083B2	Magnetic resonance method and system to generate an optimized MR image of an examination subject A magnetic resonance method and system for generation of an optimized MR image of an examination subject operate as follows. A pulse sequence including a series of at least two RF pulses is radiated into the examination subject to generate at least one optimized signal, wherein the second and possibly every additional RF pulse is radiated before the effect of the first or a preceding RF pulse on the spin system in the examination subject has decayed. The radiated RF pulses are generated by parallel transmission coils. At least the signal resulting after the last radiated RF pulse of the pulse sequence is acquired. The pulse sequence is repeated with modified spatial coding until signals have been generated and acquired in a desired positional space. The optimized MR image per pulse sequence is calculated from at least one of the acquired signals.
US09229079B2	Parallel magnetic resonance imaging method for radial trajectory A parallel imaging (PI) method has been frequently used as a method for shortening an image acquisition time in the MRI field. The PI technique is a method for acquiring data using multi-channel coils, that is, several coils, when acquiring the data in MRI. According to this technique, data, the amount of which is smaller than that when the data is obtained using only one coil, is acquired, and then an image is obtained using coil information. According to an embodiment, a new image reconstruction method is proposed which adopts an expectation maximization (EM) technique that is different from the existing GRAPPA or SENSE technique when an image is obtained using PI data acquired through the radial trajectory.
US09229072B2	Method and high-frequency check device for checking a high-frequency transmit device of a magnetic resonance tomography system A method for checking a high-frequency transmit device of a magnetic resonance tomography system, excitation vectors that represent high-frequency signal strengths on the individual transmit channels are determined for a plurality of time points or time periods. High-frequency exposure values absorbed in an examination object are determined in accordance with predetermined check rules on the basis of the excitation vectors. The high-frequency transmit device is restricted in function when an exposure check value that is based on at least one high-frequency exposure value reaches or exceeds a predetermined limit check value. The check rules are predetermined as a function of a current transmit mode of the high-frequency transmit device. The respective transmit mode of the high-frequency transmit device is verified on the basis of the excitation vectors. When a transmit mode change is detected, the check rules are changed, and/or the high-frequency transmit device is restricted in function.
US09229066B2	Integrated fluxgate magnetic sensor and excitation circuitry Improved magnetic sensor excitation circuitry is presented for providing a periodic bidirectional excitation waveform to a fluxgate magnetic sensor excitation coil using a bridge circuit connected to the excitation coil and having lower transistors for switched selective connection to a current mirror input transistor to mirror a current provided by pulsed current source, and with integrated filtering to control pulse rise times and slew rate.
US09229064B2	Method for estimating battery degradation A method for estimating battery degradation is provided. In this method, a remaining capacity is obtained by looking up a device characteristic table according to a steady open circuit voltage of a battery. Besides, a constant current is provided to charge the battery, and when a terminal voltage of the battery reaches to a charging preset voltage, a constant voltage is provided to charge the battery. The transition point information at the transition from a constant current mode to a constant voltage mode, which includes a transition point estimated open circuit voltage, a transition point voltage, a transition point current and a transition point battery temperature, is analyzed based on voltage, current, temperature and capacity information measured during the charging process. A battery degradation index is calculated from the transition point information.
US09229061B2	Electrical storage device temperature measuring method An internal impedance of an electrical storage device is measured by using a signal of a frequency which ions in the electrical storage device are difficult to follow (e.g., a frequency equal to or higher than 10 kHz), and an internal temperature of the electrical storage device is calculated from a measured value of the internal impedance.
US09229059B2	Memory test system and method An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure illustrates a memory test system comprising a memory device, a probe card, and a tester. The memory device comprises a memory die with a plurality of memory banks, a plurality of input circuits, and a plurality of output circuits, wherein each of the input circuits has a first input pin and a second pin, the first input pins of the input circuits are used to read a plurality of patches of data stored in memory cells of the memory banks, and the second input pins are used to receive a compressed result. The output circuits receive compressed signals output from the input circuits, and the probe card mixes the compressed output signals output from the output circuits to output a mixed compressed output signal to the tester.
US09229058B2	Die attach pick error detection Embodiments of the invention provide a method to detect pick and place indexing errors on each manufacturing batch (lot) of semiconductor wafer processed during a die attach process using a preselected skeleton of check die. The known locations of the check skeleton die are verified during picking of die from the wafer. If the check skeleton cannot be correctly verified at the known locations, then a pick error is indicated. The embodiments may be implemented on existing die attach equipment.
US09229055B2	Decompressed scan chain masking circuit shift register with log2(n/n) cells Electronic scan circuitry includes a decompressor (510), a plurality of scan chains (520.i) fed by the decompressor (510), a scan circuit (502, 504) coupled to the plurality of scan chains (520.i) to scan them in and out, a masking circuit (590) fed by the scan chains (520.i), and a scannable masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) coupled to the masking circuit (590), the masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) scannable by scan-in of bits by the decompressor (510) along with scan-in of the scan chains (520.i), and the scannable masking qualification circuit (550, 560, 580) operable to hold such scanned-in bits upon scan-out of the scan chains through the masking circuit (590). Other scan circuitry, processes, circuits, devices and systems are also disclosed.
