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US09794058B2	Method and apparatus for time synchronisation in wireless networks A wireless media distribution system is provided comprising an access point (6) for broadcasting media and a plurality of stations (2) for reception and playback of media. Each station is configured for receiving and decoding a timestamp in a beacon frame transmitted repeatedly from the access point. This is used to control the output signal of a station physical layer clock (12) which is then used as a clock source for an application layer time synchronisation protocol. This application layer time synchronisation protocol can then be used in the station to control an operating system clock (8) for regulating playback of media.
US09794051B2	Enhanced uplink and downlink power control for LTE TDD eIMTA A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines an interference type between a time division duplex (TDD) configuration subframe of a serving cell and a corresponding TDD configuration subframe of a neighboring cell, and sets a transmit power for an apparatus in the serving cell based on the interference type. The apparatus in the serving cell may be a user equipment (UE), in which case the apparatus applies a set of uplink (UL) open loop power control parameters for the UE. The apparatus in the serving cell may be a base station (eNB), in which case a DL transmit power is set for the eNB. Depending on the interference type, the DL transmit power may be a fixed, full power DL transmission or an adjusted DL transmission.
US09794048B2	System for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals carrying complex harmonic modes A radio communications system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter generates or receives digital symbols having a given symbol rate associated with a corresponding symbol period; and generates, every S digital symbols generated/received (S>3), a respective multi-mode digital signal, which has a predefined time length shorter than S times the symbol period, which is sampled with a predefined sampling rate higher than the symbol rate, and which carries the S digital symbols by a plurality of orthogonal harmonic modes including a main mode which is a real harmonic mode and carries P of the S digital symbols (P
US09794047B2	Method and apparatus for configuring aggregate maximum bit rate A system for configuring a UE-AMBR includes a MME to send the UE-AMBR to an eNB covering the serving cell of the UE, the eNB covering the serving cell of the UE establishes a radio access bearer of the UE on at least one secondary cell. The MME sends an AMBR of the UE in the primary eNB covering the serving cell of the UE and an AMBR of the UE in a secondary eNB to the primary eNB. The primary eNB sends the AMBR of the secondary eNB to the corresponding secondary eNB. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can make total rate of all non-GBR services of the UE be not larger than the UE-AMBR when the UE has multiple S1 bearers or one S1 bearer.
US09794046B2	Method for transmitting uplink control information in wireless access system and apparatus therefor The present invention provides a method for transmitting uplink control information (UCI) in a wireless access system supporting a multi-connection mode for a terminal to be connected to at least two small cells, and an apparatus therefor. In a wireless access system supporting a multi-connection mode, a method for enabling a terminal to transmit a confirmation response signal (ACK/NACK) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving an upper layer signal containing resource allotment information representing an allotted resource region in order to transmit a confirmation response signal; receiving a first physical downlink sharing channel (PDSCH) signal from a first small cell; receiving a second PDSCH signal from a second small cell; and transmitting a single confirmation response signal for the first PDSCH signal and the second PDSCH signal through the resource region represented by the resource allotment information. Here, the terminal maintains a plurality of connections with two or more small cells in the multi-connection mode, and the resource region may be allotted for the same time and frequency resource in both the first small cell and the second small cell.
US09794043B2	Method and device for transmitting channel status information in wireless access system The present invention provides methods for transmitting channel status information (CSI) in a wireless access system that supports a multi-connection mode in which a terminal is connected to two or more small cells, and devices for supporting the same. A method by which a terminal reports CSI in a wireless access system that supports a multi-connection mode, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including first resource allocation information from a first small cell which is in a multi-connection mode state; receiving a second PDCCH signal including second resource allocation information from a second small cell which is in a multi-connection mode state; and reporting the CSI on the basis of the first resource allocation information and the second resource allocation information. At this point, the terminal maintains a plurality of connections with two or more small cells including the first small cell and the second small cell in a multi-connection mode, and the first small cell and the second small cell are arranged at different physical positions and can be connected to each other through an abnormal backhaul link.
US09794042B2	Communication apparatus and retransmission control method Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit determines whether a received signal in a PHICH region is an ACK signal or a NACK signal. When doing so, the PHICH reception unit does not receive a PHICH in a subframe in which a terminal monitors an E-PDCCH. A control signal reception unit outputs a retransmission prompting signal to a signal allocation unit when the signal outputted from the PHICH reception unit is a NACK signal and when a UL grant was not detected. Meanwhile, when a UL grant was detected, the control signal reception unit outputs the detected UL grant to the signal allocation unit. The signal allocation unit maps the transmission signal in accordance with the retransmission prompting signal and the UL grant and transmits the transmission signal from a wireless transmission unit.
US09794035B2	Device and method for transmitting downlink control information in a wireless communication system A method for a transmitter in a communication system, a method for a receiver, a transmitting apparatus, and a receiving apparatus are provided. The method includes identifying, by a transmitter, information bits in a first downlink control information (DCI) and information bits in a second DCI; appending, by the transmitter, one bit of value zero to the second DCI, if a number of the information bits in the second DCI is equal to a number of the information bits in the first DCI; appending, by the transmitter, one or more zero bits to the second DCI based on a payload size of the second DCI, if the number of the information bits in the second DCI belongs to one of ambiguous sizes; and transmitting, to a receiver, the second DCI, wherein a payload of the second DCI comprises the information bits in the second DCI and at least one zero padding bit appended to the second DCI, and wherein the one or more zero bits is appended to the second DCI until the payload size of the second DCI does not belong to one of the ambiguous sizes and the payload size of the second DCI is not equal to a payload size of the first DCI.
US09794033B2	Systems, methods and devices for opportunistic networking Opportunistic networking systems can utilize one or multiple bands/channels that are shared with other radio access technologies (RATs) (such as wireless local area networks (WLAN, such as Wi-Fi) and mmWave). An unconventional carrier type (UCT) can be defined to support opportunistic networking in licensed and/or unlicensed spectrum. For example, a primary base station can determine a secondary base station activated for use with user equipment (UE). The primary base station can schedule data to be sent to the UE via the secondary base station. The secondary base station can provide discovery information, reserve a wireless channel, transmit the data and/or release the channel (implicitly, explicitly, or by reservation).
US09794019B2	Prioritized optical arbitration systems and methods According to an example, nodes request access to a shared resource in a prioritized optical arbitration system. Each node attempts to extract a wavelength corresponding to a priority level selected by the node from a waveguide. A node is granted access to the resource according to priority level, and is to extract from the waveguide the corresponding wavelength.
US09794010B2	Method and apparatus for notifying a subframe configuration of multicast broadcast single frequency network The present invention provides a method for notifying Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe configuration, which comprises the following steps: a first node sends its MBSFN subframe configuration, via an X2 interface, to a second node with which the first node is connected; the first node receives the MBSFN subframe configuration of the second node as a feedback. According to the invention, a serving cell can obtain the MBSFN subframe configurations of the neighboring cells and/or RNs, so that rational utilization of resources is achieved according to the configurations. Therefore, interference between cells is reduced, and system capacity and efficiency are improved.
US09793997B2	Tuning device for pluggable optical transceivers A tuning device for a pluggable XFP and SFP+ and DWDM transceiver devices. Also provided are applications for CWDM XFP, and SFP+ and future form factors as well as DWDM and CWDM SFP. This tuning device is for use with tunable DWDM and CWDM transceivers, and provides the ability to lock the tune of the transceiver to prevent a host device from automatically retuning the transceiver.
US09793991B2	Optically interfaced remote data concentrator A remote data concentrator includes a front end interface, a plurality of back end interfaces and a control circuit. The front end interface is configured to receive optical energy as input and provide optical data as output to an optical link. The plurality of back end interfaces are configured to connect to a plurality of sensors. Each of the plurality of back end interfaces are configured to provide sensor power to the plurality of sensors and receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors. The control circuit is configured to provide power from the front end interface to the plurality of back end interfaces and to provide the sensor data from the plurality of back end interfaces to the front end interface.
US09793984B2	Coherent receiver based virtual optical spectrum analyzer A coherent receiver adapted to operate as an Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA) includes an optical front end adapted to receive an optical signal and to mix the optical signal with a local laser; a photodetector block coupled to the optical front end and adapted to receive an output of the optical front end and provide an output corresponding to spectral components of the optical signal; and a controller coupled to the optical front end and the photodetector block, wherein the controller is adapted to operate in an OSA mode to sweep the local laser across a portion of optical spectrum to perform an OSA measurement while not performing data demodulation.
US09793979B2	Method and system for switchover reduction in antennas tracking satellites A method for reducing expected switchovers in antennas tracking at least one satellite. The method predicts an operation of a predetermined number of subsets of antennas during a simulated time interval. The subsets are derived from at least three antennas. Each of the at least three antennas has a field of view and is operative to selectively receive signals from and selectively transmit signals to a satellite in the respective field of view. The method determines, based on the predicted operation, an expected number of switchovers for each of the subsets during the simulated time interval. The method selects a selected subset from the subsets for communicating with the satellite. The selection of the selected subset is based on the expected number of switchovers.
US09793977B2	Systems for recovery communications via airborne platforms A communications system for providing recovery communication service to users in a coverage area affected by an emergency disruption of normal communication services. The system comprises a ground hub serving as a gateway to terrestrial networks including a dispatch center and configured to communicate with at least three mobile airborne platforms roving over the coverage area via respective feeder-links in a Ku or Ka band. A first mobile airborne platform communicates in a first frequency band with emergency workers that are working in the coverage area and associated with the dispatch center. A second mobile airborne platform communicates, in place of at least one disrupted base station in the coverage area, with user mobile phones in mobile phone frequency bands or user personal devices in WiFi bands located in the coverage area. A third mobile airborne platform generates real-time imaging of surfaces located in the coverage area.
US09793975B2	Range extension in wireless local area networks A method for associating a new end-station (end-STA) with a relay access point (R-AP) in a relay transmission. An assignment of a new identifier is transmitted to the new end-STA, wherein traffic indication map indications for the new end-STA in a beacon from the R-AP follows the transmission of the new identifier assignment. A message is sent to a root access point (AP), the message including an indication of a number of information fields in the message and at least one information field, each of the at least one information fields including an identifier of one end-STA associated with the R-AP. An acknowledgement is received from the root AP on a condition that the root AP correctly receives the message and associates an identifier of the end-STA with an identifier of the R-AP.
US09793974B2	System for maximizing gain in a repeater An antenna system includes a donor antenna sub-system, a server antenna sub-system, and a processor to optimize the gain of the repeater in the system. The gain in the antenna system is increased by optimizing the isolation between the donor and/or server antenna sub-systems according to a cost function.
US09793961B2	Communication method between a dual interface NFC card inserted into an NFC terminal, and an NFC device In a general aspect, a method for transmitting data between an NFC card and an external NFC device via a selected interface (e.g., contact or contactless), and further via a contactless interface of the NFC module when the contact interface of the NFC card is selected can include using an NFC card that includes an antenna circuit having an antenna coil with a magnetic axis and an electrically conductive screen extending near the antenna coil. The magnetic axis of the antenna coil can be substantially parallel to a plane defined by the NFC card and not cross the conductive screen. The contactless interface of the NFC card, when selected by the NFC card, can emit data by emitting bursts of magnetic field from the antenna coil, so as to compensate for effects of the conductive screen on a maximum distance for transmitting data by load modulation.
US09793955B2	Passive electrical coupling device and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device includes a circuit that receives a signal. At least one passive electrical circuit element generates an electromagnetic field in response to the signal. A portion of the electromagnetic field is guided by a surface of a transmission medium to propagate as a guided electromagnetic wave longitudinally along the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09793942B1	Systems and methods for a switchless radio front end A radio circuit, comprises an antenna; a differential power amplifier, comprising differential transmit inputs and differential transmit outputs, configured to amplify differential transmit signals received via the differential transmit inputs and output the amplified differential transmit signals via the differential transmit outputs; a differential low noise amplifier, comprising differential receive inputs and differential receive outputs, configured to receive differential receive signals via the differential receive inputs and output amplified differential receive signals via the differential receive outputs; and a transformer comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding, the primary winding coupled with the differential transmit outputs of the power amplifier and the differential receive inputs of the low noise amplifier and the secondary winding coupled with the antenna.
US09793939B2	Automatic self-protection for a portable electronic device Provided are techniques for automatically protecting portable and wearable electronic devices from potential hazards by predicting when such hazards may occur. Techniques may include monitoring a plurality of sensors on the mobile computing device; receiving, on the mobile computing device, context data from a plurality of context-service applications; selecting a set of device-protection policies based upon an availability of the plurality of sensors and the plurality of context-service applications, wherein the set of device-protection policies are configured to determine a level of risk to the mobile computing device based on sensor data received from the plurality of sensors and the context data; applying the sensor data and the context data to the set of device-protection policies to generate the level of risk; and triggering a self-protection action if the level of risk exceeds a pre-determined threshold level of risk.
US09793938B2	Intermediate-frequency analogue-to-digital conversion device Provided is an intermediate-frequency analog-to-digital conversion device, including: a gain attenuation module, a gain amplification module, a filter and an analog-to-digital conversion module. The gain attenuation module is configured to perform attenuation processing on a received intermediate-frequency signal. The gain amplification module is connected to the gain attenuation module, and configured to perform amplification processing on a signal that is output from the gain attenuation module. The filter is a variable filter, connected to the gain amplification module, and configured to perform filter processing on a signal that is amplified by a gain amplifier. The analog-to-digital conversion module is connected to the filter, and configured to convert a signal that is filtered by the filter into a digital signal. The technical solution solves the technical problem in the related art and achieves the technical effect of improving the universality of the intermediate-frequency analog-to-digital conversion device.
US09793929B2	Data packing for compression-enabled storage systems A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: repeating the following sequence at least until a page stripe of a memory cache has at least a predetermined amount of data stored therein: finding an open codeword having an amount of available space which is greater than or equal to a size of a compressed logical page, and storing the compressed logical page in the open codeword having the amount of available space which is greater than or equal to a size of the compressed logical page. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US09793928B2	Method and device for measuring the current signal-to-noise ratio when decoding LDPC codes A method for measuring a signal-to-noise ratio when decoding Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes is provided. The method includes receiving from an input of a demodulator an input code word with “strong” or “weak” solutions, decoding the input code word in a LDPC decoder using a predetermined dependence of a mean number of iterations on the signal-to-noise ratio, recording a number of iterations performed during the decoding of the input code word, averaging derived values of the number of iterations for a specified time interval, estimating a signal-to-noise ratio based on averaged derived values of the number of iterations and based on the predetermined dependence of the mean number of iterations on the signal-to-noise ratio, and generating an output decoded code word.
US09793921B2	Methods and apparatus for unified significance map coding Methods and apparatus are provided for unified significance map coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding transform coefficients for at least a portion of a picture. The transform coefficients are obtained using a plurality of transforms. One or more context sharing maps are generated for the transform coefficients based on a unified rule. The one or more context sharing maps are for providing at least one context that is shared among at least some of the transform coefficients obtained from at least two different ones of the plurality of transforms.
US09793916B2	Level shifter, digital-to-analog converter, and buffer amplifier, and source driver and electronic device including the same A level shifter, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a buffer amplifier, and a source driver and an electronic device including the same are provided. The source driver includes a level shifter configured to receive digital bits and provide a level-shifted output signal; a DAC including a resistor string configured to provide a plurality of gradation voltages formed by an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage being received through one end and the other end, and an N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) switch and a P-type MOS (PMOS) switch configured to be controlled by the level-shifted output signal and output a gradation voltage corresponding to the level-shifted output signal; and an amplifier configured to amplify a signal provided by the digital-to-analog converter, and the lower limit voltage is provided to a body electrode of the NMOS switch.
US09793914B2	Analog-to-digital converter, electronic device, and method of controlling analog-to-digital converter An analog signal is accurately converted into a digital signal. An oscillator generates an oscillation signal having a cycle that depends on a signal level of an input analog signal. A current bit generation unit generates, as a current bit, a bit indicating a value of the oscillation signal at each of a plurality of timings within the cycle. A delay unit delays each current bit over a predetermined period and supplies the delayed current bit as a delayed bit. A determination unit determines whether a change amount of a phase of the oscillation signal changed within the predetermined period is greater than a half cycle of the cycle. An output unit generates and outputs data indicating a period in which respective values of the current bit and the delayed bit form a specific combination when the change amount is not greater than the half cycle, and generates and outputs data indicating a period in which the respective values of the current bit and the delayed bit are the same or form the specific combination when the change amount is greater than the half cycle.
US09793911B2	Semiconductor device including analog to digital conversion circuit An object of the present invention is to shorten time required for detecting disconnection in an input terminal of an A/D conversion circuit. A semiconductor device includes a first input channel that couples a first input terminal and an A/D conversion unit to each other, a second input channel that couples a second input terminal and the A/D conversion unit to each other, and a control circuit unit that separates the second input channel from the second input terminal and the A/D conversion unit to charge or discharge the second input channel when a signal input into the first input terminal is sampled by the A/D conversion unit.
US09793904B1	System and method of noise correcting PLL frequency synthesizers An improved noise-corrected phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer configured to reduce noise, such as phase noise and spurious signals, without the use of switching circuits. The synthesizer uses a phase shifter device configured to accept a noise containing frequency signal from a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit, such as an integer-N single loop PLL synthesizer, as well as noise reducing control signals from a noise detecting sensor or circuit, and output a noise reduced VCO frequency signal. In some embodiments, the noise reducing sensor may be formed from a second, lower noise, phase locked loop circuit. The frequency synthesizer circuit, noise detecting sensor, and the phase shifter device are configured to all run continuously, with the noise reducing sensor and frequency shifter continually acting to reduce noise, produced by higher noise integer-N PLL frequency synthesizer.
US09793902B2	Reference-less clock and data recovery circuit Embodiments herein describe a reference-less CDR circuit that receives electrical signals that may have been transmitted along either an electrical or optical interconnect which are then processed to identify the original data. To do so, the CDR circuit includes a frequency locking loop (FLL) and a phase locking loop (PLL) which generate control signals for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). In one embodiment, the FLL generates a coarse adjustment signal which the VCO uses to output a recovered clock that substantially matches the frequency of the received electrical signal. The PLL, on the other hand, generates a fine adjustment signal which the VCO uses to make small adjustments (e.g., half cycle phase shifts) to the recovered clock. The recovered clock outputted by the VCO is then fed back and used as an input in both the FLL and the PLL.
US09793901B2	Integrated circuit An integrated circuit may include: a phase detector suitable for generating a delay control signal by comparing the phases of first and second clock signals to first and second target positions, a variable delay unit suitable for shifting the first and second clock signals to the first and second target positions, respectively, in response to the delay control signal, and a position controller suitable for varying the first and second target positions according to an operation mode.
US09793897B1	Method and circuit for integrating a programmable matrix in the field of reconfigurable logic gates employing a non-lineal system and an efficient programmable rewiring The present invention relates to the field of reconfigurable computing also known as dynamic computing and, more particularly, to reconfigurable architectures logic gates and programmable wiring connections between them and the input interfaces and output interfaces. There is growing interest in developing new hardware architectures to complement or replace existing static architectures, and recently, there has been a theoretical direction to explore the richness of nonlinear dynamical systems to implement reconfigurable hardware (dynamic). The present invention is to use a nonlinear to emulate different logic gates dynamic system that are the basis of general-purpose computing, and after obtaining the logic gates, integrate these elements into a programmable device by the user, ie for create a field programmable array of reconfigurable logic gates.
US09793886B2	Semiconductor device for high-voltage circuit Provided is a semiconductor device capable of preventing a malfunction of a high-side gate driver circuit that is caused by a negative voltage surge. A diode is connected between a p-type bulk substrate configuring a semiconductor layer, and a first potential (GND potential), and a signal is transmitted from a control circuit that is formed in an n diffusion region configuring a first semiconductor region through a first level down circuit and a first level up circuit to a high-side gate driver circuit that is formed in an n diffusion region configuring a second semiconductor region. As a result, a malfunction of the high-side gate driver circuit that is caused by a negative voltage surge can be prevented.
US09793885B2	Method and apparatus for an active negative-capacitor circuit to cancel the input capacitance of comparators A circuit comprises a first amplifier coupled to a first and a second node; a differential capacitive load coupled to the first and the second node, the differential capacitive load coupled between drains of transistors in a cross coupled transistor circuit; a current mirror coupled to a source of each transistor; and a capacitor coupled between the sources of the transistors. A plurality of amplifiers can be coupled to the differential capacitive load, wherein each amplifier comprises a clock-less pre-amplifier of a comparator. The amplifiers may be abutted to one another such that an active transistor of a first differential stage in a first amplifier behaves as a dummy transistor for an adjacent differential stage in a second amplifier.
US09793884B2	Apparatuses and methods for phase interpolating clock signals and for providing duty cycle corrected clock signals Apparatuses and methods for phase interpolating clock signals and for providing duty cycle corrected clock signals are described. An example apparatus includes a clock generator circuit configured to provide first and second clock signals responsive to an input dock signal. A duty phase interpolator circuit may be coupled to the dock generator circuit and configured to provide a first and second duty cycle corrected interpolated clock signals. A duty cycle adjuster circuit may be coupled to the duty phase interpolator circuit and configured to receive the first and second duty cycle corrected interpolated clock signals and provide a duty cycle corrected dock signal responsive thereto. A duty cycle detector may be coupled to the duty cycle adjuster circuit and configured to detect duty cycle error of the duty cycle corrected clock signal and provide the adjustment signals to correct the duty cycle error.
US09793881B2	Flip-flop with zero-delay bypass mux Exemplary embodiments may disclose a flip-flop circuit for inserting a zero-delay bypass mux including a master circuit which is configured to receive a data input, an input clock signal, and a bypass signal, and output an intermediate signal to a first node; and a slave circuit which is configured to receive the intermediate signal at the first node, the input clock signal, and the bypass signal, and output an output clock signal. The bypass signal controls the slave circuit to output one of a buffered input clock signal and a stretched clock signal as the output clock signal based on a logic level of the bypass signal.
US09793880B2	Direct coupled biasing circuit for high frequency applications This invention eliminates the need for “capacitor coupling” or “transformer coupling,” and the associated undesirable parasitic capacitance and inductance associated with these coupling techniques when designing high frequency (˜60 GHz) circuits. At this frequency, the distance between two adjacent stages needs to be minimized. A resonant circuit in series with the power or ground leads is used to isolate a biasing signal from a high frequency signal. The introduction of this resonant circuit allows a first stage to be “directly coupled” to a next stage using a metallic trace. The “direct coupling” technique passes both the high frequency signal and the biasing voltage to the next stage. The “direct coupling” approach overcomes the large die area usage when compared to either the “AC coupling” or “transformer coupling” approach since neither capacitors nor transformers are required to transfer the high frequency signals between stages.
US09793878B2	Power dividing and combining circuit having filtering function A power dividing circuit includes a power dividing input terminal, a high pass filtering module and a low pass filtering module. The power dividing input terminal divides a signal into two divided signals. The high pass filtering module includes two high pass filtering units. The low pass filtering module includes two low pass filtering units. Each divided signal is filtered by one of the two high pass filtering units and one of the two low pass filtering units.
US09793872B2	System and method for digital signal processing The present invention provides methods and systems for digitally processing audio signals. Some embodiments receive an audio signal and converting it to a digital signal. The gain of the digital signal may be adjusted a first time, using a digital processing device located between a receiver and a driver circuit. The adjusted signal can be filtered with a first low shelf filter. The systems and methods may compress the filtered signal with a first compressor, process the signal with a graphic equalizer, and compress the processed signal with a second compressor. The gain of the compressed signal can be adjusted a second time. These may be done using the digital processing device. The signal may then be output through an amplifier and driver circuit to drive a personal audio listening device. In some embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may be part of the personal audio listening device.
US09793869B1	Satellite microphone assembly In one embodiment, a satellite microphone assembly for use in teleconferencing or other audio based communications comprises a base housing a microphone and volume control electronics. The base is enclosed by a cylinder, rotatable about the base and having a top surface configured to be an actuatable button to toggle a mute/unmute status of the microphone. The cylinder has a sidewall configured to be engaged by a user such that the user can rotate the cylinder. An optical sensor is supported by the base, and is configured to detect a rotation of the cylinder and to output information about a direction and a degree of rotation of the cylinder to the volume control electronics, causing a rotation of the cylinder to affect the volume level of a speaker.
US09793864B2	Voltage detecting circuit and power amplifier A voltage detecting apparatus includes a signal extracting circuit configured to extract a coupled signal from a signal output by a power amplifier configured to amplify a signal output by a radio frequency (RF) circuit, and a voltage detecting circuit configured to detect a detection voltage from the coupled signal and provide the detection voltage to the RF circuit. The voltage detecting circuit configured to vary the detection voltage in response to an input control signal.
US09793863B2	Self biased dual mode differential CMOS TIA for 400G fiber optic links A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) device. The device includes a photodiode coupled to a differential TIA with a first and second TIA, which is followed by a Level Shifting/Differential Amplifier (LS/DA). The photodiode is coupled between a first and a second input terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The LS/DA can be coupled to a first and second output terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The TIA device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of CMOS cells, which can be configured using 28 nm process technology to the first and second TIAs. Each of the CMOS cells can include a deep n-type well region. The second TIA can be configured using a plurality CMOS cells such that the second input terminal is operable at any positive voltage level with respect to an applied voltage to a deep n-well for each of the plurality of second CMOS cells.
US09793862B2	Transmitter and transmission method A transmitter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a modulation circuit configured to modulate a baseband signal into a multi-bit digital signal including a component in a radio-frequency band; a plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers corresponding to each bit of the multi-bit digital signal output from the modulation circuit; and a signal synthesis circuit including a band limiting unit configured to perform a band limitation on output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, and a plurality of voltage-to-current converting units configured to perform a voltage-to-current conversion on respective output signals from the plurality of switch-mode power amplifiers, the signal synthesis circuit configured to makes a synthesized signal connecting the band limiting unit and the plurality of voltage-to-current converting units, wherein, depending on an output power at a synthesis point where the synthesized signal is made, a switch-mode power amplifier is selected which is configured to receive input of a pulse, and a pulse number of pulses to be inputted into the selected switch-mode power amplifier is controlled.
US09793860B2	RF amplification device with power protection during high supply voltage conditions Radio frequency (RF) amplification devices are disclosed along with methods of providing power to an RF signal. In one embodiment, an RF amplification device includes an RF amplification circuit and a voltage regulation circuit. The RF amplification circuit includes a plurality of RF amplifier stages coupled in cascade. The voltage regulation circuit is coupled to provide a regulated voltage to a driver RF amplifier stage. The voltage regulation circuit is configured to generate the regulated voltage so that the maximum output power of the RF amplification circuit is provided approximately at a first power level while the supply voltage is above a threshold voltage level. The first power level should be within the physical capabilities of the RF amplification circuit, and thus, the RF amplification circuit is prevented from being damaged once the supply voltage is above the threshold voltage level.
US09793859B1	Amplifier output power limiting circuitry An amplifier system having: an amplifier having a linear operating region where an output signal produced by the amplifier at the output terminal has a power level increasing proportionally with the increasing input signal power level up to a compression region of the amplifier where the output power is inhibited from increasing with increasing input signal power; and a DC current limiting circuit, coupled between a DC power supply and the amplifier, to: supply DC current from the DC power supply that is equal to quiescent current to the amplifier from the DC power supply when the amplifier operates in the linear region; enable the amplifier to draw increasing DC current from the DC power supply above the quiescent current with increasing input signal power until the output signal power reaches the desired compression point level which is lower than that of a stand-alone amplifier without the DC current limiting circuit; and, then limits the current drawn by the amplifier from the DC power supply.
US09793858B2	Transfer function regulation The invention relates to a technique for controlling in an envelope tracking amplification stage, comprising: determining a representation of the output signal of the amplifier; determining a representation of the input signal of the amplifier; adjusting the determined representation of the input signal according to a target characteristic of the amplifier; comparing the adjusted input and determined representation of the output; and generating a control signal in dependence on the comparison.
US09793841B2	Sensor-less circuit and method for detecting a rotor position In accordance with an embodiment, a sensor-less detection circuit is provided that includes a first voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving an induced voltage and a second voltage adjustment circuit coupled for receiving a common voltage. A differential amplifier has an inverting input terminal coupled to the first voltage adjustment circuit and a noninverting input terminal coupled to the second voltage adjustment circuit. In accordance with another embodiment, a method for detecting a motor rotor position is provided that includes receiving a first back electromotive force that is at a first voltage level and shifting the first back electromotive force from the first voltage level to a second voltage level. The first back electromotive force is filtered to generate a first filtered voltage; and a first motor rotor position signal is generated in response to comparing the first filtered voltage with a reference voltage.
US09793840B2	Motor control apparatus A motor control apparatus includes a counter, a margin calculation portion, and a cycle set portion. The counter counts a total number of switching the current supply phase of the coils when the rotor is rotationally driven. A rotation angle of the rotor is detected on a basis of the number of switching. The margin calculation portion calculates a torque margin that is a difference between an output torque of the motor and a load torque acting on the motor. The cycle set portion sets a current supply switching cycle to shorten as the torque margin is greater. The current supply switching cycle is a cycle switching the current supply phase of the coils.
US09793839B2	Motor control circuit A motor control circuit is disclosed, which uses one hall sensor to sense the position of the magnetic poles of three-phase motor, and to execute phase switching mechanism by start controller and operation controller. The motor control circuit drives the three-phase motor from a start state to a normal operation state. In the start state, the start controller controls the switching time and controls storage to transmit the digital models of the phase switching to the operation controller. The operation controller executes the phase switching of the full-bridge circuit according to the received digital models, to drive the three-phase motor. In the normal operation state, the start controller stops transmitting the digital models of the phase switching to the operation controller. The operation controller captures six digital models in sequence once every switching time, and executes the phase switching of the full-bridge circuit, to drive the three-phase motor.
US09793833B1	Dynamic braking of an electric motor using capacitive load charging The invention disclosed herein is an energy recovery system, for an electric motor, that uses the properties of dynamic braking to directly recharge a capacitive load made up of energy storage devices. The system contains switching circuitry that configures the energy storage devices into a capacitive load when braking is needed. Otherwise, the system configures the energy storage devices into a power supply for regular motor operation.
US09793828B2	Vibration power generator Power generated by a vibration power generator using an electret is efficiently supplied to a power supply load. A vibration power generator includes a first substrate and a second substrate configured to be moved relative to each other by external vibration while remaining opposite each other, a group of a plurality of electrets arranged in the relative movement direction on one surface side of the first substrate, and a group of a plurality of electrodes arranged in the relative movement direction on a surface side of the second substrate opposite to the group of electrets, the group of electrodes including first current collecting electrodes and second current collecting electrodes electrically connected to respective power supply loads to which power generated by the external vibration is supplied, and ground electrodes each provided between the first current collecting electrode and the second current collecting electrode and grounded.
US09793827B2	Power conversion system and method A power conversion system includes a first converter effectively connected in series to a second converter. Each converter has a plurality of output levels. A phase-shifted transformer is coupled to the converters. The phase-shifted transformer has a delta-wound winding and an open star winding. The first converter is coupled to the open star winding and the second converter is coupled to the delta winding. The open star winding is configured for direct connection to either of a load or the open star winding of a second phase-shifted transformer, having a delta winding connected to a third converter. One or more DC voltage sources are each connected to the first and second converters by a respective DC link capacitor. Each DC voltage source is connected to a common power grid by an isolated multiphase transformer winding.
US09793815B2	Over current protection in a variable output power supply In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a switch mode power supply may include a transformer, a controller configured to generate a periodic switching signal, a switching transistor coupled between a sense node and the transformer, primarily configured to prevent or permit current flow in the transformer primary winding in accordance with the switching signal, a sense resistor coupled to the switching transistor at a sense node, and a limit circuit configured to obtain a voltage of the sense node at a particular point of the switching period as an indicator of the primary winding current, detect a duration of a demagnetizing interval, and generate a limit signal, based on the sense node voltage and the demagnetizing interval, indicating a power supply output current exceeding a limit threshold.
US09793808B1	Enhanced bidirectional current sensing and replication A current replication circuit includes a bias circuit and a first transistor sized, relative to a second transistor to be sensed, according to a first scaling factor, the first transistor having an on-resistance associated therewith. The current replication circuit further includes at least one transconductance amplifier having first and second signal paths. The first signal path is connected with the bias circuit in a closed loop configuration such that a quiescent bias point of the transconductance amplifier is controlled as a function of the on-resistance of the first transistor. The second signal path is connected with the second transistor in an open loop configuration and is adapted to convert a sensed input voltage to a corresponding current output signal as a function of the quiescent bias point of the transconductance amplifier, the current output signal being proportional to a current flowing through the second transistor.
US09793804B2	Circuits and methods for controlling a three-level buck converter A circuit including: a control system for a three-level buck converter, the three-level buck converter including multiple input switches, each of the input switches receiving one of a plurality of different pulse width modulated signals, the control system including: a first clock signal and a second clock signal, the second clock signal being a phase-shifted version of the first clock signal; ramp generating circuitry receiving the first and second clock signals and producing first and second ramp signals, respectively, from the first and second clock signals; a first comparing circuit receiving the first ramp signal and producing a first one of the pulse width modulated signals therefrom; and a second comparing circuit receiving the second ramp signal and producing a second one of the pulse width modulated signals therefrom.
