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US09620326B2	Arc chamber with multiple cathodes for an ion source An apparatus for extending the useful life of an ion source, comprising an arc chamber containing a plurality of cathodes to be used sequentially and a plurality of repellers to protect cathodes when not in use. The arc chamber includes an arc chamber housing defining a reaction cavity, gas injection openings, a plurality of cathodes, and at least one repeller element. A method for extending the useful life of an ion source includes providing power to a first cathode of an arc chamber in an ion source, operating the first cathode, detecting a failure or degradation in performance of the first cathode, energizing a second cathode, and continuing operation of the arc chamber with the second cathode.
US09620317B1	Magnetically-actuated, hermetically-sealed switch device A switch having a spring-biased actuator button that moves in an axial direction is mounted in a hermetically sealed cavity defined in a one-piece housing, which also houses a tripping magnet and restricts the tripping magnet to linear movement along the axis of the actuator button.
US09620314B2	Supporting structure of closing resistor unit for circuit breaker Disclosed is a supporting structure of a closing resistor unit for a circuit breaker which connects the closing resistor unit to the fixed portion through the first supporting plate and the second supporting plate to allow the closing resistor unit to move back and forth with respect to the fixed portion through the first supporting plate and to move up and down with respect to the fixed portion through the second supporting plate, whereby the closing resistor unit or its joints may be prevented from being damaged from impact.
US09620294B2	Wet electrolytic capacitor containing a recessed planar anode and a restraint A wet electrolytic capacitor is provided. The capacitor includes a planar anode formed from a pressed and sintered powder, a cathode that includes a metal substrate that is coated with an electrochemically-active material, and a working electrolyte in communication with the planar anode and cathode. The planar anode has a recessed portion formed in at least one of its surfaces. The capacitor also includes at least one restraint that is in contact with the recessed portion and has a shape that generally corresponds with a shape of the recessed portion. The recessed portion of the planar anode allows for stabilization of the planar anode with via a restraint without increasing the dimensions of the capacitor.
US09620293B2	Hermetically sealed capacitor for an implantable medical device A wet electrolytic capacitor is provided that includes an anode, an anode lead, an electrolyte, a casing having a wall that defines an anode lead orifice, and a sealing assembly. The sealing assembly is connected to the casing at the anode lead orifice, and a portion of the anode lead extends through it. The sealing assembly includes an isolation tube, a metal plate, and an elastomeric ring. The tube receives the anode lead and has a first portion extending through the anode lead orifice and a second portion located in an interior of the casing. The plate is positioned adjacent to an exterior surface of the wall, covers the anode lead orifice, and contains an orifice through which the first portion of the tube extends. The ring is positioned adjacent to an interior surface of the wall and contains an orifice through which the second portion of the tube extends.
US09620273B2	Magnet system for generation of a highly stable magnetic field A magnet system generates a highly stable magnetic field at a sample location. The magnet system has a magnet cryostat housing a first superconducting magnet coil and a second magnet coil co-axial to the first magnet coil. The second magnet coil is short-circuited in a superconducting persistent mode during operation of the magnet system. An external power supply during operation supplies current to the first magnet coil via a current lead thereby generating a first magnetic field at the sample location that fluctuates according to the current noise of the power supply, wherein the second magnet coil is positioned and dimensioned in a way that it inductively couples to the first magnet coil such that it generates at the sample location a second magnetic field that compensates the fluctuations of the first magnetic field.
US09620272B2	Superconducting magnet device A permanent current switch device of a refrigerator cooling-type superconducting magnet includes a superconducting coil cooled by solid thermal conduction and a permanent current switch. A heat transfer member is thermally connected to a cooling stage and is structured to be inserted into and removable from a former of the permanent current switch. Due to differences in thermal expansion between the heat transfer member and the former, a permanent current mode can be stably maintained.
US09620271B2	Actuator An actuator has an electrically conductive coil which has a longitudinal axis and a plurality of turns and a magnet arranged at a distance from the turns in radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis. The coil is partially covered by a central region of a first conducting element on a side which faces away from the magnet and the magnet is partially covered by a mid region of a second conducting element on a side facing away from the turns of the coil. The first conducting element projects beyond the coil and the second conducting element projects beyond the magnet in the direction of the longitudinal axis and there each have collar-like projections. The coil has a first winding turns region and a second winding turns region.
US09620269B2	Method and equipment for processing NdFeB rare earth permanent magnetic alloy with hydrogen pulverization A method and an equipment for processing NdFeB rare earth permanent magnetic alloy with a hydrogen pulverization are provided. The method includes steps of: providing a continuous hydrogen pulverization equipment; while driving by a transmission device, passing a charging box loaded with rare earth permanent magnetic alloy flakes orderly through a hydrogen absorption chamber, having a temperature of 50-350° C. for absorbing hydrogen, a heating and dehydrogenating chamber, having a temperature of 600-900° C. for dehydrogenating, and a cooling chamber of the continuous hydrogen pulverization equipment; receiving the charging box by a discharging chamber through a discharging valve; pouring out the alloy flakes after the hydrogen pulverization into a storage tank at a lower part of the discharging chamber; sealing up the storage tank under a protection of nitrogen; and, moving the charging box out through a discharging door of the discharging chamber and re-loading, for repeating the previous steps.
US09620260B2	Insulating coated wire and method for manufacturing the same An insulating coated wire includes a center conductor and an insulating coating. The insulating coating has a bending auxiliary section in which the thickness of the insulating coating is smaller than that of the other portion, and that has a shape in which at least a part thereof protrudes outward in the radial direction. The bending auxiliary section has a shape that facilitates bending of the insulating coated wire by elongation deformation thereof. This insulating coated wire can be manufactured by arranging, on the circumference of an insulating coated wire material, a metal mold that has the inner surface including the section having a shape protruding outward in the radial direction, and forming the bending auxiliary section in the shape along the inner surface of the metal mold by heating the insulating coating within the metal mold and generating a pressure difference between inside and outside of the insulating coating.
US09620253B2	Riser cone apparatus to provide compliance between reactor components and minimize reactor coolant bypass flow A riser cone has a lower end sized to engage a cylindrical lower riser section of a nuclear reactor and an upper end sized to engage a cylindrical upper riser section of the nuclear reactor. The riser cone defines a compression sealing ring that is compressed between the lower riser section and the upper riser section in the assembled nuclear reactor. In some embodiments the riser cone comprises: a lower element defining the lower end of the riser cone; an upper element defining the upper end of the riser cone; and a compliance spring compressed between the lower element and the upper element. In some embodiments the riser cone comprises a frustoconical compression sealing ring accommodating a reduced diameter of the upper riser section as compared with the diameter of the lower riser section.
US09620251B2	Solid interface joint with open pores for nuclear control rod A new interface between the cladding and the stack of pellets in a nuclear control rod. According to the invention, an interface joint made of a material transparent to neutrons, in the form of a structure with a high thermal conductivity and open pores, adapted to deform by compression across its thickness, is inserted between the cladding and the stack of pellets made of B4C neutron absorber material over at least the height of the stack. The invention also relates to associated production methods.
US09620250B2	Spacer grid A spacer grid includes interlocked straps comprising metal sheets or plates welded together to define a spacer grid having a top and bottom. The interlocked straps define a plurality of cells comprising vertical passages connecting the top and bottom of the spacer grid. The cells include: upper dimples proximate to the top of the spacer grid and distal from the mid-plane of the spacer grid; lower dimples proximate to the bottom of the spacer grid and distal from the mid-plane of the spacer grid; cantilevered upper springs having fuel rod engagement surfaces proximate to the top of the spacer grid and distal from the mid-plane of the spacer grid; and cantilevered lower springs having fuel rod engagement surfaces proximate to the bottom of the spacer grid and distal from the mid-plane of the spacer grid.
US09620248B2	Dispersion ceramic micro-encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel and related methods The invention relates to the use of Dispersion Ceramic Micro-Encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel as a meltdown-proof, accident-tolerant fuel to replace uranium dioxide fuel in existing light water reactors (LWRs). The safety qualities of the DCM fuel are obtained by the combination of three strong barriers to fission product release (ceramic coatings around the fuel kernels), highly dense inert ceramic matrix around the coated fuel particles and metallic or ceramic cladding around the fuel pellets.
US09620244B1	Determining categories for memory fail conditions Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products, and systems for testing a memory cell arrangement. Embodiments of the present invention can determine categories of memory fail conditions by checking memory cells of with a sequence of test parameter configurations for a malfunction using test parameters, storing for test parameter configurations for which a malfunction is detected, and assigning the respective test parameter configuration with a bit fail count comprising the number of malfunctioning memory cells. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to create a relational data structure representing test parameter configurations and can combine one or more test parameter configurations and can create a representation of the bit fail counts of the respective test parameter configurations.
US09620242B1	Methods and apparatuses including one or more interrupted integrated circuit operations for characterizing radiation effects in integrated circuits Apparatuses and methods are provided using a plurality of interrupted IC operations to detect various conditions or changes of interest to integrated circuit (IC) elements (e.g., memory cells of NAND Flash memories or floating gate transistor) such as program/erase stress, total ionizing dose, and heavy ion exposure which modify normal IC element bit state changes. An exemplary method can include controlling a plurality of selected IC elements to execute a series of PROGRAM or ERASE operations on all of the plurality of selected elements that are each interrupted or halted before a normal or first time period required for the PROGRAM or ERASE operation has elapsed. An exemplary system records a number of interrupted operations required to cause a state change in each of the plurality of selected IC elements. Embodiments of the invention enable detection of stresses far below at least some thresholds for IC element or bit cell failure.
US09620241B2	Shift register unit, method for driving the same, shift register and display device According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a shift register unit may include: a first control module, configured to transmit a start signal to a first node; a second control module, configured to pull a potential of a second node to a potential different from a potential of the first node, under a control of a first clock signal; a carry output module, configured to output a carry signal according to the potential of the first node and the potential of the second node; and a shift output module, configured to output a shift signal according to the potential of the first node and the potential of the second node.
US09620237B2	Semiconductor device and search circuit for and method of searching for erasure count in semiconductor memory A semiconductor device and search circuit for and method of searching for a count of erasures in a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor memory in which data erasure is performed in units of blocks. A block management memory stores, corresponding to each of the blocks, a piece of erasure count data representing a count of erasures of data performed in the block. An erasure count search circuit successively reads the pieces of erasure count data from the block management memory so as to search for a block corresponding to a piece of erasure count data representing an intended erasure count from among the pieces of erasure count data read from the block management memory. The circuit also outputs an address of the searched block as an erasure count address.
US09620235B2	Self-timer for sense amplifier in memory device A self-timer for a sense amplifier in a memory device is disclosed.
US09620228B1	Monotonically increasing persistent counters A monotonically increasing persistent counter is described that is persistent across reboots of a system in which it is incorporated. The described counter employs an event counter module that counts events that are generated by various event generators within the system. One type of event that can be counted by the described counter is a state change. In various implementations, the event counter module, when employed as a state change counter module, includes a state change counter that counts state changes, and a journal mode component which provides journaling functionality which makes it possible to accommodate large numbers of state changes while, at the same time, recover the counter in the event of a system failure. In at least some embodiments, one or both of the state change counter and the journal mode component are implemented using NOR flash memory.
US09620226B1	Data retention charge loss and read disturb compensation in solid-state data storage systems A data storage device includes a solid-state memory including memory cells and a controller configured to perform a first programming scheme that programs a first subset of the cells to a first voltage state using a first target voltage, programs a second subset to a second voltage state using a second target voltage higher than the first target voltage, programs a third subset to a third voltage state using a third target voltage higher than the second target voltage, and programs a fourth subset to a fourth voltage state using a fourth target voltage higher than the third target voltage. A difference in voltage between the fourth target voltage and the third target voltage may be greater or less than a difference in voltage between the third target voltage and the second target voltage and/or a difference in voltage between the second target voltage and the first target voltage.
US09620217B2	Sub-block erase A method is provided for operating a NAND array that includes a plurality of blocks of memory cells. A block of memory cells in the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of NAND strings having channel lines between first string select switches and second string select switches. The plurality of NAND strings shares a set of word lines between the first and second string select switches. A channel-side erase voltage is applied to the channel lines through the first string select switches in a selected block. Word line-side erase voltages are applied to a selected subset including more than one member of the set of word lines shared by NAND strings in the selected block to induce tunneling in memory cells coupled to the selected subset, while tunneling is inhibited in memory cells coupled to an unselected subset including more than one member of the set of word lines.
US09620214B2	Content addressable memory with reduced power consumption and increased search operation speed An entry including multiple bits of unit cells each storing data bit is coupled to a match line. The match line is supplied with a charging current having a restricted current value smaller than a match line current flowing in a one-bit miss state in one entry, but larger than a match line current flowing in an all-bit match state in one entry. A precharge voltage level of a match line is restricted to a voltage level of half a power supply voltage or smaller. Power consumption in a search cycle of a content addressable memory can be reduced, and a search operation speed can be increased.
US09620204B2	Interconnection architecture for multilayer circuits A computer readable memory includes a circuit layer, a multilayer memory stacked over the circuit layer to form a memory box, the memory box comprising a bottom surface interfacing with the circuit layer and four side surfaces, and a first switching crossbar array disposed on a first side of the memory box. A plurality of vias connects the circuit layer to the first switching crossbar layer. The first switching crossbar array accepts signals from the plurality of vias and selectively connects a crossbar in the multilayer memory to the circuit layer. A method for addressing multilayer memory is also provided.
US09620202B2	Reduction or elimination of a latency penalty associated with adjusting read thresholds for non-volatile memory Channel information and channel conditions that are determined by an Offline Tracking process are used to determine whether or not an adjustment to the read reference voltage can be avoided altogether without detrimentally affecting performance, or, alternatively, to determine a precision with which a read reference voltage adjustment should be made. If it is determined based on the channel conditions that a read reference voltage adjustment can be avoided altogether, read performance is improved by reducing the probability that a read reference voltage adjustment needs to be made during normal read operations. If it is determined based on the channel conditions that a read reference voltage adjustment needs to be made with a particular precision, the read reference voltage is adjusted with that precision. This latter approach is advantageous in that a determination that the precision with which the adjustments can be made is relatively low leads to fewer adjustments having to be made during normal read operations.
US09620195B1	Memory device A memory device may include a plurality of memory banks; a setting circuit capable of setting at least one of an advanced refresh mode and a piled refresh mode; and a refresh control unit capable of controlling the plurality of memory banks into a plurality of groups and for activating the plurality of groups to be refreshed at different times when a refresh command is applied, wherein the refresh control unit divides the memory banks into first groups determined based on the piled refresh mode and refreshes the first groups once, while, in the advanced refresh mode, the refresh control unit divides the memory banks into second groups determined based on the piled refresh mode and additional setting information and refresh the second groups a first number of times, which is more than two and determined based on the additional setting information.
US09620186B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device with a novel structure, which can retain stored data even when power is not supplied (i.e., is non-volatile) and has no limitation on the number of write cycles. The semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array in which a plurality of memory cells are arranged in matrix, a decoder configured to select a memory cell to operate among the plurality of memory cells in accordance with a control signal, and a control circuit configured to select whether to output the control signal to the decoder. In each of the plurality of memory cells, data is held by turning off a selection transistor whose channel region is formed with an oxide semiconductor.
US09620185B1	Voltage supply devices generating voltages applied to nonvolatile memory cells A voltage supply device includes a bias generator, a control signal generator and a cell switching circuit. The bias generator divides a first supply voltage to output a plurality of divided supply voltages. The control signal generator receives the plurality of divided supply voltages to generate a plurality of control signals. The cell switching circuit receives the plurality of control signals to provide nonvolatile memory cells with one or more of a ground voltage, the first supply voltage, or a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage. Each of the bias generator, the control signal generator and the cell switching circuit is implemented with medium voltage MOS transistors having a breakdown voltage of from approximately 7 volts to approximately 15 volts.
US09620182B2	Pulse mechanism for memory circuit interruption In a memory system where multiple memory chips communicate their ready/busy status on a shared bus line, a pulse mechanism is used for the individual memory chips to indicate their ready/busy status to the controller. In one example, the controller assigns pulse durations of differing lengths to the memory dies to allow the controller to distinguish between them. Techniques for dealing with bus collisions between the pulses of different chips are also described.
US09620179B2	Sense amplifier and methods thereof for single ended line sensing A sense amplifier for sensing a line of a semiconductor device comprises a p-channel pull-up transistor for charging the line, an inverter, and a pull-up controller. The p-channel pull-up transistor and the inverter are coupled to the line. The inverter inverts a line voltage of the line. The pull-up controller is coupled to the gate of the p-channel pull-up transistor and operates the p-channel pull-up transistor as a function of the inverted line voltage.
US09620177B2	Internal power supply circuit, semiconductor device, and semiconductor device manufacturing method An internal power supply circuit supplies a power supply voltage to an internal circuit of a semiconductor device via an internal power supply line. The internal power supply circuit includes a reference potential generating circuit that is configured to generate a plurality of reference potentials having different temperature dependencies from each other, an internal voltage generating circuit that generates the power supply voltage with reference to a reference potential generated by the reference potential generating circuit, and a control circuit that selects a reference potential to be generated by the reference potential generating circuit.
US09620173B1	Automated intelligent visualization of data through text and graphics Embodiments of the invention relate to an automated, intelligent visualization of data through text and graphics for connecting a wide range of data sources to graphics visualization software and automating its presentation, including building on a standard template driven system for generating graphics from data. Some of these building mechanisms include: Service Handlers, which are plugin components with their own process for converting the data into something uniform, Input Behaviors, which define actions and data to deliver from a service, a system for matching templates to input behaviors by the set of variables in each and the rules for matching them, a Schedule Request mechanism, which connects the data from the service, via the input behavior mechanism, to the correct titles, and handles the assignment of data and then conducts the appropriate actions, and the use of handler defined queues for managing the order of things in parallel.
US09620170B2	Recorded content repair A television receiver may detect during a primary recording of particular programming degradation of a received signal quality associated with the particular programming to at or below a predetermined threshold value. The television receiver may instantiate a secondary recording of the particular programming during the primary recording when the particular programming is accessible over at least one terrestrial network. The television receiver may query a computing system to acquire content associated with at least one gap in content within the primary recording present due to received signal quality. The television receiver may output during playback of the primary recording a notification to enable access to the secondary recording when content associated with the at least one gap in content within the primary recording is unavailable over the at least one terrestrial network.
US09620167B2	Broadcast-quality graphics creation and playout Methods and systems for creating and playing out animated video scenes. An animated scene is created by first receiving a selection of an asset element to be used in the scene. Next, a first marker position is received, a first marker is displayed at the marker position, and an association between the asset element and the first marker is established. This process is repeated for a second marker displayed at a second marker position. Thereafter, a movement path from the first marker position to the second marker position is established. The movement path includes a sequence of coordinates and associated times. Finally, the instructions that cause the asset element to move along the movement path are generated.
US09620164B2	Holographic data storage system Provided is a holographic data storage system characterized by including: a first polarizing beam splitter (PBS), wherein at least either of a first lens module and a second lens module transmits P-polarized light and reflects S-polarized light; a relay lens collecting light passing through the first PBS; a mirror reflecting the light collected through the relay lens back to the relay lens; and a quarter wave plate located between a second PBS beam splitter and the relay lens, converting transmitted linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and converting the circularly polarized light into linearly polarized light. By reducing the volume of the relay lens, it is possible to decrease the size of the holographic data storage system, and by decreasing the number of lenses, it is possible to lower manufacturing costs.
US09620157B2	Encoding information on tape using write offset gaps As disclosed herein a method for encoding information on tape using write offset gaps. The method includes receiving a request to write a dataset on a tape medium using a plurality of head groups, and identifying information to be encoded when writing the dataset. The method further includes determining a head group offset pattern that encodes the information, and writing the dataset using the head group offset pattern. Also disclosed herein is a method for decoding information on tape using write offset gaps. The method includes reading a dataset from a tape medium using a plurality of head groups, and determining a head group offset pattern used to read the dataset. The method further includes decoding information encoded in the head group offset pattern to provide decoded information. A computer program product corresponding to the above method is also disclosed herein.
US09620153B1	Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording including a coil for individually driving a main pole and a yoke A magnetic head includes a coil, a main pole, a write shield and first and second yokes. The first and second yokes are connected to the write shield. The coil includes a main coil portion for driving the main pole, a first sub-coil portion for driving the first yoke, and a second sub-coil portion for driving the second yoke. A magnetic field produced in the main pole by the main coil portion and a magnetic field produced in each of the first and second yokes by the first and second sub-coil portions are in directions opposite to each other.
US09620146B2	Speech communication system for combined voice recognition, hands-free telephony and in-car communication A multi-mode speech communication system is described that has different operating modes for different speech applications. A speech service compartment contains multiple system users, multiple input microphones that develop microphone input signals from the system users to the system, and multiple output loudspeakers that develop loudspeaker output signals from the system to the system users. A signal processing module is in communication with the speech applications and includes an input processing module and an output processing module. The input processing module processes the microphone input signals to produce a set user input signals for each speech application that are limited to currently active system users for that speech application. The output processing module processes application output communications from the speech applications to produce loudspeaker output signals to the system users, wherein for each different speech application, the loudspeaker output signals are directed only to system users currently active in that speech application. The signal processing module dynamically controls the processing of the microphone input signals and the loudspeaker output signals to respond to changes in currently active system users for each application.
US09620145B2	Context-dependent state tying using a neural network The technology described herein can be embodied in a method that includes receiving an audio signal encoding a portion of an utterance, and providing, to a first neural network, data corresponding to the audio signal. The method also includes generating, by a processor, data representing a transcription for the utterance based on an output of the first neural network. The first neural network is trained using features of multiple context-dependent states, the context-dependent states being derived from a plurality of context-independent states provided by a second neural network.
US09620142B2	Self-voice feedback in communications headsets Techniques for providing self-voice feedback in a communications headset include processing signals carrying near-end speech in parallel digital and analog signal processing paths to produce a combined gain-adjusted near-end signal carrying the near-end speech for output to transducers of the communications device.
US09620139B2	Adaptive linear predictive coding/decoding A method of coding/decoding of a digital audio signal comprising a succession of consecutive blocks of data, on the basis of a predictive filter. A modified predictive filter is used for the coding of at least one current block, the modified filter being constructed by the combination of: a rear filter calculated for a past block, preceding the current block, and enrichment parameters for the rear filter, which are determined as a function of the signal in the current block and comprising the coefficients of a modifying filter.
US09620132B2	Decoding of multichannel audio encoded bit streams using adaptive hybrid transformation The processing efficiency of a process used to decode frames of an enhanced AC-3 bit stream is improved by processing each audio block in a frame only once. Audio blocks of encoded data are decoded in block order rather than in channel order. Exemplary decoding processes for enhanced bit stream coding features such as adaptive hybrid transform processing and spectral extension are disclosed.
US09620131B2	Systems and methods for adjusting audio levels in a plurality of audio signals Systems and methods for adjusting audio levels in a plurality of audio signals are disclosed. One or more input signals containing one or more audio signals are depacketized. The audio signals are analyzed to determine if audio levels of the signals correspond to a desired audio level for at least some of the signals. The audio levels of signals that do not correspond are adjusted. Packets that do not require adjustment and the resulting adjusted packets are combined to form one or more output signals corresponding to the one or more input signals.
US09620130B2	System and method for processing sound signals implementing a spectral motion transform A system and method are provided for processing sound signals. The processing may include identifying individual harmonic sounds represented in sound signals, determining sound parameters of harmonic sounds, classifying harmonic sounds according to source, and/or other processing. The processing may include transforming the sound signals (or portions thereof) into a space which expresses a transform coefficient as a function of frequency and chirp rate. This may facilitate leveraging of the fact that the individual harmonics of a single harmonic sound may have a common pitch velocity (which is related to the chirp rate) across all of its harmonics in order to distinguish an the harmonic sound from other sounds (harmonic and/or non-harmonic) and/or noise.
US09620126B2	Electronic device, control method, and control program According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes a sound input module and a controller. The controller is configured to control a voice input through the sound input module to be activated when detecting occurrence of an event to be notified to a user.
US09620124B2	Voice enabled screen reader In some embodiments, a system may process a user interface to identify textual or graphical items in the interface, and may prepare a plurality of audio files containing spoken representations of the items. As the user navigates through the interface, different ones of the audio files may be selected and played, to announce text associated with items selected by the user. A computing device may periodically determine whether a cache offering the interface to users stores audio files for all of the interface's textual items, and if the cache is missing any audio files for any of the textual items, the computing device may take steps to have a corresponding audio file created.
US09620117B1	Learning from interactions for a spoken dialog system In one embodiment, a semantic classifier input and a corresponding label attributed to the semantic classifier input may be obtained. A determination may be made whether the corresponding label is correct based on logged interaction data. An entry of an adaptation corpus may be generated based on a result of the determination. Operation of the semantic classifier may be adapted based on the adaptation corpus.
US09620115B2	Content delivery system with barge-in mechanism and method of operation thereof A method of operation of a content delivery system includes: receiving a command phrase based on determining an utterance type according to a travel context; determining a trigger match with a control unit based on the command phrase matching a trigger phrase; and stopping a prompt according to a prompt type based on the trigger match for controlling the prompt presented by a device.
US09620113B2	System and method for providing a natural language voice user interface A conversational, natural language voice user interface may provide an integrated voice navigation services environment. The voice user interface may enable a user to make natural language requests relating to various navigation services, and further, may interact with the user in a cooperative, conversational dialogue to resolve the requests. Through dynamic awareness of context, available sources of information, domain knowledge, user behavior and preferences, and external systems and devices, among other things, the voice user interface may provide an integrated environment in which the user can speak conversationally, using natural language, to issue queries, commands, or other requests relating to the navigation services provided in the environment.
US09620110B2	Speech recognition semantic classification training An automated method is described for developing an automated speech input semantic classification system such as a call routing system. A set of semantic classifications is defined for classification of input speech utterances, where each semantic classification represents a specific semantic classification of the speech input. The semantic classification system is trained from training data from training data substantially without manually transcribed in-domain training data, and then operated to assign input speech utterances to the defined semantic classifications. Adaptation training data based on input speech utterances is collected with manually assigned semantic labels from at least one source of already collected language data. When the adaptation training data satisfies a pre-determined adaptation criteria, the semantic classification system is automatically retrained based on the adaptation training data.
US09620105B2	Analyzing audio input for efficient speech and music recognition Systems and processes for analyzing audio input for efficient speech and music recognition are provided. In one example process, an audio input can be received. A determination can be made as to whether the audio input includes music. In addition, a determination can be made as to whether the audio input includes speech. In response to determining that the audio input includes music, an acoustic fingerprint representing a portion of the audio input that includes music is generated. In response to determining that the audio input includes speech rather than music, an end-point of a speech utterance of the audio input is identified.
US09620104B2	System and method for user-specified pronunciation of words for speech synthesis and recognition The method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. A first speech input including at least one word is received. A first phonetic representation of the at least one word is determined, the first phonetic representation comprising a first set of phonemes selected from a speech recognition phonetic alphabet. The first set of phonemes is mapped to a second set of phonemes to generate a second phonetic representation, where the second set of phonemes is selected from a speech synthesis phonetic alphabet. The second phonetic representation is stored in association with a text string corresponding to the at least one word.
US09620102B1	Stepped acoustic structures with multiple degrees of freedom A stepped acoustic structure having multiple degrees of acoustic freedom for reducing noise generated from a source. Acoustic septum caps are anchored at the same depth within the cells of the stepped acoustic structure. The multiple degrees of acoustic freedom that is usually provided by locating the septum portions of the septum caps at different depths within the cells is obtained by placing steps within the cells which reduce the cross-sectional area of the cell. Depth control portions are optionally included in the septum caps so that the septum portions of different septum caps are located at different depths within the stepped acoustic structure. Various combinations of steps and depth control portions are used to provide an acoustic structure having multiple degrees of acoustic freedom even though the acoustic septum caps are anchored at the same depth within the structure.
US09620101B1	Systems and methods for maintaining playback fidelity in an audio system with adaptive noise cancellation An audio amplifier circuit may include a power amplifier, a charge pump power supply, and a control circuit. The power amplifier may have an audio input for receiving an audio input signal, an audio output for providing the output signal, and a power supply input. The charge pump power supply may provide a power supply voltage to the power supply input. The charge pump power supply may have a select input for selecting an operating mode of the power supply. In a first operating mode, the power supply voltage may equal to a first voltage, and in a second operating mode, the power supply voltage may be substantially equal to a second voltage which is a rational fraction of the first voltage. The control circuit may generate the select input based on a magnitude of anti-noise generated by an adaptive noise cancellation system associated with the audio transducer.
US09620099B2	Ultrasonic transducer device and method of attaching the same The ultrasonic transducer device in accordance with the present invention includes a body unit and a fixing member. The body unit includes a housing including a space which is in a front surface of the housing and is for receiving an ultrasonic transducer, and a clip part provided to a side surface of the housing. The fixing member includes a fixing plate including a fixing surface to be attached to a rear surface of an exterior panel of a vehicle, and a through hole to communicate to an opening in the exterior panel, and an interlocked part removably connected to the clip part so that the space faces the through hole. The clip part includes an interlocking part, and a spring part keeping the interlocking part in a position in which the interlocking part is physically connected to the interlocked part.
US09620092B2	Composition using correlation between melody and lyrics Disclosed are ways to generate a melody. Currently, no algorithm exists for automatically composing a melody based on music lyrics. However, according to some recent studies, within a song, there usually exists a correlation between a song's notes and a song's lyrics wherein a melody can be generated based on such correlation. Disclosed herein, are systems, methods and algorithms that consider the correlation between a song's lyrics and a song's notes to compose a melody.
US09620091B1	Universal tuning knob for stringed instruments A universal tuning knob for stringed instruments is presented. The invention consists of a knob with an elongated and threaded cylindrical shaft. The shaft includes a lumen sized to receive the machine head post of any stringed instrument. The outside perimeter of the knob is configured for grip. The threaded cylindrical shaft includes a slot on its side wall to receive and retain a bushing. The bushing includes a second slot that can be notched (i.e. sized) to fit and lock the machine head post of any stringed instrument. A sleeve lock with internal threads is threaded onto the threaded cylindrical shaft of the knob thereby retaining the bushing. An optional second lumen on the head of the knob is configured to receive a mounting screw.
US09620089B2	Image display device and image display system There is provided an image display device including a display control unit having a display combining unit that displays one or a plurality of pathological index cursors based on information relating to a pathological slide image.
US09620081B2	Hardware auxiliary channel for synchronous backlight update Systems, apparatuses, and methods for synchronizing backlight adjustments to frame updates in a display pipeline. A change in the ambient light is detected and as a result, backlight settings are adjusted. To offset a reduction in the backlight, the color intensity in the frames is increased. While the change in ambient light is detected asynchronously, the adjustment to the backlight settings and color intensity is synchronized to a frame update via a virtual channel for the auxiliary channel of the display interface.
US09620080B2	Underwater image projection display system, lighting control system and device and method of operating same An underwater image projection system submerged in a body of water and projecting an image within said body of water is provided having an enclosure with a lens assembly. A projection element has a light source projecting an image within the body of water from the projection element with an at least one light source steering the image. A system controller is coupled to and controls the projected light source, the projected light source steering device and the further image steering device. A user inputs image data to the controller through the user input device and the controller interprets the image data into a set of image control variables and executes control of the projected light source and image source and further image steering device in coordination and projects the image through the projection element to project from underwater a static or animated image on an underwater surface of the body of water.
US09620062B2	Pixel circuit, driving method thereof and display apparatus There is provided a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistors, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, a storage capacitor and a light-emitting element, it can solve the problem that a large difference exists between the data output from the Integrated Circuit and the data actually written to the pixel circuit and avoid the effect that the inconsistency or drift of the threshold voltage (Vth) of the third transistor and the IR drop of the initial voltage (V_initial) have on the current flowing through the light-emitting element.
US09620061B2	Gate driver circuit, gate driving method, gate-on-array circuit, display device, and electronic product The gate driver circuit is connected to a row of pixel units, each pixel unit includes a pixel driving module and a light-emitting device connected to each other, the pixel driving module including a driving transistor, a driving module and a compensating module, the compensating module being connected to a gate scanning signal, and the driving module being connected to a driving control signal and a driving voltage. The gate driver circuit includes a row pixel controlling unit configured to provide the gate scanning signal to the compensating module and provide the driving voltage to the driving module, so as to control the compensating module to compensate for a threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and a driving control unit configured to provide the driving control signal to the driving module so as to control the driving module to drive the light-emitting device.
