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US09882183B2	Method for producing a lithium microbattery The fabrication method of a lithium microbattery provides for use of a substrate successively covered by: a cathode, a solid electrolyte, and a first electrically conducting layer made from a material configured to combine with the lithium atoms. The first layer is devoid of contact with the cathode. The method further includes formation of a second electrically conducting layer configured to form a diffusion barrier for the lithium atoms. The second layer is electrically connected to the first layer and leaves at least a part of the first layer uncovered, the part being facing the electrolyte. Electrochemical deposition of a lithium anode is then performed from germination from the first and second electrically conducting layers.
US09882174B2	Repairing method, repairing device and manufacturing method of array substrate The present invention provides a repairing method, a repairing device and a manufacturing method of an array substrate, the repairing method comprises: cutting off electrical connection between the pixel driving circuit and the first electrode in an abnormal pixel unit; forming a first through hole and a second through hole in a pixel defining layer according to positions of a selected candidate pixel unit and the abnormal pixel unit; forming a conductive connection part on the pixel defining layer, the conductive connection part electrically connects to the first electrode in the abnormal pixel unit through the first through hole, and to the first electrode in the candidate pixel unit through the second through hole. In the solutions in the present invention, the pixel driving circuit in the candidate pixel unit is electrically connected to the OLED in the abnormal pixel unit, so that the abnormal pixel unit is repaired.
US09882171B2	Pixel matrix circuit An electroluminescent device comprising: an organic electroluminescent element and a junction transistor having a first region, a second region, and an intermediate semiconducting region configured to control flow of charge between the first and second regions, wherein at least two abutting regions consist essentially of one or more semiconducting inorganic metal compounds, and wherein each region of the junction transistor and the electroluminescent element are successively stacked along a common direction.
US09882168B2	Organic electroluminescence display device Provided is a display device including a substrate having a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region. The second region is located in a direction from the first region to an outside of the substrate. The first region possesses a transistor, a leveling film over the transistor, and a light-emitting element over the leveling film and electrically connected to the transistor. The display device further includes a plurality of metal films in the second region and a sealing film. The plurality of metal films includes at least one of Group 1 metal elements and Group 2 elements, and the leveling film is arranged so as to be confined in the first region.
US09882166B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus having reflection member An organic light emitting display apparatus that includes a substrate, an organic light emitting unit formed on the substrate, a reflection member disposed on a non-light emitting region of the organic light emitting unit, and a sealing member that seals the organic light emitting unit. The organic light emitting display apparatus can function as a display apparatus or a mirror.
US09882165B2	Light-emitting device and lighting device A highly reliable light-emitting device which includes an organic EL element and is lightweight is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first organic resin layer; a first glass layer over the first organic resin layer; a light-emitting element over the first glass layer; a second glass layer over the light-emitting element; and a second organic resin layer over the second glass layer. The first organic resin layer and the first glass layer each have a property of transmitting visible light. The thickness of the first glass layer and the thickness of the second glass layer are independently greater than or equal to 25 μm and less than or equal to 100 μm. The light-emitting element includes a first electrode having a property of transmitting visible light, a layer containing a light-emitting organic compound, and a second electrode stacked in this order from the first glass layer side.
US09882164B2	Organic el display module The organic EL display module includes an organic EL display device having flexibility, a touch panel having flexibility, a first adhesive portion for attaching the organic EL display device and the touch panel to each other, a curved and flexible intermediate housing disposed on an opposite side from the organic EL display device with respect to the touch panel, and a second adhesive portion for attaching the touch panel and the intermediate housing to each other.
US09882163B2	Display device having a groove that partially accommodates sealing material and manufacturing method thereof A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the device includes first and second substrates each including a display area and a non-display area around the display area, a plurality of pixels formed in the display area of the first substrate and an internal circuit unit formed in the non-display area of the first substrate and electrically connected to the pixels. The device further includes a sealing member formed between the non-display areas of the first and second substrates to surround the display areas. The sealing member includes a first portion and a second portion, the second portion surrounded by the first portion and at least partially overlapping the internal circuit unit, and a groove is formed in the second substrate at a position corresponding to the second portion of the sealing member.
US09882160B2	Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component In various embodiments, an optoelectronic component is provided. The optoelectronic component may include an electrode, and an organic functional layer structure formed for emitting an electromagnetic radiation or converting an electromagnetic radiation into an electric current. The electrode has a surface which is reflective with respect to the electromagnetic radiation, and wherein the organic functional layer structure is formed on or over the reflective surface of the electrode and is electrically coupled thereto. The reflective surface has a structuring.
US09882157B2	OLED light emitting device and production method thereof and display apparatus Disclosed herein is an OLED light emitting device and the production method thereof and a display apparatus. The OLED light emitting device includes a base substrate, and an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting layer located between the anode and the cathode, which are provided on the base substrate, and the OLED light emitting device further comprises a dissociation layer for dissociating excitons which arrive at the dissociation layer into holes and electrons; wherein the dissociation layer is provided between the light emitting layer and the anode in the case where the electron mobility is greater than the hole mobility; and the dissociation layer is provided between the light emitting layer and the cathode in the case where the hole mobility is greater than the electron mobility.
US09882155B2	Organic electronic devices An organic electronic device having an architecture with an inverted structure, containing a substrate, a first electrode deposited on the substrate, a second electrode and at least one assembly including a multilayer stack disposed between the electrodes, the multilayer stack including the following, successively from the first electrode: an N-type layer; an electrically active layer; and a P-type layer comprising a mixture of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly (styrene-sulfonate), the stack containing an additional layer, known as the adhesion layer, formed by at least one metallic oxide and inserted between, and in contact with, the active layer and the P-layer. Also, a method for producing such a device.
US09882153B2	Organic monolayer passivation and silicon heterojunction photovoltaic devices using the same A method for inorganic surface passivation in a photovoltaic device includes etching a native oxide over an inorganic substrate, the inorganic substrate having a surface; and forming an organic monolayer on the surface of the inorganic substrate to form a heterojunction, the organic monolayer having the following formula: ˜X—Y, wherein X is an oxygen or a sulfur; Y is an alkyl chain, an alkenyl chain, or an alkynyl chain; and X covalently bonds to the surface of the inorganic substrate by a covalent bond.
US09882150B2	Metal compounds, methods, and uses thereof Disclosed herein are metal compounds useful in devices, such as, for example, OLEDs.
US09882134B2	Polymer compound, material for organic electroluminescence element using same, and organic electroluminescence element A polymer compound which includes repeating units represented by formula (1-1) or (1-2) and an organic EL device including the polymer compound as an organic layer are provided: wherein each of R1 to R6 independently represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkylthio group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a linear or branched alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or a heteroaryl group having 5 to 30 ring atoms; each of a and b independently represents an integer of 0 to 4; each of c and d independently represents an integer of 0 to 3; and each of Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 30 ring atoms.
US09882128B2	Method of making an organic thin film transistor In one aspect, organic thin film transistors are described herein. In some embodiments, an organic thin film transistor comprises a source terminal, a drain terminal and a gate terminal; a dielectric layer positioned between the gate terminal and the source and drain terminals; and a vibrationally-assisted drop-cast organic film comprising small molecule semiconductor in electrical communication with the source terminal and drain terminal, wherein the transistor has a carrier mobility (μeff) of at least about 1 cm2/V·s.
US09882119B2	Magnetic memory device According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic layer selectively exhibiting a first state in which the first magnetic layer has a first magnetization direction perpendicular to a main surface thereof and a second state in which the first magnetic layer has a second magnetization direction opposite to the first magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction perpendicular to a main surface thereof and corresponding to the first magnetization direction, a third magnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, having a fixed magnetization direction perpendicular to a main surface thereof and corresponding to the second magnetization direction, and having a side surface including a recess portion, and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the first and third magnetic layers.
US09882118B2	Spin control mechanism and spin device A spin control mechanism includes a spin portion and a first channel portion. The spin portion has a magnetic moment that can be reversed and rotated. The first channel portion is provided in contact with the spin portion, and is configured from ferromagnetic insulator. Then, the spin control mechanism controls a direction of the magnetic moment of the spin portion using a spin current generated by a temperature gradient provided to the first channel portion.
US09882117B2	Actuator including a dielectric elastomer and electrode films An actuator capable of preventing occurrence of insulation breakdown while achieving an appropriate operation performance of a dielectric elastomer is provided. Electrode films to be bonded to a dielectric elastomer are formed such that a characteristic of a change in thickness d of the elastomer with an increase in an applied voltage of the elastomer shows a first voltage range in which a decline rate of to the increase in is high and a second voltage range, including a voltage higher than the first voltage range, in which the decline rate of d to the increase in is low, and a voltage value at which the insulation breakdown of the elastomer occurs falls within the second voltage range.
US09882116B2	Piezoelectric devices and methods for their preparation and use Methods for fabricating a piezoelectric device are provided. The methods can include providing a substrate and forming a nanocrystalline diamond layer on a first surface of the substrate. The methods can also include depositing a piezoelectric layer on a first surface of the nanocrystalline diamond layer.
US09882115B2	Integrated compliant boundary for piezoelectric bimorph actuator A piezoelectric bimorph actuator with an integral compliant boundary employs a first piezoelectric element, a second piezoelectric element and a composite layer intimately engaged between the first and second piezoelectric elements to form a bimorph actuator. The composite layer extends from a peripheral edge of the piezoelectric elements and has a curved interface portion providing a mount for attachment of the bimorph actuator.
US09882114B2	De-icing arrangement and method for de-icing a structural element A de-icing arrangement and a method for de-icing a structural element. The de-icing arrangement includes at least one electromagnetic actuator, a capacitive storage bank, a control unit arranged to provide an excitation pulse to the at least one electromagnetic actuator, and a charging circuit arranged to charge the capacitive storage bank. The at least one electromagnetic actuator is arranged to expand in at least one direction when fed with the excitation pulse. The at least one electromagnetic actuator is arranged in relation to the structural element so as to apply a mechanical force caused by the expansion on the structural element. The control unit is arranged to control cutoff of current discharge of the capacitive storage bank into the at least one electromagnetic actuator so as to abort the excitation pulse at a predetermined timing after start of the excitation pulse.
US09882100B2	Light-emitting device having surface structure for limiting directional angle of light A light-emitting device includes: a photoluminescent layer that emits light; and a light-transmissive layer on which the emitted light is to be incident. At least one of the photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer defines a surface structure. The surface structure has projections and/or recesses to limit a directional angle of the emitted light. The photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer are curved.
US09882096B2	Light emitting diode structure and method for manufacturing the same An edge lighting light emitting diode (LED) structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The edge lighting LED structure includes a substrate, an electrode pattern, a chip, an encapsulation layer and a fluorescent layer. The electrode pattern at least includes two first conducting portions separately disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, two second conducting portions separately disposed on a lower surface of the substrate, and two conducting holes separately vertically penetrating through the substrate, each conducting hole connects a first conducting portion and a second conducting portion, and the conducting holes are exposed on a lateral surface of the substrate. A second surface of the chip is disposed on the first conducting portions. A top surface of the encapsulation layer exposes and is aligned with the first surface of the chip. The fluorescent layer covers a first surface of the chip.
US09882095B2	Light emitting device and method for fabricating the same Embodiments of a light emitting device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The light emitting device comprises a cavity and one or more light emitting elements. The cavity is formed to a depth of 450 μm or less, and the light emitting elements are installed in the cavity. A fabricating method includes forming a package body having a cavity with a depth of 250 μm to 450 μm and at least one lead frame disposed at the bottom surface of the cavity, mounting at least one light emitting element on the lead frame, and molding a molding member in the cavity.
US09882082B2	Compositions and processes for fabrication of rear passivated solar cells Compositions used in, and methods for, fabricating a rear-passivated silicon solar cell are described. A novel method of opening the back surface for contacting the silicon with a conventional aluminum paste is described. Various novel screen printable etch resists are described. First, such an etch resist can be printed on the rear of a rear-passivated solar cell wafer. The passivation layer can then be removed using a wet etch, and next the etch resist layer can be removed. Further, an additional wet etch step may optionally be used to deepen the opening into the silicon and enhance the BSF (back-surface field). Aluminum paste can then be printed over the entire backside of the now etched cell. The entire cell is then fired. In exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the paste can be chosen so that it will not fire through the passivation layer.
US09882081B2	Photodetector methods and photodetector structures Disclosed are a method of forming a photodetector and a photodetector structure. In the method, a polycrystalline or amorphous light-absorbing layer is formed on a dielectric layer such that it is in contact with a monocrystalline semiconductor core of an optical waveguide. The light-absorbing layer is then encapsulated in one or more strain-relief layers and a rapid melting growth (RMG) process is performed to crystallize the light-absorbing layer. The strain-relief layer(s) are tuned for controlled strain relief so that, during the RMG process, the light-absorbing layer remains crack-free. The strain-relief layer(s) are then removed and an encapsulation layer is formed over the light-absorbing layer (e.g., filling in surface pits that developed during the RMG process). Subsequently, dopants are implanted through the encapsulation layer to form diffusion regions for PIN diode(s). Since the encapsulation layer is relatively thin, desired dopant profiles can be achieved within the diffusion regions.
US09882080B2	High speed photodetector A photodetector is disclosed. A first layer of the photodetector has a first semiconductor material having a first band gap energy, a first electric field, and a first doping concentration. A second layer has a second semiconductor material having a second band gap energy higher than the first band gap energy, a non-zero second electric field smaller than the first electric field, and a second doping concentration. The second layer is interfaced with the first layer. A region between the first and second layers has a third doping concentration.
US09882077B2	Shingled solar cell module A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in a shingled manner to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module, reduce series resistance, and increase module efficiency.
US09882074B2	Optoelectronic device An optoelectronic device is disclosed. The disclosed optoelectronic device includes an oxide semiconductor layer and a semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) material layer forming a stack structure with the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09882064B2	Transistor and electronic device A transistor capable of high-speed operation is provided. In a transistor including a back gate electrode, the back gate electrode is provided over a back gate wiring. A gate wiring and the back gate wiring are apart from each other; thus, the parasitic capacitance between the gate wiring and the back gate wiring is reduced and withstand voltage is improved. In addition, the width of the back gate electrode is smaller than a channel width; thus, the parasitic capacitance between the gate wiring and the back gate electrode is reduced and withstand voltage is improved.
US09882061B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A transistor with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A minute transistor is provided. Provided is a semiconductor device including a first insulator over a substrate, a second insulator over the first insulator, a semiconductor over the second insulator, a first conductor and a second conductor over the semiconductor, a third insulator over the semiconductor, a fourth insulator over the third insulator, a third conductor over the fourth insulator, and a fifth insulator over the first insulator, the first conductor, and the second conductor. In the semiconductor device, the second insulator and the third insulator each include at least one element other than oxygen included in the semiconductor, respectively, and the semiconductor includes a region having a carbon concentration of 3×1018 atoms/cm3 or lower.
US09882060B2	Thin film transistor and array substrate, manufacturing methods thereof, and display device Embodiments of the present invention disclose a thin film transistor and an array substrate, manufacturing methods thereof, and a display device, which relate to the field of display technology, and can improve drifting of a threshold voltage of a thin film transistor and enhance the stability and reliability of an array substrate. The thin film transistor comprises an active layer and a gate insulating layer, wherein the material of the active layer is a metal oxide semiconductor, and during forming the thin film transistor, the gate insulating layer conveys oxygen to the active layer so as to reduce an interface state density and a movable impurity concentration of a contact interface between the active layer and the gate insulating layer.
US09882059B2	Semiconductor device To provide a transistor having a high on-state current. A semiconductor device includes a first insulator containing excess oxygen, a first oxide semiconductor over the first insulator, a second oxide semiconductor over the first oxide semiconductor, a first conductor and a second conductor which are over the second oxide semiconductor and are separated from each other, a third oxide semiconductor in contact with side surfaces of the first oxide semiconductor, a top surface and side surfaces of the second oxide semiconductor, a top surface of the first conductor, and a top surface of the second conductor, a second insulator over the third oxide semiconductor, and a third conductor facing a top surface and side surfaces of the second oxide semiconductor with the second insulator and the third oxide semiconductor therebetween. The first oxide semiconductor has a higher oxygen-transmitting property than the third oxide semiconductor.
US09882058B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device in which variation in electrical characteristics between transistors is reduced is provided. A transistor where a channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer is included, and a concentration of carriers contained in a region where the channel is formed in the oxide semiconductor layer is lower than or equal to 1×1015/cm3, preferably lower than or equal to 1×1013/cm3, more preferably lower than or equal to 1×1011/cm3, whereby an energy barrier height which electrons flowing between a source and a drain should go over converges at a constant value. In this manner, a semiconductor device in which variation in the electrical characteristics between the transistors is inhibited is provided.
US09882048B2	Gate cut on a vertical field effect transistor with a defined-width inorganic mask A method of cutting a gate on a VFET includes depositing a memorization layer around a spacer on a sidewall of the field effect transistor. A planarizing layer is patterned onto the memorization layer. An anti-reflective coating layer is patterned onto the planarizing layer. A photoresist layer is patterned onto the anti-reflective coating layer on ends of fins extending from a substrate. The planarizing layer, the anti-reflective coating layer, and the photoresist form a mask. The anti-reflective coating layer portion is etched from the VFET. The planarizing layer and the photoresist layer are arc etched from the VFET. The spacer is pulled down forming a void between gates on the VFET and exposing a hard mask on the fins. The hard mask is reactive ion etched vertically around the gates to form gates with a defined width mask. The memorization layer is removed from the VFET.
US09882045B2	Vertical conduction integrated electronic device protected against the latch-up and relating manufacturing process A vertical conduction integrated electronic device including: a semiconductor body; a trench that extends through part of the semiconductor body and delimits a portion of the semiconductor body, which forms a first conduction region having a first type of conductivity and a body region having a second type of conductivity, which overlies the first conduction region; a gate region of conductive material, which extends within the trench; an insulation region of dielectric material, which extends within the trench and is arranged between the gate region and the body region; and a second conduction region, which overlies the body region. The second conduction region is formed by a conductor.
US09882034B2	Bipolar transistor and method of manufacturing the same A bipolar transistor is supported by a single-crystal silicon substrate including a collector contact region. A first epitaxial region forms a collector region of a first conductivity type on the collector contact region. A second epitaxial region forms a base region of a second conductivity type. Deposited semiconductor material forms an emitter region of the first conductivity type. The collector region, base region and emitter region are located within an opening having sidewalls lined with an insulating sheath. A portion of the insulating sheath adjacent the base region is removed and a base contact region is formed by epitaxial material grown from a portion of the base region exposed by removal of the portion of the insulating sheath.
US09882033B2	Method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory cell and array having a trapping charge layer in a trench A memory cell formed by forming a trench in the surface of a substrate. First and second spaced apart regions are formed in the substrate with a channel region therebetween. The first region is formed under the trench. The channel region includes a first portion that extends along a sidewall of the trench and a second portion that extends along the surface of the substrate. A charge trapping layer in the trench is adjacent to and insulated from the first portion of the channel region for controlling the conduction of the channel region first portion. An electrically conductive gate in the trench is adjacent to and insulated from the charge trapping layer and from the first region and is capacitively coupled to the charge trapping layer. An electrically conductive control gate is disposed over and insulated from the second portion of the channel region for controlling its conduction.
US09882026B2	Method for forming a nanowire structure Embodiments of the invention describe a method for forming a nanowire structure on a substrate. According to one embodiment, the method includes a) depositing a first semiconductor layer on the substrate, b) etching the first semiconductor layer to form a patterned first semiconductor layer, c) forming a dielectric layer across the patterned first semiconductor layer, and d) depositing a second semiconductor layer on the patterned first semiconductor layer and on the dielectric layer. The method further includes e) repeating a)-d) at least once, f) following e), repeating a)-c) once, g) etching the patterned first semiconductor layers, the dielectric layers, and the second semiconductor layers to form a fin structure, and h) removing the patterned first semiconductor layers from the fin structure.
US09882021B2	Planar III-V field effect transistor (FET) on dielectric layer A method of forming a semiconductor substrate including a type III-V semiconductor material directly on a dielectric material that includes forming a trench in a dielectric layer, and forming a via within the trench extending from a base of the trench to an exposed upper surface of an underlying semiconductor including substrate. A III-V semiconductor material is formed extending from the exposed upper surface of the semiconductor substrate filling at least a portion of the trench.
US09882018B2	Semiconductor device with a tunneling layer having a varying nitrogen concentration, and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes: a substrate including a channel region; a gate dielectric a tunneling layer, a charge storage layer, and a blocking layer sequentially disposed on the channel region; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate dielectric, wherein the tunneling layer has variations in nitrogen concentrations in a direction perpendicular to the channel region, and has a maximum nitrogen concentration in a position shifted from a center of the tunneling layer toward the charge storage layer.
US09882017B2	Thin oxide formation by wet chemical oxidation of semiconductor surface when the one component of the oxide is water soluble A semiconductor device is provided, which comprises a semiconductor structure having a surface, the semiconductor structure comprising a material whose oxide is water soluble; and an oxide layer formed on the surface of the semiconductor structure by a wet chemical oxidation treatment utilizing a solvent mixture that comprises a water soluble substance and an aprotic solvent. The layer of oxide may be as thin as approximately 0.7 nanometers in width or less. The semiconductor structure comprises at least one of Ge, SiGe, and III-V compound semiconductor materials. A solution mixture for oxidizing selective semiconductor materials is also provided, which comprises a solvent mixture that includes: a water soluble oxidizing agent; and an aprotic solvent.
US09882015B2	Transistors, semiconductor devices, and electronic devices including transistor gates with conductive elements including cobalt silicide A method for fabricating a transistor gate with a conductive element that includes cobalt silicide includes use of a sacrificial material as a place-holder between sidewall spacers of the transistor gate until after high temperature processes, such as the fabrication of raised source and drain regions, have been completed. In addition, semiconductor devices (e.g., DRAM devices and NAND flash memory devices) with transistor gates that include cobalt silicide in their conductive elements are also disclosed, as are transistors with raised source and drain regions and cobalt silicide in the transistor gates thereof. Intermediate semiconductor device structures that include transistor gates with sacrificial material or a gap between upper portions of sidewall spacers are also disclosed.
US09882012B2	Junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) having source/drain and gate isolation regions A junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET) includes a substrate, a source region formed in the substrate, a drain region formed in the substrate, a channel region formed in the substrate, and at least one gate region formed in the substrate. The channel region connects the source and drain regions. The at least one gate region contacts one of the source and drain regions at an interface, and the at least one gate region is isolated from the other of the source and drain regions. A dielectric layer covers the interface while exposing portions of the gate region and the one of the source and drain regions.
US09882010B2	Silicon carbide substrate and method for producing silicon carbide substrate A silicon carbide substrate includes a Si substrate (silicon substrate), a SiC base film (silicon carbide base film) which is stacked on the Si substrate and contains silicon carbide, a defective part (through-hole) which passes through the SiC base film, a hole which is located between the Si substrate and the SiC base film corresponding to the defective part, and an oxide film which is provided on the surface of the Si substrate in the hole and contains silicon oxide. Further, on the SiC base film, a SiC grown layer (silicon carbide grown layer) may be formed.
US09882009B2	High resistance layer for III-V channel deposited on group IV substrates for MOS transistors Techniques are disclosed for using a high resistance layer between a III-V channel layer and a group IV substrate for semiconducting devices, such as metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors. The high resistance layer can be used to minimize (or eliminate) current flow from source to drain that follows a path other than directly through the channel. In some cases, the high resistance layer may be a III-V wide bandgap layer. In some such cases, the wide bandgap layer may have a bandgap greater than 1.4 electron volts (eV), and may even have a bandgap greater than 2.0 eV. In other cases, the wide bandgap layer may be partially or completely converted to an insulator through oxidation or nitridation, for example. The resulting structures may be used with planar, finned, or nanowire/nanoribbon transistor architectures to help prevent substrate leakage problems.
US09881992B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device having with a reservoir capacitor A semiconductor integrated circuit device may include a through silicon via (TSV), a keep out zone and a plurality of dummy patterns. The TSV may be arranged in a selection region of a semiconductor substrate. The keep out zone may be configured to define a peripheral region of the TSV. The dummy patterns may be arranged in the keep out zone to receive a conductive signal. The dummy patterns may function as an electrode of a reservoir capacitor.
US09881990B2	Integrated inductor for integrated circuit devices A three-dimensional inductor is formed in an integrated circuit die using conductive through-body-vias which pass through the body of the die and contact one or more metal interconnect layers on the front side of the die and terminate on the back side of the die. In another embodiment, the through-body-vias may pass through a dielectric material disposed in a plug in the body of the die. In yet another aspect, a transformer may be formed by coupling multiple inductors formed using through-body-vias. In still another aspect, a three-dimensional inductor may include conductors formed of stacks of on chip metallization layers and conductive through-layer-vias disposed in insulation layers between metallization layers. Other embodiments are described.
US09881987B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method for manufacturing the same An OLED display device includes a display area of a substrate to display images; a non-display area surrounding the display area and applying signals to pixels within the display area; a first thin film transistor formed in the non-display area of the substrate; a second thin film transistor formed in the display area of the substrate; a planarization film formed over the first and second thin film transistors; a first electrode formed on the planarization film in the non-display area and formed with at least one first opening; a second electrode formed on the planarization film and connected to a electrode of the second thin film transistor; a bank pattern formed on the second electrode and the first electrode and exposing a part of the second electrode. The bank pattern is adjacent to the first electrode.
US09881985B2	OLED device, AMOLED display device and method for manufacturing same Embodiments of the invention disclose an OLED device, an AMOLED display device and a method for manufacturing the AMOLED display device. the AMOLED display device comprises a TFT active layer, a pixel electrode layer and an OLED device; the OLED device comprises a cathode layer and a functional layer, and the pixel electrode layer serves as the anode layer of the OLED device; alternatively, the OLED device comprises an anode layer and a functional layer, and the pixel electrode layer serves as the cathode layer of the OLED device. Moreover, the TFT active layer and the pixel electrode layer are formed from a same IGZO film by a patterning process.
US09881981B2	Method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions each including a light emitting region and a transparent region, a gate electrode in the light emitting region, a first insulating interlayer covering the gate electrode and extending from the light emitting region to the transparent region, a drain electrode on the first insulating interlayer and constituting a transistor in conjunction with the gate electrode, a planarization layer covering the transistor and exposing a top surface of the first insulating interlayer in the transparent region, and a first electrode on the planarization layer.
US09881980B2	Method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode display device including a selective melting and drying process with an organic solvent An organic light emitting diode display device, and method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode display device are discussed. The organic light emitting diode display device according to one embodiment includes a first electrode on a thin film transistor and connected to a drain electrode; an auxiliary electrode on a same layer as the first electrode; a bank layer covering edges of the first electrode and edges of the auxiliary electrode and having a transmissive hole corresponding and an auxiliary contact hole; a light emitting layer on the first electrode in the transmissive hole; a residual layer on the auxiliary electrode in the auxiliary contact hole. A central portion of the residual layer has a larger thickness than an edge portion of the residual layer. The organic light emitting diode display device further includes a second electrode on the light emitting layer and the residual layer.
US09881979B2	Flexible display device and method for manufacturing the same How a flat panel display is bent by external forces is controlled. A display panel 40 has display elements, formed corresponding to the arrangement of pixels, on a first principal surface of a flexible display panel substrate 46. The display panel substrate 46 has a linear groove 48 on at least part of a second principal surface of the display panel substrate 46. A resin is stacked on a support substrate having a linear ridge on at least part of the surface of the support substrate. The surface shape of the support substrate is transferred to the resin so that the groove 48 is molded. Thus, the display panel substrate 46 made of the resin is formed on the support substrate. After the display elements are formed on the display panel substrate 46, the support substrate is removed from the display panel substrate 46.
US09881968B2	Pixel circuit A pixel arrangement includes a photodiode, a reset transistor configured to be controlled by a reset signal and coupled to a reset input voltage, a transfer gate transistor configured to transfer charge from the photodiode to a node, wherein the transfer gate transistor is controlled by a transfer gate voltage, and a source follower transistor controlled by the voltage on the node and coupled to a source follower voltage. A capacitor is coupled between the node and an input voltage. During a read operation the input voltage is increased to boost the voltage at the node. The increased input voltage may, for example, be one the reset input voltage, said source follower voltage, said transfer gate voltage and a boosting voltage.
US09881966B2	Three-dimensional integrated multispectral imaging sensor A three-dimensional multispectral imaging sensor and method for forming a three-dimensional multispectral imaging sensor are provided. The three-dimensional multispectral imaging sensor includes a monolithic structure having a plurality of layers. Each of the layers is formed from light detecting materials for detecting light of respective different non-overlapping wavelengths and having respective different bandgaps.
US09881946B2	Low temperature poly-silicon TFT substrate structure and manufacture method thereof The present invention provides a Low Temperature Poly-silicon TFT substrate structure and a manufacture method thereof. By providing the buffer layers in the drive TFT area and the display TFT area with different thicknesses, of which the thickness of the buffer layer in the drive TFT area is larger, and the thickness of the buffer layer in the display TFT area is smaller, different temperature grades are formed in the crystallization process of the polysilicon to achieve the control to the grain diameters of the crystals. The polysilicon layer with larger lattice dimension is formed in the drive TFT area in the crystallization process to raise the electron mobility. The fractured crystals of polysilicon layer in the display TFT area can be obtained in the crystallization process for ensuring the uniformity of the grain boundary and raising the uniformity of the current. Accordingly, the electrical property demands for different TFTs can be satisfied to raise the light uniformity of the OLED.
US09881944B2	Array substrate and liquid crystal display module including TFT having improved mobility and method of fabricating the same A method of fabricating an array substrate for a liquid crystal display device can include forming a gate line and a gate electrode, and a gate insulating layer; forming an active layer on the gate insulating layer and an ohmic contact layer on the active layer; forming a data line and source and drain electrodes; forming a passivation layer on the source and drain electrodes; and forming a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, in which the ohmic contact layer covers an entire top surface of the active layer between the source and drain electrodes; forming a metallic layer on the gate insulating layer and the ohmic contact layer; etching the metallic layer to faun the data line, and the source drain electrodes, in which a silicide layer is formed on the ohmic contact layer only in the space between the source and drain electrodes; and removing the silicide layer.
US09881939B2	Metal oxide film and method for forming metal oxide film A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nmφ and less than or equal to 10 nmφ.
US09881926B1	Static random access memory (SRAM) density scaling by using middle of line (MOL) flow A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming gate contacts on a semiconductor substrate, forming trench silicide (TS) contacts on the semiconductor substrate, recessing the TS contacts to form a gap region, filling the gap region of the recessed TS contacts with a dielectric, selectively etching the gate contacts to form a first conducting layer, and selectively etching the TS contacts to form a second conducting layer.
US09881925B2	Mirror contact capacitor A semiconductor structure and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a bonding layer in contact with a top surface of the substrate. At least one transistor contacts the bonding layer. The transistor includes at least one gate structure disposed on and in contact with a bottom surface of a semiconductor layer of the transistor. The semiconductor further includes a capacitor disposed adjacent to the transistor. The capacitor contacts the semiconductor layer of the transistor and extends down into the substrate. The method includes forming at least one transistor and then flipping the transistor. After the transistor has been flipped, the transistor is bonded to a new substrate. An initial substrate of the transistor is removed to expose a semiconductor layer. A capacitor is formed adjacent to the transistor and contacts with the semiconductor layer. A contact node is formed adjacent to the capacitor.
US09881923B1	Floating body transistors and memory arrays comprising floating body transistors Some embodiments include a floating body transistor which has a gate structure configured as a bracket having two upwardly-projecting sidewalls joined to a base. A region between the upwardly-projecting sidewalls is an interior region of the bracket. The interior region of the bracket has an interior surface along an upper surface of the base, and along inward surfaces of the upwardly-projecting sidewalls. The sidewalls are a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first and second sidewalls have first and second notches, respectively, which extend downwardly into the first and second sidewalls. The first and second notches are horizontally aligned with one another. Dielectric material lines the interior surface of the bracket. A semiconductor material body is within the interior region of the bracket and along the dielectric material. The semiconductor material body has a third notch which is horizontally aligned with the first and second notches.
US09881917B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same is described. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor includes a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer is disposed on the substrate. The first insulating layer is disposed on the first conductive layer and has a first peripheral edge. The second conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and has a second peripheral edge. The second capacitor includes a third conductive layer, a second insulating layer and the second conductive layer. The second insulating layer is disposed on the second conductive layer and has a third peripheral edge. The third conductive layer is disposed on the second insulating layer and has a fourth peripheral edge. The first, second, third and fourth peripheral edges are aligned with one another.
US09881913B2	Bipolar SCR A high-voltage bipolar semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR) includes an emitter region having a first polarity and overlying a base region having a second polarity different from the first polarity; a collector region having the first polarity and lying under the base region; an anode region having the second polarity; a first sinker region having the first polarity and contacting the collector region, wherein the anode region is between the first sinker region and the base region; and a second sinker region having the first polarity and contacting the collector region, the second sinker region lying between the anode region and the base region, wherein an extension of the anode region extends under a portion of the second sinker region.
US09881902B2	Semiconductor package, semiconductor device using the same and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first electronic component, a first conductive layer, a first pillar layer and a first package body. The first electronic component is disposed on the substrate. The first pillar layer connects the first conductive layer and the substrate. The first package body encapsulates the first conductive layer, the first pillar layer and the first electronic component. The first conductive layer is embedded in the first package body.