US09793779B2	Alternator assembly having cooling air flow passages therethrough An engine component cooling system and apparatus, at least one fan and a cover are installed upon the engine component. The fan pulls cool air and force cool air through the component assembly to reduce the heat generated through operation, thereby optimizing operation and extending the useful life of the individual components and the assembly. In one example, a fan and a cover are installed on an alternator assembly so that the fan draws in and forces cool air through the rectifier, rotor, stator, and out through the front of the assembly. The cover prevents cool air from being lost and misdirected, while directing the cool air through the assembly.
US09793778B2	Drive apparatus and robot device A drive apparatus includes a motor having a drive part that rotates a first shaft member; a transmission part that transmits rotation of the first shaft member to a second shaft member which is different from the first shaft member; a first detection device provided at the first shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the drive part; a second detection device provided at the second shaft member to detect information regarding rotation of the transmission part; and a prevention part that prevents movement of foreign substance toward a detection part which includes at least one of the first detection device and the second detection device.
US09793764B2	Sender transducer for wireless power transfer A signal generator generates an electrical signal that is sent to an amplifier, which increases the power of the signal using power from a power source. The amplified signal is fed to a sender transducer to generate ultrasonic waves that can be focused and sent to a receiver. The receiver transducer converts the ultrasonic waves back into electrical energy and stores it in an energy storage device, such as a battery, or uses the electrical energy to power a device. In this way, a device can be remotely charged or powered without having to be tethered to an electrical outlet.
US09793763B2	Refrigerator Disclosed is a refrigerator for uniformly illuminating an inner space thereof. The refrigerator includes a cabinet including a storage compartment having a predetermined size, a shelf installed in the storage compartment, the shelf including a light source unit for illuminating an inside of the storage compartment, a transmitter connected to an external power supply for wirelessly transmitting power, the transmitter having a primary resonance frequency within a predetermined range, and a receiver for wirelessly receiving the power from the transmitter so as to supply the power to the light source unit of the shelf, the transmitter transmitting the power to the receiver using a secondary resonance frequency generated when the receiver is located close to the transmitter.
US09793760B2	Wireless power distribution systems and methods Apparatus, methods and systems of wireless power distribution are disclosed. Embodiments involve the redirection of collimated energy to a converter, which stores or converts the energy into a more suitable form of energy for at least one specific point-of-use that is coupled to the converter.
US09793754B2	Power supply system module A power supply system module that includes a first and second AC terminals, positive and negative DC terminals and a housing. An AC-DC converter is connected to the first and second AC terminals, and a DC-DC converter is connected between the AC-DC converter and an internal DC bus. A protection circuit is connected between the internal DC bus and the positive or negative DC terminal. A control device controls the AC-DC converter and/or the DC-DC converter. The AC-DC converter, the DC-DC converter and the control device are provided inside the housing. The power supply system module also includes a backup battery device that has a backup battery connected to the internal DC bus via a battery management system. The backup battery device is provided inside the housing.
US09793750B2	Portable power charger with power input and power output connection interfaces A portable charger is provided for charging electronic devices from a rechargeable internal battery. To accommodate multiple electronic devices, a portable charger unit is combined with multiple power output connection interfaces for connecting to more than one electronic device, as necessary, including connector cables attached to the charger housing or power connection ports. The charger also includes at least one power input connection interface for recharging the internal battery from an external power source, including an AC wall plug interface and a DC car charger interface, each connected to the charger housing and movable between a retracted, storage position and an extended use position. The power output connector cables can also be stored within storage cavities formed in the charger housing when not in use and extended therefrom for connection with electronic devices in need of recharging. The power connection ports can act as power inputs, power outputs, or both.
US09793749B2	Vehicle charging apparatus A vehicle charging apparatus includes: an electric generator 3 that is driven by an internal combustion engine 1 and outputs an adjustable alternating-current voltage; a rectifier 4 that converts the outputted alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage; an electric storage device 5 that is charged with the converted direct-current voltage; and a voltage sensor 6 that measures an output voltage of the rectifier 4. The vehicle charging apparatus is provided with a control device 7 that controls the electric generator 3 for a charging voltage to be a target charging voltage calculated from the output voltage in order to suppress a charging current to be lower than a charging current upper limit value when the electric storage device 5 is charged. It thus becomes possible to achieve efficiency higher than that of a charging apparatus in the related art while preventing deterioration or damage of the electric storage device.
US09793744B2	Interface and mounting structure for a wireless charger or intermediate piece A wireless charging system for power tools and other devices includes a charging module, docking frame, and tool holder. When a device is placed on a charging surface of the charging module, the charging module is configured to wirelessly charge the device. The charging module can be mounted within the docking frame or the tool holder via a mounting interface, and the tool holder can be affixed to a rigid surface. The docking frame can also be attached to a rigid surface, or can be mounted within the tool holder as an intermediate piece. The tool holder is configured to support the charging module such that the charging surface is at an angle. This configuration optimally locates the device relative to the charging module and allows the charging surface to act as a resting surface for the device between operations.
US09793740B2	Apparatus and method for charge control in wireless charging system An apparatus and a method for charge control are provided. The apparatus for charge control may include an integrated direct current-to-direct current (DC/DC) converter configured to step up an output voltage level of a load to be greater than or equal to a supply voltage level set in a power amplifier, and the power amplifier configured to convert a direct current (DC) voltage stepped up by the integrated DC/DC converter into an alternating current (AC) voltage based on a resonant frequency, and to amplify the converted AC voltage. The apparatus for charge control may include a rectification unit configured to convert an AC power received wirelessly into a DC power; and a DC/DC converter configured to step down a voltage level of the DC power to a voltage level required by a load in the receiving mode.
US09793736B2	Fast charging method for battery The present invention provides a fast charging method for battery, including the steps as follows: (1) the battery is charged with a constant current I1 and the charging time is t1; (2) the battery is charged with a constant current I2 and the charging time is t2; (3) the battery is discharged with the constant current I2 and the discharging time is t3, recycling until the voltage reaches a pre-charging voltage of battery; (4) the battery is standed after the voltage reaching the pre-charging voltage of battery, and the rest time is t4, and then the battery is charged with a constant current I3 until the voltage reaching a cut-off voltage of battery, and then the battery is charged with a constant voltage until the current reaching a cut-off current I4; wherein, I2
US09793734B2	Monitoring cells in energy storage system A system for monitoring an energy storage system composed of multiple cells connected in series has a chain of monitors including at least first and second monitors. The first monitor is configured for monitoring at least a first cell in the energy storage system to produce first monitored data. The second monitor is configured for monitoring at least a second cell in the energy storage system to produce second monitored data. The first monitor is further configured for transferring the first monitored data to the second monitor for delivery to a controller.
US09793732B2	Battery backed power-over-Ethernet system A power control system arranged for use in a power-over-Ethernet system and a method of operating the power control system are generally disclosed. The power control system may comprises a battery, a battery charging unit connected to, and for charging, the battery and a processor arranged to monitor the charge level of the battery and, in response, to direct current to, or away from, the battery. The method may comprise the steps of monitoring the current requirement of and the current supplied to, the load; monitoring the charge level of the battery; monitoring the current supplied by the power sourcing device; and adjusting the current supplied to the load, the current supplied by the power sourcing device and charge level of the battery in response to said monitoring.
US09793729B2	Uninterruptible power supply having removable battery A UPS includes a battery contained within a battery housing. The battery housing has a first connector mounted on the battery housing. The UPS further includes a housing having a battery compartment for removably containing the battery housing of the battery. The housing has a second connector mounted within the battery compartment. The second connector is configured to mate with the first connector. The UPS further includes a first input configured to receive input power from an AC power source and at least one output configured to provide output AC power derived from the input power in a first mode of operation and configured to provide output power derived from the at least one battery module in a second mode of operation. The battery housing has a third connector configured to be coupled to a mobile device to provide power to the mobile device.
US09793725B2	Battery cell balancing circuit using LC serial resonance The present invention relates to a technology capable of improving the use time of a battery cell by generally or individually controlling charge or discharge with respect to a multi-battery cell by using LC serial resonance in a module with a multi-battery cell structure. To this end, the present invention includes a battery module including a plurality of serially connected battery cells, a serial resonant circuit including serially connected inductor and capacitor and performing a serial resonant function, and first to third switch units that set an electric energy collection path and an electric energy supply path between the battery module and the serial resonant circuit.
US09793724B2	System and method for monitoring and balancing voltage of individual battery cells within a battery pack Systems and methods for a scalable battery controller are disclosed. In one example, a circuit board coupled to a battery cell stack is designed to be configurable to monitor and balance battery cells of battery cell stacks that may vary depending on battery pack requirements. Further, the battery pack control module may configure software instructions in response to a voltage at a battery cell stack.
US09793719B2	Non-contact power supply apparatus A non-contact power supply apparatus includes a transmission-side pad, a transmission-side resonant circuit, a reception-side pad, a reception-side resonant circuit, a power transmission circuit, a power reception circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls an alternating-current voltage supplied to the transmission-side pad and an alternating-current voltage supplied to the power reception circuit, so that a power factor of the alternating current supplied from the power transmission circuit to the transmission-side pad connected to the transmission-side resonant circuit and direct-current power supplied from the power supply circuit to an on-board battery are respectively set to target values. As a result, change in power factor can be suppressed even when the coupling coefficient of the transmission-side pad and the reception-side pad changes, and predetermined electric power can be transmitted.
US09793716B2	Power meter disconnect switch operation Techniques are disclosed herein for improved power meter disconnect switch operation, which may include opening and/or closing of the disconnect switch. In particular, for reasons such as reduction of electromechanical stress on the disconnect switch, the disconnect switch may be operated based, at least in part, on a voltage at the load side of the disconnect switch. For example, in some cases, the disconnect switch may be opened slightly before a zero crossover of a waveform corresponding to the load side voltage. As another example, in some cases, the disconnect switch may be closed slightly before or slightly after a zero crossover of a waveform corresponding to the load side voltage.
US09793715B2	Portable load balancing and source optimization Methods, systems, and devices for portable load balancing and source optimization are described herein. One portable load balancing and source optimization system, includes one or more electric generators that supply three phase electrical power, at least one sensor to sense whether the three phases have become unbalanced beyond a threshold amount, a set of contactors that enable the contacts of the three phases to be changed to adjust the balance of the three phases, and a controller to determine which reversible contactors of the set of contactors to change to adjust that balance of the three phases based on information from the sensor.
US09793714B2	Methods and arrangements for controlling power generators Methods and arrangements for controlling the reactive power of a power generator from an initial reactive power state to a desired reactive power state are disclosed. The power generator belongs to a power farm coupled to an electrical grid. During a transition state, changes in voltage and reactive power demand are detected and control of reactive power is passed from the power farm to the power generator controller, then to a transition controller and finally back to the power farm. The power generator may be a wind turbine and the power farm a wind farm.
US09793706B2	Current limiting systems and methods Presented systems and methods can facilitate efficient switching and protection in electronic systems. A system can comprise: an input operable to receive a signal; an adjustable component configurable to operate in a first mode which includes a low resistance and the component configurable to operate in a second mode which includes a current limiting operation in which the second mode enables continued operation in conditions that are unsafe for operation in the first mode; and an output operable to forward a signal. The adjustable component can be configurable to turn off if unsafe to operate in either the first mode or second mode. The first mode can include a relatively large component configuration with a relatively low drain to source on resistance. Utilizing a small component configuration in the second mode can include a relatively increased gate to source voltage compared to a large component configuration in the second mode.
US09793703B2	Protecting a permanent magnet generator A method for protecting a permanent magnet generator of a wind turbine with a multiphase generator, and n number of isolated converters, the multiphase generator including a rotor carrying permanent magnets and n number of independent multiphase sub-stators comprising a plurality of windings, each converter being connected to an independent multiphase sub-stator and configured to control the plurality of windings of the multiphase sub-stator comprises determining an asymmetrical short circuit current in one of the sub-stators, which generates a first oscillating torque, disconnecting the converter linked to the sub-stator with an asymmetrically short circuited group of windings, and injecting an asymmetrical current with the remaining connected converters, wherein said injected asymmetrical current generates a second oscillating torque that is substantially opposed in phase to the first oscillating torque so that the first oscillating torque is at least partly compensated is disclosed. Permanent magnet generators are also disclosed.
US09793697B1	Junction box and plug-ins A junction box assembly is presented. The junction box has a top side, left side, right side, bottom side and rear side which define a space therein. The junction box assembly also features a plurality of openings within at least one of the sides. An interface is disposed within the junction box assembly and has a plurality of connectors disposed thereon, the interface capable of receiving a wire through said at least one opening and wherein said wire is capable of being placed in electrical and mechanical communication with at least one of the connectors. The junction box assembly is capable of receiving a plug-in inserted therein and providing electrical communication between the wire and the plug-in through said at least one of the connectors.
US09793690B2	Apparatus for pushing conductors into conduit and other structures An apparatus and methods for pushing conductors into conduit and other structures are disclosed. The apparatus (“pusher”) can include rollers to apply a pushing force to one or more conductors or bundles of conductors. One or more rollers can be coupled to a drive mechanism. The pusher is configured to pull conductors or bundles of conductors off of one or more spools, and push the conductors or bundles of conductors without de-bundling or sorting the conductors. The conductors can be fed through the pusher in any format including side-by-side, vertical on top of one another, twisted together, or other formats. The pusher can include a guiding device that is configured to route the conductors from the pusher to a conduit through which the conductors are being pushed or pulled.
US09793688B2	Sparkplug having variable spark gap and ignition device for the same A center electrode is electrically coupled with a main terminal. A ground electrode is opposed to the center electrode to form a gap therebetween. A piezo actuator changes in length on application of a voltage. The piezo actuator actuates one of the center electrode and the ground electrode to manipulate the gap.
US09793677B1	Single pulse laser apparatus Disclosed herein is a single pulse laser apparatus that includes: a resonator having a first mirror, a second mirror, a gain medium, an electro-optic modulator (EOM) configured to perform single pulse switching, and an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) configured to perform mode-locking; a photodiode configured to measure a laser beam oscillated in the resonator; a synchronizer configured to convert an electrical signal, which is generated by measuring the laser beam, into a transistor-transistor logic (TTL) signal; a delay unit configured to set a delay time for the TTL signal to synchronize the EOM and the AOM and output a trigger TTL signal according to the delay time; an AOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the AOM that performs mode-locking and drive the AOM; and an EOM driver configured to input the trigger TTL signal to the EOM that performs single pulse switching and drive the EOM.
US09793666B2	Electrical apparatus having a top-hat rail mount and a conductor connection An electrical apparatus includes a top-hat rail mount and a first conductor connection with a clamping point. A conductor can be secured via the clamping point. The electrical apparatus can be connected to a top-hat rail via a rotational movement about a rotational axis at the top-hat rail mount. In an embodiment, the first conductor connection be embodied and arranged in such a way that in the state in which the apparatus is connected to the top-hat rail via its top-hat rail mount, the longitudinal axis of a straight conductor which is accommodated in the first conductor connection is located essentially perpendicularly with respect to a straight line which is oriented orthogonally with respect to the rotational axis and which intersects the rotational axis and the clamping point.
US09793657B2	Electrical connector with a metallical supporting member secured thereto A high-profile electrical connector includes a terminal module, a metallic shell and a metallic supporting member. The terminal module has an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals. The insulative housing has a base portion provided with a mounting face and an insulative mating portion. The conductive terminals have contacting portions and connecting legs. The metallic shell shielding around the terminal module has a metallic mating portion surrounding around the insulative mating portion and a plurality of printed circuit board mounting legs. The metallic mating portion has a lower face which is higher than the mounting face. The metallic supporting member has a supporting plate used for supporting the lower face and at least a supporting leg extending downwardly. The supporting plate is higher than the mounting face so that the supporting plate is spaced from an upper surface of the printed circuit board.
US09793652B2	Contact device for contacting an electric conductor and an electrical connector to an electrical conductor track A contacting device has a housing having a first opening for inserting the electrical conductor and the electrical plug into a cavity in the housing, and having a second opening for inserting the electrical conducting track into the cavity in the housing. The contacting device further has a contact bridge which is arranged in the cavity in the housing and comprises a first portion for fixing the electrical conductor to the electrical conducting track in a force fit, and a second portion for retaining the electrical plug on the electrical conducting track and pressing it thereagainst.
US09793646B2	Electronic device There is provided an electronic device includes a terminal port disposed at a side surface of a casing, and a cap for covering the terminal port in an openable and closable manner, wherein the cap includes a fitting portion for fitting into the terminal port, a pressing surface exposed on the side surface of the casing, and a cap-turning support configured to support the cap in the openable and closable manner with respect to the terminal port, the pressing surface of the cap is perpendicular to a fitting direction of the cap into the terminal port, and a portion located above and/or below the terminal port in the side surface of the casing constitutes a first protrusion configured to outwardly protrude in an arc-like shape from the side surface of the casing more than the pressing surface in a state where the cap is closed.
US09793644B2	Waterproof connector and electronic equipment A waterproof connector (1) includes: a first shell (2) having an approximately tubular form, formed of metal and disposed on a plug insertion side; a second shell (3) having an approximately tubular form, formed of metal and engaged with a rear portion of the first shell (2); an outer sealing member (4) provided on an outer circumference of the first shell (2) so as to abut on a front surface portion (31) of the second shell (3) positioned on an outer side of the first shell (2); a supporting portion (5) accommodated in a wall form in a rear portion of an engagement assembly of the first shell (2) and the second shell (3) in a state in which water does not enter toward a rear side from a space between the engagement assembly and the supporting portion; and contact terminals (6) supported by the supporting portion (5). At least one of the first shell (2) and the second shell (3) is seamless. In this way, it is possible to provide a waterproof connector having a low manufacturing cost and excellent manufacturing efficiency, capable of securing a waterproof performance, decreasing the length of the connector, improving the strength of the shell, and eliminating the need of a resin housing for preventing entrance of water.
US09793642B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly is provided with a housing forming an exterior, an inlet end, a cavity, and an outlet end. The housing has a recess formed within the exterior and at least one aperture formed through the housing within the recess for venting the cavity. A cord extends through the inlet end into the cavity. The first housing portion has a first fastener mechanism formed within the cavity. The second housing portion is provided with a second fastener mechanism sized to extend into the first housing portion cavity for engagement with the first fastener mechanism to fasten the first housing portion and the second housing portion together. A molded material is disposed within the cavity for engaging the fastened first and second fastener mechanisms for minimizing unfastening of the first and second fastener mechanisms. Retainers are provided for cords of varying thicknesses.
US09793639B1	Electrical connector system with multiple flexible terminal retaining beams An electrical connector system including a connector having a terminal cavity within. The cavity has a rigid floor with a lock nib extending into the cavity, a first flexible beam extending into a rearward portion of the cavity and a second flexible beam extending into a forward portion. The first and second beams both overlie the floor. The system further includes a terminal having a top surface and a bottom surface defining a rigid lock edge. The terminal is received in the cavity such that the first beam engages a rearward portion of the top surface of the terminal and the second beam engages a forward portion of the top surface, thereby biasing the terminal towards the floor. The lock edge engages the lock nib, thereby preventing the terminal from being inadvertently withdrawn from the terminal receiving cavity. The connector may be formed by an additive manufacturing process.
US09793633B2	Electrical connector with a grounding bar connecting the terminals of a plurality of ground contact wafers and shielding braids of cables A cable connector includes an insulative shell defining a receiving cavity extending along a front-to-back direction, a number of contact wafers retained in the receiving cavity, a number of cables, and a ground bar. The contact wafers include a number of signal contact wafers and a number of ground contact wafers arranged alternately. Each of the contact wafers includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. Each of the terminals includes a deflectable contacting section, a middle section, and a tail section. Each of the cables includes a conductive core connecting with a corresponding tail section and a shielding braid surrounding around the conductive core. The ground bar physically and electrically connects with the tail sections of the ground wafers and the shielding braids.
US09793629B2	Electric connector The retainability and electric connection reliability of a plate-shaped signal transmission medium can be increased by a simple configuration while the operability of an actuator is improved. Pre-pressing protruding portions which create a clicking sensation of a turning operation of the actuator are provided in part of a region in a longitudinal direction of the actuator so that the pressing force of the pre-pressing protruding portions with respect to the plate-shaped signal transmission medium is applied to the part in the longitudinal direction of the actuator, and the pressing force of the pre-pressing protruding portions with respect to the plate-shaped signal transmission medium is prevented from being largely increased even when the actuator is enlarged in the multipolar arrangement direction. As a result, the operating force for the actuator is reduced, and, on the other hand, the final fixation state of the plate-shaped signal transmission medium is configured to be good by maintaining the pressing force of the medium pressing portion.
US09793617B2	Electrical wire-connecting structure and method for manufacturing electrical wire-connecting structure Provided is an electrical wire-connecting structure, and a manufacturing method thereof, with which it is easy to ensure watertightness between a crimping terminal and an insulated electrical wire. A crimping terminal (11) having a tubular portion (25) is prepared in which a first cylindrical portion (52) into which a core wire portion (14) of an electrical wire (13) is inserted is formed with a smaller diameter than a second cylindrical portion (54) into which an insulation covering portion (15) of the electrical wire (13) is inserted, and an inner diameter of the second cylindrical portion (54) is in the range of 1.0 to 1.7 times an outer diameter of the insulation covering portion (15). The electrical wire (13) is inserted into the tubular portion (25), and the second cylindrical portion (54) and the insulation covering portion (15) are compressively crimped.
US09793616B2	Shared antenna structures for near-field communications and non-near-field communications circuitry Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may include conductive housing structures such as a peripheral conductive housing member. The antenna structures may be based on an inverted-F antenna resonating element or other types of antenna resonating element. An electronic device may have near field communications circuitry and non-near-field communications circuitry such as cellular telephone, satellite navigation system, or wireless local area network transceiver circuitry. Antenna structures may be configured to handle signals associated with the non-near-field communications circuitry. The antenna structures may also have portions that form a near field communications loop antenna for handling signals associated with the near field communications circuitry.
US09793613B2	Additive manufacturing for radio frequency hardware A method and apparatus is presented. A structure having an interior channel is formed using additive manufacturing equipment. A viscous media containing abrasive particles is sent through the interior channel using abrasive flow machining equipment to form a desired surface roughness for the interior channel.
US09793612B1	Reduced profile leaky-wave antenna A reduced profile leaky-wave antenna and methods for manufacture therefor can include an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The outer conductor can be arranged in a coaxial relationship around the inner conductor to define an annular waveguide. A helical aperture can be formed in the outer conductor, to establish a leaky-wave antenna configuration. The helical aperture can have a helical pitch, which can be chosen according to the desired physical length of the antenna. For monopole reduced profile leaky-wave antennas, a metallic disk can optionally be placed the distal end of the antenna. For dipole reduced profile leaky-wave antenna embodiments, a metallic disk can be place at both ends of the antenna. The devices and methods of the present invention have the added advantage of allowing for the same feed structure to be used for both monopole antennas and dipole antennas.
US09793610B2	Method and apparatus for radio frequency tuning utilizing a determined use case A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a memory, a transceiver, a plurality of antennas coupled with the transceiver, a matching network coupled with at least one of the plurality of antennas, a detector coupled with the matching network where the detector obtains operational data associated with at least two of the plurality of antennas, and a controller circuit coupled with the detector and the matching network. The controller circuit can analyze the operational data to determine an operational data differential between the at least two of the plurality of antennas. The controller circuit selects a use case for the communication device from among a group of use cases stored in the memory based on the operational data differential. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09793608B2	Ferrite composition, ferrite plate, member for antenna element, and antenna element An object is to provide a ferrite composition suitable for an antenna element with a long communication distance in a high-frequency band (for example, 13.56 MHz), a ferrite plate formed of the ferrite composition, a magnetic member for an antenna element formed of the ferrite plate, and an antenna element provided with a member for an antenna element. A ferrite composition, wherein: main components contain, with Fe2O3 conversion, 45.0-49.5 mol % of iron oxide, with CuO conversion, 4.0-16.0 mol % of copper oxide, with ZnO conversion, 19.0-25.0 mol % of zinc oxide, a remaining portion is constituted by nickel oxide, an inevitable impurity is removed with respect to the main components, and as accessory components, with TiO2 conversion, 0.5-2 weight % of titanium oxide, with CoO conversion, 0.35-2 weight % of cobalt oxide are contained.
US09793602B2	Multiband MIMO vehicular antenna assemblies Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of multiband MIMO vehicular antenna assemblies. In an exemplary embodiment, a multiband MIMO vehicular antenna assembly generally includes a chassis and an outer cover or radome. The outer cover is coupled to the chassis such that an interior enclosure is collectively defined by the outer cover and the chassis. An antenna carrier or inner radome is within the interior enclosure. The antenna carrier has inner and outer surfaces spaced apart from the chassis and the outer cover. One or more antenna elements are along and/or in conformance with the outer surface of the antenna carrier so as to generally follow the contour of a corresponding portion of the antenna carrier.
US09793600B2	Wireless communication module and communication terminal apparatus incorporating the same A wireless communication module includes a multilayer structure including a magnetic block and at least one non-magnetic layer stacked on the magnetic block, the magnetic block including at least one magnetic layer, at least one inductor element disposed at the magnetic block, and an antenna coil disposed at the non-magnetic layer so as to overlap the inductor element in a planar view along a stacking direction of the non-magnetic layer with respect to the magnetic block, wherein the magnetic layer is present between the inductor element and the antenna coil.
US09793597B2	Antenna with active elements A multi-frequency antenna comprising an IMD element, one or more active tuning elements and one or more parasitic elements. The IMD element is used in combination with the active tuning and parasitic elements for enabling a variable frequency at which the antenna operates, wherein, when excited, the parasitic elements may couple with the IMD element to change an operating characteristic of the IMD element.
US09793594B2	Dielectric resonator/filter having a hollow dielectric cylinder with pre-defined areas plated with silver A dielectric resonator and a dielectric filter are provided. The inner wall or the outer wall of the dielectric resonator is plated with silver. With the technical solution, it can be guaranteed that the volume of a dielectric resonant column of which the inner wall or the outer wall is plated with silver is reduced by about 35% as compared with the volume of an ordinary dielectric filter, or the volume of the dielectric resonator is reduced under the condition of the same cavity body. In addition, the dielectric resonator is stable and reliable in filtering performance, simple in production process, and overcomes the defect of large size of the universal dielectric resonator in the related art in the low communication frequency band.
US09793593B1	Power combiners and dividers including cylindrical conductors and capable of receiving and retaining a gas A power combiner/divider includes a main conductor; a ground conductor radially exterior of the main conductor; an input connector having a center conductor electrically coupled to the main conductor and having a second conductor electrically coupled to the ground conductor; a conductive cylinder including an inner cylindrical surface radially exterior of and spaced apart from the main conductor, including an outer cylindrical surface; a second ground conductor radially exterior of the outer cylindrical surface of the conductive cylinder, a gap being defined between the second ground conductor and the outer surface of the conductive cylinder; a plurality of output connectors, the output connectors having center conductors electrically coupled to the conductive cylinder and having respective second conductors electrically coupled to the second ground conductor; and means for receiving and retaining a gas inside the divider/combiner. Methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US09793588B2	Waveguide switch A movable waveguide block 50 having transmission lines 51 and 52 slides in a non-contact manner between a first end surface 30b of a first fixing waveguide block 30 having transmission lines 31 and 32 and a second end surface 40a of a second fixing waveguide block 40 having a transmission line 41, and switching of propagation paths is performed. Grooves 35A, 35B, 36A, 36B, 45A, 45B, 55A, 55B, 56A, 56B, 57A, 57B, 58A, and 58B having depths equivalent to ¼ of a guide wavelength of an electromagnetic wave of a leakage prevention object are provided in pairs around openings of the transmission lines 31, 32, 41, 51, and 52 facing each other across a gap between blocks. Accordingly, unintended leakage of electromagnetic waves to the transmission lines via the gap between the blocks is prevented, and isolation increases.
US09793585B2	Battery system having an external thermal management system Battery systems and modules having external thermal management systems are provided. In one embodiment, a battery module includes a housing and at least one electrochemical cell disposed within the housing. The battery module also includes a thermal interface having a first side in contact with the at least one electrochemical cell. The battery module also includes a heat sink in contact with a second side of the thermal interface. The thermal interface is adapted to enable heat transfer from the at least one electrochemical cell to the heat sink.
US09793579B2	Batteries for use in implantable medical devices The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for identifying conditions in a battery that predict fault or failure, alerting a user to the condition, and providing solutions to mitigate the potential harm that would otherwise result from the fault or failure. Further provided are battery casing designs for improved safety. These systems, devices, and methods are applicable to batteries generally, and are particularly useful in the field of implanted medical devices for mitigating the dangers of battery faults or explosions occurring within the body.
US09793576B2	Nonaqueous electrolytic solution and energy storage device using same The present invention is to provide a nonaqueous electrolytic solution prepared by dissolving an electrolyte salt in a nonaqueous solvent and an energy storage device, wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes LiPF2(—OC(═O)—C(═O)O—)2 and at least one kind of a compound having a carbon-carbon triple bond represented by the following general formula (I): (wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally substituted with a halogen atom; and R3 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group. X represents a hydrogen atom or —CR1R2—OS(═O)2—R3.).
US09793562B2	Fuel cell system, fuel cell-mounted vehicle and method of controlling fuel system When a first timing at which a fuel gas is injected to a fuel gas supply flow path by an injector and a second timing at which water residing on a circulation flow path is discharged by controlling rotating speed of a circulation pump coincide with each other, a controller performs either: (i) a first process of operating the circulation pump at a preset RPM without injecting the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply flow path by the injector; or (ii) a second process of injecting the fuel gas to the fuel gas supply flow path by the injector and operating the circulation pump at an RPM lower than the preset RPM.
US09793561B2	Fuel cell system and control method of fuel cell system An object is to provide a technique that a current state of a fuel cell may be detected more accurately. A fuel cell system includes a controller, a fuel cell, and an impedance measurer that may measure an impedance of the fuel cell. The controller obtains a first impedance value that expresses the impedance of the fuel cell in a predetermined state, acquires a second impedance value that expresses the impedance of the fuel cell that is measured by the impedance measurer during operation control of the fuel cell, and performs operation control of the fuel cell using the first impedance value and the second impedance value.
US09793560B2	Estimation of the state of charge of a positive electrolyte solution of a working redox flow battery cell without using any reference electrode A Method and device for measurement is disclosed in operation, an undivided cell sensor immersed at any desirable point of the positive electrolyte circuit is constantly supplied at a controlled fixed DC bias voltage between the positive metal electrode and the porous carbon counter-electrode by an appropriate voltage regulator of adequate power capability, or cyclically at two or more different voltages, all within a range that includes the region between 0.35V and 0.45V, measuring simultaneously the current flowing across the undivided cell sensor at the fixed voltage or voltages bias. By correlating the paired voltage and current values, using a look up table compiled at calibration, estimated values of the degree of oxidation or state of charge of the redox ion couple of the positive electrolyte solution are produced.
US09793542B2	Beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide electrochemically active cathode material and a battery including said material The invention is directed towards an electrochemically active cathode material. The electrochemically active cathode includes beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide. The beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide has an X-ray diffraction pattern. The X-ray diffraction pattern of the beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide includes a first peak from about 14.9°2θ to about 16.0°2θ; a second peak from about 21.3°2θ to about 22.7°2θ; a third peak from about 37.1°2θ to about 37.4°2θ; a fourth peak from about 43.2°2θ to about 44.0°2θ; a fifth peak from about 59.6°2θ to about 60.6°2θ; and a sixth peak from about 65.4°2θ to about 65.9°2θ.
US09793536B2	Pellet form cathode for use in a biocompatible battery Methods and apparatus to form biocompatible energization elements are described. In some examples, the methods and apparatus to form the biocompatible energization elements involve forming pellets comprising active cathode chemistry. The active elements of the cathode and anode are sealed with a biocompatible material. In some examples, a field of use for the methods and apparatus may include any biocompatible device or product that requires energization elements.
US09793534B2	Battery pack and wiring substrate A battery pack includes a pack body that includes a battery cell and that has an external shape substantially symmetric with respect to the horizontal and vertical axes, viewed from a front face on which terminals are arranged, and a terminal unit on the front face. The terminal unit includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, a control terminal, and a temperature detection terminal for outputting temperature data. The positive terminal and the negative terminal are arranged on one side with respect to a center line in the width direction of the pack body. The control terminal is arranged symmetrically to the temperature detection terminal with respect to the center line in the width direction of the pack body.
US09793529B2	Layered-double-hydroxide-oriented film and method for producing same Provided is a layered double hydroxide oriented membrane in which layered double hydroxide plate-like particles are highly oriented in the approximately perpendicular direction and which is also suitable for densification. The layered double hydroxide oriented membrane of the present invention is composed of a layered double hydroxide represented by the general formula: M2+1-xM3+x(OH)2An−x/n.mH2O wherein M2+ is a divalent cation, M3+ is a trivalent cation, An− is an anion having a valency of n, n is an integer of 1 or greater, x is 0.1 to 0.4, and m is 0 or greater, wherein when a surface of the oriented membrane is measured by X-ray diffractometry, a peak of a (003) plane is not substantially detected or is detected to be smaller than a peak of a (012) plane.
