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US09711402B1	Method of forming contact metal A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a source/drain feature over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the source/drain feature, forming a contact trench through the dielectric layer to expose the source/drain feature, depositing a titanium nitride (TiN) layer by a first atomic layer deposition (ALD) process in the contact trench and depositing a cobalt layer over the TiN layer in the contact trench.
US09711391B1	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first dielectric layer is formed over a substrate. A first set of recesses is formed in the first dielectric layer. A metal layer is formed in the first set of recesses. A set of metal wirings is formed from the metal layer in the first set of recesses. A second set of recesses is formed in the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed over the set of metal wirings and in the second set of recesses. A third set of recesses is formed in the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. A third dielectric layer is formed over the metal wirings and in the third set of recesses.
US09711387B2	Compliant bipolar micro device transfer head with silicon electrodes A compliant bipolar micro device transfer head array and method of forming a compliant bipolar micro device transfer array from an SOI substrate are described. In an embodiment, a compliant bipolar micro device transfer head array includes a base substrate and a patterned silicon layer over the base substrate. The patterned silicon layer may include first and second silicon interconnects, and first and second arrays of silicon electrodes electrically connected with the first and second silicon interconnects and deflectable into one or more cavities between the base substrate and the silicon electrodes.
US09711386B2	Electrostatic chuck for high temperature process applications Embodiments of the present invention provide a substrate support assembly including an electrostatic chuck with enhanced heat resistance. In one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a support base, an electrode assembly having interleaved electrode fingers formed therein, and an encapsulating member disposed on the electrode assembly, wherein the encapsulating member is fabricated from one of a ceramic material or glass.
US09711383B2	Fabrication method of semiconductor devices and fabrication system of semiconductor devices In aspects of the invention, a holding stage of a pick up system can include a first stage on which a semiconductor chip is mounted with an adhesive sheet put in between, a second stage supporting the first stage, and an evacuation pipe. The first stage can be provided with a plurality of grooves, projections each being formed with side walls of adjacent grooves, and air holes connected to the grooves. The semiconductor chip can be mounted on the first stage so that the whole end portion of the semiconductor chip does not position on one groove. Then, a closed space surrounded by the adhesive sheet and the first and second stages and can be evacuated to make the semiconductor chip held on the projections. Thereafter, the semiconductor chip can be picked up by a collet.
US09711360B2	Methods to improve in-film particle performance of amorphous boron-carbon hardmask process in PECVD system Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to the fabrication of integrated circuits. More particularly, the implementations described herein provide techniques for deposition of boron-containing amorphous carbon films on a substrate with reduced particle contamination. In one implementation, the method comprises flowing a hydrocarbon-containing gas mixture into a processing volume having a substrate positioned therein, flowing a boron-containing gas mixture into the processing volume, stabilizing the pressure in the processing volume for a predefined RF-on delay time period, generating an RF plasma in the processing volume after the predefined RF-on delay time period expires to deposit a boron-containing amorphous film on the substrate, exposing the processing volume of the process chamber to a dry cleaning process and depositing an amorphous boron season layer over at least one surface in the processing volume of the process chamber.
US09711347B2	Preparation of lanthanide-containing precursors and deposition of lanthanide-containing films Methods and compositions for depositing rare earth metal-containing layers are described herein. In general, the disclosed methods deposit the precursor compounds comprising rare earth-containing compounds using deposition methods such as chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition. The disclosed precursor compounds include a cyclopentadienyl ligand having at least one aliphatic group as a substituent and an amidine ligand.
US09711332B2	Systems and methods for tuning an impedance matching network in a step-wise fashion for multiple states of an RF generator Systems and methods for tuning an impedance matching network in a step-wise fashion for each state are described. By tuning the impedance matching network in a step-wise fashion for each state instead of directly achieving optimum values of a radio frequency (RF) for each state and directly achieving an optimal value of a combined variable capacitance for each state, processing of a wafer using the tuned optimal values becomes feasible.
US09711331B2	Frequency tuning for pulsed radio frequency plasma processing This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for pulsed RF power delivery to a plasma load for plasma processing of a substrate. In order to maximize power delivery, a calibration phase using a dummy substrate or no substrate in the chamber, is used to ascertain a preferred fixed initial RF frequency for each pulse. This fixed initial RF frequency is then used at the start of each pulse during a processing phase, where a real substrate is used and processed in the chamber.
US09711329B2	System and method to improve productivity of hybrid scan ion beam implanters A method for improving the productivity of a hybrid scan implanter by determining an optimum scan width is provided. A method of tuning a scanned ion beam is provided, where a desired beam current is determined to implant a workpiece with desired properties. The scanned beam is tuned utilizing a setup Faraday cup. A scan width is adjusted to obtain an optimal scan width using setup Faraday time signals. Optics are tuned for a desired flux value corresponding to a desired dosage. Uniformity of a flux distribution is controlled when the desired flux value is obtained. An angular distribution of the ion beam is further measured.
US09711320B2	Emitter devices for use in X-ray tubes An emitter device having an emission surface includes a plurality of ligaments configured to emit electrons in response to an applied electric field resulting from an applied electrical voltage. Further, the emitter device includes a plurality of slots configured to provide physical separation between two or more adjacently disposed ligaments of the plurality of ligaments, where one or more slots of the plurality of slots define an electrical path. Moreover, the emitter device includes a low work function layer disposed on at least a portion of a ligament of the plurality of ligaments.
US09711319B2	System for fast ions generation and a method thereof The present invention discloses a system and method for generating a beam of fast ions. The system comprising: a target substrate having a patterned surface, a pattern comprising nanoscale pattern features oriented substantially uniformly along a common axis; and; a beam unit adapted for receiving a high power coherent electromagnetic radiation beam and providing an electromagnetic radiation beam having a main pulse and a pre-pulse and focusing it onto said patterned surface of the target substrate to cause interaction between said radiation beam and said substrate enabling creation of fast ions.
US09711308B2	Handheld deactivator with integrated thermal sensor Systems (100) and methods (600) for controlling operations of a Handheld Scanning and Deactivation (“HSD”) device. The methods comprise: determining whether a human is located within a defined distance range of the HSD device; preventing first operations from being performed by the HSD device which cause a magnetic field to be generated, if it is determined that said human is located within the defined distance range of said HSD device; and initiating the first operations if it is determined that the human is not located within the defined distance range of the HSD device. The first operations comprise (1) interrogation operations for detecting a presence of an electronic article surveillance security tag and/or (2) deactivation operations for deactivating an electronic article surveillance security tag.
US09711303B2	Dome-shaped assembly and handheld electronic device including dome-shaped assembly A dome-shaped element disposable in a keyboard of an electronic device is provided. The dome-shaped element includes a concave surface originating at a center and terminating at a periphery. The concave surface includes an annular array of elastic elements extending from the center to the periphery. At least one of the elastic elements includes a first portion with a first slope proximate to the center and a second portion with a second slope proximate to the periphery. The concave surface is deflectable between an un-deflected position and a deflected position and is configured to affect an operation of the electronic device in the deflected position.
US09711302B2	Operating member with switching mat An operating member including an actuating part movably mounted between a rest position and a switching position, a circuit board with an open contacting portion, a switching mat made of an elastic material disposed adjacent to the circuit board, and at least one contact pill formed on a side of the switching mat facing towards the circuit board, which cooperate in such a way that, in the switching position of the actuating part at the latest, the open contacting portion of the circuit board is closed by the contact pill, and where the switching mat moreover forms at least one tactile-feel dome which is associated with the contact pill, is elastically compressible by actuation of the actuating part in the direction of the switching position and which, in its initial position, defines a unilaterally open hollow volume in the switching mat, in order to cause a tactile feedback on the actuating part, where the contact pill is disposed outside the hollow volume defined by the tactile-feel dome.
US09711294B2	Tantalum capacitor and method of manufacturing the same There are provided a tantalum capacitor having groove parts extended from a lower surface of a positive electrode terminal to an inner part of a wire connection part; and a method of manufacturing a tantalum capacitor, the method including: forming a wire connection part of a positive electrode terminal by applying pressure to a portion of a conductive metal plate upwardly from a bottom surface thereof.
US09711286B2	Polymeric monolithic capacitor Prismatic polymer monolithic capacitor structure operating at temperatures exceeding 140° C. and including multiple interleaving radiation-cured polymer dielectric layers and metal layers. Method for fabrication of same. The geometry of structure is judiciously chosen to increase sheet resistance of metal electrodes while reducing the capacitor's equivalent series resistance. Metal electrode layers are provided with a thickened peripheral portion to increase strength of terminating connections and are passivated to increase corrosion resistance. Materials for polymer dielectric layers are devised to ensure that the capacitor's dissipation factor remains substantially unchanged across the whole range of operating temperatures, to procure glass transition temperature that is no less than the desired operating temperature, and to optimize the absorption of ambient moisture by the polymeric layers.
US09711279B2	DC-DC converter assembly with an output inductor accommodating a power stage attached to a circuit board A DC-DC converter assembly includes a board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a power stage die of a DC-DC converter attached to the first side of the board, and an output inductor electrically connected to an output of the power stage die and disposed over the power stage die on the first side of the board. The output inductor includes a magnetic core and an electrical conductor having first and second terminals attached to the first side of the board. The output inductor accommodates the power stage die under the magnetic core so that the power stage die is interposed between the magnetic core and the board. A corresponding method of manufacturing the DC-DC converter assembly and method of manufacturing the output inductor are also disclosed.
US09711275B2	Externally mounted fuse box on a liquid-filled transformer and method for servicing A fuse box mounted on a liquid-filled transformer is disclosed. The fuse box may include one or more fuse link assemblies securing one or more fuses within a base fuse box, a fuse holder coupling the one or more fuse link assemblies within the base fuse box, wherein the one or more fuse link assemblies are pulled-up from the fuse holder by hand to remove the one or more fuse link assemblies from the base fuse box. The fuse box may include a retaining ring to fasten the fuse holder to the one or more fuse link assemblies. The fuse box may include a method for servicing a fuse box on a liquid-filled transformer.
US09711274B2	Stationary induction apparatus The invention provides a stationary induction apparatus excellent in core vibration damping, being capable of realizing reduction in core excitation-noise. The stationary induction apparatus according to the invention includes a core made up of plural of core-legs formed by lamination of electromagnetic steel sheets, and a core-yoke formed by lamination of electromagnetic steel sheets to join the plural core-legs together; a core-tightening clasp for tightening a joint between the core-yoke and the core-legs, in the direction of the lamination of the electromagnetic steel sheets, to be secured, a winding, a tank, and an insulating sheet disposed between the core-tightening clasp and the core-yoke. Further, a concave hollowed-out part or a notched part is provided on the insulating sheet, positioned at a joint between the core-yoke and the core-leg, and a vibration insulator is disposed in the concave hollowed-out part or the notched part.
US09711273B2	Inductor component and method for manufacturing the same In an inductor component, fallen-off-filler marks that are formed as a result of a filler falling off from an outer surface of a component body are present in a dotted manner in portions of the outer surface that are in contact with outer electrodes. As a result of the filler falling off, a joining area at interfaces between the component body and the outer electrodes increases, and stress generated at the interfaces between the component body and the outer electrodes is reduced.
US09711272B2	Printed circuit for wireless power transfer Printed circuit includes a substrate body having a plurality of substrate layers stacked along a Z-axis. Each substrate layer is substantially planar and extends along an XY plane. The X-, Y-, and Z-axes are mutually perpendicular. The printed circuit also includes a Z-field coil that is coupled to the substrate body and has a conductive trace that is parallel to the XY plane. The printed circuit also includes an X-field coil having conductive trace segments that are coupled to the substrate body and parallel to the XY plane. The X-field coil includes conductive paths that extend substantially parallel to the Z-axis. The conductive paths interconnect the trace segments. The Z-field coil and the X-field coil are configured to generate respective vector components of a magnetic field or have a voltage induced therein by a magnetic field.
US09711269B2	Torque motor actuator with an armature stop A torque motor actuator includes a first magnetic pole piece, a second magnetic pole piece, an armature, and an armature stop. The second magnetic pole piece is spaced apart from the first magnetic pole piece to define an armature gap. The armature is disposed in the armature gap and is spaced apart from the first and second magnetic pole pieces. The armature includes a magnetically permeable material and has a central portion, a first arm, and a second arm. The armature is rotationally mounted at the central portion, and the first and second arms extend, in opposite directions, from the central portion. The armature stop extends from the first arm, and comprises a non-magnetic material. The armature stop is configured, upon rotation of the armature, to selectively engage one of the first or second magnetic pole pieces to thereby limit armature rotation.
US09711263B2	Corona patterning of overcoated nanowire transparent conducting coatings A method comprising: providing a transparent electrically conductive film comprising: a transparent substrate (14); a composite layer (18) comprising: an electrically conductive layer disposed on at least a portion of a major surface of the transparent substrate (14) and comprising a plurality of interconnecting metallic nanowires (12); and a polymeric overcoat layer disposed on a portion of the electrically conductive layer, to provide a coated area of the electrically conductive layer; and patternwise exposing the coated area of the electrically conductive layer to a corona discharge to provide a patternwise exposed electrically conductive film comprising (1) an un exposed region (122) of the coated region having a first electrical resistivity, and (2) an exposed region (121) having a second electrical resistivity; wherein the exposed region is less electrically conductive than the unexposed region, and wherein there is a ratio of the second electrical resistivity over the first electrical resistivity of at least 1000:1.
US09711262B2	Compound superconducting wire and method for manufacturing the same A compound superconducting wire 10 includes a reinforcement portion 12 and a compound superconductor 11. In the reinforcement portion 12, an assembly of plural reinforcement elements 4 are disposed. The reinforcement elements 4 each include plural reinforcement filaments 1 disposed in a stabilizer 2, and a stabilizing layer 3 at the outer periphery thereof. The reinforcement filaments 1 each mainly contain one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, V, W, Mo, Fe, and Hf, an alloy consisting of two or more metals selected from the aforementioned group, or an alloy consisting of copper and one or more metals selected from the aforementioned group.
US09711252B1	High energy beam diffraction material treatment system A coherent beam treatment system produces a first and second energy beam that are coherent at a treatment location. An energy beam includes a neutron beam, a proton beam, an electron beam, acoustic waves, a laser and x-ray. An energy beam may be defined by a wave, such as a sinusoidal wave having a frequency and amplitude. A control system may produce a first and second beam that have coherence at a treatment location. Coherence is a location where two beams have matching wave profiles. A beam may be defined by a simple sinusoidal equation wherein the frequency and amplitude are constant as a function of time. A beam may be defined by a complex wave equation, wherein the frequency or amplitude change as a function of time. A control system may modulate one or more of the beam equations to change a location of coherence.
US09711241B2	Method and apparatus for optimized memory test status detection and debug Embodiments contained in the disclosure provide a method for memory built-in self-testing (MBIST). The method begins when a testing program is loaded, which may be from an MBIST controller. Once the testing program is loaded MBIST testing begins. During testing, memory failures are determined and written to a failure indicator register. The writing to the failure indicator register occurs in parallel with the ongoing MBIST testing. An apparatus is also provided. The apparatus includes a memory data read/write block, a memory register, a memory addressor, and a memory read/write controller. The apparatus communicates with the memories under test through a memory address and data bus.
US09711239B2	Data independent periodic calibration using per-pin VREF correction technique for single-ended signaling A single-ended receiver includes an internal voltage generation circuit to set a first internal reference voltage (Vref). A model voltage generation circuit is configurable to receive an external reference voltage to be calibrated during an initial calibration. The model voltage generation circuit is configurable to track an offset value for voltage-temperature (VT) drift and the offset value is applied to the internal voltage generation circuit to calibrate the internal Vref during a periodic calibration of the single-ended receiver.
US09711235B2	Nonvolatile memory device, storage device having the same, operating method thereof A nonvolatile memory device includes a voltage generating circuit configured to generate voltages applied to word lines corresponding to a selected memory block among memory blocks. The voltage generating circuit includes voltage source lines having linear voltages, a first voltage generating unit configured to generate a first voltage and apply the generated first voltage to a first voltage source line among the voltage source lines, a second voltage generating unit configured to generate a second voltage and apply the generated second voltage to a second voltage source line among the voltage source lines, and a linear voltage generator having a resistor string connected between the first voltage source line and the second voltage source line. At least one of the voltage source lines has a voltage distributed between the first voltage and the second voltage.
US09711229B1	3D NAND with partial block erase Systems and methods for performing a partial block erase operation on a portion of a memory array are described. The memory array may include a plurality of vertical NAND strings in which a first set of the plurality of vertical NAND strings are connected to a first drain-side select line, a second set of the plurality of vertical NAND strings are connected to a second drain-side select line, and both the first set and the second set of vertical NAND strings are connected to one or more shared word lines. In cases where a first vertical NAND string of the first set and a second vertical NAND string of the second set are both connected to selected bit lines and the same shared word line, selectivity of memory cells may be provided by applying different voltages to the first drain-side select line and the second drain-side select line.
US09711225B2	Regrouping and skipping cycles in non-volatile memory A non-volatile memory system utilizes multiple programming cycles to write units of data, such as a logical page of data, to a non-volatile memory array. User data is evaluated before writing to determine whether programming can be skipped for bay addresses. The system determines whether programming can be skipped for an initial set of bay groups. If a bay group cannot be skipped, the system determines whether the bay group includes individual bays that may be skipped. Bays are regrouped into new bay groups to reduce the number of BAD cycles during programming. Independent column addressing for multiple bays within a bay group is provided. During a column address cycle, a separate column address is provided to the bays to select different columns for programming within each bay. By simultaneously programming multiple column addresses during a single column address cycle, the system may skip programming for some column address cycles.
US09711222B2	Content addressable memory cells and memory arrays A content addressable memory cell is provided that includes plurality of transistors having a minimum feature size F, and a plurality of memory elements coupled to the plurality of transistors. The content addressable memory cell occupies an area of between 18F2 and 36F2.
US09711221B1	Nonvolatile range-checking content addressable memory A computer memory provides for range-matching capabilities using a hybrid combination of transistors and multiple resistive memory devices serving in a dual capacity as storage and logic. The result is an extremely compact, nonvolatile range-matching, content addressable memory.
US09711220B2	Duo content addressable memory (CAM) using a single CAM Disclosed is a content addressable memory (CAM). The content addressable memory array includes a memory array and a data match module. The memory array includes multiple memory rows. Each memory row is configured to store a first data word and a second data word. The data match module includes a first match circuitry configured to compare a first match word to the first data word of a memory row, and to generate a first match output based on the comparison between the first match word and the first data word of the memory row. The data match module further includes a second match circuitry configured to compare a second match word to the second data word of the memory row, and to generate a second match output based on the comparison between the second match word and the second data word of the memory row.
US09711217B1	Memory device and operating method for resistive memory cell A memory device and an operating method for a resistive memory cell are provided. The memory device includes the resistive memory cell. The resistive memory cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a memory film between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode includes a bottom electrode portion and a sidewall electrode portion extending upwardly from the bottom electrode portion and between the memory film and the bottom electrode portion. A width of the sidewall electrode portion and a width of the memory film are smaller than a width of the bottom electrode portion.
US09711207B2	Performing logical operations using sensing circuitry The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array an array of memory cells via a sense line. The sensing circuitry is configured to sense, as a voltage associated with a second operand of a logical function, a voltage on the sense line corresponding to a first logical data value resulting in part from reading a first memory cell of the array of memory cells associated with a first operand of the logical function.
US09711206B2	Performing logical operations using sensing circuitry The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing logical operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array of memory cells. The sensing circuitry includes a primary latch and a secondary latch. The primary latch is coupled to a pair of complementary sense lines and selectively coupled to a pair of adjacent complementary sense lines. The secondary latch is selectively coupled to the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift a data value between the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines and the primary latch. The primary latch and secondary latch are configured to shift the data value from the pair of adjacent complementary sense lines without activating a row line.
US09711205B2	Method of use time management for semiconductor device and semiconductor device including use time managing circuit A use time managing method of a semiconductor device may include (1) measuring an amount of accumulated operation time of the semiconductor device and when the amount is reached to a predetermined value, generating a unit storage activation signal; (2) repeating step (1) to generate one or more additional unit storage activation signals, thereby generating a plurality of unit storage activation signals, wherein the predetermined values are different for each repeating step; (3) storing data indicating each occurrence of generating the unit storage activation signals; and (4) detecting use time of the semiconductor device based on the cumulatively stored data.
US09711202B2	Electronic device This technology provides an electronic device. An electronic device in accordance with an implementation of this document may include a semiconductor memory, and the semiconductor memory may include: an under layer including a plurality of material layers having a different crystal structures; a first magnetic layer formed over the under layer and having a variable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer formed over the first magnetic layer; and a second magnetic layer formed over the tunnel barrier layer and having a pinned magnetization direction.
US09711178B2	Local timeline editing for online content editing Local timeline editing for online content editing is disclosed. Various systems and methods described herein provide for online content editing, wherein user-created content is created or modified at an online content editor server in accordance with a timeline (associated with the user-created content) that is modified at a remote content editor client and subsequently received by the online content editor server. In a specific implementation, the creation and modification operations performed on the user-created content are performed at the online content editor server in accordance with the timeline received from the remote content editor client. The timeline can comprise information defining content within the user-created content, and define a temporal property of the content within the user-created content. The remote content editor client can be a thin client instance utilizing limited resources during operation and requiring very limited network bandwidth when transferred to the client.
US09711162B2	Method and apparatus for environmental noise compensation by determining a presence or an absence of an audio event A method of environmental noise compensation a speech audio signal is provided that includes estimating a fast audio energy level and a slow audio energy level in an audio environment, wherein the speech audio signal is not part of the audio environment, and applying a gain to the speech audio signal to generate an environment compensated speech audio signal, wherein the gain is updated based on the estimated slow audio energy level when the estimated fast audio energy level is not indicative of an audio event in the audio environment and the estimated gain is not updated when the estimated fast audio energy level is indicative an audio event in the audio environment.
US09711159B2	Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding of integrated speech and audio utilizing a band expander with a spectral band replication to output the audio or speech to a frequency domain encoder or an LPC encoder An apparatus and a method for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal. The encoding apparatus may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a first conversion encoder to convert the input signal to a frequency domain signal, and to encode the input signal when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; a Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) encoder to perform LPC encoding of the input signal when the input signal is a speech characteristic signal; a frequency band expander with the spectral band replication (SBR) standard for expanding the frequency band of the input signal whose output is transmitted to either the first conversion encoder or the LPC encoder based on the input characteristic; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream using an output signal of the first conversion encoder and an output signal of the LPC encoder.
US09711157B2	Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods for encoding and decoding an audio signal, and a computer program An encoder for providing an audio stream on the basis of a transform-domain representation of an input audio signal includes a quantization error calculator configured to determine a multi-band quantization error over a plurality of frequency bands of the input audio signal for which separate band gain information is available. The encoder also includes an audio stream provider for providing the audio stream such that the audio stream includes information describing an audio content of the frequency bands and information describing the multi-band quantization error.A decoder for providing a decoded representation of an audio signal on the basis of an encoded audio stream representing spectral components of frequency bands of the audio signal includes a noise filler for introducing noise into spectral components of a plurality of frequency bands to which separate frequency band gain information is associated on the basis of a common multi-band noise intensity value.
US09711146B1	Wireless system for social media management A user may speak an audio input into a microphone of a recorder device (e.g., a sport helmet). The user device then transmits the audio input to a receiver. The receiver, upon receiving the audio input, routes the audio to a processor that processes the audio input to detect a spoken activation code. The processor then parses a subset of the audio input (e.g., the subset including one or more words) following the activation code and generates textual data based the parsed audio subset. The textual data may optionally be edited to replace one or more pre-identified catchphrases (e.g., swearwords or product names) with replacement phrases (e.g., swear censors) or hyperlinks (e.g., leading to product websites). The textual data is then transmitted to reader devices via transmitters, which may optionally transmit the textual data to a selective group of reader devices (e.g., stadium attendees).
US09711144B2	Microphone apparatus and method with catch-up buffer At a microphone, voice activity is detected in a data stream while simultaneously buffering audio data from the data stream to create buffered data. A signal is sent to a host indicating the positive detection of voice activity in the data stream. When an external clock signal is received from the host, the internal operation of the microphone is synchronized with the external clock signal. Buffered data stream is selectively sent through a first path, the first path including a buffer having a buffer delay time representing the time the first data stream takes to move through the buffer. The data stream is continuously sent through a second path as a real-time data stream, the second path not including the buffer, the real-time data stream beginning with the extended buffer data at a given instant in time. The buffered data stream and the real-time data stream are multiplexed onto a single data line and transmitting the multiplexed data stream to the host.
US09711132B1	Focusing ultrasonic transducer to which acoustic lens using Fresnel zone plate is applied and method for manufacturing focusing ultrasonic transducer The present disclosure relates to an acoustic lens using a Fresnel zone plate, a design method and a manufacturing method of the acoustic lens, a focusing ultrasonic transducer to which the acoustic lens is applied, and a manufacturing method of the focusing ultrasonic transducer. More specifically, an acoustic lens using a Fresnel zone plate which is applied to a focusing ultrasonic transducer. The acoustic lens includes a plurality of concentric regions which is concentrically disposed with respect to a center point. In the concentric region, a sound insulation region which blocks an entering sound wave and a transmission region which transmits the sound wave are alternately formed in a radial direction from the center point, and the entering sound wave is focused near a focal point.
US09711130B2	Adaptive noise canceling architecture for a personal audio device A personal audio device, such as a wireless telephone, includes an adaptive noise canceling (ANC) circuit that adaptively generates an anti-noise signal from a reference microphone signal that measures the ambient audio and an error microphone signal that measures the output of an output transducer plus any ambient audio at that location and injects the anti-noise signal at the transducer output to cause cancellation of ambient audio sounds. A processing circuit uses the reference and error microphone to generate the anti-noise signal, which can be generated by an adaptive filter operating at a multiple of the ANC coefficient update rate. Downlink audio can be combined with the high data rate anti-noise signal by interpolation. High-pass filters in the control paths reduce DC offset in the ANC circuits, and ANC coefficient adaptation can be halted when downlink audio is not detected.
US09711117B2	Method and apparatus for recognising music symbols Disclosed are music symbol recognition apparatuses and methods that recognise music symbols from handwritten music notations. Various implementations may process handwritten music notations by segmenting the handwritten music notations into a plurality of elementary ink segments and then grouping the segments into graphical objects based on spatial relationships between the segments. One or more candidate music symbols may be determined for each graphical object, along with a symbol cost for each symbol, which represents a likelihood that the graphical object belongs to a predetermined class of symbols. The music symbol candidates may be parsed to form graphs based on grammar rules, and the graph most likely to represent the handwritten music notations may be selected for display or other use. The selection may be based on the symbol costs associated with each candidate and on spatial costs associated with the grammar rules that are applied to the candidates.
US09711115B2	Capo with replaceable neck pads The present invention is directed to a capo for use with a stringed musical instrument and which is engaged from the bottom portion of the neck of the musical instrument. The capo has a generally L-shaped frame connected to a lever and a pincher configured so that pressure applied to the lever causes the pincher to move toward the lever, allowing the space between the pincher and free end portion of the frame to receive the neck of the musical instrument. The exterior of the frame is configured to received interchangeable inlays, and the free end portion of the frame is configured to receive changeable neck pads.
US09711110B2	Display device comprising grayscale conversion portion and display portion A dark portion in an image seen by a viewer is expressed more precisely, whereby the image given a greater sense of depth is displayed. A display device in which pixels each include a light-emitting module capable of emitting light having a spectral line half-width of less than or equal to 60 nm in a response time of less than or equal to 100 μs and are provided at a resolution of higher than or equal to 80 ppi; the NTSC ratio is higher than or equal to 80%; and the contrast ratio is higher than or equal to 500, is provided with a circuit converting an image signal having a given grayscale into an image signal capable of representing an image on the low luminance side by high-level grayscale.
US09711109B2	Data processing apparatus for transmitting/receiving compression-related indication information via display interface and related data processing method A data processing apparatus includes a compressor and an output interface. The compressor generates a compressed display data by compressing a display data according to a compression algorithm. The output interface appends first indication information in a first output bitstream, appends second indication information in a second output bitstream, and outputs the first output bitstream and the second output bitstream via a display interface. The first output bitstream is derived from the compressed display data. The first indication information is set in response to the compression algorithm employed by the compressor. The first indication information is different from the second indication information. The display interface is arranged for coupling to a driver circuit.
US09711106B1	Display method and display device The present invention provides a display method and a display system, which belong to the field of display technology and solve a problem of large power consumption in the case of light-load images in existing display methods. The display method includes steps of: detecting, when a frame of image is displayed, a variation degree of data voltages on respective data lines; determining, according to the detection result, a load size of the displayed image; and adjusting, according to the determination result, an operating frequency of a charge pump, and outputting, by the charge pump, a voltage corresponding to the operating frequency to a gate driving unit, so that a gate driving voltage is provided to a gate line by the gate driving unit. The overall power consumption of a display system can be reduced and the performance thereof can be improved by the display method according to the present invention.
US09711104B2	Display device and electrical apparatus A display device is provided which is capable of preventing a malfunction and carrying out a common reverse drive without increasing electric power consumption. The display driver (a) supplies a voltage of a common electrode, whose a polarity is determined in accordance with (i) an oscillation circuit output signal (OCOUT) which is transmitted via a first wire different from a second wire used during a serial transmission and (ii) a SCS signal and (b) controls a reverse timing of the polarity of the voltage of the common electrode in accordance with the oscillation circuit output signal (OCOUT) and the SCS signal.
US09711103B2	Display apparatus Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display panel including pixels connected with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a gate driver supplying gate signals to the gate lines; and a data driver supplying data voltages to the data lines. The data driver includes a temperature measurer generating a temperature signal of the data driver.
US09711100B2	Common voltage distortion detecting circuit, liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A common voltage distortion detecting circuit includes a current sensor, a voltage difference voltage detecting circuit and a comparator. The current sensor is disposed between a circuit configured to apply a common voltage to a liquid crystal display panel and an input power terminal providing a power voltage. The voltage difference detecting circuit is configured to detect a difference voltage between two terminals of the current sensor. The comparator is configured to compare the difference voltage and a reference voltage to output an over current signal to convert an inversion method of the liquid crystal display panel when the difference voltage is greater than the reference voltage.
US09711091B2	3D display method and display device The present disclosure discloses a 3D display method and a display device, relates to the field of display technologies, and can improve the 3D display effects of a Vertical Alignment (VA) liquid crystal display. The 3D display method comprises the steps of: acquiring effective grayscale of an image to be displayed; acquiring compensation data for brightness of the image to be displayed based on the effective grayscale thereof; and driving, during display of the image, a backlight source based on the compensation data for brightness, so as to compensate for brightness of the image to be displayed. The 3D display method is especially suitable for a VA display device. The present disclosure can be used in a display device, such as a liquid crystal television, a liquid crystal display, a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, etc.
US09711089B2	Scan driving circuit and display device A scan driving circuit, including a multi-stage shift register unit that outputs scan signals by stage under control of a clock signal (CKR, CKBR), the shift register unit includes an output terminal for outputting the scan signals, the scan driving circuit further includes a multi-stage signal generating unit, with an n-th stage signal generating unit is connected respectively to an output terminal of an n-th stage shift register unit and an output terminal of an (n+j)-th stage shift register unit, the n-th stage signal generating unit is configured to convert an outputted first level into a second level under triggering of a scan signal outputted by the n-th stage shift register unit, and convert an outputted second level into a first level under triggering of a scan signal outputted by the (n+j)-th stage shift register unit; the n and j both are positive integers.
US09711086B2	Display device having shared column lines A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits.
US09711085B2	Pixel circuit having a testing module, organic light emitting display panel and display apparatus Disclosed are a pixel circuit, an organic light emitting display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises a light emitting device (01), a charging module (02), a driving module (03), and a testing module (04) having a control terminal connected to a test signal terminal (TEST) for providing a test signal switching between a displaying period of time and a testing period of time, a second input terminal (a2) connected to an output terminal of the light emitting device (01), and a third output terminal (b3) connected to a second reference signal terminal (Ref2). Through the pixel circuit, a current signal for driving the light emitting device (01) to emit light can reach the uniformity standard so that display luminance of pixels is uniform and quality of a display picture is ensured.