US09620057B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting driving voltage for pixel circuit, and display device In the method provided by the present disclosure, the driving voltage for the pixel circuit is dynamically adjusted in accordance with data voltages in each pixel row. Accordingly, as compared with a traditional method where a constant voltage is applied to the pixel circuit, the method provided therein is able to greatly reduce a dynamic loss and a temperature rise of an OLED pixel circuit and prolong the life of the OLED while reducing the driving cost.
US09620053B2	Threshold voltage sensing circuit of organic light-emitting diode display device The present invention relates to a technique for outputting threshold voltages by properly changing the threshold voltages such that the threshold voltages can protect low-voltage driving elements within an analog to digital converter when the threshold voltages of an OLED display panel are sensed and outputted to the analog to digital converter. The present invention comprises: a sampling capacitor which samples threshold voltages sensed and inputted from an organic light-emitting diode on a display panel; a charge-sharing capacitor which charges and shares the threshold voltages sampled from the sampling capacitor, or solely charges the threshold voltages to bypass the threshold voltages; and a sample-and-hold unit which has a plurality of switches for performing switching operations for the sampling operation of the sampling capacitor and the charging and the sharing of the charge-sharing capacitor, and scales the threshold voltages to threshold voltage areas having a certain value or less.
US09620041B2	Driving method and display using the driving method A driving method drives a display. The display includes a scan driving circuit, a data driving circuit, a plurality of first signal lines coupling with the scan driving circuit, and a plurality of second signal lines coupling with the data driving circuit. The first signal lines cross the second signal lines to form the pixel matrix. The driving method comprises to divide the pixel matrix into at least a first region and a second region, then, to drive the first region by a first frame rate, and to drive the second region by a second frame rate, wherein the first frame rate is leas than the second frame rate.
US09620032B2	Spray pattern demonstration kit The present application relates generally to a demonstration kit for various nozzles. The demonstration kit may include a spray assembly and a control assembly. The spray assembly may include a case having a base and a cover rotatably coupled to the base, a plurality of back wall panels configured to be secured to a sidewall of the base, a boom connected to an interior surface of the case, and one or more nozzles connected to the boom and repositionable along a length of the boom. The control assembly includes at least one pump that when in an operating orientation is fluidly connected to the one or more nozzles and a portable power supply in electrical communication with the at least one pump.
US09620023B2	Method for modeling aircraft performance through adaptive aircraft performance models A method for modeling aircraft performance including (a) introducing aircraft degradation coefficients in a nominal aircraft performance model of an aircraft and obtaining a degraded aircraft performance model, (b) calculating computed trajectory data in a trajectory computation infrastructure using as inputs aircraft intent which represents trajectory data, weather data, and the degraded aircraft performance model; (c) comparing the trajectory data with the computed trajectory data; (d) obtaining an enhanced aircraft performance model by considering the degraded aircraft performance model as the enhanced aircraft performance model, when the result of the comparison is less than a previously established threshold; and (e) modifying, when the result of the comparison is higher than the previously established threshold, the aircraft degradation coefficients and executing steps (a) to (e) of the method, until the result of the comparison is less than the previously established threshold.
US09620020B2	Communication-based monitoring of compliance with aviation regulations and operating procedures A method for detecting noncompliance with aviation regulations and operating procedures is disclosed herein. The method analyzes communication associated with a host aircraft to identify key information, stores the identified key information in a data storage device, and determines whether a particular aviation regulation or operating procedure applies to the host aircraft. After determining that a regulation or operating procedure applies, the stored key information is compared against reference information maintained in a database in association with the regulation or operating procedure. An alert is generated when the comparing detects a discrepancy between the stored key information and the reference information.
US09620016B2	Motor vehicle with an optical display device for a distance sensor A motor vehicle includes a distance sensor display for registering the distance of the motor vehicle from the surroundings of the motor vehicle, particularly when parking. The distance sensor display includes an optical display device with one or more light-emitting element and a control unit configured to optically display the distance registered by the distance sensor inside the motor vehicle fundamentally in the form of a notional line.
US09620013B2	Apparatus for determining lane position through inter-vehicle communication The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for determining lane position of vehicle through inter-vehicle communication, and more particularly an apparatus that determines lane location that personal vehicle is currently driving through using a lane information transferred from surrounding vehicles.
US09620011B2	Traffic signals and related methods Traffic signals include displays and controllers for displaying information relating to the general condition of the traffic signal. The information can include a time remaining in seconds until the next change in the general condition. Traffic signal systems are adaptable to facilitate passage of emergency vehicles through intersections, including traffic signal systems with flat panel screens. The displays can be flat panel screens displaying information in multiple information formats.
US09620008B2	Method and system for using global scene context for adaptive prediction and corresponding program, and vehicle equipped with such system The invention regards a method for assisting a driver of a vehicle by computationally predicting a future movement behavior of a target vehicle. The method comprises steps of acquiring data describing a traffic environment of a host vehicle, computing a plurality of future movement behavior alternatives for a target vehicle, by predicting movement behavior of the target vehicle based on the data describing the traffic environment. The prediction step calculates a probability that the target object will execute a movement behavior and information relating to future behavior of the target vehicle is output. The method estimates a global scene context and adapts the predicted behavior based on the estimated global scene context. The adaptation of the behavior prediction is performed by at least one of adapting indicator values in situation models employed by a context-based prediction, by adapting a result of the context-based prediction and adapting the overall prediction result.
US09620007B2	Method of generating expected average speeds of travel A method of generating expected average speeds of travel across one or more segments in the area covered by an electronic map, each segment representing a navigable segment in the area covered by the map and having associated therewith: an average speed of travel across that segment; segment data comprising at least one jam probability, the jam probability indicating the likelihood of a jam on that segment; and a jam speed indicative of the speed of travel on that segment when it is considered jammed. The method comprises using the segment data to predict whether a jam condition exists on at least one or each of the segments; and outputting the expected average speed of travel across these segments as: a) a first speed, where a jam condition is predicted to exist, the first speed being the jam speed for the relevant segment or a speed based thereon, or b) a second speed, where a jam condition is not predicted, the second speed being the average speed for the relevant segment or a speed based thereon.
US09620003B2	System and methods for enhanced remote control functionality A hand-held device having a touch sensitive surface uses a relative distance from an origin location to each of a plurality of touch zones of the touch sensitive surface activated by a user to select a one of the plurality of touch zones as being intended for activation by the user.
US09620002B2	Method and apparatus for selecting at least one device to be wirelessly controlled A method for selecting at least one device to be controlled by a radio frequency (RF) controller device is described. The method comprising arranging a plurality of controllable devices into a plurality of groups; determining at least one link quality value for at least one device associated with the plurality of groups; calculating a proximity factor for the plurality of groups of controllable devices based at least partly on the determined at least one link quality value; comparing proximity factors for the plurality of groups of and selecting the group of controllable devices comprising a favorable proximity factor to be controlled by the RF controller device.
US09620001B2	Remote phone manager According to certain aspects, the invention allows a person to manage some of the functions of a cell phone without having to actually have the phone in her hands. For example, the invention allows the user to know of the incoming call and further allows the user to send a user-specified message to the caller and/or otherwise manage how the call should be handled through a remote device. In certain embodiments, the invention is comprised of: a decorative watch-like or bracelet-like case; a decorative wrist band; a vibrating incoming call indicator; a partial or full face display; touch screen input capability, accelerometer for wrist flick input capability, and/or side buttons for user inputs; a Bluetooth antenna; a Bluetooth transmitter and receiver; a rechargeable battery; a connector or wireless charging element; a display/general purpose control unit with firmware; and standard Bluetooth link and application software on an associated cellular phone.
US09620000B2	Wearable system and method for balancing recognition accuracy and power consumption A method for balancing recognition accuracy and power consumption is provided. The method includes activating a plurality of sensors onboard a device for a first time period and calculating sensor readings by using a calculation function. The method also includes determining a plurality of sensor subsets of the plurality of sensors and calculating corresponding errors for the plurality of sensor subsets for the first time period. Further, the method includes calculating respective power consumption of running the sensor subsets of the plurality of sensors from the plurality of sensor subsets that produce the error below the user-defined error threshold and selecting a sensor subset with minimum power consumption from the sensor subsets as an optimal sensor subset. In addition, the method includes deactivating the plurality of sensors not in the optimal sensor subset and calculating and displaying sensor readings with the optimal sensor subset for a second time period.
US09619993B2	Logging into a system with a bluetooth device A system is provided that includes a control panel of a security system that protects a secured geographic area, wherein a controller enters a set-up mode in response to detecting entry of a code by an authorized user through a user interface and opening of an access door and wirelessly pairs a portable device carried by the authorized user with the control panel and registers the portable device with the controller while in the set-up mode, wherein, when operating in a normal operating mode, the controller detects the portable device and automatically forms a wireless control connection between the portable device and the control panel, and wherein the controller enters a log-on mode during set-up in response to connecting to the portable device and allows the authorized user to unlock the access door and enter a password at the controller, thereby enabling service and control from the portable device.
US09619992B2	Self-installed security system A security system installation kit carries a coded designation of the characteristics of the components of the kit. An installer can use a wireless telephone, which is executing a scanning application, to sense or read the coded designation. The telephone can transmit the component parameters to an installation server. The server can transmit installation instructions back to the telephone. Those instructions can be visually or audibly presented to the installer facilitating the process. The installer, via the telephone and the server, can test the installed components for proper operation.
US09619989B1	Asset tracking systems and methods An asset tracking system has a plurality of anchors. A tag communicates with the anchors as it is moved by a user being tracked by the system, and data based on communication between the tag and at least one of the anchors is transmitted to a server. The server determines a location of the tag based on the data and detects an occurrence of an event based on the location. The server also transmits to each of the anchors a tag alert message having a tag identifier identifying the tag and an event indicator associated with the occurrence of the event. At least one of the anchors transmits the tag identifier and the event indicator to the tag, which issues a warning to the user in response to tag alert message.
US09619988B2	Method of controlling location monitoring and reporting A method comprises: receiving a signal from a first device that is part of a tag, the tag adapted to be affixed to a person or object, the receiving being performed by a processor within the tag; analyzing the signal within the processor to determine whether the person or object is performing a predetermined type of behavior; adjusting a variable rate of transmitting a monitoring signal from the tag, based on a result of the analyzing, the adjusting being controlled by the processor; and transmitting the monitoring signal from the tag to an external device separate from the tag at the adjusted variable rate.
US09619987B2	Floor covering A floor covering includes: a surface layer having a plurality of conductive segments capable of being supplied with electrical power; an at least partially electrically insulating intermediate layer having a plurality of through-recesses distributed in a substantially regular manner so that the mean distance between a recess and the recess closest thereto is between approximately 5 and 20 cm; a base layer having a plurality of electrical contacts, of which at least some correspond to the recesses of the surface layer and are connected to an electronic controller; the surface, intermediate and base layers being superimposed in this order and positioned so that at least some of the conductive segments are arranged at least partially opposite a recess of the intermediate layer, and so that these conductive segments react to a pressure by approaching the electrical contacts which correspond to the base layer.
US09619983B1	Wireless tandem alarm A wireless tandem alarm having a first alarm configured for physical connection to an industrial machine having an electronic machine controller, and a second alarm configured for detachable connection to the first alarm or to the industrial machine. Each alarm has a housing, a piezoelectric transducer within the housing, a processor configured to drive the piezoelectric transducer in response to a control signal, and a wireless transceiver configured for relatively short-range, low-power communications. In the first alarm, the processor drives the piezoelectric transducer in response to a signal from the machine controller and, also responsive to the machine controller signal, transmits a control signal via the wireless transceiver. In the second alarm, the wireless transceiver receives the control signal from the first alarm and supplies it to the processor, which is configured drive the piezoelectric transducer in response. The alarms are configured to work in tandem, when attached to each other, to cooperatively produce a combination of sound characteristics not achievable with either alarm alone. The alarms are also configured to detect when they are detached from each other and to respond by changing one or more sound characteristics. When detached, the alarms are also capable of affecting the operation of each other via two-way wireless communications.
US09619981B2	Haptic actuator A haptic actuator more improved performance in response speed, frequency band, etc according to touch of user by improving magnetic force structure, comprises a case having an accommodation space therein; a core fixedly mounted in the accommodation space; a first coil member and a second coil member mounted on the outside of the core to be vertically spaced apart each other; a center yoke disposed between the first coil member and the second coil member and mounted on the outside of the core; a magnet disposed on the outside of the center yoke; a weight fixedly mounted on the outside of the magnet; a first elastic member having an end fixed to the magnet and the weight, and an opposite end fixed to the upper of the case and elastically supporting the magnet and the weight.
US09619976B2	Method for processing a purchase transaction using a plurality of transaction systems A method of processing a purchase transaction includes generating a transaction file containing a product code, which is transmitted from a user computing device when an image of a product code identifier is captured by the user computing device, a first user ID of the customer, and an indicator of whether or not the customer has opted in to receive electronic receipts. The method further includes generating an electronic receipt based on the transaction file, storing a conversion table containing the first and second user IDs of the customer, converting the first user ID contained in the transaction file to the second user ID based on the conversion table, when the indicator indicates that the customer has opted in, and storing the electronic receipt in association with the second user ID. The electronic receipt is transmitted in response to a request for electronic receipts associated with the second user ID.
US09619975B2	Terminal casing equipped with a removable hatch having a curvilinear profile A terminal casing includes an one upper cover and one lower cover making a housing that can be closed by a removable hatch having a curvilinear profile. The hatch includes grooves distributed longitudinally on two parallel faces following the curvilinear profile. The lower cover includes tabs distributed longitudinally on two parallel faces in following the curvilinear profile, each tab cooperating with an associated groove. The tabs and the grooves are shaped to enable: through a translational motion followed by a rotational motion of the hatch, an insertion and a guidance of the tabs in the grooves of the hatch, when the hatch is inserted into the lower cover; and through a rotational motion followed by a translational motion of the hatch, a guidance of the tabs in the grooves of the hatch and a withdrawal of the tabs from the grooves when the hatch is withdrawn from the cove.
US09619974B2	Game outcome generator for a gaming machine A game outcome generator for a gaming machine is configured with first and second outcome generators. One of the two outcome generators is selected to generate a game outcome for each game. The first outcome generator selects a game result and then selects or generates game data which corresponds to the selected result, such as by selecting a result and associated game data from one or more templates of results and associated game data. The second outcome generator selects game data and then determines the result which corresponds to the selected game data. The game data may comprise slot symbols or reel stops and the results may comprise losing outcomes having no award or winning outcomes having awards of one or more credits.
US09619966B2	Promotional gaming events and awards Wagering games include promotional events and promotional awards, such as the award of free or reduced cost goods and services. Promotional awards may be reward by the receipt of property logo symbols during game play. Promotional awards rewarded at one casino may be redeemable only at a second casino. Promotional awards may be rewarded based upon game play metrics of identified or anonymous players.
US09619963B2	Methods and systems for facilitating a game which allows a player to select available wagering opportunities In accordance with some embodiments, systems and methods for facilitating a game (e.g., a wagering game playable online) provide for outputting an interface for a wagering game, the interface comprising a plurality of areas among which a game element may move, wherein at least a subset of the areas comprise wagering opportunities which are available for activation, and wherein each area of the subset of the areas which comprises a wagering opportunity is occupied by a game symbol which represents the wagering opportunity. Upon determining that the game element has been moved into an area of the interface comprising a wagering opportunity the wagering opportunity may be activated (e.g., a wager may be deducted and a result determined).
US09619961B2	Controlling gaming event autostereoscopic depth effects A wagering game system and its operations include, for example, detecting, by at least one of one or more electronic processing units of the wagering game system, a first game condition in a wagering game presented via an autostereoscopic display device of the wagering game system. The wagering game includes game symbols used for presentation of wagering game outcomes for the wagering game. The operations can further include determining, based on the first game condition, a first significance level from a plurality of significance levels associated with a first of the game symbols. The operations can further include presenting, via the autostereoscopic display device, the first of the game symbols with a first autostereoscopic depth level that corresponds to the first significance level.
US09619958B2	Substrate structure duct treatment system and method for ingestible product system and method A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically directing control of at least partial treatment of the one or more portions of the one or more ingestible substrate structures according to the treatment instructional information regarding the one or more subsequent ingestible substrate structure duct operations including flowing one or more fluids through one or more ducts to treat at least in part the one or more portions of the one or more ingestible substrate structures to form at least in part the one or more selected ingestible products subsequent to and based at least in part upon the electronically receiving the user status information and the electronically receiving the selection information. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US09619957B2	Coin and bill dispensing safe A readily reconfigurable cash dispensing system for providing change, such as coins of different values and bills or currency of different denominations needed by a retail store, grocery store, busy convenience store, or the like. A tray or trays for storing and delivering multiple rolls of coins or bills of a first value, as well as, a tray or trays for storing and delivering stacks of bills are described herein. A bill acceptor may be employed to accept bills used to purchase rolls of coins and stacks of bills, and a system controller can sense restocking and dispensing events to maintain an accurate inventory of cash in the bill acceptor, as well as, the total cash stored in the form of coin rolls or rolls bills, as well as, bill stacks.
US09619947B2	Method and means for operating a first motor vehicle on the basis of at least one characteristic of at least one second motor vehicle A method is provided for operating a first motor vehicle, at least one characteristic relevant to the operation of the first motor vehicle being ascertained and at least one component of the first motor vehicle being actuated on the basis of the at least one characteristic. The at least one characteristic is ascertained in at least one second motor vehicle. An arrangement for implementing such a method is also provided.
US09619944B2	Coordinate geometry augmented reality process for internal elements concealed behind an external element Embodiments of the invention include a method, a system, and a mobile device that incorporates augmented reality technology and digital modeling processes. By incorporating the augmented reality technology, a 3D digital model of internal elements concealed behind an external element can be visualized on a live view, aligned to the orientation and scale of the scene displayed on the mobile device. In an embodiment, a marker can be placed on the external element. The 3D digital model of the internal elements can be retrieved by the mobile device and overlaid in relation to the marker position, orientation, and size so that it is seen at a calculated distance in depth behind the external element as they would exist hidden behind the external element in the real environment.
US09619938B2	Virtual endoscopic image display apparatus, method and program Specification of a point of interest is received. After then, a distance of movement on a path from an initial viewpoint is obtained based on an operation amount obtained at an operation unit, such as a mouse. View line vectors are set by sequentially changing the view line vectors from an initial view line vector with its start point located at the initial viewpoint to a shortest view line vector connecting a point of interest and a viewpoint at a shortest distance by moving, along the path, a viewpoint of a virtual endoscope on the path from the initial viewpoint closer to the point of interest and by changing the direction of a view line of the virtual endoscope closer to a direction toward the point of interest. Virtual endoscopic images are sequentially generated based on the set view line vectors, and the generated virtual endoscopic images are sequentially displayed.
US09619936B2	Method and apparatus for quickly generating natural terrain A method and apparatus for quickly generating a natural appearing terrain image. The method according to an exemplary embodiment may include generating a new terrain image through a patch-based synthesis from one or more virtual noise-based terrain models and one or more realistic terrain models; and processing blending of a boundary between synthesized terrain images in the newly generated terrain image.
US09619934B2	Method and an apparatus for estimating values for a set of parameters of an imaging system A method for estimating values for a set of parameters of an imaging system is presented. At least two pictures having an overlapping area are taken with the imaging system from different positions. Pulses are sent out to the area, the reflected pulses are detected and distances between a sender of the pulses and the respective point where the pulses were reflected are calculated based on the travel time of the pulses. First information about the area is calculated based on the pictures. Second information related to the calculated distances to the area is also calculated. Values for quantities contained in the first and second information are compared. If the value for a quantity obtained from the first information differs from the value obtained from the second information, values and/or an error estimate for the set of parameters of the imaging system is calculated based on the difference.
US09619927B2	Visualization of objects along a street For visualization of objects along a length of street, a user selection of a street is received. The selected street is displayed in an above-street view. At least a first plurality of street view images are concurrently displayed for objects along at least a first side of the selected street.
US09619926B2	Method and device for generating a 3D representation of a user interface in a vehicle A method for generating a 3D representation of a user interface in a vehicle, in which a scene, in particular a moving scene, containing at least one 3D object is rendered by a computing device inside the vehicle in order to determine the 3D representation.
US09619923B2	Computer hardware architecture and data structures for encoders to support incoherent ray traversal A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
US09619921B2	Method and apparatus for performing ray tracing for rendering image Provided are methods and apparatuses of performing ray tracing for rendering an image. The method includes performing, at a ray tracing core, a first intersection test based on a traversal of an acceleration structure using a generated primary ray, generating at least one type of secondary ray based on the first intersection test, classifying the generated secondary rays and storing identification information indicating a starting point and a direction of the secondary rays, and performing a second intersection test and shading using the stored identification information.
US09619915B2	Method and apparatus for converting an animated sequence of images into a document page A method and apparatus for converting an animated sequence of images into a document page is described. In some embodiments, the method includes accessing a first file comprising a plurality of images and attribute data associated with displaying the plurality of images, creating a second file using data from the first file and for at least one of the plurality of images, creating a content partition on a corresponding document page of the second file using the attribute data.
US09619912B2	Animated transition from an application window to another application window A method includes receiving an input signal. The input signal includes a request to transition from a start window to an auxiliary window. The start window is identified. The start application is initially in an active state. The auxiliary window is identified. The auxiliary window is initially in an inactive state. A start window overlay is determined based on the start window. The start window overlay includes a visual copy of the start window. An auxiliary window overlay is determined based on the auxiliary window. The method includes transitioning from the start window to the auxiliary window in an active state based on the start window overlay and the auxiliary window overlay.
US09619903B2	Devices, methods, and systems of functional optical coherence tomography The present disclosure provides systems and methods for the determining a rate of change of one or more analyte concentrations in a target using non invasive non contact imaging techniques such as OCT. Generally, OCT data is acquired and optical information is extracted from OCT scans to quantitatively determine both a flow rate of fluid in the target and a concentration of one or more analytes. Both calculations can provide a means to determine a change in rate of an analyte over time. Example methods and systems of the disclosure may be used in assessing metabolism of a tissue, where oxygen is the analyte detected, or other functional states, and be generally used for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease.
US09619896B2	Estimating device and estimation method An estimation method executed by a computer includes: extracting, from an image, a plurality of characteristic points satisfying a certain requirement regarding changes in gray levels between the plurality of characteristic points and surrounding points; identifying, as map points from the plurality of characteristic points, characteristic points existing on planes, by excluding corners of an object depicted on the image; extracting, from another image, another plurality of characteristic points satisfying the certain requirement; executing matching of the another plurality of characteristic points with the map points based on a region including the map points; and estimating, based on results of the matching, a position and an orientation of an imaging device while the another image is captured.
US09619893B2	Body motion detection device and method A contrast calculating unit calculates a contrast of a high frequency component and a contrast of a low frequency component of a transformed radiographic image at an analysis point set by an analysis point setting unit. A ratio calculating unit calculates a ratio of the contrast of the high frequency component to the contrast of the low frequency component. A determining unit determines whether or not there is a body motion during an imaging operation to take the radiographic image based on the ratio. A display control unit displays a result of the determination on a display unit.
US09619892B2	Apparatus and method for extracting movement path of mutual geometric relationship fixed camera group Provided is an apparatus and method for extracting a movement path, the movement path extracting apparatus including an image receiver to receive an image from a camera group in which a mutual positional relationship among cameras is fixed, a geographic coordinates receiver to receive geographic coordinates of a moving object on which the camera group is fixed, and a movement path extractor to extract a movement path of the camera group based on a direction and a position of a reference camera of the camera group using the image and the geographic coordinates.
US09619888B2	Method for defining a region of interest in a radiation image of a breast A method for defining a region of interest in a radiation image of a breast based on the result of shape analysis applied to a skin line estimate determined in the radiation image.
US09619881B2	Method and system for characterizing cell populations A method and system for characterizing a cell population including a set of cell subpopulations, the method comprising: at a processing system, receiving image data corresponding to a set of images of the cell population captured at a set of time points; at the processing system, generating an analysis based upon processing the set of images according to: a cell stage classification module configured to automatically identify a cell class of each of the set of cell subpopulations, and a cell graph representation module configured to characterize geometric and spatial features of the set of cell subpopulations; from the analysis, determining a set of parameters characterizing the cell population; and generating an indication of quality of the cell population based upon a comparison between at least one parameter of the set of parameters and a set of reference values.
US09619879B2	Apparatus and method for detecting lesion and lesion diagnosis apparatus An apparatus for detecting a lesion is provided. The apparatus includes an extracting unit configured to extract at least one tissue region from an image of tissue regions, a setting unit configured to set at least one of the at least one extracted tissue region as a lesion detection candidate region, and a detecting unit configured to detect a lesion from the lesion detection candidate region.
US09619873B2	Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device includes: a calculator that calculates a gray scale histogram for each color component of an image signal; a calculator that calculates, for each color component, a maximum and a minimum of classes having a frequency greater than zero in the gray scale histogram; a determiner that generates, for each color component, a histogram having classes each having an absolute difference value between the frequencies of adjacent classes in the gray scale histogram, and compares the absolute difference values in the histograms with a value to determine, from the presence or absence of an absolute difference value exceeding the value, an image type of the image; a generator that generates a gray scale correction curve from the calculated maximum and minimum for each color component; and a corrector that performs gray scale correction on the image signal using the gray scale correction curve.
US09619872B1	Systems and methods for removing defects from images A method is described to increase the efficiency of the removal of defects from document images by reorienting the conceptual framework within which an image is filtered. Rather than arbitrarily applying a filter to an entire landscape of a document image, the disclosure describes a methodology by which a document image is separated into regions of darkness and regions of light, or viewed alternatively, regions of darkness and regions of lack of darkness. Filtering is then adaptively applied to each region to remove defects.
US09619868B2	Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method An imaging device includes a first camera and a second camera and shoots the same object under different shooting conditions. A shot-image data acquirer of an image analyzer acquires data of two images simultaneously shot from the imaging device. A correcting section aligns the distributions of the luminance value between the two images by carrying out correction for either one of the two images. A correction table managing section switches and generates a correction table to be used according to the function implemented by the information processing device. A correction table storage stores the correction table showing the correspondence relationship between the luminance values before and after correction. A depth image generator performs stereo matching by using the two images and generates a depth image.
US09619860B2	Hybrid on-demand graphics translation table shadowing In several embodiments, a graphics processor couples to a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to present a virtual graphics processor to one or more virtual machines. A mediator for the virtual graphics processor synchronously shadows modifications to a guest graphics translation table (GTT) of a virtual machine to a shadow GTT of the VMM using trap and emulate virtualization. If the mediator detects a frequency of modifications to the guest GTT that exceeds a threshold the mediator may then asynchronously shadow at least a portion of the guest GTT to the shadow GTT and rebuild the shadow GTT prior to submitting commands for the virtual graphics processor to the graphics processor.
US09619859B2	Techniques for efficient GPU triangle list adjacency detection and handling An apparatus may include a memory to store a set of triangle vertices in a triangle, a processor circuit coupled to the memory and a cache to cache a set of triangle vertex indices corresponding to triangle vertices most recently transmitted through a graphics pipeline. The apparatus may also include an autostrip vertex processing component operative on the processor circuit to receive from the memory the set of triangle vertices, compare an index for each vertex of the set of triangle vertices to determine matches to the set of cached triangle vertex indices, and shift a single vertex index into the cache, the single vertex index corresponding to a vertex miss in which a given vertex of the set of triangle vertices does not match any vertex index of the set of cached triangle vertex indices when exactly two matches to the set of cached triangle vertex indices are found.
US09619857B2	Intermediary graphics rendition Technologies related to intermediary graphics rendition are generally described. In some examples, an intermediary computing device may store graphics models in a model store. A server computing device may generate and send a compositing flow to the intermediary computing device. The compositing flow may comprise model identifiers and model rendering information. The intermediary computing device may retrieve models identified in the compositing flow from the model store, and provide the identified models and model rendering information to a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for rendering. The GPU may render graphics for delivery via a network to a client device.
US09619854B1	Fingerprint matching for recommending media content within a viewing session Systems and techniques for recommending media content within a viewing session based on fingerprint matching are presented. A media component determines a portion of a consumed video that is consumed by a user during a viewing session. A fingerprint component determines a set of video sub-fingerprints associated with the portion of the consumed video and a set of other video sub-fingerprints associated with a video included in a set of recommended videos. A recommendation component filters the set of recommended videos to generate a filtered set of recommended videos based on a comparison between the set of video sub-fingerprints and the set of other video sub-fingerprints.
US09619851B1	Mobile device and method for tracking evidence A system and method for tagging, organizing and tracking evidence during an investigation has mobile communication devices that collect physical, photographic and interpretive evidence, such as materials from a crime scene, interviews with witnesses and an establishing shot of the crime scene or other areas or persons of interest for surveillance operations. The mobile devices can be in two-way communication with a central server computer which is in communication with other mobile devices. The mobile device users can enter descriptive information about the evidence into the mobile devices while other information pertaining to the evidence may be obtained from other sources and automatically provided to the users for their review and possible incorporation into the record. Each mobile device can store information in memory and communicate the information to the central server computer where it may then be made available to groups of mobile device users.
US09619849B2	Healthcare delivery system and method A system and method integrating healthcare delivery to patients using data bridges that connect healthcare providers, patients, patient medical education, and patient monitoring devices is disclosed. The system incorporates a mobile user interface device (MUD) allowing user inputs or detected events from a variety of medical instrumentation devices (MID) to be controlled by a healthcare web server computer (HWS) over a computer communication network (CCN). Information retrieved from the MID and transmitted by the MUD to the HWS is then used by a patient healthcare monitor (PHM) process to populate a medical records database (MRD). MRD contents are then matched to patient healthcare plan (PHP) event/time triggers (ETT) that drive information from a provider content database (PCD) to the MUD through the HWS over the CCN. Healthcare provider update/control of the PHP/ETT/PCD allow integration of patient educational materials with patient health status monitoring.
US09619848B2	Techniques to determine settings for an electrical distribution network Techniques to determine settings for an electrical distribution network are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to determine settings for an electrical distribution network using power flow heuristics. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a model reception component, a forecast component, and an optimization component. The model reception component may be operative to receive a model of an electrical distribution network having multiple capacitor banks and multiple voltage regulators, each of the multiple capacitor banks represented in the model by a model capacitor bank, each of the multiple voltage regulators represented in the model by a model voltage regulator, the electrical distribution network having a radial layout in which power flows from a source to multiple nodes in which each node is associated with one voltage regulator. The forecast reception component may be operative to receive a forecast for demand on the electrical distribution network. The optimization component may be operative to receive the model capacitor banks and model voltage regulators and determine one or more settings for the multiple capacitor banks and multiple voltage regulators that allow for providing power within predetermined limits while reducing power loss as compared to a power loss of the existing settings or reducing power usage as compared to a power usage of the existing settings, the one or more settings for the multiple voltage regulators determined according to a heuristic in which potential settings are iteratively determined for each of the model voltage regulators based on a least squares model of load flow analysis. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09619842B2	Providing E-receipts to customers Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for providing e-receipts to customers. Embodiments receive authorization from a customer for the customer to be enrolled in a point of transaction e-receipt communication program; receive transaction data corresponding to at least one transaction performed by the customer at a point of transaction of a merchant; and initiate communication, to the customer, of an e-receipt based at least in part on the received transaction data. Some embodiments receive authorization from a plurality of enrolling merchants for enrollment in the point of transaction e-receipt communication program; and build a cooperating merchant list comprising information corresponding to a plurality of cooperating merchants cooperating with a financial institution implementing the point of transaction e-receipt communication program.
US09619840B2	Backing management Techniques described herein relate to integrating processes of resource requests and corresponding backings. More specifically, backing data is assessed to identify a distribution to be used for resource-request processing.
US09619838B1	Systems and methods for displaying current consumer card status on a wireless device A system for object tracking may comprise a system for displaying consumer account information on a wireless device comprising at least one subsystem that receives transaction information regarding a purchase of the consumer, at least one subsystem that sends selected transaction information regarding the transaction to a wireless device, and at least one subsystem that displays on the wireless device account information based on the sent selected transaction information.
US09619836B2	Recognition dictionary evaluation apparatus and recognition dictionary evaluation method In accordance with one embodiment, a recognition dictionary evaluation apparatus calculates, in response to the update of a recognition dictionary file, a recognition rate by item of each commodity according to feature amount data of the updated recognition dictionary file; evaluates the recognition dictionary file based on the calculated recognition rate by item of each commodity; detects, in a case in which the recognition dictionary file is evaluated to be improper, a low recognition commodity of which a correct recognition rate that a commodity is correctly recognized from all commodities is lower than a given level, and an incorrect recognition commodity of which an incorrect recognition rate is high within the recognition rate by item of the low recognition commodity; and notifies the items of the low recognition commodity and the incorrect recognition commodity.