US09793528B2	Separator with improved thermal stability and secondary battery comprising the same A separator having a microcapsule including a core-shell layer-spacer layer with improved thermal stability and methods for releasing the thermal stabilizer loaded microcapsule on the overheating of a battery using the same are achieved.
US09793525B2	Solid-state battery electrodes Embodiments of solid-state batteries, battery components, and related construction methods are described. The components include one or more embodiments of a low melt temperature electrolyte bonded solid-state rechargeable battery electrode and one or more embodiments of a composite separator having a low melt temperature electrolyte component. Embodiments of methods for fabrication of solid-state batteries and battery components are described. These methods include co-extrusion, hot pressing and roll casting.
US09793520B2	Flexible folding battery cover Battery covers and methods for producing battery covers are described. One battery cover described herein includes a single sheet of material formed into a substantially rectangular box shape with an opening formed along one side, the rectangular box shape capable of being folded into a flattened shape for transportation and the material including a flexible laminate of at least one layer of synthetic fiber and a polymer film layer. The material has a thickness and other properties such that when the battery cover is unfolded, the material substantially maintains the rectangular box shape, and when the battery cover is folded into the flattened shape, the material maintains a spring force such that, unless restrained, the battery cover would unfold to the rectangular box shape.
US09793515B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus including reflection adjusting layer An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: pixel electrodes spaced apart from one another; a pixel defining layer overlapping edges of each of the pixel electrodes; an opposite electrode commonly overlapping the pixel electrodes and the pixel defining layer; an emission layer provided in plural between the pixel electrodes and the opposite electrode, the plural emission layers respectively overlapping the pixel electrodes; a reflection adjustment layer overlapping the pixel electrodes and the pixel defining layer, the reflection adjustment layer having conductivity and contacting the opposite electrode; and a phase control layer provided in plural spaced apart from each other between the opposite electrode and the reflection adjustment layer.
US09793512B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a bending area between a first region and a second region and configured to be bent at the bending area, a display portion above the substrate in the first region, a protective film below the substrate and including a protective film base and an adhesive layer, wherein the protective film base has an opening corresponding to the bending area or the protective film base corresponds to at least a portion of the first region, and wherein the adhesive layer is between the substrate and the protective film base and forms an integral body above the first region, the bending area, and the second region, and at least a portion of the adhesive layer that corresponds to the bending area has a hardness different from that of at least a portion of the adhesive layer corresponding to the first region.
US09793511B2	Filler material for organic electroluminescent element and method of sealing organic electroluminescent element A filler material for an organic electroluminescent element, formed of a resin composition being liquid at 25° C., and containing a hydrocarbon polymer having a number average molecular weight of 300 or more and less than 32,000 and an organometallic compound represented by M-Ln (wherein, M represents a metal atom; L represents an organic group having 9 or more carbon atoms and 1 or more oxygen atoms, and all of L represent the same organic group; and n represents the valence of a metal atom M), wherein a contact angle to silicon nitride is 10 to 40 degrees, and an amount of outgassing other than moisture upon heating at 85° C. for 1 hour is 500 ppm or less in terms of a toluene equivalent, and a method of sealing an organic electroluminescent element using the same.
US09793509B2	Packaging apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a packaging apparatus, which relates to a preparing field of display technology and can solve a problem of the poor bonding state between a packaging cover plate and a substrate to be packaged, improving a quality of assembled product. The packaging apparatus comprises: an upper sealing unit and a lower sealing unit which have recesses and are movable towards each other to engage and form a cavity, wherein upper suction columns for fixing a packaging cover plate is disposed inside the recess of the upper sealing unit and a bearing table for bearing a substrate to be packaged is disposed inside the recess of the lower sealing unit, and seal glue is disposed on a face of the substrate to be packaged facing the packaging cover plate; a suction mechanism for vacuumizing the cavity; a leveling mechanism for adjusting a levelness of the packaging cover plate and/or the substrate to be packaged; a displacing mechanism for driving the packaging cover plate and/or the substrate to be packaged to move towards each other so that the packaging cover plate contacts the seal glue; an inflation mechanism for filling gas into the cavity after vacuumizing.
US09793486B2	Polymer compound and light-emitting element using the same A polymer compound is provided having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): wherein: R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, a mono-valent aromatic heterocyclic group, an alkoxy group or an aryloxy group, and Ar1 represents an arylene group or a di-valent condensed polycyclic aromatic heterocyclic group.
US09793484B2	Composition comprising polymeric organic semiconducting compounds The present invention relates to novel compositions comprising one or more polymeric organic semiconducting (OSC) compounds and one or more organic solvents. The composition preferably comprises 3,4-dimethyl anisole as solvent. Furthermore, the present invention describes the use of these compositions as inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLED) devices, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices, OLED devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
US09793466B2	Ultrasonic sensor and manufacturing method thereof An ultrasonic sensor includes a substrate. A first electrode and a first piezoelectric layer are stacked on one side of the substrate. A second electrode and a second piezoelectric layer are stacked on the other side of the substrate. A notch is defined in the first piezoelectric layer. And a conductive film is coated within the notch to couple the first electrode and the first piezoelectric layer.
US09793463B2	Piezoelectric vibration module Disclosed herein is a piezoelectric vibration module capable of improving adhesion between a piezoelectric element and an external electrode disposed on the piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric vibration module, including: a piezoelectric element printing patterns of a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode therein and having a first external electrode electrically connected to the first internal electrode and a second external electrode electrically connected to the second internal electrode on an external surface thereof, wherein the first external electrode and the second external electrode are made of silver (Ag) and are formed on the external surface of the piezoelectric element.
US09793460B2	Thermoelectric conversion module A thermoelectric conversion module is disclosed that corrects the difference in thermal resistance between a P-type thermoelectric conversion member and an N-type thermoelectric conversion member. In this thermoelectric conversion module, since insulators included in the P-type thermoelectric conversion member and the N-type thermoelectric conversion member have a different thermal resistance, it is possible to correct the difference in thermal resistance between the P-type thermoelectric conversion element and the N-type thermoelectric conversion element.
US09793456B2	Molded resin body for surface-mounted light-emitting device, manufacturing method thereof, and surface-mounted light-emitting device A molded resin body for surface-mounted light-emitting device has a cured resin body integrally molded with a plurality of leads and a concave portion to which the plurality of leads are exposed at the bottom portion, in which the ten-point average roughness (Rz) of the opening surface of the concave portion is 1 μm to 10 μm, the glass transition temperature of the cured resin body is 10° C. or higher and the glass transition temperature is a value measured using a thermomechanical analyzer (TMA) under the conditions of a temperature range of −50 to 250° C., a temperature elevation rate of 5° C./min, and a sample size length of 1 to 5 mm, and the optical reflectance at 460 nm of the opening surface of the concave portion is 80% or more and the optical reflectance retention rate on the opening surface after heating the molded resin body at 180° C. for 72 hours is 90% or more.
US09793444B2	Display device and electronic device One object of the invention is to provide a display device that can display an image which causes a viewer less strain associated with viewing and gives a viewer a sense of great depth and an electronic device for enjoying the image. The present inventors have focused on a sense of depth obtained by monocular viewing and have conceived 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.
US09793442B2	Optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component includes a housing having a top side, wherein an anchoring structure which is a positive relief is arranged at the top side, a covering element is arranged above the top side and anchored at the anchoring structure, and the covering element completely covers the top side.
US09793411B2	Manufacturing method and structure of oxide semiconductor TFT substrate The present invention provides a manufacturing method and a structure of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate, in which an oxide conductor layer is used to define a channel and a source terminal of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate. Since the oxide conductor layer is relatively thin and compared to the known techniques, the width of the channel can be made smaller and the width of the channel can be controlled precisely, the difficult of the manufacturing process of the oxide semiconductor TFT substrate can be reduced and the performance of the oxide semiconductor TFT substrate can be enhanced and the yield rate of manufacture can be increased. In a structure of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate manufactured with the present invention, since the oxide conductor layer and the oxide semiconductor layer are similar in structural composition, excellent ohmic contact can be formed; the oxide semiconductor layer has better capability of inclining upward and the oxide conductor does not cause metal ion contamination in the oxide semiconductor layer; and the oxide conductor is transparent so as to help increase aperture ratio.
US09793407B2	Fin field effect transistor A substrate is patterned to form trenches and a semiconductor fin between the trenches. Insulators are formed in the trenches and a dielectric layer is formed to cover the semiconductor fin and the insulators. A dummy gate strip is formed on the dielectric layer. Spacers are formed on sidewalls of the dummy gate strip. The dummy gate strip and the dielectric layer underneath are removed until sidewalls of the spacers, a portion of the semiconductor fin and portions of the insulators are exposed. A second dielectric layer is selectively formed to cover the exposed portion of the semiconductor fin, wherein a thickness of the dielectric layer is smaller than a thickness of the second dielectric layer. A gate is formed between the spacers to cover the second dielectric layer, the sidewalls of the spacers and the exposed portions of the insulators.
US09793400B2	Semiconductor device including dual-layer source/drain region A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a channel region interposed between a first active region and a second active region, and a gate structure formed on the channel region. A first dual-layer source/drain region is on the first active region and a second dual-layer source/drain region is on the second active region. The first and second dual-layer source/drain regions include stacked layers formed of different semiconductor materials. A first extension region is embedded in the first active region and a second extension region is embedded in the second active region.
US09793397B1	Ferroelectric gate dielectric with scaled interfacial layer for steep sub-threshold slope field-effect transistor A method is presented for forming a semiconductor device. The method includes forming an oxygen containing interfacial layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a hafnium oxide layer on the interfacial layer, the hafnium oxide layer crystallizing to a non-centrosymmetric phase in a final structure, forming a first electrode containing a scavenging metal, which reduces a thickness of the interfacial layer via an oxygen scavenging reaction in the final structure, on the hafnium oxide layer, and forming a second electrode on the first electrode.
US09793392B2	Semiconductor device A MOS gate structure is provided on a p-type base layer side of a silicon carbide semiconductor base formed by sequentially forming on a front surface of an n+-type silicon carbide substrate, an n-type drift layer and a p-type base layer by epitaxial growth. On the base front surface, in an edge termination structure region, a step portion occurring between the p-type base layer and the n-type drift layer, and a flat portion farther outward than the step portion are provided. In a surface layer of the n-type drift layer, a p+-type base region constituting the MOS gate structure is provided so as to contact the p-type base layer. The outermost p+-type base region extends from an active region into the flat portion and the entire lower side of this portion is covered by an innermost p−-type region constituting an edge termination structure provided in the flat portion.
US09793391B2	Power MOSFET semiconductor A semiconductor device includes a source metallization, a source region of a first conductivity type in contact with the source metallization, a body region of a second conductivity type which is adjacent to the source region. The semiconductor device further includes a first field-effect structure including a first insulated gate electrode and a second field-effect structure including a second insulated gate electrode which is electrically connected to the source metallization. The capacitance per unit area between the second insulated gate electrode and the body region is larger than the capacitance per unit area between the first insulated gate electrode and the body region.
US09793387B2	Semiconductor device including a vertical PN junction between a body region and a drift region A semiconductor device includes a drift region extending from a first surface into a semiconductor portion. A body region between two portions of the drift region forms a first pn junction with the drift region. A source region forms a second pn junction with the body region. The pn junctions include sections perpendicular to the first surface. Gate structures extend into the body regions and include a gate electrode. Field plate structures extend into the drift region and include a field electrode separated from the gate electrode. A gate shielding structure is configured to reduce a capacitive coupling between the gate structures and a backplate electrode directly adjoining a second surface.
US09793383B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A transistor with superior electric characteristics is manufactured. An oxide insulating film is formed over a substrate, an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the oxide insulating film, heat treatment is then conducted at a temperature at which hydrogen contained in the oxide semiconductor film is desorbed and part of oxygen contained in the oxide insulating film is desorbed, then the heated oxide semiconductor film is etched into a predetermined shape to form an island-shaped oxide semiconductor film, a pair of electrodes is formed over the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film is formed over the pair of electrodes and the island-shaped oxide semiconductor film, and a gate electrode is formed over the gate insulating film.
US09793381B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin structure extending in a first direction on a substrate, forming a sacrificial gate pattern extending in a second direction to intersect the fin structure, forming a gate spacer layer covering the fin structure and the sacrificial gate pattern, providing a first ion beam having a first incident angle range and a second ion beam having a second incident angle range to the substrate, patterning the gate spacer layer using the first ion beam and the second ion beam to form gate spacers on sidewalls of the sacrificial gate pattern, forming source/drain regions at both sides of the sacrificial gate patterns, and replacing the sacrificial gate pattern with a gate electrode.
US09793378B2	Fin field effect transistor device with reduced overlap capacitance and enhanced mechanical stability Improved fin field effect transistor (FinFET) devices and methods for fabrication thereof. In one aspect, a method for fabricating a FinFET device comprises: a silicon substrate on which a silicon epitaxial layer is grown is provided. Sacrificial structures on the substrate are formed from the epitaxial layer. A blanket silicon layer is formed over the sacrificial structures and exposed substrate portions, the blanket silicon layer having upper and lower portions of uniform thickness and intermediate portions interposed between the upper and lower portions of non-uniform thickness and having an angle of formation. An array of semiconducting fins is formed from the blanket silicon layer and a non-conformal layer formed over the blanket layer. The sacrificial structures are removed and the resulting void filled with isolation structures under the channel regions. Source and drain are formed in the source/drain regions during a fin merge of the FinFET.
US09793371B2	Method of forming a high electron mobility transistor A method of forming a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes forming a second III-V compound layer on a first III-V compound layer, forming a source feature and a drain feature on the second III-v compound layer, depositing a p-type layer on a portion of the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature, and forming a gate electrode on the p-type layer. A carrier channel is located between the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer.
US09793348B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device with an isolation region and a device manufactured by the method A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming trench isolation structures, exposing some of the trench isolation structures 28 to leave others 30 masked, and then selectively etching a buried layer to form a cavity 32 under an active device region 34. The active device region 34 is supported by support regions in the exposed trenches 28. The buried layer may be a SiGe layer on a Si substrate.
US09793345B1	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed, including a plurality of gate rings formed on a substrate and concentrically surrounding a first doped region formed in the substrate. The gate rings are equipotentially interconnected by at least a connecting structure. A second doped region is formed in the substrate, exposed from the space between adjacent gate rings. A third doped region is formed in the substrate adjacent to the outer perimeter of the outermost gate ring. The first doped region, the third doped region and the gate rings are electrically biased and the second doped regions are electrically floating.
US09793342B2	Insulated gate type semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same In an insulated-gate type semiconductor device in which a gate-purpose conductive layer is embedded into a trench which is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and a source-purpose conductive layer is provided on a major surface of the semiconductor substrate, a portion of a gate pillar which is constituted by both the gate-purpose conductive layer and a cap insulating film for capping an upper surface of the gate-purpose conductive layer is projected from the major surface of the semiconductor substrate; a side wall spacer is provided on a side wall of the projected portion of the gate pillar; and the source-purpose conductive layer is connected to a contact region of the major surface of the semiconductor substrate, which is defined by the side wall spacer.
US09793336B2	High resistivity iron-based, thermally stable magnetic material for on-chip integrated inductors An on-chip magnetic structure includes a palladium activated seed layer and a substantially amorphous magnetic material disposed onto the palladium activated seed layer. The substantially amorphous magnetic material includes nickel in a range from about 50 to about 80 atomic % (at. %) based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, iron in a range from about 10 to about 50 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material, and phosphorous in a range from about 0.1 to about 30 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material. The magnetic material can include boron in a range from about 0.1 to about 5 at. % based on the total number of atoms of the magnetic material.
US09793335B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a light emitting device in which low power consumption can be realized even in the case of a large screen. The surface of a source signal line or a power supply line in a pixel portion is plated to reduce a resistance of a wiring. The source signal line in the pixel portion is manufactured by a step different from a source signal line in a driver circuit portion. The power supply line in the pixel portion is manufactured by a step different from a power supply line led on a substrate. A terminal is similarly plated to made the resistance reduction. It is desirable that a wiring before plating is made of the same material as a gate electrode and the surface of the wiring is plated to form the source signal line or the power supply line.
US09793321B2	Resistive memory cell having a compact structure The disclosure relates to a memory cell formed in a wafer comprising a semiconductor substrate covered with a first insulating layer, the insulating layer being covered with an active layer made of a semiconductor, the memory cell comprising a selection transistor having a control gate and a first conduction terminal connected to a variable-resistance element, the gate being formed on the active layer and having a lateral flank covered with a second insulating layer, the variable-resistance element being formed by a layer of variable-resistance material, deposited on a lateral flank of the active layer in a first trench formed through the active layer along the lateral flank of the gate, a trench conductor being formed in the first trench against a lateral flank of the layer of variable-resistance material.
US09793314B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging system and manufacturing method of imaging apparatus One embodiment provides an imaging apparatus including a photoelectric conversion unit; and a junction type field effect transistor configured to output a signal based on a carrier generated by the photoelectric conversion unit. The junction type field effect transistor includes a semiconductor region of a first conductivity type that forms a channel and a gate region of a second conductivity type. The semiconductor region of the first conductivity type includes a first region and a second region. The first region and the second region are disposed in this order toward a direction to which a carrier in the channel drifts. An impurity density of the second region is lower than an impurity density of the first region.
US09793309B2	Image sensor package Provided is an image sensor package that includes a transparent protection cover for protecting a plurality of unit pixels each including a microlens. The image sensor package includes a substrate which has a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other, and includes a sensor array region including a plurality of unit pixels formed in the first surface and a pad region including a pad arranged in the vicinity of the sensor array region, a plurality of microlenses formed on the plurality of unit pixels, respectively, at least two transparent material layers covering the plurality of microlenses, and a transparent protection cover attached onto the plurality of microlenses with the at least two transparent material layers interposed therebetween.
US09793295B2	Semiconductor device A nitride insulating film which prevents diffusion of hydrogen into an oxide semiconductor film in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor is provided. Further, a semiconductor device which has favorable electrical characteristics by using a transistor including a silicon semiconductor and a transistor including an oxide semiconductor is provided. Two nitride insulating films having different functions are provided between the transistor including a silicon semiconductor and the transistor including an oxide semiconductor. Specifically, a first nitride insulating film which contains hydrogen is provided over the transistor including a silicon semiconductor, and a second nitride insulating film which has a lower hydrogen content than the first nitride insulating film and functions as a barrier film against hydrogen is provided between the first nitride insulating film and the transistor including an oxide semiconductor.
US09793287B2	Semiconductor wafer with first and second stacked bodies and semiconductor memory device A semiconductor wafer including first and second stacked bodies provided on separate parts of a substrate. The first stacked body includes a first insulating and a second insulating film being provided on the first portion, the second stacked body includes a plurality of third insulating films and a plurality of electrode films. The third insulating films and the electrode films are alternately stacked, and a shape of an end portion of the second stacked body on a side opposing to the first stacked body is a stepped pattern.
US09793283B1	High conductivity channel for 3D memory Disclosed herein is a 3D memory with vertical NAND strings, and method for fabricating the same. Each vertical NAND string has a source side select transistor having a body in contact with a single crystal silicon substrate. The NAND string channel is formed from silicon germanium (SiGe), which provides for greater electron mobility than silicon. The body of the source side select transistor comprises epitaxial crystalline silicon germanium (SiGe) in contact with the single crystal silicon substrate. By epitaxial crystalline SiGe it is meant that the crystalline SiGe has the same crystalline orientation as the single crystal silicon substrate.
US09793280B2	Integration of split gate flash memory array and logic devices A memory device and method including a semiconductor substrate with memory and logic device areas. A plurality of memory cells are formed in the memory area, each including first source and drain regions with a first channel region therebetween, a floating gate disposed over a first portion of the first channel region, a control gate disposed over the floating gate, a select gate disposed over a second portion of the first channel region, and an erase gate disposed over the source region. A plurality of logic devices formed in the logic device area, each including second source and drain regions with a second channel region therebetween, and a logic gate disposed over the second channel region. The substrate upper surface is recessed lower in the memory area than in the logic device area, so that the taller memory cells have an upper height similar to that of the logic devices.
US09793276B2	Semiconductor device having transistor and capacitor A semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be held even when power is not supplied and there is no limitation on the number of times of writing. In the semiconductor device, a plurality of memory cells each including a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor is provided in matrix and a wiring (also called a bit line) for connecting one memory cell to another memory cell and a source or drain electrode of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other through a source or drain electrode of the second transistor. Accordingly, the number of wirings can be smaller than that in the case where the source or drain electrode of the first transistor and the source or drain electrode of the second transistor are connected to different wirings. Thus, the degree of integration of the semiconductor device can be increased.
US09793275B2	Multilayer circuit A multilayer circuit (400) includes a base layer (205) which has a number of base vias (247, 415), a first overlying layer (215) formed on the base layer (205) and having a first routing section (210) and a second overlying layer (220) formed on the first overlying layer (215). The second overlying layer (220) has a second routing section (210) and is formed using the same set of masks. The first routing section (210) and the second routing section (210) form a unique electrical pathway (248) between a base via (247) and an element in an overlying layer. A method for forming a multilayer circuit is also provided.
US09793268B2	Method and structure for gap filling improvement The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a substrate including a plurality of fin structures on the substrate; coating a first solution on the substrate to form a first dielectric layer; and coating a second solution on the first dielectric layer to form a second dielectric layer to cover the fin structures. The first solution has a first viscosity. The second solution has a second viscosity. In some embodiments, the second viscosity is greater than the first viscosity.
US09793267B1	Semiconductor device having gate structure with reduced threshold voltage and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device is provided, including: a substrate having a first area and a second area; several first gate structures formed at the first area, and at least one of the first gate structures including a first hardmask on a first gate, and the first gate structure having a first gate length; several second gate structures formed at the second area, and at least one of the second gate structures including a second hardmask on a second gate, and the second gate structure having a second gate length. The first gate length is smaller than the second gate length, and the first hardmask contains at least a portion of nitrogen (N2)-based silicon nitride (SiN) which is free of OH concentration.
US09793255B2	Power semiconductor device including a cooling material A power semiconductor device includes a wiring structure adjoining at least one side of a semiconductor body and comprising at least one electrically conductive compound. The power semiconductor device further includes a cooling material in the wiring structure. The cooling material is characterized by a change in structure by means of absorption of energy at a temperature TC ranging between 150° C. and 400° C.
US09793253B1	Integrated circuit containing standard logic cells and library-compatible, NCEM-enabled fill cells, including at least Via-open-configured, AACNT-short-configured, GATE-short-configured, and TS-short-configured NCEM-enabled fill cells An IC includes logic cells, selected from a standard cell library, and fill cells, configured for compatibility with the standard logic cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The IC includes such NCEM-enabled fill cells configured to enable detection and/or measurement of a variety of open-circuit and short-circuit failure modes, including at least one via-open-related failure mode, one AACNT-short-related failure mode, one GATE-short-related failure mode, and one metal-short-related failure mode.
US09793249B2	Light emitting device and light unit having the same A light emitting device is provided. The light emitting device may include a body, first and second lead frames coupled to the body, a first light emitting chip on the first lead frame, a second light emitting chip on the second lead frame, and a reflective frame on the body and the first and second lead frames. The reflective frame may include a first opening provided therein with the first light emitting chip and a second opening provided therein with the second light emitting chip.
US09793246B1	Pop devices and methods of forming the same PoP devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A PoP device includes a first package structure and a second package structure. The first package structure includes a first chip, and a plurality of active through integrated fan-out vias and a plurality of dummy through integrated fan-out vias aside the first chip. The second package structure includes a plurality active bumps bonded to the plurality of active through integrated fan-out vias, and a plurality of dummy bumps bonded to the plurality of dummy through integrated fan-out vias. Besides, a total number of the active through integrated fan-out vias and the dummy through integrated fan-out vias at a first side of the first chip is substantially the same as a total number of the active through integrated fan-out vias and the dummy through integrated fan-out vias at a second side of the first chip.
US09793245B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture A semiconductor device and method that utilize a surface device are provided. In an embodiment a fuse line comprises an underbump metallization which has two separate, electrically isolated parts. The two parts are bridged by an external connector, such as a solder ball in order to electrically connect the surface device. When, after testing, the surface device is determined to be defective, the fuse line may be disconnected by removing the external connector from the two separate parts, electrically isolating the surface device. In another embodiment the surface is located beneath a package within an integrated fan out package or is part of a multi-fan out package.
US09793243B2	Buffer layer(s) on a stacked structure having a via A structure includes first and second substrates, first and second stress buffer layers, and a post-passivation interconnect (PPI) structure. The first and second substrates include first and second semiconductor substrates and first and second interconnect structures on the first and second semiconductor substrates, respectively. The second interconnect structure is on a first side of the second semiconductor substrate. The first substrate is bonded to the second substrate at a bonding interface. A via extends at least through the second semiconductor substrate into the second interconnect structure. The first stress buffer layer is on a second side of the second semiconductor substrate opposite from the first side of the second semiconductor substrate. The PPI structure is on the first stress buffer layer and is electrically coupled to the via. The second stress buffer layer is on the PPI structure and the first stress buffer layer.
US09793241B2	Printed wiring board A printed wiring board includes a lowermost resin insulating layer, a first conductor layer formed on a first surface of the lowermost resin insulating layer, a conductor post formed in the lowermost resin insulating layer such that the conductor post has an upper surface facing the first surface and a lower surface on the opposite side with respect to the upper surface, a semiconductor element embedded in the lowermost resin insulating layer such that the semiconductor element has an electrode facing the first surface and is positioned on a second surface side of the lowermost resin insulating layer, and via conductors formed in the lowermost resin insulating layer and including a first via conductor and a second via conductor such that the first via conductor is connecting the first conductor layer and the conductor post and that the second via conductor is connecting the first conductor layer and the electrode.
US09793240B2	Multiple die layout for facilitating the combining of an individual die into a single die An apparatus includes a wafer portion and a plurality of die fabricated in the wafer portion in a defined pattern such that the die are separated from each other by a dicing area or a street. The apparatus includes a conductive connection between given adjacent die. The conductive connection is electrically coupled to circuitry disposed on the given adjacent die.
US09793236B2	Wire-bonding apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device Provided is a wire-bonding apparatus (10) including: a capillary (28) through which a wire (30) inserted; and a controller (80). The controller (80) is configured to execute operations including: a disconnection operation, after the second bonding operation, of moving the capillary through which the wire is inserted within a horizontal plane vertical to an axial direction of the capillary while the wire is held in the clamped state, and thereby disconnecting the wire from the second bonding point; a preliminary bonding operation of feeding the wire from the second bonding point to a predetermined preliminary bonding point, and performing preliminary bonding at the preliminary bonding point; and a shaping operation, after the preliminary bonding operation, of shaping the wire projecting from a tip of the capillary into a predetermined flexed shape.
US09793227B1	Switchable die seal connection An integrated circuit (IC) structure for radio frequency (RF) circuits having a multi-point selectably grounded die seal and multi-point selectably grounded signal paths. Embodiments include switch-coupled grounding pads that can selectively electrically couple an internal grounding pad within the die seal of an IC die to a connection point on the die seal and/or on a signal path. When the IC die is embedded in a grounded system, the die seal and/or signal path can be locally grounded at selected connection points, and thus an IC die may be “tuned” to mitigate the effects of parasitic coupling and/or to selective repurpose such parasitic coupling to generate a notch filter effect. Another aspect is selective grounding of inactive signal paths to improve isolation between signal ports.
US09793214B1	Heterostructure interconnects for high frequency applications An integrated circuit includes an interconnect which includes a metal layer, a layer of graphene on at least one of the top surface of the interconnect or the bottom surface of the interconnect, and a layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on the layer of graphene, opposite from the metal layer. Dielectric material of the integrated circuit contacts the layer of hBN. The layer of graphene has one or more atomic layers of graphene. The layer of hBN is one to three atomic layers thick. The interconnect may have a lower graphene layer on the bottom surface of the metal layer with a lower hBN layer, and an upper graphene layer on the top surface of the metal layer, with an upper hBN layer.
US09793212B2	Interconnect structures and methods of forming same An embodiment semiconductor device includes a first conductive feature in a dielectric layer and a second conductive feature over the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first conductive feature. The second conductive feature includes a dual damascene structure and further includes a top portion within both a line portion and a via portion of the second conductive feature and a bottom portion in the via portion of the second conductive feature. The bottom portion comprises a different conductive material than the top portion, and a thickness of the bottom portion is at least about twenty percent of a total thickness of the via portion of the second conductive feature.
US09793208B2	Plasma discharge path A semiconductor device with a temporary discharge path. During back-end-of-line (BEOL), the temporary discharge path discharges a plasma charge collected in a device well, such as a floating p-type well. After processing, the temporary discharge path is rendered non-function, enabling the device to function properly.
US09793199B2	Circuit board with via trace connection and method of making the same Various circuit boards and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes forming a first interconnect layer of a circuit board. The first interconnect layer includes a first conductor trace with a first segment that does not include a via land. A first via is formed on the first segment.
US09793198B2	Conductive connections, structures with such connections, and methods of manufacture A solder connection may be surrounded by a solder locking layer (1210, 2210) and may be recessed in a hole (1230) in that layer. The recess may be obtained by evaporating a vaporizable portion (1250) of the solder connection. Other features are also provided.
US09793197B2	Low profile leaded semiconductor package In a semiconductor package a lead having a bottom surface coplanar with the flat bottom surface of the plastic body extends outward at the bottom of the vertical side surface of the plastic body. The result is a package with a minimal footprint that is suitable for the technique known as “wave soldering” that is used in relatively low-cost printed circuit board assembly factories. Methods of fabricating the package are disclosed.
US09793196B2	Semiconductor device Disclosed is a semiconductor device in which a resistance component resulting from wiring is reduced. A plurality of transistor units are arranged side by side in a first direction, each of which has a plurality of transistors. The gate electrodes of the transistors extend in the first direction. First source wiring extends between first transistor unit and second transistor unit, and first drain wiring extends between the second transistor unit and third transistor unit. Second drain wiring extends on the side of the first transistor unit opposite to the side where the first source wiring extends, and second source wiring extends on the side of the third transistor unit opposite to the side where the second drain wiring extends.
US09793194B2	Leadframe A leadframe includes an individual region to become a semiconductor device, and an outer frame part supporting the individual region through its peripheral edge. The thickness of the outer frame part is greater than the thickness of the individual region.
US09793191B2	Heat spreader with flexible tolerance mechanism A semiconductor device packaging system includes a substrate, a heat spreader, a stiffener attached to the substrate, and at least one die electrically coupled to the substrate and thermally coupled to the heat spreader. The semiconductor device packaging system further includes at least one stud coupled to one of the stiffener and the heat spreader and at least one orifice formed through one of the stiffener and the heat spreader. In addition, the at least one orifice is aligned with the at least one stud.
US09793178B2	Focused beam scatterometry apparatus and method The capacity to measure nanoscale features rapidly and accurately is of central importance for the monitoring of manufacturing processes in the production of computer integrated circuits. It is known that far-field scattered light requires a priori sample information in order to reconstruct nanoscale information such as is required in semiconductor metrology. Parameters of interest include, for example, trench depth, duty cycle, wall angle and oxide layer thickness. We describe a scatterometry apparatus and method that uses unconventional polarization states in the pupil of a high NA objective lens, and refer to this as focused beam scatterometry, in which the illumination consists of a focused field with a suitably tailored, spatially-varying polarization distribution. We describe how four or more parameters can be measured and distinguished with an accuracy consistent with the needs laid out in the semiconductor roadmap.
US09793177B2	Precise annealing of focal plane arrays for optical detection Precise annealing of identified defective regions of a Focal Plane Array (“FPA”) (e.g., exclusive of non-defective regions of the FPA) facilitates removal of defects from an FPA that has been hybridized and/or packaged with readout electronics. Radiation is optionally applied under operating conditions, such as under cryogenic temperatures, such that performance of an FPA can be evaluated before, during, and after annealing without requiring thermal cycling.
US09793169B1	Methods for forming mask layers using a flowable carbon-containing silicon dioxide material One method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a process layer on a substrate, forming a carbon-containing silicon dioxide layer above the process layer and forming a patterned mask layer above the carbon-containing silicon dioxide layer. The patterned mask layer exposes portions of the carbon-containing silicon dioxide layer. A material modification process is performed on the exposed portions of the carbon-containing silicon dioxide layer to generate modified portions, and the modified portions are removed. The process layer is etched using remaining portions of the carbon-containing silicon dioxide layer as an etch mask.
US09793165B2	Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method may include preparing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, forming a via hole exposing at least a portion of the substrate from the first surface of the substrate, forming a first insulating film on an inner wall of the via hole, forming a conductive connection part filling an inside of the via hole including the first insulating film, polishing the second surface of the substrate until the conductive connection part is exposed, and selectively forming a second insulating film on the second surface of the substrate using an electrografting method to expose the conductive connection part.