US09711083B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus A display apparatus includes a plurality of sub-pixel groups. At least one of the sub-pixel groups includes a plurality of first sub-pixels to emit a first color of light, a plurality of second sub-pixels to emit a second color of light, and a dummy pixel between the first sub-pixels and the second sub-pixels. A first dummy driving transistor is connectable to one of the first sub-pixels and a second dummy driving transistor is connectable to one of the second sub-pixels.
US09711082B2	Display apparatus and display drive method A display apparatus includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix form, in which each pixel circuit has a light-emitting device, a drive transistor applying a current corresponding to a gate-source voltage to the light-emitting device, a sampling transistor inputting a voltage supplied from a signal line to a gate of the drive transistor, and a storage capacitor connected between the gate and source of the drive transistor so as to store a threshold voltage of the drive transistor and an input video signal voltage; a signal selector that supplies a reference voltage and the video signal voltage to signal lines arranged in columns on the pixel array in horizontal periods corresponding to the number of horizontal lines in one unit when the horizontal lines of the respective pixel circuits of the pixel array are grouped as one unit; and a scanner that applies a pulse to control lines arranged in rows on the pixel array so as to control the sampling transistor of the pixel circuit.
US09711079B2	Shift register pulling control signals according to display mode A shift register includes a first voltage stabilizing unit, a second voltage stabilizing unit, a main pull-down unit and a main pull-up unit. The first voltage stabilizing unit is used to pull a first driving control signal to a low voltage terminal when a first stabilizing control signal is high. The second voltage stabilizing unit is used to pull the first driving control signal to the low voltage terminal when a second stabilizing control signal is high. The main pull-down unit includes a first sub-pull-down unit controlled by a second gate-terminal signal for pulling down the first driving control signal to the low voltage terminal during a first display mode, and a second sub-pull-down unit controlled by a third gate-terminal signal for pulling down the first driving control signal to the low voltage terminal during a second display mode. The main pull-up unit is used for pulling up a first gate-terminal signal.
US09711076B2	Display device A display device can include a display panel having first and second panel blocks, a switching element that selectively connects a first data line formed in the first panel block and a second data line formed in the second panel block, a gate driver that feeds a gate pulse to gate lines formed in the first and second panel blocks, a first data driver that feeds a data voltage to the first data line, a second data driver that feeds a data voltage to the second data line, and a dimming-proof part that controls the operation timing of the switching element.
US09711067B2	Modular staged reality simulator This invention is directed to a modular staged simulator and a process of simulating medical trauma and maladies for the purpose of training or certifying individuals including medical professionals. More specifically, this disclosure relates to ex vivo training exercises as opposed to traditional forms of training using intact cadavers, in vivo surgery on animal subjects; and supervised apprenticeship performing surgery on human subjects with trauma or maladies under the watch of a skilled medical practitioner.
US09711064B2	Systems and methods for calculating text difficulty Disclosed are systems, methods, and products for language learning that automatically extracts keywords from resources using various natural-language processing product features, which can be combined with custom-designed learning activities to offer a needs-based, adaptive learning methodology. The system may receive resources having text and then determine a text difficulty score that predicts how difficult the resource is for language learners based on any number of factors, including any number of semantic and syntactic features of the text. Training resources labeled with metadata may be used to train a statistical model for determining difficulty scores of newly received text. Resources may be grouped based on difficulty score, and groups of resources may correspond to language learners' proficiency levels.
US09711063B2	Methods and devices for intraoral tactile feedback The present invention is directed to methods and devices for teaching the proper configuration of the oral articulators, particularly the tongue, corresponding to particular speech sounds by providing intraoral tactile feedback. Intraoral tactile feedback is achieved by placing nodes in the oral cavity of the patient in locations corresponding to the proper lingual position required to produce a target sound. These nodes facilitate identification of the appropriate lingual position corresponding to a target speech sound by providing tactile differentiation when the target sound is properly produced.
US09711059B2	Motion platform device for flight simulation A motion platform device for flight simulation comprises: a base frame, a moving platform, which is spaced apart from said base frame and which has a user position surface opposing to the base frame, and a number of mounts connected to the base frame and connected with the moving platform, wherein the mounts are adapted to allow a relative movement of the user position surface, especially pivoting around a central point in three directions. The user is lying on the surface and actuates the flying movement through lateral inner wings and/or lateral outer wings.
US09711057B2	Question setting apparatus and method A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage stores problem information which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer of the problem included in a test sent to students, and student answer information which maintains answer data and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor processes test operations of referring to the problem information, sending the problem data to the student terminals, receiving the answer data from the student terminals in a given time for the test, and recording the answer data in the student answer information. The processor processes a progress display. A progress state is displayed in the given time and indicates an answer state of the problem data based on the correct/incorrect answer determination result. A display instruction is sent to the student terminals to stop the test.
US09711056B1	Apparatus, method, and system of building and processing personal emotion-based computer readable cognitive sensory memory and cognitive insights for enhancing memorization and decision making skills A personal emotion-based cognitive assistant system includes one or more components which may be worn by a user as a headset, one or more sensors that capture an emotional state of the user, a processor that identifies personal meaning of an environment of the user based on the captured emotional state, and a memory that stores the identified personalized meaning with data about the environment in different areas of the memory based on the identified personal meaning.
US09711051B2	Method of determining the position of a vehicle in a traffic lane of a road and methods for detecting alignment and risk of collision between two vehicles A method for determining a positioning of a subject motor vehicle in a traffic lane of a highway is provided, including: acquiring a number of traffic lanes of the highway; acquiring an image of the highway showing at least a lateral part of the highway; acquiring a datum relating to a direction of travel of the subject motor vehicle on the highway; receiving by the subject motor vehicle one message from another motor vehicle, the message including a first information item relating to a positioning of the other motor vehicle, and a second information item relating to a direction of travel of the other motor vehicle; and deducting the positioning of the subject motor vehicle in one of the traffic lanes, as a function of the number of traffic lanes, the datum, the acquired image, the first and second information item.
US09711050B2	Smart vehicle A smart vehicle can be operated by generating a 3D model of a sensor's field of view; receiving information from neighboring vehicles to compensate for blindspots in the sensor's field of view and in a driver's field of view; receiving traffic information, weather information; adjusting one or more characteristics of the plurality of 3D models based on the received traffic and weather information and blindspot information; aggregating the plurality of 3D models to generate a comprehensive 3D model; and combining the comprehensive 3D model with detailed map information; and using the combined comprehensive 3D model with detailed map information to maneuver the vehicle.
US09711048B1	Wireless transmission system to determine parking lot occupancy A wireless transmission system includes a server to receive a unique identifier associated with a parking space from a first receiving device. The server then generate an instruction to query a type of the unique identifier and transmit the instruction to the database. The server in response to determining that a parking space is occupied by the first receiving device, generate an instruction to modify a record within the database associated with the parking space as occupied. The server receive a query from a second receiving device about the availability of parking spaces, and generate an instruction to receive one or more unoccupied parking spaces. The server generates a graphical user interface including a census data where the census data may include the occupied parking spaces, unoccupied parking spaces, and number of occupants within the automobile. The server transmit the graphical user interface to the second receiving device.
US09711043B2	Infra-red wireless communication An infrared signal generator with an interface for receiving an encoded infrared command; and protocol generation circuitry for generating a bitstream that comprises one or more data words that comprise data to be transmitted and one or more protocol words that describe symbols of an infrared protocol is presented. Optionally, the protocol generation circuitry comprises a first circuit for generating a data word and a second circuit for generating a protocol word. Optionally, the infrared signal generator comprises a carrier frequency generator which is selectively combined with the output of either the first circuit or the second circuit to provide a drive signal for an infrared transmitter.
US09711042B2	Method and a module for controlling pieces of equipment by sound pulse Disclosed are methods and devices for controlling pieces of equipment by sound pulses, which include operations and means for determining characteristics of a vector defined by two sound pulses received by at least two receivers. In various implementations, the characteristics may comprise at least the direction and possibly also the sense and the norm of the vector, and these sound pulses may be generated in a zone defined relative to the receivers. The methods and devices may also include operations and means for controlling a piece of equipment where the command applied to the equipment may be determined at least by the direction of the vector.
US09711038B1	System and method for field monitoring of stationary assets A wireless sensor network including a number of wireless modules for monitoring sensors associated with stationary assets. A wireless module includes a wireless transceiver, a processor, a location acquisition unit, configured to acquire a location item identifying a location of the wireless module, and a memory.
US09711033B2	System and method for collecting medical waste that monitors the waste for objects that may have been inadvertantly discarded A mobile cart that holds a bag for receiving solid waste generated during a medical or surgical procedure. The cart includes a sensor that monitors whether or not an object containing metal is placed in the bag. A processor monitors the signal output by the sensor. If the sensor signal indicates that an object with a minimal amount of metal is placed in the bag, the processor momentarily asserts an audible alarm and continuously asserts a light alarm. The light alarm remains asserted until turned off. If, while the light alarm is on, the sensor signal indicates a second object with the minimal amount of waste is placed in the container, the processor again momentarily asserts the audible alarm. This provides notice that it may be necessary to investigate the contents of the bag to determine if not one but two or more objects were inadvertently discarded.
US09711032B1	Electrical device and methods of making and using the device An electrical device, processes for using and making the device, and products produced thereby. There can be an alarm device and an extension which includes a protrusion. The extension can have wiring, and the alarm device can detect for a change in electricity running through the wiring, such as a change that would occur when the electricity is interrupted when the wiring is cut. The protrusion is located adjacent to the extension, distant from the alarm device, and can include a key, switch, connector, or the like. The protrusion, in some cases, can be releasably connectable to a housing that is in turn connected to the extension, so as to form a loop in which an item can be secured for protection, e.g., from theft.
US09711029B2	Equipment, dressing and garment wireless connectivity to a patient bed A system comprises a patient bed having a reader to read wireless signals. In some embodiments a wound dressing has a transmitter that transmits wireless signals to the reader of the patient bed. In other embodiments, a garment has a transmitter that transmits wireless signals to the reader of the patient bed. In still further embodiments, other medical equipment has a transmitter that transmits wireless signals to the reader of the patient bed.
US09711027B2	Suggesting adjustments to a helmet based on analysis of play Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for suggesting adjustments to an adjustable helmet based on analysis of play. Aspects include monitoring a plurality of sensors in the adjustable helmet and performing an analysis of play for a user of the adjustable helmet based on data received from the plurality of sensors. Aspects also include determining if an adjustment to the adjustable helmet should be made based on the analysis of play and creating an alert indicating that an adjustment to the helmet is needed.
US09711023B2	Lockdown apparatus for initiation of lockdown procedures at a facility during an emergency with an override actuator to override lockdown communication to facility occupants Some embodiments are directed to a lockdown apparatus for facilitating initiation of lockdown procedures at a facility. The lockdown apparatus can include an actuator configured to transmit a lockdown initiation signal upon being actuated. The actuator can be configured to be recognizably distinguishable from a fire alarm actuator. The lockdown apparatus can also include a lockdown communicator configured to produce a lockdown communication for communicating initiation of lockdown procedures to the facility occupants and individuals not disposed proximate the facility upon transmission of the lockdown initiation signal, the lockdown communication being recognizably distinguishable from the fire alarm communication.
US09711022B2	Lockdown apparatus for initiation of lockdown procedures at a facility during an emergency having a display for still or video images Some embodiments are directed to a lockdown apparatus for facilitating initiation of lockdown procedures at a facility. The lockdown apparatus can include an actuator configured to transmit a lockdown initiation signal upon being actuated. The actuator can be configured to be recognizably distinguishable from a fire alarm actuator. The lockdown apparatus can also include a lockdown communicator configured to produce a lockdown communication for communicating initiation of lockdown procedures to the facility occupants and individuals not disposed proximate the facility upon transmission of the lockdown initiation signal, the lockdown communication being recognizably distinguishable from the fire alarm communication.
US09711011B2	Gaming devices having game modifiers usable between games and stages within games Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the use of game modifiers that are triggered in a first game and are used in game stages in a subsequent second game. According to some embodiments, a gaming device is configured to play a multi-stage game of chance. After each stage is completed in a first game, it is determined whether any of the game stages have triggered modifications of one or more game modifiers that are used in one or more corresponding game stages in a subsequently played game. The altered game modifiers may modify prizes associated with an incremented one of the game stages in the subsequent game so that the altered modifiers move between game stages in multiple games.
US09711010B2	Bad beat insurance In various embodiments, a system and a method of implementing bad beat insurance are disclosed. After a stage of a portion of a game is played, it is determined that a player is favored to win the portion of the game. After the portion of the game is completed, it is determined that the player has suffered a bad beat. The player is compensated at least partially for a loss that the player incurred as a consequence of suffering the bad beat.
US09711008B2	Game system, control method for game system, game control device, control method for game control device, and information storage medium A game system executes a game for a plurality of users to participate in. A role assigning unit assigns a role in a game to a user. An evaluation unit evaluates a game play of the user in the game, based on an evaluation criterion that is set based on a role assigned to the user by the assigning unit. A limiting unit limits a number of users, other than the user, who are able to participate in the game, based on an evaluation result by the evaluation unit on a game play of the user in a game in the past.
US09710992B2	Automatic product dispensing machine An automatic product dispensing machine comprises: a frame (2) delimiting at least a housing chamber (3); a magazine (4) arranged internally of the housing chamber (3), for containing a series of products (5); at least a display (8) interposed between the housing chamber (3) and the external environment; a control unit (9) active on the display (8) and configured such as to enable visualizing images and/or information. The control unit (9) is further configured such as to switch the display (8) between at least two of the following three operative conditions: a visualizing condition, in which it reproduces at least a datum and/or image that is externally visible, a condition of transparency, in which at least a product (5) contained in the magazine (4) is viewable via the display (8) and a superposing condition, in which at least a product (5) is viewable via the display (8) and at least a datum and/or image and/or film relating to the product is reproduced on the display.
US09710973B2	Low-latency fusing of virtual and real content A system that includes a head mounted display device and a processing unit connected to the head mounted display device is used to fuse virtual content into real content. In one embodiment, the processing unit is in communication with a hub computing device. The processing unit and hub may collaboratively determine a map of the mixed reality environment. Further, state data may be extrapolated to predict a field of view for a user in the future at a time when the mixed reality is to be displayed to the user. This extrapolation can remove latency from the system.
US09710963B2	Primitive fitting apparatus and method using point cloud A primitive fitting apparatus is provided. The primitive fitting apparatus may include a selecting unit to receive, from a user, a selection of points used to fit a primitive a user desires to fit from a point cloud, an identifying unit to receive a selection of the primitive from the user and to identify the selected primitive, and a fitting unit to fit the primitive to correspond to the points, using the points and primitive.
US09710959B2	Compressed 3D graphics rendering exploiting psychovisual properties Techniques are disclosed for providing compressed three-dimensional (3D) graphics rendering exploiting psychovisual properties of the human eye. In some embodiments, the techniques can be used to render one red-green-blue (RGB) channel per pixel location. In some example such cases, green pixels are rendered at one-half resolution, whereas red and blue pixels are rendered at one-quarter resolution. In some other embodiments, multiple RGB channels can be rendered at a given pixel location. In some example such cases, green pixels are rendered at full (e.g., actual) resolution, whereas red and blue pixels are rendered at one-quarter resolution. Missing RGB channel components can be interpolated using statistical and/or frequency domain properties of color spectra, in accordance with some embodiments. The techniques can be used, for example, to improve the power efficiency and/or rendered graphics quality of a graphics processing unit (GPU) or other rendering engine, in accordance with some embodiments.
US09710953B2	Apparatus, method, and program for 3D data analysis, and fine particle analysis system As a data analysis apparatus that can easily and intuitively identify fine particles and small fine particle populations to be analyzed in a distribution graph and that can obtain accurate statistical data regarding these, a 3D data analysis apparatus is provided that includes a data storage unit which saves measurement data regarding fine particles, an input unit which selects independent three types of variables from the measurement data, a data processing unit which calculates positions and figures in a coordinate space whose coordinate axes are the three types of variables and which creates a 3D stereoscopic image representing characteristic distribution of the fine particles, and a display unit which displays the 3D stereoscopic image and that displays, in the 3D stereoscopic image, the figures in each region of the coordinate space divided into a plurality of regions by a plane in a different color in each region.
US09710952B2	Systems and methods for providing pixelation and depixelation animations for media content Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect a trigger to initiate at least one of a pixelation animation or a depixelation animation for a media content item. A set of pixelated images can be generated based on a source image associated with the media content item. Variable durations for presenting the set of pixelated images can be determined. The set of pixelated images can be presented, based on the variable durations, to produce the at least one of the pixelation animation or the depixelation animation.
US09710933B2	Method and apparatus for processing texture Provided is a method of processing a texture. The method includes acquiring texture position information in a texture image corresponding to pixel position information of pixels constituting a frame, acquiring texture classification information (TCI) representing a similarity between respective texture factors of two or more classified regions in the texture image based on the texture position information, determining an amount of texture data requested from a memory according to the TCI, and reading texture data corresponding to the determined amount of texture data based on the texture position information.
US09710919B2	Image-based surface tracking A method of image-tracking by using an image capturing device (12). The method comprises: performing an image-capture of a scene (54) by using an image capturing device; and tracking movement (62) of the image capturing device (12) by analyzing a set of images by using an image processing algorithm (64).
US09710918B2	System and method for image reconstruction user interface A system and method for an image reconstruction user interface is provided. An imaging system may be used to scan a subject and provide reconstructed images of the subject. Reconstructed images may be output to a display, printer, network, and/or memory storage device. To view information and select options for image reconstruction, a visualization system and method is utilized.
US09710910B2	Image registration device, image registration method, and ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus having image registration device There is provided an image registration device and an image registration method. The device includes: a feature extractor configured to extract, from a first image, a first feature group and to extract, from a second image, a second feature group; a feature converter configured to convert, using a converted neural network in which a correlation between features is learned, the extracted second feature group to correspond to the extracted first feature group, to obtain a converted group; and a register configured to register the first image and the second image based on the converted group and the extracted first feature group.
US09710907B2	Diagnosis support system using panoramic radiograph and diagnosis support program using panoramic radiograph A diagnosis support system includes a diagnosis support computer that includes a model data acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of mandible model data, a contour model creation unit configured to create contour model data from the mandible model data, a contour database storage unit configured to construct a contour model database from the contour model data, a diagnosis image data receiving unit configured to receive an input of diagnosis image data of an examinee, an edge extraction unit configured to extract edge data from the diagnosis image data, a similar model searching unit configured to search contour model data based on the edge data, a position judgment unit and an image quality judgment unit configured to judge an imaging position and an image quality based on imaging information, respectively, and a diagnosis support information provision unit configured to provide diagnosis support information based on provider information.
US09710905B2	Mask inspection apparatus and mask inspection method In a mask inspection apparatus, a defect detection unit includes a first memory region, a second memory region, an inspection condition reconfiguring unit, and a comparison unit. The inspection condition reconfiguring unit obtains a difference between gray scales of an optical image stored in the second memory region and a reference image stored in the first memory region. The existence of the defect is determined in the case where the difference is larger than a first threshold value. Further in the case where the number of defects is larger than a second threshold value, an inspection condition is re-estimated and configured and the reference image is regenerated. A comparison unit compares the stored reference image with the stored optical image in the case where the inspection condition is not reconfigured, and compares the regenerated reference image with the stored optical image in the case where the inspection condition is reconfigured.
US09710902B2	Means for using microstructure of materials surface as a unique identifier The present application concerns the visual identification of materials or documents for tracking or authentication purposes.It describes methods to automatically authenticate an object by comparing some object images with reference images, the object images being characterized by the fact that visual elements used for comparison are non-disturbing for the naked eye. In some described approaches it provides the operator with visible features to locate the area to be imaged. It also proposes ways for real-time implementation enabling user friendly detection using mobile devices like smart phones.
US09710892B2	Image enhancement method and image processing apparatus thereof An image enhancement method and an image processing apparatus thereof are provided. The image enhancement method is adapted to the image processing apparatus and includes the following steps. An input image is obtained, wherein the input image has a plurality of intensity components. The input image is corrected according to a gamma curve. The sharpness of the corrected input image is enhanced based on an edge detection operator and a weight value. An output image suitable for a display panel is obtained based on the enhanced input image.
US09710889B2	Screen orientation An example method for controlling the orientation of a display screen of a computing device is provided in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure. The method includes identifying a request for a change of an orientation of a screen in a device from a first screen orientation to a second screen orientation. The request may be sent by a mobile application. The method further includes determining whether the device has an ability to rotate the screen to the second orientation, canceling the request for change of the orientation of the screen, and adjusting the resolution of the screen to emulate rotation of the screen to the second orientation while remaining in the first orientation.
US09710887B1	Display apparatus and method of displaying using context display and projectors Disclosed is a display apparatus and a method of displaying, via the display apparatus. The display apparatus comprises at least one context display for rendering a context image, the at least one context display comprising at least one projection surface, and at least one focus image projector for rendering a focus image. An angular width of a projection of the rendered context image ranges from 40 degrees to 220 degrees. An angular width of a projection of the rendered focus image ranges from 5 degrees to 60 degrees. An arrangement is made to combine the projection of the rendered focus image with the projection of the rendered context image to create a visual scene.
US09710882B2	Data overlay for animated map weather display and method of rapidly loading animated raster data A data visualization technique rapidly loads images to decrease data transfer time and associated bandwidth cost for animation effects in displays of data, and includes initially loading raster imagery at a coarser zoom level than a current view on the display, and then manipulating the imagery using general-purpose image manipulation algorithms to interpolate data points as a user adjusts the zoom level. In this manner, the data visualization technique intentionally displays a coarser view than that selected, rather than transferring entirely new imagery or datasets, and manipulates the imagery as necessary to avoid loading more data from a remote server to the local client each time the user adjusts the view.
US09710881B2	Varying effective resolution by screen location by altering rasterization parameters In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a virtual space. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to compute projections of the vertices from virtual space onto a viewport of the scene in a screen space of a display device containing a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being subdivided into a plurality of subsections. Scan conversion determines which pixels of the plurality of pixels are part of each primitive that has been converted to screen space coordinates. Coarse rasterization for each primitive determines which subsection or subsections the primitive overlaps. Metadata associated with the subsection a primitive overlaps determines a pixel resolution for the subsection. The metadata is used in processing pixels for the subsection to generate final pixel values for the viewport of the scene that is displayed on the display device in such a way that parts of the scene in two different subsections have different pixel resolution.
US09710880B2	User-guided shape morphing in bone segmentation for medical imaging A semi-automatic approach is used for user-guided bone segmentation in medical imaging. The user indicates a plurality of landmarks on an image of the bone. A processor morphs the same landmarks on a model of the bone to the user input landmarks on the image, resulting in a transform. This transform is then applied to the model to roughly segment the bone. The user may edit the resulting fit, and the processor then refines the edited fit, such as fitting the bone model to the scan data and avoiding any overlap with other bones. This user-guided segmentation may avoid the need for many samples to train a classifier for a fully automated approach while also avoiding the tedious outlining in a manual approach.
US09710875B2	Image transmission apparatus and image processing method thereof An image transmission apparatus for providing a low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) data stream to a display panel is provided. The image transmission apparatus includes a transmitter and a graphic processing unit (GPU). The transmitter obtains an extended display identification data (EDID) according to an inter integrated circuit signal from the display panel. The GPU provides configuration data according to the EDID, and provides a display port (DP) data stream according to an image data. The transmitter obtains a transfer parameter according to the configuration data, and converts the DP data stream into the LVDS data stream according to the transfer parameter.
US09710874B2	Mid-primitive graphics execution preemption One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for mid-primitive execution preemption. When preemption is initiated no new instructions are issued, in-flight instructions progress to an execution unit boundary, and the execution state is unloaded from the processing pipeline. The execution units within the processing pipeline, including the coarse rasterization unit complete execution of in-flight instructions and become idle. However, rasterization of a triangle may be preempted at a coarse raster region boundary. The amount of context state to be stored is reduced because the execution units are idle. Preempting at the mid-primitive level during rasterization reduces the time from when preemption is initiated to when another process can execute because the entire triangle is not rasterized.
US09710863B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing self-power consumption of a controller-based device A device and method are disclosed for optimizing self-power consumption. The device may sense one or more operating conditions of the device. The device may further select one or more operating parameters associated with at least one of the one or more operating conditions. The device may also estimate a power consumption associated with executing an algorithm to generate at least one updated value for at least one of the one or more operating parameters as well as estimate a power savings associated with operating using the updated value. The device may compare the estimated power consumption to the estimated power savings and determine whether to execute the algorithm based on the comparing.
US09710855B2	Method and system for quantity entry A trading screen may include a plurality of next trade quantity regions that comprise a plurality of locations, each location being associated a price on a price axis. The quantities can be entered into the various locations in the next trade quantity regions and the entered quantities can be used as a parameter of a future trade order at the associated price level. The trading screen may also include a plurality of quantity entry regions that are displayed with respect to the price axis. The quantity entry columns may each include plurality of sub-regions or locations corresponding to different price levels in the price axis. The quantity entry columns may be used to specify next traded quantities that may be used in placing orders for tradeable objects.
US09710853B2	System and method for computer implemented collateral management A data processing system manages collateral risk associated with a trade of a financial instrument includes memory coupled to a processor, the memory containing a database configured to store a ruleset relating to determining eligibility of collateral to be considered for a desired trade. A collateral analysis module determines a collateral preference ranking of one or more security positions eligible for use as collateral for the trade by applying the ruleset via an algorithm executed by the processor so as to confirm an eligibility of security positions eligible for use as collateral for the trade by testing in accordance with the ruleset.
US09710849B2	System and method for displaying items for bid A system and method for displaying items for bid at a silent auction including, a display device, having at least one display face, for exhibiting a panel having advertising indicia relating to an item offered for bid at the silent auction, and a code on the panel that corresponds to the item offered for bid, such that the code may be entered by a bidder at a remote location relative to the display device for bidding on the item. The system further including a support member for suspending the display device at a first distance from the support member, and at a second distance from a flooring surface of a venue at which the silent auction is being held; and means for removably and rotatably suspending the display device from the support member.
US09710838B2	Building of computing system in accordance with predictive build based on marginal cost acceptablity Features to include within a predictive build of a computing system are selected. The predictive build is an anticipated final build of the computing system prior to receiving a firm customer order for the computing system in accordance with which an actual final build of the computing system is then built. A marginal cost of first building the predictive build and then modifying the predictive build to realize the actual final build, as compared to building the actual final build without first building the predictive build and then modifying predictive build to realize the actual final build, is estimated based on the features selected. Responsive to determining that the marginal cost is less than a predetermined acceptable marginal cost limit, the predictive build is built prior to receiving the firm customer order, and then is modified to realize the actual final build upon receiving the firm customer order.
US09710836B1	Sensor, weapon, actor, and registration monitoring, evaluating, and relationships A system and method for tracking a weapon, wherein a server computing system tracks, analyzes, evaluates, and resources data, statistics, perceptions, and relationships for weapon transactions, storage, transporting, practice, training, holding, aiming, firing, cleaning, and/or the like.
US09710832B1	System and method for card-funded bill payment concierge service A method for facilitating a card-based bill payment service for a customer of a biller may include (1) receiving a request from the customer to initiate the card-based bill payment service; (2) collecting customer information, the customer information including at least customer account information with the biller and card account information; (3) providing the customer information to the biller over a communications network; and (4) using a computer processor, monitoring the customer's card account for biller activity. A method for facilitating a change from an existing card account to a new card account in a bill payment service for the customer of a biller may include (1) receiving a request to update card information for the bill payment service; (2) receiving the new card account information; (3) providing the existing card account information and new card account information to the biller over a communications network; and (4) using a computer processor, monitoring the customer's new card account for biller activity. A method for transferring funds from an issuer to a biller may include (1) issuing a card to a customer, the card associated with a card account; (2) receiving a invoice for a charge from the biller to the customer; (3) posting the invoice to the customer's card account; and (4) transferring funds related to the invoice to the biller by one of electronic funds transfer and check.
US09710830B1	Method and system for dynamic web services utilization A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer.
US09710826B1	System and method of advertising a plurality of varied multimedia content The present invention relates generally to a system and method of providing for the displaying of third-party multimedia advertising content and controlling the review of at least one multimedia content file using an interactive advertising application program configured for use on a mobile device. The application program is configured for scanning an encoded image framed by an interactive frame with at least one embedded hyperlink or icon within, which activates the at least one embedded hyperlink or icon, and upon activation, the at least one encoded image with an icon may be used for accessing and controlling the review of the at least one multimedia content file. However, prior to the displaying of the at least one multimedia content file, the third-party multimedia advertising content may be displayed, thereby allowing for a revenue generating for all third-party multimedia advertising content displayed.
US09710819B2	Real-time transcription system utilizing divided audio chunks A computing system accepts audio from one or more sources, parses the audio into chunks, and transcribes the chunks in substantially real time. Some transcription is performed automatically, while other transcription is performed by humans who listen to the audio and enter the words spoken and/or the intent of the caller (such as directions given to the system). The system provides for participants a user interface that is updated in substantially real time with the transcribed text from the audio stream(s). A single audio line can be used for simple transcription, and multiple audio lines are used to provide a real-time transcript of a conference call, deposition, or the like. A pool of analysts creates, checks, and/or corrects transcription, and callers/observers can even assist in the correction process through their respective user interfaces. Ads derived from the transcript are displayed together with the text in substantially real time.
US09710812B2	Social network payment system A method for providing social network payments includes receiving a request to make a payment. The request is associated with a social network payer and a social network payee. It is determined that the social network payer is associated with a first payment provider identifier and an authorization token, and a second payment provider identifier for the social network payee is then retrieved using the authorization token. An instruction to make a payment from the social network payer to the social network payee is then transmitted to a payment service provider. The instruction includes a payment amount, the first payment provider identifier, and the second payment provider identifier. A payment alert is also adapted for a payee social network associated with the social network payee, and the payment alert is send to a social network provider device associated with the payee social network.
US09710811B2	Centralized electronic commerce card transactions A central transaction server in electronic commerce card authorization system enables the electronic commerce card association to manage and monitor the authentication system. The central transaction server acts as an intermediary for all communications between the access control server used for authentication. If any portion of the authentication system fails, the central transaction server compensates by providing appropriate responses to other portions of the system. The centralized transaction server translates all incoming traffic into a format compatible with the intended recipient, enabling portions of the system to be upgraded without breaking compatibility with the non-upgraded portions. The centralized transaction server also enables the integration of formally separate portions of the authentication system into a single unit. The directory and the authentication history servers can be integrated into the central transaction server, and the central transaction server can initiate charges to the electronic commerce card automatically, bypassing the card acquirer.
US09710808B2	Direct digital cash system and method Methods and systems are provided for the exchange of digital cash employing protocols for various entities to separately certify the validity of the parties, values and transactions while maintaining the anonymity of the buyer or user of the digital cash. Encrypted connections are established allowing various parties to enter into transactions to buy, sell, exchange and recover digital cash using a secure method that protects the personal information and identity of the user. The parties exchange tokens for other value in a transaction of financial settlement between themselves and wherein they are the only parties with knowledge of the amount and description of the transaction and in this way mimics a traditional cash transaction.
US09710805B2	Prepaid wallet for merchants A system including a memory storing user account information with a payment provider associated with specific merchants, and a method for use of the system are provided. The system includes one or more processors in communication with the memory and adapted to: receive login information from a user from a merchant website; access an account of the user with the payment provider; cause information for the account of the user to be displayed on the merchant website; and process a payment to the merchant from the account of the user.
US09710804B2	Virtual payment cards issued by banks for mobile and wearable devices Provided is a method for issuing single-use and multiple-use virtual payment cards via a mobile and wearable device. The method may include receiving a card issuance request from a user, prompting the user to enter a user authentication information, accessing a user account maintained by a card issuer, generating the virtual payment card based on payment data of the user account, and providing the virtual payment card to the mobile and wearable device. The method may continue with receiving a transaction request from a merchant and matching merchant identification data provided by the user in the card issuance request and merchant identification data provide by the merchant. If the match of the merchant identification data is determined, the method may continue with authorizing a payment transaction by transferring a payment amount from the virtual payment card to a merchant account associated with the merchant.
US09710803B2	Mobile terminal, security server and payment method thereof A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a short-range communicator, a security server and a payment method thereof, the mobile terminal including a short-range communicator which exchanges data by a predetermined short-range technology, a payment processor which performs a payment process corresponding to a preset standard in response to a user's request for payment, and a secure world which communicates with the payment processor, extracts secure information from data and stores the data therein and masks the secure information from the outside. Thus, the secure data may be masked at the time of communication with the outside.