US09619835B1	Product customization offerings Disclosed are various embodiments for adding product customization offerings to a product catalog. One such embodiment comprises receiving a request to create a product customization attribute for a product entry in a product catalog; generating the product customization attribute from at least one option selected on a product customization attribute template specific to a product category associated with the product entry; and directing storage of the product customization attribute associated with the product catalog entry.
US09619832B2	Methods, systems, and products for electronic purchases A server receives an electronic shopping cart from a client device. The electronic shopping cart describes an item for purchase from a merchant. The server comparison-shops to determine a different merchant offering the same or comparable item for sale. The server sends a notification to the client device describing a lower price offered by the different merchant. The server may then receive an approval to replace the item selected for purchase from the merchant with the item offered by the different merchant.
US09619826B1	Third-party authentication systems and methods The illustrative embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for authenticating a customer in an online transaction. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating, in conjunction with an online transaction, an authentication query via a communication device associated with a customer in the online transaction, receiving customer authentication data from the communication device, sending the customer authentication data to a third-party authentication server to authenticate the customer using the customer authentication data, receiving a determination from the third-party authentication server whether the customer is authenticated, and allowing the online transaction to proceed in response to receiving the determination that the customer is authenticated.
US09619820B2	System, method and computer program product for interfacing software engines A system, method and computer program product for interfacing a decision engine and a marketing engine in order to provide vendor-related data in response to decision-related data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the system and method may include providing a decision engine on a user-accessible network; interfacing a marketing engine with the decision engine on the network; receiving a plurality of user inputs with the decision engine; processing decision-related data with the decision engine in accordance with the plurality of user inputs; sharing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; processing the decision-related data with the marketing engine; and transmitting vendor-related data via the network.
US09619810B1	Zone architecture for dynamic targeted content creation A method for providing dynamically-assembled content targeted to a mobile service subscriber. The method comprises receiving, by a server computer, information about a mobile device that is connecting to the server computer; determining, by the server computer, a mobile service subscriber profile, based on the information; determining, by the server computer, a criteria for selecting content, based on the mobile service subscriber profile; dynamically assembling, by the server computer, content for the mobile service subscriber based on the criteria; providing the dynamically-assembled content to the mobile device; monitoring a response of the mobile service subscriber to receiving the content; and providing information of the response of the mobile service subscriber to a content provider.
US09619805B1	Predictive fact generation for query optimization A fact generation engine generates facts in response to fact requests submitted by clients. The fact generation engine also predictively generates additional facts prior to receiving a request for the additional facts from a client. The fact generation engine might determine whether to predictively generate additional facts based upon a determined probability that a client will request the additional facts. The estimated cost of predictively generating additional facts might also be utilized to determine whether to predictively generate the facts.
US09619803B2	Identifying consumers in a transaction via facial recognition A merchant and a user register with a payment processing system, which establishes a facial template based on a user image. The user signs into a payment application via a user computing device, which receives an identifier from a merchant beacon device to transmit to the payment processing system. The payment processing system transmits facial templates to the merchant camera device for other users who are also signed in to the payment application in range of the merchant beacon device. The merchant camera device compares a captured facial image against the received facial templates to identify the user. A merchant POS device operator selects an account of the user. The merchant POS device transmits transaction details to the payment processing system, which processes the transaction with an issuer system. The payment processing system receives an approval of the transaction authorization request and transmits a receipt to the merchant POS device.
US09619796B2	Enabling card and method and system using the enabling card in a P.O.S The invention relates to an enabling card as well as a system and method for completing a financial transaction in a P.O.S. terminal comprising: a processor carried by the enabling card for establishing a connection with a mobile device; receiving secure information from a mobile device and generating a digital signal; a coil carried by the enabling card for generating a magnetic field in response to the digital signal to simulate the swipe of card in the P.O.S. terminal and complete the financial transaction.
US09619794B2	Systems and methods for providing compensation, rebate, cashback, and reward for using mobile and wearable payment services, digital currency, NFC touch payments, mobile digital card barcode payments, and multimedia haptic capture buying Provided are methods and systems for providing compensation for using a mobile payment service. The method may commence with receiving payment information associated with a user. The method may include generating a unique code encoding the payment information and providing the generated unique code to the user. The method may continue with receiving a deposit amount associated with a purchase related to the user. The purchase may be made via the mobile payment service. The method may further include receiving a notification about a further purchase of the user via the mobile payment service. The notification may include at least the unique code and a product barcode. The product barcode may be associated with the further purchase. The method may further include providing a compensation from the deposit amount to the user. The compensation may be associated with a payment amount associated with the further purchase.
US09619785B2	Method and apparatus pertaining to the sending of messages lacking identified recipients A control circuit detects an opportunity to send a message notwithstanding that no recipient is yet identified and identifies, without user input, a specific recipient from amongst a plurality of possible recipients of the message based, for example, on metadata regarding at least some of the possible recipients using one or more predetermined selection criteria. The control circuit can also determine a domain context for a message as corresponds to such an opportunity and use that domain context along with information corresponding to the message to query an invocation framework that cannot itself natively intuit domain context from the information. Received possible recipients can then be presented via a display to facilitate a user-based selection of one of the recipients.
US09619781B2	Conditioning system for nutritional substances Disclosed herein is a conditioning system for nutritional substances. The conditioning system obtains information regarding the nutritional substance to be conditioned, the desired conditioning, and the desired properties, including nutritional content, of the conditioned nutritional substance, and dynamically controls the conditioning in response to this information optimize the organoleptic properties of the conditioned nutritional substance, while minimizing any detrimental changes to the nutritional content.
US09619773B2	Systems and methods for code instrumentation for analytics A system and method of inserting instrumentation analytics into a business application program that is written in a web browser language is disclosed. The method includes receiving at an instrumentation server the business application program, parsing the business application program to generate an abstract syntax tree, examining the abstract syntax tree to identify function calls within the business application program, and inserting an instrumentation framework into the business application program to create a modified business application program, the instrumentation framework monitoring function calls during operation of the modified business application program. A system to implement the method and a computer-readable medium are disclosed.
US09619760B2	Method and apparatus for tracking and reporting food production information for food products Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatus for tracking and reporting food production information for food products. In an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises a hand-held device including a display and one or more input devices to sense product identification indicia associated with or affixed to a food product that is grown or raised in an agricultural operation. The hand-held device includes at least one processor to determine a machine-readable identification code from the product identification indicia; send the identification code to at least one remote server; receive, from the at least one remote server, information that is associated with the product, the information including agricultural product information that is associated with the production of the food product; and display at least some of the received agricultural product information on the display in human readable form.
US09619759B2	Method and system for managing sports related information A system and method for managing sports related information in real-time are provided. The system comprises a user interface module configured to receive data pertaining to one or more sports and sports related persons; a repository module configured to store the collected data; and a sports module configured to process the collected data to generate sports related information using predetermined algorithms, the generated information being stored in the repository module and being accessible via the user interface module. The sports module comprises a registration module configured to register one or more users; a validation module configured to validate information pertaining to users; a player information module configured to provide player information to users; a recommendation module configured to generate recommendations related to one or more players, teams or coaches; and a selection module configured to facilitate selection of at least one of players, teams and coaches.
US09619746B2	Microelectronic chip with multiple contacts The invention concerns an electronic module (2) for a contactless smart card or dual contact and contactless smart card comprising at least a first antenna (3a), a second antenna (3b), a third antenna (3c) and a microelectronic chip (1), characterized in that: said microelectronic chip comprises a microprocessor, at least a first contact (P1), a second contact (P2), a third contact (P3), a fourth contact (P4), a first tuning capacitor (C1) connected between the first contact (P1) and the third contact (P3), a second capacitor (C2) connected between the second contact (P2) and the fourth contact (P4), said first and third contacts (P1, P3) being connected to the inputs/outputs of the microprocessor and being configured to transmit to said microprocessor a radio-frequency communication signal exchanged through the antennas, said first antenna (3a) is connected between the first contact (P1) and the third contact (P3) and is configured to be brought into resonance by said first capacitor (C1), said second antenna (3) is connected between the second contact (P2) and the fourth contact (P4) and is configured to be brought into resonance by said second capacitor (C2) in order to capture the energy transmitted by induction by a remote reader, said third antenna (3c) is connected in series with said second antenna (3) between the second contact (P2) and the fourth contact (P4) for transmitting the captured energy to the microelectronic chip (1) and coupled with the first antenna (3a) for transferring to the microelectronic chip (1) through the first antenna (3a) the energy captured by the second antenna (3b).
US09619745B1	Jewelry structure for incorporating NFC tags This invention is a jewelry locket having an NFC chip which is capable of transmitting digital content to a smart phone by retrieving information from the NFC chip with the NFC chip housed within a metal jewelry structure having an internal compartment fixedly holding the NFC chip sufficiently away from the walls to permit wireless transmission between the chip and a smart phone.
US09619741B1	Systems and methods for synchronization mechanisms for magnetic cards and devices A processor of a card may detect variations (e.g., position, velocity, acceleration and direction) of a read head in relation to the card. Based on certain parameters (e.g., card length, initially detected read head position, and read head velocity) a processor of a card may adjust synchronization bit patterns that may synchronize communications between the card and a read head of a magnetic stripe reader. A processor of a card may generate a number of leading synchronization bits that is different than a number of trailing synchronization bits.
US09619739B2	Printer that sets sheet size for printing an XPS file Determination is made as to whether print setting information is designated for received print data, the print setting information being for designating a physical sheet size to be used for printing. When the print setting information is not designated and when specific character string information in the print data is set, a logical sheet size is set as the physical sheet size, and when specific character string information in the print data is not set, a default sheet size is set as the physical sheet size.
US09619731B2	Image symmetry for dip determination Methods for dip determination from an image obtained by a down-hole imaging tool. For each pixel forming the image, a probability that a symmetry axis coincides with the pixel is determined. A probability map is then generated, depicting the determined probability of each pixel coinciding with the symmetry axis. The probability map and the image are then superposed to generate a mapped image. The symmetry axis is then estimated based on the mapped image. Image pixels coinciding with a boundary of the geologic feature are then selected in multiple depth zones, and a segment of a sinusoid is fitted to the selected image pixels within each depth zone. Dip within each of the depth zones is then determined based on the fitted sinusoid segments therein.
US09619727B2	Matching process device, matching process method, and inspection device employing same An inspection device that performs pattern matching on a searched image performs matching between a template image of an inspection object and the searched image by using: a feature region extraction process unit that extracts a feature quantity from the template image acquired for learning; a feature quantity extraction process unit that extracts a feature quantity from the searched image acquired for learning; a mutual feature quantity calculation process unit that calculates a mutual feature quantity of the template image and the searched image from the feature quantity extracted from the template image and the feature quantity extracted from the searched image; a learning process unit that calculates, using a plurality of the mutual feature quantities, a discrimination boundary surface that determines matching success or failure; a process unit that calculates a plurality of the mutual feature quantities from an image acquired from the inspection object; and the plurality of mutual feature quantities and the discrimination boundary surface. Thus, an inspection device can be provided that outputs an accurate matching position in template matching even when there is a large apparent image discrepancy between the template and the searched image.
US09619725B2	Processing container images and identifiers using optical character recognition and geolocation Embodiments include a system configured to process location information for objects in a site comprising an imaging device configured to take a picture of an object, the picture containing a unique identifier of the object; a global positioning system (GPS) component associated with the imaging device and configured to tag the image of the object with GPS location information of the object to generate a tagged image; a communications interface configured to transmit the tagged image to a server computer remote from the imaging device over an Internet Protocol (IP) network; and a processor of the server configured to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the picture and to create an indicator code corresponding to the identifier of the object, wherein the processor is further configured to create a processed result containing the indicator code and the location to locate the object within the site.
US09619720B2	Vehicle imaging system and method for distinguishing between vehicle tail lights and flashing red stop lights An imaging system for a vehicle is provided for distinguishing between tail lights of another vehicle and a flashing red stop light. The system includes an imager configured to image a forward external scene and to generate image data corresponding to the acquired images; and a processor configured to receive and analyze the image data to identify red light sources and to further analyze each red light source to determine if the red light source is detected for a predetermined time period. If the red light source is not detected within a predetermined time period after it is detected, the processor determines that the red light source is a flashing red stop light. Otherwise, if the red light source is detected for a predetermined time period, the processor determines that the red light source may be a tail light of another vehicle.
US09619716B2	Vehicle vision system with image classification A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle. The camera includes an imaging array having a plurality of photosensing elements arranged in a two dimensional array of rows and columns. The imaging array includes a plurality of sub-arrays comprising respective groupings of neighboring photosensing elements. An image processor is operable to perform a discrete cosine transformation of captured image data, and a Markov model compares at least one sub-array with a neighboring sub-array. The image processor is operable to adjust a classification of a sub-array responsive at least in part to the discrete cosine transformation and the Markov model.
US09619709B2	Visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles based on marker detection and processing A method for locating markers in an image captured by a mobile device moving about an operating space. The method includes preprocessing an image to generate a set of image data, locating fixed features of markers by tracing edges of the fixed features, and extracting variable data payloads of each of the markers associated with the located fixed features. The fixed features of each of the markers may include a pair of parallel lines extending along opposite sides of a data area containing the variable data payload, and each of the lines extends a distance beyond each exposed end of the data area to avoid missing data when markers are not arranged orthogonally to the scan direction. The preprocessing involves rotating or skewing the image to provide rotated or skewed versions of the image to facilitate locating markers regardless of their angular orientation in the image.
US09619702B2	System and method for transcribing handwritten records using word grouping with assigned centroids A handwriting recognition system converts word images on documents, such as document images of historical records, into computer searchable text. Word images (snippets) on the document are located, and have multiple word features identified. For each word image, a word feature vector is created representing multiple word features. Based on the similarity of word features (e.g., the distance between feature vectors), similar words are grouped together in clusters, and a centroid that has features most representative of words in the cluster is selected. A digitized text word is selected for each cluster based on review of a centroid in the cluster, and is assigned to all words in that cluster and is used as computer searchable text for those word images where they appear in documents. An analyst may review clusters to permit refinement of the parameters used for grouping words in clusters, including the adjustment of weights and other factors used for determining the distance between feature vectors.
US09619689B2	System and method of using an electric field device A biometric scanner having an electric field device and a method of using that scanner are disclosed. The electric field device (a) has no electric field generator or an electric field generator that is prevented from providing an electric field to a biometric object, such as a finger, and (b) has an electric field sensor array comprised of a plurality of electric field sensors. Capacitance readings from the sensor array are used to generate values that are attributed to locations corresponding to the sensors.
US09619685B2	Encoded information reading terminal with replaceable imaging assembly An encoded information reading (EIR) terminal can comprise a microprocessor communicatively coupled to a system bus, a memory, a communication interface, and a pluggable imaging assembly identified by a type identifier and configured to acquire an image comprising decodable indicia. The imaging assembly can comprise a two-dimensional image sensor configured to output an analog signal representative of the light reflected by an object located within the field of view of the imaging assembly. The EIR terminal can be configured to output, by processing the analog signal, the raw image data derived from the analog signal and/or a decoded message corresponding to the decodable indicia. The imaging assembly can be communicatively coupled to the system bus via an imaging assembly interface comprising a plurality of wires and a multi-pin connector. The imaging assembly interface can comprise one or more wires configured to carry the imaging assembly type identifier. The EIR terminal can be configured, responsive to receiving the type identifier via the one or more wires, to retrieve from the memory one or more imaging assembly configuration information items corresponding to the type identifier and/or to receive via the communication interface one or more imaging assembly configuration information items corresponding to the type identifier. The EIR terminal can be further configured to control the imaging assembly using the imaging assembly configuration information items.
US09619683B2	Portable RFID reading terminal with visual indication of scan trace A method of reading RFID tags may include providing a device that can read barcodes and RFID tags. The barcodes may be attached to an object and respectively having a predetermined sequential read order. While reading the barcodes in the predetermined sequential read order, outputting an interrogation signal to RFID tags so that the RFID tags can be read while the barcode reader moves to sequentially read the barcodes in the predetermined sequential order.
US09619678B2	RFID interrogation probe An RFID interrogation probe (1) comprises a ring shaped housing (2), having a maximum thickness (I) (measured along its cylindrical axis) which is less than the innermost diameter (di) of the housing, and a looped antenna (3) housed within the ring shaped housing.
US09619672B2	Method and apparatus for secure execution using a secure memory partition A processor capable of secure execution. The processor contains an execution unit and secure partition logic that secures a partition in memory. The processor also contains cryptographic logic coupled to the execution unit that encrypts and decrypts secure data and code.
US09619669B2	Systems and methods for anonosizing data Various systems, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented methods of providing improved data privacy, anonymity, and security by enabling subjects to which data pertains to remain “dynamically anonymous,” i.e., anonymous for as long as is desired—and to the extent desired—are disclosed herein. This concept is also referred to herein as “anonosizing.” In some embodiments, the anonosizing of data may be implemented by encoding and decoding data under controlled conditions to support specific uses within designated authorized contexts. By anonosizing data controls via “identifying” and/or “associating” data elements within a population, data uses may be restricted to only those uses permissioned by a data subject or authorized third party. If new authorized data uses arise, all original data value and utility may be retained to support them—to the extent authorized by a data subject or authorized third party—but inappropriate, i.e., non-permissioned, uses of identifying information may be prevented.
US09619668B2	Managing application data in distributed control systems A device may correspond to a physical access controller in a distributed physical access control system. The device in a distributed system may include logic configured to detect a request from an application to access an application dataset, wherein the application dataset corresponds to a distributed dataset and determine whether the application dataset exists in the distributed system. The logic may be further configured to generate the application dataset in the distributed system, in response to determining that the application dataset does not exist in the distributed system, and send, to other devices in the distributed system, a request to join a dataset group that includes devices associated with the application dataset, in response to determining that the application dataset exists in the distributed system.
US09619667B2	Methods, systems and computer program product for providing encryption on a plurality of devices The described embodiments relate to methods, systems, and products for providing data protection and encryption on a plurality of devices configured for electronic communication with a server. Specifically, the methods, systems, and products can automatically and securely synchronize a user's file encryption/decryption keys across a plurality of devices, authenticating the user on each device before receiving and processing information from the server necessary to recreate the user's file encryption/decryption keys.
US09619658B2	Homomorphically encrypted one instruction computation systems and methods A homomorphically encrypted one instruction computation (“HEROIC”) computing system is described. The described HEROIC cloud computing system utilizes a homomorphic encryption scheme. The homomorphic encryption scheme allows for meaningful manipulation of encrypted data directly within the encrypted domain (i.e., without the need to first decrypt the data and then re-encrypt the data after processing). The HEROIC cloud computing system eliminates the need for the cloud computing processor to first decrypt data prior to processing thereby eliminating the need for the cryptographic keys to be provided to the provider of the cloud computing system.
US09619652B2	System, method and computer program product for determining a risk score for an entity In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining a risk score for an entity. These mechanisms and methods for determining a risk score for an entity can enable more effective monitoring of a system, can create more relevant data associated with the entity, etc.
US09619645B2	Authentication for recognition systems Embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for authentication for speech recognition. The method can include sensing an authentication device with a target device. One or more decoded voice commands can be processed after verification of the authentication device by the target device. Further, one or more decoded voice commands can be executed by the target device.
US09619639B2	Real-time presence verification A method for real time presence verification, comprising: capturing a first image of a machine-readable label by a first camera of a mobile device; automatically decoding the machine-readable label to extract a reference to a database entry in response to the capturing; automatically triggering at the mobile device a capturing of a second image by a second camera of the mobile device in response to at least one of the decoding and the capturing; and automatically forwarding the second image and at least one of the first image, the database entry, and the reference to a control network node for documentation of the second image in association with the database entry.
US09619632B2	System for providing session-based network privacy, private, persistent storage, and discretionary access control for sharing private data The invention provides secure and private communication over a network, as well as persistent private storage and private access control to the stored information, which is accomplished by imposing mechanisms that separate a user's actions from their identity. The system provides (i) anonymous network browsing, in which event the anonymity system is unaware of both the user's identity and browsing activities, (ii) private network storage and retrieval of data such as passwords, profiles and files in a manner such that the data can be stored into the system and later retrieved without the system knowing the contents or owners of the data, and (iii) the ability of the user to control and manage access to the remotely stored data without the system knowing the contents, owners, or accessors of the data.
US09619626B2	Method and apparatus for identifying exercise information of user A method and a user terminal for identifying exercise information of a user are provided. The method includes detecting air pressure information at a location of the user terminal; identifying a state of a topography at the location of the user terminal by using the detected air pressure information; analyzing vertical movement and horizontal movement of the user terminal to identify movement information of the user terminal; and identifying the exercise information of the user according to the identified movement information of the user terminal and the identified state of the topography at the location of the user terminal.
US09619620B2	Health monitoring system and data collection method thereof The present invention discloses a health monitoring system and a data collection method of the health monitoring system. The health monitoring system includes an intelligent monitoring system and a micro-monitoring system, wherein the micro-monitoring system is configured to judge whether the intelligent monitoring system is completely started, and if it judges that the intelligent monitoring system is completely started, the micro-monitoring system transmits the human body data information collected by the collection device to the intelligent monitoring system; if it judges that the intelligent monitoring system is not completely started, the micro-monitoring system processes the human body data information collected by the collection device and transmits the processed human body data information to a display terminal. The health monitoring system can effectively solve the problem that the intelligent monitoring system fails to monitor the health indicators of a human body during a start process.
US09619615B2	Medical and personal data retrieval system A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that the data is not identifiable by the public, but can be quickly and accurately retrieved by authorized personnel.
US09619610B1	Control block size reduction through IP migration in an integrated circuit device Methods for control block size reduction of a controller of an integrated circuit (IC) device through intellectual property (IP) migration in the IC device are disclosed. A disclosed method includes receiving configuration data for the IC device and determining whether IP construction data is defined in the configuration data. The IP construction data contains instruction sets for implementing logical operations of a controller-based IP core in a core region of the IC device. Such data creates flexibility to configure the controller-based IP core in a core logic circuit as a soft IP core, when required. In this scenario, the controller-based IP core can be removed from the controller of the IC device during IC device fabrication. As a result, the footprint (e.g., area) of the controller of the IC device can be reduced, which subsequently increases cost-savings for the IC device fabrication.
US09619609B1	Integrated circuit chip design methods and systems using process window-aware timing analysis Design methods and systems disclosed use a process window-aware timing analysis of an integrated circuit (IC) chip design for improved accuracy. Specifically, a process distribution for the design is defined and divided into process windows. Timing parameter adjustment factors are assigned to the process windows. A timing analysis is performed in order to acquire an initial solution for a timing parameter (e.g., delay, slack or slew). For each specific process window, this initial solution is adjusted by the predetermined timing parameter adjustment factor assigned to that specific process window. The adjusted solutions for the different process windows account for process window-to-process window variations in the widths of distribution of a process parameter (e.g., leakage power) and can be used to predict whether IC chips manufactured according the IC chip design will meet established timing requirements (e.g., required arrival times (RATs)) regardless of where they fall within the process distribution.
US09619608B1	Concurrent design process The present disclosure relates to a system and method for multi-user, at least partially concurrent, electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include recording, at a client computing device, a plurality of operations associated with an electronic circuit design, wherein the electronic circuit design is accessible by multiple users in an at least partially concurrent manner. Embodiments may also include generating a script based upon, at least in part, the recorded operations and displaying, at the client computing device, at least a portion of the generated script.
US09619599B2	System for and method of checking joule heating of an integrated circuit design A method of checking joule heating of an integrated circuit design, the method includes dividing the integrated circuit design into a plurality of windows, determining a power index of each window, adjusting the specification current value associated with each of the corresponding windows, and generating a current violation report, by a processor, of the integrated circuit. Each window includes one or more circuit elements. Each circuit element is associated with a corresponding current value. Each window is associated with a corresponding specification current value. Each power index is associated with a corresponding window. An amount of adjustment of the specification current value is a function of the power index of each corresponding window. The current violation report includes one or more entries. Each entry is associated with at least a corresponding window and one or more corresponding current values which exceed the corresponding adjusted specification current value.
US09619592B2	Analysis of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes for naturally-fractured reservoirs A method, apparatus, and program product generate an estimation of an incremental recovery for an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process performed on a naturally-fractured reservoir by classifying the naturally-fractured reservoir based upon a set of reservoir properties associated with the naturally-fractured reservoir, and generating an estimation of the incremental recovery for at least one EOR process based on the classification of the naturally-fractured reservoir.
US09619589B2	Method of determining optical sensor coverage A method is provided of determining the coverage of at least one optical sensor in a three dimensional (3-D) area. The 3-D area is divided into cells. The field of view of the sensor in the 3-D area is determined and rays are projected from the sensor into the 3-D area within sensor's field of view. The intersections between the rays and the cells are determined and a visual display of the 3-D area is generated showing the coverage of the sensor, based on the intersections.
US09619587B2	Decomposition of 3D geometry into developable surface patches and 2D cut patterns Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for decomposing 3D geometry into developable surface patches and cut patterns. In one embodiment, a decomposition application receives a triangulated 3D surface as input and determines approximately developable surface patches from the 3D surface using a variant of k-means clustering. Such approximately developable surface patches may have undesirable jagged boundaries, which the decomposition application may eliminate by generating a data structure separate from the mesh that contains patch boundaries and optimizing the patch boundaries or, alternatively, remeshing the mesh such that patch boundaries fall on mesh edges. The decomposition application may then flatten the patches into truly developable surfaces by re-triangulating the patches as ruled surfaces. The decomposition application may further flatten the ruled surfaces into 2D shapes and lay those shapes out on virtual sheets of material. A person, or machinery, may cut out those shapes from physical sheets of material based on the layout.
US09619584B1	Parallel multi-lookup TCAM Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit that includes a content addressable memory (CAM) array, a first mask circuit and a first encoder. The CAM array has CAM entry lines to be compared with a search key. The CAM array is configured to output a match result indicative entry lines that match the search key. The first mask circuit is configured to selectively mask first one or more portions of the match result to generate a first masked match result indicative first entry lines among the entry lines that match the search key. The first encoder is configured to encode the first masked match result to identify a matching entry line in the first entry lines as a first search result.
US09619575B2	System and method for analyzing communications The invention provides a system and method for analyzing a collection of communication messages. The communication messages may be any one of a collection of electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messaging dialogs and other forms of communications. The collections of communications, such as electronic mail messages, may be selected by a user and then subsequently processed to determine the identity of any of the user's contacts within the communications. The contacts may then be arranged in a relative priority arrangement whereby contacts which have been identified as engaging in prior reciprocal communications with the user are given higher priority. Higher priority may also be given to contacts which engage in more recent communications with the user. Specific contact relationships may be inferred from the communications depending on whether specific contacts are repeatedly mentioned within the communication messages.
US09619565B1	Generating content snippets using a tokenspace repository A search engine server system receives from a client system a search query and identifies a set of documents in accordance with the search query. A content snippet corresponding to content in a respective document of the identified set of documents is generated, the content snippet associated with at least one query term of the one or more query terms in the search query. A response to the search query is returned to the client system, the response including information identifying at least the respective document and including the content snippet. Generating the content snippet includes performing a first decompression operation on first token identifiers, from a compressed document repository, to provide a set of second token identifiers, and performing a second decompression operation on the set of second token identifiers to recover uncompressed content comprising a portion of the respective document.
US09619563B2	Search engine optimization using page anchors A web content search request including a search term is received at a searching/indexing device. A web search is performed based upon the search term. A markup language (ML) document returned via the web search including the search term is parsed. A location of the search term within the ML document is identified. A hypertext link to the identified location of the search term within the ML document is configured.
US09619550B1	Computing resource re-provisioning during data analytic lifecycle A first work package defining a data analytic plan associated with a given data problem is obtained. The first work package is generated in accordance with an automated data analytics lifecycle and is implemented in a provisioned system. A second work package defining a revised data analytic plan is obtained. A set of differences between the first work package and the second work package is determined. Cost and time parameters, associated with modifying the provisioned system to implement the set of differences between the first work package and the second work package, are computed. The set of differences and the computed cost and time parameters are presented. The provisioned system is automatically re-configured in accordance with at least a portion of the set of differences and based on the computed cost and time parameters.
US09619544B2	Distributed state management using dynamic replication graphs A sequence of configuration-delta messages from a configuration manager of a replication graph established for replicating state information of an application is received at a particular node of the graph. Representations of the messages are stored in a local configuration change repository. Using the repository, the node identifies neighbor source nodes and destination nodes of the graph. Subsequent to receiving a particular configuration-delta message indicating that a neighbor source node has been removed from the graph, a different source node is identified by the particular node, and a request is sent to the different source node to transmit a set of state transition messages pertaining to the application.
US09619538B2	Techniques for data integration Techniques for data integration are provided. Source attributes for source data are interactively mapped to target attributes for target data. Rules define how records from the source data are merged, selected, and for duplication detection. The mappings and rules are recorded as a profile for the source data and processed against the source data to transform the source attributes to the target attributes.
US09619536B2	Data integration using automated data processing based on target metadata Approaches for data integration between multiple IT sources using automated data processing based on target metadata are provided. Specifically, an integration component is configured to load a mapped data set into a table with delta processing based on a configuration object containing, e.g., the source data location, target table name, and source to target mapping. The integration component uses the target metadata to validate data, identify changes, generate the necessary database programming language (e.g., structured query language (SQL)), and run the database programming language with data binding to perform the actual data updates. The integration component leverages the data target metadata to automate the processing of source data, thus providing a way to validate the data, and identify delta changes at the field level between the source and target. This significantly reduces the overall development effort, while providing consistency in record handling and error reporting.
US09619534B2	Probabilistic tree-structured learning system for extracting contact data from quotes Systems and methods for updating data stored in a database, such as contact information. An input string is obtained through a search for timely material associated with the stored contact. The input string is parsed using probabilistic tendencies to extract entities corresponding to those stored with the contact. Secondary entities are used to assist in the identification of the primary entities. The contact is then updated (or added if new) using the extracted primary entities.
US09619523B2	Using geographic familiarity to generate search results Aspects of the present invention customize services, including search results, that are customized based on the user's familiarity with a geographic area. The search results may be customized by including different information in a search result, emphasizing different information in a search result, adjusting a relevance rank of different search results, and such. The search results may be customized based on the understanding that a user's familiarity with a particular area may influence the type of information that can be useful to the user. Different levels of familiarity may cause different types and levels of search result customization to be performed.
US09619521B1	Classification using concept ranking according to negative exemplars A segmentation annotation technique for media items is disclosed herein. Given a weakly labeled media item, spatiotemporal masks may be generated for each of the concepts with which it is labeled. Segments may be ranked by the likelihood that they correspond to a given concept. The ranked concept segments may be utilized to train a classifier that, in turn, may be used to classify untagged or new media items.
US09619520B2	Method and system for evaluating and sharing media A method and system for evaluating and sharing user-generated media files have been disclosed. The method and system is embodied in a contest/festival that entices visitors to return to the site to vote on their favorite videos by providing a plurality of phases in which the best performing media files are promoted based on voting scores. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises generating scores for each media file in four phases and calculating the total score for each of the four phases. The scores are calculated based on the number of views and votes from users for each media file. The votes are generated using questions, percentage of video viewed, comments, social distribution, and recommendations.
US09619516B2	Computer-readable recording medium, data extraction method, and data extraction device A data extraction device generates, based on master information and an extraction condition, a determination result indicating whether the master information is an extraction target. When stream data is received, the data extraction device determined, using the determination result, whether the master information that is specified based on the received stream data is to be extracted.
US09619514B2	Integration of optimization and execution of relational calculation models into SQL layer A query is received by a database server from a remote application server. The query is associated with a calculation scenario that defines a data flow model that includes one or more nodes that each define one or more operations for execution by a calculation engine on the database server. Thereafter, the database server instantiates a runtime model of the calculation scenario based on the nodes of the instantiated calculation scenario. Subsequently, one or more of the nodes are identified as being convertible into a relational database format. These nodes are then used to form a container node. An execution plan of the runtime model of the calculation scenario including the container node is built that is executed by the database server to result in a data set which is provided by the database server to the application server.
US09619512B2	Memory searching system and method, real-time searching system and method, and computer storage medium Described is a memory searching system, including an indexing module and a searching module. The indexing module, provided with multiple indexed databases, acquires and records updated indexed data in an indexed database provided to the indexing module and synchronizes the searching module with the updated indexed data recorded in the indexed database provided to the indexing module. The searching module updates an indexed database in a memory with the updated indexed data received from the indexing module (the indexed database in the memory corresponds to the indexed database provided to the indexing module), and switches a pointer of the indexed database to the updated indexed database in the memory. Also described is a memory searching method, a real-time searching system and method, capable of better supporting real-time search and of updating indexed data in seconds in a realistic application, reducing the cost of hardware equipment and improving searching efficiency.