US09793164B2	Self-aligned metal cut and via for back-end-of-line (BEOL) processes for semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, and related processes and devices Self-aligned metal cut and via for Back-End-Of-Line (BEOL) processes for semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) fabrication, and related processes and devices, is disclosed. In this manner, mask placement overlay requirements can be relaxed. This relaxation can be multiples of that allowed by conventional BEOL techniques. This is enabled through application of different fill materials for alternating lines in which a conductor will later be placed. With these different fill materials in place, a print cut and via mask is used, with the mask allowed to overlap other adjacent fill lines to that of the desired line. Etching is then applied that is selective to the desired line but not adjacent lines.
US09793158B2	Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device A method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method including forming at least one interconnection structure that includes a metal interconnection and a first insulating pattern sequentially stacked on a substrate; forming barrier patterns covering sidewalls of the interconnection structure; forming second insulating patterns at sides of the interconnection structure, the second insulating patterns being spaced apart from the interconnection structure with the barrier patterns interposed therebetween; forming a via hole in the first insulating pattern by etching a portion of the first insulating pattern, the via hole exposing a top surface of the metal interconnection and sidewalls of the barrier patterns; and forming a via in the via hole.
US09793154B2	Method for manufacturing bonded SOI wafer The present invention is a method for manufacturing a bonded SOI wafer including: performing a thermal oxidation treatment including at least one of a thermal oxidation during temperature-rising and a thermal oxidation during temperature-falling with the use of a batch type heat treatment furnace, thereby forming a silicon oxide film in such a way that the oxide film buried in the delaminated bonded SOI wafer has a concentric oxide film thickness distribution, and subjecting the bonded SOI wafer after delaminating a bond wafer to a reducing heat treatment to make a film thickness range of the buried oxide film being smaller than a film thickness range before the reducing heat treatment. This provides a method for manufacturing a bonded SOI wafer which can suppress a variation of a radial distribution of a buried oxide film thickness caused by a reducing heat treatment performed after delaminating the SOI layer.
US09793134B2	Etching method A method of concurrently etching a first region in which silicon oxide films and silicon nitride films are alternately stacked and a second region including the silicon oxide film having a thickness larger than a thickness of the silicon oxide film of the first region is provided. The method includes generating plasma of a first processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas and a hydrofluorocarbon gas within a processing vessel of a plasma processing apparatus into which a processing target object is carried; and generating plasma of a second processing gas containing a hydrogen gas, a hydrofluorocarbon gas and a nitrogen gas within the processing vessel of the plasma processing apparatus. Further, the generating of the plasma of the first processing gas and the generating of the plasma of the second processing gas are repeated alternately.
US09793132B1	Etch mask for hybrid laser scribing and plasma etch wafer singulation process Etch masks and methods of dicing semiconductor wafers are described. In an example, an etch mask for a wafer singulation process includes a water-soluble matrix based on a solid component and water. The etch mask also includes a plurality of particles dispersed throughout the water-soluble matrix. The plurality of particles has an average diameter approximately in the range of 5-100 nanometers. A ratio of weight % of the solid component to weight % of the plurality of particles is approximately in the range of 1:0.1-1:4.
US09793122B2	Combined laser processing system and focused ion beam system A processing system for forming a cross-section of an object. The processing system comprises a focused ion beam system for forming the cross-section from a pre-prepared surface region of the object and a laser and a light optical system for forming the pre-prepared surface region by laser ablation of a processing region of the object with a first and a second laser beam. The light optical system is configured to direct the first and the second laser beams onto common impingement locations of a common scanning line in the processing region for scanning the first laser beam and for scanning the second laser beam. For each of the impingement locations, an angle between a first incidence direction along an axis of the first laser beam and a second incidence direction along an axis of the second laser beam is greater than 10 degrees, measured in a stationary coordinate system.
US09793121B2	Method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device, having a silicon carbide semiconductor element substrate and a surface electrode film forming an ohmic contact between them. A first electrode film including nickel is formed on the substrate surface. A second electrode film with nickel silicide is formed on a first electrode film surface. The surface film is formed having the ohmic contact between the substrate surface and the first electrode film by annealing to cause silicon of the substrate and nickel of the first electrode film to react and convert the first electrode film to silicide. The first electrode film is formed with a thickness so that during annealing, an amount of carbon atoms is liberated from the substrate and diffuses toward the first electrode film, wherein the liberated amount is equal to or less than the amount of carbon atoms that the second electrode film is able to take in during annealing.
US09793114B2	Uniform height tall fins with varying silicon germanium concentrations A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a first fin in a first semiconducting material layer disposed over a substrate, the first semiconducting material layer comprising an element in a first concentration; and forming a second fin in a second semiconducting material layer disposed over the substrate and adjacent to the first semiconducting material layer, the second semiconducting material layer comprising the element in a second concentration; wherein the first concentration is different than the second concentration.
US09793110B2	Gapfill of variable aspect ratio features with a composite PEALD and PECVD method Provided herein are methods and apparatus for filling one or more gaps on a semiconductor substrate. The disclosed embodiments are especially useful for forming seam-free, void-free fill in both narrow and wide features. The methods may be performed without any intervening etching operations to achieve a single step deposition. In various implementations, a first operation is performed using a novel PEALD fill mechanism to fill narrow gaps and line wide gaps. A second operation may be performed using PECVD methods to continue filling the wide gaps.
US09793109B2	Perhydropolysilazane, composition containing same, and method for forming silica film using same [Problem] To provide a perhydropolysilazane making it possible to form a siliceous film with minimal defects, and a curing composition comprising the perhydropolysilazane.[Means for Solution] The present invention provides a perhydropolysilazane having a weight-average molecular weight of 5,000 to 17,000, characterized in that when 1H-NMR of a 17% by weight solution of said perhydropolysilazane dissolved in xylol is measured, the ratio of the amount of SiH1,2 based on the aromatic ring hydrogen content of the xylol is 0.235 or less and the ratio of the amount of NH based on the aromatic ring hydrogen content of the xylol is 0.055 or less, and a curing composition comprising the perhydropolysilazane. The present invention also provides a method for forming a siliceous film, comprising coating the curing composition on a substrate and heating.
US09793105B1	Fabricating method of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) The invention provides a fabricating method of a FinFET, comprising: providing a substrate having fin structures; depositing an dielectric layer on the substrate filling between the fin structures; forming recesses to reveal a portion of the fin structure by removing a portion of the dielectric layer; performing a cleaning process on using a cleaning solution selected from one of a first solution, consisting of dHF and H2O2, and a second solution, consisting of dHF and DIO3; forming a gate structure across on the fin structures; and forming a source/drain structure on the substrate at two lateral sides of the gate structure. The present invention also provides a fabricating method of a FinFET having an improved cleaning step using a cleaning solution having one of a third solution, consisting of dHF and DIO3, and a fourth solution, consisting of NH4OH and DIO3 before formation of the source/drain structure.
US09793102B2	Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and semiconductor manufacturing method In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a stage provided in a chamber, and a conveying module configured to convey a plurality of wafers into the chamber and to set the plurality of wafers on the stage. The apparatus further includes a controller configured to divide treatment time for simultaneously treating the plurality of wafers on the stage into first to K-th treatment periods where K is an integer of two or more, and to change positions of one or more of the plurality of wafers on the stage by the conveying module according to the treatment periods.
US09793101B2	Method and apparatus for injection of ions into an electrostatic ion trap A method of injecting ions into an electrostatic trap, comprising: generating ions in an ion source; transporting the ions from the ion source to an ion store downstream of the ion source; releasing the ions from the ion store to an ion guide downstream of the ion store; and accelerating the ions from the ion guide as a pulse into an orbital electrostatic trap for mass analysis, wherein the average velocity of the ions as the ions exit from the ion guide is substantially higher than the average velocity of the ions as they exit from the ion store, wherein there is a delay between releasing the ions from the ion store and accelerating the ions from the ion guide. Also an apparatus suitable for the method.
US09793099B2	Magnetic material sputtering target and manufacturing method thereof Provided is an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target wherein the oxides have an average grain diameter of 400 nm or less. Also provided is a method of producing an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target. The method involves depositing a magnetic material on a substrate by the PVD or CVD method, then removing the substrate from the deposited magnetic material, pulverizing the material to obtain a raw material for the target, and further sintering the raw material. An object of the present invention is to provide a magnetic material target, in particular a nonmagnetic grain-dispersed ferromagnetic sputtering target capable of suppressing discharge abnormalities of oxides that are the cause of particle generation during sputtering.
US09793097B2	Time varying segmented pressure control An apparatus for processing a substrate is provided. A processing chamber is provided. A substrate support for supporting the substrate is within the processing chamber. A gas inlet provides gas into the processing chamber. An exhaust pressure system exhausts gas around a periphery of the substrate, wherein the periphery around the substrate is divided into at least three parts, wherein the exhaust pressure system controls exhaust pressure to control a velocity of the gas over the substrate, wherein the exhaust pressure system provides at independent exhaust pressure control for each part of the periphery for the at least three parts.
US09793083B2	Microstructured surface with low work function A horizontal multilayer junction-edge field emitter includes a plurality of vertically-stacked multilayer structures separated by isolation layers. Each multilayer structure is configured to produce a 2-dimensional electron gas at a junction between two layers within the structure. The emitter also includes an exposed surface intersecting the 2-dimensional electron gas of each of the plurality of vertically-stacked multilayer structures to form a plurality of effectively one-dimensional horizontal line sources of electron emission.
US09793073B2	Backlighting a fabric enclosure of a flexible cover Fabric enclosure backlighting techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more translucent portions are formed within a plurality of layers of a fabric enclosure assembly. In one approach, regions within one or multiple layers are laser etched to form the translucent portions within the fabric enclosure assembly. A light source is then arranged to selectively transmit light through the layers via the translucent portions to provide backlight for one or more elements integrated with fabric enclosure assembly. The one or more elements may include representations of input keys and/or graphics associated with the fabric enclosure assembly. The backlight may be used to view the one or more elements in low light and/or provide backlight effects such as borders, side lighting, labels, and so forth.
US09793070B2	Dome switch stack and method for making the same Systems and methods for providing input component assemblies for dome switches are provided. In some embodiments, an input component assembly may include a first conductive contact pad coupled to a first board of a switch, a second conductive contact pad coupled to a second board of the switch, and a layer of conductive adhesive between the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad, where the layer is operative to provide a seal for the switch.
US09793067B2	Separately housed contact assembly mounted within a transformer The present invention relates to a contact unit for changing over between winding taps on a control winding of a tapped transformer. Such a contact unit can be used particularly preferably for electrical switchgear in high-voltage engineering, such as selector switches or changeover switches. A common feature of both kinds of device in this case is that the changeover between the winding taps on the control winding of the tapped transformer is accomplished without load current. The general inventive concept is to include the contact element of the contact unit in a separate contact housing, so that the contact element and the contact housing form a separate assembly and so that the contact housing, including the contact element, can be fixed in a recess provided in the contact mounting by means of a retaining element.
US09793061B2	Energy storage device, method of manufacturing same, and mobile electronic device containing same An energy storage device comprises a first porous semiconducting structure (510) comprising a first plurality of channels (511) that contain a first electrolyte (514) and a second porous semiconducting structure (520) comprising a second plurality of channels (521) that contain a second electrolyte (524). In one embodiment, the energy storage device further comprises a film (535) on at least one of the first and second porous semiconducting structures, the film comprising a material capable of exhibiting reversible electron transfer reactions. In another embodiment, at least one of the first and second electrolytes contains a plurality of metal ions. In another embodiment, the first and second electrolytes, taken together, comprise a redox system.
US09793056B1	Method for producing high quality, ultra-thin organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite A method for making a layered perovskite structure comprises: a) performing a vapor assisted surface treatment (VAST) of a substrate with a surface passivating agent; b) applying a layer of PbI2 to the passivating agent; c) exposing the PbI2 to methylammonium iodide (CH3NH3I) in an orthogonal solvent; and d) annealing the structure. A PEDOT:PSS coated ITO glass substrate may be used. The surface passivation agent may be one a chalcogenide-containing species with the general chemical formula (E3E4)N(E1E2)N′C═X where any one of E1, E2, E3 and E4 is independently selected from C1-C15 organic substituents comprising from 0 to 15 heteroatoms or hydrogen, and X is S, Se or Te, thiourea, thioacetamide, selenoacetamide, selenourea, H2S, H2Se, H2Te or LXH wherein L is a Cn organic substituent comprising heteroatoms and X═S, Se, or Te. The passivating agent may be applied by spin-coating, inkjet-printing, slot-die-coating, aerosol-jet printing, PVD, CVD, and electrochemical deposition.
US09793055B2	Electronic device and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an underlying region, a variable capacitor including fixed electrodes and movable electrodes alternately arranged in a direction not perpendicular to a main surface of the underlying region, and a protective film which covers the variable capacitor and includes a conductive portion electrically connected to the fixed electrodes and having a hole.
US09793048B2	Capacitor arrangement structure A capacitor arrangement structure includes a casing, a housing, and a heat sink. The casing accommodates a capacitor. The casing includes a casing bottom. The housing includes a bottom wall. The housing has a height from the bottom wall which includes an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface in a height direction. The casing is mounted on the inner surface so that the casing bottom opposes a mounting surface in the inner surface. The heat sink includes a heat sink top. The heat sink is provided on the outer surface of the bottom wall not to overlap the casing viewed along the height direction. The heat sink top opposes the outer surface. A distance between the casing bottom and the mounting surface in the height direction is smaller than a distance between the heat sink top and the mounting surface in the height direction.
US09793046B2	Rotating transformers for electrical machines A rotary transformer for an electrical machine includes a rotary printed circuit board and a stator printed circuit board. The rotary printed circuit board is operatively connected to the stator printed circuit board for relative rotation with respect to the stator printed circuit board. A conductor is fixed to the one of the printed circuit boards and includes a spiral coil for transferring electrical energy between the rotary printed circuit board and stator printed circuit board.
US09793038B2	Electromagnetic drive coil unit and molding method thereof A method of molding an electromagnetic drive coil unit is provided which can secure satisfactory strength and waterproof properties. In a method of molding an electromagnetic drive coil unit in which a stator assembly includes bobbins having stator coils wound thereon and yokes in which an inner yoke having magnetic pole teeth and an outer yoke having magnetic pole teeth are combined and in which the stator assembly and a power supply terminal supplying power to the bobbins are molded in a resin, an inner molding process is performed on the inside of the outer yoke in a state where ends of the stator coils of the stator assembly are connected to the power supply terminal and an outer molding process is performed to cover an outer circumference of the stator assembly having an inner molded portion and an outside of the power supply terminal after the inner molding process.
US09793037B2	Apparatus and methods related to ferrite based circulators Apparatus and methods related to ferrite based circulators are disclosed. A ferrite disk used in a circulator can be configured to reduce intermodulation distortion when routing radio-frequency signals having closely spaced frequencies. Such a reduction in intermodulation distortion can be achieved by adjusting magnetization at the edge portion of the ferrite disk. By way of an example, a ferrite disk with a reduced saturation magnetization (4PiMs) edge portion can reduce intermodulation distortion. Example configurations with such a reduced 4PiMs edge portions are disclosed.
US09793033B2	Resistor and manufacturing method There is provided a resistor in which a first resistive part of a resistive element that electrically conducts between a pair of electrodes formed on either end of an insulating substrate has a meandering pattern meandering on the substrate surface and a swelling pattern that has a form in which a part of the meandering pattern swells out from the stroke width of the meandering pattern, a second resistive part that is electrically connected in series to the first resistive part is shorter than the entire length of the first resistive part, and has a wider width than the stroke width of the meandering pattern, and a trimming groove is formed in at least either the swelling pattern or the second resistive part. This can improve resistance accuracy and provide a high voltage resistor with high withstand voltage property.
US09793032B2	Reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire with low aspect shape, cables thereof, and 2223 silver tape-based cables Methods and devices for producing reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire with low aspect shape. More specifically, methods and devices for producing reinforced round or rectangular wire with reinforcement strips. Methods and devices for producing cable using the reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire as well as for producing reinforced 2223 Silver tape-based cable.
US09793031B2	Wire harness and method for manufacturing wire harness The invention of the present application provides a wire harness with an improved accuracy of the dimension, that can be manufactured with an easy operation. A protector (4) defines at least either one of a bending shape and a branching shape of a plurality of electric wires (2). A cable tie (10) is attached to the electric wires (2), and includes a distal portion (11a) to be attached to the protector (4). The protector (4) includes an engaging portion (13) engageable with the distal portion (11a). Positions of the electric wires (2) and the protector (4) relative to each other are settled by engagement of the distal portion (11a) of the cable tie (10) attached to the electric wires (2) with the engaging portion (13).
US09793028B2	Wiring module, wiring-module intermediary body and method for manufacturing wiring module An insulating protector (15) includes a wire routing section (70), and the wire routing section (70) includes a placement wall (71) having a placement surface (76) on which voltage detection wires (23) are to be placed. The placement wall (71) is formed with a projecting section (77) projecting from the placement surface (76), and a wire mounting section (81) on which the voltage detection wires (23) are to be mounted via a flexible hinge (80) is formed on the tip of the projecting section (77). The voltage detection wires (23) are mounted on the wire mounting section (81) with the wire mounting section (81) oriented to extending in a direction along the placement surface (76). The wire mounting (81) is oriented to extend in a direction intersecting the placement surface (76) by bending the hinge (80) after the voltage detection wires (23) are mounted on the wire mounting section (81).
US09793016B2	Inspection method and inspection device There is provided an inspection device for inspecting an inner surface of a nozzle provided in a reactor vessel. The inspection device includes: a device frame, an inspection unit provided on the device frame, an inspection unit push-out moving mechanism for pushing out and moving the inspection unit to the inner surface of the nozzle, a rotation moving mechanism for rotating and moving the inspection unit, a calibration test unit arranged on the device frame for calibrating the inspection unit; and a calibration test unit forward/backward moving mechanism for moving the calibration test unit forward or backward in the direction along the central axis with regard to a track where the inspection unit makes push-out movement.
US09793009B2	Repair information storage circuit and semiconductor apparatus including the same A repair information storage circuit may include a fuse block, a controller, and a fuse latch array. The fuse block provides a boot-up enable signal and repair information. The controller generates a voltage control signal in response to the boot-up enable signal. The fuse latch array stores repair information provided from the fuse block. The voltage control signal, which is used as a bulk bias of a transistor formed in the fuse latch array, is adjustable.
US09793003B2	Programming of non-volatile memory subjected to high temperature exposure A memory device having features of the present invention comprises a reprogrammable memory portion including therein a first plurality of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) whose resistance is switchable; and a one-time-programmable (OTP) memory portion including therein a second plurality of MTJs whose resistance is switchable and a third plurality of MTJs whose resistance is fixed. Each MTJ of the first, second, and third plurality of MTJs includes a magnetic free layer having a magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to a layer plane thereof and a magnetic reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction substantially perpendicular to a layer plane thereof. The second plurality of MTJs represents one of two logical states and the third plurality of MTJs represents the other one of the two logical states.
US09792995B1	Independent multi-plane read and low latency hybrid read Read operations are performed in a multi-plane memory device. A state machine interfaces an external controller to each plane of memory cells to allow reading from selected word lines in the planes. In one approach, different types of read operations are performed in different planes, such as a multi-level cell read, e.g., a lower, middle or upper page read and a single-level cell (SLC) read. When the read operation in one plane uses fewer read voltages than another plane, the read data can be output early from the one plane while read operations continue on the other plane. The external controller can also command a cache release for one plane after outputting data from the caches of another plane. Read voltages can be set for each plane in a respective set of registers.
US09792993B2	Memory cell with high endurance for multiple program operations A memory cell includes a read transistor, a first floating gate transistor, a program transistor, a second floating gate transistor, and a common floating gate. The common floating gate is coupled to the second floating gate transistor and the first floating gate transistor. The memory cell is programmed and erased through the common floating gate on the second floating gate transistor, and is read through the first floating gate transistor and the read transistor.
US09792981B2	Memory with read circuitry and method of operating A non-volatile memory includes a first bit cell having a programmable resistive element coupled to a write bit line wherein the programmable resistive element is programmable to one of two resistive states, a resistive element coupled to the programmable resistive element at a circuit node, and a first transistor configured to operate in saturation during a read operation. The first transistor has a control electrode coupled to the circuit node and a first current electrode coupled to a read bit line.
US09792980B2	Three dimensional resistive memory architectures In one example, a three dimensional resistive memory architecture includes adjacent memory tiles with each tile including a multilevel resistive crossbar array and at least one decoder. The multilevel crossbar array includes layers of row crossbars, layers of column crossbars, and layers of resistive memory elements interposed between cross points of the row crossbars and the column crossbars, in which at least one layer of crossbars extends from a first tile through an adjacent tile and is used to address resistive memory elements in the adjacent tile. The at least one decoder underlies the multilevel resistive crossbar array and includes an address matrix comprising digital lines and analog lines, in which the digital lines select which crossbars are connected to the analog lines.
US09792979B1	Process, voltage, and temperature tracking SRAM retention voltage regulator Systems, apparatuses, and methods for tracking a retention voltage are disclosed. In one embodiment, a circuit is utilized for generating a standby voltage for a static random-access memory (SRAM) array. The circuit tracks the leakage current of the bitcells of the SRAM array as the leakage current varies over temperature. The circuit mirrors this leakage current and tracks the higher threshold voltage of a p-channel transistor or an n-channel transistor, with the p-channel and n-channel transistors matching the transistors in the bitcells of the SRAM array. The circuit includes a voltage regulator to supply power to the SRAM array at a supply voltage proportional to the higher threshold voltage tracked. Setting a supply voltage of the SRAM array based on threshold voltages and leakage current may reduce power consumption as compared to using a supply voltage based on a worst case operating conditions assumption for the SRAM array.
US09792969B1	Semiconductor device and semiconductor system A semiconductor system includes a controller operatively coupled to a semiconductor device, the controller being suitable in a training mode for receiving an external signal and a first data signal from an external device and for transmitting the received external signal and the first data signal to the semiconductor device; and the semiconductor device being suitable in the training mode for determining a level of a reference voltage in response to the first data signal, and for transmitting a second data signal to the controller by buffering the external signal based on the reference voltage without performing a termination operation during an output period of the second data signal, wherein the controller controls an enable timing of the external signal by receiving the second data signal.
US09792965B2	Memory module and system supporting parallel and serial access modes A memory module can be programmed to deliver relatively wide, low-latency data in a first access mode, or to sacrifice some latency in return for a narrower data width, a narrower command width, or both, in a second access mode. The narrow, higher-latency mode requires fewer connections and traces. A controller can therefore support more modules, and thus increased system capacity. Programmable modules thus allow computer manufacturers to strike a desired balance between memory latency, capacity, and cost.
US09792959B2	Data processing device A microcomputer provided on a rectangular semiconductor board has memory interface circuits. The memory interface circuits are separately disposed in such positions as to extend along the peripheries of the semiconductor board on both sides from one corner as a reference position. In this case, limitations to size reduction imposed on the semiconductor board can be reduced compared with a semiconductor board having memory interface circuits only on one side. Respective partial circuits on each of the separated memory interface circuits have equal data units associated with data and data strobe signals. Thus, the microcomputer has simplified line design on a mother board and on a module board.
US09792956B2	Use of program-schedule text and closed-captioning text to facilitate selection of a portion of a media-program recording In one aspect, an example method involves a computing device accessing first data representing a program schedule of a media program; accessing second data representing closed-captioning text of the media program; making a determination that first text of the program schedule has at least a threshold extent of similarity with second text of the closed-captioning text, where a portion of the media program was recorded proximate a time when a portion of the second data representing the second text of the closed-captioning text was generated; using the first text of the program schedule as a basis to select a portion of the program schedule; and responsive to at least the determination, storing third data indicative of a correlation between the selected portion of the program schedule and the recorded portion of the media program.
US09792954B2	Information processing apparatus and recording medium There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit.
US09792952B1	Automated television program editing The available audio tracks of a multi-track television program are processed to remove or reduce certain components of the program, especially audience sounds, such as laughter. Such processing may be particularly applicable to “canned” laughter. This applies to any program which is supplied with a plurality of audio channels, whether provided by cable, DVD, Internet streaming, or otherwise.
US09792951B2	Systems and methods for identifying potentially interesting events in extended recordings A system may comprise a trigger creation module configured to provide a set of one or more trigger conditions, satisfaction of each trigger condition being based on sensor data to be received. A sensor interface module may be configured to receive actual sensor data from one or more sensors, the actual sensor data being generated contemporaneously with recording of an activity. A trigger satisfaction module may be configured to determine whether at least one trigger condition of the set of trigger conditions has been satisfied based on the actual sensor data. An event identification module may be configured to identify a potentially interesting event within the recording of the activity based on the satisfied at least one trigger condition.
US09792948B2	Mechanized take-up reel and method for loading and unloading a tape storage medium Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods for loading and unloading a tape storage medium. In one embodiment, an apparatus for such purpose includes a mechanized take-up reel. The mechanized take-up reel includes an inner hub, an outer hub being selectively nonrotatably coupleable with the inner hub (where at least one of the hubs is coupled to a rotating mechanism), a tongue coupled to the inner hub, and a slot in the outer hub for permitting the tongue to extend beyond a periphery of a tape engaging surface of the outer hub upon relative rotation between the inner and outer hubs.
US09792945B1	3D optical memory storage cells An apparatus includes a first storage cell with an electrical property. The first storage cell is configured to change the electrical property in response to a first light energy, and to maintain the change to the electrical property. The first storage cell is also configured to alter the change to the electrical property in response to a second light energy, and to maintain the alteration to the change to the electrical property. A second storage cell disposed over the first storage cell in a vertical plane of the first storage cell. A third storage cell disposed adjacent to the first storage cell in a horizontal plane of the first storage cell.
US09792944B2	Recording material and optical information recording medium A recording material includes a dye-bonded polymer compound which contains a polymer compound to which a one-photon absorption dye is bonded, and a glass transition temperature of the recording material is higher than 200° C. An optical information recording medium includes a recording layer and an intermediate layer adjacent to the recording layer, and the recording layer contains the above-described recording material.
US09792940B2	High sample rate dPES to improve contact detection signal to noise ratio Using a high sample rate dPES, together with pulsed heater and lock-in technique, to improve dPES SNR for contact detection between the head and media surface. Steps of powering a transducing head actuator with pulsed input signal at a select data track offset from a previously-written to data track of the storage medium, where the pulsed input signal has select amplitude and duty cycle to simulate a response signal, and further locking in an amplitude with respect to the heater frequency, can lead to a determination of level of heater power for initiating contact between the transducing head and the storage medium.
US09792935B2	Magnetic devices with variable overcoats A magnetic device including: a magnetic reader; a magnetic writer; and a variable overcoat, the variable overcoat positioned over at least the magnetic reader and writer, the variable overcoat having an overcoat layer, the overcoat layer having a substantially constant thickness and material; and at least one disparate overcoat portion, the disparate overcoat portion having a different thickness, a different material, or both, than the overcoat layer.
US09792929B1	Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording including a coil having an inclined surface A magnetic head includes a medium facing surface, a coil, a main pole, a write shield, and a first and a second return path section. The first return path section is located on the leading side of the main pole. The coil includes a specific coil element passing through a space defined by main pole, a gap section, write shield and first return path section. The main pole has a bottom end including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being farther from medium facing surface than is the first portion. The specific coil element has a rear end farthest from medium facing surface. The distance from medium facing surface to rear end of the specific coil element is smaller than or equal to the distance from the medium facing surface to the boundary between the first portion and the second portion.
US09792925B2	Signal processing device, signal processing method and signal processing program The purpose of the present invention is to achieve a high-quality signal processing performance. A signal processing device provided with a suppression unit for suppressing a second signal by processing a mixed signal in which a first signal and the second signal are present. The signal processing device is provided with an analysis unit for analyzing, per frequency component, the importance of the first signal contained in the mixed signal, and an inhibition unit for inhibiting the suppression of the second signal of a frequency component having a high importance over a frequency component having a low importance on the basis of the analysis result of the analysis means.
US09792923B2	High frequency regeneration of an audio signal with synthetic sinusoid addition A method performed in an audio decoder for reconstructing an original audio signal having a lowband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes receiving an encoded audio signal and extracting reconstruction parameters from the encoded audio signal. The method further includes decoding the encoded audio signal with a core audio decoder to obtain a decoded lowband portion and regenerating the highband portion based at least in part on a cross over frequency and the decoded lowband portion to obtain a regenerated highband portion. The method also includes creating a synthetic sinusoid with a level based at least in part on a spectral envelope value for the particular subband and a noise floor value for the particular subband and adding the synthetic sinusoid to the regenerated highband portion in the particular frequency band specified by the location information. Finally, the method includes combining the lowband portion and the regenerated highband portion to obtain a full bandwidth audio signal.
US09792920B2	Noise filling concept Noise filling of a spectrum of an audio signal is improved in quality with respect to the noise filled spectrum so that the reproduction of the noise filled audio signal is less annoying, by performing the noise filling in a manner dependent on a tonality of the audio signal.
US09792917B2	Audio processing device and method and electro-acoustic converting device and method The present invention relates to an audio processing device and method, and an electro-acoustic converting device and method. The audio processing device comprises: a first receiving module, configured to receive a first audio signal; a second receiving module, configured to receive a second audio signal; an audio synthesizing module, configured to synthesize the first audio signal and the second audio signal to obtain a third audio signal; and an audio outputting module, configured to output the third audio signal. According to the present invention, when enjoying songs or music or learning languages by using an audio processing device or an audio playing device, a user is capable of hearing his or her own voice while singing or reading, which greatly improves the effects of self-entertainment and language learning.
US09792910B2	Method and apparatus for improving speech recognition processing performance Computing the feature Maximum Mutual Information (fMMI) method requires multiplication of vectors with a huge matrix. The huge matrix is subdivided into block sub-matrices. The sub-matrices are quantized into different values and compressed by replacing the quantized element values with 1 or 2 bit indices. Fast multiplication with those compressed matrices with far fewer multiply/accumulate operations compared to standard matrix computation is enabled and additionally obviates a de-compression method for decompressing the sub-matrices before use.
US09792904B2	Methods and systems for natural language understanding using human knowledge and collected data Disclosed herein are systems and methods to incorporate human knowledge when developing and using statistical models for natural language understanding. The disclosed systems and methods embrace a data-driven approach to natural language understanding which progresses seamlessly along the continuum of availability of annotated collected data, from when there is no available annotated collected data to when there is any amount of annotated collected data.
US09792903B2	Methods and systems for determining ranking of dialogue sticker based on situation and preference information Provided is a method of determining the ranking of dialogue stickers based on situation and preference information. The method includes: analyzing utterances between the first user terminal and the second user terminal and selecting a sticker candidate group to be recommended to the first user terminal; calculating an expression suitability based on the preference and situation information in regard to the selected sticker candidate group; and determining the ranking of stickers in the order of suitability and then recommending a higher ranked sticker to the first user terminal.
US09792899B2	Dataset shift compensation in machine learning A method for inter-dataset variability compensation, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving a heterogeneous development dataset comprising multiple samples and metadata associated with at least some of the multiple samples; dividing the multiple samples into multiple homogenous subsets, based on the metadata; averaging high-level features of each of the multiple homogenous subsets, to produce multiple central high-level features for the multiple homogenous subsets, respectively; computing an inter-dataset variability subspace spanned by the multiple central high-level features; removing the inter-dataset variability subspace from the high-level features of the multiple homogenous subsets, to produce denoised samples; and training a machine learning system using the denoised speech samples.
US09792891B2	Acoustic panel having lighting properties The invention provides an acoustic panel comprising a plurality of parallel-arranged elongated cavities, wherein each cavity has a first cavity wall and a second cavity wall tapering to a cavity back end and defining a cavity opening angle (γ) having a value in the range of 0°<γ<90°, wherein the first cavity wall and the second cavity wall comprise a light-reflective material, wherein each elongated cavity at the cavity back end of the elongated cavity accommodates a light source having a light exit surface, wherein the first cavity walls hide the light exit surfaces of the light sources when the acoustic panel is viewed along a normal to the acoustic panel, and wherein the acoustic panel further comprises sound reducing material.
US09792888B1	Drum mount An adjustable drum mount composed of a fixed component and at least one mounting component, wherein the relative position of the mounting component with respect to the fixed component is adjustable. The fixed component is durably attached to the drum shell with fasteners. The fixed component has a planar, extending member, which connects with the mounting component(s). The planar, extending member has one end, attached continuously to the bulk of the fixed component, called the fixed end. The planar, extending member has another end, disposed distal to the fixed end, called the free end, which can vibrate. The mounting components can be mounted substantially anywhere between the fixed end and the free end. The adjustment changes the stiffness with which the drum mount connects the drum leg or support to the drum.
US09792885B1	Piano pedal operating device for people with disabilities Piano pedal operating device for people with disabilities, which allows for said operation by pressure exerted by the back of a user, wherein said piano comprises a first, vertical axis that may move longitudinally operated by means of the right pedal; a second, transverse axis joined to the first axis; strings operated by means of keys, designed to produce sounds; and dampers operated by the second axis, designed to prolong or extinguish the sounds produced by the strings. The device comprises a magnet attached to the first axis; an electro-permanent suction cup placed above the magnet, which it attracts in order to move the dampers away from the strings; a cable that conducts an electric current to the electro-permanent suction cup, in order to annul its attraction over the magnet, and thus bring the dampers closer to the piano strings; and a switch designed to cut the current flow.