US09710801B2	Systems and methods for charge splitting A system, method, and article of manufacture for splitting a shared financial obligation is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving, by a bill splitting computer-based system, a single record of charge (ROC) associated with a purchase by one or more members of a group, and splitting, by the bill splitting computer-based system, the ROC between the members of the group.
US09710794B2	Application of dynamic tokens A method assigns token requirements to service subscriptions in a service platform, such as a service platform containing entities or a database containing a plurality of said entities. The operator of the service platform establishes customization factors and maintains records reserving data services associated with token requirements for delivery to entities. In addition, customization factors are determined from values representing information associated with objects in a database. Token requirements associated with data services are calculated from one or more formulas utilizing customization factors. Sponsorships associated with the entities can be accepted by the service platform. The service platform can apply credit toward the fulfillment of token requirements. An entity can be provided a data service based on a relationship with a sponsorship such that an entity assigned a subscription having a token requirement fulfilled as a result of applying credit from a sponsorship will receive services related to the subscription.
US09710793B2	Associating a meeting room with a meeting Arrangements described relate to associating a meeting room with a meeting. A meeting invitation being accessed by a first recipient can be identified, wherein the meeting invitation is sent to a plurality of recipients. A location associated with the first recipient of the meeting invitation can be identified, and whether the location associated with the first recipient is similar to a location associated with a sender of the meeting invitation can be determined. Responsive to determining that the location associated with the first recipient is not similar to the location associated with a sender of the meeting invitation, the first recipient can be prompted to reserve a meeting room at the location associated with the first recipient. Responsive to receiving from the first recipient an indication of the meeting room being reserved, an association between the meeting and the meeting room can be created.
US09710782B2	Server device and program in cartridge ordering system A server device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to perform determining whether or not the residual amount of recording material in a cartridge is equal to or less than a first threshold, and determining whether or not the estimated number of cartridges is equal to or less than a second threshold. In response to determining that the recording material is not more than the first threshold and the number of cartridges is not more than the second threshold, the control unit transmits to an external device via the communication unit an order instruction to deliver a cartridge to the user of the image forming apparatus.
US09710779B1	System, method and apparatus for receiving bids from diners for expedited food delivery An order server operated by a restaurant service communicates with a restaurant server and a driver to retrieve incentive based food preparation and delivery time frames for an order. Using the time frames, the order server formulate a list of incentive based delivery plans, and provides the list to a diner device. From the diner device, the order server receives a selected incentive based delivery plan for the order from the list.
US09710777B1	Systems and methods involving features of terminal operation including user interface and/or other features Systems and methods are disclosed for processing information related to a terminal operating system. In one exemplary implantation, there is provided a method for providing information of terminal operating system management. The method may include processing information related to an input to manage the terminal operating system management. Other exemplary implementations may include processing to generate a result such that an output of a result of the managed terminal operating system management functionality is produced.
US09710772B1	Using sensor data to modify attributes of information presented to a user Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a user's proximity to a reference location or a user's orientation in relation to an output device associated with the reference location and modifying one or more attributes of information presented to the user based on the detected proximity or orientation. The attributes that may be modified include, among other things, a size of visual information presented to the user, an intensity of audible or haptic information presented to the user, an orientation of the output device, and so forth. In addition, at least a portion of information initially presented to a user via a first output device may instead be presented to the user via a second output device based on the user's proximity to one or more reference locations, the user's orientation in relation to the first and second output devices, or attribute(s) of the user.
US09710763B2	Method and system for robot understanding, knowledge, conversation, volition, planning, and actuation A system for understanding and storing knowledge and plans in a speakable, formal class of languages, allowing querying and retrieving of that knowledge and plan (conversation), and of deciding and acting (volition) upon such plans is provided. The system further allows the users to input data, instructions, questions, queries, imperatives, and plans without structure or rules over and above the actual grammar of the class of languages. The system responds in words, phrases, complete sentences, or actions, as applicable, and its output is bound by the rules of logic, rather than correlation or likely meaning.
US09710759B2	Apparatus and methods for classifying senders of unsolicited bulk emails In accordance with one aspect, methods and apparatus facilitate the filtering of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (email) sent from spammers. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known spammers is logged. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known non-spammers is also logged. A probabilistic model for predicting whether an unknown sender identity is a spammer is generated or modified based on the logged recipient patterns for the emails from known spammers and known non-spammers.
US09710758B2	Quantum processor with instance programmable qubit connectivity In a quantum processor some couplers couple a given qubit to a nearest neighbor qubit (e.g., vertically and horizontally in an ordered 2D array), other couplers couple to next-nearest neighbor qubits (e.g., diagonally in the ordered 2D array). Couplers may include half-couplers, to selectively provide communicative coupling between a given qubit and other qubits, which may or may not be nearest or even next-nearest-neighbors. Tunable couplers selective mediate communicative coupling. A control system may impose a connectivity on a quantum processor, different than an “as designed” or “as manufactured” physical connectivity. Imposition may be via a digital processor processing a working or updated working graph, to map or embed a problem graph. A set of exclude qubits may be created from a comparison of hardware and working graphs. An annealing schedule may adjust a respective normalized inductance of one or more qubits, for instance to exclude certain qubits.
US09710748B2	Neural network processor A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of neural network layers, the circuit comprising: a matrix computation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: receive a plurality of weight inputs and a plurality of activation inputs for the neural network layer, and generate a plurality of accumulated values based on the plurality of weight inputs and the plurality of activation inputs; and a vector computation unit communicatively coupled to the matrix computation unit and configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: apply an activation function to each accumulated value generated by the matrix computation unit to generate a plurality of activated values for the neural network layer.
US09710742B2	Copy and paste with scannable code A scannable code is used to facilitate copy and paste of content, wherein the content is serialized and encoded directly into the scannable code along with context information. When the scannable code is decoded, the content is pasted into a desired location in a manner that is consistent with the content information.
US09710736B2	Rendering apparatus and rendering method A rendering apparatus of the present invention determines one of a plurality of estimation methods used for estimating a time required to render printing data, on a basis of features of a plurality of rendering objects included in the printing data, and estimates the time required to render the printing data by the determined method.
US09710733B2	Field programmable gate array and corresponding method for dynamic print technologies Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards the implementation of a FPGA where a printing core may be dynamically reconfigured with respect to a currently used printing type. Example embodiments are also directed towards print handling, direct memory access printing, and the use of an internal FPGA timer.
US09710726B2	Correlation using overlayed patches Disclosed is a computer implemented method for identifying a component tile within a target image. The method receives a plurality of distinct component tiles and overlays the plurality of component tiles to form an overlaid image. The overlaying is based on an embedded parameter value for each component tile. The method compares the target image with the overlayed image to determine a matching parameter value, and identifies a component tile within the target image by determining that the embedded parameter value of the component tile is the closest of the embedded parameter values to the matching parameter value.
US09710724B2	Multi-camera device Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with multi-camera devices are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-camera device may include 3 or more camera sensors disposed on a world facing side of the multi-camera device. Further, the multi-camera device may be configured to provide a soft shutter button at a location on an opposite side to the world facing side, coordinated with locations of the 3 or more camera sensors that reduces likelihood of blocking of one or more of the 3 or more camera sensors. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US09710721B2	Method for in-scene compensation using water vapor content Methods are provided for automatically performing atmospheric compensation of a multi or hyper spectral image. One method comprises transforming at least two endmembers extracted from an image into at-ground reflectance. The transformation may be approximate and/or only in certain spectral bands in order to reduce processing time. A matching component is then located in a spectral library for each of the at least two extracted endmembers. Gain and offset values are then calculated using the at least two matched extracted endmember and spectral library component pairs. At least part of the image is then compensated using the calculated gain and offset values. Another method uses at least one endmember extracted from the image and a black level. Methods for atmospheric compensation using water vapor content of pixels are also provided. In addition, methods for shadow correction of hyper and multi spectral images are provided.
US09710717B1	Apparatuses, systems and methods for determining vehicle operator distractions Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating data representative of vehicle operator distractions. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for generating data representative of vehicle operator distractions based on vehicle interior image data.
US09710703B1	Method and apparatus for detecting texts included in a specific image A method for detecting texts included in a specific image is disclosed. The method includes steps of: (a) an apparatus detecting or allowing another device to detect one or more text candidates in the specific image by referring to feature values of pixels in the specific image; (b) the apparatus classifying or allowing another device to classify one or more weak texts in the specific image as strong texts by referring to information on at least one text classified as the strong text in another image related to the specific image if more than a certain percentage of the detected text candidates are classified as the weak texts as a result of comparison between at least one threshold value and at least one feature value of at least one pixel selected in a region where the detected text candidates are included or a value converted from the feature value.
US09710700B2	Systems and method for activity monitoring A system for activity monitoring includes a tracking component, an activity identification component, a procedural component, and a notification component. The tracking component tracks an individual and one or more objects in a work area using a three-dimensional tracking system. The activity identification component identifies an activity of the individual and any of the one or more objects that are affected by the activity. The procedural component determines whether the activity violates one or more procedural rules pertaining to one or more of the individual, the work area, and the one or more objects. The notification component provides a notification of a violation.
US09710698B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for human-face features extraction The present invention provides a method for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence, comprising: detecting a same human-face image in a plurality of image frames of the video sequence; dividing the detected human-face image into a plurality of local patches with a predetermined size, wherein each local patch is around or near a human-face feature point; determining a correspondence relationship between respective local patches of the same human-face image in the plurality of image frames of the video sequence; and using human-face local feature vector components extracted from respective local patches having a mutual correspondence relationship to form human-face local feature vectors representing facial points corresponding to the local patches. Besides, the present invention further provides an apparatus for obtaining a human-face feature vector from a video image sequence and a corresponding computer program product.
US09710692B2	Imaging device, and controlling method of imaging device An imaging device includes: an illumination portion which includes a light-transmitting transmission region and a light-shielding non-transmission region, has a plurality of simultaneous light-emitting elements that have a light-transmitting property, include a plurality of first light-emitting elements in which turning-on and turning-off are simultaneously controlled and a plurality of second light-emitting elements in which turning-on and turning-off are simultaneously controlled, and are provided in the transmission region, and has a plurality of individual light-emitting elements in which turning-on and turning-off are individually controlled and which are provided in the non-transmission region; an imaging portion which receives light that is reflected from a subject illuminated by the illumination portion and is transmitted through the transmission region; and a switching portion which selectively turns on the plurality of first light-emitting elements and the plurality of second light-emitting elements in a first period in which the plurality of individual light-emitting elements are turned off, and turns off the plurality of simultaneous light-emitting elements in a second period in which the plurality of individual light-emitting elements are turned on.
US09710684B2	Multiple view single camera imaging scanner An imaging system includes a camera having a field of view, a set of axially spaced moveable mirrors supported on a rotor to rotate the mirrors within the field of view of the camera, and a set of stationary mirrors supported to redirect the fields of view from the set of moveable mirrors to provide multiple fields of view at different angles.
US09710683B2	Interrogator and interrogation system employing the same A control and processing system for use with an interrogator and an interrogation system employing the same. In one embodiment, the control and processing system includes a correlation subsystem having a correlator that correlates a reference code with a reply code from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and provides a correlation signal therefrom. The control and processing system also includes a decision subsystem that verifies a presence of the RFID tag as a function of the correlation signal.
US09710681B2	Communications system, relay communications device, relay communications device and electromagnetic induction communications device combination, electromagnetic induction communications device, information storage medium, and information storage medium production method An object of the present invention is to provide a communication system, a relay communication device, a combination of the relay communication device and the electromagnetic induction communication device, an electromagnetic induction communication device, an information storage medium, and an information storage medium manufacturing method, in which a communication system communicating through electromagnetic induction can be implemented at low cost. A relay automatic ticket gate system provides the following. An IC card 40 includes an IC chip capable of communicating through electromagnetic induction, and a pair of conductive plates. A relay communication device includes a relay loop antenna, and a pair of conductive rails. An electromagnetic induction ticket gate communicates through electromagnetic induction between a ticket gate loop antenna communicating with a relay loop antenna through electromagnetic induction, and a relay communication device. A ticket gate control unit executes processing of communication with the IC chip.
US09710674B2	Method and system for executing applications in an untrusted environment A method for executing applications on an untrusted device includes selecting one or more applications as sensitive applications. One or more instruction sequences of the said one or more sensitive applications are modified by an external dongle. The one or more sensitive applications are executed on the untrusted device according to the modified instruction sequences. Whether correct execution of the instructions of the said modified instruction sequences has occurred is checked by the external dongle.
US09710673B2	Conflict resolution for keychain syncing Some embodiments provide a program that synchronizes a keychain stored on a device with a set of other devices. The keychain includes a set of keychain items. The program receives (1) a list of keychain items for updating the keychain stored on the device and (2) data representing the keychain items specified in the list of keychain items. For each keychain item in the list of keychain items, the program updates the keychain stored on the device with the data that represents the keychain item.
US09710668B2	User targeted medical imaging and information packaging, compression and distribution system A computer-based method and system of distributing biological sample data acquired as a digital image of a subject biological sample. The acquired digital image and image capture data are processed according to at least one user. This results in processed image data and capture metadata. The processed image data represents biological sample data of the subject biological sample. A package processing combines the processed image data and capture metadata into a working Package. The method and system enables simultaneous electronic access to the working Package by multiple users, across multiple sectors, in addition to the one user.
US09710666B2	Methods and systems for user authentication in a computer system using multi-component log-ins, including image-based log-ins In computer-based user authentication, a user performs an image-based log-in comprising a set of actions on at least one verification image on a display screen. Users are authenticated by a computer comparing the set of actions against a key definition for the verification image. The set of actions may include selecting a target location on the image, selecting target locations in a selected order and/or with a selected pattern, superimposing a target location with a selected overlay, covering target locations with overlays in a selected superimposing order and/or pattern. The user may define the set of actions and verification image to establish the log-in. The user may also establish or enhance security for a component of a multi-component password, which may be an image-based password; one method is to encrypt the position of at least one target location and to modify the encryption as frequently as desired.
US09710662B2	Image processing apparatus automatically requesting permission to use server An image processing apparatus may include a communication device, an image processing device, a reception device, at least one processor, and a memory. The communication device may be configured to communicate with a server. The reception device may be configured to receive first authentication data and a request for using the server. The memory may store computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the image processing apparatus to: allow a user to login when the first authentication data satisfies a prescribed authentication condition; automatically request, to the server, permission to use the server regardless of whether the reception device receives the request, once the user has logged in; and execute an image process using both the image processing device and the server.
US09710650B2	Protection of data stored in a volatile memory A method of detecting a cold-boot attack on an integrated circuit including the steps of: transferring, into a first volatile memory of the integrated circuit, a pattern stored in a non-volatile memory of the circuit; periodically causing a switching down and a switching up of the first volatile memory; and verifying that the number of bits having switched state is within a range of values.
US09710647B2	Pre-boot firmware based virus scanner The present disclosure relates to allowing the utilization of a virus scanner and cleaner that operates primarily in the pre-boot phase of computer operation and, more particularly, to allowing the utilization of a virus scanner and cleaner that operates primarily during the loading of an operating system.
US09710644B2	Techniques for sharing network security event information This disclosure provides techniques for pooling and searching network security events reported by multiple sources. As information representing a security event is received from one source, it is searched against a central or distributed database representing events reported from multiple, diverse sources (e.g., different client networks). Either the search or correlated results can be filtered and/or routed according at least one characteristic associated with the networks, for example, to limit correlation to events reported by what are presumed to be similarly situated networks. The disclosed techniques facilitate faster identification of high-relevancy security event information, and thereby help facilitate faster threat identification and mitigation. Various techniques can be implemented as standalone software (e.g., for use by a private network) or for a central pooling and/or query service. This disclosure also provides different examples of actions that can be taken in response to search results.
US09710636B1	Digital identity card management Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, program products and systems to reduce mistakes in production and management of digital identification cards. Embodiments of the present invention can create a digital card template design using graphical icons in a user interface display and publish the created digital card template design to a server. Embodiments of the present invention can access the server to test the published digital card template design using sample data and deploy the published digital card template design to an issuing service. Embodiments of the present invention can, responsive to receiving an acquisition URL from the issuing service, build an instance of a digital identification card from information included in the acquisition URL.
US09710635B2	Field programmable smart card terminal and token device A digital programmable smart card terminal device and token collectively known as the token device is disclosed. The token device comprises a field programmable token device which accepts a user's smart card. The combination of token device and smart card may then be used for a variety of applications that include user authentication, secure access, encryption. One specific application is that of an electronic wallet. In one embodiment, an electronic smart card terminal includes a smart card reader adapted to receive and communicate with a smart card having smart card data stored thereon; token personality logic programmed based on the smart card data as a token personality subsequent to insertion of the smart card in the smart card reader; and a communications mechanism for communicating authentication data derived from the token personality. Since the smart card terminal only gains its token personality when a smart card is inserted, manufacture and distribution of the terminal on a wide scale is possible.
US09710625B2	System and method for remotely assigning and revoking access credentials using a near field communication equipped mobile phone The present invention is generally directed toward a mobile device that can be used in a secure access system. More specifically, the mobile device can have credential data loaded thereon remotely updated, enabled, disabled, revoked, or otherwise altered with a message sent from, for example, a control panel and/or controller in the system.
US09710617B2	Method and system for a recursive security protocol for digital copyright control Systems and methods are described which utilize a recursive security protocol for the protection of digital data. These may include encrypting a bit stream with a first encryption algorithm and associating a first decryption algorithm with the encrypted bit stream. The resulting bit stream may then be encrypted with a second encryption algorithm to yield a second bit stream. This second bit stream is then associated with a second decryption algorithm. This second bit stream can then be decrypted by an intended recipient using associated keys.
US09710615B1	Systems and methods for secure online repositories Mechanisms are disclosed herein for storing various records. Numerous keys and parties can access online repositories. These repositories contain a plurality of lockboxes, structured hierarchically and otherwise, providing public and private areas with varying levels of access. Some content of such lockboxes can be sharable. These lockboxes can be used not only to store diverse content, ranging from birth certificates to deeds and social security numbers, but they can also be accessed in a variety of ways. For example, keys to lockboxes can be made available by such events as the issuing of death certificates or birth certificates. Alternatively, keys can be issued according to various rules and heuristics stipulated by lockbox users. In either case, the plurality of lockboxes residing in repositories can be configured to provide centralized storage facilities that are secure and readily accessible from various computing devices.
US09710611B2	Insulin management A method of managing insulin includes receiving blood glucose measurements on a computing device from a glucometer. The blood glucose measurements are separated by a time interval. The method includes determining, by the computing device, an insulin dose rate based on the blood glucose measurements and determining a blood glucose drop rate based on the blood glucose measurements and the time interval. The method also includes determining a blood glucose percentage drop based on the blood glucose measurements. The method includes decreasing the time interval between blood glucose measurements by the glucometer when the blood glucose drop rate is greater than a threshold drop rate, and decreasing the time interval between blood glucose measurements by the glucometer when the blood glucose percentage drop is greater than a threshold percentage drop.
US09710610B2	Enteral feeding pump with flow adjustment An enteral fluid delivery system includes a pump having a motor coupled to a rotor configured to accept a portion of a tubing of a feeding set. The motor drives the rotor, which compresses the tubing to deliver to a patient enteral fluid during a feeding cycle. The system includes a user interface that is operatively connected to a memory that stores a plurality of types of enteral fluids. The user interface enables a user to select at least one type of enteral fluid. The system also includes a processor that is operatively connected to the pump. The processor adjusts the flow rate of the pump to deliver the selected enteral fluid for delivery based on one or more characteristics of the feeding fluid such as the viscosity or the caloric content.
US09710609B2	System of enhanced distribution of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities A system of enhanced distribution of pharmaceuticals in long-term care facilities are provided. An embodiment of a system includes one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines each positioned in a long-term care facility remote from a long-term care facility pharmacy group management server and in communication therewith, and long-term care facility pharmacy management computer programs associated with the long-term care facility pharmacy group management server to enhance use of the one or more of pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines. The long-term care facility management computer programs include a patient prescription receiver and a medication dispensing apparatus administrator and are configured and operable to transmit dispensing instructions to the one or more pharmaceutical storage and electronic dispensing machines when no drug conflicts exist to thereby initiate packaging and dispensing of one or more disposable patient dosing packages.
US09710606B2	Method and system for microbiome-derived diagnostics and therapeutics for neurological health issues A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing and treating a neurological health issue in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the neurological health issue based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the neurological health issue; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US09710600B1	Healthcare gap management system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on non-transitory computer readable storage media, for integrating with an electronic health record system to permit healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and healthcare analytics providers to manage healthcare gaps in real-time.
US09710597B2	Bioinformatic processing systems and methods The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for facilitating trusted handling of genomic and/or other bioinformatic information. Certain embodiments may facilitate policy-based governance of access to and/or use of bioinformatic information, improved interaction with and/or use of distributed bioinformatic information, parallelization of various processes involving bioinformatic information, and/or reduced user involvement in bioinformatic workflow processes, and/or the like. Further embodiments may provide for memoization processes that may persistently store final and/or intermediate results of computations performed using genomic data for use in connection with future computations.
US09710592B2	Multiple-depth trench interconnect technology at advanced semiconductor nodes A metal interconnect structure, a system and method of manufacture, wherein a design layout includes results in forming at least two trenches of different trench depths. The method uses a slightly modified BEOL processing stack to prevent metal interconnect structures from encroaching upon an underlying hard mask dielectric or metallic hard mask layer. Thus two trench depths are obtained by tuning parameters of the system and allowing areas exposed by two masks to have deeper trenches. Here, the BEOL Stack processing is modified to enable two trench depths by using a hardmask that defines the lowest etch depth. The design may be optimized by software which optimizes a design for electromigration (or setup timing violations) by utilizing secondary trench depths, checking space opportunity around wires, pushing wires out to generate space and converting a wire to deep trench wire.
US09710589B2	Using a cut mask to form spaces representing spacing violations in a semiconductor structure Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing the area of a semiconductor structure. A spacing violation may be detected for a gap width used to separate first and second regions of a layer of semiconductor material. In response to detecting the violation, the first and second regions are merged into a combined region, and then a cut mask layer is formed above the combined region. Next, an etch process is performed through the cut mask layer to remove an exposed third region within the combined region, wherein the exposed third region is interposed between first and second region portions of the combined region.
US09710588B2	Method of generating modified layout for RC extraction A method of includes determining a first set of width bias values of an i-th set of layout patterns of an original layout according a first type width variation. The original layout has N sets of layout patterns corresponding to N masks, where the i-th set of layout patterns has an i-th mask assignment corresponding to an i-th mask of the N masks. The order index i is an integer from 1 to N, and N is an integer and greater than 1. A second set of width bias values of the i-th set of layout patterns of the original layout is determined according to a second type width variation. The modified layout is generated based on the first and second sets of width bias values of the i-th set of layout patterns.
US09710569B2	Service desk data transfer interface A system and method for managing data transfer operations includes at least one data server including data stored in a plurality of data fields, at least one transaction server operatively coupled to the at least one data server and configured to provide at least one customizable business rule and a customer relationship application, an information server operatively coupled to the at least one transaction server, and at least one workstation operatively coupled to the information server. The least one workstation includes local memory accessible to the customer relationship application and configured to provide web communication and presentation services to a user of the at least one workstation that are deployed on the information server. The at least one customizable business rule specifies a mapping between the plurality of data fields and the local memory, the mapping having been provided by the user interacting with the web communication and presentation services.
US09710568B2	Publishing RDF quads as relational views A method, system, and computer program product for transforming RDF quads to relational views. The method commences by receiving a named graph, the named graph comprising at least one RDF quad, and analyzing the named graph to produce analysis metadata. The method uses the analysis metadata to generate relational views. The method further comprises publishing a relational view in the form of a SPARQL query. The quality of the results can be quantitatively measured and reported by calculating a goodness score based at least in part on aspects of the relational view definitions. Several variants for transformation include generating relational view definitions formed using a named-graph strict variant, or a named-graph relaxed variant, or a named-graph agnostic variant. The transformations can form outputs responsive to characteristics or properties such as a number of classes, a number of single-valued properties, a number of nullability properties, or a number of type-uniformed ranges.
US09710567B1	Automated content publication on a social media management platform Automated publication recommendation includes: obtaining, from a social networking site, social networking activity information pertaining to a set of social networking activities performed by a plurality of contacts on the social networking site; determining, at the social media management platform, a recommended time for the user to publish content on the social networking site such that the content is viewable by the plurality of contacts associated with the user, the determination being based at least in part on the social networking activity information that is obtained, and the recommended time being a time during which the plurality of contacts are deemed to be active on the social networking site; presenting the recommended time to the user; receiving an indication from the user to publish the content at the recommended time; and sending the content to the social networking site to be published at the recommended time.
US09710565B2	Interoperable social services In a method for utilizing multiple social computing services of a user, a processor accesses a first networking service of a user and a second networking service of the user, wherein the first networking service includes a first group of contacts connected with the user and the second networking service includes a second group of contacts connected with the user. A processor retrieves the first group from the first networking service and the second group from the second networking service. A processor creates a set of contacts, wherein the set of contacts includes each contact of the first group of contacts with a corresponding link to information about that contact, and each contact of the second group of contacts with a corresponding link to information about that contact, and wherein a contact of the set of contacts has an associated relationship, established externally from either networking service, with the user.
US09710559B2	Systems and methods for optimizing the selection and display of electronic content Systems and methods are provided for optimizing displays in one or more user interfaces. An exemplary method may include retrieving web entries from a database and generating a plurality of candidates based on the retrieved web entries, where each web entry of the web entries is a clickable item that is displayed on the one or more user interfaces. Additionally, provide the plurality of candidates for display on the one or more user interfaces and determine click-through rates for each of the plurality of candidates. Thereafter, create a display pool of candidates to display from plurality of candidates based on the click-through rates and update the display pool of candidates responsive to retrieving additional web entries from the database.
US09710556B2	Content recommendation based on collections of entities Techniques for content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend content items that are related to a collection of entities. A content item may be considered related to a collection of entities based on various factors, including whether and how often the article references or otherwise covers the entities of the collection, the size of the article, other entities that are covered by the article but that are not in the collection, article recency, or article credibility. Recommending content items may also or instead include determining entities that are related to a collection. An entity can be considered related to a collection based on various factors, such as whether the entity is of the same or similar type to entities of the collection, or whether the entity appears in some article in a relationship with one or more entities of the collection.
US09710548B2	Enhanced answers in DeepQA system according to user preferences A semantic search engine is enhanced to employ user preferences to customize answer output by, for a first user, extracting user preferences and sentiment levels associated with a first question; receiving candidate answer results of a semantic search of the first question; weighting the candidate answer results according to the sentiment levels for each of the user preferences; and producing the selected candidate answers to the first user. Optionally, user preferences and sentiment levels may be accumulated over different questions for the same user, or over different users for similar questions. And, supplemental information may be retrieved relative to a user preference in order to further tune the weighting per the preferences and sentiment levels.
US09710544B1	Pivoting from a graph of semantic similarity of documents to a derivative graph of relationships between entities mentioned in the documents Provided is a process including: obtaining a first graph comprising nodes and edges, each of the first-graph edges linking two of the first-graph nodes and denoting semantic similarity of unstructured text in documents corresponding to the two linked first-graph nodes; for each of the first-graph nodes, selecting nodes for a second graph from attributes of the unstructured text documents to which the first-graph node corresponds, wherein the attributes are entities mentioned in the unstructured text documents, and wherein each of the second-graph nodes corresponds to a respective selected attribute; and for each pair of the second-graph nodes, determining a respective edge weight indicating similarity between a first entity corresponding to a first node of the respective pair and a second entity corresponding to a second node of the respective pair.
US09710541B2	Conversion of an object for a hardware device into health control information Examples disclosed herein relate to conversion of an object for a hardware device into health control information. Examples include acquiring, from an object-oriented database, an object for a hardware device including an operational parameter value determined by the hardware device. Examples further include converting the object into health control information useable by a health controller.
US09710539B2	Email analytics A method for performing email analytics is described. The method includes extracting emails from the configured email repository. The emails are then grouped into mail groups based on identification of content similarity of the emails. A network graph is then constructed for each of the mail group to identify an association of emails in the mail group based on header-level analysis of emails. Thereafter, email analytics is performed on the mail groups by clustering the mail groups into mail clusters based on temporal progression of emails in the mail groups. Key phrases are then determined based on a content analysis of emails in the mail groups in the mail clusters. The key phrases are then associated with the network graphs of the mail groups.
US09710537B2	Data collection system and data collection system program Provided are a group selector 431 configured to select collection groups from multiple subgroups obtained by dividing a memory area in a first storage unit 411b; a collection group assigner 432 configured to assign the selected collection groups to data collection apparatuses 41 to 43 in order to distribute load of data collection; and a schedule generator 433 configured to generate a schedule for reading the data from the first storage unit 411b. Each of the data collection apparatuses 42, 43 includes a schedule generator 443 configured to generate a schedule for reading the data from the first storage unit 411b on the basis of a collection cycle and the number of collection groups assigned to the data collection apparatus 42.
US09710520B2	Methods and systems for ranking of human profiles The present subject matter relates to method(s) and system(s) to rank human profiles based on selection criteria personalized to a selector. In an embodiment, the method includes obtaining querying criteria from the selector to query a database comprising a set of human profiles. Further, a subset of human profiles is determined from the set of human profiles based on the querying criteria and a default ranking mechanism. Furthermore, a selection based ranking is obtained for the subset of human profiles. Further, based on the selection based ranking, a ranking function is determined that is indicative of a relative inclination of the selector towards the one or more implicit attributes. Such a determination is by capturing at least one implicit attribute in the ranking function from the selection based ranking. Further, the ranking function is applied to rank a fresh set of human profiles based on the ranking function.
US09710517B2	Data record compression with progressive and/or selective decomposition Disclosed herein are systems and methods for compressing structured or semi-structured data in a horizontal manner achieving compression ratios similar to vertical compression. Collections include structured or semi-structured data include a number of fields and are described using a schema. Fields include information having semantic similarity and are compressed using methods suitable for compressing the type of data. Data of a collection is compressed after fragmentation or may be normalized prior to compression. Data with semantic similarity is compressed using token tables and/or n-gram tables, where higher weighted, consisting of the product of frequency and length, occurring values may be stored in the lower numbered indices of the data table. Records include record descriptor bytes, field descriptor bytes, zero or more array descriptor bytes, zero or more object descriptor bytes, or bytes representing the data associated with the record. Data is indexed or compressed by a suitable module.
US09710513B2	Access management method, device and system An access management method, device and system are disclosed. It relates to the field of communication; and the problem that the existing update mechanism of an AID and RID mapping relationship table has a low reliability and influences the network working efficiency is solved. The method includes: when detecting that an MN accessing an ASR is offline, the ASR querying a local AID and Routing Identity RID mapping table, and determining a correspondent node of the offline MN; and the ASR sending a mapping table entry update message to an ILR and an ISR and an ASR where the correspondent node is located, and setting an RID in a mapping table entry corresponding to the MN to be NULL, which represents that the MN does not access the ASR currently.
US09710506B2	Method and system for providing statistical data from a data warehouse Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing statistical data relating to a plurality of input files from a data warehouse. A plurality of bins are associated with a plurality of hierarchically ordered index fields. Each index field is associated with a parameter of the input files and is configured to accept an index field value from a predefined value domain associated with the index field. A lookup table is defined that includes a plurality of hierarchically indexed data structures and data containers storing statistical data for each index within the data structures. For each data structure, a primary key and at least one secondary key are formed by concatenating one or more bins in compliance with a hierarchy of the hierarchically ordered index fields to form a sequence of bins, The lookup table includes only one primary key per data structure.
US09710505B1	Systems and methods for reducing database index contention and generating unique database identifiers Described herein are system and methods for mitigating index contention issues in databases. The database server may generate additional storage locations to prevent overloading one or more current storage locations. A variety of database conditions may be used to trigger an increase or decrease in storage locations. In one embodiment, more storage locations may be generated when the amount of data records waiting to be written at a storage location exceeds or equals a threshold amount. Likewise, the database server may reduce the amount of current storage locations when the amount of data records is less than a threshold amount. The record identifiers may incorporate a location reference for their designated storage location. The reference may be a string that includes numbers, letters, or a combination thereof.
US09710502B2	Document management The invention generally relates to document management, including the management of documents and versions of documents within collaboration and document sharing systems. An access tracking version manager according to the invention allows document versions to be stored and managed in situations where various people have access to different document versions within a document chain.