US09619507B2	Transaction protocol for reading database values Techniques are provided for more efficient multi-row atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (ACID)-compliant transactions with snapshot isolation semantics (or just “multi-row transactions” for short). In some embodiments, the techniques are implemented in a computing system that includes a client application, a lightweight in-memory lease-based lock service, a multi-row transaction orchestrator, and an underlying database system. The transaction orchestrator implements a read protocol and a write protocol that provides support to the client application for carrying out multi-row transactions against the underlying database system irrespective of whether the database system itself supports multi-row transactions. The transaction orchestrator explicitly maintains transaction-level locks obtained from the lease-based lock service as part of the transaction protocol. Further, the transaction orchestrator is tolerant to lock service failure and unavailability without compromising ACID-compliance and snapshot isolation guarantees to the client application.
US09619498B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting an indexing frequency based on monitored parameters A indexing engine and method are provided for operating an indexing engine that parses and indexes data created by a set of users associated with a business entity on a database while interacting with a service associated to the database, the method comprising: monitoring the users' interactions with the database related to a creation of new data by one or more of the users over a predefined period of time when using the service; monitoring service availability during these interactions over the same predefined period of time; and changing an indexing frequency based on both parameters associated with the monitoring of the users' interactions and the service usage conditions.
US09619496B2	Method, computer readable medium and system for using large data sets in virtual applications A method, computer readable medium and system are disclosed. The system includes one or more first interfaces communicatively coupled to a data storage device and one or more second interfaces communicatively coupled to a user interface, the control module being configured to share data, retrieved from the data storage device, across a plurality of virtual applications. The system further includes an application controller communicatively coupled to the control module, the application controller being configured to select at least one of the virtual applications based on information received via the at least one of the one or more second interfaces.
US09619487B2	Method and system for the normalization, filtering and securing of associated metadata information on file objects deposited into an object store A system and method to prioritize, filter, and normalize metadata from files being transferred from a file system to an object store repository. The metadata is associated with the file (object) when saved to the object store repository.
US09619481B2	Method and apparatus for generating ordered user expert lists for a shared digital document A computer implemented method and apparatus for generating ordered user expert lists for a shared digital document. The method comprises accessing a digital document, wherein the digital document relates to one or more topics; generating a list of expert students, wherein the expert students have authored one or more annotations relating to a topic similar to a topic in the digital document; ordering the list of expert students according to a rank, wherein the rank identifies a level of expertise of the expert students; and presenting the ordered list of expert students, where the ordered list comprises a pre-defined number of expert students with a level of expertise meeting a predefined threshold.
US09619480B2	Content aligned block-based deduplication A content alignment system according to certain embodiments aligns a sliding window at the beginning of a data segment. The content alignment system performs a block alignment function on the data within the sliding window. A deduplication block is established if the output of the block alignment function meets a predetermined criteria. At least part of a gap is established if the output of the block alignment function does not meet the predetermined criteria. The predetermined criteria is changed if a threshold number of outputs fail to meet the predetermined criteria.
US09619477B1	Systems and methods for accelerating backup operations A computer-implemented method for accelerating backup operations may include (1) identifying a volume of data that may be stored by a computing system attached to a network and that may be designated for a backup to a deduplicated data store, (2) monitoring traffic on the network for at least one data object destined for the volume of data, (3) copying the data object from the traffic on the network and (4) seeding the deduplicated data store with the data object before the backup to the deduplicated data store. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09619469B2	Adaptive image browsing A method for browsing a collection of multimedia assets on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of multimedia assets, each multimedia asset having a set of associated metadata; defining an interest criterion; using a processor to analyze the metadata associated with the multimedia assets and rank the multimedia assets according to the interest criterion; displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the ranking; interactively user selecting a displayed multimedia asset using a user interface; updating the interest criterion based on the selected multimedia asset; using a processor to determine an updated ranking of the multimedia assets according to the updated interest criterion; and displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the updated ranking.
US09619465B2	Encoding and adaptive, scalable accessing of distributed models Systems, methods, and apparatus for accessing distributed models in automated machine processing, including using large language models in machine translation, speech recognition and other applications.
US09619464B2	Networked language translation system and method A networked language translation system and method allowing access by a distributed network of human and machine translators that communicate electronically to provide for the translation of material. The system and method provide a way to aggregate the resources of a large number of intermittently available, mixed competency translators, human or machine, in order to provide high-quality translations.
US09619456B2	Methods and systems for generation of flexible sentences in a social networking system Some embodiments include a computer-implement method of producing a flexible sentence syntax to facilitate one or more computer applications to generate and publish sentence expressions. For example, the method can include providing a developer interface to define a flexible sentence syntax that controls one or more sentences publishable by an application service. A developer of the application service can customize the flexible sentence syntax including selecting at least one of selectable tokens that is associated with a specific sentence element to incorporate in the flexible sentence syntax. Based on the selected token, a computing device can generate and publish a target sentence according to the flexible sentence syntax on the application service's behalf.
US09619455B2	Table format multi-dimensional data translation method and device The invention includes a first process of inserting one row below each row of a column heading of an original table, inserting one column to the right of each column of a row heading, and entering a corresponding ID into each cell of the inserted row or column; a second process of inserting one row between the column heading and data portion, inserting one column between the row heading and data portion, and entering an ID of the dimension when inserted cells indicate a value of a dimension, entering no data when inserted cells indicate a measure, and entering an ID of a measure into a cell at the intersection of the inserted row and column when column headings and row headings indicate dimension's values; and a third process of identifying a dimension, value thereof, or measure corresponding to each cell of the data portion of the created template table.
US09619444B2	System and method for web content presentation management A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a selection of one or more presentation templates of a plurality of presentation templates for at least a portion of a web page, wherein the one or more presentation templates define, at least in part, a display format for one or more display types. At least a portion of the one or more display types is mapped to one or more content elements within a content type. At least the portion of the one or more presentation templates is rendered when the one or more content elements are requested, wherein rendering includes retrieving at least the portion of the one or more content elements from one or more of each content item to be rendered within each of the one or more presentation templates, wherein rendering further includes using the content type of the one or more content elements requested to dynamically map the one or more content elements defined in the one or more display types to the one or more presentation templates.
US09619437B2	System and method of providing a context-aware personalized blogging agent A mobile multimedia content aggregation and dissemination platform is provided that aims to automate the creation, collection, aggregation, and dissemination of RSS and non-RSS information for and to interested parties. This platform may be used for the construction of a personalized blogging agent as well as for a personalized news aggregator.
US09619435B2	Methods and apparatus for modifying typographic attributes Methods and apparatus for various embodiments of a text adjustment tool provide direct modification of typographic attributes of displayed text by translating indications of movement across a display, received via user input, into typographic attribute modifications. The text adjustment tool allows a user an intuitive method for modifying typographic attributes of displayed text without a user needing to access any menu windows or without even knowing which typographic attribute is being modified. The intuitive nature of the text adjustment tool is reflected by the fact that at no point during a modification of a typographic attribute of targeted text does a user's eyes ever need to leave the text being modified.
US09619429B1	Storage tiering in cloud environment A plurality of performance-based storage nodes and a plurality of capacity-based storage nodes of a data storage system in a network environment are allocated to one or more tiered resource pools such that the performance-based storage nodes and the capacity-based storage nodes allocated to each one of the one or more tiered resource pools are addressable via a given virtual address for each tiered resource pool. Access to the performance-based storage nodes and the capacity-based storage nodes in the one or more tiered resource pools by a plurality of compute nodes is managed transparent to the compute nodes via a given storage policy. At least portions of the compute nodes, the performance-based storage nodes, and the capacity-based storage nodes are operatively coupled via a plurality of network devices. One or more of the allocating and managing steps are automatically performed under control of at least one processing device.
US09619428B2	SIMD processing unit with local data share and access to a global data share of a GPU A graphics processing unit is disclosed, the graphics processing unit having a processor having one or more SIMD processing units, and a local data share corresponding to one of the one or more SIMD processing units, the local data share comprising one or more low latency accessible memory regions for each group of threads assigned to one or more execution wavefronts, and a global data share comprising one or more low latency memory regions for each group of threads.
US09619427B2	Hybrid virtual GPIO A finite state machine is provided that both serializes virtual GPIO signals and messaging signals and that deserializer virtual GPIO signals and the messaging signals. The finite state machine frames the serialized virtual GPIO signals and messaging signals into frames each demarcated by a start bit and an end bit.
US09619424B2	Supporting unrecognized protocol in wireless docking Methods, systems, and devices are described for supporting unknown peripheral function protocols (PFP) with a wireless docking station. A wireless docking station may facilitate connections between a wireless dockee and peripherals employing both recognized and unrecognized PFPs. A docking station may request one or more service discovery parameters from a peripheral having an unrecognized PFP. The docking station may receive service discovery parameters in response, convey the received discovery parameters to a wireless dockee, and facilitate discovery and a connection between the device and the peripheral. The discovery parameters may include various identifiers related to peripheral function, identity, and location.
US09619418B2	Local event ring in an island-based network flow processor An island-based network flow processor (IB-NFP) integrated circuit includes islands organized in rows. A configurable mesh event bus extends through the islands and is configured to form a local event ring. The configurable mesh event bus is configured with configuration information received via a configurable mesh control bus. The local event ring provides a communication path along which an event packet is communicated to each rectangular island along the local event ring. The local event ring involves event ring circuits and event ring segments. Upon each transition of a clock signal, an event packet moves through the ring from event ring segment to event ring segment. Event information and not packet data travels through the ring. The local event ring functions as a source-release ring in that only the event ring circuit that inserted the event packet onto the ring can delete the event packet from the ring.
US09619417B2	Method and apparatus for remote delivery of managed USB services via a mobile computing device A managed Universal Serial Bus (USB) service capability is disclosed. The managed USB service capability is configured to use a mobile computing device (e.g., a smartphone or other suitable mobile computing device) to support a set of services for a computer (e.g., a desktop, a laptop, and the like) capable of connecting to the mobile computing device via a USB connection. The managed USB service capability enables local and/or remote control of the mobile computing device to operate in various USB device classes, such that the mobile computing device can provide various managed USB services for the computer via the peripheral connection. In this manner, the mobile computing device may be dynamically configured to operate as one or more of a network interface, a virtual private network (VPN) client, a smart card, a serial console, a mass-storage device, a booting device, and the like.
US09619415B2	System and method for intelligent platform management interface keyboard controller style interface multiplexing An information handling system includes a processing node, an input/output (I/O) module coupled to the processing node via a high bandwidth interface, and a service processor coupled to the I/O module via a multi-master interface. A transaction between the processing node and the service processor that is targeted to a low pin count (LPC) bus is executed between the processing node and the service processor via the high bandwidth interface and the multi-master interface.
US09619407B2	Semiconductor apparatus, processor system, and control method for deallocating and allocating an address range corresponding to a memory between different processors of the processor system A processor system (10) includes: a first memory controller (16) that controls writing/reading data to/from a first memory (60); a second memory controller (17) that controls writing/reading data to/from a second memory (70); a first processor (13) that inputs and outputs the data from and to the first memory through a bus (14); a second processor (11) that inputs and outputs processed data from and to the second memory through the bus; and a management unit 32 that deallocates an address range corresponding to the second memory from the first process and allocates the address range to the second processor.
US09619406B2	Offloading of computation for rack level servers and corresponding methods and systems A method for handling multiple networked applications using a distributed server system is disclosed. The method can include providing at least one main processor and a plurality of offload processors connected to a memory bus; and operating a virtual switch respectively connected to the main processor and the plurality of offload processors using the memory bus, with the virtual switch receiving memory read/write data over the memory bus.
US09619405B2	Device having memory access protection A device has a protection unit for controlling access to a memory. Indirect memory access requests have control data indicative of a memory access control register to be written to provide indirect access to a target memory and requested address data indicative of at least one memory address of the target memory to be accessed. The protection unit contains protection data defining access rights of source units to access specified address ranges of the target memory, and a system bus interface interfacing to a source unit and a memory bus interface interfacing to the target memory via a controller. The protection unit has a control monitor for detecting an indirect memory access request, and an indirect address monitor for comparing requested address data to specified address ranges and subsequently grant the indirect memory access in accordance with access rights of the respective source unit.
US09619401B2	Efficient memory management system for computers supporting virtual machines The translation of virtual guest addresses to host physical addresses in a virtualized computer system provides a compound page table that may simultaneously support nested-paging and shadow-paging for different memory regions. Memory regions with stable address mapping, for example, holding program code, may be treated using shadow-paging while memory regions with dynamic address mapping, for example, variable storage, may be treated using nested-paging thereby obtaining the benefits of both techniques.
US09619399B2	Large-page optimization in virtual memory paging systems A computer system that is programmed with virtual memory accesses to physical memory employs multi-bit counters associated with its page table entries. When a page walker visits a page table entry, the multi-bit counter associated with that page table entry is incremented by one. The computer operating system uses the counts in the multi-bit counters of different page table entries to determine where large pages can be deployed effectively. In a virtualized computer system having a nested paging system, multi-bit counters associated with both its primary page table entries and its nested page table entries are used. These multi-bit counters are incremented during nested page walks. Subsequently, the guest operating systems and the virtual machine monitors use the counts in the appropriate multi-bit counters to determine where large pages can be deployed effectively.
US09619394B2	Operand cache flush, eviction, and clean techniques using hint information and dirty information An apparatus includes an operand cache for storing operands from a register file for use by execution circuitry. In some embodiments, eviction priority for the operand cache is based on the status of entries (e.g., whether dirty or clean) and the retention priority of entries. In some embodiments, flushes are handled differently based on their retention priority (e.g., low-priority entries may be pre-emptively flushed). In some embodiments, timing for cache clean operations is specified on a per-instruction basis. Disclosed techniques may spread out write backs in time, facilitate cache clean operations, facilitate thread switching, extend the time operands are available in an operand cache, and/or improve the use of compiler hints, in some embodiments.
US09619391B2	In-memory caching with on-demand migration For on-demand migration of data in a distributed memory storage configuration, an identifier is transformed at a client into a transformed identifier. From a current configuration of a first plurality of servers operating on a server-side at a current time, a current server is identified at the client. From a previous configuration of a second plurality of servers operating on a server-side at a previous time, a previous server is identified at the client. A first request is sent to the current server to perform an operation using the identifier. A second request is sent to the previous server to perform the operation using the identifier. When a first data in response to the first request is invalid and a second data in response to the second request is valid, the second data is migrated to the current server in a migration request from the client to the current server.
US09619379B1	Data storage device increasing sequence detector clock frequency when bottleneck condition is detected A data storage device is disclosed comprising a non-volatile memory (NVM). During a read operation, a sequence of signal samples is generated representing codewords stored in the NVM. The signal samples are buffered to generate buffered signal samples. The buffered signal samples are processed at a first frequency to detect a data sequence, and a bottleneck condition is detected associated with processing the buffered signal samples at the first frequency. When the bottleneck condition is detected, the buffered signal samples are processed at a second frequency higher than the first frequency to detect the data sequence.
US09619376B2	Monitoring and capturing early diagnostic data A deviance monitoring module is provided for examining various parameters of an operating system for deviance from a baseline behavior at specified intervals. A range of acceptable deviance values from a baseline behavior is set for parameters of an operating system. The parameters of the operating system are then monitored at specified intervals for deviance from the baseline behavior. In response to detecting that the deviance exceeds a predetermined threshold, the method triggers diagnostic data gathering on the parameters of the operating system according to an embodiment.
US09619375B2	Methods and systems for automatically testing software An automatic software testing machine may be configured to provide an advanced symbolic execution approach to software testing that combines dynamic symbolic execution and static symbolic execution, leveraging the strengths of each and avoiding the vulnerabilities of each. One or more software testing machines within a software testing system may be configured to automatically and dynamically alternate between dynamic symbolic execution and static symbolic execution, based on partial control flow graphs of portions of the software code to be tested. In some example embodiments, a software testing machine begins with dynamic symbolic execution, but switches to static symbolic execution opportunistically. In static mode, instead of checking entire programs for verification, the software testing machine may only check one or more program fragments for testing purposes. Thus, the software testing machine may benefit from the strengths of both dynamic and static symbolic execution.
US09619371B2	Customized application performance testing of upgraded software A method for providing a plurality of customized remote environments for application performance testing is provided. The method may include identifying a plurality of client customizations associated with a client application. The method may also include identifying a plurality of client hardware configurations associated with the client application. The method may further include populating a plurality of upgraded versions of the client application. Additionally, the method may include provisioning at least one remote environment. The method may also include applying the plurality of client customizations of the client application to the plurality of upgraded versions of the at least one client application. The method may further include deploying the plurality of upgraded versions of the at least one client application on at least one environment, whereby the deployed plurality of upgraded versions has the applied identified plurality of client customizations of the at least one client application.
US09619366B1	Object monitoring in code debugging According to example embodiments of the present invention, an object to be monitored is determined, the object being associated with a variable in a code snippet including a plurality of statements. The object is monitored in execution of the plurality of statements. If a plurality of updates of the object are detected in the execution of the plurality of statements, a snapshot associated with each of the updates of the object is created. The snapshot includes a current value of the object and a memory address for the current value of the object.
US09619358B1	Bus traffic profiling Methods and systems for analyzing bus traffic in a target device, such as a system on-a-chip (SOC) comprises capturing a processor event and generating an interrupt based on a threshold associated with the processor event. Based on at least the interrupt, a instruction pointer associated with the processor event that generated the interrupt is identified. An instruction analyzer identifies a memory address of the instruction associated with the processor event that generated the interrupt. At least the processor event and a associated instruction information are collected by a sample collector and transferred to a host for performance profiling.
US09619357B2	Hybrid storage devices Systems for reducing power consumption and power leakage in hybrid storage clusters is provided. More specifically, the system is for allocating an appropriate server amongst a plurality of servers in a network by identifying an application to be executed in a network, wherein the network comprises a plurality of servers configured to execute the applications, and each server further comprising a hybrid memory system; based on the application to be executed, dynamically identifying resources to execute the application based on the hybrid memory system available and the power consumption for executing the application; and dynamically allocating the application to the identified resource for execution.
US09619341B2	System and method for performing an image level snapshot and for restoring partial volume data The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the contents of the information store from a file allocation table, copying the contents of the information store to a storage device based on the snapshot, and associating the retrieved data with the copied contents to provide file system information for the copied contents.
US09619327B2	Flash memory system and operating method thereof An operation method of a flash memory system includes: obtaining first syndrome values to a codeword; obtaining locations of errors and the number of the locations of errors based on the first syndrome values; error-correcting the codeword by flipping bit values of error bits of the codeword based on the locations of errors to generate an error-corrected codeword; obtaining second syndrome values to the error-corrected codeword; determining whether an error is found in the error-corrected codeword based on the second syndrome values; changing the first syndrome values when it is determined that no error is found in the error-corrected codeword; and restoring the error-corrected codeword to the codeword by re-flipping the flipped bit values when it is determined that an error is found in the error-corrected codeword.
US09619309B2	Enforcing different operational configurations for different tasks for failure rate based control of processors A method of an aspect includes determining a different operational configuration for each of a plurality of different maximum failure rates. Each of the different maximum failure rates corresponds to a different task of a plurality of tasks. The method also includes enforcing a plurality of logic each executing a different task of the plurality of tasks to operate according to the different corresponding determined operational configuration. Other methods, apparatus, and systems are also disclosed.
US09619292B2	Resource placement in networked cloud based on resource constraints Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the cloud controller, a request message including a first request for a first cloud resource; identifying a set of potential devices for providing the first cloud resource; calculating a plurality of weight values corresponding to at least a portion of the set of potential devices for providing the first cloud resource, wherein the plurality of weight values are calculated based on a plurality of delta values associated with the at least a portion of the set of potential devices; selecting a device based on the plurality of weight values to provide the first cloud resource; and updating the delta value associated with the selected device.
US09619282B2	Task scheduling in big and little cores One aspect provides a method including: identifying a task to be scheduled for execution on an information handling device having two or more cores of different size; determining an appropriate scheduling of the task for execution on the two or more of cores of different size, wherein the appropriate scheduling of the task is determined via a core signature for the task; directing the task to an appropriate core for execution based on the appropriate scheduling determined; and executing the task on the appropriate core. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09619271B1	Event response for a shared pool of configurable computing resources which uses a set of dynamically-assigned resources Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A triggering event is detected. The triggering event may be related to a resource utilization on a host of the shared pool of configurable computing resources. Based on a set of profile data, it is determined to perform an event response. The event response includes initiating a resource action or initiating an asset action. The resource action may include distributing a set of dynamically-assigned resources. The asset action corresponds to a set of assets (e.g., migrating a set of virtual machines). To change the resource utilization on the host, the event response is performed.
US09619267B2	Tearing down virtual machines implementing parallel operators in a streaming application based on performance A streams manager monitors performance of parallel portions of a streaming application implemented in multiple virtual machines (VMs). When the performance provided by the multiple VMs is no longer needed, one or more of the VMs can be torn down. The performance of the VMs is monitored. When the least performing VM can be torn down, it is torn down. When the least performing VM cannot be torn down, information regarding a better performing VM is gathered, and it is determined whether the least performing VM can be made more similar to the better performing VM. When the least performing VM can be made more similar to the better performing VM, the least performing VM is changed to improve its performance, and the better performing VM is torn down.
US09619266B2	Tearing down virtual machines implementing parallel operators in a streaming application based on performance A streams manager monitors performance of parallel portions of a streaming application implemented in multiple virtual machines (VMs). When the performance provided by the multiple VMs is no longer needed, one or more of the VMs can be torn down. The performance of the VMs is monitored. When the least performing VM can be torn down, it is torn down. When the least performing VM cannot be torn down, information regarding a better performing VM is gathered, and it is determined whether the least performing VM can be made more similar to the better performing VM. When the least performing VM can be made more similar to the better performing VM, the least performing VM is changed to improve its performance, and the better performing VM is torn down.
US09619264B1	AntiAfinity A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product for recovering from a crash of a system being replicated, the method comprising determining the amount of recovery time due to the crash of each of a set of hypervisors; wherein each of the hypervisors runs one or more data replication elements selected from the group consisting of a splitter and a replication appliance; wherein each of the splitters and replication appliances replicates one or more volumes, creating an assignment of the one or more volumes to the set of replication appliances and creating an assignment of one or more replication appliances to a set of hypervisors to minimize the amount of recovery time.
US09619262B2	Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources Techniques for security auditing of cloud resources are provided. A virtual machine (VM) is captured and isolated when a session indicates that a session with the VM has terminated. Security checks are executed against the VM in the isolated environment. Results from the security checks are then reported.
US09619261B2	Method and system for anticipating demand for a computational resource by containers running above guest operating systems within a distributed, virtualized computer system The current document is directed to methods and systems for efficiently executing OSL-virtualization containers within the execution environments provided by virtual machines that execute above traditional virtualization layers within large, virtualized, distributed computing systems. The currently disclosed methods and systems anticipate the need for additional virtual machines in order to meet anticipated demands for one or more computational resources by the containers. In addition, the methods and systems provision and launch virtual machines with computational-resource allocations that minimize overhead and computational-resource wastage. In one implementation, computational-resource utilization of ATMs and containers within the virtualized, distributed computer system are periodically monitored in order to estimate future demand for the computational resource and, when necessary, to launch additional virtual machines to meet the estimated future demand for the computational resource.
US09619257B1	System and method for implementing storage for a virtualization environment A system for implementing storage for a virtualization environment, including a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes implements a virtualization environment, a plurality of storage devices that are accessed by virtual machines in the virtualization environment, and wherein the plurality of storage devices comprises a local storage device that is locally attached to one of the plurality of nodes, and in which the local storage device can be managed as part of a global storage space for the virtualization environment.
US09619238B2	Remote attestation of host devices Approaches are described for enabling a host computing device to store credentials and other security information useful for recovering the state of the host computing device in a secure store, such as a trusted platform module (TPM) on the host computing device. When recovering the host computing device in the event of a failure (e.g., power outage, network failure, etc.), the host computing device can obtain the necessary credentials from the secure store and use those credentials to boot various services, restore the state of the host and perform various other functions. In addition, the secure store (e.g., TPM) may provide boot firmware measurement and remote attestation of the host computing devices to other devices on a network, such as when the recovering host needs to communicate with the other devices on the network.
US09619237B2	Speculative branch handling for transaction abort Embodiments relate to speculative branch handling for transaction abort. An aspect includes detecting a beginning of a current execution of a transaction. Another aspect includes, based on detecting the beginning of the transaction, disabling speculative execution based on branch prediction of an initial branch instruction of the transaction, wherein the initial branch instruction branches to two possible paths, and wherein a first path of the two possible paths comprises an abort handler. Another aspect includes disabling updating of a history table for the initial branch instruction.
US09619226B2	Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing a horizontal add or subtract in response to a single instruction Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing in a computer processor vector packed horizontal add or subtract of packed data elements in response to a single vector packed horizontal add or subtract instruction that includes a destination vector register operand, a source vector register operand, and an opcode are describes.
US09619223B2	Live operating system update mechanisms Mechanisms are provided for performing a live update of an operating system. The mechanisms receive an update to an operating system and clone a root volume group associated with an operating system instance executing in a first logical partition of the data processing system to generate a cloned root volume group. The mechanisms apply the update to the cloned root volume group to generate an updated and cloned root volume group and boot a second logical partition of the data processing system using the updated and cloned root volume group. Moreover, the mechanisms migrate application instances and application data to the second logical partition.
US09619222B2	System, method and apparatus for automatic device registration and secure application activation A method modifies an application program to create an augmented application program by including at least one call and a software library in the application program. The at least one call is to a method that forms part of the library. The method further includes, upon receiving a request from an augmented application program resident on the device, registering and authenticating the augmented application program and sending a policy file to the device that is configured to control use of only the augmented application program. Another method receives at a device an application program augmented to include the at least one call and software library. The method further includes launching the application program and sending a registration and authentication request to a server of an enterprise, and receiving from the server a policy file configured for controlling use by the device of only the registered and authenticated augmented application program.
US09619219B1	Installation testing in automated application distribution A system and method of deploying applications to networked computing environments is disclosed. Application packages and installation instructions are received by a deployment manager. The installation instructions include test instructions. Application packages are distributed in response to requests by developers and installation instructions executed on a target computing environment. Failure of an installation test provides an indication of issues with the application in the target environment. Records of failures received are stored for use by application developers.
US09619217B2	Methods and systems for cloud computing In a method for cloud deployment, programmer input in a programming language is received, the programmer input including i) a built-in function corresponding to making electronic objects accessible on a network, and ii) a parameter indicating an electronic object. The programmer input is evaluated to cause the electronic object to be stored on a server and made accessible via a network coupled to the server.
US09619210B2	Parsing and compiling data system queries Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for parsing and compiling data system queries.
US09619209B1	Dynamic source code generation Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for dynamic source code generation. In some embodiments, data may be received. The data may include natural language and corresponding source code. Parsed natural language may be generated using the data to identify and analyze the natural language. Parsed source code may be generated using the data to identify and analyze the corresponding source code. Mappings between the parsed natural language and the parsed source code may be generated. The mappings may be transmitted.
US09619203B2	Method of analyzing driving behavior and warning the driver A method of evaluating the driving behavior in a vehicle. The method includes determining values of a plurality of parameters of the operation of a first vehicle in a first road segment, determining values of the plurality of parameters for one or more second vehicles in a second road segment having similar properties to those of the first road segment, comparing the determined values of the first vehicle and the one or more second vehicles and providing an evaluation of the driving behavior of the first vehicle, responsive to the comparison.
US09619194B2	Method for searching for image forming apparatus, mobile terminal, and non-transitory computer readable medium A method for searching for an image forming apparatus includes a first search method for searching for an image forming apparatus that is connected to a mobile terminal via a relay device for wireless connection, and a second search method for searching for an image forming apparatus that is wirelessly connectable to the mobile terminal without involving the relay device. The method includes executing a search using at least the first search method among the first search method and the second search method in a case where the mobile terminal and the relay device are wirelessly connected to each other, and executing a search using the second search method in a case where the mobile terminal and the relay device are not wirelessly connected to each other, in order to search for an image forming apparatus.
US09619193B2	Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium An apparatus and method for a printing system is provided which determines whether image data input by execution of an input job is a blank and, in a case where the image data is determined to be a blank, the printing system records information indicating the determination of a blank as history information of the input job. Thus, in a case where image data input by execution of an input job is not output by execution of an output job, the user is able to easily confirm the cause of the output failure of the input image data.
US09619188B2	Image forming system and image forming method An image forming system according to an embodiment includes a data creation section that creates document data. A print instruction section sends instructions to print the document data. A printing mode determination section determines a printing mode of the document data based on property information of the document data. A selection section selects for printing the document data with one of a non-erasable image forming section and an erasable image forming section based on the determined printing mode.
US09619186B2	Cloud-based printing fluid subscription messages Example embodiments relate to providing cloud-based printing fluid subscription messages. in example embodiments, the system may then calculate a fulfillment trigger value based on a printing fluid fill level of a printing fluid storage unit and a printing fluid usage history of a remote printing device, where the fulfillment trigger value describes a printing fluid used level of the printing fluid storage unit that triggers an order request for as replacement supply of printing fluid. Next, system may update a subscription fulfillment status for the remote printing device to an order triggered state and send the subscription fulfillment status to the remote printing device, where the remote printing device determines whether to display a printing fluid subscription message based on the subscription fulfillment status.
US09619185B2	Data communication apparatus, history information storage method, and storage medium A history information storage method making it possible to identify a user who gave a data transmission instruction from history information. A job processing apparatus is caused to execute a job. A generation step of generating history information, about the job in which information identifying a user included in a name of the job is set as information indicating the user who gave an instruction to execute the job, is generated in a generation step. The generated history information is stored in a storage step.
US09619183B2	Document processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium A PrintTicket does not necessarily exist in each page of an XPS document. Regarding a page where no PrintTicket exists, the page is printed by referring to a PrintTicket in a higher hierarchical level. Here, when a plurality of XPS documents are combined, a user's intended print result may not be obtained when the PrintTicket in the higher hierarchical level to which the page refers changes before and after combining. Before a combining process is executed, print setting information of a page element is generated based on print setting information of an element in a higher hierarchical level than the page hierarchical level. A combined document is generated by combining a structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added and another structured document including a page element to which the generated print setting information is added.
US09619175B2	Embedded multimedia card (eMMC), host for controlling the eMMC, and methods of operating the eMMC and the host A method of operating an eMMC system includes receiving a first command defining a first operation from the host, and storing the first command in a first command register among N command registers, and receiving a second command defining a second operation from the host, and storing the second command in a second command register among the N command registers, wherein the second command is received while the first operation is being performed.
US09619173B1	Updating synchronization progress Described are techniques for updating checkpoint data during a copy process that copies data from a first device to a second device. A portion of data is copied from the first device to the second device. A first calculated value is determined in accordance with a plurality of factors. In accordance with the first calculated value and a threshold ratio, it is determined whether to update the checkpoint data denoting progress of the copying process that copies data from the first device to the second device. If it is determined to update the checkpoint data, first processing is performed that updates the checkpoint data.
US09619165B1	Convertible leaf memory mapping Systems, methods and/or devices are used to store metadata in a storage system. In one aspect, an indication of data to be stored by the storage system is received by a computing device including non-volatile memory and a tiered data structure. A leaf having a first leaf type is selected from the tiered data structure. Leaves of the first leaf type include locations of variable-length data stored in the non-volatile memory. At least one criterion is used to determine whether to convert the selected leaf to a converted leaf having a second leaf type. Leaves of the second type include locations of fixed-length data. In response to a determination to convert the selected leaf to a converted leaf, first location information is stored in the converted leaf. In response to a determination to not convert the selected leaf, second location information is stored in the second leaf.
US09619163B2	Maintaining access times in storage systems employing power saving techniques An apparatus, method, and computer program for maintaining access times in a data processing system, wherein the data processing system comprises a plurality of storage devices, the apparatus including: a receive component, for receiving a command or an availability message, wherein an availability message indicates whether the storage device is available; an evaluate component for evaluating a plurality of first relationships between the storage devices and a plurality of first values, wherein each of the first values indicates whether a related storage device is a redundant; a send component, for sending a power message to one or more of the storage devices; and an update component for updating a second relationship between the redundant storage device and a plurality of second values, wherein each of the second values indicates whether a related redundant storage device is available.
US09619162B1	Selecting a data protection strategy for a content unit on a storage system Some embodiments of the invention relate to selecting a data protection scheme, such as, for example, mirroring or RAID, for a content unit based on power-related metadata associated with the content unit. The data protection strategy selected for a content unit may impact the amount of power that a storage system consumes.