US09792880B2	Display device A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a plurality of color filters positioned at a plurality of color pixels and representing different colors; and a transparent layer positioned at a white pixel and including a green colorant and a blue colorant, wherein white color coordinates represented by the white pixel are substantially equal to white color coordinates represented together by the plurality of color pixels.
US09792872B2	Electro-optical panel having a driver with variable driving capability A driver and an electronic device include a capacitor driving circuit and a capacitor circuit having a plurality of capacitors provided between a plurality of capacitor driving nodes and a data voltage output terminal, and the capacitor driving circuit includes a plurality of driving units that output capacitor driving voltages. In the case where the capacitor that has the highest capacitance among the plurality of capacitors is driven, the driving unit that drives that highest capacitor is a driving unit whose driving capability is variable.
US09792869B1	Display panel A display panel includes a substrate, and a pixel array and a gate driving circuit. The gate driving circuit provides gate driving signals to the pixel array, and includes shift registers, wherein each shift register includes a voltage providing unit, a first driving transistor, a voltage transmitting unit and a second driving transistor. The voltage providing unit receives a setting signal and a system high voltage to provide a first terminal voltage. The first driving transistor receives a first clock signal and the first terminal voltage to provide a first gate driving signal. The voltage transmitting unit receives the first gate driving signal to provide a second terminal voltage. The second driving transistor receives a second clock signal and the second terminal voltage to provide a second gate driving signal. Therefore, the influence caused by large difference of driving capabilities of the first and the second driving transistor is avoided.
US09792860B2	Light-emitting element, display device and electronic apparatus A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting section and a driving circuit that drives the light-emitting section. The driving circuit includes at least (A) a drive transistor that is a p-channel field effect transistor, (B) an image-signal writing transistor that is a p-channel field effect transistor, (C) a light-emission control transistor that is a p-channel field effect transistor, and (D) a capacitor. Each of the drive transistor, image-signal writing transistor, and light-emission control transistor is provided in an n-type well formed in a p-type silicon semiconductor substrate. A first source/drain region of the drive transistor is electrically connected to the n-type well in which the drive transistor is formed.
US09792857B2	Driving system for active-matrix displays Raw grayscale image data, representing images to be displayed in successive frames, is used to drive a display having pixels that include a drive transistor and an organic light emitting device by dividing each frame into at least first and second-frames, and supplying each pixel with a drive current that is higher in the first sub-frame than in the second sub-frame for raw grayscale values in a first preselected range, and higher in the second sub-frame than in the first sub-frame for raw grayscale values in a second preselected range. The display may be an active matrix display, such as an AMOLED display.
US09792852B2	Signal processing method, display apparatus, and electronic apparatus A signal processing method includes inputting image signals containing gradations of respective pixels of an image to be displayed. Corresponding gradations, which are the gradations contained in the input image signals and corresponding to respective common pixel circuits included in a plurality of common pixel circuits, are selected. The plurality of common pixel circuits is a plurality of predetermined pixel circuits among a plurality of pixel circuits each having a light-emitting element, the plurality of predetermined pixel circuits being commonly connected to a signal line, a plurality of signal voltages being output to the signal line sequentially and continuously, each signal voltage setting a light-emission luminance of the light-emitting element. On the basis of a plurality of corresponding gradations selected corresponding to the plurality of common pixel circuits, sizes of the respective signal voltages being output to the signal line sequentially and continuously are corrected.
US09792850B2	Data transmission system A data transmission system comprises an operation apparatus and a matrix display apparatus. The matrix display apparatus includes a display panel and a control unit. The control unit receives a data stream and transmits at least a part of the data stream to an electrode on the display panel. When the operation apparatus operates on a display surface of the matrix display apparatus, at least a part of the data stream is coupled to the operation apparatus from the matrix display apparatus. Thereby, the data stream such as data or file can be transmitted to the operation apparatus from the matrix display apparatus through a wireless communication. The data transmission system of the invention can be combined with the application of the near field communication, and the data or file can be transmitted to another electronic apparatus through the display apparatus so that the application can be expanded.
US09792842B2	Post flag A post flag system includes a mounting tube and a flag. The mounting tube has a post section and a mounting section separated by a bend. The post section of the mounting tube goes over the upper end of a vertical post. The post section has an annular cross section of constant inner diameter greater than the outer dimension of the post to receive the upper end of the vertical post. The bend orients the mounting section at a mounting tube angle with respect to the post section. The flag has a surface displaying indicia and an edge coupled to the mounting section of the mounting tube. The mounting tube angle is preferably in the range of 90 to 100 degrees. A method of assembling a post flag system is also disclosed.
US09792841B2	Interlocking scintillating display panels and method of use Scintillating display panels having a plurality of display element posts formed on the top surface and integrated interlocking couplings formed in the edge margins of each display panel.
US09792831B2	Incentive spirometer and musical instrument Systems and methods for teaching proper wind usage for a musical instrument. One embodiment comprises an incentive spirometer apparatus having a tubular body with a bore therethrough. The apparatus has a series of ribs and grooves that are formed in the bore, on the interior surface of the tubular body. The ribs have a first, smaller inner diameter (e.g., ⅙ inch) and the grooves have a second, larger inner diameter (e.g., ⅓ inch). The ribs and grooves may be evenly spaced (e.g., ⅕ inch between successive ribs). When airflow through the tubular body is within a predetermined range, the airflow over the ribs and grooves produces an audible tone from the apparatus. When airflow through the tubular body is outside the predetermined range, no audible tone is produced by the apparatus.
US09792830B2	Full motion racing simulator A full motion racing simulator is configured based on a real motor vehicle and includes wheels, a vehicle frame, and an actuating system for pivotably supporting the vehicle frame on the wheels. The actuating system includes a plurality of actuating assemblies each including a connecting structure pivotably connecting the vehicle frame to a corresponding one of the wheels, an actuator pivotably mounted to the vehicle frame, a push element pivotably connected to the connecting structure, and a rocker arm rotatably mounted to the vehicle frame and pivotably connected to the actuator and the push element. Upon actuation of the actuator, the actuator causes the rocker arm to rotate relative to the vehicle frame and to push the push element such that the push element causes the connecting structure to pivot relative to the wheels and to move the vehicle frame.
US09792827B2	Providing questions to entity groups Entities that answer questions are organized into entity groups. An interface determines an answer to a question from one of the entity groups with a confidence that is greater than a second confidence threshold. To determine the answer, the interface performs an exploration phase where the interface asks the question to each of the entity groups. Entity groups that provide answers with a confidence that is greater than a first confidence threshold are selected for a subset. The interface enters an exploitation phase where the question is asked of the entity groups in the subset. If an answer is determined with a confidence that is greater than the second confidence threshold, then the answer is provided. If no answer is determined before a duration of time expires, then the interface enters a rollback phase where all of the entity groups are considered.
US09792821B1	Understanding road scene situation and semantic representation of road scene situation for reliable sharing In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed that receives road scene data and vehicle operation data from one or more sensors associated with a first vehicle on a road segment; receives situation ontology data; automatically generates a semantic road scene description of the road segment using the road scene data, the vehicle operation data, and the situation ontology data; and transmits, via a communication network, the semantic road scene description to one or more other vehicles associated with the road segment. Automatically generating the semantic road scene description of the road segment can include determining lane-level activity information for each lane based on lane information and dynamic road object information and determining a lane-level spatial layout for each lane based on the lane information and the dynamic road object information.
US09792820B1	Audible and visual alert warning system for approaching vehicles An alert warning system. In an aspect, alert lights are configured to provide a visual alert and a sound system is configured to provide an audible alert to an approaching vehicle operator. The visual and audible alerts are responsive to a two-part initiation event. The first part of the event initiates the visual alert when the approaching vehicle reaches a first predetermined distance from a safety target. The second part of the event initiates the audible alert when the approaching vehicle reaches a second predetermined distance from the safety target. The second predetermined distance is less than the first predetermined distance.
US09792819B2	Provision of an efficient environmental map for a vehicle A method provides an environmental map for a vehicle, wherein the environmental map represents a section of the environment and includes cells which are each assigned to a subsection of the environment of the vehicle. Each cell is assigned occupancy information which is based on the probability of the presence of an object in the subsection assigned to the cell in question. The vehicle has a group of at least two driver assistance systems which are each configured to adopt an active and an inactive state and which, in the active state require occupancy information concerning sections of the environment which at least do not overlap completely. The method determines the driver assistance system(s) which is(are) in the active state; determines the section of the environment that the environmental map is intended to represent, on the basis of the section(s) about which the driver assistance system(s) in the active state require(s) occupancy information. In particular, the section of the environment that the environmental map is intended to represent includes the section(s) about which the driver assistance system or the driver assistance systems in the active state require(s) occupancy information when in the active state.
US09792810B2	Handheld remote control unit for electrical devices, and an electromotive furniture drive with a handheld remote control unit A remote control unit (10) for electrical devices, in particular functional furniture and electrical accessory devices, is provided. The remote control unit (10) has control elements for controlling at least one associated piece of furniture and control elements for controlling associated electrical devices and associated electrical accessory devices.
US09792795B2	Smoke detection Various apparatus and methods for smoke detection are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of training a classifier for a smoke detector comprises inputting sensor data from a plurality of tests into a processor. The sensor data is processed to generate derived signal data corresponding to the test data for respective tests. The derived signal data is assigned into categories comprising at least one fire group and at least one non-fire group. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) training is performed by the processor. The derived signal data and the assigned categories for the derived signal data are inputs to the LDA training. The output of the LDA training is stored in a computer readable medium, such as in a smoke detector that uses LDA to determine, based on the training, whether present conditions indicate the existence of a fire.
US09792793B2	Smoke detector This disclosure relates to a smoke detection system for an enclosed area. The smoke detection system comprising a housing having an inlet and an outlet. The smoke detection system also having a divider within the housing, wherein the housing includes a first compartment to receive air flow from the inlet, a turning portion configured to direct flow to a second compartment in communication with the outlet, and a sensor that senses smoke provided within the first compartment. A method is also disclosed.
US09792788B2	Individual evacuation plan generation and notification via smart/wearable devices by positioning and predicting emergencies inside a building A system is provided that includes a threat detection system having a plurality of threat sensors, a building information model (BIM) of a secured area embodied in memory, an access control system that detects entry by human occupants into the secured area and that provides an overall indication of location of each of the human occupants, an occupant locator and notifier that detects a specific location of human occupants within the secured area via radio waves emitted by a wireless device carried by each of the human occupants, and a safe path calculator that calculates a respective route to a safe exit for each of the human occupants based upon the BIM, a threat, the location of the threat, and the specific or overall indicated location of the human occupant, wherein the occupant location and notifier wirelessly sends the respective calculated route to the wireless device of the human occupant.
US09792784B2	Shopping support server and program According to one embodiment, a shopping support server includes a merchandise list unit that lists merchandise a shopper plans to purchase; a merchandise evaluation unit that identifies merchandise listed by the merchandise list unit upon which the shopper has performed a health evaluation; a calculation unit that calculates a ratio between the merchandise listed by the merchandise list unit and merchandise identified by the merchandise evaluation unit; and a notification unit that notifies the shopper of the ratio.
US09792781B1	Item depository apparatus operated responsive to data bearing records A depository system operates in response to data bearing records. Information regarding planned future deposits is recorded, at least one record visible appearance feature is stored or generated, and data corresponding to the at least one record appearance feature is stored in associated relation with deposit data. The at least one record appearance feature is made visible on a deposit item. The deposit item is subsequently presented to a depository that includes an image sensor. The image sensor operates to read the at least one record appearance feature. At least one controller in the depository causes a determination to be made that at least one record appearance feature corresponds to a pre-registered deposit and such determination enables the deposit item to be received in the depository.
US09792778B2	Bundling assets for mobile devices Bundled game assets are provided to game clients based on device characteristics of a client device. The game assets can include executable modules, audio data, video data, configuration files etc. A web site, for example, a game lobby, receives a request for a game from a client device. The game lobby receives device characteristics for the client device. The game lobby sends the device characteristics to a server. The server determines if an asset bundle has already been created for the client device based on the device characteristics. If an asset bundle has already been created, the asset bundle is provided to the client device. If an asset bundle does not exist for a client device having the indicated characteristics, the system creates an asset bundle, where at least some of the assets included in the bundle are determined, based at least in part, on the indicated device characteristics.
US09792772B2	Systems and methods for allowing players to play poker games having multiple decks A system for providing a poker-type card game to a plurality of players is described herein. The system includes a display device for displaying the game, a database for storing a plurality of player decks, and a controller coupled to the database. The controller is configured to provide a plurality of player decks with each of the plurality of player decks including a set of randomly-ordered playing cards, assign a player deck of the plurality of player decks to each of the plurality of players, and conduct a first round of the game. During a round, the controller distributes a player hand to each of the plurality of players. Each of the player hands includes one or more cards being distributed from a corresponding player deck assigned to the player.
US09792769B2	Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller A method of gaming comprising: (a) determining a minimum prize value to be awarded for a current game outcome based on a previous game outcome; (b) generating the current game outcome; (c) determining a provisional prize value based on the current game outcome; (d) comparing the provisional prize value with the minimum prize value; and (e) setting a current prize value at the minimum prize value upon the provisional prize value being less than the minimum prize value or at the provisional prize value upon the provisional prize value being greater than or equal to the minimum prize value.
US09792760B2	Controlling interactivity for gaming and social-communication applications A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In embodiments, the operations can include detecting a trigger in a wagering game associated with a first application. In some instances, the operations can further include causing a portion of wagering game content for the wagering game to become selectable. Further, in some examples, the operations can include selecting the portion of the wagering game content in response to one or more user inputs received via one or more input devices associated with a wagering game machine. The operations can further include transferring an element representing the selected portion from the wagering game to a second application different from the first application.
US09792758B2	Gaming machine with locking function A gaming machine includes: a casing top having an upper door device capable of being opened/closed; a casing bottom having a lower door device capable of being opened/closed; an upper door lock mechanism capable of locking the upper door device; and an lower door lock mechanism capable of locking the lower door device, wherein the upper door lock mechanism is provided inside the casing bottom.
US09792752B1	Banking systems controlled by data bearing records A computing platform may receive, from one or more cash handling devices, aggregated activity information comprising a plurality of transaction records. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify one or more deposit transactions based on the aggregated activity information comprising the plurality of transaction records. Based on identifying the one or more deposit transactions, the computing platform may generate one or more account credit commands, which may direct at least one account management computer system to apply one or more provisional credits to one or more treasury accounts associated with the one or more deposit transactions. Subsequently, the computing platform may send, to the at least one account management computer system, the one or more account credit commands directing the at least one account management computer system to apply the one or more provisional credits to the one or more treasury accounts associated with the one or more deposit transactions.
US09792746B2	Safety system A safety system and a method using a safety system having at least one mobile key unit (2) with an evaluation unit (3) and having a key station (4) with a receiver for the key unit (2), wherein at least one spatially restricted access zone (6) is arranged having an access station (7) for a facility (8), wherein the key unit (2) is configured for reading data from at least one checking station (9) within a safety zone (16) of the facility (8), wherein the data comprise identification data for the checking station (9), and wherein the mobile key unit (2) has an interface (10) by means of which the data can be wirelessly transmitted from the checking station (9) to the key unit (2), with the checking unit (9) only being accessible via the access zone (6) so that the access zone (6) can be passed through by a person (17) having the key unit (2) before reaching the checking station (9) and after the leaving of the checking station (9), with the data of the key unit (2) being able to be transmitted to the key station (4) when all the mobile key units (2) are in the key station (4), and with the facility (8) being deactivated or blocked when at least one key unit (2) has been removed from the key station (4).
US09792740B2	Triggering a specialized data collection mode A system for triggering a specialized data collection mode of a vehicle event recorder comprises an input interface, a processor, and an output interface. The input interface is configured to receive a trigger indication from an external trigger source. The processor is configured to determine whether the trigger indication comprises an indication to enter into a specialized data collection mode and, in the event that the trigger indication comprises the indication to enter into the specialized data collection mode, to determine a vehicle event recorder associated with the trigger indication. The output interface is configured to provide a specialized data collection mode indication to enter the specialized data collection mode to the vehicle event recorder in the event that the trigger indication comprises the indication to enter into the specialized data collection mode.
US09792735B2	Method and system for performing telematics functions using a solar powered wireless communication device A battery-powered vehicle telematics device includes solar cells for powering the device and charging the battery. A Bluetooth® link connects the telematics device to a dongle that has been coupled to a diagnostic port of the vehicle. A USB computer connection may also provide power to the telematics device to assist the solar cells in charging the battery. The dongle and telematics devices include accelerometer components that can detect a start event and signal that the telematics device should begin operating. The accelerometers can also be used to calculate a roll angle. The telematics device can transmit a roll angle value to an active handling system or to a central server along with other vehicle information received from the dongle for further analysis and processing. A processor in the telematics device can automatically adjust and optimize the solar cell angle to maximize the capture of incident radiation.
US09792727B2	Creating three dimensional models with acceleration data Obtaining physical model data for CAD model generation with a process that includes: receiving a first acceleration-based path data set including acceleration data for an accelerometer device as it was traced over a first path along the surface of a physical object, converting the first acceleration-based path data set to a first position-based data set including position data for the accelerometer as it was traced over the first path along the surface of the physical object, and generating a three dimensional object model data set based, at least in part on the position data of the first position-based data set.
US09792726B2	Determining and displaying reserve estimates for a reservoir Systems and methods for determining and displaying reserve estimates for a reservoir by generating a table and, optionally, a report and/or a graph for the reserve estimates and predefined identification properties that uniquely describe the reserve estimates.
US09792718B2	Mapping graphics instructions to associated graphics data during performance analysis In general, this disclosure relates to techniques for optimizing a graphics scene, such as a three-dimensional (3D) scene, by allowing application developers and/or graphics artists to identify which graphics instructions and associated graphics data (e.g., polygonal data, texture data) may be associated with identified performance issues. One example method comprises receiving mapping information from the external device, wherein the mapping information includes information to map the graphics instructions to primitive graphics data that is used to render one or more graphics images during execution of the graphics instructions, and identifying a performance issue associated with execution of at least one graphics instruction within the graphics instructions. The method further comprises using the mapping information to identify a portion of the primitive graphics data that is associated with the performance issue based upon execution of the at least one graphics instruction.
US09792716B2	Enhancing video chatting A method for a computing device to enhance video chatting Includes receiving a live video stream, processing a frame in the live video stream in real-time, and transmitting the frame to another computing device. Processing the frame in real-time includes detecting a face, an upper torso, or a gesture in the frame, and applying a visual effect to the frame. The method includes processing a next frame in the live video stream in real-time by repeating the enhancing, the detecting, and the applying.
US09792700B2	Method and device for processing virtual fitting model image Provided in the present invention are a method and device for processing a virtual fitting model image, which help enable the fitting effect of a virtual fitting model to better approximate the fitting effect of a user. The method comprises: determining a human body skin color average value of a pre-selected area in a reference image, and calculating a ratio by dividing the human body skin color average value by a skin color average value of the virtual fitting model image; multiplying the various pixel values of the body area in the virtual fitting model image by the ratio, and using the results of multiplication as the various pixel values of the body area in the virtual fitting model image.
US09792697B2	State estimation apparatus, state estimation method, and integrated circuit A state estimation apparatus appropriately estimates the internal state of an observation target by calculating a likelihood from observation data, and tracks, for example, multiple objects in a moving image and detects a new object and adds the object as a tracking target in an appropriate manner. A labeling unit detects a closed area from an observation image, and adds a label number to the closed area to generate a label image. A likelihood obtaining unit generates an object-erased image for new object detection by erasing image areas corresponding to all the currently-tracked objects. The apparatus performs the process for detecting a new object using the object-erased image for new object detection based on label numbers. The apparatus is appropriately prevented from erroneously determining that an area of the object-erased image for new object detection corresponding to the currently-tracked object and remaining after the erasure corresponds to a new object.
US09792694B2	Segmentation using hybrid discriminative generative label fusion of multiple atlases A method for segmenting a target image includes receiving the target image of an anatomical structure, registering a plurality of atlases to the target image, each of the atlases including an image and a plurality of labels corresponding to portions of the image, selecting a plurality of registered atlases, transferring the labels of selected registered atlases to the target image, combining the labels that are transferred to the target image using a fusion of a discriminative model and a generative model, and outputting a segmentation of the target image isolating the anatomical structure, wherein a segmentation of the target image is displayed.
US09792693B2	Spectral unmixing Processing of images acquired via fluorescence microscopy by identifying broadband and other undesired signals from the component signals of a scanned image, and processing selected regions of the image that are known to contain signals of interest, thereby extracting or identifying desired signals while subtracting undesired signals. One or more broadband signals are recognized by their unique signature and ubiquitous dispersion through the image. Regions of the scanned image may be tagged as consisting of predominantly broadband signals and are ignored during a spectral unmixing process. The remaining regions of the image, or selected regions of the image known to contain desired signals, may be unmixed, and the plurality of reference spectra subtracted from the components to extract or identify the target signals. The set of target signals may be refined by eliminating known or obvious sources of noise by, for instance, being compared to known or ideal sets of signals from similar materials.
US09792685B2	Image capturing device and method for calibrating image deformation thereof An image capturing device and a method for calibrating image deformation thereof are provided. The image capturing device has a first image sensor and a second image sensor and the method includes following steps. A plurality of image groups are captured through the first image sensor and the second image sensor. Each of the image groups includes a first image and a second image, and the image groups include a reference image group. Whether an image deformation occurs on a first reference image and a second reference image in the reference image group is detected. If it is detected that the image deformation occurs on the reference image group, a current calibration parameter is updated according to a plurality of feature point comparison values corresponding to the image groups. The current calibration parameter is used for performing an image rectification on each of the first images and the second images.
US09792684B2	System and method for imaging device modelling and calibration The invention relates to a camera modeling and calibration system and method using a new set of variables to compensate for imperfections in line of sight axis squareness with camera plane and which increases accuracy in measuring distortion introduced by image curvature caused by geometric and chromatic lens distortion and wherein the camera image plane is represented from a full 3D perspective projection.
US09792679B2	Diagnosis assistance apparatus, diagnosis assistance method, and computer readable storage medium A diagnosis assistance apparatus for assisting a diagnosis using schemas includes a storage section that stores a plurality of different schemas each configured by a figure representing a body region, an acquiring section that acquires results of a plurality of examinations that are performed on an examination target, a schema refining section that refines a schema of a body region related to a disease that is predicted from the acquired examination results, from the schemas step-by-step in accordance with progress of the examinations, and a displaying section that displays the schema refined by the schema refining section.
US09792672B2	Video capture devices and methods Embodiments provide a video camera that can be configured to highly compress video data in a visually lossless manner. The camera can be configured to transform blue and red image data in a manner that enhances the compressibility of the data. The data can then be compressed and stored in this form. This allows a user to reconstruct the red and blue data to obtain the original raw data for a modified version of the original raw data that is visually lossless when demosaiced. Additionally, the data can be processed in a manner in which the green image elements are demosaiced first and then the red and blue elements are reconstructed based on values of the demosaiced green image elements.
US09792667B2	Target-less auto-alignment of image sensors in a multi-camera system A pair of cameras having an overlapping field of view is aligned based on images captured by image sensors of the pair of cameras. A pixel shift is identified between the images. Based on the identified pixel shift, a calibration is applied to one or both of the pair of cameras. To determine the pixel shift, the camera applies correlation methods including edge matching. Calibrating the pair of cameras may include adjusting a read window on an image sensor. The pixel shift can also be used to determine a time lag, which can be used to synchronize subsequent image captures.
US09792665B2	Real time visual feedback during move, resize and/or rotate actions in an electronic document Real time feedback during move, resize or rotate actions in an electronic document is provided. During live drag actions, the layout shown during the action may be the layout produced when the object is dropped. Detection of slow performance of an application and aborting a redraw action as needed may be provided. A visual indication may be provided for helping users to see that an action is in progress, and thereby removing a perception that the application is failing to respond properly. Determining if a figure will not land in a current cursor/touch point position in a move action and a visual indication to help the user see where and why the figure may jump to a new location may also be provided. In addition, determining an attachment point for an object on a page comprising a table may also be provided.
US09792664B2	System and method for mapping object coordinates from a video to real world coordinates using perspective transformation This disclosure relates generally to video analysis, and more particularly to systems and methods for mapping object co-ordinates from a video frame view to real world co-ordinates using perspective transformation. In one embodiment, a processor-implemented video frame coordinate transformation method is disclosed. The method may include obtaining an image from an image capture device and identifying, via one or more hardware processors, an object depicted in the image. Further, the method may include determining image-frame object coordinates for the object, and selecting one of a plurality of coordinate transformation matrices associated with the image capture device, based on the image-frame object coordinates for the object. Also, the method may include calculating, via the one or more hardware processors, real-world object coordinates for the object using the image-frame coordinates and the selected coordinate transformation matrix, and determining a trajectory of the object using the calculated real-world object coordinates.
US09792662B2	Embedding digital content within a digital photograph during capture of the digital photograph A wireless communication device comprises position determining system, a digital imaging system and a photograph customization system coupled to the position locating system and the digital imaging system. The position determining system is configured to provide information indicating a current position of the wireless communication device. The digital imaging system is configured to create digitally rendered images of visual content acquired thereby. The visual content is displayed on an image viewing structure of the digital imaging device while being acquired. The photograph customization system is configured to use the current location of the digital imaging device for providing one or more embeddable content images and to display information from at least one of the one or more embeddable content images on an image viewing structure of the digital imaging device while the visual content being acquired by the digital imaging system is being displayed on the image viewing structure.
US09792657B2	Methods and systems for leveraging social information, including a social graph, to identify and present content of interest Techniques for leveraging social information, including a social graph, to identify content likely to be of interest to a user are described. With some embodiments, a content enhancement server receives a request for web-based content that is to be presented with a web page that is being presented at a client computing device. The server will then identify some web-based content that is relevant to a topic or subject matter of the web page, and also popular as determined by analyzing some social information, including in some instances information relating to asocial graph of the viewing user, that is associated with the web-based content. Finally, some items of web-based content are selected, based on a combination of the content's relevance and popularity as indicated by the analysis of the social information. The selected web content is then communicated to the client computing device for presentation with the web page.
US09792656B1	Fault determination with autonomous feature use monitoring Methods and systems for determining fault for an accident involving a vehicle having one or more autonomous (and/or semi-autonomous) operation features and paying claims associated with such accidents are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data from sensors within or near the vehicle may be used to determine the occurrence of a vehicle accident, such as a collision. The operating data may further be used to determine an allocation of fault for the accident between a vehicle operator, the autonomous operation features, or a third party. The allocation of fault may be used to further determine and make claims payments related to the accident. In some embodiments, claims may be rejected based upon the operating data and determined allocation of fault.
US09792655B2	Automated assessment A system for automated assessments is provided. The system includes a processing device and a memory device. The memory device stores instructions that when executed by the processing device may result in receiving a video stream including image frames from an imaging source. Image data from one or more of the image frames can be compared with an image profile database to determine whether at least one item in one or more of the image frames is identifiable. A lookup operation can be initiated in a secondary data source to determine one or more item attributes of the one or more identified items. The video stream can be modified to add an item identifier for each of the identified items to the video stream as an annotated video. A record can be stored of the one or more item attributes of the identified items in the annotated video.
US09792654B1	Insurance claim processing via streaming video Methods and systems are disclosed for processing insurance claims in a manner that reduces or eliminates a need for an adjuster to visit an insured person or property of the insured person. The method includes receiving a query from an insured regarding a claim and determining if the insured has a mobile device with a video camera capable of streaming video to the insurance claim processing system. If a mobile device capable of streaming video is available, the system generates an electronic invitation to a one-way streaming video session and transmits the electronic invitation to the mobile device. Upon acceptance, the system initiates the one-way video session, receives real-time streaming video, and appends received video from the real-time streaming video to a claim workfile. In alternative implementations, the system can remotely control the camera and other features of the mobile device during the one-way streaming video session.
US09792648B1	Multi-bureau credit file freeze and unfreeze The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.
US09792642B2	Information communication terminal, information distribution apparatus, information distribution system, content management method, broadcast reception method, information distribution method, programs and storage medium It is an object of the present invention to enhance convenience and service qualities in an information distribution system. In a server serving as an information distribution apparatus and an information communication terminal, contents are managed by using content identifiers (content IDs) managed as IDs conforming to a rule of uniformity. Particularly, in the information communication terminal, a content ripped from a recording medium such as a CD and stored in storage means such as an HDD is also managed by using a content identifier acquired from the information distribution apparatus. In this way, contents stored in the storage means can be managed by using content IDs each managed as an ID common to the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus. In communication between the information communication terminal and the information distribution apparatus, a content identifier conforming to a rule of uniformity is used for identifying a content to which the content identifier is assigned so that the terminal is capable of downloading the content as well as acquiring additional information relevant to the content from the apparatus, and the apparatus is capable of rendering a plurality of other services.
US09792639B1	Systems and methods for price searching via a mobile device reading display screen graphics Price searching via a mobile device reading display screen graphics is provided. A system for obtaining pricing information comprises at least one subsystem that electronically reads a price of a product using a mobile device scanning a display screen, at least one subsystem that searches for other available products and price data to compare to the electronically read price and product data, at least one subsystem that compares the price data of the other products to the electronically read price data, and at least one subsystem that presents purchase options based upon results of the comparison of the price and product data.
US09792637B2	System and method of displaying an autograph of the artist(s) of their song(s) on an electronic device and a method for customers to resell autographed MP3/MP4 type music files and the like A method and system of displaying an autograph of the artist(s) of their song(s) on an electronic device and a method for customers to resell autographed MP3/MP4 type music files and the like.
US09792636B2	Social network transaction processing system A system for transferring funds using social network connections. The system sends application programming interface (API) requests to social networks to obtain “friend” information and create accounts into which funds are deposited and which may be retrieved by recipients via hyperlinks in messages provided through social networks. The system may also be used to request funds from social network friends. The system provides benefactor friends fund requests in the form of social network messages, which allow the benefactors to access the system and provide funds to a user via hyperlinks in the messages.
US09792634B2	Information processing device, information processing method, terminal device, information processing program, and storage medium The present invention includes: acquiring inventory information related to the number of stock of a product, from a product storage means which stores the inventory information and acquiring a product image showing an image related to the product, from a product image storage means which stores the product image (S1), generating a web page for causing the product image which changes in response to the number of stock to be displayed on a terminal device and transmitting the generated web page to the terminal device to display (S3 to S7).
US09792628B2	Dispatch system to remote devices A method and system for presenting promotional content to a user of a communication device involves receiving information from a communication device, where the information relates to the communication device, and identifying a result relating to the information that is capable of being presented in a plurality of formats on the communication device, and dynamically selecting a format for the result from among the plurality of formats, and presenting the result in the selected format for display by the communication device.
US09792621B2	Determining use of a display characteristic A display characteristic determination machine receives a request to display seller-related content that references an item available for sale. The display characteristic determination machine identifies a display characteristic available from a web server, determines that the seller-related content is to be displayed using the display characteristic, and communicates to the web server that the seller-related content is to be displayed using the display characteristic and with primary content. The display characteristic determination machine may function as an allocation device to allocate use of the display characteristic. This functionality may be scaled, for example, to include determining use of multiple display characteristics, available from multiple web servers, by multiple instances of seller-related content requested for display by multiple sellers of multiple items. The display characteristic determination machine, therefore, may function as a “broker” for display characteristics available from multiple web servers.
US09792604B2	Method and system for dynamically interactive visually validated mobile ticketing Systems and methods for interaction-based validation of electronic tickets. In some embodiments, the system renders a first visually illustrative scene on an interactive display screen of a mobile device, the first visually illustrative scene responsive to a pre-determined gesture performed at a predetermined location on the interactive display screen. Upon a user interacting with the first visually illustrative scene, an app on the user's mobile device extracts user interaction information. In response to determining that the user interaction information matches with a predetermined gesture performed at the predetermined location, the system renders a second visually illustrative scene on the interactive display screen of the mobile device.
US09792603B1	Companion applets for web-based transactions Systems and methods for completing a transaction using an applet associated with a companion applet on portable electronic device. A least a portion of information from a user profile is obtained by the companion applet from a secure element on the portable electronic device using an application programming interface (API). The portion of information is then passed to the mobile applet and used to populate the fields needed for the vendor or payment processor to complete the transaction, and the transaction is treated as a card-present transaction.
US09792599B2	Receipt generation service A method includes receiving, by a server via a network, transaction information descriptive of a money transfer transaction initiated at a point of entry device. The transaction information includes information that identifies a location of the point of entry device. The method includes determining, by the server, receipt information to be included in a receipt for the money transfer transaction. The receipt information may be determined based, at least in part, on the transaction information, and at least a portion of the receipt information included in the receipt satisfies regulatory requirements associated with the location of the point of entry device. The method includes generating, by the server, the receipt that includes the receipt information, and transmitting the receipt from the server to the point of entry device via the network.