US09710501B2	Enhanced performance for large versioned databases In accordance with the disclosed subject matter, systems and methods are provided for improving performance of a versioned database. Embodiments include systems and methods for improving performance of versioned databases by selectively loading portions of database files on disk into memory. Embodiments also include systems and methods for capturing and consolidating or condensing transaction logs into database files for loading.
US09710496B2	Determining the schema of a graph dataset A schema for a dataset is identified by identifying a dataset comprising data and relationships between data pairs. An original schema is identified for the dataset. This original schema comprises an organizational structure. An initial fit between the dataset and the original schema is determined. The initial fit quantifying a conformity of the data in the dataset to the organizational structure of the original schema. A plurality of additional schemas are identified. Each additional schema is a distinct organizational schema. The dataset is partitioned into a plurality of subsets. Each subset comprises a modified fit quantifying a modified conformity of subset data in each subset to one of the original schema and the additional schemas. The modified fit is greater than the original fit.
US09710493B2	Approximate K-means via cluster closures A set of data points is divided into a plurality of subsets of data points. A set of cluster closures is generated based at least in part on the subset of data points. Each cluster closure envelopes a corresponding cluster of a set of clusters and is comprised of data points of the enveloped cluster and data points neighboring the enveloped cluster. A k-Means approximator iteratively assigns data points to a cluster of the set of clusters and updates a set of cluster centroids corresponding to the set of clusters. The k-Means approximator assigns data points based at least in part on the set of cluster closures.
US09710491B2	Content-based image search Image descriptor identifiers are used for content-based search. A plurality of descriptors is determined for an image. The descriptors represent the content of the image at respective interest points identified in the image. The descriptors are mapped to respective descriptor identifiers. The image can thus be represented as a set of descriptor identifiers. A search is performed on an index using the descriptor identifiers as search elements. A method for efficiently searching the inverted index is also provided. Candidate images that include at least a predetermined number of descriptor identifiers that match those of the image are identified. The candidate images are ranked and at least a portion thereof are presented as content-based search results.
US09710485B2	Density-based dynamic geohash A method and system for maintaining a density-based geocode tree for a geographic area, including obtaining a geocode tree including multiple leaf nodes each having a geohash value corresponding to a subdivision of the geographic area, obtaining multiple positions within the geographic area, generating, using the multiple positions, multiple geohashes, mapping a first subset of the multiple geohashes to a first leaf node of the multiple leaf nodes based on the geohash value of the first leaf node, incrementing, by a cardinality of the first subset, a first counter value for the first leaf node, and grafting, in response to the first counter value exceeding a first density threshold, at least one child node onto the first leaf node.
US09710475B1	Synchronization of data Synchronizing data is disclosed, including: generating a snapshot index associated with a first set of data; generating a set of difference data between a snapshot index associated with a second set of data and the snapshot index associated with the first set of data; and applying the set of difference data to a set of metadata associated with the first set of data, wherein the set of metadata reflects a current state of the first set of data.
US09710463B2	Active error detection and resolution for linguistic translation A two-way speech-to-speech (S2S) translation system actively detects a wide variety of common error types and resolves them through user-friendly dialog with the user(s). Examples include features including one or more of detecting out-of-vocabulary (OOV) named entities and terms, sensing ambiguities, homophones, idioms, ill-formed input, etc. and interactive strategies for recovering from such errors. In some examples, different error types are prioritized and systems implementing the approach can include an extensible architecture for implementing these decisions.
US09710462B2	System and method for automatically translating an imaged surface of an object A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a graphical representation of an object surface having a number of inscriptions indicative of information encoded upon the object surface. The graphical representation of the object surface is transcribed by the system to determine markings from the inscriptions. A number of alternative corresponding symbols are determined by the system. The alternative corresponding cuneiform symbols are determined from a number of the markings. A number of alternative transliterations are determined by the system. The alternative transliterations are determined from of a symbol of the multiple alternative corresponding symbols. A number of alternative translations are also determined by the system of a transliteration of the multiple translations transliterations. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09710446B2	Enhanced internally linked electronic paper format report generation system and process The present invention is directed to a system and process for electronic paper file generation from a report format and metafile such that a user may readily navigate the report objects within an enhanced electronic paper file. An electronic paper file is created based on a selected data source and report format. The initial electronic paper file is parsed and a metafile including identifier and position information for report objects contained therein is created. The metafile is parsed to generate the relationships between the report objects and a data tree representing the relationships is created. The relationship information is parsed and internal links to related report objects are created, facilitating navigation among the report objects.
US09710444B2	Organizing unstructured research within a document Research items are stored in a research organization space within a document. The research organization space is separate from the document workspace that contains the document, itself. User inputs are provided to modify the research items or the document, by including research items within the document. Research items or document content are modified based on the user inputs.
US09710441B2	Content reproducing apparatus According to an embodiment, a content reproducing apparatus includes a determination unit, a decision unit, an acquisition unit and a reproducing unit. The determination unit determines a reproduction condition for first content scheduled to be reproduced. The decision unit decides first acquisition information for acquiring the first content based on the reproduction condition. The acquisition unit acquires the first content using the first acquisition information. The reproducing unit reproduces the first content.
US09710432B2	System, information processing apparatus, and method of controlling display A disclosed system includes an information accumulating apparatus; and an application, wherein the apparatus includes a storing part that stores at least one electronic data and electronic data information corresponding to the electronic data and including a data form and a convertible data form to which the data form can be converted, a request receiving part receiving an acquisition request from the application for acquiring the data form and the convertible data form, and a data sending part sending the electronic data information to the application upon receipt of the request, wherein the application includes a request sending part sending the acquisition request, a data receiving part receiving the electronic data information, a determining part determining a processable electronic data among the electronic data, and a display controlling part causing to display information related to the determined processable electronic data on the application side.
US09710426B2	Computer system and method for sharing computer memory A computer system has a plurality of computer servers, each including at least one central processing unit (CPU). A memory appliance is spaced remotely from the plurality of computer servers. The memory appliance includes random access memory (RAM). A photonic CPU link is operatively attached to the at least one CPU. A photonic circuit switch is operatively attached to the photonic CPU link. An allocated portion of the RAM is addressable by a predetermined CPU selected from the plurality of computer servers.
US09710425B2	Mobile proxy server for internet server having a dynamic IP address A system for connecting to a mobile web server having a dynamic IP address includes a mobile proxy (MP) server connectable to the client software, the MP server including a proxy server software and an IP agent server. An Internet device is connectable to the MP server, and includes a mobile web server and an IP agent client.
US09710410B2	Camera control slave devices with multiple slave device identifiers System, methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. An address list may associate each of a plurality of slave devices coupled to a control data bus with a plurality of slave device identifiers. Access to the control data bus may be controlled based on the address list such that, in a first mode of operation information may be broadcast to multiple slave devices using a first group slave device identifier and, in a second mode of operation, information may be exchanged with a single slave device using an individualized slave device identifier.
US09710404B2	Dynamic configuration and peripheral access in a processor In various implementations, a system includes a memory, a processor, and an execution-aware memory protection unit (EA-MPU). The EA-MPU is configured to regulate memory access by the processor based at least on the identity of a subject executable that requests access, and on the address to which access is requested, and on permissions information that identifies which subject executables are to be granted access to each of several memory regions. In various implementations, the permissions information itself is stored among the several memory regions. Various configurations of the permissions information can be used to provide shared memory regions for communication among two or more stand-alone trusted software modules, to protect access to devices accessible through memory-mapped I/O (MMIO), to implement a flexible watchdog timer, to provide security for software updates, to provide dynamic root of trust measurement services, and/or to support an operating system.
US09710401B2	Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to support live migration of protected containers A processor includes a decode unit to decode an instruction that is to indicate a page of a protected container memory, and a storage location outside of the protected container memory. An execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to ensure that there are no writable references to the page of the protected container memory while it has a write protected state. The execution unit is to encrypt a copy of the page of the protected container memory. The execution unit is to store the encrypted copy of the page to the storage location outside of the protected container memory, after it has been ensured that there are no writable references. The execution unit is to leave the page of the protected container memory in the write protected state, which is also valid and readable, after the encrypted copy has been stored to the storage location.
US09710394B2	Translation entry invalidation in a multithreaded data processing system In a multithreaded data processing system including a plurality of processor cores, storage-modifying requests, including a translation invalidation request of an initiating hardware thread, are received in a shared queue. The translation invalidation request is removed and buffered in sidecar logic. While the translation invalidation request is buffered in the sidecar logic, the sidecar logic broadcasts the translation invalidation request so that it is received and processed by the plurality of processor cores. In response to confirmation of completion of processing of the translation invalidation request by the initiating processor core, the sidecar logic removes the translation invalidation request from the sidecar. Completion of processing of the translation invalidation request at all of the plurality of processor cores is ensured by a broadcast synchronization request. Subsequent memory referent instructions are ordered with respect to the broadcast synchronization request by a synchronization instruction.
US09710387B2	Guest instruction to native instruction range based mapping using a conversion look aside buffer of a processor A method for translating instructions for a processor. The method includes accessing a plurality of guest instructions that comprise multiple guest branch instructions, and assembling the plurality of guest instructions into a guest instruction block. The guest instruction block is converted into a corresponding native conversion block. The native conversion block is stored into a native cache. A mapping of the guest instruction block to corresponding native conversion block is stored in a conversion look aside buffer. Upon a subsequent request for a guest instruction, the conversion look aside buffer is indexed to determine whether a hit occurred, wherein the mapping indicates whether the guest instruction has a corresponding converted native instruction in the native cache. The converted native instruction is forwarded for execution in response to the hit.
US09710376B2	Wear leveling for a memory device Methods of operating a memory device are useful in managing wear leveling operations. Such methods include receiving an instruction from a host device in communication with the memory device, wherein the instruction comprises a command portion indicating a desire to identify portions of the memory device to be excluded from wear leveling operations and an argument portion comprising information identifying a particular group of one or more blocks of the plurality of blocks; storing the information identifying the particular group of one or more blocks to a non-volatile memory of the memory device as a portion of information identifying blocks to be excluded from wear leveling operations; and performing one or more wear leveling operations only on a subset of the plurality of blocks responsive to the information identifying blocks to be excluded from wear leveling operation.
US09710371B2	Test failure bucketing Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for the “bucketing” or categorizing of software failures occurring during software test, and/or during other procedures. Software failure information is received. The software failure information is parsed to generate a raw matrix of software terms, software failures, and an indication of a number of times each software term was found in each software failure. An importance is determined of each software term of the raw matrix with respect to the software failures of the raw matrix to generate a weighted matrix. A failure space is generated based on the determined importance that indicates each software term-software failure pair of the matrix as a vector. A set of clusters representing the vectors in the failure space is determined. Software failures may be automatically assigned to clusters of the set to be “bucketed” or categorized for ease of subsequent analysis.
US09710368B1	Inter-process communication automated testing framework Application developers may develop applications or portions of application that do not have a corresponding user interface. Testing non-user interface elements of an application may require application developers to develop corresponding user interface elements for all or a portion of the executable code included in the application. Developers may test non-user interface elements of an application or library by wrapping the executable code in a sample application managed by a test harness. The test harness may transmit test operations configured to test the non-user interface elements of the application to the sample application over an inter-process communication channel. The sample application may execute the test and return the results of the test to the test harness using inter-process communication methods.
US09710365B2	System and method for generating synthetic data for software testing purposes According to one aspect, it is appreciated that it may be useful and particularly advantageous to provide a data generator that creates more realistic data for testing purposes, especially in data systems where large volumes of data are necessary. In one implementation, a data generator is provided that produces relationally consistent data for testing purposes. For instance, a synthetic data generation process may be performed that produces any number of relationally consistent data table structures. Further, in another implementation, generation of the data can be statistically influenced so that the data generated can take on the “look and feel” of production data. Also, data may be produced as needed, and its generation may be performed in parallel, depending on interdependencies in the data.
US09710359B2	Executing debug program instructions on a target apparatus processing pipeline A target apparatus 2 for debug includes a processing pipeline 18 for executing a sequence of program instructions. A debug interface 26 receives debug command signals corresponding directly or indirectly to debug program instructions to be executed. An instruction buffer 24 stores both the debug program instructions and non-debug program instructions. An arbiter 30 selects between both the debug program instructions and the non-debug program instructions stored within the instruction buffer to form the sequence of program instructions to be executed by the processing pipeline. A complex coherent memory system 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 32 is shared by the debug program instructions and the non-debug program instructions such that they obtain the same coherent view of memory.
US09710353B2	Creating composite baselines based on a plurality of different baselines Techniques that improve manageability of systems. Techniques are provided for creating different types of baselines that are more flexible and dynamic in nature. A future-based baseline may be created defining a period of time, wherein at least a portion of the period of time is in the future. A baseline may be created that is a composite of multiple baselines. In general, baselines may be specified having one or more periods of time that are either contiguous or non-contiguous. A template for creating a set of baselines based on a set of time periods may also be created, where the template can be used to create a baseline for each of the set of time periods. A moving window baseline may be created having an associated time window that changes with passage of time, where accordingly the data associated with the baseline may also dynamically change with passage of time.
US09710350B2	Basic block profiling using grouping events An aspect includes performance profiling of an application. A processor executes an instruction stream of the application including instructions that are dynamically grouped at run-time. The processor monitors for an event associated with sampled instructions. A sampled instruction is associated with other events that include instruction grouping information. A number of the instructions in a group that includes the sampled instruction is determined as a group size. The monitored event is tracked as separate events with respect to each of the sampled instruction and one or more other instructions of the group. Subsequent monitored events are tracked as the separate events for each of the instructions from additional groups having various group sizes formed from a sequence of the instructions. An execution count for the sequence of the instructions is generated based on accumulating the separate events over a period of time.
US09710349B2	Storing first computer trace information in memory of second computer A system having a plurality of application computer circuits is disclosed. A first application computer circuit is arranged to process a first application. A trace collection circuit collects trace information from the first application computer circuit. A second application computer circuit is arranged to receive and store the collected trace information in a first mode and to process a second application in a second mode.
US09710330B2	Partial cloud data storage Technologies are generally described for partial cloud data storage. In one example, a method includes dividing, by a system comprising a processor, a file into a set of source packets in response to an indication that the file is to be stored in a data store of a network device. The method also includes transforming the set of source packets into a set of encoded packets by encoding the set of packets into codeword symbols of an error correcting code. Further, the method includes facilitating storage of a first portion of the set of encoded packets to the data store of the network device and a second portion of the set of encoded packets to one or more user devices. A first number of packets in the first portion is more than a second number of packets in the second portion and the second portion is at least used to decode the file.
US09710329B2	Error correction based on historical bit error data A data storage device includes a memory including a plurality of storage elements. The data storage device further includes a controller coupled to the memory. The controller includes an error correction code (ECC) engine. The controller further includes a reliability engine configured to access historical bit error data. The historical bit error data includes a first count of bit errors associated with a first set of storage elements of the plurality of storage elements. The reliability engine is configured to generate reliability information based on the historical bit error data and to provide the reliability information to the ECC engine.
US09710324B2	Dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) supporting storage of a data indicator(s) in an error correcting code (ECC) storage unit dedicated to storing an ECC A dual in-line memory module (DIMM) supporting storage of a data indicator(s) in an error correcting code (ECC) storage unit dedicated to storing an ECC. The DIMM is configured to provide a burst ECC storage unit striped in a burst data storage unit. The DIMM is configured to stripe a received burst data word across a burst data word storage unit at a write data address for a write operation. The DIMM is also configured to stripe a received burst ECC word for the burst data word across the burst ECC storage unit at the write data address in fewer bits than a number of data bit cells in the burst ECC storage unit. In this manner, the DIMM can store at least one data indicator for a burst data word in an extra, leftover bit(s) in the burst ECC storage unit.
US09710319B2	Information processing apparatus and information collection method An information processing apparatus includes a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory. An area setting unit sets, upon detection of an abnormality in the information processing apparatus, a work area in a storage area except a collection target area of investigation information used for investigation of a cause of the occurrence of the abnormality, in a storage area of the volatile memory. An information collection unit executes a procedure of collecting investigation information from the volatile memory and storing the same into the nonvolatile memory by using the set work area.
US09710313B2	Method and system for ensuring integrity of critical data A method and system for ensuring integrity of manipulatable critical data, including a processor configured to execute at least one restartable processing thread module, a shared memory communicatively coupled with the processor and having at least some manipulatable critical data wherein when request to restart the at least one restartable processing thread module is received, the at least one restartable processing thread module is restarted.
US09710312B2	Component-based task allocation method for extensible router The present disclosure relates to a component-based task allocation method for an extensible router, comprising: S1: selecting components that needs to be activated from a component library, generating a topology structure of the components, and measuring load of each component; S2: selecting a super master control and a backup super master control from master controls, allocating the components, generating a task allocation table and a task updating message according to dynamic allocation algorithms; and S3: receiving the task updating message from the super master control by the other master controls, and activating the components that need to be activated and registering to a component manager. Thus, the tasks can be allocated uniformly.
US09710308B1	Workflow for migration planning of data storage systems Techniques for improved workflow for migration planning of data storage systems. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A plurality of elements representing events of a workflow are generated, wherein each element is active for a predetermined duration. A group of one or more assets to be migrated as a unit are assigned to each element. A group of the one or more assets is moved from a first element of the plurality of elements to a second element of the plurality of elements.
US09710305B2	Virtual machine migration management Disclosed aspects manage virtual machine migration on a shared pool of configurable computing resources. A virtual machine is monitored in order to identify a set of migration data with respect to the virtual machine. A set of migration events is detected with respect to the virtual machine. Based on the set of migration events, the set of migration data is collected. In response to a triggering event, a determination is made whether to migrate the virtual machine from a current host based on the set of migration data. In accordance with the determination, a selection can be made whether to migrate the virtual machine from the current host.
US09710302B2	Dynamic timeout period adjustment of service requests According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for dynamically timing out a first process within a plurality of suspended processes is provided. The method may include determining that a second process is attempting to suspend. The method may also include determining if a number of suspended processes plus one is less than a threshold value. The method may then include selecting the first process within the plurality of suspended processes to prematurely time out based on determining that the number of suspended processes plus one is not less than the threshold value. The method may further include timing out the selected first process. The method may also include suspending the second process.
US09710299B2	Method and a computer program product for controlling the execution of at least one application on or for a mobile electronic device, and a computer A method for controlling the execution of an application with a mobile electronic device (202) in a building (100) having a number of rooms (101), the application usable on the mobile electronic device (202) or usable via the mobile electronic device (202) comprises the steps of: experimentally generating at least one rule; measuring with the mobile electronic device (202) a plurality of location-specific short-range signals, and forming a set ({S(ti)}) of signal vectors (S(ti)) representing short-range signals (s) received from known signal transmitters (201, 202) at each time instant; using said set (C) of sequence classifiers of said at-least-one rule on said set ({S(ti)}) of signal vectors (S(ti)) to determine which sequence classifiers in the set (C) of sequence classifiers match; and controlling the execution of the application according to the at-least-one rule. The patent application also contains independent claims for a computer and a computer program product.
US09710292B2	Allowing management of a virtual machine by multiple cloud providers Embodiments of the present invention provide approaches for allowing management of a virtual machine (VM) by multiple cloud providers in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a system identifies a set of provisioned resources of a VM managed by a first cloud provider, generates a set of artifacts containing information for a second cloud provider to allow co-management of the VM by the first cloud provider and the second cloud provider, and provides access to the set of provisioned resources of the VM to the second cloud provider. As such, a single virtual machine may be managed by multiple (e.g., geographically distinct) cloud providers to cooperatively and selectively execute VM operations because the end product (i.e., VM) from the first and second cloud providers is the same.
US09710288B2	Method and device for loading application program Disclosed in the present disclosure is an application loading method, including: an M2M terminal module starts up an application manager after being powered up and initialized; the application manager receives a load application instruction and creates a load thread; and the load thread loads an application according to a load application instruction and ends the load thread after the execution of the application is completed. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is an application loading device. By way of the method and device in the present disclosure, the compile efficiency is improved, and it is advantageous for terminal maintenance, and the service function is realized when executing an independent application.
US09710286B2	Enhanced wakeup mode A method of operating a computer that is in a sleep state and that is accessed remotely. The method includes receiving an indication that the computer should transition from a sleep state to a wake state, determining whether the indication was generated as a result of a remote access to the computer, and upon determining that the indication was generated as a result of a remote access to the computer, causing the computer to transition to a partial wake state.
US09710282B2	System to automate development of system integration application programs and method therefor A symbolic representation of a business process is received, the process including transfer of information from a first software application to a second software application. An association between a first data field included at the first software application and a second data field included at the second software application is determined, and a data manipulation operation to modify data associated with the first data field is determined, the modified data to be stored at the second data field. The determining is based on association information and data manipulation operations maintained at a database. The association information and the data manipulation operations are determined based on previously received business process representations.
US09710280B2	Overlapping atomic regions in a processor In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having a core to execute instructions. This core can include various structures and logic that enable instructions of different atomic regions to be executed in an overlapping manner. To this end, the core can include a register file having registers to store data for use in execution of the instructions, and multiple shadow register files each to store a register checkpoint on initiation of a given atomic region. In this way, overlapping execution of atomic regions identified by a programmer or compiler can occur. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09710278B2	Optimizing grouping of instructions Embodiments include optimizing the grouping of instructions in a microprocessor. Aspects include receiving a first clump of instructions from a streaming buffer, pre-decoding each of instructions for select information and sending the instructions to an instruction queue. Aspects further include storing initial grouping information for the instructions in a local register, wherein the initial grouping information is based on the select information. Aspects further include updating the initial group information stored in the local register when additional pre-decode information becomes available and grouping the instructions that are ready to be dispatched into a dispatch group based on the grouping information stored in the local register. Aspects further include dispatching the dispatch group to an issue unit.
US09710275B2	System and method for allocating memory of differing properties to shared data objects A system and method for allocating shared memory of differing properties to shared data objects and a hybrid stack data structure. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a hybrid stack creator configured to create, in the shared memory, a hybrid stack data structure having a lower portion having a more favorable property and a higher portion having a less favorable property and (2) a data object allocator associated with the hybrid stack creator and configured to allocate storage for shared data object in the lower portion if the lower portion has a sufficient remaining capacity to contain the shared data object and alternatively allocate storage for the shared data object in the higher portion if the lower portion has an insufficient remaining capacity to contain the shared data object.
US09710273B2	Method for migrating CPU state from an inoperable core to a spare core An apparatus is disclosed in which the apparatus may include a plurality of cores, including a first core, a second core and a third core, and circuitry coupled to the first core. The first core may be configured to process a plurality of instructions. The circuitry may be may be configured to detect that the first core stopped committing a subset of the plurality of instructions, and to send an indication to the second core that the first core stopped committing the subset. The second core may be configured to disable the first core from further processing instructions of the subset responsive to receiving the indication, and to copy data from the first core to a third core responsive to disabling the first core. The third core may be configured to resume processing the subset dependent upon the data.
US09710269B2	Early conditional selection of an operand Delays due to waiting for operands that will not be used by a select operand instruction, are alleviated based on an early recognition that such operand data is not required in order to complete the processing of the select operand instruction. At appropriate points prior to execution, determinations are made regarding a selection criterion or criteria specified by the select operand instruction, conditions that affect the selection criteria, and the availability of operands. A hold circuit uses the determinations to control the activation and release of a hold signal that controls processor pipeline stalls. A stall required to wait for operand data is skipped or a stall is terminated early, if the selected operand is available even though the other operand, that will not be used, is not available. A stall due to waiting for operands is maintained until the selection criteria is met and the selected operand is fetched and made available.
US09710267B2	Instruction to compute the distance to a specified memory boundary A Load Count to Block Boundary instruction is provided that provides a distance from a specified memory address to a specified memory boundary. The memory boundary is a boundary that is not to be crossed in loading data. The boundary may be specified a number of ways, including, but not limited to, a variable value in the instruction text, a fixed instruction text value encoded in the opcode, or a register based boundary; or it may be dynamically determined.
US09710263B2	Understanding computer code with human language assistance Methods and arrangements for providing human-language descriptors for computer code. An interface is used to input computer code, and a human-language descriptor is automatically associated with at least one code identifier in the computer program code, wherein the human-language descriptor is obtained to assist a user in determining a meaning of the at least one code identifier. The human-language descriptor is visually displayed along with the at least one code identifier. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09710262B2	User-configurable database artifacts A system, a method, and a computer program product for deployment of objects are disclosed. At least one configuration for deploying of at least one artifact during runtime of an application is defined. The configuration includes at least one dependency for the artifact. The configuration is applied to the artifact. The artifact is deployed based on the applied configuration during runtime of the application. The configuration can include at least one of the following: a default configuration for the artifact and an explicit configuration for the artifact.
US09710260B2	Increasing proficiency status of developers The present disclosure relates to a tool for increasing efficiency of development and upskilling of developers of software. The system may be configured to identify minimum skills for development of a software tool, identify elements of the software tool to be provided, establish a maximum timeline for completion of the elements of the software tool, based on the elements identified, and determine a proficiency status level appropriate to complete the development of the software tool based on both the identified skills and the elements.
US09710258B2	Identifying cause of incidents in the DevOps environment automatically In one aspect, a method for identifying software development teams causing operation incidents when changing and deploying code is provided. The method includes the steps of: collecting data regarding i) a number of deployed change requests for each of the software development teams and ii) a total number of incident reports; generating a time series for the number of deployed change requests for each of the software development teams and a time series for the total number of incident reports created; performing causality testing between the time series for the number of deployed change requests for each of the software development teams and the time series for the total number of incident reports created; and determining whether the total number of incident reports created can be expressed in terms of the number of deployed change requests for any of the software teams.
US09710256B2	Software upgrade method and system for mobile terminal A software upgrade method and system for a mobile terminal includes locating partition tables of a new version of software and an old version of software, generating a corresponding backup list, scanning all files of the new version of software, generating a differential upgrade package that comprises a partition table of the new version of software and the backup list, saving backup data, to be backed up in the mobile terminal, into a SD card according to the backup list, re-partitioning a mobile terminal memory according to the partition table of the new version of software in the differential upgrade package, correspondingly writing the backup data on the SD card into the partition, decompressing the differential upgrade package to obtain a corresponding differentiating file, generating corresponding new version files according to the differentiating file and the old version files in the mobile terminal, and writing into the mobile terminal.
US09710252B2	Authentication and notification heuristics Server-side authentication of user accounts by using multiple authentication tokens and transmission of update statement to users for updates to applications installed on their devices. Prompting users that updates are available upon determining that a threshold event has occurred and if requisite network and situational conditions exist. Batching and sending notifications or requests for authentications that are required for each application update that is currently ready for download.
US09710250B2	Mechanism for safe and reversible rolling upgrades Methods, systems, and computer storage media for updating instances of a service application within nodes of a data center are provided. The system includes a state machine equipped for designating an earlier version of software running on some instances as a basement version and a newer version of software running on other instances as a latest version. The system also includes a compatibility mechanism responsible for allowing the basement version, the latest version, and other versions of the service application therebetween to interact using a data structure associated within the earlier version, or lowest common version of the service application. The compatibility mechanism is located apart from core logic of the service application. The activities of the state machine and the compatibility mechanism allow the instances to communicate with each other (using the lowest common version) while exposing just the validated version(s) of the service application to the client.
US09710229B2	Apparatus and method for performing floating-point square root operation A data processing apparatus has a processing circuitry for performing a floating-point square root operation on a radicand value R to generate a result value. The processing circuitry has first square root processing circuitry for processing radicand values R which are not an exact power of two and second square root processing circuitry for processing radicand values which are an exact power of 2. Power-of-two detection circuitry detects whether the radicand value is an exact power of two and selects the output of the first or second square root processing circuitry as appropriate. This allows the result to be generated in fewer processing cycles when the radicand is a power of 2.
US09710224B2	Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a microphone; a touchscreen; and a controller configured to display a user interface for voice recognition on the touchscreen, display a first text, a second text, and a third text converted from a first voice input, a second voice input and a third voice input, respectively, in the user interface for voice recognition, wherein the first voice input, the second voice input, and the third voice input are received via the microphone, display an application window associated with the first text, the second text, and the third text in the user interface for voice recognition, receive a selection of one of the first text, the second text, and the third text for modification, and display a modified text of the selected text in the application window.
US09710220B2	Context-sensitive media classification Context data (230) is determined for an ambient media playback (110) in the surrounding of a user equipment. Based on the determined context data (230), identification data (240) for the ambient media playback (110) is determined.
US09710200B2	Adaptive job execution apparatus for executing a job with a plurality of alternative sets of executing conditions, job execution method, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program An image forming apparatus is provided with the following functional portions: a printable/unprintable determination portion that determines whether or not a print job can be executed based on any of a plurality of conditions specified by a user; and a first printing process portion that executes, if it has been determined that the print job can be executed based on any of the plurality of conditions, the print job based on any of executable conditions among the plurality of conditions, the executable conditions being conditions based on which the print job can be executed.
US09710191B1	Rapid memory buffer write storage system and method Data associated with a logical block address (LBA) may be received from a host system to be stored in the memory array. The LBA may be translated to a physical block address (PBA) by determining a first portion of the PBA and a second portion of the PBA. The data from the host system may be stored in the buffer space after determining the first portion of the PBA and before determining the second portion of the PBA. The data from the buffer space may be flushed to the memory array after determining the second portion of the PBA.
US09710190B1	Shared memory A computer-executable method, computer program product, and system for managing I/Os from an Application on a host, wherein the host is in communication with a data storage system including one or more burst buffer servers, the computer-executable method, computer program product, and system comprising providing a portion of shared memory using the one or more burst buffer servers of the data storage system, wherein the portion of shared memory is enabled to be visible from each of the one or more burst buffer servers, receiving, at a first burst buffer server of the one or more burst buffer servers, a data I/O request from the application on the host, wherein the data I/O request is associated with data on the portion of shared memory, determining whether data associated with the data I/O request is located on the first buffer server, and processing the data I/O request based on the determination.
US09710187B1	Managing data relocation in storage systems A method is used in managing data relocation in storage systems. A request is received to write to a slice of storage tier in a data storage system where the slice is being relocated. The relocation of the slice includes copying data of the slice to another slice in the data storage system. Location within the slice at which the request to write to the slice has been received is determined. Based on the determination, relocation of the slice of the storage tier is effected.
US09710186B2	Performing online data migration with concurrent active user access to the data A network server migrates dataset blocks from a source storage device to a target storage device while continuing to service user requests for the data stored in the dataset blocks. A control driver executing at the network server tracks the location of the dataset blocks during the data migration as being at either the source storage device or the target storage device. Upon receiving a user request for the data, the control driver uses the tracking information to determine whether the dataset blocks associated with the requested data have been migrated to the target storage device or are still stored at the source storage device. The control driver then retrieves the data associated with the requested dataset blocks from the determined source or target storage device.
US09710180B1	Method and system for controlling wear level operations in solid state memory A method for controlling wear level operations in solid state memory. The method includes receiving a request to write to a memory location identified by a write address of the solid state memory, generating a write address hash from the write address, making a first determination that a write history for a memory region includes the write address hash, and based on the first determination: clearing the write history, storing the write address hash in the write history, and making a second determination that a wear level operation is due, and based on the second determination: performing the wear level operation.
US09710175B2	Managing storage devices having a lifetime of a finite number of operations Disclosed are methods and systems of managing a plurality of storage devices having a lifetime of a finite number of operations. An average number of storage devices reaching said lifetime of a finite number of operations per first unit time is calculated. For each one of the plurality of storage devices an estimated date when a finite number of operations will be reached is calculated. For each date, a variable related to the number of storage devices reaching said finite number of operations within a predetermined period of said date is set. For one or more variables having a value larger than a value calculated using the date and said average number of storage devices reaching said lifetime within the predetermined period of said first unit of time, an action is carried out to reduce the number of storage devices reaching said lifetime per first unit of time.
US09710173B2	Read cache memory with DRAM class promotion The present disclosure includes methods and apparatuses for read cache memory. One apparatus includes a read cache memory apparatus comprising a first DRAM array, a first and a second NAND array, and a controller configured to manage movement of data between the DRAM array and the first NAND array, and between the first NAND array and the second NAND array.
US09710163B2	Method and apparatus for inputting characters A method and apparatus for inputting characters in a terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a first key input through a key input unit; storing at least one character corresponding to the first key input; displaying the stored at least one character in a first display area; removing the displayed at least one character from the first display area in response to a second key input received through the key input unit; displaying the removed at least one character in a second display area; receiving input of a selection of at least one character that is displayed in the second display area; and displaying the selected at least one character in the first display area.