US09619157B2	High-speed data storage System and method for high speed data storage. An unmounted unformatted direct access storage device (DASD) may be opened via an operation system (OS) application programming interface (API). A maximum amount of storage space afforded by the DASD may be determined, and the DASD locked, thereby limiting write access to the DASD to a first application process and excluding writes to the DASD by any other application process. A single data type data stream is received, and stored on the DASD in linear fashion as it is received without using a file system architecture, metadata, indices, or keys associated with the data, including writing a block of the stream of data to the DASD and returning a next contiguous write location on the DASD in an iterative manner. The stored data are readable by multiple readers in a linear manner without using the file system architecture, metadata, indices, or keys.
US09619156B2	Storage device, memory card, and communicating method of storage device A storage device includes a host interface configured to communicate with a host device according to a first protocol through an input terminal, an output terminal, and a clock terminal. The input terminal is configured to receive an input signal from the host device according to the first protocol. The output terminal is configured to output an output signal to the host device according to the first protocol. The clock terminal configured to receive a clock signal from the host device according to the first protocol. The host interface is configured to communicate with the host device according to a second protocol through the clock terminal, the second protocol being different from the first protocol.
US09619155B2	Methods, systems and devices relating to data storage interfaces for managing data address spaces in data storage devices Data address management systems, methods, devices and uses for minimizing interaction with data consumers' data on data storage devices, an embodiment comprising an external bus for communicatively interfacing the data storage system and data consumers; at least one storage medium components, each storage medium component comprising a plurality of storage locations having a unique storage location indicators; a translation layer module comprising a data address space having data addresses associable with storage location indicators; and a controller configured to store data in the storage locations and creating associations in the translation layer module between data addresses and the physical location indicators; wherein the data address space is accessible by the data consumer for addressing requests relating to data stored on the storage device and wherein the controller is configured to manipulate the arrangement of the data addresses in the data address space.
US09619139B2	Device, method, and storage medium storing program According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display displays a lock screen including a first icon and a second icon. The controller displays a sub icon associated with the second icon on the lock screen when a gesture in which the first icon and the second icon are superimposed is detected.
US09619126B2	Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium with image processing program stored thereon, element layout changed material generating device, image processing device, and image processing system An image processing device includes: an indication point acquiring section that acquires an indication point on a presentation material, which a presenter is pointing out with a pointer, through image processing on the presentation material taken by an image pickup device; an element layout changed material acquiring section that acquires an element layout changed material in which an layout of elements contained in the presentation material is changed; a changed indication point determining section that determines as a changed indication point a point on the element layout changed material corresponding to the indication point acquired by the indication point acquiring section; and a display image generating section generates an image in which an image of the element layout changed material is synthesized with a changed indication point indicating image showing the changed indication point and allows a display device to display the generated image.
US09619118B2	Wheel-based interface for browsing applications A wheel-based user interface provides navigation between categories and subcategories of applications. A first browse wheel contains a plurality of category regions, each corresponding to an application category. In response to a user selection of an application category received at the first browse wheel, a second browse wheel is displayed. The second browse wheel contains a plurality of subcategory regions, each corresponding to an application subcategory within the selected application category. In response to a user selection of an application subcategory received at the second browse wheel, an application search query is generated using the selected category and subcategory.
US09619114B2	Method and system to configure an aftermarket interface module using a graphical user interface A system to remotely configure an aftermarket interface module using a graphical user interface (“GUI”) is disclosed. The system includes a GUI adapted to display on a computer. The GUI permits a user to select a vehicle model, year and make to determine the functions of the OEM controls. In addition, the GUI permits a user to select an aftermarket electronics brand and model that the OEM controls will operate. The user selects a particular control signal configuration using the GUI for each of the OEM controls. An interface module is flash programmed with the particular control signal configuration. The interface module is connected to the OEM controls and the aftermarket electronics, where the interface module receives the OEM control signals and controls the aftermarket electronics using the particular control signal configuration.
US09619111B2	Information processing apparatus and method, and program There is provided a content selection view in which the user can select a content intuitively and easily. When the user places a touch pen in touch with a touch panel in a position corresponding to a position P1 in a map and drags the touch pen along a locus to a position P2 with the touch pen being kept in touch with the touch panel, PD will judge that a grid is still an option. Thereafter, when the user takes the touch pen off the touch panel surface, the PD will select the grid corresponding to the position P2 where the touch pen has finally been in touch with the touch panel. The PD will output not only content data assigned to the selected grid but a sound corresponding to predetermined content data even while the grid is still an option. The present invention is applicable to a portable recorder/player.
US09619107B2	Methods and systems for dynamically displaying icons on a user interface for security check and other functions A method and system for displaying icons on a user interface of a smart device are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a webpage address and checking security of the webpage linked to the webpage address. Further, the method includes displaying a first icon at a pre-determined position, the first icon indicating that the security check is in progress; obtaining a speed for loading the webpage and a speed for the security check; and adjusting icons displayed at the pre-determined position based on the speed for loading the webpage and the speed for the security check. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may improve the user experience of smartphone users.
US09619105B1	Systems and methods for gesture based interaction with viewpoint dependent user interfaces Systems and methods are disclosed for performing three-dimensional (3D) gesture based interaction with a user interface rendered from a 3D object model based upon the viewpoint of a user. Gesture based interactive systems in accordance with many embodiments of the invention utilize a spatial model of how user interface objects, such as icons and a cursor, spatially relate to one another. The user interface model can be constructed as a 3D object model. With a 3D object model, the operating system can use depth information to render a user interface display appropriate to the requirements of a specific display technology. In many embodiments, head tracking is used to determine a viewpoint from which to render a user interface display from a 3D object model maintained by the operating system and the user interface can be updated in response to the detection of 3D gestures.
US09619104B2	Interactive input system having a 3D input space Computerized methods and interactive input systems for manipulation of 3D objects are disclosed. An image of 3D object is displayed on a 2D interactive surface, and input is received and is interpreted for manipulating the 3D object. When the 3D object is selected, rotation control handles indicating available rotation directions are displayed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing images of a 3D input space, recognizing at least one object in the images, and comparing the recognized objects in the images to determine a difference therebetween based on a difference threshold. Depending on the outcome of the comparison, the recognized objects are emerged and associated with digital content, or only one of the recognized objects is maintained and associated with digital content.
US09619101B2	Data processing system related to browsing A data processing apparatus includes a display control unit that controls browsing document data to be displayed, the browsing document data being configured by plural browsing object data items, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information, the position information being pointed by a pointing unit and indicating a position corresponding to the browsing document data displayed by the display control unit, a direction identification unit that identifies a direction pointed by the pointing unit, starting from the pointed position, based on a history of a motion by the pointing unit, and an attention data identification unit that identifies attention data indicating browsing object data that is focused, among the plural browsing object data items, based on the position information acquired by the position information acquisition unit and a direction identified by the direction identification unit.
US09619098B2	Display unit with touch detection function, and electronic device A display unit with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a direction, each of the touch detection electrodes being formed in a predetermined electrode pattern including electrode portion and opening portion and outputting a detection signal, based on a variation in capacitance due to an external proximity object; and a plurality of display elements formed in a layer different from a layer of the touch detection electrodes, a predetermined number of the display elements being arranged within a width dimension of a region corresponding to each of the touch detection electrodes. The predetermined electrode pattern corresponds to a layout pattern of the display elements.
US09619093B2	Touch panel and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method for a touch panel comprising: disposing an electrode layer extending from touch area of a substrate to periphery area of the substrate, wherein the periphery area surrounds the periphery of the touch area. The method further includes disposing an insulation layer in the periphery area of the substrate to form a shielding layer, making the shielding layer cover the overlapping electrode in the periphery area and making the electrode layer of the touch area and the overlapping electrode locate on the same layer of the substrate so as to avoid fluctuation of resistance value in the electrode layer due to height difference. Meanwhile, adopting the disposition method also maintains insulating performance of the shielding layer. The present disclosure also provides a touch panel made by the manufacturing method.
US09619092B2	Touch panel A touch panel includes a cover substrate having an active area and an unactive area. A printing layer is provided on the unactive area, and a sensing electrode is provided on the active area with a wire electrode connected with the sensing electrode. The printing layer includes a first printing layer on the cover substrate and a second printing layer provided on the first printing layer. The second printing layer has a width different from a width of the first printing layer, and the wire electrode is interposed between the first and second printing layers.
US09619086B2	Display device with touch screen and method of driving the same A display device with a touch screen and a method of driving the same are provided. In a method of driving a display device including a touch screen including a plurality of sensing electrode lines and driving electrode lines and operating as an electromagnetic touch mode or a capacitive touch mode according to an input touch signal, the method includes: determining the input touch signal, controlling whether to connect pairs of sensing electrode lines among the sensing electrode lines, and controlling whether to connect pairs of driving electrode lines among the driving electrode lines, according to the touch signal.
US09619081B2	Using dynamically scaled linear correction to improve finger tracking linearity on touch sensors A system and method for correcting non-linear tracking of objects that may change size when moving on a large touch sensor having a relatively large space between electrodes by dynamic compensating on-the-fly by constantly calculating the size of a finger as measured by the touch sensor, and then scaling that measured size so that look-up tables may be used to compensate for any size finger in the X and Y axes.
US09619076B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for transitioning between display states in response to a gesture An electronic device displays a user interface in a first display state. The device detects a first portion of a gesture on a touch-sensitive surface, including detecting intensity of a respective contact of the gesture. In response to detecting the first portion of the gesture, the device displays an intermediate display state between the first display state and a second display state. In response to detecting the end of the gesture: if intensity of the respective contact had reached a predefined intensity threshold prior to the end of the gesture, the device displays the second display state; otherwise, the device redisplays the first display state. After displaying an animated transition between a first display state and a second state, the device, optionally, detects an increase of the contact intensity. In response, the device displays a continuation of the animation in accordance with the increasing intensity of the respective contact.
US09619070B2	Validating a physical touch event in optical touch screens A hybrid optical-physical touch screen is provided herein. The touch screen includes: an electronic panel display; one or more optical sensors coupled to the electronic panel display and configured to determine, a spatial location of a physical object on an X-Y plane near the electronic panel display; a plurality of physical touch sensors coupled to the electronic panel display and configured to determine, a physical touch event between the physical object and the electronic panel display; and a processor configured to compare the determined spatial location of the physical object with the determined physical touch event between the physical object and the display at a same time, and determine, based on predefined parameters, whether an intentional physical touch event between the physical object and the electronic panel display has occurred.
US09619067B2	Semiconductor device A display signal drive circuit is configured to output a display signal having a signal level based on a common voltage to a display panel. A touch detection signal drive circuit is configured to output a touch detection signal having a signal level based on the common voltage to a touch panel in case that a composite panel is an in-cell type, and is configured to output a touch detection signal having a signal level based on a voltage level other than the common voltage to the touch panel in case that the composite panel is an on-cell type.
US09619063B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and touch display device Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device. The array substrate comprises multiple data lines, multiple gate lines and multiple thin film transistors. The data lines and the gate lines intersect with each other in different planes to divide the array substrate into multiple pixel units, in each of which a thin film transistor is provided, wherein the array substrate further comprises multiple first touch sensing electrodes and multiple second touch sensing electrodes. The first touch sensing electrodes are provided below active regions of the thin film transistors and also serve as metal shielding layers for blocking light emitted by a backlight source. The first touch sensing electrodes and the second touch sensing electrodes intersect with each other in different planes, and capacitances are formed at intersections of the first touch sensing electrodes and the second touch sensing electrodes.
US09619057B2	Touch panel and electronic device The present invention discloses a touch panel and an electronic device. The touch panel includes a transparent substrate, a first conductive micropattern and a second conductive micropattern. The first conductive micropattern defines multiple traces in a plurality of first cells. The second conductive micropattern defines multiple traces in a plurality of second cells. The first conductive micropattern covers the second conductive micropattern, and the first cell overlaps the second cell. The first cell, the second cell and a corresponding area of the substrate in them are as a combination cell. The integral light transmittances between at least part of the combination cells are inconsistent. The present invention can have a low visibility of micropattern and can reduce manufacturing costs.
US09619056B1	Method and apparatus for determining a valid touch event on a touch sensitive device Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for determining a valid touch event on a touch sensitive device. At least two touch events are received from a touch interface. The at least two touch events are combined if a time difference between each of the at least two touch events is less than a time threshold and a proximity between each of the at least two touch events is less than a proximity threshold. A valid touch event is determined if a combined pressure indicator of a combined touch event is greater than a pressure threshold.
US09619046B2	Determining phrase objects based on received user input context information A composer interface allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. To reduce the number of inputs for a user to provide to the social networking system, one or more phrase objects are presented to the user when providing input. A phrase object includes a group of objects that users have previously provided to the social networking system. The social networking system presents phrase objects to the user that match at least a portion of the received input. Context information associated with the input and associated with various phrase objects may be used to select the presented phrase objects. By selecting a presented phrase object, the user includes the selected phrase object in the input.
US09619045B1	User input source identification based on delayed input Certain embodiments herein relate to determining a type of input device from which user input is received. Input devices, such as keyboards, scanners, card readers, other keypad devices, etc., may send information to a computing device. The information may include one or more characters or signals, each of which may be received by the computing device after a delay. Such a delay may be analyzed to determine a source or type of user input device. A threshold time may be established such that an identification and number of characters received before the threshold time is reached may be used to determine the source or type of an input device. In example embodiments, a distinction between a bar code scanner and a keyboard, among other types of input devices used in a product shipping application, may be determined.
US09619038B2	Electronic device and method of displaying a cover image and an application image from a low power condition A method includes entering, by a portable electronic device, a low-power condition and while in the low-power condition, detecting an input. In response to detecting the input, a cover image is displayed. An application image is progressively revealed along with movement of a gesture while reducing display of the cover image.
US09619033B2	Interactivity model for shared feedback on mobile devices A system that produces a dynamic haptic effect and generates a drive signal that includes a gesture signal and a real or virtual device sensor signal. The haptic effect is modified dynamically based on both the gesture signal and the real or virtual device sensor signal such as from an accelerometer or gyroscope, or by a signal created from processing data such as still images, video or sound. The haptic effect may optionally be modified dynamically by using the gesture signal and the real or virtual device sensor signal and a physical model, or may optionally be applied concurrently to multiple devices which are connected via a communication link. The haptic effect may optionally be encoded into a data file on a first device. The data file is then communicated to a second device and the haptic effect is read from the data file and applied to the second device.
US09619032B1	Accessibility path guiding through microfluidics on a touch screen Providing accessibility path guidance on a display presented on a touch screen of a device with microfluidics. The fluid is selectively applied to a portion of the touch screen by a computer of the device to raise a portion of the touch screen. The computer loads a display on the touch screen which requires user input. The flow information regarding the display is fetched and a computer of the device detects that the user has touched the touch screen at a point. The computer uses microfluidics to create a physical ridge on the touch screen corresponding to a flow path connecting the point on the touch screen in which the user is currently touching to a touch point within an object field which requires user input. Once the user has reached the object field by following the physical ridge through touch, the physical ridge is removed.
US09619021B2	Head mounted display providing eye gaze calibration and control method thereof A control method of a head mounted display (HMD) is disclosed. The control method includes detecting a first route of a first moving object and a second route of a second moving object in front of the HMD, detecting a third route along which a user's eye gaze moves, setting the first moving object as a reference object if the detected first route identical with the detected third route, setting the second moving object as the reference object if the detected second route identical with the detected third route, and setting a focus of the camera unit on the set reference object based on a route of the set reference object and the detected third route.
US09619019B2	Display apparatus with a plurality of screens and method of controlling the same A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a plurality of images received from a plurality of sources on each of a first screen, a second screen, and a third screen of a display screen, a user interface configured to detect a user interaction, and a controller configured to control the display to move locations of the first to third screens in accordance with a detected rotation interaction in response to the rotation interaction being detected through the user interface.
US09619008B2	System and method for dynamic thermal management in passively cooled device with a plurality of display surfaces An information handling system includes a primary integrated display platform and a secondary integrated display platform attached via a hinge, and including a passive cooling system, a dynamic thermal management system, and a processor. The information handling system further includes an application window locator system for determining a location of a software application display window running on the information handling system on the primary integrated display platform or the secondary integrated display platform.
US09619006B2	Router parking in power-efficient interconnect architectures A method and apparatus for selectively parking routers used for routing traffic in mesh interconnects. Various router parking (RP) algorithms are disclosed, including an aggressive RP algorithm where a minimum number of routers are kept active to ensure adequate network connectivity between active nodes and/or intercommunicating nodes, leading to a maximum reduction in static power consumption, and a conservative RP algorithm that favors network latency considerations over static power consumption while also reducing power. An adaptive RP algorithm is also disclosed that implements aspects of the aggressive and conservative RP algorithms to balance power consumption and latency considerations in response to ongoing node utilization and associated traffic. The techniques may be implemented in internal network structures, such as for single chip computers, as well as external network structures, such as computing clusters and massively parallel computer architectures. Performance modeling has demonstrated substantial power reduction may be obtained using the router parking techniques while maintaining Quality of Service performance objectives.
US09619002B2	Activating and deactivation functional units of a line card In some implementations, a method includes analyzing an amount of data communicated by a set of network interfaces. The data communicated by the set of network interfaces is processed by a set of functional units and a set of queues includes the data communicated by the set of network interfaces. The method also includes activating a first functional unit of the set of functional units when a first size of a first queue of the set of queues is above a first threshold. The method further includes deactivating the first functional unit of the set of functional units when the first size of the first queue of the set of queues is below a second threshold. The method further includes causing the data to be forward to one or more active functional units via a data interconnect coupled to the set of network interfaces and the set of functional units.
US09619000B2	Board, board apparatus and method for interconnection of boards Disclosed is a board including a semiconductor device including a first terminal to receive a signal that sets a functionality of the device, a second terminal to supply a first value and a third terminal to supply a second value, a first connection member connected to the first to third terminals of the semiconductor device, and a second connection member adapted to be connected to the first connection member provided on a counterpart board, with at least two terminals of the second connection member connected together via a first connection circuit, wherein the first connection member of the board is connected to the second connection member of another counterpart board.
US09618998B2	Identification of idle servers using power consumption Power consumption data for a server and temperature data from a location containing the server are received. It is determined that variation in the power consumption data exceeds a first threshold level. It is determined, in response to determining variation in the power consumption data exceeds the first threshold level, variation in the temperature data does not exceed a second threshold level. It is determined, in response to determining variation in the temperature data does not exceed a second threshold level, variation in the power consumption data follows a cyclic pattern. The server is identified as idle in response to determining the variation in the power consumption data follows the cyclic pattern.
US09618994B2	Processor clocking policies for mobile computing devices In one embodiment, a processor of a computing device executes a sequence of instructions that depends on one or more external operations. Software of the computing device determines a clocking policy for the processor during execution of the sequence of instructions. The clocking policy is based at least in part on a pattern of execution involving the sequence of instructions and the external operations, and the clocking policy modifies a clock speed of the processor. The software of the computing device applies the clocking policy to the processor during execution of at least a portion of the sequence of instructions.
US09618993B2	System and method for power management of mobile devices A method and system of managing power usage of devices including selectively executing a program application on a plurality of battery powered devices. Battery usage data is generated for a battery in one or more of the devices during execution of the work application. The battery usage data includes the run-time of the battery for the work application being executed. The data is aggregated and stored for the plurality of devices in memory. An application specific battery profile is generated using the stored battery usage data. The application specific battery profile is associated with the work application being run by the client devices.
US09618988B2	Method and apparatus for managing a thermal budget of at least a part of a processing system A method of managing a thermal budget, for at least a part of a processing system, is described. The method comprises, upon detection of a use case event, determining a thermal budget violation time window for a current use case scenario of the at least part of the processing system, and managing the thermal budget for the at least part of the processing system based at least partly on the determined thermal budget violation time window.
US09618986B2	Partitioned airflow method for cooling information handling systems A system for supplying cooling airflow across a plurality of wireless charging coils. More specifically in certain embodiments, the system includes a charging system which includes a partitioned airflow system for cooling a plurality of information handling systems. In certain embodiments the information handling systems comprise wireless powered information handling systems. In certain embodiments, the charging system includes a charging system housing as well as a plurality of charging transmit coils. The charging transmit coils interact with respective charging receive coils which are associated with respective information handling systems.
US09618966B2	Pulse-drive resonant clock with on-the-fly mode change A pulse-drive resonant clock with on-the fly mode changing provides robust operation in a resonant clock distribution network, in particular for processor circuits having a dynamically-varied operating frequency. The clock drivers for the resonant clock distribution network include a pulse width control circuit having selectable operating modes corresponding to multiple clocking modes of the resonant clock distribution network. The pulse width control circuit includes a delay line that has a selectable delay length to provide pulse enable signals that control the pulse widths of the clock drivers in a sector of the resonant clock distribution network. The delay line responds to a mode control signal so that at least one pulse width of the output is changed from a first pulse width to a second pulse width without generating half-cycles with a pulse width narrower than the first or second pulse width.
US09618963B2	Power management apparatus and multi-source energy harvesting system using the same Disclosed is a power management apparatus and a multi-source energy harvesting system using the apparatus, which manage power supplied by individual harvesting sources without wasting the power, thus efficiently distributing the power to a battery. The power management apparatus includes a plurality of comparison units configured to compare voltages of storage devices respectively connected to output terminals of a plurality of harvesting power sources with a preset threshold voltage. A control unit is configured to control an operation of the power management apparatus. A plurality of switching units are installed between the storage devices and a battery and are configured to be turned on/off in response to switching control signals output from the control unit and to form power transmission paths between corresponding storage devices and the battery. The control unit generates and provides the switching control signals based on output signals of the comparison units.
US09618961B2	Combined reverse engagement activation and parking brake lever and methods of operation and manufacture of the same An apparatus may, for example, include a first lever pivoting about a first axis. The apparatus may also include a second lever mounted with the first lever, pivoting about a second axis, and biased to a first position. The first lever can be configured to engage a braking system of a vehicle when the first lever is pivoted about the first axis and the second lever is in the first position. The second lever can be configured to be pivoted about the second axis to a second position. The first lever can be configured to disengage a reverse lockout system of the vehicle when the second lever is in the second position. The second lever can be configured to be pivoted about the second axis to a third position, which cases the first lever to engage a parking brake mechanism of the vehicle.
US09618960B2	Multifunctional operating device for operating a vehicle The invention provides, in one aspect, a multifunctional operating device for operating a motor vehicle. The operating device includes a handle and an operating head fixed to the handle. The operating head includes a head housing, a circuit board with at least one switch element, and a support part, mounted inside the head housing, upon which the circuit board is mounted. The switch element is configured to emit an acoustic response when actuated. The head housing is formed as a resonance body for amplifying the acoustic response.
US09618940B1	Unmanned aerial vehicle rooftop inspection system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes receiving, by the UAV, flight information describing a job to perform an inspection of a rooftop. A particular altitude is ascended to, and an inspection of the rooftop is performed including obtaining sensor information describing the rooftop. Location information identifying a damaged area of the rooftop is received. The damaged area of the rooftop is traveled to. An inspection of the damaged area of the rooftop is performed including obtaining detailed sensor information describing the damaged area. A safe landing location is traveled to.
US09618939B2	Method for controlling an aircraft in the form of a multicopter and corresponding control system A method and a system are provided for controlling an aircraft in the form of a multicopter which has a plurality of redundant rotors (4), preferably arranged in a common rotor plane, in order, on the one hand, to generate lift, and, on the other hand, also propulsion by inclining the at least one rotor plane, wherein the regulation of the position and the control of the multicopter are carried out by changing rotor rotational speeds as a function of pilot control instructions. The system is characterized in that the rotors (4) are connected to one another in terms of data technology via a failsafe network (8), and they communicate their respective operating state, in particular their rotor rotational speed, in the network (8), and in that the network contains a first multiplicity of redundant sensors which determine control-relevant data and make it available in the network, in particular inclination, acceleration, rotational speed and/or position in all three spatial axes of the multicopter.
US09618935B2	Remote controlling and lifesaving apparatus using a wearable device system within a car A remote controlling and lifesaving apparatus using a wearable device system within a car is provided. The remote controlling and lifesaving apparatus using a wearable device system within a car performs lifesaving according to biometric information of a passenger when a car accident occurs, and provides technology for measuring biometric information of the passenger through the wearable device system when the car accident occurs and performing rapid post management for the passenger based on the measured biometric information.
US09618928B2	Simulation apparatus of numerical controller A simulation apparatus of a numerical controller that controls a movable unit of a machine tool on the basis of a machining program sequentially generates, when the machining program includes a machining cycle command, a series of movement commands from designated work shape data and machining conditions, and stores the movement commands in a memory. The simulation apparatus displays the machining program and a moving image of the machining program in first and second areas of a display screen and displays the movement commands generated from the machining cycle command in a third area of the display screen.
US09618924B2	CPU of PLC, system program for PLC, and recording medium storing system program for PLC The system program includes, as an execution control process of the control program, an owner-side start process that starts execution of an owner-side control program; a copy process in which, when execution of the owner-side control program ends, a global variable that is rewritten by the owner-side control program is copied from a global variable area to a synchronous buffer corresponding to the global variable; and a referrer-side start process that starts execution of a referrer-side control program.
US09618922B2	CPU of PLC, system program for PLC, and recording medium storing system program for PLC A scheduler causes a microprocessor to start execution of a first control program after a communication circuit transmits output data and receives input data in a control cycle following a control circle in which execution of the first control program has ended, and causes execution of an unexecuted portion of the first control program in a control cycle following a control cycle in which execution of the first control cycle has not ended.
US09618921B2	Object carrier transport system and method of transporting object carriers A semiconductor electronic device structure includes an active area array disposed in a substrate, an isolation structure, a plurality of recessed gate structures, a plurality of word lines, and a plurality of bit lines. The active area array a plurality of active area columns and a plurality of active area rows, defining an array of active areas. The substrate has two recesses formed at the central region thereof. Each recessed gate structure is respectively disposed in the recess. A protruding structure is formed on the substrate in each recess. A STI structure of the isolation structure is arranged between each pair of adjacent active area rows. Word lines are disposed in the substrate, each electrically connecting the gate structures there-under. Bit lines are disposed above the active areas, forming a crossing pattern with the word lines.
US09618913B2	Self powered fluid metering units A system includes a metering module that receives fluid through a fluid inlet. The metering module includes a rotating component driven by the fluid, an electric machine, and a controller. The fluid is received from the fluid inlet at an inlet flow rate, and the rotating component provides the fluid to an outlet of the rotating component at an outlet pressure. The electric machine is configured to generate electrical power in response to rotation of the rotating component. The controller is powered by the electrical power generated by the electric machine, and controls a rotational speed of the rotating component to control the outlet pressure.
US09618911B2	Automation of a programmable device A method and apparatus for a computer-implemented adaptive automation module comprising an event recorder to store one or more events for a predetermined period, and a timeline pattern generator logic to create a timeline for the predetermined period. The module further comprising marker creator logic to generate a marker to abstract the timeline data from the event data for controlling a device.
US09618904B2	Plastic or electroformed watch case with removable crystal A watch case includes a case middle made of plastic or electroformed material and a crystal. The crystal or the case middle includes elbowed catches that are each insertable in a bayonet fitting in a recess of the case middle or the crystal. The case also includes a rotation stop angularly securing the case middle and the crystal in an angular position such that a part of each catch is frontally locked behind a holding surface of the case middle or of the crystal. The rotation stop is frontally snap-fitted on the case middle and/or the crystal by snap-fit fingers that cooperate with a complementary stop surface of the case middle and/or of the crystal.
US09618901B2	Sheet humidification apparatus and humidification control method A sheet humidification apparatus includes a detect sensor that detects a position of a sheet which is being conveyed; a humidifier that changes a humidification amount and humidifies the sheet; and a controller that controls the humidifier such that a first region on a front end side of the sheet in a conveyance direction is humidified with a first humidification amount, and a second region of the sheet other than the first region is humidified with a second humidification amount larger than the first humidification amount in accordance with a position of the sheet detected by the detect sensor.
US09618889B2	Image fixing device A fixing device configured to fix an image on a recording material, includes: a rotary member including an electroconductive layer; a coil which has a spiral shaped portion and is disposed in the inside of the rotary member; and a core disposed in the spiral shaped portion; with magnetic resistance of the core being, with an area from one end to the other end of the maximum passage region of the image on the recording material regarding the generatrix direction, equal to or smaller than 30% of combined magnetic resistance made up of magnetic resistance of the electroconductive layer and magnetic resistance of a region between the electroconductive layer and the core.
US09618888B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotator rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation and an opposed rotator disposed opposite the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A heater is disposed opposite the fixing rotator to heat the fixing rotator. A nip formation pad is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. The nip formation pad includes a base, a first thermal conductor sandwiched between the base and the fixing rotator and having a first thermal conductivity greater than a thermal conductivity of the base, and a bulge projecting from the first thermal conductor toward the opposed rotator at a downstream end of the first thermal conductor in a recording medium conveyance direction.
US09618886B2	NIP formation assembly, fixing device, and image forming apparatus A nip formation assembly disposed opposite an opposed rotator via an endless belt includes a nip formation pad to press against the opposed rotator via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the opposed rotator, through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A fixing heater is disposed opposite at least a center span of the endless belt in an axial direction thereof where the recording medium is conveyed. The fixing heater heats the endless belt. A lateral end heater is mounted on the nip formation pad and disposed opposite a lateral end span of an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt in the axial direction thereof. The lateral end heater heats the endless belt.
US09618880B2	Developing device, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A developing device includes a developer storage chamber configured to store developer to be supplied to the development chamber, a partition configured to separate a development chamber and the developer storage chamber and having an opening allowing communication between the developer storage chamber and the development chamber, and a protruding portion configured to protrude toward the inside of the developer storage chamber from the partition on a downstream side of the opening in the rotation direction of a rotating shaft, and within one turn of rotation of the rotating shaft, a receiving member moves while contacting the protruding portion according to the rotation of the rotating shaft.
US09618877B2	Image forming apparatus having image forming units for forming developer images An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying an electrostatic latent image, a developer carrier for developing the electrostatic latent image of the image carrier with a developer, a developer regulating member that regulates a thickness of a layer of the developer held by the developer carrier, and a supply member that supplies the developer to the developer carrier. An absolute value of a voltage applied to the developer regulating member is larger than an absolute value of a voltage applied to the supply member.
US09618874B2	Write control apparatus, image forming apparatus, and write control method A write control apparatus is for receiving one page worth of image data and performing processes, and writing an image by exposing a photoconductor. The write control apparatus includes a write control unit including a process function unit for performing the processes; a computer for generating setting values of parameters used by the process function unit; and first and second memories for storing the setting values. When the computer sends a trigger signal to start image formation to the write control unit, the second memory stores one page worth of the setting values stored in the first memory, and the setting values of a desired page among a plurality of pages worth of the setting values stored in the second memory are applied to operations by the process function unit when the write control unit controlled by the computer writes an image of the desired page.
US09618860B2	Electrophotographic printer photoconductor based on ligand-free semiconductor quantum dots A photoconductor and method of forming a photoconductor for an electrophotographic device comprising forming a charge generation material comprising a plurality of quantum dots, and forming an active region comprising one or more photoconductor layers comprising the charge generation material including the surface modified quantum dots.
US09618859B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus component, such as a metrology system or an optical element (e.g., a mirror) is provided with a temperature control system for controlling deformation of the component. The control system includes channels provided close to a surface of the component through which a two phase cooling medium is supplied. The metrology system measures a position of at least a moveable item with respect to a reference position and includes a metrology frame connected to the reference position. An encoder is connected to the moveable item and constructed and arranged to measure a relative position of the encoder with respect to a reference grid. The reference grid may be provided directly on a surface of the metrology frame. A lithographic projection apparatus may have the metrology system for measuring a position of the substrate table with respect to the projection system.
US09618854B2	Exposure method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A liquid immersion device that has an mixing mechanism that mixes and dissolves a predetermined substance for adjusting specific resistance of the liquid, which is supplied onto a liquid repellent film on the surface of an object (member) of a projection optical system placed on the light emitting side of projection optical system, and an liquid immersion area is formed by supplying the liquid in which the predetermined liquid is dissolved onto the liquid repellent film.
US09618848B2	Methods and techniques to use with photosensitized chemically amplified resist chemicals and processes The disclosure herein describes methods for Photosensitized Chemically Amplified Resist Chemicals (PS-CAR) to pattern light sensitive films on a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, a two-step exposure process may generate higher acid concentration regions within a photoresist layer. The PS-CAR chemicals may include photoacid generators (PAGs) and photosensitizer elements that enhance the decomposition of the PAGs into acid. The first exposure may be a patterned EUV exposure that generates an initial amount of acid and photosensitizer. The second exposure may be a non-EUV flood exposure that excites the photosensitizer which increases the acid generation rate where the photosensitizer is located on the substrate. The distribution of energy during the exposures may be optimized by using certain characteristics (e.g., thickness, index of refraction, doping) of the photoresist layer, an underlying layer, and/or an overlying layer.