US09229054B2	Self-contained, path-level aging monitor apparatus and method An aging monitor circuit that provides a more accurate estimate of aging and/or delay in a circuit and/or circuit path. The aging monitor circuit employs a separate aging path with driving and receiving flip flops (FFs) and a tunable replica circuit (TRC) to enable measurements of single-transition DC-stressed path delay that only propagates through stressed transistors or other circuit element(s). A finite state machine (FSM) in the aging monitor circuit is configured to adjust a frequency of a clock signal output by a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) in response to an error signal output by the receiving FF. The error signal is generated in response to single-transition DC-stressed path delay; and therefore enables the adjustment of the frequency of the dock signal to correspond to an amount or effect of the delay.
US09229051B2	Integrated circuit with degradation monitoring An integrated circuit including a degradation monitoring circuit. The degradation monitoring circuit includes a comparison circuit having a delay element including an input coupled to a data node of a timing path and having an output to provide a delayed signal of a data signal of the data node. The comparison circuit includes a logic comparator that provides a logic comparison between a data signal of the data node and the output of the delay element. The monitoring circuit includes a sampling circuit that provides a sampled signal of the output of the logic comparator that is a sampled with respect to a clock signal of the clock signal line. The monitoring circuit includes a hold circuit that provides a signal indicative of a data signal of the data node transitioning within a predetermined time of an edge transition of a clock signal of the clock signal line.
US09229050B2	BIST circuit for phase measurement A BIST circuit for high speed applications includes a phase difference detection circuit, a period-to-current conversion circuit having an input coupled to an output of the phase difference detection circuit and a current-to-voltage conversion circuit coupled to an output of the period-to-current conversion circuit. The phase difference detection circuit includes first NAND logic for receiving as inputs an input clock signal and a delayed version of an inverted version of the input clock signal; second NAND logic for receiving as inputs the inverted version of the input clock signal and a delayed version of the input clock signal; third NAND logic for receiving as inputs the input clock signal and the delayed version of the input clock signal; and fourth NAND logic for receiving as inputs the inverted version of the input clock signal and a delayed version of the inverted version of the input clock signal.
US09229043B2	Partial discharge sensor for a high voltage insulation monitoring device The present invention relates to a partial discharge sensor for a high-voltage insulation monitoring device comprising a housing and located in the housing a measurement circuit for measurement of partial discharges in a high voltage system to be tested and a coupling capacitor having one electrode connected to the measurement circuit and the other electrode to a first high voltage conductor to be connected to a high voltage line of the system to be tested, wherein it further comprises a calibration circuit located in the housing and comprising a calibration capacitor having one electrode connected to the calibration circuit and the other electrode connected to said first or a second high voltage conductor to be connected to a high voltage line.
US09229041B2	Automatic test system An automatic test system includes a mechanical frame, a test device mounted to the mechanical frame for testing the electrical performance and the mechanical performance of the connector, a packing device mounted to the mechanical frame for packing the connector which is completed to be tested, a transmission device mounted to the mechanical frame for transmitting the connector to each workstation of the test device and the packing device, a moving device mounted to the mechanical frame for moving the connector to each workstation of the test device and the packing device corresponding to the transmission device, and a control system electrically connected with and controlling the test device, the packing device, the transmission device and the moving device for completing the transmission, test and packing action of the connector.
US09229037B2	Measurement apparatus and measurement method To accurately measure a frequency characteristic of a waveform generating apparatus, provided is a measurement apparatus that measures a frequency characteristic of a waveform generating apparatus generating a signal having a waveform corresponding to waveform data, comprising a control section that causes a plurality of sine wave signals having different frequencies to be sequentially output from the waveform generating apparatus; a measuring section that measures each of the sine wave signals output from the waveform generating apparatus; and a calculating section that calculates a frequency characteristic of the waveform generating apparatus based on the measurement results of the measuring section. The control section causes trigger signals to be output from the waveform generating apparatus and causes the sine wave signals to be output in synchronization with the trigger signals, and the measuring section measures a phase of each sine wave signal with the corresponding trigger signal as a reference.
US09229035B2	Current detection circuit and switch regulator using the same In one embodiment, a current detection circuit configured to determine an input current and an output current of a switching regulator, can include: (i) a mirror circuit configured to mirror a current flowing through a main power transistor of the switching regulator to generate a sampling signal that is in proportion to the main power transistor current; (ii) a current generating circuit configured to perform a first average value calculation of the sampling signal based on a switching cycle of the switching regulator to determine the input current; and (iii) the current generating circuit being configured to perform a second average value calculation of the sampling signal based on a conduction duty cycle of the main power transistor to determine the output current.

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