US09792590B2	System and framework for instant messenger timecard integration In an Instant Messenger, a current state that is transmitted to other employees is selectable by user input, to be a first state identifying a given employee as working or a second state identifying the given employee as taking a break. A draft time card is automatically prepared for the given employee, by using a time at which the current state is set in the IM to the first state as a time of occurrence of a clock-in event in tracking time to be paid, or when it is set to the second state as a time of occurrence of a clock-out event. The draft time card is displayed to the given employee and finalized based on additional user input identifying any changes to periods of time in the draft time card, to obtain a finalized time card. The finalized time card is submitted to an accounting system, for payment.
US09792582B2	Identifying inventory items in a storage facility Systems and methods for enabling a picker to correctly identify and pick inventory items from a warehouse or storage facility are provided. An exemplary portable picking-assistance device comprises first and second communication devices. The first communication device is configured to electronically receive a first item list including one or more items to be retrieved by an operator from a predetermined storage area. The one or more items may be selected from a plurality of items stored in the predetermined storage area. The second communication device is configured to communicate radio frequency signals to a first radio frequency (RF) tag of a plurality of RF tags. The first RF tag is associated with a first item listed on the first item list. An indication is provided to the operator confirming an identification of the first item to be retrieved by the operator.
US09792575B2	Complex dynamic route sequencing for multi-vehicle fleets using traffic and real-world constraints Methods and systems to dynamically and optimally sequence routes based on historical and real-time traffic conditions, and to predict anticipated traffic conditions along the dynamically generated route are disclosed. Route sequencing may be based on a set of predefined constraints, e.g., distance, time, time with traffic, or any objective cost function. The system of the present invention may be implemented in a vehicle fleet comprising one or more vehicles with one or more depots, or with no depots. An optimization server obtains real-time, historical and/or predicted future traffic, weather, hazard, and avoidance-zone data on road segments to generate a route, while staying within parameters and constraints set by an automatic machine learning process, an artificial intelligence program, or a human administrator. The platform may be coupled to sensors positioned on roads, e.g., speed radar or camera, and sensors positioned in vehicles, e.g., GPS system or on-board diagnostic sensor.
US09792574B2	System and methods for verifying that one or more end user transport directives do not conflict with one or more package delivery directives Computationally implemented methods and systems that are designed for receiving one or more package delivery directives that direct a transportation vehicle unit to deliver one or more packages; receiving one or more end user transport directives that direct the transportation vehicle unit to transport one or more end users; and verifying that the one or more end user transport directives do not conflict with the one or more package delivery directives such that transport of the one or more end users by the transportation vehicle unit in accordance with the one or more end user transport directives will not violate one or more package delivery obligations of the transportation vehicle unit to deliver the one or more packages in accordance with the one or more package delivery directives. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09792568B2	Generating a capacity schedule for a facility In a method for generating a capacity schedule for a facility to meet a predefined operational goal, in which the facility is to receive resources from a first resource supply, a prediction of a supply of resources available from the first resource supply for a predetermined period of time is accessed. In addition, a prediction of a demand for resources in the facility during the predetermined period of time is accessed. The prediction of the supply of resources and the prediction of the demand for resources are inputted into a constrained optimization problem and the capacity schedule for the facility is generated by finding a solution to the constrained optimization problem.
US09792566B2	Modeling hierarchical information from a data source Techniques are described for modeling hierarchical information from a data source. In one example, a method for modeling hierarchical information from the data source includes outputting for display a plurality of columns that represent corresponding data sets in the data source and each comprise values from the corresponding data set. The method further includes receiving an input indicating a selected value from a first column that corresponds to a first data set in the data source, and the selected value is comprised in the first data set. The method further includes receiving an input indicating a second column that corresponds to a second data set from the data source. The method further includes outputting for display a filtered view of the second column that comprises a subset of values from the second data set that are associated in the data source with the selected value in the first data set.
US09792562B1	Event prediction and object recognition system A computing device predicts occurrence of an event or classifies an object using semi-supervised data. A label set defines permissible values for a target variable. A value of the permissible values is defined for a subset of observation vectors. A predefined number of times, a distance matrix is computed that defines a distance value between pairs of observation vectors using a distance function and a converged classification matrix; a number of observation vectors is selected that have minimum values for the distance value; a label is requested and a response is received for each of the selected observation vectors; the value of the target variable is updated for each of the selected observation vectors with the received response; and the value of the target variable is determined again by recomputing the converged classification matrix. The value of the target variable for each observation vector is output to a second dataset.
US09792560B2	Training systems and methods for sequence taggers Systems and methods for or training as sequence tagger, such as conditional random field model. More specifically, the systems and methods train a sequence tagger utilizing partially labeled data from crowd-sourced data for a specific application and partially labeled data from search logs. Further, the systems and methods disclosed herein train a sequence tagger utilizing only partially labeled by utilizing a constrained lattice where each input value within the constrained lattice can have multiple candidate tags with confidence scores. Accordingly, the systems and methods provide for a more accurate sequence tagging system, a more reliable sequence tagging system, and a more efficient sequence tagging system in comparison to sequence taggers trained utilizing at least some fully-labeled training data.
US09792559B2	Switching system, line card, switch card, FDB learning method, FDB learning arbitration method and program A switching system includes a plural of line and a switch card. The line card or cards notifies the out whether or not the line card or line cards is in the FDB learning enabled state. The switch card includes a learning information storage unit that holds in store the FDB learning information received from the multiple line cards and an FDB learning arbitration unit that, when all of the line cards are in an FDB leaning enabled state, selects and sends the FDB learning information, stored in the learning information storage unit, to the respective line cards, based on a notification from each the line cards.
US09792556B2	Mapping gathered location information to short form place names using correlations and confidence measures that pertain to lengths of overlaps of location data and calendar data sets Using the short form information people tend to use in their calendar locations (not full address or GPS location), machine learning techniques are used to map gathered location information to these short form names.
US09792555B2	Probabilistic modeling and sizing of embedded flaws in ultrasonic nondestructive inspections for fatigue damage prognostics and structural integrity assessment A method for probabilistic fatigue life prediction using nondestructive testing data considering uncertainties from nondestructive examination (NDE) data and fatigue model parameters. The method utilizes uncertainty quantification models for detection, sizing, fatigue model parameters and inputs. A probability of detection model is developed based on a log-linear model coupling an actual flaw size with a nondestructive examination (NDE) reported size. A distribution of the actual flaw size is derived for both NDE data without flaw indications and NDE data with flaw indications by using probabilistic modeling and Bayes theorem. A turbine rotor example with real world NDE inspection data is presented to demonstrate the overall methodology.
US09792541B2	Smart card comprising a protruding component and method for making same The invention concerns a smart card comprising a microcircuit, at least one other component including a protruding component and external contacts in a card-holder. The invention is characterized in that the microcircuit (1), the protruding component (2) and the external contacts (12) form part of a subassembly (S1) fixed in a housing (C1+C2+C3) provided in part of the thickness of the card-holder, said subassembly including a support film (10) bearing on one inner surface the microcircuit (1) and at least the protruding component (2) and on one outer surface the external contacts (12), a window (11) being arranged in said film opposite part of the projecting component.
US09792539B2	Systems, devices, admixtures, and methods including transponders for indication of food attributes Systems, devices, admixtures, and methods are described including transponder devices (e.g., a palatable transponder, an edible transponder, a palatable radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, an edible RFID tag, etc.) for admixing with a food product.
US09792538B2	Printing system, printing apparatus, and control using sheet attribute information A printing system includes a printing apparatus and a printing control apparatus. The printing apparatus obtains stored first attribute information of a sheet, and sends the obtained first attribute information to the printing control apparatus. The printing control apparatus includes an information storing unit and a first and second receiving unit. The information storing unit stores first and second attribute information of sheets. The first receiving unit receives first attribute information and the second sending unit reads sheet candidates corresponding to the received first attribute information and sends the sheet candidates to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus further receives the received sheet candidates, displays the received sheet candidates, selects sheet information from the displayed sheet candidates, and sets the second attribute information of a selected sheet as attribute information of a sheet to be stored.
US09792533B2	Processing apparatus, processing method, and program for determining an image taking position A three-dimensional shape of a subject is acquired in a healthy and realistic calculation time, using two-dimensional images taken by a general camera having a narrow angle of view. The processing apparatus calculates an image taking position of each of a plurality of images, and includes: a storage unit for storing thereinto a selected image set including images whose image taking position has been calculated; a calculation unit calculates a plurality of image taking position candidates for an unselected image of the plurality of images; a selection unit selects an optimum image taking position having a highest degree of coincidence in correspondence points, from among the plurality of image taking position candidates for the unselected image; and a determination unit determines whether or not the unselected image is added to the selected image set.
US09792532B2	Systems and methods for machine learning enhanced by human measurements In various embodiments, training objects are classified by human annotators, psychometric data characterizing the annotation of the training objects is acquired, a human-weighted loss function based at least in part on the classification data and the psychometric data is computationally derived, and one or more features of a query object are computationally classified based at least in part on the human-weighted loss function.
US09792528B2	Information processing system, information processing method, information processing apparatus and control method and control program thereof, and communication terminal and control method and control program thereof A search object and m-number of first local features respectively constituted by a feature vector of 1 to i dimensions of local areas of m-number of feature points in an image of the search object are stored, feature points are extracted from the image, second local features respectively constituted by a feature vector of 1 dimension to j dimensions are generated with respect to local areas of n-number of feature points, a smaller number of dimensions among the number of dimensions i of the first local features and the number of dimensions j of the second local features is selected, and an existence of the search object in the image in the video is recognized when a prescribed ratio of the m-number of first local features up to the selected number of dimensions corresponds to the n-number of second local features up to the selected number of dimensions.
US09792514B2	Image inspection method and apparatus, and ink jet printing apparatus Provided are image inspection method and apparatus, and an ink jet printing apparatus that can highly accurately detect a stripe defect. An inspection image obtained by an imaging device imaging a printed matter printed by an ink jet printing apparatus including a line head is acquired. Each of at least one non-scanning direction linear structural element that is a linear structural element in a direction not parallel to a direction of scanning by the line head relative to a medium is used to execute morphology processing of a grayscale image to thereby smooth the inspection image to create a first smoothed inspection image (S22, S24). A stripe defect extending in the scanning direction is detected by using at least (1) one of the inspection image and a second smoothed inspection image created based on the inspection image and (2) the first smoothed inspection image.
US09792511B2	Method for the operation of an assistance system of a motor vehicle, as well as assistance system A method is provided for operating a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle to detect a polygon-shaped (and especially rectangular) traffic sign with a number of edges. A camera acquires an image of the traffic sign. Within at least a portion of the image, a number of first line segments is determined, which is less than the number of edges of the traffic sign. Based on the first line segments, a reproduction of the traffic sign is identified.
US09792506B2	Lane change determining apparatus, junction entry determining apparatus and method thereof A junction (JC) entry determining method and a lane change determining method are provided. The JC entry determining method includes acquiring, by a controller, positional information of a vehicle surrounding object using radar and determining whether a junction entrance is present using the positional information. A width of a right space of the vehicle is determined using the positional information and a vehicle surrounding environment image is captured. The controller is also configured to determine a type of right lane of the vehicle using the captured image and determine whether the vehicle enters the JC based on whether the JC entrance is present, the width of the right space of the vehicle, and the type of lane.
US09792502B2	Generating video summaries for a video using video summary templates Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities.
US09792499B2	Methods for performing biometric recognition of a human eye and corroboration of same A method of biometric recognition is provided. Multiple images of the face or other non-iris image and iris of an individual are acquired. If the multiple images are determined to form an expected sequence of images, the face and iris images are associated together. A single camera preferably acquires both the iris and face images by changing at least one of the zoom, position, or dynamic range of the camera. The dynamic range can be adjusted by at least one of adjusting the gain settings of the camera, adjusting the exposure time, and/or adjusting the illuminator brightness. The expected sequence determination can be made by determining if the accumulated motion vectors of the multiple images is consistent with an expected set of motion vectors and/or ensuring that the iris remains in the field of view of all of the multiple images.
US09792498B2	Mobile identity platform The present disclosure is directed towards a compact, mobile apparatus for iris image acquisition, adapted to address effects of ocular dominance in the subject and to guide positioning of the subject's iris for the image acquisition. The apparatus may include a sensor for acquiring an iris image from a subject. A compact mirror may be oriented relative to a dominant eye of the subject, and sized to present an image of a single iris to the subject when the apparatus is positioned at a suitable distance for image acquisition. The mirror may assist the subject in positioning the iris for iris image acquisition. The mirror may be positioned between the sensor and the iris during iris image acquisition, and transmit a portion of light reflected off the iris to the sensor.
US09792487B2	System and method for determining dimensions of an object in an image An information handling system includes a three dimensional camera and a processor. The three dimensional camera is configured to capture a three dimensional image. The processor is configured to communicate with the three dimensional camera. The processor to provide the three dimensional image to be displayed on a display screen of the information handling system, to determine three dimensional coordinates for an object within the three dimensional image, and to calculate a dimension of the object based on the three dimensional coordinates.
US09792482B2	Multi-mode capacitive sensor A method and device for providing a multi-modal capacitive sensor, including a plurality of sensor electrodes, in an electronic device is provided. In a first mode, the capacitive sensor is configured to capture an image of a biometric object. In a second mode, the capacitive sensor is configured to provide presence detection functionality. In the second mode, the capacitive sensor includes at least one first electrode and at least one second electrode selected from a plurality of sensor electrodes. When operating in the second mode, the at least one first electrode is configured to receive a transmit signal, and the at least one second electrode is configured to receive a resulting signal capacitively coupled from the at least one first electrode. Based on the resulting signal, a processing system of the electronic device determines whether a biometric object to be imaged is present in the sensing area.
US09792477B1	System for, and method of, controlling illumination of direct part marking (DPM) targets to be read by image capture An array of pixels of a solid-state imaging sensor having a rolling shutter is sequentially exposed to capture images from an illuminated DPM target over successive frames for image capture by an imaging reader. The DPM target is illuminated at an elevated output power level for a fractional time period of a frame, and is not illuminated for at least a portion of a remaining time period of the frame for increased energy efficiency. Only a sub-array of the pixels is exposed during the fractional time period in which the DPM target is being illuminated at the elevated output power level.
US09792473B2	Card swiping method and device for determining mobile terminal for swiping card, utilizing intensity of ultrasonic signal The present invention relates to a card swiping method for determining card swiping of a mobile terminal by using ultrasonic signal strength, comprising: closely contacting, by a mobile terminal, a card reading device, wherein a multi-interface integrated circuit module in the mobile terminal receives a ultrasonic signal transmitted by an ultrasonic wave transmitting module in the card reading device; measuring, by the multi-interface integrated circuit module, strength of the received ultrasonic signal, and comparing the measured strength with an ultrasonic signal strength threshold which allows card swiping; and if the strength of the received ultrasonic signal received by the multi-interface integrated circuit module is greater than the ultrasonic signal strength which allows card swiping, interactively performing card swiping procedures by the multi-interface integrated circuit module and the card reading device.
US09792471B1	Arrangement for, and method of, optimizing radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID) reading performance Multiple stationary radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID) readers are deployed overhead in a venue and are operated to read RFID tags. A mobile RFID reader is also operated in the venue for reading the RFID tags. The mobile reader is located in the venue, and a host server synchronizes the operation of the stationary readers with the operation of the mobile reader, determines when the mobile reader is in substantially simultaneous, synchronous operation with the stationary readers, and responsively modifies the operation of the stationary and mobile RFID readers to optimize the RFID reading performance.
US09792470B2	Interference detection and mitigation in RFID readers and systems One embodiment of the present invention includes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader configured to detect radio frequency (RF) interference in and/or outside a band of RFID operation. The RFID reader includes a receive channel for receiving incoming RF signals; and hardware for detecting interference in and/or outside a band of RFID operation. A method for mitigating radio frequency (RF) interference in and/or outside a band of RFID operation, according to one embodiment, includes detecting interference in and/or outside a band of RFID operation; and controlling an aspect of operation of the RFID reader for mitigating the detected interference.
US09792469B1	Wireless physical property sensor with digital communications The present disclosure provides systems and methods implemented using physical property sensors. A physical/property sensor includes a sensor coil configured to wirelessly communicate with an external interrogator, an analog front end communicatively coupled to the sensor coil, a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the analog front end, and a physical property sensing element, wherein the microcontroller is configured to generate a digitally modulated electrical signal based on signals generated by the physical property sensing element, and wherein the analog front end is configured to forward the digitally modulated electrical signal to the sensor coil for transmission to the external interrogator.
US09792464B2	Card processing system A card processing system may include a card reader read data recorded in the card or record data to the card; and a host control section to control the card processing system. The card reader may include a card insertion part include an insertion port and a control section. The card insertion part may include a light emitting part. The control section may be connected with the host control section and be configured to perform light emission control which controls an emission color and an emitting method. The host control section may be configured to specify a host-side combination of an emission color and an emitting method and be configured to perform the light emission control. The host control section may previously set a predetermined combination of an emission color and an emitting method based on the host side combination of the emission color and the emitting method.
US09792459B2	Flexible policy arbitration control suite A policy arbitration system manages the fundamental communications and isolation between executable components and shared system resources of a computing device, and controls the use of the shared resources by the executable components. Some versions of the policy arbitration system operate on a virtualized mobile computing device to dynamically compile and implement policy rules that are issued periodically by multiple different independent execution environments that are running on the computing device. Semi-dynamic policy changes allow for context enabled policy changes that enforce the desired system and component “purpose” while simultaneously denying the “anti-purpose”.
US09792458B2	Platform to build secure mobile collaborative applications using dynamic presentation and data configurations System and method to provide access to protected data for a communication terminal, the system including: a publisher database configured to store protected data in encrypted form; a first server coupled to the publisher database; a second server coupled to the first server, the second server configured to provide a cryptographically strong authentication of access to the protected data; an interface to a first secure channel, between the first server and the communication terminal; and an interface to a second secure channel, between the first server and a customer application, wherein the first server is configured to exchange protected data with the communication terminal via the first secure channel, and to exchange protected data with the customer application via the second secure channel.
US09792457B2	Systems and methods for trigger-based modification of privacy settings associated with posts Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can identify a post to be published via a social networking system. A privacy schedule for modifying a privacy setting associated with the post can be determined. A trigger to modify the privacy setting associated with the post can be detected. The privacy setting can be modified based on the privacy schedule when the trigger is detected.
US09792452B2	Pervasive intermediate network attached storage application A Pervasive Intermediate Network Attached Storage Application (PINApp) enables users to digitally assign (pin/tack) a folder or drive to a public cloud storage service for the purpose of sharing their digital content with others. The PINApp enables users to engage the cloud storage services without the need to upload the digital content to the cloud in order for it to be viewed or shared. The PINApp can be used to unify all of the digital content stored on multiple devices and cloud services for a single owner or user.
US09792442B2	Visualization of security risks Examples disclosed herein relate to visualization of security risks. The examples enable obtaining counts of security risks found in a plurality of applications. The obtained counts may comprise a count of security risks associated with each of a plurality of severity levels found in a first application of the plurality of applications. The examples further enable determining, based on the obtained counts, a first maximum count of security risks associated with a first severity level of the plurality of severity levels found in the plurality of applications. The examples further enable determining a bar length of a first bar to be included in a bar graph based on the first maximum count and the count of security risks associated with the first severity level found in the first application.
US09792440B1	Secure boot for vehicular systems A method for a secure boot of a vehicular system is provided. The method includes performing a security self-verification on a first electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicular system and sending a security challenge to a second electronic control unit of the vehicular system. The method includes verifying a security response from the second electronic control unit, the security response relating to the security challenge and indicating an aspect of contents of memory of the second electronic control unit. The performing the security self-verification and verifying the security response establishes a chain of trust that includes the first electronic control unit and the second electronic control unit.
US09792430B2	Systems and methods for virtualized malware detection Systems and methods for virtualized malware enabled detection are described. In some embodiments, a method comprises intercepting an object provided from a first digital device, determining one or more resources the object requires, instantiating a virtual environment with the one or more resources, processing the object within the virtual environment, tainting operations of the object within the virtual environment, monitoring the operations of the object, identifying an additional resource of the object while processing that is not provided in the virtual environment, re-instantiating the virtual environment with the additional resource, monitoring the operations of the object while processing within the re-instantiated virtual environment, identifying untrusted actions from the monitored operations, and generating a report identifying the operations and the untrusted actions of the object.
US09792428B2	Dynamic password generation Providing access to electronic information. A first password string and a rule for configuring and generating a second password string from the first password string, are received from a user. The rule specifies a dynamic element to insert at a position in the first password string, based on first contextual information associated with the user. The value of the specified dynamic element is determined based on second contextual information associated with the user. Upon receiving a third password string, the second password string is configured and generated from the first password string, based on the rule, by: selecting the specified dynamic element based on the first contextual information; inserting the selected dynamic element in the first password string; and determining the value of the selected dynamic element based on the second contextual information. If the third password string matches the second password string, access to the electronic information is granted.
US09792425B2	System and method for controlling state tokens The system and method for controlling state tokens described herein may secure sensitive application state tokens, link one application state token to other state tokens that represent certain identities or communication sessions, and maintain application state tokens to integrate various different systems or applications. In particular, the system and method described herein may provide a mechanism to override scheme that applications use to manage state information and thereby enforce policies that provide fine-grained control over any semantics the applications otherwise use to manage state information. Furthermore, a first application state token may be linked to another state token representing a session or identity to validate whether the session or identity represented therein created the first application state token, and state tokens that represent active communication sessions may be copied from browser processes to various external clients to integrate or otherwise share state information across the various external clients.
US09792417B2	Methods for controlling software usage Methods for controlling software usage are described. Methods comprise receiving a request for at least one software application license, wherein the request comprises a user count, generating, by the computing apparatus, one or more sets of license data in response to the request, wherein a set of license data comprises at least one of the user count and a corresponding sequence number, signing each of the one or more sets of license data digitally with a private key, embedding a set of signed license data into the software application, receiving user identification data from a user through an input interface associated with the computing apparatus, and validating the user identification data. Additional embodiments incorporate mechanisms for license renewal, user registration and user authentication by means of associating a range of user identification data with the license data.
US09792415B2	Distributed automation apparatus for laboratory diagnostics A distributed automation apparatus for laboratory diagnostics is described, comprising modules for processing biological products transported on an automatic conveyor and modules for interfacing with analysis devices, both said modules being connected to said automatic conveyor, each of said modules is independent of the other modules, it being provided with its own control board, which allows it to work autonomously and independently of a central control unit which provides a worklist to each node which is dynamically read and updated by said control unit, and said module reading and updating said, worklist.
US09792412B2	Systems and methods for VOA model generation and use A computer implemented system and method provides a volume of activation (VOA) estimation model that receives as input two or more electric field values of a same or different data type at respective two or more positions of a neural element and determines based on such input an activation status of the neural element. A computer implemented system and method provides a machine learning system that automatically generates a computationally inexpensive VOA estimation model based on output of a computationally expensive system.
US09792403B2	Analysis of genetic variants Methods and systems for analyzing genetic variants are disclosed.
US09792401B2	Insulation distance check device The insulation distance check device comprising: a unit which designates a high potential component, a conductive component and an insulation component to 3D CAD data; a unit which designates a distance condition; a unit which superimposes a layer surrounding the high potential component and creates a layer map associating the layer with a first distance; a unit which determines a second distance associated with the layer contacting with a portion of the conductive component, the second distance being a distance between the high potential component and the portion of the conductive component; a unit which compares the second distance and the distance condition; and a unit which displays at least one of a region occupied by the portion of the conductive component, on which the second distance having been determined to dissatisfy the distance condition is based; and a path connecting the high potential component and the conductive component.
US09792399B2	Integrated circuit hierarchical design tool apparatus and method of hierarchically designing an integrated circuit An integrated circuit hierarchical design tool apparatus comprises a processor arranged to support a block coupling reconfiguration unit. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is capable of receiving block layout data comprising block placement, terminal location data and intra-block connectivity data. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is arranged to identify from the block layout data a block placement level block having a terminal respectively coupled to a plurality of other block placement level blocks by a plurality of nets, and to provide the block with an additional terminal capable of providing the same function as the terminal. The block coupling reconfiguration unit is also arranged to replace a net of the plurality of nets that is coupled to the terminal with a replacement net coupled to the additional terminal.
US09792396B2	Method and apparatus for automatic relative placement generation for clock trees Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for automatic relative placement of part of a clock tree in the course of generating a placed, routed, and optimized circuit design.
US09792395B1	Memory utilization in a circuit design The disclosed approaches compile a hierarchical representation of a circuit design into a flattened netlist and store the flattened netlist a memory circuit. The circuit design instantiates a plurality of memory blocks of a target device and specifies logic circuits that access the plurality of memory blocks, respectively. The flattened netlist is modified by determining a subset of the plurality of memory blocks. The quantity of memory reserved in each memory block of the subset is less than a capacity of said each memory block. One memory block is instantiated, for a pair of the memory blocks of the subset, in place of each memory block of the pair in the flattened netlist in the memory circuit. A portion of the flattened netlist that specifies the logic circuits that access each memory block of the pair is modified to access the one memory block instead of each memory block of the pair.
US09792393B2	Methods and apparatuses for etch profile optimization by reflectance spectra matching and surface kinetic model optimization Disclosed are methods of optimizing a computer model which relates the etch profile of a feature on a semiconductor substrate to a set of independent input parameters (A), via the use of a plurality of model parameters (B). In some embodiments, the methods may include modifying one or more values of B so as to reduce a metric indicative of the differences between computed reflectance spectra generated from the model and corresponding experimental reflectance spectra with respect to one or more sets of values of A. In some embodiments, calculating the metric may include an operation of projecting the computed and corresponding experimental reflectance spectra onto a reduced-dimensional subspace and calculating the difference between the reflectance spectra as projected onto the subspace. Also disclosed are etch systems implementing such optimized computer models.
US09792392B2	Method for determining the sizing of the transistors of an analog circuit A method for determining electrical parameter values of the transistors of an analog circuit of a system on chip includes breaking the circuit down into a set of blocks connected to one another; establishing the wiring diagram of said circuit; defining a set of electrical constraints that are specific to said circuit, blocks and transistors of each block; defining electrical parameters of the circuit, block and transistors; selecting for each transistor of the circuit an operator for calculating the electrical parameter values of said transistor; generating structured diagrams of each block of the circuit from the defined constraints and the chosen operators; assembling said structured diagrams of blocks into a general diagram of the circuit; identifying whether there is any conflict; and, if so, emitting an alarm signal.
US09792387B2	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.
US09792381B2	Method and apparatus for a paged update protocol An approach is provided for providing an update feed to clients. An update document comprising one or more update statuses of one or more resources is generated. At least one of the one or more resources is identified using a respective obfuscation identifier. The update document is divided into one or more pages. The one or more pages are archived.
US09792377B2	Sentiment trent visualization relating to an event occuring in a particular geographic region An event occurring in a particular geographic region is identified based on disseminated information containing public commentary in the particular geographic region. Attributes that are related to the event are identified, and sentiment words relating to the identified event are extracted from the disseminated information, where the extracted sentiment words are in a local language of the particular geographic region. A sentiment trend visualization is generated that depicts a trend of sentiments of at least a particular one of the identified attributes, wherein the sentiments are based on the sentiment words for at least the particular attribute.
US09792370B2	Identifying equivalent links on a page A computer-implemented process for identifying equivalent links on a page responsive to a determination that the crawler has not visited all required universal resource locators, locates a next URL to be crawled to form a current URL and processes the current URL to identify equivalent URLs. Responsive to a determination that the crawler has not visited the current URL, determine whether necessary to crawl all identified equivalent URLs and responsive to a determination that it is necessary to crawl all identified equivalent URLs, adding all equivalent URLs to a list of URLs to be crawled.
US09792363B2	Video display method A method for video playback uses only resources universally supported by a browser (“inline playback”) operating in virtually all handheld media devices. In one case, the method first prepares a video sequence for display by a browser by (a) dividing the video sequence into a silent video stream and an audio stream; (b) extracting from the silent video stream a number of still images, the number of still images corresponding to at least one of a desired output frame rate and a desired output resolution; and (c) combining the still images into a composite image. In one embodiment, the composite image having a number of rows, with each row being formed by the still images created from a fixed duration of the silent video stream. Another method plays the still images of the composite image as a video sequence by (a) loading the composite image to be displayed through a viewport defined the size of one of the still images; (b) selecting one of the still images of the composite image; (c) setting the viewport to display the selected still image; and (d) setting a timer for a specified time period based on a frame rate, such that, upon expiration of the specified time period: (i) selecting a next one of the still images to be displayed in the viewport, unless all still images of the composite image have been selected; and (ii) return to step (c) if not all still images have been selected.
US09792362B2	Video search system and method Provided is a video search system and method. The video search system includes: a search engine configured to extract video data matching a search condition from an original video; and a browsing engine configured to generate a summarized video based on the extracted video data, render a plurality of objects in the summarized video on a background model in an overlapping manner in an object appearing order in the original video, and display the rendered objects.
US09792355B2	Searches for similar documents In an embodiment, a method is provided for searching similar documents. Here, a document is accessed and terms from a metamodel semantic network is identified. The document is analyzed to identify a number of the terms from the metamodel semantic network that are also found in the document, and to identify a frequency of occurrence in the document for each term. A search is conducted for other documents having frequencies of occurrences that are similar to the identified frequency of occurrence. These other documents have been previously analyzed using the same terms from the metamodel semantic network.
US09792344B2	Asynchronous namespace maintenance Asynchronous namespace maintenance in a distributed replicated data storage system is disclosed. An access device/program serving as a front end to the distributed replicated data storage system updates a batch of updated meta data about stored data items when data items are stored in the distributed replicated data storage system. When the elapsed time since the last batch of data item meta data was stored exceeds a first threshold value or the current batch size exceeds a second threshold value, the access device/program stores the current batch of updated meta data as an object in the distributed replicated data storage system, receiving a batch object identifier for the stored batch of updated meta data, and distributes the batch object identifier to other access devices and/or access programs which retrieve the batch of updated meta data and update their namespaces.
US09792341B2	Database query processing using horizontal data record alignment of multi-column range summaries Organizing data within a database is provided. In response to determining that a group of coarsified data records within a database table is not an aligned group of data records, a virtually replicated subgroup of coarsified data records that corresponds to the group of coarsified data records is generated from different groups of coarsified data records within the database table. The virtually replicated subgroup of coarsified data records is aligned with the corresponding group of coarsified data records.
US09792337B2	In-database connectivity components analysis of data A method determines the connectivity components defined by a set of relations over a set of data elements. For each first data element of a selected subset of data elements, a second data element that is linked to the first data element by a path of relations is selected as its representative, using a randomization process. A new set of relations is created by replacing each first data element of the subset by its representative in at least part of the set of relations.
US09792336B1	Generating real-time search results Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating real-time search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search query from a client; determining that real time search results should be included in a user interface document responsive to the search query; generating the user interface document, including client software to cause the client to present real time search results for the query; and sending the user interface document to the client.
US09792333B2	Adding attributes and labels to structured data A method and system associating labels and attribute values with items in a collection of data. Providers can associate attributes and labels with their data or attributes and labels can be added to existing data. A preferred embodiment allows a content provider to upload data and to attach their own custom labels and attributes to items or to use predefined labels and attributes. Providers can upload data using a user interface or a bulk upload mechanism.
US09792320B2	System and method for performing shard migration to support functions of a cloud-based service Systems and methods of maintaining a horizontally scaled database based on data ownership for a cloud-based platform (e.g., cloud-based collaboration and/or storage platform/service) are disclosed. The system database comprises multiple shard databases, and all files and folders owned by a user are stored on a single shard database. When a user transfers ownership of a file and/or a folder to a second user, the transferred file and/or folder is stored on the shard database that stores all of the data for the second user.
US09792319B2	System and method for identifying non-event profiles A system for avoidance records comprises an interface and a processor. An interface is configured to receive an abbreviated record associated with a non-event profile identifier. A processor is configured to determine a counter value associated with the non-event profile identifier and, in the event that the counter value is greater than a predetermined threshold, create and store an avoidance record.
US09792308B2	Content estimation data compression The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for providing fast and efficient data compression using a combination of content dependent, content estimation, and content independent data compression. In one aspect of the disclosure a method for compressing data comprises the steps of: analyzing a data block of an input data stream to identify a data type of the data block, the input data stream comprising a plurality of disparate data types; performing content dependent data compression on the data block, if the data type of the data block is identified; performing content estimation data compression if the content is estimable; and performing content independent data compression on the data block, if the data type of the data block is not identified or estimable. In another aspect of the present invention LZDR compression is applied to simultaneously perform one method of compression while computing statistics useful in estimating the optimal form of compression to be applied.
US09792303B2	Identifying data from keyword searches of color palettes and keyword trends Systems and methods are described herein to determine data associated with keyword searches of color palettes based at least in part on keyword trends. A keyword trend may include popular colors of color palettes associated with the keyword. Color palettes may be searched by name or other data associated with the color palettes. Furthermore, color palettes associated with a keyword may be filtered by color trends and/or keyword trends. The items and/or images associated with the filtered color palettes may be identified and presented to a user.
US09792299B1	Method and apparatus for enabling a first device to control operation of a second device based on a file system associated with the second device Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling a device to perform functions using features of a native file system are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes in response to receiving a request to a file system in a first device from a second device, decoding a file path in the request to determine a function of the first device that correlates with the file path. The file system is defined to include a hierarchy of folders that correlate with functions performable by the first device. The method includes causing the first device to perform the function associated with the file path decoded from the request.