US09618841B2	Cu2Zn0.14Sn0.25Te2.34 nanocrystalline solution, its preparation method, photosensitive resin solution, method for forming black matrix, and color filter substrate The present invention relates to a Cu2Zn0.14Sn0.25Te2.34 nanocrystalline solution, its preparation method, a photosensitive resin solution, a method for forming black matrixes (BMs), and a color filter (CF) substrate. As the particle size of nanocrystallines in the nanocrystalline solution is small and light within the ultraviolet-visible light range can be absorbed, the BMs formed by utilization of the nanocrystalline solution can obtain good light shielding performance while having a small thickness. In the nanocrystalline solution, the particle size of the nanocrystallines dispersed in the nanocrystalline solution is 5 to 20 nm; the band gap of the nanocrystallines is 0.8 to 1.5 ev, and the grain surface of the nanocrystallines has organic functional groups.
US09618840B2	Systems and methods for polymer tips using silanated supports Polymer Pen Lithography materials that retain the simplicity characteristic for the fabrication of poly(dimethyl siloxane) tip arrays while preserving the control over feature dimensions and to understand the role of the mechanical properties of the different materials on Polymer Pen Lithography printing.
US09618835B2	Lithographic apparatus and a device manufacturing method involving an elongate liquid supply opening or an elongate region of relatively high pressure In a liquid confinement structure of an immersion lithographic apparatus an elongate continuous opening forms an outlet for supplying liquid to a space beneath the projection system. The elongate slit forms a region of high shear and pressure gradient that deflects bubbles away from the image field.
US09618834B2	Polarization conversion element, projector, and method for manufacturing polarization conversion element A polarization conversion element includes first light transmissive substrates and second light transmissive substrates each of which has a light incident surface and a light exiting surface and which are disposed alternately, polarization separation films, reflection films, and retardation plates. One of each of the polarization separation films and a plasma polymerization film is formed on a first surface of each of the first light transmissive substrate. Each of the reflection films is formed on a second surface of each of the first light transmissive substrate. An adhesive layer is formed on a first surface of each of the second light transmissive substrates. The other of each of the polarization separation films and the plasma polymerization films is formed on a second surface of each of the corresponding second light transmissive substrates.
US09618832B2	Projector suspension device A projector suspension device for a projector comprises a base to be fixed to a surface on which the projector projects an image, a support member extending from the base and configured to support the projector, and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a tilt of the projector.
US09618828B2	Camera with heating element A camera for use on vehicles, in particular commercial vehicles. The camera has a housing, at least one optical element disposed within the housing, a group of circuit boards disposed within the housing and including at least one circuit board. The group of circuit boards has at least one active circuit for executing a direct camera function. The camera further comprises at least one heating element adapted for heating the group of circuit boards, the optical elements, and/or the housing, wherein the at least one heating element is directly attached to one of the circuit boards of the group of circuit boards.
US09618825B2	Projector and method for controlling projector with changing content A projector includes an electricity reception terminal to which electric power is supplied via an electricity feed terminal, a projection section that includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, an irradiation system, and a projection system and projects light, and a control section that switches a content to another whenever electric power supply to the electricity reception terminal is initiated and causes the projection section to project light carrying an image related to the content selected in the switching operation.
US09618824B2	Integrated Terahertz sensor Systems and methods may provide for an integrated miniature sensor that operates in the Terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The integrated miniature sensor may detect a remote target and operate in a non-contact, non-invasive manner. Numerous signal analysis techniques may be employed such as Doppler radar technology, absorption spectroscopy, and others when the integrated miniature sensor is used in biomedical, physiological and other settings where prolonged recording of bio-signals is needed.
US09618821B2	Optical modulator An optical modulator is disclosed, in which a MMI couplers are used for input signal splitting for branching into individual Mach-Zehnder interferometers, as well as for branching and combining from individual Mach-Zehnder waveguides. MMI couplers, splitters, and combiners may be cascaded and combined with single-mode Y-splitters and combiners to provide modulators of various types, including dual polarization, quadrature phase Mach-Zehnder interferometer base optical modulators.
US09618820B2	Integrated photovoltaic and electrochromic windows A variety of methods for integrating an organic photovoltaic-based SolarWindow™ module and electrochromic materials to create dynamic, variable transmittance, energy-saving windows and/or window films are described. Stand-alone or building integrated, independent or user-controllable, battery supported or building integrated, and insulated glass unit or aftermarket film implementations are all described, providing for a diversity of applications. Low-cost fabrication options also allow for economical production.
US09618819B2	Multi-pane dynamic window and method for making same A window assembly comprises a plurality of dynamic electrochromic zones formed on a single transparent substrate in which at least two electrochromic zones are independently controllable. In one exemplary embodiment, the window assembly comprises an Insulated Glass Unit (IGU), and at least one transparent substrate comprises a lite. In another exemplary embodiment, the IGU comprises at least two lites in which at least one lite comprises a plurality of independently controllable dynamic zones.
US09618809B2	Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, including: preparing a substrate on which a switching element, laminating a conductive material layer and a conductive metal layer, forming a first photosensitive film pattern on the conductive metal layer, the first photosensitive film pattern comprising a first region having a first thickness and a second region having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, forming a conductive metal pattern by etching the conductive metal layer using the first photosensitive film pattern as a mask, forming a second photosensitive film pattern that exposes a part of the conductive metal pattern by removing the first region of the first photosensitive film pattern, forming a common electrode by etching the conductive material layer by using the conductive metal pattern as a mask and forming an auxiliary electrode by etching the exposed conductive metal pattern using the second photosensitive film pattern as a mask.
US09618808B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes: a first subpixel electrode disposed on a first substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first subpixel electrode; a second subpixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer; and a common electrode disposed on a second substrate, the second substrate facing the first substrate. The first subpixel electrode is overlapped with a portion of the second subpixel electrode, and the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode are configured to receive substantially the same electric potential.
US09618806B2	Display device having a multi-portion light blocking member A display device may include a transistor, which includes a first transistor electrode and a second transistor electrode. The display device may further include a pixel electrode, which is electrically connected to the second transistor electrode. The display device may further include a data line, which is electrically connected to the first transistor electrode, wherein the data line includes a bent structure. The display device may further include a light blocking member, which includes a light blocking portion, wherein the light blocking portion extends perpendicular to a section of the data line, and wherein the light blocking portion overlaps both the transistor and the bent structure without overlapping the section of the data line in a direction perpendicular to the light blocking member.
US09618796B2	Method for aligning liquid crystal of PSVA liquid crystal display device The present disclosure discloses a method for aligning liquid crystals of a PSVA liquid crystal display device, including the steps of: providing a first voltage to a gate of a thin film transistor for enabling it in a turn-on state; applying a second voltage to the source of the thin film transistor, and applying a third voltage to a color filter side common electrode and an array side common electrode, so as to generate an alternating current voltage difference between the source and the color filter side common electrode, and enable the liquid crystal molecules to be arranged according to predefined direction angles; curing the liquid crystal molecules. The method may enable the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to be ideal, which is advantageous to the subsequent process of tilt angles, so as to enhance the efficiency and effect of the liquid crystal display.
US09618792B2	Backlight unit and display device having the same A backlight unit including a plurality of light sources configured to emit primary light, and a quantum dot composite. The quantum dot composite includes quantum dot phosphors excited by primary light supplied from the plurality of light sources so as to emit secondary light having a different wavelength than the primary light, and scattering particles that are configured to scatter the primary light. The scattering particles include first scattering particles, and second scattering particles different from the first scattering particles in size and composed of particles each having a diameter in the range of 5 to 50 nm.
US09618787B2	Lens array substrate, method of manufacturing lens array substrate, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus A lens array substrate includes a substrate provided with a plurality of concave portions in a first face thereof. The lens layer includes a first lens layer, a second lens layer, and a third lens layer which are sequentially laminated from a substrate side by reflecting the shape of the concave portion therein. A refractive index of the first lens layer is larger than a refractive index of the second lens layer, and a refractive index of the third lens layer is smaller than the refractive index of the second lens layer and is larger than a refractive index of the substrate. The third lens layer, the second lens layer, and the first lens layer are sequentially exposed to the surface of the lens layer toward the end from the central portion of the concave portion.
US09618783B2	Resistor meshes for display heating An improved Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) heating system is provided. Resistor meshes, in particular VCOM resistor heating meshes, in the pixel array improve capacity of the display heater (heating system) so that the display is heated faster from low temperatures. The resistor mesh design provides much lower resistance from one point in the pixel array to an edge than pixel-to-pixel horizontal VCOM resistance, thus reducing horizontal crosstalk. Further, the approach permits the display to be active during the warm-up process.
US09618761B2	Vision system, alignment system for aligning display panel and patterned retarder on stereoscopic image display using the vision system A vision system for obtaining an image of a patterned retarder comprising first and second patterns having different optical axes is provided. The vision system comprises a camera, a ½ wavelength plate arranged in front of a lens of the camera, a rotatable ¼ wavelength plate arranged in front of the ½ wavelength plate.
US09618753B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a position controller, a projection unit, and a reflector. The projection unit emits light including image information. The projection unit is held by a holder. The position controller is interposed between the holder and the projection unit. The reflector reflects at least a portion of the light emitted from the projection unit. The reflector is held by the holder. A position of the reflector with respect to the holder is fixed. A relative arrangement of the projection unit and the reflector is changeable by the position controller.
US09618746B2	High resolution wide field of view digital night vision system A wide field of view night vision system includes a head attachment apparatus configured to attach to a user's head and a night vision subsystem. The night vision subsystem includes one or more digital night vision image sensors attached to the head attachment apparatus. Each sensor receives input light and produces a digital image of the input light. A processor processes the digital image(s) to produce a wide-field image. The wide-field image spans at least 60 degrees of a user's horizontal field of view. A display and eyepiece attached to the head attachment apparatus receives and displays the wide-field image. The eyepiece is positionable between the display and the user's eye to image the wide-field image into the user's eye.
US09618742B1	Rotatable mirror assemblies Rotatable mirror assemblies and light detection and ranging systems containing rotatable mirror assemblies are described herein. An example rotatable mirror assembly may include (1) a housing having a top end, a bottom end, and a longitudinal axis intersecting the top and bottom ends, and (2) a set of reflective surfaces, where each reflective surface in the set is coupled to the top end of the housing and the bottom end of the housing such that each reflective surface possesses limited freedom of movement with respect to the housing.
US09618740B2	Micromirror and manufacturing method for at least one micromirror which is situatable or situated in a micromirror device A micromirror for a micromirror device includes: a mirror side; and a back side which is directed away from the mirror side, at least one central area of the back side having at least one surface which is plane parallel to the mirror side, the back side being shaped in such a way that on two opposite sides of the central area, a side area having at least one side surface of the back side in each case, which is curved and/or oriented inclined toward the mirror side borders on the central area of the back side, and a height of the micromirror continuously decreasing starting from the central area along a cross section of the micromirror, which runs through the central area and the two side areas.
US09618734B2	Optical components exposer set having non-spherical component A common optical components exposer lens set having a single non-spherical surface, comprising a common optical element set, comprising a first, second, and third lens arranged sequentially; a spherical reflecting mirror, arranged below the third spherical lens; and a planar reflecting lens, comprising a first and second planar reflecting, inclinedly arranged above the first lens, so that an equi-multiplication exposer lens set is formed by the spherical mirror set, so as to impinge a pattern on an object onto a photosensitive surface. As such, a single non-spherical surface and overlapping assembly, composed of three lenses having the single non-spherical surface and a spherical reflecting lens and two planar reflecting lenses overlapping together, in which two optical material types are arranged with respect to each other.
US09618732B2	Lens structure A lens structure is provided. The lens structure comprises a first barrel and a second barrel. The first barrel comprises a first pin and a second pin. The second barrel comprises a continuous groove. Wherein in a wide-angle end, the first pin is located in the continuous groove and the second pin is located outside of the second barrel. Wherein in a telephoto end, the first pin is located outside of the second barrel and the second pin is located in the continuous groove.
US09618731B2	Optical system and image pickup apparatus including the same Provided is an optical system, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a front group having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a rear group having a positive refractive power, in which: the front group consists of in order from the object side to the image side: a negative first lens (L1) having a concave surface facing the image side; a second lens (L2); and a third lens (L3); the rear group consists of, in order from the object side to the image side: a positive fourth lens (L4); and a negative cemented lens (L56), which is obtained by cementing a positive fifth lens (L5) and a negative sixth lens (L6); and a focal length f56 of the cemented lens (L56) and a focal length f of the optical system are each appropriately set.
US09618727B2	Imaging lens assembly An imaging lens assembly is disclosed in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a stop; a first lens having a positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens having a negative refractive power and a convex and meniscus shaped image-side surface; a third lens having a positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region and being convex and meniscus shaped at a peripheral region, and an object side-surface being convex at the paraxial region; the image-side surface of the fourth lens having an inflection point; at least one of the image-side surfaces of three lenses being spherical; and the imaging lens assembly satisfying following condition: 2.4 < R ⁢ ⁢ 6 R ⁢ ⁢ 7 < 2.6 .
US09618723B2	Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, lens unit, and image capturing system An image capturing apparatus to which a lens unit having an optical imaging system is attachable, comprising: an image sensor configured to generate an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion on a light flux passing through the optical imaging system; a first calculation unit configured to obtain first control information for focus control by using a signal output from the image sensor; and a second calculation unit configured to obtain second control information for focus control without using a signal output from the image sensor, and transmit the second control information to the lens unit. The first calculation unit transmits the first control information to the lens unit without mediation of the second calculation unit.
US09618709B2	Hybrid integration of edge-coupled chips A technique for fabricating a hybrid optical source is described. During this fabrication technique, a III-V compound-semiconductor active gain medium is integrated with a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip (or wafer) using edge coupling to form a co-planar hybrid optical source. Using a backside etch-assisted cleaving technique, and a temporary transparent substrate with alignment markers, a III-V compound-semiconductor chip with proper edge polish and coating can be integrated with a processed SOI chip (or wafer) with accurate alignment. This fabrication technique may significantly reduce the alignment complexity when fabricating the hybrid optical source, and may enable wafer-scale integration.
US09618705B2	Receptacle connector A receptacle connector includes a receptacle ferrule, a receptacle housing and a spacer. The receptacle ferrule has a first front end portion having a receptacle interface part In the receptacle housing, the receptacle ferrule and a plug connector having a second front end portion having a plug interface part configured to be optically coupled with the receptacle interface part are to be accommodated. The spacer has a first surface configured to contact the first front end portion, and a second surface configured to contact the second front end portion. The spacer is arranged in the receptacle housing. At a state where the first front end portion is contacted to the first surface of the spacer and the second front end portion is contacted to the second surface of the spacer, the receptacle interface part and the plug interface part face each other at a predetermined interval.
US09618703B2	Connector housing for securing an optical cable and methods of use and manufacture thereof Various connector housings for securing an optical cable, as well as methods of use and manufacture thereof are disclosed. A single-piece unitary connector housing body may include a first opening formed in a first end of the housing body, a second opening formed in a second end of the housing body, a bore through the housing body extending from the first opening to the second opening, and a back post surrounding the second opening. The first opening may be configured to receive a terminating optical cable and the second opening may be configured to receive a fiber optic cable. The back post may extend from the second opening in a longitudinal direction and may include a plurality of protrusions thereon. A length of the back post may have a concave shape.
US09618696B2	Thermal management for photonic integrated circuits Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, systems, and methods of thermal management for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Embodiments include a first device and a second device comprising including waveguides, wherein the first and second devices have different thermal operating conditions. A first region is adjacent to a waveguide of the first device, wherein its optical mode is to be substantially confined by the first region, and wherein the first region has a first thermal conductivity to dissipate heat based on the thermal operating condition of the first device. A second region is adjacent to a waveguide of the second device, wherein its optical mode is to be substantially confined by the second region, and wherein the second region has a second thermal conductivity to dissipate heat based on the thermal operating condition of the second device. In some embodiments, thermal cross talk is reduced without significantly affecting optical performance.
US09618694B2	Optical waveguide and arrayed waveguide grating A technique that does not increase the circuit size, does not make the circuit design and manufacturing difficult, and can reduce insertion loss when light enters from a slab waveguide toward an arrayed waveguide or when the light enters from the arrayed waveguide toward the slab waveguide. An optical waveguide provided with a slab waveguide in which a grating is formed therein at a distance from an end, and an arrayed waveguide whose end is connected to an end of the slab waveguide at a position where a constructive interference portion of a self-image of the grating is formed. An arrayed waveguide grating provided with a first input/output waveguide, the above-mentioned optical waveguide where an end of the slab waveguide on the opposite side of the arrayed waveguide is connected to an end of the first input/output waveguide, a second slab waveguide connected to an end of the arrayed waveguide on the opposite side of the slab waveguide, and a second input/output waveguide connected to an end of the second slab waveguide on the opposite side of the arrayed waveguide.
US09618692B2	High chlorine content low attenuation optical fiber An optical fiber having a core comprising silica and greater than 1.5 wt % chlorine and less than 0.5 wt % F, said core having a refractive index Δ1MAX, and a inner cladding region having refractive index Δ2MIN surrounding the core, where Δ1MAX>Δ2MIN.
US09618691B2	Display with heat radiation This display includes a light source portion, a first heat radiation member for radiating heat generated by the light source portion, a rear housing covering the first heat radiation member in a state in contact with the first heat radiation member, and a cover member covering a rear surface of the rear housing so that the rear surface of the rear housing is partially exposed outward. The first heat radiation member is arranged on a region corresponding to a region of the rear housing exposed outward from the cover member as viewed from the side of the rear surface.
US09618690B2	Liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device. The device includes a light guide plate, a color filter substrate, an array substrate and a light shading tape. Wherein, a side wall of the concave slot is an incline slope, an edge of the color filter substrate is supported on the incline slope of the concave slot, an edge of a plastic frame is aligned with an edge of the array substrate, and a light shading tape for relatively fixing the color filter substrate and the light guide plate. The present invention can realize a narrow frame and no frame design of the liquid crystal display device. The structure of the display panel is simplified in order to simplify the manufacturing process and reduce the production cost.
US09618688B2	Display device A display device including a display panel, a backlight assembly to provide light to the display panel, a bottom chassis to accommodate the backlight assembly, a shield chassis connected to the bottom chassis, an insulation tape disposed between the shield chassis and the bottom chassis, the insulation tape including a bolt having grooves defined therein, and a bolt extending through the bolt area and coupling the shield chassis to the bottom chassis. The bolt area is separated into portions at the grooves by the bolt, such that the portions of the bolt area electrically insulate the bolt from the bottom chassis.
US09618683B2	Luminaire having a light guide A luminaire, in particular a downlight, comprises a light source and a reflector, the reflector having a light entrance end and a light exit end, the light entrance end comprising at least one light entrance aperture with an edge and the light exit end comprising a light exit aperture. A luminaire shade encompasses the reflector at least partially. A first portion of the light source light is emitted by the reflector through the light exit aperture and a second portion is emitted through the luminaire shade. The light source is an LED. The luminaire includes a light guide arranged near the light entrance aperture between the LED and light exit end so at least some LED light enters into the light guide, the light guide comprising a light-guiding area extending perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the reflector at least partially beyond the edge of the light entrance aperture.
US09618682B2	Optical sheet and backlight unit and display device comprising the same An optical sheet, a backlight unit having the optical sheet, and a display device having the backlight unit are discussed. According to an embodiment, the optical sheet includes a base film; a high refractive index layer having a plurality of prism portions on the base film; and a low refractive index layer positioned on the high refractive index layer, and covering the plurality of prism portions and having a surface parallel to the base film, each of the prism portions including an incidence surface on which incident light is refracted and a reflective surface on which the refracted light is reflected, the incidence surface including a bent for refracting the incident light towards the reflective surface.
US09618681B2	Quantum dot backlight module and display device A quantum dot backlight module includes: a reflector, a light guide plate disposed above the reflector, a plurality of dot units disposed on an upper surface of the light guide plate at intervals, and a quantum dot packaged in each of the plurality of dot units, and light emitting diodes disposed on a edge side of the light guide plate. According to the present invention, the quantum dot material can be used less, which is good for reducing the production cost. Besides, heat can be effectively radiated from the light emitting diodes. Wide color gamut is realized as well.
US09618673B2	Transparent display device and transparent backlight module The present invention discloses a display device and a backlight module. The display device includes a display panel and a backlight module. The display panel is used for displaying images and passing light rays. The backlight module includes a light source and a light source providing board. The light source providing board is used for providing first light rays and passing second light rays. The light source providing board includes a light ray input interface, a light ray providing unit, and a light ray transmittance channel. The present invention can make a viewer see an object behind the display device.
US09618672B2	Uniform illumination light diffusing fiber device An illumination device comprising: (i) a light diffusing optical fiber having a numerical aperture of NALDF, wherein said light diffusing optical fiber has an outer surface, two ends, and a core, the fiber comprising a region with a plurality of scattering structures within said core configured to scatter guided light via said scattering structures towards the outer surface providing scattering-induced attenuation greater than 50 dB/km at illumination wavelength, wherein said scatter guided light diffuses through said outer surface to provide illumination; (ii) a light source having a numerical aperture of NAS1, said light source being optically coupled to one end of said light diffusing optical fiber; NALDF−NAS1>0.05.
US09618660B2	Infrared imaging system An infrared imaging system used for infrared rays of wavelength of 5 micrometers or greater, the system including, from the object side to the image side, an aperture, a lens made of synthetic resin and an imaging element, the object side surface of the lens being convex to the object side in the paraxial area, wherein F-number of the system is 1.4 or smaller.
US09618652B2	Method of calibrating fracture geometry to microseismic events A method of performing a fracture operation at a wellsite about a subterranean formation having a fracture network with natural fractures is provided. The wellsite is stimulated by injection of fluid into the fracture network. The method involves generating wellsite data including natural fracture parameters and obtaining measurements of microseismic events, modeling hydraulic fractures of the fracture network based on the wellsite data and defining a hydraulic fracture geometry of the hydraulic fractures, generating a stress field of the hydraulic fractures using a geomechanical model, determining shear failure parameters comprising a failure envelope and a stress state about the fracture network, determining a location of shear failure of the fracture network from the failure envelope and the stress state, and calibrating the hydraulic fracture geometry by comparing the modeled hydraulic fractures and the locations of shear failure against the measured microseismic events.
US09618644B2	Sensing cable with parallel spiral transmission line structure for distributed sensing and measuring of rock-soil mass deformation This present disclosure provides a sensing cable of parallel spiral transmission line structure for distributed sensing and measuring of rock-soil mass deformation. A circular cross-section of a silicone strip is tightly wounded by two mutually-insulated wires. The two mutually-insulated wires form the spiral cable. The two mutually-insulated wires are wrapped around and covered by a silicone shroud. They constitute a sensing cable. A termination matching impedance is connected to one end of each of the two mutually-insulated wires. A time domain reflectometry measurement instrument is connected to the other end of the two mutually-insulated wires. The present disclosure implements a distributed positioning and measurement of rock-soil mass deformation.
US09618639B2	Method and system for image-guided fault extraction from a fault-enhanced seismic image A system and method is provided for performing image-guided fault extraction from a fault-enhanced seismic image. The system divides three-dimensional fault-enhanced seismic images into a series of two-dimensional seismic image slices that can be selectively displayed and analyzed for fault surfaces. The system allows a user to select two or more fault surface points in a displayed image slice and identifies a fault path between the first fault surface point and the second fault surface that corresponds to a calculated at least cost path.
US09618633B2	Side-electrodes for a Faraday cage on a photon-counting detector array A computed tomography (CT) detector apparatus includes a plurality of detectors arranged in a ring, each detector being arranged inside a Faraday cage having a plurality of voltage-biased side-electrodes arranged on a side surface of the Faraday cage. The detectors include photon-counting detectors (PCDs). A voltage applied to the voltage-biased side-electrodes decreases from the anode side of the PCD to the cathode side of the PCD.
US09618632B2	Linear-response nanocrystal scintillators and methods of using the same Systems and devices incorporating radiation detection, and techniques and materials for improved radiation detection are provided that involve a nano-scintillator exhibiting a linear luminescent emission response to stimulating electromagnetic radiation. The nano-scintillator can include at least one nanocrystal comprising a rare earth element, a lanthanide dopant, and a spectator dopant, wherein the nanocrystal exhibits a linear luminescent emission response to stimulating electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths less than 100 nm. As one example, the nanocrystal is [Y2-x03; Eux, Liy], where x is 0.05 to 0.1 and y is 0.1 to 0.16, and has an average nanoparticle size of 40 to 70 nm. These nanocrystals can be fabricated through a glycine combustion method.
US09618625B2	System and method for continuous carrier wave reconstruction A system and method of continuous carrier wave reconstruction includes a radio navigation receiver that includes one or more processors, memory coupled to the one or more processors, and an input for receiving a signal from a transmitter. The signal has a phase. The one or more processors are configured to obtain phase lock on the received signal, extract first phase information from the received signal, detect a loss in phase lock on the received signal, and extrapolate second phase information while phase lock is lost using a model of the phase. In some embodiments, the one or more processors are further configured to reconstruct the carrier signal based on the first and second phase information. In some embodiments, the one or more processors are further configured to scale the first and second phase information from a first nominal frequency of the received signal to a different second nominal frequency.
US09618621B2	Compact optical tracker having at least one visual indicator coupled to each of optical tracker sensors An optical tracker is provided herein. The tracker may include at least two optical tracker sensors, facing at least partially each other. Each optical tracker sensor may include: a pixel array sensor configured to generate a pixel-by-pixel stream of values representing a scene; at least one visual indicator physically coupled to said pixel array sensor; and an integrated circuit (IC) physically coupled to said at least one pixel array sensor, and configured to: receive said pixel-by-pixel stream of values; and apply a binary large object (BLOB) analysis to said stream, to yield BLOB parameters indicative of the at least one visual indicator present in the scene in a single pass of the pixels representing the scene; and a computer processor configured to receive said BLOB parameters and calculate a relative position and/or orientation, or a partial data thereof, of the at least two optical tracker sensors.
US09618612B2	Marking tank obstructions using an electronic level gauge An obstruction marking method includes generating a first echo curve using an electronic level gauge (ELG) coupled to a tank from a first reflected signal (echo signal) received when a material in the tank is at a first level. The ELG includes a radar-based obstruction detection algorithm stored in a memory coupled thereto. A processor implementing the obstruction detection algorithm identifies at least a first feature in the first echo curve to provide at least one suspected obstruction along with its position (first feature position). A second echo curve is generated from a second reflected signal when the material is at a second level. A third echo curve is generated from a third reflected signal when the material is at a third level. The suspected obstruction at the first feature position is stored in the memory as a verified obstruction with its first feature position.
US09618608B2	Target detection apparatus and vehicle control system A target detection apparatus counts the number of reflection points, taking a reflection point of interest as being a target reflection point, for each detected reflection point, the reflection points being present in a target area that is set with reference to the target reflection point and each having a difference in speed from the target reflection point, the difference being not more than a preset identical speed determination threshold, and extracts a parallel-running pair that is a pair of the reflection points that meet preset parallel-running conditions. The target detection apparatus determines that the two reflection points configuring the parallel-running pair originate from an identical target, when a count value is not less than a preset size determination threshold, the count value being of at least either of the two reflection points configuring the extracted parallel-running pair and generates target information reflecting the determination results.
US09618607B2	Radar apparatus and signal processing method There is provided a radar apparatus capable of extracting a peak signal obtained from a difference frequency between a transmitting signal and a receiving signal during first and second periods and deriving target information based on the extracted peak signals. A pairing unit pairs the peak signals extracted in the first and second periods. A judging unit judges whether or not the derived target is an overhead object based on the number of paired data of a stationary object existing within a predetermined range from the radar apparatus, among the paired data obtained by pairing the peak signals in the pairing unit.
US09618596B2	Methods and systems for improved magnetic resonance acquisition using a single acquisition type Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging methods and apparatus for simultaneous measurement of the physical properties R1 relaxation rate, R2 relaxation rate, proton density (PD), and apparent diffusion coefficient using a single magnetic resonance acquisition using a single gradient echo acquisition type. A method includes, from an MR scanner, obtaining at least three parallel, segmented gradient-echo acquisitions of a common acquisition type; in a computer, interleaving the at least three parallel, segmented gradient-echo acquisitions with a R1-sensitizing phase, a R2 sensitizing phase and a delay time; and in the computer, generating measures for R1 relaxation rate and R2 relaxation rate and PD from the at least three parallel, segmented gradient-echo acquisitions, thereby simultaneously estimating multiple physical parameters using the single gradient echo acquisition type.
US09618588B2	Magnetic field current sensors, sensor systems and methods Embodiments relate to coreless magnetic field current sensors, systems and methods, such as magnetoresistive sensors, systems and methods, to sense current flow in a conductor via a related magnetic field. In an embodiment, a current sensor system for sensing a current in a conductor from a magnetic field induced thereby, comprising a plurality N of magnetoresistive (MR) sensors arranged on a circle concentric to a center of the conductor and spaced apart from one another by 360 degrees/N, wherein each MR sensor has a sensitivity plane and is responsive to a projection of the magnetic field into the sensitivity plane, the sensitivity planes of the plurality of MR sensors being parallel, and wherein the plurality of MR sensors are arranged relative to the conductor such that the magnetic field has a non-vanishing component parallel to the sensitivity plane; at least one magnetic element arranged to provide a bias magnetic field on the plurality of MR sensors; and circuitry coupled to the plurality of MR sensors to determine the current in the conductor by combining signals from each of the plurality of MR sensors.
US09618561B2	Semiconductor device and method for detecting damaging of a semiconductor device A micro-electro-mechanical device includes a movable structure. The movable structure includes a test structure changing an electrical characteristic, if the movable structure is damaged. Further, a method for detecting damaging of a micro-electro-mechanical device includes detecting a change of an electrical characteristic of the electrical test structure of the movable structure. Further, the method includes indicating a deviation of the electrical characteristic from a predefined tolerable range.
US09618556B2	MEMS device positioning apparatus, test system, and test method A positioning apparatus includes a support structure, a positioning structure, and a fixture for retaining MEMS devices. A shaft spans between the support structure and the positioning structure, and is configured to rotate about a first axis relative to the support structure in order to rotate the positioning structure and the fixture about the first axis. The positioning structure includes a pair of beams spaced apart by a third beam. Another shaft spans between the pair of beams and is configured to rotate about a second axis relative to the positioning structure in order to rotate the fixture about the second axis. Methodology entails installing the positioning apparatus into a chamber, orienting the fixture into various positions, and obtaining output signals from the MEMS devices to determine functionality of the MEMS devices.
US09618554B2	Emission source microscopy for electromagnetic interference applications A system and method for performing radiation source analysis on a device under test (DUT) uses discrete Fourier transform on measured field components values at different sampling locations away from the DUT to derive field component values at locations on the DUT. The results of the discrete Fourier transform are multiplied by a complex phase adjustment term as a function of distance from the sampling locations to the DUT to translate the measured field component values back to the locations on the surface of the DUT.
US09618547B2	Digital circuit power measurements using numerical analysis Power consumed by a digital circuit that contains multiple sub-circuits may be computed. Each sub-circuit may include more than one transistor and have at least one input. A signal transition sensor may be connected to an input to each sub-circuit and configured to count the number of signal transitions at the input or to time the duration of a signal transition at the input. Weight information may be stored that is indicative of an amount of power that is being consumed by each sub-circuit based on a count that is counted by or a time duration that is timed by each signal transition sensor that is connected to an input of that sub-circuit. The amount of power being consumed by the digital circuit may be computed based on a count that is counted by or a time duration that is timed by each signal transition sensor and the weight information.
US09618544B2	System and method for verifying a reference voltage for battery cell monitoring Systems and methods for verifying a reference voltage within a battery pack are disclosed. In one example, an assessment of a reference voltage is made via a band-gap voltage of a microcontroller. The system and method may be particularly useful determining whether or not the reference voltage has drifted from a desired voltage.
US09618543B2	Control system for multi-phase rotary machines A method and a control system for a multiphase-phase inverter system, the control system comprising an electric current detection circuit and a processor, wherein each phase of an electrical cycle is separated into a plurality of sections, inputs from the electric current detection circuit are received, each input indicating a measured phase current, and a phase current is calculated in each section, wherein the phase current calculation in at least one of the sections is determined from a changing ratio of the value of the phase current calculated from the measured values of the other phase currents in the multiphase system and the measured value of the phase.