US09710161B2	User terminal device and control method thereof A portable device having a display, the display including a main surface area, a first curved surface area extending from a first side of the main surface area, and a second curved surface area extending from a second side of the main surface area that is opposite the first side, a sensor configured to detect a state of the portable device, and a controller configured to control the display to display a user interface (UI) on one of the first curved surface and the second curved surface based on the state detected by the sensor.
US09710152B2	Selecting objects on a user interface A computer implemented method of managing objects presented on a user interface of a computer device having at least one processor and at least one memory, comprising displaying an arrangement of selectable objects each having one or more characteristics, information on said arrangement of objects and said objects being stored in said at least one memory, determining a selection of at least a first object in dependence on a user input received via the user interface, evaluating using the stored information on said arrangement, if the selected shares one or more characteristic with neighboring objects in the arrangement, determining an input time period of the user input; determining, in dependence on the stored information on said board arrangement if the selected object shares one or more characteristics with neighboring objects; and if so indicating a valid status to a user by highlighting or removing at least the selected object.
US09710145B2	Human machine interface device for aircraft A method and system for interacting with the systems of an aircraft using touch screen technology that includes a human machine interface device for interacting with aircraft systems. The human machine interface including an input/display device configured to provide for navigating among graphical representations of a plurality of aircraft avionics systems via the common human machine interface; selecting an aircraft system via at least one of a touch gesture and a voice command input to the input/display device; inputting an instruction to the selected aircraft system; and outputting information via at least one of visual, aural, haptic and tactile channels.
US09710144B2	User interface for curved input device A computer readable medium storing instructions which cause a processor to generate data structures for an object moving along the perimeter of a curved touch-sensitive user input device, each data structure corresponding to a gesture and including a time stamp, polar angles at which the object starts and ends, a middle polar angle of the object, and an assigned state being one of the group RECOGNIZED, UPDATED and ENDED, wherein the instructions cause the processor to assign the RECOGNIZED state to the data structure when the moving object is initially detected on the perimeter of the device, to assign the UPDATED state to the data structure when the moving object is further detected on the perimeter of the device after the initial detection, and to assign the ENDED state to the data structure when the moving object ceases to be detected on the perimeter of the device.
US09710137B2	Handedness detection A method can include receiving information via a touch-sensitive user interface; analyzing at least a portion of the information to determine a hand preference; and controlling a graphical user interface based at least in part on the determined hand preference.
US09710132B2	Image display apparatus and image display method Provided is an image display apparatus, including: a display unit configured to allow a real space to be transparently viewed and configured to display a three-dimensional image; and a display control unit configured to display a plurality of the three-dimensional images on the display unit in a manner that the plurality of the three-dimensional images are arranged in a plurality of lines that are different from each other in position in a depth direction on a near side with respect to the real space.
US09710117B2	Transfer material, manufacturing method of electrostatic capacitance type input device, electrostatic capacitance type input device, and image display device including the same To provide a transfer material which is capable of improving the visibility of a transparent electrode pattern of an electrostatic capacitance type input device, and is capable of improving the productivity of the electrostatic capacitance type input device. A transfer material includes a temporary supporter and a transparent curable resin layer laminated on the temporary supporter, and a refractive index of the transparent curable resin layer at a wavelength of 550 nm is 1.55 or more.
US09710107B1	Input control assignment Various techniques may be employed for assigning user inputs such as a touch on a touchscreen to various input controls such as buttons or other features provided on a touchscreen. One example input assignment technique is a nearest neighbor technique, whereby a touch may, for example, be assigned to an input control that is positioned closest to the touch location. Another example input assignment technique is an angle and distance technique, whereby a touch may, for example, be assigned to an input control based on an angle and a distance of the touch relative to a prior touch.
US09710098B2	Method and apparatus to reduce latency of touch events A system includes: a touch path module to receive a plurality of touch events and to generate an output based on the touch events; and a rendering module to: receive a video image; receive the output of the touch path module; determine a plurality of points defining a boundary of a shape, the shape being determined based on the output of the touch path module; combine the video image with overlay data in accordance with the plurality of points to generate a combined display image; and output the combined display image.
US09710085B2	Pointer display device, pointer display/detection method, pointer display/detection program and information apparatus Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point.
US09710082B2	Wearable display device, belt buckle and belt The present disclosure provides a wearable display device, a belt buckle and a belt. The wearable display device includes a body; a display screen arranged on the body; a storage module configured to store data; and a controller configured to output a display signal in accordance with the data stored in the storage module, thereby to enable the display screen to display the display signal from the controller. According to the present disclosure, the wearable display device can display stationary or dynamic images, thereby to meet the user's individualized requirements.
US09710080B2	Portable electronic device including contact sensors, and method for controlling same A portable electronic device provided with a detection section for detecting a contact pattern of a contact object to a housing; a storage section capable of storing an operating state of the portable electronic device and the contact pattern in association with each other; a judgment section for judging whether or not a contact pattern corresponding to the detected contact pattern has been stored in the storage section; a control section for controlling the portable electronic device to enter the operating state associated with the contact pattern and stored in the storage section when the corresponding contact pattern is judged to have been stored in the storage section; and a learning section for storing in the storage section the detected contact pattern and an operating state of the portable electronic device executed by a user when or immediately after the contact pattern is detected in association with each other.
US09710074B2	Digitizer using position-unique optical signals The present invention provides systems and methods of using a stylus that houses optics and a detector capable of receiving optical signals that are combined with a displayed image. Stylus position determination is made by analyzing received optical signals.
US09710073B2	Detachable device case having an auxiliary touch input device and data handling capability A detachable case configured to hold an electronic device and configured to transfer control input signals from at least one touch sensitive input device disposed on a backside of the device case to the electronic device, the electronic device being configured to display graphical symbology representing a position of one or more contacts on the at least one touch sensitive input device.
US09710071B2	Methods and systems for recalibrating a user device based on age of a user and received verbal input Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that enhances the precision of various types of user input interfaces. For example, the media guidance application may recalibrate a user input interface such that the user inputs are correctly received and executed. Furthermore, to further enhance precision, the media guidance application may base the recalibrations on the age of a user.
US09710068B2	Apparatus and method for controlling interface In an apparatus and method for controlling an interface, a user interface (UI) may be controlled using information on a hand motion and a gaze of a user without separate tools such as a mouse and a keyboard. That is, the UI control method provides more intuitive, immersive, and united control of the UI. Since a region of interest (ROI) sensing the hand motion of the user is calculated using a UI object that is controlled based on the hand motion within the ROI, the user may control the UI object in the same method and feel regardless of a distance from the user to a sensor. In addition, since positions and directions of view points are adjusted based on a position and direction of the gaze, a binocular 2D/3D image based on motion parallax may be provided.
US09710065B2	Eccentric rotating mass actuator optimization for haptic effects A system that generates a haptic effect on a device using an Eccentric Rotating Mass (“ERM”) actuator determines an acceleration of the device during operation of the device and receives a haptic effect signal including one or more parameters, where one of the parameters is a voltage output level. The system varies the voltage output level parameter based at least on determined acceleration, and applies the varied haptic effect signal to the ERM actuator.
US09710064B2	Systems and methods for providing a haptic effect associated with a pgraphical simulation or virtual tag A system includes a display configured to display a graphical simulation, a computer configured to run a software program designed to display the graphical simulation on the display, and a stylus constructed and arranged to be manipulated by a user of the system in at least two dimensions to affect the graphical simulation. The stylus includes an actuator configured to output a haptic effect to the user upon receiving a control signal from the computer.
US09710058B2	Portable eye tracking device A portable eye tracker device is disclosed which includes a frame, at least one optics holding member, and a control unit. The frame may be adapted for wearing by a user. The at least one optics holding member may include at least one illuminator configured to selectively illuminate at least a portion of at least one eye of the user, and at least one image sensor configured to capture image data representing images of at least a portion of at least one eye of the user. The control unit may be configured to control the at least one illuminator for the selective illumination of at least a portion of at least one eye of the user, receive the image data from the at least one image sensor, and calibrate at least one illuminator, at least one image sensor, or an algorithm of the control unit.
US09710057B2	Methods and systems including tracking a head mounted display (HMD) and calibrations for HMD headband adjustments Methods and systems are provided for head mounted display (HMD) implementations. In one example implementation, a HMD includes a circuit for communicating with a computing system that processes multimedia content for display in the HMD. Further included is a front unit of the HMD that has a screen for displaying multimedia content, and the front unit has a set of LEDs. The HMD includes an accelerometer and gyroscope disposed in the front unit of the HMD. A rear section of the HMD is provided having a set of LEDs. A headband connecting the front unit to the rear section is included, such that adjustment of the headband changes a separation distance between at least one of the set of LEDs of the front unit and at least one of the set of LEDs of the rear section.
US09710054B2	Programmable power management agent In an embodiment, a processor includes a first core and a power management agent (PMA), coupled to the first core, to include a static table that stores a list of operations, and a plurality of columns each to specify a corresponding flow that includes a corresponding subset of the operations. Execution of each flow is associated with a corresponding state of the first core. The PMA includes a control register (CR) that includes a plurality of storage elements to receive one of a first value and a second value. The processor includes execution logic, responsive to a command to place the first core into a first state, to execute an operation of a first flow when a corresponding storage element stores the first value and to refrain from execution of an operation of the first flow when the corresponding element stores the second value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09710053B2	Mechanism for facilitating power extension service at computing devices by one or more power saving techniques A mechanism is described for facilitating power extension service at computing devices according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes calculating potential power saving by one or more of a plurality of power-saving techniques supported by a computing device. The calculating includes identifying the one or more of the plurality of power-saving techniques that are available for selection and an expected amount of power to be saved with the one or more of the plurality of power saving techniques. The method may further include generating a list identifying the one or more of the plurality of power-saving techniques and relevant information resulting from the calculation, and displaying the list.
US09710045B2	Managing network wake-up commands A method for managing network wake-up commands by a controller of a server includes receiving a system health data. The method includes receiving a network wake-up command from a network interface controller of the server. The method further includes the determining whether to wake-up the server based on the system health data to yield a determination, and commanding the server to wake-up, when the determination is to wake-up the server.
US09710044B2	Power shifting in multicore platforms by varying SMT levels Power consumption in a microprocessor platform is managed by setting a peak power level for power consumed by a multi-core microprocessor platform executing multi-threaded applications. The multi-core microprocessor platform contains a plurality of physical cores, and each physical core is configurable into a plurality of logical cores. A simultaneous multithreading level in at least one physical core is adjusted by changing the number of logical cores on that physical core in response to a power consumption level of the multi-core microprocessor platform exceeding the peak power level. Performance and power data based on simultaneous multi-threading levels are used in selecting the physical core to be adjusted.
US09710043B2	Controlling a guaranteed frequency of a processor In one embodiment, a processor includes one or more cores to execute instructions and a power controller coupled to the one or more cores. In turn, the power controller includes a control logic to receive an indication, from one or more sources, of a dynamic change to a guaranteed frequency at which at least one of the one or more cores are to operate, and to determine a final guaranteed frequency at which the processor is to operate for a next window, and to communicate the final guaranteed frequency to at least one entity. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09710042B2	Adaptive microprocessor power ramp control Embodiments of the invention provide adaptive power ramp control (APRC) in microprocessors. One implementation of the APRC can compute a present core power and a present power ramp condition in the microprocessor, for example, to determine whether the present power is in a particular predefined control zone and whether the present power ramp is greater than a predefined threshold for that control zone. Those determinations can indicate a likelihood of an imminent, undesirable power ramp condition and can inform entry into a control mode. The APRC can generate an appropriate stall control signal in response to its present control mode, and the stall control signal can stall operation of at least one functional unit of the microprocessor according to a predefined stall pattern. This can effectively combat the imminent power ramp condition by reducing the power usage of the microprocessor.
US09710040B2	Calculating expected maximum CPU power available for use A method of calculating a processing power available from a supervisor of a multi-programmed computing system by a first partition of a plurality of partitions, the method comprising collecting, by the first partition, state data from the supervisor, the state data including a processing capacity of the multi-programmed computing system. The method further comprises initializing a remaining capacity variable to the processing capacity of the multi-programmed computing system; initializing variables, including setting a binary variable to a first logic value for each of the plurality of partitions; iteratively computing an entitlement and amount of power to award for each of the plurality of partitions having their respective binary variables set to the first logic value; and requesting the processing power from the supervisor, based on the iterative computation.
US09710038B1	HDMI extender with bidirectional power over twisted pair Disclosed are various embodiments of transmit and receive connectivity devices that receive a media signal from a source device coupled to the HDMI port and to convert the media signal to a converged media signal based on a converged signal specification. The converged media signal can be transmitted between the transmit and receive connectivity devices through a multi-position multi-contact port. The converged media signal can be converted to a media signal based on the converged signal specification. The converted media signal can be output to a sink device via an HDMI port.
US09710034B2	Using temperature margin to balance performance with power allocation A method and apparatus using temperature margin to balance performance with power allocation. Nominal, middle and high power levels are determined for compute elements. A set of temperature thresholds are determined that drive the power allocation of the compute elements towards a balanced temperature profile. For a given workload, temperature differentials are determined for each of the compute elements relative the other compute elements, where the temperature differentials correspond to workload utilization of the compute element. If temperature overhead is available, and a compute element is below a temperature threshold, then particular compute elements are allocated power to match or drive toward the balanced temperature profile.
US09710033B2	Electronic device An electronic device having a novel structure is provided. A battery is provided in each component of an electronic device, whereby the electronic device includes two batteries. The electronic device including the two batteries and a display portion that can be called a flexible display and has a plurality of foldable portions is provided as a novel device.
US09710025B2	Desktop receptacle with utility front surface A desktop receptacle includes a box with a front surface and a connector surface that has a connector opening formed through, an electrical connection assembly held within the box that has an electrical connector associated with the connector opening, and a utility surface attached to the front surface.
US09710023B2	Treatment of substrate sub-surface Perforated structures and methods for forming perforated structures are disclosed. The perforated structures include partial holes or blind-holes that pass partially through the substrate. The partial holes can be positioned proximate to through-holes that pass entirely through the substrate. The partial holes add mechanical strength to the perforated substrate. Described are methods for modifying the optical appearance of the partial holes such that the partial holes appear indistinguishable from the through-holes, which allows for flexibility in designing cosmetically appealing patterns within the perforated structures.
US09710018B2	Display apparatus An apparatus comprising a suspension unit comprising: a first part coupled to a display assembly; a second part coupled to an apparatus body; and a suspension part coupled at one end to the first part and at another end to the second part, configured to suspend the first part relative to the second part by the bending force of the suspension part, such that the display assembly is movable relative to the apparatus body.
US09710008B2	Fast bias current startup with feedback A current mirror circuit comprising an input driver connected to a plurality of output driver circuits through a current mirror network. The current mirror network is separated into two parts, wherein the first part comprises the input driver circuit and the second part comprises capacitive loads including a filter capacitor. A switch separates the two parts where an amplifier senses the first part and controls the second part to track the first part when the current mirror circuit is activated. The low source resistance of the output of the amplifier facilitates a fast charging of the capacitance of the second part of the current mirror network dramatically improving signal delay and transition time.
US09710004B2	Method, a system, a computer-readable medium, and a power controlling apparatus for applying and distributing power Embodiments of the invention relate generally to power management and the like, and more particularly, to an apparatus, a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for providing power controlling functionality to generate configurable power signals and to deliver power during fault conditions. In at least some embodiments, a power control unit can generate power signals having configurable attributes as a function of a mode of operation, a fault type, and the like.
US09709994B2	Device for providing a fluid having regulated output pressure A device for providing an output fluid at a regulated output pressure includes a pressure control unit controlled via a pilot control pressure and a pilot control unit that provides the pilot control pressure. The pressure control unit includes an inlet chamber for an input fluid having an input pressure, an outlet chamber for the output fluid having the regulated output pressure and a first valve unit that acts between the inlet chamber and the outlet chamber. A first diaphragm of the pressure control unit is acted upon by the pilot control pressure. A second diaphragm, which is mechanically coupled to the first diaphragm is acted upon by the output fluid having the output pressure acts. At least the second diaphragm mechanically acts on the first valve unit.
US09709993B2	Wide area sensing system, in-flight detection method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program of wide area sensing system A wide area sensor system includes an unmanned airplane being switchable between an airplane mode for high speed flight and a VTOL mode for low speed flight, a state detection sensor provided in the unmanned airplane, the state detection sensor being driven to detect a state of a detection target, and an external control apparatus that controls flight of the unmanned airplane and driving of the state detection sensor. The external control apparatus performs high speed sensing by driving the state detection sensor while performing the high speed flight of the unmanned airplane in the airplane mode. The control apparatus performs low speed sensing by driving the state detection sensor while performing the low speed flight of the unmanned airplane in the VTOL mode.
US09709988B2	Identification of acceptable vehicle charge stations A vehicle may require an electric recharge. A request may be sent to obtain identification of charge locations along a route. Along with the request, data may be sent identifying vehicle location, route, and desired safety rating. A response may be obtained from a remote server, and the results may be displayed, which include the user rating of the charge station. The desired user rating may be adjusted based on the battery's state of charge (SOC). The desired user rating may be decreased as the battery state of charge decreases. The user may further set the desired user rating. The desired user rating may further depend on other ratings of the charging station.
US09709986B2	Navigation based on expected landmark location A system for autonomously navigating a vehicle along a road segment may be based on a predetermined landmark location. The system may include at least one processor programmed to receive from a camera, at least one image representative of an environment of the vehicle, and determine a position of the vehicle along a predetermined road model trajectory associated with the road segment based, at least in part, on information associated with the at least one image. The at least one processor may be further programmed to identify a recognized landmark forward of the vehicle based on the determined position, wherein the recognized landmark is beyond a sight range of the camera, and determine a current distance between the vehicle and the recognized landmark by comparing the determined position of the vehicle with a predetermined position of the recognized landmark. The at least one processor may also be programmed to determine an autonomous navigational response for the vehicle based on the determined current distance.
US09709985B1	Stop sign detection and response Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to stop signs. An object detected in a vehicle's environment having location coordinates may be identified as a stop sign and, it may be determined whether the location coordinates of the identified stop sign correspond to a location of a stop sign in detailed map information. Then, whether the identified stop sign applies to the vehicle may be determined based on the detailed map information or on a number of factors. Then, if the identified stop sign is determined to apply to the vehicle, responses of the vehicle to the stop sign may be determined, and, the vehicle may be controlled based on the determined responses.
US09709983B2	Long-range drone remote-control equipment This unit implements a remote-control console (20) supporting a tablet (18). The console comprises a TX/RX module (48) interfaced with a TX/RX module (50) of the tablet to form a first Wi-Fi local network, which is a short-range standard network. The console comprises another specific TX/RX module (54), interfaced with an TX/RX module (58) of the drone (10) to form a second Wi-Fi local network, which is an optimized long-range network, both being networks operating on non-shared channels. A bidirectional routing module (78) ensures the interfacing between the two Wi-Fi networks, to allow the transparent exchange of data between the drone (10) and the tablet (18), as well as with levers and buttons of the console (64, 66) or with a peripheral (80) connected thereto.
US09709982B2	Flight management system of an aircraft A flight management system with core and supplementary modules is proposed. The core module may include generic applications that implement generic functionalities related to a flight management of the aircraft. The supplementary module may include supplementary applications that implement supplementary functionalities specific to an entity to which the aircraft belongs. The supplementary module may be divided into principal and auxiliary partitions (or entities), and the supplementary applications, also referred to as principal applications, may be implemented in the principal partition. One or more auxiliary applications may be implemented in the auxiliary partition. Each auxiliary application may be associated with one or more principal applications such that the execution of the principal application requires the associated auxiliary application to be executed.
US09709974B2	Open numeric control system with real time kernel and a real-time control method of a tool path The present invention discloses a real-time kernel of open CNC systems and a real-time control method of tool-paths. The real-time kernel translates a real-time control of the tool-paths into sending synchronous pulses into the servo drivers in accordance with the control rhythms Δti (i=1, . . . , n) in the follow-table and achieves the openness of real-time control method and real-time control process. The real-time kernel has the most simple and reliable multi-axis synchronization capability with high-speed and high-precision, and leads to major changes in the field of digital control method. The real-time kernel no need to configure a real-time operating system and a fieldbus, its core function is only to write the control rhythm into the T-division timer, and to send linkage commands into the servo drivers designated by the state-word, therefore its function and architecture are extremely simple and high reliability.
US09709967B2	Method and device for creating a data-based function model A method for generating a data-based function model includes: providing a first data-based partial model ascertained from a first training data record; providing at least one additional training data record; and performing the following steps for the at least one additional training data record: ascertaining a difference training data record having training data which correspond to the differences between the output values of the relevant additional training data record and the function value of the sum of the partial function values (ffirst_partial_model(x) fsecond_partial_model(x)) of the first data-based partial model and previously ascertained data-based partial model(s) at each of the measuring points of the relevant training data record; ascertaining an additional data-based partial model from the difference training data record; and forming a sum (f(x)) from the first and the additional data-based partial models.
US09709964B2	Genset power control in power systems A method includes determining an average set load corresponding to a plurality of gensets of a power system, generating a power error based on the determined average set load and a set load of a genset of the plurality, generating a first offset based on a function of the power error and a predetermined factor, determining a secondary offset, generating a final offset based on the first offset and the secondary offset, generating a final reference value based on a nominal reference and the final offset, and applying the final reference value to obtain proportional load sharing between the plurality of gensets.
US09709961B2	Radio controlled timepiece and method for controlling radio controlled timepiece The fixed-time reception control section carries out the reception process at first time to acquire first reception time data and compares the acquired first reception time data with the internal time. When a difference in time between the first reception time data and the internal time is greater than or equal to a first threshold, the fixed-time reception control section carries out the reception process at second time different from the first time to acquire second reception time data. The time correction section compares the acquired second reception time data with the internal time and corrects the internal time based on the second reception time data when a difference in time between the second reception time data and the internal time is smaller than a second threshold.
US09709956B1	Tactile switch for an electronic device Embodiments are directed to a watch having a touch-sensitive display and a switch assembly positioned along or within an enclosure. The switch assembly includes a shaft extending into an opening of the enclosure and is configured to receive rotational and translational input. A switch, positioned within the enclosure, is configured to detect the translational input. An optical sensor, positioned within the enclosure, is configured to detect the rotational input. The watch also includes a processor positioned within the enclosure and configured to modify a graphical output of the display. The graphical output may be responsive to various inputs, including a touch input provided at the display, the translational input provided at the switch assembly, and the rotational input provided at the switch assembly.
US09709934B2	Image forming apparatus that determines abnormality in signal wire An image forming apparatus includes a heating roller, a temperature sensor, a controller, a signal wire, and a first resistor. The temperature sensor detects the temperature of a heating roller. The controller has a processor. The signal wire transmits a signal of the temperature sensor to the controller (input terminal). The first resistor is disposed between an output terminal of the controller and the signal wire. The controller includes a voltage application unit, a voltage detection unit, and a determination unit. The voltage application unit applies a voltage to the output terminal. The voltage detection unit detects a voltage value of the input terminal. The determination unit determines whether or not an abnormality occurs in the signal wire, on the basis of the voltage value detected by the voltage detection unit.
US09709933B2	Heating device and image forming apparatus A heating device includes: a heater; and a power distribution controller. The heater heats a predetermined heating target. The power distribution controller controls supply of AC power to the heater. The power distribution controller performs power distribution to the heater in units of AC half wave, and controls the power supply to the heater in accordance with power distribution control patterns respectively corresponding to a first time period as a power distribution start period, a third time period as a power distribution stop period, and a second time period between the first time period and the third time period.
US09709925B2	Toner cartridge having a movable projection for providing installation feedback to an image forming device A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a toner reservoir. An outlet port faces downward on a front of the housing near a first side of the housing. A shutter is movable between a closed position blocking the outlet port and an open position unblocking the outlet port. A flag on the first side of the housing is movable between a first position and a second position. The flag extends outward sideways from the first side when the flag is in the second position. The flag is operatively connected to the shutter such that when the shutter moves from the closed position to the open position the flag moves from the first position to the second position to change a state of a sensor in the image forming device when the toner cartridge is installed in the image forming device.
US09709916B2	Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device (11) in the image forming apparatus (1) of the present invention includes a deflector (35, 37) deflecting a laser light scanning an image carrier (13) outputted from a light source (32Y, 32C, 32M, 32K); a first reflection mirror part (43Y, 43C, 43M, 43K) adjusting scanning curve of the laser light deflected by the deflector (35, 37); and a second reflection mirror part (44Y, 44C, 44M, 44K) arranged at a downstream side from the first reflection mirror part (43Y, 43C, 43M, 43K) in an optical path of the laser light to adjust scanning inclination of the laser light.
US09709915B2	Electrostatic ink compositions Herein is disclosed an electrostatic ink composition comprising: a) chargeable particles comprising a resin; b) a charge director comprising a sulfosuccinate salt of the general formula M′Am, wherein M′ is a metal, m is the valence of M′, and A is an ion of the general formula (I): (I) [R3—O—C(O)CH2CH(SO3)C(O)—O—R4]− wherein each of R3 and R4 is an alkyl group; and c) an optionally substituted naphthalene-sulfonate moiety. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electrostatic ink composition and a printed medium having printed thereon an electrostatic ink composition.
US09709913B2	Concentrating an ink composition Herein is disclosed a method for processing a liquid electrostatic ink composition, the method comprising: providing an initial liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising chargeable toner particles dispersed in a first liquid carrier, removing at least some of the liquid carrier from the initial liquid electrostatic ink composition using supercritical fluid extraction to provide a concentrated composition comprising the chargeable toner particles, adding a second liquid carrier to the concentrated composition to form a final liquid electrostatic ink composition. Also disclosed herein is a liquid electrostatic ink composition producible according to the method.
US09709910B2	Electrostatic latent image developing toner An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles. The toner particles each have a toner mother particle and first inorganic oxide particles disposed on a surface of the toner mother particle. The first inorganic oxide particles are contained in the electrostatic latent image developing toner in an amount of no less than 1.0% by mass and no greater than 2.0% by mass relative to mass of the toner mother particles. The toner mother particles have an average roundness of no less than 0.960. The first inorganic oxide particles have an average major axis diameter of no less than 500 nm and no greater than 3,000 nm, an average minor axis diameter of no less than 100 nm and no greater than 250 nm, and an aspect ratio of no less than 2 and no greater than 20.
US09709903B2	Overlay target geometry for measuring multiple pitches An overlay target for use in imaging based metrology is disclosed. The overlay target includes a plurality of target structures including three or more target structures, each target structure including a set of two or more pattern elements, wherein the target structures are configured to provide metrology information pertaining to different pitches, different coverage ratios, and linearity. Pattern elements may be separated from adjacent pattern elements by non-uniform distance; pattern elements may have non-uniform width; or pattern elements may be designed to demonstrate a specific offset as compared to pattern elements in a different layer.
US09709898B2	Amplification method for photoresist exposure in semiconductor chip manufacturing An electrical field is applied through an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist layer along a direction perpendicular to an interface between the EUV photoresist layer and an underlying layer. Secondary electrons and thermal electrons are accelerated along the direction of the electrical field, and travel with directionality before interacting with the photoresist material for a chemical reaction. The directionality increases the efficiency of electron photoacid capture, reducing the required EUV dose for exposure. Furthermore, this directionality reduces lateral diffusion of the secondary and thermal electrons, and thereby reduces blurring of the image and improves the image resolution of feature edges formed in the EUV photoresist layer. The electrical field may be generated by applying a direct current (DC) and/or alternating current (AC) bias voltage across an electrostatic chuck and a conductive plate placed over the EUV photoresist layer with a hole for passing the EUV radiation through.
US09709896B2	Illumination system for lithographic projection exposure step-and-scan apparatus Illumination system for a lithographic projection exposure step-and-scan apparatus comprising a light source, a pupil shaping unit, a field defining unit, a first lens array, a first slit array, a second lens array, a third lens array, a second slit array, a fourth lens array, a condenser lens, and a scanning drive unit sequentially arranged along the light beam propagation direction. The illumination system reduces requirements on lens processing, slit scanning speed, and slit scanning precision, therefore may be implemented more easily.
US09709895B2	Support elements for an optical element Support elements for an optical element and a method for supporting an optical element are disclosed. The disclosure can be used in connection with arbitrary optical apparatuses or optical imaging methods. In particular, the disclosure can be used in connection with the microlithography employed in the manufacture of microelectronic circuits.
US09709887B2	Photosensitive conductive film A photosensitive conductive film includes: a support film; and a photosensitive layer which is provided on the support film, wherein the photosensitive layer contains a plurality of conductive fibers, and an average value of the shortest distances between each of the conductive fibers and the surface at the side of the support film of the photosensitive layer is 0.1 to 50 nm.
US09709885B2	Photomask blank and method for manufacturing photomask blank A method for manufacturing a photomask blank having at least a silicon-containing inorganic film over a transparent substrate includes forming the silicon-containing inorganic film such that a surface has an oxygen concentration not less than 55 atomic percent and not more than 75 atomic percent, the silicon-containing inorganic film being an SiO film or an SiON film and serving as a hard mask film.
US09709871B2	Optical module and transmitting device An optical module includes an optical modulator that modulates light by using an electrical signal input from a first surface to a plurality of electrodes; and a flexible substrate that has a plurality of wiring patterns electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes, respectively, on the first surface. The optical modulator has a bulging part that bulges out from the first surface opposed to the flexible substrate toward the flexible substrate and is in contact with the flexible substrate.
US09709869B2	Electro-optic system configured to reduce a perceived color change An electro-optic system is provided that includes a front element having first and second surfaces, a rear element including third and fourth surfaces, wherein the front and rear elements are sealably bonded together in a spaced-apart relationship to define a chamber, and an electro-optic medium contained in the chamber, and the electro-optic medium is adapted to be in at least a high transmittance state and a low transmittance state. The electro-optic system further includes a display device in optical communication with the electro-optic element, the display device including at least one light source and is configured to emit at least a first primary and a second primary, the first and second primaries each having a first hue (hab) when viewed through the electro-optic element in approximately the high transmittance state and a second hue (hab′) when viewed through the electro-optic element in approximately the low transmittance state, wherein a change in the first and second hues (Δhab) for both first and second primaries is less than approximately 31 degrees.
US09709864B2	Array substrate and its manufacturing method and display device An array substrate and its manufacturing method, and a display device are disclosed, and the array substrate includes a black matrix (200) disposed on a base substrate (100) and has a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, the orthographic projection of the pattern of the black matrix (200) on the base substrate at least partially covers the gap between adjacent pixel units, and the surface of at least a portion of the black matrix (200) has a first concave-convex structure (A) capable of reflecting the light irradiated to the surface of the black matrix (200) in diffuse reflection. Because the first concave-convex structure (A) of the surface of the black matrix (200) has a diffuse reflection effect, the external light will be subjected to diffuse reflection when irradiated to the surface of the black matrix (200), thereby reducing the light intensity of the reflected light, enhancing the visibility of the area of each of the pixel units of the array substrate, and improving the display effect of picture.
US09709857B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device may include a substrate having a first substrate portion, a second substrate portion, and a third substrate portion positioned between the first substrate portion and the second substrate portion. The display device may further include a first roof layer and a second roof layer formed of the same material, spaced from each other, and respectively overlapping the first substrate portion and the second substrate portion. The display device may further include a transistor overlapping the third substrate portion. The display device may further include a liquid crystal set. The display device may further include a common electrode portion positioned between the first substrate portion and the liquid crystal set. The display device may further include a sub-pixel electrode positioned between the liquid crystal set and the first roof layer and electrically connected to the transistor.
US09709856B2	Display device and related manufacturing method A display device may include a substrate, a common electrode, a first subpixel electrode, a second subpixel electrode, a first liquid crystal layer, a second liquid crystal layer, and a wall member. The common electrode overlaps the substrate. The first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode are positioned between the substrate and the common electrode and are insulated from each other. The first liquid crystal layer is positioned between the first subpixel electrode and the common electrode. The second liquid crystal layer is positioned between the second subpixel electrode and the common electrode. The wall member is formed of an organic material, is positioned between the first liquid crystal layer and the second liquid crystal layer, partially overlaps the first subpixel electrode, and is as wide as or wider than the first subpixel electrode in a plan view of the display device.