US09881897B2	Manufacturing method of ultra-thin semiconductor device package assembly A manufacturing method of ultra-thin semiconductor device package structure is provided. Firstly, a wafer including a plurality of semiconductor devices is provided, and one of the semiconductor devices has an active surface having an active region and an outer region and a back surface. A first electrode and a second electrode are arranged in the active region, and the outer region has a cutting portion and a channel portion. Subsequently, a trench is formed in the channel portion, and filled with a conductive structure. The wafer is fixed on a supporting board, and then a thinning process and a deposition process of a back electrode layer are performed on the back surface in sequence. Thereafter, the supporting board is removed and a plurality of contacting pads is formed. A cutting process is performed along the cutting portion.
US09881894B2	Thin 3D fan-out embedded wafer level package (EWLB) for application processor and memory integration A semiconductor device has a plurality of first semiconductor die with an encapsulant deposited over a first surface of the first semiconductor die and around the first semiconductor die. An insulating layer is formed over the encapsulant and over a second surface of the first semiconductor die opposite the first surface. The insulating layer includes openings over the first semiconductor die. A first conductive layer is formed over the first semiconductor die within the openings. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer to form vertical conductive vias. A second semiconductor die is disposed over the first semiconductor die and electrically connected to the first conductive layer. A bump is formed over the second conductive layer outside a footprint of the first semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is disposed over an active surface or a back surface of the first semiconductor die.
US09881893B2	Apparatus for removing chip The present disclosure provides an apparatus for removing a chip, including: a loading station; a heating head arranged to soften an anisotropic conductive film on a substrate of a display panel for fixing the chip; a base table arranged on the loading station and arranged to support the display panel; and a base seat arranged on the loading station and arranged to support the heating head, wherein the heating head is rotatably mounted onto the base seat and the heating head has a rotation axis perpendicular to a surface of the loading station facing towards the base table. With the above apparatus, the face of the heating head facing towards the chip contacts with the face of the chip facing towards the heating head more sufficiently. The force to which the portion of the chip is subject is reduced and the force applied to the chip becomes more uniform.
US09881886B2	Semiconductor device assemblies including intermetallic compound interconnect structures A method of forming a semiconductor device assembly comprises forming on a first substrate, at least one bond pad comprising a first nickel material over the first substrate, a first copper material on the first nickel material, and a solder-wetting material on the first copper material. On a second substrate is formed at least one conductive pillar comprising a second nickel material, a second copper material directly contacting the second nickel material, and a solder material directly contacting the second copper material. The solder-wetting material is contacted with the solder material. The first copper material, the solder-wetting material, the second copper material, and the solder material are converted into a substantially homogeneous intermetallic compound interconnect structure. Additional methods, semiconductor device assemblies, and interconnect structures are also described.
US09881883B2	Electronic device with microfilm antenna and related methods An electronic device may include a first substrate, an electrically conductive feed line on the first substrate, an insulating layer on the first substrate and the electrically conductive feed line, a second substrate on the insulating layer, and an antenna on the second substrate and having nanofilm layers stacked on the second substrate. The antenna is coupled to the feed line through an aperture.
US09881881B2	Conductive seal ring for power bus distribution A multi-block semiconductor device includes a first block and a second block operating in different power regimes from each other. A seal ring is around a periphery of the die, hermetically sealing the first and second blocks. The die has a substrate and an insulating layer, the seal ring being on the insulating layer. The seal ring serves as a power bus for the first block but not the second block. The seal ring and first block are electrically coupled to a first ground node, the first ground node being electrically isolated at a die-level from other ground nodes in the multi-block semiconductor device. In some embodiments, the second block is located in a central area of the die, and a plurality of metal lines electrically connect the seal ring to the first block, the metal lines being evenly spaced around a majority of the periphery of the semiconductor die.
US09881876B2	Semiconductor device having conductive shield layer A semiconductor device includes a wiring substrate that includes a base having a first surface, a second surface, and a wiring, a semiconductor chip located on the first surface, an external connection terminal located on the second surface and electrically connected to the wiring, a sealing resin layer covering the semiconductor chip, a metal compound layer containing a metal nitride in contact with a surface of the sealing resin layer, and a conductive shield layer covering the sealing resin layer with the metal compound layer interposed between the conductive shield layer and the sealing resin layer. The wiring is exposed at a side surface of the wiring substrate, and is electrically connected to the conductive shield layer.
US09881870B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first interlayer dielectric layer disposed over a substrate, metal wirings, a second interlayer dielectric layer disposed over the first interlayer dielectric layer and the metal wirings, a first air gap and a second air gap. The metal wirings are embedded in the first interlayer dielectric layer, and arranged with a first space or a second space between the metal wirings. The second space has a greater length than the first space. The first air gap is formed by the second interlayer dielectric layer and formed in a first area sandwiched by adjacent two metal wirings arranged with the first space. The second air gap is formed by the second interlayer dielectric layer and formed in a second area sandwiched by adjacent two metal wirings arranged with the second space therebetween. No adjacent two metal wirings are arranged with a space smaller than the first space.
US09881853B2	Semiconductor package having a source-down configured transistor die and a drain-down configured transistor die A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first transistor die secured to the substrate and a second transistor die secured to the substrate. The first transistor die has a source terminal at a bottom side of the first transistor die which faces the substrate and a drain terminal and a gate terminal at a top side of the first transistor die which faces away from the substrate. The second transistor die has a drain terminal at a bottom side of the second transistor die which faces the substrate and a source terminal and a gate terminal at a top side of the second transistor die which faces away from the substrate. The package also includes a common electrical connection between the drain terminal of the first transistor die and the source terminal of the second transistor die.
US09881848B2	Thermal interface material on package A packaged assembly is disclosed, including thermal interface material dispensed on an organic package and methods of manufacturing. The method includes dispensing a thermal interface material (TIM) on an electronic assembly. The method further includes removing volatile species of the TIM, prior to lid placement on the electronic assembly. The method further includes placing the lid on the TIM, over the electronic assembly. The method further includes pressing the lid onto the electronic assembly.
US09881839B1	Forming a hybrid channel nanosheet semiconductor structure A method for fabricating a nanosheet semiconductor structure includes forming a first nanosheet field effect transistor (FET) structure having a first inner spacer comprised of a first material and a second nanosheet FET structure having second inner spacer comprised of a second material. The first material is different than the second material.
US09881827B2	Substrate treating apparatus and substrate treating method An embodiment includes a substrate treating apparatus comprising: a tape supply member configured to supply a tape to be attached to a substrate; a tape collection member configured to collect a surplus tape that remains after the tape is attached to the substrate; a support member disposed between the tape supply member and the tape collection member and configured to support the substrate while the tape is attached to the substrate; and a temperature adjustment member configured to adjust a temperature of the tape that is supplied from the tape supply member to the support member.
US09881826B2	Buffer station with single exit-flow direction A buffer for use in semiconductor processing tools is disclosed. The buffer may be used to temporarily store wafers after processing operations are performed on those wafers. The buffer may include two side walls and a back wall interposed between the side walls. The side walls and the back wall may generally define an area within which the wafers may be stored in a stacked arrangement. Wafer support fins extending from the side walls and the back wall may extend into a wafer support region that overlaps with the edges of the wafers. Purge gas may be introduced in between each pair of wafers via purge gas ports located in one of the walls.
US09881817B1	Precision substrate material multi-processing using miniature-column charged particle beam arrays Methods, tools and systems for patterning of substrates using charged particle beams without photomasks, without a resist layer, using multiple different processes (different chemistry processes and/or different ones of material deposition, removal and/or modification) in the same vacuum space, wherein said processes are performed independently (without cross-interference) and simultaneously. As a result, the number of process steps can be reduced and some lithography steps can be eliminated, reducing manufacturing cycle time and increasing yield by lowering the probability of defect introduction. Also, because such processes are resist-less, layer-to-layer registration and other column control processes can be performed by imaging previous-layer features local to (or in contact with) features to be written in a next layer as designated by the design layout database.
US09881813B2	Mounting structure and method for producing mounting structure A mounting structure, including: a first component that has a first bump; a second component that has a second bump; a mounting component that has a primary mounting surface and a secondary mounting surface; a first solder that connects an electrode on the primary mounting surface and the first bump; a second solder that connects an electrode on the secondary mounting surface and the second bump; and a reinforcing resin that covers a part of the first solder and that is not in contact with the primary mounting surface.
US09881811B2	Thin-film transistor substrate manufacturing method and thin-film transistor substrate manufactured with same The present invention provides a TFT substrate manufacturing method and a TFT substrate manufactured with the method. The TFT substrate manufacturing method of the present invention uses a photoresist pattern to serve as a shielding mask to allow a metal layer to be directly oxidized, through the anodic oxidation technology, into a gate insulation layer or a passivation layer, and at the same time, forming electrode patterns of gate or source/drain. The entire operation can be conducted in room temperature and is applicable to a flexible substrate that is not resistant to high temperatures without the involvement of expensive high temperature facility, such as chemical vapor deposition, so as to greatly reduce the operation cost of manufacturing a flexible display device. The TFT substrate manufactured with the present invention shows excellent electrical characteristics and is suitable for a flexible display device.
US09881805B2	Silicon selective removal A method of etching exposed silicon on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a gas phase etch using plasma effluents formed in a remote plasma. The remote plasma excites a fluorine-containing precursor. Plasma effluents within the remote plasma are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents combine with a hydrogen-containing precursor. The combination react with the patterned heterogeneous structures to remove an exposed silicon portion faster than a second exposed portion. The silicon selectivity results from the presence of an ion suppressor positioned between the remote plasma and the substrate processing region. The methods may be used to selectively remove silicon faster than silicon oxide, silicon nitride and a variety of metal-containing materials. The methods may be used to remove small etch amounts in a controlled manner and may result in an extremely smooth silicon surface.
US09881788B2	Back side deposition apparatus and applications The embodiments disclosed herein pertain to methods and apparatus for depositing stress compensating layers and sacrificial layers on either the front side or back side of a substrate. In various implementations, back side deposition occurs while the wafer is in a normal front side up orientation. The front/back side deposition may be performed to reduce stress introduced through deposition on the front side of the wafer. The back side deposition may also be performed to minimize back side particle-related problems that occur during post-deposition processing such as photolithography.
US09881787B2	Deposition methods for uniform and conformal hybrid titanium oxide films Methods for depositing titanium oxide films by atomic layer deposition are disclosed. Titanium oxide films may include a titanium nitride cap, an oxygen rich titanium nitride cap or a mixed oxide nitride layer. Also described are methods for self-aligned double patterning including titanium oxide spacer films.
US09881779B2	Auxiliary gas inlet There is provided a method of introducing ions into a mass spectrometer, comprising ionising a sample using a continuous ionisation source to form a plurality of ions, transporting said plurality of ions in a first, primary gas through a passageway and into an inlet of a mass spectrometer, introducing a second, auxiliary gas into said inlet, and controlling a flow rate of said second gas into said inlet so as to control a flow rate of said first gas through said passageway.
US09881773B2	Production method of electroconductive mayenite compound having high electron density, and target A production method of an electroconductive mayenite compound having an electron density greater than or equal to 5×1020 cm−3 includes preparing an object of processing containing a mayenite compound or a precursor of a mayenite compound, placing aluminum foil on at least part of a surface of the object of processing, and retaining the object of processing at temperatures falling within the range of 1080° C. to 1450° C. in a low oxygen partial pressure atmosphere.
US09881772B2	Multi-radiofrequency impedance control for plasma uniformity tuning Circuits, methods, chambers, systems, and computer programs are presented for processing wafers. A wafer processing apparatus includes top and bottom electrodes inside a processing chamber; a first, second, third, and fourth radio frequency (RF) power sources; and one or more resonant circuits. The first, second, and third RF power sources are coupled to the bottom electrode. The top electrode may be coupled to the fourth RF power source, to electrical ground, or to the one or more resonant circuits. Each of the one or more resonant circuits, which are coupled between the top electrode and electrical ground, include a tune-in element operable to vary a frequency-dependent impedance presented by the resonant circuit. The wafer processing apparatus is configurable to select the RF power sources for wafer processing operations, as well as the connections to the top electrode in order to provide plasma and etching uniformity for the wafer.
US09881766B2	Differential imaging with pattern recognition for process automation of cross sectioning applications A method for using differential imaging for applications involving TEM samples by allowing operators to take multiple images during a procedure involving a focused ion beam procedure and overlaying the multiple images to create a differential image that clearly shows the differences between milling steps. The methods also involve generating real-time images of the area being milled and using the overlays of the differential images to show small changes in each image, and thus highlight the ion beam milling location. The methods also involve automating the process of creating differential images and using them to automatically mill subsequent slices.
US09881764B2	Heat-spreading blanking system for high throughput electron beam apparatus An electron beam apparatus addresses blanking issues resulting from sinking high-power heat onto an aperture diaphragm by evenly spreading heat on the aperture diaphragm. The apparatus can include an aperture diaphragm and a deflector that deflects the electron beam on the aperture diaphragm. The electron beam is directed at the aperture diaphragm in a pattern around the aperture. The pattern may be a circle, square, or polygon. The pattern also may include a variable locus relative to the aperture.
US09881763B2	Ion generation device and ion detection device An ion generation device is provided, which includes: a heater; a counter electrode arranged on one side of the heater; at least one electric member arranged between the heater and the counter electrode, the electric member being made of a pyroelectric element or a piezoelectric element; an electrode arranged between the heater and the electric member to be in contact with the electric member; and a temperature control circuit to control a temperature of the heater. An ion detection device is provided, which includes the above-described ion generation device, an ion filter to sort ions generated at the ion generation device, and a detector to detect the ions sorted in the ion filter.
US09881762B2	Integrated photoemission sources and scalable photoemission structures A scalable, integrated multi-level photoemitter device of tapered design and method of manufacture using conventional CMOS manufacturing techniques. The photoemitter device has a tapered multi-level structure formed in a material layer of a substrate, each level comprising a layer of photoemissive material and a connecting portion, said connecting portion for connecting to an adjacent photoemissive material layer of a next successive level. A first photoemissive material layer of a first level is of a configuration having a first length or width dimension; and each successive layer includes a photoemissive material layer of successively smaller length or width dimensions
US09881760B2	Electromechanical switching device with electrodes having 2D layered materials with distinct functional areas An electromechanical switching device includes a first electrode, comprising layers of a first 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a first surface; a second electrode, comprising layers of a second 2D layered material, which layers exhibit a second surface opposite the first surface; and an actuation mechanism; wherein each of the first and second 2D layered materials has an anisotropic electrical conductivity, which is lower transversely to its layers than in-plane with the layers; the first electrode includes two distinct areas alongside the first surface, which areas differ in at least one structural, electrical and/or magnetic property; and at least one of the first and second electrodes is actuatable by the actuation mechanism, such that actuation thereof for modification of an electrical conductance transverse to each of the first surface and the second surface to enable current modulation between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09881759B2	Piezoelectronic switch device for RF applications A piezoelectronic switch device for radio frequency (RF) applications includes a piezoelectric (PE) material layer and a piezoresistive (PR) material layer separated from one another by at least one electrode, wherein an electrical resistance of the PR material layer is dependent upon an applied voltage across the PE material layer by way of an applied pressure to the PR material layer by the PE material layer; and a conductive, high yield material (C-HYM) comprising a housing that surrounds the PE material layer, the PR material layer and the at least one electrode, the C-HYM configured to mechanically transmit a displacement of the PE material layer to the PR material layer such that applied voltage across the PE material layer causes an expansion thereof and an increase the applied pressure to the PR material layer, thereby causing a decrease in the electrical resistance of the PR material layer.
US09881754B2	Toggle switch and switch device A toggle switch includes a first substrate, a lever, an operation knob, and a light guide. The first substrate includes a first contact, a second contact, and a light source. The lever is configured to pivot in a thickness-wise direction of the first substrate and contact one of the first contact and the second contact. The operation knob is attached to the lever and includes a light outlet. The operation knob receives light, guides the light, and emits the light out of the light outlet. The light guide guides light emitted from the light source to the light outlet. The lever includes a metal plate and a resin plate into which the metal plate is inserted. The resin plate includes an attachment groove that extends in the thickness-wise direction of the first substrate. The light guide is attached to the attachment groove.
US09881752B2	Rotary-type switch A rotary-type switch for controlling vehicle lighting is provided. The rotary-type switch may include a housing portion that includes multiple positions that respectively correspond to multiple operation modes and a rotary dial being configured to rotate relative to the housing portion to select an operation mode of the rotary-type switch based on a position identified by a selection indicator. A controller is configured to control and operation mode of the rotary-type switch based on a vehicular power state and when the vehicular power state is OFF, regardless of the position of the selection indicator corresponding to the selected operation mode on either the housing portion or the rotary dial, the controller controls the rotary-type switch to automatically set the operation mode to that defined by an initial-operation position corresponding to a predetermined initial-operation mode.
US09881746B2	Flexible and transparent supercapacitors and fabrication using thin film carbon electrodes with controlled morphologies Mechanically flexible and optically transparent thin film solid state supercapacitors are fabricated by assembling nano-engineered carbon electrodes in porous templates. The electrodes have textured graphitic surface films with a morphology of interconnected arrays of complex shapes and porosity. The graphitic films act as both electrode and current collector, and when integrated with solid polymer electrolyte function as thin film supercapacitors. The nanostructured electrode morphology and conformal electrolyte packaging provide enough energy and power density for electronic devices in addition to possessing excellent mechanical flexibility and optical transparency.
US09881745B2	Dye sensitized solar cell Disclosed is a dye-sensitized solar cell which includes a working electrode and a counter electrode facing each other with an electrolyte layer therebetween, the working electrode having a dye-supporting metal oxide electrode composed of a metal oxide layer having a dye supported thereon. The dye contains a cyanine dye, and the electrolyte of the electrolyte layer contains a cobalt-based electrolyte. It is preferred to use at least one cyanine dye represented by general formula (1) as the cyanine dye. Anq− represents a q-valent anion, wherein q represents 1 or 2, and p represents a coefficient for maintaining overall charge neutrality.
US09881743B2	Glass ceramic material and multilayer ceramic electronic component A first ceramic layer of a composite laminate included in a common mode choke coil is formed from a sintered body of a glass ceramic material. The glass ceramic material contains 40 to 90 percent by weight of a glass which contains 0.5 to 5 percent by weight of K2O, 0 to 5 percent by weight of Al2O3, 10 to 25 percent by weight of B2O3, and 70 to 85 percent by weight of SiO2; and 10 to 60 percent by weight of a filler containing alumina and quartz, and the content of the alumina contained in the filler is 1 to 10 percent by weight of the total amount of the glass and the filler.
US09881742B2	Electronic component A first metal terminal includes a first connection portion connected to an electrode portion of a second external electrode, and a first leg portion extending from the first connection portion. A second metal terminal includes a second connection portion connected to a conductor portion of a connection conductor, and a second leg portion extending from the second connection portion. A multilayer capacitor and an overcurrent protection device are disposed in such a manner that a side surface on which an electrode portion of a first external electrode is disposed and a side surface of a second element body oppose each other. The electrode portion of the first external electrode and a fourth external electrode are connected to each other, and the connection conductor and a third external electrode are connected to each other.
US09881737B2	Laminated ceramic electronic component A laminated ceramic electronic component that includes a laminated body formed by laminating a ceramic layer and an internal electrode; and an external electrode formed on an outer surface of the laminated body so as to be electrically connected to the internal electrode. The external electrode includes a conducting layer that is in contact with the internal electrode, and the internal electrode contains Ni. The conducting layer contains metal particles containing a Cu3Sn alloy, and a thermosetting resin. The metal particles contain Sn in a weight ratio of 36.5 to 47.8% to the total amount of Sn and Cu.
US09881734B2	Electromechanical actuation and/or generation system including an electrical insulation between the electrical source and the load An actuator or generator device includes an AC rotary electric machine having an electrical connection for transferring electrical energy to the terminals of the stator of the machine, the device including a transformer.
US09881726B2	Method for manufacturing magnetic substrate and common mode filter A common mode filter is manufactured to include a coil part including an insulation layer and a conductor pattern formed in the insulation layer; and a magnetic substrate coupled to one surface or both surfaces of the coil part. The magnetic substrate includes: an electrostatic absorbing layer made of an electrostatic absorbing material; a magnetic layer provided on one surface or both surfaces of the electrostatic absorbing layer and made of a magnetic material; and an electrode provided between the magnetic layer and the electrostatic absorbing layer and made of a conductive material. Therefore, common mode filter may maintain high efficiency characteristics while preventing an electrostatic discharge phenomenon.
US09881719B2	Chip resistor and method for making the same A chip resistor includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other, a resistor element arranged on the first and the second electrodes, a bonding layer provided between the resistor element and the two electrodes, and a plating layer electrically connected to the resistor element. The first electrode includes a flat outer side surface, and the resistor element includes a side surface facing in the direction in which the thirst and the second electrodes are spaced. The outer side surface of the first electrode is flush with the side surface of the resistor element. The plating layer covers at least a part of the outer side surface of the first electrode in a manner such that the covering portion of the plating layer extends from one vertical edge of the outer side surface to the other vertical edge.
US09881714B2	Laser-markable insulation material for wire or cable assemblies The present disclosure is directed to laser-markable insulation material and cable or wire assemblies containing such insulation material. In certain embodiments, the laser-markable insulation material can include a fluoropolymer and an inorganic laser-markable pigment. The pigment can have a mean crystal size in a range of about 0.4 microns to about 2 microns and/or a median particle size (d50) in a range of about 0.45 microns to about 2 microns. The insulation material can exhibit improved initial and heat-aged contrast ratios without diminishing the ability of a cable or wire containing the insulation material to meet industry standards for electric-arc tracking and propagation resistance.
US09881713B2	Coating composition for transparent electrode passivation layer and transparent electrode having passivation layer Provided is a coating composition for a transparent electrode passivation layer, the coating composition including a metal oxide and at least one selected from the group consisting of ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, and tetraethylene glycol. When a passivation layer formed using the coating composition for a transparent electrode passivation layer according to the present invention is applied to a transparent electrode, the passivation layer is capable of ensuring the heat resistance and durability of the transparent electrode while maintaining the transmittance of the transparent electrode. Particularly, the coating composition for a transparent electrode passivation layer according to the present invention exhibits excellent hardness.
US09881712B2	Highly crystalline electrically conducting polymers, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a regioregular polyalkylthiophene and/or a regioregular poly[2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno(3,2-b)thiophene]; where the composition is melted and then cooled to a temperature between a melting point and a glass transition temperature of the composition; the composition having an amount of crystallinity that is at least twice the amount of crystallinity of another identical composition that is crystallized by a method that does not involve melting and cooling to a temperature between the melting point and the glass transition temperature of the identical composition.
US09881707B2	X-ray shielding material and method of preparation thereof The present disclosure relates to a process for synthesis of barium bismuth sulfide nanofibers, having equivalent shielding capacity as lead. The present disclosure also relates to a radiation shielding articles and cosmeceuticals.
US09881703B2	Seismic attenuation system for a nuclear reactor A system for attenuating seismic forces includes a reactor pressure vessel containing nuclear fuel and a containment vessel that houses the reactor pressure vessel. Both the reactor pressure vessel and the containment vessel include a bottom head. Additionally, the system includes a base support to contact a support surface on which the containment vessel is positioned in a substantially vertical orientation. An attenuation device is located between the bottom head of the reactor pressure vessel and the bottom head of the containment vessel. Seismic forces that travel from the base support to the reactor pressure vessel via the containment vessel are attenuated by the attenuation device in a direction that is substantially lateral to the vertical orientation of the containment vessel.
US09881697B2	Dynamic-shifting redundancy mapping for non-volatile data storage Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for redundancy mapping. A controller is configured to determine that one or more defects affect a subset of a first group of cells and a subset of a second group of cells of a non-volatile memory medium. A non-volatile memory medium may include a plurality of groups of cells, and redundant groups of cells may be available for replacing defective groups of cells. A controller is configured to store a mapping between affected subsets of first and second groups of cells and a redundant group of cells for a non-volatile memory medium. A controller is configured to read data for a first group and/or second group of cells by referencing a mapping and using a redundant group of cells.
US09881685B2	Nonvolatile memory device, operating method thereof and memory system including the same A method of operating a non-volatile memory device includes performing an erasing operation to memory cells associated with a plurality of string selection lines (SSLs), the memory cells associated with the plurality of SSLs constituting a memory block, and verifying the erasing operation to second memory cells associated with a second SSL after verifying the erasing operation to first memory cells associated with a first SSL.
US09881681B2	Semiconductor memory device for storing multivalued data Data storage circuits are connected to the bit lines in a one-to-one correspondence. A write circuit writes the data on a first page into a plurality of 5 first memory cells selected simultaneously by a word line. Thereafter, the write circuit writes the data on a second page into the plurality of first memory cell. Then, the write circuit writes the data on the first and second pages into second memory cells adjoining 10 the first memory cells in the bit line direction.
US09881680B2	Multi-host power controller (MHPC) of a flash-memory-based storage device A multi-host power controller (MHPC) of a flash-memory-based storage device is disclosed. In one aspect, the MHPC receives power mode change requests from each of multiple input/output (I/O) clients. The MHPC extracts and stores a “vote,” or a requested power mode, from the power mode change requests, and then applies a voting logic to the stored votes to determine whether to transition the flash-memory-based storage device between power modes. If the flash-memory-based storage device is not currently operating in the power mode determined by the MHPC, the MHPC is configured to issue a power mode change command to the flash-memory-based storage device to transition to the determined power mode. In this manner, the MHPC is able to control the power mode of the flash-memory-based storage device while receiving direct power mode change requests from multiple I/O clients.
US09881677B1	Sense amplifier and method for bit line voltage compensation thereof A sensing amplifier includes a first bit line driver, a second bit line driver and a third bit line driver. The first bit line driver sets a first bit line for a fast-pass-write (FPW) operation. The second bit line driver sets a second bit line for a first operation rather than the FPW operation. The third bit line driver sets a third bit line for a second operation rather than the FPW operation. The first bit line is arranged between the second bit line and the third bit line, and the second bit line driver and the third bit line driver respectively adjust voltage statuses of the second bit line and the third bit line to rise a voltage level of the first bit line by a compensated level.
US09881670B2	Soft information module A soft information module is coupled between one or more flash memory devices and a decoder. The soft information module receives a putative value of one or more memory cells of the one or more flash memory devices based on a read of the one or more memory cells at an initial read level, and one or more respective indicators of whether the putative value was read at one or more respective different read levels offset from the initial read level, and receives a page indicator for the read. The soft information module determines a cell program region for the read based on the putative value, the one or more respective indicators, and the page indicator, identifies a predetermined confidence value for the region, and provides the confidence value to the decoder for association with the putative value, the confidence value being representative of a likelihood that the one or more memory cells was programmed to the putative value.
US09881667B2	Memory device comprising an electrically floating body transistor A memory cell includes a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, an electrically floating body transistor fabricated on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, and a charge injector region. The floating body transistor is configured to have more than one stable state through an application of a bias on the charge injector region.
US09881666B2	Overvoltage protection for a fine grained negative wordline scheme A fine grained negative wordline scheme for SRAM memories is disclosed. The scheme includes a circuit having a static random access memory (SRAM) cell including at least a wordline coupled to a plurality of NFETs of a transistor array. The circuit further includes a wordline driver including a plurality of inverters coupled between a wordline group decode node, a power supply and the wordline. Overvoltage on the wordline driver and NFETs of the SRAM cell are eliminated by applying a power gating mode and lowering the power supply voltage.
US09881663B2	Stacked semiconductor device A stacked semiconductor device is disclosed that includes a plurality of semiconductor dies. Each die has oppositely disposed first and second surfaces, with pads formed on each of the surfaces. A plurality of through-vias connect respective pads on the first surface to respective pads on the second surface. The through-vias include a first group of through-vias coupled to respective I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die and a second group of through-vias not coupled to I/O circuitry on the semiconductor die. The plurality of semiconductor dies are stacked such that the first group of through-vias in a first one of the plurality of semiconductor dies are aligned with respective ones of at least a portion of the second group of through-vias in a second one of the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US09881658B2	Methods and apparatuses for master-slave detection Apparatuses, master-slave detect circuits, memories, and methods are disclosed. One such method includes performing a master detect phase during which a memory unit in a memory group is determined to be a master memory unit, determining at each memory unit its location relative to other memory units, and determining at each memory unit its location in the memory group based on a total number of slave memory units and its location relative to other memory units.
US09881643B1	Data storage device generating extended redundancy to compensate for track squeeze A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of tracks. A first codeword is generated comprising first redundancy, and first position information of the head relative to a first track is saved while writing the first codeword to the first track. A second codeword is generated comprising second redundancy, and second position information of the head relative to a second track is saved while writing the second codeword to the second track. Extended redundancy is generated for the first codeword based on the first and second position information, and the first codeword is recovered from the first track based on the extended redundancy generated for the first codeword.
US09881639B2	Within-row wedge angle control for magnetic recording read-write heads A process for lapping a row of head sliders involves fixing the row to a lapping tool fixture, actuating each of multiple force pins to set each head slider for lapping to a respective target wedge angle, and simultaneously lapping accordingly. Each target wedge angle may be achieved by applying a respective torque to a compliant elastomer between each force pin and corresponding head slider, to transfer a pressure gradient corresponding to the torque to the corresponding head slider. Such torques may be applied through at least two wedge angle flexures interconnecting a rotatable box structure and a fixed back wall of a lapping tool, wherein the flexures virtually intersect at and define an axis of rotation about which the torques are applied. The process may further involve actuating each force pin to set each head slider for lapping to a respective reader target stripe height, and simultaneously lapping accordingly.
US09881638B1	Method for providing a near-field transducer (NFT) for a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) device A method and system provides a near-field transducer (NFT) for a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) transducer. The method and system include forming the disk of the NFT and forming the pin of the NFT. The disk is formed from a first material. The pin is formed from a second material different from the first material. The pin contacts the disk. At least a portion of the pin is between the disk and an air-bearing surface (ABS) location.
US09881635B2	Method and system for scaling ducking of speech-relevant channels in multi-channel audio A method and system for filtering a multi-channel audio signal having a speech channel and at least one non-speech channel, to improve intelligibility of speech determined by the signal. In typical embodiments, the method includes steps of determining at least one attenuation control value indicative of a measure of similarity between speech-related content determined by the speech channel and speech-related content determined by the non-speech channel, and attenuating the non-speech channel in response to the at least one attenuation control value. Typically, the attenuating step includes scaling of a raw attenuation control signal (e.g., a ducking gain control signal) for the non-speech channel in response to the at least one attenuation control value. Some embodiments are a general or special purpose processor programmed with software or firmware and/or otherwise configured to perform filtering in accordance the invention.
US09881633B2	Audio signal processing device, audio signal processing method, and audio signal processing program An audio signal processing device includes: a short-time fast Fourier transform unit that generates a signal in a frequency domain obtained by performing a short-time fast Fourier transform on an input audio signal; a steady sound determining unit that determines whether a waveform of a peak portion included in a waveform of the signal in a frequency domain is a steady sound; a filter coefficient calculation unit that dynamically calculates a filter coefficient on the basis of a result of determination made by the steady sound determining unit; a comb filter that operates according to the filter coefficient calculated by the filter coefficient calculation unit so as to filter a signal in a frequency domain; and an inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms an output of the comb filter into a signal in a time domain and outputs the signal in a time domain.
US09881627B2	Audio coding device, audio coding method, audio coding program, audio decoding device, audio decoding method, and audio decoding program An audio signal transmission device for encoding an audio signal includes an audio encoding unit that encodes an audio signal and a side information encoding unit that calculates and encodes side information from a look-ahead signal. An audio signal receiving device for decoding an audio code and outputting an audio signal includes: an audio code buffer that detects packet loss based on a received state of an audio packet, an audio parameter decoding unit that decodes an audio code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information decoding unit that decodes a side information code when an audio packet is correctly received, a side information accumulation unit that accumulates side information obtained by decoding a side information code, an audio parameter missing processing unit that outputs an audio parameter upon detection of audio packet loss, and an audio synthesis unit that synthesizes decoded audio from the audio parameter.
US09881625B2	Device and method for execution of huffman coding In this invention, the design of the Huffman table can be done offline with a large input sequence database. The range of the quantization indices (or differential indices) for Huffman coding is identified. For each value of range, all the input signal which have the same range will be gathered and the probability distribution of each value of the quantization indices (or differential indices) within the range is calculated. For each value of range, one Huffman table is designed according to the probability. And in order to improve the bits efficiency of the Huffman coding, apparatus and methods to reduce the range of the quantization indices (or differential indices) are also introduced.
US09881622B2	Methods and systems for generating and rendering object based audio with conditional rendering metadata Methods and audio processing units for generating an object based audio program including conditional rendering metadata corresponding to at least one object channel of the program, where the conditional rendering metadata is indicative of at least one rendering constraint, based on playback speaker array configuration, which applies to each corresponding object channel, and methods for rendering audio content determined by such a program, including by rendering content of at least one audio channel of the program in a manner compliant with each applicable rendering constraint in response to at least some of the conditional rendering metadata. Rendering of a selected mix of content of the program may provide an immersive experience.