US09618538B2	Dual-function switch and lead set for electrical instrument probes For decades, a mainstay of electrical and electronic testing has been the conventional use of the multi-meter that used a pair of probes to connect the Device Under Test to the meter. This often proves inadequate for present-day testing because more than one simultaneous or alternate reading or the connection of another testing tool and the reading of its effect on the DUT is often required. The Dual-Function Switch and Lead set (DFSL) of the present invention provides a switch and lead set interfacing two multi-meters, or one multi-meter and one test device or instrument with the DUT, while using the traditional and convenient pair of probes and a simple finger movement on the DFSL. The DFSL facilitates these tests, their safety and integrity, and reduces the time of many test procedures.
US09618520B2	Microarray compositions and methods of their use Microarray compositions suitable for analysis by one or several spectrographic methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, a microarray composition includes a three-dimensional solid support and a plurality of reactive microbeads positioned on the solid support in spatially distinct and addressable locations.
US09618517B2	Analyte measurement method and system with error trapping Described and illustrated herein are systems and exemplary methods of operating an analyte measurement system having a meter and a test strip. The methods and systems describe herein allow for trapping various errors during calculation of the analyte due to variations in the structure and materials making up the test strip and ambient temperatures.
US09618513B2	Compositions and methods for detecting and treating colorectal cancer The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the detecting, treating, and empirically investigating the interaction between a subject's immune system and cancer stem cells. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for using IL-22 cytokine signaling and/or downstream targets of IL-22 cytokine signaling (e.g., STAT3, DOT1L, SUZ12, EED) in the diagnosis, treatment, and empirical investigation of cancers characterized with cancer stem cells activated through IL-22 cytokine signaling.
US09618508B2	Flow cytometry analysis of materials adsorbed to metal salts The invention utilizes the techniques and instruments which are typically used in flow cytometry (FC) as a tool for analyzing adsorbed materials. Thus the invention provides a method for analyzing a component which is adsorbed to an insoluble metal salt, comprising steps of: (i) labelling the adsorbed component with a binding reagent; and (ii) analyzing the labelled adsorbed component by flow cytometry.
US09618501B2	Three-dimensional fibrous scaffolds for cell culture Provided herein is a three-dimensional scaffold composition comprising randomly oriented fibers, wherein the fibers comprise a polyethylene glycol-polylactic acid block copolymer (PEG-PLA) and a poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). Also provided are methods for using the three-dimensional scaffolds described herein.
US09618487B2	Prefilled liquid cartridge for the supply of a sample separation device with an operating liquid Prefilled liquid cartridge for fluidically connecting to a sample separation device for separating of components of a fluidic sample by using liquid of the liquid cartridge, wherein the liquid cartridge comprises a liquid container which is prefilled with liquid and a liquid removal access provided at the liquid container, adapted to be fluidically coupled with at least one liquid conduit of the sample separation device by only inserting the liquid cartridge in a corresponding liquid cartridge accommodation of the sample separation device.
US09618481B2	Ultrasonic transducer assembly and system for monitoring structural integrity In an ultrasonic transducer assembly, a conformable ultrasonic transducer has a piezoelectric layer and electrodes able to conform to curved surfaces, and a clamp for pressing the transducer into ultrasonic contact with a curved surface. Conformability is ensured with a thin, porous piezoelectric layer and suitable electrical conductors and insulators. The ultrasonic transducer may operate without further thermal shielding under harsh environments and/or at high temperatures.
US09618473B2	Gas sensor A gas sensor has a cylindrical housing case, a gas sensor element as a sensor component, and a filler portion. The filler portion is formed between the inner surface of the cylindrical housing case and the outer surface of the gas sensor element. The filler portion is filled with filler powder composed of talc as a layered compound. Talc is a principal ingredient of the filler powder. The space formed between the cylindrical housing case and the gas sensor element is sealed with the filler powder in the filler portion. The filler powder in the filler portion has a degree of c-axis orientation within a range of 60% to 85%, The filler powder in the filler portion has a porosity of not more than 10%.
US09618463B2	Method of acquiring EBSP patterns The invention relates to a method of acquiring an Energy Backscattering Pattern image of a sample in a charged particle apparatus, the sample showing a flat surface, the charged particle apparatus equipped with an electron column for producing a finely focused electron beam, a position sensitive detector for detecting EBSP patterns, and a sample holder for holding and positioning the sample, the method comprising the steps of: Positioning the sample with respect to the electron beam, Directing the electron beam to an impact point on the sample, thereby causing backscattered electrons to irradiate the detector, and Acquiring the signal from the detector while the beam is kept stationary, in which The detector is equipped to selectively detect electrons with an energy above a predefined threshold, and The signal of the electrons with an energy above said threshold is used to form an EBSP image.
US09618462B2	Systems and methods for imaging and determining a signature of an object An X-ray CT scanner for imaging an object is provided. The scanner includes an X-ray emitter configured to emit X-ray beams, a detector array including a plurality of detector elements, and a precollimator positioned between the X-ray emitter and the object, the precollimator configured to prevent the emitted X-ray beams from being directly incident on a first subset of the plurality of detector elements, and allow the emitted X-ray beams to be directly incident on a second subset of said plurality of detector elements. A processing device communicatively coupled to the detector array is configured to determine a signature of the object based on a first set of data acquired using the first subset of the plurality of detector elements, and tomographically reconstruct an image of the object based on a second set of data acquired using the second subset of said plurality of detector elements.
US09618460B2	Method of performing tomographic imaging of a sample in a charged-particle microscope The invention relates to a method of performing tomographic imaging involving repeatedly directing a charged particle beam through a sample for a series of sample tilts to acquire a corresponding set of images and mathematically combining the images to construct a composite image. The latter of which consists of, at each of a second series of sample tilts, using a spectral detector to accrue a spectral map of said sample, thus acquiring a collection of spectral maps; analyzing said spectral maps to derive compositional data of the sample; and employing said compositional data in constructing said composite image.
US09618457B2	Chemical sensor, chemical sensor module, chemical detection apparatus, and chemical detection method A chemical sensor according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a substrate, a low refractive index layer, a high refractive index layer, and a light detection unit. The low refractive index layer is laminated on the substrate and has a second refractive index smaller than a first refractive index that is a refractive index of a detection target object. The high refractive index layer is laminated on the low refractive index layer, has a third refractive index larger than the first refractive index, and includes a holding surface on which the detection target object is held, and illumination light propagates therein. The light detection unit is provided on the substrate and detects detection target light generated from the detection target object by the illumination light.
US09618448B2	Grazing order metrology Metrology targets, optical systems and methods are provided, which enable metrology measurements of very small features, using resonance of illuminated radiation within periodical structures of the target, under appropriate illumination. Metrology targets comprise periodical structure(s) configured to resonate incident radiation and having a pitch defined by the grating equation with respect to configured parameters such as the selected diffraction order, refractive indices and the illumination's wavelength(s) and incidence angles. Possibly, the target may further comprise substructure(s) which are optically coupled with the resonating incident radiation in the periodical structure(s). The spatial organization of the periodic structures and the substructures, as well as the optical organization of illuminated and scattered radiation provide collecting phase signals from the targets at a range of parameters, such as different wavelengths, spatial angles and polarizations to enhance the metrology signal and achieve a very high sensitivity to very small target features.
US09618439B2	Thermophoretic sampler A thermophoretic sampler includes a sample assembly into which a removable sample cartridge can be inserted. The sample cartridge holds a substrate that, upon insertion, is exposed to a sample chamber. Thermophoresis is induced in the sample chamber, causing nanoparticles to be deposited on the substrate.
US09618438B2	System and method for analyzing water samples in a water processing facility A system and method for isolating and analyzing a water sample in a water processing facility are disclosed. The system uses a chamber for receiving and isolating the water sample from the main water treatment process. An optical detector views and characterizes the particles in a region of the chamber. An analyzer coupled to the optical detector compares the characterized suspended particles at a first time and at with the characterized suspended particles at a second time to produce a report showing suspended particle size as a function of time.
US09618434B2	Stiffness measurement method and device A calculating device of the stiffness measurement device pressurizes an object to be measured with a predetermined pressure and the stiffness of the object to be measured in the squeal frequency band is calculated based on an inclination of a stress-displacement performance curve immediately after a start of depressurization after the pressurization. According to this device, there is no need to oscillate the object with a high frequency band and there is no need to enhance the stiffness of the housing of the measurement device, which leads to a downsizing of the device. Further, there is no need for measuring of acceleration speed of the object to be measured and accelerator can be eliminated to reduce the cost of the stiffness measurement device.
US09618433B2	Method for controlling tensile stress during evaluation of a bond between structures A system and methods are provided for evaluating a bond between structures. The system includes an assembly of at least two bonded structures. The assembly has a front surface, a back surface, a thickness, and a bond disposed between the front surface and the back surface. At least one delay component is attached to the front surface of the assembly having a body having a front face, a back face, and a thickness. The system further includes a laser source capable of depositing laser energy onto a front face of the delay component, where a first portion of the laser energy is absorbed by the front face of the delay component to generate a first compression wave that propagates through the body of the delay component. A second portion of the laser energy is absorbed by the back face of the component to generate a second compression wave that reflects off of the back surface of the assembly to produce a tensile wave that stresses the bond.
US09618432B2	Pressure reactor for treating a sample fluid A pressure reactor for treating a sample fluid includes an oven, a sample line partly arranged in the oven, and a pressure line arranged in surrounding relation to the sample line and partly arranged in the oven. The sample line has an outlet opening into the pressure line. A contamination blocking apparatus is disposed in the pressure line for forming a contamination barrier which has at least one section arranged between the outlet opening and the oven and which delimits a contamination-free region in the pressure line. The outlet opening of the sample line is arranged in the contamination-free region of the pressure line.
US09618420B2	System and method for a surface strain gauge A system and method for a surface strain gauge is described which has direct application to wind turbine structures and wind turbine blades and wind turbine struts. The invention is equally applicable to other airfoil structures such as aircraft wings and aircraft fuselages. The strain gauge comprises an array of carbon fiber material integrated with one or more microcontroller modules wherein the entire array may be incorporated into the surface of the structure to be monitored during manufacture of the structure. The array comprises separate sheets of carbon fiber reinforced epoxy which are linked together and which each comprise a separately addressable element such as a microcontroller wherein the microcontrollers are connected to a power supply and to a central bus which itself links to a central system controller. Differential measurements of the resistance of separate carbon fiber reinforced epoxy sheets may be determined in real time as well as the resistance between two or more sheets. In this way real time dynamic load monitoring can be performed and compared with original values determined at time of manufacture to provide data on fatigue of the structure with time before damage and failure occurs.
US09618419B2	Flexible tubular pipe for transporting a petroleum fluid such as a multiphase fluid or a gas The present disclosure relates to a flexible tubular pipe (1) of the unbonded type and including, from the inside to the outside, an internal carcass (2), first and second polymeric sheaths (3, 4), at least one tensile armor layer (6, 7) and a polymeric sealing sheath (8) and also at each of its ends, a connecting endpiece (10) comprising i.a., a tubular sleeve (15). The tubular sleeve (15) of a first endpiece (10) includes means (30, 31, 32) for draining the gases from the gap (25) between the sheaths (3, 4) towards the outside of the pipe (1) and the tubular sleeve of the second endpiece (10) including means for draining the gases from the gap (25) between two sheaths (3, 4) towards the outside or towards the inside of the pipe (1).
US09618418B2	System and method for detecting leakage in a gas pipeline Disclosed is a leakage detection system (200) and a leakage detection method for detecting leakage in a gas supply system (10′) comprising a gas source (11; 12) connected to a gas delivery module (14) by a pipeline. The leakage detection system (200) comprises a flow meter (113) connectable along the pipeline remotely from an inlet of the gas delivery module (14); and a detection module (110) configured to receive signals representing a measured flow rate from the flow meter (113), and to compare the measured flow rate (115) to a stored leakage-free reference value (116) to detect an increase in flow rate in the presence of a leak. A flow resistance between the detection module (110) and an outlet of the gas delivery module (14) amplifies the increase in flow rate in the presence of a leak. The system (200) may comprise a flow rate elevation system (121) connectable between the gas source (11; 12) and the flow meter (113) for temporarily increasing the flow rate in the pipeline.
US09618407B2	Magnetic sensor packaging for transmissions Designs to package a magneto-elastic torque sensor in an automotive transmission for volume production applications are provided. A transfer case assembly includes a transfer case shaft having a magnetized region and a magnetic torque sensor, for detecting torque of the transfer case shaft, mounted on at least one bushing supporting the transfer case shaft. A drive axle assembly includes an axle housing, an input shaft having a magnetized region, and a magnetic torque sensor, for detecting torque of the input shaft, mounted to the axle housing.
US09618404B2	Transducer and measurement apparatus A transducer includes an element disposed on a substrate, where the element includes an electrode, and a connection electrode electrically connected to the electrode of the element. A conductive portion disposed on an insulating film of a flexible print circuit board is electrically connected to the connection electrode. Part of the conductive portion is exposed so as to face a surface of the substrate having the element disposed thereon. An insulation layer is disposed on part of the surface of the substrate facing the flexible print circuit board.
US09618398B2	Time-temperature indicator and monitoring method for monitoring quality state of thermally sensitive article The present invention relates to a time-temperature indicator for monitoring the quality state of a thermally sensitive article and a monitoring method. The present invention also relates to a preparation method of the time-temperature indicator and a thermally sensitive article using the time-temperature indicator. The time-temperature indicator according to the present invention comprises two laminated layers which are physically separated, i.e. a function indication layer and an adsorption function layer. The two laminated layers are stored and transported separately, and combined together in use. Therefore, the time-temperature indicator of the present invention can be stored and transported at room temperature, which reduces the usage costs of the time-temperature indicator.
US09618395B2	Temperature detecting circuit A temperature detecting circuit includes a first thermistor, a second thermistor, a first pull-up resistor, a second pull-up resistor, and a controller. The controller is configured to sense a temperature based on a voltage signal from the first thermistor if a temperature corresponding to a voltage signal from one of the first thermistor and the second thermistor is below a threshold temperature. The controller is configured to sense a temperature based on a voltage signal from the second thermistor if a temperature corresponding to a voltage signal from one of the first thermistor and the second thermistor is higher than or equal to the threshold temperature. A resistance Ra of the first thermistor, a resistance Rb of the second thermistor, a resistance Rc of the first pull-up resistor, and a resistance Rd of the second pull-up resistor have a relationship expressed by RaRd.
US09618387B2	Method for determining the phase angle and/or the thickness of a contamination layer at an optical element and EUV lithography apparatus A method and associated EUV lithography apparatus for determining the phase angle at a free interface (17) of an optical element (13) provided with a multilayer coating (16) that reflects EUV radiation and/or for determining the thickness (d) of a contamination layer (26) formed on the multilayer coating (16). The multilayer coating (16) is irradiated with EUV radiation, a photocurrent (IP) generated during the irradiation is measured, and the phase angle at the free interface (17) and/or the thickness (d) of the contamination layer (26) is determined on the basis of a predefined relationship between the phase angle and/or the thickness (d) and the measured photocurrent (IP). The measured photocurrent (IP) is generated from the entire wavelength and angle-of-incidence distribution of the EUV radiation impinging on the multilayer coating (16).
US09618377B2	Methods and apparatuses for determining the volume of a substance in a flexible tank A flexible storage container may have a first footprint when empty, and retracts to a second footprint when filled with a substance. A load sensing apparatus used for determining the volume of the substance in the flexible storage container can include a first set of load-sensitive sensors arranged in at least a region of the first footprint external to the second footprint, and a second set of load-sensitive sensors arranged within the second footprint. The sensor data from the load-sensitive sensors can be used to create a pressure level profile, and the volume of the substance contained in the flexible storage container can be calculated from the pressure level profile.
US09618373B2	Device for detecting at least one property of a fluid medium A device for detecting at least one property of a fluid medium has at least one sensor housing introducible into the fluid medium, which sensor housing has at least one channel through which the fluid medium flows and which has at least one outlet opening. The fluid medium flows out through the outlet opening after flowing through the channel. The sensor housing has at least one housing body and at least one cover. The outlet opening is situated in the cover. The housing body has at least one collar section, which engages with the outlet opening and which forms at least one part of an edge of the outlet opening.
US09618372B2	Transit time flow meter probe A transit time flow sensor is configured as an insertable probe carrying a pair of transducers spaced apart along an acoustic path. The transducers are attached to respective tabs extending outwardly from the ends of a tubular member and skewed with respect to an axis of the tube so that acoustic signals from one of the transducers are reflected from an interior portion of the tube and subsequently detected by the other transducer.
US09618368B2	Position-measuring device A position-measuring device includes a scale and a scanning unit movable relative to the scale in a measurement direction. The scale has an incremental measuring graduation and reference marks spaced apart from each other. The scale has a first marking track containing a first marking associated a reference mark and a second marking spaced apart from the first marking. The scanning unit has a first and a second detector spaced apart from each other. A distance between the detectors is greater than a length of the first marking and less than a length of the second marking. The scanning unit is configured to produce a reference pulse based on only the first detector of the two detectors generating a scanning signal, and to produce a switching signal when both the first detector and the second detector generate a scanning signal.
US09618366B2	Absolute encoder scale configuration with unique coded impedance modulations An absolute scale configuration is provided for use in a position encoder which includes a readhead and a scale. The absolute scale configuration includes a plurality of scale loops distributed along a measuring axis to provide a position dependent signal that varies depending on a relative position between the scale loops and the readhead. At least some of the scale loops are coupled to respective impedance modulating circuits connected to receive energy from current induced in the scale loop and to provide a unique coded modulation of the scale loop impedance during a code signal generating state. The unique coded modulations as sensed by the readhead are indicative of a coarse resolution absolute position, which may be utilized in combination with the position dependent signal to determine an absolute position with a high resolution.
US09618363B2	Specimen analysis system, specimen analyzer, and specimen analysis method A specimen analysis system, a specimen analyzer, and a specimen analysis method are provided by which reexamination of a specimen can be executed more quickly than in conventional technology. A specimen analyzer measures a specimen and obtains an analysis result. The specimen analyzer determines the necessity of remeasurement of the specimen, based on a specimen analysis result. Also, the specimen analyzer determines, based on the specimen analysis result, whether or not determination of the necessity of remeasurement of the specimen based on examination information by the examination information management device is necessary. If it is determined that determination of the necessity of remeasurement of the specimen based on the examination information is necessary, the specimen analyzer makes a request to determine the necessity of remeasurement of the specimen based on the examination information, to the examination information management device.
US09618360B2	Methods and systems for performing charting tasks A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information in a first portion of a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the selected location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred, and displaying textual information related to the magnified area in a second portion of the display device.
US09618358B2	Identifying a result responsive to a current location of a client device A method for identifying a result responsive to a current location of a client device includes receiving, form a client device and at a host, a search query that includes a point of interest and a current location of the client device. The method also includes automatically updating the search query as the current location of the client device changes and instructing the host to identify a potential location associated with the point of interest and located within a user-defined proximity from the current location of the client device.
US09618354B2	Navigation methods and devices using user-specific landmark types A method includes: providing a map database; providing a landmark database; providing at least one user-specific landmark type; determining navigation instructions based on the map database, the landmark database, and the at least one user-specific landmark type; and outputting the determined navigation instructions.
US09618352B2	Apparatus and method for controlling navigator via speech dialogue An apparatus and method for controlling a navigator are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a natural voice command acquisition unit, an information acquisition unit, a speech language understanding unit, a related information extraction unit, and a dialog management control unit. The natural voice command acquisition unit obtains a natural voice command from a user. The information acquisition unit obtains vehicle data including information about the operation of the navigator and information about the state of the vehicle. The speech language understanding unit converts the natural voice command into a user intention that can be understood by a computer. The related information extraction unit extracts related information that corresponds to the user intention. The dialog management control unit generates a response to the natural voice command based on the related information, the user intention and a dialog history, and controls the navigator in accordance with the conversation response.
US09618346B2	Predictive travel notifications Various embodiments can predict a user's intended driving route in order to provide the user with traffic warnings for traffic conditions along the same. A user's driving route, in at least one embodiment, is predicted by collecting travel data, such as information associated with the date, time, location, and direction for trips made within a network of roads over time. Instead of keeping the travel data anonymous, the travel data is associate or linked to the user's account or stored in a user profile in order to build a history of travel patterns for the user over time. The travel patterns can then be used to predict when a user is going to travel or make a trip and, upon identifying a context indicative of a travel pattern, traffic information for a route associated with the pattern is obtained and provided to the user's computing device.
US09618344B2	Digital map tracking apparatus and methods In an embodiment, an apparatus may include a circuit that has a first input to receive motion data from at least one of a motion sensor and an optical sensor and that has a second input to receive directional data corresponding to the motion data. The circuit may further include an input/output interface configured to provide data to a display and a control circuit coupled to the first input, the second input, and the input/output interface. The control circuit may be configured to determine a current position based at least in part on the motion data and the directional data and update an indicator on a digital map based on the current position determined from the motion data.
US09618337B2	Apparatus and method for measuring altitude of terminal An apparatus and a method for measuring an altitude of a terminal which can correct an altitude error according to temporal and spatial changes are provided. The apparatus includes an atmospheric pressure measuring unit for measuring an atmospheric pressure from a barometer included in the terminal, a position determiner for measuring position information of the terminal, and a controller for, when a reference atmospheric pressure reception period is not generated, predicting a current reference atmospheric pressure by using previously received reference atmospheric pressures and measuring a current altitude by using the predicted reference atmospheric pressure and the measured atmospheric pressure.
US09618335B2	Light emission power control apparatus and method A system and method for adjusting light emitter output for a railway track inspection system based on data feedback from one or more sensors.
US09618334B2	Systems and methods for monitoring turbine component strain Systems and methods for monitoring turbine component deformation are provided. The turbine component has an exterior surface. A method includes directly measuring a strain sensor configured on the exterior surface of the turbine component along an X-axis, a Y-axis and a Z-axis to obtain X-axis data points, Y-axis data points, and Z-axis data points. The X-axis, Y-axis and Z-axis are mutually orthogonal. The method further includes assembling a three-dimensional profile of the strain sensor based on the X-axis data points, Y-axis data points and Z-axis data points.
US09618333B2	Clearance measurement device and clearance measurement method for combustor A clearance measurement device for a combustor includes: a rod part with the hollow base end side which is mounted on a first flange of the combustor while being inserted in the combustor; a support part which is mounted at the leading end of the rod part so as to be rotatable around an axis perpendicular to the axial direction of the rod part; an imaging element which is supported by the support part and images an annular clearance; an operation lever which penetrates the inside of the rod part and extends toward the support part; and a link mechanism which is provided between the operation lever and the support part and converts a forward/backward motion of the operation lever into a rotary motion of the support part around the axis.
US09618332B2	Method and apparatus for position determination Embodiments of the invention provide a method of determining a position of an object with respect to incident radiation, comprising iteratively determining at least one of an object function indicating one or more characteristics of an object and a probe function indicative of one or more characteristics of incident radiation, iteratively determining the position of the object, wherein the iteratively determining the position of the object comprises cross correlating first and second estimates of the object function or the probe function, determining a location of a peak of the cross correlation, and determining a translation deviation indicative of a difference in position of the object between the first and second estimates based on the location of the peak.
US09618323B2	Method for manufacturing optical interferometer A method of manufacturing an optical interferometer includes a first step of forming a first semiconductor portion for a beam splitter and a second semiconductor portion for a movable mirror on a main surface of a support substrate and a first insulating layer formed on the main surface, a second step of disposing a first wall portion between a first side surface of the first semiconductor portion and a second side surface in the second semiconductor portion, and a third step of forming a mirror surface in the second semiconductor portion by forming a first metal film on the second side surface using a shadow mask. In the third step, the first side surface is masked by the mask portion and the first wall portion and the first metal film is formed in a state in which the second side portion is exposed from an opening portion.
US09618317B2	Position indicator and capacitor A position indicator includes a resonance circuit housed in a casing and having an inductance element and a capacitor variable in capacitance, such that the resonance circuit resonates at a predetermined frequency. The position indicator is electromagnetically coupled to a position detecting device. The capacitor includes a dielectric, an electrode disposed on one side of the dielectric, and a trimming electrode disposed on another side of the dielectric such that at least one part of a region of the trimming electrode is opposed to the electrode with the dielectric interposed in between, to form the capacitance of the capacitor. The capacitor is housed in the casing such that the at least one part can be exposed from the casing. The area of the at least one part exposed from the casing to the outside is changed so as to correspond to a resonance frequency desired for the resonance circuit.
US09618309B2	Apparatus and electric primer output data testing method Exemplary methods and apparatus for testing an electrically fired item, e.g., a primer-only cartridge or all-up round (AUR) cartridge, in a variety of modes are provided. For example, a test system may provide a method of testing a primer-only cartridge and an apparatus to execute such method. Various parameters associated with operation of the electrically fired item, such as a primer or initiator, may be varied and measured using an embodiment including programmable selection of a pulse duration for firing control signals, a voltage of the firing control signals, and a number of pulses associated with the firing control signals. An inline resistance of the path of the control signals may also be adjusted. Test data including temperature, pressure, voltage, and/or current associated with operation of the electrically fired item may be measured during tests and displayed on a display device.
US09618305B2	Very low power actuation devices A method of actuating a control surface in a munition. The method including: coupling a pair of fins to an actuation device; generating pressurized gas to selectively actuate the actuation device; and converting the actuation of the actuation device to rotation of the pair of fins. The converting can convert a linear output of the actuation device to the rotation of the pair of fins or a rotary output of the actuation device to the rotation of the pair of fins. The generated gas can be directly provided to the actuation device or the generated gas can be stored in a storage device before being provided to the actuation device. The method can further include repeating the coupling, generating and converting for a second pair of fins.
US09618300B2	Rifle scope handwheel kit A kit for fitting a handwheel to a focussing control of a rifle scope is used to enlarge a focussing ring of the control, without having to remove the focussing ring from the control. The handwheel is secured by a headed bolt to a projecting stub shaft. The handwheel has a side plate supporting an outer rim that has a plurality of peripheral indentations to assist turning of the handwheel. The side plate has a central hole and a hub that projects axially from the side plate and defines a bore for receiving the stub shaft. The outer diameter of the hub is received within an outer end portion of the focussing ring. The hub has at least one abutment that co-operates with the stub shaft to inhibit relative rotational movement. A cap bolt extends through the hole to engage the stub shaft and secure the handwheel to the control.
US09618285B2	Removable magazine for a rifle A removable magazine for a rifle with a support and a magazine insert disposed on the support, the magazine insert having, in the direction of fire, a back side and a front side with an opening for bullets of cartridges insertable into the magazine insert. The magazine insert is mounted on the support so as to be able to pivot around a transverse axis by a pivot bearing disposed on the back side thereof.
US09618283B2	Heat exchanger housing connection A stub connection for a heat exchanger that is arranged in a housing. The stub connection includes a first part which is fastened to the heat exchanger and a second part which has a stub shank extending through an opening in the housing and is seated in a hole of the first part. The stub connection also includes at least two seals. The first seal is an annular seal, which is seated in a groove of the stub shank and the second seal is a gasket, which is arranged between the opening, the stub shank, and the first part. The first seal is seated in the hole and seals between the stub shank and the first part.
US09618281B2	Heat exchange device A heat exchanger having a heat exchange surface comprising a plurality of tubes, a pair of tanks, an end plate, and a shroud disposed to cover the heat exchange surface, wherein, the shroud provides a first hook and a second hook at it's a vertical wall, and the end plate is held in place either between the first hook and the second hook, or between the second hook and the vertical wall. With the above structure, the fan shroud assembly can hold two types of heat exchangers having different thickness.
US09618264B1	Permanent magnet induction heating system and magnetic dehydrator A device and method for dehydrating products, through gasifying the humidity in the air or on any wet element through the application of air, heat and magnetic fields. Such a process would be useful for the drying of clothing, grain, food and other industrial uses. In a separate implementation, measure addition of moisture to the air or gas in the system could be used to generate hydrogen and/or oxygen via a gas separator, such as the membrane units in use today. The magnetic fields used may be built using electromagnetic and/or permanent magnets.
US09618262B2	Column deluge suppression system A column deluge suppression system for suppressing a hazard occurring in a grain dryer includes a plurality of vertical column sections and a segmented, annular manifold. The manifold is positioned around the upper section of the grain dryer in proximity to the grain columns. The manifold includes a plurality of elongated deluge drops that extend toward the grain column openings and permit water to drench the grain columns.
US09618261B2	Power generation and LNG production The present techniques are directed to a system and method for generating power and producing liquefied natural gas (LNG). The system includes a power plant configured to generate power, wherein an exhaust gas from the power plant provides a gas mixture including nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The system also includes a dehydration system configured to dehydrate the gas mixture to generate a nitrogen refrigerant stream and a refrigeration system configured to produce LNG from a natural gas stream using the nitrogen refrigerant stream.
US09618258B2	Refrigerator having ice making compartment A refrigerator includes an ice making unit. The refrigerator also includes a refrigeration cycle including a refrigerant pipe to supply cooling energy to an ice making compartment, and a fixing member to fix a first portion of the refrigerant pipe, at least a second portion of the refrigerant pipe supported by and inserted into the ice making compartment.
US09618256B2	Swing seal for a rack-aisle freezing and chilling system An automatically adjustable swing seal for a rack-aisle freezing and chilling system extends, for example, from the top horizontal frame member of a racking structure and defines an intake opening along with side seals and a bottom seal. The swing seal is positioned at a height such that a product stack having a top edge positioned at any point along the face of the swing seat creates a seal between the intake opening and the stack via the swing seal, the side seals, and the bottom seal. Thus, stacks of varying heights may automatically be accommodated. Further, the bottom edge of the swing seal may be beveled, such that if a product stack is not evenly stacked a portion of the uneven stacking will not catch against the swing seal when the stack is pulled away from the opening.
US09618254B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator as disclosed herein may include a refrigerator body having a freezing compartment and a refrigeration compartment, a cooling circuit including a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator to cool the freezing compartment and the refrigeration compartment using a first refrigerant, and a thermosyphon that includes a pipe for a second refrigerant to flow. The pipe may have a first section having a first prescribed shape for condensing refrigerant and a second section having a second prescribed shape for vaporizing refrigerant. A valve may be provided at the pipe to operate the thermosyphon. The cooling circuit and the thermosyphon may be operated independently. The thermosyphon may provide auxiliary cooling for the refrigeration chamber when the cooling circuit is not operational.
US09618249B2	Heat pump device, heat pump system, and method for controlling three-phase inverter A voltage-command correction-value computation unit outputs a correction value for correcting a voltage command value according to a bus voltage. A multiplier calculates a voltage command value acquired by correcting the voltage command value based on the correction value. A voltage-command generation unit generates and outputs three-phase voltage command values based on the corrected voltage command value calculated by the multiplier and a phase. A PWM-signal generation unit generates six drive signals corresponding to switching elements of an inverter based on the three-phase voltage command values outputted by the voltage-command generation unit and a carrier signal. The PWM-signal generation unit outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the three-phase inverter, to cause the inerter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage.
US09618248B2	Refrigerant recovery and recharge device A refrigerant recovery and recharge device and a method to recharge oil to refrigeration equipment is disclosed. The refrigerant recovery and recharge device comprises a valve block which is adapted to establish fluid communication between the device and refrigeration equipment and a recharge path adapted to recharge oil to the refrigeration equipment through an outlet in the valve block. The device further comprises at least a first oil container and a second oil container and the valve block comprises a valve with a first inlet and a second inlet. The first oil container is in fluid communication with the first inlet and the second oil container is in fluid communication with the second inlet to recharge oil to the refrigeration equipment. The method for recharging oil recharges oil either from the first oil container or the second oil container in dependence of the type of fuel used in the vehicle.
US09618244B2	Power electronics cooling An exemplary evaporating unit for cooling a heat emitting device includes a cooling circuit having a stack of evaporating units arranged alternately with heat emitting devices. Each evaporating unit is connected to a condenser and includes a first inlet channel, a first plurality of evaporation channels, and a first outlet channel. The evaporating unit is designed for pre-heating the cooling fluid flowing therein.
US09618241B2	Air-conditioning apparatus An air-conditioning apparatus controls that a discharge temperature does not become too high with a refrigerant whose compressor discharge temperature readily rises, and thus suppress degradation of the refrigerant and a refrigerating machine oil. An injection pipe that injects a heat source side refrigerant into a compressor is installed, connected a pipe between a backflow prevention device and an opening and closing device installed on a branching pipe, and an aperture unit in the compressor.