US09792292B1	Method and system for a network mapping service A method and system of publishing a map includes providing access to a plurality of map data files or mapping services between at least one publisher and at least one subscriber; defining a map in a map context comprising parameters and descriptors to substantially duplicate a map by reference to mutually accessible data or mapping services, publishing a map to a channel in a table file on server; accessing the channel by at least one subscriber, transmitting the mapping context from the server to the at least one subscriber, executing the map context by the at least one subscriber, and generating the map on a display software associated with the at least one subscriber by reconstituting the map from the references and other data in the mapping context.
US09792286B2	Systems and methods for obtaining customized search results by way of user-specific search indices Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently providing personalized search results to a user. Personalized search allows a user to receive search results that are most relevant to that user. For example, when a user with a strong interest in rap searches for “50 cent” they may be presented with top search results corresponding to 50 Cent's rap albums. Conversely, when a coin collector searches for “50 cent” they may be presented with top search results containing antique coins.
US09792272B2	Deleting annotations of paginated digital content Features and techniques are disclosed for interacting with paginated digital content, including a multi-purpose tool and an annotation mode. The multi-purpose tool, which may be represented by a graphic (e.g., a movable interactive graphic), can provide access to multiple modes (e.g., copy, define, note, and/or highlight modes) that a user can invoke. The mode invoked determines the functions performed by the tool when interacting with the paginated digital content. The annotation mode, which may be invoked using the multi-purpose tool or independently thereof, can allow a user to create and edit annotations, such as highlights and notes (e.g., sticky notes, margin notes, and/or highlight notes), for paginated digital content. Editing the annotations may include selecting a desired color for the annotation, for example. The annotation mode may also allow a user to intuitively merge and delete annotations previously added to paginated digital content.
US09792259B2	Systems and/or methods for interactive exploration of dependencies in streaming data Certain example embodiments allow for the continuous discovery and analysis of dependencies in a multidimensional event stream in which various regression models are continuously modified in real time and regression models are switched, if necessary or desirable. The event streams in certain example embodiments are continuously arriving Big Data streams of heterogeneous types, and the discovery and analysis is done dynamically in real time.
US09792246B2	Lower-power scrambling with improved signal integrity An I/O interface supports scrambling, where the scrambling can include nonlinear scrambling of the scrambling code, or dynamic bus inversion of the scrambling code, or selective switching of selected bits of the scrambling code, or a combination of these. The transmitting device includes a scrambler and the receiving device includes a descrambler. Both the scrambler and the descrambler generate a linear feedback scrambling code modified by applying one or more of the techniques mentioned above. The modified scrambling code may cause fewer than half of the scrambled output bits to be toggled with respect to a previous scrambled output. The scrambler applies the modified scrambling code to a signal to transmit. The descrambler applies the modified scrambling code to a received signal.
US09792242B2	Systems and methods for non-unicast/destination lookup fail (DLF) load balancing Aspects of the present invention include a port extender environment using the port extenders to dynamically select a data path. In embodiments of the present invention, each port extender can communicate data traffic to another port extender or to a host receiver. The communication path is selected in the port extender using a hashing system.
US09792240B2	Method for dynamic configuration of a PCIE slot device for single or multi root ability A method and an information handling system (IHS) selectively configures a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device with single or multiple root ability to service various compute node requests. A multi-root aware (MRA) module that manages an MRA switch receives requests for powering on PCIe adapters in respective chassis slot locations. If slot locations of respective PCIe adapters are designated as single root and unshared PCIe device slots, the MRA module provides power to the PCIe adapters and configures the PCIe adapter with single root ability. If slot locations of respective PCIe adapters are designated as multi-root and shared PCIe device slots, and corresponding PCIe adapters are single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) aware, the MRA module provides power to corresponding PCIe adapters, and configures, using the appropriate device drivers, the PCIe adapters with multi-root ability. The MRA module connects compute nodes via the MRA switch to requested PCIe device functions.
US09792235B2	Optimized credit return mechanism for packet sends Method and apparatus for implementing an optimized credit return mechanism for packet sends. A Programmed Input/Output (PIO) send memory is partitioned into a plurality of send contexts, each comprising a memory buffer including a plurality of send blocks configured to store packet data. A storage scheme using FIFO semantics is implemented with each send block associated with a respective FIFO slot. In response to receiving packet data written to the send blocks and detecting the data in those send blocks has egressed from a send context, corresponding freed FIFO slots are detected, and a lowest slot for which credit return indicia has not be returned is determined. The highest slot in a sequence of freed slots from the lowest slot is then determined, and corresponding credit return indicia is returned. In one embodiment an absolute credit return count is implemented for each send context, with an associated absolute credit sent count tracked via software that writes to the PIO send memory, with the two absolute credit counts used for flow control.
US09792233B2	Techniques for escalating interrupts in a data processing system to a higher software stack level A technique for escalating interrupts in a data processing system includes receiving, at an interrupt presentation controller (IPC), an event notification message (ENM) that specifies a level, an event target number, a number of bits to ignore, and an event priority. A group of virtual processor threads that may be potentially interrupted is determined based on the event target number, the number of bits to ignore, the level, and a process identifier (ID) when the level specified in the ENM corresponds to a user level. In response to the event priority in the ENM not being greater than an operating priority of at least one virtual processor thread in the group of virtual processor threads, an escalate message that includes an escalate event number (EEN), sourced from an interrupt context table of the IPC, is issued. The EEN is used by an interrupt source controller to generate another ENM.
US09792231B1	Computer system for managing I/O metric information by identifying one or more outliers and comparing set of aggregated I/O metrics Systems and methods are described for dynamically detecting outliers in a set of input/output (I/O) metrics collected and aggregated by a storage volume network. An I/O request is received by a storage volume network, and an agent of the storage volume network associates primary and secondary identifiers with that I/O request. For example, a trace may be associated with a request to write data to a storage volume network, and spans may be associated with the individual operations required to fulfill that request. Once gathered, I/O metrics may be aggregated based on the associated identifiers. I/O metric information regarding outliers may be received from the storage volume network, processed, and published by an I/O metrics service to identify the outliers among the primary and secondary identifiers. These outliers may then be stored for further analysis, and may be utilized to determine improvements to the performance of a storage volume network.
US09792230B2	Data input circuit of semiconductor apparatus A data input circuit of a semiconductor apparatus may include a plurality of parallelizing units corresponding to a plurality of input/output pads in a one-to-one manner, and a data control block configured to transmit serial test data, which may be input through less than all of the plurality of input/output pads, to the plurality of parallelizing units in response to first and second control signals.
US09792226B2	Predictive cache replacement Systems and methods for predictive cache replacement policies are provided. In particular, some embodiments dynamically capture and predict access patterns of data to determine which data should be evicted from the cache. A novel tree data structure can be dynamically built that allows for immediate use in the identification of developing patterns and the eviction determination. In some cases, the data can be dynamically organized into histograms, strings, and other representations allowing traditional analysis techniques to be applied. Data organized into histogram-like structures can also be converted into strings allowing for well-known string pattern recognition analysis. The pattern recognition and prediction techniques disclosed also have applications outside of caching.
US09792225B2	Host and computer system having the same A host includes a cache including a plurality of cache lines, a command descriptor list configured to store a command transmitted from one of the plurality of cache lines, a host controller including a direct memory access (DMA) device that accesses the command descriptor list, and a processor configured to determine a size of the command descriptor list based on a size of the one of the plurality of cache lines.
US09792222B2	Validating virtual address translation by virtual machine monitor utilizing address validation structure to validate tentative guest physical address and aborting based on flag in extended page table requiring an expected guest physical address in the address validation structure Systems and methods for validating virtual address translation. An example processing system comprises: a processing core to execute a first application associated with a first privilege level and a second application associated with a second privilege level, wherein a first set of privileges associated with the first privilege level includes a second set of privileges associated with the second privilege level; and an address validation component to validate, in view of an address translation data structure maintained by the first application, a mapping of a first address defined in a first address space of the second application to a second address defined in a second address space of the second application.
US09792219B2	Nonvolatile memory systems with embedded fast read and write memories A nonvolatile memory system is described with novel architecture coupling nonvolatile storage memory with random access volatile memory. New commands are included to enhance the read and write performance of the memory system.
US09792218B2	Data storage methods and apparatuses for reducing the number of writes to flash-based storage Methods and apparatuses are provided for reducing the number of write operations to a flash-based storage system that stores and replaces data. The storage system includes a first storage implemented using non-flash storage and a second storage implemented using flash memory. Missed data is first stored in the first storage, which can be less sensitive than flash to write operations. The missed data is stored in the flash-based second storage only after the missed data satisfies a storage management algorithm.
US09792213B2	Mitigating busy time in a high performance cache Various embodiments mitigate busy time in a hierarchical store-through memory cache structure including a cache directory associated with a memory cache. The cache directory is divided into a plurality of portions each associated with a portion of memory cache. A determination is made that a first subpipe of a shared cache pipeline comprises a non-store request. The shared pipeline is communicatively coupled to the plurality of portions of the cache directory. A store command is prevented from being placed in a second subpipe of the shared cache pipeline based on determining that a first subpipe of the shared cache pipeline comprises a non-store request. Simultaneous cache lookup operations are supported between the plurality of portions of the cache directory and cache write operations. Two or more store commands simultaneously processed in a shared cache pipeline communicatively coupled to the plurality of portions of the cache directory.
US09792211B2	Providing coherent merging of committed store queue entries in unordered store queues of block-based computer processors Providing coherent merging of committed store queue entries in unordered store queues of block-based computer processors is disclosed. In one aspect, a block-based computer processor provides a merging logic circuit communicatively coupled to an unordered store queue and cache memory. The merging logic circuit is configured to select a first store queue entry in the unordered store queue, and read its memory address, an age indicator, and a data value. The age indicator and the data value are stored in merged data bytes within a merged data buffer. The merging logic circuit then locates a remaining store queue entry having a memory address identical to the first selected store queue entry, and reads its age indicator and data value. Based on the age indicator and one or more age indicators of the merged data bytes within the merged data buffer, the data value is merged into the merged data buffer.
US09792206B2	Memory controller and memory system including the same An operating method is for a memory device which controls a nonvolatile memory. The operating method includes managing a program depth bit map indicating an upper page program state of each of a plurality of word lines of the nonvolatile memory in response to an external write request, and outputting one of a plurality of different read commands to the nonvolatile memory based on information of the program depth bit map corresponding to a word line to be accessed in response to an external read request.
US09792205B2	A/B testing for mobile applications A machine may be configured to perform A/B testing on mobile applications. For example, the machine receives an identifier of a mobile device that stores a mobile application. The machine identifies a parameter of an element of a user interface displayed by the mobile application on the mobile device. The identifying of the parameter may be based on the identifier of the mobile device. The machine selects a parameter value that corresponds to the parameter. The selecting of the parameter value may be based on the identifier of the mobile device. The machine generates an instruction referencing the parameter value. The instruction may be executable by the mobile application to display the element of the user interface on the mobile device according to the parameter value. The machine transmits the instruction to the mobile device in response to receiving the identifier of the mobile device.
US09792204B2	System and method for coverage-based automated test case augmentation for design models A method for automated test case augmentation includes receiving, at an automated test augmentation system, a design model and model coverage gap information from a model-based development tool, translating the model coverage gap information into machine-readable mathematical test objective expressions, developing a set of test objective operators by translating the machine-readable mathematical test objective expressions, localizing target operators for the identified coverage gaps within the design model, attaching the test objective operators to target operators of the design model to create a test model, augmenting the test model by propagating test objectives at the target operators to a test node operator of the design model, and executing, by a test generator, the augmented test model to obtain the test cases to cover the coverage gaps and the causes for the model coverage gaps. A system for implementing the model-based design and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed.
US09792199B2	Lightweight trace based measurement systems and methods An automotive electronics system includes an electronic control unit and a trace adapter. The electronic control unit is configured to receive measurement signals and provide control signals. Additionally, the electronic control unit is configured to generate or provide trace signals by replacing original instructions in a binary image with trace instructions. The trace instructions are functionally equivalent, but trigger providing the trace signals. The trace adapter is coupled to the electronic control unit. The trace adapter is configured to obtain the trace signals from the electronic control unit.
US09792192B1	Client-side, variable drive health determination The relative health of data storage drives may be determined based, at least in some aspects, on data access information and/or other drive operation information. In some examples, upon receiving the operation information from a computing device, a health level of a drive may be determined. The health level determination may be based at least in part on operating information received from a client entity. Additionally, a storage space allocation instruction or operation may be determined for execution. The allocation instruction or operation determined to be performed may be based at least in part on the determined health level.
US09792190B2	High performance persistent memory Embodiments are generally directed to high capacity energy backed memory with off device storage. A memory device includes a circuit board; multiple memory chips that are installed on the circuit board; a controller to provide for backing up contents of the memory chips when a power loss condition is detected; a connection to a backup energy source; and a connection to a backup data storage that is separate from the memory device.
US09792187B2	Facilitating test failover using a thin provisioned virtual machine created from a snapshot Systems and methods for facilitating test failover on a remote virtual machine without creating a full copy of the remote virtual machine. A snapshot is created of a remote virtual machine disk, the remote virtual machine disk protecting a source virtual machine disk. An instant, thin provisioned virtual machine is created from the snapshot, and the instant, thin provisioned virtual machine is powered on based on a received instruction to power on the instant, thin provisioned virtual machine thereby creating a running instance of a virtual machine, thereby facilitating test failover on the remote virtual machine without creating a full copy of the remote virtual machine.
US09792184B2	Processing device with self-scrubbing logic An apparatus includes a processing unit including a configuration memory and self-scrubber logic coupled to read the configuration memory to detect compromised data stored in the configuration memory. The apparatus also includes a watchdog unit external to the processing unit and coupled to the self-scrubber logic to detect a failure in the self-scrubber logic. The watchdog unit is coupled to the processing unit to selectively reset the processing unit in response to detecting the failure in the self-scrubber logic. The apparatus also includes an external memory external to the processing unit and coupled to send configuration data to the configuration memory in response to a data feed signal outputted by the self-scrubber logic.
US09792178B2	Progressive parity A magazine-based data storage library is described that essentially provides a first tape cartridge adapted to retain first data and first metadata, a second tape cartridge adapted to retain second data and second metadata, a random access storage memory, such as a hard disk drive, whereon parity of the first data and the second data along with the first metadata and second metadata is retained. It is not required that the first data and the second data be written in parallel. The parity data on the random access storage memory is transferred to a parity tape, which can be used to reconstruct any data lost from either the first tape cartridge or the second tape cartridge.
US09792177B2	Data recovery circuit, semiconductor storage device, and data recovery method According to one embodiment, a data recovery circuit includes an XOR operation unit, an erroneous bit position inferring unit, an error factor inferring unit, and an error provisionally determining unit. The XOR operation unit performs a bitwise XOR operation on M data sequences of N bits, where M and N are integers of two or greater. The erroneous bit position inferring unit infers an erroneous bit position based on the XOR operation result. The error factor inferring unit infers the inverted direction of the erroneous bit. The error provisionally determining unit performs bit inversion in the erroneous bit position, the direction of the bit inversion being opposite to the inferred inverted direction.
US09792176B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data in memory system A memory system includes a memory controller; and a memory device, the memory device including a memory cell array, the memory cell array including least a first memory page having a plurality of memory cells storing a plurality of stored bits, the memory controller being such that, the memory controller performs a first hard read operation on the first memory page to generate a plurality of read bits corresponding to the plurality of stored bits, and if the memory controller determines to change a value of one of a first group of bits, from among the plurality of read bits, the memory controller selects one of the first group of bits based on log likelihood ratio (LLR) values corresponding, respectively, to each of the first group of bits, and changes the value of the selected bit.
US09792171B2	Multiple reset modes for a PCI host bridge A PCI host bridge (PHB) includes a warm reset mode and a full reset mode. When a fatal error occurs, the type of fatal error is determined, a reset mode corresponding to that type of fatal error is determined, and a reset corresponding to the reset mode is performed. A full reset clears the error registers, status registers and configuration registers, which then requires the configuration registers to be reconfigured before the PHB can be reinitialized. A warm reset clears the error registers and status registers, but does not clear the configuration registers. A warm reset thus does not require the time to write to the configuration registers, and the PHB can be reinitialized using the existing configuration data in the configuration registers while link training is done in parallel. When initialization of the PHB after a warm reset is not successful, a full reset is performed.
US09792165B2	Binding smart objects A method for binding a first and second devices is disclosed. The method is implemented using the architectural principles of REST, which allows a binding initiator to directly contact the first device and instruct the device of actions to be taken. Specifically, the binding initiator may contact the first device by providing a first REST request to the device, the request specifying that the first device is to monitor a state of a particular REST resource identified by the request and is to trigger the second device to perform a specified action when the state of that REST resource satisfies a particular condition. Using REST further allows the first device to directly contact the second device and instruct the second device to perform the specified action. Since the first device is now able to directly contact the second device, these two devices may be considered to be bound.
US09792163B1	Decentralized control plane for a computing system A method of implementing a control plane for services in a computer system includes: executing a service host process on a software platform of a host computer, the service host process including a framework that provides a plurality of functionalities; creating a service instance as an object in the service host process based on a specification of a service, the service instance including a representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API), the specification defining declared options for the service; selectively enabling one or more of the plurality of functionalities provided by the framework for use by the service instance based on the declared options for the service; and processing requests for the service through the REST API of the service instance, the service instance using one or more of the enabled functionalities provided by the framework in response to the requests.
US09792153B2	Computing resource inventory system Systems and methods of managing computing resources of a computing system are described. A computing resource list and computing resource information may be stored at a data store. The computing resource list may identify a set of computing resources of a computing system, and the computing resource information may respectively describe the computing resources. The computing resource list may be updated in response to a new computing resource being added to the computing system or in response to an existing computing resource being removed from the computing system. Evaluation tasks for the computing resources may be performed, and a resource evaluation report may be generated during performance of at least one of the evaluation task.
US09792136B2	Hardware assisted inter hypervisor partition data transfers An invention is disclosed for effectuating direct memory access (DMA) transfers by a guest operating system of a child partition. A guest operating system is presented with virtualized resources rather than physical resources—e.g. a virtualized processor, virtualized memory, and a virtualized DMA controller. When the guest OS attempts to initiate a DMA transfer using the virtualized DMA controller, the child partition detects this, and directs the physical DMA controller to conduct the DMA transfer.
US09792134B1	Synchronizing settings associated with virtual computing environments The disclosed embodiments provide a system that operates a computer system. During operation, the system detects a first change in a setting associated with a first computing environment executing on the computer system, wherein the first change is associated with at least one of an input/output (I/O) device setting, a regional setting, a network setting, a power setting, and a display setting. Next, the system propagates the first change to one or more other computing environments executing on the computer system.
US09792130B2	Rebooting to a UEFI application from a UEFI supported system Systems and methods for rebooting a UEFI based system, for example from Microsoft Windows, to any UEFI application, include modifying boot configuration data by inserting a boot entry into the UEFI firmware boot manager to cause execution of a non-Windows UEFI application.
US09792129B2	Network range extender with multi-RF radio support for plurality of network interfaces A networked system for managing a physical intrusion detection/alarm includes a network of end nodes, e.g., sensor nodes including one or more constrained sensor nodes for sensing physical conditions, and a gateway to provide network connections for the constrained sensor nodes. The system also includes a range extender for connecting the one or more constrained sensor nodes to the gateway, with the range extender including first and second radios and corresponding processors to wirelessly communicate with the gateway and constrained nodes.
US09792124B2	Speculative branch handling for transaction abort Embodiments relate to speculative branch handling for transaction abort. An aspect includes detecting a beginning of a current execution of a transaction. Another aspect includes, based on detecting the beginning of the transaction, disabling speculative execution based on branch prediction of an initial branch instruction of the transaction, wherein the initial branch instruction branches to two possible paths, and wherein a first path of the two possible paths comprises an abort handler. Another aspect includes disabling updating of a history table for the initial branch instruction.
US09792123B2	Indirect branch prediction Methods and indirect branch predictor logic units to predict the target addresses of indirect branch instructions. The method comprises storing in a table predicted target addresses for indirect branch instructions indexed by a combination of the indirect path history for previous indirect branch instructions and the taken/not-taken history for previous conditional branch instructions. When a new indirect branch instruction is received for prediction, the indirect path history and the taken/not-taken history are combined to generate an index for the indirect branch instruction. The generated index is then used to identify a predicted target address in the table. If the identified predicted target address is valid, then the target address of the indirect branch instruction is predicted to be the predicted target address.
US09792119B2	Instruction and logic to provide vector horizontal majority voting functionality Instructions and logic provide vector horizontal majority voting functionality. Some embodiments, responsive to an instruction specifying: a destination operand, a size of the vector elements, a source operand, and a mask corresponding to a portion of the vector element data fields in the source operand; read a number of values from data fields of the specified size in the source operand, corresponding to the mask specified by the instruction and store a result value to that number of corresponding data fields in the destination operand, the result value computed from the majority of values read from the number of data fields of the source operand.
US09792118B2	Vector processing engines (VPEs) employing a tapped-delay line(s) for providing precision filter vector processing operations with reduced sample re-fetching and power consumption, and related vector processor systems and methods Vector processing engines (VPEs) employing a tapped-delay line(s) for providing precision filter vector processing operations with reduced sample re-fetching and power consumption are disclosed. Related vector processor systems and methods are also disclosed. The VPEs are configured to provide filter vector processing operations. To minimize re-fetching of input vector data samples from memory to reduce power consumption, a tapped-delay line(s) is included in the data flow paths between a vector data file and execution units in the VPE. The tapped-delay line(s) is configured to receive and provide input vector data sample sets to execution units for performing filter vector processing operations. The tapped-delay line(s) is also configured to shift the input vector data sample set for filter delay taps and provide the shifted input vector data sample set to execution units, so the shifted input vector data sample set does not have to be re-fetched during filter vector processing operations.
US09792110B2	Automatic online system upgrade Automatically upgrading a computing environment system may include automatically identifying a set of timeframes and nodes running user applications on physical machines, containers, or virtual machines (VMs) whose disruption during the identified timeframes minimally impact the user applications. The timeframes may be intelligently determined by leveraging the monitoring data obtained automatically and/or the hints supplied by the user.
US09792099B2	System and method for supporting deployment in a multitenant application server environment In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting deployment in an application server environment. A resource, for example an application or library, can be deployed to different resource groups in different partitions in a domain, to a resource group template referenced by the different resource groups, or to a domain-level resource group. One or more additional deployment operations can be performed on a deployed resource by a partition administrator or a system administrator. A deployment API can be provided to enable a plurality of deployment clients to perform the deployment operations, and can be used to derive partition information and target information for the deployment operations when the information is not provided by a partition administrator. Different deployment scopes are defined to allow a same resource to be deployed in different partitions of a domain and outside any partition in the domain.
US09792098B2	Unaligned instruction relocation In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving source code to be compiled into an executable file for an unaligned instruction set architecture (ISA). Aligned assembled code is generated, by a computer processor. The aligned assembled code complies with an aligned ISA and includes aligned processor code for a processor and aligned accelerator code for an accelerator. A first linking pass is performed on the aligned assembled code, including relocating a first relocation target in the aligned accelerator code that refers to a first object outside the aligned accelerator code. Unaligned assembled code is generated in accordance with the unaligned ISA and includes unaligned accelerator code for the accelerator and unaligned processor code for the processor. A second linking pass is performed on the unaligned assembled code, including relocating a second relocation target outside the unaligned accelerator code that refers to an object in the unaligned accelerator code.
US09792096B1	System and method for pervasive software platform-based model driven architecture application generator In developing applications for a plurality of node types, a meta-data definition of the application can be captured into an application definition module. The meta-data definition can describe the application for the plurality of node types. A code generation module can then automatically generate the application code for the plurality of node types. The code can be compiled per node type and the packaging necessary to deploy the application to the plurality of node types can also be automatically generated.
US09792091B2	Quantitative evaluation and optimization of user interface software design Disclosed herein are technologies for quantitative evaluation and optimization of user interface and software design. In one implementation, a design step in a software process is chosen. The software process may be evaluated with different design elements, and time penalties for the different design elements may be determined during the evaluation. A design element of the design step may then be changed to one of the different design elements with the lowest time penalty.
US09792069B2	Offline deduplication for solid-state storage devices A method for managing a flash storage system includes reading flash data units from flash memory into a buffer, wherein each of the flash data units includes host data units, and determining an identifier for each host data unit. The method includes selecting a set of unique identifiers from the determined identifiers based on a number of host data units sharing the respective unique identifier. For each unique identifier in the set of unique identifier, the method includes designating one of the host data units as a master data unit, wherein the logical address of the designated host data unit is mapped to a physical address. The logical addresses of the other host data units sharing the unique identifier are remapped to the master physical address, and the physical addresses previously mapped to the remapped logical addresses are invalidated.
US09792064B2	Method, apparatus, and system for energy efficiency and energy conservation including autonomous hardware-based deep power down in devices Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for energy efficiency and energy conservation including enabling autonomous hardware-based deep power down of devices are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a device, a static memory, and a power control unit coupled with the device and the static memory. The system further includes a deep power down logic of the power control unit to monitor a status of the device, and to transfer the device to a deep power down state when the device is idle. In the system, the device consumes less power when in the deep power down state than in the idle state.
US09792054B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing the performance of a storage system Methods and apparatuses for optimizing the performance of a storage system comprise a FLASH storage system, a hard drive storage system, and a storage controller. The storage controller is adapted to receive READ and WRITE requests from an external host, and is coupled to the FLASH storage system and the hard drive storage system. The storage controller receives a WRITE request from an external host containing data and an address, forwards the received WRITE request to the FLASH storage system and associates the address provided in the WRITE request with a selected alternative address, and provides an alternative WRITE request, including the selected alternative address and the data received in the WRITE request, to the hard drive storage system, wherein the alternative address is selected to promote sequential WRITE operations within the hard drive storage system.
US09792045B1	Distributing data blocks across a plurality of storage devices A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium for mapping block numbers within a region to physical locations within a storage system. Block numbers are mapped within a region according to a fractal-based space-filling curve. If the region is not a 2k by 2k square, then the region is broken up into one or more 2k by 2k squares. Any remaining sub-region is centered within a 2k by 2k square, the 2k by 2k square is numbered using a fractal-based space-filling curve, and then the sub-region is renumbered by assigning numbers based on the order of the original block numbers of the sub-region.
US09792040B2	Pen-mouse system The disclosed pen-mouse is a tracking menu that tracks the position of the pen. A pen cursor that corresponds to the pen is moved about within the pen-mouse graphic by the pen and the pen-mouse remains stationary. The pen-mouse is moved when the location of the pen encounters a tracking boundary of the pen-mouse. The tracking boundary coincides with the graphic representing the mouse. While moving within the pen-mouse, the pen can select objects within the pen-mouse body, such as buttons, wheels, etc. The selection of a button or other virtual control causes a corresponding computer mouse button function to be executed. The execution is directed at any object designated by a pen-mouse tracking symbol, such as an arrow, that is part of the pen mouse graphic. The pen-mouse emulates functions or operations of a mouse including single button clicks, double button clicks, finger wheels, track balls, etc.
US09792039B2	Portable electronic device performing similar operations for different gestures A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays an application on the touch-sensitive display; and when the application is in a predefined mode, performs a predefined operation in response to each gesture of a set of multiple distinct gestures on the touch-sensitive display. Another aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device: displays a first application; when the first application is in a first mode, performs a first operation upon detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive display; and performs the first operation upon detecting a second gesture on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the second gesture is different from the first gesture.
US09792031B2	Scroll speed adjustment An apparatus comprises: a display unit for displaying a target image; an operation input unit to which a scroll operation for scrolling the target image displayed on the display unit is input; a display control unit for scrolling the target image according to the scroll operation; and a speed setting unit for changing, according to an area acceleration associated with a set area provided in the target image, a scroll speed at which the target image is scrolled.
US09792029B1	Authoring of real-time interactive computer graphics content for predictive bi-adaptive streaming A method including providing a user interface configured to allow a user to edit at least a portion of a computer graphics (CG) content clip comprising a plurality of 3D locations renderable using a plurality of 3D assets. The method also includes receiving first user input comprising a selection of a first subset of the plurality of 3D assets to include in a first 3D location of the plurality of 3D locations. The method additionally includes determining an aggregate bandwidth score and an aggregate processing score for the first 3D location including the first subset of the plurality of 3D assets, the aggregate bandwidth score being based at least in part on individual bandwidth scores for each of the first subset of the plurality of 3D assets, and the aggregate processing score being based at least in part on individual processing scores for each of the first subset of the plurality of 3D assets. The method further includes displaying in the user interface information based at least in part on the aggregate bandwidth score and the aggregate processing score for first subset of the plurality of 3D assets included in the first 3D location. Other embodiments are provided.
US09792020B1	Systems for collecting, aggregating, and storing data, generating interactive user interfaces for analyzing data, and generating alerts based upon collected data Systems and methods for aggregating and storing different types of data, and generating interactive user interfaces for analyzing the stored data. In some embodiments, entity data is received for a plurality of entities from one or more data sources, and used to determine attribute values for the entities for one or more given time periods. The plurality of entities may be categorized into one or more entity groups, and aggregate attribute values may be generated based upon the entity groups. A first interactive user interface is generated displaying the one or more entity groups in association with the aggregated attribute values associated with the entity group. In response to a received indication of a user selection of an entity group, a second interactive user interface is generated displaying the one or more entities associated with the selected entity group, each entity displayed in association with the attribute values associated with the entity.
US09792016B2	Information processing apparatus and input control method A display unit displays an object. A detection unit detects a touch operation on the display unit. A change unit widens a display space of the object while keeping a display size of the object when range selection of the object displayed on the display unit is performed through the touch operation.
US09792011B2	Reconfigurable computing device user interface Embodiments are directed to a computing device accessory system including a memory having user interface (UI) reconfiguration information, wherein the UI reconfiguration information is selected and loaded into the memory based at least in part on a perceptual attribute of the computing device accessory. The computing device accessory system further includes a transmitter and a processor system communicatively coupled to the memory and the transmitter. The processor system and the transmitter are configured to access the memory and transmit the UI reconfiguration information to a computing device having a reconfigurable UI. The computing device is configured to utilize the UI reconfiguration information to reconfigure the reconfigurable UI.
US09791999B2	Electronic medical system touch phrase technology Electronic medical system touch phrase technology includes a method comprising initializing a touch phrase button by a processor such that the initializing associates a first text with the touch phrase button; receiving an input associated with the touch phrase button; updating a state of the touch phrase button based upon the input including associating a second text with the touch phrase button; and communicating the state of the touch phrase button to a memory device.
US09791982B2	Touch screen panel having compensation patterns A touch screen panel includes a substrate having active and non-active areas, a plurality of first sensing electrodes in the active area, a plurality of second sensing electrodes in the active area, a plurality of row outer lines in the non-active area, a plurality of column outer lines in the non-active area, and first compensation patterns in the non-active area. The plurality of first sensing electrodes may be arranged in rows, each row line having a first end and a second end. The plurality of second sensing electrodes may be arranged in columns, each column having a first end and a second end. The plurality of row outer lines may be connected to respective first row line end. The plurality of column outer lines may be connected to respective first column line ends. The first compensation patterns may be connected respectively to the second row line ends.
US09791981B2	Touch window and touch device including the same A touch window may include a substrate, a sensing electrode disposed on the substrate to sense a position, and a protective layer on the sensing electrode. A touch device may include the touch window, and a driving part on the touch window. The substrate may include a first active area and a second active area. The second active area may be flexibly provided from the first active area. The sensing electrode may be provided on the substrate to sense a position. Moreover, the protective layer may be disposed in the second active area.
US09791979B2	Managing inputs at an information handling system by adaptive infrared illumination and detection A single camera detects user interactions with separate infrared light sources, such as structured light for three dimensional detection and an infrared curtain surface touch interactions. A touch input module monitors user interactions with a desktop surface, such as at a projected or display mat user interface presentation, and selectively illuminates the separate infrared light sources to support camera detection based upon the user interactions. For example, separate infrared light sources illumination in an interleaved manned at variable rates based upon analysis of visible light or structured light images captured by the camera.
US09791974B2	Electrostatic capacitance-type input device and input device-attached electro-optical apparatus An electrostatic capacitance-type input device in which input position detecting electrodes are disposed in an input area of a substrate, includes a lower layer-side conductive film, an interlayer insulating film, and an upper layer-side conductive film, which are stacked on the substrate in order from the substrate side. A first input position detecting electrode and a second input position detecting electrode are formed as the input position detecting electrodes by a first conductive film out of the lower and upper layer-side conductive films. A relay electrode overlaps with the first input position detecting electrode in the intersection portion to be electrically connected to the discontinued portion of the second input position detecting electrode. An input area shield electrode that overlaps with the first and second input position detecting electrodes are formed by a second conductive film out of the lower and upper layer-side conductive films.