US09881620B2	Codebook segment merging Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for compressing an audio signal. According to one representative embodiment, an audio signal that includes quantization indexes, identification of segments of such quantization indexes, and indexes of entropy codebooks that have been assigned to such segments is obtained, with a single entropy codebook index having been assigned to each such segment. Potential merging operations in which adjacent ones of the segments potentially would be merged with each are identified, and bit penalties for the potential merging operations are estimated. At least one of the potential merging operations is performed based on the estimated bit penalties, thereby obtaining a smaller updated set of segments of quantization indexes and corresponding assigned codebooks. The quantization indexes in each of the segments in the smaller updated set are then entropy encoded by using the corresponding assigned entropy codebooks, thereby compressing the audio signal.
US09881619B2	Audio processing for an acoustical environment An apparatus for detecting a sound in an acoustical environment includes a microphone array configured to detect an audio signal in the acoustical environment. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to determine an angular location of a sound source of the audio signal. The angular location is relative to the microphone array. The processor is also configured to determine at least one reverberation characteristic of the audio signal. The processor is further configured to determine a distance, relative to the microphone array, of the sound source along an axis associated with the angular location based on the at least one reverberation characteristic.
US09881614B1	Method and system for real-time summary generation of conversation The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for summary generation of a real-time conversation. The method includes receiving a real-time conversation from a plurality of computing devices over a communication network. The method further includes determining one or more first features of the real-time conversation between at least a first user and a second user. The method further includes extracting one or more second features from the one or more first features, based on one or more pre-defined criteria. The method further includes generating a summary content of the real-time conversation, based on at least the extracted one or more second features and one or more annotations associated with the determined one or more first features by use of one or more trained classifier. Further, the method includes rendering the generated summary content on a user interface displayed on at least one of the plurality of computing devices.
US09881613B2	Privacy-preserving training corpus selection The present disclosure relates to training a speech recognition system. A system that includes an automated speech recognizer and receives data from a client device. The system determines that at least a portion of the received data is likely sensitive data. Before the at least a portion of the received data is deleted, the system provides the at least a portion of the received data to a model training engine that trains recognition models for the automated speech recognizer. After the at least a portion of the received data is provided, the system deletes the at least a portion of the received data.
US09881607B2	Command and control of devices and applications by voice using a communication base system A first communication path for receiving a communication is established. The communication includes speech, which is processed. A speech pattern is identified as including a voice-command. A portion of the speech pattern is determined as including the voice-command. That portion of the speech pattern is separated from the speech pattern and compared with a second speech pattern. If the two speech patterns match or resemble each other, the portion of the speech pattern is accepted as the voice-command. An operation corresponding to the voice-command is determined and performed. The operation may perform an operation on a remote device, forward the voice-command to a remote device, or notify a user. The operation may create a second communication path that may allow a headset to join in a communication between another headset and a communication device, several headsets to communicate with each other, or a headset to communicate with several communication devices.
US09881590B2	Method and apparatus for multi-resolution point of interest boundary identification in digital map rendering A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for multi-resolution point of interest boundary identification in digital map rendering. A method is provided for receiving a point of interest selection indication. The method also includes receiving point of interest boundary data and map data associated with the selected point of interest from a memory. The boundary data is based on the physical shape of the structure or region associated with the point of interest. The method also includes overlaying point of interest boundary data on the map data; and causing the map data with point of interest boundary data overlay to be displayed on a user interface.
US09881588B2	Apparatus and method for preparing, storing, transmitting and displaying images An imaging and display apparatus for passive displays evaluates the illumination of an input scene and incorporates data representative of such input scene within a transfer media. The transfer media may be a broadcast or transmission of image data, illumination data and gamma information that can be received by a display system, which includes a passive display illuminated by incident light, to display images while adjusting the incident light and/or gamma based on the received data to reduce energy requirements, to increase contrast or shades of gray in the displayed image, and to optimize light source operation for color fidelity. The data may be provided as a video signal, modulated video signal, s-video signal, digital signal, or other signal that can be used by a passive display system to display images.
US09881586B2	Utilizing heuristics to enable self-adjusting displays Systems and methods for self-adjusting displays are provided. A self-adjusting display may receive a display characteristics shift profile, where the display characteristics shift profile can be generated based on calibration event data collected from a plurality of displays. The display characteristics shift profile can be utilized as an estimate or prediction of a shift in display characteristics the self-adjusting display may experience over time. The self-adjusting display may calculate adjustment factors or curves to compensate for the estimated/predicted shift in display characteristics to lessen or altogether eliminate the need for performing actual calibration on the self-adjusting display.
US09881585B2	Display device In a display device, a timing controller is configured to transfer first display data and part of second display data to a first source driver via a first data transfer line at a high transfer frequency, and to transfer the remaining part of the second display data to a second source driver via the first data transfer line at a low transfer frequency, and the first source driver is configured to transfer the received part of the second display data to the second source driver via a second data transfer line.
US09881584B2	System and method for presenting content within virtual reality environment Systems and methods for presenting two-dimensional (2D) content within a virtual reality (VR) presentation are disclosed. Some embodiments include providing the VR presentation to a user, receiving information of the 2D content for display during the VR presentation from an external source and obtaining location information related to a display location within the VR presentation for displaying the 2D content. The 2D content may be displayed at the display location based on the received information and the location information, wherein the display location corresponds to a 2D display rendered within the VR presentation.
US09881583B2	Multifunctional operating device for displaying a remote application in a vehicle In a method and devices, data for the display of an application on a screen is provided. In addition, information with regard to a degree of distraction of the application, e.g., information regarding user-interface elements, and/or information regarding a degree of distraction of a driver of a vehicle (110) is provided. As a function of this information and a driving situation of the vehicle, it is decided whether the application will be displayed on the screen.
US09881569B2	Image display apparatus and control method thereof An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes a light-emitting unit, a display unit configured to display an image on a screen by modulating light from the light-emitting unit based on image data, a first acquiring unit configured to acquire brightness information on brightness of the image data, an image-processing unit configured to perform image processing on input image data, a second acquiring unit configured to acquire processing information on the image processing, and a control unit configured to control emission brightness of the light-emitting unit based on the brightness information and the processing information, so as to suppress a change in contrast of an image, which is displayed on the screen, caused by the image processing.
US09881560B2	Image-capture apparatus controlling display at photographing time, image-capture control method, and non-transistory computer-readable recording medium An image-capture unit of an image-capture apparatus captures an image of a subject. A display unit can be disposed in a range where emission light from the display unit reaches the subject whose image is captured by the image-capture unit and can display the image using the emission light. An emission light control unit executes control for changing at least one of a display content and a display state of an image displayed on the display unit at a time of photographing in consideration of an influence of the emission light (irradiation light) from the display unit on a photographing state of the subject.
US09881559B2	Gate drive circuit and display device An embodiment of the present invention discloses a gate drive circuit comprising several stages of unit circuits, wherein each unit circuit comprises: a high level terminal, a low level terminal, a first clock terminal, a second clock terminal, a gate output terminal, a logic turn-on input terminal, a logic turn-on output terminal, a control module, a first gating module and a second gating module. An embodiment of the present invention also provides a display device comprising the gate drive circuit. A gate drive circuit with interlaced output is realized, ensuring no suspended state in time sequence between interlaced lines, while maintaining an original dual time sequence (i.e., eliminating suspended state between interlaced lines, and ensuring a stable output of the shifting register).
US09881558B2	Display device including data scaler and method for driving the same A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a control unit configured to scale image data provided from the outside based on an image load factor and to output the scaled image data, and a data driver configured to supply data signals corresponding to the scaled image data to a plurality of data lines connected to the pixels, wherein the control unit includes a load factor calculating unit configured to calculate a load factor of the image data; and a data scaler configured to scale a gray level of the image data based on a scaling ratio corresponding to a load factor.
US09881557B2	Display device and control device The present invention provides a display device comprising: a display panel including data lines, gate lines, a sub-pixel formed in every point where the gate lines and the data lines cross, and a sensing line formed in every sub-pixel row or every two or more sub-pixel rows, the sensing line being connected to a circuit in the sub-pixel row; a data driving unit that provides a data voltage to the data lines; an Analog Digital Converter (ADC) that converts a sensing voltage measured through a sensing channel corresponding to each sensing line into sensing data of a digital type; and a timing controller that controls the data driving unit, and performs a pixel compensation which changes data provided to a corresponding sub-pixel based on the sensing data, and when the sensing data is abnormal, changes the data provided to the corresponding sub-pixel based on previous sensing data.
US09881554B2	Driving method of pixel circuit and driving device thereof Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a technical field of display technology, and provide a driving method for a pixel circuit and a driving device thereof. A problem of cost increase can be solved which is caused by an increase in a number of storages when adjustment is made by way of Gamma curve and table lookup, by means of the technical solutions according to embodiments of the present disclosure. The driving method of the pixel circuit includes acquiring brightness information of a display screen in a light-emitting phase (S101); determining a duty cycle of a pulse signal according to the brightness information (S102); inputting a high level to the first voltage terminal, and inputting the pulse signal with the duty cycle to a gate of the first switching transistor by the first gate line (S103).
US09881553B2	OLED drive system raising frame contrast and drive method An OLED drive system raising a frame contrast and a drive method are disclosed. The OLED display panel is equally divided into a plurality of display divisions along a vertical direction. The brightness calculation module is employed to calculate average pixel brightnesses corresponding to the respective display divisions in the OLED display panel. On one hand, the power management module is employed to supply different reference voltages for the respective display divisions correspondingly according to the average pixel brightnesses of the respective display divisions in the OLED display panel, and respectively insert the reference voltages of the respective display divisions into reference voltage lines corresponding to the pixels of middle rows in the display divisions to make the reference voltages of the respective display divisions be different for raising the frame contrast.
US09881542B2	Gate driver on array (GOA) circuit cell, driver circuit and display panel Disclosed is a GOA circuit cell, comprising a GOA registering module having a shift register unit and a GOA output module having a digital logic circuit. An current-stage excitation pulse, a second additional clock signal, a first clock signal and a second clock signal are provided to the digital logic circuit, such that only during a first half pulse width of the current-stage excitation pulse, a first gate line driving pulse corresponding to a first half cycle of the first clock signal is output at a first current-stage output terminal, and a second gate line driving pulse corresponding to a second half cycle of the second clock signal is output at a second current-stage output terminal. It also discloses a GOA circuit formed by cascading the GOA circuit cell and a display panel comprising the driver circuit.
US09881538B2	Display system and method for driving pixels of the display system A display system includes a sub-pixel rendering unit, a detection unit, a compensation unit, and a data re-arrangement unit. The sub-pixel rendering unit is configured to generate first pixel values for pixels according to a video signal. The detection unit is configured to detect whether at least one of predetermined conditions is present in a content of the video signal, so as to generate a control code. The compensation unit is configured to generate a second pixel values for the pixels according to the video signal and the control code. The data re-arrangement unit is configured to selectively output at least one of the first pixel values and the second pixel values to the pixels according to the control code.
US09881537B2	Display panel and flat panel display apparatus with transmission lines for connecting gate lines to control circuit A display panel comprises: a set of gate lines; and a set of data lines and a set of transmission lines extending in substantially the same direction, the set of transmission lines being electrically connected to the set of gate lines, respectively. A flat panel display apparatus comprises: a set of gate lines; a set of data lines and a set of transmission lines extending in substantially the same direction, the set of transmission lines being electrically connected to the set of gate lines, respectively; and a control circuit electrically connected to the set of data lines and the set of transmission lines.
US09881529B2	Display device and operating method thereof A display device and an operating method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display module for providing an original image, a optical component, a sensing module, and a control module. The optical component is for projecting a translating image of the original image and includes a first LC GRIN lens array, and a second LC GRIN lens array arranged parallel to the first LC GRIN lens array. The control module is for receiving an object information from the sensing module and adjusting the translating image by applying a first bias arrangement to the first LC GRIN lens array and a second bias arrangement to the second LC GRIN lens array according to the object information.
US09881521B2	Manikin sensing pads and liners in an AED training system An improved AED training pad and liner assembly is provided with an electrical lead connection supported on the training pad. The improved training pad has an adhesive surface and a contact surface. The liner has an engagement surface for repeated adhesive engagement with a portion of the training pad adhesive surface during storage of the assembly. The training pad adhesive surface has an electrical switch supported on the adhesive surface and interconnected with the electrical lead connection. The improved liner has a recess positioned for engagement adjacent the electrical switch to prevent activation of the electrical switch by the liner during storage of the assembly when the pad and liner are adhered together.
US09881514B2	Display device for practice of keyboard instrument diagrammed with black keys as markers In the present invention, images of a keyboard can be efficiently input into a learner's brain by using a display device in which two kinds of parallel black keys on a keyboard instrument are diagrammed as marker figures which are a substantially n-shaped figure and a substantially m-shaped figure, and the positions of pressed keys are plotted onto the marker figures. The display device can be configured using, for example, printed matter (e.g., a sheet or a card), a font set, an electronic display, and a three-dimensional object, and is provided as a sheet for writing music, performance or practice sheet music, learning cards, or a three-dimensional mimic keyboard. Altogether, provided is a novel music education method based on the images of a keyboard.
US09881513B2	System and method for simulating real-time visualizable electronic warfare Disclosed herein is a system and method for simulating real-time visualizable electronic warfare. The system includes a location calculation unit for calculating location coordinates of the aircraft and the missile for each frame according to a display frame rate, a display unit for visualizing, for each frame, movement of the aircraft and the missile depending on the location coordinates thereof, a precise tracking unit for, when a relative distance between the aircraft and the missile is less than a dangerous distance, dividing an interval between a current frame and a subsequent frame into sub-intervals based on the display frame rate, and sampling locations of the aircraft and the missile, and a proximity fuse control unit for processing the missile to explode when a relative distance between sampled locations of the aircraft and the missile, is less than or equal to a maximum explosible distance of a proximity fuse of the missile.
US09881507B2	Turbulence detection and monitoring A turbulence detection and monitoring system may include a data processing system configured to collect and analyze motion-related sensor data from a plurality of personal electronic devices onboard an aircraft in flight. The personal electronic devices may communicate with the data processing system at least in part via an onboard wireless network.
US09881505B2	Method and electronic device of control of messages exchanged between an aircraft and a ground station, associated computer program product A method and electronic device for control of messages exchanged between an aircraft and a ground station, and associated computer program product are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes acquiring a message, extracting descriptive data from the acquired message, and determining the identifier of the acquired message. If the identifier of the acquired message corresponds to a shared identifier of the messages of a dialog in progress, the method includes associating that acquired message with that dialog. If not, the method includes associating the acquired message with a new dialog. The method further includes determining the position of a symbol corresponding to the dialog associated with the acquired message, the position being determined based on the type and start date of this dialog, the symbol being configured to be displayed in a display zone of the symbols corresponding to the different dialogs.
US09881502B2	Method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle A method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle during a driving maneuver, which includes the following: (a) detecting data regarding the surroundings of the motor vehicle, analyzing the captured data for detecting objects, and visually displaying the detected objects, (b) selecting at least one of the detected objects by the driver of the motor vehicle, (c) determining the smallest distance between the motor vehicle and the at least one selected object, (d) outputting information to the driver of the motor vehicle about the smallest distance between the at least one selected object and the motor vehicle. Further described is a device for carrying out the method.
US09881495B1	Duplication method for a remote control operating in radio frequency and remote control thus obtained In one embodiment, a duplication method is provided for a remote control operating in radio frequency and capable to remotely control an electrical device by the pressure of at least one control key or button. The remote control comprises at least one memory, a transceiver and a microprocessor capable of executing a program for implementing: enabling the clone remote control to a duplication phase by pressing said control key and simultaneously pressing a programming key for a predetermined number of times; releasing the said control and programming keys; approaching the emitting ends of an original remote to be duplicated and the clone remote control in the duplication phase; pressing for a predetermined period of time a key of the original remote control, allowing said microprocessor to receive via the transceiver the working frequency and the code transmitted from the original remote control by means of a recognition and/or emulation procedure of the transmitted code; pressing for a predetermined period of time a key of the clone remote control to which assign the same function of said key of the original remote control; storing in said memory said working frequency, the recognized code and the assigned key; starting a control procedure that provides for the transmission of the recognized or emulated code toward the electrical device to be controlled; confirming the storage of said recognized or emulated code also on the electrical device to be controlled, if the control procedure has succeeded.
US09881488B2	Method and system for locating a wireless tracking device associated with a network of alarm panels A wireless tracking device can operate in two or more modes in connection with determining location of the wireless tracking device. In one mode, the wireless tracking device can determine location by establishing communication with an alarm panel using a short-range transceiver. The alarm panel can have a location that is known at the alarm panel or at a remote server, for example. In another mode, the wireless tracking device can utilize a location detector, such as a GPS receiver or a short-range receiver, to determine location of the wireless tracking device.
US09881487B2	Emergency detection mechanism An embodiment of the invention may include a method, a computer program product and a computer system for assessing interactions towards an electronic device. The embodiment may include a computing device that monitors a pattern of actions of a first user, where the first user is associated with a first electronic device. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines that at least one action from the first user indicates the first user is undergoing an aggressive act. The embodiment may include a computing device that responds to the aggressive act by: communicating results of the determination that the first pattern matches the data pattern to a second electronic device; and/or sending information detailing a command to activate a device component of one or both of the first electronic device and a third electronic device.
US09881480B2	Mobile device loss prevention A system or computer usable program product for a mobile device to prevent loss including monitoring environmental parameters by a mobile device; storing the environmental parameters in the mobile device to form a history of the environmental parameters; applying statistical analysis to a current set of environmental parameters as compared to the history of the environmental parameters to determine a probability that the mobile device is lost; and responsive to determining the probability that the mobile device is lost exceeds a threshold, performing an action to prevent loss of the mobile device.
US09881479B2	Method and apparatus for the detection and notification of the presence of a liquid Systems and methods for providing remote notifications upon the detection of certain conditions. In one embodiment, a device comprising a housing, a power unit, a liquid sensor, and a communications unit detects the presence of a liquid and initiates an alert notification that is transmitted to a remote device.
US09881477B2	Device having a sensor for sensing an object and a communicator for coupling the sensor to a determiner for determining whether a subject may collide with the object An embodiment of a device includes a sensor and a communicator. The sensor is configured to be attached to a body portion of a subject, to sense an object, and to generate information related to the object. The communicator is configured to provide the information to a determiner-notifier that is configured to determine, in response to the information, if the body portion may contact the object, and to generate a notification in response to determining that the body portion may contact the object. Such a device (e.g., attached to, or part of, a shoe) may be useful to warn a subject of a potential collision between an object (e.g., stairs, furniture, door jamb, curb, toy) and a body part (e.g., foot, toes) in which the subject has lost feeling, the ability to feel pain, or proprioception. And such a warning may help the subject to avoid inadvertently and repeatedly injuring the body part.
US09881468B2	Audio and tactile signal generation by a display apparatus An apparatus comprising: a timing difference processor configured to determine a timing difference between an audio signal and an associated tactile signal, and further configured to delay at least one of the audio signal and associated tactile signal dependent on the timing difference; and at least one feedback processor configured to output the audio signal and associated tactile signal, at least one of the audio signal and associated tactile signal having been delayed dependent on the timing difference.
US09881466B2	Annular light system A beacon or annular light generator assembly includes a top cover and an associated bottom cover centered on a vertical axis with a ring of light-emitting elements situated between the top and bottom covers. Upper and lower reflectors are integrated into the lower side of the top cover and into the upper side of the lower cover. These reflectors are surfaces of rotation, about the vertical axis, of a horizontal parabola whose focus lies substantially on the ring of light-emitting elements. A cylindrical collimating lens lies radially outside the ring of light-emitting elements, and concentrates the center portion of the light onto the horizontal plane. Light outside the center portion is redirected by the upper and lower reflectors parallel to the horizontal plane. A multiple array may be formed of two or more such annular light generator assemblies stacked upon one another.
US09881464B2	Core module for an automated transaction machine A core module for an Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) includes a housing including a plurality of cassette bays, a first document delivery system, and a second document delivery system. The first document delivery system is capable of transporting a document between the cassette and the second document delivery system via a first transport path. The second document delivery system is capable of transporting a document between the first document delivery system and an other ATM location via a second transport path.
US09881463B2	Gaming machine arranging symbols Provided is a gaming machine which does not bore the player through reel actions until completion of rearrangement of symbols. Under the condition where predetermined symbols are aligned on a payline when the symbols of a first scroll line of at least one of a plurality of scroll lines are being scrolled and symbols on the remaining second scroll lines are stopped, the gaming machine changes scrolling motion of symbols of the first scroll line.
US09881456B2	Sponsored hybrid systems An electronic game machine allowing for a sponsored hybrid system includes: a real world controller coupled to a game world controller over a network, the real world controller constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits; an entertainment software controller coupled to the game world controller, wherein the entertainment software controller is configured to execute an entertainment game; and the game world controller coupled to the entertainment software controller, a non-player interface, and the real world controller by the network, wherein the game world controller is constructed to: access a database containing a player profile of the player and a sponsor profile of a non-player; receive from the non-player interface, sponsorship terms involving allocation of gameplay resources during sponsored gameplay of the hybrid game; allocate gameplay resources associated with the sponsor profile to the player profile based on the sponsorship terms; and allocate gameplay resources resulting from a payout of gameplay resources.
US09881455B2	Fueling game devices, systems, and methods A game of accuracy and method for playing the same at a fuel pump comprising one or more players dispensing fuel or energy with the object of stopping the fuel pump's metering mechanism at a predetermined value. Exemplary embodiments of the game comprise a fuel pump, a metering mechanism for measuring the quantity of fuel or energy dispensed, a controller coupled with the fuel pump for starting and stopping the flow of fuel or energy therethrough, and a processor in communication with the metering mechanism. The method of playing comprises selecting a goal outcome, one or more players dispensing fuel or energy with the object of dispensing an amount of fuel or energy that corresponds with the goal outcome, and providing the one or more players with a prize in the event the amount of fuel or energy dispensed corresponds with the goal outcome.
US09881447B2	Social collaboration in community casino game offered as player incentive Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for enhancing social collaboration in an online casino game. One method includes an operation for receiving bets from players playing in a first gambling mode in an online gambling room. The method also includes an operation for determining contributions to a community metric based on the outcomes of the bets, where all players in the online gambling room contribute towards the community metric. After detecting that the community metric reaches a predetermined goal, the online casino game enters all players in the online gambling room into a second gambling mode to achieve a room goal, where the value of the community metric does not change while players are in the second gambling mode.
US09881444B2	Method and apparatus for offering a mobile device version of an electronic gaming machine game at the electronic gaming machine A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. When a Player surpasses predetermined game play parameters on a game of an EGM, a bonus game or related game material may be “unlocked” and offered to the Player for download onto the Player's Portable Electronic Device (PED). Upon installation, the game or content may be viewed or played on their PED at a later time and at their leisure.
US09881438B2	Method and system for printing stock anti-counterfeiting by means of feature image A method for printing stock anti-counterfeiting by using a feature image and a corresponding system is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a feature code for identifying a printing stock by recognizing a first feature of the feature image printed on the printing stock; searching for pre-recorded first anti-counterfeiting information of the printing stock; obtaining second anti-counterfeiting information of the printing stock by recognizing a second feature of the feature image printed on the printing stock; and comparing whether a similarity between the second anti-counterfeiting information and the first anti-counterfeiting information reaches a first match threshold value to determine whether the printing stock is true or false. The first anti-counterfeiting information is embodied as a distinguishable material feature of the printing stock in a feature image region or features of color, shape and position of the image printed in the feature image region.
US09881437B2	Money reception device In one embodiment, a money reception device has a storage device, a reject device, and a control device. The reject device rejects money which has been judged not to be a normal coin, out of received coins. After the money has been rejected, when storage of the money to be received again in the storage device is permitted, the control device controls the reject device so that the money to be received again is not rejected.
US09881435B2	Site based clustered anti-pass back security system and method Site based clustered APB security systems and methods are provided. Some systems can include a first plurality of access controllers located at a first site, a second plurality of access controllers located at a second site, and a host system supporting each of the first and second plurality of access controllers. A triggering event at a first of the first plurality of access controllers can cause the first of the first plurality of access controllers to transmit a triggering signal to the host system. Responsive thereto, the host system can identify the remaining access controllers in the first plurality of access controllers, transmit a status update to the remaining access controllers in the first plurality of access controllers, and avoid transmitting the status update to the second plurality of access controllers.
US09881428B2	Analysis of vehicle data to predict component failure Vehicle data may be analyzed to predict potential component failures, diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs), or other mechanical failures relating to the vehicle. In one implementation the vehicle data may be received from a number of vehicles, the vehicle data including DTCs generated by on-board diagnostic (OBD) systems of the vehicles. The vehicle data may be evaluated using a predictive model to output predictions of DTCs that are likely to occur for a particular vehicle.
US09881425B1	Synchronized side-by-side display of real and virtual environments Systems and methods that enable the synchronized display of both “as-built” and “as-designed” representations and automated data updates of a target object of interest (e.g., specific line number aircraft). More specifically, the process allows users to display a panoramic image captured for a reference environment, and then display a visualization of the corresponding 3-D model at the same viewpoint. Interprocess communication between a panoramic image viewer application and a 3-D model visualization application provides the ability to synchronize viewpoints, fields-of-view and other display features.
US09881421B2	Image processing An image processing method for a head mounted display device is provided, operable in respect of an image generated for display by the head mountable display device according to at least one of an initial position or orientation of a viewpoint. The method includes detecting one or both of a current position or orientation of the head mountable display device depending upon a display time at which the image is to be displayed. The method further includes processing the image using pixel position mappings in which at least a subset of pixels of the image are displaced by respective pixel displacements dependent upon a difference between at least one of the initial position and the detected current position, or the initial orientation and the detected current orientation at the time at which the image is to be displayed.
US09881420B2	Inferential avatar rendering techniques in augmented or virtual reality systems An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
US09881415B2	Generating point clouds Presented are embodiments for the generation of point clouds on a surface. A surface is described by a mathematical function. The surface may be subdivided into a plurality of patches, a plurality of triangles, or a plurality of rectangles, inter alia. A plurality of points are calculated and distributed among the patches, triangles, or rectangles comprising the surface. Generation of such point clouds may be useful in rendering N-dimensional surfaces for display or output on computer display or output devices.
US09881411B2	Profiling ray tracing renderers A profiler for a ray tracing renderer interfaces with the renderer to collect rendering information, such as ray definition information, a pixel origin, objects hit, shader invocation, and related rays. In an interface, an artist views a simplified 3-D scene model and a rendered 2-D image. A pixel in the 2-D image is selectable; the profiler responds by populating the simplified 3-D scene with rays that contributed to that pixel. Rays can be displayed in the simplified 3-D scene to visually convey information about characteristics of each ray, such as whether the ray intersected an object, portions of the scene where it is occluded, and a direction. Statistics can be produced by the profiler that convey information such as relative computational complexity to render particular pixels. The profiler can step through multiple passes (e.g., multiple frames and passes of a multipass rendering), and the UI can allow pausing and stepping.
US09881410B2	Medical diagnostic imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image generating method A medical diagnostic imaging apparatus according to embodiments includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry stores therein volume data concerning a three-dimensional region inside an object. The processing circuitry calculates an index value concerning a region of interest in the volume data, and generates a first medical image and a second medical image based on the index value. The respective positions in the first medical image and the second medical image are associated with each other by a certain coordinate conversion. The region of interest is divided into a plurality of first regions by a first boundary position. The second medical image is divided into a plurality of second regions by a second boundary position that is not altered in accordance with the alteration of the first boundary position.
US09881406B2	Image processing using detection signal represents a movement speed of the image processing terminal, the number of movements of the image processing terminal, and an acceleration of the image processing terminal An image processing program for causing a computer to execute: a procedure for obtaining a first image; a procedure for obtaining a second image; a procedure for changing at least a part of the second image in accordance with a signal; and a procedure for processing the first image using the changed second image. The second image is at least one of a handwritten image, a letter image, and a selected image, and the signal is used in a process which splashes the second image in a procedure which changes at least a part of the second image.
US09881405B2	Image processor for producing an image on an irregular surface in a wearable device Solutions for producing an image on an irregular surface are described. A graphical object is identified from an image to be displayed on the irregular surface. Objects according to at least one shape function are distorted to compensate for irregularities in the irregular surface. Previously-distorted instances of objects may be added to a distortion-compensated image.
US09881390B2	Method and apparatus for processing image data Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing image data, the method including: generating a first window and a second window; loading preview image data in the first window; acquiring at least one of a feature image, current time information and geographical location information; loading at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information in the second window; and when receiving a generation instruction of the image data, embedding the at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information into generated target image data according to a first coordinate position, the first coordinate position being a coordinate of the at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information in the second window relative to the preview image data. The embodiments of the present disclosure achieve automation of post processing of the image data, greatly increase simplicity of operation, lower the operation threshold, and reduce the processing time.
US09881389B1	Data compression for visual elements A machine is configured to perform data compression or data decompression with respect to visual elements, such as two-dimensional pixels of an image or three-dimensional voxels of a hologram. The machine accesses a set of visual elements and performs compression on the set by generating a bounded volume hierarchy of nodes. After the bounded volume hierarchy has been generated, with or without modification, the machine provides a compressed version of the set by providing at least a portion of the bounded volume hierarchy. The same machine or another machine accesses a compressed first representation of the set by accessing at least part of the bounded volume hierarchy. The machine may perform partial decompression of the first representation by generating a second representation of the set, based on only a portion of the bounded volume hierarchy. The machine then causes rendering and display of the second representation.
US09881385B2	Method and apparatus for counting and aggregating a pre-determined number of articles A method for counting and aggregating a pre-determined number of articles includes: driving, by a conveyor, an article stream to move to an end of the conveyor in a single layer state; conveying the article stream in a periodic motion; after the articles in the article stream leave the conveyor, accurately counting the number of the articles; and when a total number of articles in a combination of temporary storage bin is the same as a target number, transporting all articles in the combination of temporary storage bin to a storage device. Article batches are separately delivered to different temporary storage bins, and the total number of articles in temporary storage bins in different combinations is calculated, so as to obtain with a combination in which the number of articles is the same as the target number. The operation efficiency is improved and the manufacturing cost of device is reduced.
US09881383B2	Laser projection system with motion compensation and method A method of accurately projecting a laser image pattern on a work surface and continuously compensating for relative dynamic movement between the laser and the work surface, including establishing a position of the camera in three dimensions relative to the work surface by locating the targets in the camera image, establishing a position of the laser relative to the work surface utilizing the fixed position of the laser relative to the camera, and using a computer to continuously adjust the rotation of the laser projector mirrors in response to dynamic movement of the laser projector relative to the work surface as determined by the camera. In one embodiment, the computer continuously tracks at least two prior locations of the laser projector relative to the work surface and predicts the next location of the laser, compensating for movement of the laser relative to the work surface.
US09881379B2	Self-localization device and movable body A self-localization device including a storage unit that associates and stores a plurality of reference images and imaging positions of the plurality of respective reference images and an operation unit that periodically estimates a self-location of a movable body based on information obtained from a sensor included in the movable body, wherein the operation unit determines, when estimation of the self-location fails, a moving distance from a latest self-location obtained from successful estimation of the self-location before the estimation fails using the information from the sensor and extracts a plurality of the reference images belonging to a range of the moving distance from the latest self-location and searches the plurality of extracted reference images for images similar to a current image captured by an imaging device included in the movable body to estimate the self-location of the movable body.
US09881374B2	Method for establishing prediction model based on multidimensional texture of brain nuclear magnetic resonance images Disclosed is a method for establishing a prediction model based on a multidimensional texture of brain nuclear magnetic resonance images. Images are segmented using a region growing method, a contourlet transform method is used to extract an edge texture feature parameter of ROIs, a multidimensional database is established, and a prediction model is established using various data mining methods, comprising a Gaussian process, a support vector machine, a random forest, a Lasso regression and a semi-supervised support vector machine. The ROIs comprise a hippocampus region and an entorhinal cortex region.
US09881368B2	Disease diagnostic apparatus, image processing method in the same apparatus, and medium storing program associated with the same method The invention provides an image processing method in a diagnostic apparatus of diagnosing a disease using a captured image of an affected area, comprising the steps of: (i) separating the captured image memorized into a brightness component and a color information component (Step S131); (ii) separating the brightness component into a base component and a detail component (Step S132); (iii) performing a highlighting process on the base component and/or the detail component (Step S133-S140); and (iv) restoring a brightness component from a highlighted base component and the detail component, and/or from the base component and a highlighted detail component, and using the restored brightness component and the color information component to generate a highlighted image (Step S141).
US09881364B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium for image enhancement An image processing apparatus includes a reflectivity image generation unit that generates a reflectivity image in which a reflectivity component of an original image is used as a pixel value, from the original image, a determining unit that determines a degree of maintenance of at least one of a dark part and a bright part of the original image using the original image and a degree of enhancement of the reflectivity component of the original image and an enhancement image generation unit that generates an enhancement image in which the reflectivity component of the original image is enhanced using the reflectivity image, the degree of enhancement, and the degree of maintenance.
US09881359B2	Video communication method and system in instant communication A video communication method and system implementing video communication between a first user and a second user in instant communication are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a request for video communication; determining whether to perform a blurred processing on a video image of the first user; and if affirmative, performing the blurred processing on the video image of the first user such that a blurred video image of the first user is displayed on a video dialog window of the second user. Using the present disclosure, convenient online interactions via video communication may be achieved while ensuring that respective privacies of users are not overly exposed.
US09881350B2	System and method for embedding data In one embodiment, a watermark is embedded in a sequence of video frames, for each one of the video frames, a set of N rectangular patches, two palettes of pixel values in a selected color space, such that the two palettes are denoted as P0 and P1, and P0≠P1, and in each one of the N patches a processor which chooses one of P0 and P1 according to a value of a payload bit to be encoded, a calculator which calculates one of a variance of pixel values in the frame, and edginess for the pixel values in the frame, thereby determining a calculated value, and a processor which determines if the calculated value is beneath a given threshold value, if the calculated value is beneath the given threshold value the processor is operative to calculate a function of the pixel values, the closest value to a result of the calculation of the function in the chosen palette is chosen, and a replacer which replaces the pixel values within the patch with the chosen closest value. Related systems, apparatus and methods are also described.
US09881341B1	Systems and methods for customizing insurance System and methods provide customizable insurance according to consumer preferences. Demand simulators guide the creation of optimized packages of features, which consumers may select from to form an insurance product appropriate for their particular needs. Packages may be formed with a particular appeal to consumers with common needs, wants, or characteristics. In addition, methods and systems are provided for presenting insurance products for consideration by customers over a network. Presented insurance products may be formed through an optimization process or according to customer preferences.
US09881337B2	Systems and methods for providing seamless transitions between graphical images on a binary options interface Methods, apparatus and article of manufactures for providing seamless transitions between graphical images on a binary options interface. An user-input is received on a touch-sensitive display of the binary options interface. The user-input corresponds to a request for a transformation of a graphical image that is displayed on the binary options interface. The binary options interface is integrated into a mobile device. In response to the user-input, an updated graphical image is generated. The updated graphical image is displayed to replace the graphical image on the binary options interface. The graphical image to the updated graphical image comprises a continuously displayed image.
US09881330B2	System, method and graphical user interface for managing contacts and calendars within an online card system A system, a method, and a user interface are described for personalizing and sending stationery/cards. A reminder list on the user interface includes a list of reminder entries each identifying an upcoming event including events generated based on a specified relationship between the user and one or more contacts of the user. A recommendation region is populated one or more recommended stationery/card designs associated with one of the entries in the reminder list. A stationery/card personalization engine provides the user with a set of personalization options related to the selected stationery/card design, and generates personalized stationery based on the selected stationery/card design and the user input.
US09881320B2	Targeting customer segments Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for targeting segments of customers. A system maps users to targeting segments based on a respective purchase history of the users, and receives a segment identifier from a server, the segment identifier to be associated with a targeting segment from the targeting segments for anonymously identifying the targeting segment. Next, the system associates the segment identifier with the targeting segment and users mapped to the targeting segment, and sends, to the server, the segment identifier and unique user identifiers of the users mapped to the targeting segment associated with the segment identifier, the unique user identifiers masking respective identities of the users from the server and the segment identifier masking an identity of the targeting segment associated with the segment identifier. The system then instructs the server to deliver selected invitational content to at least one unique user identifier associated with the segment identifier.
US09881304B2	Risk-based control of application interface transactions An API transaction risk assessment equipment is disclosed that receives an API transaction request through a data network from an application processed by a source node, and generates a risk assessment score based on context information that characterizes the API transaction request. The risk assessment score indicates a level of trustworthiness of the API transaction request for processing by an application on a destination node. The API transaction risk assessment equipment then controls deliverability of the API transaction request through the data network to the destination node for processing based on the risk assessment score. Corresponding methods by API transaction risk assessment equipment are disclosed.
US09881303B2	Systems and methods for implementing automatic payer authentication A system or method may be provided to facilitate automatic user authentication for electronic transactions. In particular, the system or method may automatically authenticate a customer such that the customer may make complete hands free payments without the intervention of the customer or the merchant. The automatic authentication may include a check-in process and a payment authentication process. When a customer enters a designated area of a merchant, a BLE beacon device of the merchant may automatically check the customer in at the designated area of the merchant. After the customer is checked in at the merchant's designated area, the merchant may identify the customer who is about to make a payment from a plurality of other customers who also are checked in at the merchant via Bluetooth proximity and facial recognition in parallel. Thus, the customer may automatically be authenticated to make payments by facial recognition or Bluetooth proximity.
US09881301B2	Conversion tracking of a user across multiple devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for conversion tracking. The method comprises anonymously linking plural identifiers, each identifier associated with a user and specific requesting source. Anonymously linking includes linking different identifiers associated with different requesting sources used by the user to access content. Anonymously linking includes linking the different identifiers using an identifier that does not include any personally identifiable information, and storing impression, click and interaction data for the user in association with respective identifiers. The method further comprises determining that an impression of content to the user has occurred on one of the two different requesting sources and that an interaction, associated with the impression, has been recorded on another of the two different requesting sources, and linking the impression and/or click with the interaction, including charging a sponsor associated with the impression and/or click.
US09881291B2	Operation management apparatus, operation management system, and computer-readable storage medium An operation management apparatus includes a searching unit and a transmitting unit. According to a request from a register terminal, the searching unit searches for operation instruction information to be printed by the register terminal from a storage storing the operation instruction information showing contents of an operation instruction. The transmitting unit transmits to the register terminal print instruction information so that the register terminal prints the operation instruction information searched by the searching unit and confirmation information to notify that the operation instruction information is confirmed or that the contents of the operation instruction shown in the operation instruction information is finished.
US09881275B2	Network inclusion of a networked light bulb A unique identifier may be stored in an RFID chip, a bar code, or other methods of passive storage associated with the networked light bulb. The unique identifier may be accessed while the light bulb is unpowered and before the light bulb is put into service. Information is stored in a database that identifies an association between the unique identifier and a particular network. If the light bulb is put into service, the light bulb may send the unique identifier over the network. A device may receive the unique identifier and query the database for information related to the unique identifier. If the unique identifier is associated with the particular network that the light bulb is connected to, the light bulb may be added as an authorized node on the particular network.
US09881274B2	Utility timers in a food freshness printer A method of adding a plurality of customizable event timers to a food freshness printer or smart printer is disclosed. The customizable event timers are added by the operator for the purpose of sounding an alarm to indicate an elapse in time and/or printing labels at a predetermined interval. When the event timer expires and the user acknowledges the audible tone, the user has the option to restart the timer for the next event or delete the timer. Further, the event timers enable the user to either display a message or print a set of labels when the timer expires.
US09881272B2	Vehicle independent employee/driver tracking and reporting A computer system and method for storing and processing GPS data for a plurality of drivers and vehicles to provide activity reports for fleets of driver and vehicles.
US09881271B2	Software service to facilitate organizational testing of employees to determine their potential susceptibility to phishing scams A software system and service for facilitating organizational testing of employees in order to determine their potential susceptibility to phishing scams is disclosed to evaluate their susceptibility to e-mail and Internet cybercrimes such as phishing. The e-mail addresses of a client organization's employees are provided to the system, a phishing e-mail is created and customized, and a phishing e-mail campaign in which the phishing e-mail message is sent and the responses to the phishing e-mail is monitored, and the results of the e-mail campaign are provided for evaluation. The phishing e-mail may optionally contain attachments and various types of probes and “call home” mechanisms.
US09881269B2	Collaborative infrastructure update scheduling A method, system, and/or computer program product manages update operations for a hardware resource. A time, date, and location of the future meeting for which a predetermined feature from a hardware resource has been designated as being required for the future meeting is retrieved from a calendar. A determination is made as to whether or not the predetermined feature of the hardware resource is scheduled for updating during the time and date of the future meeting at said location. A level of detriment that will occur to the future meeting if the future meeting proceeds without the updating of the predetermined feature from the hardware resource is determined. A schedule for updating the hardware resource is then adjusted according to the level of detriment that will occur to the future meeting if the future meeting proceeds without the updating of the predetermined feature from the hardware resource.
US09881265B2	Method and system for implementing historical trending for business records Disclosed is an improved method, system, and program product to implement a business platform that assigns a server instance and dedicated database to each business customer. A snapshot of data is periodically copied from one or more database tables to a historical table of the dedicated database. Data is retrieved in response to a query from the historical table, enabling historical trending capabilities without affecting a performance of other business customers of the business platform.
US09881263B2	Method and apparatus for deciding path of vehicle A route determining method includes determining a first node which is the closest to a current position, among a plurality of nodes by using a position sensor and moving in a direction of the determined first node, determining a first point included in a radio wave reachable area of the first node by transmitting and receiving data between the moving object and the first node and going through the determined first point, determining a second node which is the closest to the first point by using the position sensor and moving in a direction of the determined second node, and determining a second point included in a radio wave reachable area of the second node by transmitting and receiving the data between the moving object and the second node based on the first node and a position of the first point and going through the second point.
US09881259B2	System and method for estimating and providing dispatchable operating reserve energy capacity through use of active load management An active load management system (ALMS) is utilized to supply operating reserve to a utility. According to one embodiment, the ALMS determines amounts of power stored in power storage devices located at service points within the utility's service area, and stores the stored power data in a repository. The ALMS also determines an amount of available operating reserve based on at least the stored power data. When the utility needs operating reserve, the ALMS receives a request for operating reserve from the utility. The ALMS then manages a flow of power from the power storage devices to a power grid accessible by the utility responsive to the utility's request, taking into account the amount of available operating reserve. Determination of stored power data may be aided by reports received from control devices located at the service points, where the reports indicate amounts of power stored by the power storage devices.
US09881248B2	RFIC module and RFID tag including the same An RFIC chip includes a first input/output terminal and a second input/output terminal and is built into a multilayer substrate. A power feeding circuit includes coil conductors and is built into the multilayer substrate. A first coil conductor includes a first coil end connected to the first input/output terminal, and a second coil conductor includes a second coil end connected to the second input/output terminal. First and second terminal electrodes are connected to one end of the first coil conductor and one end of the second coil conductor, respectively. A first coil portion is disposed in a section extending from the first coil end to the first position and a second coil portion is disposed in a section extending from the second coil end to the second position. The RFIC chip is interposed between the first coil portion and the second coil portion in a planar view of the multilayer substrate.
US09881243B2	Image forming apparatus having deployment configurations An image forming apparatus includes an operation unit that receives an instruction for an operation and executes the operation, and an instruction unit that outputs the instruction to the operation unit. The operation unit includes a configuration storage unit that stores deployment configuration of one or more image forming apparatuses, and an instruction acceptance unit that accepts an instruction for an operation corresponding to the deployment configuration. The instruction unit includes an instruction output unit that receives a designation of an operation, and outputs an instruction for the designated operation to the operation unit, and a configuration reporting unit that, if the designated operation does not correspond to a first deployment configuration stored in the configuration storage unit, reports to the operation unit a second deployment configuration to which the designated operation corresponds, and stores the second deployment configuration in the configuration storage unit, before the instruction is output.
US09881232B2	Viewpoints of a point of interest A method, computer program product, and a computer system is provided. A processor determines a first viewpoint of the point of interest, where the first viewpoint includes a first image group captured from a first location. A processor determines a second viewpoint of the point of interest, where the second viewpoint includes a second image group captured from a second location. A processor determines a first ranking score for the first viewpoint based on the first image group. A processor determines a second ranking score for the second viewpoint based on the second image group. A processor generates a ranked list of the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint based on the first ranking score and the second ranking score.
US09881223B2	Forming scanned composite document with optical character recognition function An embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using an image capture device of an electronic device, image data of a document; processing, using a processor, the image data; the processing including identifying text within the image data to form two or more images into a composite document of the document; and storing, in a memory, data related to the composite document. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09881220B2	Vehicle vision system utilizing communication system A vehicle vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view forwardly of the vehicle, and a control having an image processor. The control is operable to receive wireless communication that is associated with a traffic light ahead of the vehicle, with the wireless communication including a communicated status of the traffic light. The image processor, responsive to processing of captured image data, is operable to determine an imaged status of the traffic light. The control compares the imaged status with the communicated status and, when they correspond, confirms the status of the traffic light ahead of the vehicle. Responsive to a determination that the driver of the vehicle is not properly responding to the confirmed traffic light status, the system generate an alert to the driver of the vehicle and/or applies the brakes of the vehicle.
US09881217B2	Method for detecting crowd density, and method and apparatus for detecting interest degree of crowd in target position A method and an apparatus for detecting an interest degree of a crowd in a target position are disclosed. The interest degree detection method includes projecting a depth image obtained by photographing onto a height-top-view, the depth image including the crowd and the target position; dividing the height-top-view into cells; determining density of the crowd in each cell; determining a moving speed and a moving direction of the crowd in each cell; determining orientation of the crowd in each cell; and determining, based on the density, the moving speed, the moving direction and the orientation of the crowd, the interest degree of the crowd in each cell in the target position. According to this method, the interest degree of the crowd in the target position can be detected accurately, even at a crowded place where it is difficult to detect and track a single person.
US09881215B2	Apparatus and method for identifying a still image contained in moving image contents Apparatus for identifying one or more still images in one or more moving image contents. An identifying unit is configured to identify one or more still images included in the moving image contents having one or more features that closely resemble particular features. A display controller is configured to cause the display on a timeline associated with the moving image contents of the location of an identified still image in at least one of the moving image contents.
US09881213B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle rooftop inspection system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes receiving, by the UAV, flight information describing a job to perform an inspection of a rooftop. A particular altitude is ascended to, and an inspection of the rooftop is performed including obtaining sensor information describing the rooftop. Location information identifying a damaged area of the rooftop is received. The damaged area of the rooftop is traveled to. An inspection of the damaged area of the rooftop is performed including obtaining detailed sensor information describing the damaged area. A safe landing location is traveled to.
US09881210B2	Generating a computer executable chart visualization by annotating a static image A computer executable chart visualization may be generated from a static image of the chart visualization. The static image, a set of pre-defined chart elements, and a portion of the static image that corresponds to a pre-defined chart element may each be identified. A mapping between the portion of the static image and the pre-defined chart elements may be determined, and a visual or logical property of each portion of the static image may be determined. A declarative description of the chart visualization may be generated by setting the visual properties for each of the respective pre-defined chart elements.
US09881206B2	Sports monitoring system and method A sport monitoring system includes a projectile(s), sensor units for one or more players to wear, and a data processing arrangement. The projectiles are useable in a game played by players. Each projectile has a motion sensing arrangement for generating one or more motion-indicative signals, and a data recording arrangement for recording the motion-indicative signals as a function of time. Each sensor unit is provided with a motion sensing arrangement for generating a motion-indicative signal(s), and a data recording arrangement for recording the motion-indicative signals as a function of time. The data processing arrangement receives data pertaining to the motion-indicative signals from at least one of the projectiles and/or at least one of the sensor units. The data processing arrangement performs a temporal correlation of the data to determine one or more periods of time when the projectiles are likely to be spatially closely associated with the players.
US09881198B2	Electronic device and method of registering fingerprint in electronic device An electronic device includes: a fingerprint input unit located in one area of the electronic device to receive a fingerprint of a user; and a controller configured to control a display unit to display information on a fingerprint registration progress situation in correspondence to a plurality of fingerprints that are sequentially input to the fingerprint input unit, determine whether a fingerprint of the user is to be registered according to the fingerprint registration progress situation information, and register a fingerprint of the user by using at least some of the plurality of fingerprints. A fingerprint registration progress situation can be identified when a fingerprint is registered.
US09881197B2	Fingerprint sensing device and method therein for noise detection A capacitive fingerprint sensing device and method therein for noise detection are disclosed. The fingerprint sensing device comprises a plurality of sensing elements, each having a sensing structure and configured to sense a capacitive coupling between the sensing structure and a finger. The fingerprint sensing device further comprises sensing circuitry configured to provide a sensing signal indicative of the capacitive coupling between the finger and the sensing structures and timing circuitry configured to control a timing of a drive signal. The fingerprint sensing device is controllable to operate in a noise-detection mode and in a fingerprint mode. When in the noise-detection mode, the fingerprint sensing device is configured to control the timing circuitry such that a drive signal is provided. The fingerprint sensing device repeatedly senses a capacitive coupling between the finger and at least one sensing structure and provides a time-dependent sensing signal by means of said sensing circuitry.
US09881193B2	Method for reading a two-dimensional code by means of a camera used for three-dimensional optical measurement of objects Disclosed is a method for reading a two-dimensional code (17) by means of a camera (1) used for the three-dimensional optical measurement of an object using triangulation. Said method comprises the steps of placing the camera (1) above the two-dimensional code (17), having a white light source (5) of the camera (1) illuminate the code (17), having the camera (1) capture an image (18) of the code (17), and having an arithmetic unit (6) read data encrypted in the code (17) from the image (18) of the code (17).
US09881186B1	Weak RFID tag signal recovery from collisions RFID readers may be configured to recover weak RFID tag signals from collisions with stronger RFID tag signals. An RFID reader may receive a combined tag response including a strong tag response and a weak tag response. The reader recovers the strong and weak tag responses using source separation. In one example, the reader may recover the strong tag response from the combined tag response and remove the recovered tag response from the combined tag response to form a modified tag response. The reader may then recover the weak tag response from the modified tag response.
US09881185B2	Systems and methods for estimation of a population of passive RFID sensors Systems and methods for providing an estimate of a population of passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) sensors in a coverage area of an RFID reader system are disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of this invention, the contention resolutions or results of each slot in an interrogation receive frame are determined. The contention resolutions are then used to determine the probabilities of different population estimates. A population estimate is then selected as the population based on the probability of the estimate meeting predetermined criteria.
US09881181B2	Device-installation-information distribution apparatus and system A device-installation-information distribution apparatus for distributing device installation information including a function of installing program on an information processing apparatus to enable the information processing apparatus to use a device over a network and a function of configuring operation settings of the program includes a distribution request obtaining unit configured to obtain a distribution request, which is transmitted from the information processing apparatus, requesting to distribute the device installation information, a device-installation-information update unit configured to obtain login information for use in logging into the information processing apparatus at a privilege authorized to install software based on the obtained distribution request and device installation information for the target device and update the device installation information by adding the login information to the device installation information, and a device-installation-information distribution unit configured to transmit the updated device installation information to the information processing apparatus.
US09881178B1	Method and apparatus for protecting sensitive data In accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes a computer processor coupled with a call center device positioned to receive an input communication containing PII data and originating from a telephone caller, wherein the computer processor implements code to suppress at least a portion of the received PII data without requiring a physical interrupt of the input communication so that the received PII data is not conveyed to a call center agent or to a computer of the call center agent.
US09881175B2	Requesting modification rights to a linked file set A computer implemented system and method of sharing files between a link sharer and a link recipient over a network. The method comprises generating, in response to a request by a link sharer, a file sharing link to a file set, where the link does not provide a link recipient the ability to modify the contents of the linked file set. In response to receiving an indication that the generated link has been activated by a link recipient, displaying a representation of the linked file set with a display element configured to send a request for modification rights to the linked file set when activated by the link recipient. In response to receiving the request for modification rights, either automatically granting modification rights to the linked file set or sending notice to the link sharer indicating that the link recipient is requesting modification rights to the linked file set.
US09881172B1	Systems and methods of file tracking and notification In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes monitoring events in relation to files stored at multiple network nodes and, responsive to the monitoring, detecting that a new file has been created from an existing file. The method further includes accessing a stored file-family model of the existing file, the stored file-family model comprising interconnected nodes, wherein the interconnected nodes represent a plurality of overlapping file variants such that one of the interconnected nodes represents the existing file. In addition, the method includes logically connecting the existing file and the new file in the stored file-family model. The method also includes determining a primary file variant in the stored file-family model and, responsive to a determination that the existing file is not the primary file variant, notifying one or more users.
US09881165B2	Security system and method for protecting a vehicle electronic system Security system for protecting a vehicle electronic system by selectively intervening in the communications path in order to prevent the arrival of malicious messages at ECUs, in particular at the safety critical ECUs. The security system includes a filter which prevents illegal messages sent by any system or device communicating over a vehicle communications bus from reaching their destination. The filter may, at its discretion according to preconfigured rules, send messages as is, block messages, change the content of the messages, request authentication or limit the rate such messages can be delivered, by buffering the messages and sending them only in preconfigured intervals.
US09881160B2	Methods for firmware signature A method for installing embedded firmware is provided. The method includes generating one or more firmware file instances and generating one or more digital certificate instances that are separate instances from the firmware file instances. The method includes associating the one or more digital certificate instances with the one or more firmware file instances to facilitate updating signature-unaware modules with signature-aware firmware or to facilitate updating signature-aware modules with signature-unaware firmware.
US09881155B2	System and method for automatic use-after-free exploit detection Systems, methods and media are shown for automatically detecting a use-after-free exploit based attack that involve receiving crash dump data relating to a fault event, determining whether the fault event instruction is a call type instruction and, if so, identifying a UAF attack by checking whether it includes a base address in a first register that stores a pointer to free memory and, if so, generating a UAF alert. In some examples, generating a use-after-free alert includes automatically sending a message that indicates a UAF attack or automatically triggering a system defense to the UAF attack. Some examples may include, for a call type faulting instruction, identifying a UAF attack, checking whether a base address in the first register includes a pointer in a second register to a free memory location associated with the base address.
US09881154B2	Hardware-assisted log protection devices and systems A hardware-assisted technique may protect a system log from attackers, regardless of an attacker's acquired privileges at the host system. In some embodiments, the technique may employ specialized hardware, e.g., in the form of an add-on peripheral card. The hardware may be connected to a commodity server through a standard bus. Said hardware may stores log files from a host system while permitting only read and append operations from the host system. Thus, even if the attacker obtains root privileges at the host system, removal through the host system of logs may be prevented because the asymmetric interface does not support such commands from the host system. In some embodiments, an existing log file storage path at the host system may be maintained, reducing the required change to implement the disclosed techniques within existing server setups. Further, any performance degradation due to the techniques may be small to negligible.
US09881152B2	System for monitoring the unauthorized use of a device The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.
US09881150B2	Method and device for verifying the integrity of platform software of an electronic device A method for verifying the integrity of platform software of an electronic device is provided, the method comprising accessing a module of said platform software, obtaining a signature (S), obtaining a verification key (VK), said verification key (VK) corresponding to a signing key (SK), verifying if said signature (S) was derived by signing said platform software module with said signing key (SK), by using said verification key (VK), and establishing a positive verification of said platform software module if said verification is successful. The invention also provides a method for providing a platform software module to perform the aforementioned method, and a device on which the aforementioned method can be performed.
US09881142B2	Method and apparatus for preventing and investigating software piracy An apparatus, method, and system for curtailing and investigating software piracy is provided. The method includes spawning user applications on a computer without use of a file on the file system. A protected application data source is retrieved by an operating system of the computer from a server and placed into a portion of memory not accessible by at least one application. The operating system also prevents the protected application data source from being written to the file system. In this manner there is no file subject to unauthorized distribution. The protected application data may also be watermarked by ordering at least one of executable functions, function call parameters, and program data according to a license identifier so that any two versions execute the same, but carry an identifier which can be used to trace piracy to the source.
US09881137B2	Golf club fitting apparatus Provided is a fitting apparatus that accurately and objectively determines an optimal swingability index, which is a swingability index of a golf club suited to a golfer. The fitting apparatus is provided with an acquisition unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a measurement value obtained by measuring a swing action of a test club by the golfer with a measurement device. The calculation unit calculates a swing index indicating a feature amount of the swing action, based on the measurement value. The determination unit determines the optimal swingability index, according to a magnitude of the swing index.
US09881133B2	Patient in-the-loop participatory care and monitoring Methods and systems for patient participatory care and monitoring are provided for applications including respiratory care, ECG monitoring, capnography, infusion pump alarm prevention/management, pressure sore prevention, incentive spirometry, consciousness monitoring during sedation, pain management and other care and monitoring modalities. A patient in-the-loop system includes an input interface for receiving data acquired from a monitoring, controlling or sensing device, a storage device for storing the data at a first location, and a processor for analyzing artifacts in the data and determining whether the patient provided a deliberate action with respect to the device as a response to a prompt or query. The processor can further initiate a variety of prompts and/or output queries stored in the storage device at a second location to the patient. The data derived from these patient-in-the-loop techniques are formatted to be received and interpreted by electronic medical record and electronic record keeping systems.
US09881129B1	Method, system, and computer program product for physician efficiency measurement and patient health risk stratification utilizing variable windows for episode creation A method for measuring physician efficiency and patient health risk stratification is disclosed. Episodes of care are formed from medical claims data and an output process is performed. Physicians are assigned to report groups, and eligible physicians and episode assignments are determined. Condition-specific episode statistics and weighted episode statistics are calculated, from which physician efficiency scores are determined.
US09881128B2	Method and a system of healthcare data handling This invention relates to a method of healthcare data handling by a trusted agent possessing or having an access to decryption keys for accessing healthcare data. A request is received from a requestor requesting accessing healthcare data. A log is generated containing data relating to the request or the requestor or both. Finally, the requestor is provided with an access to the healthcare data.
US09881124B2	Rational design of components of the oligo-saccharyltransferase-catalysed asparagine-linked glycosylation The present invention is directed to methods for identifying or designing (a) a potential oligosaccharide donor, (b) a potential oligosaccharyltransferase (OST), (c) a potential consensus sequence motif polypeptide, and/or (d) a potential glycosylation inhibitor for use in the oligosaccharyltransferase (OST)—catalysed asparagine-linked (“N-linked”) glycosylation, comprising the steps of generating a three-dimensional model of the catalytic domain and/or the polypeptide binding site of the oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) of Campylobacter lari, and designing or selecting a potential component selected from (a) to (d) which optimizes the stereo chemical complementarity of said three-dimensional model(s) and the potential component.
US09881114B2	Virtual hierarchical layer propagation Simulation and verification are critical to analyzing a semiconductor design using design rule checking (DRC) to verify design rules for manufacturing (DRM). The efficient use of computational resources including runtimes and resource requirements is a key component of the analysis. A virtual hierarchical layer (VHL) with shapes is generated for the design analysis of a design, including cells and hierarchical design levels. A cell and multiple instances of the cell are identified in the design. A VHL based on polygons overlapping the cell is generated in response to an algorithmic operation. The VHL shapes are propagated to subsequent algorithmic operations. The algorithmic operations update the VHL shapes. Shapes are filtered out of the VHL shapes as part of the updating. The VHL shapes are propagated through a chain of operations.
US09881112B1	Vectorless dynamic power estimation for sequential circuits Vectorless dynamic power estimation for a circuit design may include forming, using a processor, a complex basic element within the circuit design, determining, using the processor, initial toggle rates for basic elements within the circuit design, and determining, using the processor, an initial toggle rate for the complex basic element. Vectorless dynamic power estimation further may include generating, using the processor, final toggle rates by updating the initial toggle rates according to a control signal analysis and calculating, using the processor, dynamic power dissipation for the circuit design using the final toggle rates.
US09881109B2	Simulating live production load In an example embodiment, data communications to a first database intercepted and divided based on tenant. For each tenant of multiple tenants sharing the first database, the commands to update the one or more records in the first database within the data communications corresponding to the tenant are translated into commands to update one or more records in a second database of a different type than the first database, the translated commands corresponding to the tenant are replayed against a copied version of the first database in the second database, and the performance of the second database in handling the translated commands during the replaying is tracked. Serialization and timely execution, among the translated commands corresponding to the tenant, of execution of the translated commands is maintained during the replaying and synchronization of execution of translated commands between multiple tenants is maintained.
US09881098B2	Configuration resolution for transitive dependencies A method including receiving on a server a request from a first provider to retrieve a configuration for a lookup order. The method also can include determining the configuration for the lookup order using the server based at least in part on whether the call to the first provider by the application is through the direct dependency relationship or through the transitive dependency relationship. The method further can include providing the configuration for the lookup order to the first provider. The method additionally can include receiving first information at the application that is based at least in part on the configuration for the lookup order. The method further can include providing second information for at least a portion of a web page that is based at least in part on the first information. Other embodiments are provided.
US09881096B1	Web page tab management based on location Systems and methods for web page tab management are provided. A method for web page tab management includes determining a web browser tab group to open, in its own window of a web browser executed by a computing device, based on a location of the computing device. The determined tab group includes a plurality of tabs assigned to the browser window and corresponding to a plurality of open web pages associated with the location. The method further includes the computing device automatically opening the determined tab group in the web browser window. A system for web page tab management includes a tab group determiner and a tab group manager.
US09881091B2	Content item audience selection Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an audience for content are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a content item provider, a request to distribute content items to users that have been deemed interested in a particular entity. First users that have expressed an interest in the particular entity are identified. Expansion entities for the particular entity are identified in a knowledge graph. At least one of the expansion entities can be connected to the particular entity by a relationship path. Second users are identified. The second users are deemed interested in the particular entity based on the second users having expressed an interest in an expansion entity. The content items are provided to at least a portion of the first users and at least a portion of the second users.
US09881086B2	Image shooting device, image shooting method, and recording medium In the image shooting device, the image shooting method and the recording medium, the person detector detects the person in the moving image and set the person as the detected person. The person evaluator evaluates the detected person based on the action of the detected person exhibited during the certain period of time in the past and give the detected person the score. The person determiner determines that the detected person is the target person, when the score of the detected person is higher than the predetermined value. And the shooting assist section assists the action of the shooting person and the target person so that the target person is included in the moving image.
US09881083B2	Method of and a system for indexing audio tracks using chromaprints A non-transient computer information storage medium storing an audio track inverted index, and method of its creating and maintaining, the audio track inverted index comprising a plurality of sets of posting lists, each posting list within the plurality of sets of posting lists being a posting list of chroma words, each chroma word being a component of an audio fingerprint, each of chroma words being split into a plurality of bytes, each of chroma words comprising a beginning portion of the chroma word, the beginning portion of the chroma word being a sub-plurality of bytes having a first byte and a following byte, the following byte located immediately after said first byte; within a given set of posting lists of the plurality of postings lists: each posting list contains chroma words having the same first byte within the beginning portion of the chroma word, and a first one of the plurality of posting lists being different from a second one of the plurality of posting lists by the associated chroma words having a different following byte, the different following byte being unique for the given set of posting lists. Validation index comprising key file and fingerprint file.
US09881076B2	Facilitating management of user queries and dynamic filtration of responses based on group filters in an on-demand services environment In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating management of user queries and dynamic filtration of responses based on group filters in an on-demand services environment in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving, at a first computing device, a query via an application programming interface (“API”) of a software application at a second computing device, where the query includes one or more filter parameters including a size filter parameter. The method may further include evaluating the query based on the one or more filter parameters including the size filter parameter, selecting a first response based on the size filter parameter, and communicating the first response to be viewed via the API at the second computing device.
US09881074B2	System and method for news events detection and visualization Systems and methods are disclosed for news events detection and visualization. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for news events detection and visualization. The method includes, for example, obtaining a document vector based from a document, obtaining one or more clusters of documents, each cluster associated with a plurality of documents, a cluster vector, and a cluster weight, determining a matching cluster from the one or more clusters based at least on the similarity between the document vector and the cluster vector of the matching cluster, and associating the document with the matching cluster.
US09881064B2	Systems and methods for using graphical representations to manage query results Described are systems and methods for changing query result data graphically displayed on an electronic device. A query of a data repository is performed. A graphical representation of a set of query results identified from the query is displayed. The query results include a plurality of query result records. The graphical representation includes a first node corresponding to a first record field value and a second node corresponding to a second record field value. A region proximal to the first node displays a query result record having the first record field value. A query result record having the first record field value is selected. A field value of a selected query result record is changed from the first record field value to the second record field value by transitioning the selected query result record to a region proximal to the second node.
US09881059B2	Systems and methods for suggesting headlines Systems and methods for recommending headlines of an article are disclosed. A topic for the article may be chosen based on the article and an original headline. Trending words within the topic that are related to the article are identified and suggested for inclusion in a revised headline.
US09881054B2	System and method of query processing with schema change in JSON document store An information processing system, a computer readable storage medium, and a method of managing a query to find a set of JSON documents in a multi-schema JSON document store. A query engine receives a first query to find at least one JSON document in a plurality of sets of JSON documents stored in the JSON document store, each set of JSON documents being organized in a unique JSON schema version related to a unique JSON schema version of each other set of JSON documents by at least one schema change. The first query is organized in a first unique JSON schema version. A query translator translates the first query into a second query based on the at least one schema change. The first and second queries are executed to provide first and second query results which are collectively returned.
US09881050B2	Method and system to recommend applications from an application market place to a new device A method and system for populating a second electronic device of a user with applications from a second application platform said second electronic device is operating with, using applications installed on a first electronic device of said user, said first electronic device operating with a first application platform. The method is carried out by an application recommendation node.
US09881039B2	Rebalancing operation using a solid state memory device Systems and methods to manage database data are provided. A particular method includes automatically identifying a plurality of storage devices. The storage devices include a first device of a first type and a second device of a second type. The first type includes a solid state memory device. The method may further identify a high priority data set of the database. A rebalancing operation is conducted that includes moving the high priority data set to the solid state memory device and substantially evening distribution of other data of the database among the storage devices.
US09881036B2	Avoid double counting of mapped database data As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for avoiding double counting in the presence of many-to-many relationships in database data includes receiving a report definition from a data management system, detecting a bridge table defining many-to-many relationships between at least two datasets, generating a query plan with layered sub-queries, and executing the query plan including the layered sub-queries to provide query results corresponding to the report definition. A query plan with layered sub-queries may include instructions to join, partition, normalize, group, and summarize tabular data. Additionally, a conditional selection operation may be used to detect and eliminate duplicated data from a field specified in the report definition. The resulting query plan may be executed as a single query language. A computer program product and an apparatus corresponding to the described method are also disclosed herein.
US09881025B2	Identifying product metadata from an item image A metadata extraction machine accesses an image that depicts an item. The item depicted in the image may have an attribute that describes a characteristic of the item and an attribute descriptor that corresponds to the attribute of the item and specifies a value of the attribute. The metadata extraction machine performs an analysis of the image. The analysis may include identifying the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute based on image segmentation of the image. The metadata extraction machine transmits a communication to a device of a user based on the identifying of the attribute descriptor corresponding to the attribute of the item depicted in the image.
US09881020B2	File document management server and file document managing method According to an embodiment, a file document management server includes a controller and a memory. The memory stores expiration date information which indicates an expiration date of file documents which have been transmitted to a client device, and status information which indicates a storage state or a deletion state of the file documents of the client device to which the file documents have been transmitted. The controller changes the status information from a storage state to a deletion state when the expiration date passes.
US09881013B2	Method and system for providing restricted access to a storage medium A system, apparatus, method, or computer program product of restricting file access is disclosed wherein a set of file write access commands are determined from data stored within a storage medium. The set of file write access commands are for the entire storage medium. Any matching file write access command provided to the file system for that storage medium results in an error message. Other file write access commands are, however, passed onto a device driver for the storage medium and are implemented. In this way commands such as file delete and file overwrite can be disabled for an entire storage medium.
US09881008B2	Content participation translation apparatus and method A content participation translation apparatus includes a content registration unit for registering an original of content data on a database, wherein text data and image data are stored separately in the original of the content data; a data selection unit for individually selecting the text data and image data included in either the original of the content data or a translation of the content data in which a translation is added to the original of the content data; a translations editor providing unit for providing a translations editor to a user terminal, the translations editor including a content data display unit for displaying the text data and the image data and a text data editor unit in which a translation of the text data is input; and a content storage unit for receiving a representative image and a second-language text input from at least one user terminal via the translations editor, and storing the text data, the image data, and the received second-language text as a translation of the content data, wherein the representative image comprises an image included in a portion of a translation created by each user.
US09881006B2	Methods for automatic generation of parallel corpora A method of forming parallel corpora comprises receiving sets of items in first language and second languages, each of the sets having one or more associated descriptions and metadata. The metadata is collected from the two sets of items and are aligned using the metadata. The aligned metadata are mapped from the first language to the second language for each of the sets. The descriptions of two items are fetched and the structural similarity of the descriptions is measured to assess whether two items are likely to be translations of each other. For mapped items with structurally similar descriptions, the mapped item descriptions are formed into respective sentences in first language and in the second language. The sentences are parallel corpora which may be used to translate an item from the first language to the second language, and also to train a machine translation system.
US09880998B1	Producing datasets for representing terms and objects based on automated learning from text contents A system and methods for creating data objects as symbolic or associative representations of terms or objects using machine-based methods are presented. A term can be a word or a phrase, which can also be the name of an object. For a given term, the methods analyze other terms associated with the term, and determine a set of terms or values to be attached to the term to form a dataset, either as a representation of the term, or as information about an object represented by the term, including various properties associated with the object. The methods include obtaining a group of text contents or non-natural language data contents, specifying a target term or symbol, and identifying contextual attributes of the target term or symbol. The contextual attributes include positional and distance attributes, as well as grammatical and semantic attributes.
US09880995B2	Variables and method for authorship attribution A method uses linguistic units of analysis to identify the authorship of a document. The method is useful to determine authorship of brief documents, and in situations where there are less than ten documents per known author, i.e. when there is scarcity of text. The method analyzes parameters such as the syntax, punctuation, and, optionally the average word and paragraph length, and when the parameters are analyzed using statistical methods, obtains a high degree of reliability (>90% accuracy). The method can be applicable to numerous languages other than English because the variables selected are characteristic of most languages. The reliability of the method is verified when subjected to a cross-validation statistical analysis.
US09880987B2	System and method for parameterizing documents for automatic workflow generation One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for generating a new workflow for an application. The method includes generating a parameter tree related to a current workflow, wherein the parameter tree includes a different node corresponding to each parameter included in one or more documents associated with the current workflow, modifying a value associated with a first node included in the parameter tree based on an input, wherein the first node corresponds to a first parameter included in a first document associated with the current workflow, evaluating a second document associated with the current workflow based on the modified value associated with the first node, and generating the new workflow based on the evaluated second document.
US09880982B2	System and method for rendering presentation pages based on locality A system renders presentation pages such as in a wireless communications system. A server includes an extensible stylesheet transformation (XSLT) module. A storage medium contains at least one of images and text. The XSLT module is operative for calling an XSL extension and rendering the at least one of images and text into a presentation page based on a language requirement at a foreign locale.
US09880978B2	System and method for selective control of zoom adjustments in an electronic publication A system and method for selective control of zoom adjustments in an electronic publication is disclosed. The method may include generating content for display on an electronic reading device; generating at least one style for the content, and storing the content and the at least one style on a computer readable medium. The generation of at least one style may include identifying at least a portion of the content for which at least one zoom level will be specified; specifying a base text size for the portion of the content; and specifying a first value to increment the base text size to a first zoom state text size. A method for rendering an electronic document on an electronic device may include storing content representing an electronic publication in a computer memory of the electronic device, the content including at least one style for a portion of the content, the at least one style including a base text size for the portion of the content and at least a first value to increment the base text size to a first zoom state text size; rendering the contents according to the at least one style; and incrementing the base text size for the portion of the content by the first value in response to a user input to zoom.
US09880972B2	Computer subsystem and computer system with composite nodes in an interconnection structure The present invention provides a computer subsystem and a computer system. The computer subsystem includes L composite nodes, each composite node includes M basic nodes, each basic node includes N central processing units (CPUs) and one node controller. Any two CPUs in each basic node are interconnected. Each CPU in each basic node is connected to the node controller in the basic node. The node controller in each basic node has a routing function. Any two node controllers in the M basic nodes are interconnected. A connection between the L composite nodes formed through connections between node controllers enables communication between any two node controllers to be no more than three hops. The computer subsystem and the computer system according to embodiments of the present invention can reduce the kinds and the number of interconnection chips, and simplify an interconnection structure of a system, thereby improving reliability of the system.
US09880969B2	Computing device and storage medium containing program therefor A computing device includes a processor to perform a coefficient calculation control for (i) displaying a mathematical formula including a coefficient on a display unit, (ii) displaying the coefficient name, and (iii) receiving a coefficient value to calculate the mathematical formula; and a regression calculation control for storing numeric data sets of independent and dependent variables in a memory and calculating a value of a coefficient in a regression formula representing the relationship between the independent and dependent variables based on the numeric data sets. The coefficient calculation control performs a coefficient value displaying control for displaying the value of the coefficient in the regression formula calculated through the regression calculation control and performs a post-regression calculation control for using the regression formula as the mathematical formula to calculate the mathematical formula using the displayed coefficient value.
US09880968B2	Bi-directional communication between electronic components Embodiments are directed to a system comprising: a first device, and a second device coupled to the first device via an interface that provides a handshaking algorithm that ensures that only one of the first device and the second device initiates communication over the interface at a given point in time.
US09880965B2	Variable frame length virtual GPIO with a modified UART interface A virtual GPIO interface is provided that receives a transmit set of GPIO signals from a processor. The virtual GPIO interface transmits a portion of the transmit set of GPIO signals over GPIO pins in a conventional fashion. However, the virtual GPIO interface provides a remaining portion of the transmit set of GPIO signals to a finite state machine that serializes the GPIO signals in the remaining portion into frames of virtual GPIO signals. A modified UART interface transmits the frames over a UART transmit pin responsive to cycles of a UART oversampling clock.
US09880963B2	Communication device including communication unit configured to communicate via local area network (LAN) and at least one I/O port that is connectable to manufacturing apparatus A communication device includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a LAN, and IO ports connectable to a manufacturing apparatus, and a controller. The IO ports are configured and/or programmed to exchange ON/OFF signals including multiple bits with the manufacturing apparatus. The controller is configured and/or programmed to receive communication requests from communication destinations via the LAN, store network addresses of communication destinations and IO port designations, change a value of the ON/OFF signals of designated IO ports in accordance with requests from communication destinations, and transmit the ON/OFF signals of designated IO ports to communication destinations via the communication unit and the LAN in accordance with requests from the communication destinations.
US09880958B2	Extensible host controller of a host for optionally controlling the host to act as a target side or a host side and related operation method thereof An extensible host controller applied to a host includes a universal serial bus (USB) module, a control unit, and a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) bus. The USB module includes a USB unit and a predetermined unit. The PCIE bus is coupled to the control unit, wherein the PCIE bus supports a USB mode and a predetermined mode. When a first host with a first extensible host controller is connected to the USB module, the control unit makes the host utilize the USB mode and the USB unit, or the predetermined mode and the predetermined unit to communicate with the first host according to a determination way.
US09880957B2	Electronic device group-coupling system and method An electronic device coupling system includes a master electronic device and a plurality of slave electronic devices which are each independently connected to the master. The master electronic device includes connecting module and identity module, the slave electronic device includes coupling module and identify module. The identity module stores identity information of each slave device and sends out serially all the identity information. The identify module confirms correspondence of the identity information to a selected slave device. The connecting module has a plurality of matching codes corresponding to each connecting port and each group address code. The master device can couple to a slave device when the identity information corresponds to a selected slave device. The coupling module is couplable to the connecting module according to the matching codes. An electronic device coupling method is further provided.
US09880952B2	Bus access controller, hardware engine, controller, and memory system According to one embodiment, there is provided a bus access controller including a memory, multiple buffers, and an issuance circuit. Information necessary for bus access can be set in the memory. The multiple buffers store information set in the memory. The issuance circuit is connected to a bus. The issuance circuit issues a bus-access instruction, according to information stored in a buffer selected from among the multiple buffers in response to a request.
US09880948B2	Method and apparatus for bus lock assistance A method is described that includes detecting that an instruction of a thread is a locked instruction. The instruction also includes determining that execution of said instruction includes imposing a bus lock. The instruction also include executing a bus lock assistance function in response to said determining, said bus lock assistance function including a function associated with said bus lock other than implementation of a bus lock protocol.
US09880947B2	Return oriented programming stack pivoting protection Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for identifying a stack pointer associated with a sequence of code being executed on a computing system and counting a number of exchange updates to the stack pointer. Additionally, a hardware interrupt may be generated if the number of exchange updates reaches a threshold. In one example, the hardware interrupt is a performance monitoring interrupt.
US09880944B2	Page replacement algorithms for use with solid-state drives A page replacement algorithm is provided. An idle range of memory pages is determined based, at least in part, on indications of references to memory pages in the idle range of memory pages, wherein the idle range of memory pages is a set of one or more memory pages. A first memory page is identified in the idle range of memory page for paging out of memory. The first memory page is identified based, at least in part, on indications of modifications to the memory pages. The first memory page is paged out of memory.
US09880943B2	Cache management in a multi-threaded environment Disclosed here are methods, systems, paradigms and structures for deleting shared resources from a cache in a multi-threaded system. The shared resources can be used by a plurality of requests belonging to multiple threads executing in the system. When requests, such as requests for executing script code, and work items, such as work items for deleting a shared resource, are created, a global sequence number is assigned to each of them. The sequence number indicates the order in which the requests and work items are created. A particular work item can be executed to delete the shared resource if there are no requests having a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing in the system. However, if there is at least one request with a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing, the work item is ignored until the request completes executing.
US09880942B2	Selective purging of PCI I/O address translation buffer A method of enhancing a refresh PCI translation (RPCIT) operation to refresh a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) includes determining, by a computer processor, a request to perform at least one RPCIT instruction for purging at least one translation from the TLB. The method further includes purging, by the computer processor, the at least one translation from the TLB in response to executing the at least one RPCIT instruction. The computer processor selectively performs a synchronization operation prior to completing the at least one RPCIT instruction.
US09880933B1	Distributed in-memory buffer cache system using buffer cache nodes A separate distributed buffer cache system may be implemented for a storage client of a distributed storage system. Storage I/O requests may be sent from a storage client to one or more buffer cache nodes in a distributed buffer cache system that maintain portions of an in-memory buffer cache to which the requests pertain. The distributed buffer cache system may send the write requests on to the distributed storage system to be completed, and in response to receiving acknowledgements from the storage system, sending a completion acknowledgement back to the storage client. Buffer cache nodes may update buffer cache entries for received requests such that they are not available for reads until complete at the distributed storage system. For read requests where the buffer cache entries at the buffer cache node are invalid, valid data may be obtained from the distributed storage system and sent to the storage client.
US09880931B2	Safepoints for guest languages on a virtual machine An application programming interface (API) may include an initiator configured to initiate a guest safepoint via an action represented in a guest language executed on a virtual machine, provide a safepoint action to a group of guest threads, synchronize the guest threads such that each guest thread in the group executes the safepoint action once all guest threads in the group enter the guest safepoint, and synchronize the guest threads such that each guest thread in the group exits the guest safepoint once all guest threads in the group complete execution of the safepoint action. The API may also include a guest configured to determine whether a guest safepoint is initiated, enter the guest safepoint, execute the safepoint action while execution of a guest action is paused, and exit the guest safepoint and resume execution of the guest action once the safepoint action completes execution.
US09880919B2	Aggregation of metrics data with fine granularity A computing resource monitoring service receives a request to store metrics data. The request includes the metrics data and a fully qualified metric identifier generated based at least in part on metadata included in an earlier request to store other metrics data for the same metric. The service uses the fully qualified metric identifier to identify an aggregator datastore for storing the metrics data. Once the service has identified the aggregator datastore, the service accesses the aggregator datastore to store the metrics data such that the metrics data and the other metrics data can be obtained in response to a request to obtain data for the metric, where the request includes the metadata.
US09880917B2	Monitoring virtual machines for alert conditions Methods and systems may provide for detecting an event external to a plurality of virtual machines running on one or more physical machines and determining that the event corresponds to one or more error conditions associated with at least one particular virtual machine in the plurality of virtual machines. Additionally, an alert may be generated in response to at least one of the one or more error conditions. In one example, detecting the event includes detecting an emulated device interrupt associated with the at least one particular virtual machine.
US09880915B2	N-gram analysis of inputs to a software application Input sequence information may be analyzed and quantified using n-gram analysis of inputs received by an application. The sequences of inputs may be represented by n-grams, and the frequency of the various n-grams may indicate the ‘real world’ uses of the application in production, which may be compared to a test suite whose coverage may be quantified using a similar n-gram analysis. A coverage factor may compare the observed inputs to the application in production to the test suite for the application. The n-grams may be further quantified or prioritized by resource utilization and several visualizations may be generated from the data.
US09880912B2	Information processing system, control method of information processing system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium The information processing system includes a first management device, a second management device coupled to the first management device, and a first information processing device coupled to the second management device, wherein the second management device receives, from the first information processing device, a notification indicating that an operation state of the first information processing device is changed from a first state to a second state, and the second management device transmits the notification to the first management device after a first time period is collapsed after receiving the notification, the first time period being defined based on the second state.
US09880908B2	Recovering from compromised system boot code In a state of a system in which a processor of the system is not accessing a first memory, a controller in the system determines whether system boot code from the first memory in the system is compromised, wherein the first memory is accessible by the processor and the controller over a bus. In response to determining that the system boot code is compromised, the controller retrieves system boot code from a second memory in the computing device to replace the system boot code in the first memory, where the second memory is electrically isolated from the bus and is inaccessible by the processor.
US09880905B2	Tracking modifications to a virtual machine image that occur during backup of the virtual machine A computer system comprises a processor unit arranged to run a hypervisor running one or more virtual machines; a cache connected to the processor unit and comprising a plurality of cache rows, each cache row comprising a memory address, a cache line and an image modification flag; and a memory connected to the cache and arranged to store an image of at least one virtual machine. The processor unit is arranged to define a log in the memory and the cache further comprises a cache controller arranged to set the image modification flag for a cache line modified by a virtual machine being backed up, but not for a cache line modified by the hypervisor operating in privilege mode; periodically check the image modification flags; and write only the memory address of the flagged cache rows in the defined log.
US09880897B2	Failure mode identification and reporting When a software component is starting, such as but not limited to a task or a subtask, the component pushes its identification (ID) onto a stack. The component executes its other instructions. If the component completes its instructions so that it can terminate normally, it pops the stack, which removes its ID from the stack. If the component fails, such as by not being able to complete its instructions, it will not be able to pop the stack so its ID will remain in the stack. Another software process can read the IDs in the stack to identify which components have failed and can automatically take a specified action, such as by sending an email message to, sending a text message to, or calling by telephone, a person or persons responsible for that software component.
US09880895B2	Serial interface with bit-level acknowledgement and error correction A bit-by-bit error correction technique is disclosed that divides each bit transmission into an acknowledgment phase, an error correction phase, and a transmission phase.
US09880888B2	Executing an operating system in a multiprocessor computer system When a CPU core (1) 101 and a CPU core (2) 102 share the execution of an OS (1) 201, a program (A) 204, and a program (B) 205, the CPU core (2) 102 withdraws from sharing the execution of the OS (1) 201, the program (A) 204, and the program (B) 205, starts a replacement OS which replaces the OS (1) 201, and switches an OS on which the program (A) 204 operates from the OS (1) 201 to the replacement OS. After the OS on which the program (A) 204 operates is switched to the replacement OS, the CPU core (1) 101 terminates the execution of the OS (1).
US09880882B2	Multi-tenant SaaS platform and method for automated deployment of connector application, and tenant and service provider using virtual machine A multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) platform for automatic deployment of a connector application, and a method for automatic deployment of a connector application in a multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) platform, the method including: deploying a tenant service connector package to a tenant among a plurality of tenants, the tenant service connector package being a package configured to cause a tenant virtual machine to be created in order to provide a service to at least one tenant of the plurality of tenants in a virtual machine form; activating the tenant virtual machine through execution of the tenant service connector package in the tenant that receives the tenant service connector package; forming a connection channel between a virtual machine of the SaaS platform and the tenant virtual machine; and providing the service between the SaaS platform and the at least one tenant through the formed connection channel.
US09880879B1	Identifying task instance outliers based on metric data in a large scale parallel processing system Among other disclosed subject matter, a method includes receiving metric data associated with an execution of each of a plurality of task instances. The plurality of task instances include task instances associated with a task and the metric data for each task instance relating to execution performance of the task instance. The method includes for each task instance determining a deviation of the metric data associated with the task instance relative to an overall deviation of the metric data for the plurality of task instances of the task during each of a plurality of intervals and combining deviation measurements for the task instance that exceed a threshold deviation to obtain a combined deviation value. Each deviation measurement corresponds to the deviation of the metric data for one of the plurality of intervals. The method includes ranking the combined deviation values associated with at least a subset of the task instances.
US09880870B1	Live migration of virtual machines using packet duplication A virtualization management component of a particular host at a virtualized computing determines that a packet duplication phase of a migration of a virtual machine from a source host to the particular host has begun. The virtualization management component detects that a migrated version of the virtual machine, instantiated at the particular virtualization host, has generated a baseline packet directed to a destination address. The virtualization management component sends a first encapsulation packet comprising the baseline packet to an encapsulation intermediary associated with the destination address. The virtualization management component sends a second encapsulation packet comprising the baseline packet to the source virtualization host, with a directive to forward the second encapsulation packet to the encapsulation intermediary.
US09880864B2	Dynamic configuration system for distributed services A system includes a dynamic configuration property database for a computer-based service. The system executes an application program interface that couples the computer-based service to the database. The system reads a dynamic configuration property from the database while the computer-based service is executing and without requiring the computer-based service to cease execution. The system also provides the dynamic configuration property to the computer-based service while the computer-based service is executing such that the computer-based service can use the configuration property without requiring the computer-based service to cease execution and without having to restart the computer-based service.
US09880861B2	Method and apparatus for page view switching A method for page view switching is provided. The method includes detecting a view switching operation in an application interface by a user to switch from a current view to a target view. The method also includes destroying the current view corresponding to the view switching operation and creating a view object corresponding to the target view in the view switching operation by calling a view controller class. Further, the method includes assigning values to the view object through a view controller and displaying the view object with the assigned values on the application interface to display the target view to the user.
US09880852B2	Programmable hardware accelerators in CPU Embodiments of the present invention may include a data processing system comprising a processing execution block to execute instructions stored in an instruction queue, a programmable hardware accelerator, and a controller programmed to monitor the instruction queue to detect a first type of instructions stored in the instruction queue, reprogram the programmable hardware accelerator to execute the first type of instructions, and transmit the first type of instructions to the programmable hardware accelerator to be executed.
US09880847B2	Register file mapping An apparatus for processing instructions includes a mapping unit comprising a plurality of mappers wherein each mapper of the plurality of mappers maps a logical sub-register reference to a physical sub-register reference, a decoding unit configured to receive an instruction and determine a plurality of logical sub-register references therefrom, and an execution unit. The mapping unit may be configured to distribute the plurality of logical sub-register references amongst the plurality of mappers according to at least one bit in the instruction and provide a corresponding plurality of physical sub-register references. The execution unit may be configured to execute the instruction using the plurality of physical sub-register references. Corresponding methods are also disclosed herein.
US09880844B2	Method and apparatus for parallel and conditional data manipulation in a software-defined network processing engine Embodiments of the present invention relate to fast and conditional data modification and generation in a software-defined network (SDN) processing engine. Modification of multiple inputs and generation of multiple outputs can be performed in parallel. A size of each input or output data can be large, such as in hundreds of bytes. The processing engine includes a control path and a data path. The control path generates instructions for modifying inputs and generating new outputs. The data path executes all instructions produced by the control path. The processing engine is typically programmable such that conditions and rules for data modification and generation can be reconfigured depending on network features and protocols supported by the processing engine. The SDN processing engine allows for processing multiple large-size data flows and is efficient in manipulating such data. The SDN processing engine achieves full throughput with multiple back-to-back input and output data flows.
US09880843B2	Data processing apparatus and method for decoding program instructions in order to generate control signals for processing circuitry of the data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus and method for accessing operands stored within a set of registers. Instruction decoder circuitry, responsive to program instructions, generates register access control signals identifying for each program instruction which registers in the register set are to be accessed by the processing circuitry when performing the processing operation specified by that program instruction. The set of registers are logically arranged as a plurality of register groups, with each register in the set being a member of more than one register group. Each program instruction includes a register specifier field, and instruction decoder circuitry is responsive to each program instruction to determine a selected register group, and to determine one or more selected members of that selected register group. The instruction decoder circuitry then outputs register access control signals identifying the register corresponding to each selected member of the selected register group.
US09880833B2	Initialization status of a register employed as a pointer Initialization status of a register to be used as a pointer to a reference data structure is used to determine how a stub is to be generated to access the reference data structure. The register is one type of pointer configuration to be used to access the reference data structure, which is used to resolve a symbol associated with a function of a program. An indication is obtained as to whether the register has been initialized with a reference data structure pointer. Based on obtaining the indication, a stub is generated that is to be used to access the function. The generating depends on whether the register has been initialized. If the register has not been initialized, then the stub is generated to include another type of pointer configuration to be used to access the reference data structure.
US09880821B2	Compiler optimizations for vector operations that are reformatting-resistant An optimizing compiler includes a vector optimization mechanism that optimizes vector operations that are reformatting-resistant, such as source instructions that do not have a corresponding reformatting operation, sink instructions that do not have a corresponding reformatting operation, a source instruction that is a scalar value, a sink instruction that may produce a scalar value, and an internal operation that depends on lanes being in a specified order. The ability to optimize vector instructions that are reformatting-resistant reduces the number of operations to improve the run-time performance of the code.
US09880818B2	Application testing A method includes analyzing, by a processor, a first version of a computer program. The analyzing includes identifying a first data processing element included in the first version of the computer program. The first data processing element references a first data source external to the first version of the computer program. The method includes generating a data source element that represents a second data source different from the first data source. The method includes generating a second version of the computer program. The second version of the computer program includes the generated data source element and a second data processing element that is based on the first data processing element. In the second version of the computer program, the second data processing element references the generated data source element.
US09880797B2	Intelligent interface display system relating real-time data with compiled data A software application program that intelligently interfaces with a statistical data recording program, mass data storage devices and programmable electronic display devices to monitor the situational current state of a real-time event or activity such as a sporting contest and to identify, select, compile, organize, prioritize, present and recommend a plurality of relevant data items compiled from a plurality of recorded data sources to provide visual display content for selection by an operator for display on one or more electronic display boards. The intelligent interface software application program enables an operator of a programmable electronic display device instantly to review and select relevant data items corresponding to a given situational current state of a real-time event or activity and transmit selected data items for display on electronic display boards to a viewing party or public.
US09880796B2	Rapid view mobilization for enterprise applications Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and computer readable media for automatically converting a non-mobile computer platform application view to a mobile application view for use on a mobile device. The method can include transforming the non-mobile computer platform application view to the mobile application view based at least in part on differences between the-non mobile computer platform and the mobile device, wherein the differences comprise one or more of display capability, associated peripheral devices, bandwidth, or software libraries. The method can also include sending information associated with the transformed application view to the mobile device.
US09880790B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium for reducing a consumption amount of color material An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a thinning amount smaller than one pixel for each line data in a high density area in image data, a comparison unit configured to compare the thinning amount set by the setting unit with a predetermined threshold, and a processing unit configured to execute, based on a result of comparison by the comparison unit, a thinning process by using a thinning amount larger than the thinning amount set by the setting unit or a thinning amount smaller than the thinning amount set by the setting unit as for M pixels out of N pixels (N>M) contained in the line data, and a thinning process by using the thinning amount set by the setting unit as for the rest of the N pixels contained in the line data.
US09880786B1	Multi-tiered elastic block device performance Customers of a computing resource service provider may provision a logical volume using resources of the service provider. The customers may further specify a performance level for a portion of the logical volume that is greater than the minimum performance of the remainder of the logical volume. The service provider may then monitor the access patterns of the logical volume and dynamically increase performance of the most active area of the logical volume to the performance level specified by the customer.
US09880784B2	Data routing and buffering in a processing system In a computing system where an incoming packet can be written directly into one or more local registers of a processing unit, a packet interface routes packets arriving at a computing system to the local registers of the processing unit or to a memory shared by multiple processing units. The shared memory includes a portion configured as a first-in, first-out (FIFO) buffer for storing packets arriving for the processing unit when its local registers are full. The stored packets are then delivered to the processing unit's one or more registers when the registers become available.
US09880783B2	System and method for utilization of a shadow data buffer in a host where the shadow data buffer is controlled by external storage controller Systems and methods for managing transfer of data into and out of a host data buffer of a host are disclosed. In one implementation, a partial write completion module of a storage system retrieves from the host, stores in a memory, and acknowledges retrieving and storing with a partial write completion message, each subset of a larger set of data associated with a host write command. The host may utilize received partial write completion messages to release and use the portion of the host data buffer that had been storing the subset identified in the message rather than waiting to release data associated with the host write command until all the data associated with the command is stored in the memory. The memory in which each subset is stored may be non-volatile memory in the storage device or a shadow buffer on the host or an external memory device.
US09880771B2	Packing deduplicated data into finite-sized containers Deduplicated data is packed into finite-sized containers. A similarity score is calculated between files that are similarly of the deduplicated data. The similarity score is used for grouping the similarly compared files of the deduplicated data into subsets for destaging each of the subsets from a deduplication system to one a finite-sized container.
US09880769B2	Streaming joins in constrained memory environments Large amounts of memory can be consumed in streaming joins because events from one stream are held in memory while waiting for matching events from a second stream. Memory needs can be reduced by analyzing the join condition to determine the bounds on the time discrepancy between events in the two streams. When it is determined that an event from one stream must occur prior to the matching event from the other stream, the later-arriving stream data can be ingested with an intentional delay. When it is determined that regardless of input received from a first stream, no output will be produced when there is no input from the second stream, pulling data from the first stream can cease. A multi-stage join plan can be employed so that a less busy stream can be scanned with increasing amounts of intentional delay. Only unmatched data is stored.
US09880768B2	Dynamic memory reallocation for match-action packet processing A pool of unit memories is provided in order to flexibly allocate memory capacity to implement various tables and/or logical memories such as those for implementing an OpenFlow switch. The pool is structured with routing resources for allowing flexible allocation and reallocation of memory capacity to the various tables. The unit memories and logical units in the pool are interconnected by a set of horizontal routing resources and a set of vertical routing resources.
US09880763B2	Data processing apparatus and data processing method for processing data in memory In a case where a non-volatile memory comes close to the end of a life time and has become ReadOnly, it is impossible to erase data stored in the non-volatile memory, which may lead to a decreased robustness of maintaining confidentiality. A data processing apparatus determines whether the life time of a non-volatile memory is about to expire. In a case where the determination result indicates that the life time of the non-volatile memory is about to expire, the data stored in the non-volatile memory is erased.
US09880757B1	Copy data management with data security The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automatically provisioning the security profile for production data to copy data. In some instances the security provisioning for the copy data is made at the time the production data is copied. In other instances, the security provisioning occurs in a secondary application using the copy data.
US09880748B2	Bifurcated memory management for memory elements Bifurcated memory management for memory elements techniques are disclosed. In one aspect, a memory element includes a self-managed portion and a portion that is managed by a remote host. Software that needs low latency access may be stored in the portion of the memory element that is managed by the remote host and other software may be stored in the portion of the memory element that is managed by the memory element. By providing such bifurcated memory management of the memory element, a relatively inexpensive memory element may be used to store software while at the same time allowing low latency (albeit at low throughputs) access to sensitive software elements with minimal bus logic.
US09880745B2	Reducing concurrency of garbage collection operations Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include identifying, in a storage system including multiple storage devices having respective sets of storage regions, respective default low storage region thresholds that are used for garbage collection. For each given storage region, a time threshold and an alternative low storage region threshold greater than the default low storage region threshold for the given storage device are defined. While processing input/output operations for each given storage device, a count of unused storage regions in the given storage device is maintained, a timer is initialized, and upon the timer matching the time threshold for the given storage device and upon the count of unused storage regions being less than or equal to the alternative low storage region threshold, a garbage collection operation is initiated. In some embodiments, processing the input/output operations includes using a log-structured array format.
US09880742B2	Valid data merging method, memory controller and memory storage apparatus A valid data merging method, a memory controller and a memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes: selecting a first physical erasing unit, and loading a first logical address-physical address mapping table according to a physical address-logical address mapping table. The method also includes: updating the first logical address-physical address mapping table according to the physical address-logical address mapping table, and identifying valid data in the first physical erasing unit according to the physical address-logical address mapping table and the first logical address-physical address mapping table. The method further includes: storing the first logical address-physical address mapping table, copying the valid data to a second physical erasing unit, and performing an erasing operation for the first physical erasing unit.
US09880726B2	Fragmented scrolling of a page A method is provided for displaying an electronic document having a first portion visible on a graphical user interface (GUI) rendered on a touch panel of an electronic device, and a second hidden portion accessible through a scrolling input received on said touch panel. The method includes receiving a scrolling input on the touch panel from a user to access the second hidden portion, retrieving from the second hidden portion of the electronic document a subportion smaller than the touch panel in the scrolling direction, based on the received scrolling input, and scrolling the electronic document to display the subportion in response to the scrolling input.
US09880723B2	Graphical user interface using color spectrum to map sentiments Systems and methods of operating a human-machine interface (HMI) with a graphical user interface (GUI). A color spectrum is displayed along with a topic. A selection of a point on the color spectrum is received, and associated in a memory with the displayed topic. A data record is stored indicating a sentiment associated with the topic. The sentiment includes an intensity level and an emotion level. The intensity level is one of multiple intensity levels that change along a first dimension of the color spectrum, and the emotion level is one of multiple emotion levels that change along a second dimension of the color spectrum.
US09880722B2	Automatic presentation of slide design suggestions A method and system for organizing slides by analyzing content and offering alternative solutions for placing content on the slides in an effective and visually interesting organization is provided. The presentation application automatically generates alternative design suggestions for the provided content that effectively utilize the slide space pursuant to analytics performed on the content. Providing alternative design suggestions for organizing content on a slide assists in quickly and easily creating presentations that effectively utilize slide space.
US09880719B2	Graphical interface data fragment operations for data visualization Techniques are described for providing visualizations of data with options for a user to manipulate the data visualizations. These data visualization options may provide flexible and rapid comparison of different fragments of data. In one example, a method includes outputting a display of a data visualization in a graphical user interface. The method further includes receiving a first user input selecting a first fragment of the data visualization to freeze. The method further includes receiving a second user input selecting a second fragment of the data visualization to reposition to a new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization. The method further includes outputting a revised display of the data visualization in the graphical user interface that displays the repositioned fragment of the data visualization in the new position relative to the frozen fragment of the data visualization.
US09880713B2	Display control apparatus, display control method, and program An information processing system that acquires captured image data corresponding to a user interface displayed on a first display, the user interface including a plurality of graphic representations each corresponding to a respective function; and controls a second display to display a representation of the user interface based on a recognition process performed on the user interface, the representation of the user interface indicating whether a function corresponding the plurality of the graphic representations is capable of being accessed.