US09618236B2	Heat pump system A heat pump system includes a heat source unit, a usage-side unit, and a usage-side controller. The heat source unit has a heat source-side compressor for compressing a heat source-side refrigerant, and a heat source-side heat exchanger capable of functioning as an evaporator of the heat source-side refrigerant. The usage-side unit is connected to the heat source unit and has a capacity-variable-type usage-side compressor for compressing a usage-side refrigerant, a usage-side heat exchanger capable of functioning as a radiator of the heat source-side refrigerant and functioning as an evaporator of the usage-side refrigerant, and a refrigerant-water heat exchanger capable of functioning as a radiator of the usage-side refrigerant and heating an aqueous medium. The usage-side controller performs usage-side capacity variation control for incrementally varying the operating capacity of the usage-side compressor during a usual operation.
US09618235B2	Air conditioner including an indoor auxiliary heat exchanger Condensation occurs on an indoor fan. In an air conditioner of the present invention, an indoor heat exchanger includes an auxiliary heat exchanger 20 and a main heat exchanger 21 disposed leeward from the auxiliary heat exchanger 20. The auxiliary heat exchanger 20 is disposed forward of a front heat exchanger 21a of the main heat exchanger 21. In an operation in a predetermined dehumidification operation mode, a liquid refrigerant supplied to the auxiliary heat exchanger 20 all evaporates midway in the auxiliary heat exchanger 20. Then, the refrigerant having flowed through a superheat region of the auxiliary heat exchanger 20 flows through a portion of the front heat exchanger 21a which portion is located leeward from an evaporation region of the auxiliary heat exchanger 20.
US09618234B2	Refrigerant circuit A refrigeration cycle apparatus (50) includes: a main refrigerant circuit (21) having a compressor (1), a radiator (2), a first expansion mechanism (5), a second expansion mechanism (6), and an evaporator (4); an injection passage (22) for supplying an intermediate-pressure refrigerant to an injection port 1c of the compressor 1; and a water circuit (30) through which water to be heated in the radiator (2) flows. The refrigeration cycle apparatus (50) includes a sub heat exchanger (3) for cooling the water in the water circuit (30) by exchanging heat between the refrigerant in the injection passage (22) and the water to be heated in the radiator (2).
US09618232B2	Conversion of single-pass boiler to multi-pass operation Modifications convert an existing single-pass boiler to operate with a multi-pass combustion gas flow through the flue passages of the heat exchanger of the boiler. A diverting target wall is arranged partway along the length of the original combustion chamber, and an upper draft diverter is arranged in a flue collector chamber above the flue passages, to divert some or all of the combustion gas into a multi-pass flow pattern through several flue passages of the heat exchanger in series. The modifications may further include changing the nozzle oil delivery rate and cone angle, the oil supply pressure, the draft conditions, and others. Heat extraction from the hot combustion gas to the boiler water is increased, exhaust gas temperature is decreased, and overall efficiency is increased, to result in a fuel and cost savings.
US09618228B2	Airflow distribution system An improved airflow delivery system (1) comprising an air moving element (3) configured to move air in a flow path, a chamber (19) in the flow path configured to receive product (9), an air transfer chamber (11) comprising an inlet (10) of a selected area for receiving air in the flow path in a first direction (x-x) and an outlet (14) of a selected area greater than the area of the inlet for discharging air in the flow path in a second direction (y-y) different from the first direction, an airflow divider (33) extending across the air transfer outlet and configured to divide airflow in the flow path, an airflow directional (15) extending across the flow path downstream of the airflow divider and upstream of the chamber, the airflow directional having an upstream inlet face (28a) and a downstream outlet face (29c) and configured to receive airflow at the inlet face and split the airflow into multiple separated sub-paths (27) within the flow path and to discharge the airflow from the downstream outlet face substantially parallel to the flow path and without substantial reduction in static pressure.
US09618225B2	Battery power management in a thermostat with a wireless transceiver A thermostat includes a controller for controlling the thermostat, a battery supplying power for the thermostat, and a wireless transceiver for receiving control information from a remote device and for transmitting information to the remote device. The controller sets a default time schedule for enabling the wireless transceiver.
US09618223B2	Multi-nodal thermostat control system An Electronically-Controlled Register vent (ECRV) that can be easily installed by a homeowner or general handyman is disclosed. The ECRV can be used to convert a non-zoned HVAC system into a zoned system. The ECRV can also be used in connection with a conventional zoned HVAC system to provide additional control and additional zones not provided by the conventional zoned HVAC system. In one embodiment, the ECRV is configured have a size and form-factor that conforms to a standard manually-controlled register vent. In one embodiment, a zone thermostat is configured to provide thermostat information to the ECRV. In one embodiment, the zone thermostat communicates with a central monitoring system that coordinates operation of the heating and cooling zones.
US09618216B2	Air conditioning apparatus An air conditioning apparatus includes a casing having intake and blow-out ports, a partition member dividing an interior of the casing, a heat exchanger, and a centrifugal fan. The blow-out port is at least partially disposed adjacent to a blow-out port nearby lateral part of the casing along an opening direction of a fan entrance and the blow-out port. A fan downwind space is located on a downwind side of a bladed wheel within a fan compartment, and has a blow-out port opposed space and a blow-out port non-opposed space. A first guide member directs air existing in the blow-out port non-opposed space toward the blow-out port opposed space, and is mounted in a boundary region located astride of regions located on forward and rearward sides in a rotary direction within the blow-out port non-opposed and blow-out port opposed spaces, respectively.
US09618215B2	Controller for energy supply systems The present invention relates to energy supply systems which comprise an energy storage unit and an energy production unit. Control methods according to the invention advantageously allow to calculate an operational cost of the energy supply system based on the energy flux that can be supplied by the system and the energy flux that is demanded externally from the system. The operational cost can be calculated for all possible values of the above parameters in advance. The calculated parameters can be stored in an array in a device implementing methods of the invention. Methods of the invention allow to operate an energy supply system so as to guarantee that at any instant a predetermined (nonzero) amount of energy flux can be supplied by the energy storage unit.
US09618214B2	Energy exchange system and method A system and method for heating water are provided. The system includes a first subcooler for receiving a first water flow, a second subcooler for receiving a second water flow, a first condenser in fluid communication with the first subcooler and the second subcooler for receiving water from both subcoolers, and a second condenser in fluid communication with the first condenser. The method involves receiving a flow of water, and transferring heat to the water using the system.
US09618205B2	Gas flow controller for use in gas fired apparatus A gas flow controller for use in a gas fired apparatus includes an actuator, a pilot valve operably connected to the actuator, a main burner valve, and a flow controller valve operably connected to the actuator. The pilot valve is moveable from a closed position to an open position by actuation of the actuator to provide selective fluid communication between a gas inlet and a first fluid chamber. The main burner valve provides selective fluid communication between the first fluid chamber and a main burner outlet. The flow controller valve is moveable from a closed position to an open position by actuation of the actuator to provide selective fluid communication between the gas inlet and a back side of the main burner valve to maintain the main burner valve in a closed position when the pilot valve is in the open position.
US09618200B2	Recuperator for a radiating tube burner The invention relates to a heat recuperator (R) for a radiating tube burner having a burner pipe and an exhaust pipe (1), the recuperator being placed at the outlet of the exhaust pipe (1) and including a heat exchanger (E) that comprises: an outgoing section (5) for directing the air to be preheated to a ferrule (6), placed on the end of the recuperator, from the fume intake side, and a return section (7) opening towards a pipe (8) for supplying air from the burner, the assembly being provided such that part of the fumes are led through, and mix with, the combustion air; the heat exchanger (E) occupies only part of the cross-section of the exhaust pipe (1), the other part (1a) of the cross-section remaining free for the fumes; the combustion air is heated by the fumes in the outgoing section (5) and in the return section (7), being radially shifted outside the outgoing section (5) and immersed in the fumes.
US09618198B2	Burner comprising a reactor for catalytic burning A burner includes a generally cylindrical reactor chamber (1) including a housing (1′) having a proximal end (1p) and a distal end (1d). In the distal end of the reactor chamber (1) there is provided a catalyst (4). A fuel inlet (7) is provided in the proximal end of the reactor chamber. There are also a plurality of air inlets (22, 23; 24) arranged in the reactor wall at the proximal end. The inlets are configured to provide a rotating flow of the air injected into the reactor chamber. There is also provided a flow homogenizer (8; 30) extending over the cross-section of the reactor chamber at a position between the fuel inlet (7) and the catalyst (4).
US09618192B2	Small-spacing LED screen A small-spacing LED screen is provided, comprising a bottom case, an HUB board arranged on one side of the bottom case, and a small module arranged on the other side and electrically connected with the HUB board. The small module includes a module main body and a drive control unit which is electrically connected with the module main body to drive and control the module main body. An adaptor plate is also arranged between the small module and the HUB board. The HUB board is electrically connected with the adaptor plate. The drive control unit is arranged on the adaptor plate. The LED screen has the smallest spacing, and the reject ratio of the small module is greatly reduced.
US09618178B1	Grow light system A grow light system for producing a deep penetrating light source including a hood light fixture with an outer wall structure and an inner reflective panel configured to reflective light toward a light opening, the inner reflective panel having a first inner light reflecting panel and a second inner light reflecting panel and the first and second inner light reflective panels being on either side of a light fixture axis, the fixture including a first light source fixed relative to the first inner light reflecting panel and a second light source fixed relative to the second inner light reflecting panel, the first and second light inner light reflecting panels and the light opening having a generally triangular cross-section configuration transverse to the fixture axis wherein the first and second light reflective panels are oriented at a grow light angle from one another between 40 and 80 degrees.
US09618172B1	Track lighting kit configured for use with a single ceiling light fixture The track lighting assembly includes a rail that may be positioned proximate the ceiling light fixture. A socket is coupled to the rail. The socket is selectively operationally coupled to the ceiling light fixture. The rail is retained on the ceiling light fixture. A rail contact is coupled to the rail. The rail contact is operationally coupled to the socket. A light support is operationally coupled to the rail. The light support is selectively movable along the rail. The light support is operationally coupled to the contact. The light support is in communication with the socket. A fixture is operationally coupled to the light support. The fixture is in communication with the contact. A light emitter is operationally coupled to the fixture. The light emitter selectively emits light.
US09618166B2	LED tube lamp An end cap for LED tube lamp along with the LED tube lamp adopting thereof is disclosed. LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube. One end of the lamp tube is attached to the end cap; a LED light bar is disposed inside the lamp tube. The end cap includes an insulating tubular part, sleeved with the end of the lamp tube and a magnetic object disposed between an inner circumferential surface of the insulating tubular part and the end of the lamp tube. The magnetic object being of a magnetic metal member and the lamp tube are adhesively bonded by a hot melt adhesive. An inner circumferential surface of the magnetic metal member can be fully covered by the hot melt adhesive. Magnetic metal member can be in the structure of a circular or oval ring, with at least one opening, and has indentation structure on a surface thereof.
US09618163B2	LED lamp with electronics board to submount connection A LED lamp comprises an enclosure containing a reflective surface and an optically transmissive exit surface and a base. A LED assembly is mounted on a submount, is located in the enclosure and is operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path from the base. The submount comprises a connector portion having a first electrical contact that is in the electrical path. A first spring contact is electrically coupled to lamp electronics where the lamp electronics and the first spring contact are in the electrical path. A heat sink comprises a heat dissipating portion that is at least partially exposed to the ambient environment and a heat conducting portion that is thermally coupled to the LED assembly. The connector portion is inserted into the heat sink such that the first electrical contact creates an electrical contact coupling with the first spring contact.
US09618160B2	Pressure vessel longitudinal vents The disclosure describes a pressure vessel having a first end with a first boss and a cylindrical portion. The vessel includes a liner, a composite shell disposed over the liner, and a first longitudinal vent disposed between the liner and the composite shell. The first longitudinal vent includes an elongated vent defining element and extends at least from the cylindrical portion of the vessel to the first boss.
US09618158B2	Method and apparatus for compressing gas in a plurality of stages to a storage tank array having a plurality of storage tanks A method and apparatus for compressing gases and supplying fuel to a gaseous fuel consuming device, such as a gaseous fueled vehicle or the like. One embodiment includes a gas compressor for compressing the gaseous fuel to an array of tanks having predetermined initial set points which are increasing for tanks in the array. One embodiment provides a selecting valve having first and second families of ports wherein the valve can be operated to select a plurality of ports from the first family to be fluidly connected with a plurality of ports with the second family, and such fluid connections can be changed by operation of the valve.
US09618151B2	Compact modular low resistance broadband acoustic silencer An acoustic silencer for dampening unwanted resonant and pressure pulses in a pipe or duct work and includes an expansion chamber having an enclosed volume through which a pipe or duct work extends, thereby defining an annular volume within the enclosed volume between the process pipe and the expansion chamber. An insert disposed within the annular volume extends along the length of the process pipe and forms an acoustic volume within the annular volume and defines a resonant passage length that is of a length so as to dampen one or more frequencies of the process pipe. An opening is formed through the process pipe along the length of the process pipe that extends through the expansion chamber and is in fluidic communication with the acoustic volume.
US09618149B2	Rapid release emergency disconnect system utilizing a radial clamp connector In various embodiments, fluid conduits such as high pressure hoses deployed in-between two sea-fairing vessels may be released during an emergency by using a rapid release emergency disconnect system as described herein, where the rapid release emergency disconnect system may engage with a hanger such as an industry standard frac hanger and be used in-line with fluid conduits such as high-pressure lines. Various skid embodiments are described which can be configured to interface with one or more of the described rapid release emergency disconnect systems.
US09618145B2	Duct with electrically conductive coating A duct includes a polymeric duct wall that circumscribes a fluid-conveyance passage. The polymeric duct wall includes, relative to the fluid-conveyance passage, an inner surface and an outer surface. An electrically conductive coating is disposed on at least one of the outer surface and the inner surface.
US09618126B1	Second improved ball valve assembly Described herein is an improved ball valve assembly for use in a tank or a tank-like container. This improved ball valve assembly prevents leakage of a liquid with corrosive and abrasive contaminants within the tank or a tank like container. This improved ball valve assembly is especially useful in a railroad tank car that contains a liquid commodity in whenever a tank is mobile and subjected to wide temperature variations. The improved ball valve assembly contains a ball component made of a ceramic material. A ceramic wiper (i) mechanically seals against the ball component and (ii) prevents contaminants from embedding within, or otherwise abrading, top and bottom seats within the ball valve assembly. Also contained in the preferred embodiment of this invention is an improved drive coupling that (i) eliminates the previously existing need for custom square drive tool (ii) pre-attached to the ball valve assembly. The current invention also includes an improved stem packing assembly that reduces the number of annular components along the stem of the ball valve assembly.
US09618123B2	Acorn seal profile A seal comprising a generally acorn shaped cross-sectional profile is described herein. The seal may be configured for use between two generally adjoining and/or nearly adjoining surfaces. The seal may be used to eliminate a gap or rubbing between a plurality of surfaces. The seal may have a non-circular cross-sectional interior profile.
US09618106B2	Automobile differential locking assembly An assembly adapted to replace an automobile differential's spider gears, locking the axles together. The present invention comprises a pair of outer drive flange members that are adapted to engage with a pair of wedge locking members within the carrier of an automobile differential, replacing the differential's stock planetary or spider gears. The present assembly locks the rotation of the rear axles together, applying power equally to both wheels and enhancing the performance of the automobile during competitive drag racing events, without requiring expensive custom installation from a specialist.
US09618105B2	Fluid power transmission device A torque converter includes a torque converter body, a lock-up device, and a dynamic damper. The lock-up device includes an output plate coupled to a turbine. The dynamic damper is fixed to the output plate of the lock-up device, and is configured to attenuate variation in speed of rotation from the engine. The dynamic damper includes a base plate, an inertia unit, and an elastic unit. The base plate is fixed to the output plate. The inertia unit is movable relative to the base plate in a rotational direction. The elastic unit exerts nonlinear torsional characteristics, and elastically couples the base plate and the inertia unit in the rotational direction.
US09618096B2	Chain or belt tensioner with a ratchet that deactivates A tensioner comprising a piston slidably received within a piston bore of the housing having a plurality of grooves formed on an outer circumference, the piston forming a first pressure chamber with the piston bore. The tensioner uses a mechanism to remove a sliding pawl or expandable clip from engaging the grooves on the piston, such that the piston can move towards the housing and reduce chain load when fluid pressure is reduced in the first pressure chamber during engine shutdown, but not so much as to leave the chain uncontrolled during engine restart. The mechanism may for example be a fluid biased spool piston which engages the expandable clip or a pawl piston that engages a sliding pawl.
US09618092B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include: an input shaft receiving torque of an engine; an output shaft outputting changed torque; a first planetary gear set including a first rotation element, a second rotation element, and a third rotation element; a second planetary gear set including a fourth rotation element, a fifth rotation element, and a sixth rotation element; a third planetary gear set including a seventh rotation element, an eighth rotation element, and a ninth rotation element; and a fourth planetary gear set including a tenth rotation element, an eleventh rotation element, and a twelfth rotation element.
US09618090B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting changed torque, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, a first rotation shaft selectively connected to a transmission housing, a second rotation shaft, a third rotation shaft selectively connected to the transmission housing, a fourth rotation shaft, a fifth rotation shaft directly connected to the input shaft, a sixth rotation shaft selectively connected to the fourth rotation shaft or the fifth rotation shaft, a seventh rotation shaft selectively connected to the fourth rotation shaft, and an eighth rotation shaft directly connected to the output shaft, and selectively connected to the seventh rotation shaft.
US09618089B2	Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicle A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission of a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting changed torque, a first planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a first planet carrier, and a first ring gear, a second planetary gear set including a second sun gear, a second planet carrier, and a second ring gear, a third planetary gear set including a third sun gear, a third planet carrier, and a third ring gear, a fourth planetary gear set including a fourth sun gear, a fourth planet carrier, and a fourth ring gear, a first rotation shaft, a second rotation shaft, a third rotation shaft, a fourth rotation shaft, a fifth rotation shaft, a sixth rotation shaft, a seventh rotation shaft, and an eighth rotation shaft.
US09618085B2	Dual-clutch seven speed transmission arrangement for a hybrid vehicle A dual-clutch seven speed transmission arrangement and method for use with a transverse engine arrangement in a hybrid vehicle are provided. The dual-clutch seven speed transmission arrangement includes a dual-clutch gearbox comprising an input shaft for odd drive gears and an input shaft for even drive gears, respectively arranged in connection to a first clutch and a second clutch. The input shaft for even drive gears is a hollow shaft enclosing the input shaft for odd drive gears and the input shaft for odd drive gears is arranged to host four odd drive gears. The input shaft for even drive gears is arranged to host three even drive gears and a reverse drive gear. An electric motor is connected to the input shaft for even drive gears.
US09618077B2	Isolators including main spring linear guide systems Embodiments of isolators, such as three parameter isolators, including a main spring linear guide system are provided. In one embodiment, the isolator includes first and second opposing end portions, a main spring mechanically coupled between the first and second end portions, and a linear guide system extending from the first end portion, across the main spring, and toward the second end portion. The linear guide system expands and contracts in conjunction with deflection of the main spring along the working axis, while restricting displacement and rotation of the main spring along first and second axes orthogonal to the working axis.
US09618057B2	Clutch backer plate with recessed rivets A driven disc assembly is provided wherein a clutch disc has enlarged holes for connection of opposing backing plates. The backing plates have semi-pierced sections that are insertable within mounting holes of the clutch disc. The thickness of the backing plates are enlarged from their normal thickness causing a top surface of the backing plates to axially clear heads of conventional rivets. The thickness of the friction buttons on the backing plates can then be reduced to their minimal effective use thickness.
US09618056B2	Motor-incorporating roller and power transmission member The power transmission member includes a connecting member, an intermediate member, and an engagement member. The connecting member has an annular portion. The outer peripheral surface of the annular portion is provided with arc-like portions, and the inner peripheral surface of the annular portion is provided with concave-convex portions. The engagement member includes protrusions and a shaft insertion hole. The arc-like portions of the connecting member are in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the roller body, and the connecting member and the roller body are also secured together by securing means. The intermediate member engages with the concave-convex portions and the protrusions, the shaft insertion hole of the engagement member is maintained at the center of the roller body, and a power unit engages with the shaft insertion hole.
US09618051B2	Method and apparatus for mounting a machine element onto a shaft A mounting device for coaxially anchoring a machine element upon a rotary shaft is provided. The device fits between the interior bore of the machine element and the cylindrical surface of the shaft and is effective to position the element at any desired position longitudinally of the shaft and at any angular position circumferentially of the shaft. The device has inner and outer sleeves, the mating surfaces of which are similarly tapered so that relative axial displacement of the sleeves affects expansion and contraction of the interior bore and external surface of the combined elements. Rotation of a threaded nut at one end of the device effects the relative axial displacement of the inner and outer sleeves to afford expansion and contraction of the sleeves without excessively straining the material of the sleeves or the nut.
US09618049B2	Apparatus for preloading a bearing An apparatus for preloading a bearing includes an attaching member, a frame, a plurality of extensions, and an adjustment mechanism. The attaching member is releasably attachable to a threaded shaft of an axle or spindle of a wheel hub assembly. The frame is axially separated from, and coupled to, the attaching member to allow the frame to move relative to the attaching member in an axial direction along the longitudinal axis. The plurality of extensions is configured to contact at least one of a wheel hub or a bearing of the wheel hub assembly when the attaching member is attached to the threaded shaft. The adjustment mechanism is configured to move the frame and the plurality of extensions axially towards the wheel hub assembly to apply a preload to a bearing within the wheel hub assembly.
US09618047B2	Bearing support point with at least one axial bearing A bearing support point with at least one axial bearing, in which at least one bearing washer of the axial bearing is held at a structural element, with the bearing washer being formed separately from the structural element and comprising at least one axially aligned track for the axial bearing as well as being fastened at the structural element such that the bearing washer is inserted in an opening of the structural element and is encompassed by the structural element at least at an exterior area and with the bearing washer being supported via the area inside the opening, aligned in the radial direction.
US09618046B2	Oil discharging system for main shaft bearing of wind turbine generator An oil discharging system for a main shaft bearing of a wind turbine generator, includes: a main shaft bearing, a bearing seal, a bearing end cover, a waste oil through hole, at least one thumb wheel; the bearing seal is sleeved to an end of the main shaft bearing, the bearing end cover is engaged with the bearing seal to encircle the outside of the bearing seal; the waste oil through hole is provided on the bearing end cover; the at least one thumb wheel is provided on the bearing seal, enables the waste oil been discharged from the waste oil through hole after the thumb wheel acts upon. Since the thumb wheel rotates with the main shaft bearing, so that the waste oil discharge from the waste oil through hole effectively, thus pollutions to the wind turbine generator and surroundings thereof are reduced.
US09618045B1	Strut bearing A strut bearing including an improved seal configuration is disclosed. The strut bearing includes an upper carrier including a first outer axially extending rim and a first inner axially extending rim, and a lower carrier including a second outer axially extending rim and a second inner axially extending rim. The first outer axially extending rim at least partially surrounds the second outer axially extending rim. A rolling bearing is supported between the upper and lower carriers. A seal includes at least one sealing lip and a reinforcement rim, and the at least one sealing lip is molded on to the reinforcement rim. The seal extends between the first outer axially extending rim of the upper carrier and the second outer axially extending rim of the lower carrier.
US09618044B2	Outer ring and roller bearing comprising said type of outer ring An outer ring for a roller bearing includes a raceway produced from a bearing steel. The outer ring is made of a metal strip wound to form a raceway tube and a cladding tube which is connected thereto and which surrounds the raceway tube on the outer side.
US09618042B2	Inner ring with undercut to improve tang flexibility A bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a shaft member having an outer ring, having a first bearing raceway, and an inner ring, having a second bearing raceway. The raceways are opposingly spaced relative to each other. The inner ring includes a plurality of tang members extending in a cantilevered configuration from at least one end of the inner ring having slots formed therebetween. Bearing members are positioned in a space between and in engagement with the first and second bearing raceways. An undercut groove extends circumferentially along an inner surface of the inner ring generally adjacent the plurality of tang members. The undercut groove is operable to increase an effective cantilever distance of the plurality of tang members. The assembly further includes a locking member engaging the plurality of tang members and exerting a compressing force upon the plurality of tang members to couple the inner ring to the shaft.
US09618036B2	Tilting-pad bearing A tilting-pad bearing for rotatably supporting a rotor includes: a casing; and a plurality of bearing pads each mounted to the casing pivotably about a pivot. Each of the plurality of bearing pads has a bearing pad surface facing the rotor, the bearing pad surface including a first region disposed on an upstream side in a rotational direction of the rotor and having a first curvature radius, and a second region disposed on a downstream side of the first region in the rotational direction and having a second curvature radius smaller than the first curvature radius.
US09618035B2	Synthetic resin-made sliding bearing A sliding bearing includes: an upper casing; a synthetic resin-made lower casing which is superposed on the upper casing so as to be rotatable about an axis in a circumferential direction relative to the upper casing; a synthetic resin-made sliding bearing piece disposed in an annular space between the upper casing and the lower casing; and a synthetic resin-made seal member for sealing respective other annular end portions, communicating with the outside, of a gap on an inner peripheral side and a gap on an outer peripheral side in a radial direction between the upper casing and the lower casing, the gap and the gap respectively communicating with the annular space at their one annular end portions.
US09618031B2	Moment relief barrel washer A barrel washer comprising a convex portion, a concave portion, the concave portion configured to mate with the convex portion, such that the convex portion is only capable of rocking along a single axis within the concave portion. The barrel washer may be configured to prevent a bolt from rotating within the barrel washer. The barrel washer may be configured to relieve bending stress on the bolt as well as extraction of the bolt from the barrel washer. A surface of the concave portion may be coated with a lubricant. A surface of the convex portion may be coated in a lubricant. The barrel washer may be configured to couple a bolt to a flange that is couple to another flange. The convex portion may comprise a rocker. The barrel washer may be configured relieve bending stress on the bolt as a first flange moves relative to a second flange.
US09618028B2	Rotation indicating device, particularly for allen bolts For indicating rotational displacement between an Allen bolt having a bolt head (34) provided with a central recess (36) for engagement by a fastening/unfastening tool, namely an Allen key, and a substrate to which the bolt is fastened, thereby to indicate whether the bolt has loosened, a safety indicating device is provided comprising a body (10) having a bore formed with splines (12) for engagement over the bolt head (34). The body (10) also has an end closure (14) formed with a plug (16) projecting inwardly of the bore for snug engagement into the central recess (36) of the bolt head. An indicator is also provided on the body (10). This is typically a pointer (18) mounted or formed on the body and projecting laterally, but it could be an indicator which is merely marked or formed on the body without projecting outwards. The plug (16) may itself be formed with the recess (26) which may be used for insertion of a different tool to effect rotational adjustment of the position of the device upon the bolt head (34).
US09618026B2	Semi-circular alignment features of an elastic averaging alignment system A semi-circular male alignment feature elastic averaging alignment system utilizing a plurality of semi-circular male alignment features which interface by elastic averaging with a plurality of female alignment features, wherein semi-circular male alignment features of a first component are received during a mating process by respective female alignment features formed in a second component, whereby precise alignment of the first and second components and stiffness are provided by elastic averaging of the male and female alignment features.
US09618024B2	Clip attaching structure of vehicle seat There is disclosed a clip attaching structure of a vehicle seat. The seat frame includes an attaching hole and an expanded hole which expands a hole thereof from the attaching hole in a radial direction. The clip includes a fitting portion inserted into the attaching hole to fit in an inner periphery of the attaching hole, and an extending portion which extends a shape thereof from the fitting portion in the radial direction to be inserted into the expanded hole. A tip of the extending portion extends beyond the fitting portion in an inserting direction. On a tip surface of the extending portion in the inserting direction, a guide surface is formed to abut on a peripheral edge portion of the expanded hole when an inserting position of the fitting portion shifts from the attaching hole in the radial direction, thereby guiding the fitting portion toward the attaching hole.
US09618008B2	Gas turbine diffuser blowing method and corresponding diffuser A diffuser of a compressor of centrifugal or mixed type includes two end plates which enclose a plurality of regularly distributed circumferential blades, and at least one transverse upstream passage produced in lower or upper surfaces of the blades. An injection/withdrawal coupling is achieved by a recirculation of a stream in an air passage of the diffuser on the basis of injection of air from at least one point in a leading edge zone of an upstream side of the diffuser. Blowing of air is then effected in at least one groove formed along a lateral flank of each blade by withdrawal of the air stream in a region of a trailing edge. Thereby, effectively separation of the air in a boundary layer in a gas turbine compressor diffuser is realized by re-energizing the boundary layer with air at a higher pressure by a suction/re-injection coupling.
US09618004B2	Apparatus and method for using a microcomputer and switches to control the flow path for the power of a compressor based upon the compressor's load state A compressor control apparatus, and a compressor control method. The compressor may be operated in an operation mode in which commercial power applied to the compressor does not pass through an alternating current capacitor when the load is in an overload state, thereby preventing the loss of a drive and effectively reducing the copper and core loss of the compressor.
US09618001B2	Turbocharger A turbocharger 1 includes a compressor housing 2 and a bearing housing 3. The compressor housing 2 has a shroud surface 221 and a diffuser surface 222. The bearing housing 3 has an opposite surface 311 facing the diffuser surface 222. An adhesion preventing part 4 is provided on at least one of the diffuser surface 222 and the opposite surface 311. The turbocharger 1 is configured so that compressed air spouts out from the adhesion preventing part 4 to the diffuser passage 15 by an ejector effect caused when compressed air passes through the diffuser passage 15.
US09617998B2	Roots-style blower with leakage mechanisms The disclosure concerns a Roots-type blower comprising a housing defining first and second transversely overlapping cylindrical chambers and at least one inlet port and an outlet port; first and second meshed, lobed rotors, each lobe having a top land sealingly cooperating with the cylindrical chambers; a plurality of control volumes for transfer of fluid, each control volume being defined by a pair of adjacent lobes on one of the rotors, and at least one of the cylindrical chambers; and blowholes formed within the cylindrical chambers in connection with meshing of the lobes of the first and second rotors. The blower further comprises at least one backflow slot extending through the housing wall of each cylindrical chamber for effecting a leakage of fluid from downstream the at least one outlet port into a control volume.
US09617995B2	Rotary piston pump with slip ring seals for improved fitting and synchronization of rotary pistons A rotary piston pump with at least two double- or multi-lobe rotary pistons rotating in opposite directions, the drive shafts whereof include seals, wherein the seals are constituted as slip ring seals or lip seals or stuffing-box seals, which in each case are disposed on the shaft shoulder belonging to the respective rotary piston, and one slip ring per seal is provided with a locking device, which includes a large number of fixing positions. The seals are pushed onto a tubular shoulder of the rotary piston, the rotary piston is introduced into the pump housing, the securing element is connected to the slip ring seal in a form-fit manner by rotation of the rotary piston and the shaft shoulder is then rigidly connected to the drive shaft.
US09617990B2	Solar drive control system for oil pump jacks A system for supplementing the electric power needed by a pump jack electric motor, thereby reducing the electric power purchased from the local utility or power supplier. The system comprises a solar photovoltaic system, or other forms of renewable energy, and regenerated power from the electric motor or drive. The system can be both “on-grid” and “off-grid.” Battery banks and capacitor banks may be used to store energy.
US09617988B2	System and method for variable dispense position Embodiments of the invention provide a system, method and computer program product for reducing the hold-up volume of a pump. More particularly, embodiments of the invention can determine, prior to dispensing a fluid, a position for a diaphragm in a chamber to reduce a hold-up volume at a dispense pump and/or a feed pump. This variable home position of the diaphragm can be determined based on a set of factors affecting a dispense operation. Example factors may include a dispense volume and an error volume. The home position for the diaphragm can be selected such that the volume of the chamber at the dispense pump and/or feed pump contains sufficient fluid to perform the various steps of a dispense cycle while minimizing the hold-up volume. Additionally, the home position of the diaphragm can be selected to optimize the effective range of positive displacement.
US09617983B2	Systems and methods for providing supplemental aqueous thermal energy Systems and methods for collecting, storing, and conveying aqueous thermal energy are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a floating film retains solar energy in a volume of water located under the film. A series of curtains hanging from a bottom surface of the film define a passage between a periphery of the film and a center of the film to direct the heated water at the center of the film. The heated water is circulated to deliver the heat to a dissociation reactor and/or donor substance. The donor is conveyed to the reactor and dissociated.
US09617957B2	Resin molding mold for intake manifold, intake manifold and method of resin molding for intake manifold Provided are a resin molding mold enabling an intake manifold made of a resin to be manufactured at low cost, an intake manifold, and a method for molding a resin for an intake manifold. The resin molding mold for an intake manifold includes a slide mold provided at an end of a surge tank and a plurality of combination-type core molds molding an inner surface of the surge tank. The core molds include a first core member capable of a relative movement in advance of another core member after resin molding, and a second core member capable of moving with utilizing an inner space formed by the relative movement of the first core member. The first core member and the second core member are configured to be extractable through a space inwardly of a resin-molded flange.

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