US09791968B2	Shift register, its driving method, gate driver circuit and display device The present disclosure provides a shift register, its driving method, a gate driver circuit and a display device. The shift register includes an input module, a resetting module, a touch switching module, a node control module, a first output module and a second output module. In the shift register, through the cooperation of the above six modules, it is able to provide a touch stage between any two adjacent time periods of a display stage, it enables a driving signal output end of the shift register to output a DC signal at the touch stage, and enable the gate driver circuit to achieve a display function after the touch stage is ended.
US09791963B2	Method and apparatus for detecting user input in an electronic device A method and an electronic device for detecting a user input in the electronic device are provided. The method includes acquiring information regarding a user interface object to be displayed on a touch screen panel; setting, based on the information, a partial area that is at least a part of a touch detection area corresponding to the user interface object; and adjusting a touch detection sensitivity of the partial area to be greater than a touch detection sensitivity of the touch screen panel.
US09791958B2	Electronic device with noise-cancelling force sensor An electronic device may have a housing in which components such as a display are mounted. A strain gauge may be mounted on a layer of the display such as a cover layer or may be mounted on a portion of the housing or other support structure. The layer of material on which the strain gauge is mounted may be configured to flex in response to pressure applied by a finger of a user. The strain gauge may serve as a button for the electronic device or may form part of other input circuitry. A differential amplifier and analog-to-digital converter circuit may be used to gather and process strain gauge signals. The strain gauge may be formed form variable resistor structures that make up part of a bridge circuit that is coupled to the differential amplifier. The bridge circuit may be configured to reduce the impact of capacitively coupled noise.
US09791954B2	Display device and electronic apparatus According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display section that has a first period to consume predetermined power and a second period to consume less power than in the first period, and power consumption of which periodically changes by repeating the first period and the second period; a smoothing capacitor that stabilizes power supplied to the display section; and a power consumption unit that consumes the supplied power in the second period.
US09791951B2	Display device and method of manufacturing same Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
US09791942B2	Dynamic collaborative adjustable keyboard In dynamically adjusting a keyboard mapping, a collaborative session in which a participant device is involved is detected. A conversation between participants during the collaborative session is captured, and topics being discussed during the conversation are identified using textual analysis. The topics are compared with a plurality of rules, each of which associates a topic with a keyboard mapping. From the rule that has a topic matching the identified topics, the keyboard mapping associated with the topic is obtained. The keyboard is then displayed using the keyboard mapping on the participant device. In determining the rule with the matching topic, a history of rules applied in prior collaborative session where the same or similar topics were discussed, or a profile of a participant, is considered. In this manner, keyboard mappings are dynamically adjusted, allowing for easier access to relevant keys.
US09791941B2	Keyboard with user configurable granularity scales for pressure sensitive keys Systems and methods are disclosed for user configurable pressure sensitive keys and techniques for controlling these keys for keyboards. User configuration information, including information for user configurable granularity scales for pressure levels, can be communicated from a host system to the keyboard and stored for later use by a keyboard controller to control the operation of the pressure sensitive keys. In this way, greater control of the pressure sensitive keys can be provided. This configurability is of particular use for applications such as where the keyboard is being used for gaming by a user running a gaming application on an information handling system.
US09791936B1	Audio and motion-based control of a personalized smart appliance, media, and methods of use Methods, systems and media are provided for hands-free operation of an appliance. For example, the appliance may detect input from a hands-free user, where the detected input is voice or gesticular. The appliance may compare the detected input to known inputs and retrieving the user's profile based on the detected input corresponding to a known input. Based upon retrieval of the user's profile, the appliance may output recognition of the user input and modify operation of a burner according to both the user input and the retrieved user profile. Based upon the detected input being unrecognized, the appliance may create a new user profile associated with the detected input and modify operation of a burner according to the detected input.
US09791931B2	Operation device An operation device includes: a magnet; a coil; an operation unit; a holding body; a mobile body; and a coil-side yoke. The holding body holds the coil. The mobile body holds the magnet so as to provide a predetermined clearance between the coil and the magnet. The mobile body is in contact with the holding body and movable relatively with respect to the holding body due to the operation force input into the operation unit. The coil-side yoke is disposed on the coil opposite to the magnet so as to lead the magnetic line generated by the magnet to the coil. The coil-side yoke is held by the mobile body so as to be movable with the magnet.
US09791929B2	Tactile control system A tactile control system includes a control member configurable between a plurality of physical configurations and configured to receive manual input from a user. The tactile control system also includes a transducer coupled to the control member and configured to generate a signal based on the manual input from the user, and an actuator coupled to the transducer and the control member and configured to change the physical configuration of the control member based on the signal.
US09791918B2	Breath-sensitive digital interface A breath-sensitive digital interface that enables use a person's breath or other fluid for purposes of navigating digital media, and method for using such an interface.
US09791915B2	Power control method and electronic device supporting the same A power control method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a power-on event in a power-off state of the electronic device and determining whether the received power-on event is a real time clock (RTC) interrupt. The method further includes determining, if the power-on event is the RTC interrupt, whether the power-off state is caused by an abnormal power-off, and performing, if the power-off state is caused by the abnormal power-off, a booting procedure.
US09791914B2	Returning back to normal power mode only after completing a transition to a power saving mode by an image forming apparatus It is an object to enable a request received from an outside to be automatically processed immediately before shifting to a power saving state such as a suspend state. On the way of a shift from a normal state to the suspend state and in a state where the shift cannot be interrupted, when a predetermined request such as a print job is received from an external interface, an MFP reserves a return to the normal state by turning on a wake-up reservation flag and continues a suspend process. When shifting to the suspend state, if the wake-up reservation flag is ON, a power supply control unit performs a return (resume) to the normal state even if no wake-up factor occurs.
US09791910B1	Predictive power management in a wireless sensor network using presence detection A system comprising a plurality of self-powered devices and a plurality of proximity self-powered devices. The plurality of self-powered devices may be configured to (i) perform instructions, (ii) store scheduling data and (iii) select one of a plurality of modes of operation. The proximity self-powered devices may be configured to (i) detect a presence and (ii) select one of a plurality of modes of operation. The plurality of self-powered devices may select one of the plurality of modes of operation based on (i) the stored scheduling data and (ii) the presence detected by at least one of the plurality of proximity self-powered devices.
US09791909B2	Hybrid computing module A hybrid system-on-chip provides a plurality of memory and processor die mounted on a semiconductor carrier chip that contains a fully integrated power management system that switches DC power at speeds that match or approach processor core clock speeds, thereby allowing the efficient transfer of data between off-chip physical memory and processor die.
US09791906B2	Information handling system multi-purpose connector guide pin structure A USB Type C connector port adapts to support docking solutions with enhanced power transfer features, including increased power transfer levels supported through a guide pin and connector interface, rapid power transfer configuration changes by applying pre-negotiated power settings, external battery charge and discharge at an information handling system with improved efficiency accomplished by transitioning voltage between native and boosted levels responsive to information handling system load, and robust connector port coupling in a cavity of a connector shell.
US09791903B2	Multi-mode cooling system and method with evaporative cooling An air channeling sub-system may include a mechanical cooling section and a direct evaporative cooling section. The direct evaporative cooling section may be downstream from the mechanical cooling section. Cooling air is channeled through the air channeling sub-system and into the room. If a first set of control conditions is met, the air channeling sub-systems is operated in an adiabatic mode. The adiabatic mode includes channeling cooling air through the direct evaporative cooling section to evaporate water into the cooling air. If a second set of control conditions is met, the air channeling sub-system is operated in a hybrid mode. The hybrid mode includes channeling cooling air through the mechanical cooling section to remove heat from the cooling air and channeling the cooling air through the direct evaporative cooling section to evaporate water into the cooling air.
US09791902B2	System and method for providing multi-dimensional power supply efficiency profiles A first operating condition and a second operating condition at a power supply unit (PSU) are determined at a first time. A power conversion efficiency of the PSU is determined at the first time. A first entry at a power conversion efficiency profile is generated, the first entry associating the first power conversion efficiency with the first operating condition and the second operating condition.
US09791901B2	Safety relay box system A dual redundant computer safety relay box system includes first and second fail-safe computing systems (FSCs) individually mounted to first and second printed circuit boards. Each FSC includes two computing modules (CPUs) designated as a first CPU and a second CPU. The first and second FSC's are both connected to a safety relay box. The printed circuit boards are isolable from each other permitting maintenance on one of the printed circuit boards while operation of the FSC of the other printed circuit board is maintained. In each FSC a health signal generated from the first and second printed circuit boards of the first and second CPUs defines a multi-level dynamic pulse signal. Presence of the dynamic pulse signal produces an output identified as each of a first and a second healthy indication signal from each of the CPUs of one of the first or second FSCs.
US09791887B2	Synchronization of a data signal A method for synchronizing a data signal in a bus environment is suggested, the method may include providing multiple clock phases based on a reference oscillator; determining a phase out of the multiple clock phases for a transition of a data signal; and synchronizing the data signal based on the phase determined.
US09791881B2	Self-driven synchronous rectification for a power converter A power converter with an isolated topology may include a power transistor, a sense transistor, and a read-out circuit. The sense transistor may be arranged in a current mirror configuration with the power transistor such that the gate terminal of the sense transistor is coupled to the gate terminal of the power transistor and the first drain/source terminal of the sense transistor is coupled to the first drain/source terminal of the power transistor. The read-out circuit may be coupled to the second drain/source terminal of the power transistor and the second drain source/terminal of the sense transistor. The read-out circuit may be arranged to cause a voltage at the second drain/source terminal of the sense transistor to be substantially the same as a voltage at the second drain/source terminal of the power transistor.
US09791868B2	Regulators having an isolated loading chamber and blowout prevention apparatus Fluid regulators are described. An example fluid regulator described herein includes a regulator body defining a sensing chamber between an inlet and an outlet, a bonnet coupled to the regulator body, the bonnet defining a loading chamber, the loading chamber being fluidly isolated from the sensing chamber and an environment surrounding the fluid regulator, a guide disposed between the sensing chamber and the loading chamber, the guide defining a vent flow path, the vent flow path to enable the sensing chamber to vent to the environment during a failure condition of the fluid regulator, a transverse bore defined between an interior surface of the regulator body and an exterior surface of the regulator body, the transverse bore being aligned with the vent flow path to enable fluid communication between the transverse bore, the vent flow path, and the environment surrounding the fluid regulator, the exterior surface of the regulator body defining a groove that is partially defined by the transverse bore, and a filter to be disposed in the groove to cover an outlet of the transverse bore.
US09791860B2	Autonomous behaviors for a remote vehicle A method of operating a remote vehicle configured to communicate with an operator control unit (OCU) includes executing a click-to-drive behavior, a cruise control behavior, and a retro-traverse behavior on a computing processor. The click-to-drive behavior includes receiving a picture or a video feed and determining a drive destination in the received picture or video feed. The cruise control behavior includes receiving an absolute heading and velocity commands from the OCU and computing a drive heading and a drive velocity. The a retro-traverse behavior includes generating a return path interconnecting at least two previously-traversed waypoints of a list of time-stamped waypoints, and executing a retro-traverse of the return path by navigating the remote vehicle successively to previous time-stamped waypoints in the waypoints list until a control signal is received from the operator control unit.
US09791857B2	System and method for monitoring and alerting vehicle occupant to operating efficiencies of autonomous driving assistance systems A computing device for a vehicle is provided. The computing device includes one or more processors for controlling operation of the computing device, and a memory for storing data and program instructions usable by the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive sensor data relating to operation of an autonomous driving assistance system, process the received sensor data to derive a value for an assistance system data quality parameter, compare the quality parameter value to a reference, and generate a notification including a result of the comparison.
US09791853B2	Display method, display device, and recording medium A display method of a manufacturing status to visualize a manufacturing status of products each manufactured through processing performed by a plurality of apparatuses included in a manufacturing line includes identifying, for each product to be manufactured in a certain manufacturing unit, a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a first apparatus and a starting time or an ending time or both of the processing performed on the product by a second apparatus based on log information of the first apparatus and log information of the second apparatus, the first and the second apparatuses being included in the manufacturing line, the second apparatus performing the processing after the processing performed by the first apparatus, using a processor.
US09791845B2	Workpiece-attachment-information reporting device A workpiece-attachment-information reporting device includes a range-setting unit for setting a movable range in a prescribed feed-shaft direction of a work machine, a position-orientation-setting unit for setting the attachment position or orientation of a workpiece, a route-setting unit for setting a tool route on the basis of the attachment position or orientation of a workpiece, a range calculation unit for calculating the operational range in the prescribed feed-shaft direction of a work machine when the tool has moved relative to the workpiece along the tool route, a target-position-orientation calculation unit for obtaining the target attachment position or orientation of the workpiece with the calculated operational range being within the movable range, and a reporting unit for reporting the target attachment position or orientation.
US09791844B2	Method for influencing a control program of a control device A method for influencing a control program having a plurality of first functions and at least one of the first functions is configured to control an actuator, and a memory is provided and the memory has memory regions occupied by subprograms assigned to the first functions, whereby there is a branch address in the program code of the control program when one of the first functions is called up that points to a memory address of the subprogram associated with the function call. The control program is analyzed for the occurrence of function calls, and the branch addresses, associated with the function calls, and addresses of the return commands are ascertained. One of the first functions is selected to be deleted. The first function is replaced by a second function, in which the program code of the selected first function is overwritten by the program code of the second function.
US09791832B2	Timepiece and method for manufacturing timepiece A timepiece includes a winding stem, a calendar correction transfer wheel that rotates in synchronization with the winding stem in a state in which the winding stem is pulled to a first-step position, a calendar corrector wheel that rotates in synchronization with the calendar correction transfer wheel, a setting wheel lever that supports the calendar correction transfer wheel and the calendar corrector wheel, and a date indicator that rotates in synchronization with the calendar corrector wheel. The setting wheel lever is provided with shaft receiving holes to which the calendar corrector wheel is attachable in a rotatable manner, and the calendar corrector wheel is attached to one of the shaft receiving holes in accordance with the type of the date indicator.
US09791830B2	Duct that is detachable to a main body, and a main body including a duct and a detachable device A duct that is attachable to a main body includes a flow passage to flow air, the flow passage including a flexible structure, and a ventilation opening at a first end of the flow passage. The ventilation opening and at least a part of flow passage are passable through a recess of a detachable device which detachable from the main body. A main body including the duct, the detachable device, and an airflow generation device is also provided.
US09791820B2	Image forming apparatus having heating body, electric power supply, and controller While a continuous conveying process is being executed, a first output process is executed at a timing prior to a prescribed timing, and a second output process is executed for a prescribed period from the prescribed timing. The prescribed timing is prior to a timing at which each recording sheet reaches a heating body. The first output process is for controlling an electric power supply to output electric power to a heat source configured to heat the heating body. The second output process is for controlling the electric power supply to output electric power to the heat source such that an output level of the electric power that is outputted from the electric power supply in the second output process has a tendency to become higher than an output level of the electric power that is outputted from the electric power supply in the first output process.
US09791818B2	Image forming apparatus and method for reducing image banding of the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus and a method of reducing image banding of the image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor unit on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and a conveying unit configured to convey printing medium at a first conveying velocity toward the photoconductor unit, and configured to convey the printing medium at a second conveying velocity that is lower than the first conveying velocity when the printing medium approaches the photoconductor unit.
US09791811B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a belt member, a fixing member facing an outer peripheral surface of the belt member and forming a fixing nip portion between the belt member, and a separating pad portion disposed inside the belt member, including a pressing surface for pressing the fixing member at downstream of the fixing nip portion in a moving direction of the belt member and separating a recording material from the fixing member. The pressing surface of the separating pad portion curves so as to protrude toward the fixing member as approaching a central portion thereof in a rotation axis direction of the fixing member. An upstream end portion and a downstream end portion of the pressing surface curve so as to protrude toward an upstream side in the moving direction as they approach the central portion in the rotation axis direction.
US09791808B2	Intermediate transfer belt, method for producing the same, and image forming apparatus The surface layer of an intermediate transfer belt has a concavo-convex pattern formed thereon by spherical resin particles which are independently embedded in the layer so that the embedment rate in the thickness direction of the layer is higher than 50% but lower than 100%.
US09791798B2	Electrostatic latent image developing toner An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core containing a binder resin and a shell layer covering a surface of the core. The shell layer contains a copolymer of at least two compounds including a compound represented by formula (1) shown below. In the formula (1), R11 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 8, and R12 represents an optionally substituted linear alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 8 and no greater than 22.
US09791795B2	Low fixing temperature sustainable toner The disclosure relates to a resin made with no more than 6 mol % of a rosin or a rosin derivative combined with a lower molecular weight crystalline polyester resin in a toner with low fixing temperature and higher blocking temperature.
US09791793B2	Electrophotographic photosensitive member A triphenylamine derivative is represented by general formula (1). In the general formula (1): R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkenyl group having a carbon number of at least 2 and no greater than 6, or an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 14; m represents an integer of at least 1 and no greater than 3; and n represents an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 2.
US09791792B2	Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a surface layer with a hexagonal boron nitride dispersed therein. The hexagonal boron nitride has a graphitization index (GI) of at least 3.0 and less than 15.0.
US09791787B2	Lithographic method and apparatus A method of patterning substrates using a lithographic apparatus. The method comprising providing a beam of radiation using an illumination system, using a patterning device to impart the radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section, and using a projection system to project the patterned radiation beam onto target portions of a lot of substrates, wherein the method further comprises performing a radiation beam aberration measurement after projecting the patterned radiation beam onto a subset of the lot of substrates, performing an adjustment of the projection system using the results of the radiation beam aberration measurement, then projecting the patterned radiation beam onto a further subset of the lot of substrates.
US09791783B2	Exposure apparatus and exposure method using the same An exposure apparatus including a substrate transporting unit configured to transport a substrate in a first direction, and including a first measuring part; and an exposure part disposed over the substrate transporting unit configured to irradiate the substrate with ultraviolet rays. The first measuring part is configured to measure an intensity of the ultraviolet rays before the substrate is irradiated.
US09791770B1	Light-source module A light-source module includes a light-source unit, a first projection lens, a first lens, a mirror wheel, a first light-guiding unit, a second light-guiding unit, and a second projection lens. The first projection lens has an entrance pupil. The light beam provided by the light-source unit can pass through the first projection lens via the entrance pupil and then is guided to the mirror wheel. With the rotation of the mirror wheel, when the light beam passes through the mirror wheel, it becomes a transmission light beam. At different time, when the light beam is reflected by the mirror wheel, it becomes a reflection light beam. The second projection lens has a first exit pupil and a second exit pupil, in which the transmission light beam and the reflection light beam pass through the second projection lens via the first exit pupil and the second exit pupil, respectively.
US09791769B2	Display screen film, preparation method therefor and energy saving method Disclosed are a display screen film and a preparation method therefor, and an energy saving method. The display screen film comprises an oriented carbon nanotube layer and a quartz glass layer, wherein the oriented carbon nanotube layer is located above the quartz glass layer, comprises an oriented growth carbon nanotube, and is configured to refract all incident light through the oriented growth carbon nanotube; the quartz glass layer is used for the carbon nanotube layer to grow orientately thereon, and is also used for absorbing the incident light so as to enable all the incident light to reach the oriented carbon nanotube layer.
US09791768B2	Projection screen A projection screen for forming an image by converting light pixel pulses from a digital projector comprises a three-dimensional sheet matrix made of a transparent composite. Functional inclusions for light-scattering, light-absorbing and luminescence of the light from the projector are distributed through the matrix thickness to thereby enable that the conversion of the light pulses into the image for direct perception by eyesight be performed throughout the volume of the matrix. The matrix thickness between the frontal and rear surfaces of the matrix is selected for digital image sources between an inter-pixel grid width and tenfold diagonal size of a pixel of a digitized image on the screen. The object of the invention is to reproduce identifying features of informational models of real objects in a wide angle of image perception under side lighting.
US09791761B1	Integrated chip An integral chip is disclosed by embodiments of the present disclosure, including: two mono-mode vertical coupling gratings, two modulation modules, one 2×1 multi-mode interference coupler, and one dual-mode vertical coupling grating. The integral chip is capable of operating in dual wavelengths and dual polarization states by combination of polarization multiplexing and wavelength division multiplexing so as to realize modulation of complex formats and to enhance data modulation rate.
US09791758B2	Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The display substrate of the present invention comprises a first structure and a second structure; wherein, the second structure is provided with a lap portion disposed on the first structure and a main body portion connected with the lap portion and outside the first structure; the first structure has a thinned region connected to an edge thereof, and a thickness of the first structure in the thinned region is smaller than that outside the thinned region; and at least part of the lap portion is located on the thinned region, and at least part of the main body portion outside the thinned region is in direct connection with the part of the lap portion on the thinned region.
US09791757B2	Liquid crystal display device and display device According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer including a first extension portion and a second extension portion, a gate line, a first common electrode opposed to at least the second extension portion, a source line extending above the second extension portion, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode, a second common electrode including a second main common electrode opposed to the source line, and a first alignment film.
US09791748B2	Liquid crystal display An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display having a display area and a non-display area which includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing the first substrate, a layer having a first opening, a spacer disposed in the first opening, and a first light blocking member disposed in the non-display area. The spacer is disposed in the first opening to maintain an interval between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer and the first light blocking member include the same material.
US09791741B2	Alignment film, method for forming alignment film, method for adjusting liquid crystal alignment, and liquid crystal display device Provided is a method for controlling liquid crystal alignment. An alignment film has a plurality of first grooves which are elongated in a first direction and area spaced from each other, and a plurality of second grooves which are elongated in a second direction and are spaced from each other by crossing said first grooves. Multistable liquid crystal alignment is enabled selectively by adjusting an aspect ratio of said first grooves and an aspect ratio of said second grooves.
US09791734B2	Module for liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal display apparatus comprising the same An LCD module includes an LCD panel, and a polarizing plate formed on each of the upper and lower surfaces of the LCD panel. The polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a polyester film formed on at least one surface of the polarizer. The polyester film has a difference between the index of refraction in the x-axis direction and the index of refraction in the z-axis direction (nx−nz) of about 0.1 to about 0.18, where nx and nz are the indices of refraction in the x-axis and z-axis directions, respectively, at a wavelength of 550 nm. The LCD module has a CR 45° and a CR 135° of about 1.0% or greater.
US09791730B2	Liquid-crystal display device An LCD device according to a group of embodiments comprises array and counter substrates, a liquid-crystal layer and a liquid-crystal alignment layer, where the array substrate or the counter substrate further comprises: a pattern of color filter layer, formed of a plurality of color regions; a pattern of light-shielding film, comprising band-shaped portions that run along boundaries of the color regions; and protrusions formed by the color filter layer and run along boundaries of the color regions; and boundaries between the color regions being respectively deviated from centerlines of the band-shaped portions by 1 μm or more.
US09791721B2	Ophthalmic lens, intraocular lens, and lens material An ophthalmic lens includes a matrix and a natural yellow dye dispersed in the matrix. The natural yellow dye includes at least one of lutein and zeaxanthin.
US09791720B2	Deformable non-round membrane assemblies A deformable membrane assembly comprises an at least partially flexible fluid-filled envelope, one wall of which is formed by an elastic membrane that is held around its edge by a resiliently bendable supporting ring, a fixed support for the envelope and selectively operable means for causing relative movement between the supporting ring and the support for adjusting the pressure of the fluid in the envelope, thereby to cause the membrane to deform. The bending stiffness of the ring varies round the ring such that upon deformation of the membrane the ring bends variably to control the shape of the membrane to a predefined form. The moving means comprise a plurality of ring-engaging members that are arranged to apply a force to the ring at spaced control points. There are at least three control points, and there is a control point at or proximate each point on the ring where the profile of the ring that is needed to produce the predefined form upon deformation of the membrane exhibits a turning point in the direction of the force applied at the control point between two adjacent points where the profile of the ring exhibits an inflection point or a turning point in the opposite direction.
US09791718B2	Progressive multifocal ophthalmic lens designed to inhibit progressive myopia of the wearer Progressive multifocal ophthalmic lens having a power addition (Add) and an astigmatism prescription, and having a far vision point CM, a near vision point NV, and an intermediate vision point IV positioned between CM and NV. The resulting astigmatism in the far and near vision zones is smaller than or equal to the resulting astigmatism in the intermediate vision zone, wherein the resulting astigmatism is the difference between the prescribed astigmatism and the astigmatism generated by the working lens under usual wear conditions. The lens provides good optical quality images in the far and near vision zones, and the resulting astigmatism in the intermediate vision zone encourages the wearer to use the far and near vision zones rather than the intermediate vision zone, thus reducing the risk of increasing the degree of myopia of the wearer in the long term.
US09791715B2	View panel for goggles or helmet visor A view panel for goggles, preferably sports goggles, ski goggles or protective goggles, or for a helmet visor, provided with at least one outer panel and at least one inner panel, wherein the outer panel is spaced apart from the inner panel and is connected to the latter by a sealant at the edges, wherein at least one optical lens is integrated in the inner panel, and goggles having such a view panel.
US09791709B1	Light control film with varied viewing angle A light control film includes a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel first light absorbing regions arranged along a first direction, each first light absorbing region having a width and a height, the plurality of first light absorbing regions including nonoverlapping first and second sub-pluralities of the plurality of first light absorbing regions, the first sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a first viewing angle, the second sub-plurality of the plurality of first light absorbing regions having a different second viewing angle.
US09791707B2	Auto-stereoscopic display apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage device An auto-stereoscopic display apparatus and a storage media are provided. The auto-stereoscopic display apparatus includes a display area, which includes a display panel and a lens layer. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel rows sequentially arranged in a first direction. Each one of the pixel rows includes a plurality of pixels sequentially arranged in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Each one of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels sequentially arranged in the second direction. The lens layer is disposed on the display panel and includes a plurality of lenticular lenses substantially arranged in the second direction. N successive sub-pixels in each pixel row are corporately covered by one of the lenticular lenses. A ratio of a component of a width in the second direction of each lenticular lens to a width of each sub-pixel in the second direction is configured to a non-integer.
US09791706B2	Mutli-layer plenoptic displays that combine multiple emissive and light modulating planes A multi-planar plenoptic display assembly is provided that includes multiple spatially-varying light emitting and light modulating planes. The display assembly includes at least one light emitting device and may include, but does not require, a modulating device used in conjunction according to display methods taught herein to display light field data. A display assembly controller may be used to render a light field with depth into a multi-planar plenoptic display assembly by assigning decomposed portions of the light field to the display assembly for display or presentation by differing ones of the emitting elements and by operating a modulating device to provide a parallax barrier. In one embodiment, a dynamic parallax barrier and a number of bi-state screens. Another embodiment uses a beam splitter to co-locate two pairs of autostereoscopic displays each including a projector projecting 3D content, a parallax barrier, and an emissive/projector element.
US09791702B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display, an optical unit, and a reflector. The display includes a first display region emitting a first bundle of rays and a second display region emitting a second bundle of rays. The optical unit includes first and second emission regions transmitting the first and the second bundle of rays. The reflector includes a first reflection region reflecting the first bundle of rays, and a second reflection region reflecting the second bundle of rays. The optical unit forms a first focal point of the first bundle of rays between the optical unit and the reflector, and forms a second focal point of the second bundle of rays between the optical unit and the reflector. A distance between the first emission region and the first reflection region is shorter than a distance between the second emission region and the second reflection region.
US09791698B2	Apparatus for providing a heads up display using a display output of a mobile device An apparatus includes a device including a screen; a ledge against which the device lays; a connecting arm; and a partially transparent mirror coupled to the ledge via the connecting arm, where the mirror includes a center and two outer lateral edges and is structured and arranged relative to the ledge such that the screen faces the mirror and a center of the mirror is further from the screen than each of the two outer lateral edges, a part of the mirror that is adjacent the first of the two outer lateral edges thereby reflecting a part of the screen that is opposite the second of the two outer lateral edges, and a part of the mirror that is opposite the second of the two outer lateral edges thereby reflecting a part of the screen that is opposite the first of the two outer lateral edges.
US09791695B2	Head-up display module A head-up display module is provided. The head-up display module includes a polarized light source, an optical sheet, and a display panel. The polarized light source is capable of emitting a polarized light beam. The optical sheet is disposed on a transmission path of the polarized light beam, and the polarized light beam is reflected by the optical sheet. The display panel is disposed on the transmission path of the polarized light beam between the polarized light source and the optical sheet, and a polarization of the polarized light beam is modulated by the display panel.
US09791690B2	Shutter assembly for a luminescence-based sample analyzer A shutter assembly includes a first shutter blade having a first toothed arm extending therefrom and a first light transmitting aperture therein, and a second shutter blade positioned adjacent and parallel to the first shutter blade. The second shutter blade has a second toothed arm extending therefrom and a second light transmitting aperture therein. The first and second shutter blades are supported to allow parallel linear motion. A motor gear is disposed between, and meshed with, the first and second toothed arms such that rotation of the gear causes the first and second shutter blades to move linearly in opposite directions between an open position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in an overlapping relationship with respect to one another, and a closed position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in a non-overlapping relationship with respect to one another.
US09791683B2	Microscope with multiple illumination channels for optogenetic stimulation and fluorescence imaging A miniaturized microscope provides the combined capability for simultaneous or sequential optogenetic stimulation of light sensitive ion channels with the capability for fluorescence imaging of fluorescent proteins for applications requiring simultaneous optical stimulation and monitoring of cell activity. The microscope includes a dual illumination output coupling for providing illumination to two different regions within the sample and/or two different illumination source inputs and a dual transmission band optical filter to clean two different bands of light that are separately available for optogenetic stimulation and fluorescence imaging.
US09791680B2	Projection apparatus and projection lens A projection lens disposed between a screen side and an image side and including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. Refractive powers of the first lens group and the second lens group are respectively negative and positive. The first lens group includes a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens arranged in sequence from the screen side to the image side, and refractive powers thereof are respectively negative, negative, and positive. The second lens group is disposed between the first lens group and the image side and includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, a ninth lens, and a tenth lens arranged in sequence from the screen side to the image side, and refractive powers thereof are respectively positive, positive, negative, negative, negative, positive, and positive. A projection apparatus is provided.
US09791672B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element and the third lens element have refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface, wherein at least one inflection point is on at least one surface thereof. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The surfaces of the fifth and the sixth lens elements are aspheric. The optical image capturing system has a total of six lens elements.
US09791670B2	Optical lens, image capturing device and electronic device An optical lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof.
US09791668B2	Lens system with six lenses The present disclosure relates to a lens system comprising a first lens group and a second lens group from an object side to an image side successively; wherein, the first lens group comprises a first lens, a second lens and a third lens from the object side to the image side successively; the second lens group comprises a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens from the object side to the image side successively; the first lens has a positive focal power and the second, the fifth, and the sixth lens have a negative focal power, and the object side surface of the first and the second lens are convex, the image side surface of the fifth lens is convex, the object side surface of the fifth and the sixth lens are concave, and the image side surface of the second and the sixth lens are concave.
US09791667B2	Lens module A lens module including may include: a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens of which an object-side surface or an image-side surface is convex; a third lens of which an image-side surface is concave; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; and a sixth lens having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface or an object-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are disposed in a sequential order from the first lens to the sixth lens.
US09791655B2	Fiber optic cable packaging arrangement A fiber optic enclosure assembly is disclosed herein. The assembly includes a fiber optic enclosure defining connection locations, a fiber optic cable extending from the connection locations of the fiber optic enclosure, and a covering defining a first axial end and a second axial end, the covering defining a throughhole extending from the first axial end to the second axial end, the throughhole extending along a central longitudinal axis of the covering, the covering defining a first cavity for receiving the fiber optic enclosure. A port extends from the first cavity to an outer surface of the covering, wherein the fiber optic cable extending from the connection locations can extend from the first cavity to the outer surface of the covering for wrapping around the outer surface of the covering.
US09791650B2	Cable, electronic device, and method for controlling electronic device There is provided a cable including at least one optical fiber cable, at least two electrical cables provided so as to sandwich the optical fiber cable, and plugs positioned at both ends and each having an electrical contact part connected to each of the electrical cables.
US09791645B2	Methods, devices and systems that dissipate heat and facilitate optical alignment in optical communications modules A heat dissipation system for an optical communications module is provided that includes a cold block on which the optoelectronic components and a lens assembly of an OSA of the module are mounted. The cold block has precisely-controlled mounting surface heights that precisely passively align the lens assembly in directions normal to mounting surfaces of the cold block. The cold block is made of a material of very high thermal conductivity, typically copper, so that heat generated by the optoelectronic components is dissipated into the cold block to maintain the optoelectronic components well below maximum allowable temperatures. In addition, an optical interface device of the OSA has a low-profile and an optical configuration that allows it to be used with a high optical fiber count.
US09791641B2	Inverted 45° mirror for photonic integrated circuits Inverted 45° semiconductor mirrors as vertical optical couplers for PIC chips, particularly optical receivers and transmitters. An inverted 45° semiconductor mirror functions to couple light between a plane in the PIC chip defined by thin film layers and a direction normal to a top surface of the PIC chip where it may be generated or collected by an off-chip component, such as a wire terminal. In an exemplary embodiment, a (110) plane of a cubic crystalline semiconductor may provide a 45° facet inverted relative to a (100) surface of the semiconductor from which light is to be emitted. In further embodiments, a (110) plane may be exposed by undercutting a device layer of a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate. Alternatively, a pre-etched substrate surface may be bonded to a handling wafer, thinned, and then utilized for PIC waveguide formation.

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