US09880711B2	Adaptive alert duration A computing device may output, for display at a display device, a graphical user interface. The computing device may receive a plurality of indications of user interaction with the computing device. The computing device may determine a set of one or more time intervals between receiving at least two of the plurality of indications of user interaction with the computing device. The computing device may determine, based at least in part on the determined set of one or more time intervals, a length of time to visually emphasize an alert in the graphical user interface. The computing device may visually emphasize, for the length of time, the alert in the graphical user interface.
US09880705B2	Methods, systems, and media for navigating a user interface using directional controls Methods, systems, and media for navigating a user interface are provided. In some embodiments, methods for navigating a user interface is provided, the method comprising: causing a user interface to be presented including media identifiers that correspond media assets; causing the media identifiers to be arranged along a first direction; causing a first media identifier at a first position to be highlighted; causing a menu element to be presented at a first menu position associated with the first media identifier; receiving an instruction from a user input device to navigate to a next element along the first direction; causing a second media identifier next to the first position to be highlighted in response to receiving the instruction; causing the menu element to be presented at a second menu position associated with the second media identifier; and inhibiting presentation of the menu element at the first menu position.
US09880697B2	Remote multi-touch control Various systems and methods for remote multi-touch control are described herein. A system may include a mode controller to enter an orientation mode for a user interface displayed by a presentation device, the orientation mode configured to allow a user of the presentation device to orient an input point on the user interface with a remote device, and an input/output module to receive an input from the user to trigger the presentation device to transition from the orientation mode to a pass-through mode, the pass-through mode configured to allow the user to control an application at the presentation device using a touch point on the remote device, the mode controller is to enter the pass-through mode at the presentation device, the input/output module is to receive input from the user via the remote device, and the presentation device is to pass the input through to the application.
US09880692B2	Wiring body, wiring board, touch sensor, and method for producing wiring body A wiring body includes a first conductor layer including a first conductor wire, a resin layer covering the first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer disposed on the first conductor layer through the resin layer and including a second conductor wire. The wiring body satisfies the formula \|H1−H2\|
US09880688B2	Active matrix capacitive sensor for common-mode cancellation This disclosure generally provides an input device that includes a plurality of sensor modules coupled to sensor electrodes arranged in a matrix that measure capacitive sensing signals corresponding to the electrodes. To mitigate the effect of capacitive coupling between a sensor electrode being sensed and its neighbors in the matrix, the input device drives the neighboring electrodes in a same manner as the selected sensor electrode so that there is little or no voltage difference between the sensor electrode being sensed and its neighbors. For example, during a drive phase, the electrode being sensed and the neighboring electrodes are coupled to the same charge voltage. During a read phase, the neighboring electrodes and the selected electrode may be coupled to the same reference voltage—e.g., ground—so there is again no voltage difference between the electrodes.
US09880686B2	Touch screen panel, display device, and manufacturing method thereof A touch screen panel includes first electrode patterns disposed in a first direction, first connection patterns electrically connecting the first electrode patterns, second electrode patterns disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction and insulated from the first electrode patterns, insulating patterns disposed on the first connection patterns, and second connection patterns disposed on the insulating patterns and electrically connecting the second electrode patterns, in which at least one of the first electrode patterns, the first connection patterns, the second electrode patterns, and the second connection patterns include a first polymer layer including a conductive material infiltrated therein, and the insulating patterns comprise a second polymer layer comprising a dielectric material infiltrated therein.
US09880684B2	Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes a touch position detection unit configured to detect a touch position indicated by an operation object in contact with an input target surface, a proximity position detection unit configured to detect a proximity position indicated by an operation object in proximity to the input target surface, and a recognition unit configured to recognize that an operation object has started a moving operation, based on a condition to be satisfied by a movement amount of the touch position detected by the touch position detection unit. The condition changes according to a movement amount of the proximity position detected by the proximity position detection unit before the touch position detection unit starts to detect the touch position.
US09880683B2	Touch panel and organic light emitting diode display device A touch panel, including a phase retardation film; a wire grid polarizer on the phase retardation film; and a touch sensor unit on the phase retardation film, the touch sensor unit being adjacent to the wire grid polarizer.
US09880675B2	Capacitive sensing array modulation A capacitive fingerprint sensor that may be formed of an array of sensing elements. Each capacitive sensing element of the array may register a voltage that varies with the capacitance of a capacitive coupling. A finger may capacitively couple to the individual capacitive sensing elements of the sensor, such that the sensor may sense a capacitance between each capacitive sensing element and the flesh of the fingerprint. The capacitance signal may be detected by sensing the change in voltage on the capacitive sensing element as the relative voltage between the finger and the sensing chip is changed. Alternately, the capacitance signal may be detected by sensing the change in charge received by the capacitive sensing elements as the relative voltage between the finger and the sensing chip is changed.
US09880673B2	Multi-touch input information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium A control method for an information processing apparatus configured to acquire position information of one or more touched points one by one detected according to a predetermined detection period on a touch panel includes holding the position information of each of the one or more touched points in a holding unit, acquiring a number of the touched points whose position information is held in the holding unit, determining at each predetermined detection period that latest position information of all the touched points whose position information is held in the holding unit is specified, in a case where the number of the acquired touched point is two or more, and deciding the multi-touch operation performed to the information processing apparatus after the determination.
US09880662B2	Touch driving unit and circuit, display panel and display device The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch driving unit and circuit, a display panel and a display device. The touch driving unit comprises a shift control module, a selection module, a buffer module and an amplitude control module; the shift control module includes a start signal terminal, an output terminal and at least one clock signal terminal; the selection module includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal; the buffer module including an input terminal and an output terminal; and the amplitude control module including an input terminal and an output terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure are used for display manufacturing.
US09880655B2	Method of disambiguating water from a finger touch on a touch sensor panel A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: identifying a touch detected on a touch sensor panel; extracting touch information associated with the touch; calculating an overall confidence value based on the extracted touch information; comparing the confidence value with a predetermined threshold; and determining whether to identify the touch as a non-touch based on a result of the comparison.
US09880654B2	Touch display drive circuit, touch display drive method and display device The present invention provides a touch display drive circuit, a touch display drive method and a display device. The circuit comprises a touch module and a display drive module, wherein the display drive module is connected with a data line, a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a control line, a first voltage source, a third voltage source and a fourth voltage source; the touch module is connected with the first scanning line, the second scanning line, a reading line and a second voltage source, and the touch module receives the data signal input from the display drive module under the action of the signals input from the first scanning line and the second scanning line to reset the touch module; when touch occurs, the touch module provides a touch signal, and the reading line receives the touch signal.
US09880649B2	Touch, pen and force sensor operation with variable refresh displays Synchronization of display functions and various touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions for devices including a variable refresh rate (VRR) display is disclosed. In some examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display frames. In other examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display sub-frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display sub-frames. Pre-warning synchronization signals can be generated to prepare one or more scan controllers to implement the appropriate scan events during and after extended blanking periods. Latency between the scan results and the corresponding image on the display can be corrected in software and/or firmware by time-stamping scan results or by dropping scan results from uncompleted scans.
US09880634B2	Gesture input apparatus, gesture input method, and program for wearable terminal A trajectory of a user's finger is converted to an input signal without touching a sensor. A gesture input apparatus 1 acquires images photographed by a camera 101 and a camera 102 when a user's finger draws a trajectory like arrows 202 and 203 by stroking, for example, reference numbers 201b and 201c from a reference number 201a, detects a user's fingerprint in the images, and stores the trajectory in a fingerprint position database 50. Thereafter, the gesture input apparatus 1 extracts from a motion pattern database 51 a motion pattern matching with the trajectory of the user's finger and extracts an input signal associated with the motion pattern. Then, the gesture input apparatus 1 converts the trajectory of the user's finger to the input signal such that the extracted input signal behaves in the same manner as being actually input.
US09880633B2	Eyeglasses-type wearable device and method using the same An eyeglasses-type wearable device of an embodiment can handle various data inputs. The device includes right and left eye frames corresponding to positions of right and left eyes and nose pads corresponding to a position of a nose. Eye motion detection electrodes (sightline detection sensor electrodes) are provided with the nose pads to detect the eye motion of a user. Transmitter/receiver electrodes (capacitance sensor electrodes) of a gesture detector are provided with a part of the right and left eye frames to detect a gesture of the user. Various data inputs are achieved by a combination of input A corresponding to a gesture of the user detected by the gesture detector and input B corresponding to the eye motion of the user detected by the eye motion detector.
US09880631B2	Instrument interface for reducing effects of erratic motion Apparatus and methods to reduce effects of erratic motion input during operation of an instrument via a graphical user interface are described. Spatial motion input received from a user may be filtered using filter parameters obtained during a calibration procedure. The filtered motion input may be used to predict a trajectory of a cursor or object used to select an icon or text. The icon or text may be latched to the approaching cursor or object. The combination of motion smoothing and latching may improve ease-of-use of the graphical user interface for individuals having neuromuscular disorder, or users operating instruments in high-vibration environments.
US09880627B2	Automated haptic setting generation A system and method of generating a set of preferred haptic settings for a user based on haptic settings chosen by other similar users is presented. The method includes maintaining a database of haptic software applications with associated haptic configuration settings. When a user loads a haptic software application such as a computer game or video, a server receives a communication identifying the particular computer game or video and the identity of the user. The server searches the database for other users of the computer game or video where the other users have similar setting preferences as the user. The server calculates a preferred set of configuration settings and sends those settings to the user where a haptic output device produces haptic effects based on the preferred set of configuration settings. A system that generates haptic setting based on similar users is also presented.
US09880626B2	Haptic actuator including pulse width modulated waveform based movement for overcoming resting inertia and related methods A haptic actuator may include a housing, at least one coil carried by the housing, a field member movable within the housing responsive to the at least one coil, and at least one mechanical limit stop between the housing and the field member. The haptic actuator may also include circuitry capable of generating a pulse width modulated (PWM) waveform for the at least one coil to move the field member from an initial at-rest position and without contacting the at least one mechanical limit stop.
US09880625B2	Method of designing a panel assembly for a vibratory panel device There is disclosed a method of designing a panel assembly for a vibratory panel device, the assembly comprising a panel which supports vibrations and two or more transducers coupled to the panel to transmit vibrations to or receive vibrations from the panel. The method comprises: obtaining the number of transducers to be used in the assembly and their relative positions; obtaining relationships between drive signals to be applied to the respective transducers to provide a desired effect; determining an optimisation criterion for the assembly that depends on the obtained relationships; and determining one or more parameters for the respective transducers that satisfy the optimisation criterion. The one or more parameters may be selected from amplitudes of drive signals, spacing, activity, area, position, shape, dimension.
US09880624B2	Electronic device and method for providing information thereof An electronic device includes a pressure providing part, a fluid, and a tactile sensation providing layer. The pressure providing part generates an initial pressure by an electrical signal. The fluid generates a fluidic pressure by the initial pressure in each of active regions partitioned from each other. The tactile sensation providing layer is configured to protrude by the fluidic pressure. The pressure providing layer may include piezoelectric elements mechanically modified by the electrical signal.
US09880620B2	Smart ring The description relates to a smart ring. In one example, the smart ring can be configured to be worn on a first segment of a finger of a user. The example smart ring can include at least one flexion sensor secured to the smart ring in a manner that can detect a distance between the at least one flexion sensor and a second segment of the finger. The example smart ring can also include an input component configured to analyze signals from the at least one flexion sensor to detect a pose of the finger.
US09880611B2	Energy saving mode for electronic devices A system and method for operating an electronic computing device that is capable of invoking a battery saver mode may monitor an amount of power remaining in a battery of the electronic computing device, and generate an alert when the remaining amount of power in the battery available for continued operation of the device is at or below a predetermined threshold. The alert may include a notification of the estimated power remaining and an option to enable the battery saver mode. The alert may include a notification of the estimated power remaining and that battery saver mode has been enabled, and an option to disable the battery saver mode. The alert may include a notification of the estimated power remaining, and an option to customize the parameters of the battery saver mode by adjusting operation of various features and applications of the device.
US09880610B2	Power supplying method, power supplying system, and electronic device The present disclosure discloses a power supplying method, a power supplying system, and an electronic device to address the technical problems in the related art that the structure of an electronic device is complex, thereby achieving the technical effect that the internal structure of an electronic device is simplified and the cost for manufacturing the electronic device is reduced. The method comprises: detecting and acquiring current voltage of a power supplying battery in an electronic device as a first voltage if the power supplying battery is in a first power supplying state where a first operational circuit comprising a Real-Time Clock (RTC) and a second operational circuit are supplied with power, wherein the power supplying battery is connected to the first operational circuit and the second operational circuit via a regulator, and wherein the second operational circuit is a power-on circuit comprising a power switch; determining whether the first voltage is lower than a preset voltage to acquire a determination result; and controlling the power supplying battery to switch from the first power supplying state to a second power supplying state where only the first operational circuit is supplied with power if the determination result is yes.
US09880607B2	Dynamically optimizing bus frequency of an inter-integrated circuit (‘I2C’) bus Optimizing an I2C bus frequency, the bus including signal lines coupling a master and slave nodes, a signal line coupled to a rise time detection circuit monitoring a voltage of the signal line, the voltage alternating between a logic low and logic high, where optimizing the frequency includes: detecting, during a rise in the signal line, a first voltage, the first voltage being greater than the logic low voltage; starting a counter to increment once for each clock period of the circuit; detecting a second voltage on the signal line, the second voltage greater than the first and less than the logic high; stopping the counter; calculating, in dependence upon the clock period and the counter value, a rise time; determining whether the rise time is greater than a maximum threshold; and increasing the I2C bus frequency if the calculated rise time is greater than the maximum threshold.
US09880604B2	Energy efficient location detection In a device, one or more low energy sensors are used to determine a mobility state of the device. Based on both the mobility state of the device and one or more places of interest for the device, a determination is made as to when to use a high energy sensor to determine a location of the device. One of the one or more places of interest for the device within which the device is located at any particular time can be determined based on the mobility state of the device and/or the location of the device as determined by the high energy sensor.
US09880586B2	Modular display system interface One embodiment provides a system, including: an image display device with a recessed display connector; and an apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a housing, comprising: a base and an upper element; the upper element comprising a groove running lengthwise and open at both ends; a protruding display connector disposed substantially centrally within the groove; and an interface board, within the housing and operatively coupled to the display connector; wherein the image display device is attached to the groove of the apparatus via the recessed and protruding display connector. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09880585B2	Electronic device The present disclosure provides an electronic device that includes a first body, a second body, a rotating mechanism, an enclosing mechanism, and a flexible display screen. The first body and the second body are pivotally connected by the rotating mechanism, and the enclosing mechanism encloses the rotating mechanism. The flexible display screen is arranged on the enclosing mechanism. The electronic device according to the present disclosure can add an auxiliary display device, i.e. a flexible display screen, apart from main display devices, and according to different settings, the auxiliary display device can achieve an external image output independent from the main display device, and can also achieve a larger area image output than that of the main display device.
US09880584B2	Method and apparatus for executing application in device Provided are a method and a device for executing an application, in which a second external device is communication-connected while the device executes the application along with a first external device and the device executes the application along with the first device and the second external device based on characteristic information of the first external device and the second external device. Also, in the method of executing an application, one or more external devices are connected while a device executes the application and the device and the one or more external devices execute the application together.
US09880581B2	Winch mechanism for a carrier truck A mechanism for a winch assembly includes a link assembly and a bracket. The link assembly includes an actuator having an end configured to be coupled to a winch free spool device, a bushing coupled to the actuator, and a projection extending from the bushing. The bracket defines an aperture that receives the actuator, and the aperture includes a lower portion and an upper portion. The lower portion of the aperture is sized to receive the bushing therethrough and the upper portion of the aperture is sized to engage the projection such that the winch free spool device is selectively locked in an engaged position.
US09880570B2	Method and device for generating vibration based on an adjective A method for generating a vibration by a device by using an adjective is provided. The method includes setting at least one fundamental frequency and at least one overlap ratio corresponding to a certain adjective and a degree value of the certain adjective, receiving at least one user input for inputting an adjective and a degree value of the input adjective, and generating at least one vibration corresponding to the input adjective and the degree value of the input adjective based on the setting. The generated at least one vibration has a fundamental frequency and an overlap ratio corresponding to the input adjective and the degree value of the input adjective.
US09880566B2	Dynamic variable orifice A dynamic variable orifice includes a housing within which are located a rotor having at least one opening extending therethrough, and at least one seat ring, having an opening therethrough, biased thereagainst. In response to a pressure spike occurring at the inlet of the dynamic variable orifice, the rotor moves axially and rotationally in the housing, to selectively align the opening in the rotor with the opening in the seat ring.
US09880561B2	Sensor trajectory planning for a vehicle An example system includes a vehicle and a sensor connected to the vehicle. The system may receive a predetermined path for the vehicle to follow. The system may also receive a plurality of objectives, associated with a corresponding set of sensor data, for which to collect sensor data. The system may determine, for each of the plurality of objectives, a portion of the environment for the sensor to scan to acquire the corresponding set of sensor data. The system may determine, based on the portion of the environment determined for each of the plurality of objectives, a sensor trajectory through which to move the sensor. The system may cause the sensor to move through the determined sensor trajectory and scan portions of the environment corresponding to the determined sensor trajectory as the vehicle moves along the predetermined path.
US09880560B2	Vehicle auto-motion control system An automatic control system moves a vehicle so that it can be coupled to an implement. The vehicle has propulsion and steering controls which respond to electronic input signals. A visual target is mounted on the implement. Vehicle mounted cameras generate images of the target. A motion control unit receives and processes the images, and generates vehicle movement commands as a function of the images which are communicated to the propulsion and steering controls. The motion control unit includes a perception engine connected to the cameras, a controller connected to the perception engine, and a vehicle/operator interface which is connected to the controller, and to the propulsion and steering controls. The perception engine captures images from the cameras, un-distorts the images, and searches for the target. If the target is found, the perception engine recovers vehicle posture information and transmits said information to the controller.
US09880557B1	Detecting and responding to tailgaters An autonomous vehicle detects a tailgating vehicle and uses various response mechanisms. A vehicle is identified as a tailgater based on whether its characteristics meet a variable threshold. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at slower speeds, the threshold is defined in distance. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at faster speeds, the threshold is defined in time. The autonomous vehicle responds to the tailgater by modifying its driving behavior. In one example, the autonomous vehicle adjusts a headway buffer (defined in time) from another vehicle in front of the autonomous vehicle. In this regard, if the tailgater is T seconds too close to the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle increases the headway buffer to the vehicle in front of it by some amount relative to T.
US09880555B2	Method and apparatus for providing a steering reliability map based on driven curvatures and geometry curvature An approach is provided for comparing experienced curvatures with geometry-based curvatures to identify road environments. The approach involves causing, at least in part, an aggregation of a plurality of curvature samples collected from one or more vehicles traversing one or more travel segments. The approach also involves processing and/or facilitating a processing of the curvature samples to determine at least one experienced curvature for the one or more travel segments. The approach further involves determining at least one geometry-based curvature for the one or more travel segments. The approach also involves determining one or more differences between at least one experienced curvature and the at least one geometry-based curvature.
US09880554B2	Misrecognition determination device A misrecognition determination device is provided. The misrecognition determination device may be configured such that a plurality of traveling parameters that is used for driving control of a vehicle and is based on input data is calculated, a difference between each two of the plurality of traveling parameters is calculated, a weighting coefficient is calculated according to an orthogonality between each two pieces of input data in a traveling situation of the vehicle, and a determination is made whether misrecognition has occurred in a parameter group, which includes the plurality of traveling parameters, using the values each generated by multiplying the difference by the weighting coefficient.
US09880553B1	System and method for robot supervisory control with an augmented reality user interface Described is a system for robot supervisory control. The system includes an operator device that receives camera imagery from a camera mounted on a robot and three-dimensional (3D) data from a 3D sensor mounted on the robot. The user interface displays a two-dimensional (2D) view of the scene from the camera and 3D sensor data. One or more object markers of objects in the scene are overlaid on the 2D view or 3D sensor data. Viewing the scene, the user can choose a robotic action from a library of actions, which generates a simulation of the robot performing the selected action. The simulation is then rendered and overlaid on top of the 3D sensor data. Moreover, the simulation shows the expected variability of the robot's action. Based on the simulation's outcome, the user can approve and trigger the execution of the action in the real robot.
US09880550B2	Updating of a recipe for evaluating a manufacturing stage of an electrical circuit A computerized system that may include a recipe module and a yield diagnostics module. The yield diagnostics module may be configured to generate evaluation results that are indicative of an outcome of an evaluation process of at least one manufacturing stage of at least one electrical circuit. The evaluation results differ from end of line (EOL) results. The recipe module may be configured to receive EOL results relating to the at least one electrical circuit, to receive the evaluation results relating to the at least one electrical circuit; to correlate the evaluation results and the EOL results to provide correlation results; and respond to the correlation results. The responding to the correlation results may include determining whether to alter a recipe in response to the correlation results and altering the recipe if it is determined to alter the recipe.
US09880542B1	Automatic strategy determination for computer aided manufacturing A method for automated manufacturing strategy generation can include: identifying features of a desired part from a virtual model; and determining a tactic strategy based on the identified features. The method can additionally include: determining a toolpath primitive for each tactic; combining the toolpath primitives for the tactics to generate a master toolpath; and translating the master toolpath into machine code.
US09880539B2	Programmable control module for an industrial device A control module for an industrial device is provided. The control module includes a coupling feature configured to facilitate removable attachment of the control module with the industrial device and a communicative coupling feature configured to facilitate communication between the control module and the industrial device when coupled with a corresponding communicative coupling feature of the industrial device. The control module also includes a port configured to communicatively couple with a connector capable of supplying power and data communication, wherein the port is configured to receive power via the connector and exchange data with a computer via the connector.
US09880538B2	Electronic device and method for loading program code thereof An electronic device and a method for loading a program code thereof are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a first controller, a second controller, a flash memory and a transmission interface. The flash memory is electrically connected to the first controller and stores a first program code corresponding to the first controller and a second program code corresponding to the second controller. The transmission interface is electrically connected between the first controller and the second controller. The first controller establishes a connection with the second controller via the transmission interface, and checks whether the second program code is valid. When the second program code is valid, the first controller loads the second program code to the second controller, so as to make the second controller execute the second program code.
US09880525B2	Positioning apparatus and PLC system using same Disclosed are a positioning apparatus and a PLC system using the same. The positioning apparatus of the present invention generates, for every control period, a pulse signal for indicating the position of an object to be controlled, determines the current position of the object to be controlled using the pulse signal, and if the current position is a specific position, controls the object to be controlled in synchronization with the specific position.
US09880524B2	Watch type mobile terminal and controlling method thereof A watch type mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a position of an hour hand and a position of a minute hand can be automatically changed to prevent an object contained in an application running screen from being blocked. A watch type mobile terminal in which time is indicated by at least one hand, the mobile terminal comprising: a display; and a controller configured to: cause the display to display a face screen; cause the at least one hand to point to a current time while the face screen is displayed; cause the display to display an execution screen of an application when the application is executed; and cause the at least one hand to move from a first position to a second position, deviating from the current time, to not block an area of the execution screen at which an object is displayed.
US09880522B2	Method for creating a component A method for manufacturing a component in a substrate including: a) modifying a structure of at least one region of the substrate to make the at least one region more selective; and b) chemically etching the at least one region to selectively manufacture the component.
US09880520B2	Hour dial displaying a series of sequential timekeeping periods A dial including first indicia where each indicium of the first indicia is disposed on the dial at an angle of 90 degrees with respect to adjacent first indicia, and wherein the first indicia represent a first 12-hour period of time. The dial further including second indicia where each indicium of the second indicium is disposed on the dial at an angle of 90 degrees with respect to adjacent second indicia, and where the second indicia represents a second 12-hour period of time sequentially following the first 12-hour period of time.
US09880518B2	Cartridge mounting mechanism and process cartridge thereof A process cartridge is provided. The process cartridge includes a housing, a rotation member rotatably mounted in the housing, and a support mounted on the housing. The rotation member includes a station unit and a drive unit coupled to the rotation unit. The drive unit further comprises a drive transmission device and an actuating rod coupled to the drive transmission device. The support includes a notch allowing the actuating rod to pass through. When the actuating rod receives an applied force, the actuating rod swings in a plane defined by a longitudinal direction and a horizontal direction of the process cartridge.
US09880514B2	Drum unit A drum unit, to which a developer cartridge with a developer roller and a protrusion protruding in an axial direction of the developer roller is attachable, is provided. The drum unit includes a casing, a photosensitive drum to contact the developer roller, a first guide arranged to confront the protrusion along a direction orthogonal to the axial direction when the developer cartridge is attached to the casing to guide the protrusion, a second guide movable between a first position and a second position to guide the protrusion and arranged to confront the protrusion along the orthogonal direction when the developer cartridge is attached to the casing, and an urging member to urge the second guide in a direction from the first position toward the second position. The second guide includes a contact part to contact the first guide when the second guide is in the second position.
US09880510B2	Cleaning blade, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge Provided is a cleaning blade including an elastic member, wherein a spin-spin relaxation time (T2) of the elastic member obtained by a solid echo method in a pulse NMR analysis is longer than or equal to 0.60 msec but shorter than or equal to 1.0 msec, and wherein the elastic member has a contact part to contact a surface of a cleaning target member, and the contact part contains a cured product of a curable composition.
US09880509B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming unit, cleaning control method An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a motor, a cleaning portion, a measurement processing portion, and a cleaning control portion. The image carrier is configured to carry an electrostatic latent image. The motor is configured to rotate the image carrier. The cleaning portion is configured to clean the image carrier. The measurement processing portion is configured to measure a transition time that is a time required for the motor to transition from a stationary state to a driving state in which the motor rotates at a predetermined speed. The cleaning control portion is configured to control a cleaning time of the cleaning portion or whether or not to cause the cleaning portion to clean the image carrier.
US09880501B2	Liquid electro-photographic printing In one example, a printing process includes: forming a first latent image on a photoconductor (24); applying a first LEP ink (30) to the photoconductor to develop the first latent image into a first ink image; forming a second latent image having a first part on the first ink image and a second part on the photoconductor; and applying a second LEP ink (32, 34, 36) to the first ink image and to the photoconductor to develop the second latent image into a second ink image and form a composite on the photoconductor in which some of the second ink image overlaps some of the first ink image.
US09880493B2	Image forming apparatus for forming image using developer, method for releasing regulation on attachment/detachment of developer storage portions An image forming apparatus includes lock mechanisms, a second detection processing portion, and a second release processing portion. The lock mechanisms regulate attachment and detachment of the developer storage portions attached to the attachment portions. The second detection processing portion detects whether or not any of the image forming units has an abnormality. The second release processing portion can release a regulation on attachment and detachment of two or more developer storage portions corresponding to two or more image forming units that include at least an image forming unit adjacent to the image forming unit detected to have the abnormality.
US09880483B2	Image forming apparatus with cleaning mode using AC voltage Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an image bearing member; a charging member configured to charge the image bearing member; a voltage applying device configured to apply a voltage to the charging member; and a control unit configured to control the voltage applying device so as to perform a cleaning mode for applying an AC voltage to the charging member with the voltage applying device while moving a surface of the image bearing member during non-image formation of the image forming apparatus, wherein a period of time during which the cleaning mode is performed includes a first time-period during which a first AC voltage is applied and a second time-period during which a second AC voltage is applied, and a period of the first AC voltage is different from a period of the second AC voltage.
US09880474B2	System for producing structures in a substrate The disclosure provides a system for producing structures in a substrate. The system includes a projection exposure system. The projection exposure system includes a projection optical unit and an illumination system.
US09880467B2	Photo-curable and thermo-curable resin composition and dry film solder resist The present invention relates to a photo-curable and thermo-curable resin composition which can form a DFSR having micro unevenness on the surface without a separate treatment such as plasma treatment and the like and a DFSR. The photo-curable and thermo-curable resin composition includes an acid-modified oligomer having a carboxyl group (—COOH) and a photo-curable unsaturated functional group; a polyimide-based resin; a photo-polymerizable monomer having two or more photo-curable unsaturated functional groups; a thermo-curable binder having a thermo-curable functional group; and a photoinitiator.
US09880449B2	Suction cup and strap mount for action video recording with an electronic device An injection molded mounting plate with removably attached suction cups, lower connector, and retention strap which securely hold an electronic device within a mounting system for action video recording. The mounting plate is preferably an injection-molded part with multiple suction cup slots to allow suction cups to be inserted therein for securing the electronic device in a horizontal position with an elastic retention strap securing mechanism to wrap around the mounting plate and the electronic device. An elastic strap extends from an upending portion of the mounting plate, extends through a slot in the mounting plate, wraps around the electronic device, and fastens back upon itself via hook and loop fasteners to capture the device. The design of the mounting plate and preferred length of the retention strap fit “most” smartphone designs. This universal mount can be affixed to a stationary object, or wearable in nature.
US09880444B2	TM optical switch with high extinction ratio based on slab photonic crystals The present invention discloses a TMOS with a high extinction ratio based on slab PhCs which comprises an upper slab PhC and a lower slab PhC connected as a whole; the upper slab PhC is called as a first square-lattice slab PhC, wherein the unit cell of the first square-lattice slab PhC includes a high-refractive-index rotating-square pillar, three first flat dielectric pillars and a background dielectric, and the first flat dielectric pillars includes a high-refractive-index dielectric pipe and a low-refractive-index dielectric, or of 1 to 3 high-refractive-index flat films, or of a low-refractive-index dielectric; the lower slab PhC is a second square-lattice slab PhC with a complete bandgap, the unit cell of the second square-lattice slab PhC includes a high-refractive-index rotating-square pillar, three second flat dielectric pillars and a background dielectric is a low-refractive-index dielectric and an normalized operating frequency of the TMOS is 0.4057 to 0.406.
US09880441B1	Electrochromic systems for head-worn computer systems Embodiments include a head-worn computer, comprising: a removable lens, wherein the removable lens comprises an electrochromic layer adapted to transition between at least two states of transparency level dependent on an electrical condition applied to the electrochromatic layer; a variable-power magnetic-electrode mounted on the head-worn computer; and a magnetic element mounted in the removable lens, wherein the magnetic element is positioned behind the electrochromic layer and aligned to mate with the variable-power magnetic-electrode such that, when the lens is mounted, the variable-power magnetic-electrode and the magnetic element physically attract to one another making an electrical connection between the variable-power magnetic-electrode and an electrically conductive layer of the electrochromic layer.
US09880437B2	Display device A transistor includes a gate electrode over a substrate, an oxide semiconductor film overlapping with the gate electrode, a gate insulating film in contact with one surface of the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of conductive films in contact with the oxide semiconductor film. A capacitor includes a metal oxide film over the gate insulating film and in contact with one of the pair of conductive films, an inorganic insulating film, and a first light-transmitting conductive film over the inorganic insulating film. A first gate line serving also as a gate electrode is connected so as to be able to select three sub-pixels of four sub-pixels, and a second gate line is connected so as to be able to select the remaining one of the four sub-pixels and also one sub-pixel in the next row.
US09880435B2	Display device A display device includes a first light shielding part provided between a filter film and a first electrode, and a second light shielding part provided on a second substrate. First and second filter films each have long sides that extend in a first direction in which a video signal line extends, and the first and the second filter films are arranged adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction. The first light shielding part overlaps the video signal line in a plan view. The second light shielding part overlaps a metal electrode in the plan view.
US09880434B2	Array substrate, display panel, display device and method of repairing display panel An array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a method of repairing a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a functional layer and a photochromic layer disposed on the functional layer, and upon the array substrate suffering from light leakage, the photochromic layer in a light leakage area is irradiated by light to form a light blocking part in the light leakage area, thereby repairing light leakage of the array substrate.
US09880433B2	Color filter substrate and display device A color filter substrate is provided. The color filter substrate includes an underlying substrate, a first light-shielding structure, a second light-shielding structure and an electrical conductive transparent layer configured for transferring electrostatic charge An outer edge of the first light-shielding structure is spaced apart by a first distance from an outer edge of the non-displaying portion of the underlying substrate. A vertical projection of a non-displaying portion of the underlying substrate on a first plane is entirely covered by a combination of a vertical projection of the first light-shielding structure on the first plane and a vertical projection of the second light-shielding structure on the first plane, the first plane being a plane perpendicular to a propagation direction of light emitted toward the non-displaying region of the color filter substrate.
US09880422B2	Liquid crystal panel, display apparatus and method for manufacturing the liquid crystal panel Disclosed are a liquid crystal panel, a display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the liquid crystal panel. The manufacturing method of the liquid crystal panel includes: forming a first alignment layer covering a substrate surface and having an alignment direction along a first direction on a first substrate; the first substrate includes multiple column pixel areas; forming a second alignment layer having an alignment direction along a second direction on the first alignment layer, the first direction and the second direction are different directions, in correspondence with each of the column pixel areas, the second alignment layer has at least one aligning unit that penetrates the column pixel areas, and a width of each of the aligning unit is smaller than a width of the column pixel area.