US09709855B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a light blocking member disposed on one of the first substrate or the second substrate, where the light blocking member is disposed in a display area including a plurality of pixel areas, and the light blocking member includes a plurality of extensions having a predetermined plane shape; and a plurality of first spacers disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate and contacting an upper surface of a plurality of thin films disposed on the other of the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the extensions of the light blocking member includes a first extension and a second extension, and the first extension overlaps the first spacers, and the second extension does not overlap the first spacers.
US09709854B2	Liquid crystal display device A reliability of seal portion of a liquid crystal display device can be improved by the following structure. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate which includes a display region and a terminal part, and has an inorganic insulating film formed on an organic passivation film and an alignment film formed over the inorganic insulating film; a counter substrate, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate bonded together by a sealing material formed at a seal part surrounding the display region; and a liquid crystal sealed inside. At the seal part, a transparent conductive oxide film is formed between the inorganic insulating film and the alignment film. The transparent conductive oxide film exists inside an edge of the TFT substrate and hence, the edge of the TFT substrate is free of the transparent conductive oxide film.
US09709851B2	Image display apparatus for displaying a 3D image An image display apparatus includes a display panel displaying an image. A switching panel activates a lenticular lens during a three-dimensional mode and deactivate the lenticular lens in a two-dimensional mode by arranging liquid crystal molecules thereof. A pattern retarder is disposed between the display panel and the switching panel and includes a first retarder part converting light emanating from the display panel to a first circularly polarized light and a second retarder part converting the light emanating from the display panel to a second circularly polarized light. The switching panel includes first and second areas respectively corresponding to the first and second retarder parts, and the liquid crystal molecules are rotated in a first direction in the first area and a second direction in the second area.
US09709841B2	Liquid crystal display device Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which grayscale inversion when viewing a liquid crystal panel in an oblique direction is suppressed, thereby being excellent in viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel that includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, and a pair of polarization plates respectively arranged in the liquid crystal layer on a light incident side and a light emission side, an illumination device that is arranged on the light incident side of the liquid crystal panel and emits light toward the liquid crystal panel, and a light diffusion member that is arranged on the light emission side of the liquid crystal panel and causes light emitted from the liquid crystal panel to be diffused in an azimuthal direction viewed from a normal direction of the liquid crystal panel. When the total width of a polar angle when luminance is reduced to ⅓ of the maximum luminance in characteristics of polar angle luminance of the illumination device is referred to as a ⅓-total width, the ⅓-total width of the illumination device is equal to or greater than 60° in the azimuthal direction in which variations in luminance of the illumination device in a polar angle direction are the greatest.
US09709834B2	Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes: an image display panel; a backlight device; first and second liquid crystal prism elements each configured to change a deflection direction of emitted light according to a voltage applied thereto; a position detection section configured to detect a position of a user; and a control section configured to control the voltages applied to the liquid crystal prism elements, on the basis of information of the position of the user detected by the position detection section. Each liquid crystal prism element includes a pair of opposing substrates, a plurality of triangular prisms which have ridge lines extending in a first direction parallel to one side of the image display panel and are arranged between the pair of opposing substrates so as to be aligned along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a liquid crystal sealed between the opposing substrates.
US09709832B2	Electro-optical single crystal element, method for the preparation thereof, and systems employing the same The present invention relates to an Electro-Optical (E-O) crystal elements, their applications and the processes for the preparation thereof. More specifically, the present invention relates to the E-O crystal elements (which can be made from doped or un-doped PMN-PT, PIN-PMN-PT or PZN-PT ferroelectric crystals) showing super-high linear E-O coefficient γc, e.g., transverse effective linear E-O coefficient γTc more than 1100 pm/V and longitudinal effective linear E-O coefficient γlc up to 527 pm/V, which results in a very low half-wavelength voltage Vlπ below 200V and VTπ below about 87V in a wide number of modulation, communication, laser, and industrial uses.
US09709830B2	Phase modulation device and method of controlling the device A phase modulation device including a diode-type phase modulator having a pair of side terminals connected to two sides of an optical waveguide core along an optical axis of the optical waveguide core, and a control unit that controls electrical signals to be input to the phase modulator, the side terminal of the phase modulator being divided into a plurality of portions along the optical axis of the optical waveguide core, the phase modulator having electrodes 15 respectively provided on the divided side terminals and electrically separated from each other, the control unit having switches and constant-current sources connected to the electrodes of the side terminals and controls stepwise the amount of change in phase of propagating light in the optical waveguide core according to the number of the switches turned on.
US09709828B2	Athletics visual aid focus device An athletics visual aid focus device is disclosed. The athletics visual aid focus device providing horizontal tunnel vision may be worn by athletes to block out peripheral visual distractions. The athletics visual aid focus device may include upper and lower opaque regions disposed to block out peripheral vision along horizontal planes above and below the user's eyes and may provide a lower transparent region allowing the user to position his feet without head movement.
US09709822B2	Orthokeratology lens with displaced shaping zone A contact lens for application in practice of orthokeratology on an eye, including a curved shell having a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave surface includes a carrier zone and a back shaping zone, the back shaping zone having a first curvature and the carrier zone having at least one second curvature. The curved shell has a geometric center and the back shaping zone has a shaping zone center and the back shaping zone center is offset peripherally from the geometric center. The curved shell can have an overall diameter that approximates a corneal limbal diameter of the eye to which the contact lens is to be applied.
US09709814B2	Multilayer display apparatus A multilayer display apparatus included in an in-vehicle system includes a stereoscopic vision display device formed by a 3D display unit and a 3D display control unit that display a three-dimensional image utilizing the principle of binocular disparity, a two-dimensional display device formed by a 2D display unit and a 2D display control unit that display a two-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display face, and a half-silvered mirror. The position of the two-dimensional display face is set within a predetermine range of the position of the screen of the stereoscopic vision display device by using the half-silvered mirror.
US09709811B2	System and method for separation of pump light and collected light in a laser pumped light source A system for separating plasma pumping light and collected broadband light includes a pump source configured to generate pumping illumination including at least a first wavelength, a gas containment element for containing a volume of gas, a collector configured to focus the pumping illumination from the pumping source into the volume of gas to generate a plasma within the volume of gas, wherein the plasma emits broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength and an illumination separation prism element positioned between a reflective surface of the collector and the pump source and arranged to spatially separate the pumping illumination including the first wavelength and the emitted broadband radiation including at least a second wavelength emitted from the plasma.
US09709804B2	Lens, light scanning unit, and electrophotography type image forming apparatus A lens, a light scanning unit, and an electrophotography type image forming apparatus includes effective optical surfaces, wherein reference indicating portions to measure a decenter of the lens are arranged on the effective optical surfaces.
US09709800B2	Electro-optical device, manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus In an electro-optical device, a mirror and the like which is formed on an element substrate is sealed using a sealing member. The sealing member is provided with a frame section and a coyer section. In addition, the sealing member is provided on one face of the element substrate so that the mirror is surrounded by the element substrate and the sealing member and such that the mirror is positioned between a portion of the cover section and the element substrate. The sealing member is formed of a light-transmitting member having a frame section and a cover section which are integrally formed, and there is no interface between the frame section and the cover section.
US09709799B2	Electrowetting display panel, fabrication method thereof and display apparatus comprising the same The invention relates to the field of display technique, particularly relates to an electrowetting display panel, a fabrication method thereof and a display apparatus comprising the same. The electrowetting display panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed opposite to each other, wherein the first substrate, the second substrate and the space therebetween are divided into a plurality of sub-pixel areas, and a baffle wall is disposed in the gap area between each two adjacent sub-pixel areas, characterized in that the baffle wall is formed from a material having both a hydrophilic group and a hydrophobic group. The electrowetting display panel has a simpler structure, the baffle wall thereof has a superior adhesiveness, and there is no necessary to form a hole in the hydrophobic dielectric layer to enhance the adhesiveness of the baffle wall during fabrication, such that the fabrication process is simplified.
US09709795B2	Optical coupler for optical imaging visualization device An optical coupler for mounting at a distal end of an optical imaging device includes a visualization section and an attachment section. At least one surface of the visualization section has a roughness that does not interfere with a video capture system of an optical imaging device.
US09709792B2	Helmet mount with integral binocular bridge A helmet mount for attaching a viewing device to a helmet includes a helmet interface assembly removably attachable to the helmet. A pivot arm is attached to the helmet interface assembly and is pivotal about a horizontal, transverse axis. A carriage member is carried on the pivot arm and slidable between the distal end and the proximal end of the pivot arm. The carriage member includes a bridge member integral therewith, the bridge member including a first fastener configured to removably attach a first viewing device and a second fastener configured to attach a second viewing device.
US09709791B2	Systems and methods for imaging tissue Method and system for imaging tissue, including (i) causing a macroscopic image of a tissue surface to be displayed on a visual display; (ii) receiving a selection of at least one portion of the macroscopic image; (iii) causing a plurality of confocal images captured by a confocal imager at different depths in a portion of the tissue to be displayed; (iv) receiving a selection of at least one target depth image; and (v) for each selected target depth image, instructing the confocal imager to capture a plurality of additional images at different locations and at a common depth with the target depth image. A system for imaging tissue having a macroscopic display module; a first selection module; a confocal display module; a second selection module; and an instruction module for instructing a confocal imager to capture a plurality of images at different locations over a selected region of the tissue.
US09709790B2	Immersion microscope objective and microscope using the same An immersion microscope objective includes, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, wherein the first lens group has a positive refractive power and includes a first cemented lens disposed nearest to the object side in the first lens group, the second lens group includes a second cemented lens, the third lens group includes a lens component that has a positive refractive power and changes a divergent light beam incident from the second lens group to a convergent light beam, two lens components that change the convergent light beam to a divergent light beam, and a lens component that has a positive refractive power and changes the divergent light beam to a parallel light beam and emits the parallel light beam, and the following conditional expressions (1) is satisfied: 60 mm2≦d0×f×NAo≦500 mm2 (1).
US09709787B2	Microscopy instruments with beam splitting system including optical filters and mirrors Microscopy instruments with detectors located on one side of the instruments are disclosed. The microscopy instruments include a splitting system and an array of detectors disposed on one side of the instrument. A beam composed of two or more separate emission channels is separated by the splitting system into two or more beams that travel along separate paths so that each beam reaches a different detector in the array of detectors. Each beam is a different emission channel and the beams are substantially parallel.
US09709777B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, wherein at least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force, the fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point, and wherein the lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses whereby the optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US09709776B2	Image capturing lens system, image capturing apparatus and electronic device An image capturing lens system, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element; a fourth lens element; a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having at least one of an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric and having at least one inflection point thereof; and a sixth lens element with positive refractive power having both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being convex thereof and at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof being aspheric; wherein the image capturing lens system has a total of six lens elements.
US09709772B2	Optical image capturing system A three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, include a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US09709771B2	Light concentrator alignment system The disclosure generally relates to concentrating daylight collectors and in particular to a light concentrator alignment system that can detect and correct for misalignment of the solar concentrator. The present disclosure generally relates to concentrating daylight collectors that can be used for illuminating interior spaces of a building with sunlight, and in particular to a light concentrator alignment system that can detect and correct for misalignment of the solar concentrator.
US09709763B2	Pluggable connector In an embodiment, a pluggable connector configured to removably couple an end of an optical cable to an optoelectronic module includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is configured to engage a latch slot of the optoelectronic module to retain within the optoelectronic module a ferrule optically coupled to optical fibers of the optical cable. The second portion is configured to engage the ferrule to prevent removal of the ferrule from within the optoelectronic module when the first portion engages the latch slot.
US09709762B2	Retention member for positioning optical module A retention member (100) includes a seat (1), a locking member (2) and a protecting member (22) assembled on the seat (1), the locking member (2) has a body portion (20), the protecting member (22) has a push portion (220) higher than the body portion (20) of the locking member (2), when the push portion (220) is rotated, the push portion (220) drives the locking member (2) to be rotated and to be released.
US09709748B2	Frontside coupled waveguide with backside optical connection using a curved spacer A method of manufacturing a device includes forming an optical coupler having a first end contacting a front side of a semiconductor substrate and a second end contacting an optical waveguide on an insulator layer on the substrate. The optical coupler is curved between the first end and the second end. The optical coupler is configured to change a direction of travel of light from a first direction at the first end to a second direction at the second end.
US09709746B2	Micro-filter structures for wavelength division multiplexing in polymer waveguides A wavelength division multiplexing filter and methods of forming the same include an optical dielectric filter formed on a substrate and having a plurality of dielectric layers. The optical dielectric filter has a high reflectivity at a first wavelength and a high transmissivity at one or more additional wavelengths. The substrate has a high thermal tolerance, such that the substrate is not damaged by temperatures at which the plurality of dielectric layers are formed.
US09709739B1	Integrated photonic device with improved compactness A coupling module includes optical couplers that are coupled to waveguides. The optical couplers are configured to couple to cores of a multi-core optical fiber. The waveguides each include an external part extending from the module and an internal part extending into the module for connecting the external part to the associated optical coupler. The external part of some of the waveguides extends in a preferential direction, while the external part of others of the waveguides extends in a direction opposite to the preferential direction. The internal parts may include a curved portion configured for forming a turn-back.
US09709729B2	Multicore fiber with different-mode interaction section A multicore fiber 1 includes: a small diameter portion 33 in which a propagation constant of light of an x1-th order LP mode of the first core 11 (here, x1 is an integer of “2” or more and x or less, x is an integer of “2” or more) and a propagation constant of light of a y1-th order LP mode of the second core 12 (here, y1 is an integer of “1” or more and y or less other than x1, y is an integer of “1” or more) coincide with each other and a large diameter portion in which a propagation constant of light of each LP mode of the first core 11 and a propagation constant of light of each LP mode of the second core 12 are configured not to coincide with each other are arranged.
US09709711B1	Wavelength selective optical diffuser A wavelength-selective optical diffuser comprising a substrate of a first material having opposite first and second surfaces, wherein said first material is transparent to a first wavelength λS and a second wavelength λL, with λL>4λS; at least a first surface of said substrate having a surface relief such that a beam of light having the first wavelength λS is diffused, with a rms phase delay S>π/4, when traversing said substrate; and a beam of light having the second wavelength λL is minimally diffused, with a rms phase delay S<π/4, when traversing said substrate.
US09709708B2	Adjustable display optics A system can include a display configured to emit light rays; an adjustable-prescription optics overlay; and circuitry to adjust the adjustable-prescription optics overlay to a selected prescription to alter a focus of light rays emitted by at least a portion of the display. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09709706B2	Optical unit, imaging device, electronic apparatus, and master An optical unit having an antireflection function includes a wave surface having a wavelength equal to or shorter than a wavelength of visible light. The wave surface has a curved plane which curves in a recessed shape between an apex portion and a bottom portion of the wave surface. An inflection point of an area of a cross section obtained by cutting through the wave surface in a plane perpendicular to a direction of vibration of the wave surface is positioned toward the bottom portion of the wave surface from a center of the vibration.
US09709703B2	Ophthalmic lens material, ophthalmic lens, and method for making the same A method for making an ophthalmic lens includes following steps of mixing dopamine methacrylamide, a hydrophilic monomer, a cross-linking agent, and a photoinitiator to form a mixture; feeding the mixture into a mold and exposing the mixture to ultraviolet radiation, to cause the dopamine methacrylamide, the hydrophilic monomer, the photoinitiator, and the cross-linking agent to undergo a polymerization reaction. The disclosure also provides an ophthalmic lens made by above method, and an ophthalmic lens material making for the ophthalmic lens.
US09709696B2	Intensity-independent optical computing device An intensity-independent optical computing device and method for performing multivariate optical computing based on changes in polarization of the reflected and/or transmitted electromagnetic radiation to thereby determine sample characteristics.
US09709695B2	Sensor apparatus and hazard sensing system A sensor apparatus includes multiple pairs that each include a light emitting element and a light receiving element configured to receive light emitted from the light emitting element, and, in response to optical axes formed in a region between the light emitting elements and the light receiving elements entering a blocked state, senses a sensing target moving in the region. In an initial state, sensing is performed using a sensing optical axis composed of a portion of the optical axes, and when an optical axis of the sensing optical axis used in sensing in the initial state is blocked, the number of optical axes included in the sensing optical axis is increased so as to expand the sensing optical axis.
US09709693B2	Ranging measurement apparatus, methods, and systems A well ranging apparatus, systems, and methods which operate to detect and determine a relative distance and/or azimuthal direction of nearby target well conductors such as pipes, well casing, etc., from within a borehole of a drilling well. An electromagnetic signal receiver is rotated in a first borehole. During the rotating, an electromagnetic ranging signal is received at the electromagnetic signal receiver. The electromagnetic ranging signal originates from an electromagnetic source in the first borehole or a second borehole. A null in an Earth electromagnetic signal spectrum associated with a signal induced by the rotating within a magnetic field of the Earth is determined. The electromagnetic source to is set to operate at an excitation frequency that is selected based, at least in part, on the determined null.
US09709692B2	Method and apparatus for borehole wall resistivity imaging with full circumferential coverage A logging tool for performing resistivity measurements on the sidewall of a borehole in an earth formation is provided with a circumferential series of evenly-spaced measurement electrodes providing complete circumferential coverage of resistivity measurements. In one embodiment, the measurement electrodes are carried on a conductive pad circumferentially surrounding an elongate mandrel or tubular. The conductive pad is held at a voltage adapted to focus measurement current into the sidewall of the borehole. Preferably, the pad has dimensions relative to the measurement electrodes and a standoff distance between the measurement electrodes and said borehole wall to effectively focus the measurement current into the borehole wall. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the measurement electrodes are spaced apart by a distance that is less than the width of each measurement electrode, thereby ensuring full circumferential resolution.
US09709688B2	Deghosting using measurement data from seismic sensors Measurement data is received from first and second seismic sensors, where the first and second seismic sensors are oriented in opposite directions. Each of the first and second seismic sensors has a sensing element responsive to pressure and particle motion. The signals can be combined to remove the particle motion component of the measurement data and obtain pressure-only data. Alternatively, the signals can be combined to deghost the received measurement data.
US09709683B2	GNSS signal processing with known position for reconvergence Methods and apparatus provide for positioning of a rover antenna from GNSS data derived from multi-frequency signals and correction data derived from a network of reference stations. At each of a plurality of epochs, the GNSS data and correction data are used to estimate values defining a rover antenna position and a set of multi-frequency ambiguities. An ionospheric-free carrier-phase ambiguity per satellite is estimated based on a known rover antenna position. The estimated ionospheric-free carrier-phase ambiguity is combined with an estimated widelane ambiguity and with an estimated ionospheric-free ambiguity and with values defining the known rover antenna position to obtain values defining an aided rover antenna position and aided multi-frequency ambiguities.
US09709681B2	Digital beamforming for simultaneously mitigating weak and strong interference in a navigation system An adaptive cascaded electronic protection processing system for global navigation satellite system (GNSS) threat mitigation is provided. The system includes a precorrelation characterization component configured to provide at least one parameter characterizing a plurality of received signals. A correlator is configured to provide a plurality of correlation results, each representing one of the plurality of received signals. A spatial weight contribution component is configured to determine an optimal set of digital beam-forming weights via an optimization process according to the at least one parameter. A postcorrelation characterization component is configured to determine at least one constraint on the optimization process according to the plurality of correlation results.
US09709679B1	Building elevation maps from laser data Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to generating elevation maps. More specifically, data points may be collected by a laser moving along a roadway and used to generate an elevation map of the roadway. The collected data points may be projected onto a two dimensional or “2D” grid. The grid may include a plurality of cells, each cell of the grid representing a geolocated second of the roadway. The data points of each cell may be evaluated to identify an elevation for the particular cell. For example, the data points in a particular cell may be filtered in various ways including occlusion, interpolation from neighboring cells, etc. The minimum value of the remaining data points within each cell may then be used as the elevation for the particular cell, and the elevation of a plurality of cells may be used to generate an elevation map of the roadway.
US09709672B2	Method and system for identifying and finding a range of an object A method for identifying and ranging a wireless device, comprising: transmitting an original radar signal from a detecting system; in response to the original radar signal, receiving a modulated radar signal at the detecting system, the modulated radar signal being backscattered from an antenna of the wireless device and containing information pertaining to the wireless device, and the modulated radar signal being a frequency offset version of the original radar signal; and, using a processor at the detecting system, determining an identity and a range of the wireless device from the modulated radar signal.
US09709671B1	Electrosound camera Systems, devices and methods for obtaining or providing listening involve utilizing one or more electromagnetic signal (energy) detection-facilitated modulation sensing devices to sense audio frequency modulated signals received from or associated with one or more illuminated and/or luminous objects; and generating or providing a listening output of the sensing device(s), the listening output including signals and/or information indicating or providing a representation of a disturbance to an electromagnetic field or fields at or associated with at least one of said one or more objects, the disturbance being or including an audio frequency modulation of a signal from or associated with (e.g., received from) at least one of said one or more objects.
US09709660B1	Crowdsourced user density applications A method of using user density includes: producing a first map portion corresponding to a first region and a second map portion corresponding to a second region, the first map portion having a first resolution and the second map portion having a second resolution, the first resolution being lower than the second resolution, at least one of the first resolution being dependent on a user density of the first region or the second resolution being dependent on a user density of the second region; and sending the first map portion and the second map portion to a destination mobile device.
US09709655B2	Ultrasonic-wave communication system Provided is an ultrasonic-wave communication system where the influence of ambient noise and the Doppler effect are suppressed and where a user of a portable terminal is prevented from hearing unwanted sound. After performing encryption processing of predetermined information such as store information, a beacon 5 sends out predetermined-information-containing beacon information of one channel as ultrasonic waves into the salesroom 3 by combining a control carrier, a first carrier, and a second carrier in such a way that a first carrier signal and a second carrier signal are output between control carrier signals a number of times according to the predetermined information and that a state where the first carrier signal and/or the second carrier signal is output is maintained.
US09709654B2	Signal measurement systems and methods A measurement system and method for conducting measurements on a device-under-test (DUT). The system includes, in one embodiment, a passive impedance controlling tuner, and a signal transmission line, the tuner including a signal transmission line segment as at least part of the signal transmission line. A signal coupling device is coupled in a non-contacting relationship to the signal transmission line between a signal port of the DUT and the tuner for sampling signals propagating between the passive impedance controlling tuner and the DUT to allow measurement of an actual impedance presented to the DUT with the DUT in place in the measurement system during measurement of DUT characteristics. Measurement system equipment receives response signals from the signal coupler. The measurement system is configured to conduct measurement of DUT characteristics without pre-characterizing the impedance controlling tuner.
US09709653B2	Mapping eddy current fields in MRI system Eddy current fields in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system are mapped by acquiring MRI data from an object located in an imaging volume of the MRI system. An MRI data acquisition sequence is preceded by a pre-sequence including (a) a gradient magnetic field transition that stimulates eddy current fields in the MRI system, and (b) a spatial modulation grid tag module that sensitizes a spatially resolved MR image of the acquired MRI data to the stimulated eddy current fields that existed during the spatial modulation grid tag module. The eddy-sensitized MR image is processed to calculate a spatially resolved map of fields produced by the eddy currents.
US09709644B2	Black blood MRI using a stimulated echo pulse sequence with flow sensitization gradients A black blood magnetic resonance imaging sequence is performed using a magnetic resonance scanner. The sequence includes: applying a first flow sensitization gradient; applying a spoiler gradient after applying the first flow sensitization gradient; applying a second flow sensitization gradient after applying the spoiler gradient wherein the second flow sensitization gradient has area equal to the first flow sensitization gradient but of opposite polarity; applying a slice-selective radio frequency excitation pulse after applying the spoiler gradient; and performing a magnetic resonance readout after applying the second flow sensitization gradient and after applying the slice selective radio frequency excitation. The readout acquires magnetic resonance imaging data having blood signal suppression in the region excited by the slice-selective radio frequency excitation pulse. The magnetic resonance imaging data is suitably reconstructed to generate a black blood image that may be displayed.
US09709637B2	Light-emitting element failure detector and method for detecting light-emitting element failure A light emitting element circuit includes a light emitting element (1), a current supply path to the light emitting element (1), a constant current circuit (2) that supplies a current to the light emitting element (1) via the current supply path, and an electric discharge path that discharges an electric charge accumulated at the light emitting element (1) and at a region connected between the both electrodes when the constant current circuit (2) stops a current supply to the light emitting element (1). A light emitting element failure detector (4) that detects a short-circuit of the light emitting element (1) in a light emitting element circuit includes a current instantaneous interruption circuit (5), a voltage detector (60), and a determiner (62). The current instantaneous interruption circuit (5) is arranged on the current supply path different from the electric discharge path and instantaneously interrupts an electric current that the constant current circuit (2) supplies to the light emitting element (1). The voltage detector (60) obtains an output of a voltage Vf between the anode and cathode of the light emitting element (1) during a period of the instantaneous interruption as a measuring object. The determiner (62) determines the existence of a short-circuit from the output.
US09709633B2	Battery capacity display apparatus and battery capacity display method A battery capacity display method to display a full charge capacity of a battery and a residual capacity of the battery, respectively, as a full charge capacity display value and a residual capacity display value, the battery capacity display method includes: correcting the full charge capacity display value and/or the residual capacity display value so as to decrease a difference between the full charge capacity display value and the residual capacity display value when the battery is in the full charge state and the full charge capacity and the residual capacity in the full charge state are different from each other, and displaying a corrected full charge capacity display value and/or a corrected residual capacity display value.
US09709632B2	Method of estimating battery life, battery life estimation device, electric vehicle, and electric power supply apparatus A method of estimating a battery life includes: for a secondary battery having a degradation rate R when X days have elapsed after initial charge of the secondary battery, calculating a degradation estimation value (X+Y) days after the initial charge from degradation master data, the degradation master data being identified with use of conditions of temperature T provided for the calculation and a battery state S provided for the calculation; and deriving number of elapsed days Xcorr giving the degradation rate R based on the identified degradation master data, and calculating the degradation estimation value (Xcorr+Y) days after the initial charge from the identified degradation master data.
US09709627B2	Interposer with TAP, trigger, address/data bus, and analog monitor circuitry The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers to include embedded monitoring instruments for real time monitoring digital signals, analog signals, voltage signals and temperature sensors located in the interposer. An embedded monitor trigger unit controls the starting and stopping of the real time monitoring operations. The embedded monitoring instruments are accessible via an 1149.1 TAP interface on the interposer.
US09709625B2	Measuring power consumption in an integrated circuit A method for determining power consumption of a power domain within an integrated circuit is presented. In a first step, a local power supply impedance profile (Z(f)) of this power domain is determined. Subsequently, a local time-resolved power supply voltage (U(t)) is measured while a well-defined periodic activity is executed in power domain. A set of time-domain measured voltage data (U(t)) is thus accumulated and transformed into the frequency domain to yield a voltage spectrum (U(f)). A current spectrum I(t) is calculated from this voltage profile (U(f)) by using the power supply impedance profile Z(f) of this power domain as I(t)=Ff−1{U(f)/Z(f)}. Finally, a time-resolved power consumption spectrum P(t) is determined from measured voltage spectrum U(t)) and calculated current spectrum (I(t)). This power consumption (P(t)) may be compared with a reference (Pref(t)) to verify whether power consumption within power domain matches expectations.
US09709624B2	Automatic test system and method System and method of dividing a window according to trail are provided. The system and the method record the moving trail of an indicating signal and then divide the window according to the moving trail into two independent blocks to display the file separately. By completing the procedures, the system and the method enable a user to divide a window according to a user-defined direction, and therefore further enhance the contrast effect between different parts of a file.
US09709610B2	System comprising a probe and a measuring device The invention relates to a system comprising a probe and a measuring device, wherein the probe is connected to an input of the measuring device, and wherein an analog-digital converter is connected downstream of the input of the measuring device. The probe provides an analog-digital converter for the generation of a value-discrete and/or time-discrete signal from an analog input signal, wherein the value-discrete and/or time-discrete signal is supplied to the analog-digital converter of the measuring device. The invention further relates to a method for the registration of an analog signal by means of a system comprising a probe and a measuring device.
US09709601B2	Conducted type current probe A conducted type current probe is provided herein and comprises a plurality of first resistors, at least one second resistor, a first connective port, and a second connective port. The first resistors are connected in parallel to form a resistor with 1Ω resistance value, and the resistance value of the second resistor is 49Ω. The first resistors and the second resistor are connected. The first connective port is connected with a test end of a test Integrated Circuit (IC), and the second connective port is connected with a test receiver by a coaxial cable.
US09709599B2	Membrane probe card An apparatus includes a membrane film and a plurality of needle tips with cylinder shapes. The membrane film includes a plurality of signal traces. The needle tips are disposed on the membrane film and are electrically connected to the signal traces. The needle tips are configured to probe a device-under-test (DUT).
US09709592B2	Wheel speed sensor A wheel speed sensor capable of stabilizing a projecting posture of a sensor unit when attached to a vehicle is provided. The wheel speed sensor includes a mounting base providing a first contacting part and a second contacting part when attached to the vehicle to come into contact with the vehicle at two positions of the first contacting part and the second contacting part, the sensor unit projecting from a position between the first contacting part and the second contacting part and inclining toward the first contacting part, the sensor unit being resin molded integrally with the mounting base and including a signal detection device provided in a distal end of the sensor unit, and a fixing member pressing and fixing the mounting base to the vehicle at a position between the first contacting part and the sensor unit.
US09709587B2	Automatic analyzer and reagent processing method in automatic analyzer An automatic analyzer is capable of performing a preparation process on a reagent used to measure a highly urgent test item even during analysis operation, and is configured as follows. If there is no parameter for the analysis item regarding a new reagent, the parameters are downloaded. If the priority of reagent preparation is “high,” a sample pipetting scheduling process is temporarily stopped. If the priority of reagent preparation is not “high,” it is determined whether a waiting time limit has been exceeded, and if it has, the sample pipetting scheduling process is stopped temporarily, reagent preparation scheduling is performed, and the sample pipetting scheduling process is resumed. If it is determined that the waiting time limit has not been exceeded, if the priority of reagent preparation is “medium,” and if the reagent preparation mechanism is found available, then reagent preparation scheduling is performed.
US09709579B2	Microfluidic flow assay and methods of use A microfluidic-based flow assay and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. Specifically, the microfluidic flow assay includes a substrate surface comprising lipid coated particles and microfluidic channels through which a blood product can flow. The lipid coated particles comprise functional molecules that can induce or inhibit the coagulation cascade.
US09709576B2	Histamine releaser contained in human sweat Provided are a sweat allergy antigen, an antibody capable of binding to the antigen specifically, and others, which are produced utilizing a microorganism-originated protein that exists in sweat allergy patient in a dissolved state or a partial peptide of the protein.
US09709575B2	Methods and products for evaluating an immune response to a therapeutic protein The invention relates to methods and products for the identification of a clinically significant immune response in subjects treated with a therapeutic protein. A first aspect of the invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying a clinically significant immune response in patients treated with therapeutic amounts of VLA4 binding antibody (e.g., natalizumab). A second aspect of the invention concerns the chronological details of sample collection for determining the titer of antibodies against the therapeutic protein, e.g. the collection of at least two samples at two different time points. A third aspect of the invention relates to the selection of the critical threshold level, which corresponds to the antibody titer of untreated patients increased by the double of the standard deviation of this control antibody titer.
US09709574B2	Human monoclonal antibodies and methods for producing the same The present invention provides for methods of producing human monoclonal antibodies against a wide variety of antigens including bacterial and viral antigens, as well as tumor antigens, and various autoantigens. Also provided are the antibodies themselves, nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, cells producing such antibodies, and methods of using such antibodies for diagnostic assays and passive immunity against disease states such as infection and cancer.
US09709572B2	Fluorescence detection of cysteine and homocysteine Embodiments of probes for selectively detecting compounds having a thiol group and an amino group, e.g., cysteine and/or homocysteine, are disclosed, along with methods and kits for detecting the compounds in neutral media with the probes. The probes have a structure according to the general formula where R1-R4 independently are hydrogen hydroxyl, halogen, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy, x is an integer from 0 to 4, and each R5 independently is halogen, hydroxyl, thiol, thioether, lower aliphatic, or lower alkoxy. Embodiments of the disclosed probes are capable of undergoing condensation/cyclization reactions with cysteine and/or homocysteine. Cysteine and/or homocysteine can be selectively detected and identified by determining fluorescence emission of the probes at characteristic wavelengths.