US09880416B2	Light emitting device package and backlight unit using the same A light emitting device package including light emitting devices, and optical lenses respectively disposed over the light emitting devices. Further, a respective optical lens includes an extending member extending from a body of the respective optical lens, and including a first portion laterally extending in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the central axis of the respective light emitting device, and a second portion extending towards the substrate in a second direction substantially parallel with the central axis of the respective light emitting device. A vertical cross section of the second portion is substantially symmetrical with respect to an axis that is spaced apart in the first direction from and substantially parallel with the central axis of the respective light emitting device.
US09880413B2	Display device A display device may include a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area, a second substrate opposite the first substrate, a light shielding sealant on at least one side surface of the first and second substrates, and a first polarizer on at least one surface of the first and second substrates. The first polarizer may intersect an imaginary surface extending from the at least one side surface.
US09880412B2	Display panel and display method thereof, and display device The present invention provides a display panel and a display method thereof, and a display device. The display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit is composed of nine sub-pixels arranged in five columns, one center sub-pixel traversing two rows is only provided in the third column of each pixel unit, while the sub-pixels are arranged in two rows in other columns. The nine sub-pixels in each pixel unit include color sub-pixels and compensation sub-pixels, the color sub-pixels include a red sub-pixel, a green sub-pixel and a blue sub-pixel, and the compensation sub-pixels include a brightness compensation sub-pixel and a chromaticity compensation sub-pixel. The center sub-pixel has any one of five kinds of colors, a number of the sub-pixels with each of other four colors is two, and the sub-pixels with the same color are not adjacent to each other.
US09880410B2	Display apparatus A bezel abutting a peripheral edge of a display region of a liquid crystal panel having the display region on one surface, and a BL chassis holding the liquid crystal panel from the other surface side of the liquid crystal panel are fastened to each other by a plurality of fastening members to form a housing. Each of the fastening members is selected from a plurality of types of the fastening members having different electrical resistance values for each fastening location so that a resonance frequency of the housing does not coincide with a frequency of the electromagnetic wave noise radiated from the housing.
US09880408B2	Substrate inspection device and method A substrate inspection device and method are disclosed. The substrate inspection device includes a conveyance stage for carrying the substrate on its surface; a region scanning camera located at a first side of the conveyance stage, provided to be opposite to the surface, and configured for inspecting standard specification of the substrate; a line scanning camera located at the first side of the conveyance stage, provided to be opposite to the surface, and configured for inspecting edge line and size of the substrate; and a light source located at a second side of the conveyance stage opposite to the first side, configured for irradiating light rays onto the substrate, so as to be utilized by the region scanning camera and the line scanning camera for inspecting the substrate.
US09880398B2	Method and apparatus for ophthalmic devices including gradient-indexed and shaped liquid crystal layers This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert into an ophthalmic lens. The variable optic insert may have surfaces within that have differing radii of curvature. A liquid crystal layer may be used to provide a variable optic function and in some embodiments, an alignment layer for the liquid crystal layer may be patterned in a radially dependent manner. The patterning may allow for the index of refraction of the optic device to vary in a gradient-indexed or GRIN manner. An energy source is capable of powering the variable optic insert included within the ophthalmic lens. In some embodiments, an ophthalmic lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various ophthalmic lens entities may include electroactive liquid crystal layers to electrically control optical characteristics.
US09880397B1	Corrective lens adapter for firearm scope A corrective lens adapter configured for attaching to a firearm scope that comprises a lens adapted to compensate for presbyopic vision deficiencies of a user, a cylindrical body adapted to receive and support the lens, and a shroud adapted to be placed over a proximate end of the scope. The shroud is formed of a flexible material to be operatively fit over the eye piece of the scope without marring or damaging the scope, and includes a cord for cinching the shroud closed.
US09880396B2	Optical image capturing system A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power and a sixth lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09880385B2	System and method for projecting an image and display using said system A method of projecting an image includes emitting a light beam, forming an image from the light beam, and attenuating the light beam by controlling an AC signal between two voltage levels. The image is formed by projecting image frames. The switching of the AC signal from one voltage level to the other is controlled between projections of the image frames.
US09880384B2	Gaze detection system, gaze point detection method, and gaze point detection program A gaze detection system includes a head mounted display and a gaze detection device detecting the gaze of the user. The head mounted display illuminate users eyes with infrared light, displays three-dimensional image comprising a plurality of layers in the depth direction and captures an image of user's eye illuminated by the infrared light. The gaze detection device detects the user's right eye's gaze direction (vector) and left eye's gaze direction (vector) with use of the captured images. The gaze detection device identifies the layer that the user is gazing at by selecting the layer having the shortest distance between the intersection points of the right eye gaze vector and the left eye gaze vector with each layer as a gaze point in the depth direction.
US09880383B2	Display device Provided is a display device that can be readily reduced in size and thickness, and is capable of reducing luminance unevenness within an image. The display device includes: a projection optical system that projects image light at infinity; and a first propagation optical system, a second propagation optical system, and a third propagation optical system, which sequentially enlarge, in one direction, the image light projected from the projection optical system, in which the image light output from the third propagation optical system allows an image to be observed.
US09880380B2	Endoscope system An endoscope system has observation modes making observations with lights having optical characteristics different from each other. The system includes an endoscope including an insertion section provided with an illumination window, a light guide arranged in the insertion section, and including an entrance end on which the lights enter and a plurality of light guide areas that guide the lights entered on the entrance end, and an entrance area switching unit that switches between the light guide areas through which the entered lights are guided by switching between areas on which the lights enter at the entrance end in accordance with an observation mode.
US09880378B2	Microscope, focusing unit, fluid holding unit, and optical unit A microscope includes: a sample placement part having a placement surface on which to place a sample and a bottom face opposite to the placement surface; an observation lens; and an optical unit for generating sheet light and use of the microscope. The microscope of an embodiment is arranged such that the sheet light enters the sample placement part from the bottom face and passing through the sample placement part to irradiate the sample, and fluorescence from the sample passes through the sample placement part toward the bottom face to be received by the observation lens. The microscope can, with this arrangement, utilize the advantages of a SPIM, and allows observation of a sample which observation is free from a restriction of the size of a sample.
US09880373B2	Imaging optical lens assembly, image capturing unit and electronic device An imaging optical lens assembly 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 and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The third lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein the image-side surface has convex shape in an off-axis region, and the two surfaces thereof are aspheric. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric.
US09880367B2	Hybrid electrical/optical connector A single hybrid electrical/optical connector simultaneously forms both electrical and optical input/output connections by a single step engagement between elements on a connector and corresponding elements of the opposite gender on a mating connector. The connector can be surface-mounted on a circuit board, and a mating connector can be vertically pluggable onto the connector. The optical elements on the connector and/or the mating connector can be detachable, which can simplify assembly of a system that includes the circuit board. The hybrid electrical/optical connector has applications for optical transceivers. The hybrid electrical/optical connector includes a housing that extends laterally along a housing plane. The housing includes electrical and optical sockets thereon. In some examples, the electrical sockets and the optical sockets are laterally arranged on opposite sides of a division plane perpendicular to the housing plane.
US09880363B2	Method of manufacturing optical device including resin layer An optical device includes: an optical element with a surface including one of a light-receiving portion and a light-emitting portion; a resin layer provided over the one of light-receiving portion and the light-emitting portion; and a resin lens provided over the resin layer, wherein the resin layer includes a first shape larger than a second shape of the resin lens in a direction parallel to the surface.
US09880362B2	Methods of securing one or more optical fibers to a ferrule A method of securing an optical fiber to a ferrule involves heating the ferrule to cause thermal expansion. A ferrule bore of the ferrule increases in diameter as a result of the thermal expansion, and an optical fiber is inserted into the ferrule bore. The ferrule is then cooled so that the ferrule bore decreases in diameter and forms a mechanical interface with the optical fiber. Finally, the optical fiber is fused to the ferrule by irradiating the optical fiber and the ferrule with laser energy.
US09880361B2	Field changeable fiber optic connector polarity keying with color coding A fiber optic connector along with a tool allows for the changing of the polarity of the fiber optic connector. Keys are installed in both the top and the bottom of the fiber optic connector, one in a first position and the other in a second position. Using the tool in one back-and-forth motion, the polarity of the fiber optic connector change be changed. The keys may be colored differently to identify the polarity of the fiber optic connector.
US09880354B2	Surface electromagnetic waves in photonic band gap multilayers A device and associated methods for using surface electromagnetic waves (SEWs) generated at the surface of photonic band gap multilayers (PBGMs) in place of surface plasmons (SPs) in metal films. One device is a photonic circuit comprising a multilayer apparatus to generate surface electromagnetic waves, wherein the surface electromagnetic waves comprise the signal medium within the circuit. The circuit may be formed or etched on the surface of the multilayer apparatus.
US09880353B2	Phase tuning in waveguide arrays The wavelength response of an arrayed waveguide grating can be tuned, in accordance with various embodiments, using a beam sweeper including one or more heaters to shift a lateral position of light focused by the beam sweeper at an interface of the beam sweeper with an input free propagation region of the arrayed waveguide grating.
US09880344B2	Light-sealed and light-enhanced display apparatus A display apparatus utilizing all light output by a light source also includes a display panel with a shield portion, a light guide plate, and a quantum dot enhancement layer. The display panel includes a display portion and a shield portion. The light guide plate is parallel with the display panel and guides light emitted by the light source to the display panel. The quantum dot enhancement layer converts a wavelength of the light and the shield portion is configured to reflect stray or escaping light back into the quantum dot enhancement layer for conversion. The surface of the light guide plate is overlapped with the shield portion for preventing any light leakage and the mixing of light of different wavelengths and thus colors is increased and improved.
US09880334B2	Optical film, liquid crystal display device comprising same, and method for manufacturing protective film used therefor An optical film, a liquid crystal display including the same, and a method for manufacturing a protective film used therefor are provided. An optical film includes a polarizer and a protective film laminated or stacked on at least one surface of the polarizer, and a thickness-direction retardation (Re) of the protective film is in the range of 0 nm to 200 nm, and an out-of-plane retardation (Rth) of the protective film is in the range of 300 nm to 1,200 nm.
US09880321B2	Defining non-linear petrofacies for a reservoir simulation model System and methods for defining non-linear petrofacies for a reservoir simulation model are provided. A cross-plot visualization of selected petrophysical properties from a three-dimensional (3D) geocellular grid array of petrophysical properties representing a reservoir rock formation is presented to a user via a display of a computing device. Upon receiving user input for defining a non-linear petrofacies region of the 3D geocellular grid within the presented cross-plot visualization, data points in the cross-plot visualization that are within the boundaries of the petrofacies region are identified. The identified data points are associated with the petrofacies region. Hydraulic rock properties are assigned to one or more cells of the 3D geocellular grid based on the data points associated with the petrofacies region.
US09880320B2	Tank sensor array for inventory signaling in a tank management system A tank inventory signaling apparatus that has gas cylinder tanks stored on a pad having an array of spots to mark tank placement. Tanks are placed directly over the spots in a grid of rows and columns. Sensors below each spot act as weight or proximity sensors indicating the presence or absence of a tank. The sensors are connected to logic that monitors the state of all sensors. Tank inventory is inferred by changes of state of the sensor grid since it is necessary to change sensor state to remove a tank. Sensor states are reported to a remote server having associated tank management and supply software and route management software. In this manner, local tank usage can be tracked at remote locations for resupply of tanks and delivery of replacement tanks can be optimized.
US09880317B2	Superconducting acceleration sensor suitable for gravitational wave radiation detection This invention detects mass and mass motion of external objects by virtue of its action as a gravimeter, gravity gradiometer, and detector of gravitational fields. This invention is for devices which function as accelerometers and gyroscopes for the bodies to which they are attached.
US09880316B2	Multiple source neutron measurement, device, system and use thereof A multi-source neutron logging tool has been developed. The multi-source logging tool comprises axially aligned gamma and thermal neutron detectors on either side of a multi-neutron source. The multi-source neutron logging tool may be used to evaluate formations adjacent a borehole.
US09880310B2	Method for detecting fluid fronts using a combination of electric and gravity measurements in boreholes A method for estimating a displacement of a fluid-to-hydrocarbon interface in a reservoir in the earth includes: disposing an electrode in an injector borehole that is configured to inject a fluid into the reservoir; energizing the electrode with a voltage source to apply a voltage to the reservoir; disposing an electric field sensor in the injector borehole; disposing a gravity sensor in at least one of the injector borehole and a producer borehole that is offset a distance L from the injector borehole; injecting fluid into the reservoir; measuring a magnitude of a time-varying electric field due to the injecting using the electric field sensor to provide electric field measurements; measuring a magnitude of a time-varying gravitational field due to the injecting using the gravity sensor to provide gravitational field measurements; and estimating the displacement using the electric field measurements and the gravitational field measurements.
US09880307B2	Induction logging sensor Apparatuses and methods are provided herein that may improve sensitivity to transient signals. For example, an electromagnetic sensor for downhole measurements that includes a plurality of sectors (e.g., four quadrants) is provided herein. Each quadrant may include a magnetic core formed of a material with a high initial magnetic permeability to improve sensitivity to transient signals. A sensor for continuous wave induction tools is also provided, and may include a magnetic core formed of a material with a high initial magnetic permeability. Forming each sector magnetic core of a material with a high mechanical reliability may allow the magnetic core of the corresponding sensor to be pliable and flexible and not brittle and prone to breaking. Furthermore, the corresponding sensor may have enhanced sensitivity, greater stability of sensitivity relative to temperature changes, and high mechanical reliability.
US09880301B2	Systems, devices and methods related to calibration of a proton computed tomography scanner Disclosed are systems, devices and methodologies related to calibration of an ion based imaging apparatus such as a proton computed tomography scanner. In some implementations, energy degrader plates having known water-equivalent thickness (WET) values can be introduced to an ion beam to introduce different energy degradation settings. Energy detector responses to individual ions subject to such energy degradation settings can be obtained. Such responses can be normalized and correlated to water-equivalent path lengths (WEPL) of the ions based on the known WET values. Such calibration utilizing degrader plates can be performed relatively quickly and can yield accurate WEPL values that facilitate estimation of, for example, a CT image based on relative stopping power of an object.
US09880299B2	Time label combination method and system A time label combination method, comprising the steps: collecting data acquisition system digital measurement values and establishing a database for the measured values; identifying atomic time label quantities and shape fluctuation statistics; estimating a covariance matrix of each atomic time label; according to the least squares criterion, giving the time label combination. Also provided is a time label combination system, comprising a low-dose pre-acquisition data module, a digital identification module, a quantitative variance calculation module, and a time label combination parameter calculation module. By means of using the described time label combination method and system, system and resolution is effective increased, and the invention is particularly suitable for nuclear instrument time acquisition.
US09880298B2	Method and device for determining a position of point and line sources in a positron emission tomography (PET) apparatus An apparatus and method for determining a position of a point source arranged in a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner apparatus. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain list-mode data generated from a PET scan of the point source, determine a plurality of lines-of-response (LORs) from the obtained list-mode data, determine intersecting pairs of LORs from the determined plurality of LORs, determine corresponding coordinates of intersection points of the determined intersecting pairs of LORs, and determine the position of the point source based on the determined coordinates of the intersections points.
US09880293B2	X-ray imaging system and method An X-ray imaging system can include an X-ray source that projects a beam of X-ray radiation and an X-ray detector positioned to receive the beam of X-ray radiation at a location. The X-ray detector can include: (i) a monolithic substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, (ii) a scintillation layer arranged upon the first side and including a first region and a second region, the first region having a first X-ray sensitivity and the second region having a second X-ray sensitivity different than the first X-ray sensitivity, and (iii) a photosensor array arranged upon the second side. The X-ray source and X-ray detector can be configured to adjust the location at which the X-ray detector receives the beam of X-ray radiation such that the location is primarily within the first region or the second region.
US09880290B2	Method of measuring radioactive material of ingot using HPGe gamma scintillator Disclosed is a method of measuring radioactive material of an ingot, in which an ingot having a volume produced by subjecting metal waste generated in nuclear fuel processing or production facilities to melting decontamination undergoes gamma spectroscopy using a HPGe detector to measure gamma rays of U-235 (185.72 keV, 57.2%) among uranium isotopes, followed by performing detector calibration using a certified reference material and self-absorption correction depending on the density of a medium using MCNP computer code, and which enables rapid determination of whether the ingot subjected to melting decontamination may be self-disposed of or not.
US09880284B2	RF signal alignment calibration A method is provided for aligning RF signals of a first channel bank and additional channel banks in a test platform. A plurality of correlators is used to correlate a reference code signal carrying a particular code at a particular chip rate with a received code signal carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the first channel bank to establish a first timing offset. The plurality of correlators is used to correlate a continuation of the reference code signal with additional received code signals carrying the particular code at the particular chip rate from the additional channel banks to establish additional timing offsets. The first timing offset and additional timing offsets are applied to the first and additional channel banks. The plurality of correlators includes at least 12 correlators, and a timing offset is established in a correlation interval having a shorter duration than the particular code.
US09880269B2	Apparatus and methods for dimensioning an object carried by a vehicle moving in a field of measurement The dimensions of an object are measured as it is transported by a forklift within an area of measurement. A first scanner is on a first side of the area of measurement; a second scanner is on an opposite second side and across the first scanner. The first and second scanners provide a dual-head scanner arrangement to capture dimensions of the object. A third scanner is on the first side of the area of measurement, parallel to the first scanner. The first and third scanners are configured to capture speed and direction of the object. Each scanner has a processor to operate it. The first and second scanners are synchronized, and operation of the first and third scanners is correlated. Placement of the first and second scanners establishes a width of the area of measurement and the first and third scanners establish a length thereof.
US09880263B2	Long range steerable LIDAR system Systems and methods are described that relate to a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device. The LIDAR device includes a fiber laser configured to emit light within a wavelength range, a scanning portion configured to direct the emitted light in a reciprocating manner about a first axis, and a plurality of detectors configured to sense light within the wavelength range. The device additionally includes a controller configured to receive target information, which may be indicative of an object, a position, a location, or an angle range. In response to receiving the target information, the controller may cause the rotational mount to rotate so as to adjust a pointing direction of the LIDAR. The controller is further configured to cause the LIDAR to scan a field-of-view (FOV) of the environment. The controller may determine a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the environment based on data from scanning the FOV.
US09880259B2	Method for estimating the position of a mobile station using TOA, AOA, and doppler-shift A method for estimating the position of a mobile station (MS) comprising the following steps: physically moving the MS at a constant velocity v in an environment comprising S stationary scatterers; wirelessly transmitting N uplink communication signals from a transmitter physically mounted to the MS; receiving each of the N uplink signals via D distinct paths at a fixed-location base station (BS); recording with the BS a time of arrival (TOA) τ, an angle-of-arrival (AOA) θ, and a Doppler-shifted frequency (DSF) of each received uplink signal; estimating the location of the MS using a least squares algorithm based on the TOA, the AOA, and the DSF.
US09880257B2	Gaussian process-based approach for identifying correlation between wireless signals Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing outputs; e.g., location estimates, based on trained Gaussian processes modeling signals of wireless signal emitters. A computing device can determine first and second trained Gaussian processes. The respective first and second Gaussian processes can be based on first and second hyperparameter values related to first and second wireless signal emitters. The computing device can determine first and second sets of comparison hyperparameter values of the respective first and second hyperparameter values, and then determine whether the first and second sets of comparison hyperparameter values are within one or more threshold values. After determining that the first and second sets of comparison hyperparameter values are within the threshold(s), the computing device can determine the first and second Gaussian processes are dependent and then provide an estimated-location output based on a representative Gaussian process based on the first and the second Gaussian processes.
US09880250B2	Method and magnetic resonance apparatus for image reconstruction with multiple virtual coils An MR image is produced from data acquired by radiating an RF pulse and switching multiple bipolar magnetic field gradients to generate multiple gradient echoes that are acquired in a raw data set with multiple raw data lines by a reception coil, the multiple gradient echoes being acquired with bipolar magnetic field gradients of different polarity. Due to the bipolar magnetic field gradients of different polarity, in the raw data set first raw data lines are filled with MR signals in one direction in raw data space, and second raw data lines are filled with MR signals in the opposite direction. The MR image is reconstructed from MR signals that have simultaneously been acquired with at least two different reception coils, by generating a first coil raw data set from the raw data set in the image reconstruction, which coil raw data set has only the raw data lines of the raw data set that were filled with MR signals in one direction, and by selecting a second coil raw data set that has only the raw data lines of the raw data set that were filled with MR signals in the other set direction. The MR image is reconstructed from the two coil raw data sets using a parallel imaging reconstruction algorithm, under the assumption that the two coil raw data sets have been acquired by different reception coils.
US09880247B2	System and method for magnetic resonance imaging using highly accelerated projection imaging A method for highly accelerated projection imaging (“HAPI”) is provided. In this method, conventional linear gradients are used to obtain coil sensitivity-weighted projections of the object being imaged. Only a relatively small number of projections, such as sixteen or less, of the object are required to reconstruct a two-dimensional image of the object, unlike conventional projection imaging techniques. The relationship between the voxel values of the imaged object and the coil sensitivity-weighted projections is formulated as a linear system of equations and the reconstructed images are obtained by solving this matrix equation. This method advantageously allows higher acceleration rates compared to echo planar imaging (“EPI”) with SENSE or GRAPPA acceleration. Moreover, the method does not require any additional or specialized hardware because hardware in conventional MRI scanners is adequate to implement the method.
US09880233B2	Methods and apparatus to determine parameters in metal-containing films A method and apparatus to determine a parameter of a metal-containing film are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of determining a parameter of a metal-containing film may include generating a first magnetic field by flowing an alternating current through a coil disposed adjacent to and spaced apart from the metal-containing film, wherein the first magnetic field induces a second magnetic field proximate the metal-containing film; heating the metal-containing film from a first temperature to a second temperature; measuring a response of the first magnetic field to the second magnetic field as the metal-containing film is heated from the first temperature to the second temperature; and correlating the response with a rate of temperature change of the metal-containing film as the metal-containing film is heated from the first temperature to the second temperature to determine a parameter of the metal-containing film.
US09880228B2	Method and system for measuring the integrity of a power converter A method of measuring integrity of a pulse-width modulated power converter may include the steps of monitoring data associated with an input and an output of the power converter. Then correlating the data to identify degradation in performance of the power converter. A system for measuring integrity of a pulse-width modulated power converter. Current sensors may sense input and output currents of the power converter. A programmable controller may be loaded with an integrity measuring algorithm that may analyze data from the current sensors. An impending failure of the power converter may be indicated as a result of the analysis of the data.
US09880218B2	Test electrode for argon plasma coagulation medical instrument To provide the user of an RF-surgical instrument with a non-hazardous short test operation, for example so as to test the ignitability of an argon plasma probe, provision is made for an instrument test arrangement, which is installed into a feeding medical device or into a neutral conductor connecting cable or which is provided as plug adapter, which is to be plugged between the device and the neutral conductor connecting cable. The instrument test arrangement comprises at least one or, better yet, two ignition test electrodes, which are connected to conductors of the device or of the neutral conductor cable, preferably via impedance components. The ignition test electrodes can be accessed insofar as a spark can be created simultaneously to both ignition test electrodes by means of an operational probe or an instrument.
US09880217B1	Measuring line characteristics of three-phase power transmission lines A line sensor assembly is described for measuring line characteristics in a power line such as voltage, phase, current, etc. The line sensor assembly includes a set of electric field sensors, where the electric field sensors are positioned annularly about an axis of the assembly corresponding to an axis of a power line. A measurement circuit is configured to measure an electric field across each of the electric field sensors to produce a set of electric field measurements. The set of electric field measurements may be used to determine the line characteristics of a given power line.
US09880215B2	Inspection method for blanking device for blanking multi charged particle beams An inspection method for a blanking device for multi-beams, for inspecting whether a separate blanking system of the blanking device is defective, includes, using the blanking device, measuring a value of current flowing from a power source for supplying voltage based on a difference between a first potential and a second potential to each of a plurality of separate blanking systems, in a state where the first potential is applied to a first electrode from a first potential applying unit and the second potential is applied to a second electrode from a corresponding second potential applying unit in at least one second potential applying unit in each of a plurality of separate blanking systems of the blanking device, and determining, when a measured current value is a finite value and equal to or below a preset threshold, that a separate blanking system where a short circuit has occurred exists.
US09880206B2	Electric current sensor An electric current sensor includes a plurality of bus bars arranged in parallel, a plurality of magnetic detection elements that are adapted to detect a strength of a magnetic field generated by an electric current flowing through the bus bars and to output a voltage according to the strength of the magnetic field detected, and an arithmetic operation part to arithmetically operate an electric current flowing through the bus bars based on the voltage output from the plurality of magnetic detection elements. The arithmetic operation part includes a magnetic flux density arithmetic operation part to arithmetically operate a magnetic flux density based on the voltage, and an electric current arithmetic operation part to arithmetically operate an electric current I1 to Im flowing through each of the bus bars based on formula (1) below, ( B 1 = a 11 · I 1 + a 12 · I 2 + … + a 1 ⁢ ⁢ n · I n B 2 = a 21 · I 1 + a 22 · I 2 + … + a 2 ⁢ n · I n B 3 = a 31 · I 1 + a 32 · I 2 + … + a 3 ⁢ n · I n ⋮ ⁢ ⁢ ⋮ B m = a m ⁢ ⁢ 1 · I 1 + a m ⁢ ⁢ 2 · I 2 + … + a mn · I n ⁢ ⁢ where ⁢ ⁢ a 11 ⁢ ⁢ to ⁢ ⁢ a mn ⁢ ⁢ are ⁢ ⁢ coefficients , ( 1 ) B1 to Bm are a magnetic flux density and I1 to Im are an electric current.
US09880203B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the semiconductor device Current detection circuit of a semiconductor device provided with a shunt resistor, a voltage division ratio adjustment resistor and a selection circuit which selects a voltage division ratio of the latter and has enhancement type MOSFETs and Zener Zaps as trimming elements. One of the Zener Zaps is trimmed and a divided voltage of the voltage division ratio adjustment resistor connected in parallel with the shunt resistor is outputted. The detected voltage in which variation of the resistance of the shunt resistor has been cancelled is therefore outputted. As the shunt resistor and the voltage division ratio adjustment resistor are laminated together, it is possible to obtain a current detection circuit with a small area, which can detect a current flowing into a shunt resistor with high accuracy.
US09880202B2	Probe card for an apparatus for testing electronic devices A probe card for an apparatus for testing electronic devices comprises at least one probe head, a plurality of contact probes housed within the probe head, each contact probe having at least one contact tip suitable to abut against contact pads of a device to be tested, a supporting plate of the probe head, an interface plate, a stiffener associating the supporting plate and the interface plate, a plurality of connecting elements with clearance disposed between the supporting plate and the interface plate and housed in a floating manner in a plurality of respective seats made in the supporting plate, and a plurality of connecting elements without clearance disposed between the interface plate and the stiffener.
US09880201B2	Systems for probing semiconductor wafers A wafer probing system includes a plurality of contacting pins connected to a test head. The system further includes a probe card electrically connectable with the test head, where the probe card includes a circuit board having a plurality of contact pads on opposite sides of the circuit board.
US09880198B2	High bandwidth signal probe tip A high bandwidth signal probe device and a method of probing a high bandwidth signal are provided. The high bandwidth signal probe device includes a probe tip for probing a stub of a backdrilled via of a printed circuit board. The probe tip is adapted to fit in the backdrilled via. The probe tip has a length adapted to reach the stub of the backdrilled via. The probe tip is adapted to contact a plated portion of the stub of the backdrilled via. A resistive element is associated with the probe tip. The method includes inserting a probe tip of a signal probe device in the backdrilled via, placing the probe tip in contact with a plated portion of the stub of the backdrilled via, and receiving an electrical signal through a path which includes a resistive element of the probe tip of the signal probe device.
US09880196B2	Semiconductor device inspection apparatus and semiconductor device inspection method A semiconductor device inspection apparatus includes probe sockets and an insulating plate that holds probes via the probe sockets. The probe sockets each include an opposing part that opposes the insulating plate in the direction in which the probe is pressed and has a pressure passive member disposed in the opposing part. The insulating plate is transparent. When pressing force is applied to the tips of the probes, the pressure passive members are pressed between the opposing parts of the probe sockets and the insulating plate. The semiconductor device inspection apparatus further includes a camera to capture an image of the pressure passive members from the opposite side of the insulating plate to the side on which the pressure passive members are disposed, and an image processor to process the image captured by the camera to detect the presence or absence of pressure received by the pressure passive members.
US09880195B2	Test systems and methods of testing devices A test system for performing a plurality of tests on a plurality of devices includes a tester having a plurality of tester pins and at least one socket, wherein the plurality of devices are received in the at least one socket. The test system further includes a plurality of multiplexers, wherein each of the multiplexers has an input coupled to one of the plurality of tester pins and each of the multiplexers has outputs coupled to individual device pins of the devices. The tester is configurable to perform a first test on a first plurality of devices and a second test on a second plurality of devices without disconnecting the devices from the at least one socket.
US09880194B2	Actuator module for actuating a load The disclosure concerns an actuator module (10) for actuating a load (14). The actuator module (10) comprises a deformable frame (1) and an actuator (2) connected to the deformable frame (1). A time-varying force distribution (F) couples to an excited state (V0) of an eigenmode (V) of the deformable frame (1). The force distribution (F), as well as a stiffness distribution (K) and/or mass distribution (M) of the deformable frame 1 are adapted such that static nodal points (11s) of the deformable frame 1 are coincided with mode nodal points (11m). The locations where the nodal points coincide can be used to connect the actuator module (10) to a base frame to reduce transfer of vibrations to the base frame and back which may otherwise undesirably influence the transfer function from actuator to load. The disclosure further concerns a method for designing and/or manufacturing the actuator module.
US09880193B2	Device driven inertial interference compensation Techniques for compensating for inertial and/or magnetic interference in a mobile device are provided. The mobile device can include a vibration motor to vibrate the device, a processor, and can include an inertial sensor and/or a magnetometer. The processor can be configured to actuate the vibration motor to induce vibration of the mobile device, to measure motion of the mobile device with the inertial sensor of the device to produce sensor output data and/or to measure a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor to produce magnetometer output data, and to compensate for the vibration of the inertial sensor induced by the vibration motor to produce compensated sensor output data and/or to compensate for a magnetic field generated by the vibration motor when the vibration motor is actuated to produce compensated magnetometer output data.
US09880192B2	Method of manufacturing a motion sensor device A Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) device includes a sensing element, and a proof mass over and overlapping at least a portion of the sensing element. The proof mass is configured to be movable toward the sensing element. A protection region is formed between the sensing element and the proof mass. The protection region overlaps a first portion of the sensing element, and does not overlap a second portion of the sensing element, wherein the first and the second portions overlap the proof mass.
US09880188B2	Speed sensor authority for and method of measuring speed of rotation Sensor arrangement for measuring a rotation speed of a salient member of a rotatable body comprising a first electrode arrangement providing a first input, a second electrode arrangement providing a second input different from the first input, the first and second electrode arrangements configured so noise in the first and second inputs is substantially the same, and wherein variations in the first and second inputs are caused by rotation of the rotatable body and the salient member past the first and second electrode arrangements, an output arrangement for receiving the first and second inputs, and for providing an output proportional to a difference between the first and second inputs, and a retaining member for retaining one or more of the first and second electrode arrangements and output arrangement, the speed of rotation of the salient member measurable from a variation in the output caused by rotation of that salient member.
US09880178B2	Method for aiding diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease The present invention provides an ex vivo method for aiding the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in a patient comprising: (i) determining the number of alleles of ApoE4 in the patient's genome; (ii) determining the combined expression level of at least three platelet proteins in a platelet sample from the patient; and (iii) comparing the resulting value of step (ii) to a control value, wherein the at least three platelet proteins include at least one isoform of alpha-tropomyosin containing exon 1a and at least two platelet proteins selected from monoamine oxidase-B, coagulation factor XIIIa, wild-type GSTO-1 or mutant GSTO-1, wherein a result higher than the control value is indicative of Alzheimer's disease.The invention also provides a solid support comprising one or more ligands of at least one isoform of alpha-tropomyosin containing exon 1a, and one or more ligands of at least two platelet proteins selected from monoamine oxidase-B, coagulation factor XIIIa, wild-type GSTO-1 protein and/or mutant GSTO-1 protein immobilized thereon.
US09880167B2	Anti-dengue virus antibodies and uses thereof The present invention provides, among other things, antibody agents (e.g., antibodies, and/or antigen-binding fragments thereof) that bind to DV epitopes, as well as compositions containing them and methods of designing, providing, formulating, using, identifying and/or characterizing them. In some embodiments, provided antibody agents show significant binding to a plurality of DV serotypes. In some embodiments, provided antibody agents show significant binding to all four DV serotypes. Such antibody agents are useful, for example, in the prophylaxis, treatment, diagnosis, and/or study of DV.
US09880162B2	Method for manufacturing multi-functional bio-material conjugate using two kinds of particle, and multi-functional bio-material conjugate manufactured by means of same Disclosed herein are a method for manufacturing a multi-functional bio-material conjugate used as a biosensor for detecting microorganisms, and the like, and a multi-functional bio-material conjugate manufactured by means of the same. The method for manufacturing a multi-functional bio-material conjugate includes: (a) coating a first nanoparticle having magnetic or fluorescent characteristics with protein; (b) manufacturing a conjugate by adsorbing a second nanoparticle having metallic characteristics onto the first nanoparticle coated with protein; and (c) manufacturing the multi-functional bio-material conjugate by adsorbing a bio-material onto the conjugate. The method for manufacturing a multi-functional bio-material conjugate according to the present invention may prevent precipitation of the nanoparticles, easily immobilize the bio-material, and manufacture a bio-material conjugate having multiple functions, by using two kinds of the particles. In addition, the multi-functional bio-material conjugate manufactured by the present method may be used to detect microorganisms at up to a concentration of 101 cfu.
US09880160B2	Antibody screening methods Provided are methods and compositions for the production of novel antibodies that bind specifically to a target antigen. These methods and compositions are particularly useful for producing antibodies having the antigen binding specificity of a reference antibody but with improved properties (e.g., binding affinity, immunogenicity, and thermodynamic stability) relative to the reference antibody.
US09880153B2	Componential analyzer, drug efficacy analyzer, and analysis method Application of the present invention enables quantification of fractions of candidate pharmaceutical compounds (a parent compound and its metabolites), one excreted to the basolateral (Basal/Basolateral)-side via transporters and by diffusion, one excreted to the lumen (Apical)-side, and one remained in the cells. This enables determination of the total amount of the administered candidate pharmaceutical compounds and the distribution ratio of the fractions. The kinetics of the administered candidate pharmaceutical compounds can be evaluated, thereby enabling in vitro screening of an enormous number of candidate pharmaceutical compounds for drug candidates exhibiting the efficacy. The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for understanding a total picture of pharmacokinetics in vitro by quantifying a fraction of basolateral (Basal/Basolateral) efflux, a fraction of lumen (Apical)-side excretion, and a fraction remaining in a cell of a drug which has been administered to the cell to determine the distribution ratio of each fraction.
US09880140B2	Continual crop development profiling using dynamical extended range weather forecasting with routine remotely-sensed validation imagery A modeling framework for estimating crop growth and development over the course of an entire growing season generates a continuing profile of crop development from any point prior to and during a growing season until a crop maturity date is reached. The modeling framework applies extended range weather forecasts and remotely-sensed imagery to improve crop growth and development estimation, validation and projection. Output from the profile of crop development profile generates a combination of data for use in auxiliary farm management applications.
US09880130B2	Pulsed eddy current testing with dual-purpose coils A Pulsed Eddy Current device for inspecting an object made of an electrically conductive material comprising: at least one dual-purpose coil serving a dual purpose of producing a supplied magnetic field in the object and measuring a produced magnetic field emitted by the object, a transmitter circuit driving the dual-purpose coil(s) with an electrical signal, a shut-off current circuit for the transmitter circuit for cutting-off a current in the dual-purpose coil(s) during a cut-off phase of the electrical signal, the shut-off current circuit applying a voltage inversion on the dual-purpose coil(s) and a receiver circuit for reading the produced magnetic field from the dual-purpose coil(s). A method for inspecting an object comprising supplying a voltage on at least one dual-purpose coil, cutting-off a current in the dual-purpose coil(s) by applying a voltage inversion on the dual-purpose coil(s) and receiving, at the dual-purpose coil(s), a produced magnetic field.
US09880124B2	Measurement of ion concentration in presence of organics Disclosed herein are systems and methods that relate to use of ultramicroelectrodes (UME) in measurement of ion concentration in presence of one or more organic compound(s).
US09880113B2	Method of X-ray nano-radiography and nanotomography and a device for executing this method The invention describes a method and a device (9) for executing a method of X-ray nano-radiography and nanotomography using a scanning electron microscope (1) consisting of the focus of an electron beam (2) from an electron microscope (1) onto one point of the surface of a scanned sample (3), the emission of bremsstrahlung and fluorescent radiation (6) from the focal point of the impact of the electron beam (2), the sensing of the scanned sample (3), and recording an image of the structure of the scanned sample (3) based on the change of intensities of the bremsstrahlung and fluorescent radiation (6) by the imaging detector (7) arranged behind the sample (3).
US09880107B2	Systems and methods for detecting defects on a wafer Systems and methods for detecting defects on a wafer are provided. One method includes generating output for a wafer by scanning the wafer with an inspection system using first and second optical states of the inspection system. The first and second optical states are defined by different values for at least one optical parameter of the inspection system. The method also includes generating first image data for the wafer using the output generated using the first optical state and second image data for the wafer using the output generated using the second optical state. In addition, the method includes combining the first image data and the second image data corresponding to substantially the same locations on the wafer thereby creating additional image data for the wafer. The method further includes detecting defects on the wafer using the additional image data.
US09880101B2	Flow rate measurement apparatus, antigen concentration measurement apparatus, flow cell, flow rate measurement method, and antigen concentration measurement method A flow rate measurement apparatus includes a light oscillator; a thin metallic film which causes surface plasmon resonance by light output from the light oscillator; a focusing unit which fixes the thin metallic film and converts the output light of the light oscillator into incident light having a plurality of incident angles to focus the incident light at a location of a focal line in a straight line shape on the thin metallic film; a measurement part having antibody fixed areas to which an antibody is fixed and reference areas to which an antibody is not fixed, the antibody fixed areas and the reference areas being alternately arranged at a location along the focal line location on the thin metallic film; a light receiver which receives reflected light, at the focal line location, of the output light by surface plasmon resonance occurring at the focal line location, at each of the plurality of incident light angles; an SPR angle calculator which obtains a temporal change of an SPR angle in each of the antibody fixed areas and the reference areas in the measurement part; and a flow rate operation unit which calculates the flow rate of the sample flowing in the flow cell based on the temporal change of the SPR angle obtained by the SPR angle calculator.
US09880094B2	Infrared detection and imaging device with no moving parts A device images radiation from a scene. A detector is sensitive to the radiation in a first wavelength band. A lens forms an image of the scene on the detector. A filtering arrangement includes two sets of radiation absorbing molecules. A control unit switches the filtering arrangement between two states. In the first state, all of the radiation in the first wavelength band is transmitted to the detector. In the second state, the radiation in a second wavelength band within the first wavelength band is absorbed by the radiation absorbing molecules. The control unit synchronizes the switching of the filtering arrangement with the detector. Each pixel of the image formed on the detector includes two signals. The first signal includes information from the scene radiation in the first wavelength hand. The second signal excludes information from the scene radiation absorbed by the filtering arrangement in the second wavelength band.
US09880092B2	Visual indication test kit A test kit is provided. The test kit includes a case including a top including a plurality of indicator pads and a crushing plate rotatable between a first position and a second position, the crushing plate including a plurality of crushing ribs. The case further includes a bottom hingedly coupled to the top, the bottom including a plurality of reagent ampoules storing reagents. When the case is closed with the crushing plate in the second position, the plurality of crushing ribs crush the the plurality of reagent ampoules. The test kit further includes a collector including a collector body, a plurality of swabs extending through the collector body, a removable cover covering a first side of the collector body, and a collector handle coupled to the collector body, wherein the collector is nestable within the case.
US09880090B2	HPLC reverse-flow flow cell Improved flow cells, as well as systems and methods for using the improved flow cells, are provided.
US09880078B2	Composition for aggregating biological sample The present invention relates to a composition for aggregating biological sample used for manufacturing paraffin block for microscopic observation of biological sample, a method for preparing paraffin block using the same, and a method for microscopic observation of biological sample using the paraffin block, and particularly to a composition for aggregating biological sample including the first composite containing at least one water-soluble polymer selected from the group comprising polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene oxide, polyacrylamide, polyvinylpyrrolidon, polyacrylic acid, polyethyleneimine, polyamines, polyamideamine, and polydiallyl dimethylammonium chloride and distilled water; and the second composite containing at least one organic solvent selected from the group comprising alcohol, xylene, and acetone and at least one medical adhesive selected from the group comprising cyanoacrylate, fibrin glue, protein glue, polyurethane, and sealant containing PEG (polyethylene glycol), a method for preparing paraffin block using the same, and a method for microscopic observation of biological sample using the prepared paraffin block.
US09880068B2	Method of testing The present invention provides processes by which fatigue testing can be carried out by altering the vibrational characteristics of a component, but without physically altering the component itself. In particular the invention provides a method of performing high-cycle fatigue testing on a component, the method including the steps of: attaching one or more masses to the component to alter the stress distribution of the component under vibration; and carrying out high-cycle fatigue testing by exciting the component at a low fundamental frequency of the component. The component can then be tested at a low frequency, which is easier to excite, but fail in a position of the component characteristic of a more complex modeshape.
US09880063B2	Pressure sensor stabilization A pressure sensor is provided which produces a measurement of the displacement and a measurement of a natural frequency of the diaphragm which are then combined to produce a compensated measurement of the displacement of the diaphragm, thereby substantially eliminating the dependence of the compensated displacement measurement on strain.
US09880060B2	Temperature sensor embedded in processor, method of operating the same, and devices including the same A temperature sensor, a processor including the same, and a method of operating the same are provided. The temperature sensor includes: a reference circuit configured to receive a supply voltage provided from outside the processor and utilized by a logic block of the processor for operation of the logic block, and generate, using the supply voltage, at least one temperature information signal that varies according to a temperature of the logic block and at least one reference signal that is substantially constant relative to the temperature of the logic block; and a digital temperature generator configured to receive the at least one temperature information signal and the at least one reference signal generated by the reference circuit, and generate a digital temperature information signal indicative of the temperature of the logic block based on the at least one temperature information signal and the at least one reference signal.
US09880058B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value outputted from an infrared sensor in response to an infrared ray received from an object, and a value outputted from a temperature sensor as a function of measured temperature of the infrared sensor; a second-temperature identification circuit configured to identify a second temperature which is a temperature of the object when the temperature of the infrared sensor corresponding to a measured value which is the output value of the infrared sensor, is the first temperature, by referring to the correspondence; a third-temperature identification circuit configured to identify a third temperature which is the temperature of the infrared sensor in outputting the measured value; and a calculation circuit configured to calculate a fourth temperature which is a temperature of the object on the basis of the first temperature, the second temperature, and the third temperature.
US09880057B2	Visible and near-infrared radiation detector The detector of visible and near-infrared radiation comprises a near-infrared photosensitive element, a readout circuit for reading the near-infrared photosensitive element, four visible photosensitive elements, one of which being placed facing the near-infrared photosensitive element, and four pigmented resin filters to define a pixel quadruplet. A first pixel, including the near-infrared photosensitive element and one of the visible photosensitive elements, is provided with a resin filter opaque to visible radiation. The three other pixels, respectively including the three other visible photosensitive elements, are respectively provided with filters associated with the three primary colors.
US09880049B2	Measuring device and component with measuring device integrated therein The invention relates to a measuring device for measuring mechanical stresses or vibrations occurring in a component, wherein the measuring device comprises at least one electromechanical transducer, which can be integrated in a force-locked manner into the component, and at least one electronic unit, which is connected to the transducer via signal lines and is used to record and process the signals delivered by the transducer. In order to improve the robustness of the arrangement, it is provided according to the invention that the electronic unit is at least partially surrounded by a housing, and wherein a compensation zone for absorbing relative movements between the housing and the electronic unit is provided between the housing and the electronic unit.
US09880043B2	Liquid level detection device and refrigeration cycle A liquid level detection device at least includes a heating member that heats a container, a temperature measurement element disposed on a side of the heating member opposite to the container, a thermal conductor disposed between the heating member and the container, an elastic body that presses the heating member with a certain amount of force, a terminals for supplying power to the heating member, a fixture that covers the heating member, the temperature measurement element, the thermal conductor, the elastic body and the terminals and mount those on the container, wherein the heating member does not come into contact with the terminals when at least one of the thermal conductor and the fixture is inappropriately mounted on a container.
US09880042B2	Propellant gauging tool for predicting propellant mass in a propellant storage volume Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for calculating a mass of propellant in a propellant storage volume. A density of the propellant is calculated based on a detected pressure and temperature of the propellant and actual thermodynamic properties of the propellant. A volume of the propellant storage volume is calculated based on a measured nominal volume and changes to the nominal volume based on pressure. The mass of the propellant is calculated by multiplying the calculated volume of the propellant storage volume by the calculated density of the propellant in the propellant storage volume.
US09880035B2	Method and system for detecting coking growth and maldistribution in refinery equipment Systems and methods for detecting coking in a wash bed of a vacuum pipe still with a sensing cable including an optical fiber sensor array aligned with a heating element disposed in the vessel. An optical signal interrogator is configured to measure a first temperature profile at a plurality of sensor locations to determine a flow distribution. An excitation source is configured to propagate at least one heat pulse through the heating element and the optical signal interrogator is configured to measure a second temperature profile corresponding to the heat pulse at the sensor locations. A control unit is configured to detect coking by determining one or more properties of the media exposed to the sensing cable at each of the plurality of sensor locations based on the second temperature profile corresponding thereto.
US09880034B2	Flow sensor Provided is a low-cost flow sensor which improves productivity while maintaining high quality and high reliability. This flow sensor is provided with a housing, a cover, a circuit chamber sealed between these and housing electronic components or wiring, and a subpassage through which the fluid flows that is to be detected, and is characterized in that the welding width of a first welded portion forming the circuit chamber is greater than the welding width of a part of the second welded portion forming the subpassage unit.
US09880032B1	Modular removable flow metering assembly with cone shaped differential pressure producer in a compact fluid conduit A modular removable flow metering assembly for a unidirectional fluid channel having three variations. Each embodiment can use a compact fluid conduit for connecting an upstream fluid flow to a downstream fluid flow. An embodiment uses a unitary dual measurement container having an upstream port opening opposite to a downstream port. The upstream port communicates with an upstream fluid channel with an upstream pressure. The downstream port communicates with a downstream fluid channel having a downstream pressure. A cone shaped differential pressure producer with a flared discharge end is in fluid communication with the downstream fluid channel. A manifold can fluidly connect the upstream and downstream fluid channels, and a customer connection device can receive the upstream pressure and downstream pressure.
US09880031B2	Method and apparatus for HVAC/R system analysis A system and method for analyzing an HVAC/R system includes a receiver for receiving signals from sensors, a memory for storing a pressure-enthalpy relationship for refrigerant of the HVAC/R system, a processor in communication with the receiver and the memory, the processor configured to determine a first energy transfer value associated with an air handler of the HVAC/R system based on the received signals from the sensors, determine a second energy transfer value associated with the refrigerant of the HVAC/R system based on the pressure-enthalpy relationship and the received signals from the sensors; and verify the determined first and second energy transfer values by comparing the first energy transfer value with the second energy transfer value.
US09880024B2	Measurement device for determining angular position A measurement device for determining an angular position, having a magnet device and a sensor device that are rotatable relative to one another. The magnet device has a first north pole face of a first magnetic north pole and a first south pole face of a first magnetic south pole. The magnet device has a second north pole face of a second magnetic north pole and a second south pole face of a second magnetic south pole. The sensor device is located in a region between the first north pole face and the first south pole face and between the second north pole face and the second south pole face. The sensor device has a first magnetic field sensor and a second magnetic field sensor. The first magnetic field sensor and the second magnetic field sensor are spaced apart from one another for ascertaining a magnetic field difference.
US09880017B2	Method and apparatus for creating an origin-destination matrix from probe trajectory data An approach is provided for creating an origin-destination matrix from probe trajectory data. The approach includes receiving probe trajectory data, wherein the probe trajectory data is associated with at least one subset of a plurality of travel nodes. The approach further includes processing and/or facilitating a processing of the probe trajectory data to construct one or more microscopic origin-destination matrices, wherein the at least one microscopic origin-destination matrix represents one or more preferred travel paths through the subset of the plurality of travel nodes. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, an aggregation of the one or more microscopic origin-destination matrices to construct at least one aggregated origin-destination matrix to represent the plurality of travel nodes.
US09880016B2	Apparatus for route guide and control method thereof Disclosed herein are a route guide apparatus and a control method thereof. When a route guide to a specific location is requested, congestion information considering the number of vehicles having already arrived at the specific location at the moment that the route guide is requested and the estimated number of vehicles expected to arrive is generated and provided, such that a user requesting the route guide can learn the congestion information on the specific location in advance.
US09880009B2	Industrial vehicle with feature-based localization and navigation An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights characterized by different rates of image intensity change along longitudinal and transverse axial directions, and ceiling lights characterized by a circularly symmetric rate of image intensity change. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, or both.
US09880005B2	Method and system for providing a plurality of navigation solutions Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a plurality of navigation solutions using a portable sensor device associated with a user. Motion sensor data may be used to derive a first navigation solution using the obtained sensor data under a first set of processing conditions navigation solution and to derive at least a second navigation solution using the sensor data under a second set of processing conditions, wherein the second navigation solution is refined as compared to the first navigation solution. As such, the second navigation solution may represent a more accurate or more complete solution, with the first navigation solution may represent a reduced expenditure of resources. The system includes the portable sensor device and optionally may include an auxiliary device associated with the user and/or remote processing resources. The functions associated with deriving the first and second navigation solutions may be performed by any one or any combination of the portable sensor device, the auxiliary device and/or the remote processing resources.
US09880002B2	Facilitating location determination employing vehicle motion data Location determination is facilitated based on motion data accumulated at a vehicle in cases in which a beacon is not available. One method includes receiving, by a first device, first information about a vehicle indicative of a position and a direction of the vehicle. The position is measured by the vehicle based on a measured angular rotation rate and radius of a wheel of the vehicle and the direction of the vehicle is measured by the vehicle based on a measured amount of a turn radius of a steering wheel device of the vehicle. The method also includes determining a previously determined location of the vehicle. The method also includes generating second information about a location of the first device based on the previously determined location of the vehicle and the first information. Error estimates for the location and/or tuning bias for sensors at the vehicle can also be determined.
US09880000B2	Manufacturing method of inertial sensor and inertial sensor A manufacturing method of an inertial sensor which includes a movable body that is disposed in a cavity formed by a base body and a lid, and in which a wiring groove of wiring communicating with the cavity and electrically connected to the movable body is formed in the base body, includes forming a first opening section, which does not penetrate through the lid by wet etching; accommodating the movable body in the cavity by bonding the base body and the lid; forming a first sealing material with which the wiring groove is sealed after the accommodating of the movable body; forming a through-hole communicating with the cavity by penetrating through the first opening section by dry etching after the forming of the first sealing material; and forming a second sealing material with which the through-hole is sealed.
US09879976B2	Articulated arm coordinate measurement machine that uses a 2D camera to determine 3D coordinates of smoothly continuous edge features A portable articulated arm coordinate measuring machine (AACMM) having an integrated camera captures 2D images of an object at three or more different poses. A processor determines 3D coordinates of a smoothly continuous edge point of the object based at least in part on the captured 2D images and pose data provided by the AACMM.
US09879973B2	Device and method for measuring displacement between two substantially coaxial parts, preferably for aircraft A device and method of simple design for measuring displacement between a first part and a second part that are substantially coaxial, preferably mounted on one another by an annular linear link. The device includes a structure for mounting the device on the part, blades secured to the structure and bearing on an outer surface of an intermediate member, the member being mounted around the part, at least one strain/deformation sensor associated with each blade, the sensors configured to transmit output signals dependent on the levels of deformation of the blades, and a conversion unit configured to deliver, from the output signals, at least one datum corresponding to the relative position of the parts, preferably out of an azimuth angle, an elevation angle and an axial displacement.
US09879970B2	Method for estimating cable length in Ethernet system and receiver thereof A method for estimating cable length in an Ethernet system and a receiver thereof are applicable to an Ethernet system. The method for estimating cable length includes obtaining a channel tap from channel information of a feedback equalizer in the Ethernet system and estimating a cable length according to the channel tap, a first coefficient and a constant.
US09879968B2	Component measurement system having wavelength filtering A system is disclosed for measuring a feature of a component. The system may have a probe with a tip, and a sensing element configured to generate signals associated with a proximity of the tip to the feature. The system may also have an actuator configured to move the probe relative to the component, and a controller in communication with the sensing element and the actuator. The controller may be configured to generate a deviation report based on the signals, and to filter information from the deviation report according to wavelength into a plurality of deviation categories corresponding to specification requirements of the component. The plurality of deviation categories may include at least a waviness category. The controller may also be configured to determine a change to a process used to fabricate the component based on the information from the deviation report filtered into the waviness category.
US09879961B2	Oscillatory drive ammunition reloading systems An automatic ammunition reloading system includes an actuation assembly in communication with a control system. The actuation assembly is joined to a reloading press by attaching to a control lever of the ammunition press so as to put the reloading press in operative relation with the actuation assembly. The control system receives input from a control lever position sensor to sense an extremity position of the control lever and to determine an actuation distance of the control lever for a full stroke of the reloading press. The control system controls operation of the actuation assembly so as to oscillate the control lever through the actuation distance.
US09879957B2	Shotshell having wad with enhanced fin deployment A shotgun shell has a polymer wad with a forward shot cup portion and a rearward propellant cup, the wad in a casing, shot in the shot cup, propellant in the propellant cup, and a primer. The rearward propellant cup portion having enhanced fin deployment such that the shells are operative with shotguns with no chokes, shotguns with ported chokes, and shotguns with conventional chokes. The forward shot cup portion has axial slits that are sized to preclude shot from passing therethrough while providing sufficient air circulation to provide compaction relief of the shot pack. The enhancement may include gussets on the fins, axially movable disks to engage cam surfaces on the fins and urge them outwardly, and fins that have reduced bending regions compared to prior art wads.
US09879956B2	Arrowhead adapter and assembly operable with multiple types of arrow shafts An arrowhead adapter, in an embodiment, includes an interface and a body which defines a bore. The body has an outer surface configured to fit within a gap formed between an inner surface of an arrow shaft and a blade holder to apply a stabilizing force to the blade holder in the assembled state.
US09879943B2	Firearm support system A firearm support system, has a stock unit configured to be carried by a firearm, the first unit having a first complementary component and a belt unit configured to be carried by a belt, the second unit having a second complementary component configured for selective engagement with the first complementary component.
US09879910B2	Apparatus and method for continuous lyophilization A method and apparatus for the continuous sublimation of a substance includes cascading a material containing a substance capable of sublimation, such as water, between a plurality of trays vertically stacked within a processing zone provided within a processing chamber. A substantially atmospheric environment is maintained within the processing zone at a temperature whereby the substance sublimes forming a sublimate within the environment. The environment containing the sublimate is contacted with a drying agent such as a desiccant to maintain the environment whereby the substance sublimes at substantially atmospheric pressure and at the controlled temperature.
US09879893B2	Air conditioning system, method for controlling air conditioning system, and outdoor apparatus of air conditioning system An air conditioning system, an outdoor apparatus of an air conditioning system and a method for controlling an air conditioning system are provided. The air conditioning system includes: an indoor apparatus and an outdoor apparatus. The outdoor apparatus includes a variable-frequency compressor and a controller configured to perform a variable-frequency control on the variable-frequency compressor according to operation parameters of the variable-frequency compressor and independent from the indoor apparatus.
US09879890B2	Air conditioner for vehicle When a dehumidifying heating operation is performed by a heat-radiating operation of the interior condenser and a heat-absorbing operation of the exterior heat-exchanger and the evaporator, a control device of an air conditioner for vehicle decreases the valve opening degree of the electronic expansion valve to be equal to or less than a predetermined opening degree before opening the solenoid valve for dehumidification in a closed state, opens the solenoid valve for dehumidification after decreasing the valve opening degree of the electronic expansion valve to be equal to or less than the predetermined opening degree, and then increasing the valve opening degree of the electronic expansion valve to be greater than the predetermined opening degree after opening the solenoid valve for dehumidification.
US09879883B2	High temperature direct solar thermal conversion Technical challenges of efficiently and cost-effectively deriving energy from the sun are addressed using a manifold and an array of evacuated tubes in fluid connection, in a butterfly or other planar arrangement. Tube and manifold fluid guides are plumbed for coaxial flow and/or parallel flow, and thermally protected by sleeves, stainless steel piping, and/or vacuum. Tubes are provided with a selective low emissivity coating and/or internal mirror to reduce thermal loss. The solar absorption surface of evacuated tubes may be five square meters or more, with only low-quality concentration optics, or no concentration optics used. The tubes array tracks the sun with a two-axis motion platform. Fluid operating temperatures range from 150 to 300 degrees centigrade, depending on the sunlight exposure, working fluid, and supplemental heat source if any. Fluid may circulate heat between the manifold and heat engine, cogeneration facility, and/or other module.
US09879882B2	Instant self-heating containers Instant self-heating containers include a combinable reactant and activator used to generate an exothermic reaction for heating contents of the container. One instant self-heating container includes a target container, a pierceable activator container and a reaction chamber. Piercing the activator container causes activator to combine with the reactant and cause an exothermic reaction that heats the target container. The container may be used as depilatory wax dispenser. Another instant self-heating container includes an outer housing containing a contents pouch and a reactant, and capped by a lid having an activator chamber. Rupturing the activator chamber allows activator to combine with the reactant in an exothermic reaction to heat the contents pouch. Another instant self-heating container includes a flexible outer tube containing contents to be heated, a flexible reaction vessel, and a frangible activator vessel. Bending the outer tube causes the activator vessel to rupture and cause an exothermic reaction.
US09879881B2	Apparatus and methods for heating water with refrigerant from air conditioning system An apparatus for heating water has a tank for storing water and an air conditioning system that defines a refrigerant flow path through which refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path passes through the heat exchanger so that refrigerant heat is contributed to the tank. A control system controls operation of the water heating apparatus.
US09879878B2	Dehumidifier A dehumidifier has a handle that is recessed inward from a top surface of a main body to open both side surfaces thereof and is disposed to stably move the main body of the dehumidifier without deteriorating an outer appearance of the dehumidifier.
US09879873B2	Building control system with distributed control A building control system that includes a central coordinator and one or more discrete air conditioner controllers configured to communicate with one or more discrete air conditioner units. The discrete air conditioner controller may include a wireless I/O block for receiving signals in a first signal format from the central coordinator and for transmitting signals to the one or more discrete air conditioner units in a second signal format. In some instances, the discrete air conditioner controller may be configured to wirelessly transmit a signal to at least one discrete air conditioner unit in response to receiving a signal from the central coordinator. This configuration may provide a measure of distributed control of the building control system in a cost effective and efficient manner.
US09879870B2	HVAC module with anti-backflow control and method of operation HVAC module has an air inlet, an evaporator downstream of the blower and a heater downstream of the evaporator, and a rear mixing zone downstream of the evaporator and the heater, wherein a control valve prevents cold air from flowing back towards the hot air by regulating the pressure of the cold air. A method is devised to control anti-backflow control valve of such an HVAC module by the steps of reading pressure and temperatures at various points in the HVAC module; setting air flow and temperature discharge targets; calculating the resistance of the control valve and a bland valve; determining corresponding control valve and blend valve positions; and moving the control valve and blend valve to those corresponding positions.
US09879865B2	Cooking oven A cooking oven is disclosed. The cooking oven comprises a housing having an oven cavity and an oven door for access to the oven cavity, at least one air blower for generating heated air, one or more air channels for directing the heated air from the air blower toward the oven cavity, and one or more removable air plenums, wherein each removable air plenum is connected to one of the one or more air channels, comprises an air intake edge for receiving the heated air from the air channel, defines the top or the bottom of a cooking chamber within the oven cavity, and comprises a plurality of air vents for directing the heated air into the cooking chamber. The cooking oven may further comprise a control panel for separately and independently controlling each of the cooking chambers defined by the removable air plenums.
US09879863B1	Fire poker tool A fire poker tool that may be utilized to lift and move a log. The fire poker tool of the invention includes talons and a hook that cooperate together to engage a log in a manner that minimizes required torque and gripping forces to lift a log. The tool is particularly useful as a campfire, fire place, or fire pit tool.
US09879860B2	Flame detecting system A flame detecting system includes a flame sensor to detect light and a calculating device, in which the calculating device includes an applied voltage generating portion configured to generate a pulse to drive the flame sensor, a voltage detecting portion configured to measure an electric signal flowing in the flame sensor, a storing portion configured to store sensitivity parameters of the flame sensor in advance, and a central processing unit configured to obtain a quantity of received light of flame using parameters of a known quantity of received light, a pulse width, and a discharge probability of the sensitivity parameters, and a discharge probability obtained from an actual pulse width and the measured number of discharge times, and in which a difference in sensitivity of individual flame sensors is corrected from sensitivity parameters related to a first flame sensor and sensitivity parameters related to a second flame sensor.
US09879852B2	LED tube lamp An LED tube lamp including a glass lamp tube, an LED light strip disposed inside the glass lamp tube, and an end cap attached over an end of glass lamp tube is disclosed. The glass lamp tube includes a main body region, a rear end region, and a two-arc-shaped transition region connecting the main body region and the rear end region. The LED light strip includes a bendable circuit sheet being longer than the glass lamp tube to form a freely extending end portion. In addition, the end cap has at least one opening on surface to dissipating heat resulting from power supply and/or the process of heating of a hot melt adhesive.
US09879844B2	Support structure for horizontally extending lamp Support structure includes at least one adjustable length pin configured to engage an adjacent support surface, and at least one engaging member configured to engage a supported device. A support bar might be provided with the at least one pin extending from one side of the bar, and the at least one engaging member extending from another side of the support bar.
US09879843B2	LED-based personal and other lighting devices and systems Lighting systems, devices and techniques are provided to construct solid-state lighting devices and systems that provide energy-efficient illumination, including personal lighting devices, desktop lighting devices, and ceiling/overhead lighting devices based on semiconductor-based solid-state light sources such as LEDs or laser diodes. The disclosed solid-state lighting devices and systems use an illumination plate to receive the generated light from one or more LEDs or laser diodes and to process the received light to exhibit desired spatial distribution of light power across the illumination plate and desired direction of the output light from the illumination plate.
US09879840B2	Light guide for a vehicle lighting unit The invention relates to a light guide for a vehicle lighting unit, having at least one light-conducting body, which conducts the light along at least one light direction; and at least one, in particular band-shaped, optically active flat material which interacts with the light guided into the body in order to produce a light effect. The light guide according to the invention is characterized in that the flat material with its longitudinal extension direction along the direction of light of the light-conducting body in the light-conducting body is completely surrounded and embedded by the same at least transversely to the direction of longitudinal extent.
US09879839B2	Lamp apparatus for vehicle A lamp apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The lamp apparatus includes a light source that is configured to irradiate light, a light variable unit that is configured to implement a low beam by reflecting the light irradiated from the light source and transform a portion of the light into a plurality of angles to be reflected. The lamp further includes a first optical lens disposed to reflect light by the light variable unit to be incident and collect the incident light to be irradiated to the front and a second optical lens that transforms the light into the plurality of angles and reflected by the light variable unit to be incident. The angle-transformed and incident light irradiates to the front by the first optical lens.
US09879838B2	Vehicle lighting device using a multiple-source optical lens A part made of transparent material comprising at least two individual portions each consisting of an input surface and an output surface, the output surface being focused on the input surface of the same portion, the output surfaces being contiguous so as to form an overall output surface of the part which is continuous. Furthermore, the input surfaces are separated at a distance from one another in order to prevent rays from a light source placed on the input surface of a portion from being able to pass through the output surface of the adjacent individual portion.
US09879837B2	Optical structure for signal light An optical structure for a lighting device of a motor vehicle headlight is disclosed. The optical structure is paired with or is a part of the lighting device such that it modifies a light distribution produced by the lighting device. The optical structure (1) includes two, three or more optical structural elements. Each structural element has a light-scattering effect. A first proportion of the structural elements is formed in such a way that beams generated by the lighting device and impinging on this first proportion of the structural elements pass through the proportion of the structural elements. Each beam is refracted by the relevant structural element to form a first exit beam, to form a second exit beam, and to form at least one further exit beam.
US09879835B2	Lighting unit for a headlight A lighting unit for a headlight, in particular a motor vehicle headlight, consisting of a plurality of light sources (1), a light guide unit (2) having a plurality of light guides (3), and a downstream projection lens having a focal plane (E), wherein each light guide (3) has a light decoupling face (4), wherein a.) the light decoupling faces (4) of at least two adjacent light guides (3) are offset in relation to one another with respect to the focal plane (E), and/or b.) at least two light guides (3) adjacent to one another in each case contact one another in a contact area (12) along an extension (b and b′), wherein the respective extensions (b and b′), measured with respect to the focal plane (E) of the lens, deviate from one another.
US09879834B1	Universal LED light module A universal LED light module (ULLM) that can be used in nearly any conventional or nonconventional lighting application, with module interchangeability for enabling user customization of light color and lighting function. The ULLM includes a set of axially aligned batteries with axially opposed terminals, at least one LED cell with axially opposed terminals sandwiched between two of the axially aligned batteries, and a transparent or translucent sheath radially enveloping the batteries and the LED cell to bind them together and environmentally seal them from external moisture and foreign matter. The ULLM may be activated by an external circuit or may additionally include an integral conductor that selectively bridges the exposed battery terminals. The ULLM may additionally include a lighting function element having a form factor that matches that of the batteries, and disposed in axial alignment with the batteries within the radial sheath.
US09879833B2	Flashlight with battery adapter An example apparatus embodiment includes a flashlight operable from a primary electric storage battery and from another battery having an external casing that has a different outer diameter and possibly a different overall length than the primary battery. In some embodiments, a battery adapter extends a battery compartment to hold a longer substitute battery. In other embodiments a batter adapter holds a battery with a dimension, for example a diameter of the battery case, that is too large to allow the battery to slide into the battery compartment. Another example embodiment includes a battery adapter without a flashlight.

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