US09709565B2	Signatures and determinants for distinguishing between a bacterial and viral infection and methods of use thereof The present invention provides methods of detecting infection using biomarkers. The methods disclosed herein include measuring the expression level of one of more polypeptide determinant in which the alteration of the expression level indicates infection of the patient in a sample of the subject and determining a clinically significant alteration in the level of the one or more polypeptides in the sample, wherein the alteration indicates an infection in the subject. The methods provided herein are for distinguishing between bacterial infection, mixed infection and/or viral infection.
US09709551B2	Method for determining the sensitivity of an individual to low dose ionizing radiation The present invention relates to the innovation that ECFCs are a predictor of the likely result to the exposure of a patient to low dose ionizing radiation by comparing the results of exposure of cells to individuals already exposed to ECFCs.
US09709549B2	Systems and methods for processing complex biological materials Method and systems, for processing biological material, that contain a biological material in a vessel; add an aggregating agent to the material in the vessel and allow the material to separate into two or more distinct submaterials; extract one or more of the submaterials from the vessel; automatically transport one or more of the submaterials remaining in the vessel to a filtration device; and collect a resulting target retentate into a target retentate receptacle.
US09709543B2	Method and apparatus for determining NOx content in an exhaust gas feedstream of an internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine is described in conjunction with a method for dynamically determining a mass flow rate of nitrogen oxides (NOx) for its exhaust gas feedstream. The method includes determining a present engine operating point and determining a reference NOx content for a reference engine operating point. A combustion chemical reaction rate is determined based upon the present engine operating point and the reference engine operating point. A NOx content in the exhaust gas feedstream is dynamically determined during operation of the internal combustion engine based upon the reference NOx content, the combustion chemical reaction rate and a combustion mixing rate constant.
US09709530B2	Fast-switching dual-polarity ion mobility spectrometry Systems and methods disclosed provide for methods of managing polarity switching in an ion mobility spectrometer, and provide for management of the repelling grid voltage, the gating grid voltage, and the fixed grid voltage during polarity switching. Systems and methods also provide for the management of the effect of dielectric relaxation in an insulator proximal to the collector, and provide for a preamplifier coupled to the collector including a switch, and a method of managing the collector output including the switch. Systems and methods consistent with the current disclosure further provide for a method of normalizing ion mobility data by determining fitting coefficients associated with a plurality of measurement data sets, and subtracting the curves determined by the fitting coefficients from the data acquired by the ion mobility spectrometer.
US09709529B2	Method and device for in vivo desorption ionization of biological tissue The invention relates to method and apparatus for production of gaseous ions from components of a condensed phase sample and analysis thereof, wherein one or more liquid jet(s) is/are directed to the surface of the sample to be investigated, where the impact of the liquid jet on the sample surface produces droplets carrying sample particles which are turned into gaseous ions via the evaporation of liquid or, if desired, by a subsequent ionization after the evaporation and the obtained sample particles are analyzed by a known method.
US09709522B2	Solid electrolyte gas sensor element and gas sensor A gas sensor element includes: a solid electrolyte body; a target gas chamber; a reference gas chamber; a first electrode coming into contact with the solid electrolyte in the target gas chamber; a second electrode coming into contact with the solid electrolyte body in the reference gas chamber so as to hold the solid electrolyte body between the first electrode and the second electrode; a diffusion layer arranged to come into contact with the solid electrolyte body and configured to deliver the target gas to the target gas chamber; and a shielding layer arranged to come into contact with the diffusion layer so as to arrange the diffusion layer between the solid electrolyte body and the shielding layer. At least one of the solid electrolyte body and the shielding layer is provided with a concave section depressed from an interface side with the diffusion layer.
US09709519B2	Measuring device and methods for use therewith The ability to switch at will between amperometric measurements and potentiometric measurements provides great flexibility in performing analyses of unknowns. Apparatus and methods can provide such switching to collect data from an electrochemical cell. The cell may contain a reagent disposed to measure glucose in human blood.
US09709516B2	Impedance-based bacterial detection system A method and apparatus for determining the presence or absence of microorganisms in a liquid sample. A vessel with an electrode disposed therein receives a volume of liquid to be tested. A second electrode is also provided, both electrodes in physical contact with the liquid sample. A time varying signal is applied to one electrode, and the other electrode is coupled to a phase sensitive signal detector. The phase sensitive signal detector determines a frequency at which an out of phase signal amplitude is zero. This zero-crossing frequency is used as a baseline, and changes in the zero-crossing frequency are an indication of microbial growth.
US09709513B2	System and method for measuring an object using X-ray projections An apparatus and method of measuring an object (having at least two edges) projects a plurality of x-ray images of the object. At least two of the plurality of x-ray images are projected from different directions relative to the object. The apparatus and method also locate the at least two edges in the x-ray images, and ray trace a plurality of lines. Each ray traced line is tangent to at least one point on at least one of the located edges. Next, the apparatus and method reconstruct at least a partial wireframe model of the object from the tangent points of the ray traced lines. The wireframe model includes the at least two edges. Finally, the apparatus and method measure between the at least two edges of the at least partial wireframe model.
US09709509B1	System configured for integrated communication, MEMS, Processor, and applications using a foundry compatible semiconductor process A sensor processor system is provided on a platform including a semiconductor substrate. The system has multiple integrated subsystems including a micro controller unit provided on one or more first regions of the semiconductor substrate. The subsystems also include an array of programmable memory provided on one or more second regions of the semiconductor substrate, among other elements. The subsystems also include one or more MEMS devices operably coupled to the micro controller unit. In one or more embodiments, an application processor is coupled to the semiconductor substrate and, optionally, a baseband processor is coupled to the semiconductor substrate.
US09709506B2	Substrate damage inspection apparatus, production system and inspection method The present invention relates to the technical field of display, and particularly relates to a substrate damage inspection apparatus, a production system and an inspection method. The substrate damage inspection apparatus comprises a drive unit, support rods, sensors and a controller, wherein the drive unit is connected with the support rods so as to drive the support rods to ascend or descend below a substrate to be detected; and the sensors are disposed on the support rods and communicatively connect with the controller, so as to emit light beams to the substrate to be detected, receive the light beams reflected by the substrate to be detected, and feed them back to the controller. By means of the drive unit and the support rods with the sensors, the substrate damage inspection apparatus realizes damage inspection for the substrate to be detected in a vertical direction. That is, a technical solution provided by the present invention allows for damage inspection for the substrate to be detected when it vertically moves. In addition, the substrate damage inspection apparatus is simple in structure and convenient to operate, thereby having strong utility value and significance of generalization.
US09709504B2	Optical sensor unit for evanescence wave spectroscopy Optical sensor unit for infra red evanescence wave spectroscopy (IR-EWS) analysis of chemical and biological substances in an analyte, comprising a waveguide with a sensor surface to be put into contact with the analyte, wherein the sensor surface is provided with an affinity enhancing layer. There is further provided a method of producing an optical sensor unit.
US09709498B2	Gas-sensor arrangement for detecting target-gas concentration A gas-sensor arrangement for measuring a target-gas concentration has first and second NDIR emitters to one side of a space containing the target gas and projecting respective first and second beams of infrared light through the space. An it receiver on the other side of the space and irradiated by the first and second beams for emitting first and second outputs respectively corresponding to the first and second beams and together forming a receiver signal corresponding to radiation received from the first and second beams. One of the emitters is optically farther from the receiver than the other of the emitters. A filter between the receiver and the space is traversed by the first and second beams and permeable only to radiation of a wavelength range corresponding to the target gas. A controller connected to the radiation receiver calculates the target-gas concentration on the basis of the receiver signal.
US09709491B1	System and method for measuring aerosol or trace species Embodiments of the present invention relates to a system for measuring trace species in a sample gas. The present invention uses an open-path configuration including an optical cell with mirrors at each end, a long slotted rod with holes in the end for an optical bean to pass through, and a slotted tube surrounding the slotted rod such that air can pass through the rod in a transverse direction when the slots are aligned. Embodiments of the present invention further includes a flow configuration for purging sample gas from the optical cell, and cleaning mirrors, with calibrated or zero air through inlets in front of each mirror.
US09709479B2	Method and apparatus for tracking cell identity A method of tracking cell identity across analytical platforms uses stochastic barcoding (SB). SB uses a randomly generated code based on one or more of the number, color and position of beads encapsulated together with a set of cells of interest. SB use is demonstrated in an application where cells are transferred from a microwell array into a microtiter plate while keeping their identity, and obtained an average identification accuracy of 96% for transfer of 100 blocks. Model scaling of the method up to 1000 blocks demonstrated that SB is able to achieve approximately 90% accuracy.
US09709472B2	Fluxer having a modular electrically powered furnace A fluxer includes a single, wide furnace enclosure that is sufficiently large and prewired to accommodate multiple fusion positions. The furnace includes at least one movable insulated partition that defines the actual insulated volume of the furnace.
US09709470B2	On-demand vapour generator An on-demand vapor generator includes a vapor chamber configured to produce a vapor and a vapor absorption assembly configured to receive flows of vapor from the vapor chamber. The vapor absorption assembly includes a first vapor-permeable passage having a passage outlet and at least one second vapor-permeable passage that is closed. When vapor absorption assembly receives a flow of vapor from the vapor chamber, the flow of vapor passes through the first vapor-permeable passage to the passage outlet at least substantially without absorption of vapor from the flow of vapor. However, when a flow of vapor is not received from the vapor chamber, vapor entering the vapor absorption assembly from the vapor chamber passes into the first vapor-permeable passage and the at least one second vapor-permeable passage and is at least substantially absorbed.
US09709466B2	Systems and methods for ignition source testing with flammable foam Systems and methods for ignition source testing with a flammable foam are disclosed. Flammable foam systems and methods for testing use a flammable foam that includes fuel and oxidant. Flammable foam is applied to a test article and an energy discharge is applied to the test article. Methods include determining whether the flammable foam ignited in response to the energy discharge.
US09709464B2	Drum for simulating road surfaces The present invention provides a drum of a wheel tester, which is characterized in that an outer surface of the drum has cyclic corrugations parallel to a cross section of the drum, wherein the cyclic corrugation in one cycle on the outer surface is composed of a concave arc and a convex arc, both of which are tangential in ends and equal in diameter, and one cycle is 30 to 50 mm in length and 1 to 1.5 mm in depth. The drum is easy to machine, reduced in cost, increased in friction force and suitable for simulating various road surfaces.
US09709460B2	Method and system for measuring an optical loss value of an optical fiber link The reflectometric method for measuring an optical loss value of an optical fiber link generally comprises: obtaining at least one bias value being indicative of a bias induced by differing backscattering characteristics of a first optical fiber length and a second optical fiber length; propagating at least one test signal serially into the first optical fiber length, the optical fiber link and the second optical fiber length; monitoring at least one return signal resulting respectively from the propagation of the at least one test signal; and determining the optical loss value based on the at least one return signal and the at least one bias value.
US09709450B2	Apparatus and method for eliminating varying pressure fluctuations in a pressure transducer A differential pressure transducer employing a coiled tube to eliminate varying pressure fluctuations is provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at an inlet tube of a dampening chamber, a main pressure, wherein the main pressure includes a static pressure component and a dynamic pressure component; filtering, by the inlet tube, at least a portion of the dynamic pressure component of the main pressure; outputting, from the inlet tube, a first filtered main pressure; receiving, at a volume cavity of the dampening chamber, the first filtered main pressure, wherein the volume cavity is operatively coupled to the inlet tube; filtering, by the volume cavity, at least a portion of the dynamic pressure component of the first filtered main pressure; outputting, from the volume cavity, a second filtered main pressure; and wherein the dampening chamber is tuned to a predetermined resonance frequency.
US09709429B2	MEMS based membrane sensor system and method of use A MEMS sensor system for monitoring membrane elements in a membrane based water filtration plant having a remote telemetry unit (RTU), a SCADA, and a plurality of MEMS sensors for measuring pressure, flow rate. and conductivity. The water filtration plant has a train with a membrane vessel containing a plurality of membrane elements arranged in series creating interfaces between each membrane element. The MEMS sensors are located at the membrane element interfaces. A method of monitoring membrane elements in a membrane based water filtration plant using a plurality of MEMS sensors for measuring pressure, flow rate. and conductivity placed at the filtration plant membrane element interfaces.
US09709417B1	Proactive re-routing of vehicles using passive monitoring of occupant frustration level Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles based on an analysis of input component data obtained from the navigation-enabled devices. The navigation system scores the input component data to obtain a measure of frustration (e.g., a feeling of being upset or annoyed) of the user of the navigation-enabled device. The navigation system may provide a detour suggestion for display on the navigation-enabled device to persuade the user of the device to direct their vehicle to depart from its current location or route in an effort to remove the vehicle from traffic, and thereby reduce the frustration level of the user. The detour suggestion may include an alternative route to the original destination, or an alternative destination.
US09709415B2	Transportation routing A computer-implemented method of providing personalized route information involves gathering a plurality of past location indicators over time for a wireless client device, determining a future driving objective using the plurality of previously-gathered location indicators, obtaining real-time traffic data for an area proximate to the determined driving objective, and generating a suggested route for the driving objective using the near real-time traffic data.
US09709413B2	Directions based on predicted future travel conditions A device is configured to receive a request for directions from a user device. The device determines a start time, a start location, and a destination location for the directions. The device determines a route from the start location to the destination location and obtains travel condition information corresponding to the route. The travel condition information indicates a traffic condition or a weather condition. The device predicts a future travel condition along the route based on the travel condition information and the start time. The device generates the directions based on the future travel condition and provides the directions to the user device.
US09709405B2	Methods for attitude and heading reference system to mitigate vehicle acceleration effects An attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for a vehicle is provided along with methods for mitigating vehicle acceleration effects in the AHRS. The AHRS comprises an inertial measurement unit configured to generate inertial measurements from at least one accelerometer and at least one gyroscope, a heading source configured to generate heading measurements, and an adaptive statistical filter configured to mitigate the impact of vehicle acceleration effects on attitude and heading.
US09709400B2	System, apparatus, and method for resonator and coriolis axis control in vibratory gyroscopes A gyroscope control circuit for a vibratory gyroscope system includes an open-loop RSP control circuit and a closed-loop CSP control circuit. The gyroscope control circuit optionally may include a Q compensation circuit to compensate for variations in gyroscope sensitivity due to variations in resonator signal path Q. The resonator signal path and the Coriolis signal path may have transduction factors that are proportional to each other such that sensitivity of the gyroscope varies directly with resonator signal path quality factor (Q).
US09709399B2	Approach for control redistribution of coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG) for performance improvement Provided herein is a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (“CVG”). The CVG includes a first plurality of actuators electrically coupled to the vibratory member and arranged about a drive axis of the CVG and operable to obtain a control signal from the controller and provide a voltage sufficient to cause and maintain the vibratory member to vibrate in a first mode of oscillation; a second plurality of actuators electrically coupled to the vibratory member and arranged about a sense axis of the CVG and operable to detect a voltage based on a second mode of oscillation of the vibratory member caused by a rotation of the CVG about an axis of rotation and to provide a counter-balancing signal sufficient to null the voltage based on the second mode of oscillation, wherein the controller is operable to determine a rate of the rotation of the CVG based, in part, on the counter-balancing signal.
US09709396B2	Air deployable ocean drifter buoy An air deployable drifter buoy assembly is provided. The air deployable drifter buoy assembly includes an air deployment tube in compliance with NATO A-Size packaging specifications and a foldable drifter buoy. In a first mode of operation the foldable drifter buoy is accommodated in the air deployment tube in a folded manner and in a second mode of operation the foldable drifter buoy is deployed in an unfolded manner with the foldable drifter buoy being in compliance with Davis CODE Drifter specifications.
US09709389B2	Apparatus and method for measuring the sloshing in the cargo tank of a liquefied natural gas carrier An apparatus and method for measuring the sloshing in the cargo tank of a liquefied natural gas carrier is provided. The apparatus includes: a plate-shaped floating mat coupler which floats on the surface of the liquefied natural gas contained in the cargo tank of a liquefied natural gas carrier and moves in accordance with the movement of the liquefied natural gas; and an optical sensor measuring acceleration using optical sensor technology to measure acceleration when the floating mat coupler floats by being inserted in one or more positions in the floating mat coupler. The characteristics of the movement occurring in accordance with the sloshing of the liquefied natural gas in the cargo tank of a liquefied natural gas carrier, and the shock and deformation which the inner wall of the cargo tank is subjected to because of such movement, are measured at multiple angles.
US09709388B2	Optical inner surface measuring device Higher-precision measurement is achieved by an optical inner surface measuring device configured to cause a probe to enter into the inner peripheral surface or deep hole of a target object, capture and observe reflection light from the inner surface in a three-dimensional manner, and measure the accuracy of the target object. In a structure including an optical fiber built into a tube, a light path conversion unit arranged at a leading end side of the optical fiber, and a motor configured to rotationally drive the light path conversion unit, a unit for measuring the amount of runout of a rotation shaft unit of the motor is provided. Shape data on the inner peripheral surface of a target object is obtained by calculating at a computer reflection light from the target object, and is modified by displacement amount data from a displacement measurement unit to realize high-precision measurement with no measurement error resulting from runout and rotational vibration of the rotation shaft of the motor.
US09709385B2	Detection device and detection method The present invention provides a detection device and a detection method. The detection device comprises a light source module, a receiving module, an image generation module and a judgment module, wherein the light source module is configured to emit light towards a film at a predetermined angle, the receiving module is configured to receive interference light formed by first reflected light reflected by an upper surface of the film and second reflected light reflected by a lower surface of the film, the image generation module is configured to generate an interference fringe image according to the interference light, and the judgment module is configured to judge whether thickness of the film is uniform according to the interference fringe image. The detection device can perform high accuracy detection on uniformity of the thickness of a film, thereby facilitating improving display quality of a display panel.
US09709384B2	Device for monitoring fouling deposits in a pulverized coal furnace A method of direct on-line measurement of thickness of fouling deposits created on the tube walls in a pulverized-coal firing furnace is described, as well as an apparatus suitable for implementation of the method. The method is based on imaging of a light spot, generated on the deposit surface by the apparatus. A position-sensitive image detector is used to track the spot as deposits accumulate, and the image signal is processed in real time, which allows for monitoring the creation of fouling deposits during operation of the furnace. The system simultaneously determines the reflectivity of the deposit surface. The apparatus can be used as part of an automatic soot blowing system.
US09709382B2	Light source apparatus and information acquisition apparatus including the same One or more light source apparatuses, one or more information acquisition apparatuses and related method(s) are discussed herein. At least one embodiment of a light source apparatus includes a light source that generates first pulsed light and a nonlinear optical medium that generates second pulsed light having a wavelength different from that of the first pulsed light due to incidence of the first pulsed light. The light source may be configured so that the center wavelength of the first pulsed light is variable across the zero dispersion wavelength of the nonlinear optical medium.
US09709378B2	Resolver A resolver includes a first assembly having transmitter windings and a first winding of a first transformer. The resolver also includes a second assembly having receiver windings, a first winding of a second transformer, and a first winding of a third transformer. A third assembly of the resolver includes a second winding of the first transformer, a second winding of the second transformer, and a second winding of the third transformer. The three assemblies are rotatable relative to each other about an axis. The windings of the first transformer, the windings of the second transformer, the windings of the third transformer, the transmitter windings, and the receiver windings are arranged opposite each other in each case, separated by a radial gap.
US09709377B2	Strain sensor chip mounting structure, strain sensor chip and method of manufacturing a strain sensor chip mounting structure Even when a strain sensor chip and an object to be measured are bonded to each other by using a metallic bonding material such as solder, the metallic bonding material shows the creep behavior when used under high temperature environment of, for example, 100° C. or higher, and therefore, the strain detected by the strain sensor chip is gradually reduced, and the strain is apparently reduced. In the strain sensor chip mounting structure which is one embodiment of the present application, a strain sensor chip is fixed onto a surface to be measured of the object to be measured via a metallic bonding material. And, the metallic bonding material is bonded to a metallic film that is formed on a side surface of the strain sensor chip. In this manner, temporal change in a measurement error can be suppressed.
US09709376B2	High sensitivity inductive sensor for measuring blade tip clearance A high sensitivity inductive sensor for measuring clearance of a rotating blade tip includes a one or more of sensing coils. The sensing coils are formed of magnet wire, which is wound to form planar spiral coils. Each of the coils are coupled in series with a function generator, which applies an excitation signal thereto. Accordingly, based on the change in impedance of the coils, a clearance measurement, which identifies the distance between the coil and the tip of the rotating blade can be obtained using predetermined calibration curve values.
US09709375B2	Method and apparatus for creating magnetic field map based on floor plan information of building Provided are a method and an apparatus for creating a magnetic field map that extracts magnetic field information of a building from floor plan information of the building. The magnetic field map of the building may be generated based on the floor plan information and the magnetic field information.
US09709373B2	Wireless detonation system, wireless detonation method, and detonator and explosive unit used in same A wireless detonator is provided with: a detonation part; a control part for igniting the detonation part, the control part being connected to the detonation part; a tube for accommodating the detonation part and the control part; and a detonation-side antenna used by the control part for wireless communication and capable of being used for sending and receiving without separately having a transmission-only antenna and a reception-only antenna; the detonation-side antenna being a soft magnetic body coil antenna, and the control part receiving, via the detonation-side antenna, a transmission signal at an operating frequency of 100-500 KHz.
US09709372B2	Semi-active RF target detection and proximity detonation based on angle-to-target A semi-active RF proximity fuze for warhead detonation is provided where external RADAR is available to illuminate the target. The fuze incorporates multiple receiving antennas with digital phase detection processing to distinguish the angle from which the target returns are received and uses that information to determine the detonation timing for the warhead. Detonation timing can be improved by processing the rate of change of the angle-to-target or processing the range and Doppler information to compensate for target velocity and distance.
US09709370B1	Transporting and disposing of recalled airbag inflators Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for safely transporting and disposing of airbag inflators. For example, a container is provided that can hold multiple airbag inflators and withstand inflator explosion resulting in failure of the metal inflator housing. The container can contain the inflator and any shrapnel associated with the explosion while also venting gases expelled as a result of the explosion. Various container designs are provided, along with methods for using these containers.
US09709369B2	Disarming system and method for disarming ammunition cartridges A dismantling system (5) for separating ammunition cartridges (10) comprising a casing (12), a bullet (11) and powder among its components, the system being characterized in that it comprises an extraction head (53) for extracting the bullet (11) from the casing (12), and retaining elements (52) for retaining the casing (12) in an extraction position while extracting the bullet (11). The invention also comprises a disarming system and a method for separating the components of an ammunition cartridge (10).
US09709364B1	Firearm target with lock on pattern A firearm target is specially adapted for the purpose of sighting in a scoped firearm. The scope has a reticle with horizontal and vertical lines forming crosshairs. The target has a cross pattern in contrasting colors with a cross shaped gap. The gap is highly visible and may even be in a reflective color. The gap size is selected to match the crosshair thickness and the targeting distance. Aligning the crosshairs to the gap significantly or completely hides the gap. Misaligning the crosshairs to the gap causes the gap to become more visible because of the gap's highly noticeable and contrasting colors. The target thereby provides a lock-on functionality for a marksman.
US09709358B2	Coupling various firearm accessories to a firearm A system for coupling various firearm accessories to a firearm may include an anchor that couples to a firearm accessory rail of the firearm and a coupling member that couples a firearm accessory to the anchor. A method of coupling various firearm accessories to a firearm may involve positioning an anchor within the body of a firearm accessory to be coupled to the firearm and bringing the anchor into contact with a firearm accessory rail of the firearm. The method may involve bringing the anchor into tension with the firearm accessory rail such that the anchor is securely engaged with the rail (e.g., through the use of a coupling member, integrated anchor shaft, and/or nut or other component). The systems and methods may couple a wide variety of firearm accessories to a wide variety of firearm accessory rails.
US09709355B2	Recoil compensator for firearm The recoil compensator uses a two piece design that allows for convenient indexing of the vent channels relative to the barrel, while securely mounting the compensator to the threaded end of a barrel. The recoil compensator consists of a muzzle brake and a jam nut. The muzzle brake turns onto the threaded end of the barrel and the jam nut is operatively threaded onto the body of the muzzle brake so that it can be tightened about the muzzle brake and the barrel to securely lock the muzzle brake to the barrel once properly indexed relative to the barrel. The jam nut has an annular flange that overlies the body of the muzzle brake to provide a clean aesthetic appearance of the recoil compensator.
US09709349B2	Structures for radiative cooling Various aspects as described herein are directed to a radiative cooling device and method for cooling an object. As consistent with one or more embodiments, a radiative cooling device includes a solar spectrum reflecting structure configured and arranged to suppress light modes, and a thermally-emissive structure configured and arranged to facilitate thermally-generated electromagnetic emissions from the object and in mid-infrared (IR) wavelengths.
US09709337B2	Arrangement for storing thermal energy An arrangement for storing thermal energy, having at least one subterranean chamber for holding a first fluid is provided. A passage holding a second fluid is extended outside at least a part of the chamber. At least one channel is arranged to allow fluid communication of the first fluid between different sections of the chamber, and/or allow fluid communication of the second fluid between different sections of the passage.
US09709329B2	Surface dryers producing uniform exit velocity profiles, and associated systems and methods Surface dryers having uniform exit velocity profiles, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. Surface dryers in accordance with certain embodiments include a housing, a gas driver positioned in the housing, an inlet aperture formed in the housing and positioned upstream of the gas driver, and a nozzle carried by the housing and positioned downstream of the gas driver. The nozzle can have an indentation forming a convergent portion positioned to accelerate the flow of air and a divergent portion positioned to decelerate the flow of air.
US09709327B2	Rapid rescue of inundated cellphones A system and method for providing fast and effective drying for inundated wireless telecommunications handsets by a combination of technologies that induce a negative pressure atmosphere together with controlled thermal energy at levels that is significant yet relatively harmless to handset components and memory. The combination is such that the embodiments generally restore full handset functionality (to the extent recoverable) within thirty minutes from activation of the particular station for treatment of an inundated handset. Related business methods of the embodiments include the derivation of revenue through licensing and marketing agreements with service center owners or the operators of other retail establishments such as courier mail centers.
US09709325B2	Integration of a small scale liquefaction unit with an LNG plant to convert end flash gas and boil-off gas to incremental LNG Disclosed is a method of retrofitting a full-scale LNG plant to enhance the LNG production capacity of the LNG plant and a method for operating such a retrofit plant. A small scale LNG plant having a capacity less than 2 MTPA can be integrated with a main LNG plant having a capacity of at least 4 MTPA such that end flash gas and boil off gas from the main LNG plant can be liquefied by the small scale LNG plant as incremental LNG. It has been found that the production capacity of the integrated system can be improved by increasing the temperature of the gas stream exiting the main cryogenic heat exchanger of the main LNG plant between 5° C. and 30° C. as compared with the design temperature.
US09709318B2	Handle assembly for a refrigerator A handle assembly for mounting to a door of a refrigerator includes a main body member having first and second end portions separated by an intermediate portion. Each of the first and second end portions includes a cavity adapted to receive an end insert formed of soft material. Each of the end inserts includes an attachment member. The handle is mounted to a front face of the door through interengagment of the attachment members and base members provided on the door without scratching the surface of the door.
US09709305B2	Liquefier for a heat pump and heat pump A liquefier for a heat pump includes a liquefier space and a process water tank. The process water tank is arranged within the liquefier space such that it is substantially surrounded by liquefied working fluid. A wall of the process water tank, however, is spaced from a wall of the process water tank so that a gap formed to communicate with the region of the heat pump in which compressed gas is present is obtained, so that the process water tank is thermally insulated from the space for liquefied working fluid via this gas-filled gap. The liquefier itself may also be surrounded by the gas region, in order to provide for inexpensive insulation of the liquefier.
US09709294B2	Air conditioning system for dehumidifying and cooling air An air conditioning system includes a housing defining a first airflow path therein between an outside air inlet over a cooling coil and an outlet for delivering outside air from the outside air inlet over the coil to the outlet, a second airflow path between a return air inlet over the cooling coil and to the outlet for delivering return air over the cooling coil, and a third airflow path between the return air inlet and the outlet for delivering return air through the housing without passing over the cooling coil. The system includes outside, return, and bypass air dampers that are sequentially moveable between open and closed positions for directing air through or preventing air from entering the first, second, and third airflow paths, respectively. A controller independently controls the opening and closing of each damper in response to data received from the sensor.
US09709293B2	Controlling device and controlling method The controlling device includes a set point obtaining portion that obtains a set point from a feedback controlling system for calculating, and outputting to an actuator, a manipulated variable based on the set point and a process variable, and an actuator controlling portion that changes a gain of an actuator so as to have an effect of a change in the process variable that is produced through the change in the gain of the actuator tracking a change in the set point.
US09709290B2	Control unit with automatic setback capability Methods for controlling temperature in a conditioned enclosure such as a dwelling are described that include an “auto-away” and/or “auto-arrival” feature for detecting unexpected absences which provide opportunities for significant energy savings through automatic adjustment of the setpoint temperature. According to some preferred embodiments, when no occupancy has been detected for a minimum time interval, an “auto-away” feature triggers a changes of the state of the enclosure, and the actual operating setpoint temperature is changed to a predetermined energy-saving away-state temperature, regardless of the setpoint temperature indicated by the normal thermostat schedule. The purpose of the “auto away” feature is to avoid unnecessary heating or cooling when there are no occupants present to actually experience or enjoy the comfort settings of the schedule, thereby saving energy.
US09709289B2	Control unit for air conditioner A control unit controls a first DC motor and a second DC motor by detecting a rotational position thereof and includes first control means and second control means. The first control means performs a detection of the origin position pattern by controlling each DC motor to rotate toward one side within a detectable range. In case where the rotational position reaches one end of the detectable range, the second control means performs a detection of the origin position pattern by controlling the DC motor to rotate oppositely from the one side when the other DC motor is stopping, and performs a detection of the origin position pattern by controlling the DC motor to rotate oppositely from the one side after the rotational position of the other DC motor reaches the one end of the detectable range when the other DC motor is rotating.
US09709288B2	Air-conditioning system An air-conditioning system includes: an air-conditioning apparatus in which indoor units are connected to an outdoor unit; a conveying fan; and control means for controlling the air-conditioning apparatus and the conveying fan on the basis of a target evaporating temperature. The control means resets an upper limit of the target evaporating temperature when: a control determination temperature difference which is a difference between a set temperature and a temperature of an air-conditioned space is within a predetermined range; a humidity of the air-conditioned space is equal to or lower than a predetermined value; and a thermo-ON indoor unit and a thermo-OFF indoor unit are present together in the same air-conditioned space.
US09709287B1	Air handler apparatuses for evaporative fluid cooling and methods thereof An air handler apparatus includes at least one heat exchanger device with a cooling fluid region separated from a temperature transfer fluid region, an evaporator device comprising an evaporator housing and at least one evaporator coil, and a pump. The cooling fluid region has a cooling fluid input and a cooling fluid output and the temperature transfer fluid region has a temperature transfer fluid input and a temperature transfer fluid output. The evaporator housing defines an air passage having an air input and an air output. The evaporator coil has an evaporator coil input coupled to the temperature transfer fluid output and an evaporator output coupled to temperature transfer fluid input of the temperature transfer fluid region in the heat exchanger device. The pump is coupled to the temperature transfer fluid region in the heat exchanger device to pump temperature transfer fluid between the temperature transfer fluid region and the evaporator coil when activated.
US09709277B2	Fuel plenum premixing tube with surface treatment The present application provides a micro-mixer fuel plenum for mixing a flow of fuel and a flow of air in a combustor. The micro-mixing fuel plenum may include an outer barrel and a number of mixing tubes positioned within the outer barrel. The mixing tubes may include one or more heat transfer features thereon.
US09709265B2	Porous metal foam burner A gas burner including a gas distribution element and a metal foam matrix burner covering the distribution element. A heat sink partially surrounds, and is spaced apart from, the metal foam matrix. The heat sink has an open end to vent exhaust emissions. The gas burner provides reduced nitrous oxide and carbon monoxide emissions and effective heat transfer modes (conduction, convection and radiation) compared to state-of-the-art burner technologies.
US09709257B2	Recessed light apparatus A recessed light apparatus for being installed at a ceiling includes a light source unit, a heat sink for dissipating heat generated from the light source unit, and a thermal insulating member coupled between the heat sink and the light source unit to define an upper space above the heat insulating member and a bottom space below the thermal insulating member. In case of fire, the heat insulating member prevents flame or fire spreading from the bottom space to the upper space.
US09709252B2	Backlight unit and display device including truss structure A backlight unit includes a side portion having a truss structure, another side portion, and a light source between the side portions.
US09709251B2	Engagement structure, backlight module and display device Embodiments of the present invention disclose an engagement structure, a crystal backlight module and a display device. The engagement structure is used for fixing an arrangement of the back cover and the mold frame of a display device. The engagement structure comprises a first engaging part provided at the intersection of a first side wall and a second side wall of the back cover, a second engaging part provided on the second side wall of the back cover, and a third engaging part provided on the mold frame corresponding to the first engaging part, wherein the first engaging part and the third engaging part are engage with each another, the second engaging part and a corresponding side surface of the mold frame are pressed against each other, when the back cover and the mold frame are assembled.
US09709243B2	LED traffic signal light module A light emitting diode (LED) traffic signal light module is provided. The LED traffic signal light module comprises a housing, an LED module, a power supply module and a lens set. The LED module is disposed on an inner wall in the housing. The power supply module is disposed in the housing, wherein the power supply module is electrically connected to the LED module. The lens set is disposed on the housing.
US09709239B2	Lighting device A lighting device comprising a support panel located between two outer sheets, which support panel is provided with at least one light emitting module, while at least one of the outer sheets is translucent. The outer sheets are movable with respect to each other at least from a folded state in which the support panel and the outer sheets extend substantially parallel to each other and an unfolded state in which the outer sheets are at least partly further spaced apart than in the folded state.
US09709238B2	Modular headlamp assembly with a heating element for removing water based contamination A modular headlamp assembly includes a low beam headlamp module, a high beam headlamp module, and front turn/parking lamp module. The low beam headlamp module and the high beam headlamp module are supported by a reflector carrier. Each of the high and low beam headlamp modules includes a heat sink and mounting assembly with a heat sink portion bisecting a reflector member. The headlamp includes a lens with a wire heating element embedded therein and a wire heating element circuit board affixed to the lens. A thermistor is affixed to the lens for sensing when the lens reaches a predetermined condition and a micro-controller is provided for activating or deactivating the wire heating element based on the predetermined condition sensed by the thermistor.
US09709234B2	Vehicle lamp structure Disclosed is a vehicle lamp structure including a lamp cup structure and a light-emitting structure. The lamp cup structure has a first light-reflecting surface and a second light-reflecting surface. The first light-reflecting surface has a first focal point and a second focal point. The second light-reflecting surface has a third focal point and a fourth focal point. The light-emitting structure includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element corresponds to the first focal point. The second light-emitting element corresponds to the third focal point. The first light-emitting element generates a first light source projected onto the first light-reflecting surface to form a first reflection light source through the second focal point. The second light-emitting element generates a second light source projected onto the second light-reflecting surface to form a second reflection light source through the fourth focal point.
US09709228B2	Light sources adapted to spectral sensitivity of diurnal avians and humans Various apparatus and associated methods involve a light source that provides light at wavelengths that substantially correlate to local maxima in the spectral sensitivity of a diurnal avian. In an illustrative example, the light source may output light primarily in wavelength bands that are not substantially absorbed by colored oil droplets and/or visual pigment in at least one type of cone in the eye of a diurnal avian. In some embodiments, the light source may include a light-emitting diode (LED) light source. Exemplary light sources may output spectral components to illuminate diurnal avians with local maxima of intensity at wavelengths that substantially correspond to local maxima in a spectral sensitivity visual response characteristic of the diurnal avians.
US09709225B2	Lighting device for generating a light emission and method for generating a light emission A lighting device, in various embodiments, for generating a light emission, has a light source designed to generate light with a first dominant wavelength, a first converter designed to absorb the light generated by the light source and to emit light with a second dominant wavelength, which is longer than the first dominant wavelength, and a second converter designed to absorb a portion of the light emitted by the first converter and to emit light such that the light emission has a third dominant wavelength, which is longer than the second dominant wavelength.
US09709224B2	Illumination apparatus An illumination apparatus includes a tube type light-transmissive cover, and light emitting module having a substrate provided in one region of an inner circumferential surface of the cover and a plurality of light emitting devices disposed on the substrate. A reflector extends in a longitudinal direction of the cover and includes a first reflective surface, a second reflective surface, and an edge positioned between the first reflective surface and the second reflective surface. One end of the first reflective surface and one end of the second reflective surface are connected to the inner circumferential surface of the cover.
US09709220B2	Method for constructing universal LED bulb and snap ring lens type LED bulb and LED lamp The present invention provides a method for constructing a universal LED bulb (102), a snap ring lens type LED bulb (102) and a lamp. The constructing method includes: supporting an optical engine core member of the LED bulb using a lens snap ring (8) as the supporting main body, using a light distribution optical lens (7) as an auxiliary supporting structure, and further using the light distribution optical lens (7) as an installation base of the optical engine core member, or using the light distribution optical lens (7) as an installation base of an LED bulb radiator (103) in cooperation with an inner snap ring (81), wherein an installation flange is provided to the lens snap ring (8) for installing the LED bulb (102). The LED bulb (102) may be provided with the radiator (103) to independently work and may also be installed on the radiator (103) of the lamp.
US09709210B2	Support device, display device A support device (01) comprises a base (10) and at least one support member (20) disposed on an upper surface of the base (10), the support member (20) each at least comprises a support portion (210) contacting a back shell to be supported. The support portion (210) comprises: a contact surface (211) facing the back shell; the contact surface (211) comprising a first subarea (211a) parallel with a plane where the back shell is located and a second subarea (211b) which intersects a side, away from the upper surface, of the first subarea (211a), and the second subarea (211b) being angled in a direction away from the plane where the back shell is located; and a first retainer portion (212) disposed at a position where the first subarea (211a) intersects the second subarea (211b), and a second retainer portion (213) disposed at the second subarea (211b). The support device (01) may reduce the forward/downward inner stress of the back shell per se and improve the stability and strength of the overall structure of the back shell.
US09709209B2	Load support mechanism To achieve a mechanism that supports an article at a desired position in a displaceable manner in accordance with a weight of the article with a simple, small, and lightweight structure.An article supporting device 1 includes a base member 2, a supporting member 3, a spring member 4 which is a compression coil spring, a spring force transmission member 5, a cam member 6, and a cam follower member 7. The cam follower member is pressed against a downward-facing cam surface 15 of the support member, an upward-facing cam surface 18 of the spring force transmission member, and a sideward-facing cam surface 22 of the cam member by a load of an article and a spring force of the spring member. The downward-facing cam surface and upward-facing cam surface are inclined in reverse directions to each other and disposed opposite to each other with the cam follower member interposed therebetween. A pressing force of the sideward-facing cam surface against the cam follower member includes a vertical direction component depending on a height position of the supporting member. The downward-facing cam surface, upward-facing cam surface, and sideward-facing cam surface are designed such that, in a moving range of the support member, the load, spring force, and pressing forces of the respective cam surfaces against the cam follower member are in equilibrium about the cam follower member.
US09709208B2	Pipeline supporting apparatus A support apparatus for installing a pipeline into a trench has a first pipeline-receiving section, a second pipeline-receiving section, and a fastener removably affixed to at least one of the first and second pipeline receiving sections. The fastener is connected to the first and second pipeline-receiving sections so as to be in a pipeline-supporting position. The fastener is removable from at least one of the first and second pipeline-receiving sections so as to allow the first and second pipeline-receiving sections to separate from each other. Each of the pipeline-receiving sections includes a pipeline-receiving surface and a support affixed to the pipeline-receiving surface and extending downwardly therefrom so as to allow the pipeline-receiving surface to be positioned at a desired location above a bottom of the trench.
US09709207B1	Chassis assembly structure A chassis assembly structure includes a surrounding plate assembly, first abutting elements, second abutting elements and a third board. The first and second boards are coupled to form the surrounding plate assembly. Each first abutting element has a slider and a first stop plate extended from the first (or second) board, and each second abutting element has first and second convex plates extended from the second (or first) board. Each first convex plate has a first positioning groove at an end and a second stop plate at the other end. Each second convex plate has a second positioning groove, and both ends of each slider are slidably coupled to and limited in each of the first and second positioning grooves, and each first stop plate is stopped and limited by each second stop plate, and the third board covers a side of the surrounding plate assembly.
US09709205B2	Press seal having a press body The invention relates to a press body (1), adapted for a press seal having an elastomer body (91) for contacting a conduit sealingly, said press body (1) and a tensioning bolt (212) for tensioning said press body (1), wherein said press body (1) can be pressed onto said elastomer body (91) by tensioning said tensioning bolt (212) in such a way that said elastomer body contacts said conduit sealingly, and wherein further said press body (1) comprises a read out member at which a force transmitted to said elastomer body (1) during said tensioning of said tensioning bolt (212) can be read out.
US09709188B2	Apparatus for regulation of the pressure of a gas A pressure regulator comprising a housing having an inlet in communication with a gas source, an outlet operable to supply a gas at a given pressure and flow rate, a conduit extending between the inlet and the outlet, a restriction device located in the conduit and positionable to control the flow of gas therethrough, a biasing arrangement to apply a predetermined bias to the restriction device and a selection device operable to select one of a predetermined plurality of discrete, offset configurations of the biasing arrangement and restriction device to provide a discrete selection of gas pressures at said outlet. The outlet comprises a fixed-size orifice selected from a specific group of fixed-sized orifices such that the combination of orifice and selectable position of said selection device provide a group of discrete flow rate/pressure combinations to applications downstream of said outlet.
US09709184B2	Control valve A control valve configured to control a pressure of a passing fluid includes: a valve seat having a seat portion where the fluid passes; a poppet valve inserted into the valve seat to regulate a pressure of the fluid passing through the seat portion; and a fluid rectifying unit provided in the valve seat to rectify the fluid having a pressure regulated by the poppet valve.
US09709182B2	Non chattering pressure relief valve A pressure relief valve includes a valve body having an inlet and an outlet and defining a first fluid path fluidly connecting the inlet and the outlet of the valve; a valve member axially moveable between a first position and a second position, the valve member configured to close the fluid path in the first position and thereby restrict flow between the inlet and the outlet, the valve member configured to open the fluid path in the second position and thereby allow flow between the inlet and the outlet; a biasing element configured to bias the valve member in the first position; and a friction element resiliently biased laterally against an axially extending surface of the valve member to provide frictional resistance to movement of the valve member and thereby cause hysteresis in axial movement of the valve member between the first position and the second position.
US09709181B2	Assembly An assembly includes: a first component; a second component enclosed by the first component; a diaphragm that covers a radial gap between the first and second components and is fixed in each case in a sealed manner; and a volume of a medium that is enclosed by the first and second components and the diaphragm. For the purpose of achieving a simple filling process of the assembly with the medium at a reliable sealing of the enclosed volume, even in the case of high, swelling pressures acting upon the assembly, in one of the components a filling valve is situated that opens towards the volume, which filling valve is situated as a check valve having spring resetting in a filling channel running in the component.
US09709175B2	Valve having reduced operating force and enhanced throttling capability One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a flow control valve element, which may comprise a generally spherical shape. An inlet and outlet are formed in the element, with a fluid passage disposed between. The respective inlet and outlet are defined by a lip, and at least the outlet has a lip face comprising a width less than that of an adjacent element wall thickness. The element can comprise a pair of opposing flats formed in the wall, where the flats respectively comprise an external flat portion of the element wall and an opposing internal flat portion of the element wall.
US09709171B2	Sealing reducing washer A sealing reducing washer is formed from a metallic reducing washer having a front surface, a rear surface, an outer periphery, and an inner periphery with a pliable rim secured over the outer periphery of the metallic reducing washer, a portion of the rim circumferentially depending below the rear surface of the metallic reducing washer adjacent the outer periphery of the metallic reducing washer so as to form a weathertight seal against a surface of an electrical enclosure when the sealing reducing washer is secured to the enclosure, and a pliable toroid circumferentially positioned adjacent the inner periphery of the metallic reducing washer and extending circumferentially above the front surface of the metallic reducing washer in the region adjacent the inner periphery of the metallic reducing washer, the toroid dimensioned to form a weathertight seal with an electrical conduit or raceway.
US09709159B2	Method for controlling the transfer of torque of a force-fitting shift element A method for controlling torque transfer of a force-fitting shift element includes controlling a closing pressure at least temporarily upon presence of a closing request for the force-fitting shift element and when a prevailing system pressure of the hydraulic circuit is above a threshold value for the system pressure. The closing pressure is controlled in a manner that is different than upon the presence of the closing request for the force-fitting shift element and when the prevailing system pressure is below the threshold value for the system pressure.
US09709156B2	Bearing shaft A hollow cylindrical rotary bearing shaft for a planet gear of an epicyclic gear train, has a cylindrical outer surface accommodating the planet gear, and a wall thickness. The wall thickness of the bearing shaft varies circumferentially around a diameter of the bearing shaft so as to produce a pre-determined circumferential variation in the wall thickness.
US09709155B2	Motor assembly and method of biasing the same A method of biasing a worm shaft of a motor assembly including the steps of: providing a motor assembly having a housing defining an inner chamber, an access aperture spaced therefrom, a shaft aperture in communication with both the chamber and access aperture, and a shaft rotatably supported by and at least partially disposed in the shaft aperture; providing an ultrasonic device having a horn for producing vibrations; providing a slug having a body defining a first shape for being disposed in the access aperture, transformable to a second shape whereby the slug melts in response to predetermined vibrations; placing the slug in the access aperture; actuating the ultrasonic device so as to transform the slug to the second shape such that the slug melts and at least partially flows into the shaft aperture to abut the terminal portion.
US09709153B2	Pulley for alternator The present invention relates to a pulley for an alternator, and in particular, to a pulley applicable to an automotive alternator. The pulley effectively mitigates the problem that a belt and a tension pulley of an alternator vibrate because a rotation speed of a vehicle engine changes, thereby improving the overall operating efficiency of the alternator and the service life of the working belt and the tension pulley.
US09709150B2	Differential having piston housing integrated with differential case A differential gear includes a differential casing having a first differential case portion that defines a first output shaft opening and a second differential case portion that defines a second output shaft opening. The first differential case portion can include an annular pocket formed thereon and defined by an outer circumferential wall, an inner circumferential wall and an end wall. A piston can be slidably disposed in the annular pocket and configured to actuate a clutch assembly. A first and a second side gear can be rotatably mounted within the differential casing. The first and second side gears can be co-axially aligned along an axis of rotation of the differential casing.
US09709141B2	Ratchet wrench and pawl mechanism A pawl mechanism that reduces the possibility of pawl spring over-compression and damage. The invention can include bumpers disposed near the internal surfaces of the pawls and can space the internal surfaces when the pawls contact one another to reduce the amount of compression applied to the pawl spring. The pawl spring can be inserted into respective cavities on the pawls to further prevent additional compression of and damage to the pawl spring.
US09709122B2	Roll-off piston for an air spring rolling-lobe flexible member A roll-off piston made of plastic is for an air spring rolling-lobe flexible member (19) of the air spring. The roll-off piston (1) is configured as a plunge piston and has a preferably central support (2) for a stop buffer (3) acting in an axial direction of the air spring. The support (2) is preferably made of steel and can be received in a recess in the roll-off piston. The recess is of complementary configuration to the shape of the support and can be connected to the piston.
US09709118B2	Elastic member, and elastic structural member capable of implementing bearing capability combining rigidity and flexibility An elastic member can implement functions of buffering and shock absorption while effectively supporting a vehicle body. On end of the elastic member is turned and bent towards the other end, and passes through the body of the elastic member. The turned and bent part forms a curled portion (3). Portions of the curled portion (3) extending towards two ends form a first arm (1) and a second arm (2). The curled portion (3) pre-stores deformation of a material to integrate an elastic capability of the material and specifically gather a weak elastic capability of a rigid material, thereby obtaining a higher elastic bending moment, and providing functions of buffering and shock absorption while bearing is provided. For a flexible material, the flexible material can be restrained by using the curled portion to increase rigidity and reduce randomness of deformation of the flexible material, thereby combining flexibility and rigidity.
US09709110B2	Brake disc ventilation arrangement An internally ventilated brake disc cooling air flow enhancement arrangement is provided. Between a radially inner region of a brake disc that includes brake disc-to-axle hub mounting elements and cooling vanes between the parallel friction rings of the brake disc there are provided cooling air flow-modifying features. The flow-modifying features are circumferentially arranged around the radially inner region and are sized, shaped and positioned in a manner that deflects cooling air entering the internally ventilated brake disc in the radially inner region toward the entrances of cooling channels between the vanes to increase cooling air mass flow and thereby increase heat transfer an removal from the brake disc.
US09709108B2	Assembled shaft brake disk The invention relates to an assembled undular brake disc having a hub on which two friction rings which are produced from a steel material are arranged parallel to and spaced apart from one another. The assembled undular brake disc can withstand high mechanical loads and permits good internal ventilation. Supporting bolts for absorbing an axially acting pad contact pressure force are arranged between the friction rings.
US09709106B2	Railway vehicle disc brake apparatus Provided is a railway vehicle disc brake apparatus that is capable of ensuring sufficient strength and that can be reduced in weight. The railway vehicle disc brake apparatus has: a pair of calliper levers for supporting a pair of pads; a pair of fulcrum shaft members that pivotally support the pair of calliper levers; and a cylinder device for driving the pair of calliper levers around the pair of fulcrum shaft members. Arm sections of the calliper lever have first and second portions that extend in such a manner as to intersect each other in a cross section that is perpendicular to the direction in which said arm sections extend.
US09709099B2	Bearing ring and rolling bearing A bearing ring formed of quenched and tempered high carbon chromium bearing steel, including an inner layer portion formed of tempered martensite or sorbite and having a Vickers hardness of more than 490 HV and 710 HV or less, and a surface layer portion formed to enclose an entire periphery of the inner layer portion, formed of tempered martensite, and having a higher hardness than the inner layer portion.
US09709095B2	Retainer and ball bearing A retainer includes two annular retaining plates combined with each other, and each having semispherical bulging portions arranged at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction of the retainer. The semispherical bulging portions, which face each other, form a pocket having a ring-like shape, for retaining a ball. The pocket includes a ball non-contact portion formed in a ball facing surface of the pocket at a center portion in a pocket axial direction, the ball non-contact portion being defined by a recess extending in a pocket circumferential direction. The following relationship is set: A/(B+C)=0.70 to 0.90, where “A” represents a pocket circumferential length of the ball non-contact portion, “B” represents a diameter of the ball, and “C” represents a gap formed between the ball and the ball facing surface of the pocket.
US09709090B2	Linear guideway, circulating module thereof, and slider thereof A circulating module of a linear guideway includes a slider and a circulator. The slider has two carrying surfaces arranged on two opposite outer surface thereof. Each carrying surface includes a first circular-arc segment and two second circular segments respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the first circular-arc segment, and a radius of each first circular-arc segment is smaller than that of each second circular-arc segment. The circulator includes two inner circular-arc surfaces. The slider is inserted into the circulator, the carrying surfaces stretch a distance between the inner circular-arc surfaces, each inner circular-arc surface is abutted against the two second circular-arc segments of the corresponding carrying surface, and a gap is formed between each inner circular-arc surface and the corresponding first circular-arc segments.
US09709083B2	Spring enabled audio device mounting apparatus Devices that allow one or more objects to be quickly and easily attached to a musical device are described. In one embodiment, a spring-enabled mounting device is disclosed that allows a device such as a microphone to be removably attached to a musical instrument, such as a drum. The apparatus may be operable via the use of a single hand applying forces to manipulate one or more springs within the apparatus, thus allowing for convenient and timely attachment, removal, and/or repositioning of the object, such as a microphone, with respect to the instrument.
US09709082B2	Buckle assembly A buckle assembly includes a first buckle member, a second buckle member and a locking arrangement. The first buckle member includes a first buckle body and an insertion member. The second buckle member includes a second buckle body having a receiving slot, a first buckle latch and a second buckle latch pivotally connected to the second buckle body to move between a locked position and an unlocked position, and a plurality of resilient elements mounted in the second buckle body. The locking arrangement includes a first locking member extended from one of the first buckle member and the second buckle member to retain one of the first buckle latch and the second buckle latch at a locked position.
US09709077B2	Hydro pneumatic accumulator with internal leak detection A piston type hydro pneumatic accumulator with internal leak detection, having a gas chamber and a liquid chamber, the piston type hydro pneumatic accumulator comprising a cylindrical barrel, a floating piston, a gas end cover, a liquid end cover, a leakage detection construction having a first cylindrical channel reducing to a conical channel and further reducing to a second cylindrical channel, a floater device, the gas end cover and the liquid end cover hermetically disposed into the cylindrical barrel, a first pressure meter disposed so as to measure a pressure in the first cylindrical channel and a second pressure meter disposed so as to measure the pressure in the second cylindrical channel, the readings in the two pressure meters used for inferring a gas leakage or a liquid leakage. Also deployable a first pressure switch sensing a pressure P1 and a second pressure switch sensing a pressure P2, the output of the first pressure switch and the second pressure switch connected to a programmable logic controller, programmed so as to activate a liquid circuit for topping up of the liquid if P1>P2, activate a gas circuit for re-charging of gas if P1=P2≠0, produce a visual and or an audio signal or a combination thereof, or initiate any other corrective action.
US09709070B2	Low hub-to-tip ratio fan for a turbofan gas turbine engine A fan for a turbofan gas turbine engine having a low hub-to-tip ratio is disclosed. The fan includes a rotor hub and a plurality of radially extending fan blades. Each fan blade defines a hub radius (RHUB), which is the radius of the leading edge at the hub relative to a centerline of the fan, and a tip radius (RTIP), which is the radius of the leading edge at a tip of the fan blade relative to the centerline of the fan. The ratio of the hub radius to the tip radius (RHUB/RTIP) is less than 0.29. In a particular embodiment, this ratio is between 0.25 and 0.29. In another particular embodiment, this ratio is less than 0.25.
US09709067B2	Method for joining bearing housing segments of a turbocharger incorporating an electric motor A bearing housing (12) for a turbocharger (10) includes a split (60) defining a first bearing housing segment (62) and a second bearing housing segment (64). At least one channel (74, 84) for transporting fluid within the bearing housing (12) crosses the split (60) such that the channel (74, 84) extends within the first bearing housing segment (62) and the second bearing housing segment (64). A dowel (82, 92) having a hollow interior is inserted in the channel (74, 84) to align the first and second bearing housing segments (62, 64) and allows fluid to flow through the channel (74, 84).
US09709062B2	Centrifugal compressor and manufacturing method therefor A centrifugal compressor includes: a volute casing including a first casing and a second casing that are mutually coupled, the first casing including a volute chamber therein and the second casing including an impeller installation space therein; an impeller provided in the impeller installation space so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis; and a vaneless diffuser that has an inlet that communicates with an inside of the second casing and has an outlet that communicates with an inside of the first casing. The vaneless diffuser has a width having a non-axisymmetric distribution in the circumferential direction.
US09709060B2	Side-channel pump and method for operating same The invention relates to a side-channel pump and to a method for operating a side-channel pump in which an impeller rotates in a working chamber provided with a side channel. According to the invention, the pump is operated at an overspeed with a gas-filled working chamber in a first step. The speed is then reduced to an operating speed in order to pump a liquid. The pump according to the invention has a high suction power as a result of the overspeed, but only gas is drawn initially.
US09709057B2	Rotary pump having a casing being formed with a communicating hole communicating a space that is between the side plate and the wall surface of the driving machine It is intended to provide a vacuum pump so that without upsizing the vacuum pump, noise and vibration are reduced, heat dissipation property is secured, and the casing is downsized. Therefore, at least one turning part is provided in an exhausting path formed in a casing body. The casing body is formed of a material whose thermal conductivity is higher than that of a rotor and vanes, and a cylinder part where the vanes slide is press fitted in the casing body.
US09709053B2	Piston pump for delivering fluids, and associated vehicle brake system A piston pump for delivering fluids includes a piston, a cylinder element and a pressure chamber which is arranged between an inlet valve and an outlet valve and is closed by a cover, wherein a throttling mechanism for throttling the fluid flow is provided in the fluid flow downstream of the outlet valve, and a vehicle brake system has a piston pump of this type. The throttling mechanism includes a movable annular disc which is guided on the cylinder element and the internal diameter of which is adapted to the external diameter of the cylinder element, wherein the axial travel of the annular disc sets a variable first throttle cross section.
US09709046B2	Hydrostatic power unit as hydraulic starter of an internal combustion engine A variable displacement hydrostatic power unit (7) is in a drive connection with an internal combustion engine (2). When operated as a pump, the power unit (7) delivers hydraulic fluid to at least one consumer (V). When operated as a motor, the power unit (7) is a hydraulic starter for the internal combustion engine (2) and is supplied with hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic accumulator (25). The displacement volume of the power unit (7) is set by a displacement volume control device (50) actuated by a positioning device (52). The displacement volume control device (50) is displaced into a position with maximum displacement volume by a corresponding actuation of the positioning device (52) chronologically prior to the shutoff of the internal combustion engine (2). A securing device (60) holds the displacement volume control device (50) in the maximum displacement volume position when the internal combustion engine (2) is shut off.
US09709045B2	Variable displacement swash plate compressor A variable displacement swash compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The swash plate is rotatable together with the drive shaft in a swash plate chamber. The conversion mechanism reciprocates the piston in a cylinder bore. The actuator changes the inclination angle of the swash plate. The actuator is rotatable integrally with the drive shaft. The actuator includes a partitioning body, a movable body, and a control pressure chamber. The control mechanism changes the pressure of the control pressure chamber to move the movable body. The movable body is adapted to pull the swash plate and increase the inclination angle when the pressure of the control pressure chamber increases.
US09709041B2	Variable displacement axial piston device An outer circumferential surface of a trunnion shaft includes a sliding contact region that has a circular arc shape as viewed along a slanting axis line and is substantially brought into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the bearing portion in a rotatably sliding manner, and at least one suction groove that forms a pocket portion between the suction groove and the inner surface of the bearing portion. The pocket portion is opened to an inner space of housing on at least one side in an axis line direction of the trunnion shaft.
US09709031B2	Tilt-type rotor blade apparatus for vertical type wind power generation Disclosed is a tilt-type rotation blade apparatus for vertical-type power generation. When a blade member is rotated in a backward direction to a wind direction, the blade member is tilted so that the blade plate is horizontal to the wind direction, thereby applying only the forward rotational force to the vertical power shaft, so that the wind power generation efficiency is maximized. A tilt structure is improved to smoothly perform a tilt operation and the structure of the blade member is improved so that the blade member is rotated in a vertical direction to the ground surface, thereby efficiently generating wind power without the limitation of an installation space.
US09709029B2	Morphing segmented wind turbine and related method A downwind morphing rotor that exhibits bending loads that will be reduced by aligning the rotor blades with the composite forces. This reduces the net loads on the blades which therefore allow for a reduced blade mass for a given maximum stress. Also provided is a pre-aligned configuration rotor whereby the rotor geometry and orientation does not change with wind speed, and instead is fixed at a constant downwind deflection consistent with alignment at or near the rated wind speed conditions. Also provided is a twist morphing rotor where the airfoil-shapes around the spars twist relative to the wind due to aerodynamic forces so as to unload the rotors when there is a gust. This can help reduce unsteady stresses on the blade and therefore may allow for reduced blade mass and cost. The twist morphing rotor may be combined with either downwind morphing rotor or pre-alignment rotor.
US09709027B1	Drive system for wind turbine with contra-rotating generator The drive system for wind turbine with contra-rotating generator includes various embodiments of belt drive pulley systems for a direct drive contra-rotating wind generator. The generator has a magnetic rotor and an armature mounted on a shaft configured to rotate in the opposite direction from the magnetic rotor. In some embodiments, a belt extends across two pairs of coaxially mounted idler pulleys between a pulley on the magnetic rotor shaft and a pulley on the armature shaft. In other embodiments, the pulleys on the magnetic rotor and armature shafts are double sheave pulleys, and a first belt extends across one or two coaxial pair(s) of idler pulleys between an inner and outer sheave, and a second belt extends across one or two coaxial pair(s) of idler pulleys between an inner and outer sheave. Either the magnetic rotor or the armature shaft or both are coupled to a wind turbine rotor.
US09709015B2	Power generation unit, and motor generator control method A power generation unit includes a motor generator having a rotor with magnet, and a stator with coils driven in a plurality of phases, the coils of the respective phases not being connected to each other; and a driving control part that performs control so that a coil of each phase of the stator is brought into any one of a first state in which torque is generated by the rotor, a second state in which both ends of the coil are electrically released, and a third state in which both ends of the coil are short-circuited.
US09709013B2	Fuel system and method for reducing fuel leakage from a fuel system A fuel system is provided for supplying pressurized fuel, in particular dimethyl ether (DME) or a blend thereof, to an internal combustion engine. The fuel system includes a fuel pump, which has a pumping mechanism arranged partly in a housing containing lube oil, a drain line connected to the housing and suitable for draining at least fuel vapor from an interior of the housing, a lube oil supply line connected to the housing, a lube oil supply valve installed in the lube oil supply line, a seal installed between the pumping mechanism and the housing for preventing at least lube oil leakage to the outside of the housing, and a drain valve installed in the drain line, wherein both the drain valve and lube oil supply valve are controlled to be closed during an engine non-running state for preventing fuel vapor leakage from the housing.
US09709008B2	Supercharger exhaust bypass A supercharger exhaust bypass system, comprises a supercharger comprising an inlet and outlet, a bypass valve connected to the supercharger outlet, a first intercooler connected to receive compressed air from the outlet of the supercharger and connected to cool and expel air, a second intercooler comprising an envelope inlet, an exhaust inlet, an exhaust outlet, an exhaust passage between the exhaust inlet and the exhaust outlet, and an envelope connected to the envelope inlet and surrounding the exhaust passage, an engine system connected to receive expelled air from the first intercooler and further connected to output exhaust to the exhaust inlet of the second intercooler, and a bypass conduit connected to the bypass valve and connected to the envelope inlet.
US09709002B2	Method of mixing between a primary flow and a secondary flow in a turbine engine, corresponding device and turbine engine A method of mixing in a discharge conduit, in a turbine engine with two or more flows, of a primary flow and a secondary flow, the two flows emerging in the discharge conduit by two coaxial ducts, separated by an internal housing which has an end downstream relative to the flow direction of the flows, the two coaxial ducts each being defined between an internal wall and an external wall, upstream of the downstream end of the internal housing, and the secondary flow surrounding the primary flow, is provided. The method includes disposing a divergent radial deflection device in the primary duct, spaced apart from the walls of the primary duct. A turbine engine including the deflection device is also provided.
US09708996B2	Method and system for sampling intake manifold pressure An engine system and method for improving sampling of a port throttle pressure sensor. In one example, the port throttle pressure sensor is sampled a plurality of times during a cylinder cycle and different engine operating conditions are determined from selected samples. The system and method may improve engine air-fuel control as well as engine diagnostics.
US09708991B2	Real-time residual mass estimation with adaptive scaling Systems and methods are described for on-line, real-time estimation of a residual mass in an engine cylinder during HCCI combustion. The residual mass is estimated based on an estimated residual mass for a previous combustion cycle. A value of a first performance variable for the first combustion cycle is determined based only on engine data measured by one or more sensors. A value of a second performance is estimated based at least in part on the estimated residual mass for the first combustion cycle. An adaptive scaling factor is determining for the first combustion cycle based on the determined value of the first performance variable and the estimated value of the second performance variable. An adjusted residual mass for the first combustion cycle is then determined based on the estimated residual mass for the first combustion cycle and the adaptive scaling factor for the first combustion cycle.
US09708990B2	System and methods for fuel vapor canister flow Methods and systems are provided for regulating the flow of fuel vapor in an evaporative emissions system. In one example, a method may include re-routing fuel tank vapors responsive to an indication of a leaky canister purge valve such that fuel tank vapors may be efficiently adsorbed by a fuel vapor canister during engine-off conditions, rather than bypassing the fuel vapor canister and being released to the atmosphere. In this way, evaporative emissions may be prevented during the duration of time following an indication of a leaky canister purge valve and servicing the vehicle.
US09708989B2	Air handling control for opposed-piston engines with uniflow scavenging In an air handling system of a uniflow-scavenged, two-stroke cycle opposed-piston engine, one or more engine operating state parameters are sensed, numerical values of air handling parameters based on trapped conditions in a cylinder of the engine at the last port closing of an engine operating cycle are determined in response to the sensed parameters, the numerical values are evaluated, and one or more of the numerical values is adjusted in response to the evaluation. The adjusted numerical values are used to control charge air flow and EGR flow in the air handling